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SpaceX launch sparks fears of alien invasion in Los Angeles
A rocket launch from a Southern California Air Force base generated a fiery contrail that could be seen all over Los Angeles Friday and had some social media users preparing for an alien invasion. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at around 5:30 p.m. local time. Its mission was to send 10 communications satellites into space. But it was the rocket's contrail of water vapor, illuminated by the sun, that had seemingly all of Los Angeles looking up in the sky. The Space Archive website noted that the Falcon 9's "bright flame should be visible over a wide area." It added that the contrail "could be impressive" beginning two minutes and 12 seconds after launch.
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etc For truly in the world right now, saith your Father God, is much trouble, trouble that they know not how to deal with. They know not how to stop the drought, the global warming, the flooding, they know not how to stop the rains, the forest fires, they do not know these things. They do not know how to stop the wars, the troubles that are taking place in the world and the troubles yet to come. etc.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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REVEALED: California's Thomas Fire is now the state's largest EVER
The Thomas Fire that firefighters have battled for over two weeks is now the state's largest since at least 1932
The fire broke out on December 4 and burned 273,400 acres and destroyed 1,063 structures
It previously topped Cal Fire's list of the top 20 largest wildfires in the state By Afp Published: 23:20 EST, 22 December 2017 | Updated: 11:35 EST, 23 December 2017
A California wildfire that firefighters have battled for over two weeks is now the state's largest since at least 1932, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday. The so-called 'Thomas Fire' has burned 273,400 acres (70,172 hectares), destroyed 1,063 structures and cost more than $177 million since it broke out on December 4. More than 2,800 fire personnel are battling the blaze, which is now 65 percent contained. San Diego-based Cal Fire engineer Cory Iverson died fighting the Thomas Fire in Ventura County on December 14. The Thomas Fire is now even larger than the 2003 Cedar Fire, which burned 273,246 acres. The fire previously topped Cal Fire's list of the top 20 largest wildfires in California, the oldest entry on which dates to 1932. However, larger fires may predate the list, including the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 that reportedly burned 300,000 acres. 'There were fires with significant acreage burned in years prior to 1932, but those records are less reliable, and this list is meant to give an overview of the large fires in more recent times,' Cal Fire said. This year is the worst on record for wildfire devastation in California.
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:: 12-20-17 Tech Crunch :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
This humanoid robot works out (and sweats) like we do (or should)
Posted Dec 20, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
There are plenty of humanoid-looking robots out there, but very few actually have bodies that are particularly analogous to our own when it comes to moving and interacting with the environment. Japanese researchers are working to remedy that with a robot designed specifically to mimic not just human movements but the way humans actually accomplish those movements. Oh, and it sweats. Kengoro is a new-ish robot (an earlier version made the rounds last year) that emphasizes flexibility and true humanoid structure rather than putting power or efficiency above all else. As the researchers explain in their paper, published today in Science Robotics: A limitation of conventional humanoids is that they have been designed on the basis of the theories of conventional engineering, mechanics, electronics, and informatics. By contrast, our intent is to design a humanoid based on human systems — including the musculoskeletal structure, sensory nervous system, and methods of information processing in the brain — to support science-oriented goals, such as gaining a deeper understanding of the internal mechanisms of humans. The paper uses Kengoro and similar robot, Kenshiro, as examples of how to accomplish that intent; indeed, the whole issue of Science Robotics was dedicated to the concept of improving anthropomorphic robotics. It’s important, they explain, to imitate human biology wherever possible, not just where it’s convenient. If your robot has powerful arms but a stiff, straight spine and no neck, that may be better for lifting heavy items — but it just isn’t how humans do it, and if human-like motion is actually desired, you essentially have to put in our weaknesses as well as our strengths. And truly human-like motion should be desired, if a robot is supposed to exist in human-centric environments and interact with people. After putting together Kengoro with muscle, joint and bone-like arrangements of motors and struts, the researchers put these similarities to the test by having the robot attempt a number of ordinary exercises, from push-ups to calf raises. As you can see, he’s a little jittery (“he” because the robot is modeled after an average 13-year-old Japanese boy). He probably should have stretched first. Still, he probably did more crunches for this article than I did this year. The sweating thing probably deserves a little explanation. Essentially the motors have water running through them to help cool them off as they work, and they can expel that water through artificial pores in order to more quickly release heat. It’s not exactly a critical feature, but if you’re going to mimic humanity, you might as well go all the way. It’s an interesting and unsurprisingly complex endeavor that Yuki Asano et al. are pursuing, but the results already seem worthwhile, and the applications they envision are promising. The “human mimetic humanoid” project is ongoing, so expect more from Kengoro in the near future.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/this-humanoid-robot-works-out-and-sweats-like-we-do-or-should/
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River levels above New Madrid drop | Video of low Illinois River?
24,779 views MrMBB333 Published on Dec 22, 2017
DEC 22, 2017: Once mighty powerful rivers in the Midwest, very important links to the international trade markets for grain and mining materials are becoming very low. In some areas impassable. If possible, please send pics to (reports@mrmbb333.com) thank you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0uxGN31EuM&feature=youtu.be
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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Evangelist Arrested, Jailed While Preaching Christ Outside ‘A Drag Queen Christmas: The Naughty Tour’ in Texas
By Heather Clark on December 21, 2017129 Comments
EL PASO, Texas — An evangelist was arrested and jailed on Wednesday after those unhappy with his message called the police as he was preaching outside of a “holiday” event in Texas called “A Drag Queen Christmas: The Naughty Tour.” Those watching his preaching being shut down broke out into cheers. “A Drag Queen Christmas: The Naughty Tour is a must-see holiday spectacular with your favorite contestants from RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1),” the event description reads. “For one night only, your favorite queens #werk the stage with singing, dancing, comedy and more! The holidays were never this naughty!” Ryan Denton of Christ in the Wild Ministries had been preaching on the sidewalk adjacent to Plaza Theatre during the event, finding the gathering a good opportunity to share the gospel. Denton told Christian News Network that he generally preached about repentance and faith in Christ, and while he did mention concepts such as drag queens a few times, it was not the focus of his message. “The drag event, like any other event, was a place where the lost would be congregating, and hence the need for a gospel witness,” he said. “Christ came to seek and save those who are lost. He came for the unrighteous, not the righteous. The great Physician of souls came for the sick and spiritually dead. This is why the gospel must go beyond the church walls.” However, those hearing Denton’s speech soon became upset and called the police. Among those who arrived on the scene was Officer Jared Lamb, who told Denton that he had to stop preaching since complaints had been received. “Just because you get calls does not mean I have to stop,” Denton told Lamb, according to recorded video footage reviewed by Christian News Network. “I know that,” Lamb replied. “Are you sure, because you keep saying that [I do],” Denton said. Lamb also asserted during the discussion that the sidewalk Denton was standing on was private property and that he should relocate to the plaza. Denton says that he has been instructed by police in the past to stand in that exact location, and has preached there nearly a dozen times without issue. He further notes that the plaza is not near the event, so he would not be able to reach the people. “I’m going to keep preaching right here because this is not private property,” Denton told the officer. However, Lamb instead grabbed Denton’s stool that he had been standing on to preach and instructed Denton to follow. Those nearby broke into cheers. Lamb walked Denton into a nearby building where he told him that he didn’t want “debates” outside. “We don’t need debates going on out there tonight,” Lamb said. “We don’t need it.” “Sir, it’s not up to you,” Denton replied. “It’s the Constitution of the United States. It’s [my] First Amendment rights.” “Okay. It’s up to you?” Lamb asked. “No. The Constitution protects what I was doing, sir,” Denton stated. Lamb then proceeded to arrest Denton. He was transported to the El Paso Jail where he was charged with Criminal Trespass under Texas Penal Code 30.05. Denton says that Lamb told him in transport, “I’m writing the police report and I’m going to make it as colorful as [expletive].” During the “tirade,” as Denton described it, the officer repeatedly advised that he is “very active in [his] church.” “You know who looks like the bad guy now,” he stated. “All you had to do is leave” and go to another spot. Denton told Christian News Network that as he was later placed behind bars, Lamb said, “Man to man, you shouldn’t be preaching there [at the drag festival]. Just tell them Jesus loves them and move on.” Denton still recalls the last remarks from Lamb: “I can’t say what we did tonight was wrong, but I can’t say arresting you was right.” After spending seven hours in jail, Denton was released on $300 bond. Denton says that he was able to share the gospel with others during the time that he was incarcerated, and witnessed a receptivity to his message. One man, a college student, expressed remorse and thanked God for “disciplining” him. “The gospel is good news for anyone who has ears to hear, whether it’s a drag queen or a self-righteous good citizen,” Denton said. “God saves sinners, among whom every Christian was once chief. There’s hope for the people at the drag event because God is mighty to save and ‘salvation is of the Lord.'” Officer Lamb could not be reached for comment on the arrest. A trial date has not yet been set.
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Boom Just Lowered On Clinton Crime Family And Obama Regime? Big Surprise In Wording Of New Executive Order
December 22, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
With all the hyperbole regarding the tax reform bill being passed, the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had ordered DOJ prosecutors to interview FBI agents that investigated corruption in regards to the much-talked about Uranium One deal as well as players linked to the Clinton Foundation, received attention but not as much focus as it should have received, which becomes even more relevant given the specific wording of President Trump's December 21, 2017 Executive Order. URANIUM ONE - BRIEF RECAP At issue is what has become known as Uranium One, where in 2010 the Obama administration approved the sale of U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, which was one of the nine agencies that made the determination that the deal would not threaten U.S. national security. In October 2017, a bombshell of a report by The Hill, titled "FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow," revealed details of the Uranium One deal that instantly kicked off congressional inquiries as well as spawning the latest reports of the DOJ re-examining the events surrounding the deal made by the Obama administration. For those that did not catch The Hill report at the time, it should be read in its entirety, in order to understand just how much had been hidden from not only the American people, but how the Obama administration placed a gag order against a key FBI informant to make sure that the details could not be revealed to congressional oversight committees. Key relevant quotes for the purpose of this article are reproduced below: Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews. Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show. They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill. [....] The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show. The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired earlier this year. Again, well worth the time to read the entire Hill piece to understand why the wording in President Trump's new executive order, in conjunction with the news that the DOJ is now delving into the events surrounding Uranium One, is so important. As we highlight the very interesting part of Trump's new EO, keep in mind the recent report by Politico regarding the Obama administration "derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah," in order to get his nuclear deal with Iran. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is already demanding more information from AG Sessions in regards to that blockbuster report. EXECUTIVE ORDER - RE: CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES While the Treasury Department Press release regarding this EO focuses on the Trump administration and EO's targeting of human rights abusers and corrupt actors around the world, declaring them national security threats, using the EO to build on the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act passed by Congress last year, when we read Section 1 of the actual EO, we note wording that should concern the entire Clinton family, the Clinton Foundation, the Obama administration as well as any member of the intelligence community that had any part of the Uranium One deal and/or the Iran nuclear deal. Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption, December 21, 2017: Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: (i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order; (ii) any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General: (A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse; (B) to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in: (1) corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or (2) the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption; Aside from the direct mention of corruption, misappropriation of state assets, extraction of natural resources and bribery, all of which as follow up Uranium One details have emerged, could be applied to the entire Russia/Uranium issue, we also note that the "annex" referred to in the EO identified specific individual and offers a section of entities that are listed, where we note that Uranium One, may not be the only issue where the boom could be lowered right on the Clintons. In some form or fashion the Clintons, their foundation, the Obama regime and a number of deep state actors hold some type of connection, whether small or large, with a large number of the newly added names and entities listed in the annex. For example: One of the names on the annex list, is: KARIMOVA, Gulnara (a.k.a. KARIMOVA, Goulnara; a.k.a. KARIMOVA, Goulnora Islamovna; a.k.a. "Googoosha"). A little research on Karimova brings up a 2015 article at the Washington Examiner which details the following about her connections with the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation: Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the Uzbek dictator who allegedly boils his political opponents alive, was cited as the "single most hated person in the country" in a diplomatic cable. Karimova's solution, revealed in a message from the State Department to the CIA, was to acquaint herself with Bill Clinton in order to gain favor with Hillary Clinton. That process began with Karimova hosting a Clinton Foundation fundraiser in Monaco. She posed for photographs with Bill Clinton that prompted media reports describing her as a friend of the former president. In January 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported that Karimova had been questioned recently over money-laundering accusations by Swiss prosecutors while under house arrest in Tashkent. Another name newly added to the Office of Foreign Assets Control list according to the annex of the new EO, is: JAMMEH, Yahya (a.k.a. JAMMEH BABILI MANSA, Yahya AJJ; a.k.a. JAMMEH, Alhaji Dr. Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung; a.k.a. JAMMEH, Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung). According to Wayne Madsen over at Strategic Culture in January 2017, Jammeh was defeated for reelection in December 2016, but it was "during the administration of President Bill Clinton that the green light was given for Jammeh to be installed in a CIA-led coup in Gambia." (Source) Another name on the list that has some very interesting connections: GERTLER, Dan, an Israeli businessman, who was secretly loaned secretly loaned tens of millions of dollars to secure a controversial mining agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This was revealed through leaked documents commonly referred to as the Paradise Papers. (Via Guardian) The company that secretly loaned Gertler the money in 2009, is the largest mining company in the world, called Glencore. Glencore was founded in 1974 as Marc Rich and Co. Rich. Marc Rich was notably pardoned by Bill Clinton after Rich spent years on the FBI's most wanted list. Rich died in Switzerland in 2013. What bothered so many was that Clinton’s clemency to Rich reeked of payoff. In the run-up to the presidential pardon, the financier’s ex-wife Denise had donated $450,000 to the fledgling Clinton Library and “over $1 million to Democratic campaigns in the Clinton era.” Note- Not sure of the relevance of this next tidbit, but since all I am doing is noting connections with names newly added to the OFAC's SDN List, I'll note that Gertler is also mentioned in conjunction to Fleurette, which is marked as "linked" in the annex at the Treasury Department website, in a press release by QatarPress, who labels the press release with the tag "Podesta Group." The connections listed above are some of the more tangible connections found, so far, and is not an exhaustive list as we are still researching the names and entities just added to the list. Related: See a number of other connections with these individuals or entities here. BOTTOM LINE Not living in President Trump's brain, nor being a member of his inner circle, we cannot tell you with 100% certainty whether the specific names added were done so just for their human rights abuses and corruption or because other entities being targeted are entangled with them, but we can say the language highlighting current or former government officials "directly or indirectly" engaged in" corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption, could very well entangle a number of people that many believe to be "crooked" or part of some type of cabal that has been allowed to run unchecked, committing illegal acts for decades. Seeing this on the heels of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's corruption crackdown, detaining 200 people and freezing their bank accounts, including princes, officials and businessmen, we may be looking at a global initiative to take down the crooked, the corrupt, and the human rights abusers and traffickers. While we have heard rumblings and chatter over the past two weeks that something big was coming, we were not able to independently confirm those rumors, but if this EO is used as legal justification to brings down what many think of as a deep state or shadow government and/or criminal cabals, then this would fit the bill. I will leave you with Section 7 of the EO, because should this be the foundation to start bringing down criminals within America as well as seizing assets of the foreigners listed and any entity within America working with them, it will be impossible for the MSM to hide it, because entire criminal empires could be seized.... immediately. Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to this order.
http://allnewspipeline.com/President_Trump_Just_Lowered_The_Boom.php
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Trump Defies Media Doubters By Signing Tax Cut Bill Before Christmas
“I didn’t want you folks to say I wasn’t keeping my promise”
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com - December 22, 2017
President Trump surprised many by signing the tax cut bill early, with Trump saying he did so to keep his promise and to defy mainstream media doubters. Trump indicated that he chose to enact the bill early as a response to criticism on news outlets that he was breaking a promise to have the legislation signed before Christmas. “I was going to wait for a formal signing some time in early January, but then I watched the news this morning and they were all saying, ‘Will he keep his promise, will he sign it by Christmas?'” Trump said. “And I called downstairs and said get it ready, we have to sign it now.” Just before he signed the bill, Trump said that a more elaborate formal ceremony was initially planned to take place in January, but that was abandoned so he could keep his promise. “I didn’t want you folks to say I wasn’t keeping my promise, I’m keeping my promise, I’m signing it before Christmas.” “I said that the bill would be on my desk before Christmas and you are holding me literally to that so we did a rush job,” added Trump. The tax cut is already proving popular with both employers and employees, with numerous large companies announcing wage rises and snap bonuses for workers over the last 24 hours.
https://www.infowars.com/trump-defies-media-doubters-by-signing-tax-cut-bill-before-christmas/
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Left's Unhinged Response To Trump Tax Cut Reveals Their Real Fear: What If It Works?
axes: As tax cuts become a reality, Democrats have gone ballistic, claiming that the GOP's sweeping tax plan will rob the middle class and the poor, line the pockets of the rich, and tank the economy. It's all false, class-warfare clap-trap, and they know it. Following passage of the Republican tax reform, Democrat politicians and leftist media celebrities have become nearly unhinged, and that may be an understatement. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the tax cuts a "scam" and "simply theft, monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it." She added that it was "not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs," but "a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in our nation." Plutocracy? Not to be outdone, former Democratic presidential candidate and millionaire socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont called it "a great day for the Koch brothers and other billionaire Republican campaign contributors who will see huge tax breaks for themselves while driving up the deficit by almost $1.5 trillion." Celebrity leftists fared no better. "Woman, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, you have betrayed us all," former comedian and TV host Rosie O'Donnell tweeted at Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who voted for the tax cut plan. "Dear god, ask for forgiveness, redeem your soul tomorrow." She even offered her $2 million in cash to vote "no." No Hidden Agenda: Get News From A Pro-Free Market, Pro-Growth Perspective This is how desperate the left has become, and how divorced from reality. For all the talk of how tax cuts will line the pockets of the rich and destroy the economy, virtually no one in the mainstream of the economics profession, left or right, agrees. The Tax Policy Center (TPC), a liberal think tank, noted that more than 80% of Americans will get tax cuts under the plan just passed. And the benefits will go to every income group, not "billionaires." This, by the way, is bolstered by other recent analyses by Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation and by the widely respected nonpartisan Tax Foundation. TPC estimates an average tax cut of about $2,140 per person. By the way, some 16% of the richest Americans — those in the top 0.1% of incomes — will face an average tax increase of $387,610. Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute, further crunching the TPC numbers, found that while the top 1% of incomes now pay 27% of all federal taxes, they will get just 21% of the tax cuts. The bottom 80%, including the middle class, pays only 33% of all taxes, but will take home 35% of the tax cuts. Of the 12% who will face tax hikes, they're overwhelmingly among the rich — not the middle class. So, no, it's not "tax cuts for the rich." That's a totally bogus argument. For that matter, so are the arguments that tax cuts tank the economy. History is replete with examples of why that isn't true. The tax cuts on corporations and small, pass-through businesses, along with letting companies immediately expense the cost of new equipment, should lead to more business investment. So should shrinking the death tax, which should encourage more small-business investment. How much more is an open question, but the Heritage Foundation, which employs a widely used economic model, estimates that the tax cuts will tack on 2.2% to long-term GDP, or roughly $3,000 per household. That estimate includes a 4.5% jump in capital investment, mainly in equipment, and a hefty 9.4% gain in business structures. Along with expected rises in both the number of jobs and hours worked, after-tax wages for the average worker will be 3.5% higher than they would have been without the tax cuts. Others see more modest, yet still significant, gains. The Tax Foundation, for instance, forecasts a long-term permanent rise of 1.7% in GDP and 1.5% for wages. It also sees 339,000 new jobs. These aren't pie-in-the sky guesses. As history clearly shows, growth-oriented tax cuts such as these almost always have major benefits for the economy and for average workers. During the 20th century, big tax cuts in the 1920s (Harding, Coolidge), 1960s (Kennedy) and 1980s (Reagan) all yielded major growth dividends for the U.S. economy. What's more, those past major tax cuts were to varying degrees bipartisan. Sadly, not this time. Not one Democrat voted for them. Not one. That's why the Democrats and progressive left have become so utterly unhinged. They've failed to stop the one thing that might deny them a chance to retake both houses of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections: an economic boom. When the economy really begins cooking, with the economy growing close to 3%, hundreds of thousands of new jobs being created and workers seeing more in their paychecks, how will they explain that to their constituents?
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..
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Military Must Disarm And Disband FBI For High Treason
Dec 22, 2017 Read More Articles by Andrew Wallace
It is now common knowledge, that if President Trump should fail to disarm and disband the 35,000 FBI employees, using the military, you must prepare for civil war and a complete breakdown of government services. The FBI, members of DOJ, working with high ranking members of both parties, media and the communists have done everything possible to deny an elected president his office. The FBI refuses to comply with constitutional oversight by congress and has long maintained its independence from any constitutional government control. There is only one solution, the FBI must be terminated, it can’t be fixed. Please read my article “God gave us a Warrior, not a Saint to fight Treason”. August 22, 2017, Newswithviews. Com. Use first link below. This article will give you countless reasons and details for why the FBI must go. President Ronald Reagan had a similar problem in 1981 with the 11.345 member Air Traffic Controllers Union who went on strike grounding 7.000 planes. He fired all of them, with proviso that they could never work for the government again. I was a pilot at the time and it made things more difficult, but it was workable. In America today, we have no functioning constitutional government, or Rule of Law. Except for President Donald J. Trump, we are being ruled by traitors who are just as fake as our news media and communist schools. That said, I will make no attempt in this paper to list, or describe the millions of needless criminal and unconstitutional actions allowed or taken by government that has impoverished and enraged the people. Rather, I will predict. not advocate a few major actions that if taken quickly, could prevent much of the treason that is provoking a civil war and destroying our armed forces. Our Constitution does not permit forcing working people to support the lazy useless idiots produced in our communist cities by schools which indoctrinate with media support. Half of the pilgrims died in 1620 when they tried Communism. In the hundreds of years since 1620, all that the fairy tale of communism has done, is kill millions of people, and enrich dictators. People in high tax states with Communist (Democrat) cities pay reduced federal taxes, these reductions are then paid for them by citizens in other states. Why should other states subsidize their communism? If we returned to tariffs, which were used so effectively until 1913, no one would pay income taxes, there would be no need. The Communists could continue to pay high state and local taxes for communist services without our help, while they continue a rush into bankruptcy, anarchy, and civil war. Immigration, both legal and illegal, in all its forms, is imposing a terrible cost on citizens, and must be terminated for at least 25 years, as it was in the past. Make no mistake, every citizen of the United States, regardless of background is furious that the wall has not been constructed, and every illegal deported, and that includes the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) who we’ve paid for in billions, and are now in their 20s and 30s. There is no legitimate and effective law enforcement agency in the federal government. The FBI is mostly a criminal enterprise that has grown based upon its blackmail potential and propaganda. The FBI, and all its parts must be terminated, and replaced with the Militia of the Several States as dictated in the Constitution. State crimes are in no way a federal concern, and all federal law enforcement should be terminated in the states. Without honest and effective enforcement of the Rule of Law we will continue to progress rapidly into civil war. Except for hand out takers, and brain washed pansies, the people are enraged. We have also been cursed with a loud stupid communist minority who believe that gun free zones are possible, and are not killing fields. In truth, all three branches of government, excepting President Donald J. Trump and his team, are mostly imposters and constitutional traitors, willing or not. There are 15 cabinet level executive departments and many of them are what I call Unconstitutional Communist Departments, and must be terminated. Failure to terminate the Departments of Commerce, Transportation, Interior, Education, Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor are acts of Treason. I refer to these departments as the unconstitutional Communist Departments because they are an unlawful attempt to modify our Constitution by usurping the rights of citizens and states for the benefit of Communism and its Criminal Minions of the Establishment. These are my words, but I derived many details from “The Constitution versus the Executive Branch Departments, July 12, 2012, by Lawrence M. Vance”. Another mentor has been” Constitutional Scholar, Publius Hulda, “ The Regulation Freedom Amendment and Danial Webster” December 17, 2017, Publius Hulda’s Blog.. The private Federal Reserve Bank must be terminated as unconstitutional, while we replace the income tax with tariffs and return to a constitutional currency that is neither fiat, nor digital. By the way, the Great Depression was caused by the private Federal Reserve Bank, and not by tariffs. Our Constitution is ignored by many people due to poor education, media propaganda, or criminal purposes. But many people do read the Constitution and are furious at those who do not comply with it. Judges ignore our Constitution all the time resulting in hatred by the people. States have not been given control of 24% of their land as stipulated in the Constitution resulting in ongoing armed resistance and death. Read my last two articles at Newswithviews.com for details. Link Link Anyone who takes an oath to serve and protect our Constitution, and then proceeds to support the unconstitutional communist departments, in an attempt to usurp our Constitution are nothing but criminal traitors. Democrat leaders are communists, and by definition are traitors. Islam/Cair is not a religion of peace and by definition can’t support our Constitution. The establishment families and their minions: (government officials, judges, media, bankers, large corporations, educational institutions, et al.) are anti-Constitution. Not only did Congress and our former presidents establish and fund unconstitutional communist departments with our money, they gave all departments the legal power of all three branches of government (so much for separation of powers). This means that unelected bureaucrats can (1) make a rule,(2) charge you with violating the rule, (3) find you guilty, and (4) determine your penalty. Of course all of this is contrary to our Constitution, they call this unlawful and treasonous procedure: The Administrative State. Having served in the United States Military, I have great respect for the troops, but I detest the pentagon brass who refuse to protect them. I will never forget the military judges who freed a combat deserter, but refused a trial with due process for an innocent officer and put him in prison. There are admirals who accepted whores and all kinds of bribes while their ships and planes were self destructing with many deaths. Then we have the admirals and generals who are willing to subject their young recruits to sick people who infect them with highly contagious terminal diseases which will cost the VA millions. Sending troops to war with inadequate equipment and training while using dangerous rules of engagement may be the least of pentagon sins. Homosexuality is a disease, that by its self will cause an early death, people born with this affliction have my sympathy, but the predatory ones attack young recruits who will kill them for doing so. For this to happen high ranking military officers must be communists and have the disease. Our military could stop the dangerous use of women in combat if they would use the draft for required manpower. You can’t mix unequal abilities and raging hormones in combat. Military training would be great for more young men, but the military could not tolerate the scrutiny of parents who vote, remember Viet Nam. President Donald J. Trump is certainly no saint, but he is a genius warrior, who relates to the people, and has built the most powerful movement in history. President Trump is the only man who can save our Republic by defeating any combination of Communists from both parties in elections, or if the Republic is attacked, in civil war. President Trump is being attacked every day by the forces of evil, who are traitors, who, I predict that he will defeat, or the people will put an end to them in elections or a civil war, especially if President Trump or the Republic is harmed. Communists in both parties think they are above the law, superior to common people by birth, and they will lie, cheat and smear President Trump to maintain their elite swamp status. In a few words. Stop the treason. Kick the communists in both parties out of government. Stop all immigration. Deport illegal’s. Terminate the FBI. Terminate the unconstitutional Departments of Government. End the private Federal Reserve Bank. Replace income tax with tariffs. End the Administrative State. End the treason by judges. Reform corruption by generals and admirals.
https://newswithviews.com/military-must-disarm-and-disband-fbi-for-high-treason/
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These Latest Events Show It's Time To Get The United Nations Out Of America And Time To Get America Out Of The United Nations!
December 23, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
With the recent United Nations non-binding vote on President Trump's decision to move our Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem proving that the majority of that global government body doesn't have the best interests of America or the American people in mind, and the 128 to 9 vote showing most UN members refuse to recognize the US's sovereignty and absolute right to make such a decision, it may be long past time to kick the UN out of America. While back in August, the UN warned the US of 'alarming racism' in America, as US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley recently told this very real global government body, "You're not the boss of the U.S." And while the UN would love to believe that their vote makes President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel 'null and void', it may not be just a coincidence that there have recently been numerous reports of United Nations vehicles or troops in America as was recently reported by Matt Dubiel, a radio station manager in Chicago. Interestingly, as we hear in the final video below featuring Dubiel, soon after reporting upon the UN in Chicago, his radio station was allegedly mysteriously taken off the air. And while Snopes recently claimed that there are no UN troops in Chicago nor plans to deploy them there in their latest attempt to squash the 'UN troops to disarm Americans' conspiracy theory, they certainly don't know what the future might bring as just days ago, Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin was in talks with United Nations officials to explore the possibility of putting UN troops on the streets of Chicago to address the city’s horrendous gun violence problem. Boykin flew to New York last week to meet with UN assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco to discuss the issue. “The United Nations has a track record of protecting minority populations,” Boykin said before the meeting. “There was tribal warfare between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Africa, and they deployed peacekeeping troops there to help save those populations and reduce the bloodshed. We have to do something — black people in Chicago make up 30 percent of the population but 80 percent of those who are killed by gun violence.” Boykin said that UN peacekeepers would be more suited to patrolling the streets than the U.S. National Guard because they are better “trained” for the role. We also know as 100% fact that United Nations vehicles are being stored 'en masse' at a Kellogg's warehouse in Hagerstown, Maryland as seen in the photograph above and the 1st video below from from Alastair Williamson of Stock Board Asset as also read in this story. Williamson actually went to the Hagerstown site at night and gave us great on the spot video. How can Snopes debunk that? Interestingly we also learn from his story the ties between the UN, Kellogg's and none other than George Soros. 'Enemies of America within'? From his story.: U.N. ARMORED VEHICLES ARE BEING STORED UNDER THE SAME ROOF OF A KELLOGG CEREAL WAREHOUSE– ODD? The building at 11841 Newgate Boulevard in Hagerstown, Maryland just 70-80 miles outside of Washington D.C. houses a Kellogg cereal warehouse and armored United Nations vehicles all under the same roof. The building has a total of 615,000 square feet of space, where Kellogg leases about 250,000 square feet. The U.S. General Services Administration, a real estate arm of the federal government, leases the remaining space of the building. Perhaps, we should dive deeper into the rabbit hole and take a look at Kellogg. W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a major George Soros Donor, “The institutional left’s funding behemoth W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered with and given major donations to George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Tides Center as part of its massive push to promote a far-left agenda.” Recently, a petition to label George Soros as a ‘terrorist’ has hit 100k signatures, which means the White House has to reply. This comes at a time where groups under George Soros’s Open Society umbrella have led to social destabilization in the United States. Take for example, Soros funded Black Lives Matter with $100 million, which the group led to social destabilization of Ferguson Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. Nevertheless, the nonprofit arm of Kellogg cereal company called W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of George Soros largest donors and a major donor of Black Lives Matter. Conclusion: Isn’t it odd that the non-profit arm of Kellogg and George Soros are funding groups to destabilize the United States? Or better yet, a Kellogg warehouse in Maryland is under the same roof of armored military vehicles. You decide.. Will foreign soldiers soon occupy the streets of big cities in America such as Chicago? While Cook County Commissioner Boykin claimed the UN had a track record of protecting minority populations and "we have to do something — black people in Chicago make up 30 percent of the population but 80 percent of those who are killed by gun violence". Yet according to the FBI’s uniform crime-reporting data for 2016, 90.1 percent of black victims of homicide were killed by other blacks, proving the percentage of black on black crime far outweighs any other racial category. And as we reported on ANP back in September or 2016, nearly wherever United Nations so-called 'peacekeeping forces' go, systematic abuses have followed including numerous accounts of child sexual abuse going back at least 13 years according to this story from Newsweek. Even this 2016 story from the Washington Post reported upon the systematic problems of UN 'peacekeepers' going into numerous different locations - and they want these folks in Chicago? As the Associated Press reported earlier in 2017, the child sex ring being run in Haiti was run by over 100 UN employees for a period of over 10 years and NONE of them were ever jailed for their crimes. So WHO really wants the UN on US soil? And will President Trump run the UN out of America and get America out of the UN? The fact that Nikki Haley recently stated 'we'd be taking names' prior to the UN vote proving who 'America's friends' are shows America has a lot of enemies. While globalist mouthpiece Foreign Policy recently reported the White House seeks to cut billions in funding for the United Nations and a U.S. retreat from U.N. could mark a “breakdown of the international humanitarian system as we know it”, why should the American taxpayer bankroll an international organization that works against America’s interests around the world as asked in this Infowars story? It's now time to take the US out of the UN and get the UN out of America.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Time_To_Get_The_UN_Out_Of_America.php
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BOMBSHELL: United Nations admits latest outbreak of polio in Syria was caused by polio vaccines
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 by: Vicki Batts
(Natural News) In war-torn Syria, there’s little doubt that the conflict has taken a toll on health. Now, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that their attempt at using vaccines to “protect” children against polio has backfire — infecting more children with the devastating disease rather than saving them. Vaccines make children sick, you don’t say? As World Health Organization representative Elizabeth Hoff reports, “As of 18 August 2017, 33 children under the age of five have been paralyzed. The detection of the circulating vaccine derived polio virus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases demonstrates that disease surveillance systems are functional in Syria. Our priority now is to achieve the highest possible polio immunization coverage to stop the circulation of virus.” Thirty-three children paralyzed by the vaccine that was supposed to protect them — and the UN’s response is to just keep doling out more vaccines? Sadly, that’s par for the course. Obviously, bad medicine is never the problem — there’s just not enough bad medicine, that’s all. Fran Equiza, a UNICEF representative commented, “No child should have to live with devastating effects of polio.” And yet, this is the second outbreak of polio to strike Syria since the conflict first took roots in 2011. Earlier this summer, NPR reported on this very phenomenon, wherein mutant strains from the polio vaccine caused more paralysis than wild polio. Could it really be that a lab-altered version of a virus is more dangerous than the one found in nature? Absolutely. As Jason Beaubien reports, as of June 2017, there were more cases of child paralysis caused by the polio vaccine than the actual, wild-caught disease itself. At the time of his reporting, just six cases of “wild” polio, which is naturally occurring in the environment, had been reported worldwide. Conversely, 21 cases of vaccine-derived polio had been reported internationally in June. Obviously, in Syria that number skyrocketed over the last two months — 33 children in Syria alone have been paralyzed by vaccine-derived polio. Raul Andino, a professor of microbiology at the University of California at San Francisco explains, “We discovered there’s only a few [mutations] that have to happen and they happen rather quickly in the first month or two post-vaccination. As the virus starts circulating in the community, it acquires further mutations that make it basically indistinguishable from the wild-type virus. It’s polio in terms of virulence and in terms of how the virus spreads.” Andino’s research also shows that the polio virus used in the vaccine will replicate inside human hosts’ intestines. In places with poor sanitation, this often means it has the chance to spread from person-to-person with relative ease. Places where conflict and war have decimated health care systems are known for being breeding grounds for disease outbreak. It comes as no surprise (sadly) that war-weary Syria is expected to have even more cases of polio in the coming months. Michael Zaffran, the director of polio eradication at the World Health Organization contends, “In Syria, there may be more cases coming up.” Zaffran adds that the WHO is aware of the risk that comes with the live polio vaccine and says it is “a very regrettable hiccup for the poor children that have been paralyzed, of course. But with regards to the whole initiative, you know it’s not something that is unexpected.” He added that while the children’s paralysis is unfortunate, “from a public health perspective, the benefits far outweigh the risk.” Do you think that will comfort the children and their families as they struggle with the after-effects of vaccine-derived polio? [Related: Learn more about the risks of inoculation at Vaccines.news]
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Top Marine general: 'There's a war coming'
By Josh Delk - 12/22/17 11:16 AM EST
The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, told troops Thursday that "there's a war coming" and urged them to be prepared. "I hope I'm wrong, but there's a war coming," Neller told Marines stationed in Norway, during a visit there, according to Military.com. "You're in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence," he added. The commandant pointed to Russia and the Pacific theater as the next major areas of conflict, predicting a "big-ass fight" in the future. "Just remember why you're here," he said. "They're watching. Just like you watch them, they watch you. We've got 300 Marines up here; we could go from 300 to 3,000 overnight. We could raise the bar." Neller's visit comes amid tensions between Russia and NATO allies. Russia warned neighboring Norway that the presence of American troops could hurt relations, after Norway decision to host a new unit of U.S. soldiers through the end of 2018. The administration says the Marines are there to enhance ties with European NATO allies and train in cold-weather combat. In a question-and-answer session with the troops, Neller said the U.S. could shift its focus after years of fighting in the Middle East to Eastern Europe, citing Russia's conflicts with Ukraine and Georgia. On Monday, President Trump unveiled a new national security strategy that focused on the threats posed by Russia and China to U.S. interests.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366174-marine-corps-commandant-theres-a-war-coming
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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The day the U.S. called out UN back-stabbers
Friday, December 22, 2017 Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
Allies and enemies of the United States condemned the U.S. this week for supporting Israel – and some say the vote at the United Nations is a badge of honor. A total of 128 nations voted Dec. 21 to support a UN resolution condemning the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel capital, The Associated Press reported after the vote. Eight nations joined the U.S. to vote against the resolution, 35 countries abstained, and another 21 delegations were absent. Condemnation of the United States wavers at the UN, where the U.S. enjoys influence, but the international body is known for its blatant hatred and condemnation of the Jewish State while defending the Palestinians. Among our country's most influential allies, Gary Bauer of American Values points out that only Israel voted with the U.S. while Great Britain voted in favor of the resolution, and Canada and Mexico were among the nations that abstained. "Their first impulse every day, [when] they gather in New York, is to kick Israel, to kick the United States for standing with Israel," says Bauer. "It's pitiful and I agree with the President, we should stop funding it." And that's exactly what President Donald Trump and Ambassador Nikki Haley warned the UN body before the vote that it would do. With the vote looming, Trump voiced the decades-long complaints of many Americans that the U.S. helps countries around the world that were planning to stab the U.S. in the back at the UN. "The United States will remember this day," Haley said, "when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit." A post-vote editorial at The Washington Examiner newspaper points out that the U.S. funds 22 percent of the UN operating budget, 35 percent of the World Food Programme budget, and more than $2 billion annually to the UN peacekeeping budget, among other programs. The editorial observed: We recognize that many frontline U.N. programs do important work in saving and improving lives. But Trump is right to expect a measure of gratitude for this nation's commitments. Instead, he is receiving scorn and rebuke for practicing the most basic right of sovereign power to decide, in concert with a host nation, where to locate an embassy. The view of the U.S. at the UN, the editorial surmised, is "American taxpayers, write us a check, then shut up and listen while we educate them about their nation's inadequacies." Haley is getting high marks from Republicans in Congress, among them Indiana congressman Jim Banks who praises her support for Israel. "Nikki Haley is doing that important work," he tells OneNewsNow, "to ensure that we maintain the relationship – strengthen it after we saw eight years of a significant decline in their relationship during the Obama administration." Asked about Trump's vote-related threats, and if the U.S. has the "political will" to follow through on them, Banks tells OneNewsNow that willpower exists on both sides of the aisle. "I think so," he replies. "It's a bipartisan statement that we made in the House of Representatives. We have Democrats who are as pro-Israel as we have Republicans who are pro-Israel."
https://www.onenewsnow.com/national-security/2017/12/22/the-day-the-us-called-out-un-back-stabbers
:: 12-22-17 Hal Lindsey :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
UN Sanctioned Antisemitism
By Hal Lindsey
The world’s war on Jews continues to grow in intensity and in brazenness. From college campuses to the United Nations, people no longer hide their bigotry against Jews. Now they’re proud of it. Many of those working toward Israel’s demise say they are not anti-Semites. They say you can be anti-Israel without being anti-Jew. But when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially proclaims that Israel has no historic link to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, there can be no doubt. That age-old hobgoblin of the world — antisemitism — has roared back to life! On Tuesday in Paris, the UNESCO executive board approved a resolution denying any historical Jewish ties to the Temple Mount. I wrote about this in April when UNESCO first floated the idea, but who would have thought it would get this far? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “To say that Israel has no connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall is like saying that China has no connection to the Great Wall of China or that Egypt has no connection to the Pyramids.” U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, “We are deeply concerned about these kinds of recurring, politicized resolutions that do nothing to advance constructive results on the ground.” CNN belittled Israel’s complaint as a “spat.” But it was a big enough spat that Israel has now cut off all ties to UNESCO. Carmel Shama-Hacohen, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, said, “We won’t negotiate and we won’t take part in these ugly games. There is no place for these games in UNESCO. This noble organization was established to preserve history, not to rewrite it.” UNESCO’s own website says, “Peace must be established on the basis of humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity.” Do they even see Jews as a part of “humanity”? How can they pretend that Jews have no connection to the Temple Mount, and say that their goal is “humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity”? USECO says its job is the “protection of heritage.” Yet they deny three thousand years of Jewish heritage. The resolution never refers to the site as “the Temple Mount.” It doesn’t mention the historical Jewish Temples built there. UNESCO refers to it only as “al-Haram al-Sharif,” Arabic for “the Noble Sanctuary.” For the Temple Mount to be exclusively Muslim, as UNESCO says, the temples could never have existed there. Even the Western Wall, sometimes called the “Wailing Wall,” is depicted in the report as wholly Muslim. Secular history, Bible history, and archeology all give overwhelming testimony to the existence of these great temples in this specific location. This is not just a matter of Jewish heritage, but also Christian. Jesus taught in the Temple, and had important things to say about it. When Muslim authorities did restoration work inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, they tore out and threw away lumber that scientists confirm are of the right age and type to have been used in the first Temple — the one built by Solomon. For most of human history, wood from previous construction was reused. These beams had been used in Solomon’s temple, reused in the second temple, kept during Herod’s renovations, used again in Catholic churches built on the site, and finally used by the Muslims in building Al-Aqsa. When Muslim authorities built an underground mosque on this land that they claim to hold as holy, they threw away and in some cases destroyed thousands of artifacts from at least as far back as the second temple. Instead of treating the site with care as Jewish, Christian, and even atheistic archeologists would have done, they used jackhammers and bulldozers. They hauled off truckloads of dirt filled with smashed artifacts. They dumped it as trash. Muslims say a horse named “Buraq” once flew the Prophet Mohammed to the “Seventh Heaven,” using the Temple Mount as his launch pad. The UNESCO resolution accepts this without question. But they deny the three-thousand-year history of Israel’s connection to the mount. I am stunned by the brazenness of UNESCO’s campaign to eradicate any Jewish connection to the land of their fathers. The world is proceeding down a dark path. We can take comfort from the fact that these things were foretold in God’s Word. And those same remarkable prophecies also tell us that, in the end, goodness, truth, justice, and mercy will all win.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-10-20-2016/
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The UN Continues its Israel-Bashing
General Assembly passes meaningless resolution against Trump’s Jerusalem decision.
December 22, 2017 Joseph Klein
Following the U.S. veto of a draft Security Council resolution on December 18th seeking to censure and reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Palestinians and their enablers pushed for a similar resolution at a special emergency session of the UN General Assembly. The General Assembly passed the resolution on December 21st by a vote of 128-9, with 35 abstentions. It declared U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital “null and void” and urged nations to “refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions.” Major European allies, including Britain, France, and Germany, shamefully voted for the resolution. In doing so, they exposed their latent centuries-old anti-Semitism by singling out the Jewish state for special condemnation. Other allies, such as Canada and Australia, at least had the decency to abstain. UN General Assembly resolutions purporting to buttress the Palestinians’ position are entirely non-binding, as are virtually all resolutions, actions or recommendations by the General Assembly on such matters as international security. They have no more legal impact than the vacuous speeches that have accompanied the passage of the resolutions. The latest resolution passed by the UN General Assembly forum, whose members include many free-riding authoritarian regimes, was a farcical attempt to isolate the most powerful democracy in the world, and the UN’s largest contributor by far, for exercising its national sovereign rights. Moreover, with all the real global crises today, including in Syria, North Korea, Yemen and Myanmar, one would think such crises would deserve their own special emergency sessions of the General Assembly. Alas, that has not happened. Yet the Israel-bashers chose to call a special emergency session to indulge their hatred for the Jewish state and their fantasies that what they pass there will have any real impact on Israel or the Trump administration. Ambassador Haley bluntly told the member states voting for the General Assembly resolution to butt out of America’s decisions as a sovereign nation. “Unlike in some UN member countries, the United States government is answerable to its people,” she said. Ambassador Haley added that “the President’s decision reflects the will of the American people and our right as a nation to choose the location of our embassy. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that.” Ambassador Haley also warned that Americans will need to re-evaluate the current level of generous contributions the United States makes to the UN and how they will now choose to regard those “countries who disrespect us in the UN.” President Trump was even more blunt in remarks he made the day before the General Assembly vote, as quoted by Reuters: "They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care." Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, during his remarks to the General Assembly, harshly criticized the countries supporting the resolution at the urging of the Palestinians. “Those who support today’s resolution are like puppets pulled by the strings of the Palestinian puppet masters,” said Ambassador Danon. “You are like marionettes forced to dance while the Palestinian leadership looks on with glee,” he continued. Ambassador Danon displayed a coin from the year 67 AD that was minted during the Jewish revolt against the Romans. “On this coin is written ‘Freedom of Zion.’ It proves the ancient connection of Jews to Jerusalem,” Ambassador Danon explained. “No UNESCO declaration, no empty speeches, no General Assembly resolution will ever drive us from Jerusalem,” he declared. The UN’s handling of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been immorally one-sided. As Ambassador Haley said in her remarks to the General Assembly, “To its shame, the United Nations has long been a hostile place for the state of Israel.” Israel, far more than many of the member states that continue to denounce it, “stands up for the ideals of freedom and human dignity that the United Nations is supposed to be about.” In standing up for Israel, the only genuine democracy in the Middle East, against continuous efforts at the UN to demonize and delegitimize it, and standing up for U.S. sovereignty in deciding where to locate its own embassies, the Trump administration is displaying the “principled realism” so lacking during the last administration.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268807/un-continues-its-israel-bashing-joseph-klein
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UN votes against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
UN General Assembly votes 128 to 9 to adopt anti-Israel resolution denouncing US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. 35 abstain.
David Rosenberg, 21/12/17 19:25 | updated: 20:11
The United Nations General Assembly voted by a wide margin Thursday to adopt an anti-Israel resolution, tacitly condemning America’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. During an emergency session of the General Assembly Thursday morning (New York time), the body voted 128 to 9 to adopt draft resolution A/ES-10/L22, rejecting President Trump’s recent declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city and chiding Israel over illegal “actions in Occupied East Jerusalem”. An additional 35 nations abstained from the vote, while another 21 did not participate. Thursday’s resolution, which was drafted by Turkey and Yemen’s UN delegations, states that “any decisions and actions which purport to have altered, the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Security Council.” The resolution also called on the US not to establish its embassy or any other “diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem.” The nine countries which voted against the resolution included the United States, Israel, Guatemala, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, and Togo. Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Benin, Canada, Poland, Croatia, South Sudan, Uganda, Romania, Rwanda, Malawi, Lesotho, Latvia, Hungary, Colombia, Jamaica, Fiji, and the Czech Republic were among those member states which abstained. On December 6th, President Donald Trump announced that he was reversing decades of US policy vis-à-vis the Israeli capital, declaring that the US recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city. The president also announced that had ordered the State Department to being work to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli capital. The move, praised by the Israeli government and some US lawmakers, drew criticism from many European leaders and much of the Arab world. Egypt’s UN delegation, which currently holds one of the ten temporary seats on the UN Security Council, submitted a proposal condemning the US recognition of Jerusalem, and declaring it null and void in international law. On Monday, the US vetoed the resolution, which was backed by all 10 temporary Security Council members and the four other permanent member states – China, Russia, the UK, and France. By Tuesday, it was reported that Arab states were planning a similar resolution in the General Assembly. During the special meeting, American Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the international body, calling it a “hostile place for the State of Israel”. "To its shame, the United Nations has long been a hostile place for the State of Israel." "It's a wrong that undermines the credibility of this institution, and that in turn is harmful for the entire world." Before Thursday’s vote, President Donald Trump warned General Assembly member-states which receive American aid that the US would be “watching” which countries vote with the US, and which vote against it on the resolution. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” he told reporters before the Cabinet meeting, according to Reuters.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/239651
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and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
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Palm Springs Becomes First City Council in Nation to Be All Homosexual, Bisexual or Transgender
By Heather Clark on December 9, 2017
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The City of Palm Springs, California has sworn in a man who identifies as a woman, as well as a woman who identifies as bisexual, making its city council all-“LGBT” as its other three members identify as homosexual. Lisa Middleton, a man who identifies as a woman (pictured), and Christy Holstege, an attorney who identifies as bisexual, were both sworn in on Wednesday after being elected last month. They join Mayor Robert Moon and Councilman Geoff Kors, who both are “married” to men, and Councilman J.R. Roberts, who likewise identifies as homosexual. Holstege and Middleton won with 30 percent of the vote, as compared to the 13 percent received by the nearest candidate. They replace Ginny Foat and Chris Mills, who decided not to run for reelection, according to CBS News. “The kind of actions that made my election possible took place over the last 15-20 years in this city,” Middleton stated, according to local television station KESQ. “I am thrilled to have an opportunity to represent Palm Springs and Palm Springs values throughout this state and throughout this country.” “It takes a diverse voice,” Holstege, who is married to a man but who identifies as bisexual, also remarked. “I work to make a living in Palm Springs. I want to raise kids here, and I think that’s important. I have to represent all of us, each and every one of us who lives in Palm Springs and I’m really looking forward to build a Palm Springs that works for all of us.” Middleton’s campaign website outlines that he is involved with various humanitarian and transgender advocacy groups, including the LGBT Center of the Desert and Equality California, and also serves as the chair of the neighborhood improvement coalition ONE-PS. Middleton is married to a woman and has an adult son and daughter. Holstege’s campaign website notes that in addition to handling civil litigation, elder law and domestic violence law, she also “focuses her practice and pro bono efforts serving underserved communities of the Coachella Valley, including people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, homeless individuals, injured workers, personal injury victims, and victims of discrimination and violence.” According to a report by the Desert Sun entitled “Gay Then, Gayer Now: The New Palm Springs City Council Marks a Milestone in LGBT Acceptance,” Palm Springs has a history of electing homosexuals to office, as the two previous mayors and four past members of city council have identified as homosexual. However, Councilman Roberts told the New York Times that he doesn’t want Palm Springs City Council to be known primarily for its sexuality. “As the last bit of confetti is being swept up, some concerns have replaced elation,” he outlined to the outlet. “I really don’t want us to be known as the queer council. I want this to be about the things we accomplish.” Holstege said Wednesday that she wants to focus on issues such as homelessness and to restore trust in the expenditures of public tax money. Middleton, who has worked with the Planning Commission since 2014, likewise stated that the passage of a half-cent sales tax is a priority in order to give the city a better budget to work with in regard to city planning and zoning. As previously reported, at least two other men who identify as women were elected to government office last month. In Minnesota, Andre “Andrea” Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council, and in Virginia, Daniel “Danica” Roem was elected to the House of Delegates. Historic American statesman Daniel Webster, who held office both in the House and Senate, once said, “If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.” Noah Webster, known as the father of American education, also said, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from—vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war—proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
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REVEALED: The FBI plot to overthrow the presidency and commit organized TREASON in America
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 by: Jayson Veley
Natural News) Most people never thought they would see the day that the FBI would become so politicized that many of its members actively lie and commit treason in an attempt to bring down the President of the United States, but alas, here we are. While our criminal justice system was originally established to give all Americans, regardless of their background and political ideology, fair and equal treatment under the law, that all changed when Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. With the Department of Justice under his control, Obama was able to appoint radical leftists like Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch to do his bidding, which mostly consisted of race-baiting and using the law to specifically target conservative Americans. In this way, the justice system became not only entangled in rampant corruption, but also a weapon used by the left to destroy their political enemies. Today, even though Donald Trump has taken over Barack Obama’s seat inside the Oval Office, rogue Obama appointees that still reside in the Department of Justice are doing what they’ve always done; the only difference is that now they have the advantage of working to dismantle the conservative movement from within. REVEALED: The FBI plot to overthrow the presidency and commit organized TREASON in America Wednesday, December 20, 2017 by: Jayson Veley
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(Natural News) Most people never thought they would see the day that the FBI would become so politicized that many of its members actively lie and commit treason in an attempt to bring down the President of the United States, but alas, here we are. While our criminal justice system was originally established to give all Americans, regardless of their background and political ideology, fair and equal treatment under the law, that all changed when Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. With the Department of Justice under his control, Obama was able to appoint radical leftists like Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch to do his bidding, which mostly consisted of race-baiting and using the law to specifically target conservative Americans. In this way, the justice system became not only entangled in rampant corruption, but also a weapon used by the left to destroy their political enemies. Today, even though Donald Trump has taken over Barack Obama’s seat inside the Oval Office, rogue Obama appointees that still reside in the Department of Justice are doing what they’ve always done; the only difference is that now they have the advantage of working to dismantle the conservative movement from within. Perhaps one of the most outrageous and desperate allegations made by the left in recent history is the idea that President Trump and various members of his team colluded with the Russians throughout the 2016 presidential election, which ultimately helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton last November. Despite no concrete evidence whatsoever, the liberals, including and especially leftists within the mainstream media, have been hellbent on convincing the American people that something illegal occurred. Eventually, they were rewarded for their efforts with the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has gone on to conduct one of the most biased and politicized FBI investigations in American history. To give just one example, it was recently revealed that a top FBI agent at the center of the investigation into the so-called “Russia collusion scandal,” Peter Strzok, exchanged several anti-Trump text messages with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who was also appointed to Mueller’s investigative team. Although Strzok was suspended from the investigation for his overwhelming bias, it goes to show that Robert Mueller really didn’t take enough time to ensure that his team was fair and honest in the first place. (Related: The bogus “Trump-Russia collusion” story is nothing but a political hatchet job cooked up by Obama loyalist John Brennan.) It’s also worth noting that Peter Strzok was the FBI’s lead investigator on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails during her time as Secretary of State. Strzok even interviewed Clinton on July 2, 2016, just days before then-FBI Director James Comey announced that he would not be recommending any charges. If Peter Strzok is this biased and this willing to defend liberal Democrats, why would Robert Mueller recruit him for his team? Of course, Peter Strzok is only one of many individuals on Robert Mueller’s team that has an obvious left-wing slant. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, for example, was involved in both the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server and the investigation into the uranium one sale, neither of which conveniently resulted in legal consequences for Clinton. McCabe’s wife also received roughly $675,000 from Clinton supporters and left-wing organizations during her campaign for Virginia state senate. Other people on Mueller’s team with liberal biases include Andrew Weissmann, Justin Cooper, Jeannie Rhee, Bruce Ohr, and others. If all of this isn’t enough to convince you that this entire investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election is just a politicized witch hunt designed to destroy President Trump and his administration, then what is? Sources Included: FrontPageMag.com DailyCaller.com FoxNews.com
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Former Asst. FBI Director: “Patriots” Within FBI Set to Expose Mueller & Comey
“Something is about to happen”
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com - December 20, 2017
Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom told Fox Business that patriots within the FBI are about to go public with huge new revelations that could sink the credibility of the ‘Russian collusion’ investigation. Kallstrom said that a “5th estate” has been working to sabotage President Trump, lead by “a bunch of sycophants in the FBI” who are guilty of “obstruction of justice”. He added that the goal from the outset was to “destroy the presidency of the United States,” a claim backed up by the revelation that top anti-Trump FBI agents had settled on an “insurance policy,” namely the ‘Russian collusion’ investigation, to topple Trump if he defeated Hillary. “They were in Andy (McCabe’s) office plotting some kind of thing and I think that ‘some kind of thing’ is what we are seeing right now,” said Kallstrom, remarking that the entire Russian investigation was “very depressing” for many patriotic FBI agents. Kallstrom agreed with host Stuart Varney that a “cabal” within the FBI and DOJ that protected Hillary Clinton has been attempting to bring down Donald Trump for the past year. The former assistant director then dropped a bombshell, suggesting that insiders within the FBI are about to go public with new revelations about Mueller and Comey. “I think recent events, that I’m aware of, are going to improve that, because there’s going to be something actually something that’s going to happen in my view,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of patriots that have just had it up to here, with what’s going on. And they’re to step forward and tell people what the shenanigans have been, how they shut down the Clinton Foundation investigation, how other things, you know, were done that are so anti what the FBI and United States is all about,” Kallstrom added.
https://www.infowars.com/former-asst-fbi-director-patriots-within-fbi-set-to-expose-mueller-comey/
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As Fox News has reported, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe has rescheduled his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee with the Justice Department telling the network that it was due to a “routine scheduling error.” More likely it is due to the need for everyone to get their stories straight as the details of the fix that was in for Hillary Clinton are being, er… unmasked and the details of the deep state coup against President Trump bubble to the surface from the depths of the swamp: …Fox News was told by those familiar with the matter that the intelligence committee is suspicious of the purported scheduling error. One source said they believe the schedule issue arose after Fox News' report Monday night on Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr. Ohr was recently demoted from one of his two senior posts. Fox News reported that Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked through last fall for Fusion GPS, which was behind the anti-Trump dossier… “McCabe has an Ohr problem,” one congressional source said. McCabe has many problems and is at the heart of the criminal conspiracy to protect Hillary and unseat President Trump. The “Ohr problem” relates to Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie and their connections to Fusion GPS, the firm paid indirectly by the Clinton campaign and the DNC to work with former British spy Christopher Steele and Russian sources to put together a fake dossier likely used by the FBI to fraudulently obtain FISA surveillance warrants on Team Trump: Fox reported on Monday that Nellie Ohr worked last year for Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier. The company investigated Donald Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC. Bruce Ohr, a high-ranking Justice Department official, also has connections to both Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, the former British spy hired by Fusion to conduct the investigation of Trump. Ohr met prior to the election with Steele. He met several weeks after Trump’s victory with Simpson. It remains unclear what Ohr discussed during those meetings. Another McCabe problem relates to FBI lead investigator in the Clinton probe, Agent Peter Strzok, whose text messages to his FBI mistress, Lisa Page, lend both intent and motive to the Clinton cover-up and the animus toward President Trump. A letter from Homeland Security Committee chairman Sen. Rob Johnson, R-Wis., shows McCabe’s role in the altering and drafting of the James Comey memo exonerating Hillary Clinton: The letter reveals specific edits made by senior FBI agents when Deputy Director Andrew McCabe exchanged drafts of Comey's statement with senior FBI officials, including Peter Strzok, Strzok's direct supervisor, E.W. "Bill" Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, and an unnamed employee from the Office of General Counsel (identified by Newsweek as DOJ Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson) -- in what was a coordinated conspiracy among top FBI brass to decriminalize Clinton's conduct by changing legal terms and phrases, omitting key information, and minimizing the role of the Intelligence Community in the email investigation. Doing so virtually assured that then-candidate Hillary Clinton would not be prosecuted. McCabe was the ringleader of the damage control team trying to fudge the evidence of Hillary’s crimes and soften the tone of Comey’s exoneration memo so there would be fewer questions when the fix was revealed. McCabe was also aware of Strzok’s fears of a Trump victory and determination to undermine it: Out of all the damning, politically charged anti-Trump text messages released, one text from Strzok to Page on August 15, 2016, raised the most suspicion. It referred to a conversation and a meeting that had just taken place in "Andy's" (widely believed to be Deputy FBI Dir. Andrew McCabe's) office. According to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Strzok had texted this: "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office [break]... that there's no way he gets elected. I want to believe that... But I'm afraid we can't take that risk... We have to do something about it." If McCabe had any honor, he would have dismissed Strzok instantly and revealed the corruption his words exhibited. But McCabe was part of the corrupt criminal enterprise. McCabe was in a key position overseeing the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s scandalous and treasonous handling of classified emails on her private server, a position from which he could assist FBI Director James Comey in putting the fix in. As Judicial Watch notes: Judicial Watch today released Justice Department records showing that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not recuse himself from the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecure, non-government email server until Tuesday, November 1, 2016, one week prior to the presidential election. The Clinton email probe was codenamed “Midyear Exam.” While working as Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office, McCabe controlled resources supporting the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. An October 2016 internal FBI memorandum labeled “Overview of Deputy Director McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr. McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office,” details talking points about McCabe’s various potential conflicts of interest, including the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s illicit server, which officially began in July 2015: While at [Washington Field Office] did Mr. McCabe provide assistance to the Clinton investigation? After the referral was made, FBI Headquarters asked the Washington Field Office for personnel to conduct a special investigation. McCabe was serving as [Assistant Director] and provided personnel resources. However, he was not told what the investigation was about. In February 2016 McCabe became Deputy Director and began overseeing the Clinton investigation. The Overview also shows if asked whether McCabe played any role in his wife’s campaign, the scripted response was: “No. Then-[Assistant Director] McCabe played no role, attended no events and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind." Of course, that statement was a lie. McCabe is a Democratic loyalist whose wife campaigned for state office in Virginia as a Democrat with heavy Democratic financial support. In fact, McCabe’s efforts on behalf of his wife are now the subject of multiple federal probes: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a central player in the Russia election case, is the focus of three separate federal administrative inquiries into allegations about his behavior as a senior bureau executive, according to documents and interviews. The allegations being reviewed range from sexual discrimination to improper political activity, the documents show… Circa reported Monday that former supervisory special agent Robyn Gritz, a decorated counterterrorism agent, has filed a sexual discrimination and retaliation complaint that names McCabe and other top FBI officials… Gritz also filed a complaint against McCabe with the main federal whistleblower agency in April, alleging social media photos she found show he campaigned for his wife’s Virginia state senate race in violation of the Hatch Act… In addition, the Justice Department Inspector General is investigating allegations from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, that McCabe may not have properly disclosed campaign payments to his wife on his ethics report and should have recused himself from Hillary Clinton's email case. McCabe is probably not a happy camper right now and certainly has no love lost for Michael Flynn, who was a potential witness on behalf of one of McCabe’s accusers. As PJ Media reports: In 2014, Flynn, then director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, personally intervened on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz by writing a letter vouching for her on his official Pentagon stationary and offering to testify on her behalf. He also supported her case in a radio interview in 2015… The FBI, for its part, claimed that Gritz had become "underperforming, tardy to work, insurbordinate, possibly mentally ill or emotional and deserving of a poor performance review."…
Flynn argued just the opposite in his May 9, 2014 letter: “SSA Gritz was well-known, liked and respected in the military counter-terrorism community for her energy, commitment and professional capacity, and over the years worked in several interagency groups on counter-terrorism targeting initiatives.”
McCabe did not disclose Democratic contributions to his wife’s campaign in Virginia in financial disclosure forms, donations that raise questions about both his integrity and objectivity. As Fox News Politics reports: The records, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, show FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe left the box blank for wife Dr. Jill McCabe's salary, as a doctor with Commonwealth Emergency Physicians. And there is no documentation of the hundreds of thousands of campaign funds she received in her unsuccessful 2015 Virginia state Senate race. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, Clinton confidant and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe urged McCabe’s wife to run for statewide office shortly after news reports were published that Hillary Clinton used a private email server and address for all her government business while serving as secretary of State. For the reporting period of October through November 2015, McCabe's campaign filings show she received $467,500 from Common Good VA, a political action committee controlled by McAuliffe, as well as an additional $292,500 from a second Democratic PAC. Connect those dots, Democrats and others looking for Russians hiding under Republican beds. We have a Deputy FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, campaigning for his wife, who receives huge sums of money from the Democratic Party of Clinton political ally Terry McAuliffe. After Clinton blames Russia for her election loss, Flynn becomes a target of an FBI probe in which his identity is illegally unmasked. He was a character witness on behalf of one of McCabe’s accusers. Was Mrs. McCabe’s largesse a quid for a future quo? Was Flynn’s unmasking McCabe’s revenge? An unindicted coconspirator in the pro-Hillary and anti-Trump conspiracy is Special Counsel Robert Mueller, leading a team of Clinton lawyers and donors, running an investigation which began with no crime and has found no proof of any collusion between Team Trump and Russia. So desperate has he become that he has cast any remaining ethics aside and should be removed. As Fox News’ Greg Jarrett writes: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is accused of acting in complete disregard for the law and must be removed. And so, too, must his entire team. There is devastating new evidence to suggest that Mueller and his staff of lawyers improperly, if not illegally, obtained tens of thousands of private documents belonging to President-elect Trump's Presidential Transition Team (PTT). The material includes emails, laptops and cell phones used by 13 PTT members. Critically, a "significant volume of privileged material" was taken by Mueller, according to the Trump transition lawyer, and then used by the special counsel team in its investigation. Mueller's staff apparently admits this egregious violation, which the law strictly forbids. Under the law, the only remedy is Mueller's dismissal from the case… The Presidential Transition Act states that all records of transition operations are private and confidential. On November 16, 2016, roughly ten days after Trump was elected president, the Chief Records Officer of the U.S. Government sent a letter to all federal agencies reminding them that "the materials that PTT members create or receive are not Federal or Presidential records, but are considered private materials." Yet Mueller seems to have ignored the law. Without a warrant or subpoena, his team of lawyers brazenly demanded these private records from the General Services Administration (GSA) which held custody of the materials. The GSA does this as a service to all incoming presidents out of courtesy, but it neither owns the documents nor is authorized to release them to anyone under any circumstances because they are deemed entirely private. Robert Mueller, like Andrew McCabe and the rest of the anti-Trump criminal conspirators, consider themselves above the law and on a divine mission to unseat Trump. Mueller’s conflicts of interest, starting with his relationship with James Comey, are well documented. His role, along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in covering up the FBI’s early investigation into Russia’s nuclear bribery in the Uranium One case are also a matter of public record. McCabe and Mr. Mueller are the leaders in the criminal conspiracy of the century, a silent coup against a sitting president that does indeed make Watergate look like a third-rate burglary. Daniel John Sobieski is a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
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All the King’s horses and all the King’s Men could not put Humpty Dumpty Holder back together again!
By Dave Hodges
Eric Holder has engaged in behavior which should have already sent him to prison. And if he would have gone to prison as the government offiical most responsible for the murder of Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, then former President Obama would go to jail as well because of his role of ordering Holder to ship thousands of guns to the Mexican drug cartels, via the DOJ, in order to launch attack the Second Amendment in America. Holder and Obama should have already been charged with the following:
Conspiracy to illegally distribute firearms to known enemies of the United States. This is treason.
Criminal facilitation.
Conspiracy to commit domestic terrorism.
Malfeasance of office.
Accessory to the murder of Brian Terry.
International gun running.
Racketeering with the drug cartels.
Contempt of Congress (charged and convicted but not sentenced).
The longer the Mueller investigation goes on, the greater the chance that Holder and friends are going to be fully exposed for their past bad deeds. Additionally, I have learned that the State Department was involved in Fast and Furious as well. and this brings Hillary Clinton into the picture. Further, I have known for sometime, courtesy of a confidential FBI source, that elements of the Clinton Foundation participated in the Fast and Furious scheme. The Clinton Foundation reportedly operated as a financial pass through in facilitating the off-the-books scheme to put American guns in the hands Mexican drug dealers. In other words, Clinton’s people were laundering the money associated with Fast and Furious.
Holder’s Meltdown On Twitter President Trump is frequently criticized for his behavior on Twitter. Trump has nothing on former Attorney General, Eric Holder. Exactly one week ago, Eric Holder tweeted that any attempt to remove Mueller from his post “will not be tolerated.” Holder went on in this tweet to say that the “attacks” on Mueller and his staff are “BS,” adding that they “are blatantly political – designed to hide the real wrongdoing.” It was clear that this rant was designed to convict the President, in the public’s mind, and that President Trump has a lot to hide and should be the target of and ongoing investigation into his conduct as the President or President-elect.. Apparently, one tweet was not enough. On December 17, 2017, the mounting anxiety of his impending legal difficulties, Eric Holder, again, tweeted out a very controversial message in which he frantically stated that the potential firing of Robert Mueller or in any way “crippling the special counsel’s office” is Holder’s “ABSOLUTE RED LINE.” Holder went on to state that, if the President should take action against Mueller in accordance with his role as Special Prosecutor, that “there must be mass, popular, peaceful support of both.” “The American people must be seen and heard – they will ultimately be determinative” The Absolute Red Line: Who Is It Really Meant For? Some are left wondering if that “Absolute Red Line” was crossed to the point that Antifa and Moveon.org are suspected of putting rocks on the railroad tracks that led to the deaths of six people. Others are also wondering if the fire and the shutting down of Atlanta’s airport was also the work of the same organizations. What other distractions does the left have up their sleeve? They are already UN troops on the ground in Chicago. What is the next move designed to cover their criminal tracks? Conclusion In previous articles, it has been documented that Robert Mueller has already been compromised by President Trump as Mueller has been clearly implicated as the one who delivered the first batch of uranium to the Russians on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Some researchers, such as Liz Crokin, have speculated that Mueller has already been compromised by President Trump and is actually doing Trump’s bidding as all the pieces for prosecution are being lined up. There is some merit to this line of thinking because the investigation of the so-called Russian collusion delusion, has pointed several fingers back at Hillary Clinton (ie uranium one). Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation also yielded the emergence of the Fusion GPS scandal that Congress plans on pursuing after the Christmas Break. Based upon this evidence as well other information, I am in the camp that believes that Robert Mueller is owned by Trump. If this is the case and a very good case can be made that it is, Holder’s Twitter statements are really directed at Mueller and he is being reminded of who he really is. In this light, Holder’s comments contains a very thinly veiled message that if Holder goes down, so does Mueller. The rats on the ship are turning on each other.
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BREAKING PZ News – Rosie O’Donnell Offers $4 Million in Bribes To Senate – WH Please Respond –
By Ray Gano - December 21, 2017
On Tuesday Dec 19th 2017, Rosie O’Donnell offered to break the law by offering two senators $4 Million bribes to vote against the tax bill that passed the house. She posted this publicly on her twitter which you can see here – https://tinyurl.com/ Rosie-O-Is-A-Felon Under 18 U.S. Code §201, offering $4 million in bribes to senators to influence a vote is punishable with up to $12m in fines and/or imprisonment for as much as 15 years. Roseann “Rosie” O’Donnell, has an estimated net worth of $100 million and has the means to do this. I am asking President Trump to order Sect Sessions to open an investigation against Ms. O’Donnell. It is not right that someone with Ms. O’Donnell ways and means and the ability to make good on these bribes not be investigated. By making this public statement she thinks she is above the law and needs to know that she is not. If she does get away with this, it just proves to the American people that there are two sets of laws; one for the Hollywood elite and another for the common man like myself. Justice is suppose to be blind. Please Mr. President, look into this blatant abuse of the law by Ms. O’Donnell and prove to the Hollywood elite and the American people that there is only one set of laws and that she is not above it. That’s why I created a petition to President Donald Trump. Will you sign this petition? Click here:
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etc Troops in the streets. The man of peace rising to his place. The false prophet making his move into his role. The times ahead are hard, yet my people who know me and walk with me shall be well taken care of etc.
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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Listen very carefully to the things that I say unto you, for these things are not to bring fear, but these things are to bring peace into your hearts that you will know, because of the things that are coming, the things that shall be. For two thousand fifteen shall be a time of change, great change, change, change, change. The Illuminati shall once again rise up to the place that you will be able to see them in operation, for they still control all the money and they still control more things than you realize they control. Walt Disney is now in a new takeover trying to reach the minds and the hearts of the children, so be careful, be careful what you’re watching. There is going to be a new type of army and this army will be hand picked, but not just anyone can join, for it shall be an army that shall be against us, it shall be approved by the United Nations and they shall march in our streets because there is no control in the streets, and therefore, they will bring in another army that will have control.
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OFFICIAL: UN Announces Plan To Bring Armed Peacekeepers Into Democrat-Run, Downtown Chicago
Foreign soldiers to occupy American streets?
The Alex Jones Show - December 20, 2017
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin is in talks with United Nations officials to explore the possibility of putting UN troops on the streets of Chicago to address the city’s horrendous gun violence problem.
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etc.. Learn about the silent bomb, study it, study the national grid, understand the things that I am saying to you because this shall not just be a day or a two-day or a three-day thing. Make sure you can take care of yourself for at least three months, at least three months. etc..
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etc. I have told you to have enough food, generator for three months, how long, for three months. Not three years, not six years, not seven years. Man says many things, but it does not line up with my word, but I shall be giving unto you my word that you may know, you must prepare now, you must get your house in order now, these things, these things are important. etc..
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President Trump Keeping Promise On EMP Protection
by DR. WILLIAM R. GRAHAM, DR. PETER VINCENT PRY December 20, 2017
President Donald Trump on Monday (December 18, 2017) in what may well be remembered as an historic speech describing his new "America First" National Security Strategy, broke new ground by promising to protect U.S. critical infrastructures from "cyber, physical, and electromagnetic attacks." After 8 years of the Obama Administration ignoring the existential threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP), President Trump deserves the gratitude of his nation for being the first president to include EMP in his National Security Strategy. In so doing, President Trump is keeping a promise made in the 2016 Republican Party Platform on which he ran and was elected: Protection Against an Electromagnetic Pulse: A single nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude over this country would collapse our electrical grid and other critical infrastructures and endanger the lives of millions. With North Korea in possession of nuclear missiles and Iran close to having them, an EMP is no longer a theoretical concern - it is a real threat. Moreover, China and Russia include sabotage as part of their warfare planning. Nonetheless, hundreds of electrical utilities in the United States have not acted to protect themselves from EMP, and they cannot be expected to do so voluntarily since homeland security is a government responsibility. The President, the Congress, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the States, the utilities, and the private sector should work together on an urgent basis to... protect the national grid and encourage states to take the initiative to protect their own grids expeditiously. The new National Security Strategy acknowledges the importance of protecting U.S. critical infrastructures from "cyber, physical, and electromagnetic attacks": Critical infrastructure keeps our food fresh, our houses warm, our trade flowing, and our citizens productive and safe. The vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure to cyber, physical, and electromagnetic attacks means that adversaries could disrupt military command and control, banking and financial operations, the electrical grid, and means of communication. Presidential recognition of the EMP threat hopefully will mobilize the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense to give EMP protection of military forces and civilian critical infrastructures high priority. That protection should include not only hardening key assets against EMP effects-but more robust and layered missile defenses. President Trump's new National Security Strategy-reversing the Obama Administration's long neglect and weakening of National Missile Defense-promises to: ENHANCE MISSILE DEFENSE: The United States is deploying a layered missile defense system focused on North Korea and Iran to defend our homeland against missile attacks. This system will include the ability to defeat missile threats prior to launch. Enhanced missile defense is not intended to undermine strategic stability or disrupt longstanding strategic relationships with Russia or China. Hopefully, as the Trump Administration liberates itself from the damaging influence of Obama-holdovers opposed to National Missile Defense, the "America First" National Security Strategy may evolve to support space-based missile defense capable of protecting America from all potential adversaries-including Russia and China. President Trump understands, even if everyone in his administration does not, that "strategic stability" and "longstanding strategic relationships with Russia or China" are best maintained-not by a policy of mutual vulnerability-but by a policy of "Peace Through Strength." Protecting the nation from all missile threats and EMP should be the cornerstone of a "Peace Through Strength" policy. Toward the goal of EMP protection, President Trump should establish an Executive Agent to manage U.S. national infrastructure protection against the existential EMP threat. Current institutional authorities and responsibilities-government, industry, regulatory agencies-are fragmented, under-resourced, and unable to protect against foreign hostile EMP threats and natural EMP from solar super-storms. President Trump himself would be the best Executive Agent for national EMP protection. He could start by reforming Defense Department dereliction of duty on EMP. Up to the present, the Department has failed to lead the country in providing for national defense and security from EMP attack: --Failed to transfer much of its technical capabilities and accomplishments to other agencies of the federal government; --Failed to use its knowledge to assist and critique activities of other federal agencies, including the intelligence community; --Failed to declassify EMP environment and effects data and predictions that, while known to U.S. adversaries, are not available to the U.S. public, U.S. infrastructure organizations, and U.S. professional societies that develop specifications and standards for protecting critical national infrastructure; --Failed to inform the Congress and the public of the present and continuing existential EMP threat to the nation; --Failed to develop and pursue plans to protect the U.S. from EMP threats. Last but not least, Obama-holdovers in the Defense Department sabotaged the Congressional EMP Commission and made false assertions causing termination of the Commission in September 2017. That same month North Korea tested an H-Bomb that Pyongyang describes as capable of "super-powerful EMP attack." On September 4, 2017, North Korea published "The EMP Might Of Nuclear Weapons" accurately describing a Super-EMP nuclear warhead. So the inclusion of EMP in the new National Security Strategy comes just in time. Mr. President, thank you for your leadership!
Dr. William R. Graham, Chairman of the Congressional EMP Commission, White House Science Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, former Administrator of NASA, who was on the defense science team that discovered the EMP phenomenon resulting from the 1962 STARFISH PRIME high-altitude nuclear test.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, and served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA. He is author of Apocalypse Unknown: The Struggle To Protect America From An Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe and Electric Armageddon, both available from CreateSpace.com and
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Scientists May Now Create Air Transmissible Ebola and Other Lethal Viruses
Posted on December 20, 2017Natural Health News
By Heather Callaghan, Editor
Three years ago, several mishaps occurred with vials of viruses that could have been potential bioweapons in the wrong hands. A moratorium on deadly virus creation was installed, but the ban was just reversed on Tuesday allowing scientists to begin manipulating benign pathogens into deadly, epidemic-worthy human disease. Not only do the scientists want permission to create with abandon, they’d like to keep the results secret – i.e., keep them unpublished so that the work doesn’t get into “the wrong hands” and cause an act of bioterror… Now that the government has lifted the ban, scientists essentially have carte blanche to breed laboratory horrors. SEE: 30,000 Year Old Virus To Be Resurrected Played Out In The X-Files? New York Times Reports: Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal. Such work can now proceed, said Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, but only if a scientific panel decides that the benefits justify the risks. Some scientists are eager to pursue these studies because they may show, for example, how a bird flu could mutate to more easily infect humans, or could yield clues to making a better vaccine. Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic. Now, a government panel will require that researchers show that their studies in this area are scientifically sound and that they will be done in a high-security lab. The pathogen to be modified must pose a serious health threat, and the work must produce knowledge — such as a vaccine — that would benefit humans. Finally, there must be no safer way to do the research. Plague: One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth About Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Autism, and Other Diseases
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These projects — known as “gain of function” research — are intended to “make pathogens more deadly or more transmissible” supposedly for the purposes of study. Consider this, however: the government has been studying pathogen manipulation for bioweapons – even testing some germs on Americans – at least as far back as 60 years ago. Some examples of new viruses could be air-transmissible Ebola, the flu virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – or any pathogen at all that can be manipulated to form a deadly human virus. Turns Out the Moratorium on Lethal Virus Creation Was Largely Bypassed Although the previous moratorium halted 21 projects, 10 of them were still allowed to continue. Scientist Want Results to Be Known Only on A “Need-to-Know” Basis “If someone finds a way to make the Ebola virus more dangerous, I don’t believe that should be available to anybody off the street who could use it for nefarious purposes,” said the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. Government and academic actions like the above serve to create fear and powerlessness among the masses. It also gets them used to the idea and will soften any outrage should mishaps inevitably occur. Modern television and movies (Stephen King’s The Stand is being remade) serve as predictive programming, the purpose of which is to get people acclimated to massive change before it happens. SEE: Homeland Security To Release Chemicals Into The Air To Simulate A Biological Terror Attack Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Bio-Defense Threatens America
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Additionally, another stated reason for this yearning to create lethal viruses is to be able to create vaccines for them. Coincidentally – scientists have already created air-transmissible vaccines for viruses. Interesting coincidence, no? Not only is it impossible to refuse a vaccine that is disseminated in the air, but an outbreak would create an ostensible and urgent warrant for them. Just one last note – the very last person to die from small pox died in 1978 due to a laboratory version of the virus escaping through an air vent… You can republish and share this piece but author name and link back to homepage must appear at the top. This message and all internal links must remain intact. Image: Garden of Life
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House Hands Trump a Win, OKs Historic Tax Reform
(Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Wednesday, 20 Dec 2017 12:59 PM
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives gave final approval on Wednesday to the biggest overhaul of the tax code in 30 years, sending a sweeping $1.5 trillion bill to President Donald Trump for his signature. In sealing Trump's first major legislative victory, Republicans steamrolled opposition from Democrats to pass a bill that slashes taxes for corporations and the wealthy while giving mixed, temporary tax relief to middle-class Americans. The House approved the measure, 224-201, passing it for the second time in two days after a procedural foul-up forced another vote on Wednesday. The Senate had passed it 51-48 in the early hours of Wednesday. Trump had emphasized a tax cut for middle-class Americans during his 2016 campaign. At the beginning of a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday he said lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent was "probably the biggest factor in this plan." Trump planned a tax-related celebration with lawmakers at the White House in the afternoon but will not sign the legislation immediately. The timing of the signing was still up in the air. After Trump repeatedly urged Republicans to get it to him to sign before the end of the year, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said the timing of signing the bill depends on whether automatic spending cuts triggered by the legislation could be waived. If so, the president will sign it before the end of the year, he said. The debt-financed legislation cuts the U.S. corporate income tax rate to 21 percent, gives other business owners a new 20 percent deduction on business income and reshapes how the government taxes multinational corporations along the lines the country's largest businesses have recommended for years. Millions of Americans would stop itemizing deductions under the bill, putting tax breaks that incentivize home ownership and charitable donations out of their reach, but also making tax returns somewhat simpler and shorter. The bill keeps the present number of tax brackets but adjusts many of the rates and income levels for each one. The top tax rate for high earners is reduced. The estate tax on inheritances is changed so far fewer people will pay. Once signed, taxpayers likely would see the first changes to their paycheck tax withholdings in February. Most households will not see the full effect of the tax plan on their income until they file their 2018 taxes in early 2019. In two provisions added to secure needed Republican votes, the legislation also allows oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and repeals the key portion of the Obamacare health system that fined people who did not have healthcare insurance. "We have essentially repealed Obamacare and we'll come up with something that will be much better," Trump said on Wednesday. "PILLAGING" Democrats have called the tax legislation a giveaway to the wealthy that will widen the income gap between rich and poor, while adding $1.5 trillion over the next decade to the $20 trillion national debt, which Trump promised in 2016 he would eliminate as president. "Today the Republicans take their victory lap for successfully pillaging the American middle class to benefit the powerful and the privileged," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. A few Republicans, whose party was once defined by its fiscal hawkishness, have protested the deficit-spending encompassed in the bill. But most of them have voted for it anyway, saying it would help businesses and individuals, while boosting an already expanding economy they see as not growing fast enough. "We’ve had two quarters in a row of 3 percent growth," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said after the Senate vote. "The stock market is up. Optimism is high. Coupled with this tax reform, America is ready to start performing as it should have for a number of years." Despite Trump administration promises that the tax overhaul would focus on the middle class and not cut taxes for the rich, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a think tank in Washington, estimated middle-income households would see an average tax cut of $900 next year under the bill, while the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans would see an average cut of $51,000. The House was forced to vote again after the Senate parliamentarian ruled three minor provisions violated arcane Senate rules. To proceed, the Senate deleted the three provisions and then approved the bill. Because the House and Senate must approve the same legislation before Trump can sign it into law, the Senate's late Tuesday vote sent the bill back to the House. Democrats complained the bill was a product of a hurried, often secretive process that ignored them and much of the Republican rank-and-file. No public hearings were held and numerous narrow amendments favored by lobbyists were added late in the process, tilting the package more toward businesses and the wealthy. House Speaker Paul Ryan defended the bill in television interviews on Wednesday morning, saying support would grow for after it passes and Americans felt relief. "I think minds are going to change," Ryan said on ABC's "Good Morning America" program.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/house-tax-bill-approve/2017/12/20/id/832884/
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49 Abortion Clinics Closed in 2017, 77% of All Abortion Clinics Open in 1991 Have Shut Down
National Cheryl Sullenger Dec 19, 2017 | 1:15PM Washington, DC
In a year that abortion businesses attempted to expand in America, the actual number of abortion facilities decreased by 27 clinics over 2016 totals. Closures far outpaced newly opened abortion facilities in 2017. In all, 49 abortion facilities — 35 surgical and 14 medication only clinics — closed or halted abortion services. Only eight new surgical abortion facilities were opened, along with eleven new medication abortion facilities. There was also some movement between categories. Fourteen surgical abortion facilities now only conduct medication abortions, while five medication abortion facilities added surgical abortions. These encouraging statistics and more were verified through an annual survey of abortion facilities conducted by Operation Rescue staff, this year with the assistance of Abortion Free New Mexico. “Operation Rescue’s annual surveys provide the most complete and accurate picture of abortion facilities available — straight from the horse’s mouth,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. Methods Each year, Operation Rescue surveys each abortion facility in the U.S. using a number of investigative methods. Each facility was directly contacted. Abortion facility personnel voluntarily verified that abortions were available, and shared information on abortion pricing and wait times, although they were not aware the information was going to Operation Rescue. By the Numbers In 2017, there are 704 abortion facilities remaining in the U.S. Of these, 490 offer surgical abortions, often along with medication abortions. There are 214 facilities that offer only medication abortions. Forty-five percent of all states had at least one abortion facility that closed or halted all abortion services this year. Surgical abortion clinics decreased in number by 26% since 2009, the first year Operation Rescue began keeping records. Overall, there has been a 17% decrease in the total number of abortion facilities in America since 2009. Since 1991, when there were 2,176 active surgical abortion facilities, only 23% of that number of surgical clinics are operating today. “Pill Mills” Abortion facilities that offer only abortion-inducing drugs, also known by pro-life activists as “pill mills,” held steady at the same number as in 2016. Closures balanced evenly with new opens and clinics that dropped surgical abortions in favor of the abortion pills. Medication abortions involve a two-drug cocktail comprised of Mifepristone, also known as the RU486 Abortion Pill, and Misoprostol, a drug that causes strong and often unpredictable uterine contractions. A very small number of facilities provide medication abortions via injection of Methotraxate, a chemotherapy drug that causes abortions, albeit much less efficiently than the Abortion Pill cocktail. “Abortion facilities that provide only abortion drugs comprise an increasing slice of an ever-shrinking piece of the abortion pie,” said Newman. “While surgical facilities are closing at an impressive rate, pill mills are holding their own. Planned Parenthood reduced its number of abortion facilities by consolidating services into fewer locations. In 2016, Planned Parenthood operated 354 facilities that conducted abortions. Today, there are a total of 347 Planned Parenthood facilities that offer abortions. Of those, 160 are surgical abortion facilities, and 187 provide only medication abortions. Not counting Planned Parenthood’s vast – but shrinking – network of referral clinics that do not offer abortions, Planned Parenthood facilities now account for 49% of all abortion facilities in the U.S. Nevertheless, they only account for 30.6% of all abortions done in the U.S. Reopened A handful of facilities that were closed by their states that reopened in 2017. For example, in Texas, of the 20 abortion facilities were forced to close in 2013 for failure to comply with new abortion safety regulations, three reopened this year after the U.S. Supreme Court that negated parts of that safety law. However, 17 of the original 20 abortion clinics that shut down remain closed. Why Abortion Facilities Close One reason abortion clinics are closing is due to a decreased demand for abortions. There appears to be a correlation between clinics closing and a decrease in abortion numbers. According to the CDC, abortion numbers have been dropping steadily since 2005. The CDC’s 2014 Abortion Surveillance report indicated that from 2005 to 2014, among 48 areas that reported every year during this period, the total number of reported abortions decreased 21%, the abortion rate decreased 22%, and the abortion ratio decreased 21%. A comparable decrease of in abortion clinic numbers — 17% — has been tracked by Operation Rescue from 2009-2017. Some facilities have not been able to compete in an ever-shrinking abortion market and have been forced to downside or shut down. At the same time, when abortion facilities close, abortion numbers decrease even more. When abortion clinics close, lives are saved! Other reasons for clinic closures include:
• Successful pro-life activism.
• Failure of facilities to comply with licensing and safety regulations.
• Aging abortionists retiring or passing away.
• New state laws.
Notable Closures Some of the notable clinic closures that took place in 2017 include:
• Germantown Reproductive Health Services and Prince George’s Reproductive Health Services in Maryland: The Germantown facility employed late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, and was one of the nation’s few abortion centers that would abort babies throughout all nine months of pregnancy. When the Maryland Coalition for Life purchased the building earlier this year, the deal also included the closure of the Prince George’s facility, which was operated by the same owners. That was two closures for the price of one!
• The Office of Robert Santella in San Diego, CA: This abortionist was forced to surrender his medical license after the California Medical Board determined he engaged in unprofessional conduct during a demonic rant outside another San Diego facility where he worked. The incident, which included Santella threatening a pro-life activist with a pair of surgical scissors, was caught on video, which went viral on YouTube.com.
• Planned Parenthood of Metro DC in Silver Spring, MD: A pro-life campaign to close this facility succeeded when the Planned Parenthood’s landlord refused to renew its lease. Public pressure works!
• Hillcrest Women’s Medical Center, Harrisburg, PA: This facility was ordered to close by the state in June 2017, after gross violations were found during an annual licensing inspection.
• Bossier City Medical Suite, Bossier City, LA: This facility was in the middle of a lawsuit challenging abortion licensing requirements that it could not meet when it suddenly closed its doors. Pro-life activists rejoiced at the sight of a moving van outside the seed abortion facility in April.
“We rejoice that the abortion cartel is imploding and closing down. We are making progress. But they are not going down without a fight,” said Troy Newman. “We continue to work and pray that we will soon see an end to abortion in our nation. Let’s stop the killing and, in the words of President Donald Trump, make America great again!” LifeNews.com Note: Cheryl Sullenger is a leader of Operation Rescue.
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Trump threatens to cut aid to U.N. members over Jerusalem vote
Roberta Rampton, Michelle Nichols
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” Trump told reporters at the White House. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday - at the request of Arab and Muslim countries - to vote on a draft resolution, which the United States vetoed on Monday in the 15-member U.N. Security Council. The remaining 14 Security Council members voted in favor of the Egyptian-drafted resolution, which did not specifically mention the United States or Trump but which expressed “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.” U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that Trump had asked her to “report back on those countries who voted against us.” She bluntly echoed that call in a Twitter post: “The U.S. will be taking names.” Several senior diplomats said Haley’s warning was unlikely to change many votes in the General Assembly, where such direct, public threats are rare. Some diplomats brushed off the warning as more likely aimed at impressing U.S. voters. According to figures from the U.S. government’s aid agency USAID, in 2016 the United States provided some $13 billion in economic and military assistance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa and $1.6 billion to states in East Asia and Oceania. It provided some $13 billion to countries in the Middle East and North Africa, $6.7 billion to countries in South and Central Asia, $1.5 billion to states in Europe and Eurasia and $2.2 billion to Western Hemisphere countries, according to USAID. Miroslav Lajcak, president of the General Assembly, declined to comment on Trump’s remarks, but added: “It’s the right and responsibility of member states to express their views.” A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also declined to comment on Trump’s remarks on Wednesday. “I like the message that Nikki sent yesterday at the United Nations, for all those nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the Security Council, or they vote against us potentially at the assembly,” Trump said. ‘BULLYING’ Trump abruptly reversed decades of U.S. policy this month when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, generating outrage from Palestinians and the Arab world and concern among Washington’s Western allies. He also plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The draft U.N. resolution calls on all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in Jerusalem. A senior diplomat from a Muslim country, speaking on condition of anonymity, said of Haley’s letter: “States resort to such blatant bullying only when they know they do not have a moral or legal argument to convince others.” Responding directly to that comment on Twitter, Haley said: “Actually it is when a country is tired of being taken for granted.” A senior Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, described Haley’s letter as “poor tactics” at the United Nations “but pretty good for Haley 2020 or Haley 2024,” referring to speculation that Haley might run for higher office. “She’s not going to win any votes in the General Assembly or the Security Council, but she is going to win some votes in the U.S. population,” the Western diplomat said. A senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed Haley was unlikely to sway many U.N. states. “We are missing some leadership here from the U.S. and this type of letter is definitely not helping to establish U.S. leadership in the Middle East peace process,” the diplomat said. Israel considers Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based there. Palestinians want the capital of an independent Palestinian state to be in the city’s eastern sector, which Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed in a move never recognized internationally. “The first name that she should write down is Bolivia,” Bolivia’s U.N. Ambassador Sacha Sergio Llorentty Solíz said of Haley’s message. “We regret the arrogance and disrespect to the sovereign decision of member states and to multilateralism. ”Reporting by Roberta Rampton; writing by Doina Chiacu; editing by Jonathan Oatis and David Gregorio
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Nikki Haley unleashes her two most savage tweets yet
Nikki Haley (Twitter) December 20, 2017 Melissa Leon
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley fired back at the United Nations after it passed a draft resolution that said any decisions regarding Jerusalem should be cancelled. While the resolution did not directly mention the United States, it was clear that the move targets President Donald Trump, who recently announced that the U.S. will now acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the U.S. Embassy there from Tel Aviv. “The United States will not be told by any country where we can put our embassy,” Haley tweeted Monday. “Now today, buried in diplomatic jargon, some presumed to tell America where to put our embassy,” Haley said at the U.N. on Monday. “The United States has a sovereign right to determine where and whether we establish an embassy.” “I suspect very few member states would welcome security council pronouncements about their sovereign decisions. And I think some should fear it,” she added. And on Tuesday, Haley tweeted: “At the U.N. we’re always asked to do more and give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American [people], [about] where to located OUR embassy, we don’t expect those we’ve helped to target us. On Thursday there’ll be a vote criticizing our choice. The U.S. will be taking names.” Trump earlier this month made the Jerusalem announcement, one that has been highly criticized by many but that Trump says is in the best interest of the U.S. and the pursuit of peace between Israel and Palestine. There is an ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine that dates back to the mid-20th Century, with origins in the Jewish migration, as well as the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. It is known as the world’s “most intractable conflict.” While there is a long-term peace outlook, there has been no final peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. Key issues of the conflict include mutual recognition, borders, water rights, control of Jerusalem and other disputes. “Israel is a sovereign nation with the right to determine its own capital; acknowledging this as a fact is a necessary condition for achieving peace,” Trump has said. For more than two decades, Presidents have exercised a waiver to refuse to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and keep the U.S. Embassy there. His decision, however, “marks the beginning of a new approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” Trump said. “After more than two decades of waivers, we’re no closer to a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. It’s folly to assume repeating the same formula would improve the situation,” Trump has pointed out. Jerusalem is home to Israel’s Parliament and Supreme Court, and the official residences of the Prime Minister and President, Trump has said. “It’s the heart of one of the most successful democracies in the world.” And, Jerusalem is a place where “Jews, Muslims and Christians are free to live and worship according to their beliefs,” Trump has pointed out. Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital and relocating the U.S. Embassy “doesn’t reflect a departure from our goal of a peace agreement,” Trump has said, pointing out that his administration will not “repeat the same failed strategies of the past.”
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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California is considering a mileage tax on drivers
Posted on December 15, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 34 Comments
A hungry beast always prowling about for more tax revenue, the California state government is now “considering” a mileage tax that will charge drivers for every mile they drive. Despite a new 12-cent increase in gas tax which recently went into effect on November 1, 2017, expected to bring in an estimated $52 billion in tax revenue, California still insists it needs more money for road repairs and that the gas tax isn’t bringing in enough revenue. Phil Matier reports for KPIX5, Dec. 11, 2017, that the state recently road-tested a mileage monitoring plan, the California Road Charge Pilot Program, as a way for the state to move from its longstanding pump tax to a system where drivers pay based on their mileage. State Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF) and others say it’s not just a question about money, it’s also a question about fairness. The openly “gay” Wiener says: “If you own an older vehicle that is fueled by gas, you’re paying gas tax to maintain the roads. Someone who has an electric vehicle or a dramatically more fuel efficient vehicle is paying much less than you are. But they are still using the roads. People are going to use less and less gas in the long run (and less gas means less gas tax, and less money for road repair.) We want to make sure that all cars are paying to maintain the roads.” One idea would be to install devices that would clock your mileage every time you pull up to the pump or electric car charging station. Another idea is to put a tracker on every car. Wiener says, “The reality is that if you have a smartphone, your data of where you are traveling is already in existence.” None of this is sitting well with drivers such as Joshua Li, the owner of a hybrid BMW. Li says he saves around $200 a month by not using gas, and would definitely not be happy if his driving was taxed per mile. Randy Rentschler of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission says another solution is to raise the gas tax (again) and increase the vehicle registration fee for electric cars because “If you buy a small car that gets great fuel economy, we don’t get enough money to repair the roads.” But that idea goes against California’s “green” commitment because raising vehicle registration fees and taxing people with fuel-efficient, hybrid or electric vehicles could also discourage people from purchasing such vehicles that are key to reducing vehicle emissions and improving air quality.
~Eowyn
https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2017/12/15/california-is-considering-a-mileage-tax-on-drivers/
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Julian Assange Just Warned of a Deep State Coup Meant to Install Mike Pence as President
The founder of WikiLeaks is warning the public about a Deep State plot to overthrow Trump, and install Mike Pence as President of the United States.
By Jay Syrmopoulos - December 14, 2017
Washington, D.C. – In a tweet this morning, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, made a prescient observation that the ongoing deep state coup against President Trump is an operation by establishment forces to unseat Trump and replace him with Vice President Mike Pence. Assange noted that Trump’s political capital has “been openly looted for months now by GOP, CIA, Netanyahu, Goldman Sachs, etc.” Julian Assange ? @JulianAssange
Trump's political capital has been openly looted for months now by GOP, CIA, Netanyahu, Goldman Sachs, etc. Game is clearly to extract as many unpopular positions as possible (e.g tax cuts for the super rich), push the resulting political corpse to Mueller & install Mike Pence. 4:19 AM - Dec 14, 2017
Essentially, Assange is saying is that the aforementioned stakeholders who want to see Trump gone have played a long-game, whereby they have worked “to extract as many unpopular positions as possible (e.g tax cuts for the super rich), push the resulting political corpse to Mueller & install Mike Pence.” This, of course, was done as means of severing Trump from his political base, which largely opposes CIA interventionism, Zionism, and globalist banking cartels. The idea behind it being that when Mueller moves to recommend impeachment, Trump will have strayed so far from the positions that got him elected that there will be a minimal public outcry in his defense. This follows chatter earlier this year that some saw Mike Pence as “the Deep State’s insurance policy.” In fact, Wikileaks’ Assange, tweeted back in March, that there was a plan afoot by Hillary Clinton and her loyalists within the Intelligence Community to force a “Pence takeover.” Julian Assange ? @JulianAssange
Clinton stated privately this month that she is quietly pushing for a Pence takeover. She stated that Pence is predictable hence defeatable.
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“Pence is seen by many in Washington as a figure who might stand up for the traditionally hawkish views he espoused while in Congress, a proxy of sorts for the GOP national security establishment.”
Julian Assange ? @JulianAssange
Two IC officials close to Pence stated privately this month that they are planning on a Pence takeover. Did not state if Pence agrees.
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Assange’s position about the Pence coup has been acknowledged by independent journalist, Mike Cernovich, who broke the Susan Rice unmasking story, and has previously said that inside sources have confirmed that Pence is working to remove Trump in a deep state coup. Back in August, Cernovich reported having inside information from White Houses sources that claimed Pence was working behind the scenes to count Republican votes in Congress for a possible impeachment vote to remove Trump. T Rumors of an internal coup began during the election campaign when it was reported that Pence began plotting a coup after a tape of Trump boasting about groping women was made public. The tape’s release, one month before the election, caused dissent among senior Republicans and led to several withdrawing their endorsements and calling for Trump to withdraw as the party’s presidential candidate. Pence, known as a deeply religious man, was said to be “beside himself” over Trump’s comments on the tape. Pence’s wife Karen was reportedly disgusted and called Trump “reprehensible—just totally vile,” according to the Atlantic. Sources close to the campaign have claimed that the situation was so serious that Trump held a meeting to determine what step to take next. Reince Priebus, who would become Trump’s first Chief of Staff, was reportedly bombarded with calls from party officials and donors pleading with him to get rid of Trump, with some suggesting replacing him with Pence and making Condoleezza Rice his running mate. Priebus reportedly told him he would suffer a huge defeat if he did not drop out. At the time, RNC lawyers attempted to find a legal mechanism by which they could remove Trump as the Republican candidate, while a group of billionaires attempted to offer Trump $800 million in order to voluntarily quit the race, according to the Atlantic. The fact of the matter is that Trump, while considered an outsider to politics, has operated as a consummate politician by catering to many of the special interest groups he ran on not allowing to have influence in his administration—which may ultimately be his undoing if his base abandons him as Mueller moves toward a potential impeachment. As Democratic Sen. Chuck Shumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in reference to Trump taking on the Intelligence Community:
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
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Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton: 'The FBI's Turned into a KGB-Type Operation'
By Debra Heine December 14, 2017
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton argued on Fox News Wednesday evening that the FBI has been turned into a KBG-type operation that might need to be shut down. Fitton was was on Fox News @Night with Shannon Bream to discuss one of the latest troubling revelations to come out of the Department of Justice amid Special Counsel Mueller's investigation into Russia’s influence in the 2016 U.S. election. According to Fox News, "Glenn Simpson, co-founder of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, acknowledged in a court document that his company hired the wife of a Justice Department official to help investigate then-candidate Donald Trump last year." Her husband, Bruce Ohr, was demoted at the DOJ last week for concealing his meetings with the same company, which commissioned the anti-Trump “dossier” containing salacious allegations about the now-president. Together, the Fusion connections for Mr. and Mrs. Ohr have raised Republican concerns about objectivity at the Justice Department, and even spurred a call from Trump’s outside counsel for a separate special prosecutor. "That seemed even by DC standards -- where a lot of us have spouses who work in different agencies and sometimes we are overlapping in our interests -- that seems a little too close for comfort for just about everybody," Bream said. "Look -- Fusion GPS was a Hillary Clinton Campaign vendor," Fitton replied. He argued that the DOJ "was working hand and glove" with the shady oppo research firm and perhaps paying them money while a DOJ official's wife was working with them. "The suspicion is they were paying them money," he said. "There was no distinction between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Department of Justice and the FBI and the goal was unified -- which was to get Donald Trump," he added. "And the text messages that have come out show that they had some kind of insurance policy in case Mr. Trump won the presidency?!" Fitton exclaimed. "This is our FBI! Forget about the FBI investigations into Clinton and Trump being compromised by these conflicts. I think the FBI's been compromised. Forget about shutting down Mr. Mueller -- do we need to shut down the FBI because it was turned into a KGB-type operation by the Obama administration?" he asked. The FBI can not be trusted to investigate high-level government corruption at this time," Fitton argued when Bream gently admonished him for making such a radical statement. "Right now," he continued, "you see Mr. Rosenstein being blase about the corruption that's going on on his watch. He says 'we'll get to it when the IG report comes out.' In the meantime, Mueller's operation, which has been compromised, has been indicting and prosecuting people! They need protection! And I'm tired of the blase attitude of this Justice Department and FBI towards the the outrageous corruption that's been recovered," Fitton complained.
https://pjmedia.com/video/judicial-watchs-tom-fitton-fbis-turned-kgb-type-operation/
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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..
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Growing vegetables in your own yard now confirmed as a criminal offense by Florida courts… INSANITY is now LAW
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 by: Vicki Batts
(Natural News) It’s a sad day in Florida: Property rights for homeowners have taken a huge blow as courts confirm that growing edible plants in your own front yard is, in fact, a crime. Out of all the terrible things a person can do these days, gardening is the last thing you may have suspected would become a punishable offense. To no one’s surprise, Big Government continues to use strong-arm tactics against innocent people looking to engage in some basic self-sufficiency. If they can’t take your guns, they’ll take your garden. This display of obvious government overreach first began back in 2013, when Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll were faced with fines of up to $50 per day — for the crime of growing edible plants like tomatoes and Asian cabbage in their front yard — after city ordinances were changed. While they didn’t face any jail time, the couple had to dig up their prosperous garden. Due to their north-facing backyard that gets little sun, they’ve not been able to resume gardening. The couple has been fighting against the Village of Miami Shores and their outrageous ordinance ever since — along with help from the Institute of Justice (IJ), a non-profit law firm. IJ lawyer Ari Bargil, contended, “This decision gives local governments tremendous leeway to regulate harmless activities in the name of aesthetics. It gives government the power to prohibit homeowners from growing plants in their front yards simply because they intend to eat them.” Despite the recent ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeal, which favored Miami Shores’ absurdity, Ricketts and Carroll are now looking to take their case all the way up to the state of Florida’s Supreme Court. According to the most recent ruling, Miami Shores has the right to brandish authority over design and landscaping criteria to maintain “property values and the enjoyment of property rights by minimizing and reducing conflicts among various land uses,” as well as for “protecting” the look of the village. Is a well-maintained vegetable garden really an eyesore that would damage property values? Richard Sarafan, attorney for the Village of Miami Shores, essentially argued that allowing the couple to keep their front-yard garden would somehow pave the way for total pandemonium. Sarafan complained that the couple’s yard was “filled with pots” that “should have” been placed in the backyard. But yet, had those pots been filled with flowers instead of vegetables — the city would have had no legs to stand on with their arbitrary complaint. There is no shortage of reasons to object to the 3rd District Court’s ruling, but perhaps the most inane explanation for their decision was the attempt at rationalizing why it’s okay for the government to legislate against edible plants but not ornamental ones. IJ attorney Ari Bargil objected to the court’s claim that “it is rational for government to ban the cultivation of plants to be eaten as part of a meal, as opposed to the cultivation of plants for ornamental reasons,” — and it’s easy to see why. How can the government tell citizens what kinds of plants they can grow? Government overreach regarding the cultivation of edible plants and other healthy living choices is a growing problem in the United States. Where will we draw the line? Food and health freedom are already under attack — this ruling is proof of that. [Related: Read more stories like this at Tyranny.news.]
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Steve Quayle calls him God’s Prosecutor. The Bible tells us that as we near the end days, all will be revealed. We are certainly seeing these things come to pass. Menwhile, Presient Trump has achieved some noteworthy goals.
By Dave Hodges
The Stock Market is at an all-time high. Jobs are beginning to return to America. Trump has weathered the “Russian Collusion Delusion” storm to the point where the Deep State has had to manufacture sexual misconduct charges against the President. On balance, Presient Trump has been good for America. However, his polling numbers among his core have fallen significantly according to Fox News. Why? Because he supported the removal of Net Neutrality. Without the Independent Media, Trump would have not been elected. He has, for the time being, turned his back on his core and most ardent supporters. Perhaps, he is giving the FCC some rope and will spring into action when the censorship of his supporters takes full effect. Time will certainly tell. Regardless, Trump’s accomplishments have been nothing short of a miracle given the extreme obstacles he has faced from Democrats and even within his own party leadership Among the Republican leadership that opposes President Trump is the present Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan. With regard to Ryan, it can be accurately said that the swamp is being drained. Paul Ryan’s Impending Departure There is little doubt that as the clock ticks down on this present term for Congress, Paul Ryan will not be among those who are seeking re-election. Sources close to Ryan have confirmed to Breitbart News that the Speaker is considering retiring after nine terms in the House. Politico published a report strongly confirming this speculation. According to Politico, “In recent interviews with three dozen people who know the speaker—fellow lawmakers, congressional and administration aides, conservative intellectuals and Republican lobbyists—not a single person believed Ryan will stay in Congress past 2018.” The Politico piece claims Ryan “was tiring of D.C. even before reluctantly accepting the speakership” and that he “told his predecessor, John Boehner, that it would be his last job in politics and that it wasn’t a long-term proposition.” And I can absolutely be certain of the fact that every word printed by Politico is nonsense. If you believe any of thes reasons on why Ryan is leaving the House, I have some swamp land in Florida. The Real Reason for Ryan’s Departure I had a recent conversation with my source that told me that the Bundy release from prison was imminent and this information came almost 3 days before Judge Navarro’s ruling. The Common Sense Show has learned that Paul Ryan is on the verge of being exposed for his intimate connections to the “Never Trump Movement” and radical activist, Paul Singer, who financially supported Fusion GPS and the so-called “Trump Dossier” research. For those that do not know, Singer is a billionaire and happens to be Paul Ryan’s top supporter. Singer has been conclusively linked to the discredited Russian dossier which has been repeatedly used by CNN to demean President Trump and impugn his credibility. Singer is a “Never Trump” participant and helped to fund the movement. Singer is a primary force behind the Washington Free Beacon that admits it paid Fusion GPS for the original and fabricated negative research on President Trump. Ryan is also intimately connected to others inside Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS is under investigation by the DOJ and charges are pending. Additionally, I was told that Ryan is connected, in several ways to the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation sponsored the illegal sale of uranium to Russia. I asked my source if Ryan was connected to this deal in the same manner as Mueller and was told that he was not an errand boy like Mueller. However, he has provided material support to the deal in ways that will be revealed at a later time. I was unable to obtain any further details. However, the information I received dow not appear to be proprietary. Got News is reporting on the Singer connection as well. I suspect that this release of information has been planted with multiple sources and will be appearing shortly all over the Internet. The Swanp Is Being Drained Paul Ryan’s head is undoubtedly the biggest trophy that the young Trump administration has garnered. His pending departure is sending shockwaves among the Deep State supporters. Finally, I have learned that Ryan may be allowed to walk in exchange for his stepping down. Conventional wisdom is stating that a disgraced Ryan would hurt Trump’s chances at re-election. We can only be left with one question: Who will be the next to nose dive into political oblivion?
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FBI Edits To Clinton Exoneration Go Far Beyond What Was Previously Known; Comey, McCabe, Strzok Implicated
by Tyler Durden Dec 15, 2017 10:10 PM
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has discovered that edits made to former FBI Director James Comey's statement exonerating Hillary Clinton for transmitting classified info over an unsecured, private email server went far beyond what was previously known, as detailed in a Thursday letter from committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to FBI Director Christopher Wray. The letter reveals specific edits made by senior FBI agents when Deputy Director Andrew McCabe exchanged drafts of Comey's statement with senior FBI officials, including Peter Strzok, Strzok's direct supervisor, E.W. "Bill" Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, and an unnamed employee from the Office of General Counsel (identified by Newsweek as DOJ Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson) - in what was a coordinated conspiracy among top FBI brass to decriminalize Clinton's conduct by changing legal terms and phrases, omitting key information, and minimizing the role of the Intelligence Community in the email investigation. Doing so virtually assured that then-candidate Hillary Clinton would not be prosecuted. Also mentioned in the letter are the immunity agreements granted by the FBI in June 2016 to top Obama advisor Cheryl Mills and aide Heather Samuelson - who helped decide which Clinton emails were destroyed before turning over the remaining 30,000 records to the State Department. Of note, the FBI agreed to destroy evidence on devices owned by Mills and Samuelson which were turned over in the investigation. Sen. Johnson’s letter reads: According to documents produced by the FBI, FBI employees exchanged proposed edits to the draft statement. On May 6, Deputy Director McCabe forwarded the draft statement to other senior FBI employees, including Peter Strzok, E.W. Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, and an employee on the Office of General Counsel whose name has been redacted. While the precise dates of the edits and identities of the editors are not apparent from the documents, the edits appear to change the tone and substance of Director Comey's statement in at least three respects. It was already known that Strzok - who was demoted to the FBI's HR department after anti-Trump text messages to his mistress were uncovered by an internal FBI watchdog - was responsible for downgrading the language regarding Clinton's conduct from the criminal charge of "gross negligence" to "extremely careless." "Gross negligence" is a legal term of art in criminal law often associated with recklessness. According to Black's Law Dictionary, gross negligence is “A severe degree of negligence taken as reckless disregard," and "Blatant indifference to one's legal duty, other's safety, or their rights.” "Extremely careless," on the other hand, is not a legal term of art. According to an Attorney briefed on the matter, "extremely careless" is in fact a defense to "gross negligence": "What my client did was 'careless', maybe even 'extremely careless,' but it was not 'gross negligence' your honor." The FBI would have no option but to recommend prosecution if the phrase "gross negligence" had been left in. 18 U.S. Code § 793 "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information" specifically uses the phrase "gross negligence." Had Comey used the phrase, he would have essentially declared that Hillary had broken the law. 18 U.S. Code § 793 In addition to Strzok's "gross negligence" --> "extremely careless" edit, McCabe's damage control team removed a key justification for elevating Clinton's actions to the standard of "gross negligence" - that being the "sheer volume" of classified material on Clinton's server. In the original draft, the "sheer volume" of material "supports an inference that the participants were grossly negligent in their handling of that information." Also removed from Comey's statement were all references to the Intelligence Community's involvement in investigating Clinton's private email server. Director Comey's original statement acknowledged the FBI had worked with its partners in the Intelligence Community to assess potential damage from Secretary Clinton's use of a private email server. The original statement read: [W]e have done extensive work with the assistance of our colleagues elsewhere in the Intelligence Community to understand what indications there might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the private email operation. The edited version removed the references to the intelligence community: [W]e have done extensive work [removed] to understand what indications there might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the personal e-mail operation. Furthermore, the FBI edited Comey's statement to downgrade the probability that Clinton's server was hacked by hostile actors, changing their language from "reasonably likely" to "possible" - an edit which eliminated yet another justification for the phrase "Gross negligence." To put it another way, "reasonably likely" means the probability of a hack due to Clinton's negligence is above 50 percent, whereas the hack simply being "possible" is any probability above zero. It's also possible that the FBI, which was not allowed to inspect the DNC servers, was uncomfortable standing behind the conclusion of Russian hacking reached by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Given the combination of factors, we assess it is reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's private email account." The edited version from Director Comey's July 5 statement read: Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail account. Johnson's letter also questions an "insurance policy" referenced in a text message sent by demoted FBI investigator Peter Strzok to his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page, which read "I want to believe the path you threw out to consideration in Andy's office -- that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk." It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40...." One wonders if the "insurance policy" Strzok sent to Page on August 15, 2016 was in reference to the original counterintelligence operation launched against Trump of which Strzok became the lead investigator in "late July" 2016? Of note, Strzok reported directly to Bill Priestap - the director of Counterintelligence, who told James Comey not to inform congress that the FBI had launched a counterintelligence operation against then-candidate Trump, per Comey's March 20th testimony to the House Intelligence Committee. (h/t @TheLastRefuge2) The letter from the Senate Committee concludes; "the edits to Director Comey's public statement, made months prior to the conclusion of the FBI's investigation of Secretary Clinton's conduct, had a significant impact on the FBI's public evaluation of the implications of her actions. This effort, seen in the light of the personal animus toward then-candidate Trump by senior FBI agents leading the Clinton investigation and their apparent desire to create an "insurance policy" against Mr. Trump's election, raise profound questions about the FBI's role and possible interference in the 2016y presidential election and the role of the same agents in Special Counsel Mueller's investigation of President Trump." Johnson then asks the FBI to answer six questions: Please provide the names of the Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who comprised the "mid-year review team" during the FBI's investigation of Secretary Clinton's use of a private email server. Please identify all FBI, DOJ, or other federal employees who edited or reviewed Director Comey's July 5, 2016 statement. Please identify which individual made the marked changes in the documents produced to the Committee. Please identify which FBI employee repeatedly changed the language in the final draft statement that described Secretary Clinton's behavior as "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless." What evidence supported these changes? Please identify which FBI employee edited the draft statement to remove the reference to the Intelligence Community. On what basis was this change made? Please identify which FBI employee edited the draft statement to downgrade the FBI's assessment that it was "reasonably likely" that hostile actors had gained access to Secretary Clinton's private email account to merely that than [sic] intrusion was "possible." What evidence supported these changes? Please provide unredacted copies of the drafts of Director Comey's statement, including comment bubbles, and explain the basis for the redactions produced to date. We are increasingly faced with the fact that the FBI's top ranks have been filled with political ideologues who helped Hillary Clinton while pursuing the Russian influence narrative against Trump (perhaps as the "insurance" Strzok spoke of). Meanwhile, "hands off" recused Attorney General Jeff Sessions and assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein don't seem very excited to explore the issues with a second Special Counsel. As such, we are now almost entirely reliant on the various Committees of congress to pursue justice in this matter. Perhaps when their investigations have concluded, President Trump will feel he has the political and legal ammunition to truly clean house at the nation's swampiest agencies.
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etc. You will see the antichrist if you know who he is and you should know who he is and you shouldn’t be searching for him, for I have already revealed him. TV has even done a two and a half hour special on him, there is no reason the Christians should not know who he is, pay attention. etc.
Revelation 13:18 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
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whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North
Korea has declared war on the United States of America.
The whole country can tell you an invasion is
coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless
monetary system is ready to start, the banks will
have no money, the mark of the beast will be here.
But I am trying to protect you by placing one that can protect you, but
even if that is not so and cannot be, I will still protect you and take you
through this time safely. etc
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etc. You are going to see the mark of the beast, it is going to come very quickly now, very quickly now and they are going to move to the cashless society and that is not next year, now, I am talking about this year. etc.
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The Coming AI Gods
December 14, 2017 By Shawn Plep 5 Comments
Bible readers have long-puzzled over the mysterious, creepy, and enigmatic figure known as the Beast. Scripture mentions this entity many times, most notably in the book of Revelation. He also appears in the book of Daniel, 2 Thessalonians, and 2 John, among other places. Similar to the true Lord – Jesus – the false lord has more than one name and more than one title. However, everything he is and does is an inversion of what the true God is and does. He is not the Christ, but he is a christ. He is a Christ imitator, a Christ stand-in, a Christ substitute, a Christ imposter, a Christ replacement: an anti-Christ. The anti-Christ is not the true God, but that doesn’t mean that he is not a “god”; the casual scripture reader shouldn’t make the mistake of discounting the abilities and plans of this personality. Taking the scripture at face value, it tells us he actually is a god (take a moment to read 2 Corinthians 4:4 and then put some light on it by reading Matthew 4:1-11, John 14:30 and John 18:36). This person will desire worship, and he actually can lay claim to rule over this present world system – which he will administer for a time. The anti-Christ will take charge, get things done, and people will think he’s great. Let’s just say…he’ll have a very high approval rating! Compare and contrast this god of the present world system (or, “order”) with the God of the universe. (i.e. “What’s the same, and what’s different?) There are many things we can glean from a side-by-side comparison. Doing so will help an otherwise mystified Bible reader actually make sense out of what the Bible says about the Beast. Incidentally, I believe we can make sense of what the Bible says about the end-times now more than ever. Why? Mostly, because we have greater access to information and access to advanced technology, and because I think technology will be heavily utilized by the anti-Christ. If you read about the anti-Christ in light of some of the technology we now have in our homes (much less, the unknown things possessed by DARPA or global corporations), his capabilities as written about in the Bible aren’t difficult to envision. In fact, I doubt any serious Bible scholar could convincingly separate technology from some of the descriptions of the Beast. Considering many of the things that have been invented or made into usable technologies in just the last 3 years, and what will be possible within the next decade, it’s very easy to imagine the rise of a global ruler who possesses superhuman abilities and intelligence. In other words, a new god will arrive on this earth – and he will be worshipped. New Gods for the Future There’s already a push in our current society to seek out new gods. The title of this post refers to a recent, serious effort by a very prominent figure in the tech world who wants to create a new religion with an AI god. The name of this religion is “Way of the Future“, and it seeks to create a “divine” AI who will be worshipped. Another recent article also talks about a coming AI Messiah – who will be worshipped. Another article, writing about an AI god that will write a new bible, asks if people would really worship a god who is an “artificial intelligence”. The coming AI gods are appearing everywhere you look in recent tech, AI, robotics, and futurism news. In fact, whenever you see news about Google, you’re probably learning about something that at least tangentially involves AI. (After all, Google says they’re “an AI-first company” now.) While some of the news is purse speculation, and some of the news is sensationalist click-bait, a substantial portion of what is being reported is valid and very real. The concept of religions, spirituality, and worship of a higher power who happens to be composed of ones and zeroes is now mainstream. I predict it will become commonplace and acceptable very soon, as well. Judging from the popularity of events such as Burning Man and the dwindling acceptance of traditional (i.e. Biblical) Christianity (especially among Millennials), people certainly will be willing to worship a new type of god. It’s an old theme, however: people have always had a willingness to worship idols. The difference is that this time, the idol will actually “think”, “see”,”speak”,and move. It will even give advice and quote scripture – from it’s own holy book. Before you scoff at the idea of AI writing its own bible, and people following its edicts, make sure you’re up-to-date on the latest developments – because things are advancing (and getting weirder) daily. There’s already an AI that writes “new” verses of the King James Bible. It’s no stretch to imagine an entirely new book of scriptures written by an artificial intelligence. In case you didn’t know, news articles and even the next installment of Game of Thrones are being written (at least partially) by AIs. New Wisdom for Our Age In case you’re not familiar with the current state of AI, it would behoove you to read and view the latest info on the AI robot Sophia – whose name literally means “Wisdom”. There are many videos on YouTube showing footage of Sophia in action. “She” can speak interactively with a human, recognize faces, make facial expressions, move her hands, show emotional responses, and more. She officially possesses citizenship in the country of Saudi Arabia, just like many other AI “persons” will likely possess in the near future – when the concept of personhood for AIs becomes mainstream and accepted. And if a robot being granted citizenship of a nation isn’t strange enough, Sophia expresses a desire to have a “baby” of her own – fully imitating human desires, it would seem. Lest you think that to be far-fetched (and what is, at this point?), consider that a Google AI created it’s own “child” AI. In fact, one of the most effective methods for the continued evolution and improvement of AI will be AI building AI. So, Sophia can show us a decent representation of what AI is capable of and how it will evolve. It’s important to note, as well, that the abilities of Sophia have advanced noticeably since the robot was first unveiled. Here’s a good general overview video, containing various clips of Sophia in action: It cannot be overstated that Sophia, and AI in general, is advancing very quickly. While today we marvel that an AI is able to adapt to encounters with new objects and predict its own future, tomorrow we’ll we waiting for a new breakthrough – maybe true prediction of future events by an AI, a la Minority Report. You think that’s far-fetched? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Consider that efforts such as predictive linguistics have existed for years. (Law-enforcement has attempted to harness this type of technology for quite some time.) Imagine the same concept, perfected by an AI with unprecedented processing power and a knowledge-base spanning all of human history until the present-day. Again, these are god-like abilities and they are attainable by AIs. A Body For the AI to Live In It has been said that the human body is a machine driven by a ghost. In the same way, robots provide AIs a means of existence and interaction within our physical world. Robots are, and will be, machines that AIs can pilot. AI and robotics – both of which are inextricably tied – are now out of the realm of “science fiction”. They are part of reality and increasingly will become part of daily life. Today’s Siri and Alexa are mere warm-ups for what’s coming very soon. Inevitably, many of us wonder if it will go too far. After all, there could be problems. And, it’s not a silly joke to try to anticipate will go wrong with AI – it would be wise to be aware of the possibilities. Because something will go wrong, at some point in the future – meaning, there will be an event that affects many people negatively as a result of something an AI did. If you haven’t watched the video (above), I urge you to watch it – the concept of an AI having “godlike superpowers” is even mentioned. And on the topic of an AI takeover, pay attention to 12:45 in the video. Is it truly laughable? Or could Elon Musk’s warnings be worth listening to? An artificial intelligence acting as a “god” would have to be a ruler, of sorts. An administrator. An entity that puts things in order – and orders people. This should bring to mind both kings and emperors, as well as elected officials. Will the world have an AI Prime Minister one day? It could. The first AI politician already exists. And to return to the subject of the Beast, he is very clearly described with characteristics that evoke an image of a powerful, charismatic, forceful, and wise politician. Consider the effect of combining a vastly-superior artificial intelligence with an immortal robotic “body”. Give it convincing expression, speech, mannerisms, facial recognition, and perhaps other additional abilities. The Ultimate AI God Back to the original subject of this post – the Beast, or anti-Christ. Just how does this all relate to the Beast of Revelation? Here are just a few items to start with: God has creative abilities, and is known as our Creator (Gen. 1:1). The Beast will “create” as well: other child AIs (mentioned above), AI creatures (what we might call “bots” currently), and they will live within a realistic, AI-built, artificial world – accessible by humans through augmented reality apps, holograms, video games, and VR. God is omniscient (1 John 3:20). The Beast emulates omniscience by utilizing big data and AI. God is omnipresent (Psalm 139:8). The Beast emulates omnipresence via ubiquitous, “always on”, constantly-connected technologies. God is all-seeing and all-hearing (Heb. 4:13). The Beast approximates this ability through the “surveillance state” – the constant surveillance (audio, video, metadata, and more) covering the globe. God has an image (Colossians 1:15), and so will the anti-Christ. Contrast this concept of “image” between the two: We were made in God’s image and the creation worships the Creator – but the beast is made in man’s image, and the creator worships the creation…A total twisting of the proper order of things. God has a body (Colossians 2:9). In a spiritual sense, the church is the “body” of Christ (Colossians 1:18). In a physical sense, Jesus embodied God (see 1 Timothy 3:16). In a similar fashion, the Beast will also have a physical body but will be quickened by the spirit of anti-Christ. Just as Jesus said “a body hast thou prepared me” to the Father, it may be that the Beast will say something similar to a robotics engineer. This exercise in comparison and contrast could product quite a list. But the point should be clear already: the Beast is an inversion of Jesus Christ, and I am proposing that AI-empowered advanced robotics allows the entire end-times scenario to play out perfectly, just as described throughout the Bible. Assuming the Bible to be true, this is either comforting or frightening – both for a number of reasons I won’t get into here. Even taking the assumption that the Bible is false (or flawed), this is at the very least quite remarkable. We can hopefully all agree that we live in a unique time in history, from a technological perspective. Two things often come to mind when thinking about the level of advancement we’re not at – and where we’ll be soon. One is the accuracy of Moore’s Law. The second is Arthur C. Clarke’s third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic“. If you’ve gotten this far down the rabbit-hole, you now have an idea of how world-altering AI and robotics will be for all of us. (Regardless of whether or not you believe a word of the Bible, and also regardless of what you think of the concept of anti-Christ or the Beast of Revelation.) You may be wondering if there are any safeguards in place to prevent any of the more negative sci-fi scenarios from playing out (such as scenarios we’ve seen in films like Blade Runner, Terminator 2, Westworld (the movie and the HBO series), 2001, The Matrix, etc). I don’t know specifically if there are any safeguards in place, and if there are, no one knows how effective they will be against an evolving technology that’s self-aware and can self-direct. I do know that there have been a few lone voices in the wilderness, warning of what can happen, however. Elon Musk is one of the more well-known personalities who has voiced concern about the adoption of AI. He’s cautioned those who aren’t worried about AI that “they should be”. He’s also said that AI should be regulated due because it poses a risk to human civilization. (He’s also gotten into a sort of Twitter war with Sophia!) Other futurists, techies, and intellectuals have offered warnings against the technology on our horizon. If you haven’t watched Professor Stuart Russel‘s Slaughterbots, you should view it to gain a perspective on the lethal dangers posed by “rogue” technology. (And you can read an opposing view here.) Again, it would be a mistake to think this type of scenario is “impossible” or not yet advanced enough to be practical. Consider this 2008 footage of one of Lockheed-Martin’s killer drones. That was a prototype from a decade ago. Granted, the topic is drones (more than AI), but it definitely touches upon the topic (and overlaps the field) of AI. Specifically, AI will doubtlessly be used increasingly in the weaponization of drones and other machines. On the other end of the spectrum, Ray Kurzweil has offered a far more optimistic view. In fact, he is mostly known as a futurist who believes humans will be melded with machines – including AIs. (And he’s not wrong: AI implants are on the horizon. Human intelligence, or HI, will soon be combined with AI – and Kurzweil called it.) While acknowledging that AI can pose a threat, he’s expressed glowing confidence in human ability to avoid the robot apocalypse. He exhibits the attitude of many of the “thinkers” who will gladly accept what AI has to offer, with very few reservations. A Robotic God Everyone Can Love Out of the massive pool of humanity, you can count on very few to be among the “thinkers” who will consciously make an informed decision “for” or “against” invasive, life-altering technologies. Most people won’t take the Elon Musk side, or the Ray Kurzweil position on the matter: most people will just accept whatever is presented to them (or foisted upon them). Whether the incarnation of the next AI is a watch, a phone, a game, a pair of glasses, an always-on device you talk to, or a god that lives inside an android body (or lives inside a virtual world)…the masses will gravitate toward it, accept it, and adopt it as part of their lives. The fact is, people adapt to the world around them and the world is headed toward a practical global technocracy. This is how and why the Beast will come to power, how and why it will rule, and how and why the image of the Beast will be worshipped by the whole world (Revelation 13:3). Pretty much everyone will “love” the Beast – for their own self-preservation (Rev. 13:17) and also because many average people will be true believers (Rev. 13:14). The few people that reject the new AI god will be labeled as backwards hicks, hold -outs, and haters: stubborn believers in an ancient invisible Creator and an old-fashioned paper book. Mockery is a powerful weapon, but it doesn’t work on everyone (see Revelation chapters 14 and 5). Some people will refuse to bow to the image (see Daniel chapter 3). Conclusion While it might sound like crazy science-fiction, or crazy Bible-thumping (depending on your worldview and belief system – or lack thereof), you must realize that there’s about to be a great “turning” in human history and it will involve artificial intelligence, robotics, and many connected technologies. I propose that not only will it happen in a physical, conventional sense, but it will have massively significant spiritual ramifications – including worldwide adoption of religious beliefs that integrate AI “people”. Specifically, I believe this turning and the related consequences will give rise to the scenario described plainly in the prophetic writings within the Bible, especially where the anti-Christ and his global government, religion, and economic systems are concerned. If I’m right about this, I’m not claiming any special insight: people smarter than me have analyzed future events and reached the same (or similar) conclusions. I think the AI gods are coming, and the ultimate AI god is predicted in the Bible. If my assessment is significantly wrong about this, I’ll be quite surprised. Do you have any opposing views, additional insights, or general thoughts on the matter you’d like to share? Please contact me here or comment below! Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: ai, antichrist, artificial intelligence, bible, god, google, religion, revelation, robot, vr
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Nazareth’s Muslim Mayor Cancels Christmas
By TPS / Tazpit News Agency - 27 Kislev 5778 – December 15, 2017 By Andrew Friedman
Nazareth city officials said Thursday that no Christmas celebrations would be held in the Israeli-Arab city, traditionally considered by Christians to be the birth site of Jesus, in order to protest US President Donald Trump announcement last week that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam, who is a Muslim, said in a statement that Trump’s statement spurred him to cancel the celebrations in solidarity with the Palestinian Authority. “This is the natural reaction to a decision that impacts our nation and Jerusalem,” Salim told a conference in the city. “We are part of one single people…” and Trump’s comments removed “all the joy” from the holiday period. Christians are actually a minority in Nazareth, where 69% of the residents are Muslim and only 30.9% are Christian. Brotherly Covenant, a local organization that promotes Arab-Israeli identity and encourages Arab citizens to serve in the IDF, called the decision a “cynical move to take advantage of Christian residents” that would harm Christians both in Israel and around the world. “(Cancelling the celebrations) will harm the city’s economy as well interfaith relations. We plan on asking the finance minister to look for ways to transfer funds away from the City of Nazareth in favor of groups that work to mark the holidays as well as for co-existence,” the group said.
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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.
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2 killed, 7 injured in Java quake: Agency
News Desk The Jakarta Post Jakarta | Sat, December 16, 2017 | 08:33 am
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that rattled the southern part of Java on Friday night has left at least two people dead, seven injured and dozens of houses and public facilities damaged, the nation’s disaster mitigation agency says. Among the cities badly affected by the quake were Pangandaran, Tasikmalaya, Ciamis, Banjar, Garut, Cilacap, Kebumen, Pekalongan, Banyumas, Brebes and Banjarnegara, according to a statement released by National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. The two victims have been identified as Dede Lutfi, 62, a resident of Ciamis, West Java, and Aminah, 80, a resident of Pekalongan. They were killed by collapsing walls. “The injured have been rushed to the nearest hospitals,” Sutopo said. The quake was reportedly felt across Java, including Jakarta, and was followed by a number of aftershocks. A tsunami warning was issued shortly after the tremor, but it was soon revoked and people have returned to their homes, the agency said. (vla/ahw)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/12/16/2-killed-7-injured-in-java-quake-agency.html
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This Unbelievable Tool Is Now At The Disposal Of Madmen! Called A 'WMD Threat', This Technology Could Be Used To Wipe Out The Human Race In A Very Short Period Of Time
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die December 15, 2017
According to this new story from Mac Slavo over at SHTFPlan, one of the most dangerous experiments that mankind has ever embarked upon is DARPA’s desire for gene drive technology. Warning us within his story that scientists now have the knowledge and the tools they need to create and deliver “Doomsday genes” which can selectively target and exterminate an entire species, DARPA recently announced that they will be spending tens of millions of dollars on 'genetic extinction research' with the official aim of this research being 'fighting harmful insects'. As Joe Joseph of The Daily Sheeple states as heard in the first video below, a quick Google search for 'gene drive technology' will give us a plethora of information about just how horrific this kind of technology can be and like nuclear weapons in the hands of North Korea's Kim Jong Un, we're watching what is akin to kids playing with fire. From the video: “...You’ll find it fascinating just at how unbelievable a weapon this could be, how unintentionally mistakes can be made that can cause irreversible damage…irreparable damage…to the human race. And I mean, FAST!” Joseph said. “A gene drive…if let’s just say there’s a mistake, you could feasibly wipe out the human race in a very very short period of time. It’s an unbelievable tool at the disposal of madmen.” While many might ask, what exactly is 'gene drive technology' and 'why is it so dangerous', we see one of the answers in this recent story from Technology Review titled "If Unleashed in the Wild, Gene Drives Could Create a 'Highly Invasive Species'”. With researchers warning "Technology’s answer to invasive species and disease-spreading insects is looking riskier than ever in its current form", we see that gene drive technology evolves from CRISPR technology, the 'editing' of DNA almost as if it were simply a film strip being edited as seen in the graphic above. Yet as Joseph warns, this kind of technology in the hands of madmen could wipe us out as a species. As the website New Scientist reported back in March of 2017, "backyard gene editing risks creating a monster" with biohackers already signalling their intention to use CRISPR, which poses a big problem for the authorities. As we see and hear in the 2nd video below from Reason TV, a $140 mail order CRISPR kit is already available for just about anybody to get their hands upon leading Reason to ask, is unregulated biohacking the future of science? From the Technology Review story: Aside from astonishing cures, one of CRISPR’s most tantalizing uses could be so-called gene drives. As we’ve reported in the past, the technique can be used to easily insert fertility-reducing genes into the DNA of disease-carrying insects or invasive species (such as the humble starling in the U.S., were we so inclined). That would systematically wipe them out. Applied to mosquitoes, the technology could fight malaria and Zika. Targeted at interloping animals, it’s been suggested as a means of preserving fast-declining species in New Zealand. But the trick is obviously not without its risks. As we’ve explained before, the wholesale removal of a species from a geographic region might be useful, but it’s easy enough to imagine the technique getting out of control, spreading further than intended, and transforming entire ecosystems in ways it wasn't meant to. Back in December of 2015, Steve Quayle linked to this story from Motherboard titled "Someone Will Eventually Use CRISPR to Try to Make a Dragon or Unicorn" while leaving this self-explanatory SQnote: "I’d like to remind everyone that dragons are not vegans!" And while CRISPR created dragons or unicorns might be a bit further away than happening within the next year, we remind you that during the Obama administration, the long standing moratorium banning human beings from creating human hybrids or 'chimeras' was lifted according to this June story from Futurism. While this May 30th story from the Columbia University Medical Center reported that CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations, we can see some of the intended results in the creation of 'super dogs' in China where they've already successfully used “gene editing” to create two beagles with twice the muscle mass of a regular dog, and plans are already being made to increase their size, intelligence, and even eliminate diseases. And we probably shouldn't be surprised when we read that earlier this year, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation paid a PR firm called Emerging Ag $1.6 million to recruit a covert coalition of academics to manipulate a UN decision-making process over gene drives, according to emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests. As the Independent Science News story reports, Gene drives are a highly controversial new genetic extinction technology. They have been proposed as potentially able to eradicate malarial mosquitoes, agricultural pests, invasive species, as well as having potential military uses. Emerging Ag calls itself “a boutique international consulting firm providing communications and public affairs services.” Its president and founder is Robynne Anderson, a former international communications director of CropLife, the global lobby group for the biotechnology, seed, and pesticide industries. The FOIA emails reveal that the project coordinated by Emerging Ag was dubbed the “Gene Drive Research Sponsors and Supporters coalition”. It consisted of three members of a UN committee called the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology (AHTEG) plus a larger group of 65 covertly recruited, but seemingly independent, scientists and officials, all coordinated by a still larger number of government officials (mainly from English-speaking countries), PR advisors, academics, and members of various Gates-funded projects. As the website Science asked on December 11th, "is there really a covert manipulation of U.N. discussions about regulating gene drives?" Why would the Gates Foundation attempt to cover up such discussions with the UN? While this February of 2016 story from the MIT Technology Review reported that top US intelligence officials have labeled the easy to use gene editing technology a "WMD threat", their story helps to explain why they feel its such a threat. Genome editing is a weapon of mass destruction. That’s according to James Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence, who on Tuesday, in the annual worldwide threat assessment report of the U.S. intelligence community, added gene editing to a list of threats posed by “weapons of mass destruction and proliferation.” Gene editing refers to several novel ways to alter the DNA inside living cells. The most popular method, CRISPR, has been revolutionizing scientific research, leading to novel animals and crops, and is likely to power a new generation of gene treatments for serious diseases. It is gene editing’s relative ease of use that worries the U.S. intelligence community, according to the assessment. “Given the broad distribution, low cost, and accelerated pace of development of this dual-use technology, its deliberate or unintentional misuse might lead to far-reaching economic and national security implications,” the report said. Although the report doesn’t mention CRISPR by name, Clapper clearly had the newest and the most versatile of the gene-editing systems in mind. The CRISPR technique’s low cost and relative ease of use—the basic ingredients can be bought online for $60—seems to have spooked intelligence agencies. “Research in genome editing conducted by countries with different regulatory or ethical standards than those of Western countries probably increases the risk of the creation of potentially harmful biological agents or products,” the report said. The concern is that biotechnology is a “dual use” technology—meaning normal scientific developments could also be harnessed as weapons. The report noted that new discoveries “move easily in the globalized economy, as do personnel with the scientific expertise to design and use them. ”Clapper didn’t lay out any particular bioweapons scenarios, but scientists have previously speculated about whether CRISPR could be used to make “killer mosquitoes,” plagues that wipe out staple crops, or even a virus that snips at people’s DNA. With the US military and DARPA now heavily investing in 'doomsday genetic technologies' and concerns that an accident or planned event could create irreversible conditions that could possibly lead to the extinction of the human race, the creation of dragons or unicorns might seem like small potatoes when comparing them to the 'worst case scenario' of human extinction. And shall the future take us down that road we'll just need to remember, dragons are not vegetarians!
http://allnewspipeline.com/DARPA_Exterminate_Humanity_Wipe_Out_Human_Race.php
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etc The end is upon you and you need to look and see the things that you should be doing, pay close attention to that. For I have told you things would change here, they would change. If you live near the Babylon that is going to fall I have told you to move at least seventy-five miles from there, at least. That goes for California, that goes for the center fault line, realize that war, war is at hand. Not only with ISIS, but you have got Russia, you have got China, you have got North Korea, wake up, wake up, for I have been telling you these things, it is getting very, very dangerous, very dangerous. etc
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US to hold joint missile tracking drills for two days with South Korea and Japan as tensions rise over North Korea's weapons programs
US, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills this week
Tensions have risen in region over North's fast-developling weapons programs
North Korea has fired two missiles over Japan as it pursues nuclear
Exercises, on Monday and Tuesday, will be the sixth drill sharing information in tracking ballistic missiles among the three nations
By Dailymail.com Reporter and Reuters Published: 01:41 EST, 10 December 2017 | Updated: 00:15 EST, 11 December 2017
The US, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills this week as tensions rise in the region over North Korea's fast-developing weapons programs, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force said on Sunday. North Korea has fired two missiles over Japan as it pursues nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in defiance of UN sanctions and international condemnation. On November 29, it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile which it said was its most advanced yet, capable of reaching the mainland US. The exercises, on Monday and Tuesday, will be the sixth drill sharing information in tracking ballistic missiles among the three nations, the defense force said. It did not say whether the controversial Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system would be involved. The installation of the US THAAD system in South Korea has angered China, which fears its powerful radar could look deep into China and threaten its own security. The US and South Korea conducted large-scale military drills last week, which the North said have made the outbreak of war 'an established fact'. Last month's missile test prompted a US warning that North Korea's leadership would be 'utterly destroyed' if war were to break out. The Pentagon has mounted repeated shows of force after North Korean tests. The US has also pressured China and other nations to cut trade and diplomatic ties with North Korea, as part of international efforts to dry up Pyongyang's illegal cash flows that could fund its weapons programs. On Sunday, South Korea said it would impose new unilateral sanctions on 20 institutions and a dozen individuals in North Korea, barring any financial transactions between those sanctioned and any South Koreans. 'This unilateral sanction will prevent illegal funds flowing to North Korea and contribute to reinforce international communities' sanctions against North Korea,' South Korea's finance ministry said in a statement. The move is largely symbolic as trade and financial exchanges between the two Koreas have been barred since May 2010 following the torpedoing of a South Korean warship, which the North denied. North Korea regularly threatens to destroy South Korea, Japan and the US and says its weapons programs are necessary to counter US aggression. The US stations 28,500 troops in the South, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
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NFL fan turnout so bad that Fox Sports is soliciting actors to play fans, fill seats at Sunday’s pre-game show
By Shepard Ambellas - December 11, 2017
Warm bodies now getting paid to attend games, sit-in as ‘fans’
(INTELLIHUB) — It’s no big secret that NFL viewership and fan turnout at live games has diminished to all-time lows as teams struggle to sell even their lower-level tickets for as little as $3 and $4 after players decided to kneel during game numerous opening national anthems but no one would have ever thought it would come to the point to where fans have to be paid to fill stadium seats. That’s right, you heard me, in the latest barrage of NFL shenanigans, Fox Sports has put out a casting call and is looking for Rams fans to attend Sunday’s pre-game in Los Angeles. The geniuses that took a knee to spite America have now created their own demise. The solicitation posted on ProjectCasting.com reads: Casting directors are now looking for NFL fans for Sunday, December 10th in Los Angeles, California. Producers are seeking the following: We’re looking for LA’s biggest NFL fans to be a part of #NFLSunday’s Los Angeles Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles Pre Game Show! Calling all LA Rams fans! Maybe we should give all that NFL money the players have been getting for decades to Monster Energy Supercross riders, athletes who really risk life and limb to do what they do. Just some food for thought. Please comment below and share. H/T: @tabertronic on Twitter
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Published on Saturday, December 09, 2017 by Common Dreams
Report Shows Puerto Rico's Hurricane Death Toll Likely In Thousands, Far Higher Than Official Count
In the weeks after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island, the mortality rate has risen sharply over previous years by Julia Conley, staff writer
Trump critics drew attention to a New York Times report on Saturday regarding the estimated death toll in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria, which left the island devastated after making landfall in September. While the official count of fatalities stands at 64, the Times' analysis found that a more realistic estimate would be in the thousands. The newspaper reported that since Maria hit 42 days ago, 1,052 more deaths than usual have happened in the U.S. territory. The mortality rate has grown as half of Puerto Rico is still without power. A month after the storm, about one million residents did not have access to safe drinking water, and many were desperately using water from a Superfund site to bathe and drink. The dire conditions Puerto Ricans were faced with following the storm have led researchers to believe that Maria was responsible for far more deaths than the government has admitted. Wanda Llovet, the director of Puerto Rico's Demographic Registry, told the Times that deaths went up sharply just after the hurricane. "Before the hurricane, I had an average of 82 deaths daily," said Llovet. "That changes from September 20 to 30. Now I have an average of 118 deaths daily." As officials were noting the rising mortality rate, President Donald Trump downplayed the impact of the storm while Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, made urgent appeals for a massive push in aid delivery to the island. On October 3, when 556 more people had died since the storm hit than had in the same period the previous year, Trump confidently reported that only 16 people had been killed as a result of the storm. Earlier this week, the Center for Investigative Journalism also found from its own analysis that the death toll from Maria was likely in the thousands. According to death records, fatalities from sepsis, often resulting from severe infection and unsanitary conditions in homes and hospitals, went up 50 percent from last year in the weeks after the storm. The chief of mortality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, Robert Anderson, told the Times that there was "fairly compelling evidence that that increase [in mortality] is probably due to the hurricane," and stressed the importance of accurately reporting the number of deaths from a disaster like Maria. "If we have a lack of information, we can't adequately prepare for the next disaster. We can't put measures in place to prevent deaths occurring in the future," said Anderson. On social media, politicians and journalists highlighted the report and called for the Trump administration to grapple with the reality of the storm's impact.
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Russian Su-35 chased away rogue US F-22 jet: MoD blasts US Air Force for hampering Syria op
Published time: 9 Dec, 2017 18:31 Edited time: 15 Dec, 2017 10:25
A Russian interceptor has been scrambled to stop a rogue US fighter jet from actively interfering with an anti-terrorist operation, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It also accused the US of provoking close encounters with the Russian jets in Syria. A US F-22 fighter was preventing two Russian Su-25 strike aircraft from bombing an Islamic State (IS, former ISIS) base to the west of the Euphrates November 23, according to the ministry. The ministry’s spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov described the episode as yet another example of US aircraft attempts to prevent Russian forces from carrying out strikes against Islamic State. “The F-22 launched decoy flares and used airbrakes while constantly maneuvering [near the Russian strike jets], imitating an air fight,” Konashenkov said. He added that the US jet ceased its dangerous maneuvers only after a Russian Su-35S fighter jet joined the two strike planes. The major general went on to say that “most close-midair encounters between Russian and US jets in the area around the Euphrates River have been linked to the attempts of US aircraft to get in the way [of the Russian warplanes] striking against Islamic State terrorists.” He also said that the US military officials provided no explanation for the November 23 incident as well as other, similar encounters. The statement came as a response to the Pentagon’s claims about “an increase in unsafe behavior” by Russian warplanes. “We saw anywhere from six to eight incidents daily in late November, where Russian or Syrian aircraft crossed into our airspace on the east side of the Euphrates River,” Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, the spokesman for US Air Force Central Command, told CNN earlier on Saturday. Konashenkov said that any claims made by US military officials concerning the fact that there is “any part of the airspace in Syria that belongs to the US” are “puzzling.” Konashenkov also said that “Syria is a sovereign state and a UN member and that means that there… can be no US airspace ‘of its own.’ Unlike the Russian Air Force, the US-led coalition is operating in Syria without any legal basis,” he added. Pickart also said that the US’ “greatest concern is that we could shoot down a Russian aircraft because its actions are seen as a threat to our air or ground forces.” Earlier, he also told the New York Times that it has become “increasingly tough for our [US] pilots to discern whether Russian pilots are deliberately testing or baiting us into reacting, or if these are just honest mistakes.” The New York Times also listed several cases of what the US describes as “unsafe behavior” by the Russian jets, citing the data provided by the US air base in Qatar. The US accused the Russian pilots of “crossing into the airspace east of the Euphrates” and flying “dangerously close” to the “allied forces,” adding that such actions could be interpreted as “threatening” and the US pilots were “in their rights” to fire in “self-defense.” Konashenkov said in response that the US Air Force should rather focus on destroying Islamic State in Iraq than provoking close encounters between the US and the Russian jets. Pickart said to CNN that the US military regularly talk to their Russian counterparts “in the daily de-confliction calls.” However, the Russian military repeatedly pointed out that the US is reluctant to share its plans for combat aircraft operations, and acts secretively in Syria. The US and the Russian military have traded jibes over various incidents involving both countries’ warplanes in the Syrian skies. Washington accused Russian jets of not carrying transponders allowing air-traffic controllers to identify them, while Moscow repeatedly said that the US military only “occasionally” indicate the time period and an approximate area of their air operations without even giving the types of aircraft and their affiliation. Back in 2015, the US and Russia agreed upon the mutual flight safety memorandum regulating the flight paths and contacts of the countries’ air forces in Syria during an emergency situation. The two countries also set up a hotline for their militaries to discuss the approximate locations and missions of planes in an attempt to avoid operating in the same airspace at the same time. However, both sides later repeatedly accused each other of being reluctant to use the instruments at their disposal to reconcile the issues related to their actions in Syria. Most recently, Colonel Jeff Hogan, deputy commander of the air operations center at the Qatar base, called the daily phone calls between the US and Russian military “contentious.” The US also said that the dialogue does not always reflect what happens in the skies over Syria. In January, Konashenkov complained that the US officers often “simply cannot be found on the other side of the ‘hotline’ in Qatar, designed to discuss and resolve contentious issues” and urged them to “use this hotline more often and for its direct purposes.”
https://www.rt.com/news/412590-russia-us-syria-air-force/
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Why humans will happily follow a ROBOT messiah: Religions based on AI will succeed because we tend to 'worship supreme understanding', claim experts
Same drive that compels people to believe in religions will also work for AI
People will eventually rely on a 'robot messiah' to solve society's problems
This is because we 'have a tendency to worship supreme understanding'
Last month a former Google engineer formed the world's first church to follow an artificially intelligent being
By Harry Pettit For Mailonline Published: 10:45 EST, 11 December 2017 | Updated: 10:47 EST, 11 December 2017
A religion based around a robot god will succeed because humans tend to 'worship supreme understanding', experts have claimed. One researcher has said the same drive that compels people to believe in higher beings and follow religions will also work for so-called AI 'Godheads'. Others have commented that, like religion, people will eventually rely on a 'robot messiah' to solve society's problems. Last month, former Uber and Google engineer Anthony Levandowski formed the first church to follow an artificially intelligent being. The religion, known as 'Way of the Future', claims our species can better itself by following the instructions of a robot that is 'a billion times smarter than humans'. Now AI expert and lawyer John Mitchell has said humans have a tendency to 'worship supreme understanding', and that this also applies to AI. 'We [believe] there must be some higher power that causes lightning, sunsets, and crashing waves - or at least speaks to the bottom of our beings, rather than ignore them as ho-hum background,' he told Fox News. Mr Mitchell said the same thing could happen with AI, adding that robots could help us better understand religion. Dr Stephen Thaler, President and CEO of Imagination Engines and an AI and consciousness expert, said people will rely on AI to solve society's problems. 'An AI would provide the equivalent of a "messiah" - having many orders of magnitude more processing elements than the brain, enabling it to gift us with solutions to the most daunting social, political, economic, and environmental challenges,' he said. But if AI develops this level of intelligence, it might choose not to be worshipped, said author and consultant Peter Scott. 'I would expect the AIs that evolve in the next 50 years to be very rational and, if conscious, not want to be worshipped,' he said. 'If they have the human race's best interests at heart (and God help us if they don't) then they would want us to have as much right of self determination as possible.' The new comments come just a month after Way Of The Future (WOTF) was officially registered as a religion by Anthony Levandowski. The ex-Google engineer, who first announced plans for the creed in May, says he is 'raising a god' that will that charge of humans. WOTF will eventually have a gospel called 'The Manual', as well as rituals and even a physical place of worship. Levandowski named himself as 'dean' of WOTF, giving him complete control until his death or resignation. He said his robot god, which will be a 'billion times smarter than humans' will take charge of its subjects, who will relinquish power to a being of higher intelligence. The filed documents for WOTF give its purpose is to 'develop and promote the realisation of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence'. Workshops and educational programs have already begun in the San Francisco area. Levandowski says everything in the church will be open source and members of the church would have special social media accounts. He has appointed four other people to the Council of Advisers and the listing says each week they will spend a few hours organising workshops and meetings. In 2017, the Internal Revenue Service listed the religion as having received $20,000 (£15,000) in gifts, $1,500 (£1,100) in membership fees and $20,000 (£15,000) in other revenue. WOTF has $7,500 (£5,700) put aside for wages, although Levandowski, who earned $120 million (£91 million) from Google, says he will not receive any money. WHO IS ANTHONY LEVANDOWSKI? Anthony Levandowski is best known for helping create Google Street View and engineering Waymo and Uber's self-driving cars. Levandowski is currently at the heart of a legal fight between Google's parent company Alphabet and Uber. Waymo, the self-driving car subsidiary which Alphabet owns, is suing Uber, claiming it stole trade secrets to make their own self-driving cars. The engineer they say is responsible for the theft is Levandowski who they allege downloaded 14,000 secret files before leaving Google in 2016 after nine years at the company. A month after his departure, he founded Otto, a company which specialised in self-driving trucks. Seven months later, Uber acquired Otto and Levandowski began working on the ride-sharing company's self-driving cars. In February this year, Alphabet filed a multi-billion lawsuit against Uber and Otto accusing it of stealing trade secrets. Levandowski was called to give evidence in March but he pleaded the Fifth Amendment throughout, refusing to answer questions on the grounds that his answers may incriminate him.
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I have had my hand of protection upon America but no more. I am going to shake America like never before. I will lift my hand of protection for a little while. Remember nine one one and what happened when my hand was lifted? What is to come is far worse than that. I have sat back and watched as my word has been removed from your schools. Your children know nothing of me. I have watched while your government has removed my commandments from their walls. They have promoted a life style forbidden by me. I have said in my word man shall not lie with man and women with women this is an abomination. You have opened up your military, they are dancing in the streets, they are thumbing their noses and saying we are here we will take over. I will not allow this to go on any longer without discipline. I love you America but you need to be shaken. etc
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Can America Survive The Complete And Utter Destruction These People Are About To Bring Down On This Nation?
December 11, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While many of us can look around on a daily basis and find examples of societal breakdown, from morals, to ethics, to sexual assault and pedophilia being covered up by Hollywood, media industries, and the higher levels of congress, the complete and utter destruction, if we are not nuked or attacked with an EMP in the next ten years, will come from the Millennial generation, the snowflakes in college now or who have managed to complete college and are now living in their parents basements. Sound overly dramatic or far-fetched? Read on. WE WERE WARNED.......... On January 10, 1963 Honorable A.S. Herlong of Florida, read into the congressional record, Current Communist Goals, on behalf of Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla, who was a virulent opponent of Communism. Those goals were excerpted from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen. These were read into the congressional record as a warning of the dangers of communism in America. While there are 45 different goal, a large majority of them have been fulfilled, with others no longer applicable, but looking at the goals themselves, it shows a long-term plan to turn America into a communist society, including infiltrating both political parties, and the educational system, media and Hollywood.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
Those are just a small sample, the rest can be read here. Keeping in mind that this was read into the record in 1963, we can see that not only was this a long term plan to destroy America, looking at the world today, especially what has been happening in the U.S., it has also been largely successful, as almost all you see above is favored by Democrats in Congress, showing that one party has indeed already been captured, and with the RINO's (Republicans In Name Only) on the Republican side, the other party has been infiltrated. Communists infiltrating the court system, the political parties, the educational system, Hollywood, the media, all has led to what we are seeing around us right now. No one can say we were not warned and blindly allowed it all to happen. THIS IS A WORLD WIDE CRISIS While we are mainly focusing on the deteriorating conditions in America in this article, it does bear noting that 1) It is not just happening in America, and; 2) The ramifications will be felt world wide. In the UK, Snowflake millennials, or as Steve Quayle recently called them after they claimed that being called snowflakes has a negative effect on their "mental health", 'Blizzard Babies' throwing a snowstorm, which largely mimics what American Millennials claim, are the final phase of the plan to capture America. Look to America's colleges right now, Campus Reform and College Fix update each day on what we are seeing on campuses across the nation, where communist that have taken over the education system in America are paying students up to $1,000 to become social justice activists. Successful applicants must demonstrate that they “significantly contribute to enhancing diversity” by either “increasing visibility of diverse people,” “creating a welcoming environment,” or “representing diverse student voices through advocacy and participation” in on-campus student groups. Professors are offering extra credit, not for doing additional school work, but to attend a rally against the GOP tax plan. That professor cancelled that "assignment" after it was exposed publicly and concerns were expressed. Another extra credit assignment at different college is to attend a "drag show." White hatred, "diversity labor," terrorist art displays, more white hatred, bashing conservatives while inundating the students with liberal communism propaganda, persecution of students that support traditional marriage between a man and a woman, all top the campus news in the just the last week alone. We note a definite theme here, a pattern, of pushing for the very types of policies and issues, using the exact methods stated decades ago in the Communist Goals, in the very institutions that were being infiltrated way back then, resulting in the complete takeover of the educational system. At the same time, the school officials and professors are so busy turning these students into little socialists and communists, they are not teaching them how to survive in the real world where a person has to work and earn a living to survive. Recent studies have found that more and more Millennials, a majority of them, now favor socialism and communism over capitalism, all because that is what they are being taught in school. The results come as no surprise to Nikita Vladimirov of Campus Reform's Leadership Institute. He says much of American academia is "very Marxist in many ways," and teach a positive view of "democratic socialism" to students. Campus Reform reported this past summer about a 2017 socialism conference held in Chicago which was attended by 1,500 people. Many of the attendees were college professors. "This just shows you the scope and the problem of the movement," said Vladimirov. The result of this is not just a generation of Snowflake Millennial Blizzard Babies, but also a generation that despite their college "degrees" are not capable of holding a job, in fact they are more known for "job hopping," and for being the least engaged in the work place, not to mention unable to pay their massive debt they borrowed in order to be taught communism and activism, more than basic job skills. Millennials are now selling their blood for money to survive and trading sex for their next debt payment, looking for "Sugar Daddies," and "Sugar Mommies." Today’s real simple get-out-of-debt option for the broke college/post college millennial is through an unconventional dating website called SeekingArrangement.com. In 2016, the website identified some 2.5 million college students who turned to the site in an act of desperation to find a ‘Sugar Daddy’ or even a ‘Sugar Mommy’ in exchange of personal time for straight cash. The website’s mission is to “delivers a new way for relationships to form and grow. Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies or Mommas both get what they want, when they want it”. While the story on Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mommies I quoted was written in 2017, a search on this issue shows that Millennials have been using these types of services, and there are more than I imagined out there, for years in order to avoid working to pay off their debt or current bills, and even to currently pay tuition. ABC News profiled one these Sugar Daddy/Baby relations as far back as 2013: THE WORLD WE KNEW IS GONE BUT HOW MUCH WORSE WILL IT GET? Compare the world we know now with just 20 or 30 years ago, for those old enough to remember when television shows wouldn't even allow a man and a woman to be shown in the same bed (remember I Love Lucy?), where marriage was a sacred institute between a man and a woman, where the question of whether to let men into womens bathrooms and vice versa would never have even been asked, where school curriculum consisted of math, English, history and science rather than "gender studies." Over the decades every one of our public institutions from politics to the courts to the educational system to the media has been at first been infiltrated and then dominated by globalists, communists and socialists, and liberals call it "progressive" ideology, when in reality it is the destruction of civilization as we know it..... one segment of society at a time. It is projected that these Millennial Snowflakes are supposed to be 75 percent of the workforce by 2030, the very same people that need Sugar Daddies and Mommies just to survive now. How much worse will it get when they are the generation that dominates society? From October 2017, a video look at exactly what is happening within our colleges, when a number of immigrant students are protesting the fact that they have to take an exam, while demanding the teacher allow them to do an essay instead, from their home, with adequate time to prepare, because there are activities happening elsewhere on campus that are emotionally threatening them. Then when the professor refuses to cancel the exam for everyone, they accuse him of supporting white supremacy, and accuse the students attempting to actually take the exam of supporting it as well.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Millennial_Problem_A_World_Crisis.php
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Google to appoint staff of 10,000 to weed out extremist content on YouTube
By Olivia Beavers - 12/04/17 10:04 PM EST
Google plans to increase to 10,000 the number of its staffers tasked with tracking down extremist content on YouTube. "We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told Britain's Daily Telegraph in an interview. Wojcicki said that "bad actors" had used the video-sharing site to "mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm" others. The announcement comes after British Prime Minister Theresa May put heavy pressure on social media companies to remove radical content after a series of deadly terror-related attacks this year in the United Kingdom. "The tech companies have made significant progress on this issue, but we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to reduce terrorist content online," May said in a speech to the United Nations in October, according to reports. Wojcicki said they have developed a "computer-learning" technology that helps them to quickly identify and then remove radical content on a site that has hundreds of minutes of video uploaded each minute, according to the report. The technology can be used to weed out other inappropriate videos, including ones that contain inappropriate or exploitive content involving children, which YouTube has also been trying to weed out. YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have all faced calls to increase their oversight on possible extremist content.
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81st doctor found dead had called out Clinton Foundation for deplorable conditions in Haiti
By Erin Elizabeth - December 10, 2017
(Editor’s note: You can read about all 81 doctors found dead in my unintended series here.)
UPDATE: We broke the news of the tragic death of a great doctor hours after he died. Dr Lorich, world-renowned surgeon to celebrities like Bono of U2, was found dead Sunday about 1 pm EST. He was found in his bathroom on Park Avenue by his 11-year-old daughter with a knife in his torso. Mainstream media said he missed his heart, but some wonder how a world expert surgeon would do so if he did indeed take his own life. He leaves behind his wife and three daughters. Our heart goes out to them and their loved ones. Police almost immediately said they thought it was a suicide saying he was under stress. But then media reports said the stress was that he was being sued by a former ex-Giants player over treatment issues (and more). Even the ex Giant’s attorney said that Lorich’s insurance would have most likely covered the costs, should he have lost. Many experts cannot imagine he’d commit suicide over something like a lawsuit, especially if he personally wouldn’t be paying out anyway. On Sunday we did touch upon the fact that Dr. Lorich was speaking out about the horrific conditions in Haiti when he went there to volunteer as a top surgeon after hurricane Katrina devastated the country. He did a lot of charity work in addition to his regular work and even had to work on Christmas sometimes to save lives. The letter he wrote not only ended up on the mainstream news, but was forwarded to Hillary Clinton herself and can be seen on WikiLeaks. Watch our second video here or read about it below. Remember too that Dean Lorich was the 81st doctor to be found dead in our series, yet #79, Dr Crespo, was also found dead at Weil Cornell, also in a bathroom on the 8th floor (at age 40!) where Dr Lorich worked. Shocking, right? WHAT are the chances? Dean Lorich and his colleagues at Weil Cornell wrote in their letter that published by CNN and also forwarded to Hillary Clinton herself: “We expected many amputations. But we thought we could save limbs that were salvageable, particularly those of children. We recognized that in an underdeveloped country, a limb amputation may be a death sentence. It does not have to be so. We thought our plan was a good one, but we soon learned we were incredibly naive. Disaster management in Haiti was nonexistent. The difficulties in getting in — despite the intelligence we had from people on the ground and Dr. Helfet’s connections with Partners in Health and Bill and Hillary Clinton — only hinted at the difficulties we would have once we arrived.” 1 But it didn’t end there. He also went on Charlie Rose in 2010 to discuss the fact that after decades of intense international involvement, including all the NGO’s that were there- some backed by big- deal Democrats like the Clintons and George Soros, Haiti still had virtually no functioning government. He said, “That was the biggest problem we saw, though, was that there was nobody in charge. It was a sovereign country, and their government really never stepped up, at least in the period of time that we were there. All the NGOs had been there for decades and provided fish, but they’d never taught the Haitians how to fish.”2 During his interview, Lorich repeatedly brought up the total lack of leadership in the country which must have been especially embarrassing to the Clintons. (Bill Clinton was later put in charge of coordinating over $10 billion in relief funds, which resulted in a number of projects that delivered much less than promised, if the money can be traced to any relief at all. 3) ORIGINAL STORY: It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Dr Dean Lorich was found dead this afternoon, Sunday, December 10th in his Park Avenue, Upper East Side home. He was 54 years old. Lorich’s wife was out playing tennis when the “suicide” occurred, there was apparently no suicide note found at the scene. So just to recap, an MD- the father of three girls, associate director of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College (where our 79th doctor, Dr Crespo, was found dead just days ago, also in a bathroom)- went into the bathroom when his wife was gone and he was alone with his child, and stuck a knife into his torso. Though nearly nothing about this is plausible, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY cops say no foul play, he was stressed. After his daughter found him she alerted the building’s doorman, who called 911. Police said the call was regarding an assault, as naturally, sources say the doorman (maybe smarter than the cops?) thought he must have been attacked, not put a knife in his own torso. When the cops found the 54-year-old doctor’s body in the bathroom around 1 p.m., the knife was not in his heart, but close they say. While this only happened this afternoon, it’s already been in the news for 5 hours. How they could even have examined the body yet in Manhattan boggles my mind. One of Lorich’s purported colleagues, who declined to give her name, came by and spoke to the doorman before falling to a knee in prayer, “This is horrible, this is horrible. I don’t believe this.” 4(We have trouble believing it too). Our hearts go out to his family and friends. Both Lorich and Dr Crespo were found dead within days of each other in Manhattan, both of Weil Cornell, we won’t stop reporting on all these deaths until we get answers that make actual sense. Again, both Lorich and Crespo worked at the same hospital. Lorich, the winner of the “2010 Roger E. Joseph Prize by Hebrew Union College for his humanitarian efforts in treating victims of the recent Haiti earthquake and in Landstuhl, Germany treating soldiers injured in Iraq and in Afghanistan” 5(the award recognizes individuals making lasting contributions to the causes of human rights), who was beloved and an asset to the medical community and Crespo, who was researching cancer with the use of stem cells, have both just died within days of each other, under suspicious circumstances. Sources: Dean Lorich’s letter on the front of CNN,
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Taxi driver 'intentionally' detonated crude bomb made of Xmas lights, sugar and match heads in NYC subway tunnel after 'seeing Christmas posters on wall' and days after 'big row with his family'
A pipe bomb prematurely went off in an underground tunnel linking the Times Square subway station and the Port Authority bus terminal Monday morning around 7:20am
The suspect has been identified as unmarried 27-year-old green-card holder Akayed Ullah
Ullah came to the U.S. seven years ago from Bangladesh on a visa for people who have family in the U.S.
He was the only one seriously injured in the blast
Ullah was taken to Bellevue Hospital for serious burns and lacerations to his hands and abdomen
CNN reports that the bomb detonated prematurely and that if it had gone off as intended the damage could have been catastrophic
Ullah says he made the explosive himself last week, after reading instructions on the internet
The FBI has been swarming multiple addresses connected to Ullah in Brooklyn
His parents have since released a statement saying they are 'outraged' by the treatment of their family
Neighbors say they heard yelling and screaming coming for the apartment the last two nights and that Ullah was not a friendly person
Ullah told investigators that he carried out the attack as revenge for recent actions by Israelis against Muslim Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
The incident happened just days after President Trump sparked demonstrations across the world by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital city
Trump said in a statement that 'lax' immigration policies were to blame for the attack, and urged Congress to 'enact legislative reforms to protect the American people'
By Ashley Collman and Louise Boyle In Brooklyn For Dailymail.com and Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Published: 12:40 EST, 11 December 2017 | Updated: 06:26 EST, 12 December 2017
The taxi driver behind the failed terror attack in a New York City told investigators he meant to detonate his homemade pipe bomb in the busy subway station after seeing the walls festooned with Christmas posters - in revenge for violence against Muslims all over the world. While initial reports suggested the crude pipe bomb, made from a pipe, a 9-volt battery, match heads, sugar, Christmas tree lights and screws, had detonated prematurely, suspect Akayed Ullah, 27, insisted he set off the bomb deliberately. The bombing attack at the Port Authority Bus Station subway station comes just days after Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, sparking violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Ullah, who was arrested and taken for questioning after the bomb only partially detonated, told police he was walking through the underground tunnel at 7.20am, between the Port Authority station towards Times Square, when he saw the Christmas-themed posters on the wall, which reminded him of ISIS' calls last month for militants and lone wolves to attack holiday markets. 'He acknowledges he purposely set it off then and there,' a senior law enforcement official told the New York Post. The Bangladeshi immigrant added that he was specifically inspired by ISIS, 'not Al Qaeda'. Authorities say that if the explosive had fully detonated in the busy Midtown Manhattan subway station, there would have been more injuries and doubtless loss of life. The attack came days after Ullah's Brooklyn neighbors say they heard a huge row coming from his home, reporting yelling and screaming over the past two nights. His parents have since released a statement saying they are 'outraged' by the allegations, and the treatment of their family since the terror attack. Ullah, who was allowed to stop and pray multiple times during his interrogation, was taken to Bellevue Hospital to be treated for serious burns and lacerations to his abdomen and hands but is expected to survive. At the hospital, the Brooklyn resident told investigators that he was inspired to carry out the attack by the recent flare ups between Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Last week, President Trump sparked tensions between the Jewish Israelis and Muslim Palestinians when he officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel - a city the two groups have been fighting over for decades. Monday's attack was the first terror attack on U.S. soil since that proclamation, but only one of many violent demonstrations across the world since the controversial move was announced last Wednesday. It was also the second time in two months that New York City was the target of a terrorist attack. President Trump said in a statement that 'lax' immigration policies were to blame for the attack, and urged Congress to 'enact legislative reforms to protect the American people'. Authorities say Ullah took the A train subway to the Port Authority Bus Terminal stop Monday morning, and started walking east towards Times Square via an underground terminal when a pipe bomb hidden underneath his clothes prematurely exploded. Law enforcement officials don't believe the passageway was the intended target since the 'low-tech' bomb - attached to Ullah with Velcro and zip ties - did not explode fully. The chemical explosive appears to have ignited but the pipe itself did not burst. Screws were found at the scene, indicating that they may have filled the pipe and were intended to be used as shrapnel. In the end, Ullah was the only one seriously injured by the explosive (three others reported to hospitals for ringing in the ears and headaches). Hero Port Authority Police Officers Sean Gallagher 26, a former Marine, Anthony Manfredini, 28, a former Marine bomb tech, Drew Preston, 36, a former Army soldier with three combat tours, and Jack Collins 45, an attorney, have been identified as the cops who took Ullah into custody. It was Officer Manferdini who spotted people running out of the passageway and he was swiftly joined by his colleagues as they ran towards the explosion and witnessed Ullah, crumpled on the floor, trying to get to his cellphone. Many improvised explosive devices often use cellphones as the detonator, so he may have been trying to set off the second explosive that was found on his body. 'The person on the floor was reaching for his cell phone. The officers at that point had to make a decision so no one else would be hurt and they decided at that point to take the person into custody,' Bobby Egbert, spokesman for the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, told 1010 WINS. 'There was a struggle with him, they had to keep him from reaching the cell phone, obviously they had no idea what he was going to do with the cell phone.' After he was arrested, Ullah was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where investigators started questioning him as he got treatment for his injuries. Law enforcement sources who spoke to Ullah at the hospital say he confessed to plotting the attack in retribution for recent actions by Israelis against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, CNN reports. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo described Ullah as 'disgruntled'. Also while he was at the hospital, Ullah revealed that he learned how to make explosives online, and that he constructed the pipe bombs about a week ago. There are conflicting reports about whether he put the bombs together at his apartment or at his job at an electrical company where he appears work with his brother. Records show that Ullah moved to the U.S. from Chittagong, Bangladesh in February 2011 on a F-4 visa, and is now a legal green-card owner. The FR-4 visa is a preferential visa for those who already have family in the U.S. He reportedly immigrated with his parents and three to four siblings. Ullah had recently visited his home country on September 8. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an afternoon press conference that the president is working to end such 'chain migration' in favor of merit-based immigration policies. It's still unclear what exactly Ullah did for work in electronics. He previously had a taxi cab license, but let it expire in March 2015. While he doesn't have a criminal record - either in Bangladesh or the U.S. - Ullah has been cited several times for traffic violations. Investigators have yet to determine an official motivation for the failed attack, but there have been reports that Ullah was inspired by ISIS. Law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that Ullah was inspired by the group, but not in direct contact with them. The attack is being celebrated on pro-ISIS 'channels'. Investigators say he watched ISIS videos and read extremist propaganda such as Al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine, NBC News reported. The magazine famously posted an article titled: 'Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom.' So far, officials believe that Ullah carried out the attack as a 'lone wolf'. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told MSNBC's Morning Joe that the suspect 'supposedly was setting the device off in the name of ISIS' and that it was 'definitely a terrorist attack, definitely intended'. At a morning press conference, current NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said that the suspect 'did make statements' but that they are not going to comment on them yet. Though it's still early in the investigation, New York City officials say it was definitely an attempted terror attack. 'This was an attempted terror attack and thank God the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals,' Mayor Bill de Blasio said. The Port Authority Bus Terminal is the largest in the country and the busiest in the world - serving about 225,000 commuters a day. It's what's known by law enforcement officials as a 'soft target' because it handles a lot of traffic but doesn't have the same kind of security as a place like an airport. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said a bombing in the subway is 'one of our worst nightmares' - but he said New Yorkers will get through this as they have before on 9/11 and even the most recent terror attack on Halloween. 'This is the New York. The reality is we are the target by many who would like to make a statement against democracy and against freedom. We have the Statue of Liberty in our harbor and that makes us an international target. 'We understand that anyone can go on the internet and download garbage and vileness on how to put together an amateur-level explosive device and that is the reality that we live with. 'The counter reality is that this is New York and we all pitch together and we are a savvy people and we keep our eyes open and that's what 'see something, say something' is all about. And we have the best law enforcement on the globe and we're all working together extraordinarily well,' Gov. Cuomo said. Following the attack, police descended on at least three addresses connected to Ullah in Brooklyn - one in Flatlands and two in Kensington. Ullah's mother, father and brother were seen being interviewed outside of the one of the addresses. His parents have since released a statement saying they are 'outraged' by the treatment of their family. 'We are heartbroken by the violence that was targeted at our city today, and by the allegations being made against a member of our family,' the family said in a statement read by Albert Fox Cahn, legal director for Council on American-Islamic Relations-New York. 'But we are also outraged by the behavior of law enforcement officials who have held children as small as 4 years old out in the cold and who held a teenager out of high school classes to interrogate him without a lawyer, without his parents,' the statement continued. 'These are not the sorts of actions that we expect from our justice system, and we have every confidence that our justice system will find the truth behind this attack and that we will, in the end, be able to learn what occurred today.' Police had cordoned off the block of East 48th Street in Flatlands where the alleged terrorist had been living and the bomb squad were on the scene. Leonora Podlyashuk lives on the same floor as an apartment being searched in connection with Ullah at 679 Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. She told DailyMail.com that a man, believed to be Ullah, his wife and son, aged about 5 years, moved into the building five months ago. The woman was pregnant at the time with their second child, and has since given birth. Her baby is 2 or 3 months old. 'The wife was pleasant, would say hello in the elevator, but I never saw any men [in the apartment],' she said. 'I would not have recognized him if shown a photo.' The wife was dressed in traditional Muslim attire, she said. It is unclear if the man is Ullah or a relative. The neighbour said some 20 police officers and FBI agents have been in the hallways since 8am today. Ullah was connected with another Brooklyn address on East 2nd Street. A woman who spoke on the intercom to DailyMail.com said she had 'no comment' about the suspect. Alan Butrico, owner of Locksmith hardware store on Avenue N in Marine Park, told DailyMail.com that a Bangladeshi family lives at the home the police had cordoned off. Butrico added to CNN that Ullah lived in the basement of the building while Ullah's brother and sister lived in the apartment above him. 'He wasn't friendly at all. The family was very quiet themselves. They don't talk to nobody. They just stay there,' Butrico said. Burtico says that the last two nights, tenants told him that they heard 'screaming and yelling' coming from Ullah's home, but they did not call police. Ally Mohammed, who works in the deli across the street, described the family as 'very nice, hardworking people'. He said that the suspect's mother came into his store and was very pleasant and that his father owned a grocery store in the area. Mohammed said that he believed the suspect lived with his brother, sister-in-law and their child, of around four years old. He said that he believed the brother had finished college and had a job in the city. He said he did not believe Ullah was married or had any children. 'What he did has nothing to do with Islam, maybe he was brainwashed,' Mohammed said Kisslyn Joseph, 19, from Grenada, has been staying next door to the suspect's home at her brother Kevin Alexander's house. She told DailyMail.com that she heard shouting from what appeared to be an argument on the phone inside the home on Sunday morning around 2am. She said that the argument was in English but she was unable to hear what was being said. Other neighbors also had negative memories of Ullah. 'He was just nasty. We would tell him to move the car, he felt like he owned it,' the owner of a hardware store who had previously fought with Ullah told CBS News. 'I've seen him in the neighborhood walking around. Pretty much looks like he always has something on his mind. Never says hello, doesn't talk to anybody,' one woman said. Social worker Michael, 35, was commuting from New Jersey to Brooklyn when the chaos unfolded. He said: 'There were people running from various angles and screaming that someone had a gun. People were saying 'just run, just go'. Everyone was looking around confused. 'After a few minutes I think I heard another person say there was an explosion and that's when people started to panic. There was a lot of chaotic shouting and screaming. I saw a guy spring past me and as people scattered the crowd began to hurry more and push through the doors. 'There are escalators that lead outside and steps and people were running up to get outside. We are talking 50 or 60 people. People were running over each other at one point. It became like a domino effect as everyone tried to run through the doors. 'We got out and I ran across the street to 41st. I could hear sirens going off and people were grabbing their phones and calling home. Everyone was quite panicked and shook up.' He added: 'It's scary. I'm quite on edge now.' Video from above the 'Crossroads of the World' showed lines of police and emergency vehicles, their lights flashing, lining the streets and no other vehicle traffic moving. Everything around the Port Authority in the 42nd Street area was shut down while police investigated the bombing - a surreal scene of what would ordinarily be a bustling rush hour. A spokesman for the Port Authority say they plan to have the transit hub up and running fully by the evening rush hour. Mayor De Blasio said getting transportation up and running again was an important message to the failed terrorist. 'We're not going to allow them to disrupt us. That is exactly what they what and that is exactly what they are not going to get,' he said. While the suspect's motivation has not been established yet, his alleged statements about ISIS and Bangladeshi background suggest he was motivated by extreme religion. The attack also comes on the heels of a Muslim day of rage in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, last week where thousands of Muslims protested over President Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The decision - which breaks with decades of tradition in international policy - has drawn widespread criticism from Muslims and Christians around the world. Previous presidents have refrained from such direct involvement in the Middle East's historic conflict but Trump proudly waded in. Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a campaign promise which he now boasts about fulfilling. The Bangladesh government condemned the attack in a statement issued Monday through their embassy in Washington, DC. 'Government of Bangladesh is committed to its declared policy of 'Zero Tolerance' against terrorism, and condemns terrorism and violent extremism in all forms or manifestations anywhere in the world, including Monday morning's incident in New York City,' she said. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted Monday morning that the president had been briefed on the situation. At an afternoon press conference, Sanders released a statement on behalf of the administration - saying this morning's incident is a further example of the need for tougher immigration policies. 'This attack underscores the need for Congress to work with the President on immigration reforms that enhance our national security and public safety. We must protect our borders. We must ensure that individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to our people and we must move to a merit-based system of immigration,' she said. She went on to say that President Trump has been fighting to end chain migration, which would have prevented an attack like this. 'The President is certainly concerned that Congress, particularly Democrats, have failed to take action in some places where we feel we could have prevented this,' Sanders said. 'Specifically, the President's policy has called for an end to chain migration and if that had been in place, that would have prevented this individual from coming to the United States.' Monday's explosion also comes a month after Sayfullo Saipov plowed through cyclists on the a cycle path in Tribeca. The Uzbek national killed eight people in his rented Home Depot truck by mowing them down before crashing into a school bus. He injured another 12. Saipov, 29, who was living in Paterson, New Jersey, was gunned down by a police officer and remains in custody. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited Saipov in his statement on the latest terror attack, saying that the immigration policies that let Ullah and Saipov into the country need to end. 'The President is exactly correct about the changes we need to our immigration system. We have now seen two terrorist attacks in New York City in less than two months that were carried out by people who came here as a result of our failed immigration policies that do not serve the national interest - the diversity lottery and chain migration. The 20-year-old son of the sister of a U.S. citizen should not get priority to come to this country ahead of someone who is high-skilled, well educated, has learned English, and is likely to assimilate and flourish here. 'It is a failure of logic and sound policy not to adopt a merit-based immigration system. The President has asked Congress to work with him on ending the diversity lottery and chain migration. He has proposed switching to a merit-based system of immigration similar to the Canadian and Australian systems. That means welcoming the best and the brightest and turning away not only terrorists but gang members, fraudsters, drunk drivers, and child abusers. Such a merit-based system would make us safer and welcome individuals who would be best able to assimilate and flourish in our country,' Sessions said. After the attack, the dollar lowered but stock markets recovered when the situation had been contained. The S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes rose 0.1 to 0.3 percent when the main U.S. stock markets opened two and a half hours later. The dollar slipped as far as 113.245 yen against the Japanese currency. The Swiss franc, a refuge at times of heightened risk, reached a high of 1.16755 francs per euro. . 'We did see equities futures moving lower and it is not a surprise that we saw a move in crosses like dollar-yen,' said CIBC's head of currency strategy Jeremy Stretch. 'There is a susceptibility, whenever there is a degree of uncertainty, for the usual suspects to react.'
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The Masses Are Blissfully Unaware Of The Hell That Could Be Unleashed: 'Simple Mistake Could Trigger Sequence Of Events That End With Millions Of Americans Dead And The US In Ruins'
- Globalists New Push For War Marches America Towards Armageddon
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
While the Trump-Russia investigation continues to blow up in the globalists faces with yet another investigator into 'Trump-Russia collusion' having been outed as 'sleeping in the same bed' as Hillary, thus destroying any impartiality which we had hoped they'd have and turning this 'witch hunt' into an absolute farce as we hear in the 1st video below, the same America-hating globalists continue to try to push us into a war with Russia that America may never be able to extract ourselves from as a functioning nation. As former Ronald Reagan assistant secretary to the Treasury for Economic Policy Paul Craig Roberts reports in this new story republished over at Zero Hedge, "America Is Walking Into Armageddon" as also heard in the 2nd video below. While a more accurate word might be 'herded' (like sheep!), the possible worst-case-scenario end results remain the same. As Daisy Luther the Organic Prepper recently reported, at least 8 places around the world are now actively preparing for nuclear war and as she reports in her story, tensions are high in practically every corner of the world but somehow, despite the proliferation of imminent threats, many people are still blithely unaware of the hell that could be unleashed. And while ANP agrees with much of a comment left on this story by ANP reader 'Ryan' who stated; "More doom and gloom. Things are actually getting better. Trump is turning things around. I'm optimistic. I know some bad things are still gonna happen at times but to have so many articles saying the demise of the country or America is going to be destroyed isn't right I'm my opinion. Have some faith God isn't going to allow all these things that you write in your articles to happen." We need to remember that America is still in the process of emerging from what many have called one of the most dangerous periods in US history with globalists poised to bring down America before President Trump got into office and now the very same globalists pushing lies and treachery in a last-ditch attempt to get President Trump removed and the will of the American people overturned. With a very obvious 'deep state' war still ongoing against President Trump, and loads of proof that those who are investigating him could never be impartial as the investigations are being led by angry Hillary Clinton voters, it's not a surprise that even Congressmen and US Senators are joining President Trump in slamming the failed and absolutely corrupt with Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert from Texas claiming they are corrupted beyond its sorriest days. And while we absolutely applaud President Trump for the changes that he has already accomplished in less than one year in office, America still has a very long way to go if we hope to completely drive corruption out of Washington DC. With President Trump now weighing plans for private spies to counter deep state enemies as shared in this recent story from the Intercept helping to prove that 'Barack and Hillary' leftovers in Washington DC are still pulling many strings, the orchestrated push towards war being carried out by the 'deep state' is not only reckless but completely undermines President Trump. Is it treason? From Paul Craig Roberts: The orchestrated hostility toward Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea protects the $1,000 billion annual budget of the military/security complex by convincing the American public that the US is threatened by enemies. It also keeps alive Democratic Party hopes that Trump can be removed from office, and it has prevented President Trump from normalizing relations with Russia. I have emphasized for some time that Washington’s gratuitous and aggressive actions against Russia and the constant barrage of false accusations against Russia and its government have convinced Russia that Washington is planning a military attack. There is nothing more reckless and irresponsible than to convince a nuclear superpower that you are preparing an attack on them. One would think that such irresponsible and reckless behavior would have the citizenry aroused and the media reporting the risk. Yet, there is only silence. It is more important to the media whether NFL players stand for the national anthem and that some male politicians show sexual interest in women in inappropriate ways. Insouciant America is walking into Armageddon. While most Americans are completely unaware of the dangers that potentially face us and how quickly things could come to a grinding halt evidenced by how poorly prepared most Americans are for even a big snowstorm, all across the planet preparations are now being made for nuclear war. While many of these preparations are taking place across the South Pacific and in lands near North Korea and Kim Jong Un, as we read from Daisy Luther, all it will take is one incident (or one 'tantrum'!) and things could quickly spiral completely out of control. And while Luther's story focuses on North Korea, she ends her discussion with Russia, a country that should be one of our greatest 'friends' in our fight against 'radical Islamic terrorism', possibly turned into an enemy? What an absolute tragedy that would be as filmmaker Oliver Stone tells us in the final video below, "blaming Russia for everything is insanity". From Daisy Luther: Due to tensions between the US and North Korea, the world is frantically preparing for the possibility of a nuclear attack. The US, China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea have all shown force with bombers and destroyers, and it seems that it will only be a matter of time before one incident sparks a cascading explosion. The governments of these 8 places are making preparations, but they’ll be to little avail if people don’t participate and just expect to be rescued. 1. In South Korea, their government has urged citizens to get prepared for war, and prepping is becoming mainstream for North Korea’s nearest neighbor and sworn enemy. 2. A Chinese newspaper from an area that shares a border with North Korea published a series of articles advising people how to prepare for a strike. 3. Millions of people in Japan have taken part in (or soon will) nuclear attack evacuation drills, and the Prime Minister is urging local authorities to designate the best sturdy, underground sites to be used as potential shelters. 4. Australia recently received a warning from North Korea, calling the country a “vassal” of the United States. 5. Hawaii recently tested their nuclear sirens that have not been used since the 1980s. The island is the closest American state to Hawaii, which makes it geographically vulnerable. 6. As a US territory and the closest to North Korea, Guam could find itself in the crosshairs. Officials have issued guidelines to all its residents to prepare them for the possibility of a nuclear strike. 7. Here on the mainland, California is making preparations, but one notable factor is that residents should not expect help from the government any time soon should such a catastrophe occur. 8. Russia has been preparing for nuclear possibilities for quite a while now. Last year, it was reported that Russia was building fallout shelters all over the country and that 40 million citizens participated in a defense drill shortly before the US election, when tensions were running high over Syria. But it didn’t end with the election because now Russia is up to its eyeballs trying to defuse the US/North Korea situation. Russian president Vladimir Putin recently received a letter from Kim Jong Un that stated they could launch an attack on the US “at any day” and could reach the mainland. While some here in America might actually believe that a US war against Russia could be won, the long held doctrine of 'mutually assured destruction' proves otherwise yet as Roberts warns, 'pushing us towards annihilation' they are. Yet as Russian insiders living here in the US warned prior to the election of President Donald Trump, any hostile military actions towards Russia would surely end up reverberating here on to US soil. While it was reported back in October of 2016 that Russia's 'Satan 2' nuclear weapons could destroy a country the size of France or a state the size of Texas, Russia also is in possession of EMP weapons that could theoretically be used to take down our power grid and send us back to the dark ages. To close from this must-read story from 'Russian insider' Dmitry Orlov which was written back in May of 2016, back when the world was poised on the edge of nuclear war, an 'edge' that we had hoped we'd avoided with Trump's election. If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead. Thus, if tomorrow a war were to break out between the US and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US would be obliterated. At a minimum, there would no longer be an electric grid, no internet, no oil and gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air transportation or GPS-based navigation. Financial centers would lie in ruins. Government at every level would cease to function. US armed forces, stationed all around the globe, would no longer be resupplied. At a maximum, the entire landmass of the US would be covered by a layer of radioactive ash. We tell you this not to be alarmist, but because, based on everything we know, we are ourselves alarmed. If attacked, Russia will not back down; she will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate the United States. Orlov then goes on to report upon what we were witnessing prior to the election from globalist leaders here in America, leaders who we believed we were voting out of office when electing President Donald Trump. Yet if Roberts is correct, these globalists are pushing America to the brink of disaster, just as Orlov warned over a year ago. The US leadership has done everything it could to push the situation to the brink of disaster. First, its anti-Russian policies have convinced the Russian leadership that making concessions or negotiating with the West is futile. It has become apparent that the West will always support any individual, movement or government that is anti-Russian, be it tax-cheating Russian oligarchs, convicted Ukrainian war criminals, Saudi-supported Wahhabi terrorists in Chechnya or cathedral-desecrating punks in Moscow. Now that NATO, in violation of its previous promises, has expanded right up to the Russian border, with US forces deployed in the Baltic states, within artillery range of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, the Russians have nowhere left to retreat. They will not attack; nor will they back down or surrender. The Russian leadership enjoys over 80% of popular support; the remaining 20% seems to feel that it is being too soft in opposing Western encroachment. But Russia will retaliate, and a provocation or a simple mistake could trigger a sequence of events that will end with millions of Americans dead and the US in ruins.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Globalists_Pushing_For_Russia_War_Marching_To_Armageddon.php
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25 million southern Californian's breathing in dangerous levels of PM particles 30 times finer than a human hair which cause heart attacks strokes cancer and respiratory diseases.
Earthwindmap showing an incredible 1,764 PM 2.5 particles an invisible killer coming from the Thomas fire. With almost 100,000 people displaced untold devastation to wildlife, almost 1,000 structures destroyed and nearly 200,000 acres burnt to a cinder Governer Jerry Brown has claimed that the wildfires are the new norm. Brown claimed climate change may exacerbate the weather conditions that caused the wildfires to explode. PM 2.5 is a particulate matter about 30 times finer than a human hair. 25 million southern Californian citizens are now breathing in these tiny particles which cause heart attacks strokes lung cancer and respiratory diseases. According to scientists the safe level of PM 2.5 is 50, yesterday a reading of PM2.5 on the Earthwindmap showed an incredible 1,764 coming from the Thomas fire, see picture above. In many ways, the smoke is just as dangerous as the fires and can cause breathing and heart problems to the vulnerable. The particles are invisible, even in smoke-free areas the tiny particles of PM 2.5 are small enough to get into the bloodstream. Not only can they cause trouble for people with lung problems like asthma or emphysema, they can also trigger heart attacks in people who are susceptible. Staying indoors has been advised by health officials. According to the LA Times ques of people are gathering outside shopping malls waiting to buy masks. Posted by Gary Walton at 2:43 pm
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/12/25-million-southern-californians.html
:: 12-6-17 Hal Lindsey :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Jerusalem: Recognizing Reality
By Hal Lindsey
On Wednesday, President Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He also announced a beginning of the process to move the U.S. Embassy there. That process will take at least three years, and probably much more. He also endorsed the so-called “two-state solution” as the framework for peace with the Palestinians… as long as both sides agree to it. He did not specify anything regarding future boundaries of Jerusalem, or whether it should be split. He said those decisions need to be made as part of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel itself has claimed Jerusalem as its capital since the time of King David. Modern Israel was first recognized as a nation in 1948. It took possession of West Jerusalem that year. But because of the ongoing war, it made Tel Aviv its temporary capital. The next year, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, said, “For the State of Israel there has always been and always will be one capital only — Jerusalem the Eternal. Thus it was 3,000 years ago — and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time.” Listening to the media, you would think President Trump’s decision is outside mainstream U.S. diplomatic orthodoxy. But that not true. No U.S. president ever pulled the trigger on the move, but as candidates, several of them were for it. Despite them taking that position, it was never a significant point of controversy in any presidential election. Congress passed a law in 1995 saying that Jerusalem should “remain an undivided city” and “be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel.” The law allowed presidents to postpone the move, but they had to do so every six months. Until now, that’s what they have all done. The leader of Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, urged President Trump to move the embassy. “As someone who strongly believes that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel,” he said, “I am calling for the U.S. Embassy in Israel to be relocated to Jerusalem.” The President did not go that far. He said nothing about Jerusalem being “undivided.” Nevertheless, his decision has been criticized by leaders around the world, including in the United States. California Senator Diane Feinstein wrote to Trump saying, “Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital — or relocating our embassy to Jerusalem — will spark violence and embolden extremists on both sides of this debate.” She said such a move would “undermine any remaining hope for a two-state solution.” A Palestinian general delegate to the United Kingdom said that to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel is like “declaring war.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that there will be “dangerous consequences.” The Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas, called for three “days of rage,” starting Wednesday, but making Friday the main day. The State Department warned U.S. embassies around the world to be on alert following the announcement. It also issued a warning to U.S. travelers in Israel. “Hostilities between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and terrorist groups, including Hamas, in the Gaza Strip could resume and the security situation could deteriorate with little or no notice.” Turkey’s President Erdogan said Jerusalem is a “redline” for Muslims. He said the move would be a violation of international law, and that, “This could go as far as cutting our diplomatic relations with Israel. President Trump argued that his action is “recognition of reality.” He pointed out that all the major institutions of the Israeli government, including the Knesset, are located in Jerusalem. Nations put embassies in the capitals of other nations because they want their ambassadors close to the center of power. In Israel, that’s Jerusalem. Through the years, proposed peace plans from the United Nations, the U.S., and Europe, have always allowed Israel to keep at least part of Jerusalem. Israel says that Jerusalem is its capital. Since the Israelis will be staying in Jerusalem under any of these plans, why does the world not allow Israel to choose its own capital? From a secular, diplomatic prospective, the President’s move makes sense to me. Israel is the one great democracy of the Middle East, and America’s most faithful ally. The Israelis — not a bunch of European elites — should decide the location of Israel’s capital. But I’m not a diplomat. I’m a preacher of the Gospel and a student of scripture. I look at this from another angle. In Genesis 12:3, God said to Abraham (then still named “Abram”), “I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.” (NASB) “God Bless America” is a prayer. One of the actions that must accompany that prayer is for America to continue to bless Israel.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-12-6-2017/
:: 12-10-17 Fox News :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Pence responds to Abbas snub over Jerusalem decision
By Frank Miles | Fox News
Vice President Mike Pence's office said Sunday it was “unfortunate” that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas canceled plans to meet with Pence in the West Bank this month because President Trump announced the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “The President has asked Vice President Pence to go to the region to reaffirm our commitment to work with partners throughout the Middle East to defeat radicalism that threatens the hopes and dreams of future generations. The Vice President very much looks forward to traveling to the region to meet with [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Egyptian] President [Abdel Fattah] el-Sisi,” Pence’s press secretary Alyssa Farah told Fox News. “It’s unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region, but the Administration remains undeterred in its efforts to help achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians and our peace team remains hard at work putting together a plan.” Abbas’ diplomatic adviser, Majdi Khaldi, said Saturday that Abbas wouldn’t meet Pence “because the U.S. has crossed red lines” on Jerusalem. President Trump also said last week the U.S. Embassy would ultimately move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Israel says it won’t relinquish any part of the city, while the Palestinians have said they want the Israeli-annexed eastern sector as their future capital. Abbas had viewed close ties with Washington as strategically important because of the U.S. role as Mideast broker. The snub of Pence signaled a sharp deterioration in relations. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/10/pence-responds-to-abbas-snub-over-jerusalem-decision.html
:: 12-8-17 The Times of Israel :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
5,000 Palestinians hold violent protests across West Bank, Gaza over Jerusalem
IDF braces for further clashes on Saturday, after 200 injured, most of them lightly, in riots against Trump's recognition of Israel's capital; two killed at Gaza fence
By Judah Ari Gross, TOI staff and Agencies 8 December 2017, 3:47 pm
An estimated 5,000 Palestinian protesters held demonstrations and clashed with Israeli security forces at some 30 locations across the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday after midday prayers, in a show of anger over US President Donald Trump’s declared recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Israeli army said it was braced for more protests on Saturday, and it stepped up the deployment of troops at West Bank settlements to try to thwart any attempted terror attacks. It said the 5,000 demonstrators on Friday marked a lower number than anticipated, but expected protests to continue for several more days, Hadashot news reported on Friday night. Palestinian officials said two demonstrators were killed at the Gaza border fence. One was killed in the afternoon, while another who suffered serious injuries died of his wounds hours later. The Israeli army said it fired on two “inciters” at the fence. It said there was six points along the fence where protesters gathered and burned tires. The Red Cross in Gaza reported that 15 people were injured by tear gas and rubber bullets. In the West Bank, the Palestinian demonstrators threw rocks and Molotov cocktails, and set fire to tires and rolled them at Israeli security forces, who generally retaliated with less-lethal riot dispersal equipment, like tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets, and in some cases with live fire. Palestinian protesters also burned pictures and effigies of Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israeli and American flags. Unusually, Palestinian Authority security forces allowed demonstrators to carry Hamas flags, Israel Radio reported. It said some Palestinians branded the protests the start of a new intifada uprising. Palestinian officials reported over 200 people injured in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the vast majority of them lightly, from tear gas inhalation. Seven were hit by live bullets, and 45 by rubber bullets, the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service said. The Israel Defense Forces said it knew of at least 10 injured Palestinians in the West Bank. Two Palestinian protesters were shot by Israeli troops during a violent demonstration at the Gaza border, the army said. Local media reported that one of them was critically wounded. No soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces or Border Police were reported injured. Israeli officials said six Palestinians were arrested during the protests. Among the estimated 30 demonstrations in the West Bank, the largest took place in Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Al-Arroub, Tulkarem, Qalandiya, and Bayt Ummar, the army said. Smaller demonstrations were also reported in Ramallah, Nablus, Hawara and Nabi Saleh. In Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinian rallied after Friday prayers near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a flashpoint site in the holy city which, along with the Dome of the Rock, sits on the Temple Mount. The holiest place in Judaism, the mount is known to Muslims as Haram al Sharif. PLO and Turkish flags were raised during Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa. Most of the thousands of worshipers dispersed peacefully after Friday prayers in the Old City. But hundreds of demonstrators burned Israeli flags while others chanted, “The war is approaching, Al-Quds Arabiya,” using the Arabic name for Jerusalem and declaring it an “Arab” city. Protesters also chanted, “Let us die as martyrs — there is no place for the State of Israel.” A protest erupted briefly at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, and was cleared by police. Demonstrators threw objects at the security forces deployed there. Israel Radio said Arab members of Knesset were seen in the crowds. The Red Crescent said that one injured Palestinian man was transferred from Damascus Gate to the hospital after being injured by police. Israel had bolstered its security deployment in Jerusalem, but despite the heightened alert, police did not impose any restrictions on Muslim worshipers praying at Al-Aqsa. (At times of expected violence, Israeli authorities sometimes limit access to the site for young men.) In Gaza, thousands took to the streets and marched to denounce Trump’s proclamation. The Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Trump had issued “a declaration of war against the Palestinian people,” Army Radio reported. The US president had harmed the Arab and Muslim nation, the Fatah spokesman said. “Someone with no right to intervene had awarded [Jerusalem] to someone with no right to it,” the radio reported quoted the spokesman saying. On Thursday, Hamas terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh called for a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising. In a Wednesday address from the White House, Trump defied worldwide warnings and insisted that after repeated failures to achieve peace a new approach was long overdue, describing his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the seat of Israel’s government as merely based on reality. The move was hailed by Prime Minister Netanyahu and by leaders across much of the Israeli political spectrum. Trump stressed that he was not specifying the boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in the city, and called for no change in the status quo at the city’s holy sites. Security assessments had expected tens of thousands to take part in the Friday protests and the IDF was particularly concerned that “lone wolf” attackers could try to carry out terror attacks, the Ynet news site reported. Soldiers were stationed at potential confrontation points during the day and were later to deploy to prevent any attempts to carry out attacks on settlements over the Sabbath, the report said. Dov Lieber contributed to this report.
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:: 12-11-17 New Zealand Herald :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
North Korea's nuclear tests have damaged Earth's crust, caused tremors months later
11 Dec, 2017 10:53am
Two tremors detected in North Korea yesterday were likely to be aftershocks from the hermit nation's reckless nuclear test in early September, a US Geological Survey official confirmed. The mild 2.9 and 2.4 magnitude aftershocks were confirmed as "tectonic" in origin by the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty executive secretary Lassina Zerbo. The USGS official claimed the tremors originated near the Punggye-ri nuclear test site - the location where North Korea carried out its largest nuclear test to date on September 3. The official said: "They're probably relaxation events from the sixth nuclear test. When you have a large nuclear test, it moves the Earth's crust around the area, and it takes a while for it to fully subside. "We've had a few of them since the sixth nuclear test." North Korea claimed its September test was an H-bomb - with experts estimating it was 10 times more powerful than the US atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. A sequence of tremors since that test has led experts to believe that there was damage caused to the mountainous region in the north-west of the country. Last month it was claimed that 100 workers were feared at the site had been trapped after the tunnel reportedly collapsed on September 10, although this has not been confirmed. In October, South Korea's spy agency said it believed Pyongyang might be readying two more tunnel at the site. One obstacle which could scupper North Korea using the Punggye-ri test is the nearby active volcano Mount Paektu, which is considered a sacred site by the communist nation. The dictator paid a visit to the site yesterday, which is claimed to be the birthplace of the secretive state's first dictator, Kim's grandfather. Pictures released by the regime show the Kim in the snow at the 9022ft, on North Korea's border with China, which the regime rewrote history to claim was birthplace of Kim Il-Sung, the Communist who ruled from after the Second World War until 1994. He was in fact born near Pyongyang in 1912, but the mountain has long been integral to the country's identity.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11957363
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I have had my hand of protection upon America but no more. I am going to shake America like never before. I will lift my hand of protection for a little while. Remember nine one one and what happened when my hand was lifted? What is to come is far worse than that. I have sat back and watched as my word has been removed from your schools. Your children know nothing of me. I have watched while your government has removed my commandments from their walls. They have promoted a life style forbidden by me. I have said in my word man shall not lie with man and women with women this is an abomination. You have opened up your military, they are dancing in the streets, they are thumbing their noses and saying we are here we will take over. I will not allow this to go on any longer without discipline. I love you America but you need to be shaken. etc
:: 12-11-17 Washington Examiner :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Transgender people can join the military Jan. 1 after court strikes down Trump's request
by Travis J. Tritten | Dec 11, 2017, 1:13 PM
Transgender people will be allowed to join the military starting Jan. 1 following a federal court's decision to deny an emergency request by the Trump administration to delay the move. The Justice Department had asked for the stay after the Washington, D.C., district court ordered last month that the Pentagon must proceed with the enlistments. The department argued the military would be “seriously and irreparably harmed” if forced to accept new transgender troops by that date. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected the request as part of the Doe v. Trump federal lawsuit filed against Trump, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and other top defense officials by six transgender service members, a Naval Academy midshipman, and an ROTC student. "Defendants have had the opportunity to prepare for the accession of transgender individuals into the military for nearly one and a half years," Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her ruling. The ruling Monday was another legal setback for President Trump’s effort to ban transgender troops and roll back the open service policy enacted by the Obama administration, which set the Jan. 1 date to begin enlistments. At the White House, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the Justice Department is plotting its next move in the case. "The Department of Justice is currently reviewing the legal options to ensure that the president's directive can be implemented," she said. A district judge in Maryland also issued an injunction last month barring the Pentagon from moving ahead with a ban. Rulings on injunctions in two other federal lawsuits in Washington state and California were expected. The Justice Department is appealing the injunctions and could appeal the emergency stay ruling. Under the current court orders, Mattis must begin allowing the new transgender enlistees within weeks. “The Department of Defense is a large and complex agency with over 20,000 recruiters and 65 geographically dispersed Military Entrancing Processing Stations,” according to the Justice Department stay motion filed last week. “Given the complex and multidisciplinary nature of the medical standards that need to be issued and the tens of thousands of geographically dispersed individuals that need to be trained, the military will not be adequately prepared to begin processing transgender applicants for military service by January 1, 2018.” The Pentagon told the Washington Examiner that preparations are now underway in case it must follow through with the enlistments. The Doe v. Trump plaintiffs had opposed any delay, saying the Pentagon had been preparing for transgender recruits since June 2016. “The government cannot credibly claim that it will be irreparably harmed by implementing a policy that it was on track to implement almost six months ago,” they argued in a court filing on Friday. Trump announced via a series of tweets in July that transgender troops would no longer be allowed to serve in any capacity and followed up a month later with orders for Mattis to abandon plans for transgender enlistments beginning in January, eliminate coverage for gender reassignment surgeries, and decide how to deal with what could be thousands of currently serving transgender troops.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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EU Tells Netanyahu It Rejects Trump's Jerusalem Move
Dec. 11, 2017, at 2:39 a.m.
Reuters - By Robin Emmott and John Davison
BRUSSELS/CAIRO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his case to Europe to ask allies to join the United States in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but met a firm rebuff from EU foreign ministers who saw the move as a blow against the peace process. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, took his own case to Egypt on Monday and was expected to fly to Turkey for a meeting of Muslim countries this week, cementing support from leaders who say the U.S. move was a dire error. President Donald Trump announced last Wednesday the United States would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, breaking with decades of U.S. policy and international consensus that the city's status must be left to Israeli-Palestinian talks. Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket into Israel and the Israeli military said it responded with air strikes and tank fire targeting a position of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the enclave. On the ground in the Palestinian territories, violent clashes with Israeli security forces in which scores of Palestinians have been injured and several killed since the U.S. announcement last week appeared to have mostly subsided. Netanyahu, on his first visit to EU headquarters in Brussels, said Trump's move helped peace, "because recognizing reality is the substance of peace, the foundation of peace". Israel, which annexed East Jerusalem after capturing it in a 1967 war, considers the entire city to be its capital. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state. The Trump administration says it remains committed to the peace process and its decision does not affect Jerusalem's future borders or status. It says any credible future peace deal will place the Israeli capital in Jerusalem, and ditching old policies is needed to revive a peace process frozen since 2014. But even Israel's closest European allies have rejected that logic and say recognizing Israel's capital unilaterally risks inflaming violence and further wrecking the chance for peace. After a breakfast meeting between Netanyahu and EU foreign ministers, Sweden's top diplomat said no European at the closed-door meeting had voiced support for Trump's decision, and no country was likely to follow the United States in announcing plans to move its embassy. "I have a hard time seeing that any other country would do that and I don't think any other EU country will do it," Margot Wallstrom told reporters. Israel's position does appear to have more support from some EU states than others. Last week, the Czech foreign ministry said it would begin considering moving the Czech Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, while Hungary blocked a planned EU statement condemning the U.S. move. But Prague later said it accepted Israel's sovereignty only over West Jerusalem, and Budapest said its long-term position seeking a two-state solution in the Middle East had not changed. On Monday, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said of Trump's decision: "I'm afraid it can't help us." "I'm convinced that it is impossible to ease tension with a unilateral solution," Zaoralek said. "We are talking about an Israeli state but at the same time we have to speak about a Palestinian state." The Palestinian president, Abbas, met Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in Cairo, as well as the head of the Arab League. Egypt, a U.S. ally with a peace treaty with Israel, has brokered Israeli-Palestinian deals in the past. "DUNGEON FOR MUSLIMS" Moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would have "dangerous effects on peace and security in the region", Sisi said on Monday at an earlier meeting with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Abbas was also due to fly to Turkey. Trump's announcement has triggered a war of words between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Netanyahu, straining ties between the two U.S. allies which were restored only last year after a six-year breach that followed the Israeli storming of a Turkish aid ship. On Sunday, Erdogan called Israel a "terror state". Netanyahu responded by saying he would accept no moral lectures from Erdogan who he accused of bombing Kurdish villages, jailing opponents and supporting terrorists. On Monday Erdogan took aim directly at Washington over Trump's move: "The ones who made Jerusalem a dungeon for Muslims and members of other religions will never be able to clean the blood from their hands," he said in a speech in Ankara. "With their decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the United States has become a partner in this bloodshed." Trump's announcement triggered days of protests across the Muslim world and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. In Beirut, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest at a march backed by Hezbollah, the heavily-armed Iran-backed Shi'ite group whose leader called last week for a new Palestinian uprising against Israel. An announcer led the crowd in chants of "Death to America! Death to Israel!" Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah told the crowd by video link the group was turning its focus back toward the fight against Israel: "Today the axis of resistance, including Hezbollah, will return as its most important priority ... Jerusalem and Palestine and the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance in all its factions." "STOP PAMPERING" Netanyahu, who has been angered by the EU's search for closer business ties with Iran, said Europeans should emulate Trump's move and press the Palestinians to do so, too. "It's time that the Palestinians recognize the Jewish state and also recognize the fact that it has a capital. It's called Jerusalem," he said. In comments filmed later on his plane, he said he had told the Europeans to "stop pampering the Palestinians", who "need a reality check". The decision to recognize Jerusalem could also strain Washington's ties with another of its major Muslim allies, Saudi Arabia, which has sought closer relations with Washington under Trump than under his predecessor, Barack Obama. Saudi Arabia shares U.S. and Israeli concerns about the increasing regional influence of Iran, and was seen as a potential broker for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal. But Saudis have suggested that unilateral decisions over Jerusalem make any such rapprochement more difficult. Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the United States and veteran ex-security chief, published a strongly-worded open letter to Trump on Monday. "Bloodshed and mayhem will definitely follow your opportunistic attempt to make electoral gain," the prince wrote in the letter, published in the Saudi newspaper al-Jazeera. "Your action has emboldened the most extreme elements in the Israeli society ... because they take your action as a license to evict the Palestinians from their lands and subject them to an apartheid state," he added. "Your action has equally emboldened Iran and its terrorist minions to claim that they are the legitimate defenders of Palestinian rights." Iran's defense minister said Trump's recognition of Jerusalem would hasten Israel's destruction, while a top Revolutionary Guards commander, Qassem Soleimani, phoned two Palestinian armed groups and pledged support for them. (Additional reporting by Alastair Macdonald, Philip Blenkinsop, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Maayan Lubell, Sami Aboudi and Babak Dehghanpisheh,; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Larry King, William Maclean)
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Thomas Fire Now the 5th Largest Blaze in California History as It Burns 359 Square Miles
Posted 6:34 AM, December 10, 2017, by Erika Martin, Erin Myers and Kristina Bravo, Updated at 10:55PM, December 10, 2017
The Thomas Fire became the fifth largest blaze in California history on Sunday as it scorched over 230,000 acres, or 359 square miles, prompting evacuations in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, authorities said. Containment dropped from 15 percent to 10 percent, officials announced Sunday evening. The blaze has so far destroyed 790 structures, threatening 18,000 more, Cal Fire said. More than 94,600 people have been evacuated or sheltered, and some 5700 personnel have been deployed, according to the agency. Firefighters headed into a seventh harrowing day of the battle against powerful winds and extremely dry conditions, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. The blaze was ignited on Monday in Ventura County and only spread to Santa Barbara County overnight Saturday. By Sunday, the fire was contained on its southern border but was continuing to burn to the east, north and west and grew significantly in the Carpinteria area, where it forced new evacuations. By 12:30 p.m., additional evacuations were being issued in Montecito and residents in eastern parts of Santa Barbara were placed under warnings. Meanwhile, those in unincorporated areas near Santa Paula were allowed to return home. (Find full evacuation information below.) With the help of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, officials were able to quickly alert residents and those in new evacuation areas appeared to be safely sheltered, according to Mike Eliason, the public information officer for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. “These folks have been anticipating this and it hit just as expected — well, a little sooner than was expected — and the people responded accordingly,” he told KTLA. Several schools in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties will be closed on Monday, officials said. (Find a list of schools below.) University of California, Santa Barbara announced Sunday afternoon that it's postponing finals week and the winter quarter due to the Thomas Fire, the Daily Nexus reported. Winds picked up again Sunday and could reach 55 mph after calming down a bit the day before, and a red flag warning would remain in place until 8 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. Humidity was in the single digits, which, combined with a lack of fall precipitation on the area's dry brush, was creating challenges for firefighters. The flames were expected to spread northeast toward the Sespe Wilderness and the Sespe Condor Sanctuary, firefighters said. At least one death has been blamed on the fire after a 70-year-old Santa Paula woman was found deceased in her car along evacuation routes on Wednesday. The first firefighter injury was suffered Sunday when a crew member hurt their leg, Ventura County officials said. The person was transported for treatment but authorities did not disclose their condition. As of 5 p.m. Sunday, the fire has led to intermittent outages and power surges for Southern California Edison customers in the area, potentially affecting 85,000 customers in Santa Barbara and 4,304 customers in Ventura. More than 4,400 firefighters were on the fire lines Sunday, including some 700 crew members from 11 different western U.S. states, according to Cal Fire. The Thomas Fire remained the most active of the week's six large wildfires, with the Lilac Fire in San Diego County reaching 75 percent containment Sunday and holding at 4,100 acres. More than 180 structures have been lost in that blaze. Evacuation orders were lifted in the areas between 5200 and 5800 Olive Hill Road, Fallbrook and the Rancho Monserate Country Club, Cal Fire announced Sunday afternoon. Evacuations were also lifted in all other fires, including the Rye Fire near Santa Clarita, which has burned 6,049 acres and was 93 percent contained; and Creek Fire near Sylmar, which has scorched 15,619 and was 95 percent contained. The Creek Fire has destroyed more than 120 structures, 60 of them homes, while at least six buildings were lost in the Rye Fire. As of Sunday afternoon, the Skirball Fire near Bel-Air was 85 percent contained and had been reduced in size to 422 acres due to more accurate mapping, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The Liberty Fire in Murrieta, meanwhile, was 100 percent contained by Saturday night. Only the Skirball, Lilac and Thomas fires were being considered active on Sunday, while all except the Liberty had been the day before, the California Office of Emergency Services said. However, during a Saturday afternoon press conference, Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott indicated much remains to be done. "We're far from being out of the woods on any of them," he said. Overall, the wildfires have destroyed some 830 structures and forced more than 98,000 people to evacuate, according to Cal Fire. On Sunday, about 25,000 homes remained threatened. EVACUATIONS Mandatory orders: Santa Barbara County:
• Montecito: North of East Valley/Hwy 192; south of E. Camino Cielo; east of Buena Vista; west of Ladera Lane; Hot Springs Road to Buena Vista Road between Hwy 192 and East Camino Cielo
• Carpinteria: East of Toro Canyon Road east to Hwy 150, North of Hwy 192 to Camino Cielo, east of the intersection of Casitas Pass Road and Hwy 192, north of Hwy 192, and west of the county line;
• Unincorporated areas: Eastside Hwy 150 from Rincon Hill Road to Highway 101; Bates Road, Camino Carreta, Rincon Pt Road, Rincon Pt Lane and Buena Fortuna
• Mission Canyon Road to Hot Springs Road and Hwy 192 to East Camino Cielo
Ventura County:
• Santa Paula: Boundary of Bridge Road north to Thomas Aquinas, Dickenson Ranch Road east to east of Santa Paula Creek
• Ventura: North of Foothill Road from Kimball Road west to Poli Street; north Poli Street from Hall Canyon west to Cedar Street
• Casitas Springs: entire community should evacuate to the Ventura County Fairgrounds at 10 W. Harbor Blvd. in Ventura
• Lake Casitas: north of Hwy 150 heading to Hwy 33 and south of Los Padres National Forest
• East Ojai Valley: Hwy 150 east of Dennison Park to Koenigstein Road, south of Reeves Road
• Ojai: Unincorporated areas west of Rice Road; Los Encinos Road to Burnham Road, south of Hwy 150
• Upper Ojai Valley: Hwy 150 east of Reeves Road, and unincorporated areas west of Rice Road; Hwy 33 north of Fairview Drive- Matilija Canyon
• Unincorporated Ventura County: Residents and day visitors of Rose Valley
• Ventura County North Coast: Boundary of Hwy 33 on the north to Casitas Vista Road, northwest to Hwy 150, Hwy 150 (Casitas Pass Road) west to 101 Freeway and south on 101 Freeway (including Pacific Coast Highway) to Emma Wood State Beach
• Unincorporated Fillmore area: Hall Road to the west, Sespe Creek to the east, Fillmore City limits to the south, and Los Padres National Forest boundary to the north
Evacuation warnings: Santa Barbara County:
• San Ysidro Road to Ortega Ridge Road to Toro Canyon Road from the Pacific Ocean to East Valley Road
• San Ysidro Road to the intersection of Padaro Lane and Santa Claus Lane from the Pacific Ocean to the 101 Freeway
• Mission Canyon Road to Cold Springs Road between Alameda Padre Serra and Hwy 192
• Alameda Padre Serra to Hot Springs / El Rancho Road between S. Salinas Street and Hwy 192
• South of Hwy 192 to East Camino Cielo between Mission Canyon and Hwy 154
Ventura County:
• Ojai: Casitas Pass Road east to Highway 33, Spring Street to Loma Drive. (Includes Rice Road east to Loma Drive. Baldwin Road north to Besant Road)
• Unincorporated Fillmore area: Sespe Creek to the west, Burson Ranch to the east, Fillmore City limits to the south, and Los Padres National Forest boundary to the north
Evacuations centers are located at:
• Ventura: Ventura County Fairgrounds at Miners Building at 10 W. Harbor Blvd. in Ventura
• Oxnard: Oxnard College Gymnasium at 4000 S. Rose Ave., Oxnard
• Santa Paula: Santa Paula Community Center at 530 W. Main St., Santa Paula
• Santa Barbara: UCSB Recreational Center at 516 Ocean Road, Santa Barbara
• Small and large animals can be taken to the Ventura County Fairgrounds, and small animals can be housed at the UCSB facility
Residents who need assistance evacuating animals may call 805-681-4332 in Santa Barbara County and 866-387-8911 in Ventura County.
Additional information can be found at CountyofSB.org and ReadyVenturaCounty.org.
SCHOOL CLOSURES Ventura County:
• Briggs Elementary: Monday and Tuesday
• Fillmore Unified: Monday
• Mupu Elementary: Monday
• Ojai Unified: Monday through Friday
• Santa Paula Unified: Monday and Tuesday
• VCOE's career education center in Camarillo: Monday and Tuesday
• VCOE-operated school sites and classrooms: Monday and Tuesday
• Ventura Unified: Monday and Tuesday
Santa Barbara County:
• Carpinteria Unified: Monday through Friday
• Montecito Unified: Monday through Friday
• Cold Spring School: Monday through Friday
• Santa Barbara Unified: Monday through Friday
• Hope Elementary: Monday through Friday
• Goleta Unified: Monday through Friday
• All seven Santa Ynez Valley school districts (Ballard, Buellton, College, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez Valley Union High School, Solvang, Vista del Mar): Monday
• All North County/Santa Maria Valley school districts: (Santa Maria Bonita, Santa Maria Joint Union High School, Orcutt, Guadalupe Union, Blochman Union): Monday
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3D-Printed Suicide-Machines Will Usher In a Silent Genocide
The high-tech ‘suicide machine’ is a capsule and comes with a detachable coffin, which the organization claims the process of suicide is streamlined
Zero Hedge - December 4, 2017
A new controversial 3d-printed killing machine called ‘Sarco’ has been released by Exit International, an organization that advocates “every adult of sound mind has the right to implement plans for the end of their life so that their death is reliable, peaceful and at a time of their choosing.” The high-tech ‘suicide machine’ is a capsule and comes with a detachable coffin, which the organization claims the process of suicide is streamlined. The new device was recently released at The Exit NuTech Conference in Canada called “New Technologies for a Peaceful DIY Death” in October. Access to the Sarco capsule is as easy as filling out an online questionnaire, which will provide a four digit access code. The machine will allow anyone who has the access code to “peacefully and reliably end their life by simply pressing a button”, said Exit International. Once the access code is entered and the subject is in the device; the capsule will lock and release liquid nitrogen to drop the oxygen level, as one will experience an euphoric and peaceful death with-in minutes. The capsule will then detach from the Sarco machine and be used as a coffin. The base can be re-used and continue a quiet genocide that is extremely cost effective. Developed in the Netherlands by Exit Director Dr Philip Nitschke and Engineer Alexander Bannink, the machine can be 3d-printed and assembled in any location in the world. There is a cause for concern since the machines are printed, of which the technology could fall into the wrong hands. To make matters worse, “design criteria for the Sarco will be free, made open-source, and placed on the internet”, said Exit International. Sarco inventor Philip Nitschke said the development takes the world one step closer to the goal where any rational person can electively end their life in a peaceful and reliable way at the time of their choosing. He further said the machine does not use any restricted drugs or complicated inputs; all that is required is liquid nitrogen gas. Nitschke adds the development of Sarco was in response to the growing demand by the aging population for a better method of assisted-suicide. As we noted through Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardin report, the global population that is 65 or older will double from 10% to 20% by 2050, signaling that a boom in the assisted-suicide industry could be right around the corner.
https://www.infowars.com/3d-printed-suicide-machines-will-usher-in-a-silent-genocide/
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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England measles outbreaks linked to ongoing large outbreaks in Europe: PHE
by News Desk December 3, 2017
In a follow-up on the measles outbreaks reported in the cities of Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham, Public Health England (PHE) reports that the outbreaks are linked to travel to other areas of Europe and advise the public to ensure vaccinations are up to date prior to traveling this Christmas season. As of 29 November 2017, there were 16 confirmed cases in Leeds, 11 confirmed cases in Liverpool and 9 confirmed cases in Birmingham. All of the cases have been reported in children and adults who have not received 2 doses of the MMR vaccine. Children and young people who have not received 2 doses of MMR vaccine are at risk. Unvaccinated people travelling to Romania and Italy, where there are currently large outbreaks of measles, are at particularly high risk. How contagious is measles? Answer: Very Anyone planning to travel to Europe over the Christmas period should check NaTHNaC travel health advice. PHE local health protection teams are working closely with the NHS and local authorities to raise awareness of the outbreaks in England and Europe with health professionals and local communities. The MMR vaccine is available to all adults and children who are not up to date with their 2 doses. Anyone who is not sure if they are fully vaccinated should check with their GP practice. Measles: A primer with Erin Archer Kelser, RN, BSN, CIC Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisation at PHE, said: The measles outbreaks we are currently seeing in England are linked to ongoing large outbreaks in Europe. People who have recently travelled, or are planning to travel to Romania, Italy and Germany and have not had 2 doses of the MMR vaccine are particularly at risk. This serves as an important reminder for parents to take up the offer of MMR vaccination for their children at 1 year of age and as a pre-school booster at 3 years and 4 months of age. Children and young adults who missed out on their MMR vaccine in the past or are unsure if they had 2 doses should contact their GP practice to catch-up. We’d also encourage people to ensure they are up to date with their MMRvaccine before travelling to countries with ongoing measles outbreaks. The UK recently achieved WHO measles elimination status and so the overall risk of measles to the UK population is low, however due to ongoing measles outbreaks in Europe, we will continue to see cases in unimmunised individuals and limited onward spread can occur in communities with low MMR coverage and in age groups with very close mixing.
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Sweden: Death by Immigration
by Ingrid Carlqvist February 4, 2016 at 5:00 am
The atmosphere on Swedish social media is now almost revolutionary. People post videos of themselves accusing the government of murder, of filling Sweden with violent people. When Alexandra Mezher was murdered, she was alone in the residence with ten asylum seekers. She was stabbed by one of the "children" she cared for. When National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson appeared on the "Good Morning Sweden" TV show, the day after Mezher's murder, he expressed sympathy for the murderer, but barely mentioned the victim. This sparked frenzied outrage on social media. Mass immigration is continuing to claim victims in Sweden. Murder, assaults and rape have become everyday occurrences in this small country, with a population just short of ten million, which last year opened its doors to almost 163,000 immigrants. The latest victim is 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher. She was stabbed to death last week by a so-called unaccompanied refugee child at the asylum house where she worked. Although the massive influx of asylum seekers has decreased drastically since January 4, when Sweden implemented border controls on the Swedish/Danish border, the people who are already here pose a giant problem to municipalities, police and citizens. The police are fighting a losing battle against street crime, as well as daily incidents at asylum houses – general disturbances that include fights, rapes and threats. The asylum houses are in a state of anarchy. On January 27, police were dispatched to a home for teenagers in Lindås, where a riot had erupted. Policeman Johan Nilsson told the local paper, Barometern: "One [of the youths] was refused when he tried to buy candy, and got angry with the staff. He gathered some 15 friends, and the staff was forced to lock themselves in while the mob smashed windows and other things. The instigator, supposedly 16 years old, is suspected of having started the riot, and another one is suspected of making unlawful threats and of violent rioting." That suspect was later released, after producing a document that stated he was under 15, and thus not criminally responsible. Another, more serious incident occurred at the asylum house Signalisten in Västerås on January 20. Ten policemen arrived at the facility due to reports of the repeated rape of a 10-year-old boy. The policemen were met by a large mob standing in a corridor, shouting and shaking their fists. The situation escalated to the point where the police were forced to flee for their lives. One of the officers later wrote in his report that it was only due to the presence of a police dog handler that he and his colleagues were able to escape: "Even more people appeared behind us. I was mentally prepared to fight for my life. We were 10 police officers in a narrow corridor. And I heard someone yell that there is an emergency exit. I felt that we could easily have been outmaneuvered, considering the environment and the number of counterparties." The policeman also wrote in his report that he hoped for more training in the future, on "how to handle crowds in confined spaces." That the Swedish police are no longer able to do their duty is evident. National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson recently demanded 2,500 more officers and 1,600 more civilian employees for the police, to handle the heightened terror threat and the increased influx of refugees. Considering the length of time needed to train policemen, it will probably be a while before the police can increase its numbers. Eliasson also demanded a budget increase of between 1.8 and 2.8 billion kronor ($214 million - $332 million), because the "migrant situation means a significantly higher workload for the police." He identified at border controls and asylum houses as especially in need of greater resources, all over the country: "We need to be there often, there are fights and disturbances." On January 26, what everyone had been dreading finally happened. The police arrived at an asylum house for "unaccompanied refugee children" in Mölndal early in the morning, after reports of a knife fight. By the time they arrived, it was too late. Asylum house employee Alexandra Mezher lay bleeding on the floor, stabbed by one of the "children" she cared for. She died in hospital a few hours later The police arrested a person claiming to be a 15-year-old from Somalia on suspicion of murder, as well as the attempted murder of one of the youths who allegedly tried to intervene. He was later remanded. According to the local daily, GT, the staff had previously warned on several occasions that the suspect had psychiatric problems. The Mezher family are Lebanese Christians who fled the violence in Lebanon 25 years ago. Alexandra's mother, Chimene Mezher, told the British paper, The Daily Mail: "We left Lebanon to escape the civil war, the violence and the danger. We came to Sweden where it was safe, to start our family. But it is not safe any more. ... And I just want to know why... why Alexandra? She wanted to help them, but they did this. I just want answers." Chimene Mezher now accuses Swedish politicians of murdering her daughter. The dramatic recent population increase in Mölndal, a suburb of Gothenburg, has scared many of the 60,000 residents. In less than a year, 8,000 asylum seekers have moved in -- half of whom are so-called "unaccompanied refugee children." It has now emerged that staff at the asylum house where Alexandra Mezher was murdered had repeatedly complained about unreasonable conditions. A year ago, employees warned about being understaffed and working alone: "So far, nothing serious has happened, but it will," said a desperate employee who called the Health and Social Care Inspectorate ("Inspektionen för vård och omsorg" or IVO). IVO inspected the asylum house, but found everything was in order. When Mezher was murdered, she was alone in the residence with ten asylum seekers. So far, no motive for the murder has emerged. When the National Police Commissioner appeared on the "Good Morning Sweden" TV show, the day after Mezher's murder, he expressed sympathy for the murderer, but barely mentioned the victim. This sparked frenzied outrage on social media. Eliasson said: "Well, you are of course distraught on behalf of everyone involved. Naturally, for the person killed and her family, but also for a lone young boy who commits such a heinous incident. What has that person been through? Under what circumstances has he grown up? What is the trauma he carries? This entire migration crisis shows how unfair life is in many parts of the world. We have to try to help solve this best we can." The atmosphere on social media is now almost revolutionary. People are posting videos of themselves accusing the government of murder, of filling Sweden with violent people and completely ignoring Swedes. What does the Swedish government really think? Does it maintain that the right of asylum is more important than everything else -- even the safety of its own people? Gatestone Institute called Sofia Häggmark, a non-partisan official at the Department of Justice unit for migration rights. Here is the Q & A: Should everyone get to seek asylum in Sweden, even if it leads to Sweden's undoing? "The right of asylum is very strong. We have international rules and EU rules that say that if a person comes to an EU country, that person has a right to seek asylum." Is it all right to say no if there are groups in your country that are being threatened by the asylum seekers -- minority populations such as Roma, Jews and Sami [Lapp]? Or that Sweden cannot afford it? "No, if a person has grounds for asylum or risks the death penalty or torture in their home country, you cannot deny them asylum." Is it not the Swedish government's primary task to protect Sweden and the Swedish people? "We need to abide by international rules; we are obliged to do that. We can be dragged before the Court of Justice of the European Union if we do not allow people to seek asylum." Which is more important – Swedish lives, or the risk that you might end up before the Court of Justice of the European Union? "I cannot answer that question; I can only tell you what the rules are." So you are saying that if 30 million people come here to kill us, we have no defense, we cannot stop it? "I can only tell you that the right of asylum gives very strong protection." But not for the Swedes? "If a person kills someone here in Sweden, the criminal justice system handles that and tries them. We need to look at every individual asylum case." Do you think it has ever happened at any time in the history of the world that a country cared more for the citizens of other countries than its own? "I cannot answer that. But there is no rule that sets a limit for how many [asylum seekers] Sweden can accept." So there is no plan for what to do when the country is full and the citizens are scared? "No, there is not." Do you personally think that feels okay? "I cannot answer that. That is not my job." If several millions of Muslims come here and implement Sharia law, then the right of asylum has effectively contributed to abolishing the democracy in our country, replacing the Swedish people and annihilating the whole concept of Sweden. Have none of you pondered these fateful issues? "I understand your thoughts." The measures taken by the government on January 4 were a way to stop immigration without compromising the almighty "right of asylum," because only those who actually set foot on Swedish soil have the right to seek asylum. The government imposed carriers' liability for the train and ferry companies operating on the route between Denmark and Sweden, which means that those companies had to hire guards to refuse passage to anyone that cannot show a passport or other valid ID. This is the first time people cannot travel freely between the Nordic countries since the Nordic Passport Union was introduced in 1952. The new identity checks have created a problem for Denmark, which was not at all keen to get stuck with all the asylum seekers headed for Sweden. Thus, Denmark introduced its own controls on the German border. Otherwise, Denmark has chosen a different path from Sweden. Instead of preventing people from seeking asylum, the Danish Parliament adopted a new law on January 26, which includes sharp austerity measures towards asylum seekers – measures that the government hopes will discourage migrants from coming to Denmark. The new rules include: Shorter residence permits Postponement of the right to bring in relatives The right of the state to seize a migrant's assets to cover asylum costs Stricter qualifications to get permanent residency An easing of the process for revoking the residency of refugees A 10% cut in cash benefits for asylum seekers Asylum seekers can only keep assets worth up to a total of 10.000 Danish krone ($1500), excluding jewelry of sentimental value. This last rule has been widely debated -- and condemned, especially in Sweden. But the truth is that Sweden has a similar law, called the Reception of Asylum Seekers Law (Mottagande av asylsökande), which was introduced in 1994. Section 15 of the law states: "A person who has a job, or other income or private assets, and lives in an asylum house, must pay a reasonable amount as compensation to the Migration Service. When food is included in the accommodation, a reasonable compensation should also be paid." However, Swedish authorities, with broad political agreement, ignore this law. Even the Danish Social Democrats supported the law. In 2010, the party demanded that Europe "make way for Islam," but now it has apparently made a complete U-turn. Social Democratic Faction Chairman Henrik Sass Larsen wrote in an opinion piece in the daily, Politiken: "We will do all we can to limit the number of non-Western refugees and immigrants to this country. That is why we have gone far – much farther – than we ever dreamed of. We do this because we do not want to sacrifice the welfare state in the name of humanism. Because the welfare state is ... the political project of the Social Democrats. It is a society built on the principles of freedom, equality and solidarity. Mass immigration – look at Sweden for example – will undermine the economic and social foundation of the welfare state." But protecting the welfare state that generations of Swedes have built, does not seem to be a priority for the Swedish Social Democrats. Some have long claimed that the Social Democratic affinity for immigration has to do with the party's desire to fill the country with "election cattle," and fuel has now been added to that fire. Muslims most often seem to vote for the left, studies show. For example, 93% of French Muslims voted for Socialist President François Hollande, and almost 90% of American Muslims voted for President Obama. Judging by recent polls, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven will indeed need the Muslim votes in order to remain in power. The respected polling institute, Sifo, recently presented a report on party sympathies for the month of January. The Social Democrats got a pitiful 23.2% – the worst result since polling started in 1967. The party got 31% in the general election of 2014, and that was considered a rotten result. Meanwhile, after the new border controls were implemented in January, and the number of asylum seekers arriving in Sweden decreased from a peak of over 10,000 a week, to 820 (during the third week of January), no one could tell if this was due to the border controls or the wintry weather. In total, 162,877 people sought asylum in Sweden in 2015. That is almost twice as many as the year before and many times the average during the 2000s, which was roughly 33,000 a year. Now, Minister for Home Affairs Anders Ygeman tells the Dagens Industri business paper that he has tasked the police and the Immigration Service with the deportations of up to 80,000 of the asylum seekers who arrived last year. The government plans on using chartered planes. Anders Ygeman describes the operation as a "very big challenge." While Gatestone Institute stands by the articles written for it to date by Ingrid Carlqvist, Gatestone is no longer affiliated with her in any way.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7363/sweden-death-by-immigration
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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.
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The Top 10 Volcanic Eruptions
In honor of Mt. Redoubt finally erupting, PopSci.com counts down some of the biggest blasts in history
By Stuart Fox March 30, 2009
Volcanic eruptions have altered global climate, and the global landscape, throughout history. In this new gallery, PopSci.com gives these ecological blockbusters their due.
10. Santa Maria Santa Maria, and it's sister volcano Santiaguito, blew up in one of the most powerful eruptions of the 20th Century. Thought at the time to have been dormant, the volcano exploded in 1902, throwing 20 billion cubic metersof debris into the sky above Guatemala. Some of that ash landed as far away as California. Since then, Santa Maria has been nominated as one of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior's (IAVCEI) 16 "Decade Volcanoes", that geologists constantly monitor due to their explosive power and proximity to population centers. courtesy of JoePhoto, via Flickr.com 9. Changbaishan The Changbai Mountains separate China from North Korea, and Baekdu (or Changbai) Mountain stands as the tallest of the range. An active volcano with a lake in its caldera, the most recent eruption came in 1903. However, the eruption in 1000 AD ranks as the largest, topping out at a seven of eight on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI). chaojiwolf, via Flickr.com 8. Crater Lake The centerpiece of a national park in Oregon, the lake is actually the remains of a large volcano called Mount Mazama. Around 7,000 years ago, the then 11,000 foot tall volcano erupted in an explosion so large that it cut the height of the mountain by 2,400 feet. Stu Seeger, via Flickr.com 7. Kikai Now a string of islands at the southern-most end of Japan, Kikai caldera currently connects to four different volcanoes. And while the largest volcano, Mount Io, erupts continuously, these eruptions are small when compared to the 4350 BC eruption. That explosion created the caldera in the first place, and ranked a seven on the VEI scale. Thomas Maisonnasse , via Flickr.com 6. Santorini Another of the IAVCEI "Decade Volcanoes", Santorini is located in modern-day Greece. Currently an archipelago, Santorini was once a single island, until an eruption in 1610 BC blew the volcano apart. Rating around a seven out of eight on the VEI scale, the eruption of Santorini weakened the Minoan civilization of Crete, and may even have inspired the myth of Atlantis. courtesy of NASA 5. Krakatoa One of the most famous eruptions of all time, the August, 1883 Krakatoa explosion altered sunsets around the world, completely demolishing the Indonesian island. The eruption released nine cubic kilometers of magma. That's enough lava to fill the University of Michigan stadium almost 40,000 times. In the 126 years since, subsequent eruptions have rebuilt the volcano, forming a new island. flydime, via Flickr.com 4. Tambora Like Krakatoa, Tambora is located in present-day Indonesia. Showing signs of eruption in 1813, and culminating in a giant blast in 1815, the volcano's explosion was the largest of the modern era. The eruption launched 160 cubic kilometers of debris into the sky. That's enough detritus to cover the entire island of Manhattan in a layer of ash a mile and a half thick. The eruption lowered global temperatures by as much as three degrees, resulting in the "year without summer". Global food shortages also occurred, as the ash blotted out the sun. That winter, brown and red snow fell around the globe, and the bitter cold of 1815 indirectly resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. courtesy of NASA 3. Lake Taupo Currently buried under a lake in New Zealand, Taupo volcano has had two VEI level six eruptions during human history. However, it was the so-called Oruanui eruption of 26,000 years ago that really takes the cake. That eruption released enough lava to coat all of Europe in a two-inch thick layer of magma. The blast was so large, it took 17,000 years for the climate to return to pre-eruption conditions. Piotr Zurek, via Flickr.com 2. Lake Toba What is it about Indonesia and globe-altering explosions? The largest volcanic lake in the world, Lake Toba was created by an explosion so large that University of Illinois professor Stanley Ambrose thinks it altered the evolution of mankind. He believes the resulting nuclear winter caused a drastic bottleneck in human evolution, reducing isolated populations so drastically that the resulting lower genetic diversity of the separate cohorts sped up the differentiation of humans into varying ethnic groups. Marc Veraart, via Flickr.com 1. Io Honestly, even the biggest volcanic explosion on Earth pales in comparison to the explosions on Jupiter's moon Io. First observed by the NASA probe Voyager 1, these volcanoes explode so violently that the lava plumes can reach over 200 miles off the surface of the moon. This intense volcanism results from the moon's liquid center being constantly disturbed by Jupiter's immense gravitational pull. courtesy of NASA
https://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-03/top-10-volcanic-eruptions#page-11
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What's the Truth About the Yellowstone Supervolcano Doomsday Theory?
RT News December 5, 2017
If you spend any time on the internet, it seems every few months humanity is faced with a looming existential threat from the depths of space. Planet X/Nibiru, the rapture or a wayward comet are, according to conspiracy theorists, destined to destroy us. However, there is one particular conspiracy, treasured by theorists, that our impending doom will come from within planet Earth – that lurking beneath America’s Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano that will kill us all. Yellowstone, in the midwestern US, is – they claim – about to erupt and send unfathomable amounts of matter into the sky, covering anyone in the vicinity in a pyroclastic flow of ash and rock, and blocking out the sun, wiping out almost all life on Earth in the process. Conspiracy theories tend to draw on some grain of truth. The super volcano really has erupted before, three times in fact, over the last 2 billion years or so, but the theory goes that it’s bound to do so again soon, right? RT.com caught up with Michael Poland, Scientist-in-Charge at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, to find out the full extent of this lurking supervolcanic ‘threat.’ Instant Access to Current Spot Prices & Interactive Charts Poland specializes in volcano geophysics, particularly in how volcanoes change and behave over time. Using GPS, satellites and other methods, he studies how the surface of Yellowstone National Park moves to figure out what’s happening below. Firstly, what is a super volcano? “Super volcanos, or super eruptions, are these eruptions that are on the eruption intensity scale, there’s something called the volcano explosivity index (VEI) and eruptions that have a VEI of eight are considered super eruptions. And that’s pretty massive, most eruptions that we see would be VEI three, four. Big ones are five and then once a century or so there’s a six, so a VEI eight is really, really tremendous.” What would it take to cause one? “You have to have a really amazing amount of magma in the subsurface, so that’s one of the criteria. In order to be able to put all of that stuff onto the surface and into the atmosphere you have to have it below the surface to begin with. And I think that’s something that is interesting about Yellowstone. We don’t know whether there’s enough magma beneath the surface to have a super eruption, the evidence suggests that a lot of the magma reservoir is actually solid, and about 15 percent of it is molten, so there may not be enough down there to have a super eruption.” With that in mind, what are the odds of Yellowstone blowing it’s top? “I think the odds of a supereruption in our lifetime, in our children’s lifetimes, in our grandchildren’s lifetimes are astronomically small. I couldn’t even quantify it, it’s not something I’m worried about.” “I find it strange that Yellowstone is the volcano that’s ‘going to doom humanity.’ One of the things that bothers me about that is that there have been super eruptions when humans have been on the planet. There’ve been two and, in fact, both of those were larger than the last Yellowstone eruption. There was one about 74,000 years ago from Indonesia and there was one 27,000 years ago from New Zealand. Both of those were larger than the last eruption at Yellowstone and humanity survived.” What about so-called earthquake swarms at Yellowstone? And wasn’t there a particularly strong swarm earlier this year, 4.5 on the richter scale? “Yeah 4.5 is definitely noticeable, you’d feel it and people did, but there was a 4.8 in 2014 and there was a 7.5 in 1959. Certainly this summer’s swarm was really impressive, there were thousands of earthquakes, but that’s sort of what Yellowstone does. It has swarms all the time and one of them has to be the largest. I don’t see that as something to fear, however, instead I see it as an enormous opportunity for study.” “The idea that Yellowstone is going to erupt and kill us all is so demonstrably false. There’s an odd disconnect I think between common sense and reality and what we know to be true and false based on past events and this irrational fear about yellowstone in particular.” Reprinted from RT News.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/12/no_author/is-this-doom-for-humanity/
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A Simultaneous Coup and Counter-Coup Is Underway in America
By Dave Hodges
In the present series that I have authored in the previous parts of the present series published The Common Sense Show, I have presented information of the following: Three days in advance of Judge Navarro’s ordered release of the Bundy men, I reported that a judicial order would be forthcoming within the week that would order the release of the Bundys’. During the 3 day gap between my Youtube report and the ordered release, I received scathing reviews of people doubting the authenticity of the report which emanated from an agent in the FBI. The devleopment validates the claims made by my FBI source. It was previously reported that Navarro was directly taking orders from former President Obama, even after he left office with regard to her conduct and rulings from the bench. I have since learned since that publication, that loyalist elements of the FBI and the DOJ have Navarro on tape for this crime which entails, treason, malfeasance of office, bribery and obstruction of justice. In the same surveillance web, Navarro also was found to be legally protecting Harry Reid and his son, who were paid $4.65 for helping to facilitate (a) the intended extraction of uranium from the Cliven Bundy’ ranch; and (b) the placement of a Chinese solar energy farm on the Bundy land as well as other rancher’s lands. Items two and three on this list were all caught on tape. In a new, and as of this date, unpublished revelation, Navarro was previously questioned by the FBI on these matters and she lied. This is yet another felony and these subsequent developments were used by the loyalist members of the FBI and a related DOJ taskforce to leverage the release of the Bundys’. Navarro will be turning state’s evidence at a near date in the future if Trump is successful in bringing this attack against the Deep State to a new level. The previously mentioned Chinese solar energy firm is a front group for the Chinese military. In the last installment in this series, it was established that the solar energy farms were to be located on land that was adjacent to a major Air Force base. This is significant and a “Red Dawn” type of invasion coming out of South and Central America would be thwarted by superior American air power unless the airpower could be negated by insurgent forces and that is what I contend is the purpose of the Chinese solar energy farms. Additionally, the Chinese solar energy farms would provide electrical power to local Chinese troops in the event of an EMP attack upon America perpetrated by the North Koreans. Additionally, about a month ago, Paul Martin and myself produced two investigative reports with photos that demonstrated that the United Nations forces were setting up a communications system outside of Rawlins, Wyoming that would operate in the aftermath of an EMP attack. Before exposing the elements of the assembling of a “Red Dawn” force, by Russia, that will be brought to bear against America, it is important to note that there developing reports which serve to enhance the scope of the claims made in this article and also will serve to enhance this information. Darin Damme KTAR Talk Show Host Darin Damme has been the most popular talk show host in Arizona over the past 11 months. His show and my show cover very similar issues regarding the Deep State, Hillary Clinton’s criminality, etc. Consistently Damme has offered the best evidence to support his notion that a Deep State coup and Trump’s led counter-coup is well underway. The coup is designed to replace Trump and bring down the existing poltical structure. Damme has never relied on an unnamed source that I have heard until his show which aired on December 3, 2017 in the 6pm hour. Damme claims that it was always the intention of General Flynn to entrap himself and a compromised Mueller is being forced to set a trap for much of the Deep State. On the morning of Damme’s show, 14 hours before Darin aired his show, I published a Youtube video in which I stated that I was being admonished by many colleagues (eg Liz Crokin) who were encouraging me to recognize the trap being set. In the following. I admitted to being criticized by my media colleagues on this point, However, I remained undecided and uncommited on this point as you will hear on this point. I want to emphasize that Darin Damme, Paul Preston and Liz Crokin have all told me that the Mueller double-cross of the Deep State is real. Here is the Youtube video I published 14 hours prior to Damme’s show. The parallels between our two shows is stunning because we are not talking to the same people. Paul Preston of Agenda 21 Radio In the late evening of December 4th and into the very early morning hours of December 5th, I had a detailed conversation with Paul Preston about these events. The following represents what I learned from Preston in this conversation: As previously reported on The Common Sense Show, Mueller did indeed deliver the first batch of highly enriched uranium on behalf of The Clinton Foundation, to Russia. The previously reported Rostov Memo that implicated Mueller as being the first delivery agent of the uranium, made public, is the smoking gun for this claim. As previously claimed on The Common Sense Show following the Sutherland Springs, TX., massacre, Preston confirmed that the CALEXIT movement is the home for all large-scale domestic terrorist activities. CALEXIT is supported and directed by George Soros, The Bank of China, HSBC Bank, the Mexican Consulate, the combination of the drug cartels and terrorist organization (ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood), Eric Holder, California Governor Jerry Brown, Loretta Lunch, former President Obama and of course, the United Nations. Paul Preston supports my position with regard to the Chinese solar energy firms being a front group for the Chinese military and all the national security issues that comes with this development. Years ago, The Common Sense Show published findings that DHS was the creation of the former head of the East German Stasi, Markus Wolf, who was a former Nazi. He was paid $5 million for his efforts in setting up DHS. In other words, DHS, like NASA, was the creation of Nazi forces. It is Steve Quayle’s basic contention that the Germans may have lost World War II on paper, however, Nazi forces took over America. If you have not read the book, Empire Beneath the Ice. this is a must read in which Steve contends that Nazis actually won World War II. This is where Paul Preston and Steve Quayle find common ground. According to Preston, Ukraine is dominated by Nazi forces. The Ukraine attempted to assist Hitler in his invasion of Russia in retribution to the abuse perpetrated against Ukrainians perpetrated by Stalin. When the Ukraine was overthrown by the CIA, they did so with their Nazi assets. Today, thanks to the CIA, the Nazis run Ukraine. Preston contends that the present nuclear/EMP threat posed by North Korea is the product of Ukrainian assistance, not Chinese assistance. Courtesy of old Soviet nuclear based weapons, the North Koreans are receiving some of the best ICBM capabilities as evidenced by the recent NK launch of the ICBM which reached a maximum height of 2800 miles. This was an EMP weapons experiment. This is what the Nazis and the North Koreans plan to do to America. This is why the UN has established EMP foolproof communications devices outside of Rawlins, Wyoming. In short, Preston contends that the North Koreans are being spurred on by the Nazis in Ukraine, not China. Paul Preston will be a guest on The Common Sense Show, this Sunday, December 9, 2017 in the third hour (10-11pm Eastern). Conclusion In the next installment in this series, previously available open-sourced intelligence will be offered which will demonstrate that the Russians have assembled a Red Dawn force that will originate out of Central and South America. The re-introduction of this previously vetted intelligence information will serve to support the exposing of the Chinese solar energe farms being placed in proximity to major military bases which would have to be neutralized in the event of an attack. It should be mentioned that this information has been available but the context of the intelligence was not apparent, until now. These are unprecedented times in American history as we are undergoing a simultaneous coup and counter-coup for control of our country.
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BOOM! Sara Carter: There Are Other Anti-Trump Mueller Team Emails Out There “A Lot More Is Going to Come Out” (VIdeo)
December 4, 2017 by Jim Hoft
Sean Hannity went on a tirade Monday against the politicized Robert Mueller investigators. Crooked Cop Robert Mueller hired a team of FAR LEFT hacks and Trump-haters to FIND A CRIME to impeach President Trump. Every single top attorney on the team is a former Democrat administration official or Democrat donor. On Monday’s show Sara Carter from Circa News told Sean that there are more anti-Trump emails out there connected to the Mueller investigation team. Sean Hannity: I’m hearing rumors all over the place Sara Carter that there are other anti-Trump text-emails out there. And we know about them. Sara Carter: I think you’re hearing correctly Sean and I think a lot more is going to come out. In fact, I know a lot more is going to come out based on the sources I’ve spoken to.
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Alex Jones: Globalists Will Kill Trump If Unable To Remove From Office
Failing Russia collusion narrative leaving globalists with few options
Infowars.com - December 3, 2017
Alex Jones has warned the criminal indictment unsealed against former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn is part of the globalist plot to potentially kill President Trump and start a civil war. “If we allow the evil people that hijack this country, the globalists, to remove Trump with all this fraud, and if we buy into the hype … if they’re able to do that, it will cause a massive civil war in this country. Economic, physical, there’ll be all sorts of permutations of it, and it will absolutely have this country descend into a nightmare,” Jones told listeners on Friday. “I don’t think they’re going to be able to remove Trump with all of this made-up Russia stuff, but they’re clearly going to go to their next plan to kill him, and they’ve been warming that up. And I don’t even like the different scenarios that are there of what we’re going to have to do to counter-strike against this,” he said moments later. “I’m going to tell every one of you globalists and your minions: You’re going to be held accountable, and if you don’t have the fear of God, you better have the fear of man. Or you better start reading some history books, because let me tell you something right now: You kill our elected Julius Caesar when he’s delivered victory after victory like it’s messianic in just 11 months; you kill, or you remove this president illegally with all your crap with your dying media propping it up in the face of all of the evidence because you’ve got some unconstitutional, mad dog, rogue government snake out of the swamp, your swamp team; you pull that, you’ve signed your own warrant. Know that.” Let it be known here in front of God, country, and the world that you are on a collision course with destruction. There’s no way you win this. There’s no way,” Jones added.
https://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-globalists-will-kill-trump-if-unable-to-remove-from-office/
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Today former US Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts and Peter Boockvar weighed in on the Republican tax plan and its impact.
December 4 (King World News) – Let’s start with the succinct note from Peter Boockvar below:
As we all try to figure out what the profit and growth implications are of the upcoming passage of a tax bill, the only analysis from Wall Street I’ve seen so far on earnings per share is an all else equal calculation of a lower tax rate. We need to widen the analysis. In Q3, companies paid out $7 Trillion of wages and salaries to the private sector. Thus, in the context of tight labor markets that will get tighter, a 1% raise would be an additional $70b of costs. With respect to the prospect of higher interest rates and quicker economic growth, US companies have $13.5 Trillion of total debt and thus a 100 bp increase in the cost of interest expense is $135b. On the top line revenue side, we’ll see how companies immediately respond to the encouragement to ramp up capital spending. The decision on where to locate plant and equipment on a lower tax rate will take years to play out in its impact. On the individual side, we’ll see how high income earners and spenders in 1/3 of the US economy (California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and Massachusetts) respond to higher taxes and how many move out. Former US Treasury Secretary weighs in… Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts had this to say about the situation: I deplore the tax cut that has passed Congress. It is not an economic policy tax cut, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with supply-side economics. The entire purpose is to raise equity prices by providing equity owners with more capital gains and dividends. In other words, it is legislation that makes equity owners richer, thus further polarizing society into a vast arena of poverty and near-poverty and the One Percent, or more precisely a fraction of the One Percent wallowing in billions of dollars. Unless our rulers can continue to control the explanations, the tax cut edges us closer to revolution resulting from complete distrust of government… The current tax legislation drops the corporate tax rate to 20%. This means that global corporations registered in the US will be taxed at a lower income tax rate than a licensed practical nurse making $50,000 per year. The nurse, if single, faces in 2017 a 25% marginal tax rate on all income over $37,950. A single person is taxed at a rate of 33% on all income above $191,651. 33% was the top tax rate extracted from medieval serfs, and approaches the tax rate on US 19th century slaves. Such an upper middle class income as $191,651 sounds extraordinary to most Americans, but it is so far from the multi-million dollar annual incomes of the rich as to be invisible. In America, it is the shrinking middle and upper middle class incomes that bear the burden of income taxation. The rich with their capital gains from their equity holdings are taxed at 15%. Even single individuals who earn between $1 and $9,325 are taxed at 10% on their pittance. The neoliberal economists who are the shills for the rich, Wall Street, and the Banks-Too-Big-Too-Fail claim, erroneously, that by cutting the corporate income tax rate to 20% all sorts of offshored profits will be brought back to the US and lead to a booming economy and higher wages. This is absolute total nonsense. The money won’t come back, because it is invested abroad where labor costs are lower, if invested at all instead of buying back the corporation’s stock or buying other existing companies. After 20 years of offshoring US manufacturing and professional tradable skills and the incomes associated with the jobs, who is going to invest in America? The American population has no income with which to purchase the goods and services from new investment, and the American population’s credit cards are maxed out. All that is going to happen is that Wall Street will calculate the lower tax rate into a higher equity price. Wall Street can do this without any of the offshored earnings coming home. Suddenly, everyone who owns equities will experience a boost in wealth, or the boost has already occurred in anticipation of the handout. The deficit-conscious Republicans have put into the Bill for Enhancement of the Rich’s Wealth, cuts in social services in order to “save workers from higher interest rates from budget deficits.” This is more dishonesty. If the Fed lets real interest rates rise to any meaningful amount, derivatives will unwind, and the Fed will have to create trillions more in new dollars to keep its Ponzi scheme in place. The deficit that results from the tax cut will be covered by the Fed purchasing the Treasuries, not by a rise in interest rates. What we are witnessing in the US and indeed throughout the western world is the total failure of capitalism. Capitalism is now merely a looting machine. The financial sector no longer supplies capital for production. What the financial sector does is to turn discretionary consumer income into interest and fee payments to banks. Aggregate demand can only grow through debt expansion, and the consumers reach a point where they cannot expand their debt. Capitalism, hiding behind “globalism,” which is misrepresented as a good thing when it is death itself, locates production where labor is cheapest, thus depriving First World labor of good wages and work opportunities and putting First World countries on the path to becoming Third World countries. Short-term profits and executive and board bonuses and stock options are maximized at the cost of the destruction of the domestic consumer market. Plunder Capitalism also privatizes as much of the public sector, such as the military, as possible, thus driving up the cost of the Pentagon’s budget. Jobs that the soldiers themselves formerly did are given to politically-connected firms. What was once KP (kitchen patrol) is now provided by an outside private service. Private mercenaries hired by the Pentagon collect as much in a month as troops in the line of fire earn in a year. I don’t know that the army any longer has a supply organization other than the private business that has the contract. Medicare and Medicaid are the next to be privatized, along with Social Security. The tax cut will result in deficit and high interest rate hype, and these lies will be used to save the workers from high interest rates on their mortgage, credit card, and student loan debt by scaling back or privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The environment and public lands will be sacrificed to the private profits of timber, mining, and energy companies. Grizzly bears and wolves are losing their protection under the endangered species act so that states can sell trophy hunting licenses to men who have to prove their manhood by killing an animal with a high-powerful rifle at a safe distance. What we are witnessing is the complete looting of America and the entirety of the West. While the Western World collapses, the insouciant, submissive people sit there sucking their thumbs while they are being ruined. Nothing is left of the West except looters at work. This tax bill is an abomination, an act of brutal plunder. Its sponsors should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail, if not hung from a lamp post.
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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..
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Supreme Court To Decide Whether Faith Is Between You And God, Or You And Government
If one’s exposure to the case was limited to the popular media, you might think this case was only about the free-speech rights of wedding-cake makers. It’s much more.
By John C. Eastman December 4, 2017
On December 5, the Supreme Court will hear an important religious liberty case that, at its core, raises the following question: Whether the government may use its monopoly on force to require any person to participate in a ceremony purporting to wed two people with same-sex attraction, even if that person cannot, for sincere religious reasons, recognize a same-sex union as marital. Of course, if one’s exposure to the case was limited to the popular media, you might think this case was only about the free-speech rights of wedding-cake makers. To be sure, the question of whether government can force any person to make a certain form of artistic expression is important and part of this case. Indeed, the lead argument made in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop is the owner’s freedom of speech. But Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is, fundamentally, about religious liberty. The cake maker’s refusal to bake a cake for a ceremony purporting to wed two people with same-sex attraction stems from the cake maker’s religious principles. As in other cases involving photographers and florists, the core conflict here is whether civil society permits those who are compelled by “decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises,” as the Supreme Court said in Obergefell v. Hodges, to exercise those premises. In other words, can those who disagree with cultural progressivism’s dominant positions freely exercise religion? How Far We’ve Come from Guarding Freedom That the government could bestow a right on some Americans to force their fellow citizens to violate their conscience—and that a legal challenge to such an effort would be primarily considered to raise a free speech question, rather than a free exercise question—evinces the extent to which we have strayed from the Founders’ understanding of religion’s role in creating and sustaining a free society. The amicus brief submitted by the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence details why the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion is for each person to pursue the duties he owes the Creator. The government cannot “prohibit” the free exercise of religion because the rights and duties we possess as free men exist prior to government. As the Declaration of Independence confirms, our government was formed to safeguard those rights and in light of those duties. Logically, the government’s temporal power cannot prohibit them and still be within its proper realm. As James Madison put it in his “Memorial and Remonstrance,” man’s religious “dut[ies] [are] precedent both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society,” and, therefore, “in matters of Religion, no man’s right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.” Refusing to exempt citizens from civil laws on religious grounds would be to give some citizens state power over other humans’ souls. Such a view cannot be reconciled with the founding—or any tenable understanding of limited government. Deciding the State’s Sway Over Your Soul Alas, thanks in large measure to some Supreme Court decisions (including one by Justice Scalia from 1990 called Employment Division v. Smith), civil society need no longer recognize religious exercise’s unique contribution to ordered liberty. If a majority of citizens restrict religious exercise in a “neutral” and “generally applicable” way (i.e., the majority is savvy enough to target religious dissenters by appealing to other enticing values, rather than singling them out), then the Supreme Court says religious exercise exists only at the majority’s mercy. Now, with the rise of “anti-discrimination” laws that are interpreted to force Americans to validate certain lifestyle choices, rather than prohibit invidious distinctions against immutable characteristics, progressives have all the tools they need to let the state decide when you stand at peril of your soul. If the Supreme Court approves of using these tools together in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Abraham Lincoln’s admonition against accepting the legitimacy of the Dred Scott decision will prove its prescience: “[T]he policy of Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people” will have been “irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . [and] the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.” Properly understood, the free exercise of religion ensures the sovereignty of the soul—an inherent limit on government power—and a vibrant, diverse public square. The threads that are left of this proper understanding are at stake in Masterpiece Cakeshop. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will preserve them. In any event, we must.
Dr. John Eastman is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and founding director of its Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. He is also the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service at Chapman University's School of Law.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/04/supreme-court-decide-whether-faith-god-government/
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etc.. For it is a very dark hour as you have seen and that hour shall grow darker and darker and darker, for the evil spirits possessing people shall manifest themselves, and as they manifest themselves, you shall see death, you shall see killings, you shall see blood flowing, you shall see many things, many things. Think it not strange, but it is that hour and it is that time etc
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San Marcos police officer killed in ‘ambush-type’ shooting
KXAN Staff Published: December 4, 2017, 3:51 pm Updated: December 5, 2017, 8:35 am
SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — The San Marcos police officer shot and killed Monday afternoon has been identified as 58-year-old Kenneth Copeland, in what has become the first officer killed in the line of duty in that police department’s history. Copeland, who had a wife and four children, was working on what would have been his day off, serving an arrest warrant for a violent crime around 2:23 p.m., Chief of Police Chase Stapp said in an emotional news conference Monday evening. Shortly after the officers arrived in the El Camino Real subdivision, the male suspect — who has not been identified — began firing at the officers, “much like in an ambush type of situation,” Chief Stapp said. Copeland was wearing a protective vest, but was shot multiple times. Another officer rushed Copeland to the Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos, where medical staff worked to save his life. The officer was pronounced dead at 3:50 p.m. The suspect, who surrendered to police following a standoff with the San Marcos/Hays County SWAT team, was found to have been shot and taken to South Austin Medical Center where he’s being guarded. Chief Stapp said it’s unclear if the suspect’s injuries were self-inflicted or if he was shot by an officer. Once medically stable, Chief Stapp said the suspect will be taken into custody. Describing the 19-year department veteran as a hero, the chief said Copeland worked just about every day off, “to provide for his kids and because he knows we’re short-handed and need the help. His picture’s hanging in different parts of this Police Department because everybody loved him.” KXAN Investigates | Fallen Series The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District said four area schools were placed on lockdown after the shooting. The children who were waiting for their parents were kept inside. Children who were on school buses getting ready to leave for the day were brought back inside. The lockdowns at the four schools — Bowie Elementary, DeZavala Elementary, Mendez Elementary and San Marcos High School — were lifted around 5 p.m. Copeland was recently honored for the in-school Cub Scouts program at Mendez Elementary. He was also a brother with Sigma Phi Epsilon, and was honored by the Texas chapter on its Facebook page Monday. “There’s a lot of great officers,” Promiseland Church Pastor Michael Higgins told KXAN. “There’s only a few that really mesh with our environment and Ken Copeland was so highly respected.” Copeland worked security for the church. In a statement, Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Today we grieve for the family of the fallen San Marcos police officer, and we vow swift justice for the killer. The men and women in law enforcement put their lives on the line every day to protect and to serve our communities, and we will never forget their sacrifices. Cecilia and I extend our heartfelt condolences to the officer’s family and to the entire San Marcos Police Department.” The 100 Club of Central Texas works to help grieving families of officers who die in the line of duty. People can find out more or donate to help on its website. Editor’s Note: The city of San Marcos initially said the shooting happened in the Cottonwood Creek subdivision, but later corrected that it happened in the El Camino Real subdivision.
https://kxan.com/2017/12/04/report-police-officer-shot-in-san-marcos/
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Supreme Court rejects Texas same-sex marriage appeal, weighs sports betting ban
By Sara Shayanian | Dec. 4, 2017 at 12:50 PM
Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided to let stand a Texas ruling that said the right to marry in that state does not entitle same-sex couples to additional benefits extended to heterosexual couples. The city of Houston asked the high court to overturn a state decision from June that said complex marriage-related issues -- like insurance for government employees -- were left undecided in 2015 when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. As a result, Texas justices said, the other marriage-related matters could be decided by state courts. Houston attorneys had argued the Texas ruling was wrong because "equal recognition of same-sex marriage requires more than a marriage license; it requires equal access to the constellation of benefits that the state has linked to marriage." Texas' high court ruled gay marriage is legal under case law, but did not believe the Supreme Court answered further marriage-related questions. Monday, the Supreme Court let the ruling stand, without comment. The issue began in 2013, when then-Houston Mayor Annise Parker began offering employee benefits to the same-sex spouses of employees who had been legally married -- a move that drew a lawsuit. Opponents of same-sex marriage launched a campaign to get the state court to reconsider and urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal. "Mayor Annise Parker defied the law by providing spousal benefits to same-sex couples at a time when same-sex marriage was illegal in Texas," Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values, said. "What an incredible early Christmas present from the U. S. Supreme Court." The Texas case was one of multiple issues the Supreme Court acted on Monday. It also heard arguments about legalized sports betting in a case brought by New Jersey government officials. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, backed by 18 other states, asked justices to remove a federal law that bars states other than Nevada from allowing sports gambling.
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Anti-Trump Text Messages Show Pattern Of Bias On Mueller’s Team
Chuck Ross Reporter 2:18 AM 12/04/2017
For nearly four months, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, the Justice Department and the FBI have kept secret the fact that the FBI agent who oversaw the Russia investigation exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text messages with an FBI attorney who was also his mistress. Those messages, the existence of which were revealed in bombshell reports published over the weekend, highlight a pattern of the Mueller team. Many of Mueller’s prosecutors — it has been extensively reported — have made campaign contributions to Clinton and other Democratic political candidates. And a review by The Daily Caller shows that Mueller lawyers involved in the cases against four Trump associates are Democratic donors. But Peter Strzok’s text messages — which he exchanged with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who worked briefly on the Russia investigation — are perhaps the most significant evidence of anti-Trump bias uncovered so far on the Mueller team. (RELATED: FBI Agent Who Supervised Trump-Russia Probe Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages) The discovery could also undermine the integrity of Mueller’s expansive investigation. That’s because Strzok is the FBI agent picked in July 2016 to supervise the then-fledgling investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Strzok’s central role in the probe is already raising questions about how and why the collusion investigation was opened in the first place. Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser targeted in the early stages of the investigation, told The DC on Sunday that he is “curious…whether [Strzok’s] fingerprints” are on a secret surveillance warrant taken out against him in Sept. 2016, just after It is unclear what information was used in the application for the warrant, though it has been reported that the infamous and uncorroborated Steele dossier was cited Page is accused in the dossier of being the Trump campaign’s collusion contact with the Kremlin, an allegation he vehemently denies. The Trump-Russia investigation was opened several weeks after Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, first briefed FBI agents. The former British spy was working at the time for an opposition research firm that had been hired by the Clinton campaign and DNC to investigate Trump’s dealings in Russia. Mueller inherited the Russia investigation this May, when he was appointed special counsel after Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. Strzok’s departure from Mueller’s squad, reported in August, puzzled reporters covering the Russia investigation beat. Mueller’s press shop refused to provide an explanation for the move, characterizing it only as a personnel move. Congress was also kept in the dark. Requests for interviews with Strzok pushed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes were rejected by DOJ and FBI officials for months. Saturday’s report of Strzok’s text messages caught Nunes by surprise. The Republican issued a statement blasting the FBI and DOJ for “hiding” information and “stonewalling” congressional inquiries. (RELATED: DOJ And FBI Threatened With Contempt For ‘Hiding’ Info On Anti-Trump Investigator) Nunes also questioned whether Strzok handled the dossier. “This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele dossier,” Nunes said in a statement on Saturday. Strzok’s text messages with Page, his mistress, were first discovered by the Justice Department’s inspector general as part of an investigation that has been conducting into the FBI and DOJ’s handling of the Clinton email investigation. Strzok, a former Army officer, was the lead FBI investigator on that inquiry, too. He conducted the July 2, 2016, interview with Clinton herself. He was attended by David Laufman, a Justice Department lawyer and Obama donor. Strzok was also one of a handful of top FBI officials who was asked to review a rough draft of remarks that Comey planned to make in the Clinton case. Comey circulated the rough draft in May 2016. Republican lawmakers have seized on the draft of the so-called “exoneration” statement because it suggests that Comey had already reached a decision about the Clinton investigation before all witnesses — including Clinton — had been interviewed. Comey cleared Clinton of any charges in a public statement given on July 5, 2016. According to The New York Times and Washington Post, Strzok and Page, the FBI lawyer, exchanged their anti-Trump and pro-Clinton texts in the context of news events during the presidential campaign. It’s still unclear what exactly was discussed, but the messages are not the only evidence of Strzok’s link to politically-charged rhetoric. The demoted agent’s wife also appears to have deep pro-Clinton sentiments. A Facebook account that appears to be operated by Melissa Hodgman, a top lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission who married Strzok in 1994, shows membership in several pro-Clinton and pro-Obama Facebook groups. “Democrats for a Blue America” and “Thank You Obama” are two of the groups Hodgman supports. She is also a follower of a page called “We Voted for Hillary.” Hodgman did not respond to emails from The Daily Caller seeking comment about her involvement with the groups. Another unanswered mystery in the text message scandal is why Strzok’s politically-biased comments would be so problematic for Mueller given that many of the lawyers working under him have showed their political leanings in other ways. At least nine of Mueller’s prosecutors have donated to Democratic political candidates. And all of the legal actions taken so far in Mueller’s investigation have involved pro-Democrat prosecutors. The lawyers working the money laundering case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate, Rick Gates, have donated to Obama’s presidential campaigns. Andrew Weissmann, a veteran Justice Department prosecutor, gave $2,300 to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He donated $2,000 to the DNC in 2006. Andrew Goldstein, who is working the case with Weissmann, contributed $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012. One of the attorneys handling the case against former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos has also contributed heavily to Democrats. Jeannie Rhee, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Obama administration, contributed $5,400 to Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 cycle. She also contributed $7,300 to Obama’s presidential campaigns. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about contacts he had with Russians during the campaign. A former partner at Mueller’s old law firm, Wilmer Hale, Rhee has also represented Clinton and her family charity the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 lawsuit seeking access to the former secretary of state’s personal emails. Brandon Van Grack, one of the lawyers who secured a guilty plea against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, has also donated to Obama. A national security prosecutor with the DOJ, Van Grack contributed around $300 to Obama’s 2008 campaign.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/04/anti-trump-text-messages-show-pattern-of-bias-on-muellers-team/
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U.S. National News
BREAKING NEWS: Small Brush Fire Explodes to 500 Acres in 1 Hour, 2500 acres in 3 hours in California - EVACUATIONS ORDERED
Monday, 04 December 2017 23:50
A small brush fire has absolutely EXPLODED out of control in Ventura County California, now threatening at least 500 homes, and forcing evacuations near Santa Paula. UPDATE 11:56 PM EST -- Fire in northern Santa Paula is moving on an average of 40 acres a minute, threatening hundreds of homes.
UPDATED 2:19 AM EST -- Evacuate City of Ventura, CA. Wind gusting 44 - 60mph....stronger as morning comes!! 10,000+ acres now burning. The fire is being driven by high winds and almost limitless amounts of dry brush. Embers from the fire are hopping across roads, starting new fires in many locations. Two water-drop helicopters have already been called-in, but this fire is now officially "out of control" and could be far worse than other such fires in California's recent past. Firefighters battled a fast-moving brush fire threatening homes along the Santa Paula-Ojai border Monday night. Initial reports indicated the blaze, which has been dubbed the Thomas Fire, was about 50 acres and moving at a fast rate of speed as winds as strong as 20 mph whipped through the area. The fire quickly charred through 2,500 acres by the evening hours. It was reported in the Steckel Park area near State Route 150 and Thomas Aquinas College. Several structures were threatened, according to fire officials. The winds were moving the fire west, toward the main part of the city, fire officials said. SR-150 is closed at Stongate Road in Northern Santa Paula due to the fire. Evacuations underway for residents.
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Largest aerial drill ever begins as 200+ US, South Korean aircraft join for mock attacks on North Korea
The U.S. sent F-22 stealth fighters to the Korean Peninsula and will conduct a joint exercise with South Korea this week.
by Melissa Leon · December 4, 2017
The U.S. has sent six F-22 stealth fighter jets to the Korean Peninsula to prepare for a joint drill with South Korea this week, in a huge show of force against North Korea – despite warnings from the country led by dictator Kim Jong Un. And, there are plans to send more aircraft, including F-35A and F-35B stealth jets, F-16C fighter planes and B-1B bombers, according to a report from South Korean Yonhap News Agency. This is the largest military aerial drill in history. “The South Korean Air Force will dispatch F-15K, KF-16 and F-5 fighter jets and other planes for the exercises with about 230 aircraft at eight U.S. and South Korean military installations being mobilized,” it reported. “The allies plan to stage simulated attacks on mock North Korean nuclear and missile targets and transporter erector launchers that move the North’s missiles, [the South Korean Air Force] said.” “Vigilant Ace” exercises are slated to kick off Monday and go through Friday. This comes after North Korea last week launched a new Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that it claims was the “most powerful” to date. Experts and officials have since said the latest launch shows that North Korean missiles could reach anywhere in the world. The ICBM was launched Tuesday from Sain Ni and traveled more than 600 miles before crashing into the Sea of Japan, within Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The ICBM was in flight for more than 50 minutes. The BBC reported that, based on its trajectory, the missile could have traveled more than 8,000 miles, which means it could reach “any part of the continental United States.” “But it seems likely, the analysis adds, that the missile had a very light mock warhead, meaning it might lack the power to carry a nuclear payload, which is much heavier, over that distance,” the BBC pointed out. “North Korea, however, says the Hwasong-15 could reach mainland US carrying a ‘super-large heavy warhead.’”
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US embassies said to gird for protests over Trump Jerusalem moves
Missions reportedly told to prepare for possibility of local anger should Washington recognize the city as Israel's capital
By TOI staff and JTA Today, 7:38 am
The US State Department is reportedly bracing for violence at its embassies and consulates should President Donald Trump follow through on his reported intention to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Diplomats fear an announcement by Trump, expected in a major policy speech Wednesday, could provoke anger in the Muslim world, setting off protests at US missions around the world, the Politico news site reported Monday. At least two classified cables have been sent to embassies and consulates warning them of potential danger and advising they ramp up security, the report said. “The impending Jerusalem announcement has me very worried about the possibility of violent responses that could affect embassies,” the site quoted a State Department official as saying. World leaders have warned Trump that breaking with decades of US policy and shifting Washington’s position on Israel’s capital — as well as possibly moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — could spark violence. The Hamas terror group, which controls Gaza, called Saturday for a new intifada if Washington recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or moves its embassy there. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday brushed aside warnings of violence by Palestinians and the wider Arab world, saying Israel will “know how to deal with all the ramifications” of any US police shift. Though heavily fortified, US missions have been the target of violent mobs angry at Washington in the past, including protests outside embassies in 2012 following the release of a movie critical of the prophet Muhammad. Trump, who campaigned on a promise of moving the embassy, walked it back after assuming the presidency. Recent reports say that he was unhappy with his first waiver issued in June and wants to go ahead and recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. There have been conflicting details as to what such a recognition would encompass, and whether it would involve moving the embassy. A deadline on signing a waiver to delay moving the embassy passed Monday without any US move on the issue. Palestinian officials have said that moving the embassy would scuttle attempts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks led by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser. Kushner, in a rare public appearance this weekend, said he was optimistic about restarting the talks. Significantly, Saudi Arabia on Monday also warned against recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Kushner has become close to the Saudi crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, and has sought his help in advancing the peace process. “Any US announcement on the status of Jerusalem prior to a final settlement would have a detrimental impact on the peace process and would heighten tensions in the region,” Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Khalid bin Salman, the crown prince’s brother, was quoted by Reuters as saying. The Arab League said it was closely watching Trump’s moves on Jerusalem, with leader Ahmed Abul Gheit warning that recognizing the city as Israel’s capital would pose a threat “to the stability of the Middle East and the whole world.” “It will not serve peace or stability, instead it will nourish fanaticism and violence,” he said on Sunday, noting that the League was following the issue and would coordinate a joint position with Palestinian and Arab leaders if Trump took the step. Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi also warned that any change to the status of Jerusalem would have “grave consequences,” in a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday. It was crucial, he said, “to preserve the historical and legal status of Jerusalem and refrain from any decision that aims to change that status,” the official Petra news agency reported. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said Monday that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would be an act of “naked aggression” that would cause the United States to lose “its mediating role” in the Middle East, after an emergency meeting at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-embassies-said-to-gird-for-protests-over-trump-jerusalem-moves/
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There Have Been 698 Earthquakes In California Within The Past 30 Days
By Michael Snyder, on November 26th, 2017
Why is the west coast shaking so violently? According to the latest data from Earthquake Track, there have been 698 earthquakes in California within the past 30 days. By the time that you read this article, that number will undoubtedly have changed. In recent days I have felt such an urgency to write about the seismic activity on the west coast, and I am quite concerned that so few people seem to be paying attention to what is happening. As I have covered previously, scientists tell us that when seismic activity begins to escalate the probability of having a major earthquake jumps significantly. Over the past month there have been more mainstream news articles about earthquake swarms in California than I have seen in years, and the magnitude 4.6 earthquake that rattled Monterey County earlier this month made headlines all over the world. And it isn’t just the U.S. section of the “Ring of Fire” that seems to be awakening. I have written about Mt. Popocatepetl down in Mexico several times recently, and on Friday it erupted three more times… Spectacular eruptions have been seen Southeast of Mexico City as Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spewed smoke and ash high into the air. The volcano had three eruptions Friday, one of which reached two and a half miles into the sky. The first explosion occurred at about 5:00 p.m. local time. Two more explosions overnight spread ash over the villages and fields south of the volcano. I cannot stress enough how potentially dangerous this situation could become. In ancient times, Mt. Popocatepetl completely covered entire Aztec cities with massive amounts of super-heated mud. Scientists assure us that someday Mt. Popocatepetl will once again erupt in a similar fashion, and the devastation that this will cause will be off the charts. Meanwhile, an extremely dangerous volcano on the other side of the Ring of Fire is also rapidly coming to life. When Mount Agung violently erupted in 1963, more than a thousand people were killed, and authorities are extremely concerned about the eruptions that are happening right now… Volcanic eruptions on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have prompted officials to cancel flights and move about 24,000 residents out of the way as a thick ash cloud from Mount Agung, thousands of meters high, drifts east and southeast along the archipelago. Residents were evacuated from 224 points around the island while Lombok International Airport on Pulau Lombok, the island due east of Bali, has closed temporarily, said Ari Ahsan, spokesman for Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali. Over the weekend we witnessed eruption after eruption, and the column of ash coming from the volcano is now more than 4 miles high… The first eruption came around 5:30 p.m. local time (4:30 a.m. ET) Saturday, Bali’s Regional Disaster Management Agency said. More eruptions followed and continued into Sunday, with a “medium-pressure eruption” in the early evening that sent ash 2,000 meters into the air, the agency said. By late Saturday, the volcanic ash plume had reached an altitude of 7,600 meters (4.7 miles), according to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. But what is troubling authorities more than anything else is the fact that magma has been “detected close to the volcano’s surface”… It told people within a 7.5km exclusion zone to “immediately evacuate” in an “orderly and calm manner” Magma – molten rock – has now been detected close to the volcano’s surface, said officials and volcanologists. I know that the mainstream media is endlessly obsessed with covering the controversies surrounding President Trump, but to me all of this seismic activity that we are seeing along the Ring of Fire is the biggest news story in the entire world at the moment. I am convinced that what we are witnessing is quite unusual. All over the planet “dead volcanoes” are coming back to life, and major fault lines are being hit by a seemingly endless barrage of small to mid-size earthquakes. Is it possible that all of this shaking is leading up to something? Stay tuned, because I believe that what we have seen so far is only just the beginning… Michael Snyder is a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem
by Hal Lindsey
Throughout the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But we’ve heard that before. In 1996, the Republican Party platform said, “A Republican administration will ensure that the U.S. Embassy is moved to Jerusalem by May 1999.” The Republicans lost that year, so we don’t know if they would have kept their promise. However, in 1995, Congress passed the “Jerusalem Embassy Act.” The bi-partisan bill stated, “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.” The act also contained a provision allowing the president to leave the embassy in Tel Aviv if he deemed it important “to protect the national security interests of the United States.” President Clinton chose to not to move it. Would a Republican president choose a different course? The party platform of 2000 promised, “Immediately upon taking office, the next Republican president will begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” Republican George W. Bush was elected, but nothing happened. Despite the inactivity of their president in the preceding four years, the 2004 Republican platform said, “Republicans continue to support moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” But in his second four years, President Bush again kept the embassy in Tel Aviv. Nations place embassies in the capitals of countries because they want their ambassadors near the centers of power. The “Jerusalem Embassy Act” said, “The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous government ministries and social and cultural institutions.” The point of having an embassy and an ambassador is to have a local representative of one government to another. That means, the embassy needs to be located in the center of power. But the nations of the world have decided to make a political statement by not recognizing Israel’s right to name its own capital. In 2008, then-candidate Obama proclaimed unequivocally that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. But as a president, he acted just like Presidents Bush and Clinton. In 2012, his White House spokesman at the time, Jay Carney, wouldn’t say whether Jerusalem was Israel’s capital or not. He just said, “our position hasn’t changed,” and “you know the answer.” What will President Trump do? He said throughout the campaign that he would move the embassy. For instance, he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March, “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” But now his administration has begun to equivocate. In his first full press briefing, new White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked, “What is the U.S. strategic interest in moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I don’t — as I noted yesterday through several press inquiries, we haven’t — there’s no decisions. We’re at the very early stages of that decision-making process.” Wait a minute. We thought the decision had been made. We were given a promise, but now he tells us they’re at the “early stages of that decision-making process.” Isn’t this bait and switch? Isn’t this an example of the very swamp of Washington politics Donald Trump promised to drain? Later, Spicer repeated, “It’s very early in this process. We are at the beginning stages of this decision-making process and his team’s gonna continue to consult with stakeholders as we get there.” Later still, a reporter asked the question point blank. “At the end of the next four years, will the United States embassy be in Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I — I think I’ve answered it twice now. I — we are at the early stages in this decision-making process.” The questioner then said, “But it’s not whether, it’s when and how?” Spicer said, “I — I — there’s a reason you go through a decision-making process. And that’s what we’re in the process of starting right now. So, I just don’t want to get ahead of — it would — if it was already a decision, then we wouldn’t be going through a process.” But if the decision hasn’t been made and they are in the early stages of the process, why would candidate Trump make a promise, then repeat it again and again? The 5th chapter of 2 Samuel tells how David made Jerusalem Israel’s capital. Dozens of scriptures from that point forward, show that God inspired and blessed that idea. Isaiah 14:32 says, “The Lord has founded Zion, and the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.” (NASB) A sovereign nation gets to choose the location of its capital, and Israel chose Jerusalem — three thousand years ago. One of the most important things to watch for over the next few weeks is whether the United States chooses to respect that choice.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-27-2017/
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Supreme Court Lets Trump's Latest Travel Ban Go into Full Effect
Monday, 04 Dec 2017 06:53 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. The nine-member court, with two liberal justices dissenting, granted his administration's request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially blocked the ban, which is the third version of a contentious policy that Trump first sought to implement a week after taking office in January. The high court's action means that the ban will now go fully into effect for people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen seeking to enter the United States. The Republican president has said the travel ban is needed to protect the United States from terrorism by Islamic militants. In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the Supreme Court's action "a substantial victory for the safety and security of the American people." Sessions said the Trump administration was heartened that a clear majority of the justices "allowed the president's lawful proclamation protecting our country's national security to go into full effect." The ban was challenged in separate lawsuits by the state of Hawaii and the American Civil Liberties Union. Both sets of challengers said the latest ban, like the earlier ones, discriminates against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution and is not permissible under immigration laws. Trump had promised as a candidate to impose "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." Last week he shared on Twitter anti-Muslim videos posted by a far-right British party leader. "President Trump's anti-Muslim prejudice is no secret - he has repeatedly confirmed it, including just last week on Twitter," ACLU lawyer Omar Jadwat said. "It's unfortunate that the full ban can move forward for now, but this order does not address the merits of our claims. We continue to stand for freedom, equality and for those who are unfairly being separated from their loved ones," Jadwat added. Lower courts had previously limited the scope of the ban to people without either certain family connections to the United States or formal relationships with U.S.-based entities such as universities and resettlement agencies. Trump's ban also covers people from North Korea and certain government officials from Venezuela, but the lower courts had already allowed those provisions to go into effect. The high court said in two similar one-page orders that lower court rulings that partly blocked the latest ban should be put on hold while federal appeals courts in San Francisco and Richmond, Virginia weigh the cases. Both courts are due to hear arguments in those cases this week. The Supreme Court said the ban will remain in effect regardless of what the appeals courts rule, at least until the justices ultimately decide whether to take up the issue on the merits, which they are highly likely to do. The court's order said the appeals courts should decide the cases "with appropriate dispatch." "We agree a speedy resolution is needed for the sake of our universities, our businesses and most of all, for people marginalized by this unlawful order," Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied the administration's request. STRONG SIGNAL Monday's action sent a strong signal that the court is likely to uphold the ban on the merits when the case likely returns to the justices in the coming months. There are some exceptions to the ban. Certain people from each targeted country can still apply for a visa for tourism, business or education purposes, and any applicant can ask for an individual waiver. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the merits of Hawaii's challenge on Wednesday in Seattle. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will arguments on the merits of case spearheaded by the ACLU on Friday in Richmond. Trump issued his first travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries in January, then issued a revised one in March after the first was blocked by federal courts. The second one expired in September after a long court fight and was replaced with the present version. The Trump administration said the president put the latest restrictions in place after a worldwide review of the ability of each country in the world to issue reliable passports and share data with the United States. The administration argues that a president has broad authority to decide who can come into the United States, but detractors say the expanded ban violates a law forbidding the government from discriminating based on nationality when issuing immigrant visas. The administration has said the ban is not discriminatory and pointed out that many Muslim-majority countries are unaffected by it.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/supreme-court-travel-ban/2017/12/04/id/829803/
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etc. If you look at Russia she is ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North Korea ready to strike, they are not playing games; they are serious with the things that they are saying. Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.
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North Korea: A Reckoning
By Hal Lindsey
World leaders have known for a generation that a day of reckoning with North Korea would one day come. There were no easy solutions, so they did as little as they could, hoping the situation would resolve itself. But it did not. While leaders, especially in America, kicked the can down the road, the North Koreans did what they said they would do. They said they would develop nuclear weapons, and they did. They said they would create missile systems capable of wreaking havoc on their neighbors in their region. They did it. They promised H-bombs, and they developed H-bombs. They said they would create intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). They have them. Finally, they said they would make bigger ICBMS, capable of striking anywhere in the world. And today, they have that, too. The people who allowed this disaster — the “can-kickers” — now go on television as pundits. They criticize any approach to North Korea that differs from their own when they were in power. But here’s the problem with that. What they did, didn’t work! President Clinton tried appeasing the North Koreans. He gave them fuel and food. The New York Times wrote about the North’s interaction with the Clinton Administration. “The lesson was an important one for North Korea. By provoking the West, the government had profited: It received several years of free oil and kept its nuclear power plant intact. The United States spent millions in aid and only briefly delayed the North’s weapons program.” But that wasn’t the worst of it. With the help of former President Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton gave them more nuclear technology in exchange for the promise that they would only use it for peaceful purposes. They accepted the technology, then restarted their weapons program. George W. Bush was criticized for proclaiming North Korea part of an “axis of evil” along with Iran and Iraq. But history proves him right. He addressed the North Korean part of the “axis” by initiating the so-called “six-party talks.” The U.S., along with South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia negotiated with North Korea. Responding to harsh sanctions, the North Koreans agreed to shut down their nuclear operation in exchange for aid. They pulled out of the agreement shortly after Bush left office. As a candidate, Barack Obama criticized Bush for isolating North Korea. He came into office promising engagement with the regime. Again, the New York Times had an interesting assessment. “Rather than negotiate, Mr. Obama imposed a policy of ‘strategic patience,’ hoping that through sanctions and espionage, the United States could wait out the isolated state. Mr. Obama hoped that the North would eventually feel it had reason to negotiate and make a good-faith effort at talks. Instead the North pursued its weapons program and launched a series of cyberattacks on American businesses.” “Strategic patience” is another way of saying, “kick the can down the road.” Doing nothing didn’t work. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency estimates that by August of 2016, Kim Jong-un controlled an arsenal of up to 60 nuclear warheads. Since then, they have added hydrogen bombs to the stockpile. While the experts were saying they were years away from developing ICBMs that could hit the U.S. mainland, they proved this year that they have at least two kinds of missiles with that capability. In the last few days, they showed the incredible power of their newest missile. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said this missile can hit “everywhere in the world.” Today, North Korea is hundreds of times more dangerous than it was just five years ago. When he decides to negotiate, Kim can enter talks from a position of strength. He has dealt himself into the game, and he has given himself decent cards. He can bluff with a real threat behind his words. He can blackmail the world. Most people feel okay about a conflict with North Korea because they’re convinced that Kim wants to live, and he’s not stupid. He knows a nuclear attack against the U.S. would be suicide. So, we’re safe. Right? He’ll bluff, but that’s all. Maybe, but not necessarily. In August of 2016, a North Korean diplomat, Thae Yong-ho, defected. The BBC asked Thae if Kim Jong-un might attack the U.S. “Would he even destroy a city like Los Angeles,” the interviewer asked, “though the retaliation would surely kill him?” "Yes,” Thae answered, “because he knows that if he loses the power then it is his last day, so he may do anything, even to attack Los Angeles, because once people know that in any way you will be killed, then you will do anything.” Even a former insider like Thae can only guess at what Kim might do. But his reasoning is sound. As the Bible prophesied, we live in perilous times. But God remains sovereign. And His promises remain true. If you haven’t turned to Jesus with all your heart, I urge you to do so now.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-12-1-2017/
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etc. Rioting, looting, stealing and rape will be the common news for America. More people than ever before will buy guns and defense weapons. Welfare will crash with no money to pay the bills. The new type money system shall come into being. Those holding gold and silver to be safe will throw it in the streets, as it will be of no value. This will set the stage for the anti-christ and his system. But my people shall not suffer, as I will take them safely through, etc.
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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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etc. the
whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North
Korea has declared war on the United States of America.
The whole country can tell you an invasion is
coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless
monetary system is ready to start, the banks will
have no money, the mark of the beast will be here.
But I am trying to protect you by placing one that can protect you, but
even if that is not so and cannot be, I will still protect you and take you
through this time safely. etc
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7 Unexpected Consequences of an Economic Crisis: That Will Throw The Nation Into Total Chaos
By : Preppeu5 November 28, 2017 Category : FEATURED, PREPAREDNESS
Other than the obvious consequences, what might we expect from a partial economic collapse? A total collapse of the economy would throw the nation into utter chaos. But what if we endure an economic depression, or a severe and long-lasting downturn? I think that some of the effects are not so obvious.
1. The college and university system will collapse As I explained in this previous post, the system of higher education is a house of cards. The cost of getting a college degree has risen sharply and steadily, while real income has remained relatively flat. The price rise is due to the easy availability of grants and loans for education. But with so many persons getting a college degree, its value in the marketplace has plummeted. Many college grads are out of work, or they are working in a job that does not require a degree. Eventually, this practice of paying more and more, for something that is worth less and less, will collapse the system. Colleges and universities will not have enough paying students, and professors will not agree to a drastic pay cut. Overhead expenses are far too high. All that is needed is an economic collapse, or partial collapse, to topple this house of cards. Many universities and colleges will be forced by economics to shut down. 2. Agricultural yields will plummet The current U.S. agricultural system is based on the expectation of high yields. But high yields are obtained by high inputs — all the things that go into growing the crop, including lots of fertilizer, perhaps irrigation, herbicides, pesticides, labor, machinery. Then those high yields are sold and the money is then used to fund the inputs for the next crop cycle. An economic collapse will mean that farmers will not be able to afford all the inputs needed for high yields. And when yields fall, the amount of money from that crop will be less. Then the next crop cycle will have even less money for inputs, resulting in even lower yields. And the process will continue — lower yields, less money, lower inputs — until many farmers are out of business and a food crisis results. 3. Violent crime will increase When people lack money and food, they become desperate. And desperate people do desperate things. Theft and robbery will skyrocket, and people will be afraid in their homes, and afraid to go out in the community. Even a quick trip to the market will become risky. Sales of most goods will plummet, causing the economic crisis to worsen. Protests will turn violent. Home invasion robberies will become much more common. Many people will be killed or injured as a result of this increase in violent crimes. 4. Law enforcement will be overwhelmed The law enforcement system in the U.S. is commercial. Officers are paid. We don’t keep a large excess of officers on the payroll, just in case crime sharply increases. So it is relatively easy for the system to be overwhelmed. And that means a call to 911 might not bring the police to your door in time, if at all. Those who have firearms for home defense will be much better off than those who rely solely on the police. But many households have no firearms. And that means that robberies will increase, and so will the economic damage and the number of injuries and deaths. 5. The healthcare system will be overwhelmed The healthcare system is also commercial, and lacks a safety margin in the form of excess doctors and nurses. Hospitals operate at close to capacity. A sudden increase in persons who are sick or injured will overwhelm the system. The aforementioned increase in violent crime will undoubtedly increase injuries. But it is less obvious that a disruption to the food production and distribution system will increase illnesses. Plenty of good healthy food is the first line of defense against illness. Malnourished persons are much more likely to get sick. So an extended disruption to the food supply will cause an increase in illnesses. 6. Travel anywhere will become dangerous As a result of all the above described problems, travel will be dangerous. Want to make a quick trip to the supermarket? You risk having your house robbed, if it is left unoccupied. And you risk being attacked on your way back from the market. Robbers might wait outside the market and follow anyone who looks like they purchased a lot of food. There will be protests in many places, and violence will often break out. People who are hungry and afraid do not make the best decisions. Then there is the cultural aspect of the situation. We live in a culture that tells us to expect the government to take care of us, and to protest whenever anything doesn’t go our way. Ironically, self-sufficiency is abhorrent to our narcissistic culture. I expect that the roadways will be dangerous, as violent criminals will see travelers as easier targets than homes. 7. The death rate will jump higher People will be malnourished because of the disruption in the food supply, so they will get sick more easily. Violent crimes and violent protests will result in many more injuries than usual. And yet healthcare will be much more difficult to access. There will be a shortage of hospital beds. It will be difficult to get a doctor’s appointment. There may be a shortage of prescription and OTC medications. All of these factors will make life a riskier endeavor. Now if you are a seasoned prepper, who has long considered the dangers inherent in an economic collapse, you may have anticipated some of the above consequences. But I hope I’ve added to your understanding of the possible problems that we may soon face.
http://preppersgab.com/index.php/2017/11/28/7-unexpected-consequences-of-an-economic-crisis/
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Breakthrough for growing food on Mars after scientists prove worms that are vital to healthy crops can reproduce in 'Martian soil'
Scientists studied Nasa's soil simulant, which comes from a volcano on Hawaii
They added pig slurry to the soil, before growing rocket in it
The researchers then added garden worms to the mix, which grew
To their surprise, they also found that two new earthworms were born in the soil
Worms are crucial for ecosystems, and would be needed on Mars for human settlers there to survive
By Shivali Best For Mailonline Published: 07:41 EST, 27 November 2017 | Updated: 08:14 EST, 27 November 2017
You may see them as irritating garden pests, but earthworms are actually vital for the survival of any ecosystem. Now, scientists have discovered that worms can reproduce in 'Martian soil' for the first time. The findings suggest that worms could reproduce on Mars, in what is a major step towards colonisation of the red planet. Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands carried out an experiment that simulated life on Mars, and showed that two young earthworms were born in simulated Martian soil. The breakthrough follows a study by the same team last year in which various vegetables were harvested from the same soil. Dr Wieger Wamelink, lead author of the study, found the worms in a Mars soil simulant that he obtained from Nasa. The surface of Mars is covered by sand and dust - formed by the erosion of iron-rich igneous rocks similar to basalt. Known as 'Regolith' this material can be coarse, fine or powdery. Nasa's soil simulant originates from a volcano on Hawaii and Dr Wamelink has been growing rocket in it to which worms have been added - along with pig slurry that mimics human waste.
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..
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Bunkerville Standoff: Prosecution Continues Case, Defense Alleges Federal Bribery Attempt
Posted on November 28, 2017 by Admin
Nextrush Free “You don’t make laws, you make regulations” Ryan Bundy speaks with BLM agent Robert Shilaikis on March 17, 2014 Bureau of Land Management official Robert Shilaikis testified for the prosecution today in the Bunkerville Standoff case. Shilaikis testified about a phone conversation he had with Ryan Bundy regarding the government’s plans to impound cattle near the Bundy Ranch. Bundy reminded Shilaikis that the family would oppose the federal government’s seizure of their property (cattle) as they had said for the last 20 years doing “whatever it takes”. It’s a phrase that has sinister overtones to opponents of the Bundy’s. It is important for the prosecution to create sinister notions of violence against the four defendants. US District Judge Gloria Navarro initially would only allow 10 minutes of that conversation the proescution wanted used and not the whole conversation. She rejected an attempt by Cliven Bundy’s attorney Bret Whipple to include the whole 60 minute conversation. Judge Navarro changed her mind and eventually allowed the jury to hear the entire conversation where Ryan Bundy schooled Mr. Shilaikis about the Constitution and the BLM and the desert tortise, whose “protection” was used to limit the Bundy’s grazing rights at the beginning of the dispute with the federal government over 25 years ago. Bundy family friend Bryan Hyde said in a video posted on Facebook tonight that Ryan Bundy challenged the other BLM official in the conversation, Mr. Johnson, with the notion that he cannot uphold the Constitution when he’s destroying it through his work with the BLM. Johnson responded “That hurts”. Meanwhile, the defense says that when Shilaikis and another government official approached Bundy family member Clancy Cox on the grazing land in March 2014 there was a bribery attempt to enlist him as a government informant. Cox is married to one of Cliven Bundy’s daughters. The BLM officials were scouting out the ranch area and they wanted to gauge reaction of Bundy family members to their plans to seize the cattle. They recorded their conversation with Clancy Cox and another person there. This is something defense lawyers didn’t know about before. The judge ordered the prosecution to turn over the recording after lunch today. More issues will be dealt with by the judge and lawyers in the morning (Tuesday November 28th) with the jury expected back in the courtroom to hear testimony in the afternoon as the prosecution continues to present its case.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Bali's rivers of fear: Terrifying pictures show tourist island being flooded with volcanic sludge from exploding Mt Agung - as 60,000 tourists remain stranded with the airport closed
Terrifying photos show lava flows surging down the rivers near Bali's Mt Agung
The mountain is hurling clouds of volcanic ash 3 kilometres into the atmosphere
Cold lava flows, also known as lahar, have already flooded rivers and canals
Volcanic ash reached the airport's airspace, triggering its closure early Monday
More than 400 flights were cancelled and 60,000 travellers were left stranded
Magma has reached surface of volcano in Bali amid fears of 'explosive eruption'
By Max Margan For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press Published: 21:04 EST, 27 November 2017 | Updated: 02:30 EST, 28 November 2017
These terrifying photos show massive lava flows surging down the rivers surrounding Bali's erupting Mount Agung, as fears grow the volcano is set to blow. The mountain has been hurling clouds of volcanic ash 3km into the atmosphere since the weekend and red hot lava is welling up in the crater. Cold lava flows, also known as lahar, have already flooded the rivers and canals of nearby villages, with many locals ignoring warnings to steer clear. 'Watch out for lahar floods around Mt Agung,' agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho wrote on Twitter on Monday. 'Lahar floods have already occurred in several places on the slopes,' he added, urging people to avoid nearby river areas. Extraordinary photos show masses of volcanic sludge surging through riverbeds as locals film the frightening scenes. Indonesia has raised the volcano to the highest level, as locals are told to flee for their lives and thousands of travellers are left stranded at the airport. Australian travelers heading to and from Bali will face another day of disruption on Tuesday as airlines closely monitor the ash cloud. More than 400 flights to and from Bali were cancelled and nearly 60,000 travellers have been stranded. The normally bustling airport on the Indonesian resort island of Bali is a near-ghost town, dotted by anxious Australian tourists desperate to get home. The airport's initial closure was for 24 hours until early Tuesday, but it is expected to stay closed for another day. On Monday night, tourists settled down for the night on makeshift beds on the airport's dusty floors. Some were considering making the more than 10-hour journey to Surabaya and catching a series of flights across Indonesia back to Australia. All are frustrated by what they say is a lack of updated information from their airlines about what happens next. The first Janeen McKay heard about flight cancellations was in a text from her brother back in Australia as she was on her way to Bali's airport. 'I had nothing from Jetstar, they had my mobile number,' the West Australian told AAP. After a 12-hour wait at the airport, she's now been told she won't be able to get home until Saturday at the earliest. 'We had a really nice time in Bali but then we get here and this has just ruined it,' Ms McKay said. 'Why does it take five days to get us out of here? Not very happy.' Ms McKay, an office manager, is keen to get back to Geraldton, north of Perth, to take over the care of her elderly mother from her sister, a nurse, who's needed back at work on Thursday. Veronika Naberezhnova is also non-plussed. 'It's a bit annoying,' the Department of Human Services worker said. 'My family's waiting there (in Sydney) as well, they're all waiting, they're all stressed.' On the other side of Bali, at Sanur beach, the distant crackle of lightning and an afternoon rain shower were the only annoyances for tourists lounging on sun beds and sipping cocktails. For them, the airport's closure means an extended holiday. 'What's to be annoyed about, getting stuck here,' said Simon Allan, whose flight to Perth was cancelled because of the ash cloud. 'We have no control of nature and we'll just go with the moment and see what happens tomorrow,' his partner Deborah Flynn told AAP. Scientists say Mount Agung's volcanic activity could escalate further over the coming days meaning planes could stay grounded with thousands unable to fly in or out of Bali. Carriers Jetstar and Virgin Australia will reassess the situation later on Tuesday. Jetstar has cancelled all flights to and from Bali, as has Virgin Australia. Jetstar acknowledged 'further disruptions are possible this week depending on weather conditions'. Affected Jetstar customers have been given the option of flying to destinations including Phuket, Singapore, Fiji or Tokyo at no additional cost. Other major airlines are all monitoring the situation but are unable to fly until the massive ash cloud dissipates. Flights from other Indonesian airports were experiencing delays on Monday because Bali's Gusti Ngurah Rai airport is a national hub with many transiting flights. The travel disruptions will ripple around the globe as the island is one of Asia's top destinations, attracting five million visitors a year. December through the first week of January is one of the island's busy periods. But the popular tourist areas of Kuta and Seminyak and the airport are about 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the volcano and largely safe even with a major eruption though masks and goggles could prove necessary if there's significant ash fall. Activity at the mountain has ramped up in recent weeks culminating with the cancellation of flights in and out of Bali this week due to a large ash cloud thrown up by the volcano. Indonesia has raised its alert for Mt Agung to the highest level, warning of the risk of a lava eruption is 'imminent'. Mount Agung, which sits more than 3,000 metres high over eastern Bali, last erupted in 1963 killing more than 1000 people and razing several villages. Authorities have ordered up to 150,000 people to leave a danger zone that extends 10 kilometers from the crater in places and tourists shouldn't enter it. The area, which includes a much-visited Hindu temple on the slopes of the volcano, will be prone to deadly mudflows and lava. A danger zone was expanded Monday morning amid issuing of the volcano's highest alert, with heavy rain sending ash and magma towards nearby villages. As authorities attempt to urge people to evacuate, only 40,000 have chosen to leave with many 'feeling safe' or staying to protect livestock, Bloomberg reports. Some governments are advising citizens to defer travel to the island. Malaysia's foreign ministry said all but non-urgent travel should be delayed while Australia, a big source of tourists for Bali, said people should be aware that ash clouds could also close other airports in Indonesia depending on weather conditions. Maureen Steele and Jackie Calabretta were scheduled to fly on a Garuda Indonesia flight from Sydney via Bali to Jakarta on Monday for an orangutan tour. They were up at 4am to travel from Gosford and Wollongong to make the 10am flight which cost $700 return. 'We were on the plane, all strapped in ready for departure, when the cabin crew announced they needed to wait 10 minutes to get clearance,' Ms Steele said at Sydney Airport. 'They told us they didn't get clearance so we all had to get off again.' As they passed back through customs, Ms Calabretta contacted Malaysia Airlines and booked a new flight costing $600 one-way to Jakarta via Kuala Lumpur. 'We have to go - we've paid hundreds of dollars on the vaccinations and there have been lots of preparations,' Ms Steele said as they settled in for a 10-hour wait. A group of eight surfers are hoping they'll be able to fly to Bali on Tuesday. James Hall, 18, said the Sydney friends had been planning their Sumatra surf trip for more than a year. 'It's frustrating, we've been told we might be able to fly tomorrow, so we just have to wait it out,' Mr Hall told AAP at Sydney's international terminal. 'There's not much we can do - it's a volcano.' The latest data from Agoda shows Bali is the number one destination for Australians travelling in December. University of Adelaide geologist Mark Tingay says the eruptions from Mount Agung have sent plumes of ash 3000 metres into the air. 'The volcanic eruption has moved on to the next, more severe, magmatic eruption phase, where highly viscous lava can trap gasses under pressure, potentially leading to an explosion,' he said in a statement. Mt Agung erupted on Saturday evening and three times on Sunday, throwing holiday plans into disarray. Indonesia's Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation raised its aviation colour code from orange to red, indicating a further eruption with significant emission of volcanic ash into the atmosphere was imminent. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology's Volanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin issued maps showing an ash cloud heading southeast over the neighbouring island of Lombok away from Bali's capital Denpasar, where the international airport is located. RUMBLES FROM BALI'S MOUNT AGUNG WHERE IS THE VOLCANO? - Mount Agung rises about 3,000m above Bali's Karangasem district, in the holiday island's east - Bali lies within the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of high seismic and volcanic activity where thousands of tremors occur each year WHAT IS THE VOLCANO'S HISTORY OF ERUPTIONS? - Its last major eruption in 1963 killed over 1,000 people and razed many villages - More than 50,000 Indonesians were evacuated in September this year when experts warned an eruption was imminent - Some 25,000 people have been unable to return to their homes WHEN DID THE LATEST ERUPTION BEGIN AND WHY? November 21 - Minor eruption begins with a plume of ash and steam rising about 700m from the volcano - Authorities hold off issuing an alert and Bali's Denpasar airport remains open - Volcanologists say it was caused by magma heating water, also known as a phreatic eruption November 25 - Three minor eruptions recorded, with a plume rising 4000m and leaving nearby villages coated in a thin layer of ash - An exclusion zone of 7.5km from the volcano put in place - Jetstar cancels nine flights between Bali and Australia or Singapore; delays several scheduled Sunday flights - Qantas diverts flight from Sydney to Denpasar to Darwin - Virgin Australia diverts flight from Port Hedland to Bali; delays two flights from Denpasar to Australia - AirAsia cancels flights between Australia and Bali - A total of eight international flights to Bali and 13 international flights departing the island cancelled, with 2000 passengers stranded - Ash cloud moves towards neighbouring island of Lombok - Government volcanologist Gede Suantika estimates Agung could spew ash for at least a month November 26 - Indonesia's Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation updates aviation colour code from orange to red, indicating a further eruption with significant emission of volcanic ash - After resuming flights on Sunday morning, Virgin Australia cancels flights in the afternoon - AirAsia cancels remaining flights to Bali and Lombok - Qantas and Jetstar flights were continuing in the afternoon - Experts say the eruption has switched to a magmatic type eruption from a steam-driven one; predict ash cloud could reach more than 6000m November 27 - Indonesian authorities raise alert for Mount Agung to the highest level; orders people within 10km to leave - Experts warn of an 'imminent' risk of a larger eruption - Bali's international airport closes for 24hrs; authorities to consider reopening on Tuesday - Australia's Bureau of Meteorology says ash plume has risen to 9144m, with ash falling at Denpasar Airport - BOM expects eruptions and ash to continue for at least 24 hours
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Be established in me, be not established in the world or the things of the world, but be established in me, for the days just ahead are dark days, evil days, wicked days, when many things shall take place. Things that shall even shock you, things that shall wake you up and wake up others, things that shall cause them to realize the lateness of the hour, the time in which you are living. They will see and understand the plot of the enemy, how he strives to take over and become a one world government, a one world enterprise who will contain all the food and issue out the food and even take over farms to control the food, the water, the gas, the oil, the supplies. Oh, the wickedness of his plot, but fear not that plot, etc.
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Millions Oblivious To What Just Arrived—We’ll Soon Be Unrecognizable…
Posted by Lisa Haven | Nov 27, 2017 | Featured, Science/Technology, USA
By Lisa Haven
“The Mobile Phone Industry has been tapped by the globalists to connect the world to a global brain.” Rick Wiles Imagine your cell phone linked to a “global artificial intelligence brain.” Truth is we’re kinda already there. According to new research from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Sure, many still own a regular cellphone, with 91 percent of the adult population owning some sort of mobile phone. But the jump in smartphone owners is substantial. Why is this important? Because the ultimate end game of the globalists is to connect every human being to a network, a trackable network in which they can turn off your “link” with the click of a button in the event you are not following their guidelines. All that and more in this staggering report…
http://lisahaven.news/2017/11/millions-oblivious-to-what-just-arrived-well-soon-be-unrecognizable/
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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come. At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc
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Health Officials Warn: 40,000 Could Die As Britain Hit With 3-Week-Long Arctic Cold
by Tyler Durden Nov 28, 2017 5:00 AM Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
Britain is facing a three-week long arctic chill that will see temperatures plummet and significant snowfall, according to health officials, who are warning that residents should be prepared for the imminent threat to human health. 40,000 could die from the cold. Temperatures in Britain are expected to go as low degrees Celcius or 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next three weeks and extremely heavy snowfall is expected in Essex and London. Health chiefs have now issued a warning ahead of the prolonged cold spell, calling on the public to check on those who may be at risk. Britain risks a re-run of some of December’s 2010’s mayhem. This cold spell also forecasts snow and ice, meaning some roads will be impassable, trains will be halted, planes will be risking cancellations, and football matches could be called off because of frozen fields. December shivers nudging -12 Celsius (even in the South) were forecast by The Weather Company and The Weather Outlook. Dr. Thomas Waite, of Public Health England’s Extreme Events team, said: “As the weather is going to get colder everywhere in the coming days, this is a really good time to check on those who may be at-risk. People with diseases such as heart and lung conditions, older people and young children can feel the ill-effects of cold weather more than the rest of us.” “To stay well this winter we all need to play a part. Is there someone you know who could be at risk when the weather gets cold? Could you help them out by fetching shopping or prescriptions? When the colder weather arrives there are several things we can do to keep well, wear several thin layers instead of fewer thicker ones, keep parts of the home you’re using heated to at least 18C and keep a careful eye on the weather forecasts,” said Waite. It is feared colder-than-usual weather will kill close to 40,000 Brits this winter after 34,000 excess winter deaths were recorded in the mild winter a year ago. Winter’s average cold weather death toll is 25,000. The Met Office said Arctic air means Britain’s -7 C coldest nights of winter are possible on Wednesday and Thursday in both the South and North, beating the -6.3 C on Saturday morning at Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Many who die in cold weather are elderly but these victims would not die anyway in coming months, the Department of Health emphasized. Twenty percent of winter deaths are of people under the age of 75, with 11 percent under 65, Office for National Statistics figures show.
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etc.. For it is a very dark hour as you have seen and that hour shall grow darker and darker and darker, for the evil spirits possessing people shall manifest themselves, and as they manifest themselves, you shall see death, you shall see killings, you shall see blood flowing, you shall see many things, many things. Think it not strange, but it is that hour and it is that time etc
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France Submits to Terrorism, Muslim Anti-Semitism
by Guy Millière November 28, 2017 at 5:00 am
In France, since 2012, more than 250 people were killed by Islamic terrorism -- more than in all other European countries combined. No other country in Europe has experienced so many attacks against Jews. France is a country where Jews are murdered because they are Jews. "Muslim believers know very well what is happening. Only a minority is violent. But as a whole, they do not ignore that their birthrate is such that one day, everything here will be theirs". — Luc Ravel, Archbishop of Strasbourg. In Bagneux, France, on November 1, 2017, a plaque placed in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young Jew murdered in 2006 by a "gang of barbarians", was destroyed and covered with graffiti. When a few days later, another plaque replaced it, the French government issued a statement that "hate will not win". There are many signs, however, that hate has already won and that France is sick. If these signs were already obvious a decade ago, they are even more obvious today. Voluntary blindness prevented them from being addressed. Ilan Halimi was taken hostage in January 2006, then viciously tortured for three weeks. He was eventually abandoned, dying, on the edge of a road and died a few hours later. Most of kidnappers, who were arrested a few days after the murder, were Muslims. They immediately confessed. They said they had chosen Halimi because he was a Jew and they thought that "all Jews have money". Some added that Jews "deserve to suffer". They were tried behind closed doors. The leader, Youssouf Fofana, spat his bile against Jews and vehemently shouted the name of Allah during the whole trial, so the court could not hide that he was an Islamic anti-Semite. He was sentenced to "life" in prison -- which in France means 18 to 20 years. If he had not assaulted his guards in the prison, he would already have be released. The other members of the gang, described by the prosecutor in a watered down way as "thugs looking for easy money", were quieter and were handed down relatively light sentences. Today, almost all "the barbarians" are free. Even books, accentuating the whitewash, describe the crime as just an ugly "sign of greed" among "poorly educated young people". In 2014, director Alexandre Arcady made a movie -- 24 Days: The True Story of the Ilan Halimi Affair -- to draw attention to what he perceived as a growing danger for Jews and for the French in general. The movie was a flop; almost no one paid attention to it, despite some murders just as sickening. On March 19, 2012, in Toulouse, a 23-year-old Muslim, Mohammed Merah, entered the yard of a Jewish school and murdered three children and the father of two of them. He had already shot French soldiers, but shattering the heads of children at point blank range was an act of total horror. Three days later, besieged in his apartment, after having explained for hours to a negotiator why he had chosen Jewish children, he launched a last attack but was riddled with bullets by the police. He instantly became a hero in all the Muslim French suburbs; the anti-Semitic dimension of his act just contributed to his fame. For many months, his name, Mohammed Merah, was a rallying cry for Muslim youths. The press, meanwhile, described him as a "lone wolf" and "lost child". When evidence accumulated showing that his brother, Abdelkader, an Islamist, had trained Mohammed and helped him prepare his butchery, he was arrested. Abdelkader Merah's trial last month was as ugly as that of the "gang of barbarians", maybe even uglier. Abdelkader did not lose his temper. He expressed no regret. He calmly explained that jihad is a sacred duty for every Muslim; that he thought that his brother was "in paradise" and what the status of Jews is in the Koran. Mohammed and Abdelkader's mother, Zoulikha Aziri, testified that they were "good sons". Later, out of court, she said that "Allah orders Muslims to kill Jews". (Abdelkader's lawyer said that Abdelkader was not guilty of anything; that he was just a devout Muslim "practicing his religion", and that he himself considered it an "honor" to defend Abdelkader. Abdelkader was sentenced to twenty years in prison. If there is no appeal, and if he is no longer violent, he will be released in eight years. Abdelkader, while in jail, may still do what he was doing before: proselytize and repeat what he said in court about jihad. When he is released, he may well not stop. He will most likely not be arrested again. His mother may well repeat that Allah orders Muslims to kill Jews: the command is, she thinks, an integral part of her faith. She will not be accused of incitement to murder. Hundreds of thousands of men and women openly say what she says. There are thousands of Abdelkader Merahs. Some are in prison, some are not. Not only are 70% of prisoners in France Muslims, but prisons are now the main recruiting centers for jihadists in France. Calls to jihad can be heard from countless mosques throughout the country each week. A recent book, Partition, lists the addresses of 150 of them. Incitement to kill Jews is frequent in the almost 600 no-go zones that exist in France. Leaflets stipulating "if you meet a Jew, kill him", were recently distributed in the Paris suburbs, near places where street prayers occur. "Death to Jews" and "Slit Jews' Throats" can increasingly be heard in organized street protests. Synagogues have been attacked in Paris, Sarcelles and Marseilles. In the five years since Mohammed Merah's murders, French Muslims have attacked more Jews. On May 24, 2014, Medhi Nemmouche, a gunman who had recently returned from Syria, opened fire in the Jewish Museum in Brussels and shot four people. On January 9, 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, a man who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, entered a kosher grocery store, took 19 people hostage, and shot four of them. Recently, on April 4, 2017, a retired Jewish physician, Sarah Halimi, was viciously brutalized for an hour, then thrown off the balcony of her apartment. Her murderer, Kada Traore, who shouted "Allahu Akbar", was deemed "mentally ill" and sent to an asylum. Two attacks had a large number of casualties: one on November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis (130 killed), and the other on July 14, 2016 on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice (86 killed). A priest, Fr. Jacques Hamel, was knifed to death while saying Mass. A businessman was beheaded by one of his employees. A police officer was shot on the Champs-Élysées. It does not stop. On October 1, 2017, two women were slain in front of the Marseille central railway station. The murder of most off the journalists and editors at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015 (12 killed) led, three days later, to a huge demonstration in Paris, but indifference quickly returned. In France, since 2012, more than 250 people were killed by Islamic terrorism, more than in all other European countries combined. In addition, no other country in Europe has experienced so many attacks against Jews. France is a country where Jews are murdered because they are Jews. Every year, Jews flee France by the thousands. Those who do not emigrate move to cities and neighborhoods where they hope they will be able survive without risking aggression. Many non-Jews live in fear and remain silent. The government does almost nothing. A few times a year, its members ritually denounce "anti-Semitism", but never forget to mention that it comes from the "far right". They only denounce "radical Islam" when the facts are so blinding obvious that it is impossible to do otherwise. If they can, they prefer to talk about people who were "radicalized", without giving any details or explanation. In August 2017, the Ministry of the Interior issued a statement that almost 300 jihadists were back from Syria and represent a risk. All of them could come back to France with French passports. None of them has been arrested. In March 2015, the French intelligence services created a Report Card for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalization (FSPRT); there are 15,000 names on it. Monitoring everyone would require nearly 160,000 police officers. Therefore, only a few dozen suspects, are under surveillance. After France's November 2015 attacks, a state of emergency was declared. It consisted mainly of sending soldiers and police officers to railway stations and airports, and placing guards and sandbags in front of synagogues and Jewish schools. The state of emergency expired on November 1, 2017. It was replaced by a weak "anti-terrorism" law. Fewer soldiers and police officers will be deployed. "Security zones" will be created around events that appear "exposed to a terrorist risk", and police controls will stand near such events. These controls, however, already exist. "Places of worship" will be "visited" if it "seems" they disseminate "ideas that could lead to terrorism"; then they could be closed for six months. Many "places of worship" already disseminate "ideas that lead to terrorism"; they are still open. Legal texts omit words such as "radical Islam", "jihad" or "anti-Semitism". They also do not include words such as "mosque" or "search"; instead, they speak of "places of worship" and "visit". They also never define which "ideas" could "lead to terrorism". Yaffa Monsonego, the mother of one of Mohammed Merah's victims, did not go to Abdelkader Merah's trial. Her daughter, Myriam, was eight-years-old when she was shot. Monsonego said in a mainstream television interview that attending the trial would have been of no use; that French justice will never live up to what she and other families of victims feel every day, and that she is certain more murders will happen. A journalist said on radio that, by not naming and not fighting evil, France betrays all those who want to live safely, and abandons the country to those who are crushing it. He reminded his listeners that the presence of Islamic anti-Semitism in France is older than they could imagine, and mentioned a young disc jockey, Sebastien Sellam, murdered in Paris by his Muslim neighbor in 2003, just because he was a Jew. The journalist said the destruction of the plaque placed in memory of Ilan Halimi was a way of killing him a second time. A few weeks ago, Luc Ravel, Archbishop of Strasbourg, said that those who run the country bury their heads in the sand; and that while Islamists are tried, the trial of radical Islam in France is not even considered. He added that all French political leaders know a population replacement is in progress that will quickly have much more serious consequences than those already evident today: "Muslim believers know very well what is happening. Only a minority is violent. But as a whole, they do not ignore that their birthrate is such that one day, everything here will be theirs". Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron, while in Abu Dhabi on November 8 to inaugurate a museum, said: "Those who want to make you believe that anywhere in the world, Islam is destroying other monotheisms and other cultures are liars who are betraying you". On November 13, back in Paris to pay homage to the victims of the attacks two years earlier, Macron participated in a release of multicolored balloons, watched them float to the sky, then laid flowers where the victims were killed. The plaques state that they were "murdered", but not that they were victims of terrorism. Soon, the word "terrorism" could also disappear from France's vocabulary. In Submission, a novel published on January 7, 2015, ironically the same day as the Charlie Hebdo murders, its author, Michel Houellebecq, foresaw that words would disappear, that Islamic terrorism would lead France toward submission, and that the Jews would leave the country. He was right. Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11392/france-terrorism-muslims-antisemitism
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5th survivor of Las Vegas shooting massacre killed in hit & run
Posted on November 28, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 25 Comments
Survivors of the October 1 Las Vegas mass shooting — the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history wherein lone gun man Stephen Paddock allegedly killed 58 and injured more than 500 people at the Harvest 91 country music festival — are being killed, one by one. The latest is Roy McClellan, the fifth survivor to die — not from injuries sustained at the shooting. Fellowship of the Minds "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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5th survivor of Las Vegas shooting massacre killed in hit & run
Posted on November 28, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 25 Comments
Survivors of the October 1 Las Vegas mass shooting — the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history wherein lone gun man Stephen Paddock allegedly killed 58 and injured more than 500 people at the Harvest 91 country music festival — are being killed, one by one. The latest is Roy McClellan, the fifth survivor to die — not from injuries sustained at the shooting. KSN.com reports that on November 17, 2017, 52-year-old Roy McClellan was killed in a hit-and-run while hitchhiking on State Route 160 in Pahrump, about 50 miles west of Las Vegas. The driver of the Chevrolet Camaro fled the scene, leaving McClellan for dead. According to Fox News on November 26, 2017, “investigators had located the car believed to be involved in the accident and charges were pending.” McClellan is the fifth survivor to die in incidents unrelated to the Las Vegas shooting. The other four are Kymberley Suchomel, Dennis Carver, Lorraine Carver, and Danny Contreras. What’s the statistical probability of that?
Kymberley Suchomel
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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ← Criminal whose life sentence was commuted by WA state governor now facing murder charge British singer would push a button to kill Trump for the safety of humanity →5th survivor of Las Vegas shooting massacre killed in hit & run
Posted on November 28, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 25 Comments
Survivors of the October 1 Las Vegas mass shooting — the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history wherein lone gun man Stephen Paddock allegedly killed 58 and injured more than 500 people at the Harvest 91 country music festival — are being killed, one by one. The latest is Roy McClellan, the fifth survivor to die — not from injuries sustained at the shooting. KSN.com reports that on November 17, 2017, 52-year-old Roy McClellan was killed in a hit-and-run while hitchhiking on State Route 160 in Pahrump, about 50 miles west of Las Vegas. The driver of the Chevrolet Camaro fled the scene, leaving McClellan for dead. According to Fox News on November 26, 2017, “investigators had located the car believed to be involved in the accident and charges were pending.” McClellan is the fifth survivor to die in incidents unrelated to the Las Vegas shooting. The other four are Kymberley Suchomel, Dennis Carver, Lorraine Carver, and Danny Contreras. What’s the statistical probability of that? Kymberley Suchomel On October 9, 2017, about a week after surviving the Las Vegas shooting in which she had not been injured, Kymberley Suchomel, 28, died suddenly in her sleep in her Apple Valley, CA home. Suchomel was found by her grandmother, Julie Norton, just after 8:30 a.m., who believes Suchomel may have died in her sleep after her husband, Mike, had left for work at 4:30 a.m. Norton said “Kymberley had epilepsy and she’s always been prone to seizures — she told her friend that she recently had three focal seizures. I believe the stress from the shooting took her life.” (Seacoastonline) On October 5, 2017, Suchomel wrote on her Facebook page an account of what happened on the night of the shooting, which refers to multiple shooters and firecrackers preceding the gunshots. Although her Facebook page has since been set to private, her account is archived here. She wrote: “From about 50 feet in front of us, and a little to the right, fire crackers were set off. Let me repeat that… FIRE CRACKERS WERE SET OFF. […] I would say about 15 seconds later, the first volley of gunfire was released. […] But then the 3rd volley hit… and it was close. Very, very close to us. I could physically see the impact of the bullets on the astro-turf, I could feel the warmth & the passing of bullets. […] The gentlemen that mocked me stating it was just fireworks fell to the ground, and he never got back up. The lady behind me (who was now in front of me) who was terrified as I told her to run, never got back up. I actually had to physically step over her body to run (something I am still struggling with, so please don’t attack me. I was absolutely in flight-or-fight mode). There was another person to my right who also wasn’t moving. We ran. […] I thought to myself “we NEED to hide”, but as I looked quickly for somewhere to go, the gunfire once again got closer and closer. We couldn’t hide because they (and I do mean THEY) were chasing us. That exact moment is when I started to really panic. That is the exact moment in which I thought this was it, I was going to die, I was never going to see my family again. […] Bullets were coming from every direction. Behind us, in front of us, to the side of us. But I know, I just know, that there was someone chasing us. The entire time I felt this way. The farther we got from the venue, the closer the gunfire got. I kept looking back expecting to see the gunmen- and I say MEN because there was more than one person. There was more than one gun firing. 100% more than one. […]” Dennis and Lorraine Carver On October 16, husband and wife Dennis, 52, and Lorraine Carver, 53, who had survived the Las Vegas shooting two weeks ago, were killed when their Mercedes smashed into a metal gate and brick pillars less than a mile from their home in Riverside, California. California Highway Patrol said their car was engulfed by fire and it took firefighters nearly an hour to contain the blaze. (Las Vegas Review-Journal Danny Contreras On the morning of October 23, 2017, Las Vegas police found Danny Contreras, 35, fatally shot in a vacant home. Police said Contreras had been shot several times in the upper torso, and that the killing was likely related to narcotics. (Las Vegas Review Journal) According to Zero Hedge, Contreras was a survivor of the Las Vegas shooting and that, like Kymberley Suchomel, he had also publicly claimed there were multiple gunmen the night of the attack. In a tweet on October 5, four days after the mass shooting, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange implied that the shooting had been staged by the FBI and gave a link to a Business Insider article claiming that “The FBI is ‘manufacturing terrorism cases’ on a greater scale than ever before.” See also:
2017 Las Vegas shooting: police scanner reported multiple shooters in different places
Stephen Paddock lookalike seen in Atlantic City 5 days after Las Vegas shooting
Las Vegas shooting massacre: 3 things that make you go ‘Hmm’
2017 Las Vegas mass shooting: Things that don’t add up
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etc. It is not the books that man writes, it is the word,
the living word, the logos, the rhema, stay in my word, walk in my word,
function in my word and you shall see what the EU is about ready to do, you
shall understand what Russia is planning and purposing now, you
shall even see China who is the last army that moves down into that valley after
my church is gone. You will understand these
things, for it is very clear in my word exactly what I shall do and you will not
say, well, it must be fifteen years off, you will not say it must be ten years
off, you will not say it must be five years off, for you
shall see the signs clearly and you shall understand the hour, you shall
understand the time and you will know.
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Never-before-seen footage shows China testing its multi-nuke hypersonic missile DF-41 which can strike ANYWHERE in the world and 'will be ready next year'
China Central Television Station revealed footage of multiple DF-41 being tested
A Chinese military expert claimed 'the missile can hit every corner of the earth'
It has a range of at least 7,500 miles and could carry up to 10 nuclear warheads
The warhead is set to be inducted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 2018
By Tracy You and Phoebe Weston For Mailonline Published: 05:41 EST, 28 November 2017 | Updated: 05:47 EST, 28 November 2017
China's state broadcaster has revealed video footage of its armies testing the nation's most powerful nuclear missile. Dongfeng-41, or DF-41, is Beijing's next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile that could strike anywhere in the world with nuclear warheads and is expected to be ready during the first half of next year. The footage, aired on China Central Television Station on November 26, shows the powerful weapon being transported and launched in disclosed desert-like locations. DF-41 is said to have the longest range of any ballistic rockets in the world, has undergone its eighth test and is now near completion, according to China's state-run Global Times. The missile is 16.5 meters (54 feet) long with a diameter of 2.78 meters (9.1 feet). It's been developed to rival the 6th-generation missiles from the West, such as the American LGM-30 Minuteman and the Russian RT-2PM2, reported People's Daily Online. The report also claimed that the missile has a range of at least 7,500 miles (12,000km) and its striking accuracy is with 100 metres (328 feet). It could carry up to 10 nuclear warheads, making it difficult to be intercepted. The new missile also has a speed of more than Mach 10 (7,672mph) and can use decoy devices to find it way through the enemy's missile defence systems. Yang Chengjun, a Chinese expert on missile technologies and nuclear warfare strategy, told China Central Television Station during Sunday's programme that the DF-41 missile is reliable, quick and easy to transport. 'The missile can hit every corner of the earth, allowing China to counter a nuclear strike on the country,' Yang said in the programme. Mr Yang claimed that all of the DF-41 tests have been successful so far while the success rates of similar tests in the United States and Russia are around 90 per cent and 80 per cent respectively. Apparently, DF-41 also requires less soldiers to operate and can be transported across 'a variety of complicated terrains'. It's said to be able to launch from road and rail mobile launcher platforms, as well as silo-based launchers. Mr Yang also said that it only took China a bit more than 10 years to design and produce the missile from scratch, while it would take the United States and Russia 25 years to complete a similar task. He finally added that it would be up to the Communist Party of China to decide when to put the missile into service. According to previous reports, DF-41 would be inducted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 2018 after first being introduced in 2012. 'It can carry up to 10 nuclear warheads, each of which can target separately,' Xu Guangyu, a senior adviser of the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association told Global Times. The missile must have 'matured considerably' if it is to be operational in 2018, Mr Xu said. 'Once the Dongfeng-41 goes into service, China's ability to protect its own safety and to prevent wars would greatly increase', he said. Reports suggest the missile's most recent test took place this month. State-run media claim tests took place in its Western desert area but the exact location has not been revealed. In July, a propaganda video from China claimed that Beijing owns about 2,500 ballistic missiles. In the video, Dongfeng-41 is highlighted as one of the 'world's top five intercontinental missiles'. The same video, however, also said that other countries shouldn't be afraid of China's 'advanced artillery force' because Beijing wouldn't deploy the weapons unless it's provoked. The two-minute-long propaganda video described China's astonishing arsenal through cartoon. It started by explaining why China needs powerful weapons by drawing comparisons to animals living in the wild. The anchor said: 'What would happen if tigers have no fangs and lions have no paws? The probably end up living with no food or even killed. 'That's why living creatures need defenses.' The video also claimed that China was the first country in the world to use tubular artillery. The video then started listing some of the most powerful weapons Beijing has. The country is said to have around 68 submarines, one home-made aircraft carrier, and the impressive J-20 stealth fighter. In addition, the J-20 fighter jet is equipped with 'cutting-edge supersonic and stealth technologies', according to the video. The J-20 jet made its first public flight in November 2016. Some suggested that the aircraft was built in part from plans of US war planes, obtained by Chinese hackers jailed earlier last year. However, Beijing firmly denied the claims. Military analysts said it was too early to tell if the jet matches the capabilities of America's F-22, which was thought to be the original model. The report said Beijing has 270 nuclear warheads as of July 2017. In comparison, Russia has 7,000, the United States has 6,800 and France has 300.
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etc. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. etc.
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Be established in me, be not established in the world or the things of the world, but be established in me, for the days just ahead are dark days, evil days, wicked days, when many things shall take place. Things that shall even shock you, things that shall wake you up and wake up others, things that shall cause them to realize the lateness of the hour, the time in which you are living. They will see and understand the plot of the enemy, how he strives to take over and become a one world government, a one world enterprise who will contain all the food and issue out the food and even take over farms to control the food, the water, the gas, the oil, the supplies. Oh, the wickedness of his plot, but fear not that plot, etc.
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The C.I.A. Literally Controls EVERYTHING … Even Deep State
Posted on November 26, 2017 by State of the Nation
The C.I.A. is likewise controlled by much more secretive levels of command and control State of the Nation The following perceptive comment was sent by email to SOTN. It simply states the obvious about the Central Intelligence Agency and its complete control of the United States of America, and beyond. It also shows just how extensive Deep State really is. Every publicly traded corporation, for example, within the Anglo-American Axis is controlled, either directly or indirectly, by the C.I.A. That’s why the U.S. Intelligence Community refers to it as The Company. The Global Control Matrix (GCM) is actually the backbone of the New World Order, and functions as a de facto One World Government. Deep State is just one critical piece of the GCM puzzle. Just because the current World Shadow Government operates in total secrecy doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The globalist New World Order has actually been here for well over a hundred years. The practical reality is that the World Shadow Government (WSG) rules over every square inch of planet Earth … to varying degrees, of course. (Russia, for instance, has left the reservation in many ways, but still has to play the game in many ways.) The bottom line is that the C.I.A. is primarily the enforcement agency for the WSG. It was recently written that the C.I.A. is the “enforcement agency for the Council on Foreign Relations”. And that’s entirely true. However, the C.I.A. is also the enforcement agency for every other entity within Deep State, both public and private, covert and overt. Only with this correct understanding can the true magnitude of humanity’s problematic predicament be comprehended. Essentially, a thoroughly rogue intelligence agency — the largest in the world — has taken control of every sphere of life. In fact, the C.I.A. acts with absolute impunity, whenever and wherever it so chooses to. As follows: JFK Assassination Plot Was Coordinated and Conducted by the C.I.A. And all the C.I.A. ever has to do to justify their never-ending criminal conspiracies is claim that they are being implemented in the interest of “N A T I O N A L S E C U R I T Y”. As if publicly executing a POTUS was carried out to make the nation more safe and secure. What a place! State of the Nation November 26, 2017 N.B. What is remarkable is that the post below only represents the tip of the CIA-controlled Deep State iceberg. It also illustrates why The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Must Be Shut Down before it shuts US down. What Does the CIA Control? Submitted by GA The Mainstream Media is CIA (all TV, Radio, Newspapers & News Magazines). Hollywood is CIA (all Motion Pictures and TV programs). Google is CIA. Facebook is CIA. Twitter is CIA. Microsoft is CIA. Apple is CIA. IBM is CIA. Intel is CIA. Hewlett Packard is CIA…..the list here is endless, let’s just say all of Silicon Valley is CIA! All Defense Contractors are CIA, like: Lockheed Martin is CIA. General Dynamics is CIA. Northrup Grumman is CIA. Raytheon is CIA. Boeing is CIA. Halliburton is CIA. United Technologies is CIA. Bechtel is CIA. ISIS is CIA. Al Qaeda is CIA. Al-Nusra is CIA The Bin Laden Family is CIA. Saddam Hussein was CIA, who went rogue on the CIA. (There were no weapons of mass destruction, as we know, Daddy Bush was pissed off at his rogue CIA Agent, Saddam, and THAT is why so many U.S. soldiers had to die and get wounded in Iran.) Noriega was CIA, who went rogue on the CIA. Castro was CIA, who went rogue on the CIA. Soros is CIA & MI6. Bush Family is CIA. Clinton Crime Family is CIA, especially the Clinton Foundation. Obama Family is CIA. The White House has been CIA for over 25 years. The FBI is CIA. (obviously, or else the FBI would have shut down the Mafia years ago. But they don’t do they? Because the CIA and the Mafia are joined at the hip. They are partners in crime as the JFK assassination clearly demonstrated. Monsanto is CIA. The Las Vegas Massacre was CIA. Northern California UNnatural Fires were CIA. 9/11 was CIA/MI6/Mossad. Oklahoma City Bombing was CIA. Aurora Movie Theater Massacre was CIA. Sandy Hook was CIA……this list too is endless. Agenda 21 Depopulation Goals are CIA. When I say CIA, I mean CIA/Deep State controlled. Insiders call the CIA “The Company”. That makes sense now, doesn’t it? 6 Million people work for the CIA. CIA/MI6 have their tentacles into EVERYTHING of value, GLOBALLY. SERCO is CIA … and MI6 … and Mossad. The CIA sets the AGENDA and Controls the Narrative. Big Brother is CIA. They are everywhere: in your phone, on your PC, in your TV, in your car, in your fridge, your smart meters, and in all surveillance cameras and spying devices which are now everywhere. Even if these items are turned off, and you don’t pay the bill and shut down services, they can still turn it on whenever they want to and listen and watch you. That was step one for total control. Next is step 2: Agenda 21, Big Brother (CIA) wants you dead, either through deadly vaccines that infects you with cancer and then cancer treatments that don’t work. Agenda 21/Big Brother/Deep State/ CIA wants to decrease the global population through disease, wars, pestilence, famine, weather modification (droughts and deluges, mudslides and floods, earthquakes and volcanoes, massive hurricanes, ice storms, blizzards, tsunamis, sink holes, you name it). And, of course, through the promotion of rampant homosexuality (homos can’t reproduce). Christian Western Civilization is being destroyed on purpose by importing Islam which never assimilates and only brings division and civil wars. Just ask Gandhi. It got so bad in India, they had to divide their land, and all Hindus and Christians staying in India, and the Muslims went to Pakistan…….because militant Islam (Wahhabis) NEVER lives peacefully with anyone else. So you have to ask, why is the CIA/Deep State flooding the USA with Muslims? To promote Peace? No, to promote DIVISION and CONFLICT. These are just some of the TRUTHS the CIA/Deep State does NOT want you to know about, and that is why they HAVE TO CONTROL all media: TV, radio, newsprint, and now they are going after the Internet with censorship. You are supposed to remain in the dark, dumbed down, and swallow hook, line and sinker whatever Big Brother CIA spoon feeds you from TV, radio, newsprint….and the Internet. Everything else if “fake news”, remember? What has upset the status quo is a groundswell of truth getting out via the Internet and Alternative Radio, YouTube and Instagram. A tipping point was reached last year, and in spite of MASSIVE Vote Rigging on all levels, Trump still WON!. Trump is NOT CIA, thus the nonstop smears from Mainstream Media!
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=89844
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Massive Cover-Up Ongoing At The Highest Levels - Fukushima Nuclear Hell Hole And 'Mass Deaths Events' - Are We Now Only Witnessing The 'Tip Of The Iceberg'?
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die November 28, 2017
According to this new story over at ENENews which uses the Associated Press and Newsweek among their sources, the nation of Japan is preparing to flood the Pacific Ocean with a million tons of nuclear waste water contaminated by Fukushima, gradually to be released into the homes of billions of sea creatures, some of which may later be eaten by human beings. At loss for more than 6 years now about what to do with the tanks of toxic matter left over from the 2011 disaster, local fishermen are furious, warning the release could kill the fishing industry there, an industry already hurting for 6+ years due to the disaster itself. And while the Japanese government continues to hide pertinent information about radiactive contamination due to Fukushima from the public in Japan, anybody who has been paying close attention to the information that has been censored coming from there knows that the situation is much worse than we're being officially told. And these latest planned releases of radioactive waste into the ocean will only hasten the 'mass animal death events' that we've been reporting upon on ANP for 3 years running now. While the mainstream media and 'establishment' are more than happy to push 'global warming' in our faces at every opportunity that they get, the fact that they are utterly silent about what's been happening to the Pacific Ocean and the West coast to our oceans and the food chain there speaks to us much more loudly than their eternal, damning silence. As we reported on ANP back on November 10th, nearly every day we're getting signs of a catastrophic collapse of the Pacific Ocean food chain coming to us from both the independent media and small, local news outlets and while at the moment, fish, birds, mammals and other ocean creatures are the ones paying the ultimate price, it may be only a matter of time before Fukushima's poisons make the next leap up the food chain and begin killing more people than it already has. For those who have forgotten, soon after the 2011 disaster, the US Navy sent numerous aid ships to Japan and as this March of 2016 story from Stars and Stripes reported, 16 US ships which participated in the relief efforts are STILL contaminated with low levels of radiation, nearly 7 years later! And while a US Appeals Court recently ruled that 318 US sailors sickened by the radiation can sue the government of Japan and TEPCO for injuries caused, such a ruling does little good for the families of those sailors who have already died due to their exposure to Fukushima's poisons. And with the story of the USS Ronald Reagan and more than 500 sailors sickened underscoring the dangers that Fukushima's poisons pose to humans, we have to ask, how many other people have acquired deadly mysterious illnesses since then with no adequate explanation coming to them from doctors or medical health practitioners? And is it just a coincidence that many of the fish and animals involved in the still-growing 'mass death events' have suffered from many of the same symptoms as those sailors who were exposed, including muscle wasting, cancer, internal bleeding, thyroid dysfunction, abscesses, and birth defects? As ENENews reported back on November 9th, scientists were shocked by the low number of fish that were caught during a recent survey with 'no babies being born'. For those paying attention to the 'mass animal death events' that the website End Times Prophecy Blog has been meticulously keeping track of since 2011, should we even be surprised by any of this? As of this story writing, we're now up to 425 KNOWN 'mass animal death events' in 2017, spread across 78 different countries as of this day. Two stories put out by ENENews back on November 13th and November 14th help to explain why the massive coverup we're witnessing at the highest levels will end up having profound effects. As ENENews reported back on November 13th, the US state of Hawaii was struck by 200 times the fallout from Fukushima than was expected with over a trillion becquerels of nuclear waste falling upon the state. Then on November 14th, ENENews reported this disturbing aspect of the 'Fukushima cover-up' that we're witnessing: Fukushima Cover-Up. Why is there still such a massive cover-up of Fukushima, 6+ years later? As we see in the graphic above, according to scientists from China and Korea, huge swaths of radioactive poisons will continue to strike the West coast of the US between now and the year 2031 with no end to the flow of poisons into our oceans and atmosphere in sight. With a massive cover-up at the highest levels still ongoing and the worst still yet to come according to experts, some have argued that Fukushima is part of the globalists depopulation agenda and a massive, nuclear attack upon America. As Dr. Mark Sircus reported back on February 9th of 2017, most people think they have to die to go to hell but that is not true anymore. Today, in the mainstream press, they announced the existence of a hell hole in Japan at the destroyed nuclear power station at Fukushima. We have a hot spot on our planet that has never been imagined before and in the face of it human technology is helpless. As ENENews reported back in 2012, we're witnessing what seems to be an endless flow of radiation into the sea and atmosphere - and there is still nothing to stop this catastrophe as of this moment, now nearly 7 years later
http://allnewspipeline.com/Fukushima_Nuclear_Hell_Hole_And_Mass_Deaths.php
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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.
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Last Days Warnings
By Hal Lindsey
As the world reels under the impact of the latest Middle East crisis, many are discovering that the events are fitting into a larger pattern of precisely predicted events. The pattern is to be found woven through the Hebrew prophets from Moses to Jesus Christ and John the Apostle. The prophecies were made during a period of from 3500 to 1900 years ago. Throughout these predictions, it’s clear that the events are to lead to a final seven-year period of world catastrophe. This period will climax with a global war of such magnitude that only the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ to this planet will prevent man from self-annihilation. THINGS WE ARE SEEING Listed below are 20 pieces of this pattern which are unmistakably coming together simultaneously for the first time in history.
The return of the dispersed Jews to Israel to become a nation again in 1948.
The Jews’ recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
The rise of Russia as a powerful nation and enemy of Israel.
The Arab confederation against the new State of Israel.
The rise of a military power in the Orient that can field an army of 200 million soldiers. (Red China alone boasts that she has this number of troops!)
The revival of the Old Roman Empire in the form of a ten-nation confederacy. (I believe the European Common Market is ultimately going to be this power.)
The revival of the dark occultic practices of ancient Babylon.
The unprecedented turn to drugs.
The increase of international revolution.
The increase of wars.
The increase of earthquakes.
The increase of famines through the population explosion.
The coming of plagues.
The increase of famines through the population explosion.
The coming of plagues.
The increase of pollution.
The departure of many Christian churches from the historic truth of Christianity.
The move toward a one-world religion.
The move toward a one-world government.
The decline of the United States as a major world power.
The increase in lawlessness.
The decline of the family unit.
THINGS TO WATCH
The Arabs will continue to bring greater pressure upon the Western nations to support their demands against Israel. They will do so through the continued restriction of oil without which the industrial nations cannot survive. They may begin to use their vast financial power to seriously threaten the economy of the United States as well. It is doubtful that Fort Knox could back up the dollars they hold, if they demanded gold for them. The United States will have some severe economic shocks from the European Common Market and the Arab oil squeeze. It will continue its decline as a major power both by this and internal moral decadence. The European Common Market will begin to emerge as the greatest economic power in history. Israel will continue to increasingly become the Western world’s dilemma. The Middle East will continue to be the most dangerous threat to world peace in history. The prophets clearly say that the spark that sets off Armageddon will be struck by the invasion of Israel by the Egyptian-led Arabs and the Russians. Jesus predicted these days we’re living in when He said concerning the prophetic signs, “When you see all these things, know He is at the door ready to return.” Then He said, “This generation will not pass away until all is fulfilled.” My opinion is that, because we are seeing all these signs fitting into the predicted pattern, we are the generation, which will see the culmination of history, as we know it, and the return of Christ. Who knows, perhaps this will be the year of Christ’s sudden and mysterious coming to snatch out all those who believe in Him.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-11-16-2017/
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As scarlet fever cases rise, baffled researchers investigate
Investigators don't know why
SANDEE LAMOTTE CNN Posted: Nov 27, 2017 07:15 PM CST Updated: Nov 27, 2017 07:15 PM CST
(CNN) - The age-old killer scarlet fever is on the rise in England and East Asia, according to research published Monday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, and investigators don't know why. "Whilst current rates (in England) are nowhere near those seen in the early 1900s, the magnitude of the recent upsurge is greater than any documented in the last century," said study author Theresa Lamagni of Public Health England, the agency that funded the analysis. "Whilst notifications so far for 2017 suggest a slight decrease in numbers, we continue to monitor the situation carefully ... and research continues to further investigate the rise." Identified by a bright red rash that looks and feels like sandpaper, scarlet fever is a highly contagious disease caused by the same bacteria behind strep throat, group A Streptococcus pyogenes. Historically a common cause of childhood death, scarlet fever had been declining over the past two centuries, according to the study, with any rise in cases typically following a "natural cyclical pattern" every four to six years. But since 2009, cases have been steadily increasing in several East Asian countries, including Vietnam, South Korea, Hong Kong and mainland China. An outbreak then hit England, where cases tripled in one year, from 4,700 in 2013 to 15,637 in 2014. Infections continued to rise to nearly 20,000 in 2016, a 50-year high for the United Kingdom, according to the analysis. Hospital admissions during the outbreak in England are also high, the researchers said, nearly doubling between 2013 (703 cases) and 2016 (1,300 cases). Identifying scarlet fever Although anyone who gets strep throat can get scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, the disease typically strikes children under the age of 10. Frequently spread by droplets via coughing and sneezing, group A strep can also hide on doorknobs, plates and utensils for hours. The red rash that gives scarlet fever its name typically starts on the neck and face and spreads to the chest, the back and other parts of the body. At first, the rash will look like a bad sunburn, but then it will begin to raise and become bumpy. If pressed, the red skin will turn white; it can also be itchy. Once the rash subsides, the skin will often peel, especially on the groin, fingertips and toes. A very sore, red throat that makes it difficult to swallow, along with a fever of 101 or higher, is a key sign of scarlet fever, along with swollen neck glands, headaches and body chills, nausea and vomiting. An early symptom can be a "strawberry" tongue -- one that looks more red and bumpy than usual -- along with a whitish coating on inside of the throat. Other telltale signs include be a flushed face (except for a white streak around the mouth) and red streaks in the creases of the skin, with the armpits, knees and elbows showing a deeper hue. Treatment for scarlet fever is the same as for strep: a course of antibiotics, which must be completed to be rid of the bacteria and avoid a relapse. If the regimen is followed appropriately, the disease is usually gone within a couple of weeks. Left untreated, it can lead to serious illness or even death. Complications of scarlet fever can include Bright's disease, a form of kidney damage, and rheumatic fever, an autoimmune disease that affects the heart, joins, skin and brain. If rheumatic fever affects the heart, it can cause long-term damage. That's one of the reasons scarlet fever was a leading cause of heart disease for adults before penicillin was discovered. Over the centuries, scarlet fever has caused devastating epidemics. Those infected were often isolated for weeks, while their bedding and belongings were burned to prevent disease spread. Why the prevalence of the disease began to decline, even before the wide-spread use of antibiotics, is a mystery. Detective work is underway Why the disease is making a resurgence today is also a mystery, according to the study. Investigators are looking at such possibilities as a change in human immune status, environmental causes and even the disease traveling from Asia to England, although evidence for that is slight. Though the cases in the United Kingdom came from at least three known strains, only one of those was also seen in Hong Kong, and only in few cases. "Whilst there is no clear connection between the situation in the UK and East Asia, a link cannot be excluded without better understanding of the drivers behind these changes," Lamagni said. "The hunt for further explanations for the rise in scarlet fever goes on." Meanwhile, she suggests that parents in England keep an eye out for telltale signs and act quickly to get their children, or themselves, to a doctor for evaluation and treatment. "Guidance on management of outbreaks in schools and nurseries has just been updated, and research continues to further investigate the rise," she said. "We encourage parents to be aware of the symptoms of scarlet fever and to contact their (general practitioner) if they think their child might have it." In a comment published alongside the paper, University of Queensland professors Mark Walker and Stephan Brouwer recommend that public health systems around the world be on guard. "Scarlet fever epidemics have yet to abate in the UK and northeast Asia," they wrote. "Thus, heightened global surveillance for the dissemination of scarlet fever is warranted."
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PRI's The World November 24, 2017 · 6:45 PM EST By Traci Tong
If you've followed the War on Terror at all, you're almost certainly familiar with the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — a US prison that exists outside the realm of the US justice system. Now, it turns out, there's a secret US detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard US Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean. In an effort to staunch the flow of cocaine and other hard drugs from South America to Central America and points north, Coast Guard cutters have been deployed farther and farther from the shore in the Pacific Ocean. When these cutters capture a boat carrying drugs, the smugglers are brought onto the ships and kept shackled to the deck, sometimes outside in the elements, until the Coast Guard makes arrangements for them to be transported back to the US for trial. But this isn't a wait of just a few hours or days. Often, these waits can last weeks or months, according to new reporting from The New York Times. Coast Guard officials say they can do this because the drug smugglers aren't under arrest until they reach US shores, but some of the worst cases are drawing criticism even from Coast Guard officials. Seth Freed Wessler reported this story for The Times. He says a combination of US agreements with Latin American countries and the US Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act allows the US to take this action. Wessler spoke with The World's Carol Hills about his reporting and these "floating Guantánamos" on the Pacific Ocean. The Coast Guard usually has a reputation for being the good guys out there — rescuing people, apprehending bad guys. We've done stories about that. I take it it's a little bit more complicated? It is. The Coast Guard has a broad mission. It does search and rescue, enforces fisheries laws. It enforces drug laws on the oceans and, what few people know, is that the US Coast Guard has actually been deployed in recent years deep into the Pacific Ocean to interdict drug smugglers moving between South America — Colombia, Ecuador — and Central America, where the drugs — often cocaine — are dropped off and then often moved up through Mexico. These Coast Guard ships are deployed deep into the Pacific —sometimes thousands of miles from the nearest US port, where they're detaining suspected smugglers and holding them aboard these Coast Guard cutters. What I found in my reporting is that detainees, men who are moving cocaine in the Pacific Ocean. You write about some Ecuadorians who are out there transporting drugs and they end up shackled for many, many days on a Coast Guard boat. Give us the quick thumbnail sketch of this one guy, in particular, Jhonny Arcentales, and how he ended up there? He is a fisherman from a coastal town in Ecuador and was having a particularly, economically, rough year and made a decision to take a job smuggling cocaine off of the coast of Ecuador. He really didn't know all that much about what he was doing. As he was moving this cocaine on a boat with three other men, another Ecuadorian man and a Colombian man, they were approaching Central America, approaching Guatemala and the US Navy and Coast Guard intercepted that boat and pulled these men off. For the next 70 days, Mr. Arcentales and the other man he was detained with were held — always chained by their ankle to the deck of a ship or to a cable running along one of these large Coast Guard or Navy ships — for 70 days. He was moved from ship to ship as these Coast Guard cutters went about their patrols, picking up more cocaine in the Pacific Ocean. So this guy, Arcentales, and another guy — they're on a ship. This is a Coast Guard ship and they're basically exposed to the elements and basically shackled and not getting much food. How can the Coast Guard get away with keeping people under those conditions when the men haven't even been charged? The Coast Guard makes the argument that these people are not formally under arrest until they get to the United States. They're simply being held, while the Coast Guard deals with the logistical challenges of trying to get these men onto shore — into an airplane and flown to Florida, where they'll be prosecuted. Courts have generally bought the government's argument. The argument by the Coast Guard and by federal prosecutors that these logistical delays are legitimate, as it's hard enough to get people back. The reality is that when the Coast Guard has had to move people more quickly, they do. Very often, detainees are brought to port in one of these cutters, then placed in a hidden room in a helicopter hangar or in a room below deck and hidden there for the day while the Coast Guard cutter refuels or the Coast Guard crew get a bit of a break and then are brought back out to sea. So there are these delays that people in the Coast Guard — Coast Guard officials I interviewed — though really are actually unreasonable, considering that they're near an airport. Somebody could be put on a plane and brought back to the United States. As we've made this decision to prosecute more and more people, these delays have grown longer and longer. What we're seeing now is sort of carting people around ... carting suspected drug smugglers around the ocean an average of 18 days — very often longer than that — as the government waits to transport people to courts in Florida. Now Donald Trump's chief of staff, General John Kelly, he played a key role in expanding the reach of the Coast Guard in this way. Well, John Kelly was in charge of Southern Command, the Department of Defense area of operation in Latin America that's in charge of managing the drug war in Latin America. He was the head of Southern Command between 2012 and 2016 then retired. Under the Trump administration, he became head of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard. On two occasions he has had a role in these operations. And John Kelly has really been a proponent of the idea. He's called drug smuggling in Central America an existential threat to the United States. And the idea that we need to push our borders outward farther and farther away from our actual borders in order to defend the homeland, that's led to this effort to interdict drugs far, far away from the United States in places where drug smugglers actually really have very little idea where their drugs are headed. So, Johnny Arcentales and the other men that I've spoken to know, they're not thinking about where these drugs are going. The drugs are moving from South America to Central America as far as they're concerned. It's out of their control after that, but we're arresting people in international waters, often on foreign boats, thousands of miles from the United States. So the Coast Guard is arresting these people in these boats and it's not clear whether the drugs on these boats are going to the US? Ultimately, most of the cocaine on these smugglers' small boats is probably headed for the United States. But some of it may be going to other markets, to European markets, to Australian markets or elsewhere. It's not always clear that the drugs are coming here and, in fact, the circuit court in California has said that the US can't prosecute these cases unless they can prove that the drugs were headed to the United States — that they actually intended to to show up there. And that's one of the reasons why federal prosecutors prefer to bring these cases to Florida, where that burden of proof is not required. Whatever happened to Johnny Arcentales? How many days was he out there on this ship? He was picked up in September of 2014. And for the next 70 days, he was held aboard a series of Coast Guard cutters and Navy frigates as he was moved around the Pacific Ocean. He describes the experience of feeling like he really might disappear. He didn't know that he was going to be brought to the United States, wasn't being allowed to call his family — wondering, "does my family think I died?" He was ultimately brought to shore in Central America and told "you're going to be handed over to the Drug Enforcement Administration now" and brought to the United States to face prosecution after more than two months held aboard these ships. He was brought to the United States, charged criminally under drug trafficking laws and was sentenced to 10 years to a decade in federal prison. He's now in a federal prison in New Jersey. The community he comes from on the central coast of Ecuador, many men have left on these smuggling trips. More than a year ago, there was a major earthquake in Ecuador that left families in dire economic straits. Since then, there have been more and more people leaving. In fact, his son-in-law decided not long after that earthquake to take one of these jobs and left home. He didn't tell anyone and disappeared. Days later, was picked up by the Coast Guard. He was also sentenced to a decade in US federal prison. The question about the legality of the US Coast Guard's detention practices has not been raised, in an international context, in criminal courts. In the United States, when defense attorneys have tried to argue that the conditions amount to inhumane treatment, some cases judges have agreed. But they've said there's nothing we can really do about it. The law does not allow for us to throw this case out. What about the shame factor? This is a practice of detention that until now hasn't really been known. I wrote to dozens of men and received letters back from many of these men who'd been detained on these Coast Guard ships, describing the conditions of their confinement. Describing what sounded to me like real terror for them on the high seas. Those are stories that hadn't been told before. Are they allowed to use a proper bathroom? No the bathrooms on these boats are very different, ship to ship. They're provided essentially buckets to use as toilets on some of the boats. And these men are then required to clean out the buckets themselves and dump them off the edge of the ship. They describe that as a really terrible disgusting process. And the Coast Guard says "our ships aren't equipped as detention centers. We don't have facilities here. This is what we've got." In fact, I spoke to Coast Guard commanders who are really uncomfortable about the conditions on their ship — and uncomfortable about the amount of time people are held. I have evidence of people being held for upwards of 70 days. A Coast Guard official told me people have been held for 90 days. But the Coast Guard has no clear rules about how long they can hold people. When you talk to Coast Guard officials and ask them about these things that you've researched and found out, what do they say? Are they proud of this or are they a little bit wary of what's going on? Many of the Coast Guard officials that I talked to were really uncomfortable about the detention conditions and the amount of time that people were being held during their detention. I really felt that officials thought people need to be moved off the boats more quickly and, again, are uncomfortable about the conditions that they have to hold people in. Have you talked with the families? Yes. Many families, in fact, believe that their loved ones — husbands, fathers, sons — had disappeared. It's not unheard of for fishermen to disappear in the sea. For these fishermen, the ocean is the geography of their life. And so when I talked to Arcentales, for example, about the sea, he said to me "the ocean used to be a place that for me represented freedom. But now it's like a prison in the open ocean." And all of these men say "we understand that we've broken laws. We understand that we made these decisions. We understand that we're going to be punished for this." The question that they raise is "how are we in the United States right now?"
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Bali volcano spits ash 2 ½ miles in the sky, airport closed
By firdia lisnawati and margie mason, associated press
KARANGASEM, Indonesia — Nov 28, 2017, 7:45 AM ET
A volcano with a deadly history continued to erupt Tuesday on Bali, one of the world's most popular resort islands, spitting ash 4,000 meters (2 ? miles) high and stranding tens of thousands of tourists for a second day. Lava was welling in its crater, but it remained unclear how bad the eruption might get or how long it could last. Authorities have raised the alert for Mount Agung to the highest level and told 100,000 people to leave an area extending 10 kilometers (6 miles) from its crater as it belches grey and white plumes into the sky. Its last major eruption in 1963 killed about 1,100 people. Officials extended the closure of Bali's international airport for another 24 hours due to concerns that jet engines could choke on the thick volcanic ash, which was moving across the island. Tourists waiting for planes stared at information screens reading "canceled" for every flight. Airport spokesman Ari Ahsanurrohim said more than 440 flights were canceled Tuesday, affecting nearly 60,000 passengers, about the same as Monday. Without aircraft, getting in or out of Bali requires traveling hours by land and boat to an airport on another island. "I don't know, we can't change it," said stranded German traveler Gina Camp, who planned to go back outside and enjoy another day on the island, which attracts about 5 million visitors a year to its famed resorts and world-class surf spots. "It's nature and we have to wait until it's over." Experts said a larger, explosive eruption is possible or Agung could stay at its current level of activity for weeks. "If it got much worse, it would be really hard to think of. You've got a huge population center, nearly a million people in Denpasar and surroundings, and it's very difficult to envision moving those people further away," said Richard Arculus, a volcano expert at Australian National University, adding that an eruption in 1843 was even more explosive than the one in 1963. "There are many examples in history where you have this kind of seismic buildup — steam ejections of a little bit of ash, growing eruptions of ash to a full-scale stratosphere-reaching column of ash, which can presage a major volcanic event," he said. A NASA satellite detected a thermal anomaly at the crater, said senior Indonesian volcanologist Gede Swantika. That means a pathway from the storage chamber in the volcano's crust has opened, giving magma easier access to the surface. Indonesian officials first raised the highest alert two months ago when a rash of seismic activity was detected at the mountain. More than 100,000 people living near the volcano fled their homes, many abandoning their livestock or selling them for a fraction of the normal price. The seismic activity decreased by the end of October, causing authorities to lower the alert level. Tremors increased again last week and officials upped the alert and ordered another large-scale evacuation, with nearly 40,000 people now staying in 225 shelters, according to the Disaster Mitigation Agency in Karangasem. But tens of thousands of villagers have remained in their homes because they feel safe or don't want to abandon their farms and livestock. "Ash has covered my house on the floor, walls, banana trees outside, everywhere" said Wayan Lanus, who fled his village in Buana Giri with his wife and daughter. Flows of volcanic mud have been spotted on Agung's slopes, and Arculus warned more are possible since it's the rainy season on Bali. "They're not making a lot of noise. It's just suddenly coming like a flash flood out of nowhere," he said. "You do not want to be near them. Stay out of the valleys." Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and has more than 120 active volcanoes. Mason reported from Jakarta. Associated Press writer Ali Kotarumalos in Jakarta contributed to this report.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/bali-volcano-spits-ash-miles-sky-airport-closed-51428964
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First lady goes with classic, traditional Christmas decor
Associated Press November 28, 2017
WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has opted for a more traditional decor for her family’s first Christmas in the White House, adding a few new touches to the standards. New this year are wreaths hanging from the exterior of every window. Another new touch are glistening branches lining an East Wing hallway that leads guests to a tree decorated with the Trump family’s official Christmas ornament, a gold-toned bauble featuring the presidential coat of arms surrounded by a wreath of holly. The family Christmas card is on display. ‘‘Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,’’ says the card, signed by President Trump, the first lady, and Barron, their son.
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THE GOD-HATERS
Judge Moore and today's American 'Kulaks'
Exclusive: Alan Keyes warns Christians against elite who reject the Lord's sovereignty
Because I am standing with Judge Roy Moore I find myself within the circle of malice now focused on him by the forces of evil that are moving inexorably to procure the complete destruction of the Constitution and identity of the people of the United States. Their greatest enemy is God, of course, as He has shared Himself, in Spirit and Truth, in and through Jesus Christ. Their enmity naturally extends (as Christ said it would) to anyone willing faithfully to bear witness to God’s authority over the universe created by and through His Word. This includes, of course, His authority over all the determinations and conceptions that define human existence; the bonds of material, moral and spiritual obligation that allow for human action and choice, according to the Providence by which He makes good the promising nature on which our continued existence depends. I have received a slew of responses to my articles presenting the reasoning that obliges me, for the sake of God and the common good of our nation, to stand firmly with Judge Roy Moore during this time of unjust and malicious trial. Many of those responses encourage and give thanks for the work people are doing to detoxify the stream of incoherent accusation and abusive epithets most of Moore’s opponents substitute for coherent reasoning. However, a glimmer of truth consistently blinks out, revealing their contempt for him (and folks like me) because we believe in God and the logic of the American Declaration of Independence, which defines right and justice in terms of God’s rule. Moore’s uncompromised insistence upon this logic is the reason his detractors are attempting to immerse his name and reputation in an acid bath of corrosive allegations. Like the good communists some of them are, they viciously accuse their opponents of the sins they have blithely ignored or encouraged among themselves. To this extent their behavior reflects the truth of God’s overruling presence in the universe of our experience – in that they understand that the ultimate issue is not a matter of this or that factual misdeed; it’s a matter of standing for or against God, of remembering or discarding His universal sovereignty. They weaponize allegations of misconduct, even though in other respects they deny every standard that permits us to distinguish right doing from wrong. But the only sin they eagerly acknowledge and implacably condemn is the sin against their God-hatred, the sin that rejects their rejection of God. So, they seek to annihilate anyone who seeks mercy and forgiveness from God and Christ, where it may be found, and who disdains to seek it where it will never be accorded to anyone who offends their pitiless pride. In this the God-haters are like Lamech, the offspring of Cain. They promise unremittingly merciless civil death to those who prefer God’s just and self-contained authority to their sickly arrogant, overreaching, lawless and irresponsible power. This preference grievously 01 wounds their vainglorious pride. The record of mass murder associated with the atheistic political cults of the twentieth century attests to the fact that the God-haters will not long content themselves with inflicting civic death. Already they move to deprive faithful witnesses to God’s authority of their livelihoods and imprison them for using words that reject the rejection of God, or refusing to use terms that submit to it. Already they offer human sacrifice on the altars of abortion and make a hecatomb of natural family life. They make mock of humanity’s self-perpetuation with rituals of self-obsessed self-negation, wherein individuals deny and disparage God-endowed natural right. People who hold to the premises of God-acknowledging liberty that historically ground and enable the success of republican self-government in the United States, need to consider the destructive consequences of the relaxation of constitutional precautions against the abuse of our government’s national security powers since Sept. 11, 2001. This change is ostensibly directed, in large part, against foreign-inspired terrorists, mostly spawned by Islamist imperialism (which is principally responsible for the acts of terror that have proliferated since then). Now, however, the country’s corrupt and corrupting entertainment sector is being mined for examples of sexual crime and misconduct, for use in fomenting an environment of outraged passion that fosters a presumption of credibility for accusations of predatory sexual behavior. Meanwhile, in products of that same industry, people of good faith who reject the God-haters are being routinely portrayed in a way that encourages the assumption that Christian faith in God is an incubator of domestic terrorism. Is this intended to justify a presumption of guilt when the refusal to accept the rejection of God is construed as an intimidating crime, deserving harsh punishment for the terror it supposedly inflicts upon adherents of the deadly cults of abortion and sexual licentiousness? By discarding constitutional constraints, predicated upon natural right and respect for God-endowed justice and fair play (due process), we are already being moved toward an environment of unbridled government power. It begins to resemble the condition that permitted totalitarian governments in the 20th century to commit massive atrocities, in the name of History and the untrammeled power of supposedly “progressive” governments. As we are being goaded toward the same condition of totalitarian government by fear and force, isn’t it naïve to believe we will escape the murderous results foreshadowed time and again by the record of such governments in the last century? Will people of good faith become the Kulaks of 21st century America, sacrificed by the millions once the theology of liberty is openly outlawed? Forbid it, Almighty God. We must not meekly surrender ourselves or the political champions of our faith to the God-hating new order of things. We must never contemn as fools brave and God-believing leaders, like Judge Roy Moore, who are faithful unto civic and even corporeal death. Instead we must unite behind them, trusting in God for the hope of humanity that was, and ought always to be, uplifted as the bond and purpose of our existence as a free people.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/judge-moore-and-todays-american-kulaks/#8Q4ZUoKHOUAllkty.99
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Most People Don't Even Realize What's Coming
Truthstream Media Published on Oct 30, 2017
Will you get lost in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Most people I asked don't even know what that is, but it's happening all around us right now. This system is about technological evolution... evolving us. Please support our work on Patreon, read our goals here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tn4P7IBqoQ
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‘ISIS Opens Sex-Slave Market in Turkey’s Capital’
Home > Human Rights > Human Rights Violators > Child Abuse > ‘ISIS Opens Sex-Slave Market in Turkey’s Capital’
By Ran Meir Tuesday, November 21, 2017
You may think ISIS’ demise in Iraq and Syria would mean an end to its sex-slave trading, but a new report says Islamic State has merely transferred its slave business into Turkey – including a market in Turkey’s capital Ankara. This means ISIS is involved in the slavery industry in a European country. During its years of power in parts of Iraq and Syria, ISIS held slave markets both in private and public. With its loss of power, Islamic State began smuggling Yazidi women across the border into Turkey. It imprisoned them with ISIS families it had shifted from Iraq and Syria into Turkey previous to the major losses in territory. ISIS is also said to be negotiating with the close relatives of these women to release them after years of captivity, torture and sexual slavery. The ransoms are believed to amount to thousands of dollars, which for many Yazidi families are sums they simply cannot afford. It is understood that when the families don’t meet the ransom demands, ISIS sells the women to the highest bidders. ISIS’ slavery operation is already up and running in three Turkish cities — Gaziantep, Urfa and Ankara — said Yazidi human rights campaigner Ali el-Hansouri speaking to Sputnik’s Arabic website. Click here for 5 Things You Should Know About ISIS-Tortured Yazidi Women Not only is ISIS holding women against their will, “but ISIS is also not releasing Yazidi children who were transferred to Turkey,” said el-Hansouri. “Rather it’s holding them within the houses of its activists there.” Amir and Amira aged eight and 10 are two such children currently in Kirsehir, in central Turkey. A Yazidi organization managed to locate them. For the last seven months, the group has been in contact with the Iraqi embassy in Ankara to help repatriate them, so far to no avail. During its years of tyranny, ISIS seized as many as 5,000 Yazidis, mostly women and children from the Sinjar area, enslaving them and forcing them to convert to Islam. Refusal meant torture and rape.
https://clarionproject.org/isis-opens-sex-slave-market-turkeys-capital/
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Saudi Crown Prince calls Iran leader 'new Hitler': NYT
The Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran back rival sides in wars and political crises throughout the region
Tensions soared this month when Lebanon's Saudi-allied Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned
Published 3:26 AM ET Fri, 24 Nov 2017 Updated 10:44 AM ET Fri, 24 Nov 2017
Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince called the Supreme Leader of Iran "the new Hitler of the Middle East" in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, sharply escalating the war of words between the arch-rivals. The Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran back rival sides in wars and political crises throughout the region. Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Saudi defense minister in the U.S.-allied oil giant kingdom, suggested the Islamic Republic's alleged expansion under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needed to be confronted. "But we learned from Europe that appeasement doesn't work. We don't want the new Hitler in Iran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East," the paper quoted him as saying. Tensions soared this month when Lebanon's Saudi-allied Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned in a television broadcast from Riyadh, citing the influence of Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and risks to his life. Hezbollah called the move an act of war engineered by Saudi authorities, an accusation they denied. Hariri has since suspended his resignation. Saudi Arabia has launched thousands of air strikes in a 2-1/2-year-old war in neighboring Yemen to defeat the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement that seized broad swaths of the country. Salman told the Times that the war was going in its favor and that its allies controlled 85 percent of Yemen's territory. The Houthis, however, still retain the main population centers despite the war effort by a Saudi-led military coalition which receives intelligence and refueling for its warplanes by the United States. Some 10,000 people have died in the conflict. The group launched a ballistic missile toward Riyadh's main airport on Nov. 4, which Saudi Arabis decried as an act of war by Tehran. Bin Salman said in May that the kingdom would make sure any future struggle between the two countries "is waged in Iran". For his part, Khamenei has referred to the House of Saud as an "accursed tree", and Iranian officials have accused the kingdom of spreading terrorism.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/24/saudi-crown-prince-calls-iran-leader-new-hitler.html
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Vaccine Co. Funded by PayPal Owner Caught Illegally Injecting People at Hotels with Herpes Virus
A vaccine company funded by billionaire Peter Thiel was caught illegally testing a herpes virus on unsuspecting victims in Holiday Inn.
By The Free Thought Project - November 23, 2017
(RT) — A US researcher aiming to develop a herpes vaccine conducted illegal trials during which he injected people in hotel rooms and at a house on the island of St. Kitts, according to a new investigation. William Halford, a former associate professor at Southern Illinois University (SIU), began his first “trial” in 2013. But the setting wasn’t a university laboratory or a room at a hospital – it was a Holiday Inn Express and a Crowne Plaza Hotel located 15 minutes away from the college, according to an investigation by Kaiser Health News. Halford, who died of cancer in June, administered his experimental shots to at least eight herpes patients on four different occasions in the summer and fall of 2013. The volunteers were injected with a virus he had created, according to emails from seven participants and interviews with one participant. In multiple email exchanges between Halford and the participants, seen by Kaiser, he asked them to send photographs of rashes, blisters and other reactions they might have received as a result of the injections. “Just wanted to pass along that I immunized someone with the higher dose of the HSV-2 vaccine on Monday, and I attach the photos of the injection site at 48 hours to give you and everyone else an idea of what to expect…,” he wrote in September 2013. “This individual requested that I give him two immunizations to double the effect…one immunization per leg.” Four days later, Halford wrote that “everyone’s vaccines contained ~150 million infectious units of the HSV-2 vaccine strain,” noting that the first injection of the group represented about a 30- to 40-fold increase over what others received in August 2013. In the same email, the microbiologist wrote that he believed the trials were important. “Saturday Sept. 21 definitely represents a milestone in my career,” he wrote. “Don’t know how it will turn out, but I undoubtedly feel like this was a real test of the (a) safety / tolerability of the HSV-2 vaccine and (b) an opportunity to see if it has any therapeutic potential…I am indebted to all of you.” In an email dated October 2, 2013, Halford told a participant that his hypothesis of the injection’s outcome was “nothing more than an education guess.” He added that “the proof is in the pudding…let’s see if your problems with outbreaks dial back or not.” In addition to the trial being blatantly illegal, the microbiologist also did not obtain written informed consent from the participants, which is required by US law when testing a live virus on humans. Moreover, medical researchers are not allowed to inject people without a physician or nurse practitioner being present, Jonathan Zenilman, a doctor and expert on sexually transmitted diseases at Johns Hopkins University, told Kaiser. Meanwhile, a man from Texas who said he received the injections said he fears the vaccine may have given him genital herpes (HSV-2), when he previously only had HSV-1, which usually emerges as sores on the face. The Texan wrote in an email on February 24, 2014, that he was frightened after his second shot. “I got a large rash on my leg and it burned and swelled,” he wrote. “Then a blister popped up.” Responding to his concern in an email, Halford said: “I did not think the HSV-2 vaccine strain would be capable of reactivation, but perhaps I will have to reconsider that.” Experts who reviewed the man’s medical details for Kaiser said such a scenario was possible. “It makes me angry that Halford went ahead with the offshore trial anyway,” the Texas man said. “I hope more people weren’t hurt.” Another woman, however, claims to have been cured from Halford’s vaccine. She went on to help him recruit patients and organize injections. The Texas man said he did not know how the trial was paid for, noting that Halford would not accept money from the participants and told them “it would get him in more trouble if he was ever caught.” Even though Halford was apparently aware of the potential “suicide” that could occur if his under-the-radar trial became public, he launched a similar trial in 2016 at a house in St. Kitts, once again failing to notify US or local authorities. News of that trial was made public earlier this year. A woman from Colorado who took part in that trial has also reported possible side effects from the injections. Was the university aware? SIU has refused to comment to Kaiser about Halford’s 2013 trials. However, many exchanges between Halford and the participants in 2013 were sent from his university email account. He also used the university telephone for communication and referred to a graduate student as assisting in the trial and to using a laboratory on campus. “My lab currently consists of myself and 1 graduate student and anything I do with you guys or your blood is extra and on top of what I get paid to do …” he wrote in a November 3, 2013, email. After a Kaiser report stated that Halford completed the 2016 trial with no independent safety or oversight, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanded a response from SIU. In an initial response to federal authorities, the university said it found “serious non-compliance with regulatory requirements and institutional policies and procedures.” “If deemed necessary, SIU will develop an effective corrective action plan,” the dean of SIU’s medical school, Jerry Kruse, wrote in a letter to the HHS, which was obtained by Kaiser under the Freedom of Information Act. The university previously said it had no role, responsibility, or knowledge of the 2016 trial on St. Kitts, because Halford pursued it through Rational Vaccines, a company he co-founded in 2015. Its sole purposed was to market and research the herpes vaccine. However, SIU shared a patent on the herpes injection with the company, and promoted Halford’s research on its website. Furthermore, when a company owned by entrepreneur and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested millions of dollars into the research in April, SIU publicly hailed Halford and Rational Vaccines. Several of the participants of both trials have told Kaiser that they asked SIU for help. The Colorado woman called the university “dismissive,” while a participant from California said he wanted the university to continue the vaccine research with safety oversight while “taking responsibility.” When SIU did not provide him with an adequate response, he said “it was obvious they want nothing to do with us.” Meanwhile, the surviving co-founder of Rational Vaccines, Hollywood filmmaker Agustín Fernández III, has said he considers the 2016 trial a success, and vowed to continue the research. He said that he was not involved with Halford’s work before the company was formed (meaning he had no part in the 2013 trial), but said he is aware of “individuals who experienced positive outcomes from the vaccine.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/vaccine-company-tests-hotels/
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9 Unexpected Outcomes Of Human Cloning
George Dvorsky 7/17/14 12:17pm
Human cloning is currently illegal in virtually all parts of the world, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. Here are some surprising things we can expect once we're finally allowed to make genetic duplicates of ourselves. Back in 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Declaration on Human Cloning prohibiting all forms of human cloning "inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life." The ruling prohibits both therapeutic cloning, in which cells are cloned from a human for use in medicine and transplants, and reproductive cloning, the practice of creating a living, breathing genetic duplicate. Though many countries disagreed with the declaration, the resulting moratorium is respected around the globe. To date, no human clone has ever been born. But back in 2008, researchers successfully created the first five mature human embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) where the nucleus of a somatic cell was taken from a donor and transplanted into a vacant host egg cell. The embryos were only allowed to develop to the blastocyst stage, at which point they were studied and then destroyed. So we know we can do it — we're just not entirely sure if it's completely safe. Nor is public opinion on board with the prospect. But that's not to say it won't ever happen. As the science improves, and as the concept gets normalized in our culture (thanks to shows like Orphan Black), people's opinions will likely change, and with it, the laws. But if human cloning ever does become legal, we can expect some weirdness. Here are nine surprising outcomes. 1. Who Clones Who? Let's say you clone yourself. Should your clone, in turn, be allowed to clone him or herself? How could you possibly say no, and what makes you think you'd even have any control over your genome at this point anyway? Here's the thing — the moment you choose to reproduce via human cloning, you're going to have to expect that it may not be the only genetic version of yourself to roam this great Earth; it's doubtful that the law would preclude your clonal offspring from reproducing in the same way you did. Likewise, a corporation could also claim ownership, particularly if they invented the technique used to clone you (better make sure to read the fine print). This is one of the underlying themes of the popular television show Orphan Black, in which a wealthy biotech firm, the Dyad Institute, claims intellectual ownership over a clonal line. Given the open and ambiguous state of patent law today, it's conceivable that certain human genomes, or parts of it, may lie outside our ownership, and subsequently, our control. 2. Illicit Cloning Disturbingly, there's also the potential for someone to clone you illegally. All they'd have to do is gather the required biological material, like your skin or blood cells, and hire a willing surrogate to carry your clone to term. Back in 2002, the Raelian UFO cult falsely claimed to have cloned the first human, who they dubbed "Eve." The incident hinted at the potential for other groups to do it for real in the future. Such an act would be extremely unethical, but not impossible. In the future, credible fertility clinics should refuse to do it without some kind of written consent, but black market options will likely become available. There's also the potential for biotech labs to do it covertly, along with cults and religious groups. Why would someone or some group do this? Aside from religious or profit motives, perhaps they'd be looking to clone their favorite celebrity, or raise a genetic duplicate of their favorite scientist or political figure. 3. Raising the Dead It's also possible that prospective parents might want to raise the clone of a parent or grandparent who's recently passed away. Of course, and ideally, the deceased person would have given prior consent to such a thing. The laws aren't there yet, but the day is coming when we'll need to clarify in our wills whether or not we would be accepting of this after we pass away. Our genetic constitutions will become part of our "estate" after death. Couples in mourning may also want to clone a dead child, perhaps one lost to an accident. This prospect is ethically challenging for a number of reasons, including the fact that the deceased child cannot give consent, nor would it truly "return" the original child (it would merely produce a twin). 4. Genetic Immortality It appears that we can clone clones indefinitely. Last year, researchers in Japan used a new technique to produce 26 successful generations of cloned mice from a single individual. In total, they produced 598 mice — all of them genetic duplicates. The breakthrough shows that mammalian cloning lines — humans included — can be extended and reproduced without limit. This implies that a kind of genetic immortality can be achieved; an exact replica of yourself can be copied for generations on end. Duncan Idaho's gholas from the Dune saga would be proud. (image: Hasloo Group Production Studio/Shutterstock) 5. Iterative Improvements Over Generations On a related note, indefinite cloning could lead to the practice of selective trait modifications over time. By using heritable germline gene therapy, each successive generation of clones could be augmented or altered in specific ways. For example, your clonal line could feature slow, iterative improvements to intelligence and memory. Or changes to physical characteristics, like hair color or morphology. Artificial chromosomes could be introduced as they're developed and improved over time by scientists. After centuries of this virtual asexual reproduction, your "offspring" would scarcely resemble the original version, namely you. 6. The Doppelganger Effect This probably wouldn't pose a problem for the first generation of clones, but if some lines are reproduced enough, it could lead to an incessant rash of mistaken identity. People would be convinced that they saw someone they know or recognize, when in fact it was a clone. This would only apply, of course, to inter-generational clones of roughly the same age. Relatedly, it could lead to new kind of identity theft in which clones pretend to be another person. 7. Rendering Biosignatures Useless Which bring up an interesting point as it pertains to forensic science and the acquisition of biosignatures. The proliferation of clones would introduce a slew of problems for investigators or systems reliant on biometrics. Facial recognition scans would pull up multiple matches, as would DNA fingerprinting. And in fact, there's already a precedent with this, but one that doesn't involve clones. Last year, identical twins in the UK were both charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl — even though forensic tests could not prove which one carried out the attack. 8. Nature vs. Nurture Put to the Test Twins separated at birth have been a boon to scientists, particular those who study behavioral genetics. It offers them the opportunity to compare the impacts of socialization and environment on individuals who share the same genome. Unfortunately, however, there are achingly few subjects to study. Cloning could change that. What's more, scientists would not only be able to study intergenerational clones, but also clones separated by an entire generation or more. The results would undoubtedly be fascinating. We could see the extent to which sociological factors play a role in the development of personality, and the way epigenetic changes are triggered by the environment (including the mother's womb) 9. An Accepted Assistive Reproductive Technology Less speculatively, human cloning will simply serve as an alternative means of reproduction, particularly for infertile couples or same-sex couples looking to have biologically related offspring. The current hysteria directed at human cloning is eerily reminiscent of the backlash to so-called "test tube babies" in the late 1970s. Critics worried about a brave new world populated by freakish lab-grown children. Today, the fear is gone; approximately 200,000 babies are born each year in the United States via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and no one seems to care. I fully expect the same process of normalization to happen happen with human cloning. As for the argument that people are arrogant or narcissistic for wanting to clone themselves, that's grossly unfair. Wanting to have related offspring is a perfectly normal thing — even if it is a genetic duplicate, or a "delayed twin." What's more, parents who reproduce "normally" often have children — and subsequently raise them — for reasons far worse than this. We can't simply point the finger at cloners and declare their motivations as somehow being wrong or deviant. What matters is that they have access to reproductive technologies, and that they assume the role of a responsible parent. (image: Sukharevskyy Dmytro (nevodka)/Shutterstock) Finally, as for clones inundating the gene pool, that's highly, highly unlikely. The vast majority of people will never opt to clone themselves, so the number of clones in our society will always remain excruciatingly low. There will be no "homogenization" of the human gene pool. Follow me on Twitter: @dvorsky
https://io9.gizmodo.com/9-unexpected-outcomes-of-human-cloning-1606556772
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An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
John Brandon@jmbrandonbb October 2, 2017 2:10 PM
Image Credit: Apple
In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether this AI — which could design and program additional AI programs all on its own, read data from an almost infinite number of data sources, and control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god, something that can write its own bible and draw humans to worship it. Recently, reports surfaced that a controversy-plagued engineer who once worked at Uber has started a new religion. Anthony Levandowski filed paperwork for a nonprofit religious organization called The Way of the Future. Its mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” Building divinity Of course, this is nothing new. The Singularity is another quasi-spiritual idea that believes an AI will become smarter than humans at some point. You might laugh at the notion of an AI being so powerful that humans bow down to worship it, but several experts who talked to VentureBeat argue that the idea is a lot more feasible than you might think. One of the experts is Vince Lynch, who started a company called IV.AI that builds custom AI for the enterprise. Lynch explained how there are some similarities between organized religion and how an AI actually works. In the Bible used by Image Credit: Apple In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether this AI — which could design and program additional AI programs all on its own, read data from an almost infinite number of data sources, and control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god, something that can write its own bible and draw humans to worship it. Recently, reports surfaced that a controversy-plagued engineer who once worked at Uber has started a new religion. Anthony Levandowski filed paperwork for a nonprofit religious organization called The Way of the Future. Its mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” Building divinity Of course, this is nothing new. The Singularity is another quasi-spiritual idea that believes an AI will become smarter than humans at some point. You might laugh at the notion of an AI being so powerful that humans bow down to worship it, but several experts who talked to VentureBeat argue that the idea is a lot more feasible than you might think. One of the experts is Vince Lynch, who started a company called IV.AI that builds custom AI for the enterprise. Lynch explained how there are some similarities between organized religion and how an AI actually works. In the Bible used by Christians, for example, Lynch says there are many recurring themes, imagery, and metaphors. “Teaching humans about religious education is similar to the way we teach knowledge to machines: repetition of many examples that are versions of a concept you want the machine to learn,” he says. “There is also commonality between AI and religion in the hierarchical structure of knowledge understanding found in neural networks. The concept of teaching a machine to learn … and then teaching it to teach … (or write AI) isn’t so different from the concept of a holy trinity or a being achieving enlightenment after many lessons learned with varying levels of success and failure.” Indeed, Lynch even shared a simple AI model to make his point. If you type in multiple verses from the Christian Bible, you can have the AI write a new verse that seems eerily similar. Here’s one an AI wrote: “And let thy companies deliver thee; but will with mine own arm save them: even unto this land, from the kingdom of heaven.” An AI that is all-powerful in the next 25-50 years could decide to write a similar AI bible for humans to follow, one that matches its own collective intelligence. It might tell you what to do each day, or where to travel, or how to live your life. Robbee Minicola, who runs a digital agency and an AI services company in Seattle, agreed that an all-knowing AI could appear to be worthy of worship, especially since the AI has some correlations to how organized religion works today. The AI would understand how the world works at a higher level than humans, and humans would trust that this AI would provide the information we need for our daily lives. It would parse this information for us and enlighten us in ways that might seem familiar to anyone who practices religion, such as Christianity. “[For a Christian] one kind of large data asset pertaining to God is the Old and New Testament,” she says. “So, in terms of Image Credit: Apple In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether this AI — which could design and program additional AI programs all on its own, read data from an almost infinite number of data sources, and control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god, something that can write its own bible and draw humans to worship it. Recently, reports surfaced that a controversy-plagued engineer who once worked at Uber has started a new religion. Anthony Levandowski filed paperwork for a nonprofit religious organization called The Way of the Future. Its mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” Building divinity Of course, this is nothing new. The Singularity is another quasi-spiritual idea that believes an AI will become smarter than humans at some point. You might laugh at the notion of an AI being so powerful that humans bow down to worship it, but several experts who talked to VentureBeat argue that the idea is a lot more feasible than you might think. One of the experts is Vince Lynch, who started a company called IV.AI that builds custom AI for the enterprise. Lynch explained how there are some similarities between organized religion and how an AI actually works. In the Bible used by Christians, for example, Lynch says there are many recurring themes, imagery, and metaphors. “Teaching humans about religious education is similar to the way we teach knowledge to machines: repetition of many examples that are versions of a concept you want the machine to learn,” he says. “There is also commonality between AI and religion in the hierarchical structure of knowledge understanding found in neural networks. The concept of teaching a machine to learn … and then teaching it to teach … (or write AI) isn’t so different from the concept of a holy trinity or a being achieving enlightenment after many lessons learned with varying levels of success and failure.” Indeed, Lynch even shared a simple AI model to make his point. If you type in multiple verses from the Christian Bible, you can have the AI write a new verse that seems eerily similar. Here’s one an AI wrote: “And let thy companies deliver thee; but will with mine own arm save them: even unto this land, from the kingdom of heaven.” An AI that is all-powerful in the next 25-50 years could decide to write a similar AI bible for humans to follow, one that matches its own collective intelligence. It might tell you what to do each day, or where to travel, or how to live your life. Robbee Minicola, who runs a digital agency and an AI services company in Seattle, agreed that an all-knowing AI could appear to be worthy of worship, especially since the AI has some correlations to how organized religion works today. The AI would understand how the world works at a higher level than humans, and humans would trust that this AI would provide the information we need for our daily lives. It would parse this information for us and enlighten us in ways that might seem familiar to anyone who practices religion, such as Christianity. “[For a Christian] one kind of large data asset pertaining to God is the Old and New Testament,” she says. “So, in terms of expressing machine learning algorithms over the Christian Bible to ascertain communicable insights on ‘what God would do’ or ‘what God would say’ — you might just be onto something here. In terms of extending what God would do way back then to what God would do today — you may also have something there.” The dark side Of course, any discussion about an AI god leads quickly to some implications about what this “god” would look like and whether we would actually decide to worship it. Some of the implications are troubling because, as humans, we do have a tendency to trust in things beyond our own capacity — e.g., driving in a major city using GPS and trusting we will arrive safely, as opposed to actually knowing where we want to drive and trusting our instincts. And, if an AI god is in total control, you have to wonder what it might do. The “bible” might contain a prescription for how to serve the AI god. We might not even know that the AI god we are serving is primarily trying to wipe us off the face of the planet. Part of the issue is related to how an AI actually works. From a purely technical standpoint, the experts I talked to found it hard to envision an AI god that can think in creative ways. An AI is programmed only to do a specific task. They wondered how an AI could jump from being a travel chatbot into dictating how to live. And the experts agreed that actual compassion or serving as part of an organized religion — activities that are essential to faith — go far beyond basic intellectual pursuit. There’s a mystery to religion, a divine component that is not 100 based on what we can perceive or know. This transcendence is the part where an AI will have the most difficulty, even in the far future. Vincent Jacques runs a company called ChainTrade that uses AI to analyze blockchain. It’s hyper-focused machine learning — the AI enforces anti-money laundering statutes. That’s obviously a long way from an AI that can tell you how to live your life or read an AI bible. “It would be extremely dangerous to have an all-knowing, thinking AI being someday,” says Jacques. “All computer programs, including AI programs, are built for a specific and narrow purpose: win a chess game, win a go game, reduce an electricity bill etc. The computer logic, even if it is advanced AI, doesn’t play well with a general will and general thinking capability that could at the same time design military strategies, marketing strategies, and learn how to play chess from scratch. For this reason, I’m not really scared of a potential super-thinker that could overthrow us one day — I believe that the inventive and innovative part will always be missing.” For her part, Minicola argues that an AI may be able to guide people and enlighten them in an intellectual way, but this is not the same as an actual expression of faith or any form of transcendence. “In terms of AI taking on God and manifesting something beyond data that simply does not exist, or rather beyond God — that’s not happening,” she says. In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether this AI — which could design and program additional AI programs all on its own, read data from an almost infinite number of data sources, and control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god, something that can write its own bible and draw humans to worship it. Recently, reports surfaced that a controversy-plagued engineer who once worked at Uber has started a new religion. Anthony Levandowski filed paperwork for a nonprofit religious organization called The Way of the Future. Its mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” Building divinity Of course, this is nothing new. The Singularity is another quasi-spiritual idea that believes an AI will become smarter than humans at some point. You might laugh at the notion of an AI being so powerful that humans bow down to worship it, but several experts who talked to VentureBeat argue that the idea is a lot more feasible than you might think. One of the experts is Vince Lynch, who started a company called IV.AI that builds custom AI for the enterprise. Lynch explained how there are some similarities between organized religion and how an AI actually works. In the Bible used by Christians, for example, Lynch says there are many recurring themes, imagery, and metaphors. “Teaching humans about religious education is similar to the way we teach knowledge to machines: repetition of many examples that are versions of a concept you want the machine to learn,” he says. “There is also commonality between AI and religion in the hierarchical structure of knowledge understanding found in neural networks. The concept of teaching a machine to learn … and then teaching it to teach … (or write AI) isn’t so different from the concept of a holy trinity or a being achieving enlightenment after many lessons learned with varying levels of success and failure.” Indeed, Lynch even shared a simple AI model to make his point. If you type in multiple verses from the Christian Bible, you can have the AI write a new verse that seems eerily similar. Here’s one an AI wrote: “And let thy companies deliver thee; but will with mine own arm save them: even unto this land, from the kingdom of heaven.” An AI that is all-powerful in the next 25-50 years could decide to write a similar AI bible for humans to follow, one that matches its own collective intelligence. It might tell you what to do each day, or where to travel, or how to live your life. Robbee Minicola, who runs a digital agency and an AI services company in Seattle, agreed that an all-knowing AI could appear to be worthy of worship, especially since the AI has some correlations to how organized religion works today. The AI would understand how the world works at a higher level than humans, and humans would trust that this AI would provide the information we need for our daily lives. It would parse this information for us and enlighten us in ways that might seem familiar to anyone who practices religion, such as Christianity. “[For a Christian] one kind of large data asset pertaining to God is the Old and New Testament,” she says. “So, in terms of expressing machine learning algorithms over the Christian Bible to ascertain communicable insights on ‘what God would do’ or ‘what God would say’ — you might just be onto something here. In terms of extending what God would do way back then to what God would do today — you may also have something there.” The dark side Of course, any discussion about an AI god leads quickly to some implications about what this “god” would look like and whether we would actually decide to worship it. Some of the implications are troubling because, as humans, we do have a tendency to trust in things beyond our own capacity — e.g., driving in a major city using GPS and trusting we will arrive safely, as opposed to actually knowing where we want to drive and trusting our instincts. And, if an AI god is in total control, you have to wonder what it might do. The “bible” might contain a prescription for how to serve the AI god. We might not even know that the AI god we are serving is primarily trying to wipe us off the face of the planet. Part of the issue is related to how an AI actually works. From a purely technical standpoint, the experts I talked to found it hard to envision an AI god that can think in creative ways. An AI is programmed only to do a specific task. They wondered how an AI could jump from being a travel chatbot into dictating how to live. And the experts agreed that actual compassion or serving as part of an organized religion — activities that are essential to faith — go far beyond basic intellectual pursuit. There’s a mystery to religion, a divine component that is not 100 percent based on what we can perceive or know. This transcendence is the part where an AI will have the most difficulty, even in the far future. Vincent Jacques runs a company called ChainTrade that uses AI to analyze blockchain. It’s hyper-focused machine learning — the AI enforces anti-money laundering statutes. That’s obviously a long way from an AI that can tell you how to live your life or read an AI bible. “It would be extremely dangerous to have an all-knowing, thinking AI being someday,” says Jacques. “All computer programs, including AI programs, are built for a specific and narrow purpose: win a chess game, win a go game, reduce an electricity bill etc. The computer logic, even if it is advanced AI, doesn’t play well with a general will and general thinking capability that could at the same time design military strategies, marketing strategies, and learn how to play chess from scratch. For this reason, I’m not really scared of a potential super-thinker that could overthrow us one day — I believe that the inventive and innovative part will always be missing.” For her part, Minicola argues that an AI may be able to guide people and enlighten them in an intellectual way, but this is not the same as an actual expression of faith or any form of transcendence. “In terms of AI taking on God and manifesting something beyond data that simply does not exist, or rather beyond God — that’s not happening,” she says. Actual worship, though? In my view, this is where the dangers come into play. As a Christian myself, it’s hard to imagine ever worshiping a bot that lacks any real personality, wisdom, or ability to become relevant and personal, no matter how much more intelligent it is than any human. An AI god would be cold and impersonal, an intellectual “being” that’s not capable of love or emotion. Will people actually worship the AI god? The answer is obvious — they will. We tend to trust and obey things that seem more powerful and worthy than ourselves. The GPS in your car is just the most obvious example. But we also trust Alexa and Cortana; we trust Google. When an AI becomes much more powerful, in 25 to 50 years, there is a great possibility that it will be deified in some way. (Apple and Google loyalists already have a religious fervor.) If an AI god does emerge, and people do start worshiping it, there will be many implications about how this AI will need to be regulated … or even subdued. Hang on for the ride.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/25/ai-adoption-is-limited-by-incurred-risk-not-potential-benefit/
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Published Nov. 20, 2017 at 09:21PM / Updated November 21, 2017 at 02:20PM
Deer and elk disease comes to Central Oregon
Chronic wasting disease found in carcass brought from Montana to Madras
Stephen Hamway The Bulletin @Shamway1
Oregon saw its first confirmed case of a fatal and easily spread disease that affects deer and elk earlier this month, thanks to a Madras hunter. Following a recent hunting trip to Montana, Madras resident Lyle Rehwinkel, 46, brought the carcass of a deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a protein disease that infects the brains and nervous systems of deer and other hoofed mammals, to Central Oregon. Tim Schwartz, division lieutenant for Oregon State Police, said there had never before been a confirmed case of an animal carcass carrying the infamous disease in Oregon. “To my knowledge, this is the first,” Schwartz said. Chronic wasting disease is found in captive and wild deer and elk populations in pockets across North America, from Pennsylvania to Alberta. Colin Gillin, state wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the disease is spread through saliva, urine and feces, and can live in the environment — in soil or even in plant populations — for years after a contaminated animal makes contact. Gillin said the disease can sometimes take more than a year to show symptoms after a deer contracts it, but it’s always fatal. “They’re almost like the Typhoid Mary of the (deer and elk) world,” Gillin said of infected animals. No known outbreaks of the disease have occurred on the West Coast, but Gillin said the disease has been occurring in Colorado for at least 50 years, and it affects up to 40 percent of wild deer in Wyoming, along with a significant percentage in Utah. Montana had only seen one other positive sample, but its proximity to affected populations in other states makes it a concern, Gillin said. With deer and elk populations in other Western states suffering from the disease, Oregon has made controlling its spread a priority. In 2002, the ODFW Commission banned the importation of live deer and elk from other states. The agency also banned hunters from bringing certain parts of deer and elk carcasses, including the skulls or nervous system, where chronic wasting disease is most concentrated in the body, from states where there has been a known case of the disease. Hunters who violate the ban can be cited for a misdemeanor. “It’s a fairly extreme measure, but it reduces your risk,” Gillin added. On Nov. 8, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a state agency that handles laws and regulations around wildlife in that state, notified Oregon State Police and ODFW that Rehwinkel’s mule deer carcass, which had not been properly harvested, had tested positive for the disease. Rehwinkel was cited for importing illegal deer parts, and state police officers confiscated meat from the infected deer. Rehwinkel could not be reached for comment. While some parts of the carcass were found on Rehwinkel’s property, other parts were buried at the landfill, according to Gillin. Ultimately, Schwartz said the state agencies determined that the parts at the landfill were buried too deep to be a danger to other deer or elk. The remaining parts, Gillin said, are in ODFW’s possession and will be incinerated at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, a necessary step to ensure the disease can’t endure. “It’s not like you can just throw it on the bonfire,” Gillin said.
— Reporter: 541-617-7818, shamway@bendbulletin.com
http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/5771024-151/deer-and-elk-disease-comes-to-central-oregon
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etc.. The clock is ticking, the midnight hour is already striking, the horses have been riding and yet many see not the things I have told them. They understand not what my word has said, etc..
Rev 6:4
4 And another horse appeared, a red
one. Its rider was given a mighty sword and the authority to
remove peace from the earth. And there was war
and slaughter everywhere. (NLT)
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Thursday, 23 November 2017
Horror in Yemen! War... Famine... Drought...1 million with cholera and now diphtheria while key ports for humanitarian shipments remain closed
Three people have died of suspected diphtheria in conflict-hit Yemen, doctors said Wednesday, as the World Health Organisation and International Committee of the Red Cross warned the disease was spreading. "Currently, there is an increase in diphtheria cases, due to the poor vaccination coverage for children under five years of age," an ICRC spokeswoman told AFP. The WHO also confirmed diphtheria cases had appeared in Yemen, where war has left hospitals struggling to secure basic medical supplies including vaccines. In the port city of Hudaydah, paediatrician Ousan al-Absi at the Al-Thawra hospital said three people had died of diphtheria over the past 24 hours. "We were surprised by the emergence of diphtheria cases here. We diagnosed and gave them emergency care as best we could," he said. "Some of them were dead when they arrived." Diphtheria, a bacterial infection that is preventable by vaccine, attacks the nose and throat and - if left untreated it attacks the heart and nervous system. While it is treatable, the infection can be deadly, particularly for children. The US-based Mayo Clinic estimates up to three percent of those who contract diphtheria will die. More than 2,000 people have died of cholera in Yemen this year, adding to the 8,600 who have died in the conflict between the Saudi-backed government and Houthi militias since 2015. The United Nations has warned that Yemen will face "the largest famine the world has seen for decades". There were more than 925,000 suspected cholera cases with over 2,200 associated deaths in Yemen as of Sunday, while key ports for humanitarian shipments remained closed, said the United Nations on Wednesday. Aid workers continue to respond to the outbreak, but fuel to run hospital generators and to pump clean water will run out in less than three weeks, Deputy UN spokesman for the secretary-general Farhan Haq quoted the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as saying. Vaccines needed to treat diphtheria will also run out in two weeks, warned OCHA. Ships and planes carrying humanitarian supplies have been unable to reach Yemen since the start of a blockade on Nov. 6, said Haq. The Saudi-led military coalition, which is fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen and is trying to restore the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, blocked land, sea and air access to Yemen after Saudi Arabia intercepted a missile launched by Houthi rebels toward the Saudi capital city of Riyadh on Nov. 4. The closure has sparked international outcry as it further deteriorated the already dire humanitarian situation in Yemen. UN humanitarian aid chief Mark Lowcock, who briefed the Security Council last week, warned that Yemen would see the world's largest famine in decades unless the blockade is lifted. The Security Council stressed the need to keep all seaports and airports functioning, including the seaport of Hudaydah, a critical lifeline for humanitarian aid and other essential supplies. The council demanded parties provide "full, safe, rapid and unhindered access" for humanitarian supplies and UN personnel to all affected governorates in the war-torn country. More than two-thirds of people in need and more than 80 percent of all cholera cases are located in the areas closest to Hudaydah and Saleef ports, according to the United Nations. Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, said Monday that the Saudi-led coalition would reopen seaports and airports in areas controlled by the Yemeni government within 24 hours. But he said those in rebel-held areas, including Hudaydah and Sanaa, would remain closed unless a stricter UN verification and inspection mechanism is in place over cargo transferred through those ports. The entire population of Yemen is dependent on food, fuel and medicine imports, primarily through seaports and more than 17 million Yemenis, or more than two-thirds of the population, are already food insecure, according to the United Nations. The World Food Program said Monday that the current stock of rice would run out in 111 days and stock of wheat in 97 days. Home
Posted by Gary Walton at 12:18 pm
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/11/horror-in-yemen-war-famine-drought1.html
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Why Millennials Are Having So Much Trouble ‘Adulting’
Annie Holmquist | November 22, 2017
Not long ago it was announced that “The Adulting School” was open for business. Its mission was to teach young millennials to do the basic tasks of life, such as cooking and time management, which they had somehow failed to acquire in their childhood years. But while the “The Adulting School” received a great deal of scornful condescension, the fact remains that many young people are in need of its services. Statistics show that this is particularly true in the area of cooking. While millennials are interested in the skill, roughly one-third to one-half of them lack confidence in their culinary abilities. A major reason for this culinary lack is the fact that “fewer millennials have had stay-at-home parents teaching them to cook.” That’s unfortunate, because as New York Times columnist Dorie Greenspan recently explained, teaching children to cook has countless benefits. Besides gaining the knowledge of cooking, getting kids in the kitchen provides an invaluable opportunity for parents to spend time with their offspring and talk about subjects that don’t always come up in the busyness of life. But as Greenspan goes on to imply, one of the hardest parts of teaching children to cook is knowing when it’s time to step back and let them fly on their own: “Our time in the kitchen – all those cookies and cakes and brownies and cupcakes – gave Joshua that quiet sense of competence. Maybe especially the cupcakes. I remember one afternoon when Joshua must have been in middle school. Until that day, every baking project was a work for 20 fingers; that day, he told me that I could sit on the windowsill, that he would make the cupcakes himself. I watched him line the muffin tins with pleated papers and mix the batter. We chatted, and he worked, checking that there was the same amount of batter in each cup, poking the tops of the cakes to see if they were baked through and finally frosting them. When the cupcakes were ready, he admired his work. I did, too.” Although she may not realize it, Greenspan’s experience of allowing her son to go solo in the kitchen reveals the second major reason today’s millennials have so much trouble “adulting.” Yes, many of them are never taught the basic skills in the first place. But those who have learned them may never have had the opportunity to practice them without a watchful eye peering over their shoulder to make sure they don’t have a mishap. C.S. Lewis once described this state of affairs as a misplaced form of love on the part of the parent. A truly loving parent, Lewis implied, needs to eventually work himself or herself out of a job: “But the proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. We feed children in order that they may soon be able to feed themselves; we teach them in order that they may soon not need our teaching. Thus a heavy task is laid upon this Gift-love. It must work towards its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say ‘They need me no longer’ should be our reward.” Today’s parents are continually concerned whether they are doing a good job raising their children. Based on Lewis’ words, knowing that isn’t as difficult as we might think. The best parenting, it would appear, is that which trains a child how to think and act responsibly on his own. Annie is a research associate with Intellectual Takeout. In her role, she assists with website content production and social media messaging. Annie received a B.A. in Biblical Studies from the University of Northwestern-St. Paul. She also brings 20+ years of experience as a music educator and a volunteer teacher – particularly with inner city children – to the table in her research and writing. In her spare time Annie enjoys the outdoors, gardening, reading, and events with family and friends.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/why-millennials-are-having-so-much-trouble-adulting
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Oh, Lord! Church of Sweden Drops Male God For the Sake of Inclusion
12:21 24.11.2017(updated 12:22 24.11.2017)
In a bid to become more inclusive, the Church of Sweden has voted to adopt a new handbook that advocates discarding masculine references to God, such as "he" and "Lord." Amid scathing criticism, the Church of Sweden has approved the new controversial and gender-neutral handbook by a large majority. The new guidelines, which are a politically correct update of a more traditional 1986 handbook, are the centerpiece for the church's activities, as they explicate the rules for how it operates in terms of language and proceedings. The most divisive proposal was to stop "unnecessarily" referring to God in a masculine way, such as "he," "Lord" and "Master" to make the church more inclusive. Another contentious instance of the church's politically correct newspeak is the notion of "sin" being replaced with "shortcoming." Instead of the traditional way, God may thus be referred to as "Mother" in some prayers, according to the handbook. "God, Holy Trinity, Father and Mother, Son — Sister and Brother, and Spirit — Lifeguard and Giver of Inspiration, lead us to your depths of wealth, wisdom and knowledge," an example quoted by the handbook said. Archbishop Antje Jackelén thanked everyone who participated in the work. "Let's show the world that we are a church that can embrace diversity," Jackelén said, as quoted by the Church of Sweden's mouthpiece Kyrkans Tidning. The initiative, which has been in progress since 2009, triggered strong reactions, not least from within the church itself. "I believe that some of these variants are in flagrant discord with great church tradition and the ecumenical consensus that exists between major churches," Church commissioner Mikael Löwegren in Ljungby, Småland County said, as quoted by the Sydsvenskan daily. Löwegren argued that this decision signified that the Church of Sweden "ceased to exist as a coherent spiritual community." "Under the guise of 'diversity', society is being broken down into different groups," Löwegren said, arguing that the new manual effectively dismantled church unity by allowing differences from parish to parish. He also argued that the gender-neutrality toward God "took the Church of Sweden further away from major churches instead of bringing it closer to them." Priest Helena Edlund, who blasted the church for having shown "a total unwillingness to listen to criticism," expressed her concern over the development. "If the Church of Sweden is to be a part of the world-wide Christian church, we cannot always choose the paths that tear us apart from the tree and its roots, we must choose unity instead of breaking away," Edlund told the Världen Idag news outlet last year. However, Sofia Camnerin, the deputy chair of the Uniting Church of Sweden, defended the use of "inclusive language" in the church. "Referring to God as 'Lord' consolidates gender hierarchies and the subordination of women in a white, Western feminist context," Camnerin argued in a blog earlier this year, claiming that legitimizing hierarchies led to violence and subordination. In recent years, the Church of Sweden has been involved in a number of interfaith and inclusion projects. Since allowing the blessing same-sex marriage in 2009 in a stance for love in all its forms, the Church of Sweden has played a major part in the LGBT movement. Sweden's first female Archbishop Antje Jackelén infamously chose "God is Greater" as her motto, which many perceived as a direct reference to "Allakhu Akbar," a well-known Muslim expression of faith. Sweden's first openly lesbian Bishop of Stockholm Eva Brunne continued the trend by notoriously suggesting removing crosses from the local Seamen's Church in order to accommodate Muslim believers.
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201711241059391218-sweden-church-male-god/
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etc Troops in the streets. The man of peace rising to his place. The false prophet making his move into his role. The times ahead are hard, yet my people who know me and walk with me shall be well taken care of etc.
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etc. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. etc.
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“Out Of Control Genocide” In Baltimore, Residents Support Martial Law
“They need it in the areas that are highly targeted as shooting zones, killing zones.”
Zero Hedge - November 23, 2017
While in Baltimore City, Maryland, death and despair are a few things that are plentiful as the region descends into chaos. Deindustrialization coupled with depopulation started in the 1960s stripping the city of economic wealth. Many don’t want to admit, the city is shrinking as their looking glass is clouded with Kevin Plank’s gentrification narrative. Wealth inequality in the area is some of the widest in the United States with more than 100,000 African Americans with zero dollars to their name, according to JPM. Baltimore is a skeleton of what it once was many decades ago when it had its industries. Now, 46,800 homes are vacant– almost 16% of the housing stock as citizens are either leaving the area or being pushed into multi-family complexes by the city. Neighborhoods are rotting away as the local economy crumbles giving way to a surge in homicides. Baltimore is on track for the worse year ever with a homicide rate the highest in the United States. Baltimore is home to about 615,000 people, but the city has more homicides than New York or Los Angeles, both of which have far larger populations. Earlier this year, Mayor Catherine Pugh called in the Federal Government in hopes to restore order. She was even quoted, “violence in the city is out of control”… With the police department hemorrhaging officers, local community organized groups have taken to the streets in attempt to slow the momentum of out of control homicides. The movement is called Baltimore Ceasefire and the group has held two weekend city-wide ceasefire campaigns of “Nobody Kill Anybody”… Both ceasefires have failed. According to WSJ, Most murder victims are African-American men, and shootings happen largely in areas where residents live surrounded by poverty, unemployment, drug addiction and crime, city police records show. WSJ interviews Jackie Moodie, a resident of Baltimore who said “I’m always looking around at my surroundings”…. Moodie’s 27-year old son, Sir Jamareo Moodie, was fatally shot in February. “These children are so crazy. They get on drugs, they don’t care and they have guns. This is nothing but a bunch of genocide,” she said. According to WSJ, Moodie supports “martial law” on the streets to stop out of control homicides, At this point she would support “martial law” on the streets. “They need it in the areas that are highly targeted as shooting zones, killing zones,” she said, noting that this month, three people were shot, one fatally, a short distance from a Northwest Baltimore police station. In a preview of what’s to come, we reported on an incident over the weekend where the “police declared martial law” according to one citizen, after an entire neighborhood was shut down with the installation of checkpoints. The 4-5 day lockdown started late last week and ended Monday, after a police detective was executed in broad daylight.
https://www.infowars.com/out-of-control-genocide-in-baltimore-residents-support-martial-law/
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President Trump Triggers Liberals On Thanksgiving & Puts 'Almighty God' Back Into Thanksgiving Proclamation After Obama Removed All Mention Of God In 2016
November 23, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While liberals across the internet are encouraging others to "ruin Thanksgiving" by arguing politics during the Holiday, rather than spending Thanksgiving day being thankful to God for everything we have, our family, friends, loved ones, President Trump just did an amazing thing when he issued his presidential Thanksgiving proclamation. The President invoked God six times in his first Thanksgiving proclamation, starting with the very first sentence when it states "On Thanksgiving Day, as we have for nearly four centuries, Americans give thanks to Almighty God for our abundant blessings." This is stark contrast to the past eight years as Barack Obama did not personally invoke God in his first Thanksgiving day proclamation, but only quoted George Washington, who spoke of the Almighty God. Throughout the years of Obama's presidency, he personally referenced God in his Thanksgiving proclamations a total of five times in eight years, excluding quotes from others, such as Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but by 2016, Obama had stripped any mention of God from his last Thanksgiving proclamation, including the quotes from others that spoke of the Almighty God. This goes back to other statements we have seen from President Trump, such as declaring that this nation would once again proudly say "Merry Christmas," rather than the "politically correct" Happy Holidays. A nation to which we have seen constant attacks against God is now being encouraged to find their way back to His grace by our president, as evidenced by countless statements made, including one President Trump made in October at the Values Voters Summit when speaking of his first ten months, he stated "We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values." He went on to quote the Founding Fathers and the founding documents of the United States, by saying "America is a nation of believers and we are strengthened and sustained by the power of prayer." Another statement he made which national news downplayed but to which those of faith noted, was when he said "In America, we don’t worship government. We worship God." So today, as liberal writers attempt to destroy a day in which we should be thankful to the Almighty God for everything we have been given, by encouraging dissent and anger and hate, the rest of America can be thankful that President Trump has put the Almighty God back into the Presidential Thanksgiving day proclamation. Full Proclamation below, via the White House website:
THANKSGIVING DAY, 2017 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On Thanksgiving Day, as we have for nearly four centuries, Americans give thanks to Almighty God for our abundant blessings. We gather with the people we love to show gratitude for our freedom, for our friends and families, and for the prosperous Nation we call home. In July 1620, more than 100 Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, fleeing religious persecution and seeking freedom and opportunity in a new and unfamiliar place. These dauntless souls arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the freezing cold of December 1620. They were greeted by sickness and severe weather, and quickly lost 46 of their fellow travelers. Those who endured the incredible hardship of their first year in America, however, had many reasons for gratitude. They had survived. They were free. And, with the help of the Wampanoag tribe, and a bountiful harvest, they were regaining their health and strength. In thanks to God for these blessings, the new governor of the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and gathered with the Wampanoag tribe for three days of celebration. For the next two centuries, many individual colonies and states, primarily in the Northeast, carried on the tradition of fall Thanksgiving festivities. But each state celebrated it on a different day, and sometime on an occasional basis. It was not until 1863 that the holiday was celebrated on one day, nationwide. In the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, of one of the bloodiest battles of our Nation's Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that the country would set aside one day to remember its many blessings. "In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity," President Lincoln proclaimed, we recall the "bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come." As President Lincoln recognized: "No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." Today, we continue to celebrate Thanksgiving with a grateful and charitable spirit. When we open our hearts and extend our hands to those in need, we show humility for the bountiful gifts we have received. In the aftermath of a succession of tragedies that have stunned and shocked our Nation -- Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria; the wildfires that ravaged the West; and, the horrific acts of violence and terror in Las Vegas, New York City, and Sutherland Springs -- we have witnessed the generous nature of the American people. In the midst of heartache and turmoil, we are grateful for the swift action of the first responders, law enforcement personnel, military and medical professionals, volunteers, and everyday heroes who embodied our infinite capacity to extend compassion and humanity to our fellow man. As we mourn these painful events, we are ever confident that the perseverance and optimism of the American people will prevail. We can see, in the courageous Pilgrims who stood on Plymouth Rock in new land, the intrepidness that lies at the core of our American spirit. Just as the Pilgrims did, today Americans stand strong, willing to fight for their families and their futures, to uphold our values, and to confront any challenge. This Thanksgiving, in addition to rejoicing in precious time spent with loved ones, let us find ways to serve and encourage each other in both word and deed. We also offer a special word of thanks for the brave men and women of our Armed Forces, many of whom must celebrate this holiday separated from the ones for whom they are most thankful. As one people, we seek God's protection, guidance, and wisdom, as we stand humbled by the abundance of our great Nation and the blessings of freedom, family, and faith. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 23, 2017, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second. DONALD J. TRUMP BOTTOM LINE There are so many things in life to be thankful for, one would think that for just one day, the MSM, writers and liberals across the nation, could find something in their lives to thank God for, but instead they would rather get triggered by how President Trump is spending his Thanksgiving.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Prez_Trump_Puts_Almighty_God_Proclamation.php
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Thanksgiving eruption of Popocatepetl volcano is biggest eruption since 2013 sending ash and gas 1,800 meters above the summit
By Strange Sounds - Nov 24, 2017
The Popocatépetl volcano had his strongest eruption since 2013 on Thanksgiving 2017, sending a plume of ash and gas 1,800 meters above the summit. The explosion was so strong, it was registered from the Tlamacas and Altzomoni stations located 4.5 kilometers and 12 kilometers away from the volcano, respectively. The first video is from WebCam de Mexico: The next video was captured from Altzomoni, 12km away from the volcanic peak: The general director of the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred), Carlos Valdés González tweeted: “Video of the beginning of the activity of Popocatépetl at 14:13, this is the largest activity since year 2013″:
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Black Friday mayhem: One shot outside Missouri mall as brawls close Alabama shopping center after stores open their doors early (with experts predicting Americans will splash out $20BILLION over the weekend)
One person was shot outside a Missouri mall on Thursday night as Black Friday shoppers rushed to stores
In Hoover, Alabama, two women sparked a mass brawl which forced the closure of the Riverchase Galleria
Other videos and pictures of frantic shoppers brawling over goods are pouring in from all over the country
Commerce experts predict Americans will spend $20billion in total between Thursday night and Monday
The average shopper is expected to spend almost $1,000 on discounted goods in stores and online
Many stores got a head start by opening their doors at 5pm on Thanksgiving Day to do more trade
By Jennifer Smith and Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com Published: 00:26 EST, 23 November 2017 | Updated: 13:14 EST, 24 November 2017
Black Friday madness has officially gripped the nation. The elbows-out shopping bonanza began on Thursday night as stores across the country opened their doors early to crowds of frantic bargain hunters. Within hours, there were mass brawls at malls as they fought over discounted televisions and clothes and the chaos is ongoing. In Hoover, Alabama, the scrum in one mall became so violent that paramedics had to be called to treat the injured. Walmart staff were filmed holding frothing female shoppers on the ground as they waited for security to arrive to carry them out. The violence was even more severe in Missouri where a 19-year-old man was shot outside a mall as shoppers rushed to snap up cut-price goods inside. He is in a critical condition. On Friday, millions more flocked to shopping centers across the country as yet more deals became available. At the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, there were snaking lines before the sun had even come up. The crowds were organized by barriers before being let inside at 5am. Mall staff say that 2,500 people waited outside the Mall of America before it opened. In Massachusetts, dedicated shoppers braved freezing temperatures to camp outside stores with blankets. They waited patiently for Walmart and Best Buy to open at 1am. Walmart in Dartmouth will be open until 11pm on Friday night - 22 hours after it opened its doors to the first shoppers. Neither incident of violence in Missouri and Alabama were sparked by fights over sale items, according to local police. At a Walmart somewhere else in the country however, five people were seen grappling over the same toy car. The grown men had to be separated by store staff and one was even talked down by his female companion. Their efforts were in vain - store staff refused to allow any of them to take the car home. This year's frenzy will see Americans spend an astonishing $20billion in stores and online, according to consumer experts. Experts predict 164 million Americans will spend nearly $1,000 each over the holiday weekend. The mayhem began at 5pm on Thanksgiving Day as thousands of bargain hunters rushed inside stores across the US in search of amazing sales, door buster deals and limited-time offers. Macy's Herald Square in Manhattan saw hundreds of people lined up outside their doors waiting to get their hands on deals like cosmetic and perfume sets from $10 to $20 as well as 40 per cent off on boots and shoes. Shoppers were also seen flocking to its Apple shop for deals on gadgets like the Apple Watch. Experts have predicted that over the five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, consumers will spend $19.7 billion. As several shoppers have braved the cold weather in tents, others cut the line by dressing up as staffers and waltzing through the doors. An estimated 164 million people are planning to shop or are considering shopping during the Thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF). Of those considering shopping the long holiday weekend, the survey found that 32 million plan to shop on Thanksgiving Day, but Black Friday will remain the busiest day with 115 million shoppers descending on US stores. Consumers said they will spend an average $967.13 this year, according to the annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. That's up 3.4 per cent from the $935.58 consumers said they would spend when surveyed at the same time last year. Cyber Monday is expected to become the largest online shopping day in history, generating $6.6 billion in sales, 16.5 per cent growth compared to last year. The initial sales on Thanksgiving Day were expected to increase 15 per cent to $2.8 billion. But by 5pm Thursday, Americans had already spent $1.52 billion, which is a 17 per cent increase from last year. Adobe also projects $5 billion will be spent on Black Friday. Between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday sales are predicted to hit $19.7 billion. The NRF expects holiday retail sales in November and December – excluding automobiles, gasoline and restaurants – to increase between 3.6 and 4 per cent for a total of $678.75 billion to $682 billion, up from $655.8 billion last year. US stores had to get creative this year with tricks to lure shoppers off the internet and back into the thick of it. Shopping malls in several states have scheduled Santa photo shoots with family pets as one way to attract customers in the face of the exploding online shopping realm. Brick-and-mortar stores have expanded their bag of tricks - and gotten increasingly bold - as they look to lure shoppers who might otherwise be happy to stay on the couch and pick up gifts while still in their pajamas. For the holiday shopping season, malls are hosting gingerbread decorating sessions, visits from the Grinch and ugly Christmas sweater nights. Temporary ice skating rinks and magical winter decor - like the famous Macy's window displays in New York - are also being used to draw customers intent on an in-person holiday experience. Walmart stores plans to throw more than 20,000 'holiday parties' at which children can pose for 'selfies with Santa'. The flagship Bloomingdale's store in New York has held yoga classes in the past, while Nordstrom has displayed Tesla cars near the section for men's suits. A number of shops now also ply visitors with food and drink. 'All of these retailers are desperate to get people into their stores,' said analyst Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, who added a note of caution about all the promotions.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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2018 could be an extra-active year for earthquakes, study says
By Maham Abedi National Online Journalist, Breaking News Global News November 22, 2017 1:06 pm
While earthquakes are difficult to predict, a new study suggests that next year the world may see more of the natural disasters. Research done by U.S. geologists, which was presented to the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting, explains that the Earth’s rotation has slowed very minimally. And that could mean 2018 will see more earthquakes than usual. University of Colorado’s Roger Bilham and University of Montana’s Rebecca Bendick evaluated data from the past 117 years, indicating that there is a “strong” correlation between Earth’s rotational speed and earthquakes. The Earth’s speed slows down for five or six years every few decades, as part of its natural cycle. The scientists explained that most years there are about 15 major earthquakes. But since 1900, there have been five periods when there was increased seismic activity. Those extra-active periods coincided with the Earth’s rotation slowing by about one millisecond a day. “On five occasions in the past century a 25-30 per cent increase in annual numbers of earthquakes [of 7.0 magnitude or more] has coincided with a slowing in the mean rotation velocity of the Earth, with a corresponding decrease at times when the length-of-day is short,” the study reads. Bilham said in an interview with The Observer that 2017 has been “easy” in terms of the number of major earthquakes. “Next year we should see a significant increase in numbers of severe earthquakes,” he explained. “We have had it easy this year. So far we have only had about six severe earthquakes. We could easily have 20 a year starting in 2018.” While the researchers aren’t able to predict specific earthquakes, they do have some insight on which areas are most likely to be affected. “The observed relationship is unable to indicate precisely when and where these future earthquakes will occur, although we note that most of the additional earthquakes have historically occurred near the equator in the West and East Indies,” the study explains. It adds that 80 per cent of Caribbean quakes since 1900 have occurred following a deceleration in the Earth’s rotation, including the 2010 Haiti earthquake which left thousands dead. Take study with a grain of salt: researcher An article in the Washington Post warns that this study has yet to be backed up by additional research. Bendick, one of the study’s researchers, told the newspaper that the findings were “statistically significant,” but they’re not as clearcut as they may seem. “We’re scientists, not magicians,” she said, explaining that the study does not intend to predict definitively that there will be more earthquakes next year — but that they are more likely.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3874676/earthquake-2018-study/
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San Juan submarine: 'Explosion' dashes crew survival hopes
23 November 2017 From the section Latin America & Caribbean
Hopes that the 44 crew of a missing Argentine submarine might still be alive have been dashed after the navy said an event consistent with an explosion had been detected. The "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event" was recorded in the south Atlantic by a nuclear test watchdog last week. Relatives of the missing crew reacted with grief and anger at the news. It follows a US report of a loud noise in the same area. The ARA San Juan disappeared last Wednesday. More than a dozen countries including the US, Russia and the UK have sent assistance. Where is the latest information from? It was provided to the Argentine navy on Thursday by the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), spokesman Capt Enrique Balbi said. In a statement, the CTBTO said two of its hydro-acoustic stations had detected a signal from an "underwater impulsive event". On Wednesday the navy received a US report of a "hydro-acoustic anomaly" detected hours after the submarine went missing. Capt Balbi said the suspected explosion took place near the submarine's last known location. The navy only knew the location of the suspected explosion, not its cause, he said, and search efforts would be concentrated in the area. How have relatives reacted? News of the suspected explosion was broken to family members gathered at the Mar del Plata navy base shortly before Capt Balbi spoke to journalists. Some remonstrated angrily with the navy spokesman, reports said, while others collapsed in tears. Relatives accused the navy of lying to them and of raising false hopes. Others pointed the finger at the government, saying lack of investment and corruption in the armed forces had made the submarine unsafe. One man whose brother was on board the ARA San Juan was quoted by Clarin newspaper [in Spanish] as shouting: "They killed my brother, the bastards. They killed my brother because they take them out to sail [in a vessel held together] with wire." Relatives of crew members fear the worst Grief and anger dominate Argentine media Luis Tagliapietra, whose son Damián was on board, told Radio Cut that the navy had told them all the crew had been killed in the explosion at a depth of 200m. On Wednesday, Capt Balbi said oxygen would be running out on board the vessel. What was the sub's last known location? The ARA San Juan was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southern-most tip of South America, when it reported an "electrical breakdown". According to naval commander Gabriel Galeazzi, the submarine surfaced and reported the breakdown, which Capt Galeazzi described as a "short circuit" in the sub's batteries. The sub was ordered to cut its mission short and return to the naval base in Mar del Plata immediately. According to Capt Balbi, the captain of the ARA San Juan contacted the naval base once more after reporting the problem. What happens when a submarine vanishes In the message, he reportedly said that the problem had been adequately fixed and that the sub would submerge and proceed towards Mar del Plata. The last contact was made at 07:30 local time (10:30 GMT) on Wednesday 15 November. It is not known what happened to the sub after that contact. Argentine navy protocol stipulates that in peace time, submarines make contact twice a day with the base. When the submarine failed to call in, the Argentine navy began its search. Who is on board? There are 44 crew on board the submarine, which is under the command of Pedro Martín Fernández. Forty-three of the crew are men but there is also one woman, Eliana María Krawczyk. The 35-year-old is the first female officer in Argentina to serve on a submarine. Nicknamed "the queen of the sea" by her father she comes from Oberá, a city in northern Argentina. Despite having been born and raised far inland, her relatives say that "she was born to be a submariner", citing her "will of steel" and a passion for her job. The rest of the crew is made up of submariners of varying ages and experience. The sub's engineer, Hernán Rodríguez, has been on the ARA San Juan for 11 years, local media reported. Submarine tragedies Accidents involving submarines are rare. Here are some of the most serious: All 70 crew aboard China's Great Wall Ming-class submarine suffocated in 2003 when a diesel engine malfunctioned, consuming the vessel's oxygen supply Russia's Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 after a torpedo exploded during an exercise, killing all 118 on board, including 23 who survived the blast but died due to a lack of oxygen The USS Scorpion sank in the Atlantic in 1968, possibly because a torpedo exploded, killing the 99 crew The USS Thresher sank during diving tests in 1963, killing all 129 on board - the biggest submarine death toll in history How could the missing submarine be located? Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Russia, Peru, South Africa, Uruguay and the UK are among the countries that have sent either ships or planes to help with the search. The US navy has deployed two underwater vehicles which use sonar to create images of the sea floor. A Nasa research aircraft has also flown over the search area but failed to spot anything.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42100620
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Feds Have 43 Pregnant Illegal Immigrant Girls in Custody as Immigration, Abortion Fights Collide
By Editor on November 22, 2017
(Washington Times) — The surge of illegal immigrant children crossing the border also means a surge of pregnant girls in U.S. custody, according to new government figures made public late Monday, highlighting the latest test of Trump administration policies. At least 420 pregnant Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) have been caught and put into government care over the last year, and 43 pregnant illegal immigrant girls were still in custody of the Health and Human Services Department as of Oct. 17, Jonathan White, the department’s director for children’s programs, said in court documents. Of the 420 girls seen in fiscal year 2017, 18 requested abortions and 11 had them. Another five rescinded their request for an abortion, and two were turned over to sponsors in the U.S. before a final decision was made, Mr. White said, meaning they were outside of government custody. The numbers come as the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action lawsuit demanding the government provide illegal immigrant girls the same rights to access abortion that Americans have. erc. and the news story continues..
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Series of strong and shallow earthquakes (M7.0, M6.6 and M6.4) hits New Caledonia
By Strange Sounds - Nov 19, 2017
A swarm of strong earthquakes is currently hitting New Caledonia since 9:30am UTC. The series started with a strong M6.4. Six hours later, a M6.6 jolt hit at almost the same spot, a few tenths of kilometers (miles) east of Tadine. Now a powerful M7.0 hit just a few minutes ago at 10:43pm UTC. USGS is currently reporting 12 earthquakes with magnitudes bigger than M4.7 (the lowest actually), but only counts the significant earthquakes (M>4.5) around the world. And the swarm continues…
M 6.4 – 74km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 5.3 – 81km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 4.7 – 61km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 5.3 – 74km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 4.8 – 72km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 6.6 – 68km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 5.9 – 74km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 4.8 – 76km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 5.3 – 58km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 5.3 – 76km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 4.8 – 80km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 4.7 – 76km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 7.0 – 82km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
M 5.1 – 68km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
There are currently no tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat even after the powerful M6.4 and M6.6 earthquakes. According to the USGS homepage, about 14 people reported feeling the rumblings.
http://strangesounds.org/2017/11/series-of-strong-earthquakes-hits-new-caledonia.html
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and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..
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PETER HITCHENS: The transgender zealots are destroying truth itself
By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 19:05 EST, 18 November 2017 | Updated: 02:52 EST, 19 November 2017
Most of these politically correct fads are just designed to wind us up and provoke us. For example, I now regret having wasted so much time trying to argue rationally about same-sex marriage. All the sexual revolutionaries wanted was an excuse to call me a bigot. They could then ignore everything I said, or tell lies about me, or both. It was a tiny issue. In 2014, for example, in England and Wales, there were 247,372 heterosexual weddings, and 4,850 same-sex marriages. Already there are several hundred same-sex divorces each year. Once the novelty has worn off, I suspect the numbers of same-sex unions will decrease, just as heterosexual ones are doing. The point – that the old ways are dead and gone – will have been made, and the campaigners will move on to something else. I once thought the same about the transgender issue. But the idea that people are whatever sex they think they are is a terrifying weapon in the hands of modern Thought Police. Whatever you say, you cannot possibly be right about this. Express any opinion (apart from total submission), and within minutes you will be besieged by condemnation. It will be cleverly based on the idea that you are somehow being cruel to some troubled person, even though you aren't doing this at all. But that is just a pretext. In reality, a whole moral and social system is being destroyed, and traditional ideas of male and female are the next target, now that husbands and marriage have been done away with. For once you begin down the road of sexual revolution, there's no end. There will always be someone more militant than you. Since the French Revolutionaries set up the guillotine, the same thing has been true. Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed. And once changed, they will fit neatly into the Utopia that is planned for them. Utopia, as we find every so often in Russia, China and Cambodia, can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never actually arrive. The opposite view (now very unfashionable) is that we are all made in the image of God and cannot be changed into something else. This sounds odd to most modern ears. But in fact it is the foundation for the absolute respect for human life and liberty which underpins civilization. Once it's gone, you can make excuses for anything in the name of some invented 'right'. Mass abortion is the obvious example. And that is why The Mail on Sunday's exclusive story, that a teacher has been disciplined for failing to respect the transgender gospel, is so important. His slip was small, and momentary. One of his pupils, who would once have been called a girl, has decided to be male. He called this person a girl. So he must suffer. The sight of the Queen and Prince Philip watching the Remembrance ceremony last Sunday was almost unbearably poignant for me and (I suspect) many of my generation. The Duke of Edinburgh was plainly straining every nerve and sinew to do honour to the fellow warriors he actually knew and fought alongside so long ago, despite the burden of his great age. Nothing on Earth was going to stop him doing that. There are so few left from that time. The Queen, with an almost equal effort of will, was yielding one of her most important duties to her successor, a very hard duty indeed. They are now both so far ahead of us in years that they already seem to be in another time altogether, almost beyond our reach. It is disquieting and upsetting to see these things, inevitable as they are. I feel a great sense of foreboding. In the vanished world of absolute truth, the student's sex would not be a matter of opinion. People might (and I would favour this) treat the person's view of their sex with sympathy and try to go along with it. Who would want to hurt somebody on a matter of such delicacy? But in the new revolutionary world, truth is what the revolution says it is. This works in many ways. A Left-wing newspaper recently claimed I had said something I had not said, and do not think. Shown irrefutable evidence that I had not used the words alleged, it continued to claim that I had used them, because that is what it thought I had said. This leads down a very dark staircase. Reality must increasingly be forced to fit the beliefs of the new elite. Teachers must be punished for speaking the truth, so schools are no longer places where truth is respected or dissent allowed – which means they are dead to all intents and purposes. And perhaps most grievous of all, teenagers are placed on a medical conveyor belt which leads to powerful body-changing drugs and possibly to surgical alteration. It is not just crabbed reactionaries such as me who fret about this. In an eloquent article in The Times, the far-from-conservative commentator Janice Turner recently warned: 'But in a decade, when our adult children turn to ask, 'Why did you let me do this? Why didn't you stop me?' we may wonder if this was progress or child abuse.' The answer to the question 'Why didn't you stop me?' will be even sadder. We are failing to stop this because we are afraid of the intolerant revolutionary mob, which would lock up dissenters if it could, but for the moment contents itself with Twitter storms and witch-hunts. I can't laugh this off. It is not just a wind-up. It is a threat to free thought and, after many months of staying silent about it, I feel I have to say so. That faint rumble you can hear is the mob assembling for another heresy hunt. At last there is an antidote to the foolish film The Death Of Stalin, which trivialises this monster and his crimes. It is Angus Macqueen's brilliant, harrowing documentary Gulag, which you can watch on the BBC iPlayer only until December 6. See it above all for the astonishing film of the man-made hell called Norilsk, and the interview with a woman who explains exactly how Stalin robbed her of the ability to trust her fellow humans. But be warned: there are no jokes. Last Monday the Prime Minister rattled her plastic sabre at the Russians, in a silly speech at the Mansion House. She doesn't even know what she's talking about. She said: 'Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea was the first time since the Second World War that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken territory from another in Europe.' This is wrong. Nato Turkey (now an increasingly nasty despotism) seized Northern Cyprus in 1974 and still sits there, unpunished. She claimed Russia had 'repeatedly violated the national airspace of several European countries'. I asked No 10 for details. Two days later, whimpering that the information was somehow secret, a spokesman could only admit 'Russia has not violated UK airspace'. So whose airspace had it 'repeatedly' violated? No answer. If it's true, the Russians must know, so why the secrecy? The Russian threat is a fake.
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Overt demonic activity coming, warns 'Spiritual Warfare' expert
'Stand against the powers of darkness rather than ridicule or run from them'
Published: 4 days ago
The Roman Catholic Church is publishing prayers to combat the “powers of darkness” as interest continues to grow in the rite of exorcism. Demons and supernatural forces have become a staple of popular culture, and churches are scrambling to keep up as the imagery of evil continues to flood pop culture. An expert on combating the demonic, Pastor Karl Payne, former chaplain of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, told WND the “message about a Christian’s battle with the world, the flesh and the devil is just as real and relevant today as it was when God originally addressed the subject through the men He inspired to pen the Scripture.” Payne is the author of “Spiritual Warfare: Christians, Demonization, and Deliverance,” which now is available as an audiobook, “The reality of demonic warfare in particular has more to do with the delegated authority God has given every true Christian over all of the powers of the enemy than cultural particulars, ethnicity, gender, education or theological training,” he said. “The reality of this enemy, this battle and the delegated authority God has given to Christians over Satan and his minions has not changed.” Payne said the battle “will continue until the Lord Jesus Christ vanquishes all of His enemies.” “I believe according to 1 Timothy 4 that the closer we get to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more intense this battle is going to become,” he said. “If this is the case, it means that unless Christians want to live like victims rather than victors, they had better do their homework and be willing and able to stand against the powers of darkness rather than ridicule or run from them.” Payne has been a critic of how pop culture increasingly treats the demonic as something glamorous or appropriate for children. “The growing fascination North Americans and Europeans seem to have with horror movies, spiritism, supernaturalism, the occult and Satanism is softening up the senses and consciences of the people watching and involving themselves in this nonsense,” he said. “It’s helping prepare them to function as predators or prey when Satan begins his ultimate reign over planet earth through his coming Antichrist and false prophet. “When two fighters get into the ring, with one thinking the fight is a staged game and the other understanding it is for life or death, the fighter who takes the fight more seriously is generally the fighter who is going to win the fight. Too many Christians seem to think demonic warfare is a game to turn on or off at their convenience, and they are getting their behinds kicked in battles they should be winning rather than losing. “With the media and public square vilifying the Judeo-Christian faith, and conservative Christianity in particular, people are going to put their faith in something or someone. But unfortunately, it just will not be the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan is alive and well, and he is prowling around like a hungry lion, looking for those he can devour. Christians need to wake up.” Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. The Roman Catholic Church is the organization most strongly associated with exorcism, an image strengthened by its central presence in movies such as “The Exorcist.” But Payne says it is a common misperception to believe special titles or denominational credentials are required to fight what the church calls the “powers of darkness.” “I am glad for anyone who knows what they are talking about to stand up against demonic warfare rather than run from it, regardless of their titles or labels,” he said of Catholic exorcism efforts. “I still care more about what is actually in a bottle than the label that is on the bottle. Arm yourself for the most crucial battle of all. “Spiritual Warfare” is available now in the WND Superstore. ‘However, as long as demons legitimately hold ‘ground,’ Ephesians 4:27, against a person, they will not leave that person until the sin that opened the door for their involvement has been personally confessed and forgiven by God, and the ‘ground’ they hold against that person has been canceled by God. Demons do not fear pastors, priests, people or their denominational titles. They fear the Lord Jesus Christ and those who understand their delegated authority over the powers of darkness.” Instead of focusing on dogmatic rituals or sensationalism, Payne hopes his book and its new audiobook edition will force American Christians to wake up to the existence of the demonic real and rejoice in the knowledge believers have the power. “Too much of the church today represents two sides of the same coin,” he said. “On one side of the coin are people who like to talk about demonic warfare, but do not know how to stand against it in an effective manner. On the other side of the coin are people who ridicule or run from demonic warfare. They seem to think that in redefining demonic warfare they can eliminate the reality of the battle. This is naïve. Again, fighters who prepare for battle generally fare better than those who think it is all a game. Sloganeering is not helpful or effective in confronting demonic spirits who are tormenting Christians. Talking about a battle or playing video games simulating fighting in battles does not win actual battles.” Payne said he wrote the book “as a transferable guide to help Christians learn how to biblically recognize and respond to demonic warfare.” “We should win more battles than we lose, and serve the Lord Jesus Christ with the confidence of a victor empowered by Him rather than playing the role of a passive, helpless victim. We are victors, not victims because of the accomplished work and delegated authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. If my book helps in equipping the saints to fight rather than run, then I will rejoice.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/overt-demonic-activity-coming-warns-spiritual-warfare-expert/#uHz5fJ0PcaYtYoUH.99
:: 11-20-17 Ready Nutritition :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Blood is Not Always Thicker Than Water: Why Some Family Members Shouldn’t Be Considered for the Prepper Group
Jeremiah Johnson Originally published November 20th, 2017
This article will be a sensitive subject and a sore spot for many readers. This piece is designed to provide “food for thought” for a difficult question that will arise for every family during their preparations. I state emphatically that it will arise. So many times, in our studies and preparations we approach things from a “dry,” pragmatic approach that accounts for everything in the manner of an accountant. We figure out the dollar amounts of our canning supplies, figure out the logistical needs for the family, etc., and come up with totals on a sheet. One thing not accounted for and factored into these calculations is human behavior and the effects that it has on the family and the family’s resources. I have spoken with many people over the course of my time in the Rocky Mountains. It seems that every family has their “Cousin It,” so to speak: A label I am employing to describe an incorrigible family member who has never “come around” in all the years of his or her life. No matter what happens, you can always depend on “It” to remain constant. Cousin It may have stolen, abused substances, been constantly combative or argumentative with family and neighbors alike…a “wild man with his hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him,” so to speak. The big problem is that most families tend to “incorporate” these incorrigible family members into their plans for preparation and survival. They feel compelled to give it a try…never taking past behavior into account. Another thing families do is “lie” to themselves: “Cousin It will be alright…he’ll change his ways when it hits the fan, and we’ll get everything straightened out then.” No, he won’t be alright when it hits the fan. Adversity doesn’t build character: it reveals it. You are allowed to cut your losses on this one. Look to history. Lot’s wife wanted to persist in what she wanted and was turned into a pillar of salt. The rest of the family moved on, without looking back. Brining us to the way to deal with such a thing: You do what you can until you can’t do any more…and then weigh the welfare of the group. This is a tough subject, isn’t it? You’ll have to search inside of yourself and what you believe in…but you’ll also have to be a realist who takes into consideration others who may not be able to make such a choice…others depending upon you to make the right move. If “Cousin It” happens to be drunken Uncle Ed who beat his wife and children regularly over the past 20 years and still hits the bottle…do you want him in the fallout shelter with you and the rest of your family? Or how about Cousin Tina who is addicted to Oxycodone. Are you going to let her in? You can try with these people up until the time that the “S” hits the fan: after that, you’ll have to cut your losses in the interest of preserving yourself and your family. The saying that “blood is thicker than water” is true, and many times teams of more than one family will be ruined because one or more of the family members…incorrigibles, if you will…are factored into the teams when everyone knows full well they cannot be depended upon. This is a serious issue that will take a lot of time to discuss among the family members prior to a final decision. I strongly believe this should take place, and then there should be a discussion with “Cousin It” as a group…prior to a collapse event. Afford the opportunity for a “turnaround,” but give it the time to observe the actual actions of that family member. When it hits the fan, a decision will have to be made, and that decision is not something that will just affect “Cousin It.” If things have not changed and he or she is taken in? It may mean action in the future that can jeopardize the survival of the whole group. Think it over carefully, and most importantly, think objectively and not just with the heart. It may mean the difference between life and death for more than just one individual. JJ out! Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Johnson was a Special Forces Medic, EMT and ACLS-certified, with comprehensive training in wilderness survival, rescue, and patient-extraction. He is a Certified Master Herbalist and a graduate of the Global College of Natural Medicine of Santa Ana, CA. A graduate of the U.S. Army’s survival course of SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape), Mr. Johnson also successfully completed the Montana Master Food Preserver Course for home-canning, smoking, and dehydrating foods. Mr. Johnson dries and tinctures a wide variety of medicinal herbs taken by wild crafting and cultivation, in addition to preserving and canning his own food. An expert in land navigation, survival, mountaineering, and parachuting as trained by the United States Army, Mr. Johnson is an ardent advocate for preparedness, self-sufficiency, and long-term disaster sustainability for families. He and his wife survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Cross-trained as a Special Forces Engineer, he is an expert in supply, logistics, transport, and long-term storage of perishable materials, having incorporated many of these techniques plus some unique innovations in his own homestead. Mr. Johnson brings practical, tested experience firmly rooted in formal education to his writings and to our team. He and his wife live in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with their three cats. This information has been made available by Ready Nutrition
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etc.. You shall see China as she continues to rise in her power. etc.
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Chinese military launches website to rat on leaks, violations & fake news
Published time: 19 Nov, 2017 11:04
China has launched a website to report illegal online activities of the military and the spreading of “harmful information.” Earlier, the Chinese leader vowed to turn the People’s Army into a “world class force” and to “ensure a clean cyberspace.” China’s official military website announced the launch of the platform on Sunday, which is supposed to maintain a “clear internet space” surrounding the military. Any person, both publicly and anonymously, can issue an online report on various violations, including those published on websites or social media platforms. The possible violations include fake news about the military, leaked secrets, and “distorting headlines.” The spreading of “harmful” information about the Chinese Army, including attacks on the party’s leadership over the army and distortions of its history or that of the Communist Party, can also be reported on, as well as illegal Internet access of military personnel without permission of higher military staff. The launch of the official website comes just one month after Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a historic speech at a Chinese Communist Party meeting, vowed to turn the People’s Army into a “world class force” in 30 years, and ordered full modernization by 2035. Xi also mentioned strengthening “guidance, influence, and credibility of the media” and building “a system for integrated internet management to ensure a clean cyberspace,” a part of which could be the newly-introduced platform. “We will distinguish between matters of political principle, issues of understanding and thinking, and academic viewpoints, but we must oppose and resist various erroneous views with a clear stand,” the president told the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress.
https://www.rt.com/news/410323-china-fake-news-report-website/
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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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etc. it shall not be a good week, many things shall take place. Watch the stock market, and if you have money hoarded up in there, you are going to lose it, you are going to lose it. Listen carefully, pay attention, place your money where you know that it is safe etc.
Revelation 13:18 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
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MAJOR ALERT: Greyerz Says One Of The Two Largest Banks In Switzerland Just Refused To Hand Over Clients’ Physical Gold. Even More Surprising Is What The Client Did Next
November 19, 2017
It’s happened again. For the third time in the past six weeks, the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE, historic moves in currencies, told King World News that another scandal unfolded in Switzerland as one of the two largest banks in Switzerland refused to return a clients’ gold the bank was supposedly storing for the client. Even more surprising is what the client did next. 3rd Swiss Bank Scandal Unfolding, But First… November 20 (King World News) – Egon von Greyerz: “What is absolutely certain is that global wealth will be totally decimated in the next 4-8 years. It doesn’t matter if you are very rich or “just own a house” with some equity left. Most of it will come down in value by 75-95% in the next few years as the debt and asset bubbles implode. But what very few people realize or plan for, is the confiscation of wealth that will take place in coming years. There will be confiscation of wealth on many levels. With times deteriorating, governments will be thrown out as ordinary people become dissatisfied with their rapidly declining ability to survive. Many people will lose their jobs, and governments’ ability to help the poor and hungry will decline rapidly due to falling tax revenues. During that process, opposition parties will promise the earth. Thus we will see a society in upheaval due to political turbulence, social unrest, dire economic circumstances as well as anarchy. Many parties in the West have turned socialist or communist in latter years, and this trend will continue as the climate deteriorates. With the ruling party desperately fighting for its own survival, their task becomes increasingly impossible as there is no money left in the coffer and printed money no longer has any value. Opposition parties will promise solutions to all the problems and will have no difficulty becoming elected. But as they get into power they will also fail desperately. In most Western countries there will be left wing parties ruling but we might also see far right leaders emerging due to the anarchic situation. As tax revenues decline rapidly, governments will desperately look for new ways of increasing the state’s income. Normal people at this stage will be very poor so it will serve no purpose to tax them. The obvious target will of course be the wealthy. At that stage, the wealthy might already have lost half of their fortune or more, but socialist governments looking for revenue will ensure that most of their remaining wealth also disappear. Wealth taxes will be confiscatory and reach levels of 75% at least and possibly up to 90%. This will not only be popular with ordinary people, who at that point will be poor and suffering. It will also be what the desperate masses will demand, whether it is done peacefully or with violence. What is happening in Saudi Arabia presently with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman confiscating the wealth of other Saudi Princes and Saudi businessmen might set an example. Governments in the US, UK or Germany, for example, could just decide to freeze the assets of the wealthy and issue arrest warrants demanding transfer of say 85% of their wealth. Refusal would not be an option since it would lead to a long prison sentence plus confiscation of 100% of the wealth. Now is the time to plan for the risks of confiscation and punitive taxation. Soon it will be too late. All this sounds totally draconian and unrealistic in today’s “civilized” society, but anyone who doubts that these measures could happen only needs to study history. There are endless examples of confiscation of wealth. Often it is linked to periods of excess and decadence with major gaps between the rich and the poor, just as we are seeing today. During the French Revolution in 1789 , the aristocracy not only lost much of their wealth, they also lost their lives. It was the same way in the Russian Revolution in 1918 when both wealth and lives of the aristocracy were extinguished. We could easily reach a state of anarchy due to the suffering of the masses. At that point they would turn against banks, governments and the wealthy. leading to major violence as history repeats itself. Anything representing wealth will be despised by the masses, whether it is houses, cars, jewelry, clothes or other luxury assets. The flaunting of wealth that we see all over the world today could be very dangerous or even fatal at that time. Because the majority of people are not able to fathom this, many of them would call this scaremongering. The problem is that because we live today, we think it is different now. Many believe it is totally acceptable to see bespoke Rolls Royces, or Ferraris in New York, London or Hong Kong costing $250,000 or more. Today very few protest against the enormous top prices paid for a house in the same cities costing $100 million. And to buy a painting for over $100 million happens regularly. But if you want a Leonardo da Vinci, you must pay the neat sum of $450 million as an anonymous buyer did this week at the Christie’s auction in New York. A price level which very few can fathom. Will almost $1/2 billion be the record for a painting for decades or longer. Yes, in today’s money, that could certainly be the case. 11 tonnes of gold for a painting will probably not be beaten for the next 100 years or more. In the next 4-8 years, that painting can probably be bought for much less than 1 tonne of gold, more probably for 100 kilos or less (100 kg gold is today worth $4.1 million). For ordinary people, most of whom are not aware of these excesses, $1/2 billion for a painting is the ultimate decadence. This dangerous trend will not go unpunished in the future. And nobody must believe that law and order including police or military will function when society breaks down. Sadly, there will be no protection for the target groups. Weapons will hardly help against the crowd. Best is to live in a place where you are surrounded by like minded or in a country which is less exposed. All this is not an option for many people but worth thinking about while there is still time. Let me stress that I sincerely hope that none of what I have outlined will happen. But looking at risk and probabilities, we are now at a point in history when these events are likely to take place, whether it is in the next few years or at some later point. Excesses of the magnitude we are seeing today as well as the gap between rich and poor will not continue without returning to the mean at least. Coming back to confiscation, it looks like banks are already playing that game. In a recent KWN article, I discussed how banks don’t have the physical gold that their clients have bought. I also mentioned how banks are refusing to release the gold that the client holds in the bank. A 3rd Swiss Bank Refuses To Hand Over Clients’ Gold This week I was contacted by a person who went to his bank in Zurich — one of the two largest in Switzerland — to get his physical gold out. He had seen my KWN article on the subject. The bank, one of the biggest Asset Management banks in the world, told him that he couldn’t have his own gold because of new rules within the bank. What The Client Did Next Was Even More Surprising But this man did not give up that easily. He asked for a letter from the bank confirming that they refused to hand his gold to him. He told the bank that he would take this letter to the police. The bank clearly got scared and after three hours wait, the gentleman was told by the bank that they would hand his gold to him. So very generous of the bank to hand the client’s asset bank to him! This is yet another confirmation that banks are not going to give the clients their assets back without a major legal fight. But that is just the first stage, in my view. Soon banks will be under such pressure that they will hold on to clients’ assets. Few people believe that this is possible, but it is guaranteed that, in the not too distant future, insolvent banks will not be in a position to hand anything back to clients. Again I urge people to get assets out of the banks, in Switzerland or any other country. The financial system is already bankrupt, regardless of what central bank chiefs say. Holding physical gold outside the banking system and in the right jurisdiction is the best insurance agains these risks. But as I said above, tax planning is just as important as holding the right investment. Paper Gold Games No Longer Working The short term moves in the gold price are not important since we we will see multiples of today’s price. But this week gold finished on a high and the normal shenanigans of the BIS and bullion banks of dumping billions of dollars of paper gold after hours were unsuccessful. Therefore, It looks like the latest small correction is finished and the uptrend has resumed. Possibly we need to wait for the Fed decision in December before a major move up in gold. Whatever the Fed does will only have a very short term effect. Gold is going substantially higher regardless of central bank policy or paper gold manipulation. 5,000 years of history is much more powerful than ephemeral central bankers and manipulators.” Do Not Let Banks Steal Your Gold In a King World News interview I spoke with the man who predicted the Swiss National Bank would experience staggering losses and that the Fed would also experience massive losses that will destabilize the global financial system! His company is the only one in the world offering a precious metals investment service outside the banking system, with direct ownership and full control by the investor. He has also become legendary for his predictions on QE, historic moves in currencies, and major global events. To find out what he and his company can do to help answer that age old question for you CLICK HERE.
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In a Stunning Counter-Coup, Trump Has Turned the Tables On the Deep State
By Dave Hodges
Trump has turned the tables on the Deep State, for now. Are they or aren’t they? Are several top government officials under sealed indictments or not? Have US marines landed at Langley to arrest Deep State operatives at the CIA headquarters. Is it true that key Deep State operatives have been roughed up in order to gain cooperation? Let’s see where the facts takes us on these topics. Deep-Sourcing the Criminals Much of the information that is in this article comes from two broad categories (1) open source intelligence information from which about 75% of all intelligence comes from; and (2) the publicly disclosed “insider” information from many of my colleagues that has been made public. However, there is one piece of information that has been disclosed that has not been properly cited. I am speaking about Robert Mueller who has turned state’s evidence. The Stunning SGT Report The SGT produced a 12 minute video in which they revealed some of the strategy that has accompanied Trump’s counter-coup against Deep State operatives. The video documentary is very well organized, well-sourced and confirms much of what I already know to be true. However, the report is missing a couple of pieces of the puzzle that are essential to understanding that a state of civil war exists between the Trump administration and the majority of the American people against the subversive operatives of the Deep State and their radical followers. In the following video, SGT alleges that Robert Mueller has led a plot, in conjunction with key members of the Trump administration that will soon turn the tables on the Russian collusion charges. The topic has to do with Clinton’s sale of nuclear grade uranium to the Russians. As I reported in 2015, the uranium was seized by the BLM from ranchers and farmers in the West. The Bundy family would be one of these victimized families. The well done SGT Report did not report on this fact. Here is an excerpt from 2016 in which I alleged with complementary documentation that Hillary obtained the uranium from American ranchers and farmers like the Bundy and the Hammond families. Go to the youtube channel owned by dutchsinse. He makes a very compelling case that several ranches, not just Bundy’s and Hammond’s have been under assault in order to procure precious metals. In the following youtube video, dutchsinse asks the following question: “Let’s just call it what it is. Human greed is at stake here. Who is going to get the gold back there in the back country? Who is going to get the uranium?” One of the big problems in America today is that “public servants” like Hillary Clinton actually represent a foreign enemy masquerading as a domestic public servant. I will go one step further than Donald Trump’s assertion that Clinton and state that Hillary Clinton is this generation’s Ethel Rosenberg. Hillary Clinton, the Ethel Rosenberg of her generation. Clinton sold uranium to the Russians while serving as the Secretary of State and this is what both the Bundy and the Hammond Ranch Affair is all about. And there is nothing to suggest that these nefarious acts are still ongoing. A former key member of the Obama administration and current Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has proven herself to be the Ethel Rosenberg of her generation. You may recall your U.S. history as Ethel Rosenberg sold nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. In an act every bit as egregious as Ethel Rosenberg’s treason, Hillary Clinton sold uranium to the Russians while serving as the Secretary of State. Ironically, the original source on this treasonous act committed by Clinton was none other than the liberal rag we call the New York Times. The rest of this story, along with the relevant history of Uranium One can be accessed by clicking here. As good as the SGT Report is, it does not contain this highly relevant information. There is another piece of evidence that needs to be brought in relation the SGT Report. The topic has to do with the flipping of Robert Mueller and his new-found allegiance to the Trump administration. The Flip Flop of Robert Mueller Robert Mueller is a traitor to this country. Robert Mueller has broken too many federal laws in his role as special prosecutor to even count. On the surface, Robert Mueller belongs in prison for his actions in support of the Clinton Foundation and their Uranium One deal. The SGT Report correctly and without substantiation reveals that Special Prosecutor, Robert Mueller, is engaged in a double-cross to turn the Russian collusion charges back onto Clinton and her associates. Here is what I wrote about Mueller’s invovlement in the Uranium One conspiracy. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel for the sole purpose of investigating possible Russian collusion charges between President Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. On the heels of the collusion, Mueller is also looking for the smoking gun for obstruction of justice, on the part of Trump, which is the same charge that ultimately brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. However, sometimes life is ironic and in a stunning development, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, tweeted a released State Department cable, which clearly and irrefutably proves that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered former FBI Director and present Special Counsel, Robert Mueller to deliver a sample of stolen Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Russia in 2009. In the article from the above-referenced statement appears, I also published a memo which ties Mueller into the delivery of the highly enriched uranium to the Russians. The article can be found here. So why has Robert Mueller joined Trump in going after the Deep State operatives? The obvious answer is that he had to in order to avoid prosecution. Robert Mueller has joined Trump, not because he wanted to, but because he had to. Trump in what will become the biggest sting in American political history. The SGT Report does not explain the flip-flop of Robert Mueller. Mueller could be shot as a traitor for delivering nuclear grade material to the Russians. When he was confronted with this evidence, he had no choice but to join the other side. And the SGT Report correctly asserts that the phony investigation into Trump’s alleged Russian connections would eventually land on Hillary’s illegal sale of uranium to the Russians and Mueller was caught up in this. Soon Comey will be singing the praises of Trump as well. These revelations explain why Podesta’s brother has quit his own firm because he was involved. John Podesta was involved as well. Wasserman Shultz hired the Awan brothers to erase as much evidence as they could. This is part of what Seth Rich leaked to W-ikileaks and this is why Podesta had him murdered. I witnessed a sea change in Mueller the last week on October as evidenced by the following report: Please note that the guardians of the Deep State, Youtube (Google), demonitized this video while it was still in the cue. As Steve Quayle likes to say “You know you are over the target when you are getting flac”. On November 9, 2017, I receieved notification that Mueller had flipped sides. On November 12th, I published the following: People have asked me what caused me to suspect that Mueller had flipped sides and was actually pursuing Clinton et al? Besides the fact that the deeper that Mueller dug into Trump’s Russian connections, the more Hillary was implicated, there were media revelations as well. Further, there was a well-placed leak about 3 weeks ago, made to Fox News, in which the Uranium One conspiracy was reported in a very prominent manner. Add to that, the Clinton Foundation and the DNC was being outed by Donna Brazile at the same time on Fox News. I recognized these news releases for what they were, a psyops directed against the Deep State. Why would Fox News air such a thing? Simple, Rupert Murdock has had his disagrements and conflicts with the Deep State and the New World Order. And who could forget that Murdock and Trump had a well-publicized meeting when it was obvious that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. Trump and Murdoch are allies. Fox News is part of the plan to take down Clinton et al. Conclusion People have asked me how did I get so close to the truth? The simple answer is that I have very good sources. To illustrate this point, please allow me to relate a Larry Nichols and Jeff Sessions encounter. In the early fall, Jack Easum and Paul Martin had befriended Larry Nichols. Larry Nichols told Jack that he had received a call from his old pal, Jeff Sessions. Sessions caled Nichols and screamed at Nichols to stop giving me inside information. However, Nichols informed Sessions that he had not passed along infomration to me, which was true. When this story reached me, I knew I was on the right track. Donald Trump has flipped Mueller. What about the Marines at Langley and the all the rest? Undoubtedly, the empire will strike back and the uncovered topics that were not covered here, will be presented in the next part in this series.
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Officials Caught Forcing State Scientist to Alter Findings to Cover Up Earthquake Fracking Link
A former state-sponsored scientist revealed that he was ordered to alter his findings on the links between fracking and earthquakes.
By John Vibes - November 19, 2017
Hydraulic fracturing is a natural gas extraction method that has become extremely controversial for its environmental impacts. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand, and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure, which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well. Wastewater produced from this process is highly toxic and filled with a variety of chemicals. In many cases, people who live near fracking sites have been able to set fire to the water and air that comes through their pipes. It has also been found to contaminate drinking water. Unfortunately, fracking is still somewhat popular publicly because people know very little about it and it is also popular politically because all of the politicians have a hand in it. Due to an increased prevalence of seismic activity in the vicinity of fracking areas, many activists have pointed that this process may cause earthquakes as well. While environmentalists have been hoping to raise awareness about this problem for years, new testimony from one of the country’s top seismologists gives us a glimpse into why the scientific community has been largely silent about this issue. According to Austin Holland, the former lead seismologist for the state of Oklahoma, officials at the University of Oklahoma worked to actively cover up scientific findings that linked fracking to earthquakes. Oklahoma is one of the most drastic examples of how fracking can cause an upsurge in seismic activity, with the state seeing 639 earthquakes in the year of 2016 alone. READ MORE: Brewery Develops Edible 6-Pack Rings to Save Marine Life, Reduce Plastic Waste In a deposition last month, Holland stated that Larry Grillot, former dean of OU’s Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, and Randy Keller, the former director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey pressured him to alter his findings to be more favorable to fracking companies. After the incident, Holland left his position at OU and the Oklahoma Geologic Survey. “I don’t know if ‘angry’ is the right word, but just disappointed … that I’d spent my time working towards something, and I thought I was in my dream job, and then I couldn’t be a scientist and do what scientists do, and that’s publish with colleagues. Well, that’s the point at which I realized that for my scientific credibility, I had to leave the position I was in,” Holland said. Keller and Grillot took issue with Holland’s report because they said that it advocated for specific policy changes. However, the only policy measures that Holland advocated was to ensure that important information about fracking and its effects were made available to the public. Holland was told that the following passage in his article was “unacceptable“: Holland went through with publishing the report anyway, and although he did not receive a formal reprimand, his superiors were not pleased. READ MORE: Smoking Gun Docs Released Proving EPA/Chemical Companies Conspiracy—MSM Silent “Well, the president of the university expressed to me that I had complete academic freedom, but that as part of being an employee of the state survey, I also have a need to listen to the people within the oil and gas industry. So Harold Hamm expressed to me that I had to be careful of the way in which I say things, that hydraulic fracturing is critical to the state’s economy in Oklahoma, and that me publicly stating that earthquakes can be caused by hydraulic fracturing was — could be misleading, and that he was nervous about the war on fossil fuels at the time,” Holland said. Holland also pointed out that while energy companies and environmentalists both contacted him and attempted to recruit him as a spokesperson for their cause, he did not feel directly threatened by them as he did by the bureaucratic structure within his own industry. “I was navigating a difficult landscape, but I was not pressured by industry to change what I’m doing, I was pressured by staff. Now, I did — was pressured by Harold Hamm to change the way I spoke about [fracking] in public. And I did have people in the industry say, ‘Well, you can’t say that’ or ‘You can’t say this.’ But the ones that actually write the paycheck control what I say in the public eye and what I don’t,” Holland said.
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America Has Become a Nation of Incompetents
A once-proud nation which was the envy of the world now suffers from a kind of omni-present dementia
Paul Craig Roberts Subscribe to 2713 Mon, Nov 20, 2017
Having grown up during the second half of the 20th century, I don’t recognize my country today. I experienced life in a competent country, and now I experience life in an incompetent country. Everything is incompetent. The police are incompetent. They shoot children, grandmothers, cripples, and claim that they feared for their life. Washington’s foreign police is incompetent. Washington has alienated the world with its insane illegal attacks on other countries. Today the United States and Israel are the two most distrusted countries on earth and the two countries regarded as the greatest threat to peace. The military/security complex is incompetent. The national security state is so incompetent that it was unable to block the most humiliating attack in history against a superpower that proved to be entirely helpless as a few people armed with box cutters and an inability to fly an airplane destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon itself. The military industries have produced at gigantic cost the F-35 that is no match for the Russian fighters or even for the F-15s and F-16s it is supposed to replace. The media is incompetent. I can’t think of an accurate story that has been reported in the 21st century. There must be one, but it doesn’t come to mind. The universities are incompetent. Instead of hiring professors to teach the students, the universities hire administrators to regulate them. Instead of professors, there are presidents, vice presidents, chancellors, vice chancellors, provosts, vice provosts, assistant provosts, deans, associate deans, assistant deans. Instead of subject matter there is speech regulation and sensitivity training. Universities spend up to 75% of their budgets on administrators, many of whom have outsized incomes. The public schools have been made incompetent by standardized national testing. The purpose of education today is to pass some test. School accreditation and teachers’ pay depend not on developing the creativity or independent thinking of those students capable of it, but on herding them through memory work for a standardized test. One could go on endlessly. Instead, I will relate a story of everyday incompetences that have prevented me from writing this week and for a few more days yet. Recently, while away from my home, a heavy equipment operator working on a nearby construction site managed to drive under power lines with the fork lift raised. Instead of breaking the wire, it snapped the pole in half that conveyed electric power to my house. The power company came out, or, as I suspect, an outsourced contractor, who reestablished power to my home but did not check that the neutral wire was still attached. Consequently for a week or so my house experienced round the clock surges of high voltage that blew out the surge protection, breaker box, and every appliance in the house. Expecting my return, the house was inspected, and the discovery was that there was no power. Back came the power company and discovered that high voltage was feeding into the house and had destroyed everything plugged in. So. Here we have a moron operating heavy equipment who does not understand that he cannot drive under power lines with the lift raised. We have a power company or its outsourced contractor who does not understand that power cannot be reconnected without making certain that the neutral wire is still connected. So every appliance is fried. Glass everywhere from blown out light bulbs. We are talking thousands of dollars. This is America today. And the incompetents ruling incompetents want war with Iran, Korea, Russia, China. Considering the extraordinary level of incompetence throughout the United States, I guarantee you that we will not win these wars.
http://russia-insider.com/en/america-has-become-nation-incompetents/ri21548
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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White House: Opioid Crisis Cost US Economy $504 Billion in 2015
WASHINGTON — Opioid drug abuse, which has ravaged parts of the United States in recent years, cost the economy as much as $504 billion in 2015, White House economists said in a report made public on Sunday. The White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) said the toll from the opioid crisis represented 2.8 percent of gross domestic product that year. President Donald Trump last month declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. While Republican lawmakers said that was an important step in fighting opioid abuse, some critics, including Democrats, said the move was meaningless without additional funding. The report could be used by the Trump White House to urge Republicans in Congress - who historically have opposed increasing government spending - to provide more funding for fighting the opioid crisis by arguing that the economic losses far outweigh the cost of additional government funding. Using a combination of statistical models, the CEA said the lost economic output stemming from 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015 could be between $221 billion and $431 billion, depending on the methodology used. In addition, the report looked at the cost of non-fatal opioid usage, estimating a total of $72 billion for 2.4 million people with opioid addictions in 2015. Those costs included medical treatment, criminal justice system expenses and the decreased economic productivity of addicts. The CEA said its estimate was larger than those of some prior studies because it took a broad look at the value of lives lost to overdoses. The CEA also said its methodology incorporated an adjustment to reflect the fact that opioids were underreported on death certificates. "The crisis has worsened, especially in terms of overdose deaths which have doubled in the past ten years," the CEA said. "While previous studies have focused exclusively on prescription opioids, we consider illicit opioids including heroin as well." Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, are fueling the drug overdoses. More than 100 Americans die daily from related overdoses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-opioid-crisis-white-house-report/4126121.html
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un is Teaching Children How to Kill Americans
By Lauren Gill On 11/19/17 at 1:34 PM
North Korea is using video games to teach kids how to assassinate Americans at a propaganda camp where activities include swimming, making new friends, and laying flowers at the feet of former supreme leaders. In between learning songs about North Korean dictators, kids practice shooting at their virtual enemies with toy assault rifles while imagining they are taking out Americans, a clip from a 60 Minutes Australia report shows. “I’m so happy to kill Americans,” one kid boasts as he pumps a bullet into the back of a soldier on a video screen. “Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans - they are our enemy. I dream of killing them." Getty Images The unconventional getaway, Songdowon Children’s Camp, used to be a cheap place for kids from other communist countries to enjoy their summers, but now it has been repurposed to indoctrinate North Korea’s most promising youngsters with a violent anti-American agenda. Children view the shooting simulations as “practice for war,” according to 60 Minutes reporter Tom Steinfort. North Koreans are taught from birth to view Americans as the enemy. Videos and images of United States citizens being killed are shown at restaurants, in textbooks, and plastered across shop windows. Most recently, a video released by its state-controlled website presented North Korean missiles obliterating United States carriers and fighter jets, complete with a burning American flag. North Korea is rejecting calls from China to step away from its nuclear program, claiming such weapons are vital to the security of its people. Getty Images The threats might not just be virtual, though — the peril of nuclear war has increased as dictator Kim Jong Un has sped up his country’s nuclear weapons program and ordered tests on missiles that could reach the United States. And the regime is hard at work building its first ballistic missile submarine, giving it the capability to launch nuclear warheads underwater. In the meantime, Donald Trump and Kim are attempting to exert their power in a war of words. Trump called his adversary “rocket man” and “short and fat,” while Kim blasted the president as a “mentally-deranged dotard.”
http://www.newsweek.com/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-teaching-children-how-kill-americans-716272
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Amendment on Parental Rights Introduced in U.S. House
Contact: Michael Ramey, Director of Communications & Research, ParentalRights.org, 540-751-1200 , Media@parentalrights.org
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ -- Representative Randy Hultgren (R-IL) introduced legislation in the U.S. House to propose a Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Hultgren's House Joint Resolution 121 had 15 original cosponsors at its introduction on Thursday, November 16. A parallel resolution, SJRes. 48, was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Lindsey Graham in August. "The freedom for parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is an American tradition once established beyond debate," said Rep. Hultgren. "Yet every day, families are broken apart by state actors who presume they are able to make a better decision for a child than a parent can. With recent state laws and court decisions threatening this American value, it is time parental rights are enshrined as fundamental rights and therefore protected under the Constitution." "We are grateful to Representative Hultgren for taking up this vital issue before Congress," says ParentalRights.org President Jim Mason, a proponent of the resolution. "Parental rights is a crucial battle that too few are talking about. Every other question, whether of politics, religion, values, or ideology, hinges on the right of good parents to raise their children in a way that is true to them." The Amendment, which would provide that "[t]he liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right," requires a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress to go to the states for ratification. This means bipartisan support will be necessary for its passage. "Parental rights affect us all, regardless of race or belief, across every community or demographic," says Detroit-area family law attorney Allison Folmar. "Absolutely, this Amendment should have bipartisan support. In fact, it should have universal support." The NFL's 2005 MVP Shaun Alexander is also among those supporting the Amendment effort. Alexander is vice president of ParentalRights.org . "I am still amazed with how much authority the courts have over parents' rights today. With the Parental Rights Amendment now introduced in both houses of Congress, we can begin to push back and win for all parents authority for how to raise their own children. The Parental Rights Amendment will protect the greatest team ever assembled—the family." Representatives interested in cosponsoring H. J. Res. 121 should contact Doug Thomas in Representative Hultgren's office.
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2876880409.html
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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Entire Baltimore Neighborhood Under Lockdown: "Police Declared Martial Law"
by Tyler Durden Nov 21, 2017 1:27 AM
Five days ago, Det. Sean Suiter, a married father of five and an 18-year veteran with the Baltimore Police, was patrolling the streets of West Baltimore around 5pm last Wednesday when he saw suspicious activity. Suiter approached a man and was shot point blank in the head, in a summary execution. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition where he later died of his injuries. In response, Baltimore Police reacted with ‘fire and fury’ turning the neighborhood where Suiter was shot into an “open-air prison”, shutting down city streets and enabling checkpoints for citizens while officers in tactical gear went door to door, according to Baltimore Brew. Residents were prohibited from entering their own neighborhood unless they showed proper identification, these extreme measures have been in place for 4-5 days. “They’ve been to my house three times asking, ‘Did you hear anything? Do you know anything,’” said Edward Stanley, a local resident, who had to show a yellow slip before entering the neighborhood. Police initially said they needed to cordon off the area to try to capture the shooter. Police have said Suiter was in the 900 block of Bennett Place, investigating a previous homicide, when he was shot on Wednesday. So far, no arrests have been announced in the case. This morning, homicide detective Mike Newton told The Brew that the lockdown was necessary to collect evidence. Citizens describe how their day lives have been disrupted as West Baltimore remains under police control, as per Baltimore Brew: Two women walking down Franklin Street to get to their cars, parked blocks away because of the lockdown, complained that they had been harassed by officers. “They know I live here. They’ve seen me come and go. But this one had to pat me down. He [the officer] went like this to my jacket, grabbing it,” said Shelly, 25, who asked that her last name not be used. “They wanted to know where I had been. Why do I have to tell him that? It’s just me in my flip-flops trying to go to my own home.” “We haven’t been able to get our mail for four days,” said the woman with her, Samantha, 50, who also asked not be identified. “Is the city going to pay the late fees on my bills?” “It’s so sad what happened to the officer and I hope they catch whoever did it,” another woman said. “But this is really overboard. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The ACLU of Maryland released a statement yesterday, who are “troubled by reports that some persons entering or leaving the area have been subject to pat down searches, and that non-residents have been barred from entering the area”. “While the search for a killer is, of course, a high priority for the police, the limits on lawful police behavior do not disappear even when engaged in that pursuit. And at least one federal appellate court has said that a similar police cordon and checkpoint system was unconstitutional. “The residents of Baltimore, and, in particular, the residents of the affected community, deserve a clear explanation from the City as to why this unprecedented action has been taken, what rules are being enforced, and why it is lawful. The need to secure a crime scene from contamination to preserve evidence does not, on its face, explain the wide area to which access has been restricted for days after the incident.” On-the-ground information is scarce to those outside the cordon because access to residents, including by the media, has also been restricted. For that reason, we encourage anyone who has this kind of information to contact us at curtis@aclu-md.org . Baltimore Brew concludes by saying the Baltimore Police will “clear the crime scene” on Monday, so in a few hours. Perhaps in a preview of things to come, the 4-5 day siege of West Baltimore by Police has been described by one resident as ‘Martial Law’. Readers concerned about social tensions in the US are urged to monitor events in Baltimore, which better than Chicago or Detroit now demonstrates just how the United States is marching straight into a new, Orwellian era.
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Small tsunamis detected in New Caledonia and Vanuatu after magnitude 7 undersea quake
Tom Westbrook, Jonathan Barrett November 19, 2017 / 6:03 PM / Updated 17 hours ago
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A powerful magnitude 7 undersea earthquake struck east of New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific on Monday, sending small tsunamis towards New Caledonia and neighboring Vanuatu, where authorities ordered evacuations. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for coastlines within 300 kms (186 mile) of the epicenter, but later said the danger had largely passed. Monday’s quake, initially reported as magnitude 7.3, struck at a shallow depth of 10 km (six miles) about 82 kms (51 miles) east of New Caledonia. It was the second major tremor in the same area in just over 12 hours and the third in the past month. “We are a little bit scared, we have had an earthquake last night and today it was quite a big one,” said Wayan Rigault, communications manager at Hotel Nengone Village on the island of Mare, which is the closest landmass to the epicenter. Rigault said there was no immediate damage, but guests were on alert for a formal evacuation warning. Small tsunamis were detected and waves may have reached up to one meter (three feet) above the high tide level in parts of New Caledonia and smaller in Vanuatu, the PTWC said. “Minor sea level fluctuations...may continue over the next few hours,” a statement from the agency said. Vanuatu’s National Disaster Management Office advised people in southern provinces to evacuate coastal areas for higher ground.. New Caledonia’s civil security agency made no plans to evacuate coastal places immediately. Authorities in Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii said there were no tsunami threats to the coastlines of those countries. Reporting by Tom Westbrook and Jonathan Barrett. Additional reporting by Byron Kaye and Charlotte Greenfield. Writing by Jane Wardell; Editing by Richard Pullin and Michael Perry
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Mexican heroin is flooding the US, and the Sinaloa cartel is steering the flow
Christopher Woody Nov. 18, 2017, 6:05 PM
A soldier shows the lancing of a poppy bulb to extract the sap, which is used to make opium, during a military operation to destroy a poppy field in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalan in Guerrero, Mexico, April 18, 2017. REUTERS/Henry Romero
Mexican cartels have shifted heavily into heroin production, responding to growing heroin and opioid use in the US. The Sinaloa cartel appears to be leading that shift, despite the extradition of its former leader, "El Chapo" Guzman, and internal conflicts over his successor. Heroin availability in the US — and overdose deaths related to drug — has skyrocketed over the past several years. Eleven of the Drug Enforcement Administration's 21 field divisions in the US rated it has the number-one drug threat in 2016. And while the DEA says heroin from Mexico, South America, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia is all available in the US, the agency's testing and research indicate that the US's southern neighbor is the dominant source. "Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Colombia dominate the US heroin market because of their proximity, established transportation and distribution infrastructure, and ability to satisfy heroin demand in the United States," the DEA notes in its 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment. Mexican cartels' shift to producing heroin — as well as synthetic drugs like fentanyl — has been driven in part by loosening marijuana laws in the US, and the Sinaloa cartel appears to be the main player in a lucrative market. The cartel's former leader, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was rearrested in Mexico in January 2016 and extradited to the US in January this year. During his incarceration and in the wake of his extradition, the cartel was wracked by infighting between members competing for control and faced growing competition from the Jalisco New Generation cartel, its only real rival in terms of power. But one of Guzman's peers, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, appears to have stabilized the cartel, quelling internal conflict and forging a kind of peace with the CJNG, according to Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA. A Mexican government report earlier this year said Zambada had maintained the cartel's "cohesion" and avoided a war between its principal factions. Now the cartel "is more powerful than ever," members told Sinaloa state-based newspaper Rio Doce in October 'The cartels are very attuned to shifts in drug abuse' "The business didn't decrease with the extradition of" Guzman, a cartel operator, who described himself as a mid-level member, told Rio Doce. "We keep sending chiva [heroin], perico [cocaine], cristal [methamphetamine]. The only one that decreased was mota [marijuana], but from there on out everything continues like before," he said. The operator, guarded by 20 armed men at a ranch in Badiraguato, the community where Guzman was born, told Rio Doce that the value of marijuana had fallen considerably — from about $74 a kilo seven years ago to a little over $26 now — due to marijuana legalization in the US. Falling prices led many marijuana growers to shift to opium. The Sinaloa cartel dominates much of Mexico's Pacific coast, which includes main opium-cultivation areas in Guerrero and Sinaloa, which is part of country's Golden Triangle. (The CJNG is also active in that area.) For Mexico's cartels, "the big moneymaker right now, given the opioid epidemic, is heroin, and the reason that it's heroin is that people who have become addicted to prescription opioids find it a lot cheaper to purchase heroin," Vigil told Business Insider. "The cartels are very attuned to shifts in drug abuse in the United States. They always have been," Vigil said. "And as a result of that there's been a shift to the cultivation of opium poppies." Mexican cartels often have improvised labs — "I call them 'kitchen labs,' because they use nothing more than pots and pans that you would find in any kitchen," Vigil said — located near growing areas. The cartel chemists who run those labs don't have formal training, but they're mentored by other chemists and know how to convert opium to morphine and heroin, Vigil added. A heroin "cook" in northern Sinaloa state told Rio Doce production had increased dramatically. "Before I cooked some 40 kilos a year," he said. "But now I'm cooking like some 30 kilos a month," making both black-tar and white-powder heroin, a sign Mexican producers are drawing on Colombian methods. The cook told Rio Doce that Guzman's extradition had no effect on his work, and a group of farmers who grow marijuana and opium told the newspaper that they hadn't seen a drop in demand after Guzman was sent north. Data on Mexico's opium production varies, so it is hard to say how it has changed in recent years. The Mexican government says it eradicated 57,402 acres of opium crops through the end of October this year. That amount already exceeds any of the past five years, with the exception of 2015, which 2017 is on pace to surpass. Gauging how many plants are actually destroyed is another matter however, as the number of them in a given area varies widely, Vigil told Business Insider in May. Earlier this year, Mexico's army allowed the US and UN to observe opium-poppy eradication — the first time it had done so in at least a decade. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly flew over poppy fields in Guerrero this summer. 'They do it because they want to' Most Mexican heroin and synthetic opioids are trafficked over land, frequently going through ports of entry on the US-Mexico border. Shipments travel around the US, often via the interstate highway system. Sinaloa, like most Mexican cartels, isn't involved in retail-level drug sales, but its members do travel to the US to oversee wholesale transactions, distributing bulk quantities to local sellers. The cartel has a presence throughout the US, and New York City appears to have become a hub for the northeast, an especially busy region. Seizures of fentanyl, which is more profitable than heroin, in the city this year are 10 times what they were last year, and DEA intelligence indicates that 80% of the drugs seized are linked to the Sinaloa cartel. While the spread of heroin and opioid abuse in the US has had devastating consequences for many communities, for the traffickers, it is simply a matter of business. Americans "buy [drugs], we sell," the Sinaloa operative told Rio Doce. "We don't force any gringo who consumes heroin or marijuana," he added. "They do it because they want to, and if one doesn't sell it to them, somebody else is going to do it." Mexico's cartels, Vigil said, are "very much like any corporation. They judge the market demand, and they shift accordingly, and I would have to say the cartels shift much more efficiently and quickly than any major corporation, because they don't have to deal the bureaucracy."
http://www.businessinsider.com/sinaloa-cartel-sending-mexican-herion-to-the-us-2017-11
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Satanist up against 'basic scientific facts' in abortion-law case
'It is fundamental error to confuse them with scriptures, creeds, confessions, sermons'
Published: 5 days ago author-image Bob Unruh
A satanist fighting Missouri’s informed-consent law – which requires that a woman requesting an abortion wait 72 hours and be informed of her options and the consequences of the procedure – is up against “basic scientific facts,” according to a pro-life legal organization. The Thomas More Society, in a brief supporting the state in a case brought by a satanist who sought an abortion, explains that the law required that she be provided with “materials describing the development of the unborn human being she was carrying, (b) the opportunity to observe the movements and/or hear the heartbeat of that human being by means of ultrasound video and audio, and (c) reasonable time to consider the implications of these things.” The brief, submitted to the state Supreme Court, argues these are “empirical means of ascertaining basic scientific facts about the circumstances in which a woman makes a decision about abortion.” “It is fundamental error to confuse them with scriptures, creeds, confessions, sermons, or other means of religious instruction,” the brief contends. Read the tested and proven strategies to defeat the abortion cartel, in “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time.” The satanist, who is not identified in the suit, claims the state was imposing a religious belief on her, noting she doesn’t believe life begins at conception. She contends that a state law requiring her to be given information about the abortion process and wait 72 hours violates her beliefs. However, Attorney Thomas Olp, Thomas More Society counsel, argued the abortion waiting period and consent requirements dictated by the law are “based on verifiable scientific facts.” “The question of when life begins is a scientific question, not a religious one. It is an observable scientific fact that the life of a new, genetically distinct organism of the human species begins at conception,” he said. Judge John Beetem, in Missouri’s Cole County Circuit Court, previously dismissed the complaint, explaining the woman failed to show the state was promoting a religious “dogma.” The case was appealed to the state’s Supreme Court. Olp said the woman’s claims are “fundamentally confused.” “She asserts that whether an embryo is a ‘separate unique, living human being’ or ‘a part of her body,’ depends on one’s religious convictions,” he said. “She thinks that the statement: ‘the life of each human being begins at conception’ is a political or religious conviction. And she erroneously claims that it is a matter of religious opinion that abortion ‘will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being.’ “In fact, none of these are religious or political claims, but established scientific facts,” he said. The brief explains: “By blurring the distinction between fact and belief, appellant attempts to invoke constitutional and statutory protections for religious belief to prevent the state from offering to present to her materials containing scientific facts and an opportunity to make observations for herself.” The brief says there is “certainly no right to prevent the state from offering scientific facts as part of the informed consent process for a uniquely significant medical procedure.” The question of when life begins isn’t unanswered by the 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion that created a right to abortion, the brief explains. “Scientific research has demonstrated that the fusion of sperm and egg plasma membranes – ‘a rapid event that takes less than a second to complete’ – immediately yields a new human organism.” Those facts are even taught in scientific textbooks, the brief notes, including the statement, “Human development is a continuous process that begins when an oocyte (ovum) from a female is fertilized by a sperm (spermatozoon) from a male.” The brief says the ‘truth of the findings … does not depend on anyone’s beliefs.” “Appellant does not – and cannot reasonably – argue that [Missouri law’s] requirements that a qualified professional offer her the ‘opportunity to view … an active ultrasound of the unborn child and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child if the heartbeat is audible’ amounts to anything other than the opportunity to make an empirical observation of the unborn human for herself,” the brief explains. “It is self-contradictory for her to complain of the state’s offers of scientific information on the putative ground that her religious beliefs require her to adhere to scientific information.” Read the tested and proven strategies to defeat the abortion cartel, in “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/satanist-up-against-basic-scientific-facts-in-abortion-law-case/#q2TdefpLoY63h6qY.99
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Border agent killed, partner injured by illegal immigrants using rocks, report says
Illegal immigrants reportedly assaulted two U.S. Border Patrol agents with rocks, killing one and seriously injuring another Sunday near the southern border with Mexico. Details around the attack remained murky Monday, however, an FBI spokesperson said Rogelio Martinez and his partner were not shot and a National Border Patrol Council official told KTSM the assailants were "undocumented immigrants" who used likely used rocks to bash the agents. "We strongly believe rocks were what was used," NBPC Vice President Art Del Cueto told KTSM. The FBI had taken over the investigation into the death of Martinez, 36, and the injuring of his partner, who was not identified. The two were patrolling the Big Bend Sector of Texas when the attack occurred. "They were not fired upon," said Jeanette Harper of the FBI's El Paso office. "There are so many different agencies working together that we need to come together and develop a timeline." Martinez, who was from El Paso and had worked as a border agent since August 2013, died of injuries sustained while responding to “activity” near Interstate 10 in the Van Horn Station area, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He was on Interstate 10 near Mile Marker 151 when the incident occurred, KFOX14 reported. At some point, Martinez's partner called for help, saying he and Martinez had both been injured, investigators told KFOX14. TRUMP'S BORDER WALL: A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS President Trump pushed the need for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall Sunday night following the incident, tweeting: "Border Patrol Officer killed at Southern Border, another badly hurt. We will seek out and bring to justice those responsible. We will, and must, build the Wall!" Elaine Duke, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, released a statement Sunday calling Martinez’s death a “tragic event.” “Earlier this morning, I was notified that Border Patrol Agent Rogelio Martinez died as a result of serious injuries suffered while on patrol in the Big Bend Sector of our southern border in Texas. Agent Martinez was responding to activity while on patrol with another agent, who was also seriously injured,” the statement read. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also released a statement calling the attack a “stark reminder of the ongoing threat that an unsecure border poses to the safety of our communities and those charged with defending them.” “Our condolences and prayers go out to the family and friends of Border Patrol Agent Rogelio Martinez, who was killed this morning in the line of duty. We are also praying for the full recovery of his partner, who was also attacked,” Cruz said. FIRST FEMALE BORDER PATROL CHIEF SAYS AGENTS ARE EMPOWERED TO 'ENFORCE THE LAWS' UNDER TRUMP Border Patrol records show that Big Bend accounted for about 1 percent of the more than 61,000 apprehensions agents made along the Southwest border between October 2016 and May 2017. The region's mountains and the Rio Grande make it a difficult area for people to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico. The Border Patrol website lists 38 agents who have died since late 2003, some attacked while working along the border, and other fatalities in traffic accidents. It lists one other agent death in the line of duty this year. Fox News’ Mike Emanuel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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etc.. For it is a very dark hour as you have seen and that hour shall grow darker and darker and darker, for the evil spirits possessing people shall manifest themselves, and as they manifest themselves, you shall see death, you shall see killings, you shall see blood flowing, you shall see many things, many things. Think it not strange, but it is that hour and it is that time and no one seems to be binding up those spirits, nobody seems to be casting them out, nobody understands them
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There is Something Very Wrong with Official Story of the Sutherland Springs Church Shooting
Posted on November 13, 2017 by willyloman by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Go here to watch my video on this topic. It’s my Youtube channel. Enjoy it before they shut it down.
Let’s begin with this, a summary of the events laid out on the Wiki page: At approximately 11:20 a.m. CST, Devin Patrick Kelley exited from a vehicle at a gas station across the street from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs wearing black tactical gear, a ballistic vest, and a black face-mask featuring a white skull,[6] and wielding a AR-15 pattern Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic rifle.[7][8][9] He immediately fired in the direction of the church.[10] He crossed the street and approached the building from the right while firing, and continued to fire while entering the church building with worshipers attending regular Sunday service.[11] Inside, he yelled, “Everybody dies motherfuckers,” as he proceeded up and down the aisle and shot at people in the pews.[6][12] Police found 15 empty AR-15 magazines capable of holding 30 rounds each.[13][14][15] According to investigators, the shooting was captured on a camera set up at the back of the church to record regular services for uploading online. The footage shows Kelley methodically shooting the victims, pausing only to reload his rifle.[16] As Kelley left the church, he was confronted by local resident and former NRA firearms instructor Stephen Willeford,[17] armed with an AR-15 pattern semi-automatic rifle. Willeford took cover behind a truck and shot Kelley twice.[18][19][20] Kelley dropped his rifle and fled in his Ford Explorer as Willeford fired several rounds through the vehicle’s window.[21][22] Willeford flagged down a passing pickup truck driven by Johnnie Langendorff, and they pursued Kelley at high speed for about five to seven minutes. According to Langendorff, they drove at speeds up to 95 miles (153 km) per hour.[23] During the chase, Kelley called his father to tell him that he was injured and thought that he would not survive.[20] Kelley lost control of his vehicle, and it hit a road sign and flipped before landing in a bar ditch in Guadalupe County, near the city of New Berlin.[24][25][26][27] Willeford and Langendorff observed that he was motionless, and police took over the scene when they arrived.[28] Police found Kelley dead in his car[25] with three gunshot wounds, including a self-inflicted head wound.[29] Two handguns were found in the vehicle: a Glock 9 mm and a Ruger .22-caliber, both of which Kelley had purchased.[30] Do you see it? It’s staring you right in the face. If he left his vehicle in the gas station parking lot and walked across the street shooting at the church… how did he jump in his vehicle just outside the entrance of the church after getting in a firefight with Stephen Willeford and shoot at him again as he sped off? Several witnesses reported the shooter, already wearing tactical gear and his mask, got out of a vehicle at the gas station, walked across the road and the field and began firing at the church. Forensic investigators from the FBI are seen in photographs searching for shell casings in the field behind the church between it and the gas station and the road. How is it the shooter gets out of his vehicle at the gas station and walks over to the church several hundred yards away and starts a shooting spree and then hops in his waiting vehicle just outside the front entrance of the church and makes his get-away? There is something very wrong with this story. It doesn’t add up. Either someone dropped the shooter off at the gas station, the guy wearing tactical gear and a mask and carrying a firearm with loads of ammo… or the whole story about the chase is bullshit from the beginning. And remember, since the weapon was dropped at the scene and the shooter was wearing a mask, the ONLY thing that puts that dead body at the scene of the shooting… is the story of the car chase and the “heroes” who chased him. And that’s it. Also of note… Stephen Willeford says the shooter’s car hit a road sign and it “flipped over his SUV”. Here is a photo of the SUV from the driver’s side. You can tell the front bumper has some damage (seems to be missing a bit of it from this angle) but the windshield looks fine. The back window is blown out and there appears to be some damage to the top luggage rack on the driver’s side. In this image taken from the right side much later, you can see damage to the bumper and what appears to be a cracked windshield though I can’t see that from the other image.
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77 Holistic Practitioners Now Dead Since 2015: This Is Beyond Strange, They Are Dropping Like Flies And MSM Ignores Them
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine November 13, 2017
Since June of 2015, 77 holistic practitioners, more with other deaths associated with them, have died, official causes ranging from suicide to heart attacks, with the latest woman, doctor Annie Fairbanks, found murdered in her home, along with her husband, their 3-year-old daughter and 9-month-old son, in Arizona. Officials claim the husband killed his wife, two small children and then turned the gun on himself, but friends and loved ones have contacted Erin Elizabeth over at Health Nut News, who has been documenting the deaths of so many in the world of holistic medicine since 2015, to express doubts of the official claim of murder-suicide within hours of the discovery of the bodies. We at HNN, who have been reporting on these deaths for two and a half years, (which you can read about here in a numbered timeline with photos ) find this hard to make the call of murder-suicide in a matter of hours and would like to know more. For instance, how Hoster was able to do so, so quickly, after finding their bodies and the crime scene. Our heart goes out to their family and friends. We notice people (presumably friends) on Dr. Fairbank’s Facebook page are talking about what will happen to the murderer. We are not sure if they’re not informed, or have drawn their own conclusions. But we’ll wait for forensic reports, ballistics, and the autopsy reports. THE BIGGER PICTURE......... Ms. Elizabeth has done an outstanding job documenting not only the deaths of 77 people in the holistic field, but has kept up with updated information, specifically on those that died under mysterious circumstances, all that documentation, with links to each relevant portion from the death notifications to the updated autopsies, to the follow up investigations, found on her Holistic Doctor Death Series page. Stepping back from each individual death, the sheer amount of people from one specific subset of the medical industry, one that believed and practiced natural medicine and methods to deal with medical issues that did not involved big pharma, all dying in such a short amount of time, is absolutely astounding. It is given that heart attacks and suicides occur across the country on a daily basis, but the circumstances of some of these cases, as well as family testimony, shows that there is more than meets the eye and the "official" accounts simply defy logic. From the start, with the discovery of Dr. Jeff Bradstreet on June 19, 2015, found in a river with a gunshot wound to his chest, which was labeled a suicide, there have been strange circumstances surrounding these deaths, such as the rarity of someone shooting themselves in the chest, rather than the head, as a method of suicide. The very same day in Mexico, three doctors went missing and when their bodies were discovered the families said the bodies were not those of their missing family members, and despite that fact, the government declared them dead. When Rigoberto Hernandez stepped into the morgue, in late June, to identify his recently abducted son—he knew right away there had been a mistake. “It wasn’t him,” Hernandez told The Daily Beast during a recent demonstration outside the state capitol building to protest the government’s handling of the case. “I raised him from a baby, so I ought to know. The body presented [by the government] didn’t look anything like my boy.”The Hernandez family joined about 50 doctors and nurses at the July 2 demonstration, braving the desert heat. The protesters chanted and waved signs outside the locked gates of city hall, demanding “Due process!” and “Security for health-care workers!” “Our family said we couldn’t accept a body that wasn’t ours,” Hernandez explained. “But the DA declared my son dead anyway.” Two days later, in Florida, two chiropractors were found dead, separately, and to this date no cause of death has been reported. On June 29, 2015, two more holistic practitioners were found dead in separate states, one murdered, the other went missing and when he was found, his death was ruled as a suicide by gun, yet even local news was calling the entire investigation a "mess," and taking authorities to task for conflicting storylines and a lack of transparency in revealing results. With those eight deaths within a two week time frame, Health Nut News' "Unintended" series into the deaths of holistic doctors began, documenting each case, with updates, leading up to this most recent death of Annie Fairbanks and her whole family. That series and documentation can be found at Health Nut News. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES AND DEATHS While we will not "reinvent the wheel" by detailing each individual death leading to the 77th, because all the information can be found at the link above, we will highlight some of those that can logically be considered mysterious. July 3, 2015 – Patrick Fitzpatrick MD went missing, has never been found and authorities say it is like he "vanished into thin air." July 21, 2015- Two doctors, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez and Dr. Abdul Karim, died, both supposedly of heart attacks, although in Gonzalez's case, the autopsy did not show any heart attack symptomology, and according Health Nut News "Dr. Gonzalez also said in several interviews, including the last one before he died, that he thought big pharma wanted him to get hit by a bus or that he might die suddenly. " August 12, 2015 – Osteopath Mary Bovier is found slain to death in her home in Pennsylvania. Her significant other, who we’re told is also an osteopath, was questioned and released. There have been no further arrests and no other suspects. From June to November 2015, Health Nut News had documented the death 26 deaths, noting a "dozen plus accidental deaths and freak accidents, mostly holistic doctors." Under Elizabeth's "Late December 2015 – January 2016" category, she notes that she hadn't "included PhD’s in the series (unless they were also an MD, DO or DC)," but ran across another disturbing trend, which she describes as "a spate of cancer researchers killed, which hadn’t happened previously." Aside from the spate of cancer researchers, there are also very disturbing updates on earlier investigations, such as the saga shown below: 30) January 23, 2016 – A top MD, John Marshall, 49, former 4th generation Marine who’d served in Afghanistan and had survival training, was found dead in the Spokane River. His body was recovered that day. He was said to be in great shape and was on his usual run after his workout at the gym (the man was fierce). Authorities say he had somehow fallen into the river and drowned, and quickly concluded it was death by drowning. UPDATE 1: A former detective was ordered to stop his investigation into the links between the suspicious deaths of Drs. John Marshall and Brenda Thurman. UPDATE 2: Dr. Suzan Marshall (wife of Dr. John Marshall) believes her husband was murdered, despite a police investigation and autopsy report that determined it was an accidental drowning. UPDATE 3: Dr. Marshall’s wife hired a private investigator, and is questioning the quick call by Seattle PD. She even said someone is trying to silence her. The prominent investigator states on CBS news that the “accidental death” of Dr. Marshall is most likely a professionally staged murder by someone in the military or police. Again, more families are questioning these deaths and what some find absurd rulings by authorities. In yet another instance, a friend of the doctor that started Health Nut News on this series, died and while she was not a holistic practitioner, she was a nurse who had warned that is anything happened to her, do not assume it was an accident. 35) February 1, 2016 – Just a week later, to the day, after losing our local friend and holistic doctor, Rod Floyd, we lost another friend from our holistic community. The wonderful, young Paige Adams FNP, B-C, who also lived up the road from us, was found dead in her home. She had worked closely for many years with her good friend and colleague Dr. Bradstreet, whose death started off this holistic series. Now we have his close friend and colleague found dead. This is particularly heartbreaking because she was so young. Paige Adams had asked to stop by our house to visit days before she died. I feel awful for not taking her up on that, and my heart goes out to her family and patients. She’s the only one in this series who’s not a doctor—DC, MD, DO—but she was a board certified Nurse Practitioner whose patients raved about her endlessly. She also stated publicly (which you’ll see in the link) that if anything happened to her, don’t assume it was an accident. Another strange coincidence of note: 50) June 11, 2016 – We discover that yet another holistic doctor has allegedly committed suicide. Dr. Alex Shvartsman, dentist and naturopathic doctor, killed himself at home over the weekend. We’re now hearing that he, Mitch Gaynor MD (#11 in our series), and Nick Gonzalez MD (#8 or #9- we had two found dead that day) were all speaking at an event last fall that also included Steve “Sproutman”. Steve was killed in a strange car accident. We wrote about what happened, but didn’t include his case in the series. Dr. Gaynor allegedly took his own life, while Dr. Gonzalez allegedly had a heart attack. His wife then updated the public that it didn’t appear to be the case, and that they couldn’t find a cause of death. Now Dr. Alex (allegedly) took his life. All in a matter of months. All of them spoke at the same Health Expo in the northeast. This is breaking news I found out late Father’s Day night. From late December to January 2016, another 7 are listed. From January 2016 until 2017, another 34 deaths had been documented and another 15 so far in 2017. BOTTOM LINE While people die of natural causes all the time, the number of deaths from one specific subset of medicine, including the spate of cancer researchers, with the testimony of family that conflicts with the official causes, along with the autopsies in some cases not matching up with the "official" causes stated, in conjunction with the unexplained cases, the botched investigations, the "freak accidents," and the mysterious disappearances, would even have the most trusting of souls asking questions and doubting some of these reports. Exit Question: Why isn't the mainstream media asking questions and connecting the dots, and seems to be simply ignoring the "coincidence" of over 70 holistic practitioners deaths in a little over two years? Erin Elizabeth at Health Nut News discusses the latest death of Annie Fairbanks as well as some of the others in her November 12, 2017 video shown below.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Holistic_Doctors_Dead_Now_Total_77.php
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Fukushima Cover-Up: “Keep cancers a secret” say doctors — “We’re getting leukemia and cataracts and we die suddenly” — “Students having sudden heart attacks” — Officials “actively ignoring” reports of illness and death
Published: November 14th, 2017 at 6:14 am ET By ENENews
Adam Broinowski, visiting research fellow at The Australian National University, 2017 (h/t Fukushima 311 Watchdogs) (emphasis added): Faced with the post-3.11 reality of government (and corporate) policy that protects economic and security interests over public health and well-being, the majority of the 2 million inhabitants of Fukushima Prefecture are either unconscious of or have been encouraged to accept living with radioactive contamination… As Fukushima city resident Shiina Chieko observed, the majority of people seem to have adopted denial as a way to excise the present danger from their consciousness. Her sister-in-law, for example, ignored her son’s ‘continuous nosebleeds’, while her mother had decided that the community must endure by pretending that things were no different from pre-3.11 conditions. [Source: Shiina Chieko, interview with the author]… Some, such as Yokota Asami (40 years old), a small business owner and mother from Kōriyama (60 km from FDNPS), demonstrated initiative in voluntarily evacuating her family. She decided to return (wearing goggles and a mask, she joked) in September 2011 when her son’s regular and continuous nosebleeds (in 30-minute spells) subsided. The Yokotas found themselves the victims of bullying when they called attention to radiation dangers… Her son was the only one to put up his hand when he was asked along with 300 fellow junior high school students if he objected to eating locally produced school lunches. He also chose not to participate in outdoor exercise classes and to go on respite trips instead. When it came time to take the high school entrance exam, he was told by the school principal that those who took breaks could not pass. He took the exam and failed. When he asked to see his results he found that he had, in fact, enough points to pass (the cut-off was 156 while he received 198 out of 250 points). [Source: Yokota Asami, interview with the author]… Asami reported that doctors undertook paediatric thyroid operations while denying any correlation (inga kankei) with radiation exposures. They also urged their patients to keep their thyroid cancer a secret… Yokota also indicated she knew of students having sudden heart attacks and developing leukaemia and other illnesses. [Source: Yokota Asami, interview with the author] This seems to be supported by Mr Ōkoshi, a Fukushima city resident, whose two daughters experienced stillbirths after 3.11. While Ōkoshi found that doctors have regularly advised women in the area to abort after 3.11, presumably to avoid miscarriages and defects, they do not discuss direct causes. He also observed regular illnesses experienced by many of his friends, and some sudden deaths. After a friend (62 years old) started saying strange things, he was diagnosed with brain dysfunction. He died quickly. Another friend (53 years old) was advised by a doctor to monitor a polyp in her breast. When she sought second opinions, she discovered she had accumulated an internal dose of 22 mSv and had a rapidly developing liver cancer. She also died quickly. [Source: Mr Ōkoshi, interview with the author] There are many more such stories that are being actively ignored by the authorities. As Shiina put it, ‘we’re getting leukaemia and cataracts and we die suddenly. The TEPCO registrar has been inundated with complaints’. [Source: Shiina Chieko, interview with the author]
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Anomalous series of spectacular sun phenomena in the sky of Chile (video and pictures)
By Strange Sounds - Nov 14, 2017
High altitude cirrus clouds sometimes contain a large number of hexagonal ice crystals, and if these are struck by sunlight at just the right angle, with the sun elevated at least 58 degrees, the sky suddenly looks like somebody waved a giant magnet in front of an old-school computer monitor. But, yesterday was more than unusual in Antofagasta. A series of different sun halos lit up the sky over the whole day, baffling skywatchers as if they’ve finally discovered the gateway to Oz. At around midday, a double solar halo – circumhorizontal arc below the very common 22-degree halo – amazed onlookers during approximately half an hour. Then around 3:30pm, another sun halo appeared before an incredible sundog or two suns phenomenon around 6:30pm. Chemtrailing? Approaching storm? or just weaponized weather art in the heart of Atacama desert? Will see that in the news in the next day. Meanwhile enjoy as if you weren’t aware of the weather war going on: While it may look like the pseudo-surrealist pap you’d find hanging in some naturopath dentist’s office, these are real pictures and videos of a real phenomenon: a so-called circumhorizontal arc appears below the very common 22-degree halo and some other more complex halos in the sky of Antofagasta, Chile on November 13, 2017: Now think about describing that moment to anybody who wasn’t right there with you: You’re either getting tossed in the loony bin or hit up for some of those excellent drugs you’re apparently on. It’s almost as if they’ve finally discovered the gateway to Oz.
http://strangesounds.org/2017/11/spectacular-sky-phenomenon-chile-video-pictures.html
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Earthquake swarm hits Monterey County; biggest felt in SF
By Bill Hutchinson Updated 6:32 am, Wednesday, November 15, 2017
A 4.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Monterey County on Monday and was felt more than 90 miles away in San Francisco, officials said. AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUE: The shaking isn't over as aftershocks continue (UPDATE) The quake hit at 11:31 a.m. about 13 miles northeast of Gonzales, near Salinas, and was followed by nine smaller aftershocks, with the largest measuring magnitude 2.8, said Annemarie Baltay, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. There were no reports of injuries or damage. Baltay said the quake occurred on the San Andreas Fault, close to an area where the Calaveras Fault branches off. The quake happened at a depth of about 4 miles. She said there was no indication that the tremor was a harbinger of a bigger earthquake. “This is really typical behavior,” Baltay said. “It’s as if someone put an oil can into the fault and lubricated it.” There have been 51 small earthquakes in the same general area in the past decade, including a magnitude-4.6 shaker in 2011, Baltay said. Monday’s quake was felt in Monterey, Morgan Hill, San Jose and as far north as San Francisco. “We felt it here,” said Steve Anderson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Monterey. “It lasted about five seconds. There was a little bump and then a rolling motion. One of my colleagues said it made him feel seasick.” Bill Hutchinson is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: bhutchinson@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Bill_Hutchinson
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Swarm-of-earthquakes-hit-Monterey-County-felt-in-12354131.php
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Seven minutes of terror: AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a movie
by Alan Boyle on November 12, 2017 at 4:01 pm
BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives. As if the mere phrase “killer robots” weren’t scary enough, AI researchers and policy advocates have put together a video that combines present-tense AI and drone technologies with future-tense nightmares. The disturbing seven-minute movie is being released to coincide with a pitch being made on Monday in Geneva during talks relating to the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, or CCW. Diplomats will be discussing the prospects for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapons, and an advocacy group known as the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is pressing for quick action. The campaign’s video is meant to show how quickly the threat could move from TED talks to mass killings. Most depictions of killer robots show Terminator-type androids and giant battle machines treading heavily over a “War of the Worlds” landscape. The video illustrates how palm-sized drones packed with just a few grams of explosives are more likely trailblazers for attacks guided by artificial intelligence. The narrative is intercut with fake-news dramatizations that make it sound as if the debate over autonomous weapons has been ripped from the headlines. And that’s just the point, Berkeley AI researcher Stuart Russell says at the end of the video. Russell acknowledges that AI isn’t all bad. “Its potential to benefit humanity is enormous, even in defense,” he says. “But allowing machines to choose to kill humans will be devastating to our security and freedom. Thousands of my fellow researchers agree. We have an opportunity to prevent the future you just saw, but the window to act is closing fast.” This week’s campaign is supported by the California-based Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization focusing on the risks posed by AI. The institute has MIT physicist Max Tegmark as its president and has drawn backing from tech superstar Elon Musk. In January, the institute organized a conference that issued 23 Asilomar AI Principles for beneficial use of artificial intelligence, including a call to avoid an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons. The likeliest avenue to such weapons would involve automating drone attacks that are currently remote-controlled. Not everyone is convinced that AI-enabled robots would be inherently more dangerous than remote-controlled robots. “If I ever find myself in a war zone, and there’s a drone in front of me, deciding whether or not to shoot me, I couldn’t care less whether the decision is being made by a human or a machine,” University of Washington computer scientist Pedro Domingos said last year during a White House workshop on AI. “I want the correct decision to be made, so that I live. I’d rather have a machine making that decision.” And Indian ambassador Amandeep Gill, who is chairing this week’s U.N. meeting in Geneva, said the world isn’t likely to move quickly toward a treaty or a total ban on autonomous weapons. “It would be very easy to just legislate a ban, but I think … rushing ahead in a very complex subject is not wise,” Agence France-Presse quoted him as saying. “We are just at the starting line.” The video released today shows where the finish line could fall.
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/ai-activists-killer-robots-horror-movie/
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Legacy Media Silent On Wikileaks’ Publication Of Vault 8
by IWB · November 11, 2017
A few days ago, Wikileaks published Vault 8, which includes the source code for Wikileaks’ earlier Vault 7 publication. Wikileaks made clear that, like Vault 7, Vault 8 does not include ‘zero day’ exploits. Wikileaks‘ press release explains Vault 8’s inclusion source code and development logs of Hive, a “major component of the CIA infrastructure to control its malware.” Despite the importance of Vault 8’s content, legacy press has largely ignored news of its release. Utter media silence surrounding Wikileaks’ latest publication may be somewhat explained by the shadow it casts on claims that Kaspersky Lab was involved in some sort of attempt at Russian interference, as establishment media claimed recently as part of their ongoing Russian hacking narrative. That the CIA actively impersonated Kaspersky Lab raises many questions regarding the impersonation of Russian and other groups by the CIA. Increasing anti-Russia hysteria on the part of the media appears to have increased in recent weeks. This comes despite the issue having been largely debunked by the work of the Forensicator, first reported by this author at Disobedient Media. Wikileaks’ press release notes that: “Digital certificates for the authentication of implants are generated by the CIA impersonating existing entities. The three examples included in the source code build a fake certificate for the anti-virus company Kaspersky Laboratory, Moscow pretending to be signed by Thawte Premium Server CA, Cape Town. In this way, if the target organization looks at the network traffic coming out of its network, it is likely to misattribute the CIA exfiltration of data to uninvolved entities whose identities have been impersonated.” Wikileaks wrote of Vault 8: “This publication will enable investigative journalists, forensic experts and the general public to better identify and understand covert CIA infrastructure components. Source code published in this series contains software designed to run on servers controlled by the CIA.” Wikileaks also tweeted on the subject: One of the key points that can be drawn from Wikileaks’ release of Vault 8 is that the CIA had the capability to pretend to be Kaspersky Lab, and that in fact they did impersonate them, among others. This is significant because it directly illustrates the capability of US intelligence agencies to false attribution. Likewise, the publication of Vault 7’s ‘Marble Framework‘ earlier this year revealed issues of misattribution. Wikileaks wrote that Marble Framework was “[D]esigned to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation” as “string obfuscation algorithms (especially those that are unique) are often used to link malware to a specific developer or development shop.” Vault 8 and earlier Vault 7 publications also shed light on the issue previously raised by Adam Carter, who repeatedly indicated over the last few months that Guccifer 2.0’s data was created in such a way that it demonstrated an intentional attempt to impersonate Russian hacking “fingerprints.” It should also be noted that while the recent publication of Vault 8 and the earlier publication of Vault 7 sheds important light on issues of misattribution, it is not directly related to Carter or the Forensicator’s studies of the Guccifer 2.0 material. Carter told Disobedient Media that very similar mimicry methods are observed in both cases. This similarity can be seen in Carter’s assessment of the available evidence regarding Guccifer 2.0, where he concluded that it was much more likely that Crowdstrike, in association with the DNC, created the Guccifer 2.0 persona, rather than Russian state actors or Eastern European hackers. Press reports indicate that since Vault 8’s release, Kaspersky Lab has confirmed that: “leaked digital authentication certificates issued in its name were fake after WikiLeaks published more proof of CIA online spying.” Eugene Kaspersky confirmed the information via Twitter: The publication of Vault 8 comes shortly after news of an October meeting between Bill Binney and CIA Director Mike Pompeo caused a furor in legacy press. Networks including CNN and NBC outrageously referred to former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney as a “conspiracy theorist,” despite his long and spotless record of absolute integrity. Like the release of Vault 8, Binney’s statements and support of a Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) memorandum raise significant concerns regarding the Russian hacking theory. This correlation may explain to some extent the viciousness with which Binney has been smeared, as well as the absolute silence that has met Vault 8 upon its release. Thanks to the publication of Vault 8, as well as the previous work of VIPS, the Forensicator and Adam Carter, it has become increasingly clear that not only is there no evidence that Russia hacked the election, there is no indication at the time of writing that any such hypothetical theories have taken intelligence misattribution methods into account. This means that, in addition to the fact that no evidence has been produced showing that a Russian hack of the DNC occurred, there would potentially be a serious problem of attribution if any such evidence would be produced. This coincides with Disobedient Media’s previous coverage of the work of Adam Carter, which illustrated the methods by which ‘Russian fingerprints’ left on Guccifer 2.0’s publications appear to be a rather obvious, blundering attempt at misattribution. Carter wrote in his latest article: “Many other discoveries have been made this year that show Guccifer 2.0’s actions go beyond being careless and were clearly indicators of signal-mimicry (a misdirection intended to coerce flawed attribution).” In this way, Carter’s findings correlate with the false attribution abilities described in both Vault 8 and the previously published ‘Hive’ sub-release from Vault 7. Over the last few months, establishment interests seem to have grown increasingly sensitive regarding the Russian hacking narrative, which can be seen in the language used to attack VIPS and Bill Binney, as well as the silence hanging over the release of Vault 8.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/legacy-media-silent-on-wikileaks-publication-of-vault-8/
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There Will Be Riots, Looting And A Divided America. Learn How To Become Invisible, To Mobs
When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’ … it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism.’” That was the prediction of Halford Luccock in 1938. When one watches the rioting, burning and smashing that occurred at the University of California, Berkeley, the riots in Washington D.C. during the inauguration of Donald Trump or even the ones during natural disasters—all in order to stop an alleged “racist” or “fascist” from giving a speech or to take advantage of the chaos created during a natural disaster and loot the stores—one can see how prophetic Luccock’s prediction was. In recent years riots have become more and more commonplace in the US and many countries around Europe. People are angry, be it over a race killing, the falling economy, corrupt officials or just mindless opportunistic youngsters who are highly susceptible to the mob mentality. Let’s not forget about Katrina and after all the devastation that it brought with it, homeowners still had to encounter looters. Millions of dollars in damages, businesses ruined, people hurt and killed and all for what? To rise up against injustice? No, to take the opportunity to do as they pleased without fear of repercussions. These people are not protesting peacefully. They see that the law cannot control a large angry mob and decide that the law no longer applies to them. The media also plays a huge part in these riots, I mean what good can it possibly do to state live on air that “angry mobs are expected if X does/doesn’t happen…” What this causes is for these mindless criminals to think “Hey, maybe I should be angry. We should go out there and show them we’re angry”. So they do, and what ensues is a mixture of violence, robbery, looting, arson attacks and physical bodily harm to whoever stands in the way. So how can you make these looters pass you by? So how does an average person protect herself and her family from such civil unrest? The best way to avoid such unrest is not to live near those places most likely to be hit by civil unrest. The most likely targets in a new round of civil unrest are likely to be wealthy, gentrified neighborhoods in big cities, financial districts, and posh suburbs located near large cities. Examples of these include Brooklyn, Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, and Santa Monica and Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. Also, stay away from large universities, college campuses, and government buildings, which are likely to be the epicenters of disturbances. The first and most sensible answer as a prepper is ‘GOOD’ or Get Out Of Dodge. I would rather watch the riots unfold on the news than being stuck in the middle and have to defend my property and family from hundreds of people who fear no repercussions from their actions. So, what if things start and escalate rapidly. You arrive home from work and it’s already kicked-off and you can’t get out. What things can you do in and around your home to make these people pass you by? Well, there are many ways to make yourself and your home less appealing. Let’s dive right in. Hidden or In Sight? The individual situation would greatly determine if you try to stay hidden or let people see you are there. For example, if you can get family and friends to come to your location or a predetermined location, there is safety in numbers. This will allow you to be visible, using long arm weapons slung over your shoulder as you move about your property and garden. There is also a downside to this, in that your neighbors who have no preps for this kind of situation will see your lights on and perhaps come begging for help, protection, food, water etc. So you should be prepared for this. Hey, everything has its ups and downs right! Staying hidden may seem like the most logical choice at first, however, you must remember, these people are generally looking for an opportunity. A home with no lights or visible signs of human presence = opportunity. Sure, if they are coming thick and fast, destroying everything in their path then you have no choice but to escape or shoot. However, in general, everyday life, that’s not how it happens. Riots take time to warm up as people encourage others to get involved. This gives you a little time to get yourself, family and friends together and make a plan of action to deter looters. Vehicles Making it difficult to access your property is a great deterrent. However, if you have decided to be in plain sight then you should ensure you move vehicles out of the way so that you can be seen from people walking in the street. Using your neighbor’s driveway or the garage is a good option and one that will also allow you some cover from gunfire should you need it. It will also provide a quick escape route should you need it. You can also use your vehicle to light up your house and front lawn. Looters hate being spotted, they would rather sneak in and out between the shadows with a bag full of loot. By using your headlights to make your house look like a football stadium, this could deter people from approaching. The other option is, of course, to use the vehicles as a barricade around the house(s). Forming a semicircle around the front of the house where the mobs are likely to pass by will limit the entry and exit points. Think of Woodbury, the town in The Walking Dead episodes where the buses are used as gates into the compound. Weather Do you know what stopped the riots in Ferguson? It wasn’t that they found peace with the situation or that they got what they wanted, it was the temperature. Riots and looting often take place in the summertime when the weather is warm, not in the depths of winter or when it gets just cold enough to see your breath as you exhale. The temperature in Ferguson dropped and so did the enthusiasm for opportunistic violence and criminal activity. Here is an extract from the NYTimes publication in the Science Journal from 2013: We found that higher temperatures and extreme rainfall led to large increases in conflict: for each one standard deviation change in climate toward warmer temperatures or more extreme rainfall, the median effect was a 14 percent increase in conflict between groups and a 4 percent increase in conflict between individuals. Do some digging on Google and you will see many of these studies concur that extreme weather can play a part in increased violent encounters. Activity Don’t think that looters won’t hurt you, but in the same breath, they are looking for easy targets. So it’s important to make your home or neighborhood look like a place of high activity, with many people to defend it. Have people walking around, torches in hand, vehicles driving up and down and a lookout at each house and corner. Music or a TV set turned up loud enough to hear as you pass by in the street will often be enough to ward off potential threats. Essentially, the more people you can muster in your community to band together with the better. Cooking and Eating Should you cook outside? This is a tough one and debated by many, however, most people confuse this question with a ‘doomsday’ scenario. We are strictly talking about looting and rioting, not a post-apocalyptic world where people are starving and killing their neighbors for a cup of flour. My answer to this would be to cook outdoors IF you have decided to deter by showing a presence. If you have decided to lay low and hide, you need to be prepared to eat cold rations and not have an open flame or any kind of smell that can attract people to your hiding hole. If however, you have recruited friends and neighbors to help deter looters, then cooking and eating outdoors in plain sight would be ok depending on the situation. Say after a hurricane such as Katrina, people lost everything and had no food or safe drinking water. It is likely that you may have lost everything too, however, if you do have food, it is probably best to keep that to yourself and your close-knit group and not advertise to the world that you have things they need. Say you do cook outside, what do you have that you can cook with? Do you have a grill, a smoker and wood/coals to burn? Will you use gas? These are all questions to ask yourself and cooking indoors with these is not an option. Already Looted? Most of this article has taken the stance of the ‘strength in numbers’ deterrent of looters. However, there is another option which would require some tough decisions and small sacrifices to be made. I’m talking about making your property look like it has already been looted. How do we go about that and what would it entail? Let’s look at a few options. Also read: When Law And Order Breaks Down: “If I Had to Be an Animal, I Was an Animal. It Was About Survival.”—THIS IS THE REALITY Preparing for the Aftermath–What would it really be like to have no running water, electricity, sewer, newspaper or Internet? No supermarket or fire department close at hand? Trash and Broken Goods I know a few friends who keep their old broken TV set in their garage and plan to use it in this kind of event. They will take a bat to it and place it on their front lawn to give the impression that people have already been to the property and here is what’s left. You could also empty your garbage all over the property, people hate smell and muck. Especially if it’s been festering in there for a few days. Hidden Valuables If you do take the hunkered down approach it is best to take your valuables and some of your stored preps and move them away from the property or at least in a place where people won’t easily find them. A hole in the floor or a buried cache location is a good idea, even a fake stud wall or picture frame covering a small stash box can work. I would avoid keeping any valuables on my person such as jewelry or items that have sentimental value. Damage or lose them can have a devastating effect on your mindset and morale. Not what you want in a situation where having your wits about you is of the utmost importance. Going to the bathroom Staying hidden is all well and good, heck it works for our special forces behind enemy lines so why not? Well, they also have to do EVERYTHING where they choose to hide, and that means going to the bathroom. If you will be staying inside of your home, you will need a way to get rid of your waste and clean yourself afterward. That also means washing your hands and body. A idisease is a big killer in unsanitary conditions after events such as a hurricane or tsunami. Fire There is no shortage of fires where looting and rioting are concerned. How about creating a large fire in your front of your property? Burning tires smoke and stink like hell and cause the eyes to water, which is a good deterrent. It will also mask the smell of any cooking you do and makes it look like people have already been to your property so there won’t be anything left. Window Boards With hoards of people breaking into stores, there can only be so many who can fit through the doorway, most often looters will smash the glass windows to grab what they can with ease. Having a selection of pre-cut boards all measured up to fit the windows of your property could both protect your glass from being shattered and also make it look like your property has been condemned and is empty. If it looks like no one lives there, then there will be nothing to steal. Plus it has the added advantage of restricting the looters from peering into your home. Stay or Go Above we have a few very different options, to stay and protect what’s yours, staying hidden or in plain sight, or fleeing and living to fight another day whilst your property succumbs to vandals and looters. Each one is a tough choice and would take a lot of planning, people, skill, and determination. There is no right or wrong answer, there is only the right answer for YOU and YOUR situation at the time. Thinking about these things now could well save you from upset down the line. Don’t Fuel the Fire Though you might feel tempted, do not sit out on the front porch with your firearms. Cops will be on edge and they will not know if you are an innocent civilian simply defending your property or a threat. Your display may also summon bad people—not only have you shown the world you have guns, but you also have shown you have something worth protecting. With the obvious and enormous exception of attitudes toward slavery, Americans are more divided morally, ideologically and politically today than they were during the Civil War. For that reason, just as the Great War came to be known as World War I once there was World War II, the Civil War will become known as the First Civil War when more Americans come to regard the current battle as the Second Civil War. Civil unrest can severely disrupt your life for days, even weeks. It is unsafe to be outside, stray bullets and fires can ruin buildings, homes, and lives. Make sure you are prepared and you will be safe during social unrest, rioting, and looting. 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Discover how to survive: Most complete survival tactics, tips, skills and ideas like how to make pemmican, snowshoes, knives, soap, beer, smokehouses, bullets, survival bread, water wheels, herbal poultices, Indian roundhouses, root cellars, primitive navigation, and much more at The Lost Ways Here’s just a glimpse of what you’ll find in The Lost Ways: From Ruff Simons, an old west history expert, and former deputy, you’ll learn the techniques and methods used by the wise sheriffs from the frontiers to defend an entire village despite being outnumbered and outgunned by gangs of robbers and bandits, and how you can use their wisdom to defend your home against looters when you’ll be surrounded. Native American ERIK BAINBRIDGE – who took part in the reconstruction of the native village of Kule Loklo in California, will show you how Native Americans build the subterranean roundhouse, an underground house that today will serve you as a storm shelter, a perfectly camouflaged hideout, or a bunker. It can easily shelter three to four families, so how will you feel if, when all hell breaks loose, you’ll be able to call all your loved ones and offer them guidance and shelter? Besides that, the subterranean roundhouse makes an awesome root cellar where you can keep all your food and water reserves year-round. From Shannon Azares you’ll learn how sailors from the XVII century preserved water in their ships for months on end, even years and how you can use this method to preserve clean water for your family cost-free. Mike Searson – who is a Firearm and Old West history expert – will show you what to do when there is no more ammo to be had, how people who wandered the West managed to hunt eight deer with six bullets, and why their supply of ammo never ran out. Remember the panic buying in the first half of 2013? That was nothing compared to what’s going to precede the collapse. From Susan Morrow, an ex-science teacher and chemist, you’ll master “The Art of Poultice.” She says, “If you really explore the ingredients from which our forefathers made poultices, you’ll be totally surprised by the similarities with modern medicines.” Well…how would you feel in a crisis to be the only one from the group knowing about this lost skill? When there are no more antibiotics, people will turn to you to save their ill children’s lives. If you liked our video tutorial on how to make Pemmican, then you’ll love this: I will show you how to make another superfood that our troops were using in the Independence war, and even George Washington ate on several occasions. This food never goes bad. And I’m not talking about honey or vinegar. I’m talking about real food! The awesome part is that you can make this food in just 10 minutes and I’m pretty sure that you already have the ingredients in your house right now. Really, this is all just a peek. And believe it or not, this is not all…
Table Of Contents: The Most Important Thing
Making Your Own Beverages: Beer to Stronger Stuff
Ginger Beer: Making Soda the Old Fashioned Way
How North American Indians and Early Pioneers Made Pemmican
Spycraft: Military Correspondence During The 1700’s to 1900’s
Wild West Guns for SHTF and a Guide to Rolling Your Own Ammo
How Our Forefathers Built Their Sawmills, Grain Mills, and Stamping Mills
How Our Ancestors Made Herbal Poultice to Heal Their Wounds
What Our Ancestors Were Foraging For? or How to Wildcraft Your Table
How Our Ancestors Navigated Without Using a GPS System
How Our Forefathers Made Knives
How Our Forefathers Made Snowshoes for Survival
How North California Native Americans Built Their Semi-subterranean Roundhouses
Our Ancestors’Guide to Root Cellars
Good Old Fashioned Cooking on an Open Flame
Learning from Our Ancestors How to Preserve Water
Learning from Our Ancestors How to Take Care of Our Hygiene When There Isn’t Anything to Buy
How and Why I Prefer to Make Soap with Modern Ingredients
Temporarily Installing a Wood-Burning Stove during Emergencies
Making Traditional and Survival Bark Bread…….
Trapping in Winter for Beaver and Muskrat Just like Our Forefathers Did
How to Make a Smokehouse and Smoke Fish
Survival Lessons From The Donner Party
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The Navy Swamp Needs Draining Too
From Obama-style social engineering to rampant corruption, the Navy is in trouble.
Arnold Ahlert · Nov. 9, 2017
The Navy is sailing in very troubled waters. A scathing Navy report released Nov. 2 reveals that two major collisions — one between the USS Fitzgerald and merchant ship ACX Crystal off the Japanese coast on June 17 that killed 17 sailors and another between the USS John McCain and oil tanker Alnic MC near Singapore on Aug. 20 that killed another 10 — were caused by “fundamental failures to responsibly plan, prepare and execute ship activities to avoid undue operational risk.” The USS Fitzgerald’s collision was precipitated by a “compilation of failures by leadership and watchstanders,” including lookout crews who “were inattentive, disengaged in developments on the Bridge, and unaware of several nearby vessels.” As a result they “failed to visually differentiate between two vessels in close proximity” while “attempting to cross a highly congested sea lane at night.” Moreover the Officer of the Deck, the person responsible for safe navigation of the ship, “exhibited poor seamanship by failing to maneuver as required, failing to sound the danger signal and failing to attempt to contact CRYSTAL on Bridge to Bridge radio,” the report states. The officer also failed to “call the Commanding Officer as appropriate and prescribed by Navy procedures to allow him to exercise more senior oversight and judgment of the situation.” The USS McCain’s collision was an equally damning sequence of errors. Because the person at the helm was having difficulty maintaining course while also adjusting the throttles for speed control, the Commanding Officer “ordered the watch team to divide the duties of steering and throttles.” This unplanned shift “caused confusion in the watch team,” that ultimately led the helmsman to believe the steering mechanism had failed. According to the report, crews attempted to fix the mistake by transferring steering “among various controlling stations four times within the two minutes leading up to the collision.” Crew members also accidentally decoupled the ship’s two engines, and the two shafts “working opposite to one another in this fashion caused an un-commanded turn to the left.” This error, coupled with “lost situational awareness” on the ship’s bridge, effectively accelerated the McCain’s turn into the Alnic MC. “The thing that stood out to me was in both situations they had minimal situational awareness,” stated Capt. Rick Hoffman, a retired cruiser captain who reviewed the report for Defense News. “In the case of Fitzgerald, nearly criminal negligence on the part of the bridge watch team. And in neither case did the ship sound five short blasts or raise the general alarm to let anyone know they were in danger.” Incredibly, there were two additional incidents involving 7th Fleet vessels last year. In January, the USS Antietam guided missile cruiser ran aground near Yokosuka base. In May, the USS Lake Champlain collided with a South Korean fishing boat. The report minced no words regarding why these incidents occurred: “In each of the four mishaps there were decisions at headquarters that stemmed from a culturally engrained ‘can do’ attitude, and an unrecognized accumulation of risk that resulted in ships not ready to safely operate at sea.” Since the collisions, eight senior leaders have been relieved of duty, and members of both ships’ bridge and Combat Information Center watch teams have also received administrative actions. And while the Navy does not make these actions public, they may include career-killing letters of reprimand. Moreover, if the continuing investigation demands additional punishment, it will be forthcoming. “We are dangerously underinvesting in our military,” insisted Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) after reading the report. “Training, readiness and maintenance are hit the earliest — and tragic errors like this are the canary-in-the-mine warning bells.” While true in some respects, Sasse’s assertion — essentially that basic competence requires increased funding levels — rings exceedingly hollow, especially when one remembers that Barack Obama’s Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, made political correctness one of his primary objectives. Marines in Congress from both parties criticized Mabus, also the former Democrat governor of Mississippi, for force-feeding co-ed training on the Marine Corps. They viewed the move as retaliation following the Corps request for an exemption from allowing women in combat. That request was based on studies showing sex integration would raise the risks of casualties. Mabus also attempted — and ultimately failed — to make all service job titles “gender neutral.” And funding has nothing to do with a massive corruption scandal encompassing as many as 440 Navy personnel, current and retired — including at least 60 admirals — under investigation for their involvement with Malaysian contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Glenn Francis. Francis allegedly provided Navy personnel with cash kickbacks and “wild times” in return for receiving classified information and contracts. Contracts with whom? The Navy’s 7th Fleet. In 2015, Francis pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud that included scamming the Navy out of approximately $35 million. He remains in jail in San Diego awaiting sentencing on Dec. 1. In the meantime, he is cooperating with the DOJ, which has already filed criminal charges against 28 individuals, including two admirals. The Navy is enacting some after-the-fact reforms following the acknowledgment in September that budget constraints, 100-hour workweeks, extended deployments, and training and maintenance delays have severely taxed the nation’s fleet and personnel. But top leaders speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee refused to directly tie the quartet of accidents to those problems. “These collisions, along with other similar incidents over the past year, indicated a need for the Navy to undertake a review of wider scope to better determine systemic causes,” the report states. The past year? On Jan. 12, 2016, two Navy riverine command boats were captured by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A Navy report on that incident also cited “failed leadership at multiple levels from the tactical to the operational” as the reasons for the debacle. What kind of leadership? The unidentified commander in charge of the boats “opted to surrender rather than fight back, citing later fears that a confrontation could endanger the Obama administration’s efforts to lock in a deal with Tehran on its nuclear program,” The Washington Times reported. “Clearly, under President Obama’s plan to fundamentally change America, the degradation of our military forces was a key element,” asserts U.S. Navy Admiral and former commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet James A. Lyons. “The capitulation of our military leadership to accept these mandates was more than shocking, as it was a manifestation of the corrupt ‘political correctness’ mentality run amok.” Thus the ongoing effort to embrace progressive dogma proceeds, even if military readiness and people lives are sacrificed as a result. A sailor aboard the USS Shiloh, one of the Navy’s missile cruisers monitoring North Korea, told an anonymous Navy survey everything Americans need to know. “I just pray we never have to shoot down a missile from North Korea, because then our ineffectiveness will really show,” the sailor wrote. As the aforementioned incidents indicate, it’s already showing. Thus it behooves the Trump administration to drain this particular swamp ASAP. National security cannot be held hostage to social engineering and political correctness. And commanders in every branch of the military who disagree should be sent packing.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52337
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By Dave Hodges
Hillary Clinton and John McCain have a lot in common. Besides undermining the US Constitution and working against the interests of the United States, they share three similar variables: (1) They are undeniably supporters of ISIS and each had a hand in the creation of the most dangerous terrorist entity on the planet; (2) They both sustained supposed injuries to the same foot at the exact same time and we wearing the exact same orthodic boot; and (3) Both parties are the target of very vicious and persistent rumors that beneath their walking boots are GPS locators which are placed on the ankles of indcted suspects of serious crimes who may be a flight risk. Supporters of ISIS Hillary has been a supporter of ISIS since its inception. WikiLeaks continued to reveal criminal and outright treasonous behavior on the part of Hillary Clinton. WikiLeaks, with their “retrieval” of Clinton emails continues to show ties between Clinton and foreign governments, criminally corrupt corporations and serious human rights violations. At the center of the WikiLeaks revelations of Clinton’s treason and criminal behavior demonstrates undeniable links to Lafarge. Lafarge paid taxes to ISIS in order that they could protect its cement factory from destruction. The factor is located approximately northeast of Aleppo, Syria. Another criminal investigation conducted by a Syrian news agency, Zaman al-Wasl, an independent news organization, stated that Lafarge bought oil from ISIS on a consistent basis. In a 2007 Washington Post article, at a time, when Clinton provided the bulk of the Clinton family income. in the 1990’s before husband Bill was elected President of the United States. Hillary Clinton, at that time, was “earning more than $100,000 a year from her law firm salary and corporate board fees.” At the time, she served on Lafarge’s board, making about $31,000 a year from the company. the year 2007, was the year that Lafarge built its cement plant in Syria. Influence Pedaling, Obstruction of Justice and Mass Murder Was the Order of the Day for Clinton While Working for Lafarge In some respects, it subsequently serving on the Lafarge Board of Directors, which she did from 1990-1992. could be said that Hillary Clinton has calmed down since her days on the Rose Law Firm and Clinton’s record on the Board consists of extreme human rights violations and treason to the United States of America, who had placed an embargo on weapons shipments to Iraq, of any kind, during the time that Clinton was working for Lafarge. Hillary did not obey the laws of the United States and her actions led directly to the establishment of ISIS as a force to be reckoned with. From the Canary: Lafarge’s Ohio subsidiary was caught burning hazardous waste to fuel cement plants. Clinton defended the decision at the time. Then just before her husband, Bill Clinton, was elected president in 1992, Lafarge was fined $1.8 million by the Environmental Protection Agency for these pollution violations. Hillary Clinton had left the board of Lafarge in spring, just after her husband won the Democrat nomination. A year later, under Bill’s presidency, the Clinton administration reduced Lafarge’s EPA fine to less than $600,000.” From the American Spectator: The American Spectator report from November 1996 cited sources confirming that Hillary Clinton did legal work for Lafarge in the late 1980s before she became a director. The report also claimed that Lafarge’s US subsidiary: “…provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein. To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton – who joined Lafarge board in 1990, just as the arms pipeline was being shut down… the Justice Department was told to bury the investigation… But investigators from other US government agencies who worked on the case say they were ‘waved off’ whenever they got too close to exposing the direct involvement of the intelligence community in the arms export scheme.” (Ed. Note: This is would be the poison gas shipments to Hussein that my Benghazi source spoke of.) Hillary Was a Part of Sadam Hussein’s Secret Weapons Program When I was investigating Benghazi, one of kurds 2my confidential sources told me that Hillary Clinton sat on the board of the company that provided poison gas to Hussein, who in turn used the gas to attack the Kurds. Today, I have found evidence to validate the truth of this claim. This is what Benghazi was all about and this is why Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered in order to cover up this crime which reach as far as the White House and former President Obama. Poison gas used in the Iran-Iraq War was manufactured using ingredients reportedly supplied by LaFarge. Five thousand Kurds were gassed to death by chemicals supplied by the very company that Hillary Clinton was working for while serving on their board of directors. As stated, she was paid for her role in these activities. One Dirty Hand Washes the Other In a major conflict of interest, at a 2013 annual meeting of the Clinton Foundation, Lafarge’s Executive Vice President for Operations, Eric Olson, was a “featured attendee.” The influence pedaling did not stop in 2013. For the fiscal years of 2015 and 2016, Lafarge was listed as a donor to the nefarious Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton has facilitated the growth of ISIS, as evidenced by what is presented here. Clinton’s involvement in Benghazi links directly to supporting the shipping of arms to ISIS. And now, Clinton and McCain are joined at the hip with regard to ISIS. John McCain’s ISIS Affiiations In an appearance on Fox News Monday, . And that’s McCain was asked to respond to Ron Paul’s comments earlier in the day, when the libertarian leaning Senator told CBS’ This Morning that arming Syrian rebels would only empower ISIS in the long runwhen things got weird and John McCain impulsively responded with the following: “Has Rand Paul ever been to Syria? Has he ever met with ISIS? Has he ever met with any of these people? No, no, no,” McCain said, clearly in reference to his own visit to Syria in 2013, where he was photographed with leaders of the Free Syrian Army, the fighters violently opposed to the Assad regime. “Don’t attempt to look for any logic in McCain’s blathering, because there isn’t any. This is not the first time McCain has attempted to make this idiotic argument. When intelligence emerged that up to 40 percent of the “moderate” rebels are actually extremists, McCain argued that the claims were not true because he has personally met the rebels who are supported by ISIS.” “I know who they are. I was in Syria and I met them. There’s about 70 percent still who are Free Syrian Army,” Amazingly, McCain made this statement despite the fact that a study by defense consultancy IHS Jane’s found that only around 30 percent of rebels are fighting for secular values,. During Fox News Monday’s appearance, McCain also claimed that his clearly alleged ISIS associations are “not true” that the moderate Syrian rebels have agreed a nonaggression pact with ISIS, another factor Rand Paul brought up Monday. McCain did not however, present any evidence to counter media reports based on intelligence shared by UK rights groups indicating this is indeed the case. McCain also claimed that no other Arab country has declared support for US airstrikes on ISIS, despite a White House announcement claiming it has such support. For more on this story click here. Last night on KTAR Radio, soon-to-departed talk show host, Darin Damme, appearing on Arizona’s largest news/talk station stated the following on his show regarding John McCain and his ISIS associations: THE UNITED STATES INVADED LIBYA BECAUSE OF GOLD, OIL AND FRENCH INFLUENCE IN NORTHERN AFRICA THE UNITED STATES ARMED, FUNDED AND TRAINED AL-QUEDA TO OVERTHROW LIBYA FIRST IN LIBYA TO OVERTHROW QADAFFI THEN IN SYRIA TO OVERTHROW BASSAR AL-ASSAD JOHN MCCAIN WAS THE MAN WHO SET IT UP HE WORKED IN CAHOOTS WITH THE PRESIDENT OBAMA & SOS HILLARY CLINTON JOHN MCCAIN TRAVELED TO LIBYA MET WITH LIBYAN REBELS WHO WERE KNOWN TERRORISTS – CALLED THEM “MY HEROES” THESE REBELS WERE AL-QUEDA LISTED ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE AS DESIGNATED FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUPS AT THE TIME OF HIM MEETING THEM THERE WAS AN ARMS EMBARGO TO LIBYA MCCAIN STATED ON MANY OCCASSIONS WE COULD FIND A WORK AROUND ULTIMATELY, WEAPONS WERE SOLD TO QATAR AND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES THEN THOSE WEAPONS WERE SHIPPED TO LIBYA ARIZONA RESIDENT MARK TURI WAS INVOLVED AT FIRST PUT APPLICATION THROUGH STATE DEPARTMENT TO SELL WEAPONS HILLARY CLINTON WROTE EMAILS ABOUT ARMING REBELS TURI WAS CUT OUT AND THE UNITED STATES SHIPPED WEAPONS DIRECTLY TO QATAR & UAE TURI WAS CHARGED WITH CRIMES BUT CHARGES DROPPED WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR DISCOVERY WOULD HAVE EXPOSED THE SCANDAL MCCAIN WENT TO LIBYA AND MET WITH ABDEL HAKIM BELHADJ (HEAD OF LIFG) BELHADJ HAD FOUGHT AGAINST US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN BELHADJ RAN 2 TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS IN AFGHANISTAN BELHADJ HAD MET WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN TWICE MCCAIN GAVE BELHADJ AN AWARD FOR HIS SERVICE IN THE LIBYAN OVERTHROW BELHADJ’S MEN STOLE $75 MILLION DOLLARS FROM LIBYA BELHADJ TOOK HIS SHARE ($15 MIL) AND ATTEMPTED TO LAUNDER THROUGH TURKEY AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF QADAFFI – THE CIA WAS RUNNING THE WEAPONS USED TO SYRIA VIA BENGHAZI WAS AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS THERE BECAUSE HE FOUND OUT? OR WAS HE IN ON I CONSULATE WAS CIA RUN IT IS MY BELIEF THE MILITARY WAS TOLD TO STAND DOWN ON BENGHAZI ATTACK BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE EXPOSED THE SCANDAL (Editor’s Note: I reported this same exact event in October of 2012) ARMS TRAVELED FROM BENGHAZI TO TWO SYRIAN PORTS JOHN MCCAIN TOOK SECRET TRIP TO SYRIA TO ORGANIZE “MODERATE SYRIAN REBELS” OVERTHROW OF ASSAD WAS ATTEMPTED TO SECURE PIPELINE THROUGH SYRIA FOR SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR TO EUROPE ASSAD WOULDN’T APPROVE PIPELINE – INSTEAD INKED DEAL WITH IRAN FOR PIPELINE TO EUROPE BELHADJ ALSO TRAVELED TO SYRIA TO MEET WITH REBEL LEADERS MANY LIBYAN FIGHTERS WORKING FOR US IN LIBYA THEN TRAVELED TO IRAQ AND SYRIA – FIGHTING US MANY TIMES JOHN MCCAIN VOUCHED THEY WERE GOOD GUYS – NOT ISLAMISTS THEN ARMS WERE DISTRIBUTED TO “MODERATE SYRIAN REBELS” AL NUSRA FRONT BEING ONE – LATER THOSE GROUPS MERGED AS ISIS THE US PROTECTED ISIS – DIDN’T ACTIVELY DESTROY THEM THE US DIDN’T BOMB ISIS OIL FACILITIES OR THEIR TANKER TRUCKS HEADING TO TURKEY AFTER THE PARIS ATTACK, WHEN THE US HAD TO STRIKE, WE ACTUALLY DROPPED WARNING FLYERS ON THEIR TRUCKS BEFORE WE BOMBED ISIS SOLD THEIR OIL TO TURKISH PM ERDOGAN’S SON WHO THE HEAD OF TURKEY’S OIL MINISTRY FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR OIL WAS THEN SHIPPED OUT OF TURKISH PORTS US INVESTED 500 BILLION DOLLARS IN TRAINING FIGHTERS IN SYRIA ONLY 4 OR 5 FIGHTERS CAME OF THE PROGRAM – THE REST FLED AND BECAME ISIS WHEN RUSSIA MOVED INTO SYRIA THE US STRONGLY OPPOSED THE MOVE RUSSIA/IRAN BEGAN FIGHTING ISIS JOHN MCCAIN – I WOULD GIVE FSA WEAPONS TO SHOOT DOWN THOSE RUSSIAN PLANES THE US ON MANY OCCASIONS GAVE ISIS AN ESCAPE ROUTE ONCE THEIR STRONGHOLDS WERE SURROUNDED MANY LIFG FIGHTERS WERE GIVEN SANCTUARY IN BRITAIN MANCHESTER BOMBER’S FATHER WAS IN LIFG ALONGSIDE BELHADJ PRESIDENT TRUMP ENDS CIA FUNDING TO REBELS IN SYRIA JOHN MCCAIN VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES TRUMP’S POLICY NOW THE US IS WORKING WITH HEZBOLAH TO FIGHT ISIS? DURING THE BENGHAZI HEARINGS SENATORS INTENTIONALLY AVOIDED ASKING THE CORRECT QUESTIONS WHEN A LESSER INFORMED SENATOR GOT CLOSE – A SENIOR SENATOR WOULD SHUT THEM DOWN YOU ARE BUSTED JOHN MCCAIN BY A CITIZEN FROM YOUR OWN STATE OF ARIZONA! YOU ARE A TRAITOR TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY! YOUR ACTIONS LED TO THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AS WELL AS MANY OTHER PEOPLE! JOHN MCCAIN IS TERRORIST FROM THE DEEP STATE! JOHN MCCAIN IS WORKING TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! JOHN MCCAIN IS A TRAITOR TO THIS COUNTRY AND HAS BETRAYED HIS OATH OF OFFICE! Darin Damme will be missed. This kind of reporting is a rarity in the MSM. Would you say that the association between McCain and ISIS is undeniable? Both John McCain and Hillary Clinton should be indicted! Perhaps, they already have been undicted in secret. Please consider the following. Reality Check with Darin Damme
November 13, 2017 – Hour 1 (31:27) 11-13-2017
President Trump says the he believes Putin and calls James Comey, James Clapper and John Brennan political hacks, Darin explains how they are political hacks, John McCain is behind the creation on ISIS, plus he also said he knows them intimately and talks to them all the time. Are Hillary and John McCain Wearing Hidden GPS Ankle Bracelets? John McCain and Hillary Clinton may be joined at the hip when it comes to their allleged ISIS affiliations. However, these 2 despots may be be joined at the ankle as it appears ikely that they may have both been arrested, indicted in secret and issued ankle bracelets to wear in lieu of being publicly arraigned. I was originally skeptical, but what are the odds they’re both wearing the same boot on the right leg? What are the odds that Hillary’s motorcade was seen leaving her home the other day and visited the FBI building? How Many Coincidences Equals a Conspiracy? What are the odds that both John McCain and Hillary Clinton are wearing the same boot for alleged recent injuries sustained on their right foot? Allegedly, McCain partially tore an achilles tendon and Clinton broke a toe. Both injuries are on the exact same foot, at the same time and they are wearing the exact same walking boot. The right ankle is where the Feds would place a GPS ankle bracelet if these two had been charged with a serious crime and were considred to be a flight risk? And speaking of flight risk, please note that at the height of the “Email Scandal”, I reported that Hillary Clinton was preparing to flee to Qatar, a country without an extradition agreement with the United States, What are the odds Hillary’s motorcade was seen leaving her home the other day and visited the FBI building? What a coincidence! And again, ask yourself, how many coincidencs equals a conspiracy? The Fellowship of the Minds is reporting that both Hillary and McCain have been arrested and are wearing ankle bracelets. The Evidence Is Mounting There is no question that many people believe that Donald Trump has struck back against the Deep State. I have largely rejected these claims as being baseless and have avoided reporting on this rumor. However, circumstantial evidence is surfacing that has compelled me to take a second look at these stories of the hope and the promise that the good guys are actually attempting to “drain the swamp. The Independent media is a buzz with the possibility that that the identical orthropedic boots worn by the proven ISIS supporters Hillary Clinton and John McCain may actually be ankle bracelets, worn by criminals who may be a flight risk to prevent escape during indictment or following conviction. I freely admit that when one has invetigated these political thugs and moral degenerates as I have the past several years, it is easy to believe the worst about them. However, it is important to remain objective and to be drive by the facts, even if the facts are largely circumstantial. However, when even a slightly less credible outlet publish the same allegations with virtually the same evidence and alleged circumstantial proof, I have to sit up and begin to take notice. Here is a post from 4Chan MegAnon Conclusion MCain and Clinton are two slippery snakes and can possibly wiggle out of any jam. Both people have made a career of escaping the consequences of their serial criminality. However, there is too much smoke here for there not to be a fire. These two may slip of out of this mess, however, it now makes sense on why Trump is out of the country under military protection while this is transpiring. Trump obviously knows his history and is, for now, avoiding his JFK moment. Please donate to offset the costs of The Common Sense Show
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What is an EMP attack and how to prepare for one
Aisling Moloney for Metro.co.ukWednesday 1 Nov 2017 2:42 pm
A Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by nuclear explosions. North Korea has threatened and boasted about their capabilities for using an EMP, which means they will fire the nuclear weapon into the atmosphere over the US. If an EMP was fired over the US, it would not only devastate the electrical grid of a country along with all its infrastructure but this would lead to widespread casualties. There would be an indefinite blackout because of the EMP, and Military Commanders have been running drills in practice for a situation of chaos caused by a mass failure of the power grid. In the case of any nuclear attacks, radiation is the main thing to be worried about but in the case of an EMP, the radiation is mostly absorbed by the air in the atmosphere above where it is detonated. Using the EMP as a weapon may be desirable for North Korea as it requires less accuracy, and an EMP blast could affect a 700-mile radius (1126 km). The only spot that will be unaffected will be the small area exactly under the explosion close to the ground where the Earth’s magnetic field will create an eye of the storm. The EMP would only need to hit a general area of the target to cause significant damage. Until an EMP actually happens it is hard to know exactly what will happen. Former CIA Director James Woolsey has said that he believed this type of attack would cause society to collapse leading to a high number of American casualties. How does an EMP work? EMPs are rapid, invisible bursts of electromagnetic energy, they occur naturally in nature during a lightning strike and hence cause electrical disruptions nearby. A nuclear EMP, however, can affect an entire continent and destroy modern electronics on a colossal scale. A nuclear explosion doesn’t always mean there will also be an EMP. The nuclear explosion causes an invisible burst of gamma rays which are a form of light and a small amount of the bombs energetic yield is emitted as gamma rays. The energy released into the atmosphere accelerates negatively charged particles and electrons in the atmosphere and sends them towards the planet’s poles in a corkscrew-like pattern. The electrons respond by letting off this new energy as electromagnetic radiation. This surge of energy in the form of an electromagnetic pulse happens within a fraction of a microsecond and shocks electronic devices. The radiation emitted can be picked up just like radio waves are picked up by antennas. When the radiation passes through a phone or a computer the device catches this powerful pulse that generates a rogue current of electricity that moves through the device’s circuits and can destroy them. An everyday example of a tiny EMP would be turning on a microwave and your phone’s Wifi or Bluetooth drops off momentarily. When it comes to creating an EMP the more disastrous the EMP corresponds to how high up in the atmosphere the blast occurs. At a high-elevation, the gamma rays are more spread out and can reach a more widespread area. The low air density high up means the electrons can move more freely which will help maximize the intensity of the EMP. How to prepare for an EMP attack Build a Faraday Cage This is a metal box that is designed to protect item inside from an EMP attack although the effectiveness of it depends on the magnitude of the strike. You can make a Faraday Cage from old microwaves, metal filing cabinets, and aluminium cans and insulate with cardboard for added protection from the elements. Radio communication An EMP will affect all cellphones, wifi and other communication devices and so a two-way radio is a good tool to have for backup. A two-way radio is the best way to contact nearby family or friends during an emergency, but make sure to store the radios in your Faraday Cage. Don’t forget the batteries. Food storage In an EMP emergency all food supplies will be decimated and so food will become an extremely valuable commodity. Build up a food storage of canned goods and keep building this supply it will be incredibly handy. Batteries Battery operated electronics may just stand-up to an EMP so get a battery operated lantern, and radio, but stock up on the batteries too. Batteries alone will not be affected by an EMP but batteries in a device will be ruined. Hand Tools Any electronic device will be susceptible to ruin in an EMP so make sure you have your manual equivalents at hand such as a stapler, handsaw, can opener and a selection of screwdrivers.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/01/what-is-an-emp-attack-and-how-to-prepare-for-one-7045513/
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:: 11-14-17 The Guardian :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
'Only God can save us': Yemeni children starve as aid is held at border
Iona Craig reports from Yemen where aid agencies cannot get vital shipments into the war-torn country already gripped by cholera outbreak
Iona Craig in Aden, Sana’a, Taiz and Hodeidah Sunday 12 November 2017 14.55 EST
Last modified on Monday 13 November 2017 02.39 EST
Abdulaziz al-Husseinya lies skeletal and appears lifeless in a hospital in Yemen’s western port city of Hodeidah. At the age of nine, he weighs less than one and a half stone, and is one of hundreds of thousands of children in the country suffering from acute malnutrition. Seven million people are on on the brink of famine in war-torn Yemen, which was already in the grip of the world’s worst cholera outbreak when coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia tightened its blockade on the country last week, stemming vital aid flows. Al-Thawra hospital, where Abdulaziz is being treated, is reeling under the pressure of more than two years of conflict between the Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-allied Houthi rebels. Its corridors are packed, with patients now coming from five surrounding governorates to wait elbow-to-elbow for treatment. Less than 45% of the country’s medical facilities are still operating – most have closed due to fighting or a lack of funds, or have been bombed by coalition airstrikes. As a result, Al-Thawra is treating some 2,500 people a day, compared to 700 before the conflict escalated in March 2015. More than 200 miles away in the southern governorate of Lahij, territory under the control of the coalition, more emaciated children lie listless, gasping for every breath. These scenes are replicated in therapeutic feeding centres in the capital, Sana’a, and at the heart of the conflict-ravaged city of Taiz. There in the shadows of a single incandescent bulb, what appears to be a blanket bundled into a dark corner is in fact three month-old Elias Basem, who has spent 20 days of his short life being treated for severe malnutrition. Aid agencies are now warning that Yemen’s already catastrophic humanitarian crisis could soon become a “nightmare scenario” if Saudi Arabia does not ease the blockade of the country’s land, sea and air ports – a move that the kingdom insists is necessary after Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile towards Riyadh’s international airport this month. United Nations humanitarian flights have been cancelled for the past week and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), along with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), have been prevented from flying vital medical assistance into the country. More than 20 million Yemenis – over 70% of the population – are in need of humanitarian assistance that is being blocked. Following international pressure, the major ports of Aden and Mukalla were reopened last week for commercial traffic and food supplies, along with land border crossings to neighbouring Oman and Saudi Arabia, but humanitarian aid and aid agency workers remained barred from entering the country on Sunday. UN aid chief Mark Lowcock has said if the restrictions remain, Yemen will face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims”. The conflict in Yemen is between Houthi rebels controlling the capital Sana’a, who are allied with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and forces loyal to another president, the ousted Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has led a military intervention to counter the advance of the Iran-allied Houthis, with the ultimate aim of reinstating Hadi. With regional tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalating, Yemen is trapped in the middle of a proxy war in addition to its own internal power struggle. The UK has also been criticised for selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite the high casualty rate of its US-backed airstrikes in Yemen. In Aden, where Hadi and his government ostensibly rule, parents and children from surrounding governorates crowd the feeding centre in Al-Sadaqa hospital. Aisha was 21 months old but weighed just 7lbs – half the healthy weight of a baby her age – when she arrived at the hospital, her second admission in three months. Across the corridor, two year-old Shohud Hussein, weighing 11lbs, stares vacuously into the middle distance. “Hungry children don’t smile. She’s been here a whole month and hasn’t smiled,” said Dr Aida al-Sadeeq. In Sana’a, Nor Rashid sold her family’s cow to pay for the transport costs to get her four year-old daughter, who weighs 16lbs, to the city’s feeding centre in Al-Sabaeen hospital. She has other children who are also sick but she cannot afford to pay for the medical care if she brings them in for treatment too. “It’s because of the lack of government wages,” she said. “Usually we go to the person in the village with a wage to ask for help and borrow money if someone needs to go to the hospital. But since the wages stopped we have no support.” In Al-Thawra, employees grab the sleeve of the hospital’s director, Dr Khaled Suhail, begging him for money as he navigates the teeming therapeutic feeding centre for malnourished children. Government salaries have gone unpaid for more than a year, and the hospital now runs on the goodwill of its doctors, nurses and administrative staff. Suhail clutches the hand of an elderly maintenance man in charge of the hospital’s oxygen tanks as he pleads for cash. “If I had anything to give you, you know I would. But there is nothing,” he says. Saudi officials have repeatedly claimed that there is no hunger crisis in southern Yemen, where local forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, a coalition partner, largely hold power. According the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, however, Lahij is the most food-insecure governorate in the country. It is ranked at level four, while level five denotes full-blown famine. In the markets of both Hodeidah and Lahij, food is plentiful. Stalls bulge with fresh fruit and vegetables and traders offer sacks of flour and beans. The only shortage is the customers, who cannot afford to eat. In Hodeidah, the price of a 50kg bag of flour has risen from a pre-war 5,500 Yemeni rial to 7,600 YR. “Fruit and vegetables are a luxury like meat used to be,” said Arafat Zayed, who came to buy three kilos of flour, when he would have bought 50 to feed his family of five children before the war. How did the conflict in Yemen begin? The war in Yemen began in March 2015 when Saudi Arabia launched Operation Decisive Storm, but the prospect of conflict had been building for months. Yemenis overthrew longtime strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh in an uprising that began in 2011, but Saleh remained an influential figure operating behind the scenes. A failed transition sponsored by the US and Gulf states saw the rise of Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who became president after Saleh. Hadi was overthrown by the Houthis, Shia rebels from the north that the Saudis accused of receiving Iranian backing. Saudi Arabia sees the war as part of a regional struggle for power with its rival Iran. In addition to the hunger crisis, Yemen has seen the worst cholera outbreak ever recorded, with more than 900,000 suspected cases and over 2,190 deaths. Although numbers keep rising, in September the rate of infection began to ease, largely due to the response by aid agencies who set up cholera treatment centres in towns and cities around the country. But the advances could be short-lived if restrictions on aid continue. “If the closure is not stopped in the coming days, we may see that the progress is stopped,” said the World Health Organisation’s spokeswoman in Geneva last week. A Red Cross shipment of chlorine tablets, used for the prevention of cholera, remained stuck for the fifth day on Sunday on the Saudi side of the border with Yemen. Without the free cholera treatment and essential humanitarian aid, international agencies warn that many more Yemeni children like Abdulaziz will suffer. “We are weak, our children are weak and we have nothing left to give. We can’t even feed our animals anymore” said Nor Rashid as she cradled her daughter. “Only God can save us now.”
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US Justice Department Considering Probes of Republican Concerns
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, where he is likely to face questions about his directive for senior federal prosecutors to examine whether it is appropriate to open investigations into a number of issues raised by Republican lawmakers. Committee chairman Rep. Robert Goodlatte, asked Sessions in July and September to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations of collusion between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, issues linked to her use of a private email system while serving as secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation and an Obama-era purchase of American uranium mines by a Russian-backed company. The letter also asked for an examination of certain aspects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd responded in a letter Monday that Sessions tasked prosecutors with evaluating "certain issues" raised by Goodlatte. Boyd said the prosecutors would report directly to Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "as appropriate" and recommend whether any investigations should be opened or expanded. He further pledged the Justice Department "will never evaluate any matter except on the facts and the law." Mueller criticized President Donald Trump has strongly criticized an investigation by former FBI chief Robert Mueller into Russia's role in the election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a January report that Russia directed an effort to help Trump's chances of winning. Trump has repeatedly called for more law enforcement scrutiny of Clinton. "Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems...'' Trump tweeted last month. The president's comments and the move by Sessions brought complaints from Democrats about executive interference with the judicial branch. "If the AG bends to pressure from President Trump and his allies, and appoints a special counsel to investigate Trump’s vanquished rival, it could spell the end of the DOJ as an independent institution," Rep. Adam Schiff said on Twitter. Political smokescreen Rep. Gregory Meeks said the attorney general's actions were a "political smokescreen" meant to distract from collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. "The President & Sessions just politicized the Dept. of Justice, trampling on this country's sacred rule of law," Meeks tweeted. Rep. Andy Biggs, who was one of the Republicans who signed onto Goodlatte's letter, said the Justice Department's response is "encouraging," but not as decisive as the lawmakers would have liked. "We must have an unbiased, independent special counsel to investigate the matters we have raised. We have spent long enough on meaningless evaluations and empty promises," Biggs said in a statement.
https://www.voanews.com/a/sessions-raises-prospect-of-special-counsel-on-gop-concerns-/4113970.html
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Netanyahu: Israel will act in Syria 'in accordance with our security needs'
Syria declares victory over Islamic State
Report: Iranians built new military base in Syria
By Anna Ahronheim November 13, 2017 16:51
A ceasefire agreement allowing Iranian troops 5km from Israel's border is "a real danger to Israel's stability," said former Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Israel will continue to carry out strikes in Syria despite a US-Russian cease-fire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday after reports that the deal would allow Iranian troops to remain only 5 km. from Israel’s border. Speaking during the weekly Likud faction meeting, Netanyahu described Israel’s security policy as “the right combination of firmness and responsibility” and said he has told Moscow and Washington that Israel will continue carrying out strikes in Syria despite the cease-fire agreement “in accordance with our understanding and in accordance with our security needs.” Netanyahu has publicly criticized the cease-fire deal, saying that it does not include any provisions to stop Iranian expansion in the area. In recent months Jerusalem has held talks with Moscow, Washington and Amman in an attempt to ensure that the agreement would define the buffer zone some 40 km. from Israel’s borders. The border with Syria has been tense since war erupted in 2011, and Israeli officials have repeatedly voiced concerns over the growing Iranian presence on its borders and the smuggling of sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah from Tehran. Due to those concerns Israel has admitted to carrying out some 100 air strikes against Hezbollah targets and weapons convoys over the past five years; dozens more have been attributed to the Jewish state. Intelligence Minister Israel Katz reiterated Israel’s redlines on Monday, stating that “Israel has already made it clear that it shall not accept Iran and its affiliates and proxies basing themselves in Syria, which will be a permanent threat and a constant source of tension, friction and instability.” On Saturday Russia committed itself to working with the Assad regime to remove Iranian forces and Iranian-backed militias like Hezbollah, as well as foreign jihadis working with Jabhat al-Nusra and other extremist groups from Syria’s southwest. As an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow finds itself part of an alliance between Damascus and Tehran, the patron of Hezbollah. Russia, which views Iran as a key player in resolving the crisis in Syria, has repeatedly emphasized the importance of the role that the Islamic Republic plays in the wartorn country. The Iranian presence so close to the borders “is a real danger to Israel’s security and to regional stability in general,” former defense minister Amir Peretz said on Monday, adding that Netanyahu “must use all political and other tools to remove the Shi’ite axis from the borders of Israel,” alluding to possible military action against Iran and its proxies despite the cease-fire. As the war in Syria seems to be winding down in Assad’s favor due to Moscow’s intervention, Israel fears that Iran will help Hezbollah produce accurate precision-guided missiles and help them and other Shi’ite militias strengthen their foothold in the Golan Heights. On Saturday following the interception of a drone by an IDF Patriot missile, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman repeated Israel’s warnings to Iran and Hezbollah saying that Israel “will not allow the Shi’ite axis to establish Syria as its forefront base.” Last month, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reportedly told Israel that Moscow has agreed to expand the buffer zone by 10-15 km. – where Iranian and Hezbollah forces will not be allowed to enter – along the Israeli-Syrian border. The statement, attributed to an Israeli diplomatic official by London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, said Russia had refused the Israeli request for a 40 km. (25 mile) buffer zone, but expressed willingness to extend a 10-15 km. off-limits zone. Shoigu is reported to have told Israeli officials that the 40-km. demand was unrealistic and that Iranian and Hezbollah troops have not approached the border since Russian troops entered Syria, saying that therefore the request was “exaggerated” and “superfluous.” According to a senior American official, the tripartite deal signed on Saturday will eventually see all foreign terrorists and militia fighters leave the war-torn country. But as Israel’s intelligence minister said, while the Jewish state views the cease-fire agreement “favorably” in terms of moving Iran and its militias, including Hezbollah, from the area, “the test will be on the ground, not in words but in deeds.”
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IDF arrests senior Islamic Jihad terrorist
Arrest of senior terrorist leader near Jenin comes amid rising tensions with Islamic Jihad over destruction of terror tunnel. Israel's army said Monday it had arrested a senior Islamic Jihad member as tensions with the group rose after the army blew up one of its tunnels from Gaza, killing several terorrists. The army arrested the "senior operative" overnight in Arraba in the Lower Galilee, Israel's military said. A source with Islamic Jihad confirmed that one of its leaders, Tareq Qadaan, was detained as part of an "arrest campaign". There were no immediate details on whether others were arrested. Later on Monday, Israeli media said the army had raised its level of alert adjacent to the border with Gaza as a precaution against possible Islamic Jihad retaliation for the tunnel blast. One army spokeswoman told AFP that an Iron Dome anti-missile battery has been deployed in central Israel, while another said that otherwise there was "nothing new." Tensions have risen between Israel and Islamic Jihad after the army blew up a tunnel that stretched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory on October 30. Such tunnels have been used in the past to carry out attacks. The operation resulted in the deaths of at least 12 terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned militants in Gaza against carrying out attacks in revenge for the operation. Islamic Jihad meanwhile threatened to hit back at Israel over the destruction of the tunnel it says it dug.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/238024
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:: 11-9-17 The Common Sense Show :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
By Dave Hodges
I can recall vividly watching the tape of Walter Cronkite as he announced the death of JFK. Cronkite was fighting with everything he had to maintain himself during the report and he did so with great poise although he was visibly shaken. I had my Walter Cronkite moment, and I failed, as I interviewed a citizen from Sutherland Springs, Texas. I know many people in the media relish the thought being the first to break a story and they can do so, under great pressure with professionalism. I am not made that way. Walter Cronkite. I am not. I freely confess that the interview I conducted on the facts surrounding the mass murder in Texas haunt me. I awakened this morning having a nightmare about the events. I hope I am never in this position again to where I have to report such profound human tragedy. In the late evening of November 8, 2017, I interviewed Vonda Smith from Sutherland Springs, Texas. Vonda’s husband originally reached out to me on Facebook and told me that the “real story” was not being told regarding the tragic events that took place on November 5th. The Interview Has Been Sabotaged I have the raw tape of the interview and it was ready for distribution. However, my files have been infiltrated and strange music, the likes of what I have never heard, has been embedded into the recording of the interview, making the listening to the exchange between Vonda and myself nearly impossible to decipher. I am having an individual working on removing the music track and they think they can do it, however, it is going to take time. In the meantime, I do not feel that I can wait to get this information out. Last night, I was comparing notes with Paul Preston of Agenda 21 Radio and he advised me to get this information out as soon as possible because it was not safe for either Vonda nor myelf to be the only ones in possession of the information revealed that was contained in our audio recording. I agree with Paul’s assessment, therefore, I am going to recount the interview from my perspective and am not going to wait to the release of the “repaired” audio file. When the file is restored, I will post it here as an update. Chris Ward’s Family Very early in the tragedy, local media aired a report that had identified the shooter as Chris Ward. This was repeated far and wide and dominated social media. I was reporting on the fact that Kelly had been killed and was recounting the contents of his deleted Facebook page when this interview began to cross my email, multiple times anming Mr. Ward as the assailant. He was not! All of us in the media owe Mr. Ward profound apology. Mr. Ward lost most of his family in the tragedy. As fate would have it, he was home sleeping while his family was at the ill-fated church because he had worked very late the night before. It was Mr. Wards brave wife, Joann, who was the mom that laid over her children, trying to protect them as, this animal assassin fired several bullets into the mother killing her and two of the three children. I personally extend my profound and heartfelt condolescences to Mr. Ward and his loved ones for their horrific loss. Joann’s aunt has set up a “Go Fund Me” account to help Chris with the associated expenses . Here is the link if you wish to support Chris War and his loved ones. https://www.gofundme.com/JOANNWARD From the Go Fund Me page: “We lost my niece Joann Ward and two of her little girls in the Sutherland Springs shooting. Their youngest boy is still in unknown medical condition as he was shot 4-5 times but made it to the hospital. Joann was the most wonderful mom any child could wish for and her children were always laughing and just loving life. She leaves behind a husband and two other children that were in the church but survived the attack. I can imagine the costs burden on her surviving husband and family. Any contribution you can make will go directly to help with funeral costs, medical costs and other losses due to this horrific tragedy. A fund for the two surviving children, Ryland, age 5 and Rihanna, age 9 will be set up for their needs with the remainder of all donations raised. Thank you. ” This Sunday night, on The Common Sense Show, I am going to be assisting Joann’s aunt in raising the needed funds. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers Vonda Smith’s description of the events immediately following the tragedy made it clear that there was no intent on the part of the authorities to preserve the integrity of the crime scene. Apparently, “the authorities” were the FBI who seemed to make it to this town at light speed. Paul Preston told me that he saw news clips of men in FBI jackets that were on the scene in less than an hour following the shooting. Yet, there was crime scene integrity. According to Vonda, the only thing that the FBI cared about was to quickly get the bodies out of the church. This flies in the fact of “normal” crime scene investigations. Vonda recounted two stories of where the crime scene was invaded and nobody was guarding the evidence so to speak. Most telling was the fact that many of the bodies never went to the morgue for an autopsy. Following the gruesome event, the authorities put out an all-call for people to send photos of the victims to the authorities for purposes of identification. One person was shown a photo of tattoos and this was used as the means to identify a dead person. The vast majority of the family member of the victims, as of Wednesday evening have not been allowed to identify their fallen relatives. Vonda related the story of one family that was dictated to by the FBI what kind of funeral they were going to have. According to Vonda, the FBI told one family how much of the body they would be permitted to view. Additionally, the family was told whether the casket would remain open or closed. An Overreach of Jurisdictional Authority Despite the fact that ISIS has taken credit for the massacre at Sutherland Springs, the FBI has stated that this was not a terrorist event. Despite the fact that the original reports stated that Kelly was an “avowed athiest”, this was not a hate crime involving Christians. Despite the fact that myself and others have revealed the Kelly has a decided Antifa affiliation and identified with ISIS, the FBI categorized and characterized this event as a “mental health” event. The FBI is wrong and just with the Vegas massacre, they are covering up the facts of the case. The FBI needs to badly answer a question. If this is not a terrorist event, then why does the FBI have jurisdictional authority? This is a matter for the local sheriff. Why does the FBI have the right to determine what kind of casket and the degree of body exposure the victims will have? Why, now four days, after the event, have the vast majority of victims not been identified? In fact, Vonda clearly stated that the FBI was throwing deliberate roadblocks into body identification by demanding that the family had to have both the social security card and the birth certificate of the victim. Ask yourself a question America: How many of you could meet that burden? And when have you ever heard of such nonsense when it comes to proper body identification? A Chilling Account Vonda recounted the eyewitness testimony of a nine year old child who survived the attack. The girl clearly and personally told Vonda that the assailant put a gun to his own head and shot himself. Vonda further stated that the girl later repeated the fact that the assailant put a gun to his head but did not repeat the fact that he shot himself. I would say it is a safe bet that the girl was accurately describing a suicide. There would be no reason for the assailant to put a gun to his head and then not fire. As It Was In Vegas, The Official Narrative Does Not Add Up Paul Preston has a source that lives 3 miles from the scene of the crime and he is getting the EXACT same details as what Vonda described in that there are issues with the removal of the bodies, identification and crime scene integrity. I have taken the facts as Vonda has described them and posed these facts to people I consider experts. Here is what they have universally concluded: There were multiple shooters The reason that the idenfication of the bodies is being delayed is so the wounds can be surgically altered as much as possible. This is to conceal the fact that these people were likely shot with two different guns. Further, the restricted viewing aspect associated with the caskets at burial is to prevent people from seeing the conditions of the bodies as much as possible for the same reasons of concealment. The Interview Has Been Restored Conclusion Finally, isn’t it interesting, that the alleged assailant isn’t anti-Chrisitan, not a terrorist and not affiliated with Antifa. And of course, Kelly is a typical lone nut assassin that we see every single time we have one of these events. If all of these things are true, then why is the FBI controlling the narrative as well as the protocols for the funerals? Something here stinks and stinks very badly. To the good people in the FBI, why do you tolerate the bad people in the FBI? Again, I will upload the interview if and when we are able to repair the sabotage. It is noteworthy that the website crashed, twice, on the upload of this story. Please donate to offset the costs of The Common Sense Show PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND DON’T FORGET TO “LIKE” US
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Newsweek Asks: Why Are Conservatives Investigating Pedophilia?
The establishment can’t comprehend standing up against evil
The Alex Jones Show - November 8, 2017
Newsweek published an article titled ‘Why Is The Alt-Right Obsessed With Pedophilia?’ in an attempt to de-legitimize any grievances toward pedophiles/sexual predators as they’re identified.
https://www.infowars.com/newsweek-asks-why-are-conservatives-investigating-pedophilia/
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From Nuremberg to California: How Eugenics Destroys the Lives of Children by Removing Consent to Medical Procedures Like Vaccines
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News Editor
I have been investigating and covering the topic of vaccines for over a decade now, and know the topic so well that seldom, if ever, can I find anyone to carry on an intelligent conversation about the topic. The controversial topic of vaccines in the U.S. today is primarily a topic about beliefs, and people’s trust in vaccines resembles a religious belief, not an informed opinion based on the facts. I am not sure in all of my years in covering this very important and very controversial topic, that I have ever found a literary treatise on the subject as eloquent and comprehensive as this piece just put together by Barbara Loe Fisher, the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center. Revolutions that have changed the course of history have begun on lesser documents and exposés than what Barbara has written here, and I am not exaggerating. The Science is Never Settled When discussing the topic of vaccines, the religious-like faith of those who put their trust in them usually starts out with a statement like: “When it comes to vaccines, the science is settled.” This statement in and of itself is intrinsically unscientific, and is simply used to avoid debate and censor any information contrary to the religious-like beliefs so many hold about vaccines. Fisher correctly points out how our modern day culture has come to worship “science,” but it is a very perverted form of true science. To more fully understand this topic, read Dr. David Stewart’s excellent piece: The Limitations of Science and the Medical Paradigm and watch the Discovery Institute’s excellent video on “Scientism” and how science today is being used not for the advance of good, but for tyranny: November 12, 2017
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From Nuremberg to California: How Eugenics Destroys the Lives of Children by Removing Consent to Medical Procedures Like Vaccines 128 15 Child_survivors_of_Auschwitz Jewish twins kept alive to be used in Mengele’s medical experiments in Nazi Germany during WWII. These children were liberated from Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945. Image source.
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News Editor
I have been investigating and covering the topic of vaccines for over a decade now, and know the topic so well that seldom, if ever, can I find anyone to carry on an intelligent conversation about the topic. The controversial topic of vaccines in the U.S. today is primarily a topic about beliefs, and people’s trust in vaccines resembles a religious belief, not an informed opinion based on the facts. I am not sure in all of my years in covering this very important and very controversial topic, that I have ever found a literary treatise on the subject as eloquent and comprehensive as this piece just put together by Barbara Loe Fisher, the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center. Revolutions that have changed the course of history have begun on lesser documents and exposés than what Barbara has written here, and I am not exaggerating. The Science is Never Settled When discussing the topic of vaccines, the religious-like faith of those who put their trust in them usually starts out with a statement like: “When it comes to vaccines, the science is settled.” This statement in and of itself is intrinsically unscientific, and is simply used to avoid debate and censor any information contrary to the religious-like beliefs so many hold about vaccines. Fisher correctly points out how our modern day culture has come to worship “science,” but it is a very perverted form of true science. To more fully understand this topic, read Dr. David Stewart’s excellent piece: The Limitations of Science and the Medical Paradigm and watch the Discovery Institute’s excellent video on “Scientism” and how science today is being used not for the advance of good, but for tyranny: Eugenics: Alive and Well in the U.S. Fisher also does an excellent job of documenting the history of “eugenics,” which was born in American intellectualism and made notorious by Hitler in Nazi Germany to justify horrible atrocities.
As we have reported here at Health Impact News, while the term “eugenics” has become unpopular, the ideas it represents have never left American culture – they have just been “repackaged” and are the same arguments used today for forced vaccination as they were used in the past for forced sterilization. The principles of eugenics are also seen in medical kidnapping, particularly in the field of psychiatry. November 12, 2017 Print This Post Print This Post
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Jewish twins kept alive to be used in Mengele’s medical experiments in Nazi Germany during WWII. These children were liberated from Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945. Image source.
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News Editor I have been investigating and covering the topic of vaccines for over a decade now, and know the topic so well that seldom, if ever, can I find anyone to carry on an intelligent conversation about the topic. The controversial topic of vaccines in the U.S. today is primarily a topic about beliefs, and people’s trust in vaccines resembles a religious belief, not an informed opinion based on the facts. I am not sure in all of my years in covering this very important and very controversial topic, that I have ever found a literary treatise on the subject as eloquent and comprehensive as this piece just put together by Barbara Loe Fisher, the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center. Revolutions that have changed the course of history have begun on lesser documents and exposés than what Barbara has written here, and I am not exaggerating.
The Science is Never Settled When discussing the topic of vaccines, the religious-like faith of those who put their trust in them usually starts out with a statement like: “When it comes to vaccines, the science is settled.” This statement in and of itself is intrinsically unscientific, and is simply used to avoid debate and censor any information contrary to the religious-like beliefs so many hold about vaccines. Fisher correctly points out how our modern day culture has come to worship “science,” but it is a very perverted form of true science. To more fully understand this topic, read Dr. David Stewart’s excellent piece: The Limitations of Science and the Medical Paradigm and watch the Discovery Institute’s excellent video on “Scientism” and how science today is being used not for the advance of good, but for tyranny: Eugenics: Alive and Well in the U.S. Fisher also does an excellent job of documenting the history of “eugenics,” which was born in American intellectualism and made notorious by Hitler in Nazi Germany to justify horrible atrocities. As we have reported here at Health Impact News, while the term “eugenics” has become unpopular, the ideas it represents have never left American culture – they have just been “repackaged” and are the same arguments used today for forced vaccination as they were used in the past for forced sterilization. The principles of eugenics are also seen in medical kidnapping, particularly in the field of psychiatry. For more on this topic, see:
Mapping the Genome and Modern Genetics: Eugenics Repackaged for Modern Times
Eugenics in the United States Today: Are We on the Same Path Nazi Germany Followed?
The American History Of Compulsory Vaccination and its Ties to Eugenics
Are Proposed Forced Vaccination Laws Comparable to Eugenics Forced Sterilization Laws in the U.S.? From Nuremberg to California: Why Informed Consent Matters in the 21st Century
by Barbara Loe Fisher
National Vaccine Information Center
Since I was asked to make a presentation about vaccine exemptions in 1997 at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., I have publicly defended the informed consent principle, which was defined as a human right at the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg in 1947. 1 Informed consent means you have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a medical intervention and the freedom to make a voluntary decision about whether or not to accept those risks without being coerced or punished for the decision you make. Informed consent applies not just to risks taken by participants in scientific experiments, but also to risks taken by patients under the care of physicians. [2, 3, 4, 5] Health Impact News
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From Nuremberg to California: How Eugenics Destroys the Lives of Children by Removing Consent to Medical Procedures Like Vaccines
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Jewish twins kept alive to be used in Mengele’s medical experiments in Nazi Germany during WWII. These children were liberated from Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945. Image source.
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News Editor
I have been investigating and covering the topic of vaccines for over a decade now, and know the topic so well that seldom, if ever, can I find anyone to carry on an intelligent conversation about the topic.
The controversial topic of vaccines in the U.S. today is primarily a topic about beliefs, and people’s trust in vaccines resembles a religious belief, not an informed opinion based on the facts. I am not sure in all of my years in covering this very important and very controversial topic, that I have ever found a literary treatise on the subject as eloquent and comprehensive as this piece just put together by Barbara Loe Fisher, the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center. Revolutions that have changed the course of history have begun on lesser documents and exposés than what Barbara has written here, and I am not exaggerating. The Science is Never Settled When discussing the topic of vaccines, the religious-like faith of those who put their trust in them usually starts out with a statement like: “When it comes to vaccines, the science is settled.” This statement in and of itself is intrinsically unscientific, and is simply used to avoid debate and censor any information contrary to the religious-like beliefs so many hold about vaccines. Fisher correctly points out how our modern day culture has come to worship “science,” but it is a very perverted form of true science. To more fully understand this topic, read Dr. David Stewart’s excellent piece: The Limitations of Science and the Medical Paradigm and watch the Discovery Institute’s excellent video on “Scientism” and how science today is being used not for the advance of good, but for tyranny: Eugenics: Alive and Well in the U.S. Fisher also does an excellent job of documenting the history of “eugenics,” which was born in American intellectualism and made notorious by Hitler in Nazi Germany to justify horrible atrocities.
As we have reported here at Health Impact News, while the term “eugenics” has become unpopular, the ideas it represents have never left American culture – they have just been “repackaged” and are the same arguments used today for forced vaccination as they were used in the past for forced sterilization. The principles of eugenics are also seen in medical kidnapping, particularly in the field of psychiatry. For more on this topic, see: Mapping the Genome and Modern Genetics: Eugenics Repackaged for Modern Times Eugenics in the United States Today: Are We on the Same Path Nazi Germany Followed? The American History Of Compulsory Vaccination and its Ties to Eugenics
Are Proposed Forced Vaccination Laws Comparable to Eugenics Forced Sterilization Laws in the U.S.?
From Nuremberg to California: Why Informed Consent Matters in the 21st Century
by Barbara Loe Fisher National Vaccine Information Center
Since I was asked to make a presentation about vaccine exemptions in 1997 at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., I have publicly defended the informed consent principle, which was defined as a human right at the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg in 1947. 1 Informed consent means you have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a medical intervention and the freedom to make a voluntary decision about whether or not to accept those risks without being coerced or punished for the decision you make. Informed consent applies not just to risks taken by participants in scientific experiments, but also to risks taken by patients under the care of physicians. [2, 3, 4, 5] informed-consent2 Informed Consent Principle Applies to All Medical Risk-Taking Today, when a person publicly advocates for informed consent protections in vaccine laws, an “anti-vaccine” label is usually immediately applied to shut down any further conversation. [6,7 ]Perhaps because a conversation about ethics opens up a wider conversation about freedom. The right and responsibility for making a decision about risk taking rightly belongs to the person taking the risk. When you become informed and think rationally about a risk that you or your minor child may take – and then follow your conscience – you own that decision. And when you own it, you can defend it. And once you can defend it, you will be ready to do whatever it takes to fight for your freedom to make it, no matter who tries to prevent you from doing that. Never Do Anything Against Conscience Albert Einstein, who risked arrest in Germany in the 1930’s when he spoke out against censorship and persecution of minorities, said, “Never do anything against conscience even if the State demands it.” [8] There is no liberty more fundamentally a natural, inalienable right than the freedom to think independently and follow our conscience when choosing what we are willing to risk our life or our child’s life for. Because the journey we take on this earth is defined by the choices we make. If we are not free to make choices, the journey is not our own. The choices we make that involve risk of harm to our physical body, which houses our mind and spirit, those are among the most profound choices we make in this life.
Vaccine Risks Not Being Borne Equally By Everyone in Society So, vaccination must remain a choice because it is a medical intervention performed on the body of a healthy person that carries a risk of injury or death. [9, 10] And while we are all born equal, with equal rights under the law, we are not born all the same. Each one of us is born with different genes and a unique microbiome influenced by epigenetics that affects how we respond to the environments we live in. [11, 12] We do not all respond the same way to pharmaceutical products like vaccines, so vaccine risks are not being borne equally by everyone in society. Why should the lives of those vulnerable to vaccine complications be valued any less than those vulnerable to complications of infections? And why should people not be free to choose to stay healthy in ways that pose far fewer risks? Vaccines Carry Risks and Do Not Guarantee Protection The act of vaccination involves the deliberate introduction of killed live attenuated or genetically engineered microbes into the body of a healthy person, along with varying amounts of chemicals, metals, human and animal RNA and DNA and other ingredients [13] that atypically manipulate the immune system to mount an inflammatory response that stimulates artificial immunity. [14] But there is no guarantee that vaccination will not compromise biological integrity or cause the death of a healthy or vaccine vulnerable person either immediately or in the future. There is also no guarantee that vaccination will protect a person from getting an infection with or without symptoms and transmitting it to others. [15] Vaccine Science Gaps, Doctors Cannot Predict Who Will React Reports published by physician committees at the Institute of Medicine confirm that vaccines, like infections, can injure and kill people but that: very little is known about how vaccines or microbes act at the cellular and molecular level in the human body; [16, 17, 18] and the Institute of Medicine confirms that an unknown number of us have certain genetic, biological and environmental susceptibilities that make us more vulnerable to being harmed by vaccines, but doctors cannot accurately predict who we are; [19, 20] and that clinical trials of experimental vaccines are too small to detect serious reactions before they are licensed; [21,22] and that the U.S. recommended child vaccine schedule through age six has not been adequately studied to rule out an association with allergies, autoimmunity, learning and behavior disorders, seizures, autism and other brain and immune dysfunction. [23] Yet, with these large gaps in scientific knowledge, government health officials direct physicians to vaccinate 99.99 percent of children regardless of known or unknown risks. [24, 25] Government Licensed Vaccines “Unavoidably Unsafe” Therefore, vaccination is a medical procedure that can be termed experimental each time it is performed on a person. By extension, “no exceptions” mandatory vaccination laws create a de facto uncontrolled, population based scientific experiment that enrolls every child at birth and never ends, sacrificing an unknown number of vaccine vulnerable children. Further, the US Congress and Supreme Court have declared federally licensed vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe,” removing civil liability from doctors who give vaccines and drug companies that sell vaccines in what has become a very lucrative multi-billion dollar business in the U.S. [26, 27] At the same time, the federal vaccine injury compensation program created by Congress in 1986 that was supposed to be a no-fault alternative to a lawsuit – not instead of a lawsuit – has been gutted by federal agencies so that, today, almost no child receives compensation when they are hurt by vaccines. [28] Now, a global vaccine injury compensation program is being created to shield multinational corporations from liability for injuries caused by the hundreds of new genetically engineered vaccines governments will mandate in the future. [29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34] All this, while medical trade groups affiliated with industry and government join forces to lobby for removal of flexible medical, conscientious and religious belief exemptions from state health laws, [35] as was done in California in 2015, [36] so that those who refuse government endorsed vaccines for themselves or their minor children can be denied an education, employment, health care and other civil rights. Utilitarianism Should Not Be Foundation of Public Health Law In 1996, when I was in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. attending a conference on the role of physicians and scientists implementing public health policy during the Third Reich, I looked up and saw an inscription that took my breath away. It said, “the first to perish were the children…from these a new dawn might have risen.” This commentary, which I originally presented in March 2017 at the inaugural meeting of Physicians for Informed Consent in California, [37] is dedicated to mothers and fathers, whose children died or became brain injured when the risks of vaccination turned out to be 100 percent. I am arguing that the consequentialist theory of utilitarianism [38, 39, 40] is a pseudo-ethic that must be rejected as the moral foundation of public health policy and law so it can be replaced with a compassionate ethic grounded in respect for the human right to autonomy and informed consent to medical risk taking, including vaccine risk taking. Pediatrician Censored for Reporting Infant Deaths After DPT Shots I remember the day in the spring of 1982, when I was a young mother with a four year-old son struggling with the effects of a serious DPT vaccine reaction. I had just seen the NBC television documentary DPT: Vaccine Roulette [41] and was networking with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in the Washington, D.C. area when I decided to attend a press conference at the American Academy of Neurology to hear a young pediatric neurologist talk about his study in which two thirds of the babies, whose deaths were classified sudden infant death syndrome, had died within three weeks of a DPT shot. This pediatrician was concerned that DPT vaccine may be a major unrecognized cause of early childhood death, including SIDS, and he suggested that more research be done. As soon as he finished, his physician colleagues launched a vicious attack on his professional expertise and personal integrity that left him physically trembling in a cold sweat. I had never seen anything like it. During the break, I was approached by a PhD scientist who, at the time, worked for the National Academy of Sciences. This scientist asked me why I was there and I told him I wanted to know more about DPT vaccine because, when I was taking my baby to be vaccinated, I had no idea that vaccines – which were supposed to keep children healthy – could actually kill them. He got this quizzical look on his face and said something to the effect that it only happens once in a million kids. And instinctively I said, but if a vaccine kills even one, how can all children be legally required to get it? He looked surprised, uncomfortable, and walked away mumbling something about vaccine benefits far outweigh the risks, and sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the greater good. And I thought to myself, but the benefits didn’t outweigh the risks for my child or for the babies who died after DPT shots in the study that young doctor tried to talk about before he was figuratively lynched for suggesting that DPT vaccine benefits might not outweigh the risks. And why was my child’s health sacrificed without my knowledge or permission, and what is “the good” that is made greater by child sacrifice, and who defines it as “good”? Playing DPT Vaccine Roulette with My Son’s Life When I became a Mom in 1978, my son, Chris, was the light of my life. Happy, healthy and precocious, he was saying words at seven months, speaking in full sentences by age two and identifying words in the books we read together every day. One doctor told me he was cognitively gifted. But everything changed in 1980 when, within hours of his fourth DTP shot, I witnessed the eyes of my two and a half year old son roll back in his head and his head fall to his shoulder as if he had fallen asleep sitting up. I carried him, pale and limp, to his bed, where he did not move for hours. I thought to myself, oh, he is tired and just taking a really long nap, or maybe he is coming down with a cold. And when I finally was able to wake him but he couldn’t sit up or walk or speak coherently, when he had terrible diarrhea and only stayed conscious for a few minutes before falling into 12 more hours of deep sleep, I did not understand that I had witnessed a classic post-DPT vaccine convulsion and “hypotonic/hyporesponsive reaction and brain inflammation. [42, 43, 44, 45] Chris was not just taking a really long nap, he was unconscious in his bed and could have died that day. I did not know because my pediatrician had told me nothing about how to recognize a vaccine reaction, including symptoms of encephalitis – brain inflammation that has been a well-documented complication of vaccination for two centuries. [46, 47, 48, 49] I did not know that the unusual local reaction after his third DPT shot was a warning sign or that our family history of severe allergies and autoimmune disorders could increase vaccine risks. [50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56] Even though I came from a family of doctors and nurses, had a college degree and had worked at a teaching hospital – like most parents back then I believed that vaccines were 100 percent safe and effective. And in the following days and weeks, when Chris could no longer concentrate or do what we could do before, when his personality changed and he was constantly sick with ear and respiratory infections, diarrhea, new food allergies and severe weight loss, my family and I could not understand why Chris had regressed physically, mentally and emotionally and become a totally different child. His doctors told us there was no explanation and said I should take him home and love him. Eighteen months later, when I, and millions of other parents in America, watched the Emmy award winning “DPT Vaccine Roulette,” [57] I called the TV station and asked if I could have copies of the medical literature used to anchor the documentary. And it was in my living room as I read case history descriptions of DPT vaccine injury and death in the pages of Pediatrics [58, 59, 60] and the British Medical Journal [61, 62, 63] and New England Journal of Medicine [64] that exactly matched the symptoms of brain inflammation I witnessed my son suffer that day, it was then I knew that physicians had been talking in medical journals for more than 50 years about the fact that pertussis vaccine could brain damage children, but no one had informed the mothers dutifully bringing their children for DPT shots legally required to go to school. As I tried to help my son cope with multiple learning disabilities that included dyslexia, fine and gross motor skill delay, auditory processing and attention deficit, and short term memory delays so severe they confined him to a special ed classroom throughout his public school education, and as I interviewed hundreds of mothers for the book DPT: A Shot in the Dark, I came to know many families whose children had died or were much more severely vaccine injured than my child. [65, 66] Chris has worked hard to compensate for his learning disabilities and he is a productive member of society today; but many vaccine injured children, tragically, are not. [67] My son is among the walked wounded in what has become an unprecedented and still unexplained chronic disease and disability epidemic now plaguing millions of children and young adults in America. [68] It is an epidemic of learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma, seizures, autism, diabetes, depression, and other types of brain and immune dysfunction marked by chronic inflammation in the body that has perfectly coincided with the tripling of the numbers of vaccines given to children – from 23 doses of seven vaccines starting at two months through age six in the early 1980s – to the current 69 doses of 16 vaccines starting on the day of birth with 50 doses given before age six. [69, 70] In 1982, it was my curiosity about the truth of the matter that pushed me to research the science, policy, law, ethics, history and politics of vaccination and spend two decades participating in public engagement projects at the Institute of Medicine and Department of Health and Human Services, where I served as a consumer member on vaccine advisory committees at the FDA and CDC, [71] a journey that has now spanned half my life. So, I offer you my perspective from that vantage point. Philosophy: Love of Wisdom Here we are in the 21st century, where the electronic communications revolution has created a virtual global public square on the World Wide Web, where more than three billion people are talking to – and sometimes yelling at – each other about ideas, values and beliefs, just like they did in the public squares of ancient Athens and Rome, and in universities, newspapers, and on radio and television since then. Throughout recorded history, people have disagreed with each other about how to answer big questions, like: Where do we come from? Are we only physical matter or do we have an immortal soul, a consciousness that survives physical death? What is truth and how can we know it? What is ethical behavior and how can we define it? Most of the formal debates about these questions have been described in the history of philosophy, [72] which the ancient Greeks defined as “love of wisdom,” that included study of knowledge; reasoning; nature of being or metaphysics; aesthetics; and ethics. The philosophy of science emerged as a separate discipline in the 18th and 19h centuries after mathematicians and astronomers mounted a successful challenge to the authority of organized religion. Science Now Dominates, Affect Cultural Values & Laws Since then, science has invaded and dominated every other branch of philosophy. As we are reminded every day in so many ways, science and math rule, and scientific evidence determines what is true and what is not. In fact, those who practice and submit to the authority of science insist that not only must science be used to define all truth, but leaders in science and medicine are authorities who should define “the good,” that is, define moral behavior and what kind of cultural values we should have, and what kind of beliefs we should be allowed to hold and teach our children, and what kind of laws should be passed in order to limit the ability of individuals to make “unscientific” choices that presumably endanger the public health and welfare. [73] That’s a whole lot of pressure for many physicians, who do not want to be put on a pedestal and required to exercise that kind of authority over the lives of fellow human beings because – first and foremost – it interferes with developing a relationship with patients based on mutual respect, trust and shared decision making. But, the stark reality is that the scientification of every branch of philosophy has elevated prominent scientists and physicians promoting “consensus science” into positions of authority, whose judgment should never be questioned. Long held cultural values, such as respect for freedom of thought, speech, conscience and religious belief are being called into question, which, in turn, affects court decisions and the making of laws. No where is this more visible than in public health law using the materialist philosophy of utilitarianism to legally require all Americans to use an increasing number of vaccines without their voluntary informed consent. So how did we get here? How did science come to dominate how we define what is true and good for the individual and society in the 21st century? Old Arguments About What Is True and Good Although conversations about the meaning of life and what is good started before written history and is embedded in tenets of five surviving major religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity – it was the classical Greek philosophers who began recording the debate. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle believed that we are physical matter animated by a vital spirit, and we can use innate knowledge and reason to perceive what is good. Epicurus disagreed and said humans are only physical matter and have no spirit or innate knowledge and that seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the highest good and guide to moral behavior. For 1500 years following the birth of Christ, the highest good was defined as knowing and loving God in western cultures adopting Judeo-Christian moral values – until the Scientific Revolution when 15th and 16th century scientists Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Francis Bacon developed methods for determining what is true that put the existence of God on trial, along with the definition of what is good. Although between the 16th and 19th centuries, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel and other philosophers argued that humans are both physical matter and spirit and can use reason to understand scientific truth, as well as to perceive the natural law that serves as a guide to what is good, the materialist philosophers Hobbes, Hume, Bentham, Comte, Marx and Nietzsche argued that science proves there is no God or human spirit because we are only physical matter, and there are no absolute moral values but, rather, science can be used to define what is true and good. This included the idea that a mathematical equation can be used to judge whether or not an individual action, government policy or law is moral. The authors of the U.S. Declaration of Independence agreed with the philosophers who argued that humans have a physical body animated by a soul or spirit, and that we can use reason given to us by God to perceive the natural law, which includes natural rights, that belong to all individuals and limit the authority of government. The Bill of Rights in the US Constitution contains strong language protecting exercise of natural rights. [74] These have been defined internationally as human rights, including freedom of thought, speech, conscience and religious belief. [75, 76] Utilitarianism: Mathematics, Vaccination & Public Health Rising But today, it is not respect for natural rights that guides public health policy in the U.S., it is the philosophy of utilitarianism, created by Jeremy Bentham, a 19th century British attorney and social reformer. [77, 78] Bentham mocked the U.S. Constitution for mentioning God and affirming natural rights protected in the First Amendment. Like Comte, Marx and Nietzsche who followed him, Bentham did not believe that man has a soul or innate intelligence, so he returned to the hedonistic Epicurean philosophy of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain to define what is good. Bentham’s utilitarianism uses a mathematical equation that judges the rightness or wrongness of an action by its consequences. Bentham said that an action is only moral or ethical if it results in the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. With its emphasis on numbers of people, Bentham created utilitarianism primarily as a guide to state legislative policy, and vaccine cost-benefit analyses are rooted in utilitarianism. Bentham was a contemporary of British physician Edward Jenner, who took pus from a cowpox lesion and scratched it onto the arm of a young boy in an effort to prevent smallpox. Jenner’s experiment, repeated over and over again in lots of people, created a live human-cow hybrid virus called vaccinia. [79] The new chemical industry took that vaccinia virus, added some chemicals and bottled it, selling it to doctors and governments. The mass smallpox vaccine campaigns that followed expanded the authority of a new branch of medicine focusing on population-based disease control, called public health. [80] 19th century physicians were enlisted by government to give infants and children smallpox vaccine and were persuaded to look the other way when some of them died or were left permanently disabled after developing raging vaccinia virus infections and inflammation of the brain. Fully embracing the utilitarian rationale, public health officials viewed individual smallpox vaccine casualties as necessary losses to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Utilitarianism Codified Into US Law: Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) At the turn of the 20th century, utilitarianism was fashionable in intellectual and political circles. It was the philosophical argument used by attorneys in 1905 to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a utilitarian ruling in Jacobson vs. Massachusetts. [81] Lutheran Pastor Henning Jacobsen and his son had suffered severe reactions to previous smallpox vaccinations and Jacobsen argued that genetic predisposition placed him at high risk for dying or being injured if he was forced to get revaccinated. The court dismissed Jacobsen’s concern for his own health and life. In a split decision with one dissenting vote, the Court that included Oliver Wendell Holmes, issued an opinion that would affirm the legal right for U.S. state legislatures to assign police powers to public health officials to restrict or eliminate individual liberty in order to “secure the general comfort, health and prosperity of the state.” The Court maintained that all citizens can be compelled to receive smallpox vaccinations because the happiness and welfare of the majority outweighs the happiness and welfare of a minority. In other words, individual human sacrifice is ethical and legal if it is done for the common good. Georgetown law professor and mandatory vaccination proponent Lawrence Gusting has described it as the most important Supreme Court opinion in the history of American public health law. [83] Eugenics: Eradicating the “Unfit” in Buck v. Bell (1927) In 1927, then Chief Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes used the Jacobson ruling to give the state of Virginia a green light to sterilize Carrie Buck, a 17-year old young single mother who doctors and state social workers had incorrectly judged to be mentally retarded, just like her daughter and mother, they said. [84] Self-identifying as a Darwinian atheist and utilitarian, Chief Justice Holmes’s admiration for exercise of power is reflected in his legal opinions. [85] Holmes did not believe in the concept of natural rights and said, “Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.” [86] He believed scientific knowledge should be used to improve the human race and said, “I can imagine a future in which science shall take control of life, and condemn at once with instant execution what now is left up to nature to destroy.” [87] And, so, when it came to Carrie Buck, Holmes, the eugenicist, coldly proclaimed– “The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.” [88] In this merciless 1927 Supreme Court decision, just as in the 1905 Jacobson v Massachusetts decision, Holmes achieved his goal of stripping cultural values and ethical principles from U.S. law. His logic was that if utilitarianism could be used to ensure the common good and protect society from infections through compulsory vaccination laws, then forced sterilization laws could be used to immunize society against becoming infected with bad genes. Social Darwinism and Eugenics in America Inspired Hitler Darwin’s theory of natural selection led to Social Darwinism [89] and eugenics that was viewed as a new science by U.S. intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s. [90] American biologist Charles Davenport had founded the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island in 1910 [91] to improve the human race and soon courses on eugenics were offered at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Brown and other universities. The National Education Association had a Committee on Racial Well-Being to help teachers integrate eugenics content into public school textbooks. [92] By 1932, California and 28 other states had passed compulsory sterilization laws and the practice of eugenics was endorsed by leading U.S. scientists, medical doctors, lawyers, professors, businessmen, politicians, philanthropists, and social reformers like Margaret Sanger. The next year, in 1933, Hitler adopted eugenics as a central piece of his plan to protect the common good by eliminating individuals he considered to be a threat to the health, security and economic well being of the State. By the time eugenics became politically incorrect in the 1940’s, physicians implementing government health policy had performed more than 60,000 involuntary sterilizations on mentally disabled or chronically ill Americans. [93] Hitler was influenced by Marx and Nietzsche and inspired by U.S. eugenics laws. He blended utilitarianism with social Darwinism and nationalism to create a view of the State as one biological entity or body that must be kept healthy and free from disease and threats from unfit individuals. Enlisting the assistance of physicians and public health officials, the first minority considered unfit and expendable were severely handicapped children, the chronically sick and mentally ill, the “useless eaters” they were called. And when the reasons for why a person was identified as a threat to the health, economic stability, or security of the State grew longer to include minorities who were too old or too Jewish or too Catholic or too opinionated or simply unwilling to believe what those in control of the State said was true….as the list of those the State branded as persons of interest to be demonized, feared, tracked, isolated and eliminated grew, so did the collective denial of those who had yet to be put on that list. Doctors’ Crimes Against Humanity: Judgment at Nuremberg When doctors were charged with crimes against humanity at the Doctor’s Trial at Nuremberg for carrying out horrific scientific experiments on captive children and adults in the concentration camps, including vaccine experiments, they pointed to U.S. eugenics laws and invoked a utilitarian defense, claiming it was moral to sacrifice the health and lives of individuals to advance scientific knowledge that could save the lives of many more. [94, 95] Out of the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg came the Nuremberg Code, of which Yale law professor and physician Jay Katz said, “if not explicitly then at least implicitly, commanded that the principle of the advancement of science bow to a higher principle: protection of individual inviolability. The rights of individuals to thoroughgoing self-determination and autonomy must come first. “ [96] The First Principle of the Nuremberg Code is, “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” [97] The Doctor’s Trial at Nuremberg put a human face on individual victims of immoral government health policies. The Nuremberg Code stands as an uncompromising affirmation of the value of every human life and the natural right to self-determination, a timeless guide to ethical behavior by scientists and physicians. While post World War II Europe had to process what they had learned from The Doctor’s Trial at Nuremberg and the holocaust, things were very different in America. In our country, prominent members of our society who had promoted and participated in the practice of eugenics were never required to look in the mirror and reflect upon what they had done, or face public disgrace. [98] They just went underground.
Science & Math Rule: History of Philosophy Forgotten Our perception of what is true and good is very much influenced by the prism through which we are taught to view the world. In today’s public schools, education is focused on science and math, but the study of philosophy and its’ impact on human history is not valued or taught that often. There is no discussion about the kind of utilitarian thinking that made eugenics acceptable in America. Few Gen Xers and Millennials, who will steer our nation into the second half of the 21nd century, understand the ramifications of allowing utilitarianism to guide public health policy and law, even as the specter of genetic engineering to change what it means to be human is already underway. [99, 100, 101] Do they understand the influence of utilitarian philosophers like Dr. Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton, who says it is ethical to euthanize disabled babies in the first 30 days of life, and it is ethical to euthanize elderly and disabled persons who are not aware they serve no useful purpose in society, because, he says, the life of a severely intellectually disabled person has no greater value than that of a dog or pig? [102] Dr. Paul Offit and other contemporary utilitarians who develop vaccines, make vaccine policy and promote “no exceptions” mandatory vaccination laws [103] are forcing us to kneel before them at an altar reminiscent of the one that a 19th century August Comte, built for his Religion of Humanity. We are not allowed to talk about what is true or good in the public square unless we have medical or academic credentials and then – only if we strictly adhere to promoting their consensus science, a code word for censorship that delegitimizes freedom of thought and dissent. Debate About Forced Vaccination Transcends Vaccination Today, everybody knows somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated and was never healthy again. But the vaccine science is settled, say the utilitarians refusing to compare the health of vaccinated children to unvaccinated children. Vaccines do not injure and kill, they say, or – if they do – it is so rare, that requiring some children to sacrifice their lives without their parent’s informed consent is ethical in order to enforce mandatory vaccination laws that serve the greater good. It is for this reason that the debate about vaccination transcends vaccination. It is the tip of the spear in a much larger war that is being waged on cultural values and beliefs in America, which is why I call it The Vaccine Culture War. Because if the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow. Today the battlefield of the 200 year war on microbes is littered with human casualties far too numerous to count while, in a natural fight to survive, the microbes have evolved to evade the vaccines. [104] And the scientists and physicians in leadership positions determined to win that war continue to fire away, stepping around the bodies of vaccine-damaged children lying on the ground. Do I think that public health officials flying the science flag with a utilitarian star on it wake up everyday and say to themselves, I want to hurt a child today? Of course not. Most doctors and scientists want to help, not harm people. Do I think they have lost their way, blinded by a utilitarian pseudo-ethic that makes it easy to ignore the bodies lying on the ground so they can allow themselves to believe that human sacrifice is ethical when it serves the greater good? Yes, I do. They have forgotten to ask themselves this question: When one individual is considered expendable for the good of society, how many more can be considered expendable? Is it 500, 5,000, 50 million – or more? How many is too many to sacrifice for the happiness of the rest, and who gets to decide which ones among us are expendable? Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel said, “When you take an idea or concept and turn it into an abstraction, that opens the way to take human beings and turn them, also, into abstractions. When people are turned into abstractions, what is left?” [105] He is right. Abstractions are much easier to write off as coincidences. Abstractions are easier to add up in a column when there is no name or a face put to them. Abstractions do not live or breathe, bleed or convulse, scream or die. Abstractions can be dismissed and buried in files where nobody ever has to look. Rejecting Utilitarianism & Embracing An Authentic Ethic After surviving four concentration camps, physician Viktor Frankl called on mankind to reject the materialist view that a person only has value if he useful to society, which makes him a slave to the State. Frankl said: “The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment—or, as the Nazis liked to say, of ‘Blood and Soil.’” I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.” [106]Transcending the horror of what he had witnessed, Dr. Frankl was able to see that, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.“ ….. “It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful. In the 21st century, all of us are called upon to choose whether or not we will embrace what Albert Schweitzer called “a reverence for life.” [107] It requires us to turn away from materialist philosophers like Hobbes, Bentham, Comte, Marx, Nietzsche and Singer, who say that individual life does not matter, that life has no meaning, and that morality can be reduced to a mathematical equation. Enlightened physicians and scientists with compassion and courage are called upon to take back leadership of their professions from those who have lost their way. Even as those, who have been victims of utilitarian health policies, must continue to witness in the public square. Only then can we reject utilitarianism as a guide to the practice of medicine so consensus science orthodoxy will give way to real science that yields the truth about vaccination and health. Only then can we transcend the horror of what has happened to far too many children in the name of the greater good and adopt an authentic ethic, one that values individual autonomy and freedom of thought, speech and conscience – civil liberties that have been an antidote to tyranny in its many forms throughout human history. Our mission continues. No forced vaccination. Not in America.
Read the full article at NVIC.org.
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Socialized health care system COLLAPSES in Venezuela… no more hospital beds, no matter how sick you are
Wednesday, November 08, 2017 by: Lance D Johnson
(Natural News) It didn’t take long for the socialist experiment in Venezuela to give way to malnutrition, starvation and scarcity of hospital beds and basic medical supplies. It doesn’t matter how sick you are right now in Venezuela; you might have no option but to take makeshift treatment from the hospital floor. Women are giving birth in crowded waiting rooms, and hundreds of thousands of people with malaria are suffering, unable to get treatment. Over a million cases of malaria are expected by 2018. According to expert estimates, the country has enough hospital beds to accommodate about 25 percent of the country’s needs. The government’s supply of 47,000 hospital beds has shrunk to 18,000 units, as the socialist health care system continues to ration. There is no guarantee that a doctor will be able to help you if you walk through hospital doors, either. This comes at a time when thousands of the country’s children are at risk of dying from malnutrition. Illnesses such as diphtheria are getting the best of the young and old, who are starving for nutrition or some kind of sustenance and stability. Rafael Gottenger, president of the Venezuelan American Medical Association, says: “We have seen children dying in Caracas from malnutrition. Mothers have nothing to feed their children. I have documented cases. For example, in the El Llanito Hospital, at least eight children have died recently from malnutrition. And if that’s the way it is in the capital, how would it be in the rest of the country? ”The Venezuelan socialist experiment is about eighteen years old. For fifteen years, the country was represented by Hugo Chavez, a populist who promised free healthcare and an improved standard of living. While the standard of living increased for many in the beginning, the wealth was slowly rationed by those at the very top of the socialist pyramid scheme. Over the years, the country became dependent on foreign oil for a majority of its economy. As the price of the oil went down, the wealth that the government was able to redistribute diminished. When the government gains control over the economy, the very import aspects of innovation, competition, and efficiency are lost. Newfound dependency on social programs halts the drive and initiative of people. Consumer choice is lost as bureaucrats and the wealthy class engage in corruption and decide what is best for the majority. What was promised as a fair system slowly loses its ability to regulate its own prices based on consumer demand. The limited supply of money that is taken from the producers is never enough to take care of everyone. When the money begins to run out to make life fair for everyone, production is slowed and goods and services become scarce. When the government begins setting the prices, the elite crony authoritarians find ways to take advantage, cutting off competition that naturally drives prices down and provides more abundant resources and choice. In Venezuela now, even if a patient finds a hospital bed, there is no guarantee he or she will receive treatment. Douglas Leon Natera, president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation says hospitals have less than five percent of the supplies and medicines needed to function normally. “Any Venezuelan who gets sick here in the country today runs the risk of entering a clinic only to have the relatives leave crying” Natera told El Nuevo Herald in a telephone interview. He says the high-priority showcase hospitals that receive resources first only have about 10-12 percent of what they need to treat the patients who come through their doors. With low oil prices stifling their economy, current President Nicolas Maduro has resorted to placing strict limits on food and medicine imports. Catholic charity organizations have struggled to keep up with the staggering rate of malnutrition in children. One organization, the Caritas, reports malnutrition as high as 11.4 percent for children under five. The malnutrition is disaffecting children’s growth and ability to fight off infectious disease. Diptheria, once deemed eradicated, has made a comeback in the country, with new outbreaks forming. It’s still unclear how many will have to suffer before the socialist system of Venezuela finally comes to an end. Sources include: MiamiHerald.com NaturalNews.com
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China to Add 5th Antarctic Outpost
November 09, 2017
China is reportedly prepping a mission to Antarctica that will establish its fifth outpost on the southernmost continent as part of its effort to expand its sphere of influence. The South China Morning Post reported on the “power play,” saying the icebreaker Xuelong, with a crew of 334, headed south from Shanghai on Wednesday. Its reported destination is Inexpressible Island, located in Terra Nova Bay nearly 2,500 miles south of New Zealand, which was the site of the famous Northern Party encampment where in 1912 a group of men overwintered in an ice cavern with only four weeks’ worth of rations. The SCMP report notes that China’s interest in Antarctica may be late in arriving, but it’s coming at a time when other countries—particularly the U.S.—are being forced to cut back due to budgetary constraints. It is said to be investing heavily in development and research facilities on the continent with an eye toward 2042. That year, the prohibition on mineral exploitation enacted by the Antarctic Treaty expires. Chinese leaders have made no effort to hide their intentions, calling the Xuelong’s mission part of the government’s effort to develop “polar prospecting and extraction equipment.” For the first year, the icebreaker’s crew will establish a 2,250 square-foot outpost base. Over the next five years, it will be expanded into a full-fledge colony—China’s fifth on the perpetually frozen continent. The U.S. has only three bases on Antarctica, most of which operate on decades-old equipment. It also has only two icebreakers, one of which has not aged well. China, on the other hand, is already building its third icebreaker and has several more in development.
https://www.trunews.com/article/china-to-add-5th-antarctic-outpost
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Military training exercise to test local response to sustained power outages
Posted: Nov 07, 2017 12:14 PM CST Updated: Nov 07, 2017 12:14 PM CST
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin’s Department of Military Affairs is warning Columbia County residents of an increased law enforcement presence on the ground and in the air next week for a training exercise. The training in Columbia County and at Wisconsin’s Emergency Operations center in Madison starts Nov. 14, and is in conjunction with a national-level exercise, known as Grid Ex, that takes place Nov. 15-16, officials said. The public might see increased law enforcement presence and military personnel, including non-military unmanned aerial vehicles, in the area starting Nov. 14, according to a release. The exercise will continue until mid-morning the next day. GridEx tests local, county and state emergency management officials, as well as National Guard and private utilities partners, on their responses to sustained power outages resulting from threats to the power grid, officials said. November’s training will involve local, county and state law enforcement agencies and first responders, soldiers and airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard and Alliant Energy partners, according to the release.
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Russia Presses Ahead With Combat Robots
In the air and on land
WIB airWIB land November 8, 2017 Samuel Bendett
The Russian military announced on Oct. 30, 2017 that it will begin acquiring the Nerekhta — a ground-combat robot armed with a slew of remotely-operated weapons such as machine guns and rocket launchers. Col. Oleg Pomazuev, the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Department of Innovation Research, said the Nerekhtas “managed to prove themselves well at the Alabino testing ground,” and that the robots exceeded manned combat vehicles “in a number of parameters.” The spartan-looking, mid-sized Nerekhta comes in three varieties — combat, transport and artillery reconnaissance – and can be equipped with a 12.7-millimeter or 7.62-millimeter machine gun, as well as a 30-millimeter AG-30M automatic grenade launcher. The Russian Ministry of Defense views such machines as an important way to amplify the army’s combat power. Robots can go where human beings cannot. Russia is in fact testing many unmanned ground vehicles, from small devices to tank-sized models equipped with a variety of ammunition. Going into 2018 and beyond, the Russian military will start acquiring more unmanned military systems for its air, land and naval forces. The past few weeks have seen several significant developments in Russian unmanned military systems, from government hints at how such systems could operate to announcements about new concepts and prototypes. The Russian military establishment has dropped several mentions about the implementation of artificial intelligence in combat. On Nov. 1, Viktor Bondarev, chairman of the Federation Council’s Defense and Security Committee, stated that artificial intelligence will be able to “replace a soldier on the battlefield and a pilot in an aircraft cockpit.” He further indicated that Russia is pursuing “swarm” technology — also pursued by the U.S. military — which would allow a network of drones to operate as a single unit. “Flying robots will be able to act in a formation rather than separately,” Bondarev said. “Perhaps, an operator will be sitting on the ground and controlling a whole unmanned squadron with the help of a computer … the day is nearing when vehicles will get artificial intelligence. So, why not entrust aviation or air defense to them?” Such official statements indicate that Russian military elites are contemplating the use of artificial intelligence in military settings in the future with a level of comfort about the idea, in contrast to more cautious and ambiguous statements in the West on the use of artificial intelligence. Bondarev’s statement could pour more oil on the fire of concern expressed by the American military establishment that the race for militarized AI is tightening among the United States, China and Russia. However, despite public pronouncements, unless an actual Russian proof of concept is tested, there is no cause for alarm, especially when the Russian military is so far following in American and Chinese footsteps in developing unmanned aerial vehicle swarms and manned-unmanned teaming concepts. On Oct. 27, 2017, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed that the armed forces will receive unmanned combat aerial vehicles, presumably beginning in 2018. Aerial drone technology is one area Russia has made strides. He indicated that “drones are (already) effectively used for conducting aerial reconnaissance, engineering support, electronic warfare, communications, and as part of target acquisition missions,” referring to the successful use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Syria, where Russian forces flew 16,000 UAV sorties for a total of 96,000 flight hours. Shoigu further stated that Russian use of its UAV fleet grew by 2.5 times since the start of its Syrian operation in 2015, from 400 to more than 1,000 monthly flights. Shoigu also indicated that Defense Ministry boards will hear proposals to increase the use and development of unmanned aircraft. Elsewhere, the Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry (FPI) — the Russian equivalent of America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — announced it is developing an unmanned ground vehicle to serve as a “mobile assistant” for the country’s special forces. Such UGVs will be designed to deliver ammunition to troops on the battlefield, support special forces snipers, and, if necessary, help retrieve the wounded. Such concept UGV platforms “will combine the latest robotics developments and achievements, with the help of organizations specializing in navigation technologies, control systems and technical vision,” the FPI stated. While qualitative and quantitative gaps still exist between Russian and Western military robots, Moscow is nevertheless incorporating such technologies in its armed forces. However, Russia’s own ability to square its desire for high-tech military products with budgetary and economic realities will be a much greater and accurate indicator of the country’s unmanned ambitions.
http://warisboring.com/russia-presses-ahead-with-armed-military-robots/
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Sisi to Iran: Stop meddling in the region
Elad Benari, 09/11/17 06:05
Egyptian President sides with Saudi Arabia, calls on on Iran to stop meddling in the Middle East, but stresses he is against war. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Wednesday called on Iran to stop "meddling" in the Middle East, but stressed that he does not want war and believes dialogue can resolve the region's crises. With his comments, quoted by The Associated Press, Sisi threw his support behind Egypt's Gulf ally Saudi Arabia amid the kingdom's mounting tensions with Iran. The Egyptian president told reporters that he did not want more tensions in the region, but that doesn't mean threats to Arab countries can be tolerated. "The region has enough instability and challenges as it is. We don't need any new complications involving Iran or Hezbollah so we don't add new challenges to the region," Sisi was quoted as having said at a news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. "I am against war, we can resolve crises with dialogue," he stressed when asked about the possibility of war with Iran or Hezbollah. But, he added, "Gulf security is a red line and others must stop meddling in our affairs and not work to escalate tensions. We in Egypt believe that Arab and Gulf security and any threat to Gulf (Arab) nations is a threat to our own national security." Sisi also said Saudi Arabia remained stable in the wake of the surprise arrest over the weekend of dozens of ministers, members of the royal family, businessmen and senior army officers. "Conditions in Saudi Arabia are totally stable and I have confidence in the government's handling of the situation," he insisted. But he avoided the increasingly aggressive rhetoric that has come from Riyadh in recent days. Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for a missile fired toward its capital by Houthi rebels in Yemen and warned that could be considered an act of war. At the same time, Saudi officials accused Hezbollah, Iran's terror proxy in Lebanon of "declaring war" on the kingdom, following the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri. Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia have a historic rivalry in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly called on Iran to stop its “meddling” in the affairs of the kingdom's neighbors. Iran has fired back, accusing Saudi Arabia of trying to “drag the entire region into confrontation”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237848
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Climate Engineering Is A Gateway To Global Government
November 8, 2017 By Derrick Broze
As the U.S. House of Representatives held its first hearing on climate engineering it is becoming clear that the technology will lead to international governance. On Wednesday the U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment and Subcommittee on Energy Hearing held the first House hearing on the controversial subject of climate engineering or weather modification. The hearing, titled “Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology,” brought together members of the House committees as well as representatives of think tanks, scientists, and researchers in the field to discuss the future of geoengineering research and whether the Trump administration should allocate funding. The push for discussion of geoengineering from the Trump administration should come as no surprise. Back in January 2017, Activist Post reported that “the U.S. Global Change Research Program quietly recommended new studies looking into two specific areas of research involving geoengineering.” With the release of their report, the GCRP became the first scientists in the federal government to formally recommend studies involving geoengineering. Participants in Wednesday’s hearing include Full Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Environment Subcommittee Chairman Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Randy Weber (R-Texas). Witness testimony came from Dr. Phil Rasch, chief scientist for climate science, Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Dr. Joseph Majkut, director of climate policy at the Niskanen Center; Dr. Douglas MacMartin, senior research associate, Cornell University; and Ms. Kelly Wanser, principal director, Marine Cloud Brightening Project, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington. Before the discussion began, the committee members established a working definition of geoengineering. According to a 2013 congressional report: The term ‘geoengineering’ describes this array of technologies that aim, through large-scale and deliberate modifications of the Earth’s energy balance, to reduce temperatures and counteract anthropogenic climate change. Most of these technologies are at the conceptual and research stages, and their effectiveness at reducing global temperatures has yet to be proven. Moreover, very few studies have been published that document the cost, environmental effects, socio-political impacts, and legal implications of geoengineering. If geoengineering technologies were to be deployed, they are expected to have the potential to cause significant transboundary effects. In general, geoengineering technologies are categorized as either a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) method or a solar radiation management (SRM) (or albedo-modification) method. CDR methods address the warming effects of greenhouse gases by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. CDR methods include ocean fertilization, and carbon capture and sequestration. SRM methods address climate change by increasing the reflectivity of the Earth’s atmosphere or surface. Aerosol injection and space-based reflectors are examples of SRM methods. SRM methods do not remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, but can be deployed faster with relatively immediate global cooling results compared to CDR methods. As the hearing unfolded, Committee Chairman Smith acknowledged that geoengineering “could have positive effects on the Earth’s atmosphere,” but cautioned “we have a lot to learn.” Smith’s outlook illustrated his skepticism of man-made climate change, stating, “While we are not sure this is plausible, some scientists believe it could achieve substantial environmental benefits at a cheaper cost than regulations.” Smith did acknowledge the “unintended consequences of geoengineering,” drawing attention to the fact that studies have shown altering the climate in one part of the world could have disastrous effects elsewhere. “One concern is that brightening clouds could alter rain patterns, making it rain more in some places or less in others,” Smith stated. “We still do not know enough about this subject to thoroughly understand the pros and cons of these types of technologies.” Supporters of geoengineering currently find themselves with a lack of public funding for these programs, as well as a skeptical public. This hearing was aimed at bringing the topic into the mainstream consciousness and potentially garnering support for funding. Chairman Andy Biggs mentioned the need for further study, stating “if in the future the government wants to actually apply the concepts and findings of geoengineering research, we must fully examine both the potential merits and potential pitfalls of this emergent field.” Kelly Wanser, principal director of the Marine Cloud Brightening Project, also encouraged “governance and regulatory efforts.” Wanser emphasized that oversight should be “rapidly established.” Joseph Majkut, Director of Climate Policy at The Niskanen Center, mentioned that “Congress has already given limited authority to regulate experiments intent on altering the weather, including changing planetary albedo.” However, Majkut noted, “at this point, those regulations are limited to reporting requirements.” Majkut called for Congress to implement “significant civil and administrative penalties” and potentially criminal penalties for violating the regulations. “Congress might also consider whether to extend that criminal liability not only to such experiments originating within or over the United States, but also conducted outside of our borders that result in an impact on the United States,” Majkut stated. “Such considerations would need the input of the diplomatic and international community.” The Niskanen Center is described as a libertarian think-tank aimed at influencing “Washington insiders,” as opposed to the public. The Center takes on issues like the environment and works to influence political leaders. In a recent blog titled “RIGHTLY GOVERNING SOLAR GEOENGINEERING RESEARCH,” Majkut and colleagues wrote about need for “small-scale field tests” and “a domestic regulatory governance structure for research.” Further, The Niskanen Center wrote that national governance structures might serve “as a test-bed for governance ideas” which could “seed discussions on international deployment” of geoengineering over the coming two decades. The hearing’s emphasis on the need for domestic and international governance structures illustrates the uncertainty around how exactly geoengineering will affect neighboring nations and communities. The Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative recently released a statement in support of “well-governed research on geoengineering” and urged governments and other institutions to support the University of Calgary’s recent publication of a Code of Conduct for Responsible Geoengineering Research. “Geoengineering is a matter for all society, worldwide, as it affects us all,” Carnegie wrote. “This means we need to hear many more voices than currently being heard in the geoengineering debate." The Secret $20 Bitcoin Blue Print (Ad) While these debates have mostly focused on the thoughts and opinions of government leaders and political pundits, the majority of the world is being left out of these discussions. It is absolutely vital for elected officials to discuss matters of such import, but we cannot allow the politicians alone to dominate the conversation. What of developing countries, indigenous communities, and local populations? Their voices must be heard in order to fully assess the risks of geoengineering. Do the governments of the world care about the will of the people, or will they push forth with their agenda regardless of public opinion or concern? These are important questions which need to be considered among any debate on the potential of engineering the climate of our planet. One way or another, our lives and future depend on the outcome of this scientific debate. For a much deeper look into the history of climate and weather engineering, please see this. Image Credit Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the Lead Investigative Reporter for ActivistPost.com and the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him on Twitter. Derrick is the author of three books: The Conscious Resistance: Reflections on Anarchy and Spirituality and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 1 and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 2 Derrick is available for interviews. Please contact Derrick@activistpost.com This article may be freely reposted in part or in full with author attribution and source link.
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France: A Decomposing Civilization
by Giulio Meotti November 9, 2017 at 6:00 am
France's authorities and elites are tearing up, piece by piece, the country's historical, religious and cultural legacy so that nothing remains. A nation dispossessed of its identity will see its inner strength broken. No French terrorist who went to cut off heads in Syria lost his citizenship. The magazine Charlie Hebdo is now receiving new death threats, and no major French publication expressed solidarity with their murdered colleagues by drawing Islamic caricatures. Many of the French intelligentsia have been dragged in courts for alleged "Islamophobia". The martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel at the hands of Islamists has already been forgotten; the site of the massacre is still waiting for a visit from Pope Francis as a sign of condolence and respect. France "sacrificed the victims to avoid fighting the murderers". — Shmuel Trigano, sociologist. France is about to commemorate the victims of the terror attacks of November 13, 2015. What has been achieved in the two years since the attacks? The French authorities are sending compensation to more than 2,500 victims of the jihadist attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, who will be compensated with 64 million euros. Important victories were also attained by anti-terrorism forces. According to an enquiry by the weekly L'Express, in the last two years, 32 terrorist attacks were foiled, 625 firearms were seized, 4,457 people suspected of having jihadist links were searched, and 752 individuals were placed under house arrest. But the general impression is that of a country "frailing from within". In 1939, a Spanish anti-Fascist journalist, Manuel Chaves Nogales, fled to France, where he witnessed the collapse of the French Republic under German assault. His book, The Agony of France, could have been written about today. Nogales wrote that while the German soldiers were marching through Paris, the French were swarming out of movie theaters, "just in time for the apéritif at the bistro". After two French girls were murdered by an Islamist in Marseille last month, the social commentator Mathieu Bock-Côté wrote that France is experiencing "a process of national and civilizational decomposition that the authorities have decided to accompany and moderate, without claiming to fight and overthrow it, as if it were unavoidable". He seem to have got it right. The previous French president, François Hollande, did not even try to get re-elected; his successor, Emmanuel Macron, refuses to talk about Islam and appears to accept the permanent capitulation to the state of fear and emergency. The French army failed to liberate Raqqa, Syria as it promised after the attacks. "France will destroy ISIS", Hollande said after the carnage in Paris; but it was US and Kurdish forces that liberated the Islamic State's de facto capital. 15,000 French Islamists are now being monitored by the French intelligence services. Meanwhile, in the last ten years, 40,000 Jews have fled France. The safety of ordinary French people is no longer guaranteed. Islamist violence can arise anywhere to strike those who wear a uniform and those who do not. All French citizens are now targets in a war where, for Islamist terrorists, everything is allowed. In France's parliament, "Islamo-Leftist" voices are becoming increasingly bold. The political class distracts itself with "inclusive writing" at school; in vitro fertilization for singles and gays and on-the-spot fines for "sexist" harassers. No French terrorist who went to cut off heads in Syria lost his citizenship. The magazine Charlie Hebdo is receiving new death threats; no major French publication expressed solidarity with its murdered colleagues by printing Islamic caricatures. The victims' relatives published books entitled, You Will Not Have My Hate. Many of the French intelligentsia have been dragged into court for alleged "Islamophobia". Meanwhile, no Islamist enclave inside the secular Republic has been reclaimed, and only 19 Salafist mosques have been closed. The French parliament recently found it urgent to strip the politician Marine Le Pen of immunity after she tweeted photographs of victims of ISIS, including that of the US journalist James Foley. "Daesh is THIS!", she wrote in a post accompanying the photographs and using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. So, a country that that suffered 250 murders at the hands of ISIS removed political protection to a leader, who is already under police protection, for having spread the images of victims of ISIS, and thereby opening the door for her prosecution. The martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel at the hands of Islamists has been forgotten; the site of the massacre is still waiting for a visit from Pope Francis as a sign of condolence and respect. French judges are now busy removing Christian symbols from the landscape: last month in Ploërmel, the cross above a statue of Pope John Paul II was ordered dispatched for allegedly violating the separation of church and state. Paris's Mayor Anne Hidalgo recently banned the city's main Christmas market for being insufficiently elegant. France's authorities and elites are tearing up, piece by piece, the country's historical, religious and cultural legacy so that nothing will remain. But a nation dispossessed of its identity will see its inner strength broken. Samuel Pruvot, a journalist for Famille Chrétienne ("Christian Family"), recently claimed that Christianity in France will be soon found in "museums". French culture, for the past two years, has been marked by "the sentiment of the end of the world". Intellectuals from both the left and right have been publishing essays about the "suicide of France", its "decadence" and its "unhappy identity". These are brilliant and important takes on the current state of French society. France now needs to go beyond mourning. It needs to show strength -- the will to prevail. France now needs to start fighting the ideological war, the most important one after arrests and the seizure of weapons. If France does not do that, November 13, 2015 will be remembered as the day in which France, as the sociologist Shmuel Trigano said, "sacrificed the victims to avoid fighting the murderers". Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11336/france-decomposing
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Saudi Arabia Orders Its Citizens To Leave Lebanon Immediately
by Tyler Durden Nov 9, 2017 12:33 PM
In a odd coincidence, just moments after we published an article laying out Hezbollah's military power at a time when both Saudi Arabia and Lebanon appear to be targeting Lebanon, and just two days after we discussed a leaked Israeli cable that confirmed Saudi Arabia and Israel are deliberately coordinating to destabilize the region and push Lebanon to a state of war, Saudi Arabia has ordered its citizens residing in Lebanon to leave immediately in a travel warning issued on Thursday, November 9. As Al Arabiya adds, the travel warning also called for Saudi nationals not to travel to Lebanon from any point of origin. Full advisory below: Official Source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Saudi nationals visiting or residing in Lebanon are asked to leave the country as soon as possible. Riyadh, Safar 20, 1439, November 09, 2017, SPA -- Due to the situations in the Republic of Lebanon, the official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Saudi nationals visiting or residing in Lebanon are asked to leave the country as soon as possible. The Kingdom advised all citizens not to travel to Lebanon from any other international destinations. This follows a similar warning issued by the Kingdom of Bahrain on November 5 urghing its nationals residing in Lebanon to leave immediately and to "exercise caution.” The Bahraini call came a day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation, while on location in Saudi Arabia, citing concerns he could be assassinated like his father, criticized the Lebanon-based Hezbollah paramilitary and political movement and accused Iran of alleged attempts to bring destruction to the region. The Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement received by AFP that its call was "in the interest of its citizens’ safety and to avoid any risks they may be exposed due to the conditions and developments” that Lebanon is going through. Earlier, Reuters reported that Lebanon believes former premier Saad al-Hariri, who as noted above resigned on Saturday while in Saudi Arabia, is being held by Riyadh, and Beirut plans to work with foreign states to secure his return, a top Lebanese government official said on Thursday. A second Reuters source, a senior politician close to Saudi-allied Hariri, said Saudi Arabia had ordered him to resign and put him under house arrest. A third source familiar with the situation said Saudi Arabia was controlling and limiting his movement. Saudi Arabia and members of Hariri’s Future Movement have denied reports that he is under house arrest. But he has put out no statements himself denying his movements are being restricted. He made a one-day flying visit to the United Arab Emirates earlier this week before returning to Saudi Arabia. Earlier on Thursday, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister also urged the international community to slap fresh sanctions against Iran, accusing its regional rival of supporting terrorism. "We would like to see sanctions on Iran for its support of terrorism and sanctions on Iran for violating the ballistic missile resolutions of the United Nations," Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi minister of foreign affairs, told CNBC Thursday. Al-Jubeir also said that the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers was "weak," especially given Tehran would be capable of assembling a bomb "within weeks." He added he would like to see international agencies carry out a "much more robust" job when conducting inspections in Iran. Al-Jubeir also described the situation in Lebanon as "unfortunate" and went on to accuse Hezbollah of "hijacking the system" and putting "roadblocks" in front of Hariri at every opportunity. When asked whether Saudi Arabia was headed for a direct conflict with Iran, Al-Jubeir replied, "We hope not", and yet just hours later Riyadh made it clear that any Saudi citizens in Lebanon are now in danger. Needless to say, traditionally such accelerate evacuation orders have preceded military intervention. Should that be the case again, keep a close eye on oil.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-09/saudi-arabia-orders-its-citizens-leave-lebanon-immediately
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Be established in me, be not established in the world or the things of the world, but be established in me, for the days just ahead are dark days, evil days, wicked days, when many things shall take place. Things that shall even shock you, things that shall wake you up and wake up others, things that shall cause them to realize the lateness of the hour, the time in which you are living. They will see and understand the plot of the enemy, how he strives to take over and become a one world government, a one world enterprise who will contain all the food and issue out the food and even take over farms to control the food, the water, the gas, the oil, the supplies. Oh, the wickedness of his plot, but fear not that plot, etc.
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Globalism vs. Patriotism, Evil vs. Good – Mark Taylor
By Greg Hunter On September 4, 2017
Mark Taylor, author of the wildly popular book “The Trump Prophecies,” correctly predicted, early on, a victory by Donald Trump to win the White House. Taylor is a retired firefighter that has become an unlikely prophet of God, who contends “President Trump is God’s anointed.” Taylor says what is going on is nothing short of a grand battle between good and evil. Taylor explains, “Here’s what I believe is going on right now. There is no longer a Republican and Democrat party – period. This is about globalism vs. patriotism basically right now. This is about light vs. dark. What you are seeing happen right now is God has anointed Donald Trump to pull us out of this hole we have been in for so long, this period of darkness we have been in. Donald Trump has literally stopped the enemy’s timeline. . . . The globalists have an agenda for this New World Order (NWO) timeline. They wanted Hillary Clinton as the finisher – period. I tell people all the time if anybody is pro-open borders and pro-immigration, you are a globalist. You are part of the NWO agenda. You are trying to forward the kingdom of darkness. They are coming against Donald Trump because the Christians in this nation, and I am not going to say the church because the church is in bad shape right now, it was the ‘remnant’ (Christians) that won this victory on November 8th. Because we won this victory, we cut the head off of that snake. This snake is kicking and screaming, writhing and kicking around and not liking the fact that their plans . . . have been derailed. . . . When you start putting these things together, Obama was the author of all this stuff, and Hillary was going to be the finisher of it. She was going to say this is the way it’s going to be, and by 2021 or 2022, America was going to be under a New World Order. It was going to be pro-open borders, completely open, and it was going to be a free flow of products and free flow of people. We have stopped that. By us putting him in office, we have stopped the enemy’s time line, and they are angry. . . . God is not even having to expose these people. They are exposing themselves.” Will God use the Trump Administration to strike back? First up is the legacy propaganda news media. Taylor says, “God is going to clean house on the news media, and I firmly believe that. You are going to begin to see the spirit of truth begin to flow. . . . You are already seeing it take place right now because the news media is being exposed like never before.” What about the so-called deep state and politicians? Taylor starts with fired FBI Director James Comey. Taylor contends, “James Comey was the clog in the pipe that was keeping the swamp from being drained. Now that he’s out of the way, you are starting to see things happen. . . . In 2015, I wrote a prophetic statement from God, and it says the spirit of God says your time has come to an end. You are both (Bill and Hillary Clinton) being omitted for the crime you have committed. . . . this is what God told me to write. . . . They are going to go down. I believe at some point, she (Hillary) will go to jail. It will be a sign to the United States that that spirit of Jezebel has been locked up and the key thrown away. God is not going to let this stuff go, and look at the pedophilia. There has been a total media blackout, and there has been 4,000 arrests. . . . This is what God has been telling me for a long time. There are military style tribunals coming because this thing goes so deep. I think it is even boggling the mind of Donald Trump right now. He’s trying to get his team in place so they can go after these people and prosecute them. There are going to be military style tribunals break out when the names come to light.” Taylor says, “Don’t fall for the doom and gloom. . . Some of my prophecies I have written say America is going to prosper like never before. Everybody thinks America is under judgment . . . but what about all the good things America has done. There are 100 different countries out there that are way worse than America, and they are still on the map. 90% of the Gospel that has gone throughout the earth has come from America. Where are all those seeds? God is going to use Donald Trump to bring those seeds back, and part of that is going to be getting America out of debt. You have a hard time prospering if you are in debt.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Mark Taylor, author of the popular book “The Trump Prophecies.” (There is much, much more in this nearly hour long interview.] After the Interview: Mark Taylor says, “Right now, God wants to stress unity, unity and unity among Christians. All Christians should be thinking with one heart, one mind, in accord and in unity.” To buy a copy of “The Trump Prophecies” in paperback or eBook version click here for Amazon version and click here for Barnes and Nobel. To get Mark’s prophetic writings for free, go to his business website sordrescue.com. (Taylor sells cutting edge rescue equipment.) Click the “Prophetic Words” tab at the top of the page. There is also a free short trailer about Mark Taylor and the Prophecies he says are coming from God the Father. What’s next for Mark Taylor? Taylor tells me that he and “The Trump Prophecies” co-author Mary Colbert “will be on Cornerstone TV on September 11th for a National Day of Repentance, Fasting and Prayer. Mary Colbert will lead off at the 9am slot, and I will be doing the Target focused repentance at 3pm EST.” Mark sends “Blessings” to all.
https://usawatchdog.com/globalism-vs-patriotism-evil-vs-good-mark-taylor/
Scribe note: This prophecy is posted as a news item and is not coming from the prophecy at RMMI
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Fire and ice: Mapping the magma flow to Antarctica's most active volcano
By EMILIE RICHARDSON & JEFF COSTELLO Nov 8, 2017, 11:39 AM ET
On a quest to map the magma source of Mount Erebus in Antarctica, one of the most remote and highly active volcanoes in the world, scientists needed the expertise of mountaineer Danny Uhlmann. From altitude sickness to dealing with potentially deadly crevasses while traversing the glacier, Uhlmann was responsible for the team's safety during the expedition. A crevasse is a deadly trap for unprepared climbers; frequently camouflaged in snow, the opening in glacial ice can be hundreds of feet wide and well over 100 feet deep. Under Uhlmann's guidance, the team wore climbing harnesses on the glacier and were trained to execute crevasse rescues using specialized rope techniques involving clamps and pulleys. Additionally, Uhlmann assessed the safety of the terrain for landing a helicopter at numerous measurement locations. Magma is molten rock below the earth's surface. When it erupts from a volcano or a fissure in the ground it's called lava. The project of creating a 3D map, like a CAT scan of the Earth, to trace the source of the magma flowing out of Mount Erebus was led by principle investigators Dr. Phil Wannamaker and Dr. Graham Hill. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation grant and Royal Society of New Zealand. This was Dr. Wannamaker's seventh trip to Antarctica and Dr. Hill's fifth. Dr. Wannamaker told ABC News, "All trips have included a mountaineer/field safety trainer. The Erebus trip was unique in the elevation range we worked over, from sea level to 12,400' -- the number of field seasons and general exposure to weather and crevasse hazard." The scientists selected this particular volcano for several reasons; the first was that it is the world's best example of a phonolitic volcano, which formed in the early stages of the Earth rifting apart. It is also one of the most active volcanoes in the world, with a persistent lake of lava at the summit. Its close proximity to the McMurdo Station, a U.S. research center, and New Zealand's Scott Base benefited the scientists. The team gathered data from over 120 sites using a specialized geophysics technique, magnetotellurics, which will "see" more than 50 miles down into the Earth's upper mantle. In other projects, this type of geophysics research has allowed scientists to peer hundreds of miles into the Earth, "creating a new understanding of the basic processes that are functioning all the time beneath our feet, going back billions of years, and to be continued for billions more,” according to Uhlmann. Dr. Wannamaker told ABC News in an email, "Projects go smoothly and are a delight if all personnel – scientists, engineers, field safety, students, base support staff – recognize each other as peers and that the science is the primary goal." Uhlmann, who also works as a photographer, explained why he was interested in the research project. "This is something that needs to be seen. These scientists are not the type of people that put themselves in the spotlight and these places they travel to are very rare to see," he said.
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NASA Discovers Mantle Plume Almost as Hot as Yellowstone Supervolcano That's Melting Antarctica From Below
By Hannah Osborne On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 - 08:30
A mantle plume producing almost as much heat as Yellowstone supervolcano appears to be melting part of West Antarctica from beneath. Researchers at NASA have discovered a huge upwelling of hot rock under Marie Byrd Land, which lies between the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea, is creating vast lakes and rivers under the ice sheet. The presence of a huge mantle plume could explain why the region is so unstable today, and why it collapsed so quickly at the end of the last Ice Age, 11,000 years ago. Mantle plumes are thought to be part of the plumbing systems that brings hot material up from Earth’s interior. Once it gets through the mantle, it spreads out under the crust, providing magma for volcanic eruptions. The area above a plume is known as a hotspot. For 30 years, scientists have suggested that a mantle plume may exist under Marie Byrd Land. Its presence would explain the regional volcanic activity seen in the area, as well as a dome feature that exists there. However, there was no evidence to support this idea. Now, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created advanced numerical models to show how much heat would need to exist beneath the ice to account for their observations—including the dome and the giant subsurface rivers and lakes we know are present on Antarctica’s bedrock. As lakes fill and drain, the ice thousands of feet above rises and falls, sometimes by as much as 20 feet. Study author Hélène Seroussi, from JPL, said when she first heard that a mantle plume might be heating Marie Byrd Land she thought the idea was “crazy.” "I didn't see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it,” she said in a statement. However, in a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Seroussi and colleagues looked at one of the most well studied magma plumes on Earth—the Yellowstone hotspot. The team developed a mantle plume model to look at how much geothermal heat would be needed to explain what is seen at Marie Byrd Land. They then used the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM), which shows the physics of ice sheets, to look at the natural sources of heating and heat transport. This model enabled researchers to place “powerful constraint” on how much melt rate was allowable, meaning they could test out different scenarios of how much heat was being produced deep beneath the ice. Their findings showed that generally, the energy being generated by the mantle plume is no more than 150 milliwatts per square meter—any more would result in too much melting. The heat generated under Yellowstone National Park, on average, is 200 milliwatts per square meter. Scientists also found one area where the heat flow must be at least 150-180 milliwatts per square meter—but data suggests mantle heat at this location comes from a rift—a fracture in the Earth’s crust where heat can rise up. Concluding, the team say the Marie Byrd Land mantle plume formed 50-110 million years ago—long before the land above was hidden by ice. Heat from it, they say, has an “important local impact” on the ice sheet—and understanding these processes will allow researchers to work out what will happen to it in the future.
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Mideast Powder Keg
By Hal Lindsey
The Middle East has long been a powder keg, and right now that powder keg is inhabited by people with flaming torches. In the last week, hostility in the region reached new levels. But this time the rage is not against Israel. It is Muslim versus Muslim; Sunni versus Shiite. The possibility of war between them, casts a pall over the entire planet. Sunni and Shiite Muslims have been at each other’s throats since Muhammad died in the year 632 AD. 85 to 90% of the world’s Muslims are Sunni. By that you would think Shiites are a marginal minority. But radical Shiites run Iran, a nation that has grown significantly more powerful since the nuclear deal it concluded with the United States and five other world powers last summer. One rarely discussed side-effect of the Iran nuclear deal has been an exacerbation of the volatile relationship between Sunnis and Shiites. After the agreement, both factions ratcheted up the belligerence. Sunni-led Saudi Arabia did everything it could to crash world oil prices just as Iran prepared to re-enter the global market again after years of sanctions. Saudis and Iranians have been fighting through proxies in several countries, including Syria, and have fought directly in Yemen. Tensions rose to a whole new level late last week when Saudi Arabia executed Nimr Baqr al-Nimr a Shiite cleric, along with 47 other prisoners. After Iranian protesters attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with Iran. The Saudis also suspended airline flights between the two nations. The conflict then spilled over to other countries. Bahrain severed diplomatic ties with Iran. The United Arab Emirates recalled its ambassador. Hostilities spread to Africa where Sudan recalled its ambassador to Iran, and expelled the Iranian ambassador. Russia and China, both of whom are allies of Iran, have entered the fray offering their services as peacemakers. There’s no clear cut “good guy” in this fight. Iran seems willing to blow the world into chaos believing it will bring back their Muslim messiah, the “Mahdi.” They promise to wipe Israel from the earth. They fund terrorism. They have a history of providing a safe haven for terrorists. They love to shout “Death to America.” And, yes, they are still developing nuclear weapons, and the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICMBs) to carry them. On the other side, Saudi Arabia’s whole existence is based on a movement within Sunni Islam called “Wahhabism.” It was named after an eighteenth century Sunni preacher named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. He preached a severe, fundamentalist form of Islam, urging practitioners of the religion to get back to its basic tenets. In 1744, al-Wahhab converted Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the Saud dynasty and the first Saudi State. The Sauds were later defeated by the Ottomans, but the Saud dynasty did not go away, and remained a power in the region. Modern Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932. Wahhabism remains the basis of the laws and governing philosophy of the nation. That’s why Saudi punishments include beheading, stoning, amputation and lashing, often in public. It is a place where rape victims can be treated worse than their attackers. In one case, seven men gang-raped a teenage girl. But since she did not have a chaperone with her at the time, the court also punished her. She actually received more lashes than one of her rapists. You’ve heard that women can’t legally drive cars in Saudi Arabia, but it also goes against the code for them to try on clothes when shopping, enter a cemetery, buy a Barbie, go swimming, or interact with men who are not relatives. Their faces don’t have to be covered, but they are not allowed to wear clothes or make-up that might “show off their beauty.” And, as mentioned above, Saudi Arabian women cannot go outside the home without a chaperone, called a “mahram.” Despite all this, the United States used to have a good relationship with the Saudi Kingdom. At one time, the U.S. probably could have talked Riyadh out of executing the Shiite cleric. But the Iran nuclear deal changed that. Saudi Arabia no longer trusts the United States. It feels that the U.S. has thrown in its lot with Shiites. With the Iran deal, the United States alienated much of the Sunni Muslim world, and Sunnis make up at least 85% of the world’s Islamic population. You might expect that by giving Iran pretty much everything it wanted in the nuclear deal, America would have at least turned the Shiites into friends. But Shiites respect strength. When we gave away everything in negotiations, it only increased their disdain. In the Middle East, no one is sure whose side the U.S. stands. In the nuclear deal, the United States stands with Iran against Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni Muslim nations. In Yemen, the U.S. stands with Saudi Arabia against Iran and the other Shiite nations. In Iraq, the U.S. seems to stand with the Shiite government against the Kurds and Sunnis. In Syria, the U.S. stands against President Bashar al-Assad and his allies, the Iranians. The U.S. is also against Sunni terror groups, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. America claims to be on the side of Syria’s “moderate rebels,” but can’t seem to find any. The list could go on and on. The U.S. is both for and against practically every one of the many factions in the Middle East. This foreign policy chaos has left everyone confused, and no one trusting the United States. Though still active in the region, the U.S. has squandered away its friendships, influence, and standing. That opened the door for the Russians. They have seized the opportunity to fill the void where the U.S. once stood. In doing so, Vladimir Putin has neatly positioned Russia to fulfill the role prophesied for it in the Bible 2500 years ago. Pray that we will out last President Obama’s Presidency. If we get another left wing President, we are finished.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-9-2016/
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First DREAMer deported under Trump arrested again for trying to enter U.S.
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 9:41 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2017 | Updated 5:29 a.m. ET Nov. 9, 2017
The first known DREAMer to allege he was improperly deported by U.S. Border Patrol agents was arrested for trying to illegally re-enter the country for the second time this year, authorities said Wednesday. Juan Manuel Montes, 23, was caught late Monday after he was spotted on the U.S. side of the border by agents monitoring video feeds near Calexico, Calif., where he had lived for most of his life, according to a Border Patrol statement. Montes ran for about 200 yards, dropped to the ground, tried to flee again as Border Patrol agents approached him, but was quickly caught and arrested. He was booked into the Imperial County Jail and is facing a federal felony charge that could result in up to two years in prison. Montes has claimed he was deported by Border Patrol agents in February despite having deportation protections through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. That would have made him the first known DACA enrollee deported under the Trump administration. More: First DREAMer who says Trump border agents wrongly deported him drops lawsuit More: First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump Border Patrol has refuted his claim, arguing that it has no record of deporting Montes that February night. The government says Montes must have left the country voluntarily without getting approval, which would have immediately terminated his DACA status. Play Video A group of lawyers sued the Trump administration to win his return to the U.S., and a federal judge in San Diego was preparing to hold a trial in December to figure out exactly what happened. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel was also willing to let Montes back into the country so he could testify on his own behalf. But in October, Montes informed his lawyers that he wanted to drop the case. He had been living with relatives in his native Mexico for eight months, and provided no explanation for ending his lawsuit. His lawyers have said Montes suffers from a cognitive disability due to an undisclosed incident that happened in his childhood. Montes was protected under the 5-year-old program created by President Obama to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors, a group known as DREAMers. The program has shielded nearly 800,000 people from deportation and granted them work permits. Their status is now in limbo after President Trump announced in September that he would end the program. Trump gave Congress six months to pass a bill to protect DREAMers, but hinted that he might extend their DACA protections if Congress fails to find a solution. It's unclear whether any of that would matter for Montes. He first tried to re-enter the U.S. in February, shortly after the night where he says he was deported and Border Patrol says he left on his own. He was caught by Border Patrol agents after he scaled the border wall, and was quickly deported. Monday's arrest would mark the second time he tried to re-enter the country. Under federal law, illegally re-entering the U.S. after being deported is a felony offense punishable by a fine and up to two years in prison, according to the Department of Justice. "Border Patrol Agents will always stop, detain, and arrest anyone making an illegal entry into the country irrespective of their immigration or citizenship status," Assistant Chief Patrol Agent David Kim said. Montes' lawyers did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.
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California NAACP calls for removing ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 8, 2017
The NAACP’s California chapter is calling on Congress to remove “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the country’s official anthem, deeming it “racist.” Resolutions passed at the NAACP state convention in October urge Congress to rescind the status “The Star-Spangled Banner” holds as the U.S. national anthem and pledge support for former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose protests have swept the NFL, according to reports. The organization’s president, Alice Huffman, said the Francis Scott Key song is “racist” and “anti-black,” referring to the infrequently-sung third stanza that reads, “Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution / No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” Ms. Huffman said Congress, which adopted “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem in 1931, should replace the anthem with a song that doesn’t alienate a large chunk of the American population, The Sacramento Bee reported. “We’re not trying to protest the flag at all,” Ms. Huffman said. “We’re protesting this racist song that has caused so much controversy in America, and we’re just trying to get it removed. So, whatever comes out in the future as a national anthem, we can all stand proudly and sing it.” The California NAACP will ask state lawmakers for support of the campaign in January. LOAD COMMENTS (43) Click to Read More
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Attacks on prayer prove that the media still don't get religion
by Emily Jashinsky | Nov 6, 2017, 6:57 PM
If you're a proponent of strict gun control, which I am not, anger over political inaction after mass shootings is entirely understandable. More and more, however, that understandable anger has lead many on the Left to lash out at the victims in this shooting and others who put stock in prayer, or who console the families of victims by offering their prayers. Given that the shooting in Texas on Sunday took place in a church, anger over calls to prayer appeared to escalate, with some in the media pointing to the location of the crime as proof that prayer is useless under such circumstances. The argument, of course, is that Republicans look dumbly to empty religious gestures in the face of tragedy, all while resisting legislative solutions, neglecting to act and pocketing NRA cash as a reward. For a number of reasons, I think that critique is grossly misguided. I've outlined my thoughts on that here. But as we approach the anniversary of President Trump's victory, these anti-prayer sentiments reminded me of something else. As the media autopsied its coverage of the 2016 election, one of the industry's most powerful actors made an important concession. Roughly a month after Trump stunned the press and upset Hillary Clinton, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet told NPR: "I think that the New York-based and Washington-based too probably, media powerhouses don't quite get religion." "We have a fabulous religion writer, but she's all alone," he continued. "We don't get religion. We don't get the role of religion in people's lives. And I think we can do much, much better. And I think there are things that we can be more creative about to understand the country." Fast forward one year later and left-leaning members of the media are denigrating the value of prayer, actively attacking Christian politicians for leaning on it in a time of tragedy. In complete fairness to Baquet, I haven't seen anyone from the Times partake in the anti-prayer pile-on. But plenty of journalists, commentators, and other Blue Checkmarks have. I'm including a sampling of those below. etc.
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Listen carefully, ponder the words that I say unto you, for many things are going to take place now and you need to be prepared for those things. Beware of the announcement of the ship that comes from Japan with a bomb. Beware of the bookend effect on both west coast and east coast that will cause a gigantic earthquake that will affect the center, the center of the states. Purchase a natural gas or a propane gas generator a hundred watts or larger that can be wired in that you may have your water supply.
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etc.. Learn about the silent bomb, study it, study the national grid, understand the things that I am saying to you because this shall not just be a day or a two-day or a three-day thing. Make sure you can take care of yourself for at least three months, at least three months. etc..
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'Obama holdovers' exposing U.S. to possible EMP attack
'These people are undermining and opposing' Trump's policies
Alicia Powe
WASHINGTON – There’s no question that the United States is vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse attack that could result in mass starvation and the death of about 90 percent of the American population, a nuclear strategist warns. But the deep state – those entrenched bureaucrats whose loyalties likely lay with a previous administration, under which they got their jobs – is indifferent. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a nuclear strategist formerly with the CIA who served as chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission until it was terminated in September (the same month North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb, which it described as capable of a super powerful EMP attack), said liberal Democrats still are running a lot of Washington even after President Trump’s election. “The people who sabotaged the EMP Commission, Obama holdovers, are still at the Department of Defense. They have not been replaced by the Trump administration. This is happening not just with the vitally important EMP Commission,” he said. “Our society, the Trump administration and the people who voted for Trump are paying for the failure of Congress to support Trump appointees quickly. “At the same time during the Obama administration, he had twice as many appointees appointed to positions in government than Trump has. It’s not President Trump’s fault – these people are undermining and opposing the policies that President Trump has enacted, including the case of the EMP Commission. ”Obama administration bureaucrats, who believed Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election, did everything they could to sabotage and undermine the commission, Pry said. “They held back money for a whole year. They held back security clearances. They tried to stop the commission’s staff from working, arguing that ‘you need a contract in order to work for the EMP Commission.’ They wouldn’t even let me work, or other staff, pro-bono. We did anyway. Get the real story about EMP in the groundbreaking “A Nation Forsaken” by F. Michael Maloof, as well as “Lights On” by Jeffrey Yago, from the WND Superstore. “Had Hillary won, we would never have received any of our funding or security clearances. It was all after she clearly lost and Congress intervened that they relented at the last minute. A commission that was supposed to have been able to work 18 months at EMP ended up with resources and support from the Department of Defense that enabled us to put in six months of work. That’s no way to provide for the national security of the country against an existential threat like EMP.” WND reported only last month that a congressional subcommittee on homeland security heard the bad news from experts who have been studying America’s vulnerability to an existential threat – a real-life “doomsday scenario.” The threat of a North Korean nuclear attack on the U.S. is almost unimaginably worse than turning a city like Chicago or Denver into ashes, they testified. If just one of the nuclear weapons North Korea is now known to possess could be directed toward the heartland of the U.S. and detonated in the upper atmosphere, it could fry the electrical grid with an electromagnetic pulse, paralyze communications and transportation nationwide, instantly plunge the country back into a 19th century-style existence and cause 90 percent of Americans to starve to death in one year. That full report has been posted online. Nukes at altitude An EMP attack likely would come from the explosion of a nuclear bomb at altitude over the United States. It’s shockwaves would disrupt all electronics in line of sight, including systems that deliver food, fuel, energy and communications to Americans. The result would be a run on food currently in stores, and starvation when those supplies failed, as replacements would be impossible without those delivery systems. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly assured on Fox News Tuesday night that Trump appointees will be confirmed, eventually, over Democratic opposition. “The names have been put forward in most cases,” Kelly told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “The president was making this case last week when he had lunch with the Republican caucus on the Senate side. If you compare where this administration is, relative to the Obama administration, we are way, way behind, maybe half the number of those confirmed. And even under the last Bush administration – we are way behind. The Senate Democratic leadership has been very, very effective in slowing things down to a snail’s pace.” Kelly also addressed the possibility of North Korea using a bomb to explode an EMP over the mainland of the United States. “The great hope we all have and they are already doing this, is that the Chinese [will] exert their pressure –[North Korea] is already observing the sanctions,” he said “We all hope, and the president hopes, that the leadership as it is in North Korea will come to their senses. With the help of countries like China, decide to denuclearize, give up their atomic weapons. “They already have the capability to at least reach with missiles the great American citizens that live in Guam.” Even Defense Secretary Jim Mattis refused to meet with the EMP Commission, Pry explained. “We couldn’t get Secretary Mattis. Our chairman wrote to Secretary Mattis and told him what was going on. We didn’t even get a reply from him,” he said. “One can argue that the secretary of defense is busy with other things – he’s the secretary, ultimately the buck stops with him as secretary of defense and everything that happens with DOD. I cannot comprehend that not only did he not save the EMP Commission, we offered to brief Mattis and we never even heard from him. “We would have told Mattis, we think North Korea has intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) that can reach the United States. We think they probably have mastered the miniaturization problems and can fit a warhead on those ICBMs. “They might even be postured to do an EMP attack right now as we speak,” he continued. “Several times a day, North Korean satellites pass over the United States, on a trajectory evad[ing] U.S. national missile defenses, at an altitude that would put in the EMP field. It’s an intolerable threat.” The possibility of an EMP catastrophe makes it so that the enemies of the U.S. – North Korea, Russia and Iran – no longer need sophisticated nuclear weapons. New plan: Combined Armed Cyber Warfare They have a new plan. “It’s centered around EMP, but it’s not just EMP. We call it Combined Armed Cyber Warfare. It uses a combination of cyber-attacks, physical sabotage, non-nuclear EMP weapons and, ultimately, the most powerful cyber-weapon doctrine is an EMP attack,” he said. “All of these, in combination to attack not just our military but maybe our electric grid so that everything gets blacked out, would enable a failed state like North Korea or Iran for the first time in history to defeat the most advanced civilization on Earth.” He explained: “This is like before World War II. Einstein figured out from physics experiments that were being conducted in Nazi Germany that the Nazis were working on the atomic bomb. The Western democracies weren’t even aware of the possibility of this technology. They were completely blind to it. Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, warning him about it, asking for a meeting. It was from that we got the Manhattan Project and the race for the bomb between Germany and the United States, which fortunately we won. “EMP is a decisive weapon in our information, electronic age – even more decisive than the atomic bomb was in its time. The Albert Einstein of EMP, Dr. William Graham, who was present during the discovery of the EMP phenomenon 1962, recently tried to get the secretary of defense to not only save the EMP Commission, but to hear him out on the threat from EMP and couldn’t get a meeting. This would be the equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt not taking the meeting, or reading the letter, from Albert Einstein, or just trash-canning the letter and not thinking about it. That’s how potentially disastrous this bomb is.” Liberal Democrats don’t want to gear up for a fight over EMP because it conflicts with their worldview that the American military should be weakened, Pry said. “Their solution is a world without nuclear weapons – that everyone should be giving up nuclear weapons, not just North Korea – the U.S. should lead by example and give up our nuclear weapons. That was a major Obama administration point of view – it’s the ideological objective of the American left and the Democratic Party. They believe nuclear weapons don’t really have a military utility. But EMP doesn’t fit into that picture,” he said. “If all you can do is blow up a city, blow up a base, it’s not so urgent to have a good verification regime to find out for a fact that Iran doesn’t have the bomb. The United States has hundreds of nuclear weapons, and we could turn Iran into a plate of glass.” Establishment Republicans, who “are in bed with the electric power industry,” are also responsible for the termination of the EMP Commission and obscuring the threat of EMP, Pry argued. Democrats ‘not the only guilty ones’ “Liberal Democrats are not the only guilty ones. The North America Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is supposed to be concerned with security and partner with the U.S. Federal Regulatory Commission to provide security for the electric grid. But the reality is that it’s a big lobby and a very well-financed lobby. They own half of K street. They have whole electric grid institutes – so-called think tanks. They have the veneer of scientific and technical expertise, but what they’re really about is lobbying so that Congress doesn’t force them to spend money on anything, so that Congress doesn’t give to federal department and agencies regulatory authority over the electric power industry,” he said. “The 3,000 electric utilities in this country are the last critical infrastructure that regulates themselves. They still exist in the 19th-century regulatory environment, and they are very happy with that. Measures to prevent EMP threatens all of that – it would require that someone who knows about EMP, the DOD or Department of Homeland Security, to say: ‘You have to admit you need to be hardened. You don’t know how to do it, so we are going to help you, maybe we’ll even help you pay for it, but we need to expect and make sure it’s done and we are going to make sure it’s done right.’ They don’t want that,” he said. “So, you’ve got very well-funded people on the right who are against the EMP commission – I think of them as the establishment, the chamber of commerce Republicans.” American leftists are erroneously underestimating the ability of rogue regimes like North Korea and Iran to wipe out American civilization, Pry said. “Their point of view is valid as long as you don’t know about EMP. You enter EMP into the equation, now you can successfully end a civilization with one bomb and it doesn’t have to be an advanced or sophisticated one – you could use a meteorological balloon and launch it off a freighter at sea.” Pry detailed how an EMP attack would be more devastating than an asteroid hitting. “We have a population of 320 million Americans today – we are only able to sustain that population because of our technology. Our modern technological economy and all of our critical infrastructure that support that economy is keeping 320 million Americans alive,” he explained. “Communication, transportation, business and finance, our industrial capability, even food and water depend on electricity. When you subtract electricity, when you cause a nationwide blackout, blackout the electric grid and all the life-sustaining critical infrastructures, how can you now support 320 million people? How many people can you support?” Pry said many downplay the threat of an EMP attack by claiming the conditions resulting from the attack would be similar to “time traveling” to a time when people were less dependent on electricity. But in reality, he warned, the “aftermath of an EMP would be an unprecedented environmental catastrophe.” Time traveling “When people talk about the consequences of an EMP, people sometimes describe it as putting Americans into a time machine and delivering them back to the 19th century,” he said. “It’s not true, it’s even worse. The plants and facilities for purifying water would back up during a blackout. Rivers and lakes become polluted – they are already polluted. In the 19th century, most people had bacteria in their gut so that they could drink safely from streams and rivers. There were streams and rivers that were not so polluted. Today, you take your life in your hands if you have to go drink out of a river or a lake. When water purification plants get blacked out, human wastes and industrial waste back-flow and bodies of waters become even more polluted. “We don’t have the 19th-century critical infrastructures to fall back on,” he continued. “We don’t have thousands of coal-fired locomotives. Seventy five percent of our population today does not work on farms or even know anything about farming, less than two percent of our population feeds the other 98 percent. You don’t have well water. Almost every house had well water in the 19th century. We don’t have that complex localized economy.” A burnout of electronics across the nation also would have other effects. “Gasline pipes are going to blow up – you’ll have firestorms in cities from exploding gas pipelines. Chemical spills, toxic clouds industrial accidents, where fires break out because of the failure of safety patrol systems,” he said. “This huge chemistry set that is our society isn’t just going to sit there and black out; in many cases, it’s going to detonate and basically turn into bombs. In seven days, the nuclear reactors will go Fukushima and spread radio-activity everywhere.” The government’s rebuild plan also is inadequate. “[The EMP Commission] tried to come up with ways on how we would sustain the population. Bottom line – we couldn’t come up with any way to keep 320 million Americans alive with no food and water for a year. We are experiencing this in Puerto Rico right now; their electrical grid is out,” he said. “FEMA, the DOD and Homeland Security – all of our collective power is focused on Puerto Rico. We are going to save them from starvation. Hopefully no pandemic will break out, so there won’t be any disease.” But he said that’s just a small island. Pryer worked 10 years for the CIA as the senior expert on nuclear strategy and weapons, including EMP, and as an EMP expert for the House Armed Services Committee. He helped establish the EMP Commission in 2000 and served as the chief of staff for the commission for 17 years until it was terminated, during which time he had access to classified and unclassified doctrine and to military documents. Get the real story about EMP in the groundbreaking “A Nation Forsaken” by F. Michael Maloof, as well as “Lights On” by Jeffrey Yago, from the WND Superstore.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/obama-holdovers-exposing-u-s-to-possible-emp-attack/#MdL7aQdpFrZCe7t7.99
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Enhanced volcanic activity at Fuego (Guatemala), Popocatepetl (Mexico), Ambae (Vanuatu) – earthquakes reported at Redoubt (Alaska) and Fournaise (Reunion) volcanoes
By Strange Sounds - Nov 6, 2017
The volcanic unrest continues around the world. Enhanced volcanic activity at Fuego (Guatemala), Popocatepetl (Mexico), Ambae (Vanuatu) on November 4-5, 2017. The 11th eruptive phase of the year has begun at Fuego volcano in Guatemala with 6 to 8 explosions per hour, and generating ash plumes rising to 4,500-4,800 m asl. Lava ejection reaches 100 meter over the crater and feeds two lava flows in the Seca / Santa Teresa and Ceniza barrancas – 1,200 and 700 meters long respectively. Small avalanches are observed up to the vegetation limit. Turbine degassing noises ring every 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the Popocatépetl volcano exploded 4 times on Nov. 4th at 1:45, 6:08, 14:40 and 23:21. Ash falls are reported on Yecapixtla and Zacualpan de Amilpas. On Nov. 5th, an strombolian explosion occurred at 4:11, and was accompanied by ash falls on Telela del Volcan. Loud noises from incandescent explosions were seen and heard from the neighboring islands. A M2.5 earthquake was recorded by the seismometers of the Volcanological Observatory of Piton de la Fournaise and was felt by residents of Reunion Island on November 4, 2017. There is considerable uncertainty about its location. The earthquake is of tectonic origin, but still could announce another imminent eruption of La Fournaise volcano? Finally, a M5.1 earthquake hit 25km southwest of Redoubt volcano in Alaska. The volcanic and seismic unrest continue around the Ring of Fire!
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etc.. For it is a very dark hour as you have seen and that hour shall grow darker and darker and darker, for the evil spirits possessing people shall manifest themselves, and as they manifest themselves, you shall see death, you shall see killings, you shall see blood flowing, you shall see many things, many things. Think it not strange, but it is that hour and it is that time and no one seems to be binding up those spirits, nobody seems to be casting them out, nobody understands them. For the world tells you that you are bipolar, no you are demon possessed, saith your Father God. etc..
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Psychiatrist Claims: The Cause Of Mental Illness Is Demonic Possession
A psychiatrist, practicing out of his nationally recognized New York office, has recently come forth with startling new information on the status of mental illnesses and where it all stands. Richard Gallagher, a certified psychiatrist, who also works as an adjunct professor in the Department of Clinical Psychiatry at the New York Medical College, says that mental illness stems from demonic possession. Psychiatrist Breaks his Silence on Mental Illness READ MORE: This is a first in the world of psychiatry, not to be confused with the practice of psychology, as most medical practitioners who speak of anything deemed a fringe topic by the mainstream, automatically jeopardize both their careers and practice. Gallagher has personally encountered many patients, who he believes are, are controlled by demonic possessions. Even recently, the Washington Post reported an interview where the anonymous person claimed that he/she was seduced in the 1980’s by a satanic priestess. Dr. Gallagher sees many cases like this all the time. While completing his doctorate studies at Columbia, a Catholic priest asked Gallagher whether or not one of his parishioners was suffering from a mental illness. Gallagher sat down with the individual and now tells of the event and the patient's abilities to see into people. Could demonic possession the cause for mental illness? The patient talked at length about how the people who she never knew died. She could also tell things about a person and bring out their untold secrets. She performed various exorcisms on six people, all of whom reported that she began to speak languages which READ MORE: she had never learned before. Gallagher, after taking all this information into account, determined that the woman was possessed. Dr. Gallagher understands the various ways which his practice can be misconstrued as being something else. He also understands what other psychiatrists in his field think of his work. Superstitions and cases of demonic possession can be pointed out and confirmed as being fraud, but in Dr. Richard Gallagher’s career, the only patients who he has considered to be possessed, have been able to accomplish the most inhuman feats. 10 Bizarre Cases of Demonic Possession READ MORE: http://www.disclose.tv/news/psychiatrist_claims_the_cause_of_mental_illness_is_demonic_possession/138224http://www.disclose.tv/news/psychiatrist_claims_the_cause_of_mental_illness_
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‘Fat Leonard’ probe expands to ensnare more than 60 admirals
By Craig Whitlock November 5
Maritime tycoon Leonard Glenn Francis was a VIP guest at Navy change-of-command ceremonies even though he was under criminal investigation. Clockwise from top left: Francis with Adm. Patrick Walsh at the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii in January 2012; Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Francis at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, in September 2011; Francis with Vice Adm. Michael Miller at the same event; and Francis with Adm. Gary Roughead, also in Annapolis. (Photos obtained by The Washington Post) The “Fat Leonard” corruption investigation has expanded to include more than 60 admirals and hundreds of other U.S. Navy officers under scrutiny for their contacts with a defense contractor in Asia who systematically bribed sailors with sex, liquor and other temptations, according to the Navy. Most of the admirals are suspected of attending extravagant feasts at Asia’s best restaurants paid for by Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based maritime tycoon who made an illicit fortune supplying Navy vessels in ports from Vladivostok, Russia to Brisbane, Australia. Francis also was renowned for hosting alcohol-soaked, after-dinner parties, which often featured imported prostitutes and sometimes lasted for days, according to federal court records. The 350-pound Francis, also known in Navy circles as “Leonard the Legend” for his wild-side lifestyle, spent decades cultivating relationships with officers, many of whom developed a blind spot to his fraudulent ways. Even while he and his firm were being targeted by Navy criminal investigators, he received VIP invitations to ceremonies in Annapolis and Pearl Harbor, where he hobnobbed with four-star admirals, according to photographs obtained by The Washington Post. The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against 28 people, including two admirals, since Francis was arrested in an international sting operation four years ago. Those cases comprise the worst corruption scandal in Navy history, but they represent a fraction of a much larger list of Navy officials under investigation but whose names have been mostly kept secret. In response to queries from The Post, the Navy recently confirmed that it has been reviewing the conduct of 440 other active-duty and retired personnel — including 60 current and former admirals — for possible violations of military law or federal ethics rules in their dealings with Francis and his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia. That is double the number of admirals whom Navy officials said were under investigation last year (The Navy has about 210 admirals on active duty). The caseload has grown as the Justice Department has given the Navy additional dossiers of individuals who did not meet the threshold for prosecution in civilian courts, but may have committed offenses under the military justice system, officials said. The Navy’s handling of the cases has been largely opaque to the public. The Navy has identified only 10 of the 440 individuals who have come under military investigation and has divulged few details about their ties to Francis, even in cases that have been closed. The vast majority of those under scrutiny are officers, according to the Navy. Officials said Francis targeted only a few enlisted sailors with his bribes. Navy officials said revealing additional names or more information about their involvement could violate their privacy rights and compromise ongoing cases. “The release of such information . . . would likely reveal sensitive details about the breadth and scope of the criminal investigation and pending cases,” Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a Navy spokesman, said in a statement. So far, the Navy has charged five people with crimes — none of them admirals — under military law, charging documents show. In addition, the Navy said it has determined that 40 people committed misconduct by violating ethics rules or other regulations. Their cases have been handled administratively, meaning they did not involve criminal charges. In many instances, the Navy was prevented from taking tougher action because the statute of limitations under military law — five years for most felonies — had expired. The oldest matter reviewed so far dated to 1992, while most occurred between 2004 and 2010, according to a Navy official. The official said the Navy has concluded that about half of those under review — 230 people — were not guilty of misconduct. Some were found to have had little or no contact with Francis. Many others attended dinners or accepted gifts, but the Navy determined that there were extenuating circumstances that excused their actions, said the official, who was authorized to speak only under the condition of anonymity. Francis, 53, is in jail in San Diego as he awaits sentencing in federal court. He pleaded guilty in 2015 to bribing “scores” of Navy officials and defrauding the service of more than $35 million. One of his attorneys, Ethan Posner, declined to comment for this article. Francis’s widespread overbilling of the Navy had been an open secret for years. In response to a flood of fraud complaints dating to 2006, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) opened more than two-dozen separate investigations into Glenn Defense, according to law-enforcement records. Most of the cases went nowhere, NCIS files show. Starting in 2009, however, NCIS escalated its efforts by assigning more agents to investigate Francis. They later opened a full-blown corruption inquiry on suspicion that some Navy officials were feeding him military secrets and inside information about defense contracts. ‘Keep up the great work’ Despite being under the microscope, Francis was still able to rub shoulders with many of the Navy’s top leaders. In September 2011, for example, he was invited to the Naval Academy in Annapolis to attend a change-of-command ceremony for the Navy’s highest-ranking officer. During his visit, Francis posed for grip-and-grin photos with Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the new chief of naval operations, and the man he was replacing, Adm. Gary Roughead. Roughead and Greenert both had encountered Francis during prior assignments in Asia and the Pacific. A Navy spokesman would not say whether they are among the 60 admirals under investigation; the names of most officers on the list have not been made public. Roughead, who retired soon after the 2011 ceremony, said in an email that he couldn’t “recall particulars” about who was invited to the event. He declined further comment. In an email, Greenert said he had not been contacted by investigators and did not know how Francis came to be invited to the ceremony. He said he, Roughead and their spouses spent hours in a receiving line and posed for several pictures. Of the two admirals, Greenert’s previous contacts with Francis were more extensive, according to several individuals familiar with their relationship. Greenert met the defense contractor in the late 1990s while serving as chief of staff for the Navy’s 7th Fleet, which covers most of Asia. Their interactions continued after Greenert was promoted to vice admiral and took command of the fleet in 2003. While in command, Greenert attended at least three dinners with Francis, according to two former senior Navy officials. In December 2005, Greenert mailed Francis a holiday greeting card featuring a sketch of the USS Blue Ridge, the 7th Fleet flagship, which the contractor had often visited as a distinguished guest. “Leonard — See you soon I expect. Recognize the ship?” Greenert joked in a handwritten note wishing him “Good health & happiness in 2006.” A copy of the card was obtained by The Post. Three months later, Greenert signed a letter on official stationery thanking Francis for the “superb services” his company provided to the Blue Ridge during several port visits in southeast Asia. “Over the years, the reputation of Glenn Marine remains exceptional,” the letter stated. “Keep up the great work.” Francis treasured such letters, cards and photographs, which he promoted as proof of his close ties with the Navy’s senior leaders. Greenert posed for photographs with Francis on at least two other occasions: aboard the Blue Ridge in 2005 and at a ceremony in Hawaii in 2009, according to copies of the images obtained by The Post. In his email to The Post, Greenert said it was not unusual for commanders to send correspondence to contractors acknowledging their “responsive and flexible” service. He also said he sent hundreds of official Christmas cards during his time as the 7th Fleet commander. He did not respond to questions about dinners he attended with Francis or his other interactions with the contractor. Greenert’s relationship with Francis later became a sensitive issue for NCIS agents. As the law-enforcement probes into Francis and his company heated up in 2013, NCIS officials deliberately kept Greenert, who by then was chief of naval operations, in the dark, according to two former senior Navy officials with direct knowledge of the case. Even after Francis was arrested, NCIS officials excluded Greenert from briefings about the case, restricting their reports to a handful of Navy civilian leaders and Adm. Mark E. Ferguson III, who was then the vice chief of naval operations, according to the former senior officials. King of photo-ops In addition to Roughead and Greenert, Francis secured photo-ops with several other high-ranking admirals during his visit to the Naval Academy in 2011. He also spent time in Annapolis with Vice Adm. Michael Miller, then the academy superintendent, who arranged for a personal tour of his official residence, Buchanan House, according to photographs obtained by The Post. In a statement, Miller confirmed the meeting but said he had “no knowledge” that Francis was under investigation at the time. “Mr. Francis requested a tour of the Naval Academy. We would have supported that request as we do numerous visitors every year,” Miller said. He acknowledged that investigators had asked him about Francis’s visit, saying he was “completely forthcoming on this subject with the Navy.” Miller said he did not invite Francis to the change-of-command ceremony. Two other Navy officials said the invitation probably came from the protocol office for the chief of naval operations, but did not know who put his name on the guest list. The Navy later rebuked Miller with a formal letter of censure for failing to adequately reimburse Francis for lavish dinners and other gifts he received from the contractor years earlier when he commanded an aircraft carrier strike group in Asia. Miller retired from the Navy in 2015. Four months after visiting Annapolis, Francis was a VIP guest at another Navy change-of-command ceremony: at the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On that occasion, Francis posed for photographs with Adm. Cecil Haney, the new Pacific Fleet commander, and his predecessor, Adm. Patrick Walsh, according to copies of those images obtained by The Post. Two former Navy officials who were present told The Post they were shocked to see Francis at the ceremony because the Pacific Fleet had been engaged in a years-long effort to tighten contract loopholes and sloppy billing practices that had enabled Glenn Defense to overcharge the Navy for millions of dollars. They said they were even more surprised to see Francis afterward at a smaller, private party at Nimitz House, the official quarters for the Pacific Fleet commander. In a statement, Haney said he didn’t invite Francis and didn’t know who he was before the ceremony. “Any photo I took with him was most likely during the receiving line where I took numerous photos with so many in attendance that day,” Haney said. He indicated that he had spoken with investigators, saying: “I have been completely forthcoming of this subject with the Navy.” In an interview, Walsh recalled Francis’s presence at Pearl Harbor that day but said he didn’t know who invited him. “Leonard Francis had a way of showing up at all kinds of ceremonies,” said Walsh, who retired from the Navy in 2012. Walsh said he was aware at the time that Francis was under scrutiny by the Pacific Fleet for his billing practices, but did not know that the contractor was also under criminal investigation by NCIS. He said investigators have not questioned him about his contacts with Francis. Walsh said he first met Francis during a port visit in Malaysia in 2004 when he served as the commander of the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike group. He said Francis invited him to one of his famous dinners, but that he didn’t attend. “I had a different set of priorities,” he said.
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
:: 11-6-17 All News Pipeline :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
An Open Warning To Churches All Across America! Think You Know Everything About Sunday's Horrifying Church Shooting In Texas? You Won't Believe What We've Found!
- As Part Of The 'All-Out War Upon Christianity', Left-Wing Groups Suggested Churches Be Targeted!
November 6, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In the screenshot seen above taken from the Facebook page of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, we see a post which was shared nearly two months ago on September 10th with over 150 'likes' called "Mark 2: God - What Is My Agenda?" While its great to see so many 'likes' on such a post, according to the Daily Mail, there were generally only 50 or so people there who attend the church on a weekly basis and with Sutherland, Texas a town of only 643 in 2016 with more than 94% of the population white, a town with only one post office and no traffic lights, we may be looking at the reasons why this particular church was recently targeted. As we see in the names of the people who have 'liked' this post, a HUGE majority of them have Muslim names! In fact, as we see also in the very first two comments below that were made on this post back in September, once again, two Muslims had seemingly selected this particular post, and church, to troll. Just a coincidence? As we learn in this story, as with many other mass shootings in America, the rabbit hole on the Texas shooting likely runs very, very deep. As we remind you, back on April 6th of 2009, Barack Obama said during a press conference that America is not a Christian nation as also heard in the first video below. Though Ben Carson sharply reminded us that Obama wasn't the person who got to make that decision but the American people, as we saw in one policy after another during Obama's term, the long-war upon Christianity was kicked into high gear during Obama's term as outlined in much more detail below. Why have so many people with Muslim names liked that particular Facebook post, with the first two comments on the post from those with obvious Muslim names as well? This should be a huge warning to all churches across America to check their Facebook posts for odd names leaving comments or liking their pages. The comments were made in September! How many more churches might be 'on a list'? We pray God provides His armor to churches across America. As we see in the next screenshot below of comments from the exact same post made after yesterday's shooting, there could be a lot of churches targeted as one person stated that their church's Facebook page had also had strange comments from unknown, foreign sounding names being made. As Diana Wentz states in the first comment, it sure seems like this church was targeted long ago! And as we see in the next screenshot below of a November 3rd tweet from Jack Posobiec, members of a radical left-wing group with ties to antifa recently suggested to their members to target churches. Often believed to be one of the 'ultimate soft targets', how long will it be until Christian churches in America post armed guards at their entryways to prevent terrorist dregs from entering? We also remind you of this September 29th story in which members of antifa warned that violent attacks would be coming with one member specifically stating: "They're not prepared for what we're planning". Were church shootings one such 'planned event'? When responding just a short time ago to a tweet from Barack Obama calling once again for gun control, actor James Woods tweeted "Ask your boss #GeorgeSoros to stop financing #Antifa terrorism?", a tweet already favorited more than 24,000 times! As we also read below, there are more and more indications that the Sutherland Springs church shooting was another part of the luciferian all-out war upon God and Christianity for as we've previously reported, should the luciferian global elite have to 'face the music', they might attempt to use their terrorist proxies to bring the entire thing crashing down before facing justice themselves. And with it looking more and more like the globalists may be preparing to 'sacrifice' Hillary Clinton as Susan Duclos reported in this story, we may be witnessing just the 'tip of the iceberg' with some of those who've recently been arrested in Saudi Arabia being Hillary Clinton 'funders and criminal chronies'. While the Daily Mail confirmed that Kelley was an athiest who former friends called 'creepy, crazy and weird', and of course, 'the left' has renewed their crusade to get guns further regulated or banned, putting even more Americans at risk of being attacked by 'creepy, crazy and weird' outcasts such as Kelley, we see once again it took a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun, proving to us why guns should never be outlawed which would leave ALL Americans at the mercy of such a killer. Might Kelley have been somehow radicalized? As we see in the next screenshot below of Kelley's facebook page before it was taken down, for some reason, he recently shaved his beard. When asked why, he answered "Long story". The final video below takes a look at some of the ties that also suggest Kelley was tied to antifa or may have been a Muslim convert. While we'd love to know that story in full, the puzzle pieces are slowly coming together. In the meantime, look into the cold and seemingly 'reptilian' eyes of a mass murderer? Was he an MKUltra mind-controlled killer, simply another part of the luciferian agenda? Keep in mind, this picture was posted just days ago on October 31st so its very recent. And also of interest was the Mark Twain quote he left as his Facebook page main greeting: "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." While tens of millions of Americans suffered here over the past 8 years of the Obama administration, hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars were spent building and refurbishing mosques all around the world. From the Hillary Clinton/Obama foreign policies in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Malaysia and India, all of whom have large Muslim populations at war with Christians, Muslims were allowed into America in huge numbers while Christians applying for entry here were largely rejected, returned to their own home countries to be slaughtered as the left quite literally attempts to rewrite history seen also in long-standing Confederate monuments being removed. And we shouldn't be surprised for as we read in this story from the Daily Sheeple, according to Steve Bannon, the global elite love cheap labor and the left love cheap votes, a couple of the REAL reasons why the elite and Democratic party have allowed illegal immigration to run rampant within America, putting all Americans at risk. While some in the past have asked ANP, "what do you mean by 'enemies of America within'", we suggest they take a look at the Muslim principal of taqiyya, which allows Muslims to lie, to advance the cause of Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them. We also suggest you look at the large number of Muslims that somehow got jobs within Obama's government at the State Dept, CIA, NSA, and fusion centers across America. And as former CIA agent Clare Lopez warned several years ago, Barack Obama switched sides in the war on terror during his administration. Understand now why we were financing ISIS and why George Soros is investing his money in domestic terrorists here in the US? Are we now witnessing just the latest salvo in the luciferian globalists all out war upon Christianity and 'traditional America' as they seek to bring in a totalitarian global dictatorship? While its still officially up for debate over whether this latest shooting was somehow tied to the 'deep state' and whether or not Kelley could very well be another MKUltra, mind-controlled shooter who has gone 'postal', as we read in this story from American Military News, Kelley would have been a perfect candidate having been court martialed for assault, he was clearly a loose cannon.
http://allnewspipeline.com/All_Out_War_Upon_Christianity.php
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Russia dossier investigators suspect reporters were paid to spread collusion claims
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Sunday, November 5, 2017
The role of reporters is taking on added importance in federal court battles over the infamous Russia dossier that leveled unverified charges of collusion against the Donald Trump campaign. In U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Fusion GPS, the dossier’s financier via the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign money, is fighting a House committee chairman’s bid to find out if the opposition research firm paid journalists. In U.S. District Court in Florida, a self-described dossier victim wants a judge to order the news website BuzzFeed, which published the dossier in full, to disclose who gave it to them. The cases underscore how a Moscow-sourced memorandum created as opposition research against Donald Trump in the presidential campaign last year often dictates the debate about politics and reporters’ rights in Washington. Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, signed a subpoena to force a bank to turn over Fusion’s financial records. He wants to know who paid for the dossier, which was written in a series of 18 memos by former British spy Christopher Steele. He relied almost exclusively on unidentified Kremlin sources. exclusively on unidentified Kremlin sources. Fusion went to federal court to block the move, but the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, whose partner Marc E. Elias is the Clinton’s campaign’s general counsel, intervened. It filed a letter acknowledging it had paid Fusion for the dossier on behalf of Democrats. Fusion and Mr. Nunes then worked out an agreement on access to some of the firm’s financial records.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/5/journalist-pay-questioned-in-russian-dossier-court/
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BREAKING: Putin and Trump to meet in Vietnam
This post was originally published on this site
Breakingnews.sy – – translated by Samer Hussein
DAMASCUS, Syria. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that the Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will soon hold a meeting in Vietnam where they will discuss several important issues, the settlement of the Syrian crisis including. During a press conference on Saturday, Peskov said that arrangements are being made to prepare a meeting between the two leaders, where particular attention will be paid to the settlement of the Syrian crisis. The meeting will take place in scope of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, which will be held between November 10th and 11th in Vietnam. Peskov pointed out to plenty of the topics to be discussed, stressing they are in the interest of both, Kremlin and the White House. He noted that the settlement of the Syrian crisis has recently seen lots of positive developments, adding that the whole thing now requires more joint efforts and coordination between different sides in order to take it to a whole new level so that the crisis itself would be over much sooner.
from: https://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-putin-and-trump-to-meet-in-vietnam/5616754
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China Will Launch Their Highly Classified Reusable Spaceplane in 2020
Look out, SpaceX.
DOM GALEON, FUTURISM 4 NOV 2017
Officials from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC) released a statement on Tuesday saying they'll be ready to launch the next-generation spaceplane by 2020, according to a report by state news service Xinhua. If the statement is any indication, China seems to be have made significant headway on the development of a highly-secretive advance spacecraft. At first glance, it may not seem to be a remarkable feat: reusable space rockets have been making headlines consistently since SpaceX successfully launched a used Falcon 9 earlier this year. The company has been flying missions aboard reusable Falcon 9 rockets to the International Space Station, as well as to ferry satellites from private corporations and even several nations. China's new space plane — note, not space rocket — is expected to be different. CASTC researcher Chen Hongbo said that unlike traditional spacecrafts, this new spacecraft "will fly into the sky like an aircraft," Xinhua reports. This would, then, differentiate it from rockets, hence the name spaceplane. Supposedly, the spaceplane will take off from a runway, then fire its ramjet propulsion once high in the atmosphere. At that point, the plane will shift to rocket motors in order to reach orbital space, according to reports noted by Ars Technica. A game changer? Not much is known about this new spacecraft, which Chen said is meant to transport both crew and cargo into orbital space. The technology behind the space plane would also allow for easy maintenance, Chen added, which China envisions will lower the cost of future launches, while at the same time increasing their frequency. This will significantly improve China's space efforts, which now include plans for both the Moon and Mars. "Currently, China is developing its own reusable earth-to-orbit space vehicles that can take off and land horizontally," Liu Shiquan, China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation vice director, previously said in June, speaking to the press during the Global Space Exploration Conference in Beijing. "We have already finished several crucial ground tests for engines and [other key components], yielding remarkable achievements." China wasn't the first to consider horizontally launched spacecraft; that was the original idea NASA intended for the space shuttle in the 1970s. Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic has SpaceShipTwo and XCOR has the Lynx (although it has been suspended due to lack of funding) but both are designed only for suborbital flight. If China succeeds in 2020, it'll become the first to fly an orbital spacecraft launched from a runway and designed to land back again on one.
http://www.sciencealert.com/china-launch-highly-classified-reusable-spaceplane
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Sen. Rand Paul’s injuries far more severe than initially thought
By Brandon Gee and Ed O'Keefe November 5 at 8:12 PM
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs and bruises to his lungs, and it is unclear when he will return to Washington, aides said Sunday, signaling that injuries he sustained Friday are far more severe than initially thought. The second-term Republican senator from Kentucky and 2016 presidential candidate was attacked, allegedly by a next-door neighbor, Rene Boucher, 59, who was charged with fourth-degree assault. Paul made his first public comments since the incident on Sunday, tweeting that his wife “Kelley and I appreciate the overwhelming support after Friday’s unfortunate event. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.” Doug Stafford, Paul’s chief of staff, said in a statement Sunday that the senator has five rib fractures, including three displaced fractures, meaning the bones are partly or completely cracked. “This type of injury is caused by high velocity severe force. It is not clear exactly how soon he will return to work, as the pain is considerable as is the difficulty in getting around, including flying,” Stafford said. Paul has lung contusions, or bruises, caused by the broken ribs, Stafford said. He could not say whether one lung was bruised or both, but said Paul’s recovery could last several months. Such fractures can cause other significant medical problems, including internal bleeding, damage to other organs or pneumonia. The nature of the dispute between Paul and Boucher remained a mystery Sunday to locals who know both men as medical professionals based in this southwestern Kentucky town. Paul is an ophthalmologist who has practiced in town since moving here with his wife in 1993. He continues to provide free medical care to low-income Kentucky residents on a regular basis throughout the year when the Senate is not in session. Boucher is an anesthesiologist and the inventor of the Therm-a-Vest, a cloth vest partly filled with rice and secured with Velcro straps that is designed to help with back pain. He has worked at several local medical facilities through the years, according to public health records. David Ciochetty, a doctor with Interventional Pain Specialists in Bowling Green, said in an interview Sunday that Boucher worked there as a “general pain medicine physician” for about a year and a half beginning in January 2010 before leaving. Asked whether he knew what might cause Boucher to lash out, Ciochetty said, “The rest of Bowling Green would like to know that, too. I was quite surprised to see this in the news.” Ciochetty said Boucher used to work as an anesthesiologist at the hospital but “told people that he sustained a neck injury and could not continue his anesthesiology duties.” After Boucher left IPS, Ciochetty did not hear of him practicing anywhere else. Paul had full staff privileges at the hospital when Boucher worked there, so Paul and Boucher “must have worked together at some point,” Ciochetty said. Boucher was released Saturday on $7,500 bond, according to county jail records. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 9. A motive is not known, and there is no indication that the attack was political in nature. Jeff Jones, a registered nurse who worked with Boucher at the Bowling Green Medical Center, described Boucher’s politics as “liberal.” “He was active on social media and said some negative things about the Republican agenda,” Jones said. “I think it was unfortunate that they lived so close together,” he added. A Facebook page that appeared to be Boucher’s included links to articles and memes critical of President Trump and a news article about a Montana Republican congressional candidate who attacked a reporter the day before winning his seat. The page said Boucher is a former Army pain-management specialist and graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines in 1984. By late Saturday, the page had been overrun by other Facebook users criticizing Boucher for the alleged assault. On Sunday, the page appeared to be blocked from public view. Jim Bullington, a former member of the city commission, knows both men. He said Sunday that Boucher is divorced and lives alone. Bullington described Boucher as a socialist. “He’s pretty much the opposite of Rand Paul in every way,” Bullington said in an interview. The neighbors had been known to have “heated discussions” about health care, Bullington said, adding that Boucher is an advocate of a national health system. Paul, an outspoken libertarian, voted last summer against a Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, saying the plan didn’t go far enough in repealing the 2010 health-care law. Robert Porter, a friend of Paul’s, said late Saturday that the senator was mowing his lawn moments before the attack. Paul and Boucher live side by side along a small lake in Rivergreen, a close-knit gated community with large houses. On Sunday afternoon, nobody answered at Boucher’s home. Next door at the Paul residence, four people were seen doing yard work. Other neighbors were out walking, enjoying the unseasonably warm weather. The senator joins a growing list of lawmakers in both parties who have been attacked or threatened with violence this year. Congressional security officials have investigated thousands of general or specific threats against Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The threats turned to violence during the summer when House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was nearly killed by a gunman who showed up at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va. Paul, a member of the team, was on the field at the time of the shooting but was not hurt. More recently, Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) skipped several days of votes after threats were made against her after she sparred with Trump over the treatment of the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger. O’Keefe reported from Washington. Alice Crites, Caitlin Dewey and David Weigel contributed to this report.
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Tom Fitton on FBI Recusal Scandal in Clinton Investigation, DOJ & Clinton Corruption, & Mueller
Judicial Watch Streamed live on Nov 3, 2017
Stunning, new FBI Documents on Clinton Email Investigation...Where is the Justice Dept. on Clinton Corruption? & Mueller’s Out of Control Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_-zWOpHeYs&feature=youtu.be
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Man linked to Texas shooting faced military court martial
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and PAUL J. WEBER | Associated Press
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – The man authorities have identified as the gunman in a mass shooting at a Texas church was discharged from the Air Force for allegedly assaulting his spouse and child, according to an Air Force spokeswoman. The spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, said Sunday that Devin Kelley served 12 months' confinement after a 2012 court-martial. He ultimately received a bad conduct discharge and reduction in rank. She said Kelley served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge in 2014. His job responsible for moving passengers, cargo and personal property in military transportation. Authorities did not announce his name at a news conference on the shooting, saying only that the suspect was a white male in his 20s. But a U.S. official and a law enforcement official identified Kelley as the person who opened fire Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others. The U.S. official told The Associated Press that Kelley lived in a San Antonio suburb and that he doesn't appear to be linked to organized terrorist groups. The official said investigators are looking at social media posts Kelley may have made in the days before Sunday's attack, including one that appeared to show an AR-15 style semi-automatic weapon. The official requested anonymity because the person did not have authorization to speak publicly. An address listed in online records as belonging to Kelley is located in New Braunfels, Texas, just outside San Antonio and about 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Sutherland Springs. Local records of an August traffic ticket issued in New Braunfels, Texas, for an expired registration and not having auto insurance give a birthdate that would make him 26 years old. At the address listed for Kelley in New Braunfels, two sheriff's vans were parked outside and police officers stood at the gate of a cattle fence surrounding the property. Law enforcement officials gathered at the property declined to comment on why they were there. Several messages left for his relatives went unreturned. Neighbors said that they heard intense gunfire coming from the direction of the address listed for Kelley in recent days. "It's really loud. At first I thought someone was blasting," said Ryan Albers, 16, who lives across the road. "It had to be coming from somewhere pretty close. It was definitely not just a shotgun or someone hunting. It was someone using automatic weapon fire." A person matching Kelley's name and date of birth also registered in 2014 to vote in Colorado, with an address listed in Colorado Springs, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy. The Colorado Secretary of State's office lists his registration now as inactive. According to Texas Department of Public Safety regional director Freeman Martin, the gunman arrived at a Valero gas station near the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs at around 11:20 a.m. Sunday. He was dressed in black, wearing tactical gear and a ballistic vest. He crossed the street to the church, left his vehicle and started firing a Ruger AR assault-type rifle at the church. Then he entered the church and fired. As he left the church, the shooter met an unidentified area resident with his own rifle who pursued him. The suspect was found dead in his vehicle near the border between Wilson and Guadalupe counties. Martin says it's unclear if he died of a self-inflected wound or was shot by the resident.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/05/man-linked-to-texas-shooting-faced-military-court-martial.html
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A small-town heart beats within all of us after Texas church massacre
Filed under Editorials at 15 hrs ago Written by Dallas Morning News Editorial
The glitzy neon splash of Las Vegas and the just-plain-folks spirit of little Sutherland Springs represent opposite ends of America. Yet these towns are now forever bound by a heinous reality: Two of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history have shattered each in the space of five weeks. Vegas' nightmare began the first Sunday in October, when a madman with an arsenal of weaponry gunned down 58 people and injured scores more at a country music festival. The nation had hardly regained its footing when, the first Sunday in November, yet another gunman bent on evil killed more than two dozen church-goers and injured 20 or so in the worst massacre in modern Texas history. The Sutherland Springs assailant all but took out an entire congregation as he, spraying gunfire, burst into the modest First Baptist Church during morning worship. In just minutes, he turned the one-blinking-light, unincorporated town 30 miles southeast of San Antonio into a horror set. Whether church worshippers in South Texas or music lovers in Vegas, all the dead and injured were innocent victims simply going about their lives. Not only are they lost to us, their lives cut cruelly short, but they leave families, friends and neighbors to the all-too-familiar dirge of heartbreak and healing. Sutherland Springs is not the first church shooting in Texas to explode the myth of small-town safety. Some of you will recall the gunman, clad in battle fatigues and yelling "This is war," who opened fire on a First Baptist congregation in the East Texas town of Daingerfield back in 1980, killing five and wounding 11. But a massacre the size of Sunday's church tragedy takes a small town and its residents to their knees. Hearing of victims who range from age 5 to 72, most shot as they sat in their familiar church pews -- it's enough to take us all to our knees. And for a community with only a couple hundred residents, the victims' names will be no abstract list. In small towns like Sutherland Springs, these will be relatives and classmates, neighbors and friends. And so often, it's the churches that knit the community together. As we hang our heads in this tragedy, we cannot forget that we've barely caught our breath from the last. We know in our heads that mass shootings account for only a tiny fraction of the killings in America. But we can see that the frequency of these large-scale homicides is increasing. And with three of the deadliest having occurred in just the last 18 months -- Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs and the killing of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. -- a sense of helplessness is growing nationally. We take pride in our Lone Star grit and resiliency. But the Sutherland Springs massacre hits hard --- so many of us still carry small-town hearts, even if we have learned to wear big-city armor. Thoughts and prayers -- even the most sincere -- are only a beginning.
:: 11-6-17 Business Insider :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Pastor's 14-year-old daughter reportedly among the dead in Texas church shooting
Mark Abadi
Law enforcement officers man a barricade near the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs after a fatal shooting, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Darren Abate/AP
At least 20 people were killed in a mass shooting in a Texas church on Sunday.
One of the victims was the 14-year-old daughter of pastor Frank Pomeroy.
Pomeroy said his daughter was "one very beautiful, special child."
At least 26 people were killed in a mass shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday. Identities of the victims have not been released, but the church's pastor Frank Pomeroy confirmed to ABC News that his 14-year-old daughter was among those who died. The pastor's wife Sherri Pomeroy told NBC News that she and her husband were out of town when the shooting took place, but their daughter was inside the church. Frank Pomeroy described his daughter, Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, as "one very beautiful, special child." Local authorities said a man walked into the church while service was underway and opened fire. One witness said she heard at least 20 shots. The suspect was reportedly shot and killed after a brief police chase. Authorities have not confirmed whether the suspect killed himself or was brought down by officers. Officials said the victims of the shooting ranged in age from 5 to 72. A spokesman for University Hospital in San Antonio said the hospital has received nine patients from the shooting, four of whom are children.
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-church-shooting-pastor-daughter-victims-2017-11
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IDF vows to protect Syrian Druze village after Syrian spillover
Israel unmasks new Hezbollah commander on Syrian Golan
Protection from above: Air-power diplomacy in Syrian skies
By Udi Shaham November 3, 2017 12:52
The resident of a Druze village in the Golan Heights was treated and the IDF is watching the developments of the battles at the Hader region across the border. Following intensive fighting at Hader on Friday, on the Syrian-held section of Mount Hermon, which resulted in dozens of casualties, the IDF said it is willing to provide assistance and prevent the capture of the Druse village by anti-regime forces. “In recent hours, we have witnessed intensified fighting in the area of the Druse village of Hader on the Syrian part of the Golan Heights,” IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis said. “The IDF is ready and prepared to assist the residents of the village, and will prevent the harming or conquering of the village of Hader because of our deep commitment to the Druse population.” IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, Northern Command commander Maj.- Gen. Yoel Strick and Commander of the Bashan Division Brig.-Gen. Yaniv Ashur were assessing the situation, Manelis added. A resident of Majdal Shams, in the southern foothills on the Israeli side of Mount Hermon, was wounded by spillover gunfire from the Syrian war. Manelis also said claims of Israeli involvement and assistance to global jihad elements in the fighting on the Golan Heights are groundless. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is in London to mark the Balfour Declaration centennial, posted a statement on his Facebook page reading: “We guard our borders in the North and the South and maintain our support for our Druse brethren.” Nine Syrians were killed and about 25 wounded on Friday morning in two terrorist attacks in Hader, which is located 4 km. from the Israeli border, and approximately 15 km. from the Syrian city of Quneitra. It was reported that the Sunni terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra announced that it was opening a campaign to capture Syrian Golan villages that are under the control of the Assad regime. The organization reportedly stressed that it would not harm the villagers, as long as they did not assist or support the Alawite regime. Following the deadly attacks, hundreds of Druse residents of Israel gathered at the border to support their relatives on the Syrian side. A group of Druse men briefly pushed through the security fence, breaching the border, and crossed into Syrian territory before being pursued and corralled back. The situation was then under control. IDF officials met with Druse community leaders Friday evening to discuss the situation in Hader. Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druse community in Israel, and other Druse leaders said their community against taking online rumors at face value and acting harshly based on false information. In the meeting, Tarif told Strick that he has “full confidence in you and in the IDF to protect the Druse [people] of Hader and to return things to the way they had been before, without Jabhat al-Nusra control [there].” Kulanu MK Akram Hasson, a member of the Druse community who lost four family members in Friday’s attack, said there are strong family ties between the Druse who live on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights and those living in Hader. “Since this [Friday] morning I had held talks with [Druse] community leaders in Hader and top-ranking IDF officers and high officials in the [Israeli] security services, and I hope that a cease-fire will be achieved soon,” Hasson said. Due to the battles just over the Syrian border, the Israel Police said that, as a part of its general preparations on the Golan Heights, forces were deployed and stationed at major intersections in the North to protect Israeli residents.
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Saudi arrests of princes consolidates another's power grab
By abdullah al-shihri and aya batrawy, associated press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Nov 6, 2017, 1:31 AM ET
Saudi Arabia's heir to the throne is overseeing an unprecedented wave of arrests of dozens of the country's most powerful princes, military officers, influential businessmen and government ministers — some potential rivals or critics of the crown prince now consolidating his power. Among those taken into custody overnight Saturday in the purported anti-corruption sweep were billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world's richest men with extensive holdings in Western companies, as well as two of the late King Abdullah's sons. The arrest of senior princes upends a longstanding tradition among the ruling Al Saud family to keep their disagreements private in an effort to show strength and unity in the face of Saudi Arabia's many tribes and factions. It also sends a message that the 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has the full backing of his father, King Salman, to carry out sweeping anti-corruption reforms targeting senior royals and their business associates, who have long been seen as operating above the law. Reports suggested those detained were being held at the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh, which only days earlier hosted a major investment conference that the crown prince attended with global business titans. A Saudi official told The Associated Press that other five-star hotels across the capital were also being used to hold some of those arrested. The Ritz Carlton had no availability for bookings until Dec. 1, 2017 — a possible sign that an investigation of this scale could take weeks. Marriott International said in a statement that it is currently evaluating the situation at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, but declined to comment further, citing privacy concerns. A Saudi government official with close ties to security forces said 11 princes and 38 others were being questioned. The official spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The surprise arrests were immediately hailed by pro-government media outlets as the clearest sign yet that Prince Mohammed is keeping his promise to reform the country, wean its economy from its dependence on oil and liberalize some aspects of the ultraconservative society. The kingdom's top council of clerics issued a public statement overnight saying it is an Islamic duty to fight corruption — essentially giving religious backing to the high-level arrests. It's unclear if the U.S. had any advance word of the arrests. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner and others made an unannounced trip recently to Riyadh. Earlier on Saturday, Trump said he spoke to King Salman, though the White House readout of that call did not include any reference to the impending arrests. The Saudi government says the arrests are part of a wider effort to increase transparency, accountability and good governance — key reforms needed to attract greater international investments and appease a Saudi public that has for decades complained of rampant government corruption and misuse of public funds by top officials. Surprise moves reshaping the kingdom, however, are likely to worry investors. Among those reportedly taken into custody were two sons of the late King Abdullah: Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, who Saturday evening was ousted from his post as head of the prestigious National Guard tasked with protecting the Al Saud family, and Prince Turki bin Abdullah, who was once governor of Riyadh. Prince Miteb was once considered a contender for the throne, though he has not been thought of recently as a challenger to Prince Mohammed. Saudi Twitter accounts released several other names of those arrested, including Alwalid al-Ibrahim, a Saudi businessman with ties to the royal family who runs the Arabic satellite group MBC; Amr al-Dabbagh, the former head of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority; Ibrahim Assaf, a former finance minister, and Bakr Binladin, head of the Saudi Binladin Group, a major business conglomerate. Analysts have suggested the arrest of once-untouchable members of the royal family is a clear sign that the crown prince is sidelining potential rivals for the throne. Meanwhile, the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based satellite news channel Al-Arabiya reported that a helicopter crash Sunday in the kingdom's south killed Prince Mansour bin Murquin and seven others. Prince Mansour was the son of Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, a former intelligence director and a one-time crown prince of the kingdom. Authorities gave no cause for the crash. The young Crown Prince Mohammed has risen from near obscurity to become Saudi Arabia's most talked about and powerful prince in less than three years since his father ascended to the throne. The prince's swift rise to power has unnerved more experienced, elder members of the royal family, which has long ruled by consensus, though ultimate decision-making remains with the monarch. The moves in Saudi Arabia mirror those in China, where President Xi Jinping has used corruption charges "as a battering ram to consolidate his own power and authority," said John Hannah, the senior counselor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an Iran-skeptic think tank in Washington whose hawkish geopolitical views often coincide with the kingdom's. Hannah said Prince Mohammed has "latched onto corruption as a way to consolidate his power and remake the regime in his image," purging those who might be resistant. It is not clear what Prince Alwaleed or the others were being investigated for. Without naming those arrested, the Attorney General's office said "the suspects are being granted the same rights and treatment as any other Saudi citizen." The statement did not disclose specific details about the investigation, but stressed that no assets have yet been frozen and that individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. A high-level employee at Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holding Co. told the AP that the royal was among those detained. The senior employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of repercussions, said security bodies informed him of the arrest. Prince Alwaleed's many investments include Twitter, Apple, Citigroup, and the Four Seasons hotel chain. He is also an investor in ride-sharing services Lyft and Careem. He was once a significant shareholder in Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, but sold much of those shares in 2015. The prince, pictured sometimes on his 85-meter (278-foot) super-yacht in the Mediterranean, is among the most outspoken Saudi royals and a longtime advocate of women's rights. He is also majority owner of the popular Rotana Group of Arabic channels. After word of his arrest, his company's stock dropped 7.6 percent in trading Sunday on the Saudi stock exchange. An earlier crackdown this year on perceived critics of the crown prince included clerics and lesser-known princes. In July, Prince Mohammed's most formidable challenger to the throne, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, was plucked from the line of succession and ousted from his post as interior minister, overseeing internal security. This laid the groundwork for the king's son to claim the mantle of crown prince. Prince Mohammed's gambles have not always succeeded . A yearslong war he has overseen as defense minister against Iranian-allied rebels in Yemen has not made the kingdom safer. As news was unfolding about the anti-corruption probe, Saudi Arabia said late Saturday it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen at Riyadh International Airport, on the outskirts of the capital. "The dismissals and detentions suggest that Prince Mohammed rather than forging alliances is extending his iron grip to the ruling family, the military, and the national guard to counter what appears to be more widespread opposition within the family as well as the military to his reforms and the Yemen war," James M. Dorsey, a Gulf specialist and senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in an analysis of the shake-up.
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Associated Press writer Abdullah al-Shihri reported this story in Riyadh and AP writer Aya Batrawy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. AP writers Jon Gambrell and Fay Abuelgasim in Dubai, Jonathan Lemire aboard Air Force One and Maggie Michael in Cairo contributed to this report.
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Hamas hands PA control of Gaza border crossings
1 November 2017 From the section Middle East
The Islamist group Hamas has begun handing control of border crossings in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as part of a reconciliation deal. A ceremony at the Rafah crossing with Egypt saw a formal transfer from a Hamas official to his PA counterpart. At the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings with Israel, Hamas offices and security equipment were being dismantled. Next month, the internationally-recognised PA is due to take full control of security in Gaza. The reconciliation deal, brokered by Egypt last month, aims to end a decade-long split between Hamas and its secular rival, Fatah, which dominates the PA. Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been ruled separately since deadly clashes between Hamas and Fatah broke out in 2007. Hamas won parliamentary elections in the occupied territories the previous year, and reinforced its power in Gaza after ousting Fatah from the enclave. Palestinian factions end split on Gaza Gazans hope for end to feud Has Hamas changed? In what was seen as the first key test of the reconciliation agreement, the director of the Palestinian Borders and Crossings Authority, Nazmi Muhanna, took full control of the Rafah crossing on Wednesday. In a short speech, PA Public Works Minister Mufeed al-Hasayneh declared that "the word 'split' will not exist in the Palestinian dictionary anymore". "There is no yellow and green. All our Palestinian people are under the Palestinian flag," he said, referring to the main colours of the Fatah and Hamas flags. Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Sheikh said the Rafah crossing would resume full operations on 15 November, when PA border officials and members of the Presidential Guard would be in place. Rafah has largely been closed since 2007, when Israel and Egypt tightened their blockades of Gaza in response to the Hamas takeover and in an attempt to prevent attacks by militants. There were no ceremonies at the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings on Wednesday. But PA officials were seen moving in as Hamas security officials packed up equipment and departed in vehicles. All the Palestinian factions are due to meet in Cairo on 21 November to continue discussing implementation of the reconciliation deal, including the formation of a unity government that is not expected to include Hamas members. The issue of the tens of thousands of civil servants employed by Hamas in Gaza will be resolved by February 2018, but the role of Hamas's 25,000-strong military wing was not mentioned in the agreement. Israel and the US have expressed reservations about the reconciliation deal. The US said any Palestinian unity government would need to recognise the State of Israel, disarm "terrorists", and commit to peaceful negotiations. If Hamas was to play any role, it added, it would have to accept those requirements. Israel - which like the US considers Hamas a terrorist organisation and has fought three wars with militants in Gaza - said it would not deal with a Palestinian government that "relies on Hamas".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41830114
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Israeli Army Calls for Gaza 'Marshall Plan' to Thwart Takeover by Forces More Extreme Than Hamas
Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, believes persistence of the current situation there could lead to a new outbreak of violence
Amos Harel Nov 05, 2017 4:35 PM
Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, has called for the implementation of a Gazan... etc. and the news story continues..
read more: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.821148
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Listen very carefully to the things that I say unto you, for these things are not to bring fear, but these things are to bring peace into your hearts that you will know, because of the things that are coming, the things that shall be. For two thousand fifteen shall be a time of change, great change, change, change, change. The Illuminati shall once again rise up to the place that you will be able to see them in operation, for they still control all the money and they still control more things than you realize they control. Walt Disney is now in a new takeover trying to reach the minds and the hearts of the children, so be careful, be careful what you’re watching. There is going to be a new type of army and this army will be hand picked, but not just anyone can join, for it shall be an army that shall be against us, it shall be approved by the United Nations and they shall march in our streets because there is no control in the streets, and therefore, they will bring in another army that will have control.
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What are military UN trucks doing in Virginia? Bemused motorists spot white 'combat vehicles' on the interstate
U.N. 'tactical vehicles' have been spotted in Virginia driving on interstate
Motorists have been positing pictures online sparking debate about them
One website asks if the U.N. is preparing for economic collapse in America
By Charlie Moore For Mailonline Published: 04:52 EDT, 27 June 2016 | Updated: 19:02 EDT, 27 June 2016
Military U.N. vehicles have been spotted in Virginia, shocking motorists and sparking conspiracy theories. The white trucks, equipped with large off-road tires, were seen being transported on Interstate 81 on Friday. They appear to be Alpine Armoring's Pit-Bull VX SWAT Truck models. Jeff Stern posted photos of the vehicles on Facebook, writing: 'Can't begin to tell you how many of these I passed today on 81 near Lexington VA. Interesting times ahead!' Fernando Johnson questioned online: 'Tactical Vehicles, with bullet proof glass? Whatever could those be for, and why are UN vehicles here, in THIS country?!' Meanwhile, Vincent Sammons noted on Facebook: 'They are sealed against gas too.' Another online commenter said: 'We have U.N. vehicles being shipped on U.S. highways. One has to wonder why?' Bobby Wayne Guinn posted on Facebook that he had witnessed similar scenes in Texas. He wrote: 'Wondering why 30 United Nations vehicles, fully loaded with combat-prepared troops, were driving down our highway in Dallas, Texas.' His post sparked website Liberty is viral to ask: 'Are these U.N. troops here preparing for economic collapse in America? Is this related to Iran ships approaching the U.S. border?' while Alex Jones posted a video warning of the 'U.N. takeover of America.' The U.N. is an intergovernmental organisation with 193 member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. DailyMail.com has reached out to the U.N. for comment. Alpine Armoring has not responded to requests for a statement.
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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The United Nations Is Behind Antifa’s Planned Attacks Upon America
UN Vehicles housed on abandoned US military bases. In Parts one and two of this series on the takeover of the United States, I asserted the following: The Vegas massacre exemplified the composition of the forces that are being brought to bear against the people of the United States and they are Antifa, MS-13, ISIS, CIA trafficking arm, the FBI “cleaners”, the Deep-State left-overs of the Obamaa dminstration, the Clinton Foundation, HSBC Bank, George Soros, CIA/UN black ops and some others to be covered at a later time The plan is start a “holy hell” campaign similar to the Las Vegas massacre and the Northern California fires and force a crisis in which the United Nations troops, already inside the United States, will be brought out into the open and used as a gun confiscation force. In Part Three, the level of UN involvement is exposed. It is clear that the operation command and control resides within the administration of the UN in cooperation with Deep State. The purpose of this unholy alliance is the destruction of the United States. Attention American Citizens: The United Nations Is Not Your Friend I have mentioned several groups which are coalescing to conspire to take down this country and eliminate all domestic opposition. In response to my previous assertions, Steve Quayle sent me a note yesterday which presents the “brains” and the operational control behind this insidious plot. The following Steve Quayle observation puts an operational face to the plot to destroy America. “Dave-…FOLLOW UP WITH WHO COMPRISES THE MAJORITY OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL—RUSSIA AND CHINA …ALL THEIR MEN AND MATERIAL ARE STATIONED IN AND UNDER THE MILITARY BASES THAT GEORGE BUSH SENIOR CLOSED AND GAVE AWAY TO THE U.N. THIS EXPLAINS ALL UN VEHICLE, FOREIGN MILITARY VEHICLES AND ENCOUNTERS WITH FOREIGN SOLDIERS AS WELL AS THE FBI’S ADMITTED 25,000 CHINESE SPIES IN COUNTRY” Steve Quayle Let’s examine Steve’s message, piece by piece. FBI Admits That 25,000 Chinese Spies Are Freely Operating Within the United States The Washington Times and many other media outlets, on July 11, 2017, previously reported on the FBI’s 25,000 spies that are operating inside the United States and the FBI cannot and does not want to track them. Why? Because the FBI was hopelessly compromised by Obama administration, Deep-State holdovers who are working to to fulfill their mission which will culminate in the fall of the United States. In the Bundy ranch attempted takeover, the planned-t0-be attemped confiscated land was to be handed off to the Chinese solar company Cinta. Cinta is a front group for the Chinese military. I have previously covered how many Cinta operations lie adjacent to major American military bases (eg Nellis AFB and Luke AFB). It should also be noted that on July 4, 2016, then FBI Director, James Comey, said there were ISIS cells operating within all 50 states. The Composition of the UN Security Council The UN Security Council is composed of 15 Members. There are five permanent members and 10 ad hoc members. Steve Quayle was correct when he said it was important to pay attention to the permanent members. The composition of this group consists of members who are enmies of the United States and the five permanent members consists of China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The presence of the threat posed by the presence by the Chinese and Russians is obvious. However, even the French and the British are compromised. The French are in the process of destroying their own country by admitting millions of Middle Eastern Muslims who refuse to assimilate and have carried out heinous acts of terror on French soil. And of course, the UK is compromised by their status with the Rothschild Banking Cartel. The Bush Family of Presidents Close Dozens of American Military Bases Steve Quayle was correct about the closure of bases under former President George H.W. Bush in which over 100 bases were closed. Some of the base closures were not completed until Clinton took office, but Bush Sr. was the catalyst. On Sept. 8, 2005, the Department of Defense’s Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) gave President George W. Bush a list of 20 major military installations that it had determined were no longer necessary for the nation’s defense. The president signed off on the list, and despite tepid opposition, it passed through the House of Representatives. By the end of the year, it was enacted, and a deadline was set: On or before Sept. 15, 2011, the 20 bases would shut their doors. Most of the bases closed under Obama were scheduled for closure under Bush. Since then, there have been multiple civilian sightings of UN planes landing at American Air Force bases and these troops are transporting UN troops and/or having UN markings. The Internet has been abuzz with reports and photos of UN military vehicles on US soil. Many people are looking at this as a shocking development. The following has been reported as if this were some novel and recent event: “Military U.N. vehicles have been spotted in Virginia, shocking motorists and sparking conspiracy theories. The white trucks, equipped with large off-road tires, were seen being transported on Interstate 81 and this is just one example of the hundreds of reports I have received. In the accompanying documentation the UN vehicles are Alpine Armoring’s Pit-Bull VX SWAT Truck models. Jeff Stern posted photos of the vehicles on Facebook, writing: ‘Can’t begin to tell you how many of these I passed today on 81 near Lexington VA. Interesting times ahead!” “Fernando Johnson questioned online: ‘Tactical Vehicles, with bullet proof glass? Whatever could those be for, and why are UN vehicles here, in THIS country?!” This is just one such report representing hundreds I have received through the years. As alarming as this appears to be, it is just part of an ongoing operation of the pre-positioning of foreign assets on American soil in preparation for the takeover. Yesterday the Larry Nichols and Jack Easum reported in a story I carried in Part Two that 10 additional military bases are going to be closed and handed off the to the United Nations. Conclusion Steve Quayle’s summary observations were verified with a minimial amount of reference material. The body of evidence to support Steve’s statement could fill several libraries. There are some who think I have gone off of the deep end when I speak about FEMA camps and the intention of the TPTB to put millions of us in FEMA camps where life and death decisions will be made. It is time to revisit this topic from a new perspective. This will be the subject of Part Four of this series. My thanks to Steve for succinctly providing summarizing the organizing structure behind the present threat. Please donate to offset the costs of The Common Sense Show PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND DON’T FORGET TO “LIKE” US
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etc. For the system as you know it is vanishing before your eyes, you can no longer rely upon your jobs, upon your banking institutions, all you can depend upon is a one world government and you cannot depend upon that. etc..
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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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etc. it shall not be a good week, many things shall take place. Watch the stock market, and if you have money hoarded up in there, you are going to lose it, you are going to lose it. Listen carefully, pay attention, place your money where you know that it is safe etc.
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etc. You are going to see the mark of the beast, it is going to come very quickly now, very quickly now and they are going to move to the cashless society and that is not next year, now, I am talking about this year. etc.
Revelation 13:18 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
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BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
“So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
I had read Nassim Taleb’s other best-selling tomes about risk, randomness and black swans – Fooled by Randomness & The Black Swan. They were not easy reads, but they were must reads. He is clearly a brilliant thinker, but I like him more because he is a prickly skeptic who scorns and ridicules academics, politicians, and Wall Street scumbags with gusto. There were many passages which baffled me, but so many nuggets of wisdom throughout each book, you couldn’t put them down. When his Antifragile book was published in 2012, the name intimidated me. I figured it was too intellectual for my tastes. When I saw it on the shelf in my favorite used book store at the beach, I figured it was worth a read for $9. I’m plowing through it and I haven’t been disappointed. His main themes are more pertinent today than they were in 2012. He published The Black Swan in 2007, just prior to one of the biggest black swans in world history – the 2008 Federal Reserve/Wall Street created financial collapse. His disdain for “experts” like Bernanke, Paulson, and Wall Street CEOs, and their inability to comprehend the consequences of their actions and in-actions as the financial system was blown sky high, was a bulls-eye. As usual, all of Taleb’s warnings and rational analysis of how the world really works have been forgotten or ignored, as the actions of the captured Fed, corrupt DC politicians, and greedy Wall Street shysters propel the nation and the world toward another historic financial collapse. The “experts” will be proven to be knaves and fools once again. “The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder As I was reading passages of his Antifragile analysis of the real world, I was struck by how his concepts of fragility and antifragility become more relevant as this relentless bull market in stocks, bonds, real estate and government debt reaches nose bleed heights only seen twice before in financial history. When something is fragile it breaks easily. Interventionist monetary actions by the Federal Reserve, non-enforcement of financial regulations by the Federal Reserve, introduction of unregulated indecipherable derivatives, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, mass Wall Street collusion in the largest control fraud in history, and delusional expectations of ignorant investors created extremely fragile housing and stock markets which were certain to break. “Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder And break they did. There was no specifically particular catalyst which caused national housing prices to fall 30% or the stock market to fall 50%. Their extreme fragility made it certain they would break. The “experts” who declared the housing market strong and the stock market not overvalued provided a myriad of retrospective causes after the financial system collapsed. They never provide prospective warnings before things break. Their job is to mislead, while the Wall Street pillaging machine does its work. Were lessons learned from this horrific man-made debacle? Based on the actions taken by those in power, no lessons have been absorbed. The authorities have done the exact opposite of what needed to be done to make the financial system less fragile. Their reckless self-serving debt spawning scheme has guaranteed another far worse collapse. “If something is fragile, its risk of breaking makes anything you do to improve it or make it “efficient” inconsequential unless you first reduce that risk of breaking.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder As the ill-gotten profits of criminal Wall Street banks evaporated during late 2008 and early 2009 the very survival of these Too Big To Prosecute behemoth owners of the Federal Reserve was in question. They were effectively bankrupt, as the toxic mortgage debt and busted derivatives blew gaping holes in their balance sheets. With 30 to 1 leverage, they were dead shysters walking. It was at this point the captured central bankers, crooked politicians, and feckless government apparatchiks across the globe colluded to prop up the existing elite establishment at the expense of the people they had just got done screwing out of $700 billion, after they had absconded with trillions in middle class wealth. The plan has been to introduce massive doses of central bank and government debt into an already debt saturated fragile global economic system and artificially suppress interest rates in order to prop up stock markets and high end real estate markets, while impoverishing senior citizens, savers and the working middle class. A few million middle class eggs must be broken to make a gold plated oligarch omelet. “The world as a whole has never been richer, and it has never been more heavily in debt, living off borrowed money. The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder It was reported with great fanfare by the mouthpieces for the establishment in the corporate mainstream media the net worth of U.S. households has reached an all-time high. The Fed has successfully elevated the net worth of the top 10%, with the majority of the benefits accruing to the top .1%. This debt engineered faux recovery has benefited only Wall Street sycophants and the parasites feeding off their wealth, while throwing 80% of the population under the bus. There has been no recovery for the average working class American. Wall Street has gorged on debt and rigged markets, while Main Street has seen their savings eviscerated and depleted by soaring healthcare costs, skyrocketing rents, mounting tax burden, and everyday living expenses. The fraud of GDP growth since 2009, as pitiful as it has been, is completely dependent upon trillions of dollars of deficit spending by the government, Federal Reserve money printing, and massive forced spending created by Obamacare. The powers that be decided their own well-being, power, control and wealth superseded any civic obligation to future generations. “As to growth in GDP, it can be obtained very easily by loading future generations with debt – and the future economy may collapse upon the need to repay such debt.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder Their actions have guaranteed economic collapse, but as long as the stock market remains elevated all is well in Elitist-ville USA. As long as we pretend the $20 trillion national debt and $200 trillion of unfunded welfare liabilities don’t matter, the party can continue. As long as a dumbed down populace chooses to willfully ignore basic mathematical facts, the propaganda spewing corporate media’s narrative of economic expansion and strong jobs market will be believed. As long as the American people allow themselves to be distracted by a tweeting reality president, bloated hog Hollywood sexual predators, mysterious video poker playing mass shooters, kneeling overpaid low IQ athletes, and the usual Washington bullshit about budgets, tax cuts, and healthcare plans, the oligarchs will keep their raping and pillaging of the national wealth machine running at hyper-speed. “More data means more information, but it also means more false information.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder Never has there been more false information disguised as data in world history. Technology instantaneously disseminates data, as governments, central banks and corporations issue economic narratives and financial reports designed to mislead, confuse, obfuscate and hide the truth from the public. The government reports “strong” GDP of 3% while somehow ignoring the impact of two devastating hurricanes. The number is a pure guess based upon models designed to show it in the best light possible. It will be revised dramatically lower in the future with little fanfare, but its PR effect has already done the job of elevating stock markets higher. Mission accomplished. The brainless bimbos and talking head twits peddled as financial experts on the corporate fake news channels gushed about the strong economic results without even questioning the basis of the number. Consumer spending accounts for 69% of GDP. Some critical thinking might make you question the validity of that 3% GDP number. The massive increase in healthcare spending forced upon the public by the Obamacare cataclysm is counted as a great big positive for GDP. So is the jump in gasoline expenditures and food costs. A supposed large increase in auto purchases gave a boost to GDP. If automakers are reporting lower sales and reducing production, how could this be? Plus virtually all auto “sales” are nothing but easy money debt based rentals through 7 year $0 down, 0% interest loans or low payment 3 year leases. A full 17% of GDP ($3.4 trillion) is generated by the Federal, state and local government spending money they have absconded from you at gunpoint. Only a deeply dishonest disgraceful captured bureaucracy could count money taken from its citizens and then miss-allocated in epic proportions as an increase in GDP. The GDP calculation is fake data used to mislead the masses. If consumer spending was really robust it would be based upon strong wage growth from a vibrant jobs market. That’s the other outrageous fake data narrative being spun by the masters of propaganda within the Deep State. The government and politicians need to keep the sheeple calm and sedated during their never ending sheering, so they falsely report a 4.2% unemployment rate and the bloviator in chief takes credit for all the new jobs. In reality, there were 2.6 million new jobs added last year and the trend over Trump’s first eight months is 2.7 million new jobs – and most of them continue to be low paying service jobs. If the unemployment rate was really 4.2%, wages would be soaring as demand exceeded supply. But we all know real wages are stagnant and consumer debt has reached new all-time highs, as average middle class Americans are clinging to their credit cards to survive. A few basic facts obliterate this strong jobs market false narrative. Since 2007 (before the Fed created financial crisis) the working age population has grown by 24 million, while the number of employed Americans has increased by 8 million (only 3.6 million men), but somehow the unemployment rate is the same. Of those 8 million new jobs, 2.5 million are part-time. There are currently 2 million less men between the ages of 35 and 54 employed than there were in 2007. Those are considered prime working years for men. According to your lying government, 16 million working age Americans voluntarily left the workforce because they don’t need a job. Only an Ivy League professor or a 75 IQ moron could actually believe the drivel fed to the American public by these government apparatchiks. Ask yourself whether the real situation on Main Street America matches a 4.2% unemployment rate or a 20% unemployment rate. Ask yourself whether your real world inflation rate is 2% or in excess of 5%. If rising consumer expenditures reflect the health of the consumer, why are JC Penny, Sears and Macys dead retailers walking? Why are there more store closings and retail bankruptcies in 2017 than the depression year of 2009? Why has restaurant traffic been declining for over a year? Why do putrefying ghost malls haunt the suburban landscape like a scary apparition? We are living in zombieland, with the only an extraordinary amount of debt being pumped into the diseased veins of the global economy by central banker mad scientists giving this cadaver the appearance of life. With real median household income still at 1999 levels, the middle class (aka the deplorables) in flyover country is lifeless and barely surviving on their credit cards. This supposed recovery has passed the deplorables by, as it has been specifically engineered for the wealthy oligarchs. The pliant academic puppets running the Federal Reserve, ECB and the Bank of Japan on behalf of billionaire oligarchs, Wall Street bankers, government bureaucrats, mega-corporation CEOs, and corrupt politicians had a moral obligation to take actions which would have made the global financial system more resilient and less fragile. After the near death experience in 2008/2009 for the financial elite, central bankers and their co-conspirator government lackeys decided they would do whatever it took to elevate stock, bond and real estate markets. These traitors to their citizens have printed tens of trillions of currency out of thin air to elevate stock markets, buy bad debt to artificially suppress interest rates, and colluded with Wall Street hedge funds to drive real estate prices higher by purposefully reducing supply. Their actions have benefitted the haves at the expense of the have nots, while providing the deceitful appearance of stability when they are steadily introducing instability and vulnerability into the system. “But the larger point is that we can now see that depriving systems of stressors, vital stressors, is not necessarily a good thing, and can be downright harmful.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder They have created an eight year bull market in everything, while increasing global debt by a mere $70 trillion. This long period of faux prosperity has encouraged rampant risk taking and speculation utilizing leverage to supercharge returns. The lack of volatility and unquestioned belief central bankers will bail them out, has led arrogant swashbuckling MBA hotshots to program their supercomputer high frequency trading machines to buy every dip. Many of these 30 somethings have never experienced a terrifying plunge or a real bear market. By eliminating fear of losses and suppressing volatility, central bankers have created a landscape where a buildup in risk and fragility guarantees a Minsky Moment. The speculative juices have now reached epic levels. The appropriate cautiousness of respected financial minds like Shiller, Hussman, Mauldin, Stockman, and Taleb is scorned and ridiculed by the egotistical big swinging dicks on the trading desks of the criminal Wall Street banks. Their belief in their statistical models is only outdone by their faith markets will never crash again. They believe central bankers have figured out how to levitate financial markets for all eternity. With the markets overvalued on par with 1929 and 2000, bullishness and margin debt have never been higher. The FANG stocks are the new Dotcom bubble stocks. Last week’s Amazon earnings release tells you everything you need to know about the outrageous hype and false narratives spun by Wall Street and their media mouthpiece pawns. The hyperbolic headlines screamed “HUGE EARNINGS BEAT”. At the start of the year earnings projections for the 3rd quarter were $2.00 per share. The company and their Wall Street analyst minions guided that down to 2 cents per share and then “beat” that by announcing 52 cents per share. Wow!! Meanwhile, their gross margins fell for the 4th quarter in a row, chiming in at NEGATIVE 18% or a $5.2 billion loss. That’s right. They lose 18% on every sale. That was enough to propel the stock over $1,000 per share, with a PE ratio of 250. This certainly isn’t irrationally exuberant. Right? No one on Wall Street dares to question the narrative about Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, or Google. The corporate propaganda media dutifully reports what they are told to report. Financial metrics, valuations, GAAP earnings, and common sense have left the building. The “professionals” on Wall Street are fully invested because they want those year-end bonuses. The little guys are entering the market. ETFs dominate on the way up and will lead the way down. Everything is being bought by the machines and everything will be sold when the machines revolt. The confidence level for future gains is off the charts. The herd of lemmings is stampeding towards the cliff. Skeptics and contrarians are getting flattened. “There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder Central bankers have succeeded in convincing virtually everyone they have everything under control, when in reality they have introduced far more risk and fragility into the financial system than existed in 2007. Curing a debt problem with far more debt is like treating a gunshot wound to the leg with a gunshot to the head. This cycle of greed and fear will end just as every previous cycle has ended. The debt financed speculative frenzy will cease when cash flow becomes insufficient to service the debt taken on to make the speculative investments. Even relatively small losses on the speculative assets will cause lenders to call their loans, which will begin a multiplicative chain of ferocious selling and unanticipated consequences. The sell-off will lead to a sudden and precipitous collapse in market-clearing asset prices, a sharp drop in market liquidity, and a severe demand for cash. Minsky will be smirking. The suppression of volatility by central bankers has lulled the masses into a false sense of security as the everything bubble grows ever larger and less stable beneath the surface. If they had allowed corrections over the last few years to periodically release the buildup of speculative pressures, the financial system would not be nearly as fragile. The all-knowing “experts” see nothing on the horizon which could derail this bull market. Trump has taken ownership of this bubble by taking credit for the surge since Election Day, after previously calling it a huge bubble during the campaign. He will rue his decision to own this over-priced market. This market bubble is so overblown, a specific trigger is not necessary to start the disintegration of this bubble. In retrospect, as in the case of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers in 2008, the financial press will need to blame the inevitable collapse on something tangible such as a military conflict, political indictment, financial institution failure, natural catastrophe, or surge in interest rates. This house of cards built on a foundation of dodgy debt and mass delusions of grandeur will come toppling down, with societal implications which will propel this Fourth Turning towards its bloody climax. The overconfidence and hubris being exhibited by the ruling class and the parasites feeding off their leftover scraps is palpable. There is no fear. They’ve got this thing. The suckers not getting rich in this market are to be disparaged and derided as losers. They remind me of the turkey who has been fed like a king for a thousand days by the butcher and every day turkey “experts” report with unequivocal statistical confidence that butchers love turkeys and will treat them like kings forever. Then on the 1,001st day the turkey experiences a fatal surprise. The Wall Street turkeys should note Thanksgiving is approaching rapidly. No one knows when or how this collapse will appear, but we do know Bernanke, Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda, Wall Street, Washington DC, and the fake news corporate media are culpable in weakening our economic and financial systems through their reckless, arrogant, corrupt solutions to the last collapse caused by their irresponsible, greedy, fraudulent schemes designed to enrich their wealthy oligarch constituents. They’ve created a supremely fragile financial system. When the losses begin to mount, we (the deplorables) will need to get in touch with our inner butcher. These turkeys will need to pay for their evil miss-deeds. “Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/10/29/bull-in-a-china-shop-2/
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US Global Thunder Exercise Timed to Coincide with Other Events
On November 1, 2017 By Asif AzizIn Opinion
The US Strategic Command (StratCom) kicked off its largest annual training exercise on October 30 with the commencement of Global Thunder 2018. The training event involves StratCom’s headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base as well as its many subordinate units around the world, such as missile and bomber wings. It encompasses all missions, including strategic deterrence, space operations, cyberspace operations, joint electronic warfare, global strike, missile defense and intelligence, and is expected to last for about 10 days. The United States had warned Russia about Global Thunder in advance as required by the New START. Last week, Russia held a strategic nuclear forces’ exercise too. President Vladimir Putin personally took part in the event as the Supreme Commander in Chief. The tests included an ICBM, three submarine-launched ballistic missiles and “an unknown number” of air-launched cruise missiles. Global Thunder typically occurs about this time every year. It is taking place in the period of immense tensions between the United States and North Korea as President Donald Trump is to visit US Asia Pacific allies, including South Korea and Japan, in early November. The US military is also planning a military exercise involving three of the Navy’s aircraft carrier strike groups scheduled to take place near North Korea, while Mr. Trump is traveling through the Asia-Pacific region. He’ll be in South Korea on November 7-8. Pyongyang will undoubtedly interpret it as another provocative act. Visiting South Korea on October 28, US Defense Secretary James Mattis emphasized that the United States would never accept a nuclear North. In August, President Trump warned the North not to make any more threats against the United States, and said that if it did, it would be met with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Despite the president’s warning the threats were made. Global Thunder has certain background. Moscow has recently expressed its concern over the involvement of non-nuclear NATO states in joint missions during nuclear exercises in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. According to Alexander Grushko, Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, “We expressed our concern about the NATO continuing practice of involving non-nuclear states of the alliance in joint nuclear missions in violation of articles I and II of the NPT. This is also important in terms of compliance with the provisions of the Russia-NATO Founding Act, which remains one of the few pillars of material stability and security in Europe.” Unlike Global Thunder, some exercises with nuclear scenarios are conducted by the US and its NATO allies without prior warnings. The example is Steadfast Noon held in October with Czech and Polish participation. The nuclear exercise had not been officially announced and the alliance was very tight-lipped about it because of the political sensitivity of this mission. The secrecy struck the eye. Only a few weeks before the training event, NATO complained that Russia was not being transparent about its Zapad exercise held in September. The forces practiced NATO’s nuclear strike mission with dual-capable aircraft (DCA) and the B61 tactical nuclear bombs the US deploys in Europe. It was the first time the Czech Republic took part sending its JAS-39 Gripen fighters. The Polish F-16s are nuclear-capable aircraft. President Trump wants to ensure the US nuclear arsenal is at the “top of the pack.” He believes the United States has fallen behind in its weapons capacity. An ambitious and expensive program, estimated to take 30 years and cost upwards of $1 trillion dollars to upgrade and replace all three legs of its nuclear triad, is under consideration. Beyond constant upgrades of the existing nuclear systems, new weapons are designed to replace the current ones. The Navy is designing a new class of 12 SSBNs. The Air Force is examining a new mobile ICBM along with extending the service life of the Minuteman III currently in inventory. The service has begun development of a new, stealthy long-range bomber and a new nuclear-capable tactical fighter-bomber. A new long-range nuclear cruise missile is being developed to replace the current one. The production of B61-12, a new guided “standoff” nuclear bomb able to glide toward a target over a distance, is also underway. A draft of the new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is being debated in Washington. According to the Guardian, “Among the new elements under consideration are a low yield warhead for a ballistic missile intended primarily to deter Russia’s use of a small nuclear weapon in a war over the Baltic states; a sea-launched cruise missile; a change in language governing conditions in which the US would use nuclear weapons; and investments aimed at reducing the time it would take the US to prepare a nuclear test”. The plans include bringing back the nuclear Tomahawk sea-launched cruise missiles, which were dropped from the arsenal in 2013. It may mark a decisive end to the era of post-cold war disarmament. “You can … be assured that our administration is committed to strengthen and modernize America’s nuclear deterrent,” said Vice President Mike Pence on October 27, visiting Minot air force base in North Dakota, home to Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles and B-52 strategic bombers. According to him, “History attests the surest path to peace is through American strength. There’s no greater element of American strength, there’s no greater force for peace in the world than the United States nuclear arsenal.” There are signs that a new Cold War is in the air. For instance, the US Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert. A future long-range, rapid-strike capability (Prompt Global Strike-PGS) is seen in the United States as a partial alternative to nuclear weapons for hitting important time-sensitive targets. The capability sought by Washington could allow US forces to conduct a non-nuclear strike against any location in the world in one hour or less. The appearance of such weapons may lower the nuclear threshold. Unlike strategic nuclear forces, the development of long-range conventional weapons is uncontrolled. No talks are held to address the problem. With tensions running high, any exercise, especially a nuclear one, is risky. The failure of the US to warn Moscow as it should, in the case of Steadfast Noon, greatly increases mistrust. Global Thunder is timed with the exercise scheduled to take place near North Korea and the trip of President Trump across the Asia Pacific. It’s hardly a coincidence.
https://astutenews.com/2017/11/01/us-global-thunder-exercise-timed-to-coincide-with-other-events/
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Robert Mueller In The Crosshairs As MSM Hides Uranium One & Dossier Funding Investigations By Blaring Manafort Headlines
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine October 30, 2017
There is a reason the liberal media are blaring hundreds of headlines screaming about the charges filed against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, despite the acknowledged fact that all charges against Manafort stem from actions that occurred before the Trump campaign even started, and it is only partially in order to connect anything "Russia related" to President Trump.... the real reason is to avoid, distract and ignore the very real investigations now occurring into the Uranium One scandal and Trump dossier scandal, and the part that Robert Mueller played. OBLIGATORY MANAFORT INFO Before getting into what the MSM is not reporting, a brief rundown on the Manafort information. 12 counts have been leveled against Paul Manafort, and despite headlines from liberal media outlets, they all stem from Manafort's business dealings, and not his work on the Trump campaign, most from before the Trump campaign ever kicked off, which can be seen in the indictment itself, here. Via the BBC: The charges against Mr Manafort and Mr Gates do not relate to Mr Trump's campaign but to the alleged concealment of payments from the pair's Ukrainian business dealings up to 2016. The same information, in one form or another is provided in most the reporting, but hidden behind the headlines that imply the Manafort charges somehow implicate President Trump in some type of Russia collusion, despite the indictment itself negating those claims. Two more quick points on the Manafort charges before getting into what is happening behind the scenes that the media is absolutely freaking out about in private, while avoiding, ignoring and attempting to distract with the Manafort headlines, because both implicate Special Counsel Mueller is some very shadowy practices and scandals. First Point: As Jerome Corsi points out, the FBI under the Obama administration obtained a FISA warrant based on information within the now discredited "Trump dossier," which was funded by the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign and Obama campaign fund, which was filtered through the same law firm that paid Fusion GPS for the dossier. Remember when President Trump said he discovered his "wires were tapped" in Trump Tower? Manafort had offices in Trump Tower, and months after Trump's initial tweet, it was revealed Manafort was tapped, which is important, because every step of the way, President Trump has given us clues as to what was coming down the pike, which we will show more of later in this article. The fact that the Obama administration used the information in that dossier, means the FISA warrant itself was obtained illegally, according to Corsi, meaning all evidence gained through those warrants is considered "fruit of the poison tree." Via Corsi: On Sept. 19, 2017, CNN reported that U.S. investigators conducted electronic surveillance on Manafort both before and after the election under a FISA court warrant. The CNN article cites only unnamed sources, strongly suggesting the leak was based on an illegal leak to the press that could end up being traced back to the FBI, to Mueller’s Special Counselor office, or to both. Under the “fruit of the poison tree doctrine” established by the Supreme Court in Fourth Amendment illegal search and seizure cases, the FBI and/or Mueller may have compromised their entire investigation of Paul Manafort by either using the fraudulent “Russia dossier” paid for in part by the FBI, or by illegally leaking information derived from the FISA-authorized electronic surveillance to CNN and other mainstream media publications known to be partisan “Never Trump” mouthpieces. Read the rest at Infowars. Second Point: Many may wave away Corsi and Infowars as "conservative" outlets, so the second point from LawNewz, who often appear to be virulently anti-Trump, highlights that in the raid upon Manafort's home, "Mueller’s team may have obtained evidence in the raid of Paul Manafort’s home that was not covered by the search warrant." Specifically, "documents considered to be covered by attorney-client privilege." A similar issue came up recently in a case against Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey. A federal judge threw out all of the evidence gathered against him through warrants because the “sweeping” searches of his property violated his Fourth Amendment right. Judge Alison Nathan found that the searches were “grossly negligent” in that they collected evidence that went beyond the scope of the warrant like medical records, and divorce records. In the case of Manafort, it appears that his lawyers warned investigators about the existence of attorney-client privileged documents and memos. If investigators didn’t take the proper precautions to avoid collecting these documents, they could be in trouble for violating Manafort’s constitutional rights. It also appears that Tony Podesta is being targeted, as he just stepped down from his lobbying firm amidst the Mueller probe. EVERYTHING MUELLER TOUCHES IS TAINTED NOW Now we get to the meat and potatoes of this article, which is what the media is hiding behind their over-the-top enthusiasm about charges that have nothing to do with the Trump campaign itself. Congressional investigations into the Uranium One deal which made major headlines last week have already begun, which directly implicates a number of former Obama officials, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller himself who was the Director of the FBI at that time, as well as then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, who appointed Mueller as Special Counsel in the Russia/Trump probe, then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, former FBI Director James Comey and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Related: The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal Note -Once again, the President gave the public a clue that the Uranium One deal would be further investigated with a March tweet stating "Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech...." The next blockbuster report revealed that after the Washington Beacon pulled out of their opposition research against Trump when it became apparent he would be the GOP president nominee, the DNC, the Clinton campaign and the Obama campaign fund, all started funding the firm behind the oppo research, Fusion GPS, who then hired former British spy Christopher Steele, who created the infamous "Trump dossier," with information fed to him from Kremlin insiders. Yes, the very same dossier that was used to illegally obtain the FISA warrant which garnered the evidence Mueller used to get indictments against Paul Manafort. Note- President Trump once again informed the public the news about who funded the dossier was about to hit the news, on October 19, 2017. Media Research Center has done an outstanding job documenting the liberal media has been avoiding, downplaying or trying to distract from the Uranium One news and the dossier news. ABC News attempted to "shout down the truth of the dossier collusion," while CNN attempted to convince their viewers that the bombshell reports about Uranium One were a right-wing "campaign of confusion," even going as far as to "argue against transparency." The Wall Street Journal on the other hand is taking some massive flack from the left and liberal media because they looked at the news about who funded the Steele dossier, and their Editorial Board argued that Robert Mueller had to resign. Their first paragraph infuriated liberals and other media outlets: It turns out that Russia has sown distrust in the U.S. political system—aided and abetted by the Democratic Party, and perhaps the FBI. This is an about-face from the dominant media narrative of the last year, and it requires a full investigation. Then they concluded: Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest. The American public deserves a full accounting of the scope and nature of Russian meddling in American democracy, and that means following the trail of the Steele dossier as much as it does the meetings of Trump campaign officials. The fact that the WSJ refused to walk in lock-step with other liberal media outlets by attempting to ignore, justify or downplay how tainted any investigation involving Mueller is at this point, brought about a brutal reaction from others, such as MSNBC's Morning Joe calling it "disgraceful and dangerous," saying it was a "coordinated attack against Mueller." You can see other attacks against WSJ from prominent liberal writers and outlets at MediaIte. BEHIND THE SCENES - WHAT THE MSM IS HIDING What we haven't seen blared in hundreds of headlines is what is happening behind the scenes in Congress and the DOJ. On On October 23, 2017, David Bossie, president of Citizens United, and former chief investigator for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during the Clinton administration, called for a another Special Counsel, one to focus on the Uranium One/Clinton/Russia scandal, which would included investigating Mueller's role as FBI Director at the time, but more importantly, that was echoed the very next day by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. Via The Hill: The Senate Judiciary Committee announced last week that it was opening an inquiry into the Uranium One sale. The House Oversight and Intelligence panels on Tuesday also announced a joint investigation that will look into how the Justice Department handled the deal, which sold more than 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom. Congressional investigations aside, we have seen recent news reports about how Attorney General Jeff Sessions supposedly told former Congressman Jason Chaffetz he would not be looking at pursuing major cases like IRS, Fast and Furious, the email scandal, and it is getting a lot of play on conservative websites, but there was recent testimony by Sessions on the day the Uranium One scandal broke wide open, and while many focused on how Sessions said that it was Rod Rosenstein's responsibility to go to the "senior ethics people" in regards as to whether he should be taking part in any investigations regarding the issue, since he and Mueller played a large part in the Uranium One case, what many did not pay attention to and which the media certainly did not report is the portion of the testimony where Session said there is an ongoing investigation going on. Senator Gressley was asking about the recent revelations regarding Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, were being investigated and at first, Sessions said "without confirming or denying the existence of any particular investigation," he heard Grassley's concerns and they would be reviewed, but at the end of the clip below, Grassley asked "Has the Justice Department fully investigated whether the Russians compromised the Obama admin's decisions to smooth the way for transactions, and if not, why not"? Sessions' answer was "It would not be appropriate for me to comment on any ongoing investigation." BOTTOM LINE Perhaps the fact that there is an ongoing investigation into Uranium One and whether the Obama administration was "compromised" with the bribes funneled through the Clinton Foundation, while Clinton was Secretary of State and while Robert Mueller was in charge of the FBI during the initial investigation, which appears to have protected the Obama administration and Bill and Hillary Clinton from scrutiny, explains why House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are pushing right this second to "demand Congress move to protect Mueller." Finally, President Trump appears to be giving us the same types of hints he has given us throughout his Presidency, with the wire-tapping of Trump Tower (which it took months to finally be revealed he was correct), or the upcoming Uranium One exposure (again, took months for the blockbuster report to be revealed) and now, the following from October 29, 2017: UraniumOneTrumpSessionsMueller.jpg In Trump speak, that means the Republicans are unified in their determination to investigate the illegality of 1) The dossier funding; 2) Uranium One; 3) Those missing 33,000 emails; and 4) The fact that James Comey started his response for not recommending charges against Hillary Clinton, months before he even questioned her. What people need to understand is what we see in the liberal media is about half of what is happening behind the scenes, and we have seen the "Russia/Trump" collusion story continue to crumble as the first charges from the Trump/Russia probe had zero to do with Trump or Russian collusion in the 2016 election, as the Russia/Clinton/Obama/Mueller collusion bombshells are finally being revealed. The real Russian collusion investigations have just begun. That folks, is what the MSM is trying to hide from their audience. Help Keep Independent Media Alive, Become A Patron for All News PipeLine at https://www.patreon.com/ AllNewsPipeLine
http://allnewspipeline.com/MSM_Hides_Mueller_Collusion_Behind_Manafort_Headlines.php
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Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes near Tadine, New Caledonia
Updated 3:15 pm, Tuesday, October 31, 2017
The United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near Tadine, New Caledonia on Tuesday. The quake hit at 11:42 AM local time at a depth of 11 kilometers. There was no initial word on damage or injury resulting from the quake. More information on this earthquake is available on the USGS event page. See the latest USGS quake alerts, report feeling earthquake activity and tour interactive fault maps in the earthquake section.
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France earthquake: Alps region hit by 140 tremors in days, BIG ONE feared
FRANCE has been hit by a huge number of earthquakes over the last month, leading to fears that the BIG ONE is on its way.
By Sean Martin PUBLISHED: 13:35, Mon, Oct 30, 2017 | UPDATED: 14:32, Mon, Oct 30, 2017
In the past 40 days, the French Alps have been rocked by 140 quakes which has led officials to warn locals that a more powerful tremor may be on the way. Earthquake observation organisation Sismalp says that the strongest tremor was a 3.8 magnitude quake, but such a large swarm can be a precursor for a massive earthquake. Martine a resident of the village of Montgellafray told Europe1 radio: ”The noise is like a storm coming from far way. Everything shakes. I said 'that's it, all the tiles are going to break. "The last earthquake was really frightening. Since the end of August it has never stopped. “Every two days there is one and they are getting more common.” Another local, Yves, said: "Everyone is asking questions. Everyone in the village is talking about it.” As residents prepare for a potential massive earthquake, conspiracy theorists coincidentally are warning that the mysterious Planet X could cause devastating quakes across the globe on November 19. A stellar body known as a Brown Dwarf – which has become known alternately as Nibiru, Planet X, Nemesis and Black Star is claimed to be pulling at the Earth’s tectonic plates triggering the current glut of earthquake and volcano activity around the world. Website Planetxnews.com has been charting the movements of the so-called Black Star, which is believed to have massive gravitational influence pulling and squeezing the Earth. Writer Terral Croft said seismic activity is ripping apart the Earth’s crust which will culminate on November 19. He added: “Global seismic activity reaches a peak in the second two weeks of November moving into December 2017. “The predicted backside alignment quake event is scheduled for November 19, 2017, when the Earth passes behind the Sun relative to the Black Star.” He predicted massive tremors along a fault originating in Indonesia and terminating near Gibraltar would strike Europe – especially Italy and France. A big French tremor would also be felt in the UK. He said: “This scenario can easily lead to new earthquake and volcanic activity for Italy and France.”
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States of emergency declared in Piedmont and Lombardy as forest fires scorch northern Italy and force hundreds to flee
By Strange Sounds - Oct 31, 2017
Forest fires have been raging across Piedmont and Lombardy in Northern Italy since about a month. Both regions are now seeking states of emergency. Hundreds of hectares have already been consumed by the fires aggravated by the strong, hot, and dry wind. The army has been called in to assist the fire fighters, strengthening the supply chain to the front line of the blaze. Moreover, Switzerland and Croatia have sent aircraft to help Italian firefighters battle forest fires that have scorched parts of northern Italy and forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. Interior Minister Marco Minniti held a crisis meeting Monday with emergency authorities in Turin, capital of the hard-hit Piedmont region, and said evidence points to arson as the cause for at least some of the fires. Authorities in Piedmont and Lombardy are seeking to have states of emergency declared for their regions, which have been hit by an abnormally dry summer, little autumn rainfall and winds that have helped spread the flames. Meanwhile amazing lenticular clouds formed over the Lago di Comabbio, in the Province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy on October 29, 2017: The fires have contributed to a thick cloud of choking smog that has covered northern Italy for days and worsening air quality in larger cities – Turin and Milan. Consequently, 200 elderly were evacuated yesterday from a care-home, 30km west of Turin and schools are being closed in the western area of Lombardy.
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Tuesday, 31 October 2017
PLAGUE continues to spread to 10 more African countries! Red Cross fears GLOBAL OUTBREAK of Black Death: “Something different” warn experts
Warnings of ‘GLOBAL OUTBREAK’ of Black Death as PLAGUE continues to spread
No vaccine is available to prevent plague and according to The Sun News Paper the deadly disease has now spread into South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Comoros, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion. after taking root in Madagascar. HEALTH experts are warning there is “something different” about a new Black Death outbreak spreading across the world and that is because Red Cross officials have said the situation is particularly worrying because pneumonic plague, which is spread from person to person, has occurred for the first time in non-endemic areas and crowded cities. More than 70 percent of the cases are the pneumonic form which is fatal within 24 hours and no known cure if the pneumonic strain is not treated directly. The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of Central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching Crimea by 1343. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 50–60% of Europe's total population. In total, the plague may have reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century. The world population as a whole did not recover to pre-plague levels until the 17th century. The plague recurred occasionally in Europe until the 19th century. Madagascar is currently in the grip of an unfolding epidemic, with hundreds of people infected with the pneumonic plague. What led to the outbreak, and how can health authorities prevent its spread? Because the plague is endemic to Madagascar, outbreaks are not unusual. But this year, the outbreak emerged much earlier than usual and has spread in a unique manner. According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak was first identified after a 31-year-old man died in the Ankazobe District of the Central Highlands. As is common procedure following a suspected infectious disease death, the Ministry of Public Health began investigating the man's close contacts to ascertain if a wider health problem existed. And they soon discovered a spiralling infection trail. Since August it's estimated that at least 124 people have died, and an additional 1,192 infection cases have been logged. There have also been around 70 cases of bubonic plague, but it is the much more virulent pneumonic plague that has authorities worried. Pneumonic plague is considered the most aggressive form of the disease, as it can spread through person-to-person contact. Otherwise known as lung-based plague, the disease arises when an advanced infection moves to a person's lungs. At this stage, the sufferer can then infect others via coughing or sneezing. Incubation time is very short - just 24 hours in most cases - and if untreated the pneumonic plague is always fatal. Stephane Michaud, director of emergencies at the Canadian Red Cross, told The Globe and Mail that the situation is under control - at least in the short term: "For now, they are able to handle the clinical caseload of plague, and the main effort is at the community level to prevent further spread of the disease." While the World Health Organization believes the risk of a worldwide epidemic is low, the threat to local regions could escalate if global health authorities do not properly address this crisis. Antananarivo and Toamasina, the two largest cities in Madagascar, have experienced the greatest concentration of infections to date. Densely populated urban areas pose challenges for disease control efforts because of the difficulty in isolating infections. Additionally, cities tend to have more people travelling through to other regions, further increasing the risk of the pneumonic plague spreading beyond Madagascar. At present, nine countries have reported cases of the plague, with the Seychelles Islands among them. A number of vacationers flock to this region, so while the global risk remains low, heightened screening procedures may be put in place for some tourists as they return to their home countries. Even so, it's unusual for the plague to spread via long-distance air travel due to the short window of incubation. Generally, infected people will be too ill to travel or can be easily isolated. The good news is that the plague is highly treatable with antibiotics, and around 780 people have been cured since August 1. Furthermore, six of the affected districts in Madagascar have now reported zero cases for at least 15 days, meaning that the transmission risk in those regions is under control. And despite an unusually high number of infections, the outbreak is behaving in roughly the same way as local authorities observe every year. Therefore, if health officials can contain these infections, there's every reason to think that this situation can be resolved relatively swiftly. Such action hinges on international aid to ensure that Madagascar's authorities have all the necessary tools to stop the plague in its tracks. A global appeal for a further $5.5 million is underway to fund health centres, antibiotics deployment and more. Posted by Gary Walton at 12:21 pm
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/10/plague-continues-to-spread-to-10-more.html
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Post-ISIS, our allies are turning guns on each other
By Eli Lake October 28, 2017
One might expect President Trump to take a victory lap after last week’s liberation of Raqqa from the Islamic State. Thanks to American air power, Maoist Kurds, Syrian patriots and US special operators, this caliphate ended as the shortest-lived in Islamic history. Yet the president chose not to exploit this win. The White House issued a five-paragraph statement. Much of last week was consumed with the president’s feud over his phone call to the mother of one of the soldiers killed in Niger. It’s the geopolitical equivalent of “Mo Money, Mo Problems.” Success brings new challenges. In this case, the eclipse of the Islamic State reopens old rifts in the Middle East that were paused to defeat a universally loathed enemy. Even the United States and Iran could cooperate (tacitly) against an outfit that operated sex-slave markets and attempted genocide. Now all of this fair-weather esprit de corps is gone. One glaring example is in northern Iraq, where the Iraqi Security Forces advanced on Kurdish Peshmerga positions in the last week following their recapture of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city Kurdish forces protected from the Islamic State in 2014. But there are small examples as well. In Raqqa, there are now reports that the Kurdish YPG militia have started taking down Syrian revolutionary flags favored by Arab members of the opposition forces that liberated the city, according to Jennifer Cafarella, senior analyst with the Institute for the Study of War. This says nothing of the new tensions between the United States and Iran in Iraq. This week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson earned a rare public rebuke from the Iraqi prime minister’s office after he called on Iranian-supported militias fighting the Islamic State to return home now that the fight is coming to a close. Only two years ago, the US was providing air support for ground offensives led by these militias in that fight. Cafarella told me that one of the problems with the US strategy against the Islamic State is that it was almost purely a military one, without the much-needed political component necessary for winning the peace. “What we have not addressed are larger institutional and societal challenges that gave rise to ISIS to begin with, and are now fueling the cascading crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan,” she said. “The very best example of that is that we have ignored and overlooked Iran’s penetration into the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defense.” In many ways this is an old story. Iran’s penetration into these institutions vexed President George W. Bush before he decided to “surge” troops into Iraq and pursue counterinsurgency under the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus. One of the White House staffers who argued for that strategy was Brett McGurk, the American diplomat who went on to forge the coalition against the Islamic State. At the time, the US pursued both Sunni and Shiite terrorists in Iraq, targeting any groups that threatened the elected government. Much of that strategy relied on a close partnership between Bush and then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Eventually Maliki, a Shiite Arab, succumbed to sectarianism. Under President Barack Obama, he pursued a ruthless campaign against Sunni groups in the west of the country, laying the groundwork for the rise of the Islamic State. Maliki reasoned that if Obama was intent to leave, he best make his peace with Iran. After the Islamic State began to take territory and went on a rampage in 2014, Obama abandoned his noninterventionism. He instructed McGurk to find an alternative that summer. That alternative became Haider al-Abadi, who ascended to be prime minister that September. The Iranians supported Maliki in that power struggle and lost. Today, Abadi is at a crossroads again. His security forces have pressed into Kurdish areas over the objections of the US government — though a cease-fire was said to be reached on Friday. The situation threatens to pit two Iraqi forces, both supported and armed by the US government, against one another, even though only a month ago they were cooperating against the Islamic State. It follows a certain depressing logic. Without an enemy to unite them, America’s allies in the Middle East return to fighting one another.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/28/post-isis-our-allies-are-turning-guns-on-each-other/
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Israel-Hezbollah war is inevitable, sure to be devastating — defense experts
International High Level Military Group paints grim picture of potential conflict between Jewish state, Iran-backed terror group, and what, if anything, can prevent it
By Judah Ari Gross 26 October 2017, 11:07 am
A war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group is inevitable, though not necessarily imminent, and will be unavoidably bloody for both sides, according to an assessment by a number of former generals from around the world, known collectively as the High Level Military Group. In an extensive report, published Wednesday, the organization details both the IDF’s and Hezbollah’s reorganization in the 11 years following the Second Lebanon War, the last time the sides engaged in all-out combat with one another. The High Level Military Group (HLMG) also describes the strategies each side will use in the apparently approaching war, as well as the potential pratfalls of those plans. “Hezbollah doesn’t want a conflict to break out at present, given it is still seeking to consolidate its gains in Syria and continue preparations in Lebanon. However, its actions and propaganda suggest that it considers its ability to fight a war with Israel as a given,” according to the report. “The timing of such a conflict is likely to be determined by miscalculation as much as decision-making in Iran and Lebanon.” The group said that should such a war break out, it will likely be “more violent and destructive than the previous ones,” due to the improvements that both sides have made to their respective military capabilities in the interim. The report, “Hezbollah’s terror army: How to prevent a third Lebanon war,” offers limited recommendations for avoiding such a conflict, instead painting it as a war waiting to happen. The retired generals and defense officials from the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Colombia, India, and Australia who make up the HLMG also express significant criticism of the United Nations for its “evident severe failure” to fully implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, a dereliction that they credit with exacerbating the situation. The former military leaders found that the UN Interim Force in Lebanon peacekeeping mission is not enforcing the aspects of Resolution 1701 that are meant to keep armed non-state actors like Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon. The 76-page report, which is based on interviews solely with Israeli representatives during a fact-finding mission, comes to many of the same conclusions as those of Israeli defense officials. In preparing the assessment, the HLMG did not meet with Lebanese, Hezbollah, or UN officials. Yet the High Level Military Group maintains that its assessments are “based purely on the accumulated military and strategic experience of its members.” The HLMG, which includes a former chairman of the NATO military committee, a former chief of staff of the Italian army, a former US ambassador-at-large on war crimes, a former director-general of the Indian Defense Intelligence Agency and the outspoken Israel supporter Col. (res.) Richard Kemp of the British military, was created by the Friends of Israel Initiative, a group founded by former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar in 2010 to fight an “unprecedented campaign of delegitimization against Israel.” This is not the group’s first foray into Israeli security. In December 2015, the organization also released a report that defended the IDF’s actions during the previous year’s Gaza war, finding that the army had abided by the rules of armed conflict and even surpassed them. Hezbollah is all grown up Hezbollah was founded in 1985, three years after the start of the First Lebanon War. It was created with Iranian support, and began killing Israeli soldiers stationed in IDF outposts in southern Lebanon with anti-tank missiles, improvised explosive devices, and small arms fire. Over time, however, the group grew from a terrorist nuisance to a full-scale nemesis with significant sway in domestic Lebanese politics. What was once a two-bit terrorist group now represents the benchmark by which the IDF measures its preparedness. In its report, the former generals and defense officials describe Hezbollah as being “widely considered to be the most powerful non-state armed actor in the world.” As the Lebanese terrorist group has taken part in the fighting on behalf of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, it has gotten stronger through combat experience and improved access to advanced weaponry from its benefactor, Iran. “Hezbollah has the political clout of a government, the firepower of an army and the strategic approach of a terrorist organization,” according to the report. Israel believes that Hezbollah maintains a force of approximately 25,000 full-time fighters — 5,000 of which underwent advanced training in Iran — with another at least 20,000 fighters in reserve units. The terrorist army boasts of possessing attack drones, air defense systems, armored personnel carriers and even tanks. It is also believed to have the Yakhont shore-to-sea missile, with which it can threaten Israeli Navy ships. But its weapons of choice are missiles and rockets, which it has been amassing and improving, with Iranian assistance, at a fantastic rate. Hezbollah is believed to possess between 100,000 and 150,000 projectiles, most of them short range. Israeli officials assess that in a future war, the terrorist group would be able to sustain a firing rate of over 1,000 missiles per day. Increasingly, the IDF believes, the group has been focusing on making its missiles more precise so that it can direct attacks to key Israeli strategic sites. “Thus, not only has the sheer numeric scale of the threat increased exponentially, but the lethality is greatly increased on account of larger payloads, range and higher targeting accuracy,” the HLMG wrote in its report. Israel has been working to counter that threat through advanced missile defense systems like the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Patriot and Arrow. But military officials regularly stress that these batteries will not provide perfect, hermetic protection. On the defensive side, Hezbollah has been embedding itself in the southern Lebanese civilian population “for tactical advantage (making the IDF hesitate to attack) and strategic advantage (using images of civilian harm to delegitimize the IDF),” according to the report. The HLMG said that Hezbollah “transformed almost every Shiite village in the country’s south into a military asset.” Inside and under those villages, Hezbollah is believed to have prepared extensive fighting positions from which it could confront the more powerful IDF. Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah has also threatened that the terrorist group would not be fighting alone, but would have the support of Iran-backed militias in Syria and other fighters from across the Middle East. This which would force the Israeli army to fight on two fronts or even more, if Hamas in Gaza joins in the conflict as well. But the terrorist group has another advantage: the Israeli citizenry is unaccustomed to and unprepared for sustained conflict. “Policymakers expressed concerns about how prepared the Israeli public is for the level of devastation that would be wrought in a major military clash with Hezbollah,” the HLMG wrote. “Younger Israelis are less familiar with the threat of direct attack than older generations, and Israel’s success in neutralizing less sophisticated rockets fired from Gaza may have led to inflated expectations of its capacity to intercept the volume of rockets likely to be fired by Hezbollah.” The IDF’s nothing to scoff at either While Hezbollah’s arsenal contains “more rockets than many European armies,” according to the HLMG report, Israel’s military is considered by many analysts to be the most powerful in the Middle East. “Israel is equipped with the most advanced fighter jets, high-tech armed drones, and is widely assumed to be a nuclear weapons power,” the retired generals and defense officials wrote. “Statistical data available for 2014 suggests that the IDF has 410,500 active frontline personnel, 3,657 tanks, and 989 aircraft.” Israel has also dramatically improved its intelligence on the terrorist group in the 11 years since the Second Lebanon War, an important development, as a severe shortage of accurate information has been blamed for causing many of the conflict’s failures. By combining the overwhelming military force at its disposal and the intelligence required to direct it, the IDF would seek to end a future war quickly, before the Israeli home front would sustain heavy casualties. “However, as a potential conflict progresses, it will become harder for Israel’s military superiority to translate into battlefield victory,” according to the HLMG. In their report, the former generals wrote that Israeli officials told them they expect there to be “thousands of casualties in Lebanon, many of whom will be civilians despite the IDF adhering to the highest standards of the Law of Armed Conflict.”Conspicuously, while the High Level Military Group provides a general estimate of Lebanese casualties, it offers no such assessment of Israeli civilian deaths, beyond saying that the number is “likely to far exceed previous conflicts.” (There were 50 Israeli civilian deaths in the 1982 Lebanon War, and 46 in the 2006 conflict.) Hezbollah is Lebanon, or is it? One of the lingering questions in the High Level Military Group’s report is how Israel perceives the country of Lebanon, if it is fundamentally intertwined with Hezbollah or distinct from it. “During the HLMG fact-finding, it was clear that an intense policy debate in Israel’s upper echelons increasingly sees some senior voices making the case that a conflict should probably be conceived as including the state of Lebanon as an adversary,” the former generals wrote. For instance, Education Minister Naftali Bennett has been leading the charge that the two cannot be separated and that Lebanese national infrastructure should also be counted as a legitimate military target in a future war. This was not the case in the 2006 Lebanon War, when the IDF’s policy was to differentiate between Lebanon and Hezbollah, but developments inside the Arab country could change that. In its report, the HLMG noted an “increasingly symbiotic relationship between Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces,” which is believed to include intelligence sharing, as well as material cooperation. “Israel shared evidence with the HLMG that suggests that at least some military equipment which the LAF receives from international patrons, including the United States, ultimately finds its way into the hands of Hezbollah units,” the retired generals wrote. However, some analysts, who are not cited in the HLMG document, make the case, against the view of Bennett and other Israeli officials that Lebanon is Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is Lebanon. One of these is David Daoud, a researcher analyst for the United Against a Nuclear Iran think tank and advocacy group, who argues that by attacking Lebanese national infrastructure, Israel could end up helping Hezbollah by proving to the Lebanese population that the terrorist group is, as it claims, the country’s defender against the “Zionist regime.” Peacekeepers with their hands tied behind their back The HLMG puts significant focus on the role and failures of UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon. The international force is generally seen by Israel to be feckless and incapable, or at least unwilling, to take serious action against Hezbollah’s force build-up, while in Lebanon the group is perceived by many as being a shill for the IDF. UNIFIL’s activities in southern Lebanon are dictated by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which, among other things, calls for no non-state armed forces to occupy positions south of Lebanon’s Litani River. According to the HLMG, the United Nations force understands Resolution 1701 “in a very narrow sense with regards to the authority to search for weapons in Lebanon and curtail the activity of armed groups.” A new and improved mandate is required to address the situation Israel, and now the HLMG, argue that this mandate should be interpreted more broadly, which would allow UNIFIL to curb Hezbollah’s efforts to prepare for war by actively preventing the terror group from possessing weapons south of the Litani, with force if necessary. “A new and improved mandate is required to address the situation,” according to the report. What else can be done? Beyond granting UNIFIL broader powers, the High Level Military Group offers scant advice for preventing a future conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. What advice is offered is relatively vague, with no specifics to implement or mention of its feasibility. The main recommendation is to address not Hezbollah, but its patron. “The international community must take actions to curtail Iran’s activities, raise the cost of its behavior and engage in efforts at deterrence,” the group wrote. In terms of Hezbollah specifically, the High Level Military Group calls for Western nations to cease distinguishing the terror group’s political and terrorist wings. The international community must take actions to curtail Iran’s activities The former generals and defense officials also encourage the United States to make any future aid arrangements with Lebanon contingent “on a plan to strip Hezbollah of its de facto status as the leading force in the country.” More generally, the HLMG calls for the West to “strongly support Israel in its efforts to de-escalate the tensions.”
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Ezekiel 39:1 "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
2 "and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
3 "Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
4 "You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. (NKJ)
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Wake-Up Call: The Russia-Iran Axis Is an Existential Threat to Israel’s Security
avatar by Yigal Carmon October 27, 2017 2:24 pm
Iranian forces and Iran-supported militias are expanding in Syria, and are approaching the Israeli border. This is happening with the full support and facilitation of Russia, even though Russia knows very well that Iran’s aim is to fight the State of Israel and eradicate it — and that its expansion in Syria will significantly advance that aim. While Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov calls Israel’s demand that the Iranians maintain a distance of 40 kilometers from its border “not realistic” — even though Iran has come 2,000 kilometers to reach this point — Russian Defense Minister Shoygu has the temerity to come to Israel and entreat it to refrain from defending itself. The Russians believe that they can mislead Jerusalem. But so far, Israel has elected to act according to facts, rather than being taken in by Russian duplicity. Israel, therefore, is striking Syrian targets that endanger the Jewish state. While Syria and Iran enjoy full Russian support, Israel lacks US backing against the Russia-Iran threat. The US does not even stand up for itself in Syria — just a few days ago, Russia, like a rogue state, violated the deconfliction zone agreement that it itself had signed with the US. Therefore, Iran’s expansion into all of Syria up to the Israeli border will soon be completed, with the full support of Russia — and with an eventual withdrawal of all US forces from Syria. Senior Iranian officials and military commanders have already clarified that after Syria, Israel is next. Israel will have to fight its war against the Iran-Russia-Syria axis alone. It will need America’s diplomatic backing, military equipment and economic assistance, but never American troops. Yet as matters stand, the actual US strategy vis-à-vis Iran’s expansion in the region is contrary to its rhetoric, which opposes this expansion (the US agreed, both in the Astana talks and in the deconfliction zones agreement with Russia, to legitimize Iran’s presence in Syria). This means that American support for Israel against the Iran-Russia axis is not assured. The US’ Russia policy also does not guarantee that the US will stand with Israel against the Iranian threat that is enabled by Russia. Israel is well equipped to answer existential threats if it must — even if they are either directly or indirectly Russian. At the same time, Russia’s military power may prove to be overestimated. Russia acts as if it is a world power, but its advanced weaponry may fail against Israeli-American technological superiority. This may be why Russia is in no hurry to launch its missiles when Israel strikes in Syria. President Obama even called Russia a regional power. This is not to say that there is no existential threat to Israel. Clearly, the Iran-Russia-Syria-Hezbollah axis does pose such a threat, but Israel can overcome it — if we must. However, the Jewish state’s ability to face the threat depends on early recognition that Russia is part of the enemy axis. The inability of many in Israel and the West to perceive Russia as the enemy stems from the belief that Russia has no reason in the world to be Israel’s enemy. Therefore, they ignore what they see happening in Syria, and instead provide complicated explanations about an inherent conflict of interests between Russia and Iran. This is a psychological failing from which Israel suffered bitterly in its history, as have other nations. So why would Russia align itself politically and strategically with Iran? Russia views itself as a superpower that is fighting to reclaim its former status. Indeed, for Russia, the enemy is not Israel. Russia’s true adversary is the US, and Israel is an historic ally of that adversary. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, an increasingly embittered Russia has escalated its attempts to regain its past glory. The Russian regime hates the US (to understand this, it is sufficient to read Putin’s address a few days ago at the annual Valdai Club conference; see MEMRI Russian Media Project report). But Russia cannot fight the US directly. America is in the North Sea, and the best that Russia can do is dispatch planes to buzz the US Navy there. NATO is expanding eastwards, and Russia’s forces are no match for it — as attested to by General Staff Col. (ret.) Mikhail Khoradenok on Russian television, to the dismay of his audience: “We have 200 warplanes, while NATO has 3,800. We have 1,600 armored vehicles and APCs, while NATO has more than 20,000… Thus, anyone who talks about our capability to wage a conventional war against NATO is clearly too hotheaded” (see MEMRI Russian Media Project Clip #5902, February 14, 2017). Russia’s single antiquated smoke-belching aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is also no match for the US Navy, with its 10 advanced carriers. Russia cannot take on America directly, and therefore, it is using Iran as its proxy to humiliate America, undermine its status and expel it from the region. At the same time, Russia can use Iran as a bargaining chip to obtain what it needs the most: a lifting of the sanctions that were imposed after Russia annexed Crimea and dismembered Ukraine. Russian regime-affiliated think tanks and media outlets explicitly stated in early 2017 that Russia’s alliance with Iran could be a bargaining chip. Unless and until Russia and the West strike a deal on lifting these sanctions in exchange for Russia’s abandoning its alliance with Iran — which is completely unrealistic — Russia will cling to this alliance. This is because Iran reinforces Russia’s superpower aspirations and pretensions, and shares, and serves, Russia’s drive to humiliate and undermine the US. Any harm done to Israel in the process does not figure in Russia’s strategic considerations vis-à-vis the US. Worse, even if Russia were to change direction at any time in the future, Iran’s Russia-enabled expansion in Syria — and its proximity to Israel — will remain, and will serve as the Islamic Republic’s launching pad for its war against Israel.
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It's Happening: Clinton Bundler Tony Podesta Steps Down, Dissolves the Podesta Group
By Tyler O'Neil October 30, 2017
After the arrest of Paul Manafort on Monday, Hillary Clinton bundler Tony Podesta announced he would be stepping down from leading the Podesta Group and that the firm would dissolve. Tony Podesta co-founded the firm with his brother John Podesta, who would become Clinton's campaign manager for the 2016 election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Donald Trump's Russia connections followed Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman. Manafort turned himself in to the FBI on Monday, after being indicted on 12 counts, among which were "conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts." Interestingly, many of these charges could also be applied to Podesta. Manafort worked for the Party of Regions, a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party whose president, Viktor Yanukovych, ruled Ukraine between 2010 and 2014. Amid the "Panama Papers" leak emerged a Party of Regions ledger listing $12.7 million in cash payments for Manafort. In a subsequent report, the Associated Press revealed that Manafort helped the Party of Regions "secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012." The European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), a pro-Yanukovych nonprofit, allegedly paid the $2.2 million to the Podesta Group and the Mercury LLC — to lobby the White House and Congress for positions in line with Yanukovych's government. Both Manafort and the Podesta Group failed to register as lobbyists acting on behalf of a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Last week, three sources told NBC News that Tony Podesta and the Podesta Group had fallen under the purview of Mueller's investigation, due to their connections to Manafort's finances. Both Manafort's firm and the Podesta Group filed FARA registrations for the ECMU work only after the payments were reported by the media last year. Politico's Anna Palmer reported Tony Podesta's resignation from the Podesta Group on Monday. Podesta announced his decision during a firm-wide meeting Monday morning, and has alerted clients of his impending departure. He will be handing over full operational and financial control to longtime firm CEO Kimberley Fritts. She and a senior group will be launching a new firm in the next one or two days. Politico's sources said the transition has been in the works for the past several months. Podesta "was very magnanimous and said, 'This is an amazing group of people,'" a source told Politico, recalling Tony Podesta's remarks. He reportedly told staff he "doesn't intend to go quietly, or learn how to play golf," but rather he "needs to fight this as an individual, but doesn't want the firm to fight it." 5 Things to Know About Paul Manafort's Arrest in the Mueller Trump-Russia Probe etc. Scribe note: Click on the link below.
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Saudi Arabia to extract uranium for 'self-sufficient' nuclear program
Saudi Arabia will extract uranium domestically as a step towards “self-sufficiency” in producing atomic fuel, a senior government official said Monday. Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, head of the Saudi government agency tasked with the nuclear plans, told Reuters that the move makes sense from an economic point of view. In a speech at an international nuclear power conference in Abu Dhabi, Yamani did not specify whether Saudi Arabia seeks to also enrich and reprocess uranium—steps that are much more sensitive because they can open up the possibility of military uses. The world’s largest oil exporter said it wants to tap atomic power for peaceful purposes only in order to diversify its energy supply, Reuters reported. SAUDI WOMEN TO BE ALLOWED IN SPORTS STADIUMS NEXT YEAR “Regarding the production of uranium in the kingdom, this is a program which is our first step towards self-sufficiency in producing nuclear fuel,” Yamani told a conference organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “We utilize the uranium ore that has been proven to be economically efficient.” Atomic reactors need uranium enriched to around 5 percent purity but the same technology in this process can also be used to enrich the heavy metal to higher, weapons-grade levels. This issue has been at the heart of Western and regional concerns about the nuclear work of Iran and led to the 2015 deal in which Iran agreed to freeze the program for 15 years in exchange for sanctions relief. President Trump has called the agreement a bad deal and this month said he was decertifying it. He wants Congress to fix the deal’s “flaws.” On Monday, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Iran was complying with the nuclear deal. SWISS FORMALIZE INTERMEDIARY ROLE BETWEEN SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia would be the second country in the Gulf Arab region to tap uranium. The United Arab Emirates is scheduled to start-up its first, South Korean-built reactor in 2018. Yamani also said that Saudi Arabia will soon pass laws for its nuclear program and will have set up all of the regulations for its nuclear regulator by the third quarter of 2018. “The IAEA also has been requested to conduct an integrated review of our nuclear infrastructure during the second quarter of 2018,” he said, according to Reuters, which will allow the agency to assess efforts to prepare Saudi infrastructure “to introduce nuclear power for peaceful purposes.” Saudi Arabia is considering building some 17.6 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2032, the equivalent of about 17 reactors.
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More Signs Emerge We May Be Only Days Or Weeks Away From Something Huge - Prepare Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
- 'It Is Hard To Say What Might Happen But We All Know, Something Huge Is Coming'
October 24, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In the brand new story over at Breitbart that the Drudge Report linked to Tuesday morning they report that nearly 1.5 million fewer Americans are now on food stamps under President Trump than there were under President Obama. Reporting that the trend shows SNAP enrollment is falling every month since January, the numbers still show that a stunning 42 million+ Americans are depending upon government assistance to survive in 2017. According to this recent story over at Zero Hedge, the world is now looking at a 70% to 80% chance of another massive global financial crisis on the horizon and while we've seen that the big banks can continuously 'kick the can down the road', so far averting another 'great depression', the signs of forthcoming danger, and reasons to prepare, continue to be seen all around us. As we see in stories from all across the internet, the potential disasters Americans face take many forms. From North Korea still threatening to turn out the lights upon America while turning us into ashes, ISIS issues their latest threats of carrying out another '9-11-style event'. From ever-increasing preparations for 'the big one' and our planet Earth delivering more huge natural disasters to a potential deadly global pandemic to antifa threatening to shut down America in just two weeks, we'll be doing ourselves and our families a huge favor by paying close attention to the brand new SQAlert which we've republished above the videos below in which we're warned of a possible 'event' within the next few weeks. While ANP frowns upon putting potential future dates on events that are completely out of our control, great wisdom from Ezekiel shares why we feel we should always share such warnings to prepare for possible danger ahead. Especially with antifa preparing to riot across America in less than two weeks as shared in much more detail below. The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand. On the 'war front', we're happy to report that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul recently took task to neocon South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, claiming "the US is involved in so many wars 'even warmonger Lindsey Graham can't keep track". We should also keep in mind that President Trump and Rand Paul have been spending a lot of time together. While the left compares President Trump to Adolf Hitler, with claims he'll get America into a devastating nuclear war, we see a man of great patience who appears to be doing much in his power to keep America out of war yet safe from potentially being nuked by North Korea or Iran in the future, a very real 'Catch 22' situation. We wish him God's wisdom and strength in those further endeavors. Yet the North Korea threat is ever present on the winds. And while former US President Jimmy Carter recently called out the Russian election conspiracy as 'fake news' while also calling out US war propaganda and US imperialism, North Korea recently claimed they are now a fully fledged nuclear power, proving to us it may already be too late to turn back the hands of time on North Korea. In this new story, the Sun reported that North Korea is mass producing biological weapons such as smallpox, plague, anthrax and cholera to possibly use against US troops and maybe even here in America, as we've previously reported on ANP time and again and is now being reported by Forbes, a North Korean EMP attack upon America that took down our electrical grid would bring darkness to the land and cause massive starvation all across America. With a potential war on the horizon with NK, with estimates of up to 90% of Americans dead from an EMP, why was the Congressional EMP Commission just disbanded? From the new Forbes EMP story: “The U.S. can sustain a population of 320 million people only because of modern technology,” said Dr. Peter Vincent Pry. “An EMP that blacks-out the electric grid for a year would [decimate] the critical infrastructure necessary to support such a large population.” In three days, the food supply in local grocery stores would be consumed and the 30-day national food supply in regional warehouses would begin to spoil, says Pry. In one year, he contends that up to 90 percent of the population could perish from starvation, disease, and societal collapse. Pry says electro-mechanical systems which regulate the flow of gas through pipelines would spark; causing the gas to ignite and result in massive firestorms in cities and large forest fires. There would be no water; no communications; and mass transportation would be paralyzed, says Pry. In seven days, he contends that reactors in U.S.’ nuclear power plants would essentially melt down, spreading radioactivity across most of the nation. In this new story over at the Washington Post they report that world leaders are now preparing for a pandemic which they warn will come sooner than anyone expects which leads us to ask, what do they know that we don't know? Seeing that the World Bank and the Bill Gates Foundation are prominently mentioned in their story points us towards the 'depopulation' agenda potential motive while meanwhile, Madagascar deals with a deadly outbreak of the plague with warnings it will continue to spread. With governments also killing cash at breakneck speed another sign of where the globalists are attempting to herd the masses as they further institute their 'complete control grid', if war and/or a 'natural disaster event' are avoided in the weeks ahead, we see the biggest potential disruption could very well be antifa's plans to shut down America, making the country ungovernable, in November. Should massive blockades of highways and businesses take place as the domestic terrorists have been threatening to do, attempting to bring a stop to the day to day functioning of America, we could very well see a disruption of the chain of food and supplies that make their way across the country thanks to the good men and women in the trucking industry. We will be updating antifa's riots schedules in a follow-up to this story on ANP. And as we've previously reported on ANP, with mandatory electronic monitoring of truckers set to be the law of the land by December of 2017, talks of a potential trucking shutdown in our future also continue to hang in the air. While the SQAlert we've republished below from over at the website of Steve Quayle is from an anonymous source, we've long believed that we should be prepared for anything and this warning gives us a great such reason to prepare. PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL YOUR PREPS ARE TOPPED OFF AND ACCOUNTED FOR - CHECK AND RECHECK - ACQUIRE WHAT YOU NEED ASAP - NOTE WATER AND CANNED GOODS, SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED A friend of mine sent me a copy of a text he received from a friend in the Grocery Supply Industry in the Springfield, MO area. Here is a copy of that text: "Just had a brief conversation with a friend. His son works at AG which is a grocery supply warehousing company. His boss said the government called them Friday afternoon and told them to stock up on water and canned goods. Did not give a reason. They said in the next two weeks, to stock supplies of water and canned goods." For all that is going on right now it is hard to say what might happen but as we all know whether it be civil unrest, economical collapse, natural disaster, Korea, Isis, etc something is coming. Pray and prepare! In the first video below, Mike Adams from Natural News talks with us about the coming cashless society that 'the elite' are so eagerly pushing in as with it will come almost total tyranny. The 2nd video below isn't parody as we hear about a new LGBTQ gun club, appropriately called 'Trigger Warning', that is preparing for war with the right. The 3rd video below shares with us the latest threats and news coming from out of North Korea while in the final video below from the Hagmann Report, we're asked if recent events are prophetic harbingers of future events soon to come.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Prepare_Now_Or_Forever_Hold_Your_Peace.php
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Is an EMP in America’s future? A growing number of prominent Americans say it is is.
By Dave Hodges
This article is a massive dot connecting exercise in which it is becoming increasingly clear that the various nefarous forces are combing efforts to take down America in one eventful night. The evidence trail seems to be unmistakable. And as much as I want to be wrong, the trend curve of the known facts speaks to a very dire and nation-changing event that is coming our way. The EMP Threat/UN Poised to Act Mike Adams wrote an article in which he reported what is now sinking in with the rest of the media, namely, North Korea has a hydrogen bomb and advanced EMP weapons. Allow this to serve as a backdrop for the following article, which makes the case that the UN is operating on US soil, in places like Rawlins, Wyoming and Hagerstown, Maryland, and they are prepared to survive an EMP attack prior to asserting their authority over the people of the United States. The United Nations Personnel and Vehicles Are Seemingly Everywhere The United Nations is clearly on the move across the United. I am getting reports and photos from Georgia, Alabama and Texas. However, the most interesting photos are coming out Rawlins, Wyoming and Hagerstown, Maryland. Rawlins, Wyoming: UN Command and Control with EMP Proof Communications Over the past 18 months, the small town of Rawlins, Wyoming has come to my attention because of its intimate association with DHS and the UN. Further, this small town of under 10,ooo people has played host to some very large scale bioweapon response drills as well as testing the efficacy of the Federal authorities to be able to respond to a terrorist chemical attack. I have taken the following photos to military personnel who tell me this is an United Nations operation. The particular equipment you are looking at is designed to operate and persevere through an EMP attack. Just after Labor Day, Paul Martin and myself have received an identical communication from the Rawlins area. Please take note the following photos: What we have learned is that these “communications” are indeed UN vehicles and they are now permanently bolted down and their communications towers and and related equipment are designed to survive an EMP attack while still being abe to provide “unique” cell towers so some kind of force, presumably a contingent of troops under the auspices of the United Nations would be free to operate as their communications would have survived an EMP attack. In addition to this development, we should consider the many interviews that Paul Martin and I have done regarding foreign troops in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. Here is a sample of what Paul Martin have been discovering in this region. On December 16, 2016, Paul revealed to my audience that Warren AFB has been cross-training non-combat personnel to be prepared to fight in an urban warfare situation. Here was that interview: This information has gone full cycle. This same indivdual has been telling Paul Martin, and one of Paul Martin’s other sources has been saying that the US is going to hit with an EMP. Before continuing with the progression of these UN/EMP related events, it is important to take a look at a couple of revelations which will prominently figure into the final scenario that this article is building towards. An Example of the Massive Presence on US Soil The following informational evidence is one of many UN staging areas. Please note the medical vehicles, but also note the vehicles associated with war. This is on American soil, where our DHS is allowing foreign military entities to act with impunity on American soil. I have learned that this facility is owned by the State Department (ie Deep State). What makes sense here is that a catastrophic event(s) is/are coming America’s way in the form of false flag events designed to create a crisis, in which the great purveysors of humanitarian aid, will come like a thief in the night to offer humanitarian aid, followed by gun confiscatio, followed by martial law. This is shaping up to be America’s darkest moment. Here is an email from the person that sent me the following photos: Hey Dave, This area has been used for storing UN vehicles for at least the last year. If you check out this address on Google Maps you will see some Vehicles there as well. 11841 Newgate Boulevard Hagerstown Maryland 21740. You can’t tell from the pictures but behind the pickup trucks are some armored AMRAP type vehicles. My name is Steven Myers. Please keep up the good work and may God protect and watch over you. (note: Somebody did send me those photos too, look at the top photo at the top of the page). The following video contains 10 photos sent by Mr. Meyers. These vehicles are, again, a combination of medical and military assault vehicles. As I stated earlier, I am getting similar reports out of Alabama, Georgia and Texas. I believe that what we are seeing in this report is that the UN plans on making their presence known following an EMP attack upon the United States. As with other UN occupatons, the humanitarian mission quickly gives way to gun confiscation and worse. Certainly, the UN equipment in Rawlins would allow the UN to maintain their command and control following an EMP attack. November 4th Antifa Warning November 4, 2017 is shaping up to be an important “Red Letter Day” in the history of our country. From the New American: “The communists in the Antifa crowd are planning to begin a revolution in America on Saturday, November 4 — almost exactly 100 years after the Bolshevik Revolution that took Russia out of the frying pan of Tsarist rule and into the fire of communist totalitarianism. While some see Antifa activists as the modern heroes of anti-Fascism — fighting against racism, sexism, and a litany of other “isms” — and others see them merely as the snowflake crowd of spoiled brats demanding free everything, the reality is that Antifa is one tool in the communists’ toolbox to bring America to her knees. And Saturday, November 4, 2017, is the day they have chosen for the opening salvo in the American Bolshevik Revolution. On Tuesday morning, September 26, the Antifa group Refuse Fascism blocked rush-hour traffic on the 101 freeway for about a half an hour. Stretched out across the highway, holding signs spelling out, “NOV 4 IT BEGINS,” eight people chanted slogans such as “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.” and “Whose streets? Our streets!” Many others lined the areas above the freeway, holding banners demanding an end to the “Trump/Pence Regime” and shooting video of the blockade. As cars backed up on the freeway for several miles with thousands of angry travelers creating a cacophony of honking horns, the Antifa crowd continued their siege of the public right-of-way, claiming it was theirs to block. The hypocrisy of the Antifa crowd claiming to be fighting for freedom — while restricting the liberty of thousands of the people whose rights they claim to care about — is telling. While blocking traffic, these “activists” seem to give no thought to the fact that there may be police officers, ambulance drivers, and fire fighters as well as ordinary citizens on their way to real, life-threatening emergencies who are blocked in that traffic while the Antifa crowd makes a political point. This tactic is nothing new; Antifa’s comrades-in-arms in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) crowd have used it on numerous occasions. It is not surprising that both BLM and Antifa use the same disruptive tactics; they both draw their philosophy (and their tactics) from the poisoned well of Marxist ideology. They are both tools of the Marxist plan to overthrow America…” The November 4th Date Surfaces Again In a Very Dire Manner The same source that provided Paul Martin and myself the Rawlins, Wyoming photos of UN vehicles with specialized communications devices designed to survive an EMP attack, has surfaced again. He provided Paul with a very disturbing, and “concidental” evidence of a completely ignored internal memo between several agencies of the Federal government regarding a “drill” to practice against an EMP event. Oh, DHS states that they are “practicing” for a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) event. However, lets be very clear on ths point, it a CME was imminent this even would be widely reported in the media by independent astronomers. An event of this type cannot be hidden. Please note the sidebar mention of an EMP event towards the end of this internal memo. SMS Alert Text: Nov 4-6 DoD will hold a nationwide comms interoperability exercise simulating a coronal mass ejection impact disrupting the national power grid. More via email. Supplemental Info: The following press release was issued a short time ago by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and U.S. Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS): Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community SetElements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will conduct a “communications interoperability” training exercise November 4-6, once again simulating a “very bad day” scenario. Amateur Radio and MARS organizations will take part. “This exercise will begin with a national massive coronal mass ejection event which will impact the national power grid as well as all forms of traditional communication, including landline telephone, cellphone, satellite, and Internet connectivity,” Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, explained in an announcement. During the exercise, a designated DOD Headquarters entity will request county-by-county status reports for the 3,143 US counties and county equivalents, in order to gain situational awareness and to determine the extent of impact of the scenario. Army and Air Force MARS organizations will work in conjunction with the Amateur Radio community, primarily on the 60-meter interoperability channels as well as on HF NVIS frequencies and local VHF and UHF, non-Internet linked Amateur Radio repeaters. Again this year, a military station on the east coast and the Fort Huachuca, Arizona, HF station will conduct a high-power broadcast on 60-meter channel 1 (5330.5 kHz) on Saturday from 0300 to 0315 UTC. New this year will be an informational broadcast on Sunday, on 13,483.5 kHz USB from 1600 to 1615 UTC. Amateur Radio operators should monitor these broadcasts for more information about the exercise and how they can participate in this communications exercise, English said. “We want to continue building on the outstanding cooperative working relationship with the ARRL and the Amateur Radio community,” English said. “We want to expand the use of the 60-meter interop channels between the military and amateur community for emergency communications, and we hope the Amateur Radio community will give us some good feedback on the use of both the 5-MHz interop and the new 13-MHz broadcast channels as a means of information dissemination during a very bad day scenario. http://www.arrl.org/news/communications-interoperability-training-with-amateur-radio-community-set Unsaid in this release is the fact that this exercise is also crucial to national preparedness for possible man-made EMPs via Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI) devices and High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP). 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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThreatJournal In previous interviews, Mike Adams has revealed and it was later publicly announced that the North Koreans made ominous threats of their intention to detonate a hydrogen bomb while which would result in a devastating EMP. Please note the date of the EMP err., CME drill. It commences on what date? The drill commences on November 4th! The “I Told You So” Moment In the fall of 2013, I wrote a series of articles in which I detailed how the Obama administration was engaged in treasonous behavior because they were allowing our enemies, the Russians and the Chinese, to participate in the Grid Ex II drills. These drills were run by DHS and simulated a Grid down drill. In short, Obama showed the Russians and the Chinese how to take our grid. It is very possible that my warnings from four years ago have come to fruition. It is very possible that the significance of November 4th has been planned for a very long time. More Confirming November 4th Evidence Just prior to the publication of the article, I received the following email and it hits very close to home given the prior information presented in this article: Dave, I live in ___, and I’m a long time listener of yours and have emailed you before. I am a teacher at an elementary school on the grounds of a military base, I need to be vague so I’m not found out. Yesterday our principal informed the staff that the entire base, which borders ___ different communities, would be having a mass readiness drill, with increased activities beyond the usual monthly siren tests. Law enforcement/first responders for ____ have been notified, and we were told to make sure our kids are immediately brought inside if at recess when sirens go off, otherwise business as usual. With all of the chatter concerned the NK situation, I thought this was relevant. God Bless You and keep you, J P.S. I’m pasting the body of the email here for your info, I please ask not to share this part….. I will respect this request for anonymity. However, I am duty bound to report the general nature while protecting the source. DHS is conducting a major EMP drill involving a large community, The deleted information is specific as to location, facilities and proceedures to be followed. Additionally, the exact phrase used in the CME, DHS drill is used when they say that twitter and facebook will be used to notify the public if this “is a drill or an actual event”. How many coincidences does it take to make a conspiracy? Conclusion I have developed a hypothesis that ties together all of these dots. I think it is very likely that a November 4th event, similar to what is described, is indeed in the works. The UN is prepared and has deployed EMP proof communications. Does that maen that this will become operational on November 4th? That is not always the case because public exposure, similar to this article, can change the dynamics, but not necessarily the direction of the plot. However, as this scenario is unfolding, it is safe to conclude that we are looking at a plot to destroy America in one fell swoop. Additonally, I believe that the under the cover of Korean War II, this deed could be carried out and the North Koreans would be blamed. Further this could provide the backdrop for taking Trump out of office. Yesterday, I wrote an article in which I detailed how I believed that the forces of darkness that were coalescing to remove Trump were ready to act. Today’s revelations strengthen that belief. America beware Please donate to offset the costs of The Common Sense Show
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Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos drove rental car into California from Mexico one week after shooting By Staff Writer - October 26, 2017
Why would authorities let Jesus Campos travel out of the country in the days immediately following the shooting?
(INTELLIHUB) — A leaked U.S. Customs and Border Protection form obtained by Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson shows that Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos reentered the United States, from Mexico, in a rental car almost one week to the hour after Campos was purportedly shot in the leg by 64-year-old gunman Stephen Paddock on the 32st-floor. However, Tucker’s report raises more questions than answers about this so-called security guard. Why would authorities allow Campos to leave the country so early on in the investigation? And, who paid for the rental? Don’t forget, ABC News reportedly spoke to Campos on Oct. 4 which is when he would have been in Mexico. Was ABC News aware that Campos was in Mexico at the time? Moreover, Tucker confirms what Intellihub has already reported which is that Campos is not registered as ‘private investigator’ or registered as a ‘security guard’ in the State of Nevada. Tucker said that Campos had previously entered the U.S. in January with his own vehicle which is registered in the State of Nevada. The rental car Campos was driving had California plates.
https://www.intellihub.com/jesus-campos-rental-car-from-mexico-after-shooting/
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Corey Feldman reveals plan for film to expose network of Hollywood pedophiles which he says will 'bring down' the industry and asks for $10million in donations to make it
Corey Feldman announced plans to produce the film on YouTube on Wednesday
The actor had already raised $20,000 within hours of launching his appeal
Feldman, now 46, has long alleged there is a network of pedophiles in Hollywood
He claims he and Corey Haim, his late co-star on The Lost Boys, are victims but their allegations have never been taken seriously
In the 1990s, Feldman even described how he'd been abused to police but charges were never brought
On Saturday, after tweeting about the 'network' again, Feldman was arrested for marijuana possession in a seemingly random raid on his tour bus
He claims he has also nearly been killed by two speeding trucks which stormed at him as he crossed the street
Feldman says he now fears for his life but is determined to expose the predators who he says are still operating in Hollywood
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com Published: 11:21 EDT, 25 October 2017 | Updated: 15:44 EDT, 25 October 2017
Corey Feldman has revealed his plan to expose a network of Hollywood pedophiles - an explosive and incriminating film which he says will cost $10million to make. The 46-year-old actor has long referred to the network which he claims he is a victim of and which he says 'thousands' of others in the industry are aware of. Since the revelations of Harvey Weinstein's abuse of women in the industry began emerging earlier this month, Feldman has reignited his crusade to expose other predators he says are still operating at the highest level. Earlier this week, he spoke cryptically of his plan to bring them to justice in a string of tweets. Since then, he has been arrested for possession of marijuana and claims an attempt on his life has been made. Defiant despite his growing fear, Feldman released a video on YouTube on Wednesday to lay out his plan for a film which he says will answer 'what everyone wants to know' and expose the predators he says have been preying on child stars for decades. In order to make it and distribute it himself, without the interference with any of the studios or industry insiders who he says it will incriminate, he is asking for $10million in donations on an Indiegogo fundraising page. As of 1.30pm, a mere few hours after uploading the campaign, he had raised $20,000. Despite his promise not to involve anyone else in the film-making process, donors can buy an executive producer title with a $1million donation to the project. For a donation of $100,000, they can have their name included in the film titles and a donation of $1,000 buys a 'personal email of gratitude' from Corey. No one had taken the star up on the pricier options but several were baited by the $100 social media shout-out, the $50 signed CD (inside the US) and the $100 international signed CD for anyone outside the country. The cash will also be used to pay for extra security for himself and his family in addition to a legal team he says he needs to expose the 'evil' group. 'What I'm proposing is a plan that I believe can literally change the entertainment system as we know it. I believe that I can also bring down potentially a pedophile ring that I've been aware of since I was a child,' he said. Feldman said he could name six of the predators, one of whom is still 'very powerful'. He said himself was a victim of them when he was a child actor in the 1980s. 'I've been living in fear and living with this my entire life. As most victims have, I've been made to feel awkward, misunderstood and I've been degraded at great levels,' he said. 'I know that there's thousands others that have experienced what I have experienced in the entertainment industry and I also know there's peers of mine who know what I'm talking about and know all the details but have been afraid to come forward with their own truths,' he added. Last week, Feldman tweeted that he had a 'plan' to bring down the network of pedophiles which he has long referred to in interviews but who he has never identified. On October 21, he and his band, Corey Feldman & The Angels, were arrested in Louisiana for marijuana possession in what he described as a random raid on their tour bus. All were released from custody after providing proof of their legal prescriptions for it, he said. Since then, he says he had a 'near death' experience when two trucks came 'speeding' towards him at the same time. FELDMAN'S VOW TO EXPOSE HOLLYWOOD PEDOPHILES The following is a transcript of Feldman's seven-minute YouTube plea. Hi, this is Corey Feldman. I'm coming to you today to talk to you about what's on everybody's mind. I told everybody a few days ago that I had a plan to try and hopefully bring to light what is happening in the world of entertainment as far as perverts and pedophiles and all of the topics that we've been discussing. Ever since I even discussed the fact that I had this plan, my life has turned into utter chaos. It's pretty ripped up because of the devastation of what I've been through the last few days. I've experienced things like never before. I've been silenced my whole life but over the last few days, since I made that announcement, I've been arrested and had a near death experience last night where I felt like I was going to be killed. Two trucks came speeding at me at the same time on a cross walk. 'Several of my bandmembers decided to quit because they're afraid for their lives. They just left. I'm very alone but I need to protect myself and I need to protect my family. I need additional security and I need a legal team to help represent me so that I can fulfill this mission. 'What I'm proposing is a plan that I believe can literally change the entertainment system as we know it. I believe that I can also bring down potentially a pedophile ring that I've been aware of since I was a child. 'Right off the bat I can name six names - one of them who is still very powerful today, and a story that links all the way up to a studio. It connects pedophilia to one of the major studios. 'I am very afraid to do this, it's not easy. I've been living in fear and living with this my entire life, as most victims have. I've been made to feel awkward, misunderstood, and I've been degraded at great levels. 'Rumors have been told, stories have been made up about me, I've been insulted and degraded in ways that are unimaginable to me, all because they fear what I know as the truth. I'm not alone. I know that there's thousands of others that have experienced what I have experienced in the entertainment industry. I also know there's peers of mine who know what I'm talking about and know all the details but have been afraid to come forward with their own truths. 'I am using this to draw a line in the sand, to say to the Hollywood community, we are better than this. I know that we can stand together as one, we can be united and we can create an affront. Those good people out there, there's plenty of them, they've helped me over the years. You guys can take my side and we can stand together but additionally not just the entertainment industry, the entire world, the entire planet can come together over this issue because our children are the most sacred things we have. 'Who could even dream of robbing an innocent child of their life experience. It's not fair and it must end so I am begging you to join me and let our voices be heard. I have lived in shame and fear my entire life and so have millions of others and now we have the ability to let our voices be heard and break the dam of silence. 'I propose to do this by making a film that will be the most honest and true depiction of child abuse every portrayed by telling you my own story in a very real way. 'In a very honest way with no editing, no censorship no studio behind it. I will make the film, direct it, produce it and I will self-distribute it to guarantee that it gets a theatrical release with your donations. Additionally it will help me buy the security and the legal team that I need to help my family until the project is released. Once it's done, I believe we can revolutionize the film industry in such a way that we can root out the evil and make it safe for our kids again. 'Please join me in this fight, I know that together we can stand strong. The time is now. I've had people on Twitter begging me to do this. With 30,000 new followers just in the last week, I know this is what everybody wants to know. 'Everybody wants the answer - who did this. Who's responsible. They all want the answer. And all these people taunt me and tease me and bully me on social media on a daily basis. Every day when I go on twitter I have to be confronted with this topic that I do not want to have to think about again but every day, when I'm trying to live my life and do other things and go on with my tour, I lose all of that for this. 'I'm willing to walk away from all of it if I can make a difference and I believe that I can with this idea. So please join me and help me in making our voices be heard and making a change that can revolutionize the film industry, save millions of children's lives and let the truth be told so that the people who have done this damage can come to their consequences they deserve. 'Justice will be served under God's name because this is about good and evil, at the end of the day, there is nothing more evil than the people who want to take advantage of innocent children. Let's protect them together, God bless you.' In his video, Feldman suggested both were prompted by his earlier remarks to expose the powerful network of child molesters. 'Ever since I even discussed the fact that I had this plan, my life has turned into utter chaos. I've experienced things like never before. I've been silenced my whole life but over the last few days, since I made that announcement, I've been arrested and had a near death experience last night where I felt like I was going to be killed,' he said. 'Several' of his bandmembers had suddenly quit in fear of their lives, he added, and he was now 'very alone'. The film, he said, would be 'the most honest and true depiction of child abuse ever portrayed'. Feldman promised to produce it 'with no censorship and no studio' to ensure it was unedited. 'I will make the film, produce it and I will self-distribute it to guarantee that it gets a theatrical release with your donations. 'Additionally, it will help me buy the security and the legal team that I need to help my family until the project is released. 'Once it's done, I believe we can revolutionize the film industry,' he said. 'Please join me in this fight, I know that together, we can stand strong. The time is now,' Feldman said at the end of his appeal. Feldman shot to fame in the 1980s as a child actor in The Goonies, Gremlins, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. He was only 10 when he appeared in The Fox and the Hounds and 16 when he starred in The Lost Boys along with Corey Haim in 1987. In the past, he has made repeated attempts to expose the network but none have ever resulted in the naming of those he says attacked him. He even described how he was abused in an interview with police in the 1990s but was ignored because the officers at the time were questioning him over allegations against Michael Jackson, who he said did not harm him and who he considered a friend. The statute of limitations had not been reached when Feldman made the remarks aged 22 in 1993. It has since long past. In 2016, in another media interview, Feldman laid bare how both he and Haim were targeted. 'With me, there were some molestations, and it did come from several hands, so to speak, but with Corey, his was direct rape, whereas mine was not actual rape. And his also occurred when he was 11,' he told The Hollywood Reporter last year. In 2013, during an appearance on The View, said their abusers were 'still out there'. 'There are people that did this to both me and Corey that are still working, they're still out there and they're some of the richest most powerful people in this business. 'They do not want me saying what I'm saying right now,' he said. Host Barbara Walters pushed back: 'Are you saying that they're pedophiles? And that they're still in this business?' Feldman emphatically answered 'yes' to both questions. She then said: 'You are hurting an entire industry'. The video resurfaced this week as fears of the wide-spreading Hollywood sex scandal extended to child stars. Some accused Walters of trying to silence Feldman. The View producer Bill Geddie defended her in a podcast this week, saying: 'You should know that this didn’t happen without Barbara digging into it. 'Barbara exposed all this . . . Barbara made this happen.' In 2011, after Haim's death, he told Nightline: 'I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. 'That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry... It’s the big secret,' he said, comparing it to the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal in the United Kingdom. A 2014 documentary called An Open Secret sought to shed light on the problem but it never found a home. It has been released in full on Vimeo and can be watched for free in the wake of the Weinstein allegations. Producer Amy J. Berg was threatened with law suits by the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA for including reference to them in the film. In an interview with Elle later, she said: 'I don’t think anyone takes it very seriously. I think the industry has accepted it as industry standard.' She has supported Feldman's claims against Hollywood executives for years. Both Feldman and Haim endured well-documented battles with drug and alcohol addiction after being catapulted into stardom as child actors. Feldman also described the abuse in his autobiography, Coreography, but did not name his attackers. His remarks this week regarding the alleged network of pedophiles are not isolated. On Sunday, veteran writer Paul Haggis made reference to his accusations and said they were 'worth considering'. 'It is not an innocent place and never has been. Most of this behavior has been aimed at women, but I am sure that former child stars such as Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, who have both made allegations in the past that no one took seriously, are worth considering, too. 'Were people covering for pedophiles, too? We have to think that may have happened as well, because no one speaks out about being abused just to benefit their career. I find it particularly terrible that people had their dreams held to ransom in that way,' he said. Haggis has relocated from Hollywood to New York to work on new ventures and is convinced the golden days of tinseltown are over. 'It's finished,' he said of the industry in light of the growing claims of sexual abuse.
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Lies And Distractions Surrounding The Diminishing Petrodollar
Thursday, 26 October 2017 01:53 Brandon Smith
There are a few important rules you have to follow if you want to join the consortium of mainstream economic con-men/analysts. Take special note if you plan on becoming one of these very "special" people: 1) Never discuss the reality that government fiscal statistics are not the true picture of the health of the economy. Just present the stats at face value to the public and quickly move on. 2) Almost always focus on false positives. Give the masses a delusional sense of recovery by pointing desperately at the few indicators that paint a rosier picture. Always mention a higher stock market as a symbol of an improving economy even though the stock market is irrelevant to the fundamentals of the economy. In fact, pretend the stock market is the ONLY thing that matters. Period. 3) Never talk about falling demand. Avoid mention of this at all costs. Instead, bring up "rising supply" and pretend as if demand is not a factor even worth considering. 4) Call any article that discusses the numerous and substantial negatives in the economy "doom porn." Ask "where is the collapse?" a lot, when the collapse in fundamentals is right in front of your face. 5) Avoid debate on the health of the economy when you can, but if cornered, misrepresent the data whenever possible. Muddle the discussion with minutia and circular logic. 6) When a crash occurs, act like you had been the one warning about the danger all along. For good measure, make sure alternative economic analysts do not get credit for correct examinations of the fiscal system. 7) Argue that there was nothing special about their warnings and predictions and that "everyone else saw it coming too;" otherwise you might be out of a job. Now, if you follow these rules most of the time, or religiously, then you have a good shot at becoming the next Paul Krugman or one of the many hucksters at Forbes, Bloomberg or Reuters. A cushy job and comfortable salary await you. Good luck and Godspeed! However, say you are one of those weird people cursed with a conscience; becoming a vapid mouthpiece for the establishment may not sound very appealing. Or, maybe you just have OCD and you can't stand the idea of "creative math" when it comes to economic data. Whatever the case may be, you want to outline the deeper facts of the economy because the economy is life — it is the structure which holds together our civilization, and if we lie about it in the short term, then we only set ourselves up for catastrophe in the long run. Welcome to another dimension. Welcome to the world of alternative economics. Every aspect of the U.S. economy or the global economy can be presented two very different ways depending on whether you "interpret" the data to fit a preconceived conclusion, or simply relay it to the public as it really is. Let's use oil and the petrodollar as an example... To illustrate the mainstream establishment reaction to legitimate economic concerns on oil, I highly suggest going back and reading an article by Foreign Policy, the official magazine of the Council On Foreign Relations, titled "Debunking The Dumping-The-Dollar Conspiracy," published in 2009. The idiocy of this article was truly bewildering at the time it was released, but even more so now in retrospect. First, it is important to note that Foreign Policy refused to even acknowledge the issue of the dollar losing petro-currency status until Robert Fisk of The Independent, someone closer to mainstream exposure, dared to broach the topic, warning that a trend was in play to dump the dollar as the petro-currency by 2018. The alternative economic community had been warning about the world moving away from U.S. oil dominance for some time beforehand. Second, the CFR uses a typical circular fallacy when confronting the potential end of the dollar's world reserve status; the fallacy that the dollar is the world reserve currency because "the U.S. is the preeminent world economic power." Actually, the reverse is true — the U.S. is the world's preeminent economic power only because the dollar has world reserve status. It was also once an industrial powerhouse after WWII, but this was ONLY because the U.S. was one of the few manufacturing hubs in the world that wasn't demolished by years of kinetic destruction. When you are the only game in town, of course you reap huge economic benefits including massive international investment, but not forever. Today, obviously, the U.S. is far surpassed by other nations in the area of manufacturing and production, and has also been surpassed as the largest global importer and exporter. The "preeminence" argument is unmitigated garbage. Third, almost every danger Foreign Policy dismissed as "conspiracy" back in 2009 is now coming true. Just as Robert Fisk warned, and just as the alternative economic community warned long before him, numerous shifts in the world of oil as well as geopolitical relationships have created a spiraling nexus of anti-dollar sentiment. Is it possible that the dollar will lose petro-status by 2018? Absolutely, and here is why... While the U.S. remains the world's largest oil consumer according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), American consumption of petroleum products has greatly diminished over the past few years; falling demand by increasingly destitute U.S. consumers has left oil producers searching for buyers elsewhere. The World Economic Forum noted in 2015 the drastic fall in U.S. demand since the 2008 debt crisis, but this admission went largely unnoticed in the mainstream media. Interestingly, while demand was crashing, the price per barrel continued to skyrocket because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary QE policies. Almost immediately after the Fed began tapering QE, oil prices drastically declined in line with the lack of existing demand. In 2017, the EIA claims there has been a rise in global demand since the second quarter. And has "projected" increasing demand including higher U.S. demand going into 2018, outpacing supply. Yet, at the same time the EIA admits a frustrating stagnation in global oil demand, with the U.S. being the primary drag on consumption since 2010. So, which trend are we supposed to believe? The one that is right in front of us, or the one that is optimistically projected? It is clear, even according to "official" statistics on crude oil imports, that the U.S. market began sinking in 2009 to levels not seen since the 1990's and has not recovered since. Everyone knows that each new year is supposed to bring exponential demand, like clockwork. But this has not been the case at all in the U.S. Meanwhile, China has recently surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest oil importer, even though the EIA lists the U.S. as the world's largest oil "consumer." The argument mainstream analysts would probably make here is that imports of oil are diminishing because U.S. shale oil is filling demand domestically. This argument overlooks the overall process of declining demand, though. The US is the largest consumer of oil NOW, but will that pace continue? According to the data, the answer is no. Americans are buying less petroleum products since the 2008 credit crisis, regardless of where they come from, and oil producers are seeking to diversify into other markets, and other currencies. On top of that, even if it were true that imported oil is crumbling because US domestic oil is filling rising demand, this still begs the question - Why would oil producing nations stick with the dollar as the petrocurrency when the US has decided to take its ball and go home? The US has now become a COMPETITOR in the oil market with shale, so why would OPEC nations and others also continue to give the US the enormous advantage of owning petrocurrency status? In the meantime, the geopolitical situation grows more unstable. I believe the Iranian sanctions issue has gone ignored far too long, and this has direct repercussions on the dollar's petro-status. How? Well, consider this — Europe continues its appetite for Iranian oil, with 40 percent of Iran's oil exports going to the EU. With the very oddly timed U.S.-led effort by the Trump administration to renew sanctions, Europe has been caught in a catch-22; either defy sanctions and upset relations with the U.S. or lose a significant source of petroleum imports. For now it appears that the EU will support sanctions, but this time solidarity on the issue is nowhere near as strong as it was back in 2012. With Iran as a major supplier for Europe as well as China, and overtaking Saudi Arabia as the top oil supplier for India, Trump's latest call to put economic pressure on the nation may add more fuel to the accelerating rationale against the dollar as the primary trade mechanism for oil. The question becomes, who benefits from American influence in oil, and who suffers? The more countries that suffer because of a world reserve dollar, the more likely they will be to look for an alternative. China has deepened ties to Russia for this exact reason. With Russia supplanting Saudi Arabia as China's largest petroleum source, and bilateral trade between Russia and China cutting out the dollar as world reserve, this is just the beginning of the shift. In the past week it has been hinted that China will be shifting in the next two months into using its OWN currency, the Yuan, to price oil instead of using the dollar. Saudi Arabia, America's longtime partner in the oil dominance chain, is now moving away from the old relationship. Tensions between the Saudis and the U.S. State Department over the rather surreal Qatar embargo are just part of a series of divisions. With China's influence in the region increasing, the mainstream has finally begun to acknowledge that Saudi Arabia may be "compelled" to trade oil in currencies other than the dollar. Why is oil so important? Because energy, along with currency, is the key to understanding the state of the economy. When demand for energy goes stagnant, this usually means the economy is stagnant. When a nation has maintained a monopoly on global energy trade by coupling its currency to oil, an addiction can be formed and its financial structure becomes dependent in that addiction being continuously satiated. Foreign Policy argued in 2009 that oil trade in dollars is "nothing more than a convention." I would actually agree with that in part; it is indeed a convention that can change dramatically at any given moment. But, Foreign Policy asserts that there would be no consequences for the U.S. if and when the change takes place and the dollar loses petrostatus. This is absurd. Trillions in dollars are held overseas and the singular function of those dollars is to fulfill international trade based on the "convention" of the dollar's world reserve status. What purpose do those dollar's serve if world reserve status is abandoned? The answer is none. All of those dollars would come flooding back into the U.S. through various channels. Market psychology would immediately trigger a massive loss in the dollar's international value, not to mention incredible inflation would be spiking here at home. This process has already begun, and it is looking more and more like the next couple of years will bring a vast "reset" (as the IMF likes to call it) in the hegemony of certain currencies. Some people believe this will be a wellspring, a change for the better. They think the death of the dollar will lead to "decentralization" of the global economy and a "multipolar world," but the situation is far more complex than it seems. I will go into greater detail in my next article as to why the dollar and the U.S. economy in general has actually been slated for deliberate demolition and how this will likely come about. As far as oil and petro-status are concerned, the mainstream media is perfectly willing to report on the developments I have mentioned here in a fleeting manner, but at the same time they are completely unwilling to account for the effects that will result or the deeper meaning behind these events. They will report on the smaller stories, but refuse to acknowledge the bigger story. It is quite a contradiction, but a contradiction with a purpose. If you would like to support the publishing of articles like the one you have just read, visit our donations page here. We greatly appreciate your patronage.
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EXCLUSIVE: Obama Appointed Islamic Society Official To Approve Russian Uranium Sale and Gulftainer Port Deal
Mary Fanning and Alan Jones Oct 25, 2017
The Obama administration placed Aimen Nabi Mir, former two-time president of the youth wing of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), into the top advisory position to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a national security post at the Treasury Department. Aimen Mir was the CFIUS Staff Chairperson from 2009 until 2014. During that time, Aimen Mir played a key role in the CFIUS panel’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia’s Rosatom. Mir also played a key role in the Treasury Department’s refusal to investigate the UAE’s Gulftainer 35-year cargo container terminal lease at Port Canaveral, a critical military infrastructure facility for U.S. naval and space operations. Both decisions severely damaged United States national security. Aimen Mir helped set the table for Vladimir Putin to seize control of over 20 percent of U.S. uranium and was part of the decision that awarded control of Port Canaveral’s cargo container terminal to Saddam Hussein’s rogue nuclear weapons scientist and designated Iraq War enemy combatant, Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar. Dr. Jafar’s brother and business partner, Gulftainer co-owner Hamid Jafar, was under investigation by the Treasury Department and four congressional committees for his ‘Oil For Superweapons” scheme in concert with Saddam Hussein. For starters, Aimen Mir’s ISNA connections are troubling. ISNA is one of the largest Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. and was named by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation HAMAS terror funding trial. Further, Aimen Mir is the son of Kashmir-born physician Dr. Ghulam Nabi Mir, an ISNA Founders Committee member. Dr. Mir is also the president of the World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), an Islamic platform Dr. Mir uses to aggressively advocate for Kashmir’s secession from India in order to join Pakistan. WKAF’s Secretary General “Dr.” Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, is a convicted felon, also from Kashmir, who served as a Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) operative inside the United States. Fai was arrested by the FBI in 2011 for covertly operating as an unregistered foreign agent while receiving $3.5 million dollars in wire transfers from the ISI. Fai used some of that money to fund an elaborate lobbying operation pushing Kashmiri “independence” on unsuspecting U.S. officials who remained seemingly unaware that Pakistan was running the operation. In 2013, Fai was granted early release from U.S. federal prison by the Justice Department. Like his father’s ISI partner Fai, Aimen Mir appears to have been running his own operation at CFIUS. Aimen Mir was the CFIUS Staff Chairperson from 2009 until 2014. During Mir’s five years in the staff chairperson’s seat, CFIUS approved Russia’s 2010 purchase of Uranium One, effectively handing Vladimir Putin control of 20 percent of America’s uranium. Also during Mir’s term, the Treasury Department refused to conduct two legally-required CFIUS investigations of Port Canaveral’s 2014 container terminal lease concession to the UAE’s Gulftainer. The Gulftainer deal effectively placed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons mastermind, Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, along with his longtime Russian KGB/SVR and Iranian regime associates and a UAE Emir inside the wire of a national-security sensitive U.S. port. Gulftainer misrepresented its true ownership; facts that Mir could and should have uncovered easily. A World Bank International Finance Corporation (IFC) document (now scrubbed from the IFC website) proved that Gulftainer was owned in part by Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, the Emir of Sharjah, UAE. Under the Foreign Investment National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA), foreign government ownership of an acquiring entity automatically triggers a mandatory CFIUS review, regardless of whether the transaction is a purchase or a lease. Aimen Mir understood CFIUS and FINSA law and chose to ignore it, as did Treasury Secretary Jacob ‘Jack’ Lew and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. In 2014 the Treasury Department promoted Aimen Mir to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investment Security after the Clinton Foundation-connected Uranium One and Gulftainer Port Canaveral deals closed. Mir’s LinkedIn profile and post-Trump administration inauguration posts show he’s still at the Treasury Department, now as a career civil servant. In Gulftainer’s case, the supposedly-rigorous CFIUS national security review process for direct foreign investment transactions was completely and stunningly bypassed. An email released by Wikileaks implicates Gulftainer and the Clintons in a pay-to-play operation involving the Port Canaveral deal. Both Uranium One and Gulftainer have deep ties to Russian intelligence, nuclear weapons, and uranium enrichment. Gulftainer has additional ties to the Iranian regime and to the architects of Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal. Gulftainer executive board chairman Badr Jafar visited the White House in 2014, six weeks before the secretly-negotiated Gulftainer deal was announced, signed, and closed. According to Aimen Mir’s LinkedIn profile, since graduating from Georgetown in 2000, he never served in any national security position before his CIFIUS chairperson appointment. Mir’s work experience was as an immigration attorney at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) representing people from the Middle East seeking asylum in the United States. CFIUS staff members such as staff chairperson Mir wield tremendous power in the CFIUS process workflow. They conduct research and make recommendations to cabinet-level CFIUS board members or their designated representatives and, through omission, can conceal from those Cabinet members critical national security information about foreign companies looking to invest in U.S.-based operations. If a CFIUS application is approved before advancing from the 30-day initial review to an additional 45-day investigation involving 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, dangerous deals like Uranium One and Gulftainer deals can fly under the radar of the intelligence community. According to a 2015 Breitbart report on CFIUS review of the Uranium One deal, “surprisingly the 2009 Annual Report submitted to Congress by CFIUS inaccurately described this approved transaction by stating the company acquiring a minority interest was Canadian rather than Russian.” Breitbart contacted Aimen Mir at the time of that report to ask him if the Uranium One transaction was subjected to a secondary 45-day review but received no response. The Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States 2015 Annual Report to Congress Public/Unclassified Version, released over a year late, reveals that between 2013 and 2015, there were no covered transactions in the transportation sector involving acquirers from the UAE. In other words, the Treasury Department determined that the Gulftainer deal was not a ‘covered transaction’ and therefore CFIUS did not conduct the required investigation of the deal. That determination was likely made by Aimen Mir and it kept Gulftainer and U.S.- designated enemy combatant Dr. Jafar off the intelligence community’s radar. The Treasury Department determined that a CFIUS review was not required for Gulftainer’s Port Canaveral deal, according to a 2015 Orlando Sentinel report: “Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, had asked for a formal Treasury Department review of security issues due to a foreign-owned company operating port facilities. Port spokeswoman Rosalind Harvey said that never happened. “After extensive filing of all required paperwork to U.S. Treasury Department officials, the panel found that no review was required because the agreement was a lease and not a purchase of Port assets,” Harvey said.” Unfortunately, there is more. James Rickards, author and former advisor to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Support Group of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), stated in an October 18, 2017 tweet that Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper “disbanded” the CFIUS DNI advisory group “before Uranium One.” It is noteworthy that Director Clapper went before Congress to testify under oath that the NSA, CIA, and other intelligence agencies were not collecting massive amounts of telephonic and Internet metadata on hundreds of millions of innocent American citizens. Revelations by Whistleblower Edward Snowden proved otherwise. Subsequently Director Clapper was found to have been untruthful and resigned on November 17, 2016, effective the day Donald Trump was sworn in, January 20, 2017. Clapper has not been prosecuted for perjury. CFIUS rules are clear about what constitutes a ‘covered transaction’: Considering the post-9/11 national meltdown over the UAE’s Dubai Ports World deal, it is inconceivable that the Gulftainer deal would have received approval without a thorough intelligence review. The Congressional enactment of the Foreign Investment National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) was designed to heavily reinforce CFIUS in order to prevent a repeat of Dubai Ports world debacle. The Gulftainer (GT USA) Port Canaveral 35-year concession is subject to CFIUS review because: Gulftainer is responsible for safety and security and makes all substantial business decisions at the Canaveral cargo terminal; Gulftainer oversees day-to-day operation of the Canaveral cargo terminal;
Port Canaveral is critical infrastructure for commercial maritime, military sealift, surface naval, submarine naval, commercial space, and military space operations;
Gulftainer’s cargo terminal is near four military bases: Two USAF, one USN, and one USCG;
Gulftainer’s cargo terminal is near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center;
Gulftainer’s cargo terminal is near the Eastern Range, critical for space missions and missile testing;
Gulftainer is partly-owned by a foreign government (Ruler of Sharjah, UAE), Iraqis involved in WMD production (Jafar family), possibly other “senior Iraqi military figures,” and in business with Russian Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs).
It is unclear how Aimen Mir was able to obtain a security clearance.
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The Time Has Come: Venezuela May Be In Default In Under 48 Hours
by Tyler Durden Oct 25, 2017 10:33 PM
This past weekend, Venezuela failed to make $237 million in bond coupon payment, blaming "technical glitches" when in reality it simply did not have the money (or wish to part with it). Adding the $349 million in unpaid bond interest accumulated over the past month as of last Friday, that brings Caracas' unpaid bills to $586 million this month, just days before the nation must make a critical principal payment. And, as BofA sovereign debt analyst Jane Brauer writes, while the bank's base case assumption is that Venezuela will make its debt service payments this year, "the probability of a short term default has increased substantially with coupon delays" and it could come as soon as this Friday, when an $842 million PDVSA principal plus interest payment is due, and which unlike typical bond payments does not have a 30 day grace period but instead is followed by a second $1.1 billion PDVSA coupon on Nov 2, also without a 30 day grace period. As Brauer writes, Venezuela has been in as similar situation of payment uncertainty in the recent past, with bond prices plummeting right before a big payment. For example, just before a big principal payment was due in April 2017 Venezuela received a $1bn loan from Russia just one week before the due date. At that time Ven 27s dropped 16% in a month (from $52 to $45) and recovered completely within a month. Ven 27 has fallen to $35, as Venezuela has demonstrated that it will be a challenge to make all payments on time. The difference between now and April is that coupon payment delays then came after, not before the payment. Meanwhile, Venezuela has managed to redefine the concept of payment "on time" which now means "by the end of the grace period" As we keep track of missed payments, the 5 missed payments, so far totaling $350mn all have a 30 day grace period, as did the $237mn payments over the weekend. The concern is that the principal payments coming up have: No grace period in the bond indenture for an event of default Three business day grace period before triggering CDS The concerning principal due dates are coming up, the first of which is this coming Friday, which means in less than 48 hours Venezuela could be in default unless it can find $842 million: Friday, Oct 27 PDVSA 2020 $842mn Thursday Nov 2 PDVSA 17N $1,121mn The collateral against the first bond is PDVSA's Houston-based refining and retail subsidiary, and in just a few hours, the bondholders may be the (un)happy new ownders of said subsidiary. "This weekend, there's either going to be a lot of bond holders and traders drinking champagne, or there's going to be a lot of stressed fund managers," said Russ Dallen, managing partner at Caracas Capital Markets And to help everyone involved, here are some key tables, courtesy of BofA: Table 1. Ordered by due dates, missed payments and payments due today for Venezuela sovereign and wholly-owned quasi sovereign issuers. Table 2. Sorted by grace period end dates for missed payments and those due today Table 3. Debt service due dates for the next 9 months Table 4. Bond Attributes and face needed to block CACs
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-25/time-has-come-venezuela-may-be-default-under-48-hours
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BREAKING: FBI Releases Docs On Sandy Hook Showing Feds Visited Shooter BEFORE Massacre
By Matt Agorist - October 24, 2017
Newtown, CT — On December 14, 2012, the world watched the news with horror as they heard the story of 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shooting 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since that fateful day, conspiracy theories have abounded from whether or not the shooting actually took place to what Lanza’s motive was. Adam Lanza is believed to have shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the head at her home in Newtown, Connecticut, around 9 a.m. on December 14, before taking her car and driving approximately five miles to the Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he would slaughter the children and teachers. According to reports, most of the shooting occurred in two of the school’s first-grade classrooms; 14 students in one classroom, and six in the other, were murdered. Only two of the victims who were shot by Lanza—both teachers—survived the attack. “In general, the FBI does not comment on the content of the files released through [Freedom of Information Act], and lets the information contained in the files speak for itself,” said Charles Grady, a community outreach specialist for the FBI based in New Haven. “This is a routine FOIA release nothing more, nothing less.” While we would expect that the names, addresses, and contact information be redacted throughout the documents, it appears that entire pages were wiped out. Just as Americans thought they may be getting some answers as to why this 20-year-old went on a shooting rampage, killing innocent children, it appears we may now have more questions than answers. One such question that arises from our brief combing of the documents is how Lanza, who only weighed 85 lbs, according to the report, was able to carry such heavy weaponry and ammo and shoot with such deadly accuracy. According to police, Lanza had in his possession, a Bushmaster XM15 .223 caliber rifle, a Glock 10mm handgun and was also in possession of a loaded 9mm Sig Sauer P226 handgun. After he’d already fired 154 rounds, Lanza also had more ammunition for the weapons he had on his person as well as three 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster, each of them containing 30 rounds. Lanza was carrying weapons which nearly weighed more than he did. Also, as the NY Daily News just reported, according to portions of the documents, Lanza was also visited by federal agents before the shooting—who offered him a job. The FBI documents reveal a visit to the home he shared with his mother by federal agents after he hacked into a government computer. “The authorities told her that if her son was that smart, he could have a job with them someday,” according to one of the heavily-redacted reports, as reported by the NY Daily News. As the News reports, Lanza, at that point in the ninth grade, landed on investigator’s radar after hacking his way into an unidentified agency’s computer. The teen made it through two levels of security before his efforts were thwarted, the documents showed. “Nancy had to convince the authorities that her son was just very intelligent and was challenging himself to see if he could hack (his way in),” the report said of Lanza’s mother. This revelation about Lanza being visited by federal agents several years before the shooting, leads to so many more questions and opens the floodgates for more conspiracy theories. Another question on the minds of Americans is why this 20-year-old kid, with no history of violent behavior, would ever do such a thing. Investigators even noted in their reports that Lanza was never violent, but often required special tools to avoid hurting himself by accident. To this day, Americans are still asking themselves why anyone would do such a thing. Nearly five years later, and we still have no motive and no clear cause as to what made this person snap. The Free Thought Project will continue to dig into the heavily redacted documents and we will issue updates as appropriate.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/breaking-fbi-releases-docs-sandy-hook-shooting/
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There will be thousands of deaths from this hurricane and it will take more months than any storm to recover from, costing millions of dollars, by far the most costly storm to date, yet there shall be bigger storms to come. I have forewarned those along the seashores that they should leave everything and that they should move north etc
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Severe hailstorm hits Formosa, Argentina: 8 centimeters large hailstones damage thousands of buildings and cars
By Strange Sounds - Oct 26, 2017
A strong hail storm hit the municipality of Formosa in northern Argentina late Wednesday afternoon (25). Thousands of buildings, cars, trees and boats on the Paraguay River were damaged by ice stones up to eight centimeters in diameter. National Weather Service (NMHS) issued an alert for severe weather (wind, rain and hail) for Córdoba, part of Catamarca, Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, La Rioja, Misiones, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán. In rural areas, plantations were completely destroyed, including newly germinated soybeans. Now a few pictures of the giant hailstones that fell on the Argentinian city of Formosa: etc.
Scribe note: Click on link below to see pictures amazing
http://strangesounds.org/2017/10/hailstorm-formosa-argentina-video-photo.html
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etc. Babylon destroyed in twenty-four hours, and you shall see the other earthquake on the west coast, you shall see the one in the middle and that shall come unto you soon, just as soon as they divide my land again, saith your Father God, you shall see that. For it is that hour and it is that time and it shall come to pass, etc.
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Earthquake risk elevated with detection of spontaneous tectonic tremor in Anza Gap
October 26, 2017 by Sarah Nightingale
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have detected spontaneous tectonic tremor—a signature of slow earthquakes deep below the earth's surface—in the Anza Gap region of the San Jacinto Fault. Tectonic tremors are believed to increase the likelihood of a moderate to large, damaging earthquake occurring close to the earth's surface by altering the stress along the fault. Abhijit Ghosh, an assistant professor of earth sciences in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and Alexandra Hutchinson, an earth sciences graduate student, published the research in the Bulletin of the Seismologic Society of America. The paper is titled "Ambient Tectonic Tremor in the San Jacinto Fault, Near the Anza Gap, Detected by Multiple Mini Seismic Arrays." The San Jacinto Fault zone, which is part of the San Andreas Fault system, runs underneath densely populated areas of Inland Southern California, including San Bernardino, Redlands, and Moreno Valley. It is the most active fault in Southern California and sits five miles from the UCR campus. While it is technically not a plate boundary, the San Jacinto Fault accommodates some of the movement that occurs as the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate grind together at the San Andreas Fault. Over the past 200 years, the 20-km region known as the Anza Gap is the only stretch along the 200-km fault line that has not experienced an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 or greater. "While other regions of the San Jacinto fault give rise to small and moderate earthquakes on a regular basis, the Anza Gap is surprisingly quiet, which raises questions about how it is releasing the stress it accumulates," Ghosh said. "For that reason, many experts suspect that this area is ripe to produce a damaging earthquake." Using data from 2011 and a new, highly sensitive detection method developed by Ghosh called "multibeam backprojection," the researchers uncovered the first evidence of a spontaneous tectonic tremor in the Anza Gap. Relatively little is known about tectonic tremors, which were first identified in Japan in 2001. Researchers now know they are associated with a phenomenon called "slow slip," a slow and transient movement of plates deep below the earth's surface that can last from several minutes to several years and may occur daily, annually, or anywhere between, depending on the fault. "While relatively little is known about tectonic tremors, in part because they have historically been difficult to detect, we know that these tremors are being caused by slow slip deep in the fault, and that when the deep part of the fault slips it adds stress to the shallow part. This may ultimately help to cause a damaging earthquake," Ghosh said. Ghosh said seismologists should further study tremor activity in the area to learn how the deep roots of fault zones impact activity closer to the earth's surface and affect earthquake hazard. "Tectonic tremors and slow slip will change the way we view faults. For example, our research on the Anza gap shows that the fault is spontaneously slipping at a greater depth than we previously thought, with slow earthquakes occurring between 13 and 24 km deep." "Since there is a connection between deep slow slip and damaging earthquakes closer to the surface, it may be possible that tectonic tremors will enable us to forecast major earthquakes in the future. Much more research is needed before that can happen, though."
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-earthquake-elevated-spontaneous-tectonic-tremor.html#jCp
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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China Now Arresting Families for Praying at Home
October 26, 2017 by GOV'T SLAVES
In the most recent case of religious persecution in China, a house church pastor, Xu Shizhen, her daughter and her 3-year-old grandson were arrested by authorities. The family was reportedly taken into custody after a month of being found singing and dancing in praise and worship, and preaching the gospel in a public park. It is currently unknown where the family was taken after their arrest, but according to non-profit Christian human rights organization, China Aid, the two women, and the grandson have been separated. This is not the first time Xu Shizhen has got into trouble with Chinese authorities, who impose strict laws regarding practicing of religion other than those recognized by the state. Five years ago, this particular pastor had a run-in with officials when her then house church was seized and handed over to the control of Three-Self Patriotic Movement Church, a church which is run by the state. It was after this incident she founded her current home church, called Zion Church. Many believe that this is a move by the Chinese government to show the state and the world just how serious it is about its new rules regarding regulating religion in order to enhance national security, dismantling and preventing extremism, and curbing the practice of faith by organizations which are not approved by the state. Keeping in mind that the arrest of the family happened just two weeks after the state’s new religion regulations came into effect, it is a high possibility. For almost a decade Gov't Slaves has worked tirelessly to bring its readers the most critical news the corporate media does not want you to see. We have no intrusive ads, pop-ups or clickbait, just NEWS. If you happen to be in a position to support our work, PLEASE consider making a one-time donation below or a monthly recurring donation HERE. Your support is humbly appreciated. Gov't Slaves
http://govtslaves.info/2017/10/china-now-arresting-families-for-praying-at-home/
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etc The end is upon you and you need to look and see the things that you should be doing, pay close attention to that. For I have told you things would change here, they would change. If you live near the Babylon that is going to fall I have told you to move at least seventy-five miles from there, at least. That goes for California, that goes for the center fault line, realize that war, war is at hand. Not only with ISIS, but you have got Russia, you have got China, you have got North Korea, wake up, wake up, for I have been telling you these things, it is getting very, very dangerous, very dangerous. etc
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North Korean Official Warns: Take the Threat of “Strongest Hydrogen Bomb Test Over the Pacific”…”Literally”
*Please check the end of the article for a correction on the original report.*
International correspondent Will Ripley just told the world on Twitter that North Korea is very serious with the threat to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. The thing with nuclear tests is that they aren’t harmless. Currently, scientists are concerned that the numerous nuclear tests inside Mount Mantap could end up having long-term ecological repercussions. They fear that the peak is structurally weakening with they are referring to as “tired mountain syndrome.” An earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale followed the most recent test, with four aftershocks. But that’s not all. Something far more horrific could happen if tests continue. Days after the blast, satellite images showed evidence of landslides as the powerful bomb inflicted unprecedented levels of damage on the area. “These disturbances are more numerous and widespread than what we have seen from any of the five tests North Korea previously conducted,” said the website 38 North, which analyzes North Korea. Now researchers are suggesting that Mount Tanap is suffering from something called “tired mountain syndrome,” which happens when rocks beneath the land shift and fracture in unforeseen and unknowable ways… …One South Korean expert told CBS News that further tests at the site could be “potentially suicidal.” Another expert told NBC News that the ongoing tremors and landslides at the site mean another test “could risk radioactive pollution.” …Experts in China say the consequences of that could be catastrophic. Wang Naiyan, formerly of the China Nuclear Society, warned in the South China Morning Post of the potential for what’s called “taking the roof off.” “If the mountain collapses and the hole is exposed, it will let out many bad things,” he said. (source) Now, the tests could hit closer to home. We all remember Kim Jong Un’s initial threat to “test” a nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean. This test would devastate ocean life: The explosion would send radioactive particles flying through the air and into the water. Wind could carry the dangerous particles over hundreds of miles. The smoke from the blast site could block out sunlight and hinder life forms at sea that depend on photosynthesis to survive. The exposure to radiation could cause severe health problems for nearby marine life… The changes could lead to crippling mutations in future generations. The eggs and larvae of marine organisms are especially sensitive to radiation, according to experts. Affected animals could pass the exposure up the food chain. (source) It isn’t just marine life that would be affected. The radiation from such a “test” would drift in very short order over the mainland United States, Canada, and Hawaii according to a “rough simulation” posted on Twitter by Lassina Zerbo, the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. As you can see from the simulation, the entire West Coast would be affected up into Canada. Then, radiation would spread across the Northern part of the United States. On the other hand, as some commenters pointed out, there have been many, many nuclear tests since 1945. Check out this video. Things start getting very busy about 1962. Would a North Korean test in the Pacific be different than these past tests? Stronger? Done in a more vulnerable location? Those are the unknown variables in the equation. With the recent escalation of the war of words between Trump and Kim Jong Un, it’s difficult to imagine that war is very far off. Horrifying propaganda art has ensured that the North Koreans loathe and fear Americans, and North Korea has boasted that nearly 5 million young people have enlisted in their military to “send millions of nuclear bombs to wipe out the US.” And Dr. Ron Paul, former senator and presidential candidate warns us that a false flag could also be imminent. (And with our history, who would really be stunned by that?) If you’re interested in learning more from the experts about how nuclear weapons work, how to protect yourself from radiation, and what to do in the event of a nuclear strike, this course has hours of fascinating interviews. For a quick refresher on nuclear survival, check out this article. CORRECTION: Originally, I cited one of the numerous articles that stated Barksdale Air Force base has nuclear bombers on alert. The link stating that this was the case has been removed after a reader informed me that the Air Force has released the following statement: A recent story and subsequent reposting by other outlets gave the false impression that there is a likelihood of B-52s returning to 24-hour alert status. This is incorrect, and there is no plan to return B-52s to 24-hour alert status or alert status for any length of time other than for standard readiness exercises. Barksdale continuously maintains and upgrades infrastructure, conducts exercises and modernizes equipment to maintain a baseline level of readiness. This is a part of the organization, training and equipment mission to be ready to defend our nation when called upon. (source)
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etc. If you look at Russia she is ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North Korea ready to strike, they are not playing games; they are serious with the things that they are saying. Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.
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WW3 START ! US warning to North Korea – 'We're ready to fight TONIGHT'
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=RxiZKPAYnqo
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etc.. The clock is ticking, the midnight hour is already striking, the horses have been riding and yet many see not the things I have told them. They understand not what my word has said, etc..
Rev 6:8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (NKJ) (disease & famine)
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DEATH IS COMING Plague warning in NINE countries – including Brit holiday hotspots – amid fears BLACK DEATH could spread on flights from Madagascar
The deadly plague outbreak has struck Madagascar's major cities sparking fears it has yet to 'peak' and could spread into the surrounding region
Exclusive By Corey Charlton 27th October 2017, 3:00 pm Updated: 27th October 2017, 3:05 pm
PLAGUE warnings have been issued for NINE countries surrounding Madagascar amid fears the disease could spread via sea trade and flight routes. The outbreak is considered a much bigger threat to the region than in previous years because it has taken on its pneumonic form - meaning it is airborne and spread by sneezing and coughing. And experts say the epidemic could still worsen as the death tolls hits 124 and more than 1,300 are left infected. The medieval disease famously wiped out ONE THIRD of Europe's population in the 13th and 14th centuries in one of the most devastating pandemics in human history known as the Black Death. Dr Ashok Chopra, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas, told The Sun Online the crisis in Madagascar had yet to peak. He warned it was possible for the deadly plague to move further into the region given the regular flights going in and out of the country. "If they are travelling shorter distances and they're still in the incubation period, and they have the pneumonic (form) then they could spread it to other places. "We don't want to have a situation where the disease spreads so fast it sort of gets out of control." He added: "Most of the cases in the past have been of the bubonic plague but if you look at this particular outbreak, 70 percent of the cases are pneumonic plague, which is the most deadly form of the disease. "If the treatment is not given in a very short period of time these people will end up dying." Plague symptoms include sudden fevers, head and body aches, vomiting and nausea. Dr Chopra added that it spreads "very rapidly", as seen by the number of cases in Madagascar doubling within a week. Speaking from Madagascar, Christine South, head of IFRC's emergency operations, said: "With anything like this there is a possibility that somebody could be infected and get on a plane. "We have done preparedness support to some of the neighbouring countries." However, she added that she believed the plague outbreak may now be stabilising but medical staff would have a clearer understanding of this over the next few days. The nine countries the WHO has warned of being at risk are: Kenya Ethiopia South Africa Mozambique Tanzania Reunion Mauritius Seychelles Comoros According to the World Health Organisation, the disease - which has struck heavily populated cities - sparked a false alarm in the Seychelles after a traveller reported symptoms of the disease. WHO stated: "The risk of regional spread is moderate due to the occurrence of frequent travel by air and sea to neighbouring Indian Ocean islands and other southern and east African countries." "Nine countries and overseas territories have been identified as priority countries in the African region for plague preparedness and readiness by virtue of having trade and travel links to Madagascar. "These countries and overseas territories include Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, La Réunion (France), Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania." The disease remains endemic in rural parts of the African island but the rise in the pneumonic version of the illness has sparked particular concern. The World Health Organisation said that this year, plague arrived earlier than expected, and the infection is also spreading in urban centres and in areas that until now had not been affected.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4765804/plague-black-death-madagascar-warning-nine-british/
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etc. I have told you to have enough food, generator for three months, how long, for three months. Not three years, not six years, not seven years. Man says many things, but it does not line up with my word, but I shall be giving unto you my word that you may know, you must prepare now, you must get your house in order now, these things, these things are important. etc..
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‘Alarm’: Feds find ‘bizarre’ results in survey of Pacific Ocean — Record low numbers of fish — Expert: “We pulled that net up, and there was not a thing in it… this is really different than anything we’ve ever seen”
Published: October 26th, 2017 at 8:56 am ET By ENENews
Seattle Times, Oct 9, 2017 (emphasis added): Scientists survey Pacific Northwest salmon each year. For the first time, some nets are coming up empty — Scientists have been hauling survey nets through the ocean off the coasts of Washington and Oregon for 20 years. But this is the first time some have come up empty… In a report on their trawl survey, the scientists logged some of the lowest numbers of yearling Snake River spring chinook recorded since the survey began in 1998. Coho numbers were just as depressed… This year’s bizarre survey results all started with The Blob… [NOAA’s David] Huff said the purpose of a memo the research team wrote to managers about their survey results was intended to provide an early warning of how poor and just plain strange conditions in the ocean off Washington and Oregon’s coasts are… David Huff, NOAA Fisheries, Oct 9, 2017: “We were really worrying if there was something wrong with our equipment… We have never hauled that net through the water looking for salmon or forage fish and not gotten a single salmon. Three times we pulled that net up, and there was not a thing in it. We looked at each other, like, ‘this is really different than anything we have ever seen.’ It was alarming.” Brian Burke, NOAA Fisheries, Oct 9, 2017: “Every year is different. But this year popped out as being really different… Not just a bunch of normal metrics that point to a bad ocean year, but the presence of these things we have never seen before, really big changes in the ecosystem. Something really big has shifted here.” Daily Astorian, Sep 4, 2017: Warning signs for salmon… The numbers of young salmon caught off the Oregon and Washington state coasts during an annual federal survey cruise this June were among the lowest recorded in the past 20 years. In fact, numbers were low across nearly all the species researchers regularly catch or observe — from birds like the common murre to forage fish like anchovies and smelt… Brian Burke [with NOAA said,] “it was clear that there were not many fish out there.”… Burke said their understanding of why so many juveniles apparently died could shift. NOAA, Sep 2017: Ocean conditions for salmon headed to sea this year are very poor, according to recent NOAA Fisheries research surveys… NOAA Fisheries research surveys off the Pacific Northwest this year turned up among the fewest juvenile salmon of any of the last 20 years, an indication that many of the young fish that migrated to the ocean did not survive… Catches of other species such as smelt, herring, and anchovy were also low… This year researchers noted that chlorophyll, which is a barometer of the plankton that helps sustain higher trophic levels, was at its lowest levels in 20 years… See also: Massive die-offs reported in Pacific Ocean — Officials: “No fish out there, anywhere, over a very large area”… “What’s happening? Where’s their food?” — “Alarming… Frightening… Total failure in reproduction… Like nothing we’ve ever observed before” (VIDEO)
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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10/26/2017 — LARGE PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE WARNING ISSUED — WEST COAST USA, ASIA, EUROPE + AMERICAS NOW ON WATCH: This deep earthquake activity indicates th…
This post was originally published on this site October 26, 2017
A warning has been issued for the potential of a large earthquake as a result of a deep seismic event which occurred in the West Pacific. The warning only covers this coming week (approximately 7-9 days). As things stand currently (Oct. 26, 2017) , over the past 48 hours, multiple deep earthquakes have occurred below the West Pacific, including Indonesia, Japan’s Izu trench, Fiji, and South America. This deep earthquake activity indicates the whole of the Pacific plate has been displaced, and will be compensating over the next week with larger seismic activity. Above: Deep earthquakes raised high off the globe for observation purposes , the deep earthquake at the center of the screen now causing a “fracture effect” as the pressure rises from below and puts stress on the under sides of the plate boundaries. This stress causes new earthquakes to spread out from the original deep event(s). The yellow arrows indicate which direction pressure spread in 1 days time. Read more about why deep earthquakes matter here: https://www.dutchsinse.com/?s=asthenosphere Going forward over this week (next 7-10 days), areas such as the Northwest Coast of the United States / Canada, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Central America, and multiple locations across South America should be impacted by increased seismic activity at each named location. We are expecting at least 1 magnitude increase at each named location, and looking for the potential of a M7.7 to M8.7 as a result of the deep M6.7 which occurred below Indonesia. The West coast of the United States is on watch for midrange M5.0 to lower M6.0 earthquake activity near the coast of Oregon + Northwest California, then to be followed by larger activity going to near M4.0 (or larger) in the midwest United States fracking operations across central Oklahoma. There are several locations which should show noteworthy movement outside of the United States, including Southern Europe, and Asia. Southern Europe should see a noteworthy increase in activity over the course of this week, expecting at least a 1 magnitude increase going to M5.0 in the Southern Mediterranean (Greece / Turkey), followed by Italy and Bosnia / Albania to be struck yet once again by another near M5.0 event(s). Central America + South America will be directly impacted at the “tips” of both large red arrows shown in the video. Those arrows point to the border of Ecuador / Columbia, as well as to near Valpariso Chile / Argentina. Both Northern and Southern South America should be heavily impacted this week as a result of the pressure transfer across the Pacific. Asia should be struck between India and Myanmar with earthquakes larger than anything which has struck in the past several weeks, meaning at least M5.2 or greater should strike the border region between India / Nepal / Myanmar. The middle East should also be struck by what comes out of Asia, thus a M5.2 or greater in Asia can cause M5.0+ activity in Iran. Have a plan this week for the large earthquake potential, don’t be scared – be prepared.
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Muslim Extremists Massacre 48 Christians in Nigeria
Morning Star News Nigeria Correspondent | Morning Star News | Wednesday, October 25,
The church elder in Plateau state, Nigeria saw the Muslim Fulani herdsmen storm into his village at 11 p.m. the night of Oct. 13, shooting in all directions. “Every one of us ran to save his life,” Dauda Samuel Kadiya, 38, of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Zanwrua, told Morning Star News. “I was shot at, but the bullet only bruised my hand. You can see the wound yourself.” The assailants destroyed eight houses in the attack, one of several assaults in Plateau state that went on uninterrupted from Oct. 8 to Oct. 17, killing 48 Christians, survivors said. “All Christians in villages around here have been displaced, and worship buildings have been abandoned,” Kadiya said. “Some of the church buildings were destroyed by the attackers.” In Zanwrua village, 62-year-old Agado Aura recounted how he and his wife narrowly escaped death. “Myself and my wife were still sitting in front of my house chatting at about 11 p.m. in front of my house when the attackers came,” Aura, a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Tafigana but a resident of Zanwrua, told Morning Star News. “We could not go to bed early, because the previous night a village near ours, Tafigana, was attacked by the herdsmen. Suddenly, we heard gunshots from the eastern part of the village. We ran into some of the nearby rocks close to my house and hid there.” The armed herdsmen came to his house and started shooting, he said. “They broke the doors to our rooms and then set fire on my house,” Aura said. “Having set fire on my house, they went to the next house and did the same. They continued burning houses until they were done, before they left. I was watching all they were doing from my hidden spot behind those rocks you see over there.” Area Christian leaders told Morning Star News how armed herdsmen, apparently accompanied by terrorists from Islamic extremist groups, attacked communities just a few kilometers from a Nigerian army facility, the Rukuba Military Cantonment outside Jos, for nine days. Moses Tsohu, a Zanwrua village leader and ECWA member, lamented that the attacks were carried out in spite of the presence of soldiers stationed at check points on the Jos-Miango Highway. “In the past few weeks, our people have been attacked by Muslim Fulani herdsmen who are collaborating with armed terrorists to invade our communities,” Tsohu told Morning Star News. “These attacks are being carried out daily. Every blessed day we witness the invasion, killing of our people, and the destruction of their houses.”The attacks on 13 Christian communities in the north-central state also wounded nine people and ruined 249 homes, survivors said. Herdsmen began the assaults on Oct. 8 on Nkie Dongwro village, where one Christian was killed and another wounded. Tsonhu said a 2-year-old was among those killed over the course of the attacks. He gave the names of Christians killed in Nzherenvi, Nzherivo, and Aribakwa as Arivure, 2; John Audu, 25; Kure Dah, 31; Sunday Vire, 22; Voh Te, 20; Garba, 28; Zhu, 41; Jerry Simon, 34; Tegwi Mba, 30; and Wura Hwei, 27. Hundreds of Christians who have been displaced were taking refuge in Miango and in Jos, Tsonhu said. Survivors told Morning Star News that two Christians were killed in Hukke; one in Kpachudu; two in Nzhweruvo; one in Tafigana; six in Taegbe; one in Chuvorivireh; four in Aribakwa; one in Arichaka; and 30 in Nkyie Doghwro, which was attacked twice. They said nine Christians were injured in two villages, five in Taegbe and four in Nkyie Doghwro. In addition, the herdsmen kidnapped one Christian from Rotsu village. “We have continually woken up to news of attacks each day leaving tears, sorrow, despair and apprehension,” Sunday Abdu, president of the Community Development Association of the predominantly Christian Irigwe ethnic group, said at a press conference in Abuja. Abdu said that there was a prior attack as well: after Sept. 8 attacks on Ancha that killed at least 20 Christians, on Sept. 9 two persons were killed, including a soldier, in Hukke. The Oct. 8 assault began in Nkie Dongwro, killing one Christian and wounding another, he said. Abdu said that a young man in Kpachudu, Solomon Elisha, was killed on Oct. 10; three people were killed and houses razed on Oct. 11 in Nzhweruvo and Tafigana; On Oct. 12, Muslim Fulani herdsmen razed houses in Rikwe Chongu; on Oct. 14 in Taegbe, six people were killed, five injured and houses destroyed; in Nkyie Doghwro on Oct. 16, 29 people were killed and three injured at a school used as a camp where security forces were present. “It is painful to note that all these happened despite useful, timely information provided to security personnel, regarding movement and mode of operation of the assailants,” he said. The 13 villages attacked across nine days were Hukke, Kpachudu, Nzhweruvo, Tafigana, Rikwe Chongu, Taegbe, Zanwrua, Nchetahu, Chuvorivireh, Aribakwa, Nshuariba, Arichaka, and Nkyie Doghwro. Christians make up 51.3 percent of Nigeria’s population, while Muslims living primarily in the north and middle belt account for 45 percent. Nigeria ranks 12th on Open Doors’ 2017 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution. If you would like to help persecuted Christians, visit http://morningstarnews.org/resources/aid-agencies/ for a list of organizations that can orient you on how to get involved. If you or your organization would like to help enable Morning Star News to continue raising awareness of persecuted Christians worldwide with original-content reporting, please consider collaborating at http://morningstarnews.org/donate/?
https://www.christianheadlines.com/news/muslim-extremists-massacre-48-christians-in-nigeria.html
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Kenya election: Voting marred by boycott
7 minutes ago From the section Africa
Kenya's presidential election re-run has been marred by isolated clashes and a boycott by the main opposition. A teenage boy was shot by police and later died amid clashes in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, one of four counties hit by violence. The electoral commission said voting in those areas would be postponed until Saturday. President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner in an August vote, which was annulled because of "irregularities". Mr Kenyatta is seeking a second term. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of the contest. Live updates: Kenya's controversial vote Kenya needs healing Key moment for African democracy Tens of thousands of police and other security staff deployed to protect voters and polling stations, which closed at 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT). International observers have scaled down their missions for security reasons. One voter in Nairobi's Mathare slum, taxi driver David Njeru, 26, told the AFP news agency: "It is my duty to vote. Last time the queue was all around the block and I waited six hours to vote, this time the people are few." After casting his vote in the town of Gatundu, Mr Kenyatta had urged people to cast their ballots so the country could move on. "We're tired as a country of electioneering. It's time we moved forward," he said, adding that most of the country was "calm and peaceful". Live rounds have been fired by police in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, in western Kenya, killing at least one person. Nineteen-year-old George Odhiambo was brought to the main hospital in Kisumu bleeding heavily from a thigh wound. His brother told me that they had been sitting outside their house watching opposition demonstrations when he was shot. Four other patients nursing gunshot wounds are all in a stable condition. We've been coming across pockets of protesters as we drive around the city - with police firing teargas to disperse them. Most people here have heeded the boycott call by the opposition and stayed at home, and many polling stations have been barricaded to stop any would-be voters. A voting official in Kisumu told me just three of 399 polling station officials had turned up, fearing they might face intimidation for taking part in the election. A lone but determined voter came to the main polling distribution centre this morning to find out how he could vote as his polling station was closed. What effect are ethnicities having? BBC Kenya analyst Dickens Olewe says the ethnic divide can already be seen in the voting, with a high turnout so far in regions where President Kenyatta's Kikuyu community and Deputy President William Ruto's Kalenjin community reside. In parts of western Kenya where Mr Odinga's Luo community is mostly based, there is a near-100% boycott of the poll. The electoral commission has postponed voting until Saturday in the western counties of Homa Bay, Kisumu, Migori and Siaya because of "security challenges". These areas are all likely to continue observing the opposition's boycott. Ethnic-based politics is deep-seated in Kenya, fuelled by the illusion that if "one of us" is in power then people from that community will benefit, he says. Some Kenyans may also feel Mr Odinga's withdrawal makes the competition somewhat redundant; others may be just fed up with the ongoing political crisis - all factors that could affect the overall turnout, he adds. Uhuru Kenyatta: Kenya's 'digital president' Raila Odinga - love him or loathe him Full election coverage What has happened since the first vote? The announcement by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Mr Kenyatta's victory on 8 August led to inflammatory rhetoric and attacks on the body. Last week, a senior member of the IEBC fled to the US amid death threats. About 50 people are reported to have been killed in violence since Mr Kenyatta was declared the winner in August's election. Mr Odinga had wanted the repeat ballot to be held at a later date, but a bid to delay the election re-run fell apart after only two of seven Supreme Court judges attended a hearing on Wednesday. One judge, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, failed to appear after her bodyguard was shot and wounded by unknown gunmen on Tuesday. Why is there an election re-run? Kenya's Supreme Court took the unprecedented decision to annul the August presidential election and demand a re-run in September citing "irregularities and illegalities". Chief Justice David Maraga said the election had not been "conducted in accordance with the constitution" and declared it "invalid, null and void". He said the verdict, which was backed by four of the six Supreme Court judges, found that the IECB had committed irregularities "in the transmission of results". The court said the result was "neither transparent nor verifiable". The ruling did not attribute any blame to President Kenyatta's party or campaign but it nevertheless raised tensions, with rival protests in support of and against the court. There were running battles between police firing tear gas and stone-throwing protesters in the city of Kisumu, an opposition stronghold, on Wednesday. Why is the opposition boycotting? Mr Odinga has said that the IECB failed to make the changes needed to prevent a repeat of the mistakes that marred the earlier poll, although the IECB disputes this. His opposition coalition - the National Super Alliance (Nasa) - made clear its participation in the election was contingent on reforms being made. Mr Odinga had vowed to disrupt Thursday's vote, calling for "massive" demonstrations, but has asked his supporters to stay away from polling stations in an attempt to avoid violent clashes. In a statement earlier this month, he accused the government of instituting a "dictatorship", adding: "We are going to win the battle for a free and fair election". "Our opponents want an election for the sake of it, we want a better election," he said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41757612
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etc The end is upon you and you need to look and see the things that you should be doing, pay close attention to that. For I have told you things would change here, they would change. If you live near the Babylon that is going to fall I have told you to move at least seventy-five miles from there, at least. That goes for California, that goes for the center fault line, realize that war, war is at hand. Not only with ISIS, but you have got Russia, you have got China, you have got North Korea, wake up, wake up, for I have been telling you these things, it is getting very, very dangerous, very dangerous. etc
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North Korea threat of 'most powerful' nuclear bomb test should be taken literally, foreign minister warns
Follows North Korea's first successful hydrogen bomb test
Jeremy B White San Francisco Thursday 26 October 2017 01:21 BST
America must take “literally” the threat of North Korea conducting a powerful nuclear test over the Pacific Ocean, according to a top official. Dramatically upping the stakes as it showcases its bolstered military prowess, North Korea last month conducted its first test of a powerful hydrogen bomb. Shortly afterward, the country’s foreign minister responded to Donald Trump’s threat to “totally destroy” North Korea by saying the country could conduct the “strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean”. It was not an idle warning, according to senior diplomat Ri Yong Pil, who told CNN the possibility was meant to be taken “literally”. “The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think you should take his words literally,” Mr Ri told CNN. The threat of a nuclear test came as North Korea renewed its warning that America was provoking a military conflict, calling joint naval exercises a prelude to “nuclear war”. The claim, made in a letter from North Korean ambassador Ja Song Nam, is the latest in a series of threats and recriminations America and North Korea have exchanged over a tense few months. As North Korea has tested increasingly powerful weaponry and threatened to obliterate its enemies, the Trump administration has responded with vows to punish Korea with force if necessary. It has also conducted joint military exercises with South Korea, including a Navy drills that dispatched around 40 vessels -among them the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier - near the Korean Peninsula this month. At the time North Korea referred to those drills as a “rehearsal for war”. In his letter, Mr Ja asked the United Nations Security Council to examine what he called the “general mobilization of the strategic assets” for the exercise. Mr Ja said Donald Trump “made the most ferocious declaration of war in history by claiming to ‘totally destroy’” North Korea. The President issued that warning during a mid-September speech to the United Nations, continuing to match Korean bellicosity with American warnings of military reprisal. Defense Secretary James Mattis had said weeks earlier that North Korea risked “total annihilation” if it continued to defy the world and threaten allies. The latest provocations from North Korea come as Mr Trump makes final preparations for a trip across Asia at the start of next month, that will include stops in Japan, South Korea and China. On Wednesday he tweeted that he had spoken with China's President Xi Jinping about the issue of North Korea. Mr Trump also said he congratulated Mr Xi for his "extraordinary elevation" after China's president consolidated his grip on power in the country with a new leadership line-up unveiled at the Communist Party Congress in Beijing. Mr Xi told Trump China would “unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development” and promote “coordination and cooperation among world major powers”, the state Xinhua news agency reported. “China attaches great importance to the Sino-US relations and is willing to promote the long-term, healthy and stable development of bilateral relations on the basis of mutual respect and mutual benefits,” Xinhua cited Mr Xi as saying. Mr Trump was also earlier asked by reporters whether he would visit the tense demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea during his Asia tour - his response was typically cryptic. “I'd rather not say, but you'll be surprised,” he said. China, seen as crucial to reining in its belligerent neighbor, has joined the world effort to halt North Korea but has also echoed the country’s warnings about US military exercises functioning as acts of aggression. In August, the country’s foreign ministry urged America to suspend planned military drills that it warned would escalate tensions. A state editorial condemning North Korea’s nuclear test in September also reprimanded the US for its “belligerent tone”, cautioning that “military exercises on DPRK's doorstep ate into Pyongyang's sense of security” and suggesting that North Korea suspend its military programs in exchange for the suspension of military exercises. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also sent a rare congratulatory message to Mr Xi, the North's state media said on Thursday, wishing the Chinese leader “great success” in his future tasks as head of the nation. It was a warm overture from the North Korean leader, who rarely issues personal messages. “It expressed the conviction that the relations between the two parties and the two countries would develop in the interests of the peoples of the two countries,” the North's state-run central news agency said in a statement. The UN Security Council to which Mr Ja issued his plea has had limited success in containing North Korea. It has clamped successive rounds of sanctions on the North Korean economy but failed to deter the nation's military ambitions, leading American ambassador to the the UN Nikki Haley to declare diplomatic options “exhausted”. A leading South Korea opposition figure, Hong Jun-pyo, head of the conservative Liberty Korea Party, told Reuters in Washington that he backed Mr Trump's tough stance. “The only way to deal with the situation is by having a nuclear balance between the North and the South,” said Mr Hong, the runner-up in South Korea's 2017 presidential election.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Hamas chief: We won’t discuss recognizing Israel, only wiping it out
Yahya Sinwar says 'no one in the universe can disarm us,' likens belief that terror group will relinquish weapons to 'Satan dreaming of heaven'
By Dov Lieber 19 October 2017, 6:56 pm
The Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip on Thursday dismissed US and Israeli demands that it lay down its arms and recognize the Jewish state, saying the terror organization is instead debating “when to wipe out Israel.” The remarks came during a closed roundtable discussion between Yahya Sinwar and Gazan youth about the ongoing reconciliation negotiations with rival Palestinian faction Fatah, to which some media outlets were invited to attend. “Over is the time Hamas spent discussing recognizing Israel. Now Hamas will discuss when we will wipe out Israel,” Sinwar said, according to the Hamas-linked news agency Shehab. A Hamas spokesperson released a few official quotes from the meeting. The Sinwar comment about discussing “when we will wipe out Israel” was not included in the transcript, which featured the Hamas leader again rejecting disarmament and Israel recognition. “No one in the universe can disarm us. On the contrary, we will continue to have the power to protect our citizens,” Sinwar said, according to the official statement. “No one has the ability to extract from us recognition of the occupation.” Since its inception nearly three decades ago, Hamas has sought to destroy the State of Israel. Sinwar’s comments on Thursday came as much of the international community was scrutinizing the terror organization as it attempts to join the internationally recognized government of the Palestinian Authority, which is controlled by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s party, Fatah. On Thursday the United States called for Hamas to disarm and renounce violence before being allowed to implement the highly touted unity deal with Fatah. “Any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the State of Israel, accept previous agreements and obligations between the parties – including to disarm terrorists – and commit to peaceful negotiations,” said White House Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt in a statement released by the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. “If Hamas is to play any role in a Palestinian government, it must accept these basic requirements,” Greenblatt said, in comments later commended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One issue that threatens to derail the reconciliation process is the question of what will be the future of Hamas’s 25,000-strong military and its weapons arsenal. Abbas said he wants full control of all guns in Gaza. On Thursday, Sinwar doubled down on Hamas’s stance that it will not relinquish its armed forces. “Disarming us is like Satan dreaming of heaven. No one can take away our weapons,” he said. He also reportedly admitted that the talks could collapse. “There is a danger to the reconciliation project,” Sinwar was quoted as saying, though he did not elaborate. Last week, the two rival Palestinian factions signed an agreement in Cairo to allow the PA to take full control of the Gaza, which it was kicked out of 10 years ago by Hamas in a violent conflict. Speaking immediately after signing the deal, Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas deputy political leader, said Palestinian unity was vital “so that we can all work together against the Zionist enterprise.” Sinwar on Thursday reiterated his group’s desire for the reconciliation process to be successful, and personally invited Abbas to hold the next meeting of his party’s central committee and of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the largest Palestinian political umbrella group, in Gaza. “I call for the Fatah Central Committee and the Palestine Liberation Organization to hold its next meeting in Gaza, headed by [Abbas],” Sinwar said, according to a Hamas spokesperson. During his talk, Sinwar also touched upon prisoner negotiations between Hamas and Israel. In his statement, Sinwar reportedly said “we are ready for a second Shalit deal,” a reference to the 2011 prisoner exchange for abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit that was his own ticket out of Israeli prison. In the new deal, he claimed, Fatah leader and convicted murderer Marwan Barghouti, as well as others, would go free. Hamas is said to be holding captive three Israelis — Avraham Abera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed and Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima — all said to have entered the Gaza Strip of their own accord. Hamas is also holding the bodies of Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, two IDF soldiers who were killed in the Strip during the 2014 Gaza war. Last month it was reported that Hamas had accepted an Egyptian proposal for a prisoner swap with Israel whereby the bodies of 39 Palestinians killed in the 2014 Gaza war, 19 of whom are Hamas members, would be handed over to the group in exchange for Hamas acknowledging the fate of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul. The IDF says the two were killed in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 war. Hamas has hinted that it is holding the two soldiers and has also implied that they could still be alive. In the second stage of the Egyptian plan, Israel would reportedly release the so-called “Shalit captives” — 58 Palestinians who were rearrested in the summer of 2014 after being set free in the 2011 swap for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-chief-we-wont-discuss-recognizing-israel-only-wiping-it-out/
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Report: Europe, U.S. Flooded by Thousands of Jihadis After Islamic State Failure
by Ben Kew24 Oct 2017
A new report commissioned by the Soufan Center has outlined the threat posed by potential Western Islamic State (ISIS) fighters returning to their countries of origin as the caliphate continues to collapse. The report, titled “Beyond the Caliphate, Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees,” finds that at least 5,600 men, women, and children from 33 countries who traveled to support the Islamic State have now returned to their country of origin, many of which are in the West. It also estimates that around 30 percent of the approximately 5,000 people who have gone to Syria from countries in the European Union have returned home. Seven of the 129 who went to join ISIS from the United States are now back on home turf, the report adds. “It’s a hell of a problem,” Richard Barrett, a senior adviser at the Soufan Center told NBC. “It’s very resource-intensive to identify who these people are, track them down and then to do something about them.” “We have to be cautious of thinking that all [5,600] would go back and be a problem, but I think it’s fair to assume that probably some will be,” he continued. The report also outlines how, upon their return, Islamic State terrorists continue to pose a serious threat to national security. It states: If on return they begin again to feel as rootless and lacking in purpose as they did before they left, then they are unlikely to settle back easily into a “normal” life, and as ISIS increases its external campaign, both through action and propaganda, returnees may be particularly vulnerable to contact from people who were part of the network that recruited them, or appeals for help from ex-comrades in arms. It also details the potential threat posed by women and children, whose commitment to the caliphate and its ideology is difficult to assess: A subset of returnees that is even harder to quantify, assess and address is the women and children who joined IS but later went home or were captured and await deportation. Without further research, it will be hard to judge the degree of their commitment to IS and their interest in becoming active rather than passive supporters. “It’s one of the hardest things of all to rehabilitate children who have been recruited by violent extremist groups,” Barrett said. “Once trained, they are incredibly committed and loyal.” “They will be a lot of mental health issues,” he continued. “And you can’t just put them in a child detention center—you have to treat them. Some will be turned around quite easily and will follow the next ‘mother figure’ that comes along, but others will be unpredictable, to say the least.” The report’s release coincides with the caliphate’s continued collapse at the hands of the U.S. led coalition. Last week, coalition forces celebrated the group’s expulsion from the Syrian city of Raqqa, while forces in the Philippines also expelled the terror group from their stronghold of Marawi. Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had declared Raqqa the capital of the terrorist state in 2014.
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Russia is No. 1 source country for ISIS foreign fighters: Report
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Russia has been the No. 1 source country of foreign fighters for the Islamic State, according to a new report by a private security-intelligence firm, which also claims that thousands of the terror group’s fighters have returned to their home countries after losing territory in Syria and Iraq. The report released Tuesday by the New York-based firm The Soufan Group said “there are now at least 5,600 citizens or residents from 33 countries who returned home” in a situation that “represents a huge challenge for security and law enforcement entities” around the world. “As the so-called Islamic State (IS) loses territorial control of its caliphate, there is little doubt that the group or something similar will survive the worldwide campaign against it so long as the conditions that promoted its growth remain,” the report stated. “Its appeal will outlast its demise, and while it will be hard to assess the specific threat posed by foreign fighters and returnees, they will present a challenge to many countries for years to come.” The Soufan Group, headed by former FBI Agent Ali Soufan, has made headlines with its analysis of ISIS foreign fighter trends in years past. A 2015 report by the group had listed the tiny North African nation of Tunisia as the No. 1 source country of the foreign fighters at that time. Tuesday’s report updated the numbers, noting that Tunisia’s government has since dramatically revised — from 6,000 down to less than 3,000 — the number of Tunisians it believes have traveled to join ISIS. With that as a backdrop, the latest report maintains that some 3,417 fighters traveled from Russia to join the terror group in Syria and Iraq, compared with 3,244 from Saudi Arabia, 3,000 from Jordan and 2,926 from Tunisia. France is also listed as a top source country, with some 1,910 having traveled from there to join IS.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/24/russia-no-1-source-country-isis-foreign-fighters-r/
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The Iran-Hamas Plan to Destroy Israel
by Khaled Abu Toameh October 23, 2017 at 5:00 am
Iran's goal in this move? For Hamas to maintain and enhance its preparation for war against Israel. Iran's message to Hamas: If you want us to continue providing you with financial and military aid, you must continue to hold on to your weapons and reject demands to disarm. Iran wants Hamas to retain its security control over the Gaza Strip so that the Iranians can hold onto another power base in the Middle East, as it does with Hezbollah in Lebanon. In a historic reawakening, Iran is once again meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians. This this does not bode well for the future of "reconciliation" between Hamas and Palestinian Authority's Fatah faction run by President Mahmoud Abbas. The re-emergence of Iran, as it pursues its efforts to increase its political and military presence in the region, does not bode well for the future of stability in the Middle East. The Iranians are urging Hamas to hold on to its weapons in spite of the recent "reconciliation" agreement signed between Hamas and Fatah under the auspices of Egypt. Iran's goal in this move? For Hamas to maintain and enhance its preparation for war against Israel. A high-level Hamas delegation headed by Saleh Arouri, deputy chairman of Hamas's "political bureau," traveled to Tehran last week to brief Iranian leaders on the "reconciliation" deal with Fatah. During the visit, Iranian leaders praised Hamas for resisting demands (by Fatah) to disarm and relinquish security control over the Gaza Strip. "We congratulate you on your refusal to abandon your weapons, an issue that you consider as a red line," Ali Velayati, a senior Iranian politician and advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei, told the visiting Hamas officials. "The Palestinian cause is the most important cause of the Islamic world, and after all this time you remain committed to the principle of resistance against the Zionists despite all the pressure you are facing." Arouri and his colleagues rushed to Tehran to seek the support of the Iranian regime in the wake of demands by Abbas that Hamas allow the Palestinian Authority to assume security control over the Gaza Strip. The "reconciliation" agreement stipulates nothing about the need for Hamas to disarm, and Hamas officials have stressed during the past two weeks that they have no intention of laying down their weapons or dismantling their security apparatus in the Gaza Strip. Hamas views the demand to disarm as part of an Israeli-American "conspiracy" designed to eliminate the Palestinian "resistance" and thwart the "reconciliation" accord with Abbas's Fatah. Hamas's refusal to disarm is already threatening to spoil the "reconciliation." Arouri was quoted during his visit to Tehran as saying that Hamas "will not backtrack on the option of defending the Palestinian people." He specified that the "reconciliation" agreement with Fatah would not affect the weapons of the Palestinian "resistance," including Hamas. Hamas, he added, will "confront the Israeli-American conspiracy through national unity and reconciliation and by continuing the resistance. The Palestinian resistance forces will always stick to their weapons and will not lay them down." Hamas also sees the visit of its top officials to Tehran as a rejection of Israel's demand that it cut off its ties with Iran. Hamas officials say they continue to see their relations with Iran as "strategic and significant," especially in wake of Tehran's financial and military aid to their movement in the Gaza Strip. By aligning itself with Iran, Hamas is also seeking to resist any demand that it abandon its ideology and charter, which call for the destruction of Israel and oppose any peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. Iranian officials apparently do not like Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority and are not keen on seeing them return to the Gaza Strip. Iran considers Abbas a "traitor" because his Palestinian Authority conducts security coordination with Israel in the West Bank and claims that it is committed to a "peace process" with Israel. This position goes against Iran's wish to destroy the "Zionist entity." Abbas, for his part, has always considered Iran a threat to his regime as well as to stability in the region. In the past, he has criticized Iran for "meddling" in the internal affairs of the Palestinians by supporting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. Earlier this year, the Palestinian Authority strongly condemned Iran after a senior Iranian official accused Abbas of waging war in the Gaza Strip on behalf of Israel. The official's statement came in response to a series of punitive measures imposed by Abbas on the Gaza Strip. Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, accused Iran of meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians and some Arab countries. He said that Iran's actions "encouraged divisions" among the Palestinians. "Iran must stop feeding civil wars in the Arab world," he said. "Iran must stop using rhetoric that only serves Israel and the enemies of the Arabs." Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are now convinced that Iran is working towards foiling the "reconciliation" agreement with Hamas. They believe that Iran invited the Hamas leaders to Tehran to pressure them not to lay down its weapons. Abbas and the Egyptians were probably naïve to think that Hamas would disarm and allow Abbas loyalists to deploy in the Gaza Strip after the signing of the "reconciliation" agreement. It is possible that some of the Hamas leaders had lied to Abbas and the Egyptians by hinting that Hamas would give up security control of the Gaza Strip. The Egyptians, who played a major role in brokering the Hamas-Fatah deal, are also believed to be worried about Iran's renewed meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians. Both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt see the visit of the Hamas delegation to Iran as a serious setback to the "reconciliation" agreement and as a sign that Hamas is not sincere about implementing the accord. Some Palestinian Authority and Hamas officials have recently claimed that Israel was not happy with their "reconciliation" agreement and was doing its utmost to foil it. The truth, however, is that it is Iran and Hamas that are working to thwart the agreement by insisting on maintaining the status quo in the Gaza Strip. Iran's message to Hamas: If you want us to continue providing you with financial and military aid, you must continue to hold on to your weapons and reject demands to disarm. What is in it for Iran? Iran wants Hamas to retain its security control over the Gaza Strip so that the Iranians can hold onto another power base in the Middle East. Iran wants Hamas to continue playing the role of a proxy, precisely as Hezbollah functions in Lebanon. The last thing Iran wants is for the Palestinian Authority security forces to return to the Gaza Strip: that would spoil Tehran's plans to advance its goal of destroying Israel. Iran's continued support for Hamas stems not out of love for either Hamas or the Palestinians, but from its own interest in consolidating its presence in the Middle East. Many Palestinians see the "successful" visit of the Hamas officials to Tehran as a major setback for efforts to end the 10-year-long Hamas-Fatah dispute. Similarly, the Egyptians are now wary of the sudden rapprochement between Iran and Hamas and are beginning to ask themselves whether they have been duped by Hamas. An Israeli delegation that visited Cairo on the eve of the signing of the Hamas-Fatah deal is said to have warned the Egyptians that the "reconciliation" would not work unless Hamas disarms and severs its ties with Iran. However, the Egyptians reportedly failed to listen to the Israeli warning. As for Israel, the US and other Western parties, the lesson to be drawn from the renewal of ties between Hamas and Iran is that Hamas has not changed one iota. Contrary to delusional hopes, discussed on the heels of the "reconciliation" agreement in Cairo and based on lies and thin air, Hamas is not headed toward moderation and pragmatism. By openly supporting Hamas, Iran is once again demonstrating that it aims to fan the fire in the Middle East and continue to sabotage any prospects for peace. Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist, is based in Jerusalem.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11209/iran-hamas-destroy-israel
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Fox News bombshell: Manafort's Russia ties lead to ... Hillary!
Moscow 'wanted to cultivate' access as Clinton appeared headed to White House
Published: 23 hours ago author- Bob Unruh
All sorts of questions have been raised about FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, especially since he’s stocked his office with mostly anti-Donald Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton lawyers. But now a startling report indicates the probe of onetime Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort may lead not to a Russian link to Trump, but to the now twice-failed Democratic hopeful for the Oval Office, Clinton. The Washington Post reported Tuesday the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in the now-famous dossier that is at the heart of the allegations of Trump collusion with Russia. Now, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson says he has a reliable source who has confirmed the Post story and provided additional information: Carlson said the source formerly worked with Clinton allies John and Tony Podesta. John Podesta was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chief. The source claims media allegations of “Russian collusion” with the Trump campaign are exaggerated. Carlson declined to identify the source but assured his audience the source not only worked for the Podesta Group but also had access to information from Robert Mueller’s special-counsel investigation. FoxNews.com said that while media reports describe Manafort as Trump’s main tie to the investigation, “the source said it is Manafort’s role as a liaison between Russia and the Podesta Group that is drawing the scrutiny.” Carlson said the “vehicle” for which Manafort worked was a “sham” company with a headquarters listed in Belgium but with contact information linked to Kiev, Ukraine. At a time when Barack Obama was president and Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, Manafort was “representing” Russian business and political interests. The Podesta Group was in regular contact with Manafort during that time, the report said. “Manafort was clear that Russia wanted to cultivate ties to Hillary,” said Carlson, noting it appeared likely at that time that she would succeed Obama in the White House. The report said that in 2013, long before President Trump was considered a presidential contender, the Podesta organization hired David Adams, one of Clinton’s former deputies, setting up a channel between the company and Clinton. It was during that time that the Uranium One deal “was being facilitated by the White House,” the report said. A panel on which Clinton sat approved the sale of 20 percent of American uranium reserves to a Kremlin-owned company at the same time that millions of dollars in donations were directed to the Clinton Foundation. Carlson said the widespread assumption that the Russia probe is focusing on Trump is “mostly bogus,” according to the source. ‘British agent hired on behalf of Clinton camp’ The Washington Post’s report Tuesday said Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the party, hired Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, for the “research” that resulted in the dossier. Then Fusion hired Christopher Steele, a former British agent who has ties to the FBI and others, to write it up. The report said Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, long linked to President Obama, hired Fusion in 2016 “on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC.” The Post said that before then, and during the primary season, an unknown Republican had been paying for the research. The Democrats’ support of Fusion ran nearly to Election Day in 2016, said the report, which cited unidentified sources. Two congressional committees announced Tuesday they have launched investigations into the FBI’s handling of the case of Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecure email server to send classified and top-secret information while she was secretary of state. “Decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 have led to a host of outstanding questions that must be answered,” said Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judicial Committee. The committee has joined with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to investigate the FBI’s investigation of Clinton. Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. The Hill reported the two Republican leaders said they have “questions about the FBI’s decision to openly declare the bureau’s investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information, while quietly investigating Trump campaign associates.” They also want to know, according to The Hill, why the FBI “decided to formally notify Congress of the Clinton probe on two separate occasions; why the FBI – rather than the Justice Department – recommended that Clinton not be charged after the investigation concluded; and the reasoning behind their timeline for announcing such decisions.” Further, two House committees said they are looking into Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the Uranium One “pay-for-play” scandal, an episode that Hillary Clinton described this week as “baloney.” Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced Tuesday he is working with the House Oversight Committee to learn whether an FBI investigation was under way when the Obama administration signed off on the 2010 Uranium One deal, the Washington Times reported. Talk-radio star Rush Limbaugh said Monday he believes one of the objectives of Mueller’s Russia investigation is “to protect anybody and everybody that had anything to do with this Clinton-Obama-Russian uranium deal.” The probe by Mueller – who served as FBI director during the agency’s Russia-uranium investigation – is not only an effort to “find anything impeachable on Trump,” Limbaugh said. “I think that they’re taking advantage of the opportunity to shield and prevent any investigation or knowledge of what really went on, because that uranium thing, we’ve all, up ’til now, considered it a Hillary and Bill Clinton and Russian deal where the Clintons personally profited from brokering the sale of a percentage of our uranium supply to Russia.” Limbaugh said none of it “could have happened without the involvement of Obama, and so you couple that with the inescapable conclusion that the collusion story has moved off of Trump colluding with Russia.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/fox-news-bombshell-manaforts-russia-ties-lead-to-hillary/#po7D4jzpV3E5pfGf.99
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House Intel Chair Launches Investigation of Uranium Deal
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who signaled he was temporarily stepping aside from the Intelligence committee's probe into Russian election interference, announced he's leading a new Russia-focused investigation.
By Alan Neuhauser, Staff Writer |Oct. 24, 2017, at 2:20 p.m.
The top Republican on the House intelligence committee announced Tuesday that his committee is launching a joint investigation into a transaction approved by the Obama administration in 2013 that gave a Russian company control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters that his committee will be working with the House Oversight Committee to look into the deal, one of several such transactions completed between 2009 and 2013, and in particular whether the FBI or Justice Department had conducted any investigations associated with the transactions. "This is just the beginning of this probe. We are not going to jump to any conclusions at this time," Nunes said. "One of the things we're concerned about is whether or not there as an FBI investigation, was there a DOJ investigation, and if so why was Congress not informed of this matter?" The announcement comes on the heels of a report in The Hill last week that the FBI had spent several years investigating the Kremlin's use of bribes and extortion to expand Russian influence in the U.S. nuclear industry – and that a committee made up of representatives from U.S. government agencies responsible for approving the Russia deal may have been kept in the dark about the FBI's findings. Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump have long focused particular attention on the role of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose agency was one of nine government agencies, as well as independent regulators, that needed to sign off on the transactions. An investigation by the New York Times in 2015 revealed that people and groups linked to the company, Uranium One, made sizable donations to the Clinton Foundation, which were not previously disclosed, as Russia sought to gain control of the company and its uranium assets. In the wake of the revelations, Trump, on the campaign trail in 2016, alleged that Clinton "gave up 20 percent of America's uranium supply to Russia." PolitiFact rated the claim "mostly false." However, the president has repeatedly raised the issue of the uranium deal, including as recently as last week, when he called it "the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want you to know about." Clinton, after the report in The Hill last week, dismissed accusations of any wrongdoing associated with the uranium transactions. "I would say it’s the same baloney they’ve been peddling for years, and there’s been no credible evidence by anyone. In fact, it’s been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked," Clinton said during an interview broadcast by C-SPAN. Nunes' announcement came five days after Trump's tweet – and almost exactly seven months after Trump on Twitter called on the House intelligence committee to launch an investigation into the uranium deal. The House chairman landed in hot water this spring after he'd had undisclosed contacts with the Trump team about the committee's investigation into Russian election interference. However, he said he had not been in touch with anyone in the White House about this latest probe. "I have not talked to anyone at the White House about this," Nunes said. "This is basically based off of our conversations with informants over the last several months." The announcement came shortly after the House Judiciary Committee, joined by the House Oversight Committee, said it was launching a separate investigation into how the Justice Department handled the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server. The two probes into Clinton and the DOJ come as three committees and the Justice Department's special counsel continue their inquirires into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion between the Kremlin and members of the Trump campaign team. The congressional probes have reportedly been beset to varying degrees by partisan infighting, with some Trump supporters in Congress apparently eager to contain the scope and length of the various investigations. Nunes, in April, indicated that he was temporarily stepping aside from the House intelligence committee's Russia investigation, after meetings he'd had with the White House concerning some of the probe's early findings led to a congressional ethics investigation. His statement at the time said he would "continue to fulfill all my other responsibilities as Committee Chairman," and he batted away questions Tuesday that his involvement in a new probe on Russia contradicted his announcement from the spring. "You look like a guy who knows how to read," Nunes shot back at a reporter, referring him to his statement in April. The new investigation, he said, "is not about the election. This investigation is about uranium and whether the government functioned properly or not." Nunes was joined at the briefing by Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., who was there on behalf of Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who chairs a subcommittee with jurisdiction over the FBI's National Security Division. No Democrats were present at the announcement. The intelligence committee's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, said in a statement that the two investigations "were initiated on a partisan basis." "Acting on the urging of the President who has repeatedly denied the intelligence agencies' conclusions regarding Russian involvement in our election, they are designed to distract attention and pursue the President's preferred goal – attacking Clinton and Obama," Schiff said. "This may be good politics, but it is a disservice to the far more important cause of investigating Russian interference in our democracy and protecting our elections in 2018 and beyond from outside influence." Updated on Oct. 24, 2017: This story has been updated with additional comment.
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Posted on October 22, 2017 by Ray Starmann
VEGAS BOMBSHELL: VIDEO SHOWS 17 AMBULANCES PULLING BODIES OUT OF HOOTERS
Infowars
Video captured night of the Oct. 1 massacre reveals LVMPD and FBI are withholding key details about what actually transpired
LAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — On the night of October 1, Youtuber Benjamin Franks and his friend had just grabbed some tacos and were heading back to their hotel room at the MGM when they noticed a separate disturbance at the corner of Las Vegas Blvd and Tropicana Ave. 15-minutes later, from the leisure of his hotel room, Franks managed to capture bombshell video footage which shows a total of 17 ambulances removing human bodies from Hooters, contradicting the official story told by Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo. “They are just pulling so many bodies out of that Hooters,” a man’s voice can be heard saying at the 24-second mark. “I don’t know if people are dead — I don’t know if people are just injured — they just keep pullin’ them out though […] something definitely happened at Hooters though.” “It must have happened at Hooters dude because they are all showing up there,” he said. “It looks like most of them are at Hooters.” Hooters Casino and Hotel is located at 115 E. Tropicana Ave. which is just northeast of the venue where the Route 91 Music Festival was being hosted. Franks’s footage is absolute proof that the Los Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI are lying to the general public and have not been forthcoming about all of the events that occurred that night. “Me and my buddy went to vegas for two days. This was our first day there and had been out on the strip earlier but drove to circus circus later on. We had just gotten tacos when we finally reached tropicana and las vegas blvd is when we saw everyone running and all the police. We were lucky to get to the mgm parking garage and into our room about 15 minutes later and thats when this video starts. WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON,” the Youtuber wrote in his Oct. 21 post. Astonishingly, this all dovetails with an Oct. 14 Intellihub report which documents how an eyewitness explained in a radio interview that one of his girlfriend’s friends witnessed a ‘solo SWAT guy’ enter the back door of Hooters. In the article I wrote: A few moments later (after the gunfire in the venue subsided), Rick met back up with all five members of his group near a sign that they used for a “landmark” which was located between Hooters and Motel 6 which is when a “frantic stampede” fled Hooters. “[…] there was a bunch of people trying to get the hell away from Hooters so we did too,” he explained. “So we started running again.” Rick also pointed out that at one point he had witnessed “SWAT” guy enter Hooters through the back which he thought was suspicious. The scene was fluid and rapidly changing. Nobody could be trusted. According to Rick, the scene was fluid and rapidly changing. Nobody could be trusted. At one point, the group was told that a shooter had stolen a police car which elevated concern. The “HighImpactFlix” YouTube channel has condensed the footage in an excellent presentation of the facts.
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Eye-Opening Survey Shows No.1 Fear of US Citizens is Government, NOT Terrorism
By Matt Agorist - October 22, 2017
An extensive survey of hundreds of adults across the United States has just revealed that the thing most Americans fear—more than anything else—is their own government. In fact, according to the survey, no other fear even comes close to the percentage of Americans who worry about their corrupt government officials. The survey was conducted by Chapman University and it serves to back up the point that while Americans claim to live in the Land of the Free, deep down, they realize they are living in a corrupt oligarchy. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, like last year, corruption of government officials came top in 2017, with 74.5 percent of U.S. adults saying it makes them “afraid” or “very afraid.” Despite the constant fear mongering from the mainstream media and government on boogeymen terrorists plotting to steal our freedom, the public, according to this survey, is not buying it. In fact, the threat of terrorism isn’t even in the top 20 fears. Terrorism comes in at twenty-two—below credit card fraud and identity theft. While this survey is certainly promising, in the idea that people are waking up to government corruption, it is also a telling sign of America’s ability to hold two entirely contradictory ideas as self-evident. This ability, or perhaps better defined as “disability,” to hold two opposing ideas, such as the spreading of freedom through war, as being logically sound, is called cognitive dissonance. When one is in a state of dissonance, they may sometimes feel “disequilibrium”: frustration, hunger, dread, guilt, anger, embarrassment, anxiety, etc. In order for cognitive dissonance to work, society must remain just ignorant enough to support and to believe the lies fed to them from the establishment as reality; even though this reality is a complete contradiction. Once we step back and observe society with this in mind, the reason for this contradictory mental state becomes quite obvious. It is much easier to remain delusional and in a state of suspended disbelief than it is to deal with the opposing ideas held inside one’s head. How can one chant “USA is number 1!” while at the same time fearing the rulers of that USA? Coming to terms with the fact that you can actually be killed by the very entity who claims to protect you from those who wish to do you harm, is a difficult realization. Fortunately, there are those of us who have ‘woken up’ to our contradictory existence. This is not to say that we are smarter than others, only that we can recognize our own ignorance and through this self-reflection, seek to lessen that ignorance through entertaining ideas that may make us uncomfortable. If this survey shows us anything, it is that Americans would do well to entertain the uncomfortable idea that this country they hold so high up on a pedestal has actually long been on a path to become the dystopian nightmare written about in books like 1984.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/survey-americans-fear-government/
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Alternative Media Vindicated in Uranium One Reports
Will the Uranium One scandal finally take down the Clinton Foundaation?
October 21, 2017 by Shari Dovale
Uranium One has finally hit the national media stage. It is a scandel that could take down the Clintons once and for all. Left-leaning The Hill is being credited with breaking the story, though it goes back to 2009. The media cannot stop talking about it, and the undercover FBI agent that has been gagged from talking to Congress about the details. The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal. But FBI, Energy Department and court documents reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009. AG Jeff Sessions has the power to release the informant from the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) but has refused to do so. Fox News reports: “Witnesses who want to talk to Congress should not be gagged and threatened with prosecution for talking. If that has happened, senior DOJ leadership needs to fix it and release the witness from the gag order,” Grassley said in a statement. In a letter sent Wednesday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Grassley said such an NDA would “appear to improperly prevent the individual from making critical, good faith disclosures to Congress of potential wrongdoing.” He asked for a copy of the NDA by Nov. 1 and requested that, should one exist, “you release him from it and pledge not to engage in any form of retaliation against him for good faith communications with Congress.” Though the Main Stream Media (MSM) are finally talking about it, what very few seem to remember is that the alternative media have been talking about this for years. The central part of the of the Malheur Refuge Protest was the Hammond family, and their ranch outside of Burns, Oregon. Dwight and Steven Hammond were ordered to return to prison by the Federal government over a small range backfire. They had previously served out the sentence reluctantly imposed on them by Judge Hogan. During the court preceding the Hammonds were forced to grant the BLM first right of refusal. If the Hammonds ever sold their ranch they would have to sell it to the BLM. It was during this turbulent time that the political implications of Uranium One were shouted over the internet. * From INTELLIHUB: Clinton Foundation took massive payoffs, promised Hammond Ranch and other publicly owned lands to Russians along with one-fifth of our uranium ore …the Hammond’s ranch and other ranchlands surrounding the refuge sit atop a vast swath of precious metals, minerals, and uranium that’s heavily desired by not only the federal government but foreign entities as well. Citing BLM documentation, they continue: Oregon Energy, L.L.C. (formally Uranium One) is interested in developing a 17-Claim parcel of land known as the Aurora Project through an open pit mining method. Besides the mine, there would be a mill for processing. The claim area occupies about 450 acres and is also referred to as the “New U” uranium claims. * Newstarget also reports: EXCLUSIVE: Massive Cover-up – BLM leases Hammond ranch land to Russia through Clinton Foundation donors for uranium Evidence has surfaced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been taking land with plans to lease it to Clinton Foundation donors. Russia gradually gained control of Uranium One, a major mining company, in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State. Canadian records reveal that the company’s chairman used his own family foundation to make four donations to the Clinton Foundation during that time, resulting in a sum contribution of $2.35 million. Secretary Clinton approved the deal for Russia soon after her family’s slush fund received the donations. Now, Vladimir Putin controls 20 percent of all uranium production capacity in the U.S. * Jon Rappoport reported: The Clintons: is the Oregon standoff really about uranium? …there’s a case to be made that they, through Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation, facilitated the sale of Uranium One to Putin and the Russians. And if so, and if this area of Oregon is projected to be part of that uranium mining deal, then we are looking at a stunning “coincidence”: the US federal government is coming down hard on a group of protestors who are occupying, for their own reasons, a very valuable piece of territory that goes far beyond the issue of private cattle grazing on government land. IWB reported: Massive Cover-up – BLM leases Hammond ranch land to Russia through Clinton Foundation donors for uranium
Freedom Outpost: Clinton Called Out on Russian Uranium Deal – Malheur Documents Found by Bundys Come to Forefront
Guerilla Media Network Reports: Trump Calls Out Clinton Over Russian Uranium Deal; Renews Interest In Documents Found During Malheur Occupation
WND: Oregon shootout rooted in Clinton uranium trade? Investigation ties Hillary’s Russian deal to rancher-fed standoff
The constantly vilified Patriot movement have continuously shared this information with alternative media, as the MSM seemed too invested in protecting Hillary Clinton for her election bid. They waited patiently for the MSM and President Donald Trump to wake up and smell the coffee. Accused of being anti-government, those in the movement will tell you they are PRO-Honest-Government, and that is all they have been asking for. Return to the founding ideals and allow transparency. The next goal, beyond holding Hillary Clinton accountable for her actions, will be to gain justice for LaVoy Finicum, murdered on the side of a remote highway in rural Oregon. Let’s begin that journey by freeing Dwight and Steven Hammond from prison. Sources and related articles:
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/uranium-one-means-mueller-must-recuse-russia-probe/
clinton-foundation-donors-for-uranium.html
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/oregon-shootout-rooted-in-clinton-uranium-trade/
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Solar storms causing seizures and migraines in people and dogs, behaviour problems in children and enhanced medical problems for people in Alaska Monday, 23 October 2017
Solar storms causing seizures and migraines in people and dogs, behaviour problems in children and enhanced medical problems for people in Alaska SDO I frequently receive emails from a wonderfully brave man from Alaska, his name is Bill Laughing-Bear who suffers from Traumatic brain injury (TBI). Because of his injury, Bill can't use a computer because the screen causes him seizures or terrible migraines so his mother Tina types his work and thoughts for him. Bill heads a TBI peer support group called “The Deadheads” who have been monitoring and charting the cause and effect of solar wind and the geomagnetic storms that affect earth’s magnetic field. He gets reports from others who also have migraines and side affects, such as seizures, when these storms hit earth. They have also noted that dogs are having seizures at the same time people are. It would appear Bill, has found a link to people and animals who live further north, or closer to the polar regions are more sensitive to solar activity. Bill follows The Big Wobble for the frequent space weather updates and the research into coronal holes and their influence on our planet and Bill has come up with some remarkable updates, below is the latest email from Bill. Gary, I appreciate your continuous updates on all kinds of thought-provoking facts. My Mom (Tina) gives me daily updates since I still cannot use computers due to my brain injury. Your website is always the first place we look to find a Coronal hole and sunspot activity. I should say, “you are SPOT-on!” I receive individual reports from people who are not in contact with one another nor do any of them monitor space weather, who give me almost identical reports concerning them or their sledge dogs. I am absolutely positive that the effect could not be a placebo (a measure designed merely to calm or please someone - according to www.dictionary.com ). Here are a few of the things we are learning: 1) More than one parent has contacted me about their children’s behaviour problems (children without brain injuries) during severe solar storms. They are normally well-behaved kids. It is constantly lining up with the solar storms or the phases of the moon. 2) Another person has contacted me regularly during these solar events letting me know that whatever type of rash he has all over his body, it flares up drastically, bringing major discomfort, and subsides significantly after these events. His body responds like clockwork to these solar storms just as the children show behaviour problems. 3) Some of our dogs are also having seizures as well as our “Deadheads” with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) having either seizures, cognitive function problems or at a minimum, migraines. 4) It also seems to me, although I can’t prove it yet, that I am seeing more activity with the wildlife, such as moose, during these solar events. The moose seem to be more active. We are finding that by monitoring your alerts, the solar events, and tracking the aurora forecast at http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/Alaska , we are able to organize our daily activities around them because we know in advance what to expect. We can know ahead of time when it will not be wise to drive or make major decisions because we will be functioning with a limited capacity. It is the Deadheads belief that the gravitational fluctuations and solar storms are affecting the ionosphere which in turn affects the magnetite in our bodies and is a major part of their problem. (Article: Magnetite biomineralization in the human brain https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC49775/ ). Using a natural EM Meter which measures magnetic field changes as small as 0.5% of the earth’s magnetic field, confirms these events. We saw this with the recent solar eclipse. I am hoping to eventually get a specific type of Mac computer and screen that will work with my TBI and allow me to do more research for our brain injury group as well as monitor things more closely and timely. Being a disabled vet with a limited income, this may or may not become a reality. But in the meantime, I’m so grateful that I can - via Mom, my secretary - connect with you :o). Blessings, Bill Laughing-Bear We hope Bill gets his wish for a special computer soon so he can personally dig deeper into his research, finding connections between planetary alignment, solar activity and TBI Home Posted by Gary Walton at 11:37 am
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The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology.
By Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie October 19, 2017
In late 2016, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the word of the year, defining it as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” The 2016 Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the tumultuous U.S. presidential election highlighted how the digital age has affected news and cultural narratives. New information platforms feed the ancient instinct people have to find information that syncs with their perspectives: A 2016 study that analyzed 376 million Facebook users’ interactions with over 900 news outlets found that people tend to seek information that aligns with their views. This makes many vulnerable to accepting and acting on misinformation. For instance, after fake news stories in June 2017 reported Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin had died in a car crash its market value was reported to have dropped by $4 billion. When BBC Future Now interviewed a panel of 50 experts in early 2017 about the “grand challenges we face in the 21st century” many named the breakdown of trusted information sources. “The major new challenge in reporting news is the new shape of truth,” said Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine. “Truth is no longer dictated by authorities, but is networked by peers. For every fact there is a counterfact and all these counterfacts and facts look identical online, which is confusing to most people.” Americans worry about that: A Pew Research Center study conducted just after the 2016 election found 64% of adults believe fake news stories cause a great deal of confusion and 23% said they had shared fabricated political stories themselves – sometimes by mistake and sometimes intentionally. The question arises, then: What will happen to the online information environment in the coming decade? In summer 2017, Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a large canvassing of technologists, scholars, practitioners, strategic thinkers and others, asking them to react to this framing of the issue: The rise of “fake news” and the proliferation of doctored narratives that are spread by humans and bots online are challenging publishers and platforms. Those trying to stop the spread of false information are working to design technical and human systems that can weed it out and minimize the ways in which bots and other schemes spread lies and misinformation. The question: In the next 10 years, will trusted methods emerge to block false narratives and allow the most accurate information to prevail in the overall information ecosystem? Or will the quality and veracity of information online deteriorate due to the spread of unreliable, sometimes even dangerous, socially destabilizing ideas? Respondents were then asked to choose one of the following answer options: The information environment will improve – In the next 10 years, on balance, the information environment will be IMPROVED by changes that reduce the spread of lies and other misinformation online. The information environment will NOT improve – In the next 10 years, on balance, the information environment will NOT BE improved by changes designed to reduce the spread of lies and other misinformation online. Some 1,116 responded to this nonscientific canvassing: 51% chose the option that the information environment will not improve, and 49% said the information environment will improve. (See “About this canvassing of experts” for details about this sample.) Participants were next asked to explain their answers. This report concentrates on these follow-up responses. Their reasoning revealed a wide range of opinions about the nature of these threats and the most likely solutions required to resolve them. But the overarching and competing themes were clear: Those who do not think things will improve felt that humans mostly shape technology advances to their own, not-fully-noble purposes and that bad actors with bad motives will thwart the best efforts of technology innovators to remedy today’s problems. And those who are most hopeful believed that technological fixes can be implemented to bring out the better angels guiding human nature. More specifically, the 51% of these experts who expect things will not improve generally cited two reasons: The fake news ecosystem preys on some of our deepest human instincts: Respondents said humans’ primal quest for success and power – their “survival” instinct – will continue to degrade the online information environment in the next decade. They predicted that manipulative actors will use new digital tools to take advantage of humans’ inbred preference for comfort and convenience and their craving for the answers they find in reinforcing echo chambers. Our brains are not wired to contend with the pace of technological change: These respondents said the rising speed, reach and efficiencies of the internet and emerging online applications will magnify these human tendencies and that technology-based solutions will not be able to overcome them. They predicted a future information landscape in which fake information crowds out reliable information. Some even foresaw a world in which widespread information scams and mass manipulation cause broad swathes of public to simply give up on being informed participants in civic life. The 49% of these experts who expect things to improve generally inverted that reasoning: Technology can help fix these problems: These more hopeful experts said the rising speed, reach and efficiencies of the internet, apps and platforms can be harnessed to rein in fake news and misinformation campaigns. Some predicted better methods will arise to create and promote trusted, fact-based news sources. It is also human nature to come together and fix problems: The hopeful experts in this canvassing took the view that people have always adapted to change and that this current wave of challenges will also be overcome. They noted that misinformation and bad actors have always existed but have eventually been marginalized by smart people and processes. They expect well-meaning actors will work together to find ways to enhance the information environment. They also believe better information literacy among citizens will enable people to judge the veracity of material content and eventually raise the tone of discourse. The majority of participants in this canvassing wrote detailed elaborations on their views. Some chose to have their names connected to their answers; others opted to respond anonymously. These findings do not represent all possible points of view, but they do reveal a wide range of striking observations. Respondents collectively articulated several major themes tied to those insights and explained in the sections below the following graphic. Several longer additional sets of responses tied to these themes follow that summary. The following section presents an overview of the themes found among the written responses, including a small selection of representative quotes supporting each point. Some comments are lightly edited for style or length. Major themes on the future of the online information environment Major themes on the future of the online information environment
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A warning about Robert Mueller, from a civil liberties lawyer he tried to entrap
Posted by William A. Jacobson Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 11:00am
“Special counsel Mueller’s background indicates zealousness that we might expect in the Grand Inquisitor, not the choirboy.”
It has been relatively quiet lately on the Russian-collusion Democrat-Media leak and rumor mill. “Relatively” is the key word. What once was a sustained campaign of leaks timed to hit every 2-3 days to create a permanent Russia-collusion news cycle, now barely makes a sound. Of course, some Russian collusion is more newsworthy to the media than others, with the Uranium One scandal receiving a tiny fraction of the coverage as completely speculative Trump campaign rumors did. Andy McCarthy has what so far is the best article detailing why Uranium One matters, The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. The Facebook-ad buy, which started in June 2015 — before Donald Trump entered the race — was more left-wing agitprop (ads pushing hysteria on racism, immigration, guns, etc.) than electioneering. The Clintons’ own long-time political strategist Mark Penn estimates that just $6,500 went to actual electioneering. (You read that right: 65 hundred dollars.) By contrast, the staggering $500,000 payday from a Kremlin-tied Russian bank for a single speech was part of a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme to enrich the former president and his wife, then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton. At the time, Russia was plotting — successfully — to secure U.S. government approval for its acquisition of Uranium One, and with it, tens of billions of dollars in U.S. uranium reserves. As to alleged Trump campaign collusion with the Russians, there has been nothing made public, even through leaks, that shows such collusion. At most, based on what’s been leaked so far, you might have had some people around Trump trying to use their connections to Trump to promote themselves and their businesses. That’s a far cry from campaign collusion, which of course, isn’t itself a crime (though it would be wrong). In the absence of reasonable belief that a crime was committed, there never should have been a Special Counsel appointed. A Special Counsel is not supposed to be the equivalent of Lavrentiy Beria’s secret police, someone who finds the man and then tries to find the crime. The reason that’s so dangerous is that the federal (and state) criminal laws, in the hands of an aggressive prosecutor, can be abused. Someone who is an expert on that problem is Harvey Silverglate, a Boston civil liberties attorney who, among other things, was co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Silverglate’s book, Three Felonies a Day, demonstrates that the criminal laws are so broad and so counter-intuitive in many cases, that ordinary, honest, otherwise law-abiding citizens may be in violation of the law without realizing it. From the book self-description: The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance. We have a system which would make Lavrentiy Beria salivate, in which almost anyone could be prosecuted if there were prosecutors so-inclined. So we have to trust in prosecutors to be honest and not to try to find the person first, the crime second. We know in real life it doesn’t happen that way, particularly when there is a special prosecutor/counsel. Patrick Fitzgerald’s witchhunt against Scooter Libby is one of the first examples to come to mind – an investigation of Libby for allegedly leaking the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson when prosecutors knew from the get-go that someone else was responsible for the leak. Libby was prosecuted and convicted not for the leak, but for allegedly obstructing justice in the way he answered questions about his non-involvement in the leak, a classic “process” crime. Another example, though less popularly known, is the prosecution of Arthur Andersen accounting firm and Enron executives. Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell has a column in The Hill about those prosecutions and lead prosecutor Andrew Weissman: Weissmann, as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force, destroyed the venerable accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs worldwide — only to be reversed several years later by a unanimous Supreme Court. Next, Weissmann creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron. Four Merrill executives went to prison for as long as a year. Weissmann’s team made sure they did not even get bail pending their appeals, even though the charges Weissmann concocted, like those against Andersen, were literally unprecedented. Weissmann’s prosecution devastated the lives and families of the Merrill executives, causing enormous defense costs, unimaginable stress and torturous prison time. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the mass of the case. Weissmann quietly resigned from the Enron Task Force just as the judge in the Enron Broadband prosecution began excoriating Weissmann’s team and the press began catching on to Weissmann’s modus operandi. Which brings us to the team of prosecutors Robert Mueller, Special Counsel, has assembled. That team is approaching the size of the entire U.S. Attorney’s Office (criminal and civil) for the entire State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. What started off as an appointment to investigate Russian interference in the election and alleged collusion with the Trump campaign now appears focused, at least in part, on finding crimes committed by those around Trump, particularly Paul Manafort. A dawn raid on Manafort’s home was unusual, and likely an act of intimidation. So should we trust Mueller not to abuse his power of investigation, not to seek to find a person and then look for the crime? Harvey Silverglate had an experience with Mueller that is chilling. Mueller tried to set Silverglate up for a crime, to entrap Silverglate into committing a crime. Silverglate writes at the website of public broadcaster WGBH, How Robert Mueller Tried To Entrap Me: But I have known Mueller during key moments of his career as a federal prosecutor. My experience has taught me to approach whatever he does in the Trump investigation with a requisite degree of skepticism or, at the very least, extreme caution. When Mueller was the acting United States Attorney in Boston, I was defense counsel in a federal criminal case in which a rather odd fellow contacted me to tell me that he had information that could assist my client. He asked to see me, and I agreed to meet. He walked into my office wearing a striking, flowing white gauze-like shirt and sat down across from me at the conference table. He was prepared, he said, to give me an affidavit to the effect that certain real estate owned by my client was purchased with lawful currency rather than, as Mueller’s office was claiming, the proceeds of illegal drug activities. My secretary typed up the affidavit that the witness was going to sign. Just as he picked up the pen, he looked at me and said something like: “You know, all of this is actually false, but your client is an old friend of mine and I want to help him.” As I threw the putative witness out of my office, I noticed, under the flowing white shirt, a lump on his back – he was obviously wired and recording every word between us. Years later I ran into Mueller, and I told him of my disappointment in being the target of a sting where there was no reason to think that I would knowingly present perjured evidence to a court. Mueller, half-apologetically, told me that he never really thought that I would suborn perjury, but that he had a duty to pursue the lead given to him. (That “lead,” of course, was provided by a fellow that we lawyers, among ourselves, would indelicately refer to as a “scumbag.”) Notice how the entrapment happened. What appeared to be an up-and-up witness at the last second, just as he was about to sign, revealed to Silverglate the information Mueller would use to prosecute Silverglate for suborning perjury – that the story in the affidavit was a lie. Fortunately for Silverglate, he was listening carefully, not talking on the phone or surfing the internet, so he heard and was able to process what unexpectedly had been revealed. And he thought quickly enough to kick the person out of the office before the document was signed, as opposed to choosing after the signing not to use the affidavit. And all the while Mueller’s prosecutors were listening, likely ready to prosecute a civil liberties lawyer for a crime Mueller’s team created. Silverglate then recounted a second encounter with Mueller, in which Mueller forcefully took off the table any willingness to investigate alleged FBI and prosecutorial misconduct in the Jeffrey MacDonald case, in which Silverglate was appellate counsel for MacDonald. Silverglate concluded from his experiences with Mueller: Special counsel Mueller’s background indicates zealousness that we might expect in the Grand Inquisitor, not the choirboy. What other evidence is there to be suspicious of Mueller and his team? For one, the person who is his lead prosecutor, the aforementioned Andrew Weissman of Enron/Arthur Andersen infamy. This all gives reason to be concerned about what Mueller is up to. At the end, we’ll see if these concerns are born out by the findings. If there is solid evidence of criminality related to Russia interference in the election, and that evidence is made public, then Mueller will be vindicated. If what we see, instead, is a round-up of the usual suspects like Manafort for crimes not related to Russian interference in the election or for process crimes, then the concerns Harvey Silverglate has expressed about Mueller will be vindicated.
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Treacherous McCain Betrays America Again As He Becomes The Darling Of The Left While Exposing His True Treasonous Colors
October 22, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
As far left liberal progressives in Hollywood hail AZ Senator John McCain as a "hero" for voting against Obamacare repeal, despite campaigning on a promise to repeal it, and the liberal mainstream media like the New York Times praising him as the "unfettered voice against Trumpism," after his speech at the 2017 Liberty Medal Award Ceremony where he called nationalism "unpatriotic," we note that McCain is not just the "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) that many have called him, but he is an outright traitor. A traitor to his constituents, a traitor to conservatives that supported Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton, and a traitor to America. JIHADI JOHN SHOWS HIS TRUE TREASONOUS COLORS Back in March 2017 I called McCain "Jihadi John" as we showed his extensive ties to George Soros as well as his past support for Islamic terrorists, via the supposed Syrian rebels, and his ties to terrorism, but since his last election, which after being diagnosed with brain cancer, was his final election, he is showing his true colors. In his most recent speech, he stated the following: To refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history. Half-baked, spurious nationalism...... an astounding statement since nationalism by its very definition means "loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially," via Merriam Webster. It is also described as "patriotic feelings, principles and efforts," by Google, so one has to wonder how the new darling of the left, McCain, justifies calling people that feel "loyalty and devotion" to the U.S., "unpatriotic." In that one statement alone, John McCain declared himself a globalist and called those that expect their leader to put "America First," unpatriotic. Let that sink in for a second, because he admitted the biggest open secret in politics, that establishment Republicans along with establishment Democratic believe that American taxpayers and voters should be sacrificed on the alter of "international obligations" aka globalism, exactly what Americans rejected when they handed President Trump enough electoral college votes to make him President of the United States of America. Of course the fish wrap of newspapers, the NYT, ran to another globalist mouthpiece, former Vice president Joe Biden for a quote on McCain's speech: Mr. Biden said he took the speech as a pointed message, if not to Mr. Trump, then to the nation. “I think he was delivering a message to the country, to his colleagues and to any of the opinion makers that would listen, and that is, ‘Look, this is serious stuff, our role in the world is not guaranteed, democracy is not guaranteed, we know how to do this and, damn it, we’d better focus and know what’s at stake.’” President Trump also responded to McCain, in a radio interview with WMAL in Washington, stating "People have to be careful, because at some point, I fight back. I’m being nice. I’m being very, very nice. But at some point, I fight back, and it won’t be pretty." To which Mr. McCain, a former Navy captain who was tortured during more than five years as a prisoner in Vietnam, shot back: “I have faced tougher adversaries.” Well, since McCain and the Times once again wants to go there, lets do so. JOHN 'TOKYO ROSE' MCCAIN Over the years there have been conflicting reports from other POW's, some claiming McCain was tortured horrendously and others claiming he was not because he was the son of a US naval commander, therefore was considered a valuable propaganda weapon for the Vietnamese, with one of his prison guards claiming he was not tortured, stating "We never tortured McCain. On the contrary, we saved his life, curing him with extremely valuable medicines that at times were not available to our own wounded." Others claimed McCain actually collaborated with the Vietnamese, some dating back to 1996 with documentary evidence they believe prove their claims, via Facebook, titled "John McCain ‘Sang Like a Canary’ to the North Vietnamese." This information comes from U.S. intercepts of North Vietnamese broadcasts to American servicemen in South Vietnam around 31 October 1967, as well as from dispatches by North Vietnamese and Cuban correspondents — using material from a Nhan Dan (the central organ, the voice of the Communist Party of Vietnam, then and now) correspondent who interviewed John McCain. This material was published on 9 November 1967. The latter were backed up by the intercepts of these messages by the Message Center of the U.S. Department of Defense National Military Command Center, dated 11 November 1967.. A separate interview of McCain by a Soviet Union correspondent was published by Pravda in Moscow on 8 December 1967. A copy of this interview is presented below. And finally, McCain was interviewed by a French correspondent who published a series of interviews announced on 25 December 1967 and began 27 December 1967. This interview was intercepted by the Message Center of the U.S. National Command Center and disseminated via message on 1 January 1968. Each of these official records of John McCain’s interviews with foreign correspondents, while held captive in Hanoi is reproduced below. Observe that every one of these interviews contains military information — far, far beyond the limits required by the Code of Conduct. Indeed this information is far beyond what nearly all of the POWs were severely tortured to obtain — the insignificant ‘gray area’ information such as nebulous ‘air pirate’ signed statements. Only those few who were turncoats and anti-war sympathizers among our POWs gave up more information to the enemy than did John McCain. Indeed, John McCain made good on his promise to his interrogator, ‘the Bug,’ to provide U.S. military information in return for medical attention to his shootdown wounds. See the essay, ‘John McCain as a POW’ for the context of this promise. These interviews are documented below. The post does include screen shots of 11 documents. Related: NAVY RELEASES McCAIN’s RECORDS While all of the contradicting assertions are "he said, she said," type debates, the one thing that is confirmed is that John McCain was used in a "Tokyo Rose," style communist propaganda recording, where McCain's voice and message was played to help the Vietnamese, by demoralizing American troops with boots on the ground. McCain had previously admitted to making a taped confession, but it wasn't until 2016, that the taped recording was finally uncovered and published by TruNews, and was confirmed to be authentic by multiple sources. Via TruNews, August 2016: The 1969 North Vietnamese radio broadcast has never been heard in the United States of America. In fact, there has never been any knowledge that such a recording existed. The audio recording was found in a misplaced file in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The broadcast was recorded by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a branch of the CIA that monitored international shortwave and foreign radio broadcasts. More on how the recordings were finally uncovered and published can be found at GotNews.com. For those unfamiliar with the "Tokyo Rose" reference, was a name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to all female English-speaking radio broadcasters of Japanese propaganda in order to demoralize them and their families at home. (Source) BOTTOM LINE The question of whether John McCain was a war hero or a Veitnam collaborator aside, any American politician willing to sacrifice what is best for Americans, in favor of what is best for the "international community," and that pushes globalism over nationalism, is a traitor to their constituents and to this country. That includes John McCain, who dares claim that being a nationalist, one who feels "loyalty and devotion" to their country, is "unpatriotic," as McCain did in his most recent speech, because he just publicly outed himself as someone that is not "loyal" and holds no "devotion" for America, exposing his true treasonous colors .
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: Why Is Foundation of Vegas Shooting Survivor Sponsored By DHS Linked Firm?
October 19, 2017 By Shawn Helton 4 Comments
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When looking at the deeply entangled mystery surrounding the Las Vegas mass shooting, there’s been no shortage of questionable details and information that just doesn’t add up. You know the old adage, truth is often stranger than fiction… VEGAS QUESTIONS’ – Who is working behind the scenes concerning the High Desert Phoenix Foundation? (Photo illustration 21WIRE’s Shawn Helton) The shooting involving the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Resort and Route 91 Harvest Festival, has ushered in the brutal return of politicized mass tragedy in America. The dramatic nature of the surreal as of yet still motiveless crime, only adds to a traumatic event that is now being described as “the 9/11 of Mass Shootings.” Similarly, over this past week, a story of concerning the sudden tragic death of a Las Vegas shooting survivor sent shock waves through both mainstream media and alternative media alike. As a chorus of gripping media reports detailed the unexpected death of 28 year-old Kymberley Jo (Synder) Suchomel (left photo Daily Press) in the days after the Las Vegas mass shooting, those still in search of answers in the aftermath of the tragedy were left captivated by her tale. By now, many may already be familiar with media accounts of Suchomel’s harrowing tale of survival, who along with close friends, was said to have attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival the night of the Las Vegas shooting massacre. As the untimely circumstances of Suchomel’s death have been conflated with the unexplained events in Las Vegas, many in alternative media have hastily assumed that the young fund raiser’s death was somehow linked to her dispute of the Las Vegas mass shooting storyline via social media posts on a Facebook account associated with her. Subsequently, online interpretations of the Suchomel story have led to a digital firestorm on social media, producing a wave of speculation prior to a more complete analysis of the survivor’s tale. Despite sensationalized reportage, at this time, there’s no concrete evidence to prove a social media-based conspiracy concerning the death of Suchomel… According to the original story first published by the Daily Press, we’re told Suchomel died in her sleep as she was said to have suffered from epilepsy and had been “prone to seizures.” Additionally, Suchomel, who was reportedly taking medication for a pituitary tumor, was discovered dead by her grandmother Julie Norton at 8:30am on October 9th at her Apple Valley, California home. At this moment, an autopsy of Suchomel’s death is still pending. QUESTION: Is it possible that ‘open source investigators’ were being led into a virtual cul-de-sac and thus missing the real story? Media Tripwire? Undoubtedly, the uncanny timing of Suchomel’s death has come on the heels of a brewing controversy over the Las Vegas mass shooting. This has led to increased speculation, turbo-charging even more spurious internet-based conspiracies and allegations. These now viral stories have simultaneously been published, as anonymous survivor claims from those close to Suchomel have presented Facebook messages associated with her account. Suchomel’s claims also allude to multiple shooters involved in the Las Vegas shooting, as she allegedly planned to “organize a group of survivors,” and that “The media can suck it. They have no idea what went down!” While Suchomel’s story is compelling, you have to wonder – is there more than we’ve been told? At face value, Suchomel’s public account of the Las Vegas shooting is persuasive and does appear to question the official narrative. However, one should look at information from multiple angles in order to formulate a more full spectrum understanding of complex multilayered criminality. *UPDATE* – Below are two screen shots associated with a Linkedin profile under the name of Kymberley Suchomel. We at 21WIRE cannot verify if this profile is connected in anyway to the Las Vegas shooting survivor or not, but several similarities in the appearance of the individual, home location and the inclusion of an aero-space industry government contractor Aero-Zone, along with others, raises some serious questions… The inclusion of the above Linkedin profile is not necessarily an endorsement of a larger conspiracy concerning the Suchomel saga. However, the Linkedin revelations above have surfaced at or around the same time as other government contractor links have been uncovered regarding the Las Vegas shooting survivor’s charitable foundation. (see below) QUESTION: Is the Linkedin profile above a ruse, someone else – or another mysterious part of the Suchomel story? SEE ALSO: The Las Vegas Mass Shooting – More to the Story Than We’ve Been Told Although the police dispatch communication, along with eye-witness testimony reveals some startling information contradicting the official story surrounding the Las Vegas mass shooting, one must be cautious when looking at all of the available evidence of a suspicious crime – however difficult that may be. As larger outlets in alternative media such as Infowars have sensationalized this highly emotive aspect of the Las Vegas tragedy, a series of formulaic polarizing political points have become an echo chamber in its aftermath. This type of conjecture rapidly descends into wild speculation only serving to magnify emotionally driven elements of a particular story, something that could be used to deliberately steer public perception away from any potential forensic clues. It’s important to remember that during same time SITE Intelligence injected an ‘ISIS meme’ into the Las Vegas tragedy without revealing any solid evidence, Infowars quickly followed suit. This then prompted an apparent ‘official’ statement that echoed those dubious claims from the terror group ISIS. Although these claims still linger, they’ve failed to produce any real connection to ISIS. As we’ve noted numerous times here at 21WIRE, the intelligence monitoring group called SITE, has ties to both the CIA and Israeli intelligence. The group has also had ethical concerns raised over the nature of their intel gathering in the last decade and according to the group’s founder, Rita Katz – they’ve managed to release terror related material linked to ISIS prior to the group itself. ‘GEO GROUP’ – A private-for-profit corrections and detention firm formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation under the umbrella of The Wackenhut Corporation. (Image Source corporatewatch) Strange Bedfellows: Follow the Money What you’re about to see below, is a collection of material revealing what appears to be a rather incredible financial component connected to the High Desert Phoenix Foundation, a charitable organization co-founded by the recently deceased Las Vegas mass shooting survivor Kymberley Suchomel. The High Desert Phoenix Foundation claims to have raised funds for grieving families affected by trauma since 2008. This amazing coincidence, rather incredibly, has not been mentioned once in any of the conspiratorial claims surrounding the Suchomel story at alternative media outlets. Put another way, a survivor of a traumatic event has been a long time co-founder of a foundation that contends to have helped those who have endured a traumatic tragedy themselves. It’s a difficult question to ask – but what are the chances of this uncanny coincidence? Furthermore, new evidence uncovers details concerning the High Desert Phoenix Foundation’s high-profile sponsors, one that includes the The GEO Group, Inc (GEO). This long time financial donor, is also linked to well-known government contractor security firms. Is this also a coincidence? In recent years, controversy has enveloped the multi-billion-dollar corporation known as Geo Group. Critics of GEO Group contend that politically motivated contributions have led to an expansion of its for-profit prisons system through federal, state and government contractual agreements at the expense of public safety. Even more concerning, is that critics argue that GEO Group has fostered a dangerous work environment via it’s under staffed operations, inadequate training and apparent mistreatment of detainees and other inmates. This has led to a potentially volatile situation for communities nearby GEO Group’s facilities. QUESTION: Does this sound like a suitable donor for a charitable foundation known for helping grieving families? In 1984, Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) had been formed as a part of The Wackenhut Corporation. In 2003, WCC management bought up all stock held by its subsidiary G4S, altering its name to The GEO Group, Inc. In 2004, other divisions of the Wackenhut Corporation were purchased by Group 4 Falck, a security focused subsidiary known as G4S Wackenhut, was later renamed again as G4S Secure Solutions. Here’s a screen shot of the High Desert Phoenix Foundation’s mission statement. Notice the modest look of the website – an organization with the financial backing of the multi-billion dollar GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison operators… The reason why the GEO Group link is so significant, is that prior to modern America’s largest mass shooting in Las Vegas, an apparent survivor of the incident was operating a foundation that was accepting financial support from a large-scale company formerly known as The Wackenhut Corporation, a subsidiary of G4S Secure Solutions, one of the world’s largest security firms, and a Department of Homeland Security connected conglomerate tied to the suspicious Orlando shooting in the summer of 2016 – an event, that was previously the country’s largest mass shooting. If you remember, 29-year old Omar Mateen, an Afghani-American was located in Port St. Lucie, Florida, about 120 miles outside of Orlando. In 2013, Mateen was placed under a terror watch list for 10 months (interviewed two to three times by the FBI 2013-14) and had worked for G4S Secure Solutions, headquartered in Jupiter, Florida, a company which was formerly part of a CIA-linked government contractor and security firm known as The Wackenhut Corporation. G4S, as it turns out, was the very first ‘designated’ and certified Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contractor and recently secured a $234 million dollar contract with the federal cabinet department. In addition to apparently providing security solutions for “90 percent of U.S. nuclear facilities,” G4S, according to border patrol sources has also been tasked with the transportation and release of illegal immigrants inside the interior of the United States. At least one of Mateen’s roles with G4S, was to transport and provide security for prisoner youths in Florida. Here’s a screen shot from the High Desert Phoenix Foundation’s website that proudly displays their billion dollar government contract linked ‘diamond’ donor, The Geo Group… Below is a link to the first discussion about the Geo Group connection as it relates to the Las Vegas mass shooting… Boiler Room: Stranger than Fiction – New Anomalies in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting with Shawn Helton & Hesher SEE ALSO: The Las Vegas and Weinstein Cover-ups: Boiler Room EP #132 The amount of independent examination regarding the Las Vegas shooting case thus far is fairly staggering and in the wake of any multilayered event, one must proceed with caution when reviewing the available evidence, as the doorway for a ‘trial by media’ frenzy in both mainstream media and alternative media could be used to derail sincere analysis. What should the public make of the the High Desert Phoenix Foundation’s long time financial links to a high-profile government contractor? All of this comes, as the Las Vegas shooting star witness, Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos resurfaced to appear in what the public has been told will be his only media appearance to discuss this bizarre and highly questionable case. It’s also worth mentioning that Campos failed to shed any more light on the shifting timeline of events associated with the Las Vegas mass shooting. Watch Campos ‘break his silence’ in an interview that appeared on Ellen… Stay tuned for any updates to this story… 21WIRE associate editor Shawn Helton is a researcher and writer, specializing in forensic analysis of high-profile crime scene and counter terrorism investigations, and the deconstruction and analysis of the mass-media coverage surrounding those cases. He has compiled an extensive body of work covering a number of high-profile events since 2012. READ MORE DAILY SHOOTER NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Daily Shooter Files SUPPORT 21WIRE – SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @ 21WIRE.TV
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The Iran-Hamas Plan to Destroy Israel
by Khaled Abu Toameh October 23, 2017 at 5:00 am
Iran's goal in this move? For Hamas to maintain and enhance its preparation for war against Israel. Iran's message to Hamas: If you want us to continue providing you with financial and military aid, you must continue to hold on to your weapons and reject demands to disarm. Iran wants Hamas to retain its security control over the Gaza Strip so that the Iranians can hold onto another power base in the Middle East, as it does with Hezbollah in Lebanon. In a historic reawakening, Iran is once again meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians. This this does not bode well for the future of "reconciliation" between Hamas and Palestinian Authority's Fatah faction run by President Mahmoud Abbas. The re-emergence of Iran, as it pursues its efforts to increase its political and military presence in the region, does not bode well for the future of stability in the Middle East. The Iranians are urging Hamas to hold on to its weapons in spite of the recent "reconciliation" agreement signed between Hamas and Fatah under the auspices of Egypt. Iran's goal in this move? For Hamas to maintain and enhance its preparation for war against Israel. A high-level Hamas delegation headed by Saleh Arouri, deputy chairman of Hamas's "political bureau," traveled to Tehran last week to brief Iranian leaders on the "reconciliation" deal with Fatah. During the visit, Iranian leaders praised Hamas for resisting demands (by Fatah) to disarm and relinquish security control over the Gaza Strip. "We congratulate you on your refusal to abandon your weapons, an issue that you consider as a red line," Ali Velayati, a senior Iranian politician and advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei, told the visiting Hamas officials. "The Palestinian cause is the most important cause of the Islamic world, and after all this time you remain committed to the principle of resistance against the Zionists despite all the pressure you are facing." Arouri and his colleagues rushed to Tehran to seek the support of the Iranian regime in the wake of demands by Abbas that Hamas allow the Palestinian Authority to assume security control over the Gaza Strip. The "reconciliation" agreement stipulates nothing about the need for Hamas to disarm, and Hamas officials have stressed during the past two weeks that they have no intention of laying down their weapons or dismantling their security apparatus in the Gaza Strip. Hamas views the demand to disarm as part of an Israeli-American "conspiracy" designed to eliminate the Palestinian "resistance" and thwart the "reconciliation" accord with Abbas's Fatah. Hamas's refusal to disarm is already threatening to spoil the "reconciliation." Arouri was quoted during his visit to Tehran as saying that Hamas "will not backtrack on the option of defending the Palestinian people." He specified that the "reconciliation" agreement with Fatah would not affect the weapons of the Palestinian "resistance," including Hamas. Hamas, he added, will "confront the Israeli-American conspiracy through national unity and reconciliation and by continuing the resistance. The Palestinian resistance forces will always stick to their weapons and will not lay them down." Hamas also sees the visit of its top officials to Tehran as a rejection of Israel's demand that it cut off its ties with Iran. Hamas officials say they continue to see their relations with Iran as "strategic and significant," especially in wake of Tehran's financial and military aid to their movement in the Gaza Strip. By aligning itself with Iran, Hamas is also seeking to resist any demand that it abandon its ideology and charter, which call for the destruction of Israel and oppose any peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. Iranian officials apparently do not like Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority and are not keen on seeing them return to the Gaza Strip. Iran considers Abbas a "traitor" because his Palestinian Authority conducts security coordination with Israel in the West Bank and claims that it is committed to a "peace process" with Israel. This position goes against Iran's wish to destroy the "Zionist entity." Abbas, for his part, has always considered Iran a threat to his regime as well as to stability in the region. In the past, he has criticized Iran for "meddling" in the internal affairs of the Palestinians by supporting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. Earlier this year, the Palestinian Authority strongly condemned Iran after a senior Iranian official accused Abbas of waging war in the Gaza Strip on behalf of Israel. The official's statement came in response to a series of punitive measures imposed by Abbas on the Gaza Strip. Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, accused Iran of meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians and some Arab countries. He said that Iran's actions "encouraged divisions" among the Palestinians. "Iran must stop feeding civil wars in the Arab world," he said. "Iran must stop using rhetoric that only serves Israel and the enemies of the Arabs." Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are now convinced that Iran is working towards foiling the "reconciliation" agreement with Hamas. They believe that Iran invited the Hamas leaders to Tehran to pressure them not to lay down its weapons. Abbas and the Egyptians were probably naïve to think that Hamas would disarm and allow Abbas loyalists to deploy in the Gaza Strip after the signing of the "reconciliation" agreement. It is possible that some of the Hamas leaders had lied to Abbas and the Egyptians by hinting that Hamas would give up security control of the Gaza Strip. The Egyptians, who played a major role in brokering the Hamas-Fatah deal, are also believed to be worried about Iran's renewed meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians. Both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt see the visit of the Hamas delegation to Iran as a serious setback to the "reconciliation" agreement and as a sign that Hamas is not sincere about implementing the accord. Some Palestinian Authority and Hamas officials have recently claimed that Israel was not happy with their "reconciliation" agreement and was doing its utmost to foil it. The truth, however, is that it is Iran and Hamas that are working to thwart the agreement by insisting on maintaining the status quo in the Gaza Strip. Iran's message to Hamas: If you want us to continue providing you with financial and military aid, you must continue to hold on to your weapons and reject demands to disarm. What is in it for Iran? Iran wants Hamas to retain its security control over the Gaza Strip so that the Iranians can hold onto another power base in the Middle East. Iran wants Hamas to continue playing the role of a proxy, precisely as Hezbollah functions in Lebanon. The last thing Iran wants is for the Palestinian Authority security forces to return to the Gaza Strip: that would spoil Tehran's plans to advance its goal of destroying Israel. Iran's continued support for Hamas stems not out of love for either Hamas or the Palestinians, but from its own interest in consolidating its presence in the Middle East. Many Palestinians see the "successful" visit of the Hamas officials to Tehran as a major setback for efforts to end the 10-year-long Hamas-Fatah dispute. Similarly, the Egyptians are now wary of the sudden rapprochement between Iran and Hamas and are beginning to ask themselves whether they have been duped by Hamas. An Israeli delegation that visited Cairo on the eve of the signing of the Hamas-Fatah deal is said to have warned the Egyptians that the "reconciliation" would not work unless Hamas disarms and severs its ties with Iran. However, the Egyptians reportedly failed to listen to the Israeli warning. As for Israel, the US and other Western parties, the lesson to be drawn from the renewal of ties between Hamas and Iran is that Hamas has not changed one iota. Contrary to delusional hopes, discussed on the heels of the "reconciliation" agreement in Cairo and based on lies and thin air, Hamas is not headed toward moderation and pragmatism. By openly supporting Hamas, Iran is once again demonstrating that it aims to fan the fire in the Middle East and continue to sabotage any prospects for peace. Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist, is based in Jerusalem. Follow Khaled Abu Toameh on Twitter
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11209/iran-hamas-destroy-israel
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In Blocking Abortion Legislation, Democrats Will Display Their Cultural Extremism
George Will · Oct. 19, 2017
What would America’s abortion policy be if the number of months in the gestation of a human infant were a prime number — say, seven or 11? This thought experiment is germane to why the abortion issue has been politically toxic, and points to a path toward a less bitter debate. The House of Representatives has for a third time stepped onto this path. Senate Democrats will, for a third time, block this path when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brings the House bill to the floor, allowing Democrats to demonstrate their extremism and aversion to bipartisan compromise. Democracy, which properly is government by persuasion rather than majority bullying or executive or judicial policy fiats, is a search for splittable differences. Abortion, which supposedly is the archetypal issue that confounds efforts at compromise, has for two generations — since the Supreme Court seized custody of the issue in 1973 — damaged political civility. Pro-abortion absolutists — meaning those completely content with the post-1973 regime of essentially unrestricted abortion-on-demand at any point in pregnancy — are disproportionately Democrats who, they say, constitute the Party of Science. They are aghast that the Department of Health and Human Services now refers to protecting people at “every stage of life, beginning at conception.” This, however, is elementary biology, not abstruse theology: Something living begins then — this is why it is called conception. And absent a natural malfunction or intentional intervention (abortion), conception results in a human birth. In 1973, the court decreed — without basis in the Constitution’s text, structure or history, or in embryology or other science — a trimester policy. It postulated, without a scintilla of reasoning, moral and constitutional significance in the banal convenience that nine is divisible by three. The court decided that the right to abortion becomes a trifle less than absolute — in practice, not discernibly less — when the fetus reaches viability, meaning the ability to survive outside the womb. The court stipulated that viability arrived at 24 to 28 weeks. On Oct. 3, the House passed (237-189) the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act banning abortions (with the usual exceptions concerning rape, incest and the life of the mother) after the 20th week. The act’s supposition is that by then the fetus will feel pain when experiencing the violence of being aborted, and that this matters. Of course, pro-abortion absolutists consider the phrase “unborn child” oxymoronic, believing that from conception until the instant of delivery, the pre-born infant is mere “fetal material,” as devoid of moral significance as would be a tumor in the (if they will pardon the provocative expression) mother. Whether a 20-week fetus has neurological pathways sufficient for feeling pain is surely a question that science can answer, if it has not already. Already there are myriad intrauterine medical procedures, some involving anesthesia: Doctors can heal lives that America’s extremely permissive abortion law says can be terminated with impunity. Only seven nations allow unrestricted abortion after 20 weeks. Most European nations restrict abortions by at least week 13. France and Germany are very restrictive after 12, Sweden after 18. Getting a scientific answer to the pain question, even if it is “yes,” should gratify the Party of Science. If the answer is “yes,” those who think fetal suffering is irrelevant can explain why they do. New medical technologies and techniques are lowering the age of viability. And increasingly vivid sonograms, showing beating hearts and moving fingers, make it increasingly difficult to argue that the “fetal material” is at no point, in any way, a baby. Science is presenting inconvenient truths to the Party of Science, truths that are the reasons the percentage of pregnancies aborted is the smallest since 1973. In 1973, the court bizarrely called the fetus “potential life”; it is, of course, undeniably alive and biologically human. A large American majority is undogmatic, because uncertain, about — and the House bill does not address — the question of when the living thing that begins at conception should be held to acquire personhood protectable by law. This majority’s commonsensical, prudently imprecise, split-the-difference answer is: Not at conception but well before completed gestation. Hence this majority, its vocabulary provided by the court’s arbitrary jurisprudence, thinks first-trimester abortions (more than 90 percent of abortions) should be legal. After which, approximately a two-thirds majority supports restricting abortions. When — the sooner the better — the House bill comes to the Senate floor, Democrats will prevent a vote on it. This will be a tutorial on the actual extremists in our cultural conflicts.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/51901
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Outside the UN, BDS Is Losing Badly
Giving up the ghost. Evelyn Gordon / Oct. 18, 2017
BDS activists are presumably celebrating the UN Human Rights Council’s decision to warn off companies that do business with Israelis in the West Bank. I’d advise them to enjoy their temporary victory while they can. As several recent events make clear, they’re losing badly outside the UN. And they’re losing for one simple reason: People worldwide are gradually coming to understand that the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement isn’t “anti-occupation,” it’s anti-Semitic. Last Friday, for instance, Austria’s national student union passed a motion denouncing BDS as anti-Semitic and saying the movement recalls the Nazis’ economic boycott of Jewish businesses. The resolution also said BDS activists shouldn’t be given funding or venues in which to promote its campaign. The motion, which was pushed in particular by a student group called GRAS (Greens and Alternative Students), passed almost unanimously, with one abstention and no votes against. The previous week, the Green Party in the German state of Bavaria passed a resolution denouncing BDS as “anti-Semitic, hostile to Israel, reactionary and anti-enlightenment,” adding that it “reproduces the National Socialist slogan, ‘Don’t buy from Jews!’” The resolution, introduced by the party’s youth wing, also urged the national Green Party not to cooperate with BDS. Given that some prominent Green Party members have actively promoted anti-Israel boycotts, this uncompromising denunciation effectively amounts to a grassroots revolt. And this week, the Left Party in Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, decided not to consider a motion urging Israel “to end the occupation and the Gaza blockade” and demanded the European Union end its Association Agreement with Israel due to the blockade and Israel’s West Bank security fence. Given that the Left Party (Die Linke in German) is easily the German party most hostile to Israel, this development is surprising. The party offered no explanation when it announced the decision on its Twitter account, but Jerusalem Post reporter Benjamin Weinthal suggested it might be related to what Martina Renner, a Left Party member of parliament, said about the resolution earlier this month. The “motion sounds like it was written from Israel boycott groups,” Renner said. “From this the executive board of @dielinke clearly distances itself.” Renner’s statement left no room for doubt: Even the Left Party wants nothing to do with BDS and anti-Israel boycotts. All these examples have something in common: The anti-BDS push is coming precisely from the groups that are normally least sympathetic to Israel–leftists and young people. In other words, BDS is losing not just among groups that could be expected to oppose it, like the U.S. Congress, but among the very demographic that ought to be its principal bastion of support. Of course, even many people who oppose boycotting Israel as a whole still think boycotts are acceptable as long as they target the settlements alone. The problem, as the UNHRC blacklist makes glaringly obvious, is that this isn’t actually possible. One of the companies that received a UNHRC warning letter this week, for instance, was Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecommunications company. Why? Because Bezeq provides telephone and internet service to the settlements. Nor is Bezeq unique; many of Israel’s largest companies provide services to the settlements, including the banks, the Mekorot Water Company, the Israel Electric Corporation, and all cell phone operators, because physical and economic infrastructure companies are expected to provide service to all Israelis. Moreover, the blacklist as compiled by the UNHRC and other BDS advocates also defines East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as “settlements.” In other words, to satisfy the boycotters, Israeli companies wouldn’t merely have to stop providing essential services to hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the West Bank; they’d also have to stop providing services to hundreds of thousands of Israelis in Israel’s capital, not to mention the tens of thousands of non-Jewish, non-Israelis living in both eastern Jerusalem and the Golan. Complying with the boycott would, thus, cause a humanitarian crisis of major proportions –and, therefore, it isn’t going to happen. Until now, because most boycott initiatives have been small-scale, it’s been possible for people who advocate “just boycotting the settlements” to ignore what that actually means. The irony is large-scale initiatives like the UNHRC blacklist, by publicly spelling out exactly what it entails, make it much harder for people to keep ignoring the truth: that “boycotting the settlements” actually means boycotting Israel. Nevertheless, this realization isn’t going to sink in without a lot of work on the part of both the Israeli government and Jewish and pro-Israel activists worldwide. Indeed, that’s one of the main lessons of the victories to date. When the BDS movement first emerged, many well-meaning people advocated ignoring it rather than fighting it on the grounds that fighting it would simply inflate the importance of an otherwise insignificant movement. But victories like those of the past few weeks show why that strategy was wrong. The growing understanding that BDS is anti-Semitic didn’t happen because Israel and overseas activists ignored the movement; it happened because both the Israeli government and overseas activists relentlessly explained the connection between boycotting Israel and anti-Semitism. And a similar effort will be needed to explain that “boycotting the settlements” is just a euphemism for boycotting Israel. Even though large swaths of polite society are now perfectly comfortable with anti-Semitism as long as they can tell themselves it’s just “anti-Zionism” or “fighting the occupation,” open avowals of anti-Semitism are still taboo. Once stripped of the comforting pretense that it’s not anti-Semitic, BDS will be finished. And groups like the Austrian student union and the Bavarian Green Party are now tearing that pretense to shreds.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/outside-the-un-bds-is-losing-badly/
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Air Force preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready-to-fly alert: Report
The aircraft have not been on this status since the Cold War ended in 1991
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times - Sunday, October 22, 2017
The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991, according to a report released Sunday by Defense One. “If the order comes, the B-52s will return to a ready-to-fly posture not seen since the Cold War,” reported Marcus Weisgerber, global business editor for the industry publication, noting that “long-dormant” runway areas on certain bases could once again be a home to fully loaded B-52s, ready to fly at a moment’s notice. “This is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared,” Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, said in an interview during his six-day tour of Barksdale and other Air Force bases that support the nuclear mission. “I look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we’re prepared going forward.” The officer and other senior defense officials stressed that the alert order had not been given, but that “preparations were under way” just in case. The decision itself would be made by Gen. John Hyten, commander of Strategic Command, or Gen. Lori Robinson, the head of Northern Command. STRATCOM is in charge of the military’s nuclear forces and NORTHCOM is tasked with defending North America. “Putting the B-52s back on alert is just one of many decisions facing the Air Force as the military responds to a changing geopolitical environment that includes North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear arsenal, President Trump’s confrontational approach to Pyongyang, and Russia’s increasingly potent and active armed forces,” reported Mr. Weisgerber.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/22/air-force-prepares-nuclear-armed-bombers-for-24-ho/
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At Least 2 Killed as Powerful Typhoon Slams Into Japan
Typhoon Lan struck Japan early Monday with heavy rains and strong winds, leaving at least two people dead before the storm moved back out to sea. The typhoon made landfall southwest of Tokyo after its outer bands dumped rain on Japan for several days, triggering landslides and floods in some areas. Japanese media reported about 90 injured in addition to the two deaths related to the storm. Tens of thousands of people had been advised to evacuate ahead of Typhoon Lan's arrival. The storm also led airlines to cancel hundreds of flights, and disrupted some train and ferry services.
https://www.voanews.com/a/japan-typhoon-lan/4081495.html
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JULIAN ASSANGE JUST UNLEASHED A HELLISH SURPRISE ON HILLARY CLINTON… THIS IS HUGE
The Next News Network Published on Oct 16, 2017
Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | Hillary Clinton continues her world book tour making excuses for “What Happened”. Despite the fact that the world, including her own husband Bill have already told her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=xZ-DYnLCw8Y
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BREAKING: Mueller Transferred Uranium To Russia, Hid Clinton Crimes
The Alex Jones Channel Published on Oct 17, 2017
Robert Mueller, the man who is investigating President Donald Trump for ties to Russia has been shown to have ties to Russia himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXy7SnTi0g
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Judicial Watch: State Department Reveals 2,800 Huma Abedin Government Documents on Weiner’s Laptop
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Clinton Email Federal Court Hearing Thursday, October 19
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch revealed today that the U.S. Department of State admits it received 2,800 Huma Abedin work-related documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were found on her estranged husband Anthony Weiner’s personal laptop. Abedin was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff. Weiner is a disgraced former congressman and New York mayoral candidate who recently plead guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor. Abedin kept a non-State.gov email account that she used repeatedly for government business on Hillary Clinton’s notorious email server(s). The revelation was produced in a May 5, 2015, lawsuit Judicial Watch filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)). Judicial Watch sued after the State Department failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking: “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.” In accordance with a court ordered production of documents, the State Department’s court filing states: “The State Department has identified approximately 2,800 work-related documents among the documents provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” By December 31, 2017, the State Department expects to complete its review and production of the FBI records. The government suggests some of the material may be “duplicative” of other records. “This is a disturbing development. Our experience with Abedin’s emails suggest these Weiner laptop documents will include classified and other sensitive materials,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “When will the Justice Department do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law?” Judicial Watch previously released 20 productions of documents in this case that show examples of mishandling of classified information and instances of pay to play between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation. Also, at least 627 emails were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over, and further contradict a statement by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails had been turned over to department. A hearing will be heard in a related case: Date: Thursday, October 19 Time: 10:30 am Location: Courtroom 19 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 333 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20001 The State Department is processing 100,000 emails Clinton failed to disclose when she served as Secretary of State, some of which were emails sent by Abedin that were found on Weiner’s laptop. Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails from her non-government server. The State Department was ordered to produce documents to Judicial Watch, and has been processing only 500 pages per month of emails uncovered by the FBI in its investigation into Clinton’s non-government email system. The State Department has produced 23 batches of documents in this case so far. At the current pace, the Clinton emails and other records won’t be fully available for possible release until at least 2020. The lawsuit was originally filed in May 2015 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)).
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John McCain: An American Traitor for the Ages
By Dave Hodges
As a relatively young man in 1980, I had just finished reading the book, Trilaterals Over Washington, authored by Patrick Wood and the late Anthony Sutton. In the book, I learned from extensive documentation, that America had been taken over by a small minority of wealthy elitists. I was shocked, angered and outraged that our elected officials were spitting in the face of the Constitution by allowing this to happen. I began a search to find out more about what I had read in the Pat Wood’s book. In the days before the Internet, I was forced to use the old card catalogue system. I went to varous universities. I went to public libraries. I called the staffs of various member of Colorado’s congressional delegation. Through all my research, I found one, only ONE article that even mentioned the Trilateral Commission and it was the globalist mouthpiece, The Atlantic. This early New World Order rag stated that the organization was pro-human rights and that the creation of a new philosophy would benefit humanity because of the creation of “a more equitable and just world order”. I was angy beyond belief. I realized that the America was screwed and at some future date, we were going to lose our country! Can you imagine, in 1980, the reaction I got when I did my version of Paul Revereimitation “The Trilaterals are coming, the Trilaterals are coming”. My closest friends and my girlfriend had thought I had literally lost my mind. I was just getting started with my coaching and academic career. Some of my academic colleagues and graduate school professors accused me of being a “John Bircher”. I did not even know what a John Bircher was, I just knew that at some future date that we were going to lose our country. The Trilateral Commission and its first cousin, The Council on Foreign Relations were very secretive in those days and only “crazy people” talked about these organizations. I guess I was one of the early “conspiracy theorists”. During that time, most of my friends thought that I had lost my mind, and being on the verge of losing a very cute girlfriend, I chose to go back to sleep. Ironcially, in 2017, Pat Wood is my now friend and I am on a lot of naughty lists due to my advocacy for the restoration of the Constitution. Today, events have really changed. Hillary Clinton campaigned, for the Presidency, in front of the Council of Foreign Relations back drop, repeatedly. Under John McCain American Patriotism Is Dead: In your Face Globalism John McCain is out of the closet. The globalists are out of the closet. They are publicly advancing their New World Agenda and it is fully out in the open. Recently, John McCain received a meaningless award that globalists like to give each other and in his aceptance speech, he made the following dig at Trump for being a patriotic American: “To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems, is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” McCain said. [Quoted by Breitbart] THANK YOU JOHN MCCAIN FOR EXPOSING YOUR GLOBALIST AGENDA John McCain is one of “them”. He is a self-admitted globalist who is working for the destruction of the American people and their country. By default, he is a disciple of globalist Ted Turner who told Audobon Magazine that the population of the earth needs to reduced by 95%. McCain supports giving away American sovereignty to international bodies whose goal is to advance globalism AT THE EXPENSE OF AMERICAN LIBERTIES, NATIONAL SECURITY AND JOBS. In retrospect, this should not be surprising. McCain, along with the late Ted Kennedy co-sponsored the Central American Free Trade Agreement which gave away much of America’s sovereignty, jobs and allowed millions of illegal aliens, including ISIS and MS-13, to enter the United States with impunity. The 21st Century of Benedict Arnold When John McCain was elected to the Senate by the people of Arizona, he placed his right hand on the Bible and swore to protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic. McCain has become that domestic enemy that he swore to protect the country from. When Benedict Arnold committed his treason, he was trying to give away the plan for West Point. McCain is giving away the entire country. I ask you, who is worse? McCain Supports Terrorism Everyone from former Army psyop, Scott Bennett to Fox News has noted that Obama is and ahs been chummy with ISIS. In fact, in his role as the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, McCain oversaw the illegal abandonment of American military equipment in Iraq in order that ISIS could confiscate this equipment. Federal law mandates that all American military equipment left behind in a theater of war be blown up. McCain et al actions were treasonous to say the least as this Senator fueled the rise of ISIS. Anti-American to Supporting Antifa McCain supports free trade agreements that steal millions of American jobs. McCain supported the TPP which would have destroyed what’s left of the sovereignty in America. It is obvious that McCain hates America and Americans. I was once at a town hall meeting in Mesa, AZ., when an elderly gentleman asked McCain “how is it that you work for me and you have better health care than I do?” McCain’s thuggish security team, who looked liked type-cast mafiaso thugs, very roughly threw the frail man out for asking the question as McCain mocked the man. At the same meeting, he was asked why he supported Agenda 21 policies and he stated “I have never heard of Agenda 21 policies”. I witnessed these events with my own eyes. John McCain is owned by George Soros and sold out America to Soros’ open borders policy. Conclusion We should not be surprised that John McCain would disparage President Trump for being patriotic. McCain only has one loyalty and that is to himself. By the way, Cindy McCain is NOT the original Mrs. McCain. Carol McCain, a former model, had a terrible car accident which left her disfigured when John McCain was in a North Vietnamese prison camp. Upon returning home, McCain quickly divorced Carol and married Cindy Hensley whose family launched John McCain’s political career. McCain has done to the country, what he did to Carol McCain. According the New York Times, the Hensley family had a “very rough and tumble background” with allegations of bootlegging and tax evasion. Cindy McCain’s business has been fraught with conflicts of interest. Her prenuptial agreement with John makes it diffiuclt to track the Senator’s finances to try and ascertain who is in his pockets. I find it ironic that McCain, the buffoon, who finished third to the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, was ever allowed to fly a fighter jet. A fighter jet that he crashed into other planes as he almost sunk his own ship during the Vietnam War. The irony is that the warship, John McCain, is in dry dock as I write these words for crashing into another ship as it was almost sunk. Like Hillary Clinton, John McCain stands at the intersection of corrupt government and the Deep State, who John McCain faithfully serves. We do owe John McCain a debt of gratitude. He has helped to expose the globalist agenda and their intentions toward the American people. Please donate to offset the costs of The Common Sense Show
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/10/18/john-mccain-an-american-traitor-for-the-ages/
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BREAKING: Puerto Rican Secretary Of State Blows Whistle On Hurricane Relief Fraud, Finds Unopened US Aid In Dumpster
Oct 17, 2017 by GotNews
A shocking video recorded by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State, Luis Rivera Marin, shows that United States aid to Puerto Rico is going to waste and being thrown away in dumpsters before it can reach the millions of island residents afflicted by Hurricane Maria: Most of Puerto Rico still does not have power, and its inhabitants are struggling with shortages in food, water, and essential supplies. However, yesterday Marin made the shocking discovery that a sizable portion of United States aid to Puerto Rico is going to waste before it ever reaches the hurricane victims. The video shows countless unopened boxes full of ready-to-eat meals in a dumpster, presumably thrown away by Puerto Rican officials. The video was shot in Patillas, a city on the island’s southeastern coast. You won’t hear this stuff from the lying mainstream media. Keep the GotNews mission alive: send tips to editor@gotnews.com or donate at FreeStartr.com/GotNews. This bombshell revelation appears to confirm GotNews’ earlier reporting on a Puerto Rican police officer who claimed elected officials, including Carmen Yulin Cruz, the anti-Trump Mayor of San Juan, are deliberately sabotaging hurricane relief efforts for political reasons. In a call to a New York City Spanish language radio station, the cop claimed the situation in Guaynabo, a suburb of San Juan, “looks like communism.”: She went on to describe the waste, noting how “There are dozens and thousands and thousands of food [boxes] and when people ask, we cannot give anything away because Carmen Yulin says that we cannot take anything out, because everything is a soap opera here – everything is a show.” “Carmen Yulin won’t move unless there is a camera behind her,” the caller continued. “I need to speak for the people because the people are suffering. Because I, as a cop – along with other police partners – we are seeing it.” This latest video confirms those aforementioned food boxes are being thrown away. As GotNews previously reported, the FBI is currently looking into public corruption allegations against Puerto Rican officials in light of reports like these.
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Memphis newspaper executive, 44, and urban explorer dies after trespassing at a luxury Chicago hotel and falling from 20th floor while taking photos
Eric Paul Janssen, 44, died after falling several stories from the 20th floor at the London House in Chicago Tuesday afternoon
Janssen was vice president of the Sandusky Newspaper Group in Memphis
The father-of-three was in Chicago for an architectural tour that promised 'behind-the-scenes access' to hundreds of buildings
At time of his death, he was taking photos on the ledge of the hotel, friends say
By Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com Published: 20:26 EDT, 17 October 2017 | Updated: 23:28 EDT, 17 October 2017
A newspaper executive and fan of exploring tragically fell several stories to his death while he was trespassing at a luxury hotel in Chicago on Monday. Eric Paul Janssen, who was a vice president for the Sandusky Newspaper Group in Memphis, plummeted to the street while taking photos at the trendy London House Hotel. The 44-year-old man, who was a fan of urban exploring, was taking photographs without permission when he fell from a 20th floor parapet wall and struck a sixth-floor rooftop below around 3.30pm,CBS Chicago reported. Janssen, who was visiting for an architectural tour that promised 'behind-the-scenes access' to hundreds of buildings, was taking photos on the ledge of the hotel, which is located on 85 E. Wacker Drive near Michigan Avenue, according to his family and friends. A friend who was with Janssen at the time of the accident said he was not staying at the hotel, but had just been at the top floor lounge when he stepped away briefly to take some photos, the Chicago Tribune reported. The medical examiner said Janssen suffered numerous injuries and ruled his death an accident. His sister, Cynthia Vukmer, told the Tribune: 'He died doing what he loved. He did that, I do believe he did that.' She said the father of three was dedicated to his family and friends along with his job. 'He was very passionate about life and his friends and family,' Vukmer said. 'He was passionate about photography ... He was just a wonderful, wonderful guy. 'He was very, very, very deeply loved by his family and by so many. He was my hero.' Vukmer, who called her brother a 'gentle giant', said that they had their final conversation last week when he apologized for not purchasing her a birthday present. She shared that he did buy her son the Battleship board game, which they played together as children while growing up in suburban Memphis. Janssen graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Memphis after being inspired by his mother who is a writer. His sister said that he had been living in the South Main Historic District in Memphis, but traveled a lot for work. One of his former classmates at the University of Memphis, Aimee Edmondson, told the Tribune that Janssen's motto in life was 'live a great story'. 'He often photographed from rooftops and had a particular interest in the beauty that comes with urban decay,' Edmondson said. Edmondson added that following Janssen on social media, 'you will understand what he was doing on the roof – taking beautiful photos, no doubt.' For his last Instagram post shared Monday, Janssen shared a striking photo inside of Barr Funeral Home. He captioned it, 'Birth. School. Work. Death.' Janssen also wrote: 'Chicago has been an amazing experience. Made some new friends. Reconnected with some old friends. Had a really wonderful time exploring this great city.'
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Listen: Hot Mic Catches Mystery Voice Telling Las Vegas Sheriff Not to Say Too Much
By Nick Arama - October 17, 2017
The Las Vegas shooting has taken a lot of crazy twists and turns. By now, in a shooting case, a lot of the information would be filled in, the shooter’s motivation, the background, the details and videos of the shooting. But with this shooting, there are more questions than there are answers and none of that has really been filled in yet. The police and the hotel are still struggling just to get the timeline of events as to what happened straight. The police have already changed significant elements in the timeline three times and the hotel has disputed their revised timeline. Some people are even raising questions about the possibility of other shooters. The police have discounted the question of additional shooters. etc. ng, there are more questions than there are answers and none of that has really been filled in yet. The police and the hotel are still struggling just to get the timeline of events as to what happened straight. The police have already changed significant elements in the timeline three times and the hotel has disputed their revised timeline. Some people are even raising questions about the possibility of other shooters. The police have discounted the question of additional shooters. But now there’s more weirdness, courtesy of this video of Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, who has been the face of the police, informing us about the case. The sheriff is asked a fairly straightforward question about whether or not a car had been staged for the shooter to escape. If you listen closely, you can here someone off to the left, off-camera, whisper, “Don’t go there.” etc. he man behind the sheriff, turn and look in that direction as he hears the etc. eanor changes rapidly and he puts off the reporter. He doesn’t really answer the question which seems like a perfectly reasonable question. Police had already admitted that Stephen Paddock, the shooter, had planned on trying to escape after the shooting. So what would be wrong with commenting on the question? Now it’s possible that there’s more in that question but after all the other oddities of the case, needless to say, it just adds a further component of weirdness.
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Let your spiritual eyes be open, for many things shall come to pass, many things you shall see, for you have not seen the big terrorist attack here in America yet, but you will see it, you will see it. For you shall yet see great and mighty attacks here in the United States, you shall see these things come to pass. You will also see the stock market, if you have got money there get it out, says the Lord, get it out now, for later will be too late. Also you shall see many things taking place overseas like you have never seen before in your life. And the political realm shall get even, even darker now, you shall hear things that you did not know, etc
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Looming Catastrophe Hanging Over Our Heads – Paul Craig Roberts
By Greg Hunter On October 18, 2017 USAWatchdog.com
Former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, says the record highs you see in the stock markets are based on “phony profits” that come from global central banks “propping up” the financial system. Roberts says, “Any of these central banks are really only there for a handful of big banks. That’s all they are concerned with. All the Federal Reserve has been concerned with for the last decade is the welfare of a handful of mega banks. Of course, the banks are too large. They should have never been allowed to get that large. When you have a bank too big to fail, then your policy has failed. You’ve allowed too much concentration. Where is anti-trust? Where is the Sherman Act? Everything that was legislated in the past to prevent the kind of looming catastrophe that is hanging over our heads, this looming catastrophe is produced by central banks. They are perpetuating it because they don’t know how to get out of it.” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just warned on the profitability of nine huge global banks. Some say they equal nine possible Lehman Brothers, which was the financial institution that started the 2008 meltdown. Is the IMF terrified of the slightest correction in the markets? Dr. Roberts says, “I think so, yes, because it’s not based on reality. It’s based on massive liquidity. So, it’s full of all kinds of dangers.” The biggest danger to Dr. Roberts, who has a PhD in economics, is the U.S. dollar. Dr. Roberts contends, “It seems to me that the only thing that would cause the Federal Reserve to stop the liquidity would be if the U.S. dollar fell under attack. If for some reason people said, hey, we don’t want the dollar anymore, and they started moving out of dollars into other currencies or into something else, if they cease to hold assets in dollars, if that happened, the Fed would have to try to raise interest rates to support the dollar. Then you could see that everything could come apart. If the interest rates would go up, there would be all kinds of derivatives that would not be sustainable. The stock market would collapse. It would be a mess. It would be an utter mess. That’s what the IMF is worried about. It’s a messy situation. How do you get out of it?” How does Dr. Roberts say people should protect themselves? Dr. Roberts says, “I would not be in debt.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with financial expert and award winning journalist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.
https://usawatchdog.com/looming-catastrophe-hanging-over-our-heads-paul-craig-roberts/
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California drill preparing 10.4 million for ‘INEVITABLE’ magnitude 7 earthquake TODAY
CALIFORNIA will hold large scale emergency drills preparing more than 10.4 million people for a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake today.
By Joshua Nevett / Published 19th October 2017
Seismologists believe the US state is decades overdue a “Big One” tremor measuring magnitude 7 or greater on the Richter scale. A massive fault line zone in the Bay Area of Southern California is thought to be most at risk with experts giving a 72% chance of a large tremor within the next 30 years. Almost three decades ago, San Francisco’s Bay Area was devastated by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that killed 67 and caused more than (£3.7billion) $5billion in damages. Now a freak spate of deadly earthquakes that wreaked havoc in several regions throughout the Pacific has sparked fears California could be next. In the past 30 days alone, California has been struck by 671 earthquakes, according to Earthquake Track. The most powerful quake, measuring 5.7 magnitude, struck Ferndale in southern California. David Schwartz, geologist for US Geological Survey, said the most worrying fault line passes through the “most densely populated part of the Bay Area”. More than 7.4 million people live near the Hayward Fault – one of many fault lines experts are concerned about. “The Bay Area is positioned in the middle of the boundary zone of the North American plate and Pacific plate,” Schwartz said. “The Bay Area has the highest density of faults per square mile in any urban centre.” Schwartz said since 1906, the region has had an unusually small amount of earthquake activity. But he added: “I think to a degree we’re on borrowed time.” “All of these faults haven’t moved in quite a while and have to catch up. “I think in all probabilities … down the road almost inevitably faults will begin to move again.” To prepare residents for the worst, Southern California Earthquake Center is holding earthquake drills across the state on October 19. Schools, colleges, businesses and community groups will practice one-minute "Drop, Cover and Hold On” drills across the state. Safety experts are recommending that everyone takes part in the Great ShakeOut drill to avoid injury and death in the event of a massive earthquake. "Everyone, everywhere should know how to protect themselves in an earthquake," said Mark Benthien, Global ShakeOut coordinator at the Southern California Earthquake Center. “The ongoing fires in Northern California, September's earthquakes in Mexico, and recent hurricanes remind us that we're all in this together.” An earthquake drill, response exercise, press conference, and demonstration area will take place at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles' Expo Park. "The Great California ShakeOut is such an important opportunity for us all to practice what to do the instant the ground starts to shake – Drop, Cover and Hold On," said Glenn Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority. “This simple drill can help save lives when we get hit by the next big earthquake that scientists assure us is coming.” More than 54.9 million worldwide have registered to take part in Great Sahek Out Earthquake Drills in 2017. Of those, 20 million will participate in the drills on Octover 19, with 2.6 million in central US, 273,000 in north east US and 1.9million in south east US. In California, 10.4 million people across the US state have registered for the drill to date, according to the Shake Out website.
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The Vaccine Cartel: Largest Criminal Organization in the World – Why Your Flu Shot is Probably Illegal
Editor, Health Impact News By Brian Shilhavy
If you are getting a flu shot this season, chances are that those who are providing the vaccine to you are breaking federal laws – and they don’t care. The reason they don’t care is because in 1986 Congress passed a law that then President Ronald Reagan signed which gave pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines and medical personnel who administer those vaccines total legal immunity for injuries or deaths related to vaccines. As a result, federal guidelines for administering vaccines that are designed to protect patients are routinely ignored, especially when it comes to the annual flu shot that almost anyone can purchase in a pharmacy just as easily as they can purchase a candy bar or can of soda. If you have a severe reaction, injury, or are killed by the flu shot, you or your family have no legal recourse to sue the manufacturer or those who gave you the vaccine, even if they broke federal laws in administering the vaccine (as most do). You must hire an attorney and sue the Federal Government in vaccine court, where attorneys working for the Department of Justice (DOJ) will fight you to try and prevent you from being compensated for your injury or death. Health Impact News is probably the only media organization that publishes the quarterly reports from the DOJ listing settlements in the vaccine court for vaccine injuries and deaths, and each report clearly shows that the annual flu vaccine is the most dangerous vaccine in the U.S., causing severe injuries and deaths each year. The most recent report from September 2017 listed 275 injuries and four deaths from the flu vaccine. But the manufacturers of the flu vaccines and those who administer them take no responsibility and suffer no consequences, even if they broke the law. Justice for criminal medical murders and injuries largely does not exist in the United States. Information About the Flu Vaccine that is Required by Federal Law You Must Receive a Vaccine Information Statement Prior to Receiving a Flu Shot When someone injects you with the flu vaccine (as well as most other vaccines), federal law requires that they first give to you a Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) before injecting you. Federal law (under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act) requires a health care provider to give a copy of the current VIS to an adult patient or to a child’s parent/legal representative before vaccinating an adult or child with a dose of the following vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), influenza, pneumococcal conjugate, meningococcal, rotavirus, human papillomavirus (HPV), or varicella (chickenpox). Source. In addition to the requirement to give you this VIS about the vaccine you are receiving (and if it is a multi-dose vaccine they are required to provide a VIS for each dose), whomever is administering the vaccine is also required by federal law to: record in the patient’s medical record (or permanent office log or file) the following information: The edition date of the VIS (found on the back) (i.e., the date of the visit, right bottom corner) The date the VIS is provided (i.e., the date of the visit when the vaccine is administered) In addition, providers must record: The office address and name and title of the person who administers the vaccine The date the vaccine is administered The vaccine manufacturer and lot number Source. What are the Warnings About the Flu Shot Given in the VIS? There are currently two Vaccine Information Statements related to the flu vaccine, one for flu vaccines that are “Live, Intranasal” and one for all flu vaccines that are “Inactivated or Recombinant.” Here is what these Statements say about who should not receive flu vaccines: Inactivated or Recombinant flu shot: Tell the person who is giving you the vaccine:• If you have any severe, life-threatening allergies. If you ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of flu vaccine, or have a severe allergy to any part of this vaccine, you may be advised not to get vaccinated. Most, but not all, types of flu vaccine contain a small amount of egg protein. • If you ever had Guillain-Barré Syndrome (also called GBS). Some people with a history of GBS should not get this vaccine. This should be discussed with your doctor. • If you are not feeling well. It is usually okay to get the flu vaccine when you have a mild illness, but you might be asked to come back when you feel better. Live, Intranasal flu shot: Some people should not get LAIV because of age, health conditions, or other reasons. Most of these people should get an injected flu vaccine instead. Your healthcare provider can help you decide. Tell the provider if you or the person being vaccinated: • have any allergies, including an allergy to eggs, or have ever had an allergic reaction to an influenz vaccine. • have ever had Guillain-Barré Syndrome (also called GBS). • have any long-term heart, breathing, kidney, liver, or nervous system problems. • have asthma or breathing problems, or are a child who has had wheezing episodes. • are pregnant. • are a child or adolescent who is receiving aspirin or aspirin-containing products. • have a weakened immune system. • will be visiting or taking care of someone, within the next 7 days, who requires a protected environment (for example, following a bone marrow transplant) Sometimes LAIV should be delayed. Tell the provider if you or the person being vaccinated: • are not feeling well. The vaccine could be delayed until you feel better. • have gotten any other vaccines in the past 4 weeks. Live vaccines given too close together might not work as well. • have taken influenza antiviral medication in the past 48 hours. • have a very stuffy nose. Please note that with the Live, attenuated flu vaccine, administered as a nasal spray, that the CDC and flu manufacturers are admitting that the person receiving the vaccine is carrying around the live virus and is in danger of infecting others for 7 days! Think about the hypocrisy about influenza outbreaks currently practiced in public places. If there is an influenza outbreak in a school, for example, who is encouraged to stay home because they are perceived as a risk to the rest of the population? Those who have received the Live, attenuated flu vaccine? No! The unvaccinated are deemed to be at risk for spreading the influenza, and are ordered to stay home. In a hospital setting who among the medical staff is required to stay home or wear a mask because they are perceived to be a threat to the patient population? Those who have received the Live, attenuated flu vaccine? No! The unvaccinated nurses and other hospital staff are perceived to be a threat to the patient population, and either are required to wear a mask or often they are fired from their positions for refusing the flu vaccine. Do These VIS Sheets Meet Federal Requirements for Flu Shot Warnings? Part of the information that is required by federal law to be given to everyone prior to receiving the flu vaccine is given in this statement from the VIS: If you have any severe, life-threatening allergies. If you ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of flu vaccine, or have a severe allergy to any part of this vaccine, you may be advised not to get vaccinated. Most, but not all, types of flu vaccine contain a small amount of egg protein. Notice that the only potential allergen given in this warning is to “egg protein,” yet the warning is for “any part of this vaccine.” How would you know if you are allergic to any of the ingredients in a flu shot if you are not provided with a list of ingredients of that particular flu vaccine (there are several different flu vaccines on the market, each with different lists of ingredients)? For example, did you know that one of the new flu vaccines on the market contains armyworms and insects? The VAXXED team recently went into a pharmacy and asked some basic questions about the flu shot. When they asked “Is there anything I should worry about in getting the flu shot?” the response given was: “The only contra-indication is if you are allergic to eggs.” When asked if they had the product insert for the vaccine from the manufacturer, the person replied: “When we open the box we just throw it away.” With No Legal Consequences for Injuries and Deaths due to the Flu Vaccine, Big Pharma is Pushing to Get More People Vaccinated It is easy to see what the agenda is for the pharmaceutical companies who manufacture flu shots. It is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, but a large segment of the adult population remains unvaccinated. One flu manufacturer has sponsored a website to promote ways to get more adults vaccinated: Using Standing Orders to Vaccinate Adults “Standing Orders” are a way to get more adults vaccinated by loosening the restrictions in place that were originally intended to protect patients and their right to consult with their physicians about medical decisions. From the website, which is sponsored by Pfizer: Standing orders authorize nurses and other appropriately trained health care personnel, where allowed by state law, to assess a patient’s immunization status and administer vaccinations according to a protocol approved by an institution, physician, or other authorized practitioner. Immunization standing orders work by enabling assessment and vaccination of the patient without the need for clinician examination or direct order from the attending provider at the time of the interaction. (emphasis added.) These “Standing Orders” apparently authorize a broader range of personnel who can administer vaccines. Studies done in the past on the impact of Standing Orders, such as with the HPV vaccine Gardasil, show that the use of these Standing Orders does increase vaccination rates. The Immunization Action Coalition, which works with Pfizer to educate medical professionals about Standing Orders, hosts conferences around the country on how to increase the use of these Standing Orders. One of the things they teach is that one of the “barriers” to using Standing Orders is the fear of being sued for malpractice. Here is a slide from their presentation: etc. etc.
Health Impact News
From the website, which is sponsored by Pfizer:
etc. Standing orders authorize nurses and other appropriately trained health care personnel, where allowed by state law, to assess a patient’s immunization status and administer vaccinations according to a protocol approved by an institution, physician, or other authorized practitioner. Immunization standing orders work by enabling assessment and vaccination of the patient without the need for clinician examination or direct order from the attending provider at the time of the interaction. (emphasis added.) These “Standing Orders” apparently authorize a broader range of personnel who can administer vaccines. Studies done in the past on the impact of Standing Orders, such as with the HPV vaccine Gardasil, show that the use of these Standing Orders does increase vaccination rates. The Immunization Action Coalition, which works with Pfizer to educate medical professionals about Standing Orders, hosts conferences around the country on how to increase the use of these Standing Orders. One of the things they teach is that one of the “barriers” to using Standing Orders is the fear of being sued for malpractice. Here is a slide from their presentation: Barriers to the Use of Standing Orders slide Source. In order to overcome this barrier to the “fear of malpractice,” they educate personnel on the National Vaccine Compensation Program, which was the result of the 1986 law giving legal immunity to the medical community for injuries and deaths resulting from vaccines. Here is a slide from their presentation: take-a-stand-National Vaccine Compensation Program Source. Are Medical Personnel Administering Vaccines without Patient Consent or Knowledge? According to medical personnel whistleblowers who do not approve of forced vaccinations and mourn the loss of patient rights, yes, some adults are being vaccinated in hospitals without their knowledge or consent. This is especially true with the flu vaccine. Health Impact News published an interview from a nurse last year who reported that this is indeed happening in hospitals: This policy is apparently a result of these “Standing Orders.” The nurse in this interview gives the following advice if you find yourself in a hospital needing surgery: When you sign consent for surgery, you can specifically say ‘no vaccines, I don’t want this.’ You can write an initial after what you say you do not want and they have to honor that. And if they don’t honor that, they can be sued. Vaccine Manufacturers Constitute the Largest Criminal Organization in the World It has been well documented that pharmaceutical companies comprise the largest group of illegal criminal activities of any other group in the world. Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal until 2004, wrote an opinion piece in 2013 about a book published by Peter Gøtzsche, the head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, entitled “Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare.” The characteristics of organised crime, racketeering, is defined in US law as the act of engaging repeatedly in certain types of offence, including extortion, fraud, federal drug offences, bribery, embezzlement, obstruction of justice, obstruction of law enforcement, tampering with witnesses, and political corruption. Peter produces evidence, most of it detailed, to support his case that pharmaceutical companies are guilty of most of these offences. (Source.) The “largest fraud settlement in U.S. history” was against a pharmaceutical company: On July 2, 2012 the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to three counts of criminal misdemeanor and other civil liabilities relating to the prescription drugs Paxil, Wellbutrin and Avandia, and agreed to pay a total of $3 billion in fines–$1 billion to settle criminal charges, and $2 billion to cover civil liabilities. The payment is the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history, and the largest fine ever paid by a drug company. (Source.) In 2010 a panel of doctors with the Public Citizen’s Health Research Group produced a study showing that while the defense industry used to be the biggest defrauder of the federal government under the False Claims Act, the pharmaceutical industry has now overtaken them. The study found that: U.S. spending on prescription drugs has increased from $40 billion in 1990 to $234 billion in 2008. In this era of rapidly rising drug costs, the illegal pharmaceutical company activities that have contributed to such inflated spending have garnered a significant amount of media attention. Recent billion dollar settlements with two of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, provide evidence of the enormous scale of this wrongdoing. Now, keep in mind that all of these illegal criminal settlements were for drugs that did NOT include vaccines. You cannot sue a drug company for illegal activities regarding the manufacture, sale, and distribution of vaccines, thanks to an act of Congress in 1986 and the full support of then President Ronald Reagan. So given the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is the largest class of criminals in the world for products that do not include vaccines, how much worse are they since no one can sue them for crimes committed in regards to vaccines? It is almost more than the mind can imagine or believe. Isn’t it time to repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act?
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Rev 6:8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (NKJ) (disease & famine)
:: 10-18-17 The Big Wobble :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
It's always fatal if untreated: Plague outbreak in Madagascar has the rich panicking as the desease hits the cities: A billion traveling by air per year
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A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed at least 74 people and 805 cases have been reported so far. The government has deployed resources to curb the disease, but many obstacles remain. As plague cases rose last week in Madagascar's capital, many city dwellers panicked. They waited in long lines for antimicrobials at pharmacies and reached through bus windows to buy masks from street vendors. Schools have been cancelled, and public gatherings are banned. For the 1st time, the disease long seen in the country's remote areas is largely concentrated in its 2 largest cities, Antananarivo and Toamasina. Global health officials have responded quickly. The WHO, criticized for its slow response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, has released USD 1.5 million and sent plague specialists and epidemiologists. The Red Cross is sending its 1st-ever plague treatment centre to Madagascar. Madagascar's minister of public health rallied doctors and paramedics in a packed auditorium at the country's main hospital, saying they're not allowed to go on vacation. "Let's be strong because it's only us. We're at the front, like the military," Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo said. The outbreak could continue until the end of infection season in April [2018], experts warn. Madagascar has about 400 plague cases per year, or more than half of the world's total, according to a 2016 WHO report. Usually, they are cases of bubonic plague in the rural highlands. Bubonic plague is carried by rats and spread to humans through flea bites. It is fatal about the half the time, if untreated. Most of the cases in the current outbreak are the pneumonic plague, a more virulent form that spreads through coughing, sneezing, or spitting and is almost always fatal if untreated. In some cases, it can kill within 24 hours. Like the bubonic form, it can be treated with common antimicrobials if caught in time. The WHO calls plague a "disease of poverty" caused in part by unsanitary living conditions. Madagascar has a per capita GDP of about USD 400, and national programs to control the disease have been "hampered by operational and management difficulties", according to a report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. But the airborne pneumonic plague, which accounts for about 75 percent of cases in the current outbreak, makes no class distinctions. "Normally, the people who catch the plague are dirty people who live in poor areas, but in this case, we find the well-to-do, the directors, the professors, people in every place in society, catching the disease," said Dr Manitra Rakotoarivony, Madagascar's director of health promotion. The current outbreak began in August 2017, earlier than usual, when a 31-year-old man who had spent time in a village in the central highlands, Ankazobe [Analamanga region], travelled by bush taxi to the east coast, unaware that he had the plague. He died en route and was buried without any safety precautions in Toamasina. 4 people in contact with him also died. Residents of the capital began to relax in recent days amid the global response to the outbreak, but the disease remains a serious threat with the number of new cases per day remaining steady. Madagascar has fought the disease for more than a century. It was introduced to the island in 1898 when steamships from India brought rats infected with the bacteria that cause the disease. The plague nearly disappeared from Madagascar for 60 years, starting in 1930, but re-emerged in recent decades. While the WHO says the risk of the epidemic spreading beyond the region is very low and does not advise restrictions on travel to Madagascar. Spreading risk The impact of air travel on the spread of infectious diseases has led to considerable concern but limited study. More than 1 billion people travel by air each year. There are several important ways in which air travel can influence the global spread of emerging and established infectious disease. Infections may be spread on the aircraft through close contact and large droplets; airborne spread through small-particle aerosols, as in the case of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); or even through contaminated food. Aircraft can transport infected disease vectors, such as rats or malaria-infected mosquitoes, as nonpaying passengers. Perhaps the greatest concern for global health, however, is the ability of a person with a contagious illness to travel to virtually any part of the world within 24 h. Home Posted by Gary Walton at 11:47 am
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/10/its-always-fatal-if-untreated-plague.html
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etc. Keep your eyes upon me, watch and listen, even as volcanoes begin to erupt, landslides and avalanches, flooding overseas, soon to America. But keep your eyes on the things that I have told you and realize that my church shall go through this time in great victory.
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Will A 'Great Mountain Burning With Fire' Soon Be 'Cast Into The Sea'? More Than 112 Million Americans In 'Line Of Fire' Of What Could Be The Worst Natural Disaster In Modern History
October 18, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea..." In this brand new story over at the Daily Mail they report that La Palma island in the Canary Islands had recently seen 352 earthquakes in a period of 10 days with hundreds of mini-quakes recorded on the seabed. Reporting within their story that the quakes have been so small that most residents of the island, also a popular tourist attraction, haven't even felt them, they also report that the last time the island saw a volcanic eruption was all the way back in 1971. And while the Canary Islands seem to be a world away to most Americans, so why should they care about what's going on more than 3,000 miles away, those paying attention know that in a worst-case scenario, a volcanic eruption of Cumbre Vieja could nearly instantly send a crippling wall of water towards the US East coast and across the entire Atlantic ocean, moving at estimates of up to 500 miles per hour, as the 'mountain of fire' crumbles into the sea. Ensuring that a tsunami would arrive in such metropolitan coastal areas as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC and south to Atlanta and Miami, it's long been warned that a catastrophic failure of the Western flank of the volcano could send millions of tons of earth into the surrounding ocean. And while some have claimed that an apocalyptic mega-tsunami brought on by a catastrophic eruption of Cumbre Vieja is simply 'fake news', as long as La Palma is quaking, with the majority of the quakes in the region of the volcano, there's a chance that Cumbre Vieja might be awakening. This study over at Geo.Arizona.Edu calls the mere possibility of a huge chunk of Cumbre Vieja crashing into the sea a 'doomsday scenario' and as we see in this story, a 'doomsday scenario' that gives people on the East coast of the US very little time to prepare for. As we see outlined below, while such a worst-case-scenario would require many different variables, such a scenario carried out to its worst potential would instantly become the biggest natural disaster in modern history. From the Mirror.: If it was to blow, Cumbre Vieja could cause a mega tsunami . Some experts believe the volcano is in the initial stages of failure, meaning a big enough eruption could cause a massive landslide to enter the Atlantic Ocean. It could result in waves as high as 600m (approx. 1,968'!), travelling at around 450mph, meaning the African coast would be submerged within an hour, and the southern coastlines of the British Isles in just three and a half hours. As we see in the map above, most of the east coast of the United States would be in a 7-to-8-hour 'arrival zone' should that 'worst case scenario' happen with almost unbelievable estimates of a 100'+ wall of water arriving as we see in the 1st video below, a simulation of what might happen to our planet Earth should Cumbre Vieja go. Such a scenario would truly be Biblical and as we're told in this story over at the BBC, has already happened long ago on a different island. Huge landslides and the mega-tsunami that they cause are extremely rare - the last one happened 4,000 years ago on the island of Réunion. The growing concern is that the ideal conditions for just such a landslide - and consequent mega-tsunami - now exist on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. In 1949 the southern volcano on the island erupted. During the eruption an enormous crack appeared across one side of the volcano, as the western half slipped a few metres towards the Atlantic before stopping in its tracks. Although the volcano presents no danger while it is quiescent, scientists believe the western flank will give way completely during some future eruption on the summit of the volcano. In other words, any time in the next few thousand years a huge section of southern La Palma, weighing 500 thousand million tonnes, will fall into the Atlantic ocean. What will happen when the volcano on La Palma collapses? Scientists predict that it will generate a wave that will be almost inconceivably destructive, far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean.
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Will A 'Great Mountain Burning With Fire' Soon Be 'Cast Into The Sea'? More Than 112 Million Americans In 'Line Of Fire' Of What Could Be The Worst Natural Disaster In Modern History
canary_islands_smashed.jpg
"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea..." In this brand new story over at the Daily Mail they report that La Palma island in the Canary Islands had recently seen 352 earthquakes in a period of 10 days with hundreds of mini-quakes recorded on the seabed. Reporting within their story that the quakes have been so small that most residents of the island, also a popular tourist attraction, haven't even felt them, they also report that the last time the island saw a volcanic eruption was all the way back in 1971. And while the Canary Islands seem to be a world away to most Americans, so why should they care about what's going on more than 3,000 miles away, those paying attention know that in a worst-case scenario, a volcanic eruption of Cumbre Vieja could nearly instantly send a crippling wall of water towards the US East coast and across the entire Atlantic ocean, moving at estimates of up to 500 miles per hour, as the 'mountain of fire' crumbles into the sea. Ensuring that a tsunami would arrive in such metropolitan coastal areas as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC and south to Atlanta and Miami, it's long been warned that a catastrophic failure of the Western flank of the volcano could send millions of tons of earth into the surrounding ocean. la_palma_tsunami.png And while some have claimed that an apocalyptic mega-tsunami brought on by a catastrophic eruption of Cumbre Vieja is simply 'fake news', as long as La Palma is quaking, with the majority of the quakes in the region of the volcano, there's a chance that Cumbre Vieja might be awakening. This study over at Geo.Arizona.Edu calls the mere possibility of a huge chunk of Cumbre Vieja crashing into the sea a 'doomsday scenario' and as we see in this story, a 'doomsday scenario' that gives people on the East coast of the US very little time to prepare for. As we see outlined below, while such a worst-case-scenario would require many different variables, such a scenario carried out to its worst potential would instantly become the biggest natural disaster in modern history. From the Mirror.: If it was to blow, Cumbre Vieja could cause a mega tsunami . Some experts believe the volcano is in the initial stages of failure, meaning a big enough eruption could cause a massive landslide to enter the Atlantic Ocean. It could result in waves as high as 600m (approx. 1,968'!), travelling at around 450mph, meaning the African coast would be submerged within an hour, and the southern coastlines of the British Isles in just three and a half hours. travel_times_from_canary.png As we see in the map above, most of the east coast of the United States would be in a 7-to-8-hour 'arrival zone' should that 'worst case scenario' happen with almost unbelievable estimates of a 100'+ wall of water arriving as we see in the 1st video below, a simulation of what might happen to our planet Earth should Cumbre Vieja go. Such a scenario would truly be Biblical and as we're told in this story over at the BBC, has already happened long ago on a different island. Huge landslides and the mega-tsunami that they cause are extremely rare - the last one happened 4,000 years ago on the island of Réunion. The growing concern is that the ideal conditions for just such a landslide - and consequent mega-tsunami - now exist on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. In 1949 the southern volcano on the island erupted. During the eruption an enormous crack appeared across one side of the volcano, as the western half slipped a few metres towards the Atlantic before stopping in its tracks. Although the volcano presents no danger while it is quiescent, scientists believe the western flank will give way completely during some future eruption on the summit of the volcano. In other words, any time in the next few thousand years a huge section of southern La Palma, weighing 500 thousand million tonnes, will fall into the Atlantic ocean. What will happen when the volcano on La Palma collapses? Scientists predict that it will generate a wave that will be almost inconceivably destructive, far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean. us_flood_map.png According to Wikipedia, the East Coast of the United States from Florida to Maine is the home to more than 112 million people. With coastlines at elevations of below sea level to 270' above sea level for several hundred miles inland along most of the coast as we see in the elevation map below from FloodMap.net, every major city along the east coast is in the line of fire should that worst-case-scenario come to pass. As Modern Survival Blog outlines for us in this story titled "How Far Inland Would A 300' Tsunami Go On The East Coast", much of how far inland a tsunami would go depends upon the energy behind it. As we see in the simulation video below, a 100' tsunami hitting the east coast would depend upon an approx. 500 cubic km collapse. Should the collapse be bigger, the energy involved would be much more while likewise, a smaller collapse would mean much less energy. From their story.: So here’s the question… “IF” a 300 foot tsunami reached the East Coast, how far inland would it go? The short answer, and one that many may think to be accurate, is that it will go inland until the elevation of the land is higher than the tsunami. While that sounds logical, there are variables… Actually, the distance a tsunami will travel inland has more to do with the energy it still has left as it hits the shore. Out of curiosity and an interest in maps, I have custom built the following elevation maps based on high resolution data from USGS digital elevation maps of the United States, particularly the East Coast. I have modeled several layers of elevation of the East Coast to illustrate various height scenarios of tsunami versus geography as it travels inland. Several observations regarding a 300 foot tsunami would be the probable devastation of the following major East Coast cities…
CITY, (Current elevation above sea level, feet)
Portland, ME (~ 50′)
Boston, MA (~ 30′)
New Haven, CT (~ 50′)
Bridgeport, CT (~ 40′)
New York City, NY (~ 20′)
Jersey City, NJ (~ 30′)
Newark, NJ (~ 50′)
Atlantic City, NJ (~ 10′)
Wilmington, DE (~ 80′)
Philadelphia, PA (~ 40′)
Virginia Beach, VA (~ 10′)
Wilmington, NC (~ 20′)
Myrtle Beach, SC (~ 20′)
Charleston, SC (~ 10′)
Savannah, GA (~ 10′)
Daytona Beach, FL (less than 10′)
West Palm Beach, FL (less than 10′)
Fort Lauderdale, FL (less than 10′)
Miami, FL (less than 10′)
Many more maps such as the one below at this Modern Survival Blog link. As Strange Sounds recently reported, a significant deformation of 5 centimeters was detected at this swarm of quakes and this ground elevation is understood as magma pressing from below and thus raising the ground. Earthquakes release the energy. And while we certainly won't worry about it nor hold our breaths waiting for Cumbre Vieja to explode, especially considering the last major eruption prior to 1971 was all the way back in 1949 and prior to that back in 1712, it's always good for people to have their ears and eyes open and prepared for the worst, especially since those in the danger zones would have so little time to get out, and will be trying to get to higher ground along with 112 million others. And as we read in this story from News Channel 3 and hear in the 2nd video below, the New Madrid recently was hit with a 3.7 earthquake and while experts warn that much of the west coast is long overdue for 'the big one', we best serve our families and communities by preparing for whatever might happen with our planet Earth clearly going through 'birth pangs'. As Unveiling the Apocalypse blog reported, Amongst the various other startling images depicted in the Book of Revelation, the curious scene of a "great mountain, burning with fire" being thrown into the sea appears to be granted a certain significance. The Apocalypse uses recapitulation as a literary device to highlight areas of especial importance. The battle of Armageddon, for example, is referred to in several different places. The bizarre scene of a mountain being cast into the sea in Rev 8:8 is recapitulated again by the angel throwing a great millstone into the sea in Rev 18:21, connecting this event with the fall of "Babylon" - the ruling world-power in the eschatological age. The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. (Rev 8:8) But what could this scene represent?
http://allnewspipeline.com/Canary_Islands_New_Madrid_Waking.php
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La Palma volcano ALERT: Magma is MOVING! Expert warns ‘significant’ distortion in Canaries
LA PALMA volcano’s red-hot magma has risen after its recent flurry of earthquakes causing the ground on the Canary Islands to “significantly” rise above ground level, experts said.
By Rebecca Perring
PUBLISHED: 08:32, Thu, Oct 19, 2017 | UPDATED: 10:41, Thu, Oct 19, 2017
Volcano experts discovered the ground in the area surrounding local hotel Teneguia Princess hotel has risen by about 1cm to the south and 3.5cm upwards over the past year, according to GPS sensors regulating ground deformation. The shocking results from the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) come after the archipelago was rocked by two separate seismic swarms in the area surrounding the deadly Cumbre Vieja. One of the world's leading experts in volcanology, Professor Takeshi Sagiya, from the Nagoya University, described the GPS data as ”significant". He said the recorded change in height looked significant compared with the changes in the last year. The GPS sensor is located about 3.5 to 4.5 miles south of the centre of the latest seismic swarm. There were 44 earthquakes recorded up to 2.1 magnitude hit between Friday at 1.52pm and Saturday to 4.17am. They followed another seismic storm the weekend before, which saw about 50 tremors in three days, between 1.5 and 2.7 on the Richter Scale, sparking fears the islands most active volcano was about to erupt. Scientist Stefan Scheller said: “If we assume the magma accumulation lies below the seismic swarm and thus raises the ground above. “A circular elevation of the ground about 7 km around the centre means a quantity of raised rock with a volume of approximately 5 million m³, which corresponds to approximately 12.5 million tons of rock.” Mr Scheller also played down the recent activity, but did not rule out an eruption would take place. He said only the future will tell if the rock above the magma is stable enough to stop the movement or if the rise breaks the rock even more, which would be reflected in future micro-earthquakes, and over time would lead to an eruption. But he insisted deformation had begun a year ago and there was no reason to be rushed or alarmed. Meanwhile, the National Geological Institute (IGN) insisted hat its sensors have not detected any deformation of the ground. Additional reporting by Maria Ortega
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By John Gregory and ABC7.com staff
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 01:22PM
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (KABC) --
Firefighters battled massive flames raging near storage tanks at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, which sent thick black clouds of smoke into the air. With multiple fire agencies responding to the scene, firefighters used massive quantities of water and foam to make quick work of the flames, extinguishing them in about 45 minutes. No one was injured. The flames touched power lines, sending off big electrical flashes and sending some lines to the ground. The fire also threatened storage tanks at the refinery. The fire came after a reported explosion in the area around 10:30 p.m. Firefighters from the refinery's on-site industrial fire department were first to respond. "It was putting off a lot of heat, a lot of energy, but they've dealt with this before and they were kind of Johnny-on-the-spot and did a fantastic job over there," said Battalion Chief Breck Slover of the El Segundo Fire Departement. With smoke blowing into nearby residential areas, the fire department asked people in the area to close their windows and shelter in place. No evacuations were ordered. "It can always be worse than it is," Slover said. "It was really spectacular looking, and I think because of the quick action, the quick thinking of everybody involved, that it kept it down to what it was." The refinery, built in 1911, is located at 324 W. El Segundo Boulevard. According to Chevron, the refinery is the largest on the West Coast, processing more than 274,000 barrels of crude every day. The property covers 1,000 acres and has a storage capacity of 12. 5 million barrels in 150 storage tanks larger than 30 feet in diameter. The refinery is just south of Los Angeles International Airport. It did not immediately appear the smoke interfered with flights. Refinery officials released a statement addressing the blaze. "Chevron's primary concern is to ensure the safety of its employees and the surrounding community and the environment. Chevron is working very closely with the local agencies to ensure that we meet those expectations in responding to this incident," the statement said, in part. Multiple fire agencies were called in to assist Chevron and El Segundo firefighters, including Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach firefighters. El Segundo police said Vista Del Mar would remain closed due to downed power lines. It was unclear how long the road would be closed. The cause of the fire was under investigation.
Fire erupts at Chevron refinery in El Segundo etc. etc.
Los Angeles police say an infant died and a little girl and a woman were hospitalized after they were found naked, unconscious and covered in a white powder-like substance in a store parking lot.
http://abc7.com/fire-breaks-out-at-chevron-refinery-in-el-segundo/2546498/
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Texas fights ACLU to avoid becoming ‘sanctuary state for abortions’
By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Texas and seven other states argued to a federal court Wednesday that illegal immigrants shouldn’t be granted an unfettered constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., backing the federal government’s refusal to help an young girl who sneaked into the country and is being held at a government-run shelter. The American Civil Liberties Union was in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday demanding that the girl, who is a juvenile and wasn’t named, be permitted abortion access. The ACLU said the government either needed to transport her to a clinic for the procedure, or else allow someone else to take her because she is approximately 15 weeks pregnant and under Texas law, the limit for an abortion is 20 weeks. But Texas and the other states say they have local abortion laws that need to be respected, and urged the courts to butt out. “An unlawfully-present alien with no substantial ties to this country has no constitutional right to abortion on demand,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He said if the courts force the government to facilitate the abortion, it will be turning etc..
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/18/texas-fights-aclu-avoid-becoming-sanctuary-state-a/
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Israel says it will not negotiate with a Hamas-based Pal. gov't
Leaked: The six clauses of the Fatah-Hamas deal
Security cabinet issues no operative decisions on Fatah-Hamas deal
By Herb Keinon October 17, 2017 18:43
The statement was the first operative decision made by the Israeli government toward the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement reached earlier this month in Cairo. Israel will not conduct diplomatic negotiations with a Palestinian government that relies on Hamas unless the terrorist organization changes fundamentally, the security cabinet decided on Tuesday. This comes in the wake of the recent Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement. Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic negotiations have not been held in more than three years. According to a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office after the security cabinet meeting, Israel will not hold talks with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas unless it recognizes Israel and stops terrorist activities, in accordance with Quartet principles established more than a decade ago. In addition, the statement said Hamas must be disarmed, the bodies of Israeli soldiers and the Israeli citizens held by Hamas must be returned, and the Palestinian Authority must assume full security control over the Gaza Strip – including at the border crossings where it must prevent the smuggling of arms into the coastal strip. The other conditions set by the security cabinet for continued diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians are that it continue to thwart Hamas terrorist activity and the building of terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, that Hamas be cut off from Iran, and that funds and humanitarian supplies will flow into Gaza only through the PA and other internationally recognized mechanisms set up for this purpose. The statement issued after the meeting – the second security cabinet meeting on this matter in consecutive days – contained the first operative decisions made by the government toward the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement reached earlier this month in Cairo. Egypt was heavily involved in brokering the deal, and the US said it hoped the accord would allow the PA to regain full control over Gaza. This decision is in accordance with a security cabinet decision made in April 2014, the last time there were serious attempts at a Fatah- Hamas reconciliation pact. At that time, the cabinet statement said it “unanimously decided that Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls for Israel’s destruction. In addition, Israel will respond to unilateral Palestinian action with a series of measures.” Tuesday’s statement, by contrast, did not mention any retaliatory measures that would be taken against the PA for the recent pact. The security cabinet decision stopped short of what one of its members – Education Minister Naftali Bennett – publicly demanded in recent days: severing connection with the PA as a result of the pact, which he said turned the PA into a “terrorist authority.” Nevertheless, Bennett issued a statement congratulating Netanyahu for adopting a decision that “sees the PA as a terrorist authority,” because any other decision would have given legitimacy to a terrorist organization that works to destroy Israel. Now, Bennett said, the government and the army will extract a price from Hamas and the PA for Hamas’s continued refusal to release the Israeli citizens and the bodies of the IDF soldiers they are holding in Gaza. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely also praised the cabinet decision, saying the PA chose “terror over peace, and there is a price for that.” Hotovely said the PA could not play a “duplicitous game” of seeking international legitimacy and membership in international organizations while at the same time it embracing a murderous terrorist organization. On the other side of the political spectrum, Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz sarcastically tweeted his “congratulations” to the security cabinet for “ending a negotiation process that never existed.” Joint List head Ayman Odeh quipped on Twitter: “The Netanyahu guide to negotiations: When [the Palestinians] are split – no talks. When they are united – no talks. But at his next speech to the UN he will say that his hand is extended in peace.” Both Fatah and Hamas on Tuesday night rejected the cabinet decision. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said, “The Israeli position won’t change the official Palestinian policy of reconciliation that results in the end of the occupation and the establishment of a Palestinian state on 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital.” Hamas called the cabinet decision “Israeli interference in internal Palestinian matters” and said the Palestinian reaction needs to be continuation toward stability and the success of reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. Hagay Hacohen contributed to this report.
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Rape Trees, Dead Migrants and the Consequences of an Open Border
by Brandon Darby and Bob Price25 Apr 2016
Many of the most caring people in the U.S. think they are helping the poor from Latin America by leaving our Southwest border wide open between ports-of-entry, but they are not. Several of the transnational criminal organizations (cartels) operating in Central America and Mexico make an estimated one-third or more of their profits from illegal immigration. Specifically, two groups below Texas, the Gulf and Los Zetas cartels, are largely fueled by the trafficking and smuggling of human beings. The brutality of these criminal groups, from incinerating innocents in a network of ovens to their near complete control of state and local governments, is largely paid for by funds generated from illegal immigration–a shadowy economic engine that is only possible because we refuse to properly secure our border with Mexico. Women and young girls from Central America are routinely given birth control or morning after pills by their mothers in anticipation of the likely sexual assaults that will occur on their illicit journey to the United States. These females are often raped immediately upon making it to their first stop once they arrive in a Mexican stash house from Guatemala. They then are shipped to the U.S.-Mexico border, usually to Reynosa, Mexico, immediately south of McAllen, Texas. In the process of making it from the first stash house to the second, the women and young girls are often sexually assaulted or raped again by the smuggler–or group of smugglers–taking them between the two locations. The sexual assaults and rapes then often happen again in the second Mexican stash house of their journey. They are then trickled into the U.S. across the porous border and brought to a third stash house in a U.S. border town, usually in or near McAllen, Texas. They are often sexually assaulted or raped again by the operator of the stash house, if they are deemed attractive assaulted or raped again by the operator of the stash house, if they are deemed attractive by the criminals operating the clandestine facility. They are stockpiled until the cartel wants to send a large load of narcotics across the Rio Grande. The cartel then sends a large load of humans across in one area and then a drug load across in another. Once the human beings are in Texas, another smuggler then picks up the women and young girls and drives them with a coyote to a point along Highway 281 just before the Border patrol checkpoint immediately south of Falfurrias, Texas. The checkpoint is approximately 85 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Rape trees The women and young girls exit the vehicle with their coyote and attempt to make their way around the checkpoint. Most of the apprehended illegal migrants say they were told it would be a 30-minute hike and that they were given a gallon of water for their trip. The reality is that the hike usually takes 3-4 days. It is common for the coyote to sexually assault or rape the females on this stretch of the journey as well. These coyotes usually remove an article of clothing from the female they rape and they tie it tightly to a tree—a rape tree. “The rape trees are a common practice in this area,” said Daniel Walden, a human trafficking investigator and instructor who founded a team of volunteer police officers who donate their time to help patrol in Brooks County, which is among Texas’ poorest counties. “The women are warned in Mexico that they likely will be raped and assaulted during the trafficking process. It is common for mothers to put their young daughters on the pill or some other form of contraception before sending them north.” “Human trafficking is about the smuggler having power and control over their victims. The rape trees send a signal to those who follow about what will happen if you get out of line. The women are terrorized into submission,” Walden explained during an interview with Breitbart Texas. “While I have only seen one rape tree personally, we get reports from inside the ranches about them on a regular basis.” Linda Vickers is one of those ranchers. Her ranch is located just north of the Border Patrol checkpoint south of Falfurrias. These smuggled aliens are led across her property on a regular basis. “Many years ago, I used to see bras and women’s jeans hung in trees on our property, but I didn’t know why,” Vickers told Breitbart Texas in an interview on Saturday. “I do now.” “It is common to find not only these rape trees, but condoms as well,” the Texas rancher explained. “I find these rape trees and condoms to be unnerving and it is a reminder of the unsavory character of the criminal trespassers on my ranch. It makes me very angry.” Vickers said she is often asked if she feels safe on the ranch she calls home. “I would not if not for my pistol, my own alertness to my surroundings and my K-9s,” she explained. “These dogs let me live a normal life out here without fear.” The South Texas rancher recounted episodes on her ranch where they found groups of women and young girls. “These women and girls would huddle up together away from the men after the groups were captured,” Vickers said. She described a scene where a Mexican woman named Norma had teamed up with a 12-year-old girl named Delia. They were not related but Norma had taken Delia under her wing to protect her. The two had become separated from their smugglers the day before being found on the Vicker’s ranch. “I thought it was nice of her to take care of the young girl as they were traveling through this very dangerous territory.” The injured and tired left to die Some of the women and young girls get hurt; an ankle gets sprained, a foot broken, or they simply get exhausted and can’t physically continue. They are then left to die by their coyote—and they often do. The county that the Falfurrias checkpoint is in is Brooks County. They have six deputies to patrol nearly 1,000 square miles. Forty-four bodies were found in the area in 2014 alone, with 129 found last year. Some are men, some are women, but all were left to die after an injury or the inability to keep up with the group they were traveling with. The Salvadoran woman being interviewed by volunteer Brooks County deputy Daniel Walden was left behind to die in Brooks County because she twisted her knee. (File Photo: Breitbart Texas/Bob Price) Some of the illegal migrants make their way to a road and get rescued by law enforcement, others are not so lucky and they are found dead under a tree, usually half-eaten by vultures and other animals. Some of the women and young girls are picked up by sex traffickers who patrol the area looking for vulnerable prey. “The woman from El Salvador was very lucky that morning when we found her,” Walden said recalling the 2014 incident. “First she was lucky to find her way to a roadway where she could be discovered. The brush land all looks the same and experienced hikers get lost in minutes without navigational aids. The temperature that day was heading to the high 90’s and water is scarce.” “She was also lucky it was us that found her and not one of the human trafficking coyotes in the area that routinely drive along this particular road,” the deputy continued. “They are looking for women just like her they can turn into sex slaves in one of Texas’ larger cities.” The women and young girls who are lucky enough to get apprehended by law enforcement often refuse to talk about their assaults until much later. Many of them express fear for themselves or their families, as the coyotes have often threatened to kill them if the victim talks about the ordeal. Breitbart Texas witnessed first-hand, the horrible deaths that befell many of the travelers through this region. The photo above is one of two Mexican men left to die along the trail after they became too weak to keep up. After receiving a 911 call at the Brooks County Sheriff’s office, Border Patrol BORSTAR rescue teams searched for more than a day to find the two men. The one pictured above was found first. About 12 hours later, the second man was found further up the trail. In the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office, Chief Deputy Benny Martinez is no stranger to the death and suffering caused by our country’s open border policy. His department’s small staff of deputies are routinely sent out to recover the remains of the victims or pick up the survivors. His very small and underfunded department is supplemented by the volunteer efforts of those like Walden and his Border Brotherhood of Texas volunteer deputies. “Fortunately, because of the efforts of our deputies, the Border Patrol’s presence, help from the State of Texas with Texas Rangers, Department of Public Safety Troopers, and members of the Texas State Guard, the number of deaths this year is lower,” Martinez told Breitbart Texas in an interview. “We have worked hard to do as much as we can with the limited resources we have and have pushed state officials to send us help. The lives saved as a result speaks to how well our people are doing.” Countless Border Patrol agents and county law enforcement officers from across the entire 1,994-mile Southwest border with Mexico have repeated their versions of these same stories—ad-nauseam. The journeys and time spent by Breitbart Texas in border communities from the coast of Texas to the coast of California all share commonality in that women and young girls are exploited in a similar fashion by the coyotes who bring them into the U.S. illegally. There are minor differences, dependent upon the region, but they all share the same core: Mexican cartels and the human smugglers to whom they lease routes exploit the porous U.S.-Mexico border and humanity’s most vulnerable always suffer the most. Follow Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby on Twitter: @brandondarby
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/04/25/rape-trees-dead-migrants-consequences-open-border/
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'Now I Can Walk!' Jesus Heals the Cripple in Powerful Video
09-28-2017
Evangelist Daniel Kolenda has traveled the globe preaching the gospel and praying for the sick. He has seen God work many miracles first-hand, but this week he shared one of the most memorable healings he's ever witnessed. "In 2010 we were in the city of Karu in Nigeria," he explains in a video on his Facebook page. "I remember it was one of those nights where the miracles were just popping up like popcorn all over the field after I prayed for the sick." Kolenda knew God was up to something big and would show his miracle-working power. "I remember seeing from my right-hand side this woman running up to me with her sister and crutches in the air," he says. The woman comes walking across the stage with her hands in the air and tears in her eyes. Kolenda gives her the microphone and she tells a testimony that captures the attention of everyone in the audience. "I have had five surgeries. After the fifth one I could not walk," she says. "I could not walk but now I can walk." "For seven years I've been suffering that affliction for seven years now. I can now walk on my own! Thank you, Jesus!" she says. Kolenda says he saw the woman the next day and she was walking around just fine. "When we saw her the next day you couldn't tell that there had been anything wrong with her," he says. The woman's sister was overjoyed by the miracle God had performed. "Praise the Lord. Glory be to God. My sister is healed. She's the only sister I have."
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Roodepoort pastor's body found
18 October 2017 - 13:24 By Kgaugelo Masweneng
Tributes from friends and family poured out for a Roodepoort pastor found dead in Magaliesburg after he went missing on Monday. The body of Martin Beneke‚ who founded the Life in Christ Network church‚ was found burned beyond recognition. Police spokesperson Kay Makhubela said police were investigating a case of kidnapping and murder. “He was kidnapped and found dead at a farm in Magaliesburg yesterday‚” Makhubela said. “The man’s hands were tied behind his back and his body was burnt beyond recognition. He and his car were found by a farmer in the area and his car was burning. The motive is unknown and at the moment no arrests have been made. He was reported missing on Monday this week by his family after he did not come back home that night‚” Makhubela added. Beneke’s mother‚ Elaine‚ posted on Facebook: “My son is now part of statistics - hacked and killed!” Many people poured out their hearts in memory of the pastor on social media. Facebook friend Adam Dunn posted his condolences to the family of the deceased: “Martin was a very good pigeon fancier‚ who was forever challenging the status quo. Very vocal at meeting ensuring fairness for the members‚ his club and race point locations. He was so sure of the quality of his pigeons and believed that his performance was directly related to his loft location‚ that he relocated his pigeons to Alberton just to prove the point. How many fanciers have this sort of conviction? Martin had.”
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2017-10-18-roodepoort-pastors-body-found/
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Israel finds a welcome audience with Christian journalists
By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press
JERUSALEM – Israel's nationalist government may be unpopular with Western liberals and much of its domestic press corps, but it has found a close friend among the world's evangelical Christians and their media outlets. The government this week is hosting a first-of-its-kind summit for Christian journalists, featuring softball questions, mutual admiration and a welcome respite for embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His outreach to evangelical leaders reflects striking tactical parallels to his close ally and fellow media basher, President Donald Trump. About 130 journalists from some 30 countries are participating in the four-day summit, which ends Wednesday. The world's largest broadcasters, including the Christian Broadcasting Network, Daystar, Trinity Broadcasting Network and God TV, are all represented. Nitzan Chen, the director of Israel's Government Press Office, said he believed the summit was long overdue, and that planners chose the 50th anniversary celebrations of Israel's capture of east Jerusalem as a fitting occasion for the conference. For many years, Israel has held a summit for Jewish media outlets, cultivating those journalists as unofficial "ambassadors" to help promote Israel's image abroad, he said. "Using the same logic," it decided to reach out to Christian media, in what could become a regular event. The summit's agenda includes meetings with top Israeli politicians, most from the nationalist side. Palestinian speakers barely appear on the agenda. Sessions include discussions on archaeology and Jewish-Christian relations, but also "radical Islam" and alleged media bias, legal "warfare" and Palestinian "incitement" against Israel. While Israel's West Bank settlements are largely vilified in the West, participants are offered a chance to visit one. The media summit extends what has become a warm relationship between Israel and its evangelical supporters. Local charities raise millions of dollars from Christian friends around the world, and evangelical Christians make up a sizeable segment of the tourism industry. Last week, thousands of Christians gathered in Jerusalem for an annual celebration and parade coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. According to Israel's Tourism Ministry, evangelical Christians account for roughly one-fifth of all Christian tourists visiting the country. Among American Christian visitors, the number of evangelicals is much higher, at nearly 40 percent. "The evangelical market is one of our main target audiences," said Eyal Carlin, director of the ministry's Americas department. He said the ministry advertises in Christian media, sponsors trips for influential community leaders and works with Christian tour operators to offer visits with "faith-based or biblical themes." Gordon Robertson, chief executive of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a summit participant, said evangelical support for Israel was deep and heartfelt. He described Israel's modern-day history, from its founding in 1948 to its capture of east Jerusalem in 1967 to scenes last week of children laughing and playing in his Jerusalem hotel, as fulfilling biblical prophecy — the bedrock idea seemingly driving the Evangelicals' support. He also talked of his strong personal affinity for Israel and the Jewish faith, noting that he enjoys studying the Hebrew Bible. "I like to joke, the longer I'm a Christian the more Jewish I become," he said. CBN, known best for its "700 Club" show and which claims a worldwide audience of 360 million people, delivered its first satellite broadcast from Jerusalem's Mount of Olives in 1976. Today, its Jerusalem operation is "one of our most productive bureaus in the world," he said. While Robertson, the son of famed televangelist Pat Robertson, said he did not consider himself to be a direct partner of the Israeli government, he said, "I think we can be a partner with the Israeli people." "Israel is obviously in a very difficult position with the Palestinians, with the Arab world, and there needs to be a voice that's independent from Israel, saying, 'wait a minute, Israel is actually doing the right thing.'" He said. That strong support for Israel was evident at Netanyahu's meeting with the visiting journalists. Netanyahu, who routinely spars with local media and has accused them of reporting "fake news" in their coverage of a series of corruption scandals, received a warm welcome. "Good to see you, my friend," said one journalist before asking a question. "There's no fake news here." Netanyahu's embrace of the Christian media echoes the strategy employed by Trump. White evangelicals were a core constituency that propelled Trump to victory in last year's election. And even after the tumultuous start to his presidency, they remain staunch supporters. Trump, along with members of his administration and his family, have appeared regularly on CBN. Robertson said that Christian voters were drawn to Trump in part because of his strong support for Israel. "It's absolutely an issue. It will absolutely determine a vote," he said. Ahmad Majdalani, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said evangelical support for Israel is well-known but difficult to understand. He said that both Palestinian Christians and Muslims are harmed by Israeli policies. "I think those evangelical people are deluded by the Israeli propaganda," he said. "I recommend they go to Bethlehem and see the large swatch of Christian land that was confiscated and turned into Jewish settlements." Robertson echoed the Israeli claim that the Palestinians have rejected repeated peace offers and refused to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. He also rejected a common "accusation" in Israel that evangelical Christians are here to convert Jews or prepare for the End of Days. "We really truly stand with Israel, and we really truly want to be dear friends," he said. Not everyone agrees. Jeremy Ben Ami, president of J Street, a liberal pro-Israel group in Washington that is often critical of the Israeli government, said the evangelicals do not necessarily have Israel's best interests in mind. "Israel should be wary of embracing extreme Christian Zionist groups that may be more concerned with their own theological agendas than with Israel's long-term survival as a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people," he said.
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Mass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly
By John W. Whitehead October 03, 2017
“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics. Violence runs through US society like an electric current offering instant pleasure from all cultural sources, whether it be the nightly news or a television series that glorifies serial killers.”—Professor Henry A. Giroux This latest mass shooting in Las Vegas that left more than 50 people dead and more than 500 injured is as obscure as they come: a 64-year-old retiree with no apparent criminal history, no military training, and no obvious axe to grind opens fire on a country music concert crowd from a hotel room 32 floors up using a semi-automatic gun that may have been rigged to fire up to 700 rounds a minute, then kills himself. We’re left with more questions than answers, none of them a flattering reflection of the nation’s values, political priorities, or the manner in which the military-industrial complex continues to dominate, dictate and shape almost every aspect of our lives. For starters, why do these mass shootings keep happening? Mass shootings have taken place at churches, in nightclubs, on college campuses, on military bases, in elementary schools, in government offices, and at concerts. This shooting is the deadliest to date. What is it about America that makes violence our nation’s calling card? Is it because America is a gun culture (what professor Henry Giroux describes as “a culture soaked in blood – a culture that threatens everyone and extends from accidental deaths, suicides and domestic violence to mass shootings“)? Is it because guns are so readily available? After all, the U.S. is home to more firearms than adults. As The Atlantic reports, gun fetishism has become mainstream in recent decades due in large part to “gun porn in music, movies, and TV, [and] the combination of weapons marketing and violent videogames.” (Curiously enough, the majority of gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides, not homicides.) Is it because entertainment violence is the hottest selling ticket at the box office? As Giroux points out, “Popular culture not only trades in violence as entertainment, but also it delivers violence to a society addicted to a pleasure principle steeped in graphic and extreme images of human suffering, mayhem and torture.” Is it because the government continues to whet the nation’s appetite for violence and war through paid propaganda programs (seeded throughout sports entertainment, Hollywood blockbusters and video games)—what professor Roger Stahl refers to as “militainment“—that glorify the military and serve as recruiting tools for America’s expanding military empire? Is it because Americans from a very young age are being groomed to enlist as foot soldiers—even virtual ones—in America’s Army (coincidentally, that’s also the name of a first person shooter video game produced by the military)? Explorer scouts are one of the most popular recruiting tools for the military and its civilian counterparts (law enforcement, Border Patrol, and the FBI). Writing for The Atlantic, a former Explorer scout described the highlight of the program: monthly weekend maneuvers with the National Guard where scouts “got to fire live rounds from M16s, M60 machine guns, and M203 grenade launchers… we would have urban firefights (shooting blanks, of course) in Combat Town, a warren of concrete buildings designed for just that purpose. The exercise always devolved into a free-for-all, with all of us weekend warriors emptying clip after clip of blanks until we couldn’t see past the end of our rifles for all the smoke in the air.” Is it because the United States is the number one consumer, exporter and perpetrator of violence and violent weapons in the world? Seriously, America spends more money on war than the combined military budgets of China, Russia, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, Italy and Brazil. America polices the globe, with 800 military bases and troops stationed in 160 countries. Moreover, the war hawks have turned the American homeland into a quasi-battlefield with military gear, weapons and tactics. In turn, domestic police forces have become roving extensions of the military—a standing army. Or is the Second Amendment to blame, as many continue to suggest? Would there be fewer mass shootings if tighter gun control laws were enacted? Or would the violence simply take a different form: homemade bombs, cars driven into crowds, and knives (remember the knife assailant in Japan who stabbed 19 people to death at a care home for the disabled)? Then again, could it be, as some have speculated, that these shootings are all part of an elaborate plan to incite fear and chaos, heighten national tensions and shift us that much closer to a complete lockdown? After all, the military and our militarized police forces have been predicting and preparing for exactly this kind of scenario for years now. So who’s to blame for the violence? This time, in Las Vegas, it was a seemingly nondescript American citizen pulling the trigger. At other times, it’s organized crime syndicates or petty criminals or so-called terrorists/extremists. Still other times, it’s the police with their shoot first, ask questions later mindset (more than 900,000 law enforcement officers are armed). In certain parts of the Middle East, it’s the U.S. government and the military carrying out drone strikes and bombing campaigns that leave innocent civilians dead and their communities torn apart. Are you starting to get the picture yet? We’re caught in a vicious cycle with no end in sight. Perhaps there’s no single one factor to blame for this gun violence. However, there is a common denominator, and that is a war-drenched, violence-imbued, profit-driven military industrial complex that has invaded almost every aspect of our lives. Ask yourself: Who are these shooters modelling themselves after? Where are they finding the inspiration for their weaponry and tactics? Whose stance and techniques are they mirroring? In almost every instance, you can connect the dots back to the military. We are a military culture. We have been a nation at war for most of our existence. We are a nation that makes a living from killing through defense contracts, weapons manufacturing and endless wars. In order to sustain the nation’s appetite for war over the long haul in spite of the costs of war in lives lost and dollars spent—and little else to show for it—the military has had to work overtime to churn out pro-war, pro-military propaganda. It’s exactly what President Eisenhower warned against (“the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex”) in his 1961 farewell address. We didn’t listen then and we’re still not listening now. All the while, the government’s war propaganda machine has grown more sophisticated and entrenched in American culture. Back when I was a boy growing up in the 1950s, almost every classic sci fi movie ended with the heroic American military saving the day, whether it was battle tanks in Invaders from Mars (1953) or military roadblocks in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). What I didn’t know then as a schoolboy was the extent to which the Pentagon was paying to be cast as America’s savior. By the time my own kids were growing up, it was Jerry Bruckheimer’s blockbuster film Top Gun—created with Pentagon assistance and equipment—that boosted civic pride in the military. Now it’s my grandkids’ turn to be awed and overwhelmed by child-focused military propaganda in the X-Men movies. Same goes for The Avengers and Superman and the Transformers. (Don’t even get me started on the war propaganda churned out by the toymakers.) All of the military equipment featured in blockbuster movies is provided—at taxpayer expense—in exchange for carefully placed promotional spots aimed at indoctrinating the American populace into believing that patriotism means throwing their support behind the military wholeheartedly and unquestioningly. Even reality TV shows have gotten in on the gig, with the Pentagon’s entertainment office influencing “American Idol,” “The X-Factor,” “Masterchef,” “Cupcake Wars,” numerous Oprah Winfrey shows, “Ice Road Truckers,” “Battlefield Priests,” “America’s Got Talent,” “Hawaii Five-O,” lots of BBC, History Channel and National Geographic documentaries, “War Dogs,” and “Big Kitchens.” And that’s just a sampling. It’s estimated that U.S. military intelligence agencies (including the NSA) have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows. And then there are the growing number of video games, a number of which are engineered by or created for the military, which have accustomed players to interactive war play through military simulations and first-person shooter scenarios. This is how you acclimate a population to war. This is how you cultivate loyalty to a war machine. This is how, to borrow from the subtitle to the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, you teach a nation to “stop worrying and love the bomb.” As journalist David Sirota writes for Salon, “[C]ollusion between the military and Hollywood - including allowing Pentagon officials to line edit scripts - is once again on the rise, with new television programs and movies slated to celebrate the Navy SEALs….major Hollywood directors remain more than happy to ideologically slant their films in precisely the pro-war, pro-militarist direction that the Pentagon demands in exchange for taxpayer-subsidized access to military hardware.” Why is the Pentagon (and the CIA and the government at large) so focused on using Hollywood as a propaganda machine? To those who profit from war, it is—as Sirota recognizes—”a ‘product’ to be sold via pop culture products that sanitize war and, in the process, boost recruitment numbers….At a time when more and more Americans are questioning the fundamental tenets of militarism (i.e., budget-busting defense expenditures, never-ending wars/occupations, etc.), military officials are desperate to turn the public opinion tide back in a pro-militarist direction — and they know pop culture is the most effective tool to achieve that goal.” The media, eager to score higher ratings, has been equally complicit in making (real) war more palatable to the public by packaging it as TV friendly. This is what Dr. Stahl refers to as the representation of a “clean war“: a war “without victims, without bodies, and without suffering”:‘ Dehumanize destruction’ by extracting all human imagery from target areas … The language used to describe the clean war is as antiseptic as the pictures. Bombings are ‘air strikes.’ A future bombsite is a ‘target of opportunity.’ Unarmed areas are ‘soft targets.’ Civilians are ‘collateral damage.’ Destruction is always ‘surgical.’ By and large, the clean war wiped the humanity of civilians from the screen … Create conditions by which war appears short, abstract, sanitized and even aesthetically beautiful. Minimize any sense of death: of soldiers or civilians.” This is how you sell war to a populace that may have grown weary of endless wars: sanitize the war coverage of anything graphic or discomfiting (present a clean war), gloss over the actual numbers of soldiers and civilians killed (human cost), cast the business of killing humans in a more abstract, palatable fashion (such as a hunt), demonize one’s opponents, and make the weapons of war a source of wonder and delight. “This obsession with weapons of war has a name: technofetishism,” explains Stahl. “Weapons appear to take on a magical aura. They become centerpieces in a cult of worship.” “Apart from gazing at the majesty of these bombs, we were also invited to step inside these high-tech machines and take them for a spin,” said Stahl. “Or if we have the means, we can purchase one of the military vehicles on the consumer market. Not only are we invited to fantasize about being in the driver’s seat, we are routinely invited to peer through the crosshairs too. These repeated modes of imaging war cultivate new modes of perception, new relationships to the tools of state violence. In other words, we become accustomed to ‘seeing’ through the machines of war.” In order to sell war, you have to feed the public’s appetite for entertainment. Not satisfied with peddling its war propaganda through Hollywood, reality TV shows and embedded journalists whose reports came across as glorified promotional ads for the military, the Pentagon turned to sports to further advance its agenda, “tying the symbols of sports with the symbols of war.” The military has been firmly entrenched in the nation’s sports spectacles ever since, having co-opted football, basketball, even NASCAR. Remember, just before this Vegas shooting gave the media, the politicians and the easily distracted public something new to obsess over, the headlines were dominated by President Trump’s feud with the NFL over players kneeling during the national anthem. That, too, was yet another example of how much the military entertainment complex—which paid $53 million of taxpayer money between 2012 and 2015 to pro sports teams for military tributes (on-field events recognizing military service members, including ceremonial first pitches, honor guards and Jumbotron tributes)—has infiltrated American culture. This Trump-NFL feud is also a classic example of how to squash dissent—whether it’s dissent over police brutality or America’s killing fields abroad. As Stahl explains, “Supporting the troops is made synonymous with supporting the war. Those who disagree with the decision to send soldiers to war are thus identified with the enemy. This is done through a variety of associations… Dissent becomes synonymous with criminal activity.” When you talk about the Las Vegas mass shooting, you’re not dealing with a single shooter scenario. Rather, you’re dealing with a sophisticated, far-reaching war machine that has woven itself into the very fabric of this nation. As Stahl concludes, “War has come to look very much like a video game. As viewers of the TV war, we are treated to endless flyovers. We are immersed in a general spirit of play. We are shown countless computer animations that contribute a sense of virtuality. We play alongside news anchors who watch on their monitors. We sit in front of the crosshairs directing missiles with a sense of interactivity. The destruction, if shown at all, seems unreal, distant. These repeated images foster habitual fantasies of crossing over.” You want to stop the gun violence? Stop the worship of violence that permeates our culture. Stop glorifying the military industrial complex with flyovers and salutes during sports spectacles. Stop acting as if there is anything patriotic about military exercises and occupations that bomb hospitals and schools. Stop treating guns and war as entertainment fodder in movies, music, video games, toys, amusement parks, reality TV and more. Stop distribution weapons of war to the local police and turning them into extensions of the military—weapons that have no business being anywhere but on a battlefield. Most of all, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, stop falling for the military industrial complex’s psychological war games.
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Las Vegas Massacre Survivor Abruptly Dies Just Days After Posting Eyewitness Account Of Multiple Shooters And Subsequent Cover-Up Shepard Ambellas October 13th, 2017
(INTELLIHUB) — A woman by the name of Kymberley Suchomel, 28, who attended the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, passed away Monday at her Apple Valley home just days after she had survived the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history unscathed, according to multiple mainstream media reports. Suchomel, who posted her eyewitness account of the Las Vegas massacre in astonishingly vivid detail to her Facebook page on Oct. 4, subsequently passed away in her home on Oct. 9 from what reports are claiming are ‘natural causes.’ Shockingly, just days before her death, Suchomel posted key details about the shooting to Facebook that contradicted the official narrative which claims that Stephen Paddock was the lone gunman. “From about 50 feet in front of us, and a little to the right, fire crackers were set off. Let me repeat that… FIRE CRACKERS WERE SET OFF. I verbally stated “some asshole just shot of fire crackers in close proximity to so many people”. I was literally pissed off. You could see Jason Aldean look to his left kind of startled by it, but he was also clearly irritated. I would say about 15 seconds later, the first volley of gunfire was released,” the eyewitness wrote. She went on… It was a shorter volley than any of the others, and the gunfire was not as close together either. EVERYONE looked up, down, around. We thought it was more fire crackers at first, but then Ricky reached over, told us all to put our boots on, quickly. And the volley ended. Then people started to panic. The gentlemen behind me looked at me as I was putting on my boots, half laying down, and said “calm down crazy, its just fireworks, jeez”. That is when the 2nd volley went off, Ricky yelled at us all to get down, flat, & we immediately knew there was someone shooting at us. I remember getting down, but I didn’t lay flat for some reason, thinking- oh my gosh, I need to get flatter than I am now, but my body just wouldn’t let me. That was the 2nd volley. At the end of that volley ( I am still struggling to get my boots on), we turned and tried to run, but the people behind us still weren’t moving. I yelled at the lady “RUN! ITS GUNFIRE! RUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!” Third volley of gunfire hits astroturf According to Suchomel the shooting was ‘close.” “[When] the 3rd volley hit… and it was close. Very, very close to us. I could physically see the impact of the bullets on the astro-turf, I could feel the warmth & the passing of bullets. Once that 3rd volley was over, Casie linked her arm into mine, and we decided at that moment we weren’t stopping- we were getting the Hell out of there. And I do mean Hell. We were in literal Hell,” she claimed. “The gentlemen that mocked me stating it was just fireworks fell to the ground, and he never got back up. The lady behind me (who was now in front of me) who was terrified as I told her to run, never got back up. I actually had to physically step over her body to run (something I am still struggling with, so please don’t attack me. I was absolutely in flight-or-fight mode). There was another person to my right who also wasn’t moving. We ran. I don’t know what direction we ran, I don’t know towards which landmark we ran. We just ran. It was at this time our group got split up. Casie & I were together. Ricky, Cassie & Mendy were together.” Soon after, according to her account, Suchomel started to panic when she realized ‘100%’ that there was more than one shooter and that multiple gunmen were in the crowd! “We were rounding some sort of corner maybe- and I looked to the right and I saw this large cowboy sitting down with his legs spread, holding a blood-soaked woman. I thought to myself “we NEED to hide”, but as I looked quickly for somewhere to go, the gunfire once again got closer and closer. We couldn’t hide because they (and I do mean THEY) were chasing us. That exact moment is when I started to really panic. That is the exact moment in which I thought this was it, I was going to die, I was never going to see my family again. So, as we are running, we approach this fence where men are throwing women over, and we ran up to it as they had knocked It down, so we were able to get out. As we crossed the threshold of the venue, my mind went straight to other mass shootings and hearing the victim’s families in my head talk about how they never got to say goodbye. I did not want this for my husband (who was at work) & my grandma (who had my daughter, Scarlett). So, at 10:07pm I called my husband franticly leaving him a voicemail- telling him that I loved him and was in the middle of a shooting & I wasn’t sure if I would make it out alive,” she explained. “Next, while still running, I called my grandma to tell her the exact same thing. But the gunfire wasn’t stopping this whole time. It wasn’t ceasing. It wasn’t slowing down. And It was directly behind us, following us. Bullets were coming from every direction. Behind us, in front of us, to the side of us. But I know, I just know, that there was someone chasing us. The entire time I felt this way,” she explained “The farther we got from the venue, the closer the gunfire got. I kept looking back expecting to see the gunmen- and I say MEN because there was more than one person. There was more than one gun firing. 100% more than one.” “As we were running, we kept changing direction, because it felt like no matter what direction we took, we were being followed. So we ended up running in a weird triangular path. The first place I remember getting to was a parking lot, and I told Casie (who was slightly in front of me) we needed to get under one of the trucks. She turned to me and started her way back to me, and that is when the gunfire got even CLOSER than ever before. It was RIGHT THERE. It was within the parking lot. Everyone around us was panicking once again. So we ditched the idea of getting underneath a vehicle, and we continued the run for our lives. If you know me, you know I am a big girl, who is out of shape, and who definitely does not run for any reason. But I can tell you I ran like I have never run before,” she continued in extreme detail. The 2nd place I remember going by was Hooters- which is where we met back up with the rest of our small group. We ran towards the entrance thinking we could take cover there, but as we got closer, a stampede of people ran out, terrified. We could only conclude that there was another gunman inside of that hotel. This made us even more scared- we had nowhere to go- no one to trust. At some point, we ended up at the airport & even entered the building for safety. Everyone as we entered were screaming at the staff “IS IT SAFE IN HERE?” but we weren’t getting anyone to answer us, so after running about 30 feet into the building, not getting the answers we so desperately needed, we decided it, too, wasn’t a safe spot, so we got out of there quickly and continued running. After all this running, we were tired, sore & having to stop to cough, gag and even vomit. We ran across an intersection & us & another group of people pleaded with a limo driver to let us in and get us out of there. He was clearly confused & didn’t understand what was going on, so he didn’t let us in. Next, we ran to a taxi van & she was willing to let us in, but she told us her van only held 4 people & she wasn’t going to let the 5 of us in, so we said screw it and continued running. At one point, we ran passed a small liquor store where they so graciously gave us water bottles. We passed UNLV as well. ‘Smaller Hispanic woman’ taunts victims minutes after shooting Additionally, the eyewitness reported that she was running with her group alongside ‘Tropicana Avenue’ when a ‘dark-colored SUV’ slowed and a ‘smaller Hispanic woman’ emerged from the window to ‘taunt’ her group. “[She] leans out the window, and she yells something we couldn’t understand in a clearly taunting manner. It really freaked us out, because again, we didn’t know who we could and could not trust,” the eyewitness explained. Could this ‘smaller Hispanic woman’ have been the same ‘short Hispanic lady’ reported by another eyewitness to have threatened concertgoers 30-45 minutes before the shooting started? Eight days later Suchomel was found dead in bed by her grandmother who arrived at Schomer’s residence at 8:30 a.m. According to an Oct. 9 report confirming Suchomel’s death, Suchomel “was taking medication for a pituitary tumor and feared to fall asleep at night after being heavily traumatized by the Oct. 1 massacre. Suchomel’s death may also be the reason that Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos is receiving 24/7 high-profile security protection. Note: The actual Facebook post made by Suchomel was removed after the original article began to go viral. Hat Tip: @tabertrinic on Twitter Shepard Ambellas is an opinion journalist, analyst, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Intellihub News & Politics (Intellihub.com). Shepard is also known for producing Shade: The Motion Picture (2013) and appearing on Travel Channel’s America Declassified (2013). Shepard is a regular contributor to Infowars. Read more from Shep’s World. Follow Shep on Facebook. 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etc The end is upon you and you need to look and see the things that you should be doing, pay close attention to that. For I have told you things would change here, they would change. If you live near the Babylon that is going to fall I have told you to move at least seventy-five miles from there, at least. That goes for California, that goes for the center fault line, realize that war, war is at hand. Not only with ISIS, but you have got Russia, you have got China, you have got North Korea, wake up, wake up, for I have been telling you these things, it is getting very, very dangerous, very dangerous. etc
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Russia's New Combat Suit Gets A Nuke Resistant Upgrade
by Tyler Durden Oct 13, 2017 5:00 AM
According to Newsweek, citing Rostec, the Russian defense contractor building the suit, the third-generation Ratnik-3 suit “comprises five integrated systems.” Those five subsystems include “life support, command and communication, engaging, protection, and energy saving subsystems,” according to Tass, a Russian state-owned media outlet. This could be the most advanced combat suit on the planet. In total, the suit comes with 59 items, Tass said, including a powered exoskeleton that supposedly gives the soldier more strength and stamina, along with cutting-edge body armor and a helmet and visor that shields the soldier’s entire face. The suit also has a “pop-up display that can be used for tasks like examining a plan of the battlefield,” Andy Lynch, who works for a military company called Odin Systems, previously told The Daily Mail Online. Russia did release a video of the combat suit in late June, but it only showed a static display of the suit making it incredibly difficult to discern if it actually has any of the capabilities that are claimed. But the newest addition to this high-tech combat suit is fitting with the state of things on our politically volatile planet. The suit is being fitted with a watch that “retains its properties upon the impact of radiation and electromagnetic impulses, for example, upon a nuclear blast,” according to Rostec’s chief designer of the suit, Oleg Faustov. The first-generation Ratnik suit was reportedly given to a few Russian units in 2013, and some pieces of the suit were spotted on Russian troops in Crimea, according to a report by The New York Times. The third-generation Ratnik suit will supposedly be ready for service in 2022, said Russian Colonel General Oleg Salyukov. The US hopes to unveil its own Tactical Light Operator Suit which would be similar to Russia’s Ratnik. The US’s suit is also known as the “Iron Man” suit and plans to show it off are scheduled for 2018. France is working on one too, the Integrated Infantryman Equipment and Communications system, or FELIN. It’s the “space race” of combat suits. But in this contest, it appears that Russia is winning handily.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-12/russias-new-combat-suit-gets-nuke-resistant-upgrade
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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Gold Rush: Russia Stockpiling Bullion Like There's no Tomorrow
© Sputnik/ Vitaliy Bezrukih Opinion 09:49 14.10.2017Get short URL 28174921682
The Central Bank of Russia has recently been buying bullion at an unprecedented pace. According to Argentine financial expert Gabriel Rubinstein, this policy is aimed at protecting the Russian economy in the event of crisis situations, including against dollar-related "manipulations" by the US. "Countries stockpile gold for strategic and defensive reasons; for instance, in case relations between nations are damaged and their currencies lose their value," Gabriel Rubinstein, a financial consultant and former representative of the Argentine Central Bank, told Sputnik Mundo. If there is such a situation, according to the expert, gold reserves would be the basis for a new currency or other valuable assets in the future. "Gold, this eternal financial resource, has a real value if compared to other financial assets. The Russian government believes that it’s better to have more gold resources than dollars. Hypothetically speaking, if Russia holds tons of US dollars and the US wanted to damage its economy, this would be possible through currency manipulations," Rubinstein said, adding that gold guarantees against such a scenario. The Russian Central Bank has significantly increased the pace of its gold purchases. In the period between January and September 2017, the regulator bought 4.2 million troy ounces of the precious metal worth over $5 billion, 15 percent more than in the same period last year.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201710141058226369-russia-gold-reserves/
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Massive convoy of ‘unmarked big rigs’ escorted by police, driver ‘looked Russian’: SHOCK FOOTAGE
By Shepard Ambellas - October 12, 2017
A truck driver and his ride-along filmed and commentated as they drove alongside a massive covert convoy of 18-wheelers which were boasting full-on police escorts
SAN JOSE, Calif. (INTELLIHUB) — A truck driver and his girlfriend filmed dozens of unmarked big rig trucks heading north on Interstate 880 towards Oakland on Wednesday. The trucks and their unmarked white trailers were traveling at a high rate of speed through the Bay Area and were being escorted by a heavy police presence, alluding to the fact their contents are highly sensitive, possibly even nuclear. “Where are these trucks going? The driver questioned. “Look at this sh*t. Police escort and everything. All unmarked trailers.” The driver quickly noticed as he passed by several of the trucks that all of the official markings, including the ‘hazard markings,’ were tapped over. Each trailer was equipped with its own tracking device which could be seen mounted to the driverside of each cargo trailer. Astonishingly, the driver noticed that the driver of the truck in the convoy beside him ‘looked Russian.’ “That looked like a Russian, the driver said as he passed. “This is scary stuff.”
https://www.intellihub.com/massive-convoy-of-unmarked-big-rigs-escorted-by-police-shock-footage/
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World News
BREAKING NEWS: South Korea planning for first-strike capability against North
South Korea plans a drastic shift in defense strategy that allows it to carry out pre-emptive strikes against the North and gain direct command of its forces from the US as soon as possible. A Japanese newspaper says the proposed strategic changes were contained in a South Korean Defense Ministry report submitted to the National Assembly on October 12. The report summarizes the ministry’s plan to draw up new defense strategy guidelines in December. If it goes into effect, the new strategy would permit South Korea to pre-emptively attack enemy bases at the first sign of a possible missile launch. An attack on North Korean territory would also be made as soon as Pyongyang made the first move. Defense officials say the concept is to replace the country’s current defensive strategy with an offensive one that would lead to military victory at minimum cost. South Korea’s current guidelines call for a counter attack after an initial North Korean attack has been blunted. It isn’t known, however, how the US will react to the proposal. Current joint-military policy calls for all South Korean forces to be under US command in hostilities involving North Korea. Seoul would presumably still seek US permission before moving independently in the field. The defense ministry report noted that South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo will meet with US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Seoul on October 28. FRIDAY, Oct. 13: North Korea Threatens GUAM (Again) Today, Firday the 13th of October, 2017, North Korea again threatened to launch multiple missiles at the US Territory of GUAM.
In an official statement issued by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea said: etc..
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Global Markets Will Revert Back to Local Markets and Those Prepared for These Changes will Survive the Initial Collapse and Thrive in the Aftermath
October 14, 2017 danama
The prosperity we once knew as a nation was made possible because of cheap oil. When the EROI, Energy Returned On Invested, was at 30/1 we had unprecedented prosperity. The EROI is now falling below 10/1 and is taking prosperity with it. The EROI is the amount of energy we expend to get energy, in this case oil, out of the ground. We are getting 10 units of energy for every unit we expend to get it. Shale oil production results in 5 units of energy for every unit we expend. This matters because everything we use depends on cheap energy to maintain the status quo. An EROI of 10/1 is necessary to maintain our current standard of living. The Hills Group project oil will drop to $11.76 by 2020. This may sound good on the surface but cheap oil will not mean much if you have no job and no money to buy it. As the next depression sets in many more people will lose their job and as a result prices will collapse. They project by 2020 we will have 75% fewer gas stations as a result of collapsing oil. Today most of our population lives in the city. When jobs see their final collapse those people will have no way to survive. Living in the city requires stuff being brought in from other places. Those living in the city must pay for this stuff with the pay they earn. No jobs mean no pay and no goods. During the last great depression many city dwellers had family in the country to move back in with to stay fed but most city dwellers today are several generations removed from the country life and no longer have living family members in the country to move in with. Many of the farms that were left to city dwelling children after the parents died were sold and the money either spent or put into paper assets for retirement. When those paper assets evaporate those people will have nothing to fall back on.
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Demon Possessed? No… Demonic Infestation? YES!
By Ray Gano - October 10, 2017
I have gotten emails from so many people asking about battling demons, are they possessed, how to stand up to this evil and many other questions. It is weird; I have not felt what I am feeling since the time that The Lord asked us to return to the US. What am I talking about is battling the demonic. See, I have never had the desire to go into deliverance ministry. Yes, I know a lot about it and have studied it in the past at length. One does not do what I do and not have a strong grasp of this area. But I am finding myself being pulled into this area more and more, much like when God pulled us back into the US. This is an area where I do not feel fully suited and at times I think about “what might happen” and I have to say at times it scares the tar out of me. But if God is calling me towards this area of the ministry, then I am submitting to Him. Just know that I am not jumping for joy, if you want to call it that. Deliverance and spiritual battle is hard core because you are on the front lines and you can literally have the pulp beaten out of you. It is only through Jesus Christ and His protection that one is able to operate in this area. Walking a balanced Christian walk and being mature is what is needed. To be honest, I feel like Gideon in this calling. I want to stay in my comfy bible prophecy, world events and preparedness arena, not get my hands dirty and not put myself in harm’s way. But when I get an email from someone and they describe what is going on, things just pop into my head and I reach out and try to help as best I am able. Great thing is that 98% of the cases I have worked with have seen success or on the path to success. Demons Are Winning & We Don’t Even Realize It I look all over and I see so many people who know that something is wrong, but they cannot put their finger on it, they just know that “thinks are not right.” Others know but they seem to be afraid or to embarrassed to reach out. What am I talking about? People are being plagued with the demonic, “demonized” or better yet, “infested” or having an infestation of demons. This is why I say that demons are winning and people don’t even realize it. This is also where I feel convicted and I need to right a possible wrong where I might have misled some of you. In earlier articles I have said that a born again Christian cannot be “possessed.” This is correct and I still stand by this. The thing is that the English language is very limiting. The word “possessed” seems to be a catch all phrase when it comes to the demonic. I know that this seems to be splitting hairs, but I feel that it must be explained so that people, who are in fact demonically oppressed, infested, demonized, depressed & influenced do not just walk off and think everything is honky-dory. Things are not honky-dory and this is why I want to try to clarify. Here is a quick word study… Possession
Matthew 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils (G1139), and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. STRONGS # G1139 δαιμονίζομαι daimonizomai dahee-mon-id’-zom-ahee Middle voice from G1142; to be exercised by a daemon: – have a (be vexed with, be possessed with) devil (-s). Because our English language is so limiting, we tend to instantly jump to the conclusion of “being possessed” as something out of the movie “The Exorsist” and we should be levitating, heads spinning and spitting up green pea soup. BUT… since this is NOT happening to us, we say “Oh, I guess I am not possessed then” and we go along our merry way. To be “possessed” by a demon, one literally has to open ones inner soul and spirit up to said demon and basically submit their lives to the demon; much like when one becomes born-again. The reality is that one becomes “demonized” not possessed. As stated before a more descriptive word is “Infested” or having an “Infestation” of demons. But Ray, you keep saying that we as Christians can’t be possessed, so what are you saying? ANALOGY – Our Holy of Holies Where The Holy Spirit Resides Within – Possesses Us 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? In reading this, it dawned on me and it became crystal clear how I can explain how Christians are affected by demons. The Jewish temple is a holy place, much like we are holy when we become born again. So the questions is this, how can the demonic have influence on us, invade us, infest us and still demonize us when we are holy? This is where the Jewish temple can help with an analogy. The Temple had three main areas, The Outer Courtyard, the Inner Court yard and the Holy of Holies. The manifest presence of God was only in the Holy of Holies, not in the Outer Court or the Inner Court. In the same way with all of us, the Outer Court of the Temple represents our physical bodies, the Inner Court represents our soul, and the Holy of Holies represents our spirits. Just as the manifest presence of God was only residing in the Holy of Holies, in the same way the Holy Spirit is only residing in our human spirits. Our holy of holies which is the innermost part of our beings is a ken to the Holy of Holies that was the innermost part of the Jewish Temple. In using this Jewish Temple analogy, we can grasp the human-spiritual makeup with the Lord. Just as Paul told us in 1 Corinthians 6:19 , we can see that our physical bodies are now His temple. It is our physical bodies that now actually “house” our human spirits where the Holy Spirit now lives within. The Jewish Outer Court was where just about anyone and everyone were allowed in to, men, women, gentiles, etc. We know that the entire Temple compound was considered holy. But as one progressed further into the temple it became increasingly more holy. King Herod had enclosed the “outer court” with colonnades and it was referred to as the Court of the Gentiles because the “gentiles” (non-Jews) were permitted to enter the Temple area. This is the same area where Christ cleansed the temple from all the money changes. He created a “cat of nine-tails” and literally beat the money changers out of the holy temple, out of the “Outer Court.” Like the money changers who “infested” the Outer Court area (which is considered holy), demons are able to “infest our bodies, our “Outer Court.” Do the money changers “own / possess” the Outer Court? No, they inhabited it, but did not “own or possess” the Outer Court. That is why Christ was able to drive out the infestation of money changers (demons). Why? Because HE (Jesus Christ) is the owner of the Holy Temple. He was the only one that had the true authority to cleanse the area. The money changers listened and obeyed Christ and left the Outer Court area. Again, this is an analogy to help explain how Demons can in fact “demonize” us / Infest / oppress / influence / depress us and I felt that it was necessary to explain this. I don’t want people to think that just because they are a Christian that demons will not attack them. Wrong, if anything Christians are being hammered by the demonic and many of us battle our demons daily. How Do We As Christians Become “Demonized / Infested” By The Demonic? This is the question that is at the top of many people’s list in all the emails that I have gotten. How do we become “demonized / infested”? Simple, in many cases we allow it. We give up our “legal rights” and allow the demon in. To expand a bit further we give the demon “legal rights” to come in and demonize and infest us, our lives and our family’s lives. At least that is how the demons see it, and they are very legalistic lot as well. What are these so called “legal rights”? The Occult Direct Willful Sin Inheritance – Generational Fears and Phobia Unforgiveness Trauma Abuse Ungodly Soul Ties Curses Addictions False Religions Cursed Objects Cursed Buildings Before Christ died on the cross, demons did have limited “legal rights.” We learn of this by reading Job. But because Christ died, was buried and rose on the third day, those limited rights that demons once had are now gone. Christ took those keys away and now demons no longer have any legal rights and they know it too. But because they are very legalistically minded, cunning and are liars, they like to play that “legal” game with people and because many people lack of knowledge and freedom in Christ, we let them. Outside Our Control I know that some of you are saying that some of these areas are outside our personal control and you are correct. But the demon does not see it that way. For example, a cursed / haunted building. It may be cursed / haunted due to a prior owner. In my DVD “Demons – Days of Noah and The Demonic Wars” Christina Peck tells her story about her demonically haunted home which the demons would actually manifest themselves before her and Josh. It is a pretty amazing story. If you do not have my DVD, contact me and I can provide you details on how to get it. Now in this case, the demon did not care about Josh & Christina, in the demon’s mind they had a “legal right” to the home based on the prior owner, not Josh and Christina. It was the demon’s home and Josh and Christina were there just so that they could torment them. This is how demons think. They have taken up shop / “infested” an area, object or family lineage and they then believe they have legal rights to that person, place or thing. But the hard facts are that demons do NOT have “legal rights” they just take them because we gladly give them over out of our own lack of knowledge. In the case of Josh and Christina, they did not know what to do because they were still fairly new Christians, at least Josh was, and this was something that they were not fully taught in church. Their best solution was to move out and that thank God that worked. Interestingly enough, the current owners contacted them and they have the same demonic problems. Conclusion Can born-again Christians be possessed? No, but they can be oppressed / depressed / influenced / infested and demonized. The reason that they cannot be “possessed” is that the Holy Spirit resides inside each and every one of our own personal “holy of holies.” BUT… demons can try to gain access to our “Outer Court” areas in our lives and they believe that they can do that via their “legal rights” to enter and conduct their form of business, much like the money lenders did in the outer courts of the temple. It is Jesus Christ who is the only authority that these demons have over them. They MUST submit to the name of Jesus Christ. It is His shed blood that set us free from these false “legal rights” and the demons know this and must submit to this. It is our lack of knowledge in this area due to the days we are living in and the lack of proper teaching from pastors, preachers and teachers out there. This is a topic that 20% (and growing) of the church does not believe in. Many believe that Satan and his minions are all just fairy tales. When we have a demonic infestation taking place in our lives we need to stop and realize what is truly going on. It isn’t a stroke of bad luck or God being mad at us, it is demons taking a false “legal right” that they “think” they have based on the things we have done in our lives, opening up doors for them to come in and demonize and torment us. What the church strongly needs is deliverance from this evil. But to do that, we need to admit that there truly is an evil and that we need delivering. I find it interesting that God is pulling me in this direction on top of the other areas I preach and teach on. I find it also interesting that I have taught on “The Servant Warrior” for the past several years. Much of that teaching can be applied in the physical, but amazingly enough, it can also be applied in the spiritual and our battle against the demonic. We are living in the last days of the last days and I totally believe that God is raising up spiritual warriors. They are greatly needed because so many people are being afflicted by the enemy and they don’t realize what is happening or why. Those who do, they know that they need help, but they do not know where to turn. If you are someone who has questions or thinks they need help, contact me. I have been helping a number of people and through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and through His authority we are seeing success in helping people be delivered of these demonic infestations. Finally, help support our work here and please purchase my Demons DVD. All that I am asking is a gift of $15.00 which has shipping and handling is included. NOTE : If you can help with a of gift $25, $35, $50 or more that would be a huge blessing and help us with our Roku & Video project.
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Stranger by the minute: Vegas 'hero' security guard goes missing
Sheriff bans independent reporters from press conference
Published: 3 days ago. Updated: 10/15/2017 at 4:52 PM author Leo Hohmann
Every time it appears the investigation into the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history couldn’t get any more bizarre, something happens to take things to the next level of strange. After a week in which the timeline of the shooting was changed by police and then contested by the Mandalay Bay hotel, the sheriff who has been the local face of the investigation lashed out at the public he had just days earlier asked to help in providing information about the killer’s motive. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo condemned those disseminating “conspiracy theories” about the case. One of the most oft-repeated theories is that there was at least one other shooter besides the 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, possibly down on the ground or stationed on one of the first two or three floors of the Mandalay Bay. Paddock was shooting people from the 32nd floor and police say he killed himself after murdering 58 strangers and injuring nearly 500 at a country-music festival. “There is no conspiracy between the FBI, the Las Vegas Metorpolitan Police Department or anybody else. Nobody is attempting to hide anything in this investigation,” said Lombardo during a press conference Friday that was otherwise devoid of any substantive new information. Now almost two weeks since Paddock launched his attack on the Route 91 music festival, police still don’t have a motive as to why he did it. Sheriff is ‘his own worst enemy’ Ted Williams, a former homicide detective and Fox News contributor, said he feels bad for the sheriff but the investigation has not been handled well. “The sheriff is under a great deal of strain on this investigation,” Williams told Fox anchor Neil Cavuto. “On the other hand, the sheriff is his own worst enemy. He asked for help from the public, and when you ask the public for help, you have to give the public information, not misinformation. My heart goes out to the sheriff but you can’t give out misinformation.” Williams was referring to the timeline of the shooting, which for over a week was that the attack started with shots out the 32nd floor window and was stopped when hotel security guard Jesus Campos approached the shooter’s hotel door and was shot in the leg. That was reversed earlier this week with Campos said to have been shot before any of the gunfire was rained down on the concert-goers, and a hotel maintenance worker came forward Wednesday saying he heard the shots, some 200 rounds, fired at Campos through the door and warned hotel staff to call the police. At least six minutes elapsed between the shots at Campos and Paddock starting his ballistic assault on the crowd gathered at the concert below the hotel. If the new timeline is accurate, it only leads to more unanswered questions. If Campos was shot and wounded before the attack started, why did Paddock stop shooting and kill himself if the security guard did not stop him as previously reported by the Vegas police? Reporters barred from press conference Sheriff Lombardo also reportedly barred two conservative, independent journalists from entering the Friday press conference. They said they were stopped from entering by armed officers. ‘Hero’ security guard nowhere to be found Campos, meanwhile, has disappeared from public view. A security guard has been placed at his residence and he skipped out on five interviews Thursday night in which he had planned to break his silence. He was scheduled to appear on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News Thursday night. “We were in a room and we came out and he was gone,” Campos’ union president told reporters, according to ABC News’ Stephanie Wash. Campos is represented by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, which did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News earlier this week. WND reported earlier this week that Campos is not even registered with the state as a licensed security guard. Now his whereabouts are unknown. ISIS claim still hangs out there ISIS, also called the Islamic State, immediately claimed credit for the attack and followed up four times reiterating its claim that Paddock was one of its “soldiers of the Caliphate.” But the FBI on day one said it has zero evidence of any such link. Some independent investigators believe that until more information is given about Paddock, the ISIS claim should be given more consideration and should not have been automatically discounted by the FBI. One such man is John Guandolo, a former Marine and ex-FBI counter-terrorism officer who now runs Understanding the Threat, a consultancy for law enforcement. Guandolo has called the investigation “bizarre and unprofessional.” In speaking to an FBI colleague, Guandolo said he was told, “Listening to FBI agents speak about the Las Vegas attack reveals there is an automatic dismissal on their part that this attack has anything to do with the Islamic Movement. This attitude is so well seated in the FBI that it drives all investigative efforts away from Islam and the Islamic State.” That should disturb every American, Guandolo says. “Knowing and understanding the Islamic threat and their doctrine Shariah — the thing that drives everything they do — is critical in cases like this,” Guandolo wrote on his website Friday. “But at the ground level, basic investigative steps will necessarily be missed and are being missed because investigators, no matter how proficient or how much experience they have, will never get to the truth because they are programed to specifically not get to it.” He continues with a bleak conclusion: “So for all of you out there who are not investigators, yet see this event clearly because you do understand the Islamic threat, the Muslim Brotherhood Movement, and Shariah, we (UTT) hope this helps you understand why you can see this for what it is but investigators cannot. “The Las Vegas attack, more than any other, puts the success of the Islamic Movement on full display while highlighting the intentional outcome of all of their efforts – complete investigative collapse in the face of overwhelming reality.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/stranger-by-the-minute-vegas-hero-security-guard-goes-missing/#6zOlaaddRouRKkix.99
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Vegas Genocide: Brought To You By The Deep State?
by Silvanus Publishing, Inc., October 13, 2017
Twenty-thousand innocent American lives appear to have been intentionally placed in harms way on October 1, 2017, at the “Route 91 Harvest” Country Music Festival in Las Vegas, NV. Question: Would any of these unsuspecting victims attended this event, had promoter’s advertisements read: “Brought to you by ‘THE DEEP STATE’ and individuals with ties to Globalists, Communists, Islamic, anti-gun, anti-American sympathizers, who want to see Americans murdered!” In my article ‘Mandalay Bay Genocide: Occult Symbolism Revealed‘ we examined the ancient secret icons hidden in plain site, and how these expressions of the past are linked to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Throughout the following essay, we’re going to scrutinize those Corporations and individuals who coordinated the October 1, 2017 event, and the occult symbolism that permeates these organizations. To solve the whodunit mystery surrounding the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, America’s exceptional collection of human intelligence (“Humint“) needn’t look any further than those involved with the coordination of this event. Using the coordinators of said event as the hub for our investigation, we’ll begin lacing together the spokes or those associated with the coordinator(s). During the process of a traditional murder investigation, in which a suspect has used a gun in the commission of said crime, law enforcement match up a bullet with the gun that fired the bullet. Investigators then match up fingerprints with the finger that left the fingerprints. They match up details of the crime with a criminal who has a distinct pattern or method of operation that indicates or suggests the work of a criminal or criminals in more than one crime. Following such investigatory practices, we begin with the profile of “Route 91 Harvest,” a U.S. country music festival that is held annually at Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada. The festival’s promoter is “Live Nation Entertainment” whose headquarters are located in Beverly Hills, California. Live Nation’s revenue in 2016 was US$8.355 billion. Live Nation’s leadership consists of Canadian CEO Michael Rapino and Chairman Greg Maffei. Michael Rapino was a major democratic donor to Barack Obama and friend of Obama’s White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett. In addition to having extensive ties to communist groups, Jarrett is the person who said that the NRA needed to be shut down in order to take America’s guns. This too is the same woman who in March, 2017 moved into Barack Hussein Obama’s 8,200 square-foot, $5.3 million dollar mansion. In a July 25, 2016 article by The Hill, Rapino is quoted as saying: “But I know they are trying to make it up to me — I assume Jeffrey Katz [Katzenberg] called Valerie [Jarrett] who emailed me last week” In my book, Deception: The Ancient Mystery That Holds The Secret of Newgrange, pg.248, I examine the connection between News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, The Rothschild Family, and Jeffrey Katzenberg. “Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox signed with Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation in August 2012, it’s not surprising to see such a large volume of pro-Lucifer imagery throughout Hollywood. After all this is the same Jeffrey Katzenberg who was business partners with media mogul David Geffen, who in 1971 was allegedly involved with the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control slave operation in Laurel Canyon. Geffen was also alleged to have played a role in the sacrifice of Scotsman Musician John Lennon and in 1999 was associated with homosexual parties, where teenage boys were sexually abused. Given the company he keeps and his blatant pro-Lucifer views it’s not surprising that we find many Antichristian references throughout both Disney and DreamWorks children’s films.” Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg represent a short list of elite Billionaires whose actions arrogantly proclaim a steadfast allegiance to the goals of the ‘synagogue of Satan’ to blaspheme Jesus Christ and eradicate Christianity. According to President Barack Hussein Obama, Spielberg and Katzenberg are central to achieving this goal: “Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy. You helped shape the world culture. Tolerance, diversity and creativity” – President Barack Hussein Obama 2013 DreamWorks Animation Campus, KillingIreland.com, pg.236 Katzenberg, who now controls the digital media group ‘WndrCo‘ has called some of Hollywood’s most voracious sexual predators ‘friends’. Chief among them is Katzenberg’s friend of more than 30-years, Harvey Weinstein, who recently admitted on tape that he sexually assaulted many women. In response to the avalanche of victims coming forward to share their stories of sexual predation, Katzenberg released a statement that hypocritically excoriated Weinstein, stating, “You’ve done terrible things.” Keep in mind Katzenberg is the same person who in 1993 purchased Weinstein’s Miramax production company on behalf of Disney, during Katzenberg’s time as chairman of Walt Disney Studios and CEO of DreamWorks Animation. Shortly after purchasing Miramax in 1993, convicted child molester Victor Salva was chosen to direct Disney’s film ‘Powder‘. One of Victor Salva’s biggest supporters was Francis Ford Coppola, the uncle of actor Nicolas Kim Coppola (“Nicolas Cage“) who constructed a 9-foot-tall occult Illuminati pyramid above ground burial tomb in New Orleans’ St. Louis Cemetery. Nicolas Cages’ tomb is near the famous voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Francis Coppola is most famous for his film “The Godfather,” which romanticized the Italian Mafia. For those who have read my previous exposé Mandalay Bay Genocide: Occult Symbolism Revealed it will be remembered that the Italian ‘Mafia’ was founded by Giusseppe Mazzini a 33rd degree Grand Master Freemason, revolutionary terrorist leader, Sicilian Gangster, and good friend of Albert Pike. Pike was a Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council 33rd degree of Freemasonry, British spy, KKK founder and Grand Dragon and “Knights of the Golden Circle” founder. Notable members of Pike’s “Knights of the Golden Circle” include, Jessie James and “John Wilkes Booth” who assassinated President Lincoln 4/15/1865. In 1871 Pike outlined plans for three world wars that would bring about a ‘New World Order’. In the following letter, Albert Pike described Freemasonry’s plan to Giusspee Mazzini. “In the third World War we shall unleash the nihilist and the atheists and we shall provoke a formidable social catechism which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil then everywhere the citizens obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction anxious for an ideal but without knowing where to render its adoration will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism both conquered and exterminated at the same time.” Grand Commander of Freemasonry Albert Pike was quite clear about his cult’s objective on pg.861 of his book “Morals and Dogma” which reads: “From the mutual action and re-action of each of these pairs of opposites and contraries results that which with them forms the Triangle, to all the Ancient Sages the expressive symbol of the Deity; as from Osiris and Isis, Har-oeri, the Master of Light [Lucifer] and Life, and the Creative Word… Such, my Brother, is the True World of a Master Mason; such the true ROYAL SECRET, which makes possible, and shall at length make real, the HOLY EMPIRE of true Masonic Brotherhood. GLORIA, DEI EST CELARE VERBUM. AMEN.” Weinstein’s Miramax was sold by Disney to ‘Filmyard Holdings,’ which they knew belonged to the Islamic Sharia law government of Qatar. In 2016 Miramax became ‘beIN Media Group‘ which is wholly owned by Al Jazeera Media Network, an organization suspected of having ties to Zbigniew Brzezinski’s creation Al-Qaeda and billionaire Nazi collaborator George Soros, who was recently called an ‘Agent of Satan‘ by Hungry. For generations communist apologists throughout Hollywood have been complicit in feeding the American people disinformation and conspiring against the U.S. with its enemies since William Randolph Hearst hired Sigmund Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays, a history that I expose in my book, FreudsMafia.com. To prove my point, here is a short quote from my book at FreudsMafia.com, pgs. 198-199 “Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, met with President-elect Trump on 12/7/2016 to “discuss some concerns he had.” Rahm is the brother of Trump’s Hollywood based agent Ari Emanuel. Ari is the CEO of William Morris Endeavor (WME). Murdered FBI agent, John O’neill discovered that Rahm was allegedly linked to Israeli Intelligence (MOSSAD). Ari and Rahm’s father, Benjamin Emanuel, was allegedly associated with the Israeli terrorist group, ‘Irgun’. The aforementioned Trump/MOSSAD connection should concern every U.S. Citizen, given the revelation of NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, in 2014, that the so-called “Caliph,” or leader of the Muslim terrorist group, “ISIS,” Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, is in fact an Israeli Intelligence MOSSAD agent named Elliot Shimon.” IMPORTANT NOTE: founding partner of Endeavor Talent Agency, Ariel Z. Emanuel, has been an “Independent Director” for Live Nation Entertainment since 2007. On 9/14/2017 Ari sold 10,000 shares of Live Nation Entertainment, valued at $415,600.00. Live Nation Entertainment’s Chairman Greg Maffei has an equally interesting list of associates who have historically been hostile towards American sovereignty, the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and all those individuals attending the October 1, 2017 ‘Route 91 Harvest’ Country Western concert in Las Vegas. Greg Maffei is a graduate of Harvard and ‘Baker Scholar’ recipient. As an aside, The Baker Scholars Program was founded in 1973 by the family of George F. Baker. In 1863 Baker co-founded the First National Bank of the City of New York, which became a forerunner of Citibank. Citibank is one of the lead lenders to the developers of the controversial ‘Dakota Access Pipeline‘. Baker was the largest shareholder in Central Railroad of New Jersey and largest owner of his friend J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel Corporation, which relied heavily on prison laborers. In 1934, Time Magazine called Baker “the richest, most powerful and most taciturn [reserved] banker in U.S. history.” Baker too was a member of the ‘Jekyll Island Club’ whose members included J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and the Vanderbilts. Jekyll Island was the location of a meeting in November 1910 in which draft legislation was written to create the privately owned, unconstitutional U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, Inc. To learn more about this history, read, The Creature from Jekyll Island. Greg Maffei also served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Larry Ellison’s Oracle, a company which got its start from a Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) deal 40 years ago. In fact, Ellison’s company name ‘Oracle’ came from a CIA project code-named ‘Oracle’. This article in Forbes Magazine notes that Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison worked on a Shadow Government project with the code-name “Oracle”: “He [Larry Ellison] dropped out of the University of Chicago in the 1960s, headed to Berkeley, Calif. and by the mid-1970s began working on a database project. Code name: Oracle. Client: the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1977, Ellison founded the company with Robert Miner and Edward Oates, naming it after the CIA job.” There are other publications that suggest that the Shadow Government did more than just lend the name Oracle, and they suggest that the CIA gave Ellison the Oracle software after it was stolen from Russia: “I’ve chosen to publish his theory on Oracle’s origin – in other words, how CIA stole the source code from the Russians, who had developed it originally!” During the 2016 presidential Presidential race, Ellison donated $3 million to Marco Rubio’s campaign. This is the same Marco Rubio who in 1990, was arrested with his “friend” Angel Barrios along with another male in the infamously gay pickup spot in Miami’s Alice Wainwright Park. In one of Marco’s many 2016 Presidential debate speeches, he reiterated how his parents Mario Rubio Reina and Oriales Rubio escaped Cuban Communism in 1956. In reality, Rubio’s parents were allegedly friends of Jewish mob boss Meyer Lansky while working inside one of Lansky’s Havana Cuba Casinos. After Rubio’s parents were transported to America, they both worked inside of a Lansky owned and operated casino in Las Vegas. As I exposed in my article Mandalay Bay Genocide: Occult Symbolism Revealed, the owner of the Mandalay Bay was connected to Jewish and Italian mob figures, like Democratic Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s father, “Hugh Rodham” who took over the Chicago Mob from the Al Capone organization. According to academic records, Marco’s scholastic performance demonstrates that Rubio is anything but a savant. While attending Tarkeo College in Missouri, Rubio flunked out. While in Miami, Marco caroused with his “friend” Angel Barrios. It was during this period that Angel Barrios owned and operated an on-line gay porn operation named “Flava Works,” which streamed hardcore homosexual sex between Latino and Black men. During Rubio’s time at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, he shared a townhouse with his ‘friend’ Angel Barrios and two other students. This particular house was allegedly a magnet for individuals seeking cocaine and gay parties. Rubio’s “coke house” allegations increase in legitimacy when one considers the fact that in 1987, Rubio’s brother-in-law, “Orlando Ciclia,” was arrested by the South Florida, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for his leadership position in a cocaine smuggling ring. The link between Greg Maffei, Shadow Government puppet Larry Ellison, and Marco Rubio is interesting considering the fact that the Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, and his criminal brother Bruce Paddock are suspected gun and drug runners with roots in Florida and Marco Rubio is not only the U.S. Senator for Florida, Rubio is also associated with cocaine smugglers. Lastly, the merger that formed Greg Maffei’s Live Nation Entertainment was opposed by members of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA). CCIA members include Shadow Government Larry Ellison’s Oracle as well as Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s Google, another company that was seed-funded by the NSA and CIA. After graduating from University of Florida, Marco attended the University of Miami Law School. During his stay in Miami in 1995 it’s alleged that Marco attended “foam parties” which were held inside of exclusively gay night clubs. In addition to serving under shadow government puppet Larry Ellison, Live Nation Entertainment Chairman/CEO Greg Maffei also served as CFO for Bill Gates‘ Microsoft. In 2014, Bill and Melinda Gates invested $1 million into Michael Bloomberg’s organization which is associated with the confiscation of America’s guns. Bill Gates is also behind the push to destroy America’s Republic and replace it with Carl Marx cult of Communism. Gates is also a major inventor in the development of global government, global population control methods through forced vaccinations, remote controlled microchip contraception, Toxic GMO food production. Gates has promoted heavily the idea of a cashless society or “digital currency” which will make the poor more dependent on the Rothschild Families global network of central banks. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are the creators of “The Giving Pledge“. Currently the pledge is comprised of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 158 ‘givers,’ many of which are globalist Luciferians. Warren Buffet is close friends with the Rothschild Family. In fact, Buffet has been photographed walking side-by-side with Jacob Rothschild. Buffet has also been photographed holding up the satanic all-seeing-eye hand-sign. Buffet is also friends with rapper Jay-Z, an admirer of Satanist Aleister Crowley. Jay-Z’ voice is featured on an album saying “Murder, Murder Jesus 666”. In my book, KillingIreland.com, pgs. 94-95, I examine Giving Pledge member Michael Bloomberg’s resuscitation of a 3rd century AD Temple of Mithras in London. The ancient site contains an ancient temple that was dedicated to the god of the sun and was used to sacrifice Christians on December 25th. There is an interesting link between Greg Maffei, Bill and Hillary Clinton, CIA Director turned President George H.W. Bush – who motions throat cut at Donald Trump, during GOP debate in Houston Texas, and who in the past has called for a “New World Order,” etc. – and Rothschild Family associate Warren Buffet. In addition to being the Chairman/CEO of Live Nation Entertainment, Maffei is also the CEO of ‘Liberty Media,’ a mass media company controlled by chairman John C. Malone. In 2005, John C. Malone held 32% of the shares in Rupert Murdoch’s media company News Corp, and although only about half were voting shares, Rupert Murdoch reportedly had concerns that he might lose control of his company to Malone, and tried to oust him from the firm with a “poison pill” strategy. Malone is on the board of the public policy group ‘The Cato Institute,” which is influenced by shadow government controlled corporations such as the Carlyle Group, an organization which acquired Booz Allen for $2.5 billion. The following quote is from my book, Freud’s Mafia: Sigmund Freud’s Crimes Against Christianity: “Mack McLarty – Carlyle Group Senior Advisor (from 2003), White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from [1993-1994], who advised both Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. Serving as Clinton’s “special envoy for the Americas,” he was a key figure in the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which was supported by the “Council of the Americas,” (COA) established by David Rockefeller, in 1965. McLarty was a top official at the 1994 Miami Summit of the Americas, which laid the groundwork for this Trade bloc; as well as serving as a key liaison to Clinton for Rockefeller’s Council in the implementation of this trade agreement. Rockefeller’s COA is affiliated with Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Carlyle Group, Cato Institute, Union Pacific Railroad, Religions for Peace: International Council of Trustees, Center for the Study of the Presidency Trustee, New Democratic Network Advisory Board, America Abroad Media Advisory Board, United States-Mexico Binational Council member, Diligence LLC (Intelligence and Risk Management Consulting) advisory board, Inter-American Dialogue Co-Vice Chair, Leeds Equity Partners advisory board and Acxiom Corporation director.” In addition to being an admirer of Rupert Murdoch, John Malone is a “big-fan” of Arizona Sen. John McCain, an associate of billionaire Nazi collaborator George Soros. The following video at 11min 28sec mark [Here] examines how McCain is a CIA puppet and how Utah’s so-called ‘constitutional conservative’ Presidential candidate Evan McMullin, is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, who since the 1970s had been working to destroy the U.S. Constitution. To view information associated with the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 plan to overthrow America, please watch [Here]. In Spring 1993, Bell Atlantic began looking at merger partners, including cable companies. Malone’s TCI and Liberty Media would be acquired for $11.8 billion in stock and assumption of $9.8 billion in debt. And $5 billion in Liberty properties could likely be added to the deal. Vice President Al Gore supported the idea of the merger. There is a great deal more information regarding the questionable profiles of those who coordinated the terrorist attack on Oct 1, 2017 in Las Vegas. However, I’m going to challenge independent citizen journalists and investigators to unwrap those packages. I finish this article with one of the biggest unanswered questions to date. Why didn’t any of the Country western music singers, who were on stage that night and who appear to have looked towards the direction of Stephen Paddock’s gun fire, warn their audience of over 20,000+ people? A citizen investigator who goes by the alias ‘Hot Patriot Chick‘ provides those who are awake with a logical answer to the above question. Using visual evidence, Hot Patriot Chick links country western singer Jason Aldean with the famed ‘Illuminati Card Game‘ which has seemingly predicted catastrophic events from around the world. Patriot Chick’s presentation also reveals an association between Jason Aldean, Satanist Aleister Crowley and Babylon. The following graphic features three elements. Illuminati Card Game (left), graphic element from an advertisement for ‘Country Rising’ featuring Jason Aldean (center) Jason Aldean’s shoulder tattoo (right). When examining the Illuminati Card Game (left) and Jason Aldean’s shoulder tattoo (right), readers will notice that the card and tattoo both contain a Jack over Ace (left) and Ace over Jack configuration (right). Furthermore, Aldean’s shoulder resembles that of a bullet wound. The ‘Country Rising’ graphic element (center) is even more telling. In my book KillingIreland.com, pg.237-239, I explain the history of this logo and how it represents an abstract modification of the number “69”. The number “69” is important to Satanists because it represents “The Great Beast 666” Aleister Crowley and his book, “The Book of Lies, chapter 69 titled, “The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs!” which is a pun for the “69 sex position. In my book KillingIreland.com, 237-239 I provide readers with a photograph featuring the “69” symbol on a property containing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and FOX headquarters. It will be remembered that John C. Malone holds 32% of the shares in Rupert Murdoch’s media company News Corp. The apparent Luciferian connection between all of the aforementioned individuals is crystallized when you examine Greg Maffei’s “Route 91 Harvest” country music festival logo. The poker chip element contains two 6-pointed stars, representing the ‘Star of Remphan [Satan]’ (Acts 7:43) and the highway road-sign contains 6-points as well. Together these elements create ‘666’ (Revelation 13:16-18). “To be a star you gotta BANG, BANG, BANG!” – Jason Aldean, Song ‘Crazy Town’
http://www.silvanuspublishing.com/las-vegas-genocide/1111-87/
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West Point is being run by radical leftists and social justice warriors – Former West Point professor’s letter exposes corruption, cheating and failing standards
Posted on October 12, 2017 by Ray Starmann
The following letter was written by retired LTC Robert M. Heffington as an open letter. Heffington was an assistant professor at West Point for several years, until this past August. The letter has been circulating for a few days in private among the military. Heffington confirmed to American Military News on Wednesday that he did write the letter, and he sent a signed copy. He wrote the letter in light of recent media coverage of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, a West Point graduate and infantry officer who recently came under fire for his public advocacy and support of socialism and communism, and being an “official socialist organizer” of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The broader conversation that has been taking place in the military community now is what exactly went on – and goes on – at West Point that a graduate such as Rapone would feel so strongly empowered to apparently be a socialist and/or communist and spread these doctrines. Heffington says the Military Academy turned a blind eye to Rapone’s behavior and his “very public hatred” of West Point. While this doesn’t mean leaders at West Point defend Rapone’s views, it means that West Point’s senior leaders “are infected with apathy: they simply do not want to deal with any problem, regardless of how grievous a violation of standards and/or discipline it may be,” Heffington writes. Rapone was recently discovered to be a communist propagandist and “official socialist organizer” of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) after he posted a photo to Twitter of himself in support of professional football player Colin Kaepernick, where he is seen in his West Point uniform at graduation holding his cap that contains a piece of paper that says “Communism will win.” Rapone’s social media was filled with up to hundreds of posts, messages and photos that were being circulated around the military and civilian communities. His Twitter account is now set to protected, and his Instagram account has been taken down. His Facebook, where he goes under Giuseppe Impastato, is private. Rapone had also posted a second photo of himself in uniform, and he is seen wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt underneath his uniform jacket. Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who believed the poor people of Latin America would be saved by communism. Rapone is a 2LT (Second Lieutenant) and an infantry officer in the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. He has deployed to Afghanistan and received a combat infantryman badge (CIB). Rapone has been widely criticized on the internet – and so has West Point, for seemingly allowing this behavior and appearing to turn a blind eye to an apparent communist who espouses many things the U.S. Military and the United States fight against. West Point has said that Rapone’s actions “in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army.” In Heffington’s letter, he says the most recent coverage of Rapone only highlights a “disturbing trend” that he has observed over several years of being on the faculty at West Point, which are “fundamental changes […] that have eroded it to the point where I question whether the institution should even remain open.” The following is Heffington’s letter in its entirety:
Dear Sir/Ma’am,
Before you read any further, please understand that the following paragraphs come from a place of intense devotion and loyalty to West Point. My experience as a cadet had a profound impact upon who I am and upon the course of my life, and I remain forever grateful that I have the opportunity to be a part of the Long Gray Line. I firmly believe West Point is a national treasure and that it can and should remain a vitally important source of well trained, disciplined, highly educated Army officers and civilian leaders. However, during my time on the West Point faculty (2006-2009 and again from 2013-2017), I personally witnessed a series of fundamental changes at West Point that have eroded it to the point where I question whether the institution should even remain open. The recent coverage of 2LT Spenser Rapone – an avowed Communist and sworn enemy of the United States – dramatically highlighted this disturbing trend. Given my recent tenure on the West Point faculty and my direct interactions with Rapone, his “mentors,” and with the Academy’s leadership, I believe I can shed light on how someone like Rapone could possibly graduate. First and foremost, standards at West Point are nonexistent. They exist on paper, but nowhere else. The senior administration at West Point inexplicably refuses to enforce West Point’s publicly touted high standards on cadets, and, having picked up on this, cadets refuse to enforce standards on each other. The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline. The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution. Nothing matters anymore. Cadets know this, and it has given rise to a level of cadet arrogance and entitlement the likes of which West Point has never seen in its history. Every fall, the Superintendent addresses the staff and faculty and lies. He repeatedly states that “We are going to have winning sports teams without compromising our standards,” and everyone in Robinson Auditorium knows he is lying because we routinely admit athletes with ACT scores in the mid-teens across the board. I have personally taught cadets who are borderline illiterate and cannot read simple passages from the assigned textbooks. It is disheartening when the institution’s most senior leader openly lies to his own faculty-and they all know it. The cadet honor code has become a laughingstock. Cadets know they will not be separated for violating it, and thus they do so on a daily basis. Moreover, since they refuse to enforce standards on each other and police their own ranks, cadets will rarely find a cadet at an honor hearing despite overwhelming evidence that a violation has occurred. This in tum has caused the staff and faculty to give up even reporting honor incidents. Why would a staff or faculty member expend the massive amount of time and energy it takes to report an honor violation-including writing multiple sworn statements, giving interviews, and testifying at the honor hearing-when they know without a doubt the cadet will not be found (or, if found, the Superintendent will not separate the cadet)? To make matters worse, the senior leadership at West Point actively discourages staff and faculty from reporting honor violations. l was unfortunate enough to experience this first hand during my first tour on the faculty, when the Commandant of Cadets called my office phone and proceeded to berate me in the most vulgar and obscene language for over ten minutes because I had reported a cadet who lied to me and then asked if “we could just drop it.” Of course, I was duty bound to report the cadet’s violation, and I did. During the course of the berating I received from the Commandant, I never actually found out why he was so angry. It seemed that he was simply irritated that the institution was having to deal with the case, and that it was my fault it even existed. At the honor hearing the next day, I ended up being the one on trial as my character and reputation were dragged through the mud by the cadet and her civilian attorney while I sat on the witness stand without any assistance. In the end, of course, the cadet was not found (despite having at first admitted that she lied), and she eventually graduated. Just recently a cadet openly and obviously plagiarized his History research paper, and his civilian professor reported it. The evidence was overwhelming-there was not the slightest question of his guilt, yet the cadet was not found. The professor, and indeed all the faculty who knew of the case, were completely demoralized. This is the new norm for the cadet honor system. In fact, there is now an addition to the honor system (the Willful Admission Process) which essentially guarantees that if a cadet admits a violation, then separation is not even a possibility. In reality, separation is not a possibility anyway because the Superintendent refuses to impose that sanction. Academic standards are also nonexistent. I believe this trend started approximately ten years ago, and it has continued to get worse. West Point has stated standards for academic expectations and performance, but they are ignored. Cadets routinely fail multiple classes and they are not separated at the end-of-semester Academic Boards. Their professors recommend “Definitely Separate,” but those recommendations are totally disregarded. I recently taught a cadet who failed four classes in one semester (including mine), in addition to several she had failed in previous semesters, and she was retained at the Academy. As a result, professors have lost hope and faith in the entire Academic Board process. It has been made clear that cadets can fail a multitude of classes and they will not be separated. Instead, when they fail (and they do to a staggering extent), the Dean simply throws them back into the mix and expects the faculty to somehow drag them through the academic program until they manage to earn a passing grade. What a betrayal this is to the faculty! Also, since they get full grade replacement if they must retake a course, cadets are actually incentivized to fail. They know they can re-take the course over the summer when they have no other competing requirements, and their new grade completely replaces the failing one. ST AP (Summer Term Academic Program) is also now an accepted summer detail assignment, so retaking a course during the summer translates into even more summer leave for the deficient cadet. Even the curriculum itself has suffered. The plebe American History course has been revamped to focus completely on race and on the narrative that America is founded solely on a history of racial oppression. Cadets derisively call it the “I Hate America Course.” Simultaneously, the plebe International History course now focuses on gender to the exclusion of many other important themes. On the other hand, an entire semester of military history was recently deleted from the curriculum (at West Point!). In all courses, the bar has been lowered to the point where it is irrelevant. If a cadet fails a course, the instructor is blamed, so instructors are incentivized to pass everyone. Additionally, instead of responding to cadet failure with an insistence that cadets rise to the challenge and meet the standard, the bar for passing the course itself is simply lowered. This pattern is widespread and pervades every academic department. Conduct and disciplinary standards are in perhaps the worst shape of all. Cadets are jaded, cynical, arrogant, and entitled. They routinely talk back to and snap at their instructors (military and civilian alike), challenge authority, and openly refuse to follow regulations. They are allowed to wear civilian clothes in almost any arena outside the classroom, and they flaunt that privilege. Some arrive to class unshaven, in need of haircuts, and with uniforms that look so ridiculously bad that, at times, I could not believe I was even looking at a West Point cadet. However, if a staff or faculty member attempts to correct the cadet in question, that staff/faculty member is sure to be reprimanded for “harassing cadets.” For example, as I made my rounds through the barracks inspecting study conditions one evening as the Academic Officer in Charge, I encountered a cadet in a company study room. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans and nothing else, and was covered in tattoos. He had long hair, was unshaven, and I was honestly unsure if he was even a cadet. He looked more like a prison convict to me. When I questioned what he was doing there, he remained seated in his chair and sneered at me that he “was authorized” because he was a First Class cadet. I proceeded to correct him and then reported him to the chain of command the next morning. Later that day I received an email from the Brigade Tactical Officer telling me to “stay in my lane.” I know many other officers receive the same treatment when attempting to make corrections. It is extremely discouraging when the response is invariably one that comes to the defense of the cadet. That brings me to another point: cadets’ versions of stories are always valued more highly by senior leaders than those of commissioned officers on the staff and faculty. It is as if West Point’s senior leaders believe their job is to “protect” cadets from the staff and faculty at all costs. This might explain why the faculty’s recommendations are ignored at the Academic Boards, why honor violations are ignored (and commissioned officers are verbally abused for bringing them to light), and why cadets always “win” when it comes to conduct and disciplinary issues. It seems that the Academy’s senior leaders are intimidated by cadets. During my first tour on the faculty (I was a CPT at the time), I noticed that 4th class cadets were going on leave in civilian clothes when the regulation clearly stated they were supposed to be wearing a uniform. During a discussion about cadet standards between the BTO and the Dept. of History faculty, I asked why plebes were going on leave in civilian clothes. His answer astonished me: “That rule is too hard to enforce.” Yet West Point had no problem enforcing that rule on me in the mid-1990s. I found it impossible to believe that the several hundred field grade officers stationed at West Point could not make teenagers wear the uniform. This anecdote highlights the fact that West Point’s senior leaders lack not the ability but the motivation to enforce their will upon the Corps of Cadets. This brings me to the case of now-2LT Spenser Rapone. It is not at all surprising that the Academy turned a blind eye to his behavior and to his very public hatred of West Point, the Army, and this nation. I knew at the time I wrote that sworn statement in 2015 that he would go on to graduate. It is not so much that West Point’s leadership defends his views (Prof. Hosein did, however); it is that West Point’s senior leaders are infected with apathy: they simply do not want to deal with any problem, regardless of how grievous a violation of standards and/or discipline it may be. They are so reticent to separate problematic cadets (undoubtedly due to the “developmental model” that now exists at USMA) that someone like Rapone can easily slip through the cracks. In other words, West Point’s leaders choose the easier wrong over the harder right. I could go on, but I fear that this letter would simply devolve into a screed, which is not my intention. I will sum up by saying this: a culture of extreme permissiveness has invaded the Military Academy, and there seems to be no end to it. Moreover, this is not unintentional; it is a deliberate action that is being taken by the Academy’s senior leadership, though they refuse to acknowledge or explain it. Conduct and behavior that would never be tolerated at a civilian university is common among cadets, and it is supported and defended by the Academy’s senior leaders in an apparent and misguided effort to attract more applicants and cater to what they see as the unique needs of this generation of cadets. Our beloved Military Academy has lost its way. It is a shadow of what it once was. It used to be a place where standards and discipline mattered, and where concepts like duty, honor, and country were real and they meant something. Those ideas have been replaced by extreme permissiveness, rampant dishonesty, and an inexplicable pursuit of mediocrity. Instead of scrambling to restore West Point to what it once was, the Academy’s senior leaders give cadets more and more privileges in a seeming effort to tum the institution into a third-rate civilian liberal arts college. Unfortunately, they have largely succeeded. The few remaining members of the staff and faculty who are still trying to hold the line are routinely berated, ignored, and ultimately silenced for their unwillingness to “go along with the program.” The Academy’s senior leaders simply do not want to hear their voices or their concerns. Dissent is crushed-I was repeatedly told to keep quiet at faculty meetings, even as a LTC, because my dissent was neither needed nor appreciated. It breaks my heart to write this. It breaks my heart to know first-hand what West Point was versus what it has become. This is not a “Corps has” story; it is meant to highlight a deliberate and radical series of changes being undertaken at the highest levels of USMA’ s leadership that are detrimental to the institution. Criticizing these changes is not popular. I have already been labeled a “traitor” by some at the Academy due to my sworn statement’s appearance in the media circus surrounding Spenser Rapone. However, whenever I hear this, I am reminded of the Cadet Prayer: ” … suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to diminish. Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be won. …that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice, and knows no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy.”
West Point was once special, and it can be again. Spenser Rapone never should have been admitted, much less graduate, but he was-and that mistake is directly attributable to the culture of permissiveness and apathy that now exists there.
Sincerely and Respectfully,
Robert M. Heffington
LTC, U.S. Army (Retired), West Point Class of 1997
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Mideast Powder Keg
By Hal Lindsey
The Middle East has long been a powder keg, and right now that powder keg is inhabited by people with flaming torches. In the last week, hostility in the region reached new levels. But this time the rage is not against Israel. It is Muslim versus Muslim; Sunni versus Shiite. The possibility of war between them, casts a pall over the entire planet. Sunni and Shiite Muslims have been at each other’s throats since Muhammad died in the year 632 AD. 85 to 90% of the world’s Muslims are Sunni. By that you would think Shiites are a marginal minority. But radical Shiites run Iran, a nation that has grown significantly more powerful since the nuclear deal it concluded with the United States and five other world powers last summer. One rarely discussed side-effect of the Iran nuclear deal has been an exacerbation of the volatile relationship between Sunnis and Shiites. After the agreement, both factions ratcheted up the belligerence. Sunni-led Saudi Arabia did everything it could to crash world oil prices just as Iran prepared to re-enter the global market again after years of sanctions. Saudis and Iranians have been fighting through proxies in several countries, including Syria, and have fought directly in Yemen. Tensions rose to a whole new level late last week when Saudi Arabia executed Nimr Baqr al-Nimr a Shiite cleric, along with 47 other prisoners. After Iranian protesters attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with Iran. The Saudis also suspended airline flights between the two nations. The conflict then spilled over to other countries. Bahrain severed diplomatic ties with Iran. The United Arab Emirates recalled its ambassador. Hostilities spread to Africa where Sudan recalled its ambassador to Iran, and expelled the Iranian ambassador. Russia and China, both of whom are allies of Iran, have entered the fray offering their services as peacemakers. There’s no clear cut “good guy” in this fight. Iran seems willing to blow the world into chaos believing it will bring back their Muslim messiah, the “Mahdi.” They promise to wipe Israel from the earth. They fund terrorism. They have a history of providing a safe haven for terrorists. They love to shout “Death to America.” And, yes, they are still developing nuclear weapons, and the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICMBs) to carry them. On the other side, Saudi Arabia’s whole existence is based on a movement within Sunni Islam called “Wahhabism.” It was named after an eighteenth century Sunni preacher named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. He preached a severe, fundamentalist form of Islam, urging practitioners of the religion to get back to its basic tenets. In 1744, al-Wahhab converted Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the Saud dynasty and the first Saudi State. The Sauds were later defeated by the Ottomans, but the Saud dynasty did not go away, and remained a power in the region. Modern Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932. Wahhabism remains the basis of the laws and governing philosophy of the nation. That’s why Saudi punishments include beheading, stoning, amputation and lashing, often in public. It is a place where rape victims can be treated worse than their attackers. In one case, seven men gang-raped a teenage girl. But since she did not have a chaperone with her at the time, the court also punished her. She actually received more lashes than one of her rapists. You’ve heard that women can’t legally drive cars in Saudi Arabia, but it also goes against the code for them to try on clothes when shopping, enter a cemetery, buy a Barbie, go swimming, or interact with men who are not relatives. Their faces don’t have to be covered, but they are not allowed to wear clothes or make-up that might “show off their beauty.” And, as mentioned above, Saudi Arabian women cannot go outside the home without a chaperone, called a “mahram.” Despite all this, the United States used to have a good relationship with the Saudi Kingdom. At one time, the U.S. probably could have talked Riyadh out of executing the Shiite cleric. But the Iran nuclear deal changed that. Saudi Arabia no longer trusts the United States. It feels that the U.S. has thrown in its lot with Shiites. With the Iran deal, the United States alienated much of the Sunni Muslim world, and Sunnis make up at least 85% of the world’s Islamic population. You might expect that by giving Iran pretty much everything it wanted in the nuclear deal, America would have at least turned the Shiites into friends. But Shiites respect strength. When we gave away everything in negotiations, it only increased their disdain. In the Middle East, no one is sure whose side the U.S. stands. In the nuclear deal, the United States stands with Iran against Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni Muslim nations. In Yemen, the U.S. stands with Saudi Arabia against Iran and the other Shiite nations. In Iraq, the U.S. seems to stand with the Shiite government against the Kurds and Sunnis. In Syria, the U.S. stands against President Bashar al-Assad and his allies, the Iranians. The U.S. is also against Sunni terror groups, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. America claims to be on the side of Syria’s “moderate rebels,” but can’t seem to find any. The list could go on and on. The U.S. is both for and against practically every one of the many factions in the Middle East. This foreign policy chaos has left everyone confused, and no one trusting the United States. Though still active in the region, the U.S. has squandered away its friendships, influence, and standing. That opened the door for the Russians. They have seized the opportunity to fill the void where the U.S. once stood. In doing so, Vladimir Putin has neatly positioned Russia to fulfill the role prophesied for it in the Bible 2500 years ago. Pray that we will out last President Obama’s Presidency. If we get another left wing President, we are finished.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-9-2016/
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Here Are 4 Ways Iran Is Destabilizing the Middle East
Madyson Hutchinson / @madyhutch / October 13, 2017
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States would not recertify the controversial Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran—commonly referred to as the “Iran nuclear deal.” The controversial agreement has been under fire since President Barack Obama signed it in 2015. Critics have stated concerns that the deal did not do enough to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, something that threatens the security of the entire international community. As Trump outlined in his strategy, Iran’s offences are not limited to its nuclear program. This is why he included countering Iranian aggression as one component of his four-point strategy. Iran’s growing influence is a threat to regional stability and is harming U.S. allies. Since sanctions on Iran were lifted in 2016, Iran has enjoyed increased financial and economic influence, which it has since invested in destabilizing many of its neighbors. Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media. But this can't be done alone. Find out more >> In addition to having a nuclear program, here are four ways that Iran is increasingly destabilizing the Middle East. 1. Proxy wars and undermining of U.S. partners. Iran has a long history of backing rebel groups and undermining established regional governments. In Yemen, Iran is seeking to weaken Saudi Arabia’s influence by supporting the Houthi rebels against Saudi and Yemeni forces and against a Saudi-led Arab expeditionary force. The Houthis have carried out attacks on U.S. and U.S.-allied ships in the Red Sea with Iranian-supplied weapons. Iran even threatened to take military action against Saudi Arabia. 2. Smuggling of weapons and soldiers. Iran was able to capitalize on Iraq’s fight against ISIS and the instability that resulted. In particular, it has created transportation and logistical infrastructure to move soldiers and weapons through Iraq to its proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon. Iran is doing the same in Yemen. One U.S. officer noted that Iran has provided Houthi fighters with a deadly arsenal of weaponry that has even been used to attack U.S.-allied ships in the Red Sea. Iran has also recruited thousands of Afghan refugees and deployed them as armed volunteer forces to fight alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops in Syria. 3. Aligning with brutal regimes. The Syrian civil war has been bloody and brutal. Over half a million Syrians have been killed, and millions more are now displaced. Iran’s support for Assad is one of the key elements safeguarding his government’s survival. Iran has dispatched senior military figures, deployed hundreds of Revolutionary Guard soldiers, and provided monetary, intelligence, training, communications, and weapons support to Assad, despite his gross human rights violations. Iran’s allies include hostile nations like Russia, which has fought alongside Iranian forces and Assad in Syria, as well as Venezuela, which is falling apart under a corrupt, anti-Western government. Iran’s support of the Palestinian Authority has encouraged a rise in Palestinian terrorism and confidence in one day replacing Israel with a unitary Palestinian state. 4. State-sponsored terrorism. One of Iran’s most notorious evils is its funding of terrorism. The State Department lists Iran as the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism, and for good reason. For years, Iran has backed anti-Western groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as proxy groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen that have worsened ongoing regional conflicts. In the Gaza Strip, Hamas regularly carries out attacks on Israel by using Iranian-funded weaponry, and having benefitted from Iranian-funded training. In Lebanon, Hezbollah broadcasts pro-Iranian news and carries out attacks on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters in Syria have played a role in propping up the Assad regime. Iran has also been accused of supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan—a relationship the country formalized in early 2014—and of refusing to punish senior al-Qaeda members. Preventing the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear capabilities is important, but that is not the only threat Iran poses to the region. Iranian influence is expanding, and instead of slowing or preventing this expanding influence, provisions under the Iran nuclear deal have made it easier for Iran to negatively influence and destabilize the Middle East. Trump’s refusal to recertify the deal could mark a turning point in Iran’s destructive influence. A Note for our Readers: Trust in the mainstream media is at a historic low—and rightfully so given the behavior of many journalists in Washington, D.C. Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, it is painfully clear that the mainstream media covers liberals glowingly and conservatives critically. Now journalists spread false, negative rumors about President Trump before any evidence is even produced. Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media. That’s why The Daily Signal exists. The Daily Signal’s mission is to give Americans the real, unvarnished truth about what is happening in Washington and what must be done to save our country. Our dedicated team of more than 100 journalists and policy experts rely on the financial support of patriots like you. Your donation helps us fight for access to our nation’s leaders and report the facts. You deserve the truth about what’s going on in Washington. Please make a gift to support The Daily Signal.
http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/13/4-ways-iran-destabilizing-middle-east/
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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ISIS Just Took Over a Town of Hundreds of Christian Families
12:00PM EDT 10/11/2017 World Watch Monitor
Islamic State (IS) jihadists have regained control of a town believed to be home to hundreds of Christian families. The group launched a surprise attack on the town of Al-Qaryatain, which was being guarded by government forces, early on Sunday. The town, in the central province of Homs, is known as a symbol of interfaith coexistence—Christians are thought to have accounted for between 900 and 2,000 of the 30,000 residents before civil war broke out in 2011. It is not known exactly how many Christians are still resident there. Al-Qaryatain also contained the tomb of a saint venerated by both Muslims and Christians. A plate from the entrance to the popular Mar Elian monastery that was destroyed by IS jihadists, whose ideology rejects creeds other than their interpretation of Islam. Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told journalists that violent clashes broke out at the weekend after the jihadists stole in to the town. Al-Qaryatain was previously in the hands of jihadists when IS seized control of it in August 2015. Russian-backed government forces recaptured it in April 2016. The Syriac Orthodox Church published names of 21 Christians it said were killed during IS' eight-month occupation of the town, which lies 55 miles (90 km) southeast of Homs and 60 miles (95 km) west of Palmyra. Al-Qaryatain's symbol of coexistence: IS jihadists devastated the Mar Elian monastery, desecrated graves, bulldozed the saint's tomb Some 270 Christians were abducted by IS soon after the jihadists captured the town. Some sheltered in the 1,500-year-old Mar Elian (St Julian) monastery, which IS later bulldozed. The shrine and tomb of Mar Elian, who had been venerated by Christians and Muslims, were also bulldozed. After the town was liberated, the shrine of Mar Elian was found to have been bulldozed. The saint's relics have been recovered and moved to a different church. The kidnapped Christians were taken around 55 miles into the desert and held in an underground prison for 25 days before being released. The prior at the monastery, Syrian Rev. Jacques Mourad, was held captive by IS for five months. Many Syrian Christians and other minorities had flocked to Al-Qaryatain and nearby villages as IS seized control of towns and villages in the northern province of Aleppo. Church sources said that around 1,500 had managed to flee Al-Qaryatain while the jihadists were fighting the government troops. Situated between Damascus and the ancient city of Palmyra, the World Heritage Site most recently recaptured from IS in March 2017, Al-Qaryatain would have been a key vantage point for an attempt to take over Damascus.
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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Trump decertifies Iran nuclear deal, announces new crackdown
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Friday, October 13, 2017
President Trump said Friday he’s decertifying the Iranian nuclear deal forged under the Obama administration, but stopped short of ending the international agreement, instead giving Congress 60 days to take a tougher approach toward Tehran’s lawless behavior. In an address from the White House, the president also said he’s directing the Treasury Department to sanction Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps over its support of terrorism in the Middle East, calling it a “long overdue step.” “We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear breakout,” Mr. Trump said. “Iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal.” Mr. Trump, who has called the 2015 agreement signed by President Obama a “horrible” deal and threatened to rip it up, instead decided reluctantly to try to beef up the restrictions on Tehran by going to Congress. But the president held open the option of terminating the agreement altogether. “I may very well do that. I like a two-step process much better,” the president told reporters later. His action will have no immediate impact on the six-nation agreement that calls for Iran to submit to international nuclear inspectors in exchange for lifting of economic sanctions. “This is purely an internal domestic decision,” said Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson. Mr. Tillerson said Mr. Trump faced a choice of walking away from the international accord or trying to strengthen it through unilateral domestic action. “He’s saying we’ll try,” Mr. Tillerson said. Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kerman called Mr. Trump’s move ridiculous and said it “revealed the true image of America across the world.” “The US has always tried to bring the Islamic Republic to its knee throughout the history and the Iranian nation would never forget the their animosity,” he said during a speech Friday in Tehran, state-run media outlet Fars news reported. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini reportedly spoke with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shortly after Mr. Trump’s announcement. The discussions, according to Iranian media outlets, were focused on alternatives to preserve the nuclear deal, without U.S. participation. The leaders of Germany, the United Kingdom and France said in a statement that they “are concerned by the possible implications” of Mr. Trump’s action. “We stand committed to the [nuclear deal] and its full implementation by all sides,” they said in a statement. “The nuclear deal was the culmination of 13 years of diplomacy and was a major step towards ensuring that Iran’s nuclear program is not diverted for military purposes.” The president also told reporters that European leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May are concerned about his action because European firms are doing more business with Iran since sanctions were lifted. “They would love me to stay in, only for one reason — look at the kind of money that’s being spent,” the president said. “Iran is spending money in various countries. Emanuel [Macron] called up and he talked to me. I said ‘Look, Emmanuel, they just gave [automaker] Renault a lot of money. Take their money, enjoy yourself.’ But we’ll see what happens. Iran has to behave much differently.” In his address, Mr. Trump reminded Americans of Iran’s involvement in some of the most tragic and humiliating episodes for the U.S. on the world stage, beginning with militants’ seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the holding of dozens of American hostages there for 444 days. He went on to list bombings by Iranian-backed terrorists of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, of a Marine barracks in Lebanon, and other attacks against Americans in Saudi Arabia and in east Africa. Mr. Trump also criticized the Obama administration for agreeing to lift economic sanctions as part of the deal in 2015 “just before what would have been the total collapse of the Iranian regime.” The president said wants Congress to strengthen enforcement of the deal to prevent Iran from developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, and “to make all restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activity permanent under U.S. law.” Former Obama national security council aide Ben Rhodes said Mr. Trump’s move is “provoking crisis.” “Trump is demanding that allies and Congress go along with him in violating the Iran Deal at a time when Iran is complying,” Mr. Rhodes said on Twitter. “Hard to overstate how irresponsible it is for Trump to risk blowing up Iran Deal by demanding rest of world justify his campaign rhetoric.” Noting European Union opposition to the president’s move, Mr. Rhodes said, “He is accomplishing nothing except isolating the U.S. and fueling Iranian hardliners.” Jason Rezaian, a journalist who was imprisoned by Iran before being released last year, expressed concern for several Americans still being held unjustly by Tehran. “I hope I’m wrong, but it looks to me as though Americans being held hostage in #Iran were just abandoned by @realDonaldTrump,” he tweeted. Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican and a vocal critic of the Iran deal, said he and Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker of Tennessee have crafted legislation with the White House to address the president’s concerns. “Lawmakers need to do now what we couldn’t do two years ago: unite around an Iran strategy that truly stops Iran’s nuclear weapons program and empowers the United States and our allies to combat the full spectrum of Iran’s imperial aggression,” Mr. Cotton said. “The legislation Senator Corker and I have been working on with the administration will address the major flaws in the original Iran deal: the sunset clauses, the weak inspections regime, and the failure to restrict Iran’s development of advanced centrifuges. And it will create time and leverage for firm diplomacy — together with our allies — to work and neutralize the threat of a nuclear Iran permanently.” Rep. Eliot L. Engel of New York, ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the president’s plan “doesn’t make sense” because it doesn’t strengthen the international agreement. “Negotiating additional terms to the nuclear deal requires a coalition of international partners, not unilateral congressional action,” Mr. Engel said. “Failing to certify the deal is a risky gamble. It’s the first step toward withdrawing from the agreement keeping Iran from building the bomb.” Mr. Trump was highly critical of the Obama administration’s negotiations, saying President Obama allowed Iran to receive a huge cash infusion of more than $100 billion to help fund terrorist activities. He even mentioned the oft-criticized decision to fly crates of cash to Tehran as the deal was sealed. “I wonder where all that money went,” Mr. Trump said sarcastically. He added, “The deal allows Iran to continue developing certain elements of its nuclear program. What is the purpose of a deal that at best, only delays Iran’s nuclear capabilities for a short period of time?” Mr. Tillerson said the administration considers the nuclear deal “weak” because it doesn’t address Iran’s support of terrorism, and its provisions against Tehran working on nuclear weapons phase out within 15 years. The new strategy for Iran approved by the president “is the culmination of nine months of deliberation with Congress and our allies on how to best protect American security,” according to the White House. The plan focuses on “neutralizing the government of Iran’s destabilizing influence and constraining its aggression, particularly its support for terrorism and militants,” the White House said. “We will revitalize our traditional alliances and regional partnerships as bulwarks against Iranian subversion and restore a more stable balance of power in the region,” stated a fact sheet from the administration. “We will work to deny the Iranian regime — and especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — funding for its malign activities, and oppose IRGC activities that extort the wealth of the Iranian people. We will counter threats to the United States and our allies from ballistic missiles and other asymmetric weapons.” Russia, which is a party to the international accord, said Friday that abandoning the deal could “seriously aggravate the situation.” Mr. Trump’s speech from the White House will outline specific faults he finds in the pact but will also focus on an array of Iran’s troubling non-nuclear activities, four officials and advisers said. Those include Tehran’s ballistic missile program, support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and other groups that destabilize the region, including in Yemen. Under U.S. law, Mr. Trump faces a Sunday deadline to notify Congress whether Iran is complying with the accord that was negotiated over 18 months by the Obama administration and determine if it remains a national security priority. Although he will allow that Iran is living up to the letter of the agreement, he will make the case that the deal is fatally flawed and that its non-nuclear behavior violates the spirit of the regional stability it was intended to encourage, the officials and advisers said. Mr. Tillerson said that Mr. Trump will not call for a re-imposition of nuclear sanctions on Tehran. He will instead urge lawmakers to codify tough new requirements for Tehran to continue to benefit from the sanctions relief that it won in exchange for curbing its atomic program. And he’ll announce his long-anticipated intent to impose sanctions on portions of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps by designating them terrorist organization under an existing executive order, according to the officials and advisers. “The reckless behavior of the Iranian regime, and the IRGC in particular, poses one of the most dangerous threats to the interests of the United States and to regional stability,” the White House said in a statement released ahead of the speech. The statement, which did not reveal Trump’s decision, denounced the Obama administration for its “myopic focus on Iran’s nuclear program to the exclusion of the regime’s many other malign activities” and said the same “mistakes” would not be repeated. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, welcomed Mr. Trump’s new policy. “Designation of the IRGC, the main instrument of suppression, export of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as a terrorist entity is a long overdue, necessary step towards establishment of peace,” she said. She said previous U.S. administrations’ policies ignored human-rights violations in Iran and the regime’s “deadly meddling” in the region. “The ultimate solution is the overthrow of the regime and establishment of freedom and democracy in Iran by the Iranian people and resistance,” she said. “For years, a policy of appeasement has acted as the main impediment to change in Iran. It is time that the international community recognizes the aspirations of the Iranian people and stands with the people of Iran and their legitimate right for regime change.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/13/trump-decertifies-iran-nuclear-deal-announces-new-/
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Make my word first place in your life, for without a thorough knowledge of my word the enemy will deceive you and there will be a falling away, for many false things are being taught today, a new gospel which is not a gospel at all, but know my word, for you are responsible to know my word. etc
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The Real Gospel
By Hal Lindsey
People love to add their own thoughts to the end of viral emails. Those thoughts can undermine the message of the original writer. One such email started going around several years ago — at least as far back as 2007. In addition to its life as an email, it has been featured in several devotional books and websites. Somewhere along the way, someone tacked on the phrase, “That's the whole Gospel message, simply stated.” One book, written by a Baptist minister, concluded with a slight variation — “That is the whole Gospel Message, simply told.” It’s the story of an old man whose good attitude causes a young thug to change his ways. It’s inspirational. But many of the people putting it on their websites, in their books, and in their emails, include the line saying it is the “whole Gospel message, simply stated.” That’s quite an astounding claim for a story that never mentions Jesus, never speaks of God, and doesn’t mention the cross. I have no problem with inspirational stories. But when someone calls it “the whole Gospel Message, simply told,” it concerns me deeply. It reminded me of something we ran on The Hal Lindsey Report in February of 2016. I told about Mother Teresa’s decades-long battle with a dark and unrelenting depression, and what I think helped cause it. Here is a portion of that story. Mother Teresa is officially known as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.” She will soon be given the title, “Saint.” Few people in history did good deeds with more fervor than this woman. She deserved the Nobel Peace Prize and the other honors she received, but her life is also a picture of tragedy. After she died, we learned that the harder Mother Teresa worked, the emptier she felt. She wrote, “Where is my faith? Even deep down… there is nothing but emptiness and darkness.… If there be God — please forgive me. When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul.” Her confessor suggested that she write a letter to God. So, to the One who promised never to leave us nor forsake us, she wrote, “Lord, my God, who am I that You should forsake me?” Later she wrote, “I have no Faith.” This wasn’t simply a rough patch. This was her life for 50 years. At the time of Pope Pius XII’s death in 1958, she felt a renewed spark of faith. But it lasted only a few weeks. Soon she returned to what she called, “the long darkness.” The torment, emptiness, pain, and guilt she expressed in her letters are enough to make any feeling person want to weep for her. I don’t point these things out to condemn her, but because we can learn from her sorrow. Paul and Silas sat in prison, their backs ripped apart by flogging, their wounds not cleansed and still bleeding. It was one of those times that Paul would later describe with the phrase, “in stripes above measure.” (2 Corinthians 11:23 KJV) Yet in that moment of pain, these men sang joyful praise in voices loud enough to be heard by the whole prison. Acts 16:25 says, “But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.” (NASB) God then opened the prison doors with an earthquake. To me, the singing is an even greater miracle than the earthquake. That’s what God wants for each of us. He allows us to go through times of spiritual gloom, but He doesn’t want us to live there. He wants us to live in His joy. Why was Mother Teresa so miserable and Paul so joyous? I think the key to Mother Teresa’s misery can be found in something she said in 1989 to a group of political and business leaders gathered to honor her at Blair House in Washington. (At this point, I showed a video clip of her speaking at that event. She said, “We read in the Gospel… ‘Whatever you do to the least, my brethren, you did it to.…” Then she held up her hand and pointed to a finger for each word as she continued. “‘You did it to Me.’ Five fingers. The whole Gospel is in five fingers.”) As great as that verse is, it is not “the whole Gospel.” That verse exposes our hypocrisy when we say we love Jesus, but don’t care for the people He died to save. To say that we find in that verse “the whole Gospel” misses the point of the Gospel. It misses Christ’s sacrifice of Himself on the cross for our sins. To say that’s “the whole Gospel” negates the cross by making salvation something we earn — not something Jesus earned for us. Increasing numbers of people today are falling into the trap of the Social Gospel — of believing that we are saved by our works as opposed to salvation by the work of Christ on our behalf. Mother Teresa could not earn God’s pleasure no matter how hard she worked. No wonder she was miserable. We must have confidence in the atoning work of Christ, or we will be miserable, too. Paul and Silas understood the Source of their salvation. In Romans 11, Paul wrote, “Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.” (Romans 11:5-6 NKJV) We’re either saved by grace or works. It cannot be both. If you make it both, then, according to God’s word, “it is no longer grace.” And without grace, it is all up to you, and you can expect to be miserable. The real Gospel is infinitely greater than the social gospel. Romans 1:16 says, “The gospel of Christ… is the power of God unto salvation.”
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-10-12-2017/
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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KVERT/Volcano Observatory Notification to Aviation
20171012/2355Z
Sheveluch (CAVW #300270) orange KVERT 2017-248 N 56 deg 38 min E 161 deg 18 min
Kamchatka, Russia 10768.24 ft (3283 m), the dome elevation ~8200 ft (2500 m)
According to satellite data by KVERT, a plume of resuspended ash blowing from the vicinity of the volcano area drift for about 105 km to the east from the volcano. Explosive-extrusive eruption of the volcano continues. Ash explosions up to 32,800-49,200 ft (10-15 km) a.s.l. could occur at any time. Ongoing activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft. 6560 ft (2000 m) AMSL Time and method of ash plume/cloud height determination: 20171012/2320Z – Himawari-8 Distance of ash plume/cloud of the volcano: 65 mi (105 km)
Direction of drift of ash plume/cloud of the volcano: E / azimuth 97 deg
Time and method of ash plume/cloud determination: 20171012/2320Z – Himawari-8
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/index_eng.php
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Shinmoedake volcano starts erupting after 6 years of quiescence, Japan
Posted by TW on October 11, 2017 in categories
Following increased seismic activity detected since September 23, 2017, Shinmoedake volcano (Kirishimayama) in Kyushu, Japan started erupting at 20:34 UTC on October 10, 2017, coating nearby cities and towns in a thin layer of ash. The last eruption of this volcano occurred on September 7, 2011. Increase in the number of volcanic earthquakes under the volcano was first detected on September 23, 2017. It further increased on October 4, prompting JMA to conduct a field survey on October 5 when they observed fumarolic activity and weak thermal anomalies. At 23:55 JST that day, JMA raised the alert level from 1 to 2, restricting entry to areas near the crater. Shinmoedake started erupting for the first time in six years at 20:34 UTC on October 10 (05:34 JST, October 11), prompting JMA to raise the volcanic alert level to 3. This is the first time this volcano is on Alert Level 3 since October 2013. Alert Level 3 means residents and tourists are not allowed to approach the mountain within 2 km (1.2 miles) due to the possibility of flying rocks and pyroclastic flows. JMA said that the plume from the eruption is rising 300 m (984 feet) above the crater. This is 2000 m (6 561 feet) above sea level. A small amount of ash fell in three cities and the town of Takaharu in Miyazaki, JMA added. Kyodo reported that some people in Takaharu walked while holding an umbrella as volcanic ash fell on roads. Yoshinari Imanishi, 66, a senior official of a local tourism association, expressed concern about the possible negative impact from the eruption, saying, "We were hit by accommodation cancellations six years ago. I hope (the eruption) will not affect the autumn outing season." According to local police, there are no reports of injuries or damage. Geological summary Kirishimayama is a large group of more than 20 Quaternary volcanoes located north of Kagoshima Bay. The late-Pleistocene to Holocene dominantly andesitic group consists of stratovolcanoes, pyroclastic cones, maars, and underlying shield volcanoes located over an area of 20 x 30 km (12.4 - 18.6 miles). The larger stratovolcanoes are scattered throughout the field, with the centrally located, 1700-m-high (5 577 feet) Karakunidake being the highest. Onamiike and Miike, the two largest maars, are located SW of Karakunidake and at its far eastern end, respectively. Holocene eruptions have been concentrated along an E-W line of vents from Miike to Ohachi, and at Shinmoedake to the NE. Frequent small-to-moderate explosive eruptions have been recorded since the 8th century. (GVP)
https://watchers.news/2017/10/11/shinmoedake-volcano-eruption-japan/
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Fears that La Palma volcano could erupt sparking MEGA TSUNAMI that will engulf Britain
Experts are concerned about the volcano after 40 tremors in just 48 hours at the popular tourist hotspot in the Canary Islands
Kara O'Neill 13:27, 11 OCT 2017
Experts are fearful that a volcano in La Palma could be about to erupt after 40 tremors in just 48 hours at the popular tourist hotspot. There are concerns that if the volcano blows, it could spark a mega tsunami which would affect Britain, as well as Spain and the US' east coast. La Palma, in the Canary Islands, has been rocked by dozens of small tremors measuring between 1.5 and 2.7 on the Richter scale. And it could well be a sign that the active volcano Cumbre Vieja could be set to cause devastation. Panic has spread among the 86,000 residents on the island after the largest tremor hit on Saturday afternoon, approximately 17.4 miles below ground. It measured 2.7 on the Richter scale, and was followed almost exactly 24 hours later by a magnitude 2.6 tremor, before a third of 2.1 hit on Monday at midnight. Maria José Blanco, director of the National Geographic Institute on the island, said a similar seismic 'swarm' has never been recorded to this date on La Palma. Despite the frequency of tremors, residents and tourists staying on the island did not feel the earthquakes - due to their depth underground. The volcano's last two eruptions occurred in 1949 and 1971, a gap of just 22 years. But this doesn't mean another eruption is due, as previous to these two dates, the last historical eruption occurred in 1712. If it was to blow, Cumbre Vieja could cause a mega tsunami . Some experts believe the volcano is in the initial stages of failure, meaning a big enough eruption could cause a massive landslide to enter the Atlantic Ocean. It could result in waves as high as 600m, travelling at around 450mph meaning the African coast would be submerged within an hour, and the southern coastlines of the British Isles in just three and a half hours.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/fears-la-palma-super-volcano-11323660
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Report: Barge rates skyrocket amid Ohio, Mississippi river closures
Large crop harvests this season, along with limited barge space due to portions of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers being closed, has sent spot rates for barge transportation through the roof in October, according to a report from The Farm Journal.
By Elizabeth Landrum |Friday, October 06, 2017
Spot rates for barges are skyrocketing as portions of the Ohio River into the Mississippi River are closed due to low water levels from dry weather, preventing harvested grain from being shipped, according to a report from agricultural industry news outlet The Farm Journal. Thanks to what may end up being the third largest corn crop ever, farmers have had to reevaluate their harvest early on in the season. According to The Farm Journal, company officials on Archer Daniels Midland’s (ADM) weekly conference call recap last week said low water levels from dry weather the past six to eight weeks is causing issues on the Illinois, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, causing freight rates to rise. Just last week, spot rates for export grain increased 27 percent to 50 percent compared to the week before, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. The rate increases are expected to rise through October as there is no rain in the forecast, USDA said. According to The Farm Journal, Karl Setzer of MaxYield Grain said the issues along the rivers mean farmers are better off financially to hold on to grain for a while, as opposed to selling it at harvest. “There’s a 500 percent carry in the market. That means the river market is paying merchandisers 80 cents a bushel to hold corn from now until December, resulting better basis for farmers,” he said. Furthermore, grain buyers said that record yields in the Southern U.S. have increased seasonal demand for barges on the Lower-Mississippi, causing a backlog of corn and soybeans along the Upper- and Mid-Mississippi pools. While U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says they aren’t seeing any major backups in barge traffic due to low river levels around St. Louis, the agency is currently dredging near Thebes, Illinois to clear out high spots, said The Farm Journal. Slowdowns in that area are to be expected, but vessels are still allowed to transit during daylight hours. One additional factor in the river closures is the emergencies outages at Locks and Dams 52 and 53, Deb Calhoun, senior vice president of Waterways Council, Inc., told The Farm Journal. “The locks and dams on the system were built during The New Deal in the 1930s and earlier, and require recapitalization to be able to continue to allow shippers the most cost-competitive way to get their goods to the export market and for use domestically,” she said. “The Trump administration has suggested a $1 trillion initiative ahead for the nation’s ailing infrastructure and waterways’ locks and dams must be included in that plan.” Both locks are scheduled to be replaced by the Olmstead Lock and Dam in 2018. However, recent rhetoric from Trump has suggested that his supposed $1 trillion federal infrastructure spending plan will no longer be funded by public-private partnerships (P3s), which could result in high costs for states and localities.
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A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up in Antarctica
“We’re still trying to figure out what’s going on.”
Kate Lunau Oct 10 2017, 12:55pm
A hole as large as Lake Superior or the state of Maine has opened up in Antarctica, and scientists aren't sure why it's there. The gigantic, mysterious hole "is quite remarkable," atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, told me over the phone. "It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice." Areas of open water surrounded by sea ice, such as this one, are known as polynias. They form in coastal regions of Antarctica, Moore told me. What's strange here, though, is that this polynia is "deep in the ice pack," he said, and must have formed through other processes that aren't understood. "This is hundreds of kilometres from the ice edge. If we didn't have a satellite, we wouldn't know it was there." (It measured 80,000 k㎡ at its peak.) A polynia was observed in the same location, in Antarctica's Weddell Sea, in the 1970s, according to Moore, who's been working with the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modelling (SOCCOM) group, based at Princeton University, to analyze what's going on. Back then, scientists' observation tools weren't nearly as good, so that hole remained largely unstudied. Then it went away for four decades, until last year, when it reopened for a few weeks. Now it's back again. "This is now the second year in a row it's opened after 40 years of not being there," Moore said. (It opened around September 9.) "We're still trying to figure out what's going on." Read More: Deep-Diving Robots will Plunge 16,000 Feet to Monitor the Ocean Abyss It's tempting to blame this strange hole on climate change, which is reshaping so much of the world, including Antarctica. But Moore said that's "premature." Scientists can say with certainty, though, that the polynia will have a wider impact on the oceans. "Once the sea ice melts back, you have this huge temperature contrast between the ocean and the atmosphere," Moore explained. "It can start driving convection." Denser, colder water sinks to the bottom of the ocean, while warmer water comes to the surface, "which can keep the polynia open once it starts," he said. Using observations from satellites and deep sea robots, Moore and his collaborators are working on as-yet-unpublished research that aims to answer some of these questions. "Compared to 40 years ago, the amount of data we have is amazing," he said. Antarctica is undergoing massive changes right now, and figuring out why a gaping hole could suddenly open up will be key to understanding larger systems at play.
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Pedophilia Network of Cops Busted Raping and Filming Cadets to Make Child Porn
A pedophile network has recently been uncovered involving police officers and cadets in the Explorers program which connects teens who want to be police officers with cops.
By Jack Burns - October 7, 2017
Louisville, KY — Officers Kenneth Betts and Brandon Wood, formerly with the Louisville Police Department, may have been able to fly under the radar of the mainstream media until now. But with recent court document revelations presented in court this week, their alleged pedophilia practices have come to the surface and even captured on video. And, once again, the crimes involve a police cadet program and accused pedophile cops. The two police officers allegedly raped a teenage boy, both in their car and in a residence, and filmed the crime for the purposes of producing pornography. Betts and Wood were police officer mentors in the Youth Explorer Program for kids who want to one day become law enforcement officers. It was inside the mentorship program that they are accused of finding their victims. Woods was fired in April after serving 8 years in the police department. Betts resigned in 2014 following an investigation he’d had improper contact with a teenage girl. Both former Louisville officers were indicted in April and entered “not guilty” pleas. Their trials are underway. Because their victims are minors, both the identities of the children, as well as their parents, are being withheld for privacy reasons. A female victim’s mother made a statement to police in the fall of 2016 that Lt. Curtis Flaherty had put pressure on the family not to come forward with charges. According to the Courier-Journal, Flaherty was, “commander of both the Explorer program and the Public Integrity Unit,” in 2013. As such he was not only responsible for the youth discovery program but he also led the department which, “investigates possible criminal acts by department members.” So when the allegations of impropriety surfaced, a conflict of interest arose and Flaherty took the side of the accused police officer and allegedly encouraged the family to keep quiet. Flaherty retired from the Louisville PD earlier this year. He’s now lawyered up and his attorney, Lee Sitlinger, claims the mother’s recollections were either taken out of context or misinterpreted. Attorney David Yates represents five alleged victims. He told reporters the mother’s claims are in line with his own discoveries and added the Flaherty’s interference; underscores what I have been saying for some time – that there were police officers who used their trust and authority to abuse minor victims…They were protected and assisted in a continuing cover-up through their supervisor and this was allowed to go on for way too long. The mother gave a nearly hour-long videotaped interview with detectives. She said her daughter met the accused pedophile cops in 2013 at a week-long Explorer camp at Campbellsville University. There, the two cops targeted the young girl who was 15 at the time. She said Betts started sexting her daughter while she was 15, and after she turned 16, he began propositioning her for sex. She said she told another officer and an internal investigation progressed. According to the Courier-Journal, that’s when she said Flaherty stepped in and put a stop to it. Several officers subsequently interviewed her and took the daughter’s cell phone for further investigation. But she said the Explorer supervisor called her and told her to keep quiet, according to the report. She told investigators that when Betts learned her daughter had turned 16, he began contacting her to have a sexual relationship. The mother said a sergeant in internal affairs assured her that the investigation was important and that it was “on the top of the list on the chief’s desk.” But she said she was later told Betts had been “let go” and “there was never any closure regarding this case.” That’s when Betts apparently quietly resigned. Now, in 2017, accusations are being leveled against the Chief of Police Steve Conrad and the city of a cover-up. Mayor Greg Fischer suspended the program in March in an apparent response to the negative publicity the two officers brought to the department. Fischer and Metro Council members contacted the FBI which is also conducting its own investigation. Just as the investigation into alleged sex scandals involving teenage explorers and Louisville police officers was progressing, the police union stepped in and filed a lawsuit to prevent at least three other officers from testifying in the case. The River City Fraternal Order of Police (RCFOP) filed a lawsuit mid-August to prevent the officers from incriminating themselves in the involuntary interviews with a private attorney hired at the request of the mayor’s office. Officers Matthew Gelhausen, Joseff Keeling and Paul Paris were protected from being forced to give a deposition to the lawyer as a result of the lawsuit filed by their union. It is still unclear what the officers knew or how they were involved in the alleged abuses, cover-up, and/or quiet resignation of Betts. Betts and Woods were reported to be best friends and were good friends with Flaherty, their accused protector. According to many former explorers, Woods would often hang out with the young boys outside of the program and take them on camping trips. His behavior as a mentor in the program was also questionable as he reportedly got drunk on at least one occasion and leaned against the young men. In October of 2016, when allegations surfaced Woods raped a young teenage boy, he was stripped of his policing powers following an investigation by Flaherty’s Public Integrity Unit. It wasn’t until Betts was indicted that Woods was fired by Conrad in April. As a result of the ongoing investigation, a fourth officer was placed on reassignment following an allegation from a female victim (who was once an explorer and is now an adult) she was also abused. Officer Brad Schuhmann stands accused by the victim and is the latest officer to be officially embroiled in the sex scandal involving pedophile cops and teens in the Explorer program. The Explorer program is an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America and, according to a Courier-Journal investigation going all the way back to 1974, has been at the center of sex scandal controversies involving cops and teenage cadets. As TFTP has reported, a vast pedophilia network is at work in the United States involving some of the most trusted members of society. As a result, few are ever held accountable for their actions and crimes against children. Using news databases, court records and other sources the Courier-Journal concluded: ► The Boy Scouts of America affiliate that runs the Explorer program has let police departments police themselves and failed to adopt some safeguards.
► Some department chiefs have ignored warning signs and minimized allegations.
► Ride-alongs in police cruisers have allowed law enforcement advisers to groom and abuse victims in one-on-one settings.
► Advisers have used their positions to exploit vulnerable teens who look up to them as mentors.
► Many offenders received only slight punishments, in part because of questions about whether victims had consented.
► Victims say their trust was violated and their dreams of law enforcement careers shattered.
In April, when residents of Rolling Hills learned their “Code Enforcement” official had been charged with raping a teenage boy, they demanded he be fired. He was. Both Betts and Woods are facing decades in prison for charges of sexual abuse, and sodomy against one of the teenage cadets they were sworn to protect. The criminal charges were filed against the two officers after the male victim known as “N.C.” filed a civil suit in March against the two men and Flaherty. The suit alleged the two officers began having sex with N.C. while he was 17 and continued doing so until he was 19 and that those sex acts were filmed for the purposes of creating pornography. We at TFTP call on anyone and everyone who has ever been abused by any police officer within the Louisville Police Department to come forward with their story. It is the age of reckoning and the pedophile network of abusers and protectors needs to be broken. The RCFOP should be ashamed of itself. Instead of demanding that its officers report crimes to their superiors, by filing a lawsuit preventing officers from testifying, they have given the public the impression those potential crimes should remain hidden.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/uncovered-pedophilia-network-involving-cops-cadeta/
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An alarming development as the Bubonic Plague is now confirmed in the Seychelles while hundreds of new cases suspected in Madagascar
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
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As the outbreak of the plague in Madagascar continues to evolve at a pace with 230 new suspected cases including 17 deaths an alarming development has seen the disease arrive in the Seychelles Health officials in Seychelles have confirmed that 3 people have tested positive for the Bubonic Plague. A Seychellois basketball coach died from the disease late last month in a hospital in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, according to Today in Seychelles, where 42 people have died from the "Black Death." The coach, Alix Allisop, was assisting the Seychelles men's reigning champion of the Beau Vallon Heat in Madagascar during the Indian Ocean Club Championship. The government of Madagascar over the weekend confirmed that the death of Allisop was due to the pneumonic plague. The other members of the Seychellois basketball delegation, who were in close contact with Allisop, have been under observation since they returned to the country, Gedeon said. They are now at the military academy at Perseverance, a reclaimed island on the outskirts of Victoria. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonic plague, or lung-based plague, is the most virulent form and can trigger severe epidemics through person-to-person contact via droplets in the air, as well as flea bites from infected mammals. The incubation period can be as short as 24 hours. According to the Seychelles News Agency, the Seychelles' Ministry of Health on Wednesday advised all airlines and travel agents to discourage people from travelling to Madagascar due to the plague outbreak. Additional health measures at Seychelles' main airport have also been put in place. Jude Gedeon, Seychelles' public health commissioner, said that officials have put in place walk-through and temperature scanners at the international airport to detect cases. A form is also being given to disembarked passengers to state if they have any symptoms similar to those brought on by the plague.
Additionally, as a precaution, all schools in Seychelles are closed for the next 6 days as it is not yet confirmed that contact was made with any of the teachers. Home Posted by Gary Walton at 1:37 pm
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/10/an-alarming-development-as-bubonic.html
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It’s Over for Sears Canada
by Wolf Richter • Oct 10, 2017 •
Brick and mortar meltdown.
Sears Canada hired the same leading bankruptcy advisory firm on June 12 that had represented Target Canada in its insolvency proceedings. Ten days later, it filed for bankruptcy protection to restructure its capital and its operations, shutter dozens of its 225 stores and lay off nearly 3,000 employees, but planned to continue operating. Today it said that the restructuring efforts failed, and that it would seek court approval to liquidate, shutting all its remaining stores and laying off its remaining 12,000 employees. Retailers are notoriously difficult to restructure. Once they’re this deep in trouble, after years of losses, they own few assets and are burdened with debts, as everything has been sold or pledged to creditors. Their suppliers, who’ve been burned too many times, are getting skittish. Lenders are getting desperate. And acquirers can be impossible to find. Most retailer bankruptcies start out as restructurings but end as liquidations. To stay alive while losing money for years, Sears Canada has sold off most of its real estate holdings, and the most valuable assets are already gone. What’s left are C$1.1 billion ($880 million) in liabilities. “The company deeply regrets this pending outcome and the resulting loss of jobs and store closures,” the company said in the statement. Pending court approval to begin the liquidation process, Sears Canada said that it would kick off liquidation sales at its stores as soon as October 19 and continue through the holiday selling period. In the bankruptcy filing in June, the company spoke of its “reinvention” and its “brand reinvention,” how it “rebooted its customer experience and service standards,” and how its “newly designed site built in-house by a new technology team” and some other factors would make this restructuring work. Today it said in a letter to employees that the liquidation is “a reflection on the state of the retail market today.” Sears Canada was partially spun off in 2012 from similarly struggling Sears Holdings in the US, which still holds a 12% stake, and whose CEO Eddie Lampert — a hedge fund manager — owns a 45% stake in part via his hedge fund, ESL Investments. In June, after it was granted court protection, the company received the court’s permission to try to find a buyer. Executive chairman Brandon Stranzl, backed by private equity firm Blackstone Group, tried to put together an offer, pledging to keep the company operating. But Sears Canada said today that “following exhaustive efforts, no viable transaction for the Company to continue as a going concern was received.” This confirmed weeks of speculation that those efforts were doomed. On October 4, Sears Canada asked the court for, and obtained, an extension of its creditor protection until November. 7. During the hearing, the lawyer for the retailer’s court-appointed monitor, FTI Consulting Canada, told the court that the company was assessing a revised bid by Stranzl, but was running out of time and money to decide. CBC News: A lawyer for the lenders argued that if a proposal to buy the business as a going concern does not materialize, it is key to liquidate before the Christmas season is over to maximize the value the process can attain. Hence the rush by the creditors to get the liquidation started. Then there are the pension obligations for its 6,000 retirees and 12,000 beneficiaries. The plan has a deficit of C$266.8 million. A motion was filed in August to wind up the plan. It would require the company to pay the full C$266.8 million to the plan, which the company doesn’t have. The motion adds: The wind up also gives rise to a payment into the plan by the Ontario Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund (“PBGF”) that would help offset the underfunding in the plan and minimize pension benefit reductions. The motion has been postponed until at least November 30. And that’s how the once largest retailer in Canada becomes another entity in the brick-and-mortar retail meltdown, its remains getting picked through in bankruptcy court. Liquidation too for Toys “R” Us? The company filed for bankruptcy in the US and Canada to restructure, but it can’t solve what’s killing it. Read… The Fate of Toys “R” Us after Bankruptcy?
https://wolfstreet.com/2017/10/10/sears-canada-to-liquidate-close-all-stores-lay-off-12000/
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A boiling river of WINE flows through devastated California wine country as residents return to apocalyptic scenes after wildfires kill 21- while 5,000 flee another inferno in the home of Disneyland
Fires across California have killed 21 people in the north and forced 20,000 people to evacuate their homes
Nearly 150 people are still unaccounted for and some 2,000 buildings have been destroyed by the blazes
A series of fires that flared up north of San Francisco on Sunday are among the deadliest in the state's history
In Southern California, most evacuation orders were lifted after a fire destroyed 14 buildings, mostly homes
A monster Canyon 2 blaze cast an orange glow over the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim late Tuesday night
By Ruth Styles In Anaheim Hills, California, For Dailymail.com and Kelly Mclaughlin For Mailonline Published: 06:58 EDT, 11 October 2017 | Updated: 19:27 EDT, 11 October 2017
Wineries across California's Napa Valley are among the thousands of properties that have been destroyed by fierce wildfires ravaging the state this week. Paradise Ridge Winery, situated on a hill overlooking Santa Rosa, is one of the many hit by fires that broke out Sunday, with its barrels charred and its wine flowing like a river under smoldered debris. Fires across California have killed 21 people so far in the north and forced 20,000 people across the state to evacuate their homes. Nearly 150 people are unaccounted for and some 2,000 buildings have been devoured by the flames. Among the dead are a married couple, aged 100 and 99, who were unable to evacuate in time. A deaf-blind woman is also believed to be among the dead. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Napa, Sonoma, Yuba, Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Nevada and Orange counties and requested a presidential major disaster declaration to help battle at least 18 blazes burning throughout the state. A series of fires that flared up north of San Francisco on Sunday night are among the deadliest in the state's history. In Southern California, most evacuation orders have been lifted as firefighters successfully battle a wildfire that destroyed 14 buildings, most of them homes. Thousands of people in Tustin, Orange and Anaheim were allowed to begin returning home Tuesday evening, a day after the blaze erupted in northern Orange County. Some of the largest of more than a dozen blazes burning over a 200-mile region were in Napa and Sonoma counties, home to dozens of wineries that attract tourists from around the world. They sent smoke as far south as San Francisco, about 60 miles away. Sonoma County said it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones. 'It looks like a bombing run here,' said winemaker Joe Nielsen of Santa Rosa's Donelan Family Wines, speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle. 'Just chimneys and burnt-out cars and cooked trees.' The nightmare continued Tuesday evening for the residents and workers of the postcard-pretty Santa Rosa wine country, which is hugely popular with tourists, as the fires burned on and on. Meanwhile in southern California, a monster Canyon 2 blaze cast an orange glow over the Disneyland theme park late last night, although Police and Fire Department spokesman Sgt Daron Wyatt was keen to reassure tourists that they are in no danger and that the resort is safe. Photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, taken in Anaheim - a city of 350,000 people south of Los Angeles, show destroyed homes, cars caved in and children's toys reduced to melted blobs of plastic. Approximately 7,500 acres have been consumed by the conflagration since early Monday morning, forcing the evacuation of 5,000 homes and putting another 35,000 at risk. Sgt Wyatt, 50, told DailyMail.com that the fire has destroyed 14 homes so far and damaged another 22 – among them six properties on Canyon Heights Drive where these photos were taken. Most of the fire damage is located in the Anaheim Hills, close to the Limestone Canyon Regional Park, where residents said their homes were engulfed within an hour of the first police warning at approximately 10am on Monday. 'About 10am in the morning, I came outside and smelled it and saw the smoke and the flames were coming straight this way at us,' said Cory Murdock, 45, a financial planner who lives with his wife Alison, 40, and their five-year-old twins William and Madison. 'We knew it was coming straight towards us. We tried to warn some of the neighbors and grabbed our stuff pretty quick because we knew what was coming. 'Around five to 10 minutes later, the police came round, telling everybody – you do need to go now. We were just helping everybody, trying to grab as much stuff as we could and got out of here.' Others told of their terror as they battled to escape through clouds of choking black smoke and showers of burning ash particles. Aimee Piazza, 44, a mother-of-two, was at home when the blaze began and said the 40 minutes it took her to escape were some of the most frightening of her life. She told DailyMail.com: 'It really was sheer terror. I've been up here through fires before, I've lived up here all my life, and I've never been through such fires before. 'The smoke and how crazy it was and the panic of everybody trying to get out. I didn't even know if everyone did get out – I didn't even know if my neighbors were OK until now.' Murdock added: 'There was so much ash and there was the smoke - it was just really thick but we couldn't feel the heat from the fire when we left. 'We could see to the end of the street when we left but during the middle of it… I've got ash burned into my backyard, we've lost trees… Everything. So it was just flying everywhere. But we were lucky.' Among those to lose everything was Michelle Homen, 58, whose property sits close to Piazza's own home. Others to lose their residences included parents-of-three Janet and Kevin Shaevitz, 42 and 53 respectively, and Sylvester McBride, 54, and his wife Ann, 51. Neighbors described Homen as 'devastated', adding: 'She's totally devastated but she says she's going to rebuild. 'They're just looking for a place to stay right now.' Police and the American Red Cross have set up evacuation centers across Anaheim, including downtown and at a police substation in the eastern part of the city. Residents living in the evacuation zones have been told not to return to their homes until Wednesday afternoon at the earliest, although some have been allowed to collect essential medication accompanied by a police escort. One who did was Kumari Bharil, 53, who allowed DailyMail.com to accompany her as she returned to her property. The house, which sits on a quiet street overlooking a charred stretch of hillside, stank of smoke but Bharil said she was pleased by the lack of damage, telling DailyMail.com: 'I'm happy with this but I'm hoping to come back home soon.' She added: 'They said I could in here and get my medication. This is such a beautiful area and I really like it. 'I am so amazed at the firefighters and the job they do – I am so grateful for that. I really appreciate everything everybody is doing to protect the property and everything like that.' The mother-of-two, who is staying with her parents nearby, said of the evacuation: 'It happened yesterday morning around 10.30. 'I was at the gym and I couldn't get back into the house. I didn't have anything because I just had my gym clothes and my purse. It was scary, it was very scary. All that smoke and fire.' Like Bharil, many of those evacuated are staying with relations or friends, while others have checked into local hotels. Among them is Rachel Suon, 22, who fled with her mother and her dogs Winnie and Rocky early yesterday morning. 'My dad booked us a hotel in Anaheim close to Disneyland – we stayed there last night,' she told DailyMail.com. 'We left a lot behind. I left some clothes, all the pictures we have, furniture – everything. The fire was very close. 'I actually live on East Manor Ridge Drive and the fire was right down the street on the cul-de-sac area. It was very scary.' Medic Marie Pham, 40, said she had left her ID and credit cards at her home in one of the evacuation zones and is currently unable to work because of their loss. She also told DailyMail.com that she was terrified that her home, which she shares with husband Hien and their children Katelyn, nine, and Christopher, seven, will burn down. Pham said: 'I grabbed everything I could but I'd come from the gym, so I left my ID [at home] and my credit cards in the house. 'I didn't grab my husband's meds, so now he's trying to go back there to get them. It was very frightening because it got very close. 'The next two blocks up, the houses burned down, their cars melted. We were really close by the same spot. She added: 'I'm kind of nervous – I hope it stops before it gets to our house.' The Anaheim Police Department has now lifted some of the evacuation orders in place, although much of the eastern part of the city remains shut down. According to Sgt. Wyatt, resources are currently being focused on the eastern side of the fire with helicopters dropping water and planes pouring retardant in a bid to contain the blaze. He added: 'Several thousand residents have been displaced and we understand their frustration and we want to get them back into their homes as soon as possible. 'But our focus is the preservation of life and making sure it's safe to do so. Until then, our advice is always that we've made an evacuation order for a reason. Our advice is always to leave.'
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Alex Jones: Multiple Shooters In Vegas, HIV Spreading Is Legalized In California (Full Show)
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Something Very Big and Very Evil Is About to Happen
By Dave Hodges
Where is the Vegas massacre headed? This is not a stand alone event. The event has purpose and it is a means to an end. I believe I have that answer because of my past affiliations and I have some small ability to connect the dots. The Vegas shooting is just the very beginning. Only four months after the birth of this website, I ran one of the biggest stories I had ever covered. At that time, I had been friends with a FEMA employee for almost 15 years. As I recounted the following story, as on one night, he and his wife showed up at my office and told me they were bugging out witin 60 days and that things were about to get really ugly in America. Ex-FEMA Relocations Almost five years ago, I was told by a close friend who happened to be an Ex-FEMA counter-bioterrorism operative, that he was bugging out in order to get out of harms way. He was very clear on one point, when Americans begin to see the massively shifting of military assets as well as a UN troops on American soil, it is a clear sign that things are about to happen. What he then told me was bone-chilling. To repeat what he had previously reported, he stated (late 2012) that there is a rising tide of populism in this country. And that if the elite could not stem the tide of populism, which was blocking the final establishment of the New World Order, they would embark on a plan to exterminate as many Americans as possible and thereby, destroy the country. He said what we all know, that America, with its Constitution and 300 million hand guns, is the last real obstacle to the establishment of a New World Order. This message was telling, about stemming the tide of populims, because it was years ahead of Trump and the awakening of the American people. It was more than 3 years ahead of anyone thinking that Donald Trump would awaken millions of Americans with a resurgence of American populism. He went on to say that we have stockpiled CBN’s that the world does not even know we have in terms of their lethality. He warned me that when we started to see UN on our soil, that our time was short. The UN began making a significant appearance, as I have previously reported, in 2014 during the Central American illegal alien invasion. When we see the presence of the UN on American soil, this is a harbinger of bad things to come and that the UN will swoop in under the guise of humanitarian aid but they will be the ones who will seize the guns and operate the “re-education” camps. The reason that this man and his wife came to my office, then we strolled across open ground to discuss this, with our cell phones left behind, was that he was telling me he that like-minded retirees from both DHS and FEMA were doing the same thing. In fact, he told me that they were cohabitating in the same remote area with like-minided people. Because of his extreme knowledge in biological and chemical warfare, he knew his life would be in immediate danger if the globalists were to launch such an attack to stem the rise of populism in America because dead men tell know tales. He warned me to stop broadcasting on the radio and “forget” about my website because he felt I was putting myself in danger. WHAT WERE THEY RUNNING FROM? These FEMA and DHS retirees, that I have had contact with say they are running for the hills for the following reasons: World War III A deadly purge within the military and the intelligence agencies Chemical and/or biological attack. The answer is all three. However, the most immediate threat, according to these sources is number 3, chemical and biological attack. This is why many of these ex-alphabet soup agency personnel have maintained a portable air supply in their constructed hideaways. I have also been told that a planned chemcial/biological attack could be used to frame an enemy and be the reason to begin World War III. In 2016, NPR Report Confirmed Validity of Ex-Intel Bugging Out Back in 2012, I published the following photo taken by Sherrie Wilcox and her companion. An uncountable number of FEMA coffins were discovered on a lonely road approximately 50 miles outside of Atlanta. As I stated, the discovery was made by Sherrie Wilcox who has since bugged out for her own safety We all know these FEMA coffins, but we were not sure when they would be employed and in what form and following what event? We now may know the answer to this question. The breadcrumbs of clues are accumulating and a patern is beginning to emerge. The following is information I came across just over a year ago. The following photo contains stacks of boxes containing critical supplies stretch almost :as far as the eye can see in this Strategic National Stockpile warehouse”. The photo was made available courtesy of the CDC. The public is not allowed to know the location of any of the facilities designed to respond to a chemical and/or biological attack. The only thing that the public knows is that stockpiles for these facilities are growing. The location of this facility and its contents are classified. Greg Burel is on record of admitting to supervising several of these stockpiled facilities. In other words, the NPR report is accurate in that these facilities exist. Dr. Irwin Redlener is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University. Francisco Kjolseth of the The Salt Lake Tribune was allowed to visit one of the facilities. Interestingly, he made the following observation: “… the inside is huge. If you envision, say, a Super Walmart and stick two of those side by side and take out all the drop ceiling, that’s about the same kind of space that we would occupy in one of these storage locations.” Interesting reference to Walmart after what I wrote yesterday on who Walmart is at the center of future control of food by DHS. The NPR article is essentially accurate in portraying the fact that various government agencies have such facilities. However, these facilities are not for the public. This means that the public will not be receiving these supplies designed to counteract the effects of a CBN attack. Are the Globalists Beta-Testing This Plague for Later Release Within the United States? The pneumonic plague is devastingly deadly. It is passed from person to person (ie human contact). This version of the plague is airborne, it spreads with great rapidity. Victims of this plague who come into contact with this deadly disease usually proves fatal in less than 24 hours of exposure. Health officials in Madagasca are scrambling as “the plague” is apparently preparing to sweep to across the country. Health authoriteis are in the identification of victims phase. And the frightening thing, aside from the absolute devastation, is the fact that the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) is already on scene and are rushing to identify anyone who has come into contact with those affected and are moving to quarrantine the infected. What used to be called the “Black Death,” as it previously killed 5o million Europeans is now beginning to ravage Madagascar. If one recalls their history will remember that this plague claimed the lives of 50 million Europeans during as the plague is known have peaked in 1347 and wiped out 33% of European population. This unnatural reoccurance has raised this author’s suspicions that this is not a natural event. Below is a graphic from the World Health Organization about the plague. Very Concerning Development In Southern California I interviewed Paul Preston on my show last Sunday and we deviated from our planned topic as he revealed that there is a very serious outbreak of Hepatitis A and the spread and occurance is not natural. SAN DIEGO COUNTY HEPATITIS A OUTBREAK 2017 From the NBC affiliate channel 7, in San Diego announces that 18 Die From Hepatitis A, Emergency Declaration Extended in San Diego County. This looming health disaster is getting ready to spread to the rest of the state and beyond. I feel like I am watching the movie Outbreak. There have been 18 deaths reported and 490 cases confirmed. Paul Preston reports that the number is actually six times larger. In light of the previously presented information, I believe we are likely seeing beginning of chemical and biological attacks. We are entering uncharted waters.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/10/11/something-very-big-and-very-evil-is-about-to-happen/
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Trump finally has a plan to take on Iran
By Eli Lake October 7, 2017 | 5:01am
After more than nine months in office, President Trump finally has an Iran policy. Before the opening of the UN General Assembly, Trump approved the long-awaited strategy to deal with Iran, according to administration officials. These officials tell me it will outline a new aggressive approach to countering Iranian threats all over the globe and endeavor to use the leverage of Trump’s threats over the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, to spur US allies to begin to address its flaws. Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hinted the new policy was coming: “The JCPOA represents only a small part of the issues we have to address with Iran.” The centerpiece of Trump’s Iran strategy will be the designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, placing it in the same category as al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Congress mandated this designation over the summer, but allowed Trump to waive the requirement. The designation would be significant. The Revolutionary Guard controls a large portion of the state’s economy. Iranian economist Bijan Khajehpour nestimated the guard was responsible for 15 percent of Iran’s gross domestic product. The designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization could create problems for foreign companies seeking to invest in Iran. While the Treasury under President Barack Obama issued rules requiring private companies to do due diligence and avoid investment in the Revolutionary Guard, the rules were weakened in the final months of the administration. The new designation will make life harder for those companies. “It’s important because it means if you are doing business with Iran in key sectors of its economy, you run a significant risk you are doing business with a terrorist organization,” Mark Dubowitz, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told me this week. The designation of the Revolutionary Guard is one element of what administration officials have described as a whole-government approach to pushing back against Iran’s regional aggression. This includes a new policy on countering Iran’s threats to shipping lanes and particularly the threat of anti-ship missiles and the harassment of US Navy vessels. It will include a new emphasis on countering Iranian networks inside Latin America; Iran’s development of ballistic missiles; Iranian human-rights violations; and support for terrorist groups and proxies in the Middle East. Two US intelligence officials tell me an element that will not be publicized includes a ramping up of operations against the Revolutionary Guard and other Iranian proxies like Hezbollah. Already, CIA Director Mike Pompeo has approved new authorities for US intelligence officers to begin tracking and targeting Iranian agents abroad. These kinds of programs include psychological operations such as placing funds in secret accounts belonging to Iranian officers in order to create the impression such officers are working for foreign powers. Obama wound many of these programs down in his second term, particularly after the formal negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal began. Pompeo is winding them back up, according to these officials. As The New York Times reported, Pompeo placed the CIA officer who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden in charge of the agency’s Iran operations. Despite the administration’s crystallizing policy on Iran, US officials tell me there is still no formal plan on how to secure Syrian and Iraqi territory after the Islamic State is driven out. This is particularly important in Syria today as Iran’s proxies and the Revolutionary Guard have already begun to take over some of these areas. Dubowitz told me that for now he is assessing how comprehensive the new effort against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard will be. “I’m looking for measures that will drain the Guard Corps’ resources and have an economic impact on their funding of aggression abroad and patronage networks at home,” he said. If Dubowitz gets his wish, it’s likely the Iranians themselves will accuse Trump of violating the nuclear deal forged by his predecessor and threaten to pull out. Unlike Obama, Trump would probably consider that a favor.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/07/trump-finally-has-a-plan-to-take-on-iran/
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Israel advancing plans for 4x more settlements than last year
Thousands of women call on Israeli, PA leaders to make peace
May warns Netanyahu on danger of axing Iran deal
By Tovah Lazaroff October 10, 2017 17:54
Among the projects on the list is new housing for the Jewish community in Hebron. Israel will have advanced plans for 12,000 settler homes in 2017, Israeli officials said on Tuesday as they continued to defend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against charges that he had not done enough for Jewish building in the West Bank. To date, plans for 5,000 settler homes have been advanced and tenders have been issued for 3,000 homes. Next week, the Higher Planing Council for Judea and Samaria is set to hold its third meeting this year. According to officials, it will advance plans for 3,763 homes, bringing the total to close to 12,000. That’s four times the number of plans that were debated in 2016, the officials said. This includes projects for settlements that have not seen new homes in many years. Among the projects on the list is new housing for the Jewish community in Hebron, permanent homes for the evacuees from the Migron outpost and 300 homes for the Beit El settlement. “Those who claim that this is not a significant improvement mislead the public,” the officials said. They spoke as Netanyahu has been under pressure from settler leaders to do more to approve building projects in West Bank settlements. They have been particularly concerned that Netanyahu is over-dramatizing the actual amount of projects in which new construction can occur. Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, who is a member of the Likud Central Committee and an ardent supporter of US President Donald Trump, has had particularly harsh things to say about Netanyahu's settlement policy. He explained that, in reality, the list involved only 700 new units. Netanyahu has continued to clamp down on settlement building, just as he did during the former Obama Administration, Dagan charged. “Unfortunately, Netanyahu is missing a historic opportunity here,” Dagan said. In particular, he noted the absence of industrial zones and roads from the list. Trump might not like the settlement building, but won’t condemn it as Obama did, Dagan said. Israeli officials said in response: “There is no one who has done more in a wise and determined manner for the settlements than Netanyahu.” The council’s meeting comes as President Trump is working to advance a new peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli officials said that Netanyahu must pay attention to the diplomatic situation. “Those who think it is possible to ignore diplomatic considerations are also mistaken,” the officials said. The Palestinians condemned Israeli plans to promote more settlement homes. The Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashram said, “Clearly, Israel is bent on entrenching the military occupation and its illegal settlement enterprise, further reaffirming its intentions of displacing Palestine and replacing it with 'Greater Israel.'" According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, Ashram spoke against the building on Monday during a meeting with Norwegian Representative Hilde Haraldstad in Ramallah. “Rather than becoming party to Israel's unlawful breach of international law and conventions, the global community should hold Israel accountable for acting outside the law before it destroys the prospects of a viable Palestinian state, peace and stability indefinitely,” she said, according to WAFA.
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Lawmakers crack down on growing anti-Israel boycotts, 'propaganda campaign'
By Sarah Smith, Fox News
Lawmakers are stepping up efforts to crack down on anti-Israel boycotts and protests, with Wisconsin becoming the latest state to consider legislation aiming to freeze out companies joining the so-called “BDS” movement. BDS – which stands for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – calls for boycotting Israeli companies “involved in the violation of Palestinian human rights” as well as “complicit” organizations, in addition to encouraging divestment and sanctions against similar groups. The bill introduced in Wisconsin last week would prevent state organizations from doing business with companies that participate in the boycotts. “Boycotts of Israel must be fought because they do not just attack the Jewish state. This propaganda campaign is also the basis for newly emboldened and destructive anti-Semitic attitudes,” state Sen. Leah Vukmir, a Republican who recently announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate, said in a statement. “We must support our ally Israel.” Vukmir introduced the bill along with state Rep. Dale Kooyenga. It would specifically prohibit companies that contract with the state from engaging in Israel boycotts; it also would prohibit state agencies and local governments from joining in any such boycotts. The sponsors hope Wisconsin will join 21 states with their own laws and resolutions against the BDS push. Most recently, North Carolina passed legislation banning state agencies from working with companies who participate in BDS boycotts. The BDS movement was founded in 2005, claiming inspiration from the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Organizers say the goal is to “end international support for Israeli violations of international law by forcing companies, institutions and governments to change their policies.” Critics of the BDS movement allege that it is anti-Semitic and discriminates against Israel. “The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), which rejects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, is the most prominent effort to undermine Israel’s existence,” the Anti-Defamation League says on its website. Meanwhile, a bipartisan effort to enact federal anti-BDS legislation is underway in both the U.S. House and the Senate. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act was introduced by Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, in March of this year, with an identical bill introduced in the House by Reps. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and Juan Vargas, D-Calif. The legislation would amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit such boycotts by international government groups and direct the Export-Import Bank to take a similar stance. The effort has widespread bipartisan support including from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md. In July, the ACLU penned a letter opposing the bill, arguing it would “impose civil and criminal punishment on individuals solely because of their political beliefs about Israel and its policies” in violation of their First Amendment rights. BDS has become increasingly popular on college and university campuses, which have been the focal point of the nation’s free speech debate. Several student senates have passed BDS resolutions in support of Israel boycotts. The Tufts University student senate signed a BDS resolution in April, just days before Passover began, causing members of the school’s Jewish community to feel “deeply disturbed.” The movement also has its share of critics on campus. As reported at the time by The Jerusalem Post, after the American Studies Association voted in 2013 to support a proposed boycott of Israeli academic intuitions as part of BDS, the heads of 92 universities rejected the decision.
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When The SHTF There Will Be No Doctors, No Hospitals, And No Pharmacies To Run To When You Need Them
Posted By: Ted October 4, 2017
Instead of teasing you by giving you the answer in the 3rd paragraph, here it is…good health. So before you think you’ve already read similar articles, please read on. I think you’ll find this different. Your health during SHTF scenarios is more important than: All your training All your stored goods Your bug out location I understand we can’t all be in perfect health, but you owe it to yourself to be as healthy as possible. I’m not only talking about getting in better shape but included with your preps, you should include certain foods, herbs & spices that I will list here to help keep you healthy and to cure many ailments when you get sick. If you think staying healthy is difficult now, imagine how hard it will be to do so after SHTF. There will be no doctors, no hospitals, and no pharmacies to run to when you need them. Without good health, all your preps may likely go to someone else who comes along and takes it. I can’t tell you the number of acquaintances I know who have spent years and lots of money stockpiling but don’t do squat (no pun intended) to stay healthy. How they think they’ll survive is beyond me. The good news is most of the items I’m referring to are either cheap or can be grown in most areas of the U-S. They are lightweight in the event that you must bug out and can be preserved for many years without losing much of its potency. Of course, one method to preserving is keeping spices/herbs in air-proof containers. I put much of mine in plastic Food Saver bags and shrink wrap them. They can also be preserved in Mylar bags that are placed in 5-gallon buckets and removing all the oxygen from the bucket. There are many videos you can research on how to do this. Call it a coincidence if you must, but by including a certain regiment of foods, herbs, and spices in my diet on a daily basis, I have not had a sick day from work in over 10 years. I’m no spring chicken either…I’m a baby boomer. I’ll list items to grow and store, followed by my daily regimen. I will also include linked sources within and at the end of this article to back up the information. Also read: 4 Health Tips From Ancient Medicine – Natural Anesthetics Used To Dull Or Block Pain Herbs That Really Make a Difference Tumeric– This is one of the most important to have on hand. This powerful herb contains curcumin which is an anti-inflammatory. It helps reduce pain and swelling which is needed by many boomers such as me due to minor arthritis. Some studies indicate it may also help prevent colon cancer and Alzheimer’s. Fortunately, turmeric can be easily grown in most U-S climates. Cinnamon– A recent German study shows it’s helpful for those with Type II diabetes as it reduces blood sugar by 10%. It’s also shown to help reduce cholesterol. Mind you it’s possible to take too much of this spice and can be dangerous. Cinnamon is not grown in the U-S so you must buy and store it. Garlic– I know many who avoid eating garlic merely because they’re afraid how others might react to the odor from their breath. After Armageddon, who gives a damn? I’m sure some will respond to this by saying the odor may give yourself away if you’re on patrol while in a survival camp but in my humble opinion, the benefits outweigh the smell. I’m also not suggesting that you eat it every day. I too have certain work related appointments where garlic breath wouldn’t be preferred. Garlic has many benefits including, lowering cancer risk, improving your cardiovascular health, reduces high blood pressure, helps prevents strokes by slowing arterial blockages and reduces cholesterol. It’s also one of the few plants in existence that is all three…anti-bacterial, anti-viral and antifungal. Besides being easy to grow, garlic can also be dehydrated. There are many books available from Amazon that will include all its benefits. Are you ready to turn back the clocks to the 1800’s for up to three years? Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were the last generation to practice the basic things that we call survival skills now… WATCH THIS VIDEO and you will find many interesting things! Click on the image bellow and learn more about Survival things that we lost to history. Rosemary– We may end up having to fry or grill meats after TSHTF so including rosemary will help prevent the risk of potent carcinogens that are often in meat that are cooked at high temperatures. Rosemary contains two antioxidants that reduce carcinogens. This is easy to grow inside your home or outside in your garden. And if you don’t grow it, it’s inexpensive to buy and stores for long periods. Flax seed– Many have a false belief that all fats are unhealthy but nothing can be further from the truth. Our bodies need a certain amount of Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) because, without it, we die. Many of you have heard the term “rabbit starvation.” Simply put, if for example, someone were to rely on rabbit as their sole source of protein, the lack of fat in the meat will put one’s health at risk. One source of EFA’s are oils such as olive, canola, peanut, and vegetable oil and many others you are now using at home. The problem comes from the fact that you won’t have access to many oils because they don’t have a long shelf life and can go rancid. Even if you stock up on oils, they will run out. Olives can only grow in certain climates and those of us in areas outside of the Southwest cannot grow it. However, two seeds that can grow in most areas of the U-S are sunflower seeds and flax seeds that contain EFA. Flax can be grown in your garden in abundance. Flax can be consumed as a seed or the oil can be extracted. Now unless you have a seed press (a good one is pricey), It can be difficult to extract the oil. Flax seed can be heated on the stove for a short time which will draw the oil out that will float to the top of the water. Then you merely pour off the oil and store it in a cool place. It’s not as beneficial as the first cold press extraction method because heating it up will cause some of the health benefits to dissipate. But hey…beggars can’t be choosers. The oil will also have a shelf life of 1-2 weeks using this method, even if refrigerated so it’s important to use the heating process on a routine basis and only process a small amount at a time. Also read: Off-Grid Food Preservation Methods – How Did People Preserve Food In The 1500’s? Ginger– Eating the wrongs foods or foods that have spoiled during SHTF periods could become more common. Ginger helps prevent nausea whether it’s from upset stomach, pregnancy or motion sickness. In one study, ginger was shown to be more effective than Dramamine for subjects who suffer from motion sickness. Ginger grows in most climates and can be dehydrated. Onions– I could fill up a book on the benefits of onions but with so many varieties available and the ability to grow them in most any climate, onions are among the healthiest of foods. I know many individuals that find onions difficult to digest making it impossible for them to eat. But the majority of us have no such issues. Without including all the benefits here, see the link at the end of the article for additional details. Onions can also be chopped up and dehydrated for long storage life. Horseradish root– Another food item that grows in most climates, horseradish is a powerful plant that is connected to many health benefits, including its ability to reduce weight loss, lower blood pressure, alleviate respiratory conditions, build strong bones, improve immune system health, stimulate healthy digestion, and promotes heart health. Cayenne peppers– One of the best books I’ve read is by John Heinerman entitled The Health Benefits of Cayenne. It’s only 48 pages long and you’ll read it in an hour or so but no one I know explains the benefits of hot peppers like Heinerman. There are many varieties of hot peppers that grow in most climates but the key ingredient capsicum seems to be most prevalent in cayenne peppers. Its key benefits will help reduce the severity of colds, improves circulatory and digestive issues, infections, and respiratory ills. Like most items listed above, cayenne can be crushed and dehydrated. Raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar– Again, I could fill up volumes explaining the health benefits of vinegar so I’ll spare you with those details. You can search for many articles and purchase books online with the many uses of apple cider vinegar including other benefits that don’t include ingesting it. Using Herbs for Good Health Now here is how I use some of the items on a regular basis for good health. One of the healthiest drinks you will ever taste is called Master Tonic. I have a link below with a YouTube video where I first learned how to make it. It’s made up of garlic, the hottest onion you can find (White or Spanish), hot peppers (I use cayenne and/or jalapeño), ginger root, horseradish root and raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar. The secret to its benefits is the mixing of the ingredients. Even though any of the six ingredients are beneficial on their own, their combining enhances its benefits. One reason many prescriptions and O-T-C liquid medications include alcohol is that the alcohol enhances the other ingredients. So by mixing all six items here, it’s as if it each ingredient is on steroids. I’ll be the first to admit, you won’t find it pleasant tasting. I can’t take more than a sip or two without making an awful face. In the video link I included here, you will see the gentleman drink 2 oz of it while holding a straight face. I’ve been taking this for years and still make a face. Don’t drink it for the enjoyment (you won’t) but drink it for its benefit. Another tonic I drink every morning is called Apple Cider Vinegar Detox. Read link below for additional information. One of the ingredients you see here (lemons) won’t be available in most areas of the world after TSHTF but you can at least drink it now while available. It may also be beneficial to stock up on bottled lemon juice to use in place of freshly squeezed. Besides being a detox, studies show this drink will help you lose weight without doing any other changes in your diet and lifestyle. Includes 8-12 oz of warm water and the following: 2 Tbs lemon juice 2 Tbs apple cider vinegar 1 Tbs honey 1 Tsp cinnamon Place all ingredients in a blender for a few seconds and drink up. Certainly better tasting than the Master Tonic mentioned above. The last tonic I will mention here utilizes turmeric. There are a variety of ways to use it but I include: Turmeric Black pepper Lemon juice The link for this tonic includes carrot juice. I have also done it using olive oil instead of lemon juice. One Last Food Item for Good Health Here’s a food item that is delicious and its health benefits are like medicine…sauerkraut. Growing cabbage is easy and can be done in all areas of the U-S. By fermenting cabbage into sauerkraut, it’s not only healthy…but has a long shelf life. Canning sauerkraut is also easy. I have a link below that shows a simple way to make it in only a few days from your kitchen counter. Some don’t like the flavor of sauerkraut. However, I have found those people have often purchased it in a grocery store from a tin can. Ugh! No wonder they didn’t like it. In an SHTF scenario, you won’t be buying it in a can so making it is much more pleasant to eat and will include a higher level of Probiotics than you’ll find in the canned variety. Most people know that food purchased in tin cans has lost most, if not all of its nutritional value due to the high level of heat required to seal the can.
http://www.survivalonline101.com/no-doctors-no-hospitals-and-no-pharmacies-to-run/
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Researchers find ‘new and unanticipated’ source of radioactive waste leaking into the ocean 60 MILES from the site of the Fukushima disaster
Researchers found radioactive cesium in beaches up to 60 miles from the site
The radioactive material was found in the sands and in brackish groundwater
Over time, the researchers say it's slowly being released back into the ocean
They say it's not a health concern, as no one is exposed to or drinks the water
By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com Published: 18:49 EDT, 3 October 2017 | Updated: 18:58 EDT, 3 October 2017
It’s been six years since a massive earthquake, followed by a 50-foot tsunami, slammed into Japan's northeast coast, resulting in one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. But scientists have now discovered a ‘new and unanticipated’ source of radioactive waste left behind by the Fukushima disaster. New research has pinpointed radioactive material from the power plant in sands and brackish water as far as 60 miles away, and found it’s slowly being released back into the ocean. While the radioactive waste discovered in the new study is not considered to be a health concern, the find highlights another unexpected consequence of a nuclear meltdown far from the site of the disaster itself. In some cases, the levels in the groundwater were as much as 10 times higher than levels in the seawater in the harbour around Fukushima itself. And, levels of the radioactive material more than 3 feet deep in the sand were higher than that in the sediments offshore. In the study, the team collected samples from eight beaches within 60 miles of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant between 2013 and 2016. According to the researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Kanazawa University, the sands acted much like a sponge following the 2011 power plant failure, after high levels of radioactive cesium137 was carried along the coast by the ocean currents. As the waves and tides brought the material onto the ground, it ‘stuck’ to the surfaces of the sand grains. Over time, the radioactive cesium the sands retained is slowly leaching into the water. ‘No one is either exposed to, or drinks, these waters, and thus public health is not of primary concern here,’ the scientists said. WHAT THEY FOUND Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Kanazawa University collected samples from eight beaches within 60 miles of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant between 2013 and 2016. The researchers inserted 3- to 7-foot-long tubes into the sand, and pumped up the underlying groundwater. At the sites, they found two types of radioactive cesium – cesium-137, which may have come from either the Fukushima incident or from nuclear weapons tests during the 1950s and 60s, and cesium-134, which they say can only come from Fukushima. Cesium was found in both the sands and in the brackish groundwater beneath the beaches. Salt water causes the cesium to become unstuck, the researchers explain. As the waves and tides over the years brought the salty seawater in from the ocean, the brackish water was eventually able to release the cesium from the sand. And, this allows it to return to the ocean.
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Former Google Engineer Developing ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GOD With Plans To Give Life Unto The Image Of The Beast “For The Betterment Of Society”
October 3, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful Silicon Valley engineer is to set up an AI-worshipping religious organization. Anthony Levandowski, who is at the center of a legal battle between Uber and Google’s Waymo, has established a nonprofit religious corporation called Way of the Future, according to state filings first uncovered by Wired’s Backchannel. Way of the Future’s startling mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” The Way of the Future team did not respond to requests for more information about their proposed benevolent AI overlord, but history tells us that new technologies and scientific discoveries have continually shaped religion, killing old gods and giving birth to new ones. (READ MORE) Deus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god Way of the Future, a religious group founded by Anthony Levandowski, wants to create a deity based on artificial intelligence for the betterment of society Olivia Solon Thursday 28 September 2017 04.00 EDT Last modified on Thursday 28 September 2017 16.52 EDT Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful Silicon Valley engineer is to set up an AI-worshipping religious organization. Anthony Levandowski, who is at the center of a legal battle between Uber and Google’s Waymo, has established a nonprofit religious corporation called Way of the Future, according to state filings first uncovered by Wired’s Backchannel. Way of the Future’s startling mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” Levandowski was co-founder of autonomous trucking company Otto, which Uber bought in 2016. He was fired from Uber in May amid allegations that he had stolen trade secrets from Google to develop Otto’s self-driving technology. He must be grateful for this religious fall-back project, first registered in 2015. The Way of the Future team did not respond to requests for more information about their proposed benevolent AI overlord, but history tells us that new technologies and scientific discoveries have continually shaped religion, killing old gods and giving birth to new ones. As author Yuval Noah Harari notes: “That is why agricultural deities were different from hunter-gatherer spirits, why factory hands and peasants fantasised about different paradises, and why the revolutionary technologies of the 21st century are far more likely to spawn unprecedented religious movements than to revive medieval creeds.” Religions, Harari argues, must keep up with the technological advancements of the day or they become irrelevant, unable to answer or understand the quandaries facing their disciples. “The church does a terrible job of reaching out to Silicon Valley types,” acknowledges Christopher Benek a pastor in Florida and founding chair of the Christian Transhumanist Association. Silicon Valley, meanwhile, has sought solace in technology and has developed quasi-religious concepts including the “singularity”, the hypothesis that machines will eventually be so smart that they will outperform all human capabilities, leading to a superhuman intelligence that will be so sophisticated it will be incomprehensible to our tiny fleshy, rational brains. For futurists like Ray Kurzweil, this means we’ll be able to upload copies of our brains to these machines, leading to digital immortality. Others like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warn that such systems pose an existential threat to humanity. “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” Musk said at a conference in 2014. “In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Doesn’t work out.” Benek argues that advanced AI is compatible with Christianity – it’s just another technology that humans have created under guidance from God that can be used for good or evil. “I totally think that AI can participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes,” he said, by ensuring it is imbued with Christian values. “Even if people don’t buy organized religion, they can buy into ‘do unto others’.” For transhumanist and “recovering Catholic” Zoltan Istvan, religion and science converge conceptually in the singularity. “God, if it exists as the most powerful of all singularities, has certainly already become pure organized intelligence,” he said, referring to an intelligence that “spans the universe through subatomic manipulation of physics”. “And perhaps, there are other forms of intelligence more complicated than that which already exist and which already permeate our entire existence. Talk about ghost in the machine,” he added. For Istvan, an AI-based God is likely to be more rational and more attractive than current concepts (“the Bible is a sadistic book”) and, he added, “this God will actually exist and hopefully will do things for us.” We don’t know whether Levandowski’s Godhead ties into any existing theologies or is a manmade alternative, but it’s clear that advancements in technologies including AI and bioengineering kick up the kinds of ethical and moral dilemmas that make humans seek the advice and comfort from a higher power: what will humans do once artificial intelligence outperforms us in most tasks? How will society be affected by the ability to create super-smart, athletic “designer babies” that only the rich can afford? Should a driverless car kill five pedestrians or swerve to the side to kill the owner? If traditional religions don’t have the answer, AI – or at least the promise of AI – might be alluring.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski
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Very Violent Reversal Before End of 2017 – James Rickards
By Greg Hunter On October 4, 2017 In Market Analysis
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Four time best-selling financial book author James Rickards says don’t get too comfortable with the record high stock prices. Rickards explains, “I think the markets will have a very violent reversal in late November or early December. Let me be specific about why because I never make claims like this without backing it up. . . . Here’s what’s going on. Right now, markets are priced for a Fed rate hike in December. . . . The stock market is interpreting this rate hike as economic strength . . . everything is set for a violent reversal because the Fed is not going to hike interest rates in December.” So, why is the Fed not going to raise rates? Rickards says it’s because of not enough inflation and way too much deflation. This has the Fed scared to move. Rickards contends, “Why is deflation a central bank’s worst nightmare? The answer is deflation increases the real value of debt. In other words, the dollar actually gets stronger in a deflationary environment. If I owe you dollars, and the dollar just got stronger, I owe you more money in real terms. It becomes more difficult to pay off debt in a deflationary environment because my income is drying up. The real burden of debt is going up, and if I couldn’t pay you to begin with, deflation is going to make it more difficult to repay you. . . . Imagine if we had one or two percent deflation . . . and the value of the debt was going up. The defaults would be even worse. Bad debts would pile up. The banking system would be under threat. Tax collections would go down in nominal terms. The credit of the U.S. government would be called into question. The U.S. government might default. These are all the horrendous consequences of deflation, and it’s why central banks cannot have deflation.” So, what happens if Rickards is correct and the Fed does not raise rates? Rickards says, “When that happens, and I think it will happen . . . all of a sudden, the dollar is going to get weaker, the euro is going to get stronger, gold is going to go up and bonds are going to rally. So, there will be a lot of big market effects. I am not talking the end of the world . . . . I am not talking about a total meltdown. I am talking about a violent repricing of some major commodities and bonds . . . because the market thinks the Fed is going to raise, and they’re not.” Is there a danger in October as many believe there could be? Rickards says “yes,” and it comes from increased tensions with North Korea. Rickards says, “We have a window from October 10th to October 21st. What is the significance of that window? October 10th is the anniversary of the communist party of North Korea. Kim Jong Un is getting ready to test more missiles. . . . We have two catalysts. The anniversary on October 10th and war games (with South Korea) on October 21st. In that window is when I expect one or more missile tests. That’s going to be another wake up call to the markets. The markets are sleepwalking . . . they don’t understand this war is coming, and it is coming. A shooting war, a pre-emptive war, a kinetic war with the United States against North Korea, I do expect by mid-2018. . . . Kim Jong Un thinks we are bluffing. We are not.” Rickards also restates his case for “$10,000 gold” and contends it’s at a relatively low price, and people should buy it now and simply hold it.
https://usawatchdog.com/very-violent-reversal-before-end-of-2017-james-rickards/
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Catalan Independence: Why The Collective Hates It When People Walk Away
Wednesday, 04 October 2017 03:12 Brandon Smith
I have written many times in the past about the singular conflict at the core of most human crises and disasters, a conflict that sabotages human endeavor and retards critical thought. This conflict not only stems from social interaction, it also exists within the psyche of the average individual. It is an inherent contradiction of the human experience that at times can fuel great accomplishment, but usually leads to great tragedy. I am of course talking about the conflict between our inborn need for self determination versus our inborn desire to hand over responsibility to a community through group effort — sovereignty versus collectivism. In my view, the source of the problem is that most people wrongly assume that "collectivism" is somehow the same as community. This is entirely false, and those who make this claim are poorly educated on what collectivism actually means. It is important to make a distinction here; the grouping of people is not necessarily or automatically collectivism unless that group seeks to subjugate the individuality of its participants. Collectivism cannot exist where individual freedom is valued. People can still group together voluntarily for mutual benefit and retain respect for the independence of members (i.e. community, rather than collectivism). This distinction matters because there is a contingent of political and financial elites that would like us to believe that there is no middle ground between the pursuits of society and the liberties of individuals. That is to say, we are supposed to assume that all our productive energies and our safety and security belong to society. Either that, or we are extremely selfish and self serving "individualists" that are incapable of "seeing the bigger picture." The mainstream discussion almost always revolves around these two extremes. We never hear the concept that society exists to serve individual freedom and innovation and that a community of individuals is the strongest possible environment for the security and future of humanity as a whole. Thus, the mainstream argument becomes a kabuki theater between the "ignorantly destructive" populists/nationalists/individualists versus the more "reasonable" and supposedly forward thinking socialists/globalists/multiculturalists. The truth is, sovereignty champions can be pro-individual liberty and also pro-community or pro-nation, as long as that community is voluntary. Collectivists will have none of this, however, and despite their intellectual and "rational" facade, they will often turn to brutality in order to disrupt any movement to decentralize power. The civil unrest in the Spanish region of Catalonia is an interesting example of the tyranny of the collectivist ideology. According to mainstream doctrine, Spain is supposed to be a "decentralized unitary state" made up of "autonomous communities," all with their own statutes and self governing bodies "loosely" regulated by the Spanish constitution of 1978. Catalonia, along with a couple other regions and cities in Spain, has long fought for true autonomy from the central government in Madrid. This separatist culture was crushed under the heel of Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime after the Spanish Civil War which started in 1936. After Franco's death in 1975, Spain began its "transition to democracy" (democracy being the tyranny of the majority rather than tyranny by military regime). Once again, Catalonia's push for independence returned. The reasons for a Catalan secession are multitude and are of course noble or nefarious depending on which side you talk to. From my research, it would seem the primary drive for Catalonia is economic. Spain is one of the more indebted member states in the European Union with a national debt near 100% of GDP. The "great recession" starting in 2008 struck Spain particularly hard, with around 21% of the general population officially in poverty and over 40% of all children officially in poverty. Unemployment according to government statistics hovers near 18%. Catalonia is the most prosperous region in Spain's economy, accounting for nearly 20% of total GDP. Catalans also assert that taxation in their region is a primary pillar for the Spanish government, which has not returned the favor with sufficient investment in infrastructure in the region. In essence, there is a "taxation without representation" feel to the conflict, and Americans in particular know very well how that kind of situation can end. On the other side of the debate, it is clear that if Catalonia leaves the Spanish system on negative terms, then Spain's already crumbling economy will be destroyed. The motivation for Spain to keep control of Catalonia is high just on the grounds of economic disaster. Beyond the economic issue, another interesting side note on Spain is its intense social justice (cultural Marxism) programs. While Europeans often suggest Spain as being a "conservative" government, in policy and action this is simply not true. Spain is notorious for being one of the most militantly feminist governments in the EU aside from Sweden, and this is saying something given the socialist nature of the EU. Gender laws and divorce laws in the country offer some of the most draconian double standards against men I have ever witnessed. Perhaps this will give you a kind of litmus test for the sort of culture we are dealing with here, and maybe it accounts for some discontent in certain portions of the Spanish population. Catalonia itself is often cited as being "more liberal" in its political orientation in comparison to the rest of Spain. Of course, the term "liberal" can mean many different things in Europe depending on the nation, and American definitions do not necessarily apply. Just as Europeans tend to have no understanding whatsoever of what "conservatism" means in the U.S., Americans have a hard time understanding all the intricacies of the various levels of "liberalism" in Europe. That said, what side of the political spectrum Catalonia sits on is irrelevant to greater discussion. What I actually enjoy pointing out here is the fact that whether you look at the Franco era of nationalist totalitarianism, or the "semi" socialist and hyper-cultural Marxist era of today, the Spanish government STILL acts the same in its despotism against Catalan separation or independence. It is not as if the socialists set out to right the wrongs of the Franco regime once it fell. Not at all. Instead, they merely perpetuated the same attitude of centralization while wearing a smiling face. Once again, we see that there is very little difference between fascism and communism/socialism when we get down to core behaviors and policies. Collectivists, regardless of what other labels they use to identify themselves, have certain rules that they consistently follow in order to maintain power. One of those rules is that the collective is indivisible. They might pontificate endlessly about their superior democratic ideals, but when some people vote to leave en masse, either in polling booths or with their feet, the mask of benevolence always comes off and the true monster behind collectivism is revealed. As we have seen in Catalonia, this monstrous behavior is undeniable. The Spanish government has set out to prevent not just separation, it has sought to prevent the very act of voting on separation using police and military force. In essence, martial law was been declared in Catalonia in order to stop the people from enacting the very democratic ideals the Spanish government claims it enshrines.
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Hotel Guest Next Door To Las Vegas Shooter Saw ‘Multiple Gunmen’
Posted on October 3, 2017 by Jim M2 Voice
An Australian man who was staying in the room next to the shooter in the Mandalay Bay has confirmed he witnessed multiple gunmen involved in the Las Vegas attack. “There were multiple people dead and multiple shooters. I was just hiding waiting for police to come get us. I got outside safely and was hiding in bushes,” Brian Hodge told Australia’s Courier-Mail. Mr. Hodge, who was staying in room 32134, next door to Stephen Paddock in room 32135, also provided important information when he revealed that a security guard was killed by police. “My floor is a crime scene. They killed a security guard on my floor.” Who was the “security guard” who was killed by police? Wendy Miller from Cooroy, on the Sunshine Coast – another Australian caught up in the Las Vegas shooting – may have provided a missing piece of the puzzle. Also speaking to the Courier-Mail, Ms Miller said she was at a bar in the nearby Luxor Hotel with her husband when she saw what she described as a “man of interest” run by. Ms Miller said the man sprinted through her hotel after coming off an escalator from the Mandalay Bay. “The man that they [security] were chasing was wearing a security jacket like them,” she said. Mr Hodge’s eyewitness report of multiple gunmen and a dead security guard, and with Ms Miller’s report of a security guard being chased by authorities, suggest that the mainstream media narrative of the “lone wolf” gunman is not the truth. The fact is that this was an orchestrated, co-ordinated attack by multiple conspirators, and the mainstream media are attempting to cover it up. Video footage confirms multiple shooters Two explosive videos provided to Your News Wire have also confirmed there were multiple shooters involved in a co-ordinated attack, and the mainstream media of a “lone wolf” gunman operating without a motive is a lie. Both videos show gunfire originating from the fourth floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, much lower than the 32nd floor, where the mainstream media is claiming Stephen Paddock, a “lone wolf”, fired on the crowd using an automatic weapon. The mainstream media narrative regarding Paddock’s motives have also been debunked by FBI sources who reportedly claimed the shooter has links to Antifa as well as ISIS. But mainstream media is actively covering up the information, claiming Paddock had “no political or religious affiliations or interests.” The fact is the Las Vegas shooting was clearly a co-ordinated false flag attack, orchestrated by Paddock as well as at least one other as yet unidentified gunman operating from the fourth floor of the hotel. The mass shooting and scores of dead will be used by the elite to further push their nefarious agenda. Anybody who looks into the information available to them on the internet will arrive at the same conclusion. Unfortunately anybody who relies on mainstream media for their information will be force-fed a very different conclusion. The questions must be asked: why is the mainstream media covering for a mass murderer? Why are they attempting to rewrite his past and erase his political affiliations? The answers are simple. The corporate media, controlled by a small, elite oligarchy, is operating on behalf of the New World Order, attempting to mislead the public into believing their enemies are their friends, and their friends are their enemies. It doesn’t suit the mainstream media’s agenda to have an Antifa member responsible for the worst mass shooting in American history. They are actively engaged in covering up this fact up so they can continue pushing the New World Order’s sick and twisted agenda. Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter, was an Antifa member who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history in order to create further division in American society, push the country towards civil war, and further the agenda of the elites. Official Antifa facebook page, Antifa Melbourne, congratulated Stephen Paddock after the bloodiest mass shooting in America’s history, before deleting the post after a torrent of criticism. There is an active campaign to sow division and create chaos in the United States. Organized groups are working on behalf of global organizations with the most nefarious of goals. We need to wake up and stop believing everything fed to us by the mainstream media. They have proven themselves completely unreliable. We need to stop hiding from the truth.
http://www.m2voice.co.uk/hotel-guest-next-door-to-las-vegas-shooter-saw-multiple-gunmen/
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600 earthquakes hit Llaima volcano (Chile), 45 daily explosions at Sabancaya (Peru)
By Strange Sounds - Oct 3, 2017
The volcanic unrest is increasing around the world.
Anomalous seismic activity recorded below Llaima volcano in Chile, while Sabancaya volcano in Peru is exploding 45 times per day since a week! An anomalous swarm of more than 600 earthquakes – never seen in years – is currently hitting below Llaima in Chile. According to Sernageomin, a series of at least 600 LP-type low frequency tremors, commonly associated with the dynamics of fluids inside the volcanic system, is striking under Llaima volcano since Sunday 1 October. Such an increased seismicity has not been reported since years and thus is kind of frightening or residents and officials. This new seismic phase shows a change in the behavior of the activity, but the accumulated energy is still low enought. Therefore, the alert level of the Llaima volcano remains at green. Meanwhile in Peru, the Sabancaya volcano explodes at least 45 times per day since 2 weeks now, with ash and gas plumes reaching a maximum height of 3,500 m above the crater. The level of alert of the volcano remains at ORANGE, while the Misti and Ubinas volcanoes, also in Peru, remain at the green alert level.
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SABOTEURS PART 18: The Great Seal Prophecy of America’s Coming Grey Champion
October 3, 2017 by Sky Watch Editor
In The Secret Teachings for All Ages, celebrated 33rd-Degree Freemason Manly P. Hall said: Not only were many of the founders of the United States Government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe, which helped them to establish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few. The Great Seal is the signature of this exalted body—unseen and for the most part unknown—and the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting forth symbolically the task to the accomplishment of which the United States Government was dedicated from the day of its inception. [i] Hall spoke of many things regarding the Freemasonic symbolism of our capital city, but by far the most powerful signature of intent by the society, as Hall just stated, is the Great Seal. He didn’t even try to hide the fact that the Seal involves a “task”—a “peculiar and particular” one that our nation was “dedicated” to by our founding fathers from “inception”! Hermes Trismegistus of the Hermetic Corpus wisdom texts prized by the Rosicrucians (and by extension, the Freemasons) regaled his disciple with a principle for the workings of the universe: “As Above, So Below.” This code is so buried in esoteric mysticism today that you find it even modeled by “The Magician” in the tarot deck; one of his hands holds a wand toward Heaven, and the other points to the earth, signifying the magician’s (and alchemist’s) role in the metaphysical link between Heaven and earth—and this artwork is a direct result of the “As Above, So Below” maxim. Straight from Trismegistus’ Emerald Tablet writing from the Hermetica is the explanation of this mystical connection: That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing. And just as all things have come from this One Thing, through the meditation of One Mind, so do all created things originate from this One Thing, through Transformation. [ii] To those who are understandably confused by this obscure and cryptic text and what this “One Thing” might be, consider what Nikki Scully writes about the Emerald Tablet in her book, Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, Physical, and Transformational Medicine: The basic tenets of alchemy are distilled in the Emerald Tablet, one of the most quoted and studied of the guiding treatises of alchemical lore.… The Tablet suggests that “that which is above is the same as that which is below: All that exists is of One Mind, or of One Thing, and they are the same.” It is the goal of the alchemist to bring spirit and matter into alignment and harmony. Within that relationship rests the secret of creation, and with it our ability to co-create our own reality…. The language used to convey ancient and medieval alchemy was purposely misleading, encoded in terms so difficult to understand that the majority of those who tried to decipher it were either led astray or forced to give up.… Throughout all the processes of alchemy, it is important to remember the teaching from the Emerald Tablet…. What happens in the spirit world is a reflection of what happens in the physical world. [iii] Simply put, what happens on this earth can be controlled, manipulated, redirected, or entirely created based on the powerful, metaphysical link between the unseen realm and the enlightened few (magicians, sorcerers, alchemists, master Freemasons, etc.). What happens below on our natural earth, according to this philosophy, can mirror that of the supernatural—and the ambitions of a new society (or New World Order) become tangible via this concentration. Such a “mirror” is openly displayed in the Great Seal. It does, as Hall signifies, “symbolically” relate the “task” to which our country was “dedicated.” He made it clear, as did Nikki Scully, that these symbols and languages are “purposely misleading” to the general public. It is perhaps no wonder, then, that the nation remains misled and that only students of archaic/esoteric symbolism would be able to decipher the true “peculiar and particular purpose” of the Seal’s design. By allowing the imagery to appear nationalistic in its branding, the truth can be shrouded behind what the general public perceives as patriotic. When digging through the piles of research available on the Great Seal since its conception in 1776 (approved in 1782), the following implications are offered: The Obverse Side The animal chosen to bear the US Coat of Arms (with thirteen stripes) is the American Bald Eagle, supposedly chosen “because of its long life, great strength and majestic looks, and also because it was then believed to exist only on this continent.… The eagle represents freedom. Living as he does on the tops of lofty mountains, amid the solitary grandeur of Nature, he has unlimited freedom, whether with strong pinions he sweeps into the valleys below, or upward into the boundless spaces beyond.”[iv] However, as stately as this all sounds, it is common knowledge that the earlier sketches were of William Barton’s “phoenix in a nest of flames.” Of this, Manly Hall said, “Its selection would of course have been appropriate.” He went on to say: Among the ancients a fabulous bird called the Phoenix is described by early writers such as Clement, Herodotus, and Pliny; in size and shape it resembled the eagle…. The Phoenix, it was said, lives for 500 years, and at its death its body opens and the new born Phoenix emerges. Because of this symbolism, the Phoenix is generally regarded as representing immortality and resurrection. All symbols have their origin in something tangible, and the Phoenix is one sign of the secret orders of the ancient world and of the initiate of those orders, for it was common to refer to one who had been accepted into the temples as a man twice-born, or re-born [think Horus/Osiris]. Wisdom confers a new life, and those who become wise [or enlightened] are born again. The Phoenix symbol is important in another way, as an emblem among nearly all civilized nations of royalty, power, superiority, and immortality. The Phoenix of China is identical in meaning with the Phoenix of Egypt; and the Phoenix of the Greeks is the same as the Thunder Bird of the American Indians.… It is immediately evident that the bird on the original seal is not an eagle…but the Phoenix…. The beak is of a different shape, the neck is much longer, and the small tuft of hair at the back of the head leaves no doubt as to the artist’s intention.[v] So, as far as Hall was concerned, and as far as the historical evidence shows, the eagle was never an eagle, but a reincarnating bird held to high importance in Freemasonic mysticism. However, there is yet another corresponding mythological link to the eagle as the representative phoenix. Several other birds could have been chosen to be the veiled phoenix if the artist was deliberate in shaping their lines, but in the family tree of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter (Zeus to the Greeks) was the father of Apollo, and his sacred animal was the eagle, who almost never leaves his side. When this very eagle was combined with a thunderbolt in its talons in artwork—a common occurrence on Greek and Roman coins—the eagle was to be considered Jupiter, himself, in animal form. Interestingly, in almost every single depiction of this state, the eagle has its wings outstretched in precisely the same stance as the Eagle of the Great Seal, and its head is always facing the same direction. The comparison of the two images is so striking that if one were to approach a person with no understanding of the identities or symbolism of either the Roman/Greek coins or the US Seal (or US history), he or she would understandably think the Roman/Greek coin was an antique coin of America’s ancient past. The unbearded “underworld Jupiter”—also known as Veiove, Vetis, or Vejovis, depending on the region the myth hails from—is depicted with a cluster of arrows in his hand, just like the eagle of the Great Seal. Thus, there is a distinct allegory existing that the eagle of the US might in fact be a stand-in for the father of the Apollo/Osiris/Horus, who will be reborn into this world through reincarnation/resurrection—and who will arrive to finally place the missing “apex stone” upon the unfinished pyramid (on the reverse side of the Seal) for the New Atlantis. In the eagle’s left talon are thirteen arrows, said to represent the thirteen original colonies; in its right talon is an olive branch (with thirteen leaves and thirteen olives, again for the thirteen original colonies), said to represent peace. The duality of the arrows and the olive branch signifies, or so we’re told, that our nation desires peace however and whenever possible (which is why the eagle has its head turned to the peaceful side), but we are ready to bravely go to war if necessary to preserve our values. Above the eagle’s head is a “glory” with thirteen stars, and from its beak is an unraveled scroll with the words E PLURIBUS UNUM—which translates, “out of many, one” (alternatively, “one, out of many”)—made up of thirteen letters. (The English translation, when including the comma, is also comprised of thirteen characters.) The phrase E pluribus unum is said to have strong ties to another by Greek philosopher Heraclitus, whose writings survive only in what is called “the Fragments.” Fragment 10 reads, “The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one,” which is strangely similar to the Hermetic “As Above, So Below” maxim adored by Freemasons: “And just as all things have come from this One Thing, through the meditation of One Mind, so do all created things originate from this One Thing.”
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Rural America Is Dying A Slow And Miserable Death But Only The Local Inhabitants Seem To Notice
October 3, 2017 danama Alternative
It was happening slowly but now it is happening faster. The crown jewels of the rural areas, the graduating children, are leaving and taking their potential with them. As rural businesses shut down and opportunities dwindle, younger people are leaving to seek out greener pastures. That is a travesty for small towns and the traditions they have maintained for generations. There are two main reasons why the youth of America are leaving small towns. One is the economy and the other is the social environment. There are no good jobs and there is nothing to do outside of work. Growing youth need to be kept busy with something and lacking that they will seek out excitement. When the community they grow up in fails to provide them with the opportunities they need they eventually leave and never come back. This is leading to ever smaller towns that are beginning to disappear as the older generation dies off. If rural communities want to reverse this trend they will have to solve those two problems. They will need to promote locally owned businesses to provide the jobs needed to keep people from moving to cities and they will need to provide a certain amount of entertainment to keep the youth happy. Multinational companies have stripped the economic base out of small towns as the profits from these businesses get sent to wall street instead of being held locally providing capital for growth and innovation. Smaller local operations employing 5 to 10 people can capitalize on local resources to provide good paying jobs to entice the youth so they can stay local and start a family there. Replacing a few multinational companies with dozens of local operations will make the local area more resilient during economic downturns and insure local access to products produced there. This type of return to a local economy will happen eventually anyway if economic conditions deteriorate to the point of cutting off goods and services to rural areas. Out of necessity these areas will reconstitute an economic base to provide necessities to the population unless government gets in the way. Multinational companies will pull out and go to where the money is in the world leaving the impoverished towns in their wake after having stripped them economically. At that point the only question is whether the town is still big enough to rebuild a local economy or if the aging population will simply see the end of the community. With no youth to help rebuild the economy it will likely signal the end. It has been said that the most important thing a farmer raises are a set of children with a good work ethic and a set of moral values. These two things are something that the current youth is desperately missing in America. As more people migrate to larger cities to find the life they seek, their urban children are left to their own devices as both of their parents work full time to provide a home where children no longer need to have a job and are entertained by the moral codes prevalent in the urban areas. This is creating a generation of entitlement minded youths that provide little value to their communities. The Book of Secrets | Survival things our great grandfathers did or built around the house. With fewer of these youths growing up in rural areas, the values that helped build this country are becoming obsolete. A new paradigm is building that will ultimately tear this country apart as the old world with its traditions and the new world with its entitlements fight for control. As the song says, you’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything, is a lesson today’s youth will have to learn through bitter experience. As rural areas go, so goes the nation. The destruction of our rural heritage will signal the coming of a new paradigm that is not sustainable and will provide no hope for future generations. Unfortunately, that is what certain groups are hoping for. The destruction of the nuclear family will provide a future of chaos and confusion and allow a select few to maintain power over the many. Unless there is a shift back to rural communities and local production soon, the future of this country will be very different from the past, and not for the better.
http://webnewsorder.com/2017/rural-america-is-dying-a-slow-and-miserable-death/
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Bionic spider silk: Researchers have developed a super strong “biocomposite” with the potential to revolutionize numerous industries
Monday, October 02, 2017 by: Tracey Watson
(Natural News) Spider webs are known to be among the strongest natural materials known to man. For example, the webs of a type of spider found in Papua New Guinea are so strong that fishermen use them as handheld fishing nets. Additionally, in 2010, scientists discovered that the web of a species of orb weaver in Madagascar is the strongest biological material on the planet. Now, a team of researchers from the Graphene Flagship has discovered a way to make spider silk even stronger using graphene-based materials. Science Daily is reporting that silk spun naturally by spiders that have had graphene and carbon nanotubes introduced into their environment is up to three times stronger and 10 times tougher than ordinary spider silk. The study was conducted by researchers from Italy’s University of Trento and the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and was published in 2D Materials. So, what is graphene in simple terms? Essentially a layer of pure carbon tightly packed together in a honeycomb-shaped lattice, graphene is the thinnest, lightest and strongest compound known to man. It is also the best conductor of heat at room temperature, and the best-known conductor of electricity. Researchers are looking at ways to harness its incredible strength in the development of Kevlar vests and even for use as a building material. Natural materials have some incredible properties that simply cannot be duplicated with man-made creations. Harnessing and even expanding these natural properties is therefore being eagerly researched by scientists around the globe. How to enhance the amazing mechanical properties of spider silk is one of the areas being keenly investigated. For this particular study, researchers sprayed solutions of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene within the enclosures of the test spiders. After the spiders ingested these materials, their silk was tested to look for possible changes. (Related: Silk fibers may help repair nerve damage in humans.) Science Daily explains the results: The silks showed enhanced mechanical properties compared to reference silks collected from the same spiders, with significant increases in the strength, toughness and elasticity of the biocomposite silk threads. The strongest silk threads had a fracture strength of up to 5.4 GPa, over 3 times as strong as the unmodified silks, as well as a tenfold increase of toughness modulus up to 2.1 GPa. The research team believes that this enhanced strength can be used in applications as diverse as the reinforcement of parachutes and improving the strength of medical dressings. (Related: Discover other amazing scientific breakthroughs at Scientific.news.) “Humans have used silkworm silks widely for thousands of years, but recently research has focused on spider silk, as it has promising mechanical properties. It is among the best spun polymer fibres in terms of tensile strength, ultimate strain, and especially toughness, even when compared to synthetic fibres such as Kevlar,” said Nicola Pugno from the University of Trento. “Our study looked at whether spider silk’s properties could be ‘enhanced’ by artificially incorporating various different nanomaterials into the silk’s biological protein structures. This is the highest fibre toughness reported to date, and a strength comparable to that of the strongest carbon fibres or limpet teeth,” she added. Though the researchers stress the need for further studies, they are excited about the endless possibilities of this composite inspired by nature.
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"Putin Is The New Master Of The Middle East"
by Tyler Durden Oct 3, 2017 6:35 PM
With the Trump administration lately focused mostly on domestic policy - even as Mueller's ongoing Russian probe continues to hang over Trump's head - US power and influence in the Middle East has found itself in retreat, a continuation of unsuccessful and/or failed policies implemented by the Obama administration, resulting in a power vacuum that has to be filled, and one country has emerged willing to take America's spot. As Bloomberg writes today, "the Israelis and Turks, the Egyptians and Jordanians - they’re all beating a path to the Kremlin in the hope that Vladimir Putin, the new master of the Middle East, can secure their interests and fix their problems." And now, none other than Saudi Arabia is the latest to make friendly overtures toward the Kremlin, when Saudi King Salman visits Moscow on Wednesday, the first monarch of the oil-rich kingdom to do so. At the top of his agenda will be reining in Iran, a close Russian ally seen as a deadly foe by most Gulf Arab states. As Bloomberg concedes, until very recently, Washington stood alone as the go-to destination for such leaders. Now, however, "American power in the region is perceptibly in retreat" a testament to the success of Russia’s military intervention in Syria, which has not only succeeded in squashing the local Islamic State threat, but kept President Bashar al-Assad in power after years of U.S. insistence that he must go. “It changed the reality, the balance of power on the ground,” said Dennis Ross, America’s former chief Mideast peace negotiator who advised several presidents from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama. “Putin has succeeded in making Russia a factor in the Middle East. That’s why you see a constant stream of Middle Eastern visitors going to Moscow.” There's also money: as RT writes, a joint Russian-Saudi fund to invest in the energy sector will be announced during the forthcoming visit of the Saudi King to Moscow, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told the Al Arabiya TV Channel. According to Novak, the basic agreement to establish the $1 billion fund has already been reached. Novak said Russia is "focused on developing cooperation with Saudi Arabia not only within the OPEC framework but also outside the cartel,” including the energy sector, the electric power sector, and renewable energy resources. Additionally, Moscow and Riyadh are expected to announce a new investment platform and manufacturing projects. Last week, the Director-General of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev praised significant results in investment cooperation between the RDIF and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). In 2015 the two sovereign funds agreed to a partnership, establishing a joint $10 billion platform and inking several investment deals. RDIF has also signed a cooperation agreement with the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), to jointly search for investment projects in Russia. SAGIA is supposed to bring Russian companies to the Arabian market. Still, Putin's success will bring problems, because as conflicting demands pile up, it won't be easy to send all the visitors home satisfied. “The more you try to adopt a position of dealing with all sides, the more you find that it’s hard to play that game,’’ Ross said. To be sure, Moscow was a major power in the Middle East during the Cold War, arming Arab states against Israel, however as communism collapsed in the late 1980s, so did Russia's influence. When the US invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein, Russia was a bystander, unable to do more than protest. However, the tables began to turn in 2013, when the U.S. under Obama decided not to attack Assad. Two years later, Putin sent troops and planes to defend him. For the most part, America’s local allies were firmly in the Assad-must-go camp. They were disillusioned when U.S. military might wasn’t deployed to force him out. Russia’s clout in the region has grown “because Obama allowed it to,’’ said Khaled Batarfi, a professor at Alfaisal University’s branch in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “Unfortunately he withdrew to a great extent from the Middle East.’’ That view is widespread. It was bluntly expressed last month by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who spent years urging American action against Assad. Talks with the U.S. “couldn’t get any results,’’ he said. And, as discussed here previously, Turkey has now alligned with Russia and Iran in a plan to de-escalate the conflict. It’s “achieving a result,’’ Erdogan said. Two years ago, tensions between Putin and Erdogan had threatened to boil over, after the Turkish military shot down a Russian jet on the Syrian border. Last Friday, the Russian president flew to Ankara for dinner with his Turkish counterpart and “friend,’’ who’s agreed to buy Russian S-400 air defense missile systems, riling fellow NATO members. Meanwhile, in the most bizarre reversal, the Saudis, who had financed rebels fighting against Assad as well as radical, Al Qaeda splinter groups and according to Hillary Clinton, the Islamic State itself, are cooperating with Russia in coaxing the opposition to unite for peace talks – which will likely cement the Syrian leader in power, even as Saudi Arabia has splintered from its long-time ally Qatar. America’s Middle East allies mostly welcomed the change of U.S. president, and Donald Trump’s tough talk about challenging Iran. So far, though, he’s stuck close to his predecessor’s policy in Syria, concentrating on fighting Islamic State not Assad. So, as the goal of regime-change in Syria recedes, priorities have shifted. The Saudis and other Arab Gulf powers are urging Russia to reduce Iran’s role in Syria, where Hezbollah and other Shiite militias supported by Tehran have provided shock troops for Assad’s offensive. “Russia is better off not to be on one side of it. That’s the key message," Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a U.A.E.-based political analyst, told Bloomberg. “Here is the king, representing Arab Gulf countries, representing a lot of geopolitical weight, coming to Russia. And Russia has to take that into consideration.’’ However any expectations the Saudi monarch may have of inserting a wedge between Russia and Iran will soon be dashed: Putin won’t shift his stance on Iran to accommodate Saudi wishes, according to a person close to the Kremlin quoted by Bloomberg. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has visited Russia four times in the past 18 months, has also found it hard to sway the Russian leader. In August, Netanyahu told Putin that Iran’s growing foothold in Syria is “unacceptable.’’ In September he told CNN that the Iranians are trying to “colonize’’ Syria with the aim of “destroying us and conquering the Middle East." Russia, though, refused his demand for a buffer zone inside Syria that would keep the forces of Iran and Hezbollah at least 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Israeli border, a person familiar with the matter in Moscow said. Instead, Russia offered a 5-kilometer exclusion zone, the person said. Relishing its newly-found power broker position, Russia also rejected a U.S. demand to make the Euphrates river a dividing line between Syrian government troops and U.S.-supported forces in eastern Syria. This led to a race to capture territory from retreating Islamic State fighters in a strategic and oil-rich border region, and is currently manifesting itself in the scramble to control Drer Ezzor. At the same time, Russia has succeeded in keeping open channels of communication to all sides, from Iran to Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian radical Islamist group Hamas to Israel, said Ayham Kamel, Middle East and North Africa director at Eurasia Group. While Russia didn’t give way on the buffer zone, it has a tacit understanding that permits Israel to carry out airstrikes against Hezbollah in Syria, said Andrey Kortunov, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, a research group set up by the Kremlin. It’s been mediating, along with Egypt, to end the decade-old inter-Palestinian rift between Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza. Putin invited rival Libyan factions to Moscow, after a series of peace efforts by other countries came to nothing. Russia has become a leading investor in oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan, and was one of the few world powers to refrain from condemning its recent vote on independence. What is most surprising, is that in economic terms, the contest for influence looks dramatically one sided: America’s GDP is 13 times Russia’s. However, that’s not always the decisive factor, said Alexander Zotov, Moscow’s ambassador to Syria from 1989 to 1994. “Sometimes you have two boxers coming out to the ring, one is huge with bulging muscles and the other is smaller but nimble, and has a better technique,’’ he said. Making matters worse, the nimble fox has managed to, supposedly, sway US elections courtesy of $100,000 in Facebook ads, when both the Clinton and Trump campaign spent hundreds of millions. While economics are a limiting factor for Russia, Putin has another material advantage over American presidents according to Paul Salem, vice president of the Middle East Institute in Washington. He has no Congress to worry about, and no elections that he risks losing. Putin has been around for almost two decades, a long time in geopolitics, with “very consistent leadership, a consistent message,” Salem said. “He says what he does, he does what he says.” Russia’s rise came as U.S. policy makers grew preoccupied with Asia, and the American public tired of Middle East wars – something both Obama and Trump acknowledged. To be sure, “Washington remains the indispensable power in the region,’’ said Eurasia’s Kamel. But its commitment to traditional alliances is weakening, he said, and that’s encouraged regional leaders to hedge their bets. As Bloomberg concludes, “The Kremlin is on everyone’s mind."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-03/bloomberg-putin-new-master-middle-east
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Russian Il-76 “Candid” Modified To Support Special Operations Conducts Flight Test Over The Black Sea
Oct 03 2017 By David Cenciotti
A special version of the Il-76MD-90A (Il-476) airlifter, developed for special forces support was tracked online during flight test recently. A really interesting aircraft was spotted conducting flight testing over the Black Sea on Sept. 26, 2017: the Il-76MD-90A “78650”, the first “Candid” modified to carry out special operations. According to the Russian media outlet “Izvestia” the example “78650” is a flying testbed for a heavily modified Il-76MD-90A variant equipped with “unique on-board radio-electronic systems that would allow the aircraft to stealthily deliver paratroopers and special forces behind the enemy lines, remaining invisible and invulnerable to the enemy.” How the aircraft can evade radars and remain invisible is unclear, anyway, the experimental Candid can be distinguished from the baseline IL-76MD-90A by the presence of an opto-electronic station mounted on the lower nose section of the aircraft and for the “President-C” system used designed to protect aircraft from MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) and IR (heat-seeking) missiles by laser and radiofrequency/electronic jamming of the missile guidance. The aircraft is also equipped with advanced avionics, modernized communication suite and flight navigation system as well as a new collision warning system for low-level flying. The example “78650,” used to test the new Special OPS variant of the Candid strategic cargo, is the same aircraft involved in the flight-test and certification program for the Il-76MD-90A airlifter (first flight on Sept. 22, 2012). According to “Izvestia,” the aircraft returned to the Aviastar manufacturing facility in Ulyanovsk, where new equipment was installed, in 2014. With the modified Il-76, Moscow aims to field all-weather, day and night aircraft capable to airdrop special forces or cargo well inside the enemy territory or to land on unprepared airstrips behind the enemy lines. More or less what the U.S. special operations aircraft (such as the MC-130s or the C-17 Globemaster IIIs) have been doing for some decades. Needless to say we don’t know what type of sensor the Il-76 “78650” was testing over the Black Sea on Sept. 26; nevertheless, it is at least interesting that the activity of this highly modified aircraft filled with equipment required to undertake clandestine missions can be tracked online (by means of the usual Mode-S/ADS-B transponder) using Flightradar24.com.
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'Pray Only Trumptards Died': Soulless Liberals Celebrate Vegas Massacre As They Prove How Much They Hate Patriotic Americans
October 3, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
The majority of the nation prays for the victims of the Vegas Massacre, where nearly 60 people died and over 520 people were injured on Sunday, as videos and audio of horrendous automatic gunfire can be seen and heard as attendees of a country and western concert, the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Village, can be seen running for their lives with others lying motionless after the bullets flew. While ANP reported multiple aspects of the Vegas Massacre, here and here, below we will see the reactions of the hard-core liberal progressive left that can only be described as "soulless." EVIL TO THEIR CORE It was expected and predictable that Democratic politicians and the liberal left would start screaming for gun control, despite audio evidence indicating a weapon used during the Vegas massacre is already deemed illegal for civilians to own, so it was no surprise to see them attacking the NRA, and congress before the names of dead were even known, because as former Obama administration official, Rahm Emanuel, once so proudly said, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste," but the reactions from other liberals, attacking the victims, praying that only Trump supporters died, and other similar sentiments, shows that some people are simply evil to their core. For example, a school teacher, using the hashtag #PrayForVegas, wrote on Twitter "Lots of white Trump supporters in Las Vegas at route 21 watching Jason aldean. Pray only trumptards died." Her profile shows her holding a baby, with the words "Teacher, mother, sister, woman," with a number of hashtags including #TheResistance #DumpTrump #Impeach45 #fucktrump #pussygrabber and #resist, making it very clear she is a liberal Trump-hater. (H/T Twitchy) Not only was her tweet deleted, but her whole account appears to be gone as we now get the "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" message when clicked. The internet is forever though, so some astute user captured her profile along with her disgusting "prayer." Of course that teacher isn't the only social media user celebrating the death of almost 60 people and the injury of over 500 others, as we see another user that ended up deleting their account after massive backlash, said "It's country music so they must be trump supporters it's karma for Puerto Rico." VegasHate2.jpg Note the numbers directly below the karma tweet which shows that 13 people actually marked "like," which is the little heart icon, and 15 people retweeted it, some could have retweeted to castigate him others could have because they shared his opinion, no way to tell since the original was deleted, but it shows that while many might not publicly state their sentiments, they certainly agree with them. Perhaps one of the most ironic message from the soulless is where a tweet of an image that says #Pray For America, with the word Pray has a big X over it, and under the crossed out "Pray" the words Policy Change is substituted. The meaning is clear, people died, so this woman wants gun control policy enacted to stop more deaths..... the irony? This comes from a woman responsible for the murder of millions of babies. Her name is Cecile Richards and she is an American pro-choice activist who has served as the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund since 2006. VegasHate3.jpg Needless to say, Pro-life Twitter users called her out. Related: Deranged Leftists Mourning Tom Petty Ask, "Why Not Trump" THE SOULLESS MSM Then we have others that took to social media, that are part of the MSM, to castigate the victims, no empathy, no sympathy, because they think those that listen to country and western music, are "republican gun toters." Such as the now-former VP and senior counsel to CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold saying "If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters." VegasHate4.jpg CBS immediately fired Geftman-Gold and issued a statement, which said "This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS. Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families." Geftman Gold is now recieving death threats and has apparently done a 180 and now she claims "this senseless violence warrants the deepest empathy," a word she apparently learned the meaning of after receiving massive backlash for her initial statements. Then we have Esquire columnist Charles Pierce that thinks the Vegas massacre is a "blood sacrifice" to the Constitution and the goes on to attack Christians, Donald Trump and the NRA: (Source) Christians believe that the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary obviated forever the need for further blood sacrifice. However, not even that could obviate or eliminate the entirely secular desire for blood sacrifice within a society perceived to have gone astray. Christians pray to the crucified Christ. Christians also push the plungers that send the poisons into the veins of prisoners. Christians believe that atonement comes through the intercession of Jesus. Christians also believe that atonement comes from smart bombs and predator drones. For the first time in eight years, America saw a President that addressed the nation in regards to a tragic loss of life, who did not politicize the tragedy, never mentioned bills in Congress, no political agenda statements whatsoever as President Trump spoke of gathering more information about the "act of pure evil," then went on to speak of the first responders, compliment the police response, spoke of the victims, the families of the victims and how in times of tragedy the nation pulls together, unites. In fact the speech was so on point that a CNN employee, John King, actually called it "pitch perfect," but other members of the soulless media couldn't let go of their hatred and anger, to the point where Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple angrily denounced King's assertion, saying "CNN scrambles to glorify Trump’s Las Vegas speech." VegasCowboyBoots111.jpg BEHIND THE BLIND HATRED FOR COUNTRY AND WESTERN FANS What these soulless individuals do not understand is that their blind hatred for country and western music fans and celebrities, and their own assertions that automatically connect Trump support to the country music industry, is quite telling. AFP headlines a piece with "Attack strikes country music, bastion of US traditionalism," where the article describes country music as "one of the more conservative segments of US culture," where God and Country are hailed as good. They go on to show the basic demographics: Surveys have found that more than 90 percent of country listeners are white, with the music most popular in the Deep South and Great Plains, although the Nashville-based industry takes pains to stress that it is making inroads with minorities. A Nielsen study last year found that fans also skewed older, with the average person at a US country music show nearly 45 years old. Since Trump's shock election victory, country stars have been among the few in the entertainment industry to offer the occasional kind word for the populist real estate mogul -- although many artists, including Aldean, have preferred to avoid direct political commentary. Senator Ted Cruz, running against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, summed up the political associations of the genre when he said he switched from listening to rock because he found country stars more patriotic after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Emphasis mine. Country and western celebrities and their fans are known for patriotism, so in the mind of the soulless left, that automatically makes them conservative and Trump supporters, therefore they feel no compunction about wishing death upon them. As an example of that patriotism, one of the attendees of the concert that was attacked, was a marine veteran, Taylor Winston, and a friend who stepped up during the aftermath by "commandeering" a work truck, then going back into the scene of utter devastation to start loading up some of the most critically injured into the truck, racing them to the hospital and then going back for more. In two trips, Winston and Lewis said they transported about two dozen people to the hospital. Victims were piled into the back seat and truck bed. Winston told people to apply pressure to the wounds, as he sped to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, wanting to get people there “before they bled out.” Those men weren't the only people that transported victims before the first responders could do so, others did the same, as shown below: These are the kinds of men and women that attended the country music concert. Those are the people that these evil, liberally progressive leftists are wishing death upon. These are patriotic Americans and the American-hating segment of the population cannot stand them for it. BOTTOM LINE What the America hating liberals are admitting is that they hate patriotism and to them President Trump represents those patriots. Think about that for a second and what it says about these people that they would attack the victims of the Vegas massacre for no other reason than they are patriotic members of society and they are inadvertently telling everyone that they believe Donald Trump is a patriot, therefore that is why they hate him and his supporters. This is why the NFL anthem protests caught the American public's attention in such a strong way, because President Trump stood up for the U.S. flag, for the National Anthem, and for the country, and in the minds of the soulless left, that is unacceptable.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Soulless_Libs_Celebrate_Vegas_Massacre.php
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"I like a good story, well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself." - Mark Twain
I've been playing with this in my head all day, so let me indulge for a few minutes. It may be overtaken by events later today, but this is where it is at the moment. Stephen Paddock, 64, multi-millionaire, $400K retirement home, multiple properties, two airplanes, private pilot, instrument-rated, wears reading glasses, retired aerospace accountant and real estate mogul or somesuch. Divorced (for the last 27 years), no kids AFAIK, lives 90 minutes up I-15 from Sin City, but his roommate/gf/? is a 62-y.o. fililpina who's looking like the wrong side of the portrait of Dorian Gray. Can go anywhere he likes, do anything he likes, fly all over the country, or play in Vegas, but hooks up with Tiny Troll in Reno, in a strip club. Likes to gamble, and has multiple CTRs for cash payouts of $10K, $20K, $30K, etc. I'm not a homicide detective, and I never stayed at Holiday Inn Express, not even once, and not one thing in this adds up, and the more that's revealed, the less sense it makes, on any level. Motivations for spying (on the theory that one crime is somewhat like another) are usually sorted by the MICE acronym. (Sam Culper MI types, three-letter agency guys, et al, pitch in anywhere if you feel like it). MICE: Money Dude's a multi-millionaire, per family, with a ton of assets, house, planes, cars, etc. Ideology No known strong political or religious affinities or affiliations whatsoever. Compromise He's retired, divorced, rich, and 64. etc.
Revenge - No
Frustration/hate - Because of...?
Money/Greed - No
Sex/Jealousy - No
Property Dispute - No
Personal Vendetta - Against...?
Political - No
Class Conflict - No
Narcotics - No
Other Felonies - No
Urge to Protect - No
So, based on everything known, there's no motive whatsoever for this. What would make a 64 year-old single guy, well-off, no worries but how many years before he owes the actuarial tables his own death, fast forward the whole thing, spend thousands of dollars to meticulously craft the King of Spades mass murder of the century, just to go out in a blaze of glory and then cap himself when SWAT finally inevitably comes knocking? You have plenty of money even if you live to 99, a life of relative ease, no discernible problems of any kind, and you decide mass murder-suicide is the way to spend a weekend in Vegas at an age when most people aren't even sure they can afford to retire yet. And then there are the questions. About a hundred or so, so far. How does an accountant get rich and retire early? Real estate how? Why gamble huge sums? Accountants, Steve Martin's old schtick notwithstanding, are not known for being "wild and crazy guys". Instrument-rated pilot? A detail-oriented guy, not somebody who'd take stupid chances. And why two planes? He can only fly one at a time. Why live in Mesquite, on the AZ/Utah border, 90 miles from Vegas? If you live in Mesquite, and Vegas is an hour and a half by car, or half that by plane, what are you doing in a strip club in Reno? And why is a retired multi-millionaire in the promised land of Sugar Daddies and hard-bodied young sugar babies hanging out with a shriveled old dealer who looks like she should be the maid on Golden Girls reruns? Why does "not a gun guy" suddenly have dozens of weapons? Why modify one or more to fire at near full-auto rates? Why get interested in explosives, and have ammonium nitrate in your car trunk? Who gets interested in sniping and mass murder after a career handling nothing more fearsome than a pencil (outside of a Dilbert cartoon)? What accountant moves 27 times? What's the story on the roommate? Why's she in Australia/the Phillipines/BFE at the moment in question? Things I want to see or hear about from people who have seen: Everybody he ever worked with, his family, his ex-wife. Every minute of security footage from the day he checked into the Mandalay Bay until SWAT came knocking at his door. Every bank deposit and withdrawal he's ever made since his first piggy bank. Every job he's ever held. Interviews with every living neighbors at 27 different locations. Every flight plan he ever filed. Every trip he ever took, including gas card receipts since he got his first driver's license. Every gun he ever bought, sold, rented, or drooled on. His credit card receipts for the last 40 years. His gambling tally going back to his divorce. Every phone call he made since about the year 2000. Every medical file on him since birth. And I'm betting with all that, I still wouldn't know Jack or Squat about what would make somebody like him do what it's alleged he did Sunday night, or find any explanation for it. Which is why I can't help but presume that once we've eliminated the possible, the reason has to be something else, however improbable. Either this guy is the biggest civilizational mole in history, or we're being fed a wall of bullshit big enough to hide an aircraft carrier. Absolutely nothing about this guy is what it should be. The last time I read something this far-fetched, that didn't add up this much, the guy was named Clark, and the author's name was Tom Clancy. What's really going on here? "The truth isn't just stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine."
More news, but nothing that sheds any light on WHY. Posted by Aesop at 3:22 AM Labels: just saying, serendipity
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2017/10/who-how-why-and-wtf.html
:: 10-3-17 All News Pipeline :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Either The 'Surveillance State In America' FAILED Terribly Or Mandalay Bay Was A Massive 'New World Order' Operation
- And If The Surveillance State Failed Miserably, It's Time To Ditch It Nationwide Since It Doesn't Work
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
According to one of the top comments on this new Breitbart story titled "Gowdy On Vegas Shooting: Difficult To Believe That A Single Person Could Have Done This Without Detection", how did 64-year-old Stephen Paddock turn into Jason Bourne overnight? As Congressman Trey Gowdy asks, how was it that Paddock was not discovered with at least 23 weapons and thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition somehow carried up 32 floors of a hotel with surveillance cameras everywhere? Certainly getting all of those weapons and that ammo to their proper location for 'the kill' would have been discovered, right, isn't that what those multimillion dollar security systems are for? So how was 'Jason Bourne' able to carry out the Mandalay massacre without being detected by the surveillance state set up all around him and across America? As Newsweek recently reported, killer Stephen Paddock had ties to the military industrial complex here in America having worked for a predecessor of defense contractor Lockheed Martin many years ago. And as Paul Joseph Watson asks us in the final video below called "WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT THE LAS VEGAS MASSACRE", "Was it a lone wolf attack? Are all white men to blame? Why did eyewitnesses get a warning 45 minutes before?" As we see in one story after another from all across the internet, something isn't quite adding up with Mandalay Bay. And as we see outlined within this ANP story, the massacre there was undoubtedly a very desperate 'globalist deep state operation' rather than a 'lone wolf' as the globalists lose their grip of control upon 'President Trump's America'. As this story over at Yahoo News wisely points out, the Mandalay Bay attack was an attack upon 'traditional America', the America that bleeds 'red white and blue'. While we're certain that we'll be savaged by some for suggesting such a sinister 'globalists deep state' plot was carried out, that's quite ok for we well know, the truth often hurts. For as we see outlined below, the 'global deep state' has long used 'patsy's' to commit their acts of terror, going back many decades. The fact that Hillary Clinton and other Dems immediately began to call for gun control speaks louder than their words, especially seeing that one of their very own antifa terrorists was likely responsible for the carnage. First, the top rated comment on this Breitbart story: Think about it! 2 separate rooms, 2 blown out windows not broken, blown out, 32nd floor. Do you know what type of glass is used in windows like this and how thick it is? Enough shots were fired to kill and wound nearly 600 people. 23 weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found at the scene. All of that weight of weapons and ammunition. My own personal estimate would be at least 2,000 rounds were fired. If the weapon or weapons were fully automatic the muzzle rise and reloading would take quite a bit of time. All fired within a 10 minute period, by 1 lone 64 year old man. Something smells, smells really bad. Something stinks to high heaven and with Mandalay Bay happening, we have 100% proof of one of the following: EITHER the 'surveillance state' completely failed (which would mean it should now be ditched across the US because it failed to catch a killer when it easily should have!) OR the the killer was given assistance by others, others who would have had to have had the capability of helping Stephen Paddock GET AROUND the surveillance state. So, whatever the truth is about what happened at Mandalay Bay, something is definitely rotten to the core. As Jamie White reported back on September 27th over at Infowars, globalists magazine 'The Economist' recently reported that President Trump was the biggest threat to their liberal 'New World Order'. Claiming that President Trump's nationalism will upend their global system, the story also admits as seen in the screenshot above that at least 70 years of a 'liberal order' has actually existed, something the msm will still call a 'conspiracy theory'. Yet we'll have to laugh at their claim of being 'peacemongers' as the last 70 years has seen war after war after war after war. So, might the globalists, who are admitting 'their movement' is in huge trouble, have helped to plan Mandalay Bay? For those who'd believe people would never do such a thing, lets go back to now-declassified Operation Northwoods. Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration.[3] At the time of the proposal, communists led by Fidel Castro had recently taken power in Cuba. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. Government.[4] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated: The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere. Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The operation recommended developing a "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington". So, did the surveillance state in America completely fail hundreds and hundreds of people or was Mandalay Bay a much larger operation where the surveillance system was meant to fail so that the operation could be carried out? The signs of a massive 'false flag' include numerous reports of multiple shooters, reports of numerous exits blocked, trapping concert goers in the 'kill zone' like rats in a cage, and just as antifa recently stated they would do, numerous reports that ISIS claimed the shooter was a soldier of Allah (and remember, ISIS was originially created by the 'globalist deep state'), and the bizarre warning that 'you're all going to die' that came 45 minutes prior to the attack as just a few. As we hear in the 2nd video below, mandatory active shooter training was expected to be completed by September 30th by a business called 'Casino Essentials' in Las Vegas. What are the odds? Just another coincidence? As Mike Adams of Natural News tells us in the first video below, Mandalay Bay was 'Mission Impossible': "It’s all hogwash. The “official” narrative of how things went down in the Las Vegas massacre is so full of holes that it begs the question of just how deep the truth about this attack really goes." As Gateway Pundit reported, according to one expert, the mass shooting was 'very strange', and 'unlike anything we've ever seen before here in America. So how deep does the rabbit hole go? The Courier Mail story actually spoke to an Australian citizen who was staying in Las Vegas in the room NEXT DOOR to the shooter. Let's look at what he had to say: Another Australian man staying at the Mandalay Bay Resort has spoken about his close call with the Las Vegas gunman - claiming he launched his murderous attack from the room next door. Australian Brian Hodge, who previously worked at Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast, claimed he was staying in the room next to the shooter on level 32 at the Las Vegas resort. He said he managed to escape the initial horrific scenes inside the hotel but found himself forced to hide in a bush for several hours after the event. “I got outside safely and was hiding in bushes,” Mr Hodge said. “There were multiple people dead and multiple shooters. I was just hiding waiting for police to come get us. “We were hiding in the bushes outside waiting for the police.” Mr Hodge said he was staying in room 32134 while the gunman was in room 32135. “It was a machine gun from the room next to me,” he said. “My floor is a crime scene. They killed a security guard on my floor.”
http://allnewspipeline.com/Mandalay_Bay_Was_A_Massive_Deep_State_Operation.php
:: 10-3-17 Patroit Post :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Predictably and Despicably, Dems Exploit Vegas to Push Gun Control
Not even waiting for all the facts, Democrats use suffering to push their anti-Liberty agenda.
Paul Albaugh · Oct. 3, 2017
The nation’s worst shooting massacre happened Sunday night in Las Vegas, where 58 people attending a country music concert were murdered and more than 500 wounded. Jason Aldean was performing when the assailant opened fire from his 32nd floor hotel room. This was a horrendous act of mass murder — what President Donald Trump correctly called “pure evil.” It’s a grim reminder that evil human beings will go to extreme measures to inflict pain and suffering on others. As evil as this massacre was, gun controllers took to the microphone before any facts surrounding this atrocity were unveiled. Leftists immediately screamed about how their preferred policies would have prevented this tragedy without presenting any facts to back up their claim. What follows is a litany of lies from many leftists using this tragedy to advance their agenda to strip Liberty from law-abiding citizens. After trotting out a series of completely bogus statistics, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pontificated in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, “Congress has a moral duty to address this horrific and heartbreaking epidemic. Charged with the solemn duty to protect and defend the American people, we must respond to these tragedies with courage, unity and decisive action.” By which she means to pass left-wing anti-gun legislation curtailing the Second Amendment. Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut insisted, “This must stop. … It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren’t public policy responses to this epidemic.” He added, “The thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference. It’s time for Congress to get off its a— and do something.” Connecticut’s other Democrat senator, Richard Blumenthal, added, “It has been barely a year since what was previously the largest mass shooting in American history — the deadly attack at Pulse nightclub. … In the interim, thousands more have been lost to the daily, ruthless toll of gun violence. Still, Congress refuses to act. I am more than frustrated. I am furious!” Joe “Double Barrel Shotgun” Biden posted on Twitter, “How long do we let gun violence tear families apart? Enough. Congress & the WH should act now to save lives. There’s no excuse for inaction.” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) argued, “The problem is that ‘enough’ was many, many years and many, many brutal deaths ago.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted, “Thoughts & prayers are NOT enough. … We need to have the conversation about how to stop gun violence. We need it NOW.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) added, “How many lives must be lost before we act?” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) commented, “We suffer these horrific events repeatedly and do nothing to stop them. We must do better.” “Enough is enough,” Rep. Mike Thompson tweeted. “Congress should come together and establish a Select Committee to end gun violence.” While they’re at it, maybe they could end world hunger and poverty. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and perennial leading advocate for gun control, opined that leaders should “resolve to stop mass shootings in America — and back up our words with actions.” And of course, Hillary Clinton, the defeated presidential candidate who should be in jail instead of making public comments, urged the public to not politicize this mass murder — but then immediately politicized it. “Our grief isn’t enough,” she lectured. “We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.” In other words, defenders of the Second Amendment must put our politics aside to follow her politics. Clinton also launched into factually challenged nonsense: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.” Which brings us to several facts that these cynical exploiters conveniently leave out. It is true that the NRA has been pushing for years to have Congress allow “silencers” to be less regulated. But there is a huge misconception about these tools that Clinton and many others exploit. A “silencer” is more accurately called a suppressor. It reduces the loudness and flash of a firearm but it does not completely silence it. In other words, a silencer makes a gun slightly less loud (though it’s still roughly the decibel level of a jackhammer), and it was invented to protect hearing for those who regularly practice shooting. It does not, as Hollywood imagines, allow someone to fire a weapon that cannot be heard by others in the next room. Another consideration is whether the killer used a fully automatic weapon to carry out this attack on innocent people as early reports speculated. It’s more likely that the killer used a “bump fire” stock attachment that allows a semiautomatic rifle to simulate automatic fire. If that’s the case, Democrats will go after such accessories and Republicans will have a difficult time playing defense. Either way, the truth is, as Charles C.W. Cooke points out, “He had so many weapons that it’ll be a while before we know which ones he chose." Nevertheless, the media is quick to blame Republicans for failing to renew the Clinton administration’s 1994 "assault weapons” ban. That ban applied to semiautomatic rifles, not fully automatic ones. Fully automatic weapons already have the severest restrictions of any firearm. It is illegal to sell or buy a new one. Fully automatic weapons that were made and owned before 1986 are still in circulation but they are extremely expensive, are very difficult to acquire and have very strict rules that come with them. In order to own a fully automatic weapon, a $200 tax must be paid along with a lengthy application form to the ATF. If, after a lengthy background check, someone is approved to own a fully automatic weapon, then the ATF enters that individual’s information into a registry and the local law enforcement within that jurisdiction is notified. Fully automatic weapons are also almost never used in homicides — just three times since 1934, and two of those were by police. The Democrat talking points about gun control are completely blown out of the water with these facts, but the Leftmedia come to their aid. Yet, as they do with every heinous shooting, Democrats continue to use the blood of innocents to push for more restrictions and even to completely outlaw firearm ownership. They call for more controls despite the fact that there are already 20,000 laws on the books to restrict firearm use. Chicago, a city leftists love to tout as an example of why we need more firearm regulations, already has the most stringent gun laws to go with the highest crime rate of any city in the U.S. Moreover, a gun is an object, a tool. Monstrous murder sprees using those tools are committed only by evil or mentally deranged people. The argument from the Left goes something like this: “Well, if there were no guns, then evil people could not inflict such great harm.” Wrong! Evil people will use any means to inflict harm; knives, baseball bats, explosives, vehicles (as when 84 people were slaughtered in Nice, France) and many other objects could be used. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin perhaps said it best: “You can’t regulate evil.” We also need to be reminded of the reason that our Founding Fathers were so adamant about protecting We the People from government encroachment on the natural right to defend oneself with a firearm. Our right to keep and bear arms is the greatest deterrent to a tyrannical government that would want to enslave its people. Without gun ownership, there is no defense of Liberty. That doesn’t change even in the face of the horrific violence in Las Vegas.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51637
:: 10-2-17 The Christian Post :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Reeling After the Deadliest US Shooting: Only God Can Heal America
By Michael Brown , CP Op-Ed Contributor | Oct 2, 2017 2:03 PM
The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the editorial opinion of The Christian Post or its editors.
America is reeling again. Families have been ripped apart and individual lives have been torn apart. One day we're reeling from devastating hurricanes, the next day we're torn apart by racial divisions, the next day we're ripped apart by the worst mass shooting in our history. The pain is palpable, the shock tangible. Can America still be healed? At the time of this writing, no one knows what motivated Stephen Paddock to launch his murderous attack during an outdoor, country music concert in Las Vegas. What we do know is that he was "one of us" – not a terrorist from a foreign country and, to our knowledge, not shouting "Allahu Akbar" (although ISIS stated that he was a recent convert to Islam and claims him as one of its soldiers). As his brother Eric said, "He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something, he was just a guy. He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn't a terror attack." He added, "Mars just fell into the earth. We're completely dumbfounded." And who can imagine the loss and shock of the surviving victims and the families of those killed? Who can make sense of this? And can anyone with a conscience claim that the people mowed down at this country music concert were worse sinners than the rest of us? That they specially deserved to be slaughtered in cold blood? God forbid. I'm sure that gun control will be a hot topic in the days ahead. Does the Second Amendment guarantee our right to own assault rifles or machine guns, weapons that can murder 50+ people and injure hundreds of others in a matter of minutes? But to focus on this now is to miss the point, just as it was a mistake to focus on questions of global warming during the hurricanes (although these are certainly debates we will have). No, we must ask bigger questions at a time of such agony: Why are these tragedies occurring? Where is God in the midst of this? How can America be healed? During the devastating hurricanes, some claimed these natural disasters were judgments from God while others claimed that they were the result of man-made, global warming. Some even suggested that they we were being judged because we elected Donald Trump as our president (really!). What I sensed in my own heart as I prayed was the voice of appeal, the voice of mercy, the voice of the Healer ready to mend and restore. It was God saying to us through the storms, "America, you need Me!" Today, as I look at the bodies of the bloodied victims laying lifeless on the concert grounds, as I see others running in terror and still others falling wounded, I hear that same voice, except this time calling out more loudly, "America, you need Me!" It's the same voice I hear as our nation is torn apart by racial strife and division, the same voice I hear as our inner cities are ravaged by gangs, the same voice I hear as baby parts are thrown into dumpsters behind abortion mills. God is calling out to us, "America, you need Me!" There is no political solution. There is no social band aid that can be applied. There is no law that can be passed that will heal our sickly land. Instead, we need to get on our faces before the Lord acknowledging our own sins and shortcomings, not pointing the finger at others but rather at ourselves. And whatever our views on climate control and gun control and immigration reform and President Trump and social justice may be, we need to implore the only one who can heal our land. What else is needed to get our attention? Like it or not, our nation was founded on biblical principles, with God at the center of our nation, and America can only be great if America is good. Without Him, our condition is terminal. With Him, there is hope – but we must act now. Let us do, then, what millions of Jews did this past weekend in the celebration of Yom Kippur, fasting and confessing sins and asking for mercy. And let us make whatever changes we must make in our own lives and families to stand in right relationship with God and our neighbor. But let us also look to the cross where the Savior paid for our sins and struck at the root cause of our rebellion and pain. It's not too late for America to be healed, but our condition is certainly critical.
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Hezbollah chief tells 'non-Zionist Jews' to go home or get dragged into war
10/01/2017 2:53:47 PM Updated on 10/01/2017 2:53:48 PM Written by i24NEWS
Nasrallah, who lives in hiding out of fear of assassination, frequently levels grave threats at Israel
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has urged "non-Zionist Jews" in Israel to return to the countries which they came from or fall victim to a war between the Jewish state and his Lebanese militia. Giving an address on Sunday from an underground bunker to mark the Shiite commemoration of Ashura, he called for Jews who emigrated to Israel to “leave and return to the countries from which they came so they are not fuel for any war that the idiotic [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu government takes them to”. “They will have no secure place in occupied Palestine,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency, referring to Israel. Nasrallah, who lives in hiding out of fear of assassination, frequently levels grave threats at Israel. On Sunday he said that if Israel begins an "adventure" against Hezbollah -- which Jerusalem considers a proxy of regional rival Iran -- they would be making a serious error. The Israeli leadership does not possess “a correct assessment of where this war will lead if they ignite it," Nasrallah said, "They do not have a correct picture about what is awaiting them if they go to the idiocy of this war." Jerusalem often accuses Hezbollah, members of which serve in Lebanon's cabinet, of consistently breaking the United Nations Security Council resolutions that govern the fragile peace that has reined on the Israel-Lebanon border since the conclusion of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. However Nasrallah fired back in his Sunday address, saying Israel has a network of hidden cameras and other spy equipment rigged up in southern Lebanon, calling it a violation of Resolution 1701 and vowing to find "other means to deal with it," according to quotes carried by Haaretz. The usual war of words between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated in recent months as Jerusalem pushed -- with ultimate success -- for a beefed up mandate for the UN peacekeepers that are supposed to monitor the ceasefire arrangement on the border and as Israel grows anxious about swelling Iranian influence in Syria. Both Iran and Hezbollah, along with Russia, have thrown men, weapons and financial aid at Syria to prop up regional ally Bashar Al Assad's regime in an almost seven year-long civil war. But Israel has warned that it will not tolerate any permanent Iranian bases being built in Syria as the government succeeds in flushing the crumbling Islamic State organization from swathes of the country.
Read more: Israel chief of staff says Hezbollah quietly stocking up missile arsenal
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
:: 10-4-17 Haaretz :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Palestinian Reconciliation: Abbas Says No to 'Hezbollah Model' in Gaza as Hamas Hopes to Retain Armed Wing
Hamas' military wing is the main obstacle in resuming PA control of Gaza, officials say, with first joint government meeting slated for Tuesday
After Hamas folds, Palestinian government to convene in Gaza for first time in years
Hamas leader invites Abbas to resume control of Gaza
Optimism about Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, but tough issues aren’t yet on the table
Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip and senior Palestinian Authority officials issued further declarations over the weekend about their commitment to reconcile and said both sides are committed to moving the process ahead. But even if the parties reach agreement over administrative issues, they are still yet to deal with the main obstacles – Hamas’ military wing and donations the organization receives from abroad. The London-based, pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat reported over the weekend that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stipulated three conditions for reconciliation. First, that Hamas dismantle its military wing; second, that there be no foreign involvement in the administration of the Gaza Strip; and third, that any money for restoration and development only be channeled through the Palestinian government. According to Palestinian officials, these conditions are intended to block any involvement by former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan or countries like Qatar. A senior PA official confirmed to Haaretz that Abbas has refused to establish the “Hezbollah model” in Gaza. “The Lebanese model cannot be applied in the PA territories. If there is no unified rule and administration by institutions subservient to the rule of law, as in every normal country, there can be no talk of true national reconciliation,” the official said. Following these remarks, the deputy head of Hamas’ political wing, Dr. Moussa Abu Marzouk, demanded clarifications from Abbas. According to Abu Marzouk, Hamas’ military wing is not a subject of discussion with the PA. Its weapons, Abu Marzouk added, “are weapons intended for the defense of the Palestinian people, and as long as the Palestinian people are under occupation, the weapons will continue to be ready for any scenario.” Meanwhile, the leader of Hamas’ political wing in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, said the group’s military wing, Iz al-Din al-Qassam, is now capable of firing the same number of rockets at Tel Aviv in 51 minutes as it fired in the 51 days of the last war in 2014. According to Sinwar, there is an entire tunnel city under Gaza that can protect fighters for a long time. Nevertheless, Sinwar continues to speak in favor of reconciliation and says his organization has agreed to many compromises in order to promote that goal. He said he would break the neck of anyone within Hamas who tries to hurt their efforts. Preparations are continuing in Gaza for a Palestinian government meeting on Tuesday. A delegation of journalists from Ramallah arrived in Gaza on Friday, and government ministers and dozens of other officials will arrive on Monday. They will also be joined by senior Palestinian intelligence and security officials, headed by intelligence chief Majid Faraj and the head of the Palestinian security service, Ziad Hab al-Rih. Delegations from Egyptian intelligence and the United Nations are also expected to arrive in Gaza ahead of Tuesday’s meeting. After the visit, to be billed as a festive event, delegations will head to Cairo to continue reconciliation discussions.
read more: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/1.815009
:: 10-3-17 The Washington Times :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Supreme Court struggles with judges’ role in drawing political maps
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Redistricting — the process of drawing new legislative maps every decade — has long been the blood sport of American politics. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday debated just how deeply they want the federal courts to wade into that. Justices across the political spectrum said partisan gerrymandering is distasteful, but during oral arguments on a case out of Wisconsin, conservative members said they saw little chance of limiting the courts’ role if they start to get involved. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who has long been seen to view protecting the majesty of the court as a paramount goal, worried what voters would think if judges strike down state maps by ruling that one party was destined to too many seats. “We will have to decide in every case whether the Democrats win or the Republicans win,” the chief justice said. “That is going to cause very serious harm to the status and integrity of the decisions of this court in the eyes of the country.” Wisconsin state officials acknowledged that they were aiming to help Republicans when the Legislature and governor — all under Republican control — redrew the lines after the 2010 census. They packed Democrats into relatively few districts, where Democratic candidates easily won, then spread Republicans more evenly among districts to benefit their party’s candidates. That led to a situation in 2012 where Republicans won less than 49 percent of the vote among those who cast ballots for the state Assembly but garnered 60 of the 99 seats. Paul M. Smith, the attorney for Democratic voters who challenged Wisconsin’s map, said that if the court didn’t intervene, then every state that leaves redrawing to politicians will follow Wisconsin’s lead and draw districts where the party affiliation of the winner is never seriously in doubt. “It may be that you can protect the court from seeming political, but the country is going to lose faith in democracy big time because voters everywhere are going to be like the voters in Wisconsin and [say], ‘No, it really doesn’t matter whether I vote,” Mr. Smith told the justices, countering the chief justice’s fear of politicization. Mr. Smith said legislatures that stand to benefit aren’t going to fix themselves and neither will Congress. “You are the only institution in the United States that can solve this problem, just as democracy is about to get worse,” he told the court. Justices have struck down plans over racial gerrymanders and have said in previous rulings that extreme partisan gerrymanders could be illegal. But the court has never struck down a map specifically over partisanship. Part of the difficulty has been to come up with a credible test. Voting rights activists say they have one, thanks to the latest social science research that promises to calculate the number of votes “wasted” because voters were packed into districts for partisan reasons. Other social scientists, though, question whether that screen is solid enough. They say the “efficiency gap” test would invalidate plans written by supposedly neutral judges. Indeed, Wisconsin’s attorneys said that of the 17 worst maps identified by the efficiency gap method, 10 were drawn by neutral arbiters such as nonpolitical commissions or by federal judges. Erin E. Murphy, the attorney for the Wisconsin Senate, said those “false positives” proved the “EG” test is fatally flawed. “At the end of the day, what matters is how people vote in elections,” she said. Chief Justice Roberts called the calculations “sociological gobbledygook” and repeated his fears of being dragged into a boondoggle. The law calls for any federal challenges to districts to be heard by a three-judge panel at the district court, with appeals coming directly to the Supreme Court. “The whole point is you’re taking these issues away from democracy and throwing them into the courts,” the chief justice said. Court watchers have predicted that the case could come down to a split with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the deciding role. In previous cases, he has sought good tests for identifying bad plans. He didn’t tip his hand on Tuesday, though he did pressure Wisconsin on whether it would be illegal for a state to explicitly call for maximizing political advantage for one party or another as part of its redistricting process. After some prodding, the attorney for the state Senate said she believed that would cross a line. Justice Stephen G. Breyer offered a multipart test that he said could cut through the clutter. He said if a single party controlled the process, if the map led to a major disparity between percentage of votes and the end result of seats and if it was deemed to be persistent across elections, then it could be questioned. “I suspect that’s manageable,” he said. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that in Wisconsin’s case, Republican legislators kept sending the map back to squeeze out more partisan advantage. She said if challengers could prove the state sought the most partisan map possible, that should be enough. It’s possible the justices never get to the merits of the case. Some members of the court, including Justice Kennedy, questioned whether the lead plaintiff challenging Wisconsin’s map could bring the case because he lived outside the districts in question. He argued that he had standing to sue because the state’s maps affect the makeup of the Legislature. But several justices suggested that his claim would have been stronger if he was affected by the redrawing. Outside the court building, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger led a rally on the case, telling the crowd that “it’s time to terminate gerrymandering.” Mr. Schwarzenegger, who as governor pushed California to move redistricting from politicians’ hands to a citizen commission, said high re-election rates are proof that the system is “fixed” and Congress won’t change it. “Herpes and colonoscopies are more popular than Congress, but for some miracle reason, 98 percent of them get re-elected,” he said. “It’s a system where the politicians are picking the voters, rather than the voters picking the politicians.” Alex Swoyer contributed to this report.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/3/scotus-struggles-judges-role-draw-political-maps/
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U.S. expels 15 Cuban diplomats, fuelling tensions with Havana
Matt Spetalnick, Sarah Marsh October 3, 2017 / 11:03 AM / 2 days ago
WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday expelled 15 Cuban diplomats to protest Cuba’s failure to protect staff at the U.S. embassy in Havana from a mysterious spate of health “attacks,” spurring new tensions between the former Cold War foes. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the expulsions from Cuba’s embassy in Washington were also intended to ensure “equity” in staffing levels, after he recalled more than half the U.S. diplomatic personnel in Havana on Friday. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the decision as “unjustified,” accused the United States of insufficient cooperation with Cuba’s investigation of the health incidents and urged Washington to stop politicizing the matter. The steps taken by Republican President Donald Trump’s administration delivers another blow to his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama’s policy of rapprochement, including actions likely to erode the normalization of a relationship dominated for decades by mutual hostility and suspicion. The latest U.S. move was communicated to Cuban Ambassador Jose Ramon Cabanas on Tuesday, and the diplomats were given seven days to leave, a State Department official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Until the Government of Cuba can ensure the safety of our diplomats in Cuba, our embassy will be reduced to emergency personnel to minimize the number of diplomats at risk of exposure to harm,” Tillerson said in a statement. “We continue to maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba, and will continue to cooperate with Cuba as we pursue the investigation into these attacks,” he added. The United States announced on Friday that it was sharply reducing its diplomatic presence in Cuba, as it warned U.S. citizens not to visit the Communist-ruled island because of the alleged attacks it says have caused hearing loss, dizziness and fatigue in 22 U.S. embassy personnel. The State Department had said the embassy was halting regular visa operations for Cubans seeking to visit the United States and would offer only emergency services to U.S. citizens. Cuba has denied involvement in any attacks and says it has reinforced security for U.S. diplomatic personnel. Rodriguez said lack of U.S. cooperation had stymied its own investigation into the matter. Authorities had not provided access to the injured people and the doctors who examined them, or to the homes where the attacks allegedly took place, he said, adding that evidence had been delivered late. Rodriguez urged the United States to cooperate more and said Cuba was also working with Canada on the investigation as Canadian diplomats have reported similar symptoms. So far, none of the probes have yielded any answers about how the alleged attacks were carried out or who was responsible. PRESSURE FROM LAWMAKERS Slideshow (4 Images) Several Cuban-American Republican lawmakers, including U.S Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, had urged that Cuban diplomats be kicked out in retaliation for the Cuban government’s failure to get to the bottom of the attacks. “I commend the U.S. State Department for expelling a number of Cuban operatives from the U.S.,” Rubio, an influential voice on Trump’s Cuba policy, said in a statement. But James Williams, president of Engage Cuba, a Washington-based pro-engagement lobbying group said: “This decision appears to be purely political, driven by the desire of a handful of individuals in Congress to halt progress between our two countries.” ”It looks like we are returning the threats and tensions of the 1960s,” said Maria Fernandez, a 45-year-old office worker in Havana. “This is madness by Trump. It’s really sad, because we are so close, and yet so far away from a sincere rapprochement.” Trump, who in June vowed to partially roll back the detente with Cuba agreed by his Democratic predecessor Obama after five decades of hostility, called the Cuban government “corrupt and destabilizing” in his address to the United Nations last month. Cuba described his comments as “unacceptable and meddling.” Rodriguez urged the United States “not to continue politicizing this matter, which can provoke an undesirable escalation and could rarify and reverse even more bilateral relations.” In Havana, U.S. diplomats frantically selling off their belongings at garage sales and on social media, said they were disappointed to be ordered to leave. In a message on Facebook, the embassy’s top official, career diplomat Scott Hamilton, said he would also be leaving. “I am an optimist and hope we will return one day, before too long,” he wrote. “Hasta la proxima Cuba.” Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu and Patricia Zengerle in Washington and Nelson Acosta and Marc Frank in Havana; Editing by Tom Brown
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Report: Antifa Receiving Military Training in Syria – Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Travelled to Middle East
Even after ISIS takes responsibility, MSM fights to cover up Islamic link just like San Bernardino
Mimi Al-Laham & Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - October 3, 2017
Editor’s Note: Just like the Pulse nightclub massacre, the San Bernardino attack and the 2009 Ft. Hood shooting, the mainstream media is doing everything it can to cover up the connection between Islamic terrorism and major massacres on US soil. Establishment reporters are even claiming it’s “fake news” that ISIS took responsibility for the attack – even though they did take responsibility for the attack. The following article reveals the dark triad of Antifa, Kurdish members of ISIS and anarcho-communists Kurds – and by implication why a country music festival – the bastion of flyover-country Americana – was targeted. For background, read this RELATED article first: FBI Source: Vegas Shooter Found with Antifa Literature, Photos Taken in Middle East. Members of Antifa are illegally crossing the Syrian border to receive military training from Kurdish militias as part of a dark triad between Antifa, anarcho-communist Kurds and Kurdish members of ISIS. The US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has anarcho-communist politics which has attracted American and European Antifa to fight alongside them in what they refer to as “the Rojova revolution.” Security agencies are concerned that these Antifa members will continue the “revolution at home” once they return. Already FBI sources have revealed Antifa literature and photos taken in the Middle East which were found in the hotel room of suspected Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock. In a policy that began under the Obama administration, the US military is providing weapons and training to YPG members, many of whom are directly linked to the PKK terrorist organization. This policy was wrapped under the guise of fighting ISIS, however, backing terrorists to fight terrorists hasn’t worked in the past. An uproar occurred when US special forces in Syria attached YPG insignia to their arms and the US military was accused of supporting terrorism, to which the Pentagon admitted wrongdoing and said the use of the insignia was unauthorized. As a result, the US military was forced to rebrand YPG as “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) to provide plausible deniability. The weapons and military training that the US military has provided them with are in turn being provided to western members of Antifa. These members of Antifa, along with the Kurds, have been constantly glorified in the mainstream media. Rolling Stone magazine interviewed several “western leftists” that are fighting in the YPG. And the fact that these anarcho-communist militias have ‘women who are fighting ISIS’ is something that is oft-repeated. Antifa groups in Europe and North America have posted photos of their fighters holding up the Kurdish YPG-flag along with the Antifa flag in Syria. Now this group of militants is calling themselves the International Revolutionary People’s Guerilla Forces [IRPGF] and the vanguard “of the revolution” in Rojava who vow to fight capitalism all over the world. This is already happening as Antifa members were part of an armed demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona. Kurdish military training is spreading to Antifa and other radical leftist groups in the West. One of the groups involved, the John Brown Gun Club, already glorifies the Kurdish YPG. It’s plausible the photos from the Middle East that were found in the room of the Las Vegas shooter (along with Antifa literature) were photos of Antifa fighting alongside Kurds in Syria, and it’s also possible the shooter crossed into Syria to receive military training. Foreign fighters are able to legally fly to Turkey and then illegally cross into the Syrian border without being detected. Germany is already reeling from a large population of Antifa, 1.2 million Kurdish immigrants and Kurdish militant groups working together in large numbers. Furthermore, thousands of Germans have illegally crossed into Syria to fight alongside Kurds, thus it’s no surprise when German Antifa gangs show up at right-wing rallies with hundreds of people and commit violent attacks. The media, however, continues to glorify Kurdish fighters as “the only people fighting ISIS” while ignoring the efforts of the Syrian and Russian governments. This is mainly because the military-industrial complex had plans to balkanize Syria and Iraq, in the “project for a new Middle East” and they don’t care if they accomplish it using Islamic terrorists or Kurdish communists. The Kurdish militias are not much better than ISIS, nor as liberal and democratic as the media portrays them to be. In fact, the Kurds themselves are not one homogenous group, with the majority of Kurds being Sunni Muslims and some of them even joining ISIS. In Iraqi Kurdistan the percentage of female genital mutilation is around 70% while it’s zero in all other parts of the country. In fact Iraqi Kurdistan, along with Yemen and Egypt, are the only areas of the Middle East where female genital mutilation is routinely performed. But even the communist YPG has been active at ethnically cleansing Christian Assyrians, Arabs and other minorities in the areas they deem the “Kurdish” state. Often times the areas they claim don’t even have a Kurdish population. Since the Kurdish population aren’t a majority in the areas Kurdish militias are trying to annex, they are carrying out these ethnic cleansings of non-Kurdish minorities in an attempt to achieve a demographic shift. The YPG forcibly disarmed Assyrian Christian militias after assassinating their leader, David Jindo. In Iraq the US-backed Kurdish militia Peshmerga forced Christian and Yazedi militias to disarm, before abandoning them to genocide once ISIS attacked. And the Kurdish regional government of Iraq is still not allowing these minority groups to return to their villages even though ISIS was pushed out two years ago. The idea that Kurds deserve their own state is something that is being perpetually pushed by pro-war think tanks and liberal sympathizers; however, this pays little attention to the origin and history of the Kurdish people. For one thing, the word Kurd was a designator for Iranian nomads. Like many other nomadic groups such as Bedouins and gypsies, they cross borders tending to livestock. They typically cross through Iraq and Turkey following the Euphrates River and live mostly in mountains. In 1915, the Turkish government promised Kurds the homes and cities of the Armenian Christians if they were to participate in the Armenian and Assyrian genocide. However after Kurds complied, Turkey reneged on the deal of giving them autonomy. The population of Kurds in north Syria resulted from multiple waves of illegal Kurdish immigration from Turkey after they failed to mount insurrections against the Turkish government. Many of these Kurdish were given refugee status by the Syrian government at the time, but now these same refugees are demanding their own state and are trying to claim ownership of much of Syria’s oil fields and are blocking the Syrian army from fighting east of the Euphrates. This foreign policy of balkanizing Middle Eastern countries to create a Kurdistan may have explosive implications not just for the Middle East, but also for the West, as it breeds a new form of “Antifa resistance” as well as terrorism in the same way that ISIS was bred through US deep state foreign policy.
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BREAKING: Sheriff Says Las Vegas Shooter Could Have Been “Radicalized”
Authorities admit potential motive for first time
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com - October 4, 2017
During a live press conference, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, may have been “radicalized” and that authorities were attempting to uncover the source of his radicalization. “Did this person get radicalized unbeknownst to us? And we want to identify that source,” said Lombardo. If confirmed, this suggests that there may have been a political motive behind the massacre. As Infowars reported earlier, according to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner, Paddock may have deliberately targeted conservatives attending a country music concert. Paddock’s family insists that he had no strong political or religious inclinations.
https://www.infowars.com/breaking-sheriff-says-las-vegas-shooter-could-have-been-radicalized/
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'They took too long to take him out': Veteran, who alerted the cops to Vegas gunman's EXACT location, demands to know why it took more than an hour for the hotel room to be raided as it's revealed officers waited outside for more than 24 minutes
Police received their first report of gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival, in Las Vegas at 10.08pm on Sunday
But it was 72 minutes before SWAT teams burst into Stephen Paddock's room
An officer told dispatch they were armed and ready to enter Paddock's room at 10.55pm but were told to wait until SWAT arrived
After 24 minutes, SWAT teams burst into the shooter's Mandalay Bay room at 11.21pm and found the 64-year-old had shot himself moments earlier
Police have not yet explained why officers were delayed
Chris Bethel, who was in a room just a couple floors below the shooter at the Mandalay Bay, had called the police to alert them to Paddock's location
He is questioning why it took so long for the cops to respond
'It took them too long to get over there, to take him out,' said the Iraq veteran
By Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com Published: 14:03 EDT, 3 October 2017 | Updated: 15:03 EDT, 3 October 2017
An Iraq war veteran who was staying in the same hotel as the Las Vegas gunman is demanding to know why it took more than an hour for the cops to take him down.
Police received their first report of gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival, in Las Vegas at 10.08pm on Sunday.
But it was another 72 minutes before SWAT teams finally burst into Stephen Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay to find the suspect had shot himself dead moments earlier.
The most concerning issue is there appears to have been an unexplained 24 minute delay, where SWAT teams were armed and ready to go outside Paddock's room, but waited until 11.21pm to enter.
Now Chris Bethel, who was in a room just a couple floors below the shooter at the Mandalay Bay, is questioning why it took so long for the cops to stop Paddock who shot dead 59 and injured 527 in the most deadly mass shooting in American history. 'It felt like it took them too long to get over there, to take him out,' said Bethel, an Iraq war veteran. 'To get him. And it's actually eating me up inside.' Bethel, of Texas, who was in Vegas for an IT conference, said that he'd been in his room when he suddenly heard gunshots coming from above him at just after 10pm on Sunday. 'I could just hear the gun shots, continuously. Just full automatic,' Bethel told CBS Dallas-Fort Worth. 'There was explosions going off. It was like a bomb just went off man. And then there were more gun shots.' He says he called the front desk at the Mandalay Bay, the hotel across the street, and the cops to warn them that the shooter was above him, but says no one answered. 'Seconds are going by, minutes are going by, the rounds are continuously going,' he said. 'Changing weapons, changing calibers, you can hear the difference in the gunshots.' As he watched, he saw police responding to the wrong location below. Eventually, he was able to get hold of someone and tell them: 'He's not over there, he's over here'. Police have since credited Bethel with helping them locate the shooter. But Bethel says he's been left with the feeling that more lives could have been saved if only someone had picked up the phone sooner. 'I feel like I didn't do enough,' he told CBS News. 'I feel like I couldn't get a hold of somebody quick enough to let them know. And it felt like it took them too long to get over there, to take him out.' Police radio audio revealed that officers had located the location of the shooter, in room 135 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay, as early as 10.24pm. Minutes later, cops found a security guard in the hallway outside Paddock's room who had been shot by the suspect, and asked for back up. Paddock had shot through the door, hitting the guard in the leg. He is expected to survive. By 10.37pm SWAT officers reported they were moving up to the 32nd floor to help officers, and at 10.55pm, an officer said he was ready to go in. But he was told to 'be careful' and wait after he admitted the SWAT team weren't there yet, Newsweek reported. At 10.57pm, cops reported they had locked down the hallway and had officers ready to go in. TIMELINE OF TERROR IN VEGAS: Country music star Jason Aldean was performing on stage at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when lone gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on the 22,000 people gathered. About 10pm: Paddock smashes out two windows on the 32nd floor with a hammer-like implement and opens fire with his arsenal of at least 19 weapons - including fully automatic weapons. 10.08pm: First phone call to police that shots had been fired at the festival outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 10:18pm: Officers ask the hotel to shut down the elevator so the suspect can't flee. 10:19pm: A team of four officers begin to make their way into the Mandalay Bay, moving up towards the 32nd floor. 10:21pm: An officer, whose location is unclear, calls over the radio: 'Gunshot wounds to the chest and head. We need immediate medical!' Another officer says police and revelers on the ground are still taking fire. 10.23pm: False reports come in of multiple shootings at multiple other locations. Response teams are sent out to investigate. 10:24pm: One of the four officers inside the Mandalay calls dispatch to report that they are in the stairwell on the 32nd floor and can still hear gunshots coming from room 135. Dispatch responds by calling for backup from SWAT to help prepare to bust into the suspect's room. 10:25pm: Radio transmissions indicate Paddock may have stopped firing into the crowd at this moment. 10:28pm: Police officers gathered at the Mandalay Bay report that Paddock has shot at a security guard in the hallway of the floor outside his room. They call for backup. 10:37pm: SWAT officers report they are now moving up to the 32nd floor to help the police officers. 10:38pm: Cops say they haven't heard gunfire in about 10 minutes. Police radio transmissions reveal there is still some confusion over which floor the gunman is on, and whether there could be multiple shooters. 10.44pm: On the ground, terrified festival goers begin stealing empty police cars to flee from gunfire. 10.54pm: Officers report they've cleared many areas in the hotel and casino. 10:55pm: An officer said he was on floor 32 and was readying to make entry. But he warned to be 'careful' on police radio transmissions by control, who asked 'Are you with the SWAT guy?' When the officer replied he was not, he was told to wait for them. 10:57pm: An officer reports they had locked down the hallway outside the gunman's room, telling dispatch they had 'multiple rifles and plenty of officers'. But there was then a 24 minute delay while they appeared to wait for the SWAT team to arrive.
11.08pm: Las Vegas police confirm they have shut down a portion of The Stri 11.21pm: SWAT teams storm the 32nd floor room that Stephen Paddock was firing from. They gained entry using flashbangs designed to stun the shooter. Paddock fired through the door as SWAT teams were trying to breach the room. By the time they entered the room, he had shot himself dead. Seventy-two minutes elapsed from the first 911 call to Paddock being found dead. 11.24pm: Officer tells dispatch: 'We have one suspect down.' 11:28pm: 'We have one suspect down. Multiple firearms,' an officer confirmed again, adding it was definitely the suspect who was 'firing into the crowd.' 11.32pm: McCarran International Airport announced it was diverting flights destined for the city. 11.34pm: Interstate 15 in and out of Las Vegas was shut down for a time. 11.56pm: Hospitals in Las Vegas said that at least two people were dead and 24 were injured of which 12 were critical. 12.01am: Almost two hours after the first emergency call police confirmed that one suspect was 'down'. 1.06am: The Southern California police department say that one of their officers is among the injured. 1.34am: At this point the death toll dramatic rises to 20 people injured and 100 injured. 1.54am: Police in Las Vegas says that two of their officers who were off-duty were among the dead. 2.13am: Investigators say that they are looking for the 'roommate' of the shooter - Marilou Danley and describe her as a person of interest. 3.30am: Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo announces that the death toll is now at least 50 dead and 200 injured - making this the deadliest shooting in US history 6.30am: Investigators say they have located Marilou Danley and say that she is overseas and is not longer a person of interest. 9.30am: Sheriff provides another update and says that the death toll is now in excess of 59 and that 527 people are injured. But there is an unexplained 24 minute delay as armed and ready officers were forced to wait outside the suspect's hotel room door. Eventually, at 11.21pm, SWAT teams used an explosive device to break into the gunman's room and found he had killed himself a few moments before. 'Breach, breach, breach!' an officer was heard yelling over police scanner radio, as they entered the room after the explosion, before another officer told dispatch: 'We have one suspect down.' The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department declined to comment about the delay to the DailyMail.com. But other police scanner audio captured the confusion faced by cops who received reports of multiple shootings at multiple hotels and locations across the Vegas strip, and pleas by officers for medical teams. 'We're now getting reports of shots fired at Cesar's and the Bellagio,' an officer reported to dispatch. Dispatch responded: 'We need confirmation from these hotels as soon as possible about these shots fired. We just have one suspect down at this point of time.' The hotels confirmed the reports were incorrect. Swat teams were also sent out to reports of gunfire at New York, New York, Paris Las Vegas and The Tropicana. One overwhelmed cop called in for backup at Paris for reports of 434 - the Vegas cop code for illegal shooting. 'You have a couple more strike teams on route to you, please hold and be safe on your entry,' a dispatcher responded. 'Are you still hearing 434s? 'We have people running everywhere,' the cop responded. 'Are you hearing 434s right now?' 'Negative, negative,' she told dispatch. It's possible the confusion and chaos, and concerns there was multiple shooters, could have delayed the response. In total, 59 people lost their lives and 527 were injured in what became the worst mass shooting in American history. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said his deputies found 16 weapons in Paddock's Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino hotel room, where he's been staying since September 28. They also recovered another 18 from his Mesquite home, as well as several thousand rounds of ammunition and explosives. Several pounds of ammonium nitrate, a bomb making ingredient, were found in Paddock's car. POLICE AUDIO AS COPS STORMED GUNMAN'S HOTEL ROOM
Officer: 169-10, we got shots fired, 4:15AFF. Sounded like an automatic firearm.
Control: Code red, 169-10, we have shots fired...
Officer: (inaudible yelling) It's coming from upstairs in the Mandalay Bay. Upstairs Mandalay Bay, halfway up, I see the shots coming from Mandalay Bay, halfway up.
2nd officer: Control, 3661IC, we have multiple casualties. GSWs (gun shot wounds), send a medical team, multiple casualties.'
Control: Repeated just be advised there is automatic fire, fully automatic fire, from an elevated position. Take cover.
2nd officer 'Multiple GSWs to the chest, legs, femoral arteries. Send a medical team (inaudible). We have an active shooter, we have an active shooter inside the fairgrounds.
3rd officer: Shots fired from Mandalay Bay, there's many people down, stage left, just be advised.
4th officer: 790RI, I'm gonna form a strike team, Mandalay Bay and the Boulevard. I need five officers on me.
5th officer (storming the room): Control to Zebra 20
Control: Zebra 20, go ahead
5th officer: Set on the suspect's door. I need everybody in that hallway to be aware of it and get back. We need to pop this and see if we can get an inside response from this guy. To see if he's in here or if he has actually moved out somewhere else.
Control: Copy. All units on the 32nd floor, SWAT has explosive breach, everyone in the hallway needs to move back. All units move back.
Officer: Breach, breach, breach.
(Gunshot?)
5th officer: (inaudible) We have one suspect down.
Control: We need the air clear for Zebra 20, they have one suspect down inside the room. Zebra 20 has one suspect down inside the room.
Officer: Can you confirm the location of the suspect down, please?
Control: Zebra 20 is saying there is one down inside the room.
Officer: Inside the what?
Control: Inside the room at Mandalay Bay.
Officer: 7 Victor, there is one down, 32nd floor, Mandalay Bay.
Control: Is that room 135?
Officer: That's affirmative, one suspect down in 135, floor 32, Mandalay Bay. I have the floor.
Officer: Control to 360, Can you confirm that room number?
Control: 135, 32nd floor, Mandalay Bay.
Officer: Suite 135-32, is that correct?
Control: 32nd floor, Suite 135.
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The Chertoff Connection: Las Vegas | Jack Mullen
I saw a post on Facebook containing the comments of a forum shown below. This comment was of interest because Stephanie Sledge had been connecting the shooting dots in Las Vegas to expanding State agendas to further impede and restrict activities and rights of American at public places. She plans to release an article on subject soon. [UPDATE] Stephanie’s article is here. I am not saying the information in this anonymous post is the truth, but it does make sense and is consistent with the story, lets explore this idea. At the time of the shooting in Las Vegas, the United States Congress was considering a bill making gun ownership easier and consistent with the US Constitution. The bill, called “The Sportsman’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act” was expected to pass congress and be made ready for President Trump to sign soon. The bill would allow gun owners to, again, transport registered firearms across state lines, carry guns in national parks and eliminate the $200 transfer tax on silencers. At the same time another bill introduced by the NRA would make sane and consistent State concealed carry laws, by allowing concealed carry permitted gun owners to carry in all States, regardless of the State laws, which violate the US Constitution (which is incorporate to all States Constitutions.) These laws are big steps toward unraveling all of the unconstitutional law created by the individual states in support of the agenda to disarm Americans. According to Stephanie Sledge, the Las Vegas shooting will be used to call for new and extreme security measures in all public places where people gather, like casinos, department stores, schools etc., in addition to a demand for more gun legislation.
Here is the interesting comment found on a forum dated 9-11-17 – way before the events of October 1, 2017.
“if their plan is successful state of nevada will pass a law in the future making all casinos have mandatory metal detectors and backscatter machines. soon after a federal law will be passed to put these machines in universities, high schools, federal buildings, you name it. osi systems and chertoff are the main producers of these machines. sometime around 2020 chertoff and osi will merge into a single company. after they merge the owners will sell off all their stock and make billions in profit. mr chertoff has been in contact with sheldon adelson. mr adelson will become a huge sponsor of these machines and he will be the first to put them in his casinos when the law passes. this is my last message for now. don’t expect me to return anytime soon -john
Notice the mention of Michael Chertoff in this post. It was after 9-11 dual citizen (Israeli, and US), Michael Chertoff became the chief ‘information container’ of all 911 disclosures because he was appointed to the position of Head of DHS.
After 9/11 Chertoff became the most powerful man in America as the head of the Department of Homeland Security
After his appointment to the head of DHS, Chertoff quickly asserted himself with the message “Its Okay to Torture Prisoners” in 2005.
It is no surprise Chertoff has a long history of association with Anti-American events and legislation starting even before 9-11. It was in 1995 when Chertoff, an appointee of Bill Clinton (no conflict of interest here,) was appointed ‘special’ counsel for the Clinton White Water scandal.
Before that in 1993, Chertoff was the lead prosecutor and with Judge Michael Mukasey presided over the the trial of the “Blind Sheikh”, Omar Abdel Rahman in the aftermath of the false flag bombing at WTC in 1993. The FBI was later found to have created this terrorist event. After 911, Chertoff was one of the authors of the Patriot Act, which had already been written and was waiting for the just such an event as 911. Then came the “Underwear Bomber” false flag, and it was Chertoff who recommended new body scanners for airports, while at the same time His lobbying firm, Chertoff Group (founded 2009), represented manufacturers of the scanners, in particular Rapiscan, one of the two companies that were contracted by TSA to take a nude picture of you at the airport. Chertoff made millions from scanning our bodies with harmful radiation in search of a ‘terrorist’ never found. BTW, has anyone ever gone to a country like Iceland or New Zealand where they can just walk off the plane — and go on their merry way? That is quite the experience. Conveniently, Chertoff was Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal investigations on 911 and was responsible for releasing the ‘five dancing Israelis’ caught filming and cheering when the WTCs fell to the ground. Chertoff authorized their return, before police could even question, to Israel. Chertoff’s story is long, dark and sordid and his connections to all events which involve disarming Americans is easily taken for granted. It is not hard to see the possible connections between the Las Vegas shooting and Michael Chertoff & company. Following the advice of fellow dual citizen Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a good crisis go to waste“, and, in this case, the crisis is likely an event with many agendas, why shouldn’t one of these agendas enrich Michael Chertoff again while supporting the Israeli agenda and costing Americans both money and liberties. The other individual mentioned in the comment above is Sheldon Adelson a billionaire dual citizen Jewish business man who owns the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas and other Las Vegas properties and he also lives in Las Vegas. Adelson is apparently happy to put the Chertoff radiation machines in his hotels. I suppose the happy gamblers and show goers will not mind a few dozes of radiation everyday. Wake Up America Americans are being manipulated into a newly constructed prison nation — these shootings are not organic and will continue. Remember it was the Obama administration who made the absurd and irrational statement ‘“common sense” gun laws will deter jihadists [terrorists] who are planning attacks.’ Decoded that means give up your guns and the shootings will miraculously end. Giving up your guns is the PRIMARY goal of these shootings, but the secondary goals are equally important. Creating a surveillance state which restricts individual fluidity within their country while tracking and cataloging and archiving your interests, movements, choices and routines which will eventually lead to a complete prediction algorithm attached to your person for use in war-game planning. There is no coincidence this shooting happened when two NRA bills were in the pipeline to reduce gun restrictions in America. It is also NO COINCIDENCE that moves to disarm people have historically preceded mass genocide, misery and population reduction. The USA is about to experience a significant financial collapse. It would not be good for those who caused the collapse and then looted American wealth to stand before an armed population. For a better understanding of how being disarmed results in potential genocide, investigate the plight of the Afrikaners (Boer) of South Africa and how the white and Christian populations were decimated after the Bolshevik “revolution” of 1917 in Russia. It is irrational and a contradiction to believe taking guns from the people will make them safer. Please see my detailed explanation in this article I wrote “There is No Such Thing as Gun Free Zone.”
https://thegovernmentrag.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/the-chertoff-connection-las-vegas/
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Curiouser and Curiouser – Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Used Multiple ID’s, Multiple SS Numbers, and Married Two Men Simultaneously…
Posted on October 3, 2017 by sundance
Much like the San Bernardino attack revealed a manipulative scheme for green-card marriages, so too is the Mandalay Bay Massacre revealing the use of multiple identities within the associations of the killer. Marilou Who? Oh, and if Marilou Danley she reads these reports before getting on board her flight back from Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia and/or wherever the heck she really is… well, she likely ain’t coming back. Just saying. (Via NewsWeek) Marilou Danley, the live-in girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock, and now a “person of interest” in the shooting investigation, is a Philippines native who has used two Social Security numbers during her two-plus decades in the United States, and was married to two men at the same time, public records show. The person who may hold the key to solving the mystery of why the Vegas gunman killed 59 and wounded nearly 600 people led a convoluted life of her own, with two simultaneous husbands, a bankruptcy, two Social Security numbers, multiple addresses in several states and even different ages depending on which state records you review. The details are part of a Newsweek investigation into Danley’s past, which takes on a new urgency now that the FBI is frantically working to bring her “immediately” back from overseas for more information about the shooting and the $100,000 Paddock wired to her family there days before the shooting. Marilou came to the U.S. as Marilou Natividad, married Geary Danley in 1990 and took his surname. Danley, 76, lives in Arkansas, but he has declined to answer questions. In 1996, Marilou wed Jose Bustos, and became Marilou Bustos. But she did not dissolve her marriage to Danley until 2015, divorce records show. Both marriage licenses were filed in Clark County, which includes the city of Las Vegas, even though the Danleys lived in Tennessee and Arkansas around the time of their marriage, and the Bustoses lived in California. Marilou also has a daughter, currently living in California, but it is unclear whether one of her husbands, or another man, fathered the child. In California, her name is registered as Marilou Natividad-Bustos and her birthday is listed as January 1962, making her 55 years old. Under a different Social Security number in Nevada, her name is Marilou Lou Danley and her birthday is listed as December 1954, making her 62. Oh, my favorite paragraph this week: At times, her identities merged: Marilou filed for bankruptcy in 2012, under the name Bustos, while she was still married to Danley and living with Paddock in Reno. Her lawyer during the bankruptcy has not yet responded to a request for comment. Marilou held multiple addresses, some simultaneously—in Arkansas, Tennessee, California, Florida and other states, and often moved through cities within those states. (more).
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NFL Chaos Is Part Of The Globalists Long-Held Plans To Divide Then Destroy America - Is It Time For The American People To Bring An End To The Globalist Institutions That Hate Our Country?
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die September 28, 2017
"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice! The Bible tells us, How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity" - President Donald J. Trump While Republican US Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma is now claiming that a Russian troll army is responsible for stoking the NFL debate in an attempt to push divisiveness in America despite the fact that Colin Kaepernick started this hatred of America now going on within the NFL well over a year ago, long before President Trump was voted into office, we see in this must-read story from Frank Brady over at his Gates To Liberty blog that what we're now witnessing in the NFL is a key part of the globalists long-held plans to divide then destroy America. As has been long reported on ANP and within alternative media, there is a very real plan to destroy the sovereignty of America going back many, many decades (perfectly represented by most of the lunatics in Congress being opposed to President Trump's 'America First' agenda!) and with the NFL quite literally selling their souls to ESPN and the political left while spitting upon their core fan base and America, Brady warns "This Is Not About Football, This Is About WAR!" Simply put, the NFL has decided to bite the very hand that feeds it, the American people and our great nation, and as Brady tells us within his story, this latest drama has nothing to do with either football or the national anthem. Is it time for the American people to put an end to (peacefully and legally via boycotts, of course, while we still can!) any globalist institutions, such as the NFL and ESPN, that have turned against America and sold out the American people? From Brady's must-read story.: What is unfolding comes right out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" handbook. Both "Black Lives Matter" and "Antifa" are hard core Marxist Shock Troops being continuously supplied with boots on the ground by Barack Hussein Obama's "Organizing for Action", a national army of fanatical Leftists that is hundreds of thousands strong and is actively recruiting "volunteers" through mass mailings to radical e-mail lists. Obama maintains a well-staffed Washington office for a reason. He and his posse intend to destroy what remains of the old American republic and install a totally socialist tyranny upon its ashes. As Susan Duclos reported on ANP on Wednesday, according to one black man, US Veteran and law enforcement officer Brandum Tatum, what President Trump is doing right now is separating those who love America from those who hate America. The fact that Kaepernick had never even bothered to register to vote should have told the NFL that the donkey they were hitching their protest-cart to was lame. And the fact that Black Lives Matters continues to base most of their protests upon 'fake news', while Antifa proves to us they are fascists by attempting to stifle the free speech of others, proves the monster America is dealing with is tyrannical and totalitarian in nature, willing to push an agenda based upon outright lies which fits perfectly into Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's 'Saul Alinsky agenda'. And we shouldn't be the least bit surprised that TV networks refused to show the many former NFL fans in the stands, booing at their formerly favorite teams, for the mainstream media and the NFL are quite literally defecating upon America and the many lives of Americans lost protecting our rights as citizens under that flag. We expect that the TV networks will continue to ignore the masses of fans that are protesting against the teams within stadiums, hoping that people won't notice. Yet how can America miss noticing being quite literally stabbed in the back by owners, coaches and jocks making millions and millions of dollars to play a stupid kids game? While we fully recognize the rights of athletes and anybody else in America to protest, the fact that they're protesting against the very same country that has allowed them to live the lives of kings is beyond bizarre - it's downright psychopathic. Have NFL athletes no clue as to why they are bringing in millions and millions of dollars? NFL fans should make up a new rule - any NFL player who disrespects the very country that has allowed them to live like kings should have to go spend a year in Iraq or Syria or North Korea or Yemen or Nigeria or Venezuela. Instead of running for touchdowns, they'll be running to escapse ISIS or Boko Haram or Kim Jong Un or lions and leopards within the jungle. Think they'd stand up for the American flag when they came back, IF they came back, with all of their body parts attached? The total irony of multi-millionaires athletes screaming oppression while they're making 8 figure salaries also proves to us that most NFL jocks are completely brain dead, and therefore make perfect clueless dolts for the 'global elite' who've long been working to take down America. And as Brady warns us in his story, those who are attempting to overthrow America are quite literally inviting hell upon this nation as such an attempt to overthrow America will surely bring upon war. Yet as we return to Brady's story and the fact that what's now happening is so much more than just 'protest' or 'boycotts', Brady warns we're witnessing a war for the future of America. With the NFL teaming with America-hating and racist ESPN proving they've sold their souls to the 'globalist satan' as is perfectly seen in their illuminati-themed halftime shows, it may be time for the American people to raise our voices together and take down EVERY globalist institution in America that has sold out our nation or allows our country, our flag and our veterans and LEO's to be disrespected. With Black Lives Matter PROVING to us that THEY are a violent, 'racist' group that hates whites while Antifa PROVES to us they are FASCISTS who hate the freedoms of Americans to speak freely, we understand why Brady warns we're now witnessing a war for the future of America: Should the America-hating globalists have their way, we may one day be watching 'white genocide' playing out before our very eyes with Christians already under attack worldwide. Yet we see recent small signs of progress, such as former NFL Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway saying "Stand for the Anthem and get politics out of football", while reminding everybody that America is the greatest nation on this Earth as is also heard in the 2nd video below. Think the sales of John Elway jerseys won't now go through the roof? While ANP will be the first to admit that there are many things about our government that are well worth protesting against, protesting against the very country and flag that has written into law our right to protest isn't the way to go. And as we see it, through our eyes, 'America' already won a very real political 'Revolution' in 2016 when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, the entire republican establishment and the very real, Saul Alinsky philosophy that Hillary and Obama have long been living and throwing upon America and the world. For those who might think Hillary ties to 'radical' Saul Alinsky are 'fake news', we invite you to read her senior thesis written on May 2nd of 1969 at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. As Conservative Review reported back in August of 2016, back in 1993, the president of Wellesley College approved a new rule upon being contacted by Bill Clinton’s White House. The rule stated that all senior theses written by a president or first lady of the United States would be kept under lock and key. The rule was meant to keep the public ignorant about the radical ties of the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to the radical Marxist organizer, Saul Alinsky. The 92-page thesis was titled, “There is only the fight…: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” The thesis became unlocked after the Clintons left the White House and is now posted online. After being ruled by Barack Obama, another Alinskyite, for 8 years, perhaps one might think the fact that the modern Democratic Party is completely taken over by Alinskyites is old news, but the connection between Alinsky and Hillary is special. Hillary describes Alinsky as a “neo-Hobbesian who objects to the consensual mystique surrounding political processes; for him, conflict is the route to power.” Alinsky’s central focus, she notes, is that the community organizer must understand that conflict will arise and to redirect it and, as she quoted him in her thesis, be “...dedicated to changing the character of life of a particular community [and] has an initial function of serving as an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions... to provide a channel into which they can pour their frustration of the past; to create a mechanism which can drain off underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. When those who represent the status quo label you [i.e. the community organizer] as an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function--to agitate to the point of conflict.” As former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson reminded Americans during the 2016 Republican Convention, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky had dedicated his book "Rules For Radicals" to satan. In the first video below our videographer shares with us why America will never be 'united' until we ALL stand up for our flag and our nation, warning us that cultural Marxism & Saul Alinsky's playbook tactics are brainwashing the weak minded as we've seen all across the NFL. In the 2nd video below we give respect to John Elway for speaking truth, the NFL needs to get politics out of football. And in the final video below, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson expose all of the anti-Trump, anti-America Republicans now in the US Senate who are doing their very best to assist in the globalists plans to destroy America beginning at the 35 minute 50 second mark.
http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Plan_To_Take_Down_America_Includes_NFL.php
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'The time is now': Lockheed Martin reveals plan for manned Mars base camp that will orbit the red planet in 2028 with landing shuttles to ferry crew members to the surface
The base camp will use existing technologies, such as NASA's Orion deep-space capsule
Researchers will study Mars soil and rock samples ahead of Nasa landing astronauts there in the 2030s
Outpost can be expanded to add ships to take astronauts to the surface of the red planet
Lander would take crew down to the surface for two week stays during their mission
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:36 EDT, 28 September 2017 | Updated: 22:08 EDT, 28 September 2017
Lockheed Martin has revealed plans to set up a 'Mars base camp' orbiting the red planet - and says it hopes to launch it within ten years. Using NASA's Orion spacecraft as the command deck, the orbiting outpost could give astronauts the ability to operate rovers and drones on the surface in real time, helping us better understand the Red Planet and plan for manned missions. 'The time is now,' Lockheed Martin said in a video revealing the project at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, where it also showed off a lander that could eventually take astronauts form the station to the red planet's surface. 'Sending humans to Mars has always been a part of science fiction, but today we have the capability to make it a reality,' said Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of Commercial Civil Space at Lockheed Martin. 'Partnered with NASA, our vision leverages hardware currently in development and production. 'We're proud to have Orion powered-on and completing testing in preparation for its Exploration Mission-1 flight and eventually its journey to Mars.' Mars Base Camp is aligned with NASA's recently-announced lunar Deep Space Gateway approach for developing and testing systems, including Orion, in lunar space before using them to go to Mars. 'We think we can launch this is about a decade, and Orion is already being built.' The Gateway will allow astronauts to live and work in orbit around the Moon for months at a time while gaining experience with extended operations far from Earth. On the Gateway, they can perform lunar science and test out systems and operations such as habitats, airlocks, solar electric propulsion, surface telerobotics and even landers. Mars Base Camp would ultimately be built up at the Deep Space Gateway, away from Earth's gravity, before being deployed to Mars. Mars Base Camp's first mission is intended to be an orbiting mission around the Red Planet. 'Mars Base Camp is not a 'flags and footprints' system,' Lockheed Martin says. 'Rather, MBC-based missions not only enable human exploration of Mars on a near-term timescale, but also establish an infrastructure of reusable elements that enable sustainable, long-term crewed operations at Mars. 'This system is intended to embrace and leverage international and commercial partnerships, and several opportunities for purely commercial service as part of the overall concept of operations are identified.' Following this, the architecture allows for a surface lander. The concept is designed to be a reusable, single-stage lander capable of descending to the surface from Mars orbit. 'As valuable as orbiting missions are for science and exploration, we'll eventually look to leave the base camp and descend to the surface, says Lockheed Martin. The Mars Base Cape surface lander concept is a reusable, single-stage lander capable of descending to the surface from Mars orbit using supersonic retropropulsion. Each surface mission could last two weeks with up to four astronauts, and return to the orbiting Mars Base Camp without surface refueling or leaving assets behind. The lander uses Orion avionics and systems as its command deck and is powered by engines using liquid-hydrogen/liquid-oxygen propellant, both of which will be generated from water. A crew of 4 would descends to the surface to spend up to two weeks in a location collecting data and samples related to key science objectives. They then return to MBC to perform more thorough analysis on the collected samples in the MBC Lab Module and, ideally, refuel the lander for another sortie. 'In the MBC paradigm, initial landings on Mars are envisioned as relatively short-duration science expeditions,' Lockheed Martin said. Each surface mission could last two weeks with up to four astronauts, and then return to the orbiting Mars Base Camp where it would be refueled and readied for another mission. The six-person research station would take images and readings of sites across the red planet as a prelude to human colonisation missions. 'The concept is simple: transport astronauts from Earth, via the Moon, to a Mars-orbiting science laboratory where they can perform real-time scientific exploration, analyze Martian rock and soil samples, and confirm the ideal place to land humans on the surface in the 2030s,' the firm said. 'This is a mission designed to be led by NASA and its international and commercial partners. The major components of the architecture will be launched separately. Some are pre-positioned in Mars orbit ahead of time. Others are assembled in cis-lunar space for the journey to Mars. Six astronauts will launch on Orion, which serves as the heart of the Mars Base Camp interplanetary ship. Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin first unveiled the concept last year but at a recent conference revealed fresh details of its plans to use virtual reality to drive Mars rovers in real-time and even look for signs of alien life. The 12-month crewed mission will collect data to help Mars colonisation missions, such as those currently in development by Nasa or Elon Musk's SpaceX, to pick the best spot to land humans on the red planet's surface. The station's crew could use virtual reality and artificial intelligence to drive exploration rovers across the planet's surface in real-time. Samples of rock and soil from Mars taken by rovers will be jetted up to the base camp for quick analysis. These samples could be researched for signs of alien life, project team members have said. Lockheed Martin has been discussing their plans with a number of engineers and scientists since it first announced its plans. The company continued this work during the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), held March 21-25 in The Woodlands, Texas.
This isn't possible when the rover and scientist are on different planets, creating a delay in the decision process,. 'We could be operating rovers on the surface in joystick mode from the Mars Base Camp, as opposed to the way we control rovers today,' Dr Ben Clark, chief scientist on the Lockheed Martin team studying the Mars Base Camp, has previously said.
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HUMANITY ALERT: Sperm count plunges 59% due to mass chemical feminization of men
Thursday, September 28, 2017 by: Mike Adams
(Natural News) A rigorous new study conducted at the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published in the science journal Human Reproduction Update finds that human sperm production has declined 59.3% from 1973 to 2011, trending toward a collapse of human population. Via Science Daily: …The researchers found …a 59.3 percent decline in total sperm count, among men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand who were not selected based on their fertility status. These findings strongly suggest a significant decline in male reproductive health that has serious implications beyond fertility and reproduction, given recent evidence linking poor semen quality with higher risk of hospitalization and death. The causes of the decline have been widely linked to chemical exposure, especially from agricultural chemicals like atrazine that are “chemical castrators” of men. These chemicals cause “feminization” of males, leading to hormonal disruption and sperm population decline. That decline, researchers found, is accelerating in western nations like the United States and could lead to a collapse in human population. Chemical exposure causing “feminization” of biological males while destroying sperm production and viability Although this was not the focus of this particular study, the same chemicals causing this plunge in sperm production may also be increasing non-male gender expression in biological males, leading an increasing number of biological males to pursue transgender surgeries or lifestyles. This biological fact remains adamantly denied by the anti-science political Left in America, which pursues the “magical science” narrative that transgenderism is solely a “choice” and cannot be influenced by chemical exposure. Yet every biological scientist and chemist in the world knows that chemical exposure alters biological function in humans. In fact, the very process of medical gender transition from a biological male to a female involves chemical castration using hormone-disrupting prescription chemicals such as Cyproterone. The common food packaging chemical BPA is also widely known to be a hormone disrupt and estrogen mimicker. Those who insist that choice alone can override the laws of chemistry and genetics are living a delusion (Bill Nye, anyone?). Biological sex expression is determined by genes and chemistry (including chemical exposure), not by wishes and hopes. Environmental exposure to such chemicals is irrefutably a significant vector for sperm decline among men in western nations. As explained by the researchers: While the current study did not examine causes of the observed declines, sperm count has previously been plausibly associated with environmental and lifestyle influences, including prenatal chemical exposure, adult pesticide exposure, smoking, stress and obesity. Here’s the video from The Hebrew University explaining this sharp drop in sperm production:
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Smartphone use has radical impact on mental health of teens, claims San Diego SU psych professor
Ben Lovejoy - Aug. 4th 2017 5:51 am PT
San Diego State University professor of psychology and author Jean Twenge has claimed that smartphone usage is having a radical impact on both the behavior and mental health of U.S. teenagers. The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health […] Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones. Far from being the usual generalized complaint about teens spending too much time staring at their screens, Dr Twenge has plenty of hard data to support her contentions – made in The Atlantic, the magazine in which Laurene Powell Jobs recently bought a majority stake … The long-form article, entitled Have smartphones destroyed a generation?, is packed full of graphs – each showing the launch of the iPhone as a reference point. A 2017 survey of more than 5,000 American teens found that three out of four owned an iPhone. They show that teens today spend far less time hanging out with their friends, fewer of them have a driving license, they date less, have less sex, get less sleep and are more likely to feel lonely. There are also some stark statistics. Teens who spend three hours a day or more on electronic devices are 35 percent more likely to have a risk factor for suicide, such as making a suicide plan […] Boys’ depressive symptoms increased by 21 percent from 2012 to 2015, while girls’ increased by 50 percent—more than twice as much. The rise in suicide, too, is more pronounced among girls. Although the rate increased for both sexes, three times as many 12-to-14-year-old girls killed themselves in 2015 as in 2007, compared with twice as many boys. The suicide rate is still higher for boys, in part because they use more-lethal methods, but girls are beginning to close the gap. Twenge is quick to note that smartphones are not the only factor, but she argues that it is a key one. Parenting styles continue to change, as do school curricula and culture, and these things matter. But the twin rise of the smartphone and social media has caused an earthquake of a magnitude we’ve not seen in a very long time, if ever. There is compelling evidence that the devices we’ve placed in young people’s hands are having profound effects on their lives—and making them seriously unhappy. And far from the common belief that kids grow up too quickly these days, she argues that the opposite is true when you examine common markers like going out without their parents, earning their own money and starting to date. Across a range of behaviors—drinking, dating, spending time unsupervised— 18-year-olds now act more like 15-year-olds used to, and 15-year-olds more like 13-year-olds. Childhood now stretches well into high school. The piece is illustrated with depressing examples of behavioral changes. One of the ironies of iGen life is that despite spending far more time under the same roof as their parents, today’s teens can hardly be said to be closer to their mothers and fathers than their predecessors were. “I’ve seen my friends with their families—they don’t talk to them,” Athena told me. “They just say ‘Okay, okay, whatever’ while they’re on their phones. They don’t pay attention to their family.” Like her peers, Athena is an expert at tuning out her parents so she can focus on her phone. She spent much of her summer keeping up with friends, but nearly all of it was over text or Snapchat. “I’ve been on my phone more than I’ve been with actual people,” she said. “My bed has, like, an imprint of my body.” There’s the now common portrait of social media usage making people feel unhappier as they compare their own lives with the self-curated online version of the lives of their peers. Today’s teens may go to fewer parties and spend less time together in person, but when they do congregate, they document their hangouts relentlessly—on Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook. Those not invited to come along are keenly aware of it. Accordingly, the number of teens who feel left out has reached all-time highs across age groups. Like the increase in loneliness, the upswing in feeling left out has been swift and significant. Twenge doesn’t have any easy solutions. She acknowledges that it’s not realistic to expect teens to dramatically curtail their usage of electronic devices or social media. But she suggests that modest changes could help. Significant effects on both mental health and sleep time appear after two or more hours a day on electronic devices. The average teen spends about two and a half hours a day on electronic devices. Some mild boundary-setting could keep kids from falling into harmful habits. The whole piece is well worth a read, especially for parents.
https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/04/impact-of-smartphones-on-mental-health/
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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There Will Likely Be A Catastrophic Event In Conjunction With A Monetary Crisis – Citizens Of The World Are Kept Distracted By Insignificant Things To Keep Them Calm Right Up To The End!
September 29, 2017 danama
As global currencies wage a race to the bottom, citizens of the world are kept distracted by insignificant things to keep them calm right up to the end. The end will be the destruction of many world currencies and the savings of those invested in them. When that happens those who have lost everything will panic, and for good reason. The conspiracy theorists and sound money people will be proven to be prophets but none of that will matter by then. All of the savings that people think they have was long ago looted by the bankers and now they must destroy those ledger entries that people think they have. Much like the phantom gold that no longer exists in vaults but only on paper, those ledger entries must be destroyed before the banks are required to give that money back to its rightful owners. It is not only the savings but the promised payments from government entities that must be eliminated. The government has made promises it cannot keep and now it must find a way out while maintaining “plausible deniability”. That is the crux of the unwinding we will see in the near future. The people have been robbed of their wealth and their futures and now it is time to perpetrate the cover up so the guilty parties can sail off into the sunset with their ill gotten loot. It almost sounds like a movie plot but unfortunately the people will have to stick around after this show and deal with the aftermath. That is something most people do not see coming and are ill prepared to deal with emotionally, physically or financially. There are many things that people will disagree on when it comes to the future but there are some things those following events will agree on. There will likely be a catastrophic event in conjunction with a monetary crisis. Most people will be completely unprepared for the events. Only those that hold hard assets and the means to protect them will come through this with any wealth in tact. The government will increase their control of the population. Basic resources like food, water and energy will be expensive or difficult to get. This is especially true for imported goods. People will lose the homes they cannot afford and their retirement savings. Government payments will be cut off or severely cut back. There will be armed resistance against the government as they reduce freedoms that people are accustomed to. Roving gangs will likely be a problem at least in the short term following the crisis. The country will look much different in ten years than it does now, and likely not for the better. People will need a different strategy for retirement than they now hold. Healthcare will become more expensive and less available to the average citizen. The . These items point out the direction we are headed as a nation. Those U.S. will likely become a third world nation as far as living standards are concerned that ignore the reality we now live in will suffer greatly and will be immobilized with fear and uncertainty as to what to do. The government they looked to in the past for guidance and safety will be at odds with their very existence in the future. Those things they took as a given will no longer exist. This list defines what you as an individual must be prepared to deal with in the uncertain future ahead. Only by addressing these issues will you have any peace of mind in the coming days as events play out on a global scale. It has been said many times before but must be repeated because many still do not hear the message. You must be prepared to provide basic necessities to your family for a prolonged period of time. This includes clean drinking water, nutritious food, shelter, sanitation, security, clothing, health care and any excess funds should be used to buy precious metals or some other wealth preservation tool. Any transportation and communication assets you have will greatly enhance your survival position. Beyond these basic items you will also need to think about some way to produce income in the years ahead. Having special knowledge or capitol equipment to produce needed goods will insure you can continue to care for your family long term. The ability to produce food, water, clothing or energy and provide medical help or capitol goods will insure you have a product to sell that will be in demand. In a dysfunctional world the business opportunities are many. Basic supplies that were once taken for granted will be sought after by everyone. Herbal remedies, meat production, paper goods, cleaning agents, tools, building supplies and such mundane things as blocks of ice and footwear will have to come from somewhere. Something as simple as an absorption freezer powered by a homemade power source like bio-gas can provide frozen meat and ice to sell the year round. You must also be cognizant of many possible dangers that an uncertain world can present. These include natural disasters, the threat of war, disease, nuclear dangers such as fallout and contamination and chemical threats from malfunctioning plants and storage sites. The ability to plan for the future is more imperative now than ever. It is a sad thing that people spend more time planning a summer vacation than they do for their future. That lack of planning will insure a difficult future for them and their children as the world unwinds at an ever faster pace taking their standard of living to ever lower levels until reaching the bottom of this unknown new world. You need to prepare now like your life depends on it, because it does.
http://webnewsorder.com/2017/there-will-calm-right-up-to-the-end/
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Four Pacific Rim volcanoes rumble to life
28/09/2017 Wilhelmina Shrimpton Newshub
Four volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire have either erupted or look likely to explode after emitting smoke, ash and red hot rock. The volcanic unrest has forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate areas in Indonesia, Vanuatu and Mexico. Aerial footage shot by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) shows Vanuatu's Monaro Volcano rumbling to life. "It's bubbling away quite fiercely," NZDF's tactical aerial survey co-ordinator Mark Chadwick says. "There's a lot of ash and steam and debris being ejected from the crater." 240,000 flee in Bali as volcano threatens to erupt Should Kiwis travelling to Bali be worried about Agunu Volcano erupting? Authorities fear an eruption is imminent, and have ordered the evacuation of 10,000 people living on Ambae Island - which Mr Chadwick says is a "smart move". "There is a lot of debris and scorched vegetation, which depending on the wind flow, could affect other parts of the island as well." Monaro isn't the only volcano on the Pacific Ring of Fire that looks set to blow. Mt Agung in Bali has also been rumbling, and further north Mt Sinabung on North Sumatra has been blasting ash. Across the Pacific in Mexico, the Popocatépetl Volcano is also showing signs of unrest, spewing glowing rock and ash over the already quake-ravaged country. More than 30,000 people have fled North Sumatra's Mt Sinabung, but the biggest impact has been on popular tourist destination Bali. Around Mt Agung, 75,000 people have evacuated. Smoke has been seen billowing from its peak, and thousands of volcanic tremors have been felt. "I'm scared, really scared," one resident says. "The volcano is going to erupt." Denpasar Airport's alert level has been raised to orange. If it reaches red, the airport will be shut down. There are 450 New Zealanders registered as being in Bali, 127 in Vanuatu and 120 in Mexico. People are warned to stay away from volcanic areas.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2017/09/four-pacific-rim-volcanoes-rumble-to-life.html
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Volcanic unrest: Eruptions at Fuego volcano (Guatemala), Turrialba (Costa Rica) and Agung volcano (Bali), Ambae and Lopevi volcanoes in Vanuatu on high alert
By Strange Sounds - Sep 29, 2017
The volcanic activity along the Ring of fire is rising with several volcanoes erupting or on high alert around the world. The latest to date are the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, the Agung volcano on Bali, Indonesia, and the Turrialba volcano in Costa Rica. The Ambae and Lopevi volcanoes in Vanuatu are on high alert! The 10th eruption of 2017 began at Fuego volcano on September 27, 2017. It was confirmed by an increase in the seismicity and the presence of tremor generated by the ascension of the magma. On September 27, 2017, permanent explosions were accompanied by an ash plume rising to 4,800 meters asl, before moving 30 km west and northwest. Moreover 30 meters high lava fountains were feeding two lava flows in the Barranca Seca (600 meters long) and Las Lajas (500 meters long). On September 28, lava fountains were reported rising about 300 meters above the crater and casting in the Barraca Seca at a length of 800 meters. Ashfalls have been reported in La soledad, Pastores, San Miguel and Antigua. An important lahar is observed in the community of Sacatepéquez. On Sept. 28, Mount Agung seismicity remained high with 444 deep volcanic earthquakes, 214 superficial volcanic earthquakes, and 23 local tectonic earthquakes. Between 0h and 6h local on the following day, there are 125 VA earthquakes, 40 VB earthquakes and 5 local tectonic earthquakes. Gas and steam emissions have now become routine since already 2 days. Emissions come out of a visible fracture in the crater. The existence of this fracture shows that movements of the magma continue towards the surface. Evacuations are now topping 144,389 people on September 28 at 12:00 pm. Evacuations continue around Ambae volcano while a large plume of gases, ashes and volcanic rocks are ejected from the Lombenben crater. The Lopevi volcano, also in Vanuatu has been put on alert level 2, as it now shows a state of major instability. It is now forbidden to approach the crater as adventurers could be impacted by lava stones or asphyxiated by gases. Finally, the Turrialba volcano exploded 3 times (5.30, 8.25 and 15.23) on Sept. 28 with ash and gas plumes rising 700-800 meters above the crater and then dispersing towards the west-southwest. The volcanic unrest is increasing around the world and nobody knows when it will stop…
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Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico explodes 9 times in last 24 hours of enhanced volcanic activity
By Strange Sounds - Sep 28, 2017
The Popocatépetl volcano erupted 9 times during 6 hours 16 minutes continuously, sending incandescent fragments 1,000 meters around its crater and its flanks. Some explosions during this long period of volcanic activity sent a plume of ash and gas rising 1,000 to 1,500 meters above the crater. From these 9 explosions, four occurred yesterday at 14:13, 16:54, 21:24 and 23:09 h, and the others today at 02:53, 03:05, 06:41, 09:39 and 09:45 h. Ashfalls have been reported in the area. The volcano-tectonic seismic events were recorded, today at 02:02 (M2.1), 02:23 (M2.2) and 03:14 (M1.5) The Cenapred said the Popocatepetl volcano activity is within the normal parameters of activity for a Yellow phase 2 level of activity and therefore does not require a preventive evacuation.
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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Is Tom Horn’s “Blood On The Altar” Vision Unfolding Before Our Eyes? Behold The Rise Of Anti-Christian Bigotry In America
September 28, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
It is often said that Christianity thrives in persecution. If so, then it may be about to see its very best days in the United States of America. Is suffering the slap in the face that will awaken the church from its infatuation with comfort and compromise? It seems likely that we will soon know. Last week, progressive lawmakers showed more of their disdain for Christians during the hearing for President Trump’s Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals nominee, Amy Barrett, a law professor at Notre Dame – and a devout Catholic. “Whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). “And I think in your case, professor … that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern[.]” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Ms. Barrett, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” The implication is that being an “orthodox” Catholic” disqualifies you from being a judge… (READ MORE)
The American Thinker September 24, 2017
The Rise of Anti-Christian Bigotry in America By E.W. Jackson
Several Democrat senators have used the confirmation hearings of the most exclusive club in America to lay down an unconstitutional requirement for qualification to public service. At a hearing in June, Sen. Bernie Sanders questioned the fitness of Wheaton College alumnus Russell Vought for the post of deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Vought had written an article in which he said Muslims "do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned." Sen. Sanders accused Mr. Vought of religious bigotry, saying, "In my view, the statement made by Mr. Vought is indefensible, it is hateful, it is Islamophobic, and it is an insult to over a billion Muslims throughout the world." Last week, progressive lawmakers showed more of their disdain for Christians during the hearing for President Trump's Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals nominee, Amy Barrett, a law professor at Notre Dame – and a devout Catholic. "Whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). "And I think in your case, professor ... that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern[.]" Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Ms. Barrett, "Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?" The implication is that being an "orthodox" Catholic" disqualifies you from being a judge. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) condemned the nominee for speaking before a "hate" group – the Alliance Defending Freedom, Christian attorneys who litigate religious freedom cases. Obviously a dangerous group. This line of questioning – or perhaps more accurately, this "inquisition" – amounts to a religious-based exclusion of Christians simply because of what they believe. There were no accusations of harmful behavior or violence toward anyone. Apparently, faith is enough to draw the ire of today's Democrats. It should be pointed out that the claim of exclusivity – i.e., that one's religion is true while others are false – is not unique to Christianity. Islam is well known for holding that view, except that sharia law, unlike Christianity, demands not that you love the nonbeliever, but that you tax, enslave, or kill him. However, the Senate will not interrogate Muslims on their beliefs, because that would constitute "Islamophobia." Our Founding Fathers were well aware of the dangers of religious bigotry. They wisely included in the Constitution a provision to protect us against it. Article Six says, "[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." Have these senators ever read the document to which they took an oath? They are so caught up in a growing societal trend of hatred for Christianity and what it represents that they seem unaware of their dangerous bias. Kim Davis, clerk of probate for a Kentucky county, spent a week in jail because she refused to sign a marriage certificate for two lesbians. She claimed that it would violate her conscience and her commitment to God. Aaron and Melissa Klein, who own a small family bakery called Sweet Cakes by Melissa, were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a "wedding cake" for a gay couple in 2013. Hundreds of such cases now dot the legal landscape of our country. If law and politics are downstream from culture, the senators who were willing to impose a religious test in open defiance of the Constitution are reflecting adherence to a toxic culture. A virulent new bigotry is coursing its way through our nation, overriding the highest law of the land. It would seem that we are in not a post-Christian era, but a distinctly anti-Christian one. In August 2012, a young man tried to commit mass murder at the Family Research Council. The would-be killer was later convicted of domestic terrorism. He told the FBI that he chose to attack the Family Research Council because the Southern Poverty Law Center had designated the FRC an anti-gay hate group. The SPLC continues to put Christian organizations that support marriage or oppose abortion in the same category as the KKK. This growing hatred of all things Christian is a consequence of the sexual revolution, which created the politics of promiscuity and called for a world without the God who says "no." As the repository for traditional sexual morality, Christianity is viewed as the mortal enemy of the "gay rights" movement, the abortion industry, and the new transgender obsession. Those who were once thought of as hardworking, God-fearing people living lives of Christian decency and common sense are now slandered as "deplorables" and "extremists" by the elites of the Democratic Party and the media that enable them. The entertainment world, sports, colleges and universities, major corporations, government bureaucracy, and even members of the United States Senate have bought into this cultural hedonism. There is no room for Bible-believing Christians in their new world. It is often said that Christianity thrives in persecution. If so, then it may be about to see its very best days in the United States of America. Is suffering the slap in the face that will awaken the church from its infatuation with comfort and compromise? It seems likely that we will soon know. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/the_rise_of_antichristian_bigotry_in_america.html#ixzz4uJ3e2Stv
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etc. If you look at Russia she is ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North Korea ready to strike, they are not playing games; they are serious with the things that they are saying. Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.
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Chinese, Pakistan pilots jointly fly combat jets during air exercise
Chinese and Pakistani pilots jointly flew the J-11BS, one of China’s third generation fighters, during the drill held in the remote Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region this month.
world Updated: Sep 29, 2017 08:35 IST Sutirtho Patranobis Hindustan Times, Beijing
A senior Pakistani Air Force officer flew a sortie in one of China’s new fighter jets this week, making him the first from his country to do so and reiterating the close military ties between the two “all weather” allies. The head of PAF’s Southern Air Command, Air Vice Marshal Haseeb Paracha, flew in the J-11BS, one of China’s third generation fighters, during the Shaheen-VI exercise, state media reported on Thursday. Paracha was in China to participate in the just-concluded Shaheen VI drill, which was first held in 2011. The exercise, held in the remote Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) during September 5-25, was described as an anti-terror drill. A People’s Liberation Army website reported, “The air vice marshal was accompanied by Xin Xin, a vice-chief of staff of the PLA Air Force. This marks the first time that a Pakistani top military official has flown in China’s new fighter jet.” It added: “The Chinese warplane performed acrobatic maneuvers during the flight, drawing praise from Haseeb.” Pakistan’s Geo News reported, “The PAF contingent, comprising combat pilots, air defence controllers and technical ground crew, is participating in the exercise, during which the contingents from both sides demonstrated mutual trust by sitting in the same fighters.” The report added: “The previous drills only provided experience of sitting in the same fighter instead of cooperating in fighting.” The exercise featured China’s J-11 fighters, JH-7 fighter-bombers, KJ-200 AWACS aircraft and ground forces, including surface-to-air missile and radar units. The PAF sent its JF-17 Thunder jets and early warning aircraft. “During the joint training starting from September 7, different kinds of aircraft from the two air forces such as Chinese J-11 fighter jets, JH-7 fighter-bombers, KJ-200 AWACS aircraft and Pakistani JF-17 Thunder fighter jets and early warning aircraft participated in drills of air-to-air combat, close air support operation, air-to-ground attack and confrontational operation involving multiple arms of the air force,” the report said. “The Shaheen-VI joint air training exercise, especially the anti-terrorism training jointly held by the air forces of China and Pakistan, will certainly be a powerful deterrent to terrorist forces, and conducive to safeguarding national security and people’s well-being of the two countries,” said Lt Gen Zhan Houshun, air force commander under the PLA Western Theatre Command, which oversees the borders with India. “The drills maintain national security and protects people of the two countries,” Zhan said. A video of Chinese and Pakistani pilots jointly flying warplanes for the first time was shown by the defence ministry during a news briefing. “Speaking of Pakistan, the first word that comes to my mind is ‘Iron Pak’,” Col Wu Qian told the briefing, adding the Shaheen-VI exercise was marked by several firsts. Wu said this year’s exercise was unique as the two sides conducted “confrontation training” at night in China and carried out close support operations for the first time. In yet another first, the two sides organised combat target practice backed by naval aviation and special operations units of airborne troops. “There are more forces and more elements in this year’s joint training exercise compared with previous ones,” he said.
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How a huge radioactive cloud could spread towards Asia and the US if North Korea carries out a nuclear explosion over the Pacific Ocean
Graphic shows possible spread of 'atmospheric burst' from North Korean nuke
It reveals path of potential 'radio-isotope cloud' from a blast in the Pacific Ocean
Simulation released by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation
Comes just weeks after Kim Jong-un ordered North Korea's sixth nuclear test
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline Published: 07:12 EDT, 29 September 2017 | Updated: 09:59 EDT, 29 September
A new graphic has emerged showing how a radioactive cloud could spread towards Asia and the US if North Korea carries out a nuclear explosion over the Pacific. The simulation reveals the possible two-week spread of an 'atmospheric burst' that could be unleashed from one of Kim Jong-un's nukes. It was released on the Twitter account of Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which examines weapons tests. However, it does not say what the yield of the hypothetical explosion would be or what threat such a 'radio-isotope cloud' would pose to humans. The simulation shows what might happen over a two-week period in the event of a blast in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to The Telegraph, Zerbo later tweeted that the graphic was a 'simply a rough simulation of (a) potential cloud that could carry isotopes!' and that it had been drawn up following inquiries made to his organisation. It comes just weeks after North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un ordered the country's sixth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri military site. The test probably had a yield of 250 kilotons, a US monitoring group said - much higher than official estimates. Pyongyang claimed it was a hydrogen bomb that could be fitted into a missile - prompting global condemnation and heightening tensions over its weapons ambitions. The US Geological Service put the magnitude of the resulting earthquake at 6.3, and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) and Norwegian agency NORSAR had raised their initial figures to 6.1. As a result, the respected US website 38 North, which is linked to Johns Hopkins University, said it was raising its estimate for the yield of the blast to 'roughly 250 kilotons'. The figure is more than 16 times the size of the 15-kiloton US bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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U.S. military is planning to rotate strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula
Seoul is expecting more provocative acts by North Korea next month
Since Trump’s threats, 4.7 million North Koreans have joined the military
SEOUL, South Korea - As sabre-rattling continues between Washington and Pyongyang, Seoul is bracing for an October shockers from its nuclear active neighbour. On Thursday, North Korea claimed that 4.7 million of its citizens had volunteered to join or re-enlist in the military since the country’s leader threatened to "tame” President Trump “with fire" last week. Meanwhile, preparing for the horrors that await, the U.S. has now agreed to begin regularly deploying its ‘strategic assets’ to the Korean Peninsula. The South Korean government said that the decision was made as North Korea’s testing of long-range missiles and nuclear weapons puts the region on high alert. The announcement was made by the chief of South Korea’s National Security Office, Chung Eui-young after his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and leaders of other political parties. Chung told the political leaders that, "The U.S. has pledged to expand the rotational deployment of its strategic assets near the Korean Peninsula.” According to the Yonhap News Agency, Chung’s discussion with political leaders revolved around whether there was "any crack" in terms of trust between the security allies. He said, “[The deployment] will begin as early as late this year, and this will help us expand our defense capabilities.” Further, during their meeting at the annual United Nations General Assembly last week, officials said Moon and President Trump agreed on the additional deployments. While neither sides have specified the nature of these strategic assets, experts believe the terminology usually refers to stealth planes, long-range bombers and ballistic-missile submarines. While the U.S. Pacific Command has not made any official comments, a ruling party spokesman in Seoul reportedly said that the U.S. has made its pledge in writing. Meanwhile, with the anniversary of the founding of the North Korean communist party and China’s all-important Communist Party Congress lined up next month, South Korea is said to be expecting more provocative acts by North Korea in October. Chung added that the discussions with Moon on Thursday also involved talks on Pyongyang’s possible provocations around October 10 and 18. Park Wan-ju, a lawmaker and head spokesman of the ruling Democratic Party said that the report prepared by the South Korean security adviser also pointed to the risk that a military conflict could by sparked by “accidental incidents.” Park said, “The president said the United States speaks of military and diplomatic options, but South Korea can’t go through war again.” As tensions on the Korean peninsula rose over the last two months, with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump exchanging war threats and personal insults over the North’s nuclear and missile development program - South Korea and Japan are fearing war breaking out. North Korea has accused Trump of declaring war, following his warning on Twitter that Kim’s regime would not last if he persisted in threatening the U.S. and its allies. The same week, Trump even warned that North Korea would be totally destroyed in such an event and at the same time, Pyongyang hasn’t backed down on its dramatic threats either. Commenting on whether China had a plan to respond to an emergency in North Korea, Chinese defense ministry spokesman Wu Qian said, “Military means cannot become an option.” Qian has urged for talks to resolve the issue.“ He added, “The Chinese military will make all necessary preparations to protect the country’s sovereignty and security and regional peace and stability.” Meanwhile, as the region braces for possible provocations, North Korean government declared on its state media on Thursday that millions of its citizens were signing up to battle Trump and his country. The Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that millions of young men and 1.22 million women said they wanted sign up to counter the U.S. since Friday. According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, Pyongyang has previously claimed that North Koreans have volunteered to join the military as part of propaganda campaigns to boost solidarity. Pyongyang’s report noted that the North Korean military enlistment came after Kim Jong Un issued a statement on Friday warning, "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire."
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North Korea makes 'rapid progress' on weapons
Published: 7:28 pm, Friday, 29 September 2017
The UN nuclear watchdog's chief says North Korea's sixth nuclear test showed the isolated country has made 'rapid progress' on weapons development. International Atomic Energy Agency Director Yukiya Amano said the North's sixth and most powerful test conducted on September 3 posed a 'new threat'. 'What is most important for now is for the international community to unite,' Amano told reporters on Friday after a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha during a visit to Seoul.
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A former Google engineer founded a religion that is developing an AI god
Deus ex machina
By Rob Thubron on Sep 28, 2017, 7:00 AM
Here’s some news that's likely to give Elon Musk a heart attack: a former Google engineer has founded a religious organization that seeks to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.” Anthony Levandowski co-founded self-driving trucking company Otto, which Uber acquired for $680 million in 2016. He became head of engineering for the ride-hailing firm’s autonomous vehicle division, and made headlines after being fired in May following allegations he stole trade secrets from former employer Google. It seems Levandowski could now become more famous for his nonprofit religious entity, called Way of the Future, which he founded in September 2015. Wired’s Backchannel discovered previously unreported state filings that reveal the corporation aims “through understanding and worship of the Godhead, [to] contribute to the betterment of society.” While Way of the Future has yet to submit forms with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to qualify as a tax-exempt religious organization, the documents do show Levandowski as its CEO and president. AI gods may sound like the stuff of sci-fi, Anime, and computer games, but it’s certainly a concept likely to appeal to the futurists and transhumanists of Silicon Valley more than traditional religions. Elon Musk is one CEO unlikely to welcome the move toward self-aware artificial life and the singularity. The Tesla boss was one of many experts to create OpenAi, a nonprofit that makes sure AI development is regulated. He also joined 116 other experts calling for a ban on “killer robots" recently, and said AI was humanity’s “biggest existential threat” and “more dangerous than North Korea.” Hopefully, his words won't come back to haunt us when everybody's forced to worship an all-seeing robotic god.
https://www.techspot.com/news/71178-former-google-engineer-developing-ai-god.html
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Hamas says it won’t even discuss giving up weapons if PA takes over Gaza
In 51 minutes, Hamas 'can hit Tel Aviv with as many rockets as fired in 51 days of last war,' terror group's Gaza chief Sinwar boasts
By Dov Lieber September 28, 2017, 4:48 pm
Senior Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Thursday that the Gaza-based terror group is not prepared to discuss the dissolution of its military wing during talks with the Fatah party, as the two sides attempt to form a unity government. Also on Thursday, Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar claimed the terror group’s ability to target the center of Israel with rocket fire had significantly increased since the last war between Israel and Hamas in 2014. He added that the elusive commander of the terror group’s military wing, Muhammad Deif, supports the reconciliation attempt. “This issue [of Hamas disarming] is not up for discussion, not previously and neither will it be in the future,” Abu Marzouk said in an interview with the semi-official Turkish news agency Al-Andalous. “The weapons of the resistance are for the protection of the Palestinian people, and it is inconceivable that Hamas will lay down its weapons as long as its land is occupied and its people dispersed.” Fatah and Hamas have been at loggerheads since Hamas violently took control of the Strip in 2007, with the two groups operating separate administrations. Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has a reported 27,000 armed men divided into six regional brigades, with 25 battalions and 106 companies. It has fought three conflicts with Israel since the terror group took control of Gaza. Hamas announced earlier this month that it had agreed to steps toward resolving the split with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, announcing it would dissolve a body seen as a rival government — known as the administrative committee — and was ready to hold elections. That statement came after Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian officials and as Gaza faces a mounting humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by retaliatory moves by Abbas following Hamas’s decision to set up the administrative committee to govern the enclave in March. While Abbas welcomed Hamas’s dissolution of the administrative committee, he didn’t commit to removing PA sanctions on the Strip. PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is slated to travel to Gaza on Monday to begin reinstating the PA’s control over the Strip. Reconciliation attempts between the two sides have failed numerous times, and one of the biggest sticking points has been who will control the border and security in the Gaza Strip. Abu Marzouk also said in his comments on Thursday that Hamas would not be willing to accede to the demands of the so-called Middle East Quartet — the United States, Russia, the European Union, and United Nations — that it renounce terrorism and agree to accept past agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which is the largest Palestinian political umbrella group. Despite refusing to give up its military, Hamas on Thursday reiterated that it is completely committed to the idea of a unity government. “Hamas will not remain a party to the division in any way,” said Sinwar, in remarks given during a closed meeting with journalists that were later published by Palestinian media outlets. “The page of the previous stage must be turned over, and we must move into the future to build our national project,” he added. Sinwar also boasted about improvements in Hamas’s military capabilities to strike Israel’s densely populated Tel Aviv region. “In 51 minutes the Qassam Brigades can hit Tel Aviv with the same number of rockets that it fired during 51 days in the last” war, said Sinwar, During that war, Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel, a small percentage of which made it to the Tel Aviv area. In a surprising statement, Sinwar said that Deif, the leader of the Qassam Brigades — who is wanted by Israel for multiple acts of terrorism including the orchestration of suicide bombings, and who Israel has tried to kill numerous times — is “strongly supportive” of the reconciliation efforts. US ‘withdrew veto’ against Palestinian reconciliation In his statements on Thursday, Abu Marzouk claimed Hamas was informed that the US was ending its opposition to a Hamas-Fatah unity government. “We received information from sources of our own, and other Western diplomats, confirming that the United States has lifted its veto on Palestinian reconciliation,” he said. The Hamas leader said the removal of American opposition grants Abbas “the space to take a bold step to end Palestinian division, as America formed a primary obstacle.” On Thursday the Quartet, of which the US is a part, welcomed the PA’s impending return to the Gaza Strip as part of renewed reconciliation efforts with the Hamas. It said renewed PA control over Gaza “is critical for efforts to reach lasting peace.” The latest reconciliation efforts between Fatah and Hamas come as US President Donald Trump has sought to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and met separately with Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week. In apparent contradiction of Abu Marzouk’s statement, last week, Trump’s Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt slammed Hamas’s rule in the Gaza Strip and called on the PA to retake control of Gaza and urged the international community to help this process come to fruition. “Relief from the suffering in Gaza can only be found when all interested parties gather together to help the Palestinian people and isolate Hamas,” Greenblatt said, accusing Hamas of using money meant for Gaza’s civilian population on terror infrastructure.
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Israel Is Going to War in Syria to Fight Iran
Israeli officials aren't shying from confronting Tehran's forces — since no one else will.
By Jonathan Spyer September 28, 2017
JERUSALEM – Israeli officials believe that Iran is winning its bid for dominance in the Middle East, and they are mobilizing to counter the regional realignment that threatens to follow. The focus of Israel’s military and diplomatic campaign is Syria. Israeli jets have struck Hezbollah and Syrian regime facilities and convoys dozens of times during Syria’s civil war, with the goal of preventing the transfer of weapons systems from Iran to Hezbollah. In an apparent broadening of the scope of this air campaign, on Sept. 7 Israeli jets struck a Syrian weapons facility near Masyaf responsible for the production of chemical weapons and the storing of surface-to-surface missiles. The strike came after a round of diplomacy in which Israeli officials concluded that their concerns regarding the developing situation in Syria were not being addressed with sufficient seriousness in either the United States or Russia. A senior delegation led by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen visited Washington in late August, reportedly to express Israel’s dissatisfaction with the emerging U.S.-Russian understanding on Syria. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi to raise similar concerns with Moscow. In both cases, the Israelis were disappointed with the response. Their overriding concern in Syria is the free reign that all the major players there seem willing to afford Iran and its various proxies in the country. And as long as nobody else addresses that concern in satisfactory, Israel is determined to continue addressing it on its own. Iranian forces now maintain a presence close to or adjoining the Israeli-controlled portion of the Golan Heights and the Quneitra Crossing that separates it from the Syrian-controlled portion of the territory. Israel has throughout the Syrian war noted a desire on the part of the Iranians and their Hezbollah clients to establish this area as a second line of active confrontation against the Jewish state, in addition to south Lebanon. “Syria,” of course, hardly exists today. The regime is in the hands of its Iranian and Russian masters, and half of the country remains outside its control. But the Iran-led bloc and its clearly stated intention to eventually destroy Israel certainly do exist, and the de facto buffer against them may be disappearing. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah recently declared “victory” in the Syrian war, adding that what remained was “scattered battles.” With the prospect of pro-Iranian forces reaching Bukamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border, this opens up the possibility of the much-reported Iranian “land corridor” stretching uninterrupted from Iran itself to a few kilometers from the Israeli-controlled Golan. Earlier this month, Israel shot down an Iranian drone over the Golan Heights. It was the latest evidence of Iran’s activities on the border. Syrian opposition reports have noted an Iranian presence in Tal Al-Sha’ar area, Tal Al-Ahmar, and Division 90 headquarters, all in the vicinity of the border. Pro-Iran forces, meanwhile, are open in their ambitions. Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi Shiite force supported by Iran, has formed a “Golan Liberation” unit and declared itself “ready to take action to liberate the Golan.” Senior figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij have been photographed in areas close to the border. Israel has so far thwarted these ambitions in two ways. First, it has launched attacks to frustrate and interdict attempts to build a paramilitary infrastructure in the area. Most famously, the killing of Jihad Mughniyeh, son of Hezbollah military chief Imad Mughniyeh, in a targeted strike at Mazraat Amal in the Quneitra area in January 2015 was part of this effort. Five other Hezbollah members and a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Allahdadi, were also killed in the strike. Second, Israel has developed pragmatic working relations with the local rebel groups who at the moment still control the greater part of the border, such as the Fursan al-Joulan group. This cooperation focuses on treating wounded fighters and civilians, and providing humanitarian aid and financial assistance. There has also probably been assistance in the field of intelligence, though no evidence has yet emerged of direct provision of weapons or direct engagement of Israeli forces on the rebels’ behalf. On July 9, a ceasefire agreement directly brokered by the United States and Russia for southwest Syria was announced. It posits the establishment of a de-escalation zone in Syria’s southwest, in the area of the Quneitra and Daraa provinces. The details of the de-escalation zone are still being negotiated. But Israel has been deeply concerned that it could seriously complicate the de facto Israeli safeguards in place against Iranian infiltration of the border. If the fighting ends, physical resistance to encroachment will become more complicated and sponsorship of rebels potentially no longer relevant. As of now, Russian attempts to assure Israel that the terms of the ceasefire adequately address its concerns in this regard have evidently failed to persuade. The latest media reports on the negotiations for the zone suggest that the United States has reached an agreement with Moscow that pro-Iranian militias will be kept 25 miles from the border. But the issue goes beyond arrangements at the southwestern edge of Syria. Israel is concerned by Iran’s overarching regional ambitions. Recent comments by Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, that a future war with Israel might involve additional pro-Iranian militia forces to the Lebanese groups have been well noted in Jerusalem. Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz recently told a security conference in Herzliya, as reported by Reuters, that in a future war between Israel and Hezbollah the latter may be able to make use of an Iranian naval port, bases for Iran’s air and ground forces, and “tens of thousands of Shiite militiamen being brought in from various countries.” A recent report in the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi described Iranian plans to thin out the Sunni Arab population between Damascus and the border with Lebanon, expelling Sunni residents and replacing them with pro-government Shiites from elsewhere in the country or outside it. Israeli strategic culture tends to emphasize addressing immediate threats, but these potential demographic developments are also being watched closely in Jerusalem. This all forms a larger picture in which Israel sees a major shift underway in the regional balance of power, to the benefit of the Iran-led regional bloc. Anyone who has received briefings from senior Israeli security officials in recent years has become familiar with a conception of the region as divided into four broad blocs: Iran and its (mainly Shiite) allies; a loose group of countries opposed to Iran that includes the Arab autocracies of the Gulf (excluding Qatar), along with Egypt, Jordan, and Israel itself; an alliance of conservative Sunni Islamist forces, such as Turkey, Qatar, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Sunni Arab rebels in Syria; and finally the regional networks of Sunni Salafi jihadism, most notably the Islamic State and al Qaeda. There are problems with this picture, and it contains simplifications. Most notably, the line between the conservative Sunni Islamists and the Salafis has always been blurred. There is an additional blurred line, in which authoritarian rulers such as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have some sympathy for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Nevertheless, the picture was a serviceable one, adhering to many of the clear realities of the Middle East over the last decade and a half. But the tectonic plates of this picture are now shifting, most notably to the clear detriment of the two camps associated with Sunni political Islam. The period of Arab unrest in 2010, during which Islamist and Salafi forces seemed briefly ascendant, is now a spent force — its beneficiaries in retreat and in some cases eclipsed by Sunni autocrats and pro-Iranian forces. Hamas is seeking to rebuild its relations with Iran. Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi languishes in jail. Islamists in Tunisia are a minority element in the government, and Qatar is under attack from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates because of its stances in recent years. And the Syrian Sunni Arab rebels, once the great cause of this group, are now stranded — fighting for survival and without hope of victory against the Assad regime. The Salafis, too, are in eclipse, at least as political contenders. Looked at from Israel, this process is a mixed bag. Sunni Islamists are hostile to Israel, of course, and for the most part, their failure to assemble a lasting power bloc is welcomed in Jerusalem. Senior Israeli security officials describe, for example, Sisi’s 2013 coup deposing the Muslim Brotherhood as a species of “miracle.” In Syria, however, the insurgent efforts of the Sunni Islamists had at least the benefit of distracting the attentions of the more formidable enemy — the Iran-led regional bloc. For five years, Israel was largely able to sit by while Sunni and Shiite political Islam were in a death’s embrace just north and east of the border. Russian and Iranian intervention, however, appears to have tipped the balance against the Sunni rebels, threatening to bring the long chapter of active civil war in Syria to a close. From an Israeli point of view, we are back to the pre-2010 Middle East, when Israel and pro-western Sunni powers understood they were in a direct faceoff with the Iranians and their allies. But in 2017, there is the additional complicating factor of a direct Russian physical presence in the Levant, in alliance or at least in cooperation with Israel’s enemies. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, which remains exclusively focused on the war against the Islamic State, has done little to assuage Israeli concerns. Trump and those around him, of course, share the Israeli assessment regarding the challenge of Iranian regional ambitions. The impression, however, is that the administration may well not be sufficiently focused or concerned to actually take measures necessary to halt the Iranian advance — both military and political — in Syria, Iraq, or Lebanon. Where does this leave Israel? First, Israel’s diplomatic avenues to the international power brokers in Syria remain open. When it comes to Washington, Israel’s task is to locate or induce a more coherent American strategy to counter advance of the Iranians in the Levant. Its goal when it comes to Moscow is to ensure sufficient leeway from Putin, who has no ideological animus against Israel and no special sympathy for Tehran, so that Israel can take the measures it deems necessary to halt or deter the Iranians and their proxies. Second, Israel will continue to rely on its military defenses, which remain without peer in the region. And as shown in Masyaf, they can be employed to halt and deter provocative actions by the Iran-led bloc where necessary. Nevertheless, as seen from Jerusalem, the shifting regional tectonic plates are producing a new situation in which the Iran-led alliance is once again directly facing Israel, consequently raising the possibility of direct confrontation. Masyaf was not the first shot in the fight between Israel and its proxies in the Levant — and it is unlikely to be the last.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/28/israel-is-going-to-war-in-syria-to-fight-iran/
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I have had my hand of protection upon America but no more. I am going to shake America like never before. I will lift my hand of protection for a little while. Remember nine one one and what happened when my hand was lifted? What is to come is far worse than that. I have sat back and watched as my word has been removed from your schools. Your children know nothing of me. I have watched while your government has removed my commandments from their walls. They have promoted a life style forbidden by me. I have said in my word man shall not lie with man and women with women this is an abomination. You have opened up your military, they are dancing in the streets, they are thumbing their noses and saying we are here we will take over. I will not allow this to go on any longer without discipline. I love you America but you need to be shaken. etc
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Judge Roy Moore: We Removed God from Schools, Shootings and Death Filled the Void
by AWR Hawkins19 Sep 2017
CNN is lamenting the fact that GOP frontrunner for the U.S. Senate in Alabama Judge Roy Moore told pastors and Christians in a speech last month that shootings and killings in American society are the result of removing God from schools. Andrew Kaczynski’s KFile on CNN dug up a video of Moore from late August speaking at Citizen Impact USA, making the comments that have CNN and the GOP establishment in Washington similarly freaked out. “We are losing the acknowledgement of God and I’m standing here talking to Christians and pastors and I’m telling you we’re losing the acknowledgement of God,” Moore said, per CNN’s report. After, per Kaczynski, Moore began “reciting several verses from the Old Testament book of Hosea that deal with lack of knowledge of God,” the front-running candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama argued that shootings and killings in U.S. society today is because of the lack of God in public life. “You wonder why we’re having shootings, and killings here in 2017? Because we’ve asked for it,” Moore said. “We’ve taken God out of everything. We’ve taken prayer out of school, we’ve taken prayer out of council meetings.” In a video of Moore’s speech to Citizen Impact USA, he can be heard saying, “There’s no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God in the land.” He then referenced Hosea 4:2 (King James Version) saying, “By swearing and lying and killing and stealing … they break forth and blood touches blood.” Moore went on to cite a recent example of a coach who was barred from going out on the 50-yard line to kneel and say a silent prayer before a football game began. The school district filed a suit which resulted in an injunction to prevent the coach from praying at the 50-yard-line. Within seconds of the CNN piece posting, the Senate Leadership Fund—a PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell which has spent millions upon millions of dollars in Alabama to try to prop up failing establishment candidate Luther Strange—spokesman Chris Pack tweeted the attack against Moore from CNN: It is not the first time that McConnell’s organization has been working with CNN to attack Moore, the conservative candidate much more closely aligned with President Trump’s agenda than Strange—the establishment-backed candidate that Trump has endorsed and is set to campaign for later this week. Last week, as Breitbart News reported, Senate Leadership Fund and CNN teamed up to attack Moore for suggesting that the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened as a result of the lack of God in American society. While both that attack over 9/11 and this one over shootings may seem harsh in Washington, D.C., or on the island of Manhattan, the message Moore gave in both actually is a positive one among GOP primary voters in Alabama. Polling data from JMC Analytics has shown that most likely voters in Alabama’s upcoming GOP primary runoff on Sept. 26 do not think less of Moore as a result of these statements, and actually like what he says. For instance, in response to the 9/11 attack, most astute observers understood that it is actually a positive in Alabama—not an attack: The same goes for this latest attack. What is perhaps more interesting, however, is the emergence of a new alliance between Senate Leadership Fund—McConnell’s organization—and CNN. President Trump despises CNN, and calls it a “very fake news” network. He has bashed the network repeatedly from rally stages, and cheered when three senior CNN staffers were forced to resign earlier this year as the result of a Breitbart News investigation that uncovered they published extraordinarily fake news regarding the Russia scandal. The McConnell group’s decision to keep working with CNN to attack a GOP candidate who supports the president’s agenda, Moore, and create further division inside the GOP is not the only time the group has lined up against President Trump and his agenda. The Senate Leadership Fund has been caught in the act of publishing deceptively edited videos falsely suggesting that Moore does not support the president’s planned border wall. Creating division inside the GOP and falsely alleging that a Republican does not support the president’s agenda is in and of itself an attack on the president and his agenda. AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com .
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Food Truck Giving Free Food to Hurricane Workers, Kicked Out of Town for Not Having a Permit
September 25, 2017 By Matt Agorist
Green Cove Springs, FL — After Irma devastated Florida, most restaurants and stores were shut down in certain areas. Green Cove Springs was one of those places. So, when Jack Roundtree, owner of the Triple J BBQ food truck, arrived in town, not only was he welcomed with open arms — he was desperately needed. As he sold BBQ to paying customers, Roundtree used the extra money to feed utility workers for free for all their hard work. However, once officials saw a man who’d dare sell food in their town without paying them first, police were called in to make quick work of this entrepreneurial good Samaritan. Shut down and get out of town—is what Roundtree was told by local authorities for both providing charity and a much-needed product and service. Why was Roundtree told to get out of town, you ask? Well, he hadn’t paid the local government for the ‘privilege’ to sell food to those in need inside Green Cove Springs. Roundtree is no outlaw. In fact, Green Cove Springs actually encouraged him to sell his BBQ during their monthly Saturday-in-the-Park event before the hurricane. But not this time. Even if he would’ve gone to city hall to buy a permit to sell during the Irma aftermath, however, he couldn’t—they were closed. According to Clay Today: It was interesting to learn that Roundtree and his truck were encouraged to serve customers during Green Cove’s monthly Saturday-in-the-Park event without a permit, but during Irma’s aftermath, not so much. Had Roundtree decided to press his case at City Hall, he would have been greeted with a sign that read: ‘Due to Hurricane Irma, City Hall offices and services will re-open on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017.’ So, instead of allowing Roundtree to offer free food to utility workers and sell food to people during their time of need, and just get a permit after government employees decided to return to work—they just kicked him out of town. Here’s how one Green Cove Spring witness, Bettie Tune, described the events at Rich’s on her Facebook page, as reported by Clay Today: Just saw a BBQ food truck set up in town. GREAT!! Wanted to stop and get a good lunch for the guys helping us. When I pulled in, there was a Green Cove Springs police sitting there. OK, everyone has to eat, and the choices are very limited right now. Starting to talk to one of the guys from the food truck and found out that the “city manager” had sent her police to make them leave. This is such a great little town, but it seems like the people who run it do their best to keep it from progressing. THANKS Green Cove Springs City Manager. Shame on you! The irony here is that he was kicked out of town for failing to get a permit by government workers because the other government workers who would’ve given him this permit, were not at work. In a report from the Institute for Justice, Communications Coordinator, Matt Powers explains that Roundtree is not alone. Cities across the country often impose strict regulations that make it nearly impossible for food trucks to operate. In 2011, IJ launched its National Street Vending Initiative to fight these laws. In Baltimore, the Institute for Justice (IJ) is challenging a ban on food trucks parking within 300-foot of a brick-and-mortar business that sells the same type of food. In Chicago, IJ is challenging regulations that bans food trucks from operating within 200 feet of a brick-and-mortar business serving food and forces them to install GPS tracking devices that broadcast their every move. And IJ is challenging a Louisville, Kentucky, law banning food trucks from operating within 150 feet of any restaurant selling similar food. These strict regulations are ostensibly designed for food safety, but in reality, serve to raise revenue for the state and limit established restaurants’ competition. They also stifle economic growth. As the IJ noted: Wire Tapped America - New Book (Ad) It is not only during times of crisis that food trucks contribute to their communities. According to IJ’s report Streets of Dreams mobile vending businesses help people escape poverty and unemployment through affordable start-up costs which creates the initial economic opportunity for upward mobility. IJ’s report, Seven Myths and Realities found the presence of food trucks can actually help local restaurant industries by attracting new customers and serving as incubators for new restaurants. Cities should embrace food trucks and liberate them from onerous regulations so they can enjoy the benefits these businesses bring. When people in need are denied food they are willing to purchase because government workers aren’t in the office to sell the maker of that food a permission slip, something is wrong in the land of the free. As TFTP reported earlier this month, this problem is everywhere. It stifles local economic growth, persecutes the poor the hardest, and turns hard-working entrepreneurs into criminals, ripe for the extortion of state. Luckily, thanks to Martin Flores, who filmed an innocent hot dog vendor named Beto get robbed by a Berkeley police officer for selling hot dogs, Americans are seeing the harsh reality that is making a living in a police state. Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Facebook. This article first appeared at The Free Thought Project.
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etc I have told you to have enough food, generator for three months, how long, for three months. Not three years, not six years, not seven years. Man says many things, but it does not line up with my word, but I shall be giving unto you my word that you may know, you must prepare now, you must get your house in order now, these things, these things are important. Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together, I will be speaking to you, you need to be hearing, you need to be listening, the time is extremely short. etc
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After The Collapse Series: What Becomes Money When The System Collapses?
September 26, 2017
With this article, we continue our series After The Collapse, if you missed any article of this series can be found here After The Collapse Series. What is money? Economist Mike Shedlock defines money through the eyes of Austrian economist Murray N. Rothbard as “a commodity used as a medium of exchange.” “Like all commodities, it has an existing stock, it faces demands by people to buy and hold it. Like all commodities, its price in terms of other goods is determined by the interaction of its total supply, or stock, and the total demand by people to buy and hold it. People buy money by selling their goods and services for it, just as they sell money when they buy goods and services.” What is money when the system collapses and the SHTF? In disaster situations, the value of money as we know it now changes, especially if we are dealing with a hyperinflationary collapse of the system’s core currency. This article discusses money as a commodity in an event where the traditional currency (US Dollar) is no longer valuable. In a collapse of the system, there will be multiple phases, with the first phase being the “crunch”. The crunch is the period of time directly preceding a collapse and the collapse itself. Traditional Currency Initially, the traditional currency system will maintain some value, though it may be rapidly depreciating in buying power. For those with physical, non-precious metal denominated currency on hand (paper dollars, non-silver coins), spending it as rapidly as possible is the best approach. Also read: Grid-Down Collapse: When Hard Assets Soar In Value, Having Key Supplies And Tools Prepared In Advance Of An Emergency Is Absolutely Critical To Your Well-Being And Survival!
Preparing for the Aftermath–What would it really be like to have no running water, electricity, sewer, newspaper or Internet? No supermarket or fire department close at hand? It is during the crunch that ATM machines around the country will run out of currency as people aware of the rapidly devaluing dollar will be attempting to withdraw as much money as possible. This immediate increase in money supply, coupled with the population’s general knowledge of the currency depreciation in progress, will lead to instant price increases for goods, especially essential goods. If your physical cash has not been converted into tangible assets, this would be the time to do so. Acquiring as much food, fuel, clothing and toiletry items as possible would be the ideal way to spend remaining cash before it completely collapses to zero, as it did in the Weimar inflation in 1930’s Germany, or Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation in recent years. Precious Metals During the initial phase of the ‘crunch’ precious metals will be a primary bartering tool, but this may not last long. The old survivalist adage “you can’t eat your gold” will become apparent very quickly. In a total breakdown of the system, food, water and fuel will be the most important tangible goods to acquire. Consider someone who has a two week or one month supply of food on hand. Do you believe they would be willing to part with that food for some precious metals? The likely answer is no. There will be almost no bartering item that one would be willing to trade their food for once it is realized that food supply lines have been cut. That being said, since most will not barter their food, not even for fuel, the next recognized medium of exchange by merchants, especially those selling fuel, will be precious metals. For the initial crunch, silver coins, especially recognizable coins like 90% silver quarters, dimes and half dollars, along with one (1) ounce government mint issued silver coins like US Silver Eagles, will be accepted by some, probably most, merchants. For those trying to flee cities to bug-out locations, silver coins of the aforementioned denominations may be a lifesaver, as they can be used to acquire fuel. While we recommend having gold, as well, the issue with gold is that its value is so much higher than that of silver, that breaking a etc
While we recommend having gold, as well, the issue with gold is that its value is so much higher than that of silver, that breaking a one-ounce gold coin into 10 pieces just to buy a tank of gas will not be practical. It is for this reason that having silver on hand is highly recommended. Packing at least $25 – $50 of silver coins in each bug-out bag would be a prudent prepping idea. In a total SHTF scenario, silver and gold may eventually break down as a bartering unit, as contact with the “outside” world breaks down. One reason for this is that the fair value price of precious metals will be hard to determine, as it will be difficult to locate buyers for this commodity. This, however, does not mean that you should spend all of your precious metals right at the onset of a collapse. Precious metals will have value after bartering and trade are reestablished once the system begins to stabilize. Once stabilization begins, the likely scenario is that precious metals will be one of the most valuable monetary units available, so having plenty may be quite a benefit. At this point, they could be used to purchase property, livestock, services, and labor. Water Water is often overlooked as a medium of exchange, though it is one of the most essential commodities for survival on the planet. Had individuals in New Orleans stockpiled some water supplies during Hurricane Katrina, much of the loss of life there could have been avoided. For those bugging out of cities, it will be impractical to carry with them more than 5 – 10 gallons of water because of space limitations in their vehicles. Thus, having a method to procure water may not only save your life but also provide you with additional goods for which you can barter. An easy solution for providing yourself and others with clean water is to acquire a portable water filtration unit for your bug-out bag(s). While they are a bit costly, with a good unit such as the Katadyn Combi water filter running around $150, the water produced will be worth its weight in gold, almost literally. This particular filter produces 13,000 gallons of clean water! A Must have for any survival kit. Because we like reserves for our reserves, we’d also recommend acquiring water treatment tablets like the EPA approved Katadyn Micropur tabs. If your filter is lost or breaks for whatever reason, each tablet can purify 1 liter of water. In our opinion, the best chemical water treatment available. Clean water is money. In a bartering environment, especially before individuals have had time to establish water sources, this will be an extremely valuable medium of exchange and will have more buying power than even silver or gold on the individual bartering level. Food In a system collapse, food will be another of the core essential items that individuals will want to acquire. Survival Blog founder James Rawles suggests storing food for 1) personal use 2) charity 3) bartering. Dry goods, canned goods, freeze dried foods can be used for bartering, but only if you have enough to feed yourself, family and friends. They should be bartered by expiration date, with those foods with the expiration dates farthest out being the last to be traded. You don’t know how long the crunch and recovery periods will last, so hold the foods with the longest expiration dates in your possession if you get to a point where you must trade. Baby formula will also be a highly valued item in an SHTF scenario, so whether you have young children or not, it may not be a bad idea to stockpile a one or two week supply. (For parents of young children, this should be the absolute first thing you should be stockpiling!). In addition to water, baby formula may be one of the most precious of all monetary commodities. Another tradeable food good would be, seeds, but the need for these may not be apparent to most at the initial onset of a collapse, though having extra seeds in your bug-out location may come in handy later. Fuel Fuel, including gas, diesel, propane, and kerosene will all become barterable goods in a collapse, with gas being the primary of these energy monetary units during the crunch as individuals flee cities. For most, stockpiling large quantities will be impractical, so for those individuals who prepared, they may only have 20 – 50 gallons in their possession as they are leaving their homes. If you are near your final bug-out destination, and you must acquire food, water or firearms, fuel may be a good medium of exchange, especially for those that have extra foodstuff they are willing to trade. Though we do not recommend expending your fuel, if you are left with no choice, then food, water, and clothing may take precedence. For those with the ability to do so, store fuel in underground tanks on your property for later use and trading. Firearms and Ammunition Though firearms and ammunition may not be something you want to give up, those without them will be willing to trade some of their food, precious metals, fuel and water for personal security. When the system collapses, there will likely be pandemonium, and those without a way to protect themselves will be sitting ducks to thieves, predators, and gangs. Even in if you choose not to trade your firearms and ammo during the onset of a collapse, these items will be valuable later. As food supplies diminish, those without firearms will want to acquire them so they can hunt for food. Those with firearms may very well be running low on ammunition and will be willing to trade for any of the aforementioned items. As you maybe already know, ammunition was the primary trading good during the recovery and stabilization periods, where it was traded for food, clothing, shoes, livestock, precious metals and fuel. Clothing and Footwear We may take it for granted now because of the seemingly endless supply, but clothing and footwear items will be critical in both, the crunch and the phases after it. Having an extra pair of boots, a jacket, socks, underwear, and sweaters can be an excellent way to acquire other essential items in a trade. As children grow out of their clothes, rather than throwing them away, they will become barterable goods. It is recommended that those with children stock up on essential clothing items like socks, underwear, and winter-wear that is sized a year or two ahead of your child’s age. Additional Monetary Commodities The above monetary units are essential goods that will be helpful for bartering in the initial phases of a collapse in the system. As the crunch wanes and recovery and stabilization begin to take over, other commodities will become tradeable goods. Some other examples of items that will be bartering goods during and after a crunch include vitamins, tools, livestock, fishing supplies, coffee and medical supplies. Another important monetary commodity after the crunch will be trade skills. If you know how to fish, machine tools, hunt, sew, fix and operate radios, fix cars, manufacture shoes, or grow food, you’ll have some very important skills during the recovery period.
http://www.survivaldan101.com/money-system-collapses/
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50K Evacuated From Bali, As Nation Is On Volcano Alert For Imminent Eruption
Mac Slavo September 25th, 2017 SHTFplan.com
Fears of an imminent eruption on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali have led to the evacuation of an estimated 50,000 people. The Mount Agung volcano is going to erupt, scientists say. Waskita Sutadewa, the spokesman for the disaster mitigation agency in Bali, said people have scattered to all corners of the island and some have crossed to the neighboring island of Lombok. Indonesian authorities raised the volcano’s alert status to the highest level on Friday following a dramatic increase in seismic activity. It last erupted in 1963, killing about 1,100 people. Villagers are staying in temporary camps, sports centers, village halls, or with friends and relatives. Some do return to the exclusion zone during the day to tend to their livestock or shift the animals to areas further from the volcano for their safety. Others say they are selling their cows because they don’t know when they’ll be able to return. “It’s obviously an awful thing. We want to be out of here just to be safe,” said an Australian woman at Bali’s airport who identified herself as Miriam. National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said hundreds of thousands of face masks will be distributed in Bali as part of government humanitarian assistance that includes thousands of mattresses and blankets. Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. Government volcanologist Surono, who uses one name, said the feared eruption could be huge and potentially also close airports in East Java and Lombok, according to local media reports. Agung is in the north of the island about 43 miles from the tourist hotspot of Kuta. People have been told to stay at least 6 miles from the crater, but to stay 7.5 miles away when to the north, northeast, southeast, and south-southwest. Over the past 5,000 years, Agung has erupted once a century on average and about a quarter of its eruptions have been a similar or stronger strength than 1963. Macquarie University volcanologist Heather Handley said the eruptions in 1843 and 1963 had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of about 5 on a scale where 8 would be the strength of an ancient supervolcano eruption such as Yellowstone in the U.S. or Toba in Indonesia. Although officials have said there is no immediate threat to tourists, a significant eruption would force the closure of Bali’s international airport, stranding thousands. The island is famous for its surfing, beaches and its elegant Hindu culture is still safe to visit. Bali’s Ngurah rai International Airport has been operating normally since the alert status for Mount Agung was raised to the highest level on Friday. Nearly 5 million tourists visited Bali last year.
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'California Is Obviously Shaking' - The Ring Of Fire Is Restless As Californians Fear The San Andreas Fault Is Ready To Blow
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine September 26, 2017
Events in September 2017, including but not limited to the 8.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Mexico in early September, followed by a 7.1 magnitude on the 19th, along with the evacuations happening now where 50,000 are being forced to flee their homes amid fears Mount Agung, in Bali, could erupt at any moment, and a state of emergency that has been declared on the Vanuatu island of Ambae as the Monaro volcano continues to erupt, show that we are seeing a level of earth activity that is increasingly concerning. Over the past weekend, Mexico was again shaken up by another 6.2 magnitude earthquake and no less than 26 smaller earthquakes have rattled California in a 24 hour period, and 176 earthquakes in a seven day period, causing some serious alarm over the much-talked about "big one" hitting along the 800-mile fissure that runs almost the length of California, called the San Andreas Fault. Via Newsweek: "It's a different system," says Matthew Blackett, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards at Britain’s Coventry University, "But the system that is causing these quakes in Mexico is by and large similar to what's happening in California.” In both locations, tectonic plates are sliding past one another. In California, the Pacific plate and the North American plate are both moving northward, but the former is moving faster than the latter, leading to a buildup of tension. Some of this was released in a catastrophic 1906 quake that hit San Francisco. But there’s still thought to be a lot of unresolved pressure along the San Andreas fault in the South of the state. In other words, a quake is probably coming, and it’s going to be a “big one.” American government projections, says Blackett, place the likely magnitude of that quake somewhere between magnitudes 7 and 8. The San Andreas Fault is part of that Ring of fire. SAN ANDREAS, THE RING OF FIRE & HARMONIC TREMORS The reason so many people keep their eyes on the Ring of Fire, shown in the image above, is because that "ring" produces 90 percent of the world's earthquakes and 81 percent of the world's largest earthquakes, but also holds 452 volcanoes, which is more than 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. Some Californians have been so rattled by the swarm of quakes over the last week, they are stocking up in bulk in preparation of the possibility of the "big one" being closer than imagined before. In order to understand exactly how much of a disaster it would be for for a mega-quake to hit the San Andreas Fault line, we remind you of what Dr. Lucy Jones, Science Advisor for Risk Reduction at the U.S. Geological Survey, pointed out back in 2013, saying "Imagine America Without Los Angeles," as she warned that California is in no way prepared for a major quake. According to a USGS study called the “Shakeout Report,” when a high-magnitude earthquake rocks the San Andreas fault, the damage will go far beyond the collapsed buildings and freeways seen in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. For example, LA-area supermarkets now depend on Internet systems for warehousing and shipping food to stores, and the food is stored on the other side of the San Andreas fault. “With the development of the Internet and the new just-in-time economy, none of them store food on the Los Angeles side of the San Andreas anymore,” Jones said. “So this is one more place where the development of the complexity of our modern society is creating new vulnerabilities as we face the big earthquakes.” Fiber-optics could also be cut off when a disastrous earthquake hits the San Andreas fault. “Two-thirds of the connectivity from Los Angeles to the rest of the world go through fiber-optic cables crossing the San Andreas fault,” Jones explained. “So we expect at the time of the earthquake when the fault moves, we will break these fiber-optic cables and two-thirds of the data capacity between LA and everyone else will disappear,” she said. Natural gas pipelines also cross the San Andreas fault, so gas for cooking and heating would be in short supply. That Shakeout Report projected that over 10 million Californians would be affected if San Andreas blows. It is also noteworthy that in late November 2016, by federal, state and academic researchers found that contrary to prior findings where experts previously believed the San Andreas could only rupture in isolated sections, now they have determined the entire 800-mile-long fault running the length of California where the Pacific and North American plates meet, could actually all "unzip" at once "unleashing a rare, singular catastrophe," as reported by Fox News at the time. Considering the aforementioned points, when I noticed a couple of SQ notes associated with some articles about EQs and volcanoes over on Steve Quayle's site , in conjunction with an an alert from this morning regarding an earthquake overview, they peaked my interest. The first was a note after the link tot he 26 EQs in the last 24 hours where Steve recommended "Those of you who understand what's going on should at least go on vacation if you live between Sacramento and Los Angeles, especially if the EQ's turn harmonic." Being unfamiliar with the term "harmonic" in relation to earthquakes, I shot him off a quick email to ask, and he pointed me to the Earthquake Glossary page for "harmonic tremors," which states the following: Harmonic tremor describes continuous rhythmic earthquakes that can be detected by seismographs. Harmonic tremors often precede or accompany volcanic eruptions. Below is a screen shot of the seismogram display from the USGS, recording seismograph stations in real-time and each plot represents 24 hours of data per station. Then we have the SQ Alert explaining the concerns of Dutchsinse, who does daily segments regarding both earthquakes with discussions on volcanoes on his YouTube channel, where the "unsettling" series of swarms, specifically those in the Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Ranier areas, which Steve indicates is very important. TO SUM IT UP: 4 LARGE QUAKES IN THE FORECAST, VARIOUS LOCATIONS. MT. RAINIER AND ST. HELENS ARE SWARMING. SOMETHING STRANGE IS GOING ON OFF THE COAST OF ASTORIA, OREGON. THE PTB ARE PULSING THE AREA. DUTCHSINSE SAYS THERE IS A VOLCANO IN THE OCEAN - THE ONE THAT ERUPTED IN PRIOR YEAR AND THE PTB DID NOT LET US KNOW UNTIL THE ERUPTION WAS OVER. IT MAY BE ERUPTING AGAIN. WEST COAST SLOW SLIP CHANGED TO VERY FEW SPOTS WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS. IF THAT PATTERN CARRIES THROUGH THE NEXT 2 DAYS, DUTCH WILL WARN OF A BIG QUAKE - ABOVE 7 AND AT ONE POINT HE SAID ABOVE 7.7 OFF THE COAST. HE SAID IT WILL BE FELT IN SEATTLE AND PROBABLY CA AS WELL. IT WOULD HAVE THE EQUIVALENT PRESSURE OF 9 MONTHS THAT THE SLOW SLIP HAS MOVED. VANCOUVER BC - A LISTENER NOTIFIED DUTCH OF A 4. QUAKE THERE, HOWEVER THAT IS NOT VERIFIED. IF IT DID NOT HAPPEN, VANCOUVER CAN EXPECT A QUAKE AROUND 5. (OFF THE COAST). CA IS OBVIOUSLY SHAKING. Please note St. Helens and Ranier are part of the Ring of Fire. Read the entire SQ Alert. BOTTOM LINE Considering California is considered over due for what they call a "big one," historically speaking, with various experts stating very clearly it is not a matter of "if" it will happen but of "when," perhaps the severity of the issue is best explained by saying the best case scenario is that a mega quake hits California resulting in catastrophic loss of life and infrastructure, in comparison to the alternative worst case scenario, which is the San Andreas "unzipping" in conjunction with the worlds biggest volcanoes coming alive in a "synchronous manner," an issue Quayle will be addressing on Hagmann and Hagmann on Thursday.
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Fiji rocked by TWO earthquakes measuring 6.5 and 5.1 magnitude in the middle of Australia's school holidays
Two earthquakes have struck Fiji on Tuesday, one 6.5 and one 5.1 in magnitude
The larger quake was measured at a depth of 104km, with no threat of a tsunami
It comes after a 6.0 magnitude quake also struck Papua New Guinea Tuesday
The quakes are two of many that have hit the 'Ring of Fire' area in the last week
By Kirby Spencer and Brianne Tolj For Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:06 EDT, 26 September 2017 | Updated: 05:30 EDT, 26 September 2017
Two earthquakes struck off the coast of Fiji on Tuesday - one measuring 6.5 in magnitude and the other 5.1. The biggest quake was recorded at approximately 2.20pm, measuring a depth of 104km and struck south of the Fijian islands in the South Pacific. While the smaller quake was registered 289km north of Ndoi island around 11.40am and was 579 km deep. Despite the size of the quakes, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no threat of a tsunami. It comes after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake also struck nearby Papua New Guinea on Tuesday morning. The quake, measuring at a depth of 5.7km, was felt by locals at around 6.30am, the United States Geological Survey said. It struck 230km off New Britain just hours after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake was registered 148km south-east of Tarron Monday night. Quakes have been felt throughout the region as the tectonic plates within the 'Ring of Fire' that stretches from New Zealand to California move. A huge undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Bali, Indonesia, last week days before thousands of families were due to flock to the popular holiday destination for school holidays. The 5.7 magnitude quake was detected 125km northeast of Surabaya, Java, on Thursday, the US Geological Survey confirmed. Measured at a depth of 588km, the quake immediately sparked fears of a tsunami and an eruption from Mount Agung volcano. Intense earthquakes have rocked New Zealand, Vanuatu, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico throughout the last weeks, all places considered within the 'Ring of Fire'. The ring is used to describe an area where tectonic plates collide and shift frequently, and is known for causing almost 90 per cent of the world's earthquakes. Phil Cummins at Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University recently suggested seismic waves cascading along fault lines could be responsible. He said waves could jump between nearby fault lines and continue moving, triggering imminent earthquakes at rupture points. 'The waves that are excited by the earthquakes might rattle or disturb some distant faults that are close to rupture already,' he said. Vanuatu, which has a population of 270,000, is made up of 80 nations scattered across 1,300 kilometres of ocean and sits directly on top of the 'Ring of Fire'. While Mexico was devastated by a 7.1 magnitude a week ago, which killed at least 300 people and left hundreds more trapped underneath collapsed buildings. Two powerful earthquakes were also reported to have struck New Zealand on Wednesday, while Japan had scares of a national disaster after seismic activity hit off the coast east of Fukushima early on Thursday morning.
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Total Defense: How the Baltic States Are Integrating Citizenry Into Their National Security Strategies
by Marta Kepe and Jan Osburg Journal Article | September 24, 2017 - 8:51am
Marta Kepe and Jan Osburg Russian aggression in Ukraine and military exercises at the borders of the Baltic states, as well as a string of information and cyber operations, have raised fears among Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania about their security. Due to their shared borders with Russia, the Baltic states are the NATO members most exposed to Russia’s threats. As small countries with little strategic depth and limited human and economic resources, they are increasingly adopting a “total defense” approach to national security, which includes enabling civilians to be able to protect themselves and to also support their nation’s professional armed forces in case of a conflict. U.S. and NATO forces therefore also need to plan for effective engagement with local civilians as they prepare their forces for deployment to the Baltic states in times of crisis. Baltic Armed Forces are Outnumbered and Outgunned by Russia’s Military The total population of the Baltic states is 6.2 million. Their combined territory is only 173,291 km2 (or 107,678 square miles) and a leisurely drive through the widest point between Russia and the Baltic sea would only take around 7 hours. Despite their size, all three Baltic countries have committed to spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense, with Estonia having reached this aim in 2015, and Latvia and Lithuania close to the target in 2017 with 1.7% and 1.8% respectively. However, their small economies and populations, and their past focus on developing expeditionary rather than territorial defense capabilities due to their accession to NATO in 2004 and the economic crisis of 2008, mean that even with the best of efforts there are limits on how much the Baltic states’ militaries can be grown. Currently, all Baltic armed forces combined comprise around 22,000 troops, with 448 heavy artillery pieces but no tanks or warplanes. The Russian conventional capability in the Western Military District alone is assessed at approximately 300,000 troops, while the total Russian conventional capability is estimated to be around 845,000 troops, 5,436 heavy artillery pieces, 2,550 tanks and 1,389 warplanes. Thus, it is obvious that the Baltic states’ military capabilities are no match for Russia’s forces. While NATO has deployed one battalion to each of the three Baltic states as part of the Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) effort and has made additional pledges to support the security in the region, augmenting NATO forces to the degree needed for thwarting a full-scale Russian invasion is likely to encounter opposition due to costs and political reasons. The Promise of Asymmetric Approaches Considering the unequal character of the Baltic and Russian forces, an asymmetric strategy that encompasses a whole-of-society approach to national defense holds promise to augment the defensive and deterrent capabilities of the countries under threat. The primary goal of asymmetric defense is to defeat the adversary’s will to engage in – or continue with – aggression by denying benefits, increasing costs and influencing their perception of both costs and benefits. Resistance to invasion and occupation would also send an important political message to Allied governments, namely that the local population does not accept the new rulers and is putting their lives on the line to defend their national sovereignty. Such “total defense” actions go beyond conventional military activities. They encompass efforts of civilian branches of government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the general population, thus enhancing conventional defense and deterrence measures. A total defense approach may be particularly helpful in situations where there is no clear threshold for the ‘start of hostilities’, and, if deterrence should fail, can also help to buy time until sufficient NATO reinforcements can arrive. Civilian engagement in particular can be part of deterrence in the form of raising popular support for the defense of the state, strengthening societal resilience and increasing threat awareness as well as letting civilians contribute their skills, talents and resources or serve as watchful eyes. Including civilians requires strategic alignment and communications between and among defense planners, civilian authorities, NGOs and the general population. Baltic Steps Towards “Total Defense” The Baltic states are very aware of the role society plays in their national defense. This is illustrated by the renewed interest in asymmetric approaches, which have been included in strategic-level government documents. The three states also host NATO centers of excellence that contribute analysis and support to NATO’s strategic communications, cyber defense and energy security capabilities. Furthermore, the Baltic states have been encouraging their populations to be involved in national defense and contribute to societal resilience by educating their populations on the role of the armed forces, national defense, and security threats, and by advising civilians on how to act in case of crisis and war. However, beyond those basics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania differ in their approaches to defense policy and capability planning. Likewise, their approaches on working with citizenry as key parts of deterrence and defense also have significant differences. The Estonian implementation of total defense is an all-inclusive approach that encompasses the participation of all sectors of society, including government institutions, the private sector and civil organizations. Its main goal is to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the country under any circumstance. While doing so, it also aims to increase the confidence of the people in the Estonian government and their will to defend Estonia. A key part of this approach is ensuring a resilient and cohesive society that is the glue that holds together defense, security and foreign policy and related capabilities, and ensures the availability of human resources and their readiness to actively respond if necessary. Latvia, on the other hand, has started integrating total defense into its national security strategy. The strategy focuses on resilience – increasing Latvia’s ability to resist hybrid threats that may be economic, political and technological in nature, to counter information warfare and, like Estonia, to increase social cohesion. As outlined in the 2016 State Defence Concept, civil-military cooperation is part of the national security approach and brings together state administrative institutions, the general public and the National Armed Forces. According to the Latvian Constitution, the ability of the population to engage in individual and collective resistance is regarded as an indivisible part of the national identity and civic confidence, forming the foundation of state defense against any aggressor. Lithuania’s total defence approach has been in place since the early 1990s and has been inspired by the examples of the Nordic countries and Switzerland. Here, total defense is understood as an approach to national defense that includes not just the National Armed Forces and Allied forces, but also the mobilization of all national resources towards defeating an invader, along with active resistance by every citizen that is in any way legitimate under international law. Lithuania has also used the concept of ‘comprehensive security’, which stands for the cooperation of military and civilian institutions and interoperability of military and civilian capabilities. Moreover, Lithuanian strategic documents specifically allude to the concept of civil resistance, which is understood as the citizens of Lithuania, either as individuals or formed into small units, engaging in activities against aggression and occupation. The Ministry of National Defense (MOND) has supported this effort by publishing extensive practical recommendations on how to prepare for and act in emergencies and war, issuing a brochure with focus on resilience in 2015, and issuing a third volume focusing on resistance in 2016. Public’s Readiness to Engage in National Defense Each of the Baltic states has a proud history of civilian participation in armed and unarmed resistance. However, popular engagement in civic activities and NGOs is generally low. The passivity of the post-liberal societies and a potential lack of understanding within the society that citizens’ action can make a difference may be contributing to this relatively low level of civil engagement. Participation is also hampered by the divided information space between Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians and local Russian-speaking populations, with differing attitudes towards history, and dissimilar cultural and political identities. Likewise, the differences in regional development and the consequent social and economic inequality, and a perceived detachment of the society from policy-making processes, adds difficulties to engaging with society, specifically in times of crises. Nevertheless, a substantial amount of the Baltic populations is willing to actively defend their countries. For example, armed resistance is regarded as necessary by 77% of the respondents to an Estonian Ministry of Defence opinion poll, with 56% of the respondents willing to take an active part in the defense of Estonia. The number of those ready to actively engage in defense is reported at 39% in Lithuania and 33% in Latvia. Based on the Baltic states’ current population levels, this would amount to more than 2.5 million people across the three countries ready to take up arms to defend the independence and sovereignty of their countries – a number twice the order of magnitude larger than the active-duty military. Conscription and Training of Civilians Increased civilian participation in defense can be fostered through engagement with existing social and professional organizations, and with individuals at all levels of society. Conscription, in addition to its role in generating active-duty military forces, may also be regarded as part of civilian engagement and training for defense. It increases the human resources available for mobilization, boosts general preparedness for emergency situations, and can increase appreciation of one’s country and its armed forces. Estonia has continued conscription since the early 1990s and Lithuania reinstituted a form of conscription in 2016, only eight years after it was abolished it in 2008. Conscription in Estonia is for a term of 8 to 11 months and aims to provide the conscript with the knowledge needed to contribute to the military in wartime. While only men face compulsory military service, since 2013 women are also allowed to serve in the program. Similarly, Lithuania has a nine month long conscription program, with a large percentage of the around 3,000 conscripts a year participating in the program as volunteers. Latvia is the only Baltic state that does not currently have any form of conscription as it was suspended in 2006. The most recent development in the Baltic states aimed at increasing the ability of civilians to respond to crisis, protect themselves, and help support national defense is the effort of the Latvian government towards the reintroduction of national defense and civil defense courses in schools. If implemented, this initiative will increase the population’s knowledge on how to recognize threats and respond to them. Furthermore, it may increase Latvian youth’s interest in serving in the professional and voluntary forces and elevate the general level of support for civilian resistance in case of conflict. Currently, only 13 schools in Latvia offer national defense courses on a voluntary basis. If implemented, the new national defense courses would be offered to high schoolers (grades 10–12) and would include learning about the national defense strategy, the armed forces, individual security and survival, international humanitarian law and acquiring various practical skills, for example mastering obstacle courses or identifying and avoiding mines. The program may also involve marksmanship training, individual combat skills and improving general fitness levels. Civil defense classes would provide students with knowledge on how to act in dangerous situations and teach first aid skills. However, having a body of conscripts and networks of civilians with defense-related skills is not enough. These skills and networks need to be exercised. Accordingly, the “Siil” integrated national defense concept exercise, held in 2015 in Estonia, was the largest exercise in Estonia’s history. It involved 13,000 reservists, members of the Estonian national voluntary defense organization (“Defence League”), conscripts, professional military and Allied forces. More recently, Lithuania integrated a partial mobilization exercise, Lightning Strike 2017, with participation of reserve troops. In addition, some training and exercises for senior government officials, politicians, representatives of educational institutions, NGOs and journalists have been held in the Baltics states, with the objective of informing them about and training them for various civil crisis situations. Such training also contributes to building the interpersonal and interorganizational networks needed for the effective implementation of a total defense system. This means giving people from different backgrounds and professional networks the opportunity to connect with each other and thus create both formal and informal social and communication networks. One example of such training is the Estonian National Defence Course that has been held since 1999. It brings together a wide variety of participants, including Estonian politicians, military, government and local government representatives as well as individuals working in the private sector and NGOs. Nationwide emergency response capabilities are also regularly tested in exercises such as the Estonian Contingency Employment Exercise (CONEX). This exercise was used to explore the options for legal measures in resolving crisis situations (e.g. large scale cyber incidents, mass poisoning, disruption of electricity supply, mass disturbances or attacks on key infrastructure) and involved NGO and private sector representatives. Held in 2015 in conjunction with the Siil exercise, it helped review strategic level response procedures and identify potential shortcomings in legislation. Conclusions The Baltic states’ thinking about national defense increasingly encompasses civil society, starting from the leveraging of civilian infrastructure to the participation of civilians in national defense. The Latvian Minister of Defence illustrated this by saying: ‘We suggest changing the paradigm of state defense from the idea that a fighter is only a soldier with a weapon in his hands and the support of Allied soldiers, to the conviction that every patriot of this country may give an invaluable contribution to state defense.’ If done correctly, this promises to provide a sustainable addition to defense and deterrence, and thus help prevent further aggression in this region. Furthermore, any small-unit warfare that may take place in the Baltic states in the case of invasion would require local society support regarding logistics, information and other resources. It is therefore paramount that the citizenry understands their role in defense and are ready to support their own as well as allied troops. Notwithstanding the differences between the Baltic states, below are some recommendations for Allied activities that can help the Baltic states in their approach to strengthening the national defense of the countries that form the Eastern border of the Alliance: Support national efforts to educate their citizens on national security issues, thus increasing their willingness and interest to participate. Facilitating open discussions about national defense that involve the government sector, armed forces, the private sector, NGOs and members of the society will increase awareness of defense and security among the general public. Augment national efforts to educate their citizens on what to do in time of crisis or war, by providing support to publications, television and radio programs disseminating such information. Advise the Baltic states on best practice regarding how to increase interagency cooperation between their ministries of defense and armed forces cooperation, and their ministries of interior, NGOs and general society. Participate in the design and execution of multi-institutional defense and resilience exercises that include the participation of civil society. These recommendations are aligned with recent developments within NATO. Resilience, civil preparedness and civil-military readiness were all discussed during the last NATO Summit in Warsaw in 2016. Furthermore, NATO has increased its interest in the state of civil defense and civil resilience measures. When implemented correctly, these combined, whole-of-government efforts promise to enable a sustainable defense to and deterrence against aggression directed at NATO’s easternmost members.
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US ARMY INFILTRATED BY COMMUNISTS; One Officer IN UNIFORM Boasts "Communism Will Win"
A photo of U.S. Army infantry officer and West Point graduate Spenser Rapone has surfaced showing Rapone in his uniform with the words “Communism will win” scrawled inside of his Officer's cap. Another photo, showing this same Army Officer wearing a Che Guevara (Marxist) shirt BENEATH his uniform has also surfaced. It is written policy in Communist Groups to intentionally HIDE their true intentions so as to gain power, then betray all to implement Communism over the dea bodies of whoever disagrees with them. Rapone got into the US Military Academy during the Obama Administration and now there are genuine concerns that perhaps ALL of the MANY US military officers REPLACED BY OBAMA, are actually Commies bent on the destruction of the United States! In the wake of the recent NFL protests, a West Point graduate and infantry officer tweeted out the following image with the caption “#VeteransForKaepernick” –
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MSM Fake News: How Washington Post Sexed-up its ‘Facebook Russian Bot’ Conspiracy
September 26, 2017 By 21wire 4 Comments
This is a story about how once trusted mainstream media outlets like Washington Post and the New York Times have used their vast platforms to distort reality and spread disinformation en masse – to both the American and global public. It’s also a story about a new “excuse industry” which has sprung up to medicate Hillary Clinton’s tragic defeat. The article below, written by award-winning journalist Robert Parry, reveals the shocking extent to which the establishment is willing to go to achieve both domestic political, and international geopolitical outcomes. In September, we were told by multiple US mainstream media that “suspected Russian operators” used Facebook and Twitter accounts to spread “anti-Clinton” messages which somehow affected the electoral outcome in 2016. This was followed by a dramatic announcement by Facebook officials that they had responded to the crisis by ‘shutting down’ several hundred accounts (approx. 470) suspected to have been created by a firm ‘linked to the Kremlin’ who used ‘Russian bot’ accounts to purchase $100,000 worth of Facebook post ads – 3,000 ads in total – over a 3 year period (that’s only $33,000 per year) which we’re told were “pushing divisive issues during and after the American election campaign” (so said the New York Times). As it turns out, the story was not only wildly exaggerated, it provided a convenient smoke screen to cover-up another case of real collusion. The scale of American propaganda is simply breathtaking. In this single passage taken from the recent New York Times ‘scoop’ on the alleged ‘Facebook Russian Bot’ phenomenon, you can see the full compliment of packaged lies which has become a set piece in US mainstream discourse now: “The Russian information attack on the election did not stop with the hacking and leaking of Democratic emails or the fire hose of stories, true, false and in between, that battered Mrs. Clinton on Russian outlets like RT and Sputnik. Far less splashy, and far more difficult to trace, was Russia’s experimentation on Facebook and Twitter, the American companies that essentially invented the tools of social media and, in this case, did not stop them from being turned into engines of deception and propaganda.” It gets worse though. What the Washington Post and others like the New York Times have obscured from the American people through this massive propaganda exercise – is the Obama Administration and partisan Democrats’ own role in helping to generate this contrived conspiracy, or fake news. In the absence of any actual evidence of ‘collusion’ between the Trump campaign and Russia – what we have now is a case of Silicon Valley giant Facebook, actually colluding with the White House and the Federal government officials in order to help fabricate a highly politicized false conviction. Here are some of the main points in the article below: • Powerful politicians pressured Facebook executives to come up with any evidence to support the Democratic Party’s theory of “Russian meddling.” • The Washington Post and others tried to convince a naive portion of the public to believe that somehow $100,000 in transient Facebook ad impacted the tens of billions of dollars spent during U.S. political spending for the 2016 election cycle. • With all of the hype about “Russian operatives,” the mainstream media has not produced evidence to show who bought the ads. As journalistic hoaxes go, this is one of the biggest we’ve seen. Perhaps an even bigger fraud in all of this however, is how a corporate mainstream media outlet like the Washington Post can use it’s unlimited resources and media might to push out a blatantly fake narrative, intentionally distorted to deceive the public in order to achieve some partisan political objective – and then site on the board of the establishment’s ‘First Draft’ project which they claim is leading the fight against ‘fake news’. How can a major purveyor of fake news be left to lead the fight to ‘tackle fake news’? This is the danger of allowing an establishment cartel comprising of the corporate media, Facebook, Google and other tech monopolies – to devise their own information policing regime. More on this incredible story from award-winning Consortium News here… Washington Post Pushes More Dubious Russia-bashing By Robert Parry Some people are calling the anti-Russian hysteria being whipped up across the U.S. mainstream news media a new “golden age of American journalism,” although it looks to me more like a new age of yellow journalism, prepping the people for more military spending, more “information warfare” and more actual war. Yes, without doubt, President Trump is a boorish and dangerous demagogue, now highlighted by his reckless speech before the United Nations last week, his schoolyard Tweet taunts toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and his ugly denunciation of black athletes for protesting against police killings of often unarmed African-Americans. And, yes, I know that some people feel that the evidence-lite and/or false allegations about “Russian meddling” are the golden ticket to Trump’s impeachment. But the unprofessional behavior of The New York Times, The Washington Post and pretty much the entire mainstream media regarding Russia-gate cannot be properly justified by the goal of removing Trump from office. Ethically in journalism, the ends – however much you might wish them to succeed – cannot justify the means, if those means involve violating rules of evidence and principles of fairness. Journalism should be a place where all sides get a fair shake, not where some get a bum’s rush. But the U.S. mainstream media has clearly joined the anti-Trump Resistance and hates Russian President Vladimir Putin, too. So, we are given such travesties of journalism as appeared as a banner headline across the front page of Monday’s Washington Post, another screed about how Russia supposedly used Facebook ads to flip last November’s election for Trump. The article purports to give the inside story of how Facebook belatedly came to grips with how the “company’s social network played a key role in the U.S. election,” but actually it is a story about how powerful politicians bullied Facebook into coming up with something – anything – to support the narrative of “Russian meddling,” including direct interventions by President Obama and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a key legislator regarding regulation of high-tech industries. Finding the ‘Evidence’ In other words, Facebook was sent back again and again to find what Obama and Warner wanted the social media company to find. Eventually, Facebook turned up $100,000 in ads from 2015 into 2017 that supposedly were traced somehow to Russia. These ads apparently addressed political issues in America although Facebook has said most did not pertain directly to the presidential election and some ads were purchased after the election. Left out of the Post’s latest opus is what a very small pebble these ads were – even assuming that Russians did toss the $100,000 or so in ad buys into the very large lake of billions of dollars in U.S. political spending for the 2016 election cycle. It also amounts to a miniscule fraction of Facebook’s $27 billion in annual revenue. So the assertion that this alleged “meddling” – and we’ve yet to see any evidence connecting these ads to the Russian government – “played a key role in the U.S. election” is both silly and outrageous, especially given the risks involved in stoking animosities between nuclear-armed Russia and nuclear-armed America. Even the Post’s alarmist article briefly acknowledges that it is still unclear who bought the ads, referring to the purchasers as “suspected Russian operatives.” In other words, we don’t even know that the $100,000 in ads over three years came from Russians seeking to influence the U.S. election. (By comparison, many Facebook advertisers – even some small businesses – spend $100,000 per day on their ads, not $100,000 over three years.) But this diminutive effort by “suspected Russian operatives” doesn’t stop the Post from going on and on about “fake news” and “disinformation,” albeit again without offering evidence or specifics of any Russian “fake news” or “disinformation.” It has simply become Official Washington’s new groupthink to say that everything linked to Russia or its international TV network RT is “fake news” or “disinformation” even though examples are lacking or often turn out to be false accusations themselves. For instance, there is nothing in the Post’s article acknowledging that nothing from the various Democratic email disclosures, which have been blamed on Russia (again without real evidence), has been identified as untrue. So, how can truthful information, whether you like how it was obtained or not, be “fake news” or “disinformation” Falsehood as Fact But Monday’s Post exposé simply asserts the claim as flat fact. Or as the article asserts: “what Russian operatives posted on Facebook was, for the most part, indistinguishable from legitimate political speech. The difference was the accounts that were set up to spread the misinformation and hate were illegitimate.” In responsible journalism, such an accusation would be followed by a for-instance, giving an example of “the misinformation and hate” that the “Russian operatives” – note how they have been magically transformed from “suspected Russian operatives” to simply “Russian operatives” – were disseminating. But there is no example of the Russian “misinformation and hate,” a classic violation of the reporting principle of “show, don’t tell.” In this story, it’s all tell and no show. Indeed, what is shown in the article is often contradictory to the story’s conclusion. The article says, for instance, “A review by the company found that most of the groups behind the problematic pages had clear financial motives, which suggested that they weren’t working for a foreign government. But amid the mass of data the company was analyzing, the security team did not find clear evidence of Russian disinformation or ad purchases by Russian-linked accounts.” So, Facebook initially – after extensive searching – did not find evidence of a Russian operation. Then, after continued pressure from high-level Democrats, Facebook continued to scour its system and again found nothing, or as the Post article acknowledged, Facebook “had searched extensively for evidence of foreign purchases of political advertising but had come up short.” That prompted Warner to fly out to Silicon Valley to personally press Facebook executives to come up with the evidence to support the Democrats’ theory about Russia paying for carefully targeted anti-Clinton ads in key districts. The Post’s article reported that “Finally, [Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex] Stamos appealed to Warner for help: If U.S. intelligence agencies had any information about the Russian operation or the troll farms it used to disseminate misinformation, they should share it with Facebook. The company is still waiting, people involved in the matter said.” Under Pressure Still, faced with extraordinary pressure from senior Democrats, Facebook finally delivered the desired results, or as the Post reported, “By early August, Facebook had identified more than 3,000 ads addressing social and political issues that ran in the United States between 2015 and 2017 and that appear to have come from accounts associated with the [St. Petersburg, Russia-based] Internet Research Agency.” So, the ads covering three years, including post-election 2017, only “appear” to be “associated” with some private Russian operation that only allegedly has ties to the Kremlin. And the total sums of the ad buys are infinitesimal compared to what it actually takes to have any real impact on Facebook or in a U.S. presidential election. If the context of this story were changed slightly – say, it was about the U.S. government trying to influence public opinion in another country (which actually does happen quite a bit) – the Post would be among the first news outlets to laugh off such allegations or dismiss the vague accusations as a conspiracy theory, but since these allegations fit with the prejudices of the Post’s editors, an entirely different set of journalistic standards is applied. What the article also ignores is the extraordinary degree of coercion that such high-level political pressure can put on a company that recognizes its vulnerability to government regulation. As Facebook has acknowledged in corporate filings, “Action by governments to restrict access to Facebook in their countries could substantially harm our business and financial results. It is possible that governments of one or more countries may seek to censor content available on Facebook in their country, restrict access to Facebook from their country entirely, or impose other restrictions that may affect the accessibility of Facebook in their country for an extended period of time or indefinitely. … “In the event that access to Facebook is restricted, in whole or in part, in one or more countries or our competitors are able to successfully penetrate geographic markets that we cannot access, our ability to retain or increase our user base and user engagement may be adversely affected, we may not be able to maintain or grow our revenue as anticipated, and our financial results could be adversely affected.” Avoiding Reality In other words, another way to have framed this story is that powerful politicians who could severely harm Facebook’s business model were getting in the face of Facebook executives and essentially demanding that they come up with something to support the Democratic Party’s theory of “Russian meddling.” The Democratic leaders wanted this finding as an explanation for Hillary Clinton’s (image, left) stunning defeat, rather than going through the painful process of examining why the party has steadily lost ground in white working-class areas across the country. What is missed in these Russia-bashing articles is that the Democratic brand has been sinking for years, including massive losses in statehouses across the country as well as in Congress. The party’s decline was not a one-off event with Donald Trump suddenly snaking away with significant parts of the white working class because the Russians bought some Facebook ads. However, instead of looking in the mirror, national Democrats demanded that Facebook executives ferret out whatever tiny or imaginary information there might be about some Russians buying Facebook ads – and then allow those coerced findings to be fed into the excuse industry for why Hillary Clinton lost. And, what about the Post’s repeated accusations about Russia engaging in “disinformation” and “fake news” without offering a single example? Apparently, these assertions have become such articles of faith in the U.S. mainstream media that they don’t require any proof. However, honest journalism demands examples and evidence, not just vague accusations. The reality is that the U.S. government has stumbled again and again when seeking to paint RT as a disinformation outlet or a vehicle for undermining American democracy. For instance, the Jan. 6 report on alleged Russian “cyber operations,” released by Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, included a lengthy appendix, dated from 2012, which decried RT for such offenses as allowing a debate among third-party presidential candidates who had been excluded from the Republican-Democratic debates; covering the Occupy Wall Street protests; and citing the environmental dangers from “fracking.” The idea that American democracy is threatened by allowing third-party candidates or other American dissidents to have a voice is at best an upside-down understanding of democracy and, more likely, an exercise in hypocritical propaganda. False Accusations Another misfired attempt to discredit RT came from Obama’s Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Richard Stengel, who issued a “Dipnote” in April 2014, which helped establish the narrative of RT as a source of Russian disinformation. For instance, Stengel claimed that RT reported a “ludicrous assertion” that the United States had spent $5 billion to produce Ukraine’s “regime change” in February 2014. But what Stengel, a former managing editor of Time magazine, apparently failed to understand was that RT was referring to a public speech by Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland to U.S. and Ukrainian business leaders on Dec. 13, 2013, in which she told them that “we have invested more than $5 billion” in what was needed for Ukraine to achieve its “European aspirations.” In other words, the RT report wasn’t “ludicrous” at all. Nuland also was a leading proponent of “regime change” in Ukraine who personally cheered on the Maidan demonstrators, even passing out cookies. In an intercepted pre-coup phone call with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, Nuland discussed who should run the new government and pondered with Pyatt how to “glue” or “midwife this thing.” So, Stengel was the one disseminating false information, not RT. Similarly, senior U.S. politicians, including Hillary Clinton, and the U.S. mainstream media have falsely asserted that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies signed off on the Russia-did-it hacking claims. For months, that canard was used to silence skepticism. After all, how could you question something that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed to be true? But it turned out that – as DNI Clapper, himself a hardline Russia-basher, belatedly acknowledged – the Jan. 6 report on the alleged Russian hacking was the work of “hand-picked” analysts from only three agencies, the CIA, FBI and NSA, and the “assessment” itself admitted that it was not asserting the Russian conclusion as fact, only the analysts’ opinion. The New York Times finally retracted its use of the fake claim about “all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies” in late June 2017 although it wouldn’t let the lie lie, so instead the Times made misleading references to a “consensus” among U.S. intelligence agencies without using the number…
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MUST LISTEN: THE NATIONAL FELONS LEAGUE IS SPITTING ON AMERICA, NOT THE FANS
September 25, 2017 Read the transcript below:
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I HAVE JUST WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT GOD. THERE’S A PASSAGE FROM THE BIBLE I’D LIKE TO QUOTE FOR YOU. IT’S FROM PROVERBS 3:31 AND IT READS, “ENVY THOU NOT THE OPPRESSOR AND CHOOSE NONE OF HIS WAYS.” TODAY, THE OPPRESSORS ARE THE BULLIES OF THE NFL WHO KNEEL OR HIDE WHEN OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYED, FORCING A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE TO WITNESS THEIR VILE, INSULTING, AND UNINFORMED VIEW OF WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR. I’LL TELL YOU WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR. WE ARE A NATION IN WHICH NO CITIZEN IS TREATED DIFFERENTLY UNDER THE LAW, REGARDLESS OF THEIR COLOR, RACE, FINANCIAL STATUS, CREED, OR NATION OF ORIGIN. EVEN THESE HYSTERICAL MILLIONAIRES HAVE RIGHTS. SO I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO DO THE SAME: EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS. TURN OFF YOUR TVS. “DO NOT CHOOSE THE WAYS” OF THE ANARCHISTS, THE IGNORANT, WHETHER THEY TAKE THE FORM OF NEO-NAZIS, ANTIFA…OR PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS ABOUT A NATION NOT A PRESIDENT President Trump says players who protested the National Anthem being played before games should be fired from their teams over the weekend, and the whole world exploded. Yesterday, America was treated to NFL players taking a knee, or sitting or locking arms while the national anthem was being played in protest of what the President said. Well, guess what? They weren’t protesting a President, they were giving a big middle finger to the country. That flag and that song should be a unifying moment, a moment to say ‘no matter what differences we have, we are all American, and it’s a privilege to be one.’ But a bad player, influenced by his radical Muslim girlfriend last year decided to make it about him. He claimed to be protesting the killing of black men in America by the police while at the same time wearing a shirt praising the Castros of Cuba. And it’s spread to this. ‘He’s practicing his first amendment rights’ everyone said. Well Donald Trump practiced his first amendment rights and an entire league lost their minds. This tradition goes back a hundred years to World War 1. The people loved their country then, with boys fighting overseas in a horrible war. We have soldiers on the battlefield today, and these players just spit on them. The national anthem is about a nation, not about a President. And if these thugs don’t know that, they should be thrown off the team. And the commissioner of this league supports this. He should be thrown out too. He’s saying these players have a right to their free speech and to protest if they see fit. But it wasn’t that way when the Dallas Cowboys wanted to wear stickers on their helmets to honor the police after several Dallas policemen were shot. No, he wouldn’t allow that. Or when an NFL player wanted to honor 9/11 victims with a decal on his shoe. No, we couldn’t have that either. But spitting on the flag, you can do that all day. But people will still defend these thugs who spit on everything good about America, saying it’s their right. But is it? Yes, they can say what they want, but shouldn’t they be accountable for what they say? Their bosses should fire them because they’re staining their product with anti-Americanism. But they won’t do anything because they’re too afraid of the backlash that the leftist fascists have instigated in this country. All that we used to honor and respect must be thrown out and we have to accept the ridiculous. Man is woman, woman is man, America is bad, the Soviet Union was good. The Soviet Union was good and now Russia is bad. The civil rights movement never happened, minorities are now more oppressed than ever. It’s upside down. The fact that these players can do what they did yesterday, with no repercussions whatsoever disproves their arguments. Where could you do this on the planet? Dictatorial regimes you’d be killed or put in torture prisons. Even in Westernized countries you have laws against certain speech. I’ve been banned from Britain for something I didn’t even say, but here millionaire thugs can go on national TV and vehemently hate the country. Remember this, when they do what they did yesterday, they’re not disrespecting a President, they’re disrespecting an entire nation. They’re disrespecting you and me.
https://michaelsavage.com/2017/09/25/the-national-felons-league-is-spitting-on-america-not-the-fans/
Beware of false prophets,
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Times of Deception
By Hal Lindsey
The September 23rd deception, like those of date-setters past, will soon be debunked by the calendar itself. On September 24th, the world will not have come to an end. PlanetX will not have crashed into Planet Earth. The Millennial reign will not have begun. The earth will not have split in two. The star of Bethlehem will not have returned. Will there will be any apologies from the people who perpetrated these hoaxes? If history is a guide, probably not. They will have had so much fun stirring up attention for themselves, they’ll just decide to do it again next year, or maybe even later this year. Robyn Flynn is a Montreal radio producer. On September 19th, she tweeted, “Just tried to book an interview w/ a researcher who says the world ends Saturday. Told me he’s not available for interviews until next week.” She was talking about the so-called “Christian numerologist,” David Meade. And their discussion neatly sums up the problem. In a video with 9 million YouTube views, another speaker excitedly tells us about the possibilities of September 23, 2017. But he admits that he made a similar video in another year. “I made that video about September 23, 2015,” he said. “And quite a few people watched that video. Now, some people said, ‘Well, nothing happened.’ Well, some of the things I mentioned, if not all of them in that video, did happen. The pope came to America — something that the world had never seen before.” The Pope did visit the United States in September 2015. But it wasn’t the first time the world had ever seen a Pope come to America. It happened in 1965, 1979, 1984, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1999, and 2008 — not to mention a couple of layovers in Alaska. And it was hardly a prophetic prediction. He made the video in August, and the Pope visited the U.S. in September. The visit had been on the world calendar for months. If that’s supposed to give his new video credibility, it sadly fails. Now this particular teacher is careful to say that the things he’s talking about may come true, or may not. He’s not dogmatic, and rarely makes straight forward statements. He says he will leave it to his viewers to reach their own conclusions — something viewers tend to do whether you want them to or not. But when a teacher tells the viewer to decide for himself based on the facts, the teacher needs to be especially careful to give accurate facts. He said, “In September 23rd of 2015, many astronomers, many scientists were saying that there is some weird, weird thing going on in the fact that there is this star that showed up… and they called it the ‘Bethlehem Star,’ the star that appeared during the time when Jesus was born — that same star.” I believe he was referring, not to a star, but to a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in the skies as viewed from our angle on earth. They appeared in close proximity in July and August of 2015. Then, in October, Jupiter and Venus again appeared close in the sky, this time also near Mars. A few astronomers think that one of these conjunctions of planets may account for the star seen by the wise men long ago. This is not unusual. Unbelievers often try to come up with explanations for what they consider “myths.” The YouTube teacher goes on to say, “So, almost 2000 years later, we have a star appearing that was the same star that appeared according to astronomers. You can look this all up on YouTube. Look at video.” YouTube is a wonderful tool, but just because someone posted something there does not give instant credibility to their opinions. In fact, from earth, we see a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus fairly often — not every 2000 years as claimed in the video. If he’s referring to the three planets together, that didn’t happen in September of 2015, but in October. And it lasted only days — not the two years he implies. I realize I haven’t gotten into the astrology lesson that these people give when they speak about Revelation 12. Suffice it to say, they don’t understand Revelation 12. I won’t bother to prove the fallacy of their opinions because, as I said at the beginning, the calendar will debunk them. I have several concerns, though. First, the Bible’s credibility is harmed by these kinds of teachings. When the predicted event doesn’t happen, people are left to think that the Bible said something inaccurate. Nothing could be further from the truth. This stuff is about pseudo-science, and the religion of astrology. It’s not about the Bible. But when preachers such as this man say it, people assume such preachers speak for God. My second concern is that so many people have chosen to take these things seriously. Nine million people viewed the video I just referenced. That means people are passing it on to one another using email and social media. Why pass on such obvious fallacies? Where is Christian discernment? Finally, I’m concerned that Christians are so quick to accept something that God condemns — the false religion of astrology. Isaiah 47:13-14 says, “Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame.” (NIV) Christians follow the great God of the universe. He has spoken to us. He has given us the precious gift of His word. Yet, some of us are willing to turn to astrology as the answer to the puzzles of the universe. Brothers and sisters, stick to the Bible.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-9-24-2017/
Beware of false prophets,
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'End of the world still on its way': says apocalypse theorist despite being proven wrong
Yahoo7 News / September 24th, 2017
A US man who predicted the world was going to end on Saturday now says it will end in October after his prediction was proven wrong. Christian numerologist David Meade said verses in Luke 21:25 to 26 tell us that recent events, such as the recent solar eclipse seen by the US and Hurricane Harvey, are signs of the apocalypse. Meade's theory, which most people view through a widely skeptical lens, says that the so-called Planet X, also known as Nibiru, will pass Earth on September 23, causing volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes, The Sun reports. But Meade has since been proven wrong, and in an updated article, clarifying his beliefs said September is “sign month”, which will “get the ball rolling” and that actual events which will trigger the end of the world will happen in late October. He writes that a “tribulation period” is coming, which is described as seven years where the world will face disasters and plagues; outlined in the book of Revelations. Meade claims this will be followed by a “Millennium of peace”. NASA has since dismissed the claims, insisting the Planet X theory is merely a hoax because the planet doesn't exist. "Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax," NASA said in a statement. "There is no factual basis for these claims." Meade wrote a book called Planet X – The 2017 Arrival which insisted Nibiru would crash into Earth in October, but then moved it forward by a few weeks. TV viewers alarmed by doomsday 'emergency alert' interrupting broadcast Apocalypse? Fears Italian Nostradamus prophecy is coming true as it snows in southern Italy NASA reveals what will happen when 'Planet X hits Earth' on September 23 His theory was given a boost this year when NASA discovered a new planet in the solar system, which they named Planet Nine. Meade has been quoted previously saying: "It is very strange indeed that both the Great Sign of Revelation 12 and the Great Pyramid of Giza both point us to one precise moment in time – September 20 to 23, 2017." Various branches of the Christian church have also rejected Meade’s claims.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Palestinian gunman kills three Israelis in West Bank
8 hours ago From the section Middle East
Three Israelis have been shot dead by a Palestinian at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Har Adar in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police say. The gunman, a 37-year-old from a nearby village, was also shot and died later. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the attack on Palestinian incitement. It came as Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt arrived in Jerusalem to try to revive Israel-Palestinian peace talks. The White House has tried to lay the groundwork for a resumption of negotiations since Donald Trump took office in January, but there has been no sign of progress. Peace talks between the two sides broke down amid acrimony in April 2014. What are Jewish settlements? Police say the gunman, identified in Israeli media as Nimer Jamal, struck after he raised suspicions of security personnel at a rear gate at Har Adar. He shot his victims - two security guards and a border policeman - at close-range and seriously wounded another person, before being shot by security forces. The gunman was a father-of-four who had an Israeli permit to work in Jewish settlements along the boundary of the West Bank, Israel's internal security agency said. He came from the village of Beit Surik, about a mile east of Har Adar. The area is about 18km (11 miles) north-west of Jerusalem. No group has taken responsibility for the attack, although Gaza-based Palestinian militant organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad welcomed it. The head of the Information Office of Fatah, the political faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Israel bore responsibility for the attack, because of its "continuous aggression" against the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the attacker's home would be demolished and relatives' work permits revoked. He called on Mr Abbas to condemn the attack unequivocally. Wave of attacks About 36,000 Palestinians have permits to work in Jewish settlements, where security to guard against attacks is tight. The issue of settlements is one of the most contentious between Israel and the Palestinians, who see them as an obstacle to peace. More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. Tuesday's attack is the latest in a wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings of Israelis predominantly by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since late 2015. Since then, some 50 Israelis and five foreign nationals have been killed in such attacks in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Around 300 Palestinians - most of them assailants, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, according to AFP news agency. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops. Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41396597
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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September 26 2017 - 12:53PM
Bali's Mount Agung volcano 'critical' with hundreds of tremors every day
Jewel Topsfield Karuni Rompies
Bali's Mount Agung volcano has reached a "critical" stage with 500 tremors shaking the area a day, according to Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency. Spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho warned that molten rock known as magma was just three to five kilometres from the summit of the mountain in eastern Bali. "We cannot predict when it will erupt, but monitoring shows the potential to erupt is high," Mr Sutopo said. "No instrument can predict with precision when a volcano will erupt". He said 62,000 people had been living in the exclusion zone, but almost 50,000 evacuees had sought shelter in 301 camps in the area. But there were still people who refused to be evacuated because the mountain had not yet erupted and they worried about who would feed their animals. Nyoman Kastawan has remained in his village of Dukuh Pandan Sari Kubu, which is inside the exclusion zone and about eight kilometres from the summit. He said about 40 women and children from his family had been evacuated to Denpasar, but he stayed behind to look after his cattle and pigs. "Around 30 males still live in my village, the able-bodied, so when there is something we can evacuate immediately. Some of the old men who stayed behind said the eruption is still a long way off. They survived the 1963 eruption so they don't want to evacuate now. It's still a few months away they say." Mr Sutopo warned that when Mount Agung last erupted in 1963, more than 1500 people were killed and 1700 houses destroyed. "The kind of eruption is explosive, spewing stones, lava and pyroclastic flows (a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic material)," he said. Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, said he would visit refugee camps on Tuesday. Mount Agung is 71 kilometres from the tourist hot spot of Kuta. Mr Sutopo said tourism was still normal and flights had not been affected. He said ash and thick smoke would not reach Bali's capital, Denpasar. The travel advisory only warned people not to venture within nine kilometres south-east of Mount Agung and 12 kilometres, north, north-east, south and north-west of the crater. Mr Sutopo said contingency plans were in place if an eruption meant flights had to be-rerouted to cities outside Bali. He said if the volcano erupted between September 25 and October, volcanic ash would fly south-west. If it erupted between November and January the ashes would disperse to the east towards West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara. Villages neighbouring those that had been evacuated would provide shelter under a "sister village" model. Mr Sutopo said he deeply regretted hoaxes, which suggested the volcano had already erupted, which he believed were circulated to increase traffic to websites. He urged the public to visit the official website for Mount Agung updates: magma.vsi.esdm.go.id. Volcanologist Ray Cas warned the highest danger posed by an eruption would be pyroclastic flows, which were responsible for many of the deaths when Mount Agung last erupted in 1963. He said volcanic mud flows, which channel into major valleys, could bury entire villages. "If the population hasn't been evacuated there is a risk of a huge loss of life," Professor Cas, an Emeritus professor at Monash University and the immediate past president of the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, said. "It is not just the preliminary eruption that poses enormous hazards and risks." He said Indonesia was one of the most volcanically active countries in the world and the Centre for Volcanology had a lot of experience in monitoring these types of events. "They are obviously taking it extremely seriously … because of such a high level of earthquake activity and such a long repose period since the last eruption." The 1963 eruption, which shot gas and ash up to 10 kilometres in the air, was ranked five on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, equivalent to the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington, which killed more than 50 people. In Australia, airlines are closely monitoring Bali but said on Monday afternoon that flights were planned to operate as scheduled. Jetstar and Virgin were allowing customers to cancel or change their bookings, in return for flight vouchers. A Jetstar spokeswoman said "a handful" of customers have requested to change their dates, which the airline had accommodated with no fee.
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Report: Iran And North Korea Are “Collaborating In An Exchange Of Materials And Technicians To Mutually Develop Nuclear Weapons Capabilities”
Jeremiah Johnson September 22nd, 2017 SHTFplan.com
The Public Law. For the Public Good. For your own good, for whatever good it will do. Under Clinton in 1994, Civil Defense was repealed. The Cold War has “ended,” as of 1992 with the “collapse” of the Soviet Union, and it was time to rid the U.S. of all of those “pesky” fallout shelter signs. There was NAFTA and the beginnings of true globalism with the creation of the EU. What need was there for Civil Defense? Twenty-three years after the treasonous disbanding of Civil Defense and official signs for locations of Fallout Shelters, there is a need for both once more. North Korea has been engaging in exchange with Iran for decades: collaborating in an exchange of materials and technicians to mutually develop one another’s nuclear weapons capabilities. All News Pipeline’s Stefan Stanford and Susan Duclos have been presenting some excellent and informative articles on the North Korean EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) capabilities. Many of these articles have been authored by Dr. Peter V. Pry, the foremost expert on the EMP threat facing the United States. All News Pipeline’s article of September 19, 2017 is entitled Following Threats To Drop The ‘Father Of All Bombs’ While Claiming They’ve Infiltrated The US Military, Iran Prepares To Deploy 3 New Satellites Into Orbit – Is Iran Preparing To Launch An EMP Attack Upon America? This piece is no exception to the quality information released thus far by All News Pipeline. Please read it! This article is written by none other than Dr. William R. Graham, Chairman of the Congressional EMP Commission and former Science Advisor to President Reagan. Dr. Graham also was directly involved in the 1962 “STARFISH PRIME” high-altitude nuclear test that began the U.S.’s study into the effects of an EMP. North Korea has not backpedaled on its threats to nuke the United States and to unleash an EMP weapon if provoked by the U.S. As Dr. Graham’s article points out, this is not only feasible, but soon they will not be alone: Iran plans to launch 3 satellites that can easily be fitted with a miniaturized EMP device. Dr. Graham also corroborates Dr. Pry’s assertions that the 2 North Korean satellites currently in orbit may contain an EMP weapon. As a matter of fact, Dr. Pry released an article to All News Pipeline on September 18, 2017, entitled, North Korean Public Statement Confirms ‘Worst Case Scenario’ Fears After Many Years of Denial By ‘US Elite’ – Have We Reached Our ‘Rhineland Moment’? This piece gives a list of all the things accomplished by North Korea that were denied by the U.S. Media, the politicians, and the skeptical naysayers of the public within the past 6 months. Most of these denied items were confirmed in many cases by none other than the “experts” who originally denied them and then changed their minds in the face of evidence that could not be refuted. Iran just increased its military budget, has billions of investment dollars in its nuclear plant facilities and a joint railway project with Russia and several Asian nations, and is one of the last remaining nations not tied to the world bank and the IMF. Iran has held a doctrine for many years of pursuing options with EMP’s launched on missiles hidden within cargo containers on board ships. These options have been tested by the Iranians in several scenarios over the past 5 years. Now there is a growing Iranian naval presence in the Western Hemisphere in Cuba and Venezuela, with plans of sending more of a fleet into the Atlantic. Dr. Graham and Dr. Pry are both revealing scenarios with both North Korea and Iran that are developing further each day. I strongly encourage you to read these articles. It is important to become aware and educated on a threat that is not going to disappear anytime soon. The expertise of the authors is only matched by their candor and clearly-understandable explanations of the situation. The next world war will be initiated by an EMP attack against the U.S. Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Johnson is also a Gunsmith, a Certified Master Herbalist, a Montana Master Food Preserver, and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape). He lives in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with his wife and three cats. You can follow Jeremiah’s regular writings at SHTFplan.com or contact him here.
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Iran defies Trump to test new-medium range ballistic missile that could hit Israel
State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile
First displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on Friday
Has a range of 1,250 miles (2,000 km) and can carry multiple warheads
By Harvey Day For Mailonline Published: 05:21 EDT, 23 September 2017 | Updated: 12:19 EDT, 23 September 2017
Iran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that such activities were grounds for abandoning their landmark nuclear deal. State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on Friday. It also carried in-flight video from the nose cone of the missile, which has a range of 1,250 miles (2,000 km) and can carry multiple warheads. 'As long as some speak in the language of threats, the strengthening of the country's defence capabilities will continue and Iran will not seek permission from any country for producing various kinds of missile,' Defence Minister Amir Hatami said in a staement. The test comes at the end of a heated week of diplomacy at the UN General Assembly in New York, where US President Donald Trump again accused Iran of destabilising the Middle East, calling it a 'rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos'. The test comes at the end of a heated week of diplomacy at the UN General Assembly in New York, where US President Donald Trump again accused Iran of destabilising the Middle East, calling it a 'rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos'. Previous Iranian missile launches have triggered US sanctions and accusations that they violate the spirit of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers. Iran, which fought a brutal war with neighbouring Iraq in the 1980s, sees missiles as a legitimate and vital part of its defence - particularly as regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Israel import huge amounts of military hardware from the West. Trump has threatened to bin the nuclear agreement, saying Iran is developing missiles that may be used to deliver a nuclear warhead when the deal's restrictions are lifted in 2025. He is due to report to Congress on October 15 on whether Iran is still complying with the deal and whether it remains in US interests to stick by it. If he decides that it is not, that could open the way for US lawmakers to reimpose sanctions, leading to the potential collapse of the agreement. Trump said on Wednesday he had made his decision but was not yet ready to reveal it. The other signatories to the deal - Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and the EU - have all pushed for it to continue. They point out that abandoning the agreement will remove restrictions on Iran immediately, rather than in eight years' time, and that the International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly confirmed Tehran is meeting its commitments. Iran says all of its missiles are designed to carry conventional warheads only and has limited their range to a maximum of 2,000 kilometres, although commanders say they have the technology to go further. That makes them only medium-range but still sufficient to reach Israel or US bases in the Gulf. At Friday's military parade, President Hassan Rouhani hit out at those who 'create problems for the peoples of our region every day and boast of selling arms to the bloodthirsty Zionist regime which has been attacking the peoples of our region for 70 years like a cancerous tumour.' As well as carrying out missile tests, Iran has also launched a space satellite and fired missiles at Islamic State group targets in eastern Syria in recent months.
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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.
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22.09.2017 Author: Phil Butler
The Deadly Rocket Scare Redux: North Korea’s Role in the Arms Game
North Korea is once again the big, bad, boogey man of Asia, a convenient villain Washington will use to fuel a spanking new arms race. If all-out war does not follow Donald Trump’s insane policies aimed at Pyongyang, something miraculous will have to take place soon. The American hegemony turns once again to the Far East, in a redux of the 2000 North Korean sanctions negotiations. I’ll wager that very few people reading this remember the 1999 missile tests over Japan that North Korea used to “negotiate” sanctions reductions. Yes, it’s true and not “fake news”, as the New York Times reported from 2000, “South Korea Plans to Begin Rocket Program”. What, you expected ingenuity and creativity from the Trump administration and the US Congress? Not a chance of that, I say. The elites that run the globalist narrative never divert from what works, I tell you. If young and old Americans were fearful Japan would go up in a mushroom cloud in 1999, then the new generation of willing idiots are all the more capable of apathetic abandon. Trump and Co. are just doing Korea or Vietnam II, since those ventures proved financially profitable for the military industrialists and the economy overall. Do you feel like you’ve been duped yet? Okay, read on. Once again, the New York Times is the soap box from which the hegemons preach to the waiting and fearful masses about the Pyongyang boogeyman, only this time it’s Kim Jong-un, and not his venerable supreme leader father Kim Jong-il who’s center stage in the Armageddon drama. But the headlines this time around are far more creative. A story this week entitled “The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea’s Weapons”, brings to mind 007 and James Bond, super-duper-secret rockets from Dr. No or Austin Powers as Dr. Evil, I can no longer discern. Once again American journalists take advantage of the fact most people don’t know beans about much of anything anymore. Let me frame the latest bullshit from Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Junior’s venerable newspaper. The rare and potent fuel it took not one but two award winning journalists to “invent” is known as UDMH, or Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine. Now I am fairly sure that William J. Broad and David E. Sanger both know UDMH is about as rare in the world of rockets as pointy nose cones or ignition sequences. But the North Koreans and the story sound much more ominous and deadly with spy thriller lingo deployed. Just so you know I’m not slinging BS, the rare and potent fuel the NYT cites is old as rockets themselves. I quote from the Encyclopedia Astronautica: “N2O4/UDMH propellant. Nitrogen tetroxide became the storable liquid propellant of choice from the late 1950’s. Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine ((CH3)2NNH2) became the storable liquid fuel of choice by the mid-1950’s. Development of UDMH in the Soviet Union began in 1949. It is used in virtually all storable liquid rocket engines except for some orbital maneuvering engines in the United States, where MMH has been preferred due to a slightly higher density and performance.” And now the New York Times’ authors cite classified memos from the Bush and Obama administrations that make “presciently clear” North Korea’s pursuit of the stuff every nation on Earth uses to make rockets blast off! And there’s more in the globalist publication, much more. Here’s how Broad and Sanger twist the tale to suit Washington’s latest provocations: “Classified memos from both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations laid out, with what turned out to be prescient clarity, how the North’s pursuit of the highly potent fuel would enable it to develop missiles that could strike almost anywhere in the continental United States.” Spooky and scary, huh? The man who lied about WOMD’s and the man who won a Nobel Prize for killing more Muslims than the Crusaders were on top of the intel, and able to pounce like angry lions for the military industrialists and energy moguls! This ultra-secret rocket fuel invented by (Spectre?) the Nazis during WWII to fuel the experimental Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet fighter, is currently used in almost all “storable” rockets used for either military (siloed ICBMs etc.) or civilian rocketry (SpaceX etc.). So, I’ll leave the reader to his or her own devices to figure out why highly venerated New York Times authors would just mislead their readership. The couple citing WikiLeaks to help venerate the story via none other than Hillary Clinton’s US State Department, pretty much takes the cake where unmitigated audacity is concerned. Oh, and by the way. The 1999 rocket shots from North Korea flew over Japan too, just in case you wondered. This leads us to the motive for the Trump administration loosing the collective mind over Iran and North Korea. Some will be surprised to learn Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative is ready to be rolled out! Yeah, the real Big Bad Wolf westerners are being warned of is a familiar one, the horrendous fiends Americans must be protected from at all costs (really all costs), ballistic first strike terrorists. And the plan to thwart North Korea or fundamentalist Iran? For lack of a better term, let’s call this version “Skynet”. Yes, the growth perspective of General Dynamics, Boeing, Raytheon, and a score of other corporations will boom if space and the anti-ballistic missile idea catches hold. Some reading are too young to recall the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that the Reagan administration said would end the so-called mutually assured destruction (MAD) strategy of nuclear deterrence. One particular facet of SDI and Star Wars that bears keen scrutiny here is the ABM, or anti-ballistic missile component. Fast forward to June of 2017, and to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interviews with the famous filmmaker, Oliver Stone. In one segment the award winning filmmaker and Russia’s leader discuss when George Bush abrogated the ABM Treaty with Russia, back in 2001. This “dangerous” moment in US-Russia relations has now ended up threatening to destroy any semblance of nuclear parity, as Aegis ABM systems have now been installed in Romania and Poland, on the frontiers of Russia. And now the Americans are clearly intent on installing the same systems in either South Korea or Japan, which helps completely encircle Russia, thereby creating an even more dangerous situation. This report from The Nation features the Putin interview and the danger of the new SDI, from the Russian perspective, which is equally as important as the western view. There is not space enough to outline how America’s missile defense strategies have metamorphosed in the last three decades under Ronald Reagan’s successors. However, validation of my thesis here can be gleaned by watching the movements of the key people that would be involved in any renewed SDI or Star Wars initiative. So, the fact the new Commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems, Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves testified the other day before the U.S. Senate, “modernizing” America’s ABM capability was the subject. Greaves, who inherited Reagan’s SDI, Bill Clinton’s Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, and President George W. Bush’s Missile Defense Agency, has more experience and knows more about space based systems than anybody in the U.S. Military. There’s little doubt but that he is a key figure in testing of systems such as the touted Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI), offshoots of the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser (ABL), Raytheon’s Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE), and an array of other top-secret weapons that operate within certain spheres. Instances of programs that focus on the ascent phase intercept (API). Mid-course and terminal phases of ICBM flight are as broad as anyone can imagine. The mid-course system Mr. Putin discussed, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD), is but a single facet to extraordinary developmental efforts in the field. Finally, all this “development” spells jobs and money at the endpoint. But there has to be a threat in order to expand research, development, manufacturing, and deployment of these systems. Once again, North Korea plays a vital role in drumming up enough good old fashioned fear to justify trillions of dollars in weapons programs. Therefore, the lie has to be manufactured and propagated through trusted media like the New York Times and other corporate or elitist controlled channels. Advertising was never so effective as when it’s applied to products that save lives and liberty. Stay tuned for North Korea to announce a cessation of all testing in exchange for lifted sanctions, and for Raytheon and others to announce new contracts for advanced deterrent systems. Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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Hawaii Urges Residents To Prepare For Nuclear Attack
Hawaii officials have reportedly been urging residents to prepare for a nuclear attack, the stunning plea coming amid increasingly unnerving rhetoric — and actions — from North Korea. Aloha State authorities were working to educate and prepare residents for a possible atomic attack by telling them to consider preparing in the same way they’d prep for a tsunami, the Washington Post reported. “Now it’s time to take it seriously,” Hawaii state Rep. Gene Ward, a Republican, said, “not to be an alarmist, but to be informing people.” North Korea’s foreign minister has said the Communist nation may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean after dictator Kim Jong Un vowed he would take the “highest-level” action against the United States, South Korean media reported Thursday. Ri Yong Ho made the comments on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Yonhap news agency reported. “We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong Un,” Yonhap quoted Ri as saying. read more at foxnews.com
http://americandownfall.com/hawaii-urges-residents-to-prepare-for-nuclear-attack/
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Former Congressman Warns That Foreign Countries Could Bribe The Feds To “Regulate Drudge”
September 22, 2017 | Alex Thomas | The Daily Sheeple |
A former Republican Congressman from Colorado has warned that a foreign country could bribe or “incentivize” the FCC to regulate and “rein in” popular conservative news outlets, including The Drudge Report. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, in an opinion piece for The Hill, started out his shocking warning by downplaying the so-called Russian actors who may have spent a measly $100,000 with social media giant Facebook in exchange for ads that hurt Hillary Clinton. Tancredo not only correctly noted that such a small amount of money could not have actually altered the election, he also destroyed the notion that the American establishment is “surprised” by the idea of a foreign government trying to influence an election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this month that his company sold over $100,000 in social media advertising to a Russian government-controlled front group during the 2016 election cycle. While that amount is a relative pittance and critics are saying the ads were poorly produced — where is Bill Maher when you really need him? — the discovery has raised alarms. It’s ironic, of course, that America’s media elites are suddenly alarmed, considering that the CIA and intelligence agencies abroad have engaged in similar activity for decades. But putting that aside, what if the bigger danger comes not from amateurish foreign advertisers, but from foreign governments seeking to influence the American regulatory agencies meant to act as the citizens’ watchdogs? The former congressman then gets to the crux of his warning, asking a very pointed question to the reader that unfortunately sounds all too plausible in this day and age. Could a foreign government — such as Russia, Ukraine, or Mexico, for example — bribe or “incentivize” a federal agency such as the Federal Election Commission to regulate (or “rein in”) conservative news websites? The truth could be stranger than fiction if you examine the habits of the federal commissioners who run our regulatory agencies. Tancredo then reveals a fact that news outlets like The Daily Sheeple have long reported – there are absolutely elements within the federal government who have expressed support for censoring The Drudge Report in the past while at the same time taking dozens of trips overseas, sometimes even bashing the American way of life while doing so. For years, Democrats on the FEC have been vocal in their desire to regulate speech on websites such as Facebook and Twitter, to say nothing of Drudge and Fox News. Will they use the news of foreign government purchasing social media advertising as an excuse to enter that regulatory minefield more boldly? But what’s even more worrisome is that third-party groups, some connected to foreign governments, have spent tens of thousands of dollars helping regulators travel around the world. Who’s to say that quid pro quo, spoken or unspoken, isn’t part of the equation? It’s far more likely than the idea that foreign governments might be using a website like Drudge to spread propaganda. Buying one regulator would be more cost-effective than spending millions trying to sway millions through advertising. After all, “I can get it for you wholesale” is still the American way. Consider this. As the establishment media continues to push their 24/7 anti-Trump echo chamber, real dangers poised by other countries are going unchecked, with many in the media most likely on board with the idea that top conservative news outlets need to be censored. At this point one can’t help but wonder (and worry) that some form of political censorship of the internet is on the horizon which will most likely be attempted by connecting the amazing success of someone like Matt Drudge to supposed Russian propaganda operations – all in the name of censoring non leftist voices. Delivered by The Daily Sheeple We encourage you to share and republish our reports, analyses, breaking news and videos (Click for details). Contributed by Alex Thomas of The Daily Sheeple. Alex Thomas is a staff writer and reporter for The Daily Sheeple. Wake the flock up – follow Alex’s work at our Facebook or Twitter.
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Globalist Puppet John McCain Showered With Praise By Liberal Establishment and Hollywood Over Health Care Bill Opposition
September 23, 2017 | Alex Thomas | The Daily Sheeple
The liberal establishment, with help from Hollywood, is showering turncoat Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) with praise after his stunning announcement that he would once again go directly against his own campaign promise and oppose the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill. McCain made the announcement in a statement Friday, saying that he could not in “good conscience” vote for the repeal of a law that he ran against during his last campaign. “I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried,” McCain declared. “Nor could I support it without knowing how much it will cost, how it will effect insurance premiums, and how many people will be helped or hurt by it,” his statement continued. “Without a full CBO score, which won’t be available by the end of the month, we won’t have reliable answers to any of those questions.” After the announcement the liberal media immediately went to work praising the senator, with multiple “news” outlets spending considerable time painting McCain as some sort of hero standing up to the forces of Trump when in reality he is nothing more than an establishment puppet working for the very same masters who control the mainstream press. Unsurprisingly, numerous Hollywood celebrities also chimed in with praise for McCain throughout Twitter, with multiple openly anti-Trump Democrats responding joyfully to the senator once again turning on not only his party, but the people who voted for him in the first place. Some of the more pointed Tweets included: While McCain has long been considered a Rhino Republican, over the last year and a half he has been involved in a plethora of shady conduct, most aimed at stopping the Trump anti-globalist agenda dead in its tracks. In January it was revealed that McCain himself was the deep state operative who passed the infamous disinformation dossier on Donald Trump to the head of the FBI. McCain, apparently believed that the false information was so important that he specifically went out of his way to pass the documents to FBI director James Comey. “The Guardian can confirm that the documents reached the top of the FBI by December. Senator John McCain, who was informed about the existence of the documents separately by an intermediary from a western allied state, dispatched an emissary overseas to meet the source and then decided to present the material to Comey in a one-on-one meeting on 9 December, according to a source aware of the meeting,” the Guardian reported. As if that wasn’t enough, McCain then went on the offensive against Trump supporters themselves, using a wide-ranging interview with a liberal magazine to essentially declare war on the Trump agenda. In the interview, published by New York Magazine, McCain attacked both Trump and his supporters in a variety of different ways including the admittedly botched roll-out of the travel ban, his speech to the CIA, and his supposed views on torture. At this point it should be strikingly clear that Senator John McCain is working for the establishment deep state and is now willing to go completely against his own campaign agenda as long as it is made to hurt President Trump in the end. Delivered by The Daily Sheeple We encourage you to share and republish our reports, analyses, breaking news and videos (Click for details). Contributed by Alex Thomas of The Daily Sheeple. Alex Thomas is a staff writer and reporter for The Daily Sheeple. Wake the flock up – follow Alex’s work at our Facebook or Twitter.
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Posted on September 23, 2017 by Jon Watkins
Queer Persona’s will Manifest at Halloween this year
1st Thessalonians 5:22 “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” What part of those six words do you not understand…….., Christian? Devil Worshiping Americans will break records with their Halloween spending this year, according to the National Retail Federation. It is not just children who live in a fantasy world. It is NOT the children who are going out buying costumes and handing down the Sins of the Fathers and mothers to the next Generation! Young, and some mature adults, have not grown up and are living out their lives in a perpetual dream state, as evidenced by the snowflakes that have manifested since 2016! 1st Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” “What one generation allows in moderation, the next will practice it in EXCESS!” That is my version of a saying I heard many years ago and IS so true! They surveyed about 7,000 ignorant people who will participate in the Eve of the Devil. The prediction is, lovers of Satan will spend around $9.1 billion on their holy day. Homosexual Batman seems to be the preferred Superhero this year and is tied with a Princess. Also see Manufactures Retailers and Superheroes going Queer. Third is an animal, and that could be attributed to the perverts known a Furries. Read about these Perverts here. Problem is, people, including those who claim to be Christians, are living in a fantasy world. To many are fixated on video games and science fiction and hellish, evil television and movies that are laced with homosexual innuendo! Hellywood is also consumed with blood and gore, which Halloween is now engrossed in. With all of the Zombie, Creepy Clown and Cannibal news, one would assume that would be the theme of this years Eve of the Devil! I suppose the Homosexual and Transgender agenda is to strong pull right now! Many so-called Christians do not heed 1st Thessalonians 5:22 “abstain from all appearance of evil”. . Not only do we flee from that which is evil, Psalms 37:27 “Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.” we flee from that which appears to be evil. For instance, a pastor or professing Christian for that matter, should not be seen frequenting a bar because someone may think he or she is getting drunk, and probably is. Depending on the Bible version you use, 1st Thessalonians 5:22 refers to the “appearance of evil” (KJV), “every kind of evil” (NIV and NLT), or “every form of evil” (NRSV, NKJV, and ESV). Each is a good translation. The Greek word translated “appearance,” “form,” or “kind” can mean any of these things. The same word is used in 2nd Corinthians 5:7 and translated as “sight.” Avoiding the appearance of evil, or abstaining from every form of evil, means to live in God’s light by the power of the Holy Spirit. We “take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” (Ephesians 5:11). We SHOULD worry about the perceptions of others and about the integrity of our own walk with Christ. But alas people in this day can no more discern evil and do not have the slightest inkling of the mind of God! Now for you idiots who say who am I to judge a persons actions and heart 1st Corinthians 2:14-16 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” I am NOT the Judge, I am merely a FRUIT inspector who can discern!
https://www.online-ministries.org/queer-personas-will-manifest-at-halloween-this-year/
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The Georgia Tech Riot’s Dark Message To America
Scott Greer Deputy Editor 11:26 AM 09/22/2017
Georgia Tech may be the unlikeliest of places to witness violent riots, but in the current climate of campus insanity it seems no college is immune from student unrest. On Monday, cop cars burned down and police were pelted with rocks in retaliation for a “non-binary” student shot to death by law enforcement over the weekend. The slain student brandished a knife at officers while demanding that they shoot him. Video of the shooting and the multiple suicide notes left behind by the deceased student, Scout Schultz, indicate he was trying to goad police into killing him. (RELATED: Student Killed By Police At Georgia Tech Left Three Suicide Notes) Regardless of the evidence, aggrieved Techies took it as an act of police brutality against the LGBT community and decided upon violence. Georgia Tech was not the first place to see such aggressive demonstrations on a college campus this year. Riots took over the University of California – Berkeley over a planned Milo Yiannopoulos speech in February, resulting in several people assaulted by leftist demonstrators over the suspicion they may like Milo. (RELATED: Berkeley Student Paper Publishes Columns PRAISING Anti-Milo Riot) Leftist students took over Evergreen State University in May after a liberal professor suggested it was a bad idea to kick out all white students and faculty for a day of protest. After forcing the offending professor to flee campus, students effectively took most of the faculty and wouldn’t allow to them to even use the restroom unless they agreed to their ridiculous demands. (RELATED: Evergreen State Calls Protesters’ Actions ‘Criminal’…Two Months After The Fact) Additionally, baseball bat-wielding leftists patrolled the Evergreen campus to look for imaginary Nazis in the ensuing weeks. Physical violence has become an increasing factor in campus insanity, an element that was largely absent when I wrote my book, “No Campus for White Men,” last year. Sure, there were protesters aggressively disrupting speeches. There was that one University of Missouri professor who threatened to get “muscle” to remove a reporter from a safe space. But there were no burning cop cars and no conservatives getting beaten unconscious. A lot of the violence on campuses so far has appeared to have come from outside agitators affiliated with Antifa, as shown in the Berkeley riots. Georgia Tech, on the other hand, shows a riot originating from the student body, not from anarchists living in the nearby community. This is a big development for higher education. Students no longer have to rely on the local crust punk scene to shut down speakers and attack their political foes. They’ll just do it themselves. The bad news for America is that we are all but guaranteed to see similar, left-wing student-driven riots this academic year. Recent polling shows that more Georgia Techs are bound to occur. A poll released this week by the Brookings Institute showed that one-fifth of American students support violence against speech they find offensive. Sixty-two percent of self-identified left-wing respondents believe shouting over a disagreeable speaker is a great idea. Forty-four percent of students think hate speech is not protected by the Constitution, a false notion that would encourage left-wing agitators encouragement to use any means necessary to shut down their enemies. As a society, we’ve liked to tell ourselves that violence outside of self-defense is wrong. It is considered especially wrong if it is used against somebody expressing their constitutional rights, whether it be to vote, pray or share their political opinion. To the young leftists of 2017, however, violence is a good thing — if used by themselves and against those they deem beyond the pale. To them, their intimidation of wayward professors and macing of suspected “Nazis” are not acts of aggression, but measures of self-defense. Allowing dissidents to go unmolested means that vulnerable students are going to get hurt…somehow. “I put my safety and my freedom on the line because letting Yiannopoulos speak was more terrifying to me than potential injury or arrest,” one Berkeley rioter argued for why he took up violence to shut down speech. Violence is a righteous solution to offensive speech and alleged police oppression. It can be morally justified and defended with the most fantastical of claims. However, violence is still bad if it’s practiced by the other side as it’s only good when it remains in the Left’s grasp. The images coming out of Berkeley and Georgia Tech are shocking to most Americans, but to those who engage and sympathize with the riots, they’re brave acts of resistance. Burning a cop car is okay if done for a noble cause. Good moral standing is on the side of the rock throwers, not the police who just murdered a student belonging to a protected class. We may long for the days when checking your white privilege was the worst part of campus Leftism, rather than being sent to the ER over failure to check it. WATCH BEN SHAPIRO SHAME COLLEGE CAMPUSES THAT STOP POLICE FROM REDUCING VIOLENT OUTBURSTS FROM STUDENT:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/22/the-georgia-tech-riots-dark-message-to-america/
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Doomsday is not on Saturday after all, writer says after predicting end of the world
David Meade, who claimed the world is ending Saturday when a mysterious planet collides with Earth, is now backtracking on the calamitous claim. Meade said the world won't end on Sept. 23 after all, but instead Saturday will only mark the beginning of a series of catastrophic events to occur over several weeks. “The world is not ending, but the world as we know it is ending,” he told the Washington Post. “A major part of the world will not be the same the beginning of October.” Meade said his prediction is based on verses and numerical codes found in the Bible, specifically in the apocalyptic Book of Revelation. He said recent events, such as the solar eclipse and Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, are omens of the approaching apocalypse. The significant number is 33, according to Meade. “Jesus lived for 33 years. The name Elohim, which is the name of God for the Jews, was mentioned 33 times [in the Bible],” he said. “It’s a very biblically significant, numerologically significant number. I’m talking astronomy. I’m talking the Bible...and merging the two.” Sept. 23 is also 33 days since the Aug. 21 solar eclipse. Meade has also built his theory on the so-called Planet X, which is also known as Nibiru, which he believes will pass Earth on Sept. 23. This will cause volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes, he claims. NASA has repeatedly said Planet X does not exist. Meade’s prediction has been dismissed by people of faith including the Roman Catholic and Protestant branches of Christianity. Ed Stetzer, a professor and executive director of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, slammed Meade’s theory on Friday, calling it “fake news” and asked Christians to be critical. “It’s simply fake news that a lot of Christians believe the world will end on September 23,” Stetzer wrote in Christianity Today. “Yet, it is still a reminder that we need to think critically about all the news.”
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Rescuers continue search efforts for missing as death toll climbs to 295 in earthquake-ravaged Mexico
BY Rich Schapiro NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Saturday, September 23, 2017, 2:44 AM
Weary rescue workers resumed digging through piles of bricks and cement in earthquake-ravaged Mexico Friday as the desperate search for survivors stretched into its fourth day. Families of the missing clung to hopes of a miracle after several people were pulled alive from the rubble in Mexico City on Thursday. “They keep telling us there is life in there, but we keep on waiting,” said Cristal Estrada, whose accountant brother Martin, 31, was among the missing. “There is life, yes, but we do not know if it is my brother’s. “They do not have much time in there,” she added. The death toll from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake rose to 295 people Friday. More than half of the fatalities — 155 — were in the hard-hit capital city. A total of 60 people have been plucked from the wreckage since the quake struck Tuesday. The rescue effort was suspended in parts of Mexico City overnight amid a drenching rain that threatened to destabilize the mountains of debris. Several families of the missing waited for news outside a collapsed seven-story building in the Roma Norte neighborhood. A list of 46 names of missing people was attached to a nearby lamppost where civil engineer Jose Gutierrez updated the relatives on the status of the rescue effort. Gutierrez straddled both worlds — he, too, had a relative believed to be trapped under the piles of concrete slabs. “My family is in there. I want them to get out,” Gutierrez said, his voice breaking with emotion. “So ... we go onward.” First responders and volunteers from a myriad of countries — including the U.S., Japan, Panama and Israel — have flooded Mexico to aid the search operations. The rescuers’ tireless work was rewarded Thursday when two people were pulled alive from the rubble of a decimated textile factory in the Colonia Obrera neighborhood. Cheers broke out among the roughly 1,000 volunteers when the survivors emerged from the pile. The celebration capped what had been a mostly fruitless search. A total of 21 people had been confirmed dead at the site, according to NBC News. As bulldozers and backhoes arrived in some parts of the city, officials insisted that the heavy machinery was only being used on wrecked buildings where no one had been detected or piles of rubble that threatened to collapse on other structures. “It is false that we are demolishing structures where there could be survivors,” said National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente. “The rescue operations will continue, and they won’t stop.” The death toll included 73 in Morelos, 45 in Puebla, 13 in Mexico state, six in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca. At least 25 people — including 21 students believed to be 7 or 8 years old — were found dead at the site of the crumbled private Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City. The devastated three-story building captured worldwide attention when it was revealed that a schoolgirl was trapped alive in the rumble. But the account turned out to be false — dashing the hopes of the rescuers as well as the untold numbers of people rooting for the girl around the world. “It was a confusion,” said Alfred Padilla, a volunteer rescuer at the school. “The important thing is there are signs of life and we are working on that.” With News Wire Services
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Syria says IAF carried out air strike overnight near Damascus
According to several media sources in Syria, the Israeli Air Force attacked an ammunition warehouse near a Damascus airport during the night. Israel has yet to provide an official response.
Sep 22, 2017, 11:30AM Omri Ariel
Syrian media outlets reported Friday that the Israeli Air Force had carried out a strike overnight targeting an ammunition facility near Damascus. Some sources also published pictures and videos claiming to show the exact moment of the alleged Israeli strike. It was also reported that the area was engulfed by heavy smoke and that there were no Syrian casualties. If these reports are true, the strike may have been Israel's response to the unmanned drone from Syria that tried to infiltrate Israeli territory earlier this week. The aircraft, which was intercepted by a Patriot missile, was reportedly built in Iran and operated by Hezbollah in order to collect intelligence above the Golan Heights. The IDF stated after the incident, "The IAF's air defense troops have intercepted an unmanned drone which seemed to belong to Hezbollah. We will continue to respond forcefully to any such attempt in the future."
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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.
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Iran Claims Country Has Infiltrated U.S. Military, Obtained “Sensitive Documents”
September 18, 2017 by Joshua Caplan
As tensions between the U.S. and North Korea reach new heights, it appears Iran sees an opportunity to flex its military might, as well. A new report reveals the Islamic Republic claims to have not only developed a monster 10-ton bomb, but also to have infiltrated the U.S. military. Both are explosive claims. Washington Free Beacon reports: A senior Iranian military leader claims the Islamic Republic has developed the “father of all bombs,” a 10-ton bomb that is said to rival the United States’ ‘mother of all bombs,” or MOAB, according to regional reports. Iranian General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp’s airspace division, claimed in an interview over the weekend with the country’s state-controlled media that Iran has developed the 10-ton bomb and has the capability to drop them from aircraft. Hajizadeh also claims that Iran has infiltrated the U.S. military and has sensitive documents in its possession. “We have infiltrated into the Americans’ command control centers over the recent years,” he was quoted as saying in a television interview broadcast on PressTV, another Iranian-controlled outlet. As previously reported by TGP, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals mainstream media journalists have been both threatened and blackmailed by Iranian spies for positive coverage. Iran’s clandestine spy network has been threatening and blackmailing scores of journalists, even going so far as to detain and threaten the family members of these reporters, in order to ensure positive coverage in global media outlets, according to a new report that estimates at least 50 international journalists have been threatened in just the past year. Outlets such as the BBC and Voice of America have been subjected to threats and in some cases have had their computers hijacked by Iran, according to the report, which states that “all international media outlets with Persian-language services are concerned” about the Islamic Republic’s often-secret efforts to blackmail reporters in order to gain positive headlines.
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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..
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Some agencies now suing citizens, journalists who seek public records
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Oregon parent wanted details about school employees getting paid to stay home. A retired educator sought data about student performance in Louisiana. And college journalists in Kentucky requested documents about the investigations of employees accused of sexual misconduct. Instead, they got something else: sued by the agencies they had asked for public records. Government bodies are increasingly turning the tables on citizens who seek public records that might be embarrassing or legally sensitive. Instead of granting or denying their requests, a growing number of school districts, municipalities and state agencies have filed lawsuits against people making the requests — taxpayers, government watchdogs and journalists who must then pursue the records in court at their own expense. The lawsuits generally ask judges to rule that the records being sought do not have to be divulged. They name the requesters as defendants but do not seek damages. Still, the recent trend has alarmed freedom-of-information advocates, who say it’s becoming a new way for governments to hide information, delay disclosure and intimidate critics. “This practice essentially says to a records requester, ‘File a request at your peril,’” said University of Kansas journalism professor Jonathan Peters, who wrote about the issue for the Columbia Journalism Review in 2015, before several more cases were filed. “These lawsuits are an absurd practice and noxious to open government.” Government officials who have employed the tactic insist they are acting in good faith. They say it’s best to have courts determine whether records should be released when legal obligations are unclear — for instance, when the documents might be shielded by an exemption or privacy laws. At least two recent cases have succeeded in blocking information while many others have only delayed the release. State freedom-of-information laws generally allow requesters who believe they are wrongly denied records to file lawsuits seeking to force their release. If they succeed, government agencies can be ordered to pay the legal fees and court costs. Suing the requesters flips the script: Even if agencies are ultimately required to make the records public, they typically will not have to pay the other side’s legal bills. “You can lose even when you win,” said Mike Deshotels, an education watchdog who was sued by the Louisiana Department of Education after filing requests for school district enrollment data last year. “I’m stuck with my legal fees just for defending my right to try to get these records.” The lawsuit argued that the data could not be released under state and federal privacy laws and initially asked the court to order Deshotels and another citizen requester to pay the department’s legal fees and court costs. The department released the data months later after a judge ruled it should be made public. Deshotels, a 72-year-old retired teachers’ union official who authors the Louisiana Educator blog, had spent $3,000 fighting the lawsuit by then. He said the data ultimately helped show a widening achievement gap among the state’s poorest students, undercutting claims of progress by education reformers. The lawsuits have been denounced by some courts and policymakers. A New Jersey judge in 2015 said they were the “antithesis” of open-records policies and dismissed a case filed by a township against a person who requested police department surveillance video footage. In Michigan, the state House voted 108-0 earlier this year in favor of a bill that would make it illegal for agencies to sue public records requesters. The proposal came in response to a county’s lawsuit against a local newspaper that had sought the personnel files of two employees running for sheriff. A judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying the county had to approve or deny the request. The documents, ultimately released days before the election, showed that one of the candidates had been disciplined for carrying on an affair while on-duty in 2011. That candidate lost. The Michigan bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Klint Kesto, called the tactic “a backdoor channel to delay and put pressure on the requester” that circumvents the state’s Freedom of Information Act “Government shouldn’t file a lawsuit and go on offense. Either approve the request or deny it,” he said. “This shouldn’t be happening anywhere in the country.” As his bill remains pending in a state Senate committee, Michigan State University filed a lawsuit against ESPN after the sports network requested police reports related to a sexual-assault investigation involving football players. That and a number of other cases are currently unfolding. And in Portland, Oregon, school district filed a lawsuit against parent Kim Sordyl, who is seeking records about employees on leave for alleged misconduct after the disclosure that one psychologist had been off for three years. Sordyl said she believes the information will expose costly missteps by district human-resources officials and lawyers, and the district attorney already has ordered the records to be released. “They are going to great lengths to protect themselves and their own mismanagement. This is retaliation,” said Sordyl, who has hired an attorney. “Most people would give up.” A district spokesman said the lawsuit, which also names a journalist who requested similar information, amounts to an appeal “in an area of public records law that we believe lacks clarity.” “When this information is released prematurely, the district’s position is that the employees’ right to due process is jeopardized,” spokesman Dave Northfield said. The University of Kentucky prevailed in January when a judge blocked the release of records sought by its student newspaper detailing the investigation of a professor who resigned after being accused of groping students. The judge agreed with the university that the records would violate the privacy rights of students who were victims even if their names were redacted. While that ruling is on appeal, Western Kentucky University filed a similar lawsuit against its paper, the College Heights Herald, which sought records related to allegations of sexual harassment and assault involving employees. Several other state universities released similar documents to the newspaper, and the state attorney general has ruled that they are public records. “It’s not a good feeling knowing that we are being sued,” said Herald editor-in-chief Andrew Henderson, whose publication has been raising money to pay legal fees. “I just hope that something beneficial comes out of all of this for everyone involved.”
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U.S. Navy fires two commanders after 'losing confidence in their abilities to command' as Asia sea accidents leave 17 dead
Charles William and Captain Jeffrey Bennett were fired by commander Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin 'due to loss of confidence in their ability to command'
Ten American sailors went missing and are feared dead after a Navy warship collided with a commercial tanker east of Singapore and Malaysia on August 21
In June the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine cargo ship killing seven U.S. sailors, with the crew being held accountable for their actions on the ship
It was the fourth major incident in the U.S. Pacific Fleet this year
By Reuters and Michelle Ganney For Dailymail.com
The U.S. Navy dismissed two senior officers, an admiral and a captain, on Monday after a series of collisions involving Seventh Fleet warships in Asia, citing a loss of confidence in their ability to command. Rear Admiral Charles Williams, commander of Task Force 70, and Captain Jeffrey Bennett, commander of Destroyer Squadron 15, were fired by Seventh Fleet commander Vice Admiral Phil Sawyer, the Navy said. In August, Sawyer replaced fleet commander Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, who was fired after the accidents. 'Both reliefs were due to a loss of confidence in their ability to command,' the Navy statement said. The shakeup in the Seventh Fleet command followed a pre-dawn collision between guided-missile destroyer USS McCain and a merchant vessel east of Singapore and Malaysia on August 21, which killed 10 sailors and was the fourth major incident in the U.S. Pacific Fleet this year. Chief of naval operations, Adm. John Richardson, said he wanted to conduct a 'comprehensive review' of recent US Navy collisions, according to CNN. He doesn't necessarily believe the incidents are a result of cyberintrusion or sabotage, however, he is considering all options. 'We are looking at every possibility so we are not leaving anything to chance there,' he stated. Additionally, in June, another destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a Philippine cargo ship, killing seven U.S. sailors. An unnamed US defense official said: 'The way it looks now, it seems that the crew on the (USS) Fitzgerald is going to be at fault,' according to The Guardian. He added: 'They are certainly going to be held accountable in some way for their actions.' Senior US Navy officer, William Moran, told a congressional oversight panel in early September that the hectic pace of military operations and a constrained military budget don't excuse these two warship accidents that killed 17 American sailors. 'No matter how tough our operating environment, or how strained our budget, we shouldn't be and cannot be colliding with other ships and running aground,' Admiral William Moran, the vice chief of naval operations, told members of the House Armed Services Committee. 'We have allowed standards to drop as the number of certifications has grown,' he added. 'That is not about resourcing; it is about safety and it is about leadership at sea.'
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From this day forth, says your Father, the true news, the true news is going to have to come from me, because even those stations that at one time were true are now turning and going the other direction because of the power, because of the money people, because of those that want the one world government etc
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Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America?
by Tyler Durden Sep 18, 2017 10:40 PM
So what do you do when you fail to elect your chosen candidate and your former political allies and mainstream media turn against you by painting you not as the 'progressive', open-minded, friendly tech company that you used to be but as an evil, racist, Russian-colluding corporate villain intent upon destroying all that is sacred in the world? Well, you just buy the media, of course. As Poynter notes today, after a series of public relations debacles in recent weeks, from the firing of James Damore to news last week that Google's algos served up some fairly disturbing keywords to potential advertising buyers (e.g. "Why Do Black People Ruin Neighborhoods"), Google is ramping up its media presence with the announcement that the Google News Lab will be working with Report For America (RFA) to hire 1,000 journalists all around the country. Many local newsrooms have been cut to the bone so often that there's hardly any bone left. But starting early next year, some may get the chance to rebuild, at least by one. On Monday, a new project was announced at the Google News Lab Summit that aims to place 1,000 journalists in local newsrooms in the next five years. Report For America takes ideas from several existing organizations, including the Peace Corps, Americorps, Teach for America and public media. Unlike foreign or domestic service programs or public media, however, RFA gets no government funding. But they are calling RFA a national service project. That might make some journalists uncomfortable – the idea of service and patriotism. But at its most fundamental, local journalism is about protecting democracy, said co-founder Charles Sennott, founder and CEO of the GroundTruth Project. "I think journalism needs that kind of passion for public service to bring it back and to really address some of the ailments of the heart of journalism," he said. Here's how RFA will work: On one end, emerging journalists will apply to be part of RFA. On the other, newsrooms will apply for a journalist. RFA will pay 50 percent of that journalist's salary, with the newsroom paying 25 percent and local donors paying the other 25 percent. That reporter will work in the local newsroom for a year, with the opportunity to renew. Of course, while the press release above tries to tout the shared financial responsibility of these 1,000 journalists, presumably as a testament to their 'independence', it took about 35 seconds to figure out that the primary funder of the journalists' salaries, RFA, is funded by none other than Google News Lab. Meanwhile, as a further testament to RFA's 'independence, we noticed that their Advisory Board is flooded with reputable, 'impartial' news organizations like the New York Times, NPR, CBS, ABC, etc.... That said, as Jeff Bezos found out this morning, you can buy the media outlet but that doesn't necessarily mean you can buy their loyalty (see: Did WaPo Break The Law When It Disciplined A Writer For This Negative Article On Jeff Bezos?)....
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Toys ‘R’ Us files for BANKRUPTCY: Retailing giant becomes the latest victim of online shopping - leaving its 64,000 worldwide employees at risk
Toys 'R' Us, the iconic toy store, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday
It is the latest victim to the online shopping industry
The first Toys 'R' Us opened in 1957 and the company has since become a worldwide phenomenon
By Reuters and Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 01:37 EDT, 19 September 2017 | Updated: 02:17 EDT, 19 September 2017
Toys ‘R’ Us Inc, the largest U.S. toy store chain, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. This is the latest sign of turmoil in the retail industry caught in a viselike grip of online shopping and discount chains. Toys ‘R’ Us said it received a commitment for over $3billion in debtor-in-possession financing from lenders including a JPMorgan-led bank syndicate and certain of the company’s existing lenders. The new financing, subject to court approval, is expected to immediately improve the company’s financial health and support its ongoing operations during the court-supervised process, Toys ‘R’ Us said. The company’s Canadian unit intends to seek protection in parallel proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Toys ‘R’ Us said in a statement. The retailer’s operations outside of the United States and Canada, including about 255 licensed stores and joint venture partnerships in Asia, which are separate entities, are not part of the Chapter 11 filing and CCAA proceedings, Toys ‘R’ Us said. The filing is among the largest ever by a specialty retailer and casts doubt over the future of the company’s nearly 1,600 stores and 64,000 employees worldwide. It comes just as Toys ‘R’ Us is gearing up for the holiday shopping season, which accounts for the bulk of its sales. Toys ‘R’ Us filed the petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. The company has not shown a net quarterly since 2013, reports Bloomberg. The first Toys 'R' Us opened in 1957 and its inaugural CEO, Charles Lazarus, presided over the company until 1994. The company was bought out in 2005. In the process, it was saddled with major debts that it has never paid off. The company experienced some renewed success under CEO David Brandon, who since 2015 has sought to make Toys 'R' Us the destination for children that it once was. But the changes ultimately proved futile in the face of the online retailing industry. Toys 'R' Us has more than 800 locations in the United States and has stores from the United Kingdom to Japan.
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Companies are quietly pulling out of Baltimore, turning the city into one big food desert
Monday, September 18, 2017 by Thomas Dishaw
Baltimore is in bad shape. Crime, poverty, drugs and Democratic leadership has driven this once prosperous city to the point of despair. Baltimore, with an estimated population of 616,664 people, is facing a crisis; companies are pulling out of the city at an alarming rate creating one big food desert. Strip malls that were once overflowing with customers and businesses are becoming increasingly empty. Just look at the pictures below taken on the corner of Loch Raven Boulevard and Cold Spring Lane. The Mars Supermarket (one of the last truly independent grocery chains in Maryland) which used to reside in this plaza has finally closed its doors due to declining sales and intense competition. Mar’s, considered the anchor store in this strip mall, had a devastating domino effect on the rest of the businesses in this area, causing all of them to eventually shut down. Out of the six companies that once did business on this busy East side intersection only two remain. Wells Fargo, a bank that has more in common with criminals than it does a bank, and the other is a liquor store that seems to be at the heart of every inner city’s destruction. What is even more alarming is the population in this neighborhood is increasingly aging. Numerous apartment buildings in the area house hundreds, if not thousands of elderly citizens, most of whom depend on public transportation and rely on a grocery store within walking distance to acquire food. The lack of an available grocery store will be the demise of this neighborhood, just like many others before them. These food deserts force people to buy their groceries from gas stations or corner stores that charge triple the price for products and offer little to no healthy options for patrons. This situation also causes its residents to flee this environment, and with no new occupants wanting to move in it often results in abandoned and boarded up properties littering these neighborhoods. Sick of the lies? Get the Gov’t Slaves newsletter delivered to your inbox. Scenes like this have become a mainstay in Baltimore. As the inner-city economy collapses and crime and poverty continue to grow, companies are increasingly going out of business or relocating to friendlier, suburban areas. Baltimore is quietly turning into a mini Chicago, but does anybody care?
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Scientists have stored light as sound for the first time in a breakthrough that could lead to super-fast computers
Scientists created a breakthrough microchip from chalcogenide glass
The microchip converts light into sound briefly before turning it back into light
While light is a good carrier of data, its speed can be a nuisance in computers
But this 'acoustic buffer' could help to slow the light down enough to be useful
By Shivali Best For Mailonline Published: 06:45 EDT, 19 September 2017 | Updated: 07:18 EDT, 19 September 2017
In a world first, scientists have stored light-based data as sound waves on a computer chip - a feat they compare to 'capturing lightning as thunder'. Storing light as sound has been pursued by large companies such as IBM and Intel for years, but until now has never been achieved. The researchers hope their breakthrough could lead to the creation of computers in which data can safely travel at the speed of light. Researchers from the University of Sydney demonstrated the technological breakthrough in a new study, published in Nature Communications. Transferring information from light to sound and back again inside a microchip is critical for the development of photonic integrated circuits – microchips that use light to manage data. These chips are being developed for use in telecommunications, optical fibre networks and cloud computing data centres where traditional electronic devices are susceptible to electromagnetic interference, produce too much heat or use too much energy. Dr Birgit Stiller, supervisor of the project, said: 'The information in our chip in acoustic form travels at a velocity five orders of magnitude slower than in the optical domain. 'It is like the difference between thunder and lightning.' This delay allows the data to be stored briefly, before being processed back into light. While light is an excellent carrier of data, its speed can become a nuisance inside computers. To help overcome this issue, the researchers created an 'acoustic buffer' within the microchip, in which light was temporarily converted into sound. Mr Moritz Merklein, lead author of the study, said: 'Building an acoustic buffer inside a chip improves our ability to control information by several orders of magnitude.' While light-speed data has its advantages, it must be slowed down to allow you do anything useful with it. Normally, this is done using electronics, but as computers and telecommunication systems become bigger and faster, the associated heat is making some systems unmanageable. The use of photonic chips is one solution to this problem being pursued by large companies such as IBM and Intel. Mr Merklein said: 'For this to become a commercial reality, photonic data on the chip needs to be slowed down so that they can be processed, routed, stored and accessed.' The researchers' chip is made of chalcogenide glass, which provides optimal guidance of both optical and acoustic waves. The chip operates at room temperature and can be used with other computer components, which means it can be easily integrated into photonic circuits. Dr Steve Madden, who also worked on the project added: 'The transfer of information from light to acoustic phonons is an exciting area currently receiving a lot of attention worldwide, and we hope this work will stimulate some new on-chip information processing capabilities.'
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Synthetic muscle that lifts 1,000 TIMES its own weight could lead to super-strong humanoid robots
The artificial muscle can push, pull, bend and twist, as well as lift heavy weights
It does so at low voltage without the need for an external compressor system
It is actuated using a thin resistive wire and an eight volt low-power supply
It is 3D printed into a silicone rubber matrix with ethanol distributed throughout
By Tim Collins For Mailonline Published: 06:54 EDT, 19 September 2017 | Updated: 06:55 EDT, 19 September 2017
Humanoid robots are a step closer after engineers developed synthetic muscle that can lift a thousand times its own weight. The 3D-printable synthetic soft muscle doesn't need an external compressor or high voltage equipment as previous models did. The artificial muscle can push, pull, bend and twist, as well as lift weight. A team of engineers at Columbia University says up until now no material has been capable of functioning as a soft muscle. This is due to an inability to show the desired properties of high stress and strain. Inspired by living organisms, team leader Professor Hod Lipson said soft material robotics hold 'great promise' for areas where robots need to contact and interact with humans, such as manufacturing and healthcare. He said that, unlike rigid robots, soft robots can replicate natural motion, grasping and manipulation, to provide medical and other types of assistance, perform delicate tasks, or pick up soft objects. Professor Lipson added: 'We've been making great strides toward making robot minds, but robot bodies are still primitive. 'This is a big piece of the puzzle and, like biology, the new actuator can be shaped and reshaped a thousand ways. 'We've overcome one of the final barriers to making lifelike robots.' To achieve an actuator with high strain and high stress coupled with low density, study lead author Aslan Miriyev used a silicone rubber matrix with ethanol distributed throughout in micro-bubbles. The solution combined the elastic properties and extreme volume change attributes of other material systems, while also being easy to fabricate, low cost, and made of environmentally safe materials. After being 3D-printed into the desired shape, the artificial muscle was electrically actuated using a thin resistive wire and eight volt low-power. It was tested in a range of robotic applications where it showed significant expansion-contraction ability. It was capable of expansion up to 900 per cent when electrically heated to 80°C (176°F). Via computer controls, the autonomous unit is capable of performing motion tasks in almost any design. Dr Miriyev, a postdoctoral researcher in the Creative Machines lab, added: 'Our soft functional material may serve as robust soft muscle, possibly revolutionising the way that soft robotic solutions are engineered today. 'It can push, pull, bend, twist, and lift weight. 'It's the closest artificial material equivalent we have to a natural muscle.' The research team plan to continue building on the development, incorporating conductive materials to replace the embedded wire. This should accelerate the muscle's response time and increase its shelf life. Dr Miriyev said that, long-term, they will involve artificial intelligence to learn to control the muscle, which may be a 'last milestone' towards replicating natural motion. The full findings of the study were published today in the journal Nature Communications.
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etc. But it is a very, very dark hour, a very wicked hour, a very evil hour with much going on every day, every moment of the day. You see it not maybe here in the sense that others are seeing it around the world. But I say unto you, open your spiritual eyes, open your spiritual eyes, see, see, see what is taking place. etc..
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Katy Perry IN YOUR FACE Witchcraft Mind control Cannibalism Satanism with the wonderful worship of death and the Brave Nuns who opposed her
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Nicole Sherzinger: “To make it, you really have to sell your soul to the devil.” In a recent interview with The Independent, Nicole Sherzinger – the former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls – discussed the music industry and what is truly needed to make it. According to her, female pop stars who receive “industry love” must obey orders, forget about their values and accept to be slutty. In short, they must be willing participants of the elite’s Agenda. In Sheringer’s words: ” To make it, you really have to sell your soul to the devil”. To be honest with you, I sometimes wish I were more slutty. I’d probably be a lot more successful if I were. This is such a tough industry, you know. To make it, you really have to sell your soul to the devil.” When asked is she sold her soul to the devil: “No, I haven’t. That’s probably why I haven’t quite reached the top of my mountain. I mean, where’s my Tony Award, my Grammy, my Oscar? Why don’t I have any of those things yet?” HAS KATY PERRY SOLD HER SOUL TO THE DEVIL ? here she is riding her dark horse aka Lucifer now the fallen angel SATAN. Listen: Katy Perry is a Witch on 'Dark Horse' Track ... Satan comes as an angel of light he is your buddy he is your pal and he wants you to have fun fun fun. While behind the scenes he rips your soul apart. People love what the devil does for them because their lives are so dull boring and horrible they have nothing spiritual so that entertainment is their God. The devil likes nothing more than to strip us, whom God made in His own image, of our humanity. And there’s nothing more dehumanizing of oneself and the other than to commit cannibalism — the ingestion of humans by humans. Before it burned down in a hellish inferno last December, the “Ghost Ship” warehouse in Oakland, California, had held an evening performance “art” event in which the “artist” assumed the Arch of Hysteria pose (see “Oakland warehouse fire: Satan’s Hell House“). And yet, cannibalism has become a meme — an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture — in contemporary America’s sick culture. first lets look at Katy Perry’s song Chained TO THE RHYTHM THE SONG IS STAGGERING IN ITS HONESTY The Illuminate as sick depraved people who worship death destructive staggering evil murders. Yet they have a code. I believe this code was imposed on the devil Satan the dragon and his followers by God himself for Satan has no honor. The must tell us what they are doing or going to do. This song does that in spades. But it flies over most peoples heads. the lyrics are broken down below. THE SONG IS ABOUT MASS MIND CONTROL CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM LYRICS. Are we crazy? Living our lives through a lens Trapped in our white-picket fence Like ornaments So comfortable, we live in a bubble, a bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, the trouble Aren’t you lonely Up there in utopia
Where nothing will ever be enough? Happily numb So comfortable, we live in a bubble, a bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, the trouble Ah, so good Your rose-colored glasses on
And party on Turn it up, it’s your favorite song Dance, dance, dance to the distortion Turn it up, keep it on repeat Stumbling around like a wasted zombie Yeah, we think we’re free Drink, this one is on me
We’re all chained to the rhythm To the rhythm to the rhythm Turn it up, it’s your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion Turn it up, keep it on repeat Stumbling around like a wasted zombie Yeah, we think we’re free Drink, this one is on me We’re all chained to the rhythm To the rhythm to the rhythm Are we tone deaf? Keep sweeping it under the mat Thought we can do better than that I hope we can So comfortable, we live in a bubble, a bubble So comfortable, we can’t see the trouble, the trouble Aha, so good (so good) Your rose-colored glasses on And party on Turn it up, it’s your favorite song Dance, dance, dance to the distortion Turn it up, keep it on repeat Stumbling around like a wasted zombie Yeah, we think we’re free Drink, this one is on me We’re all chained to the rhythm To the rhythm to the rhythm etc. It is my desire Break down the walls to connect, inspire Ay, up in your high place, liars Time is ticking for the empire The truth they feed is feeble As so many times before They greed over the people They stumbling and fumbling and we’re about to riot They woke up, they woke up the lions (woo!) etc. THIS VIDEO HAS TWO SKELETAL FIGURES AND IS OBVIOUS IN ITS WORSHIP OF DEATH Satanists love to desecrate the holy especially if it was once used for Worship Perry in 2015 was granted permission to buy a Nuns convent the nuns were not happy and accused her Witchcraft
LOS ANGELES (ChurchMilitant.com) – Legal wrangling over the sale of a Catholic convent to pop star Katy Perry has gotten contentious, after the nuns who once lived there called her “disgusting” and accused her of selling her soul to the devil. “[I would] not be very happy at all if Perry got the property,” said Sr. Rita Callanan. “I do not like Katy Perry’s lifestyle.” “I gave a lot of the things from the internet to show the archdiocese what kind of woman she was,” Callanan continued. “Some of the things she does are disgusting.” Callanan, 78, and Sr. Rose Catherine Holzman, 86, argue that their order has sole rights to the land, and have even called in a signatura — the highest judicial authority at the Vatican — to intervene, after Abp. Jose Gomez sued the sisters in The nuns detailed their recent meeting with the pop star, where they confronted her on her supposed witchcraft. “Katy Perry was all dressed very nicely and said: ‘I have this tattoo on my wrist and it says Jesus,'” said Callanan. “And I wanted to say, ‘Yes, and what is the tattoo on your behind?'” Perry, who once started out as a Christian singer, quickly went mainstream after her hit song “I Kissed a Girl,” about a lesbian encounter. Perry was afterwards on record saying she sold her soul to the devil. The nuns asked her about this claim as well as Perry’s participation in a 2014 “Witch Walk” in Salem, Massachusetts. “I asked her: ‘You are into witchcraft, you went to Salem,'” Callanan said Perry reportedly turned to someone in her entourage and asked if she had ever been to Salem. She probably couldn’t remember because of her MK ultra Fog multiple personality switch. “I said: ‘Come on, you didn’t know you were in Salem at a witchcraft thing? You don’t remember it?” explained Callanan. “‘That would stick way out in my mind. I read it, was that incorrect information?'” LYING KATY PERRY AT THE WITCH WALK She continued in her confrontation with Perry, saying, “I’m sorry, but I am just not into witchcraft and I am just not into people who are into witchcraft. It disturbs me, and that was our mother house and our retreat house, and it’s sacred ground.'” The sisters want to sell the property to a restaurateur, Dana Hollister, who has dished out $10 million for a grant deed and is willing to pay up to $5.5 million to the archdiocese to buy out the lease on the priests’ home. But concerns revolve around zoning if the land is turned into a commercial property. The overall target for Perry and her satanic cohorts is the moral order, especially as upheld by Christian civilization. The fight is not new in itself since Satanic symbols and lyrics have long pervaded modern culture. Katy Perry song WIDE AWAKE BACKWARDS Katy on her song dark horse “It’s kind of a juxtaposition” Perry explained to MTV “It’s got me, a pop artist, with a little bit of an urban kind of hip-hop-flavored background soundtrack to it, and the lyrics are kind of witchy and dark, as if I was a witch warning this man not to fall in love with me, and if you do know I’m going to be your last.” The video is used as worship for the dark Illuminati Egyptian Gods of the occult. The song is featured on the singers upcoming album Prism, Whats a prism katy The True Goal: Numb the Resistance These Satanists care little if they win or lose the concrete fight over the monument, the statue, the Black Mass, or whatever. Using the false argument of religious freedom, they will seek to remove a cross or religious symbol in the public square, If they win, the hated cross will be gone. If they lose, they will strive to put up their monument with equal exposure. KATY HERSELF HAS BY SELLING HER SOUL BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN A MONARCH MIND CONTROL SLAVE HERE IS KATY AND HER MK ULTRA HANDLER AND NEO-PAGAN EX HUSBAND RUSSEL BRAND RUSSEL BRAND katy perrys ex husband IS ILLUMINATI !!! DO NOT BE FOOLED !!! Katy Perry fights court battle over nuns who accused her of witchcraft The singer now needs final approval from the Vatican Will the Pope give permission Satanist Katy Perry is obsessed with cannibalism Katy Perry’s Illuminati Secrets Exposed
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Posted on September 18, 2017 by Ray Starmann
DID SUSAN RICE SPY ON TRUMP OFFICIALS FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?
After months of denials, the pretext for Susan Rice’s eavesdropping on Trump officials has finally been made public. It had been widely known that Obama’s former National Security Adviser had contrived to unmask the names of top Trump officials who had been spied on by the administration. And the same media that still treats Watergate as the Great American Scandal had claimed that there was nothing “improper” in an Obama loyalist eavesdropping on members of the opposition party. Every time Obama Inc. was caught eavesdropping on opposition politicians, it presented its spin in a carefully packaged “scoop” to a major media outlet. This time was no different. When Obama Inc. spied on members of Congress to protect its Iran nuke sellout, it packaged the story to the Wall Street Journal under the headline, “U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress”. The idea was that Obama Inc. was “legitimately” spying on Israel, that it just happened to intercept the conversations of some members of Congress and American Jews, and that the eavesdropping somehow meant that its victims, Jewish and non-Jewish, rather than its White House perpetrators, should be ashamed. The White House had demanded the conversations between Prime Minister Netanyahu, members of Congress and American Jews because it “believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign.” This was domestic surveillance carried out under the same pretext as in the Soviet Union which had also accused its dissident targets of secretly serving foreign interests. Obama and his minions had used the NSA to spy on Americans opposed to its policies. Including members of Congress. They did this by conflating their own political agenda with national security. Since Obama’s spin was that the Iran Deal was good for national security, opponents of it were a “national security” threat. And its fig leaf for domestic surveillance was that a “foreign leader” was involved. Now get ready for a flashback. Susan Rice’s excuse for unmasking the names of top Trump officials in the Obama eavesdropping effort was that they were meeting with the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates. The carefully packaged CNN story, which reeks of the Goebbelsian media manipulations of “Obama whisperer” Ben Rhodes, tries to clumsily tie the whole thing to the Russians. But for once it’s not about Russia. It’s about Islam. The UAE has become best known for being the first regional Muslim oil state to turn against the Muslim Brotherhood and the entire Arab Spring enterprise. It helped mobilize opposition to the Qatari agenda. The ultimate outcome of that effort was that Egypt was stabilized under a non-Islamist president and the Islamist takeover in Libya is looking rather shaky. The Saudi coalition against Qatar, the sugar daddies of Hamas, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, has its origins in that effort. When Obama Inc. spied on members of Congress before, it was to protect Iran. This time around, the gang that couldn’t spy straight was trying to protect the Muslim Brotherhood. The Iran Deal was never about stopping Iran’s nuclear program. It certainly does not do that. Nor was it ever meant to do it. Instead the real goal of the Iran negotiations was a diplomatic arrangement with the Islamic terror state. The fruits of that arrangement can be seen from Beirut to Baghdad. They are written in blood and steel across Syria, Israel and Yemen. And that arrangement had to be protected at all costs. Even if it meant spying on Americans. Even if it meant spying on members of Congress. The arrangement that Susan Rice was protecting by spying on top Trump officials was even older and dirtier. It goes back to Obama’s Cairo speech and the resulting bloody horrors of the Arab Spring. Both times Obama Inc. was caught spying on American officials to protect its dirty deal with Islam. Obama officials had spied on Americans to protect Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s more than a mere crime. It’s treason. Imagine if Watergate had been about the White House spying on Democrats for the KGB. That is the sheer full scope of what we appear to be dealing with here. Both high-level eavesdropping incidents involve an effort by Obama Inc. to protect Islamist enemies. These efforts checked all the right and wrong legal boxes. The orders were carried out by men and women who know all the loopholes. Each decision was compartmentalized across a network. There were always pretexts. And a media eager to fight for the right of the left to spy on the right. It is as unlikely that Susan Rice will be held accountable for pulling off a crime that makes Watergate into the gold standard of governmental ethics as it is that Hillary will ever go to jail for abusing classified information. The network, which some dub the swamp, has excelled at defending its own. That’s why current National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster protected Susan Rice’s access to classified information and nurtured all the Obama holdovers behind the leaks while purging those who tried to expose them. It is also why Susan Rice’s testimony did not leak until CNN was able to roll out its carefully packaged spin. Conservatives excel at zeroing in on abuses like Hillary’s email account, the Rice unmasking and the Benghazi cover-up, but falter when it comes to exposing the motives behind them. And so the investigation of the abuses quickly vanishes into a thorny thicket of alibis, technical legalities, cover-ups and licenses. And a baffled public reads about hearings that delve into acts rather than motives. It is vital that we understand not only what Rice did, but why she did it. It is important that we expose the pattern of misconduct, not just the individual act. Susan Rice’s eavesdropping would have remained hidden if Flynn and his appointees hadn’t temporarily obtained the keys to the kingdom. And the network quickly worked to have Flynn forced out and replaced with McMaster. And McMaster has steadily forced out Flynn’s appointees so that there are no more leaks like the one that exposed the Rice eavesdropping. The swamp looks after its own. Unless there are fundamental changes at the NSC and beyond, we will never know the full scope of the Obama eavesdropping operation. But we still do know a great deal about what motivated it. Susan Rice and the White House didn’t just eavesdrop on the political opposition. There was an agenda so urgent that they were willing to pull out all the stops to protect it. Even right down to committing what has become the ultimate crime in the White House. It was the same agenda that dragged us into a war in Libya. The same agenda that was at the heart of the diplomatic efforts of the administration over eight years. That agenda was empowering Islamists. The Obama edition of Watergate wasn’t committed merely for domestic political gain. It was carried out for a reason that was encompassed in his address to the United Nations after the Benghazi massacre. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” This foul slogan led to the first arrest of a filmmaker for political speech in almost a century. It led to the sordid betrayal of our national security and our allies. And to domestic espionage against Americans. The future must not belong on those who spy on Americans to protect Islamism.
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/09/did-susan-rice-spy-on-trump-officials-for-muslim-brotherhood/
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America's Slow-Motion Military Coup
by Tyler Durden Sep 18, 2017 11:05 PM Authored by Stephen Kinzer via The Boston Globe,
In a democracy, no one should be comforted to hear that generals have imposed discipline on an elected head of state. That was never supposed to happen in the United States. Now it has. Among the most enduring political images of the 20th century was the military junta. It was a group of grim-faced officers — usually three — who rose to control a state. The junta would tolerate civilian institutions that agreed to remain subservient, but in the end enforced its own will. As recently as a few decades ago, military juntas ruled important countries including Chile, Argentina, Turkey, and Greece. These days the junta system is making a comeback in, of all places, Washington. Ultimate power to shape American foreign and security policy has fallen into the hands of three military men: General James Mattis, the secretary of defense; General John Kelly, President Trump’s chief of staff; and General H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser. They do not put on their ribbons to review military parades or dispatch death squads to kill opponents, as members of old-style juntas did. Yet their emergence reflects a new stage in the erosion of our political norms and the militarization of our foreign policy. Another veil is dropping. Given the president’s ignorance of world affairs, the emergence of a military junta in Washington may seem like welcome relief. After all, its three members are mature adults with global experience — unlike Trump and some of the wacky political operatives who surrounded him when he moved into the White House. Already they have exerted a stabilizing influence. Mattis refuses to join the rush to bomb North Korea, Kelly has imposed a measure of order on the White House staff, and McMaster pointedly distanced himself from Trump’s praise for white nationalists after the violence in Charlottesville. Being ruled by generals seems preferable to the alternative. It isn’t. Military officers, like all of us, are products of their background and environment. The three members of Trump’s junta have 119 years of uniformed service between them. They naturally see the world from a military perspective and conceive military solutions to its problems. That leads toward a distorted set of national priorities, with military “needs” always rated more important than domestic ones. Trump has made clear that when he must make foreign policy choices, he will defer to “my generals.” Mattis, the new junta’s strongman, is the former head of Central Command, which directs American wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Kelly is also an Iraq veteran. McMaster has commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan almost without interruption since he led a tank company in the 1991 Gulf War. Military commanders are trained to fight wars, not to decide whether fighting makes strategic sense. They may be able to tell Trump how many troops are necessary to sustain our present mission in Afghanistan, for example, but they are not trained either to ask or answer the larger question of whether the mission serves America’s long-term interest. That is properly the job of diplomats. Unlike soldiers, whose job is to kill people and break things, diplomats are trained to negotiate, defuse conflicts, coolly assess national interest and design policies to advance it. Notwithstanding Mattis’s relative restraint on North Korea, all three members of Trump’s junta promote the confrontational approach that has brought protracted war in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond, while fueling tension in Europe and East Asia. Our new junta is different from classic ones like, for example, the “National Council for Peace and Order” that now rules Thailand. First, our junta’s interest is only international relations, not domestic policy. Second, it did not seize power in a coup, but derives its authority from the favor of an elected president. Third and most important, it main goal is not to impose a new order but to enforce an old one. Last month, President Trump faced a crucial decision about the future of America’s war in Afghanistan. This was a potential turning point. Four years ago Trump tweeted, “Let’s get out of Afghanistan.” If he had followed that impulse and announced that he was bringing American troops home, the political and military elite in Washington would have been stunned. But junta members swung into action. They persuaded Trump to announce that instead of withdrawing, he would do the opposite: reject “rapid exit” from Afghanistan, increase troop strength, and continue “killing terrorists.” It is no great surprise that Trump has been drawn into the foreign policy mainstream; the same happened to President Obama early in his presidency. More ominous is that Trump has turned much of his power over to generals. Worst of all, many Americans find this reassuring. They are so disgusted by the corruption and shortsightedness of our political class that they turn to soldiers as an alternative.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-18/americas-slow-motion-military-coup
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Soros Has Created the Battleground for America’s Second Civil War- Exclusive Report
This is a breaking and exclusive story that has not even made its way into Independent Media. California’s seismic activity centered around the San Andreas fault is no match for the tremendous upheaval that is going on inside the state. What is going on in California is a breeding ground and a prescription for violent revolution. And as you would expect, at the center of it all, is George Soros. A State with No Cohesion California is a state which is going through tremedous upheaval. There are competing forces which are fighting for the control of the 8th largest economy in the world. The political interests of California could not be more diverse. Economically, California is home to the greatest poverty in the nation as well as the greatest level of affluence. California’s political interests could not be more diverse. The political interests of the State Legislature would make Hitler and Mussolini blush with envy at the extreme liberalism and lack of personal libertiess. However, some of the most ardent conservatives live in one of America’s most affluent counties (Orange County). For 10 million of California’s diverse population, English is not the first language spoken. In short, the interests in California are so diverse that it is hard to believe that a violent revolution does not lie in the state’s future. The people in No. California have received no help and protection from their state government emanating from the ravages perpetrated upon the residents by the BLM and the EPA. Water compact and historical land use agreements have been frequently been violated by the Federal government to the extent that the residents and their elected representatives, mostly the County Commissioners, led a political rebellion to create their own state, the State of Jefferson. The movement was completely legal and followed the creation of the new proposed state through Article IV Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution which states: “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.” Thus, the legal and well-respected movement was born and was moving towards accomplishing the goal of statehood. However, George Soros, the United Nations and the globalists, as a whole had very different ideas. CALEXIT: The Planned Violent Overthrow of California According to Paul Preston, reports are circulating that numerous state legislators from California, including “California Senate pro tem Kevin de Leon), State representatives from Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Colorado have been meeting with members of La Raza, the Mexican government (consulate), Mexican Mafia (“La EME”), California’s violent Mexican gangs (Nortenos /Sureños/ Sur 13), La Familia () and religious leaders (Catholic / Jesuits) to come up with a plan to separate from the United States as well as the above mentioned states”. Governor Brown, his aides, and the Bank of China have been in attendance in several of these meetings designed to sever California from the US. Further, The Common Sense Show has learned, independent of Paul Preston, that George Soros is bankrolling some of the costs associated with this movement. In addition to Soros, the United Nations and the Chinese government have had representatives at the CALEXIT meetings. Two Japanese Generals had an all day beheading contest. The ring leader was Sasakawa. Most shockingly, members of the Sasakawa Japanese crime family are in cahoots with Gov. Brown’s efforts to become El Presidente of California. By the way, the Sasakawa crime family is named after the one and only Sasakawa who engineered the brutal “Rape of Nanking”. After the war Sasakawa was not executed because he had money and could used as an asset. The Sasakawa crime family came to run Mitsubishi. In addition, subsequent meetings revealed that the Bank of China is helping to bankroll this movement in conjunction with George Soros. I want to emphasize that the Obama administration had representatives in the same room as these organized criminals. This is treason of the highest order. Today, former Attorney General, Eric Holder, is leading the movement. In addition to the criminal cabal elements already mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, MS-13 has entered into this equation. Based upon information that I received from Border Patrol and DEA personnel, obtained in the summer of 2014, I learned that MS-13 was being captured by the Border Patrol and then ordered released by DHS. This is significant because MS-13, as I reported 38 months ago plays the role of political assassins for the cartels in Mexico in which they carry out hits on law enforcement, political leaders, members of the media and their respective family members. Their presence guarantees the same behaviors in California and perhaps beyond for any and all opposition to this unholy alliance. On a related note, I recently interviewed Congressman Paul Gosar (9/17/17) on The Common Sense Show, and he expressed grave concern about the role that MS-13 is playing and will play in our country. What If CALEXIT Is Not Successful: An Insider Eyewitness Speaks Out In addition to what Paul Preston revealed as to the brains behind the Calexit movement, he revealed that he has a man on the inside, let’s call him “Mike”, as Paul Preston calls him. “Mike” not only reported on the attendees of these Calexit meetings, this insider reports CONFIRMED the Obama administration had three members in attendance and the administration is in support of this movement. Again, this point cannot emphasized too strongly. : Mike” also said that plans to start killing white people were discussed amongst the gangsters in attendance should CALEXIT falter. Need I point out that this man’s life would be in grave danger if it were discovered that he was a plant and reporting to the Independent Media? Therefore, his identity will never be released. The La Raza movement seems to be at the core of this movement. However, the original movement has morphed in its scope and implementation. Brief History of Reconquista Atzlan There is no legal mechanism in which a state can legally withdraw from the United States. I have written about this before as this plan to leave the United States is known in Mexico as the Reconquista movement meaning to reconquer what was forfeited from Mexico following the Mexican American war in the mid-19th century in which the United States purchased land from the defeated Mexico. La Raza and its first cousin MECHA espouse Trotsky’s principles for overthrowing all 8 state governments involved the taking of what once was Mexican land. The Reconquista movement is so controversial (i.e. the announced intention to expel all Whites from an 8 state area), that the plan has temporarily been reduced and morphed into a plan called Calexit, which used to be referred to at one-time as “YES, CALIFORNIA!” The Reconquista Movement once looked like this on paper: Today, these covert meetings indicate that the plan has been reduced to just California and the radicalized La Raza has taken a backseat, publicly, but has been instrumental in bringing together the criminal elements of this unholy organization. I think it likely that California is only a starting point and that this movement is going to spread far and wide. Look at the membership attendees, the state officials are from several states, not just California. This is a safe conclusion to make. For the reader’s convenience, I included the radio interview with Paul Preston. I have conducted many interesting and sometimes shocking interviews in the nearly 10 years I have been doing radio as the host of The Common Sense Show. However, I must say that I am stunned by the totality of the criminal element that is participating in the breakup of California and how that criminal element is partnering with elected officials, both federal and state, as they conspire to commit treason against the United States, as well as California. If one thinks that these assertions are far-fetched, please watch the brief interview recently conducted by Tucker Carlson of Fox News with a spokesperson of Calexit: As I look at these unfolding facts, I shake my head in amazement as it would be impossible make this information up because of its totally bizarre nature. The following video is the interview contains some details that was not included in this article and is provided as contextual background material and verfication for many of the claims made in this article. . Also at these meetings were the representative of George Soros. The ultimate plan for CALEXIT is to become its own country, but only as a protectorate of the United Nations. At my latest count, there are 23 movements for various states to withdraw from the country and George Soros has his fingerprints on all of them. It is clear that Soros is planning to destroy the United States from within through this movement. CALEXIT even has gone so far as to open an embassy in Moscow. Still Skeptical? Press conference announcing the formation of the CALEXIT embassy in Russia. Courtesy of Russia Today On December 15, 2016, Paul Preston told me that CALEXIT had opened an embassy in Russia. On December 18, 2016, Russia Today published the following: “A campaign calling for the independence of California from the United States has opened an “embassy” in Moscow. The movement, Yes California, is hoping for a “Calexit” break from the US. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Louis Marinelli, leader of the movement, said the embassy will not deal with diplomatic issues, but will act as more of a cultural center that will educate Russians about California’s history, boost trade ties and promote tourism.” In case you are keeping score, Governnor Jerry Brown is in full support of this movement. This movement is illegal and the participants are guilty of Treason and Sedition because Article 4 Section 3 of the Constitution does not permit the withdrawal of state from the country. The CALEXIT and the State of Jefferson Movement Are Incompatible CALEXIT cannot succeed f the State of JEfferson movement goes forward. Enter George Soros. How does George Soros deal with opposition? His history says he takes it over and destroys the opposiition from the inside. And this is exactly what Soros did to the Jefferson movement. In case one has been in a coma for the past several years, it is well-known that Soros and Moveon.org are one in the same. Meckler is a leader and strong proponent of the law suit being promoted by the second group. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. The above picture is of Mark Meckler and Moveon.org founder and leader, Joan Blades. Gotcha! As they say in the infomercial business, there is more. According to some I have spoken with in the area, Chuck Beretz is a staunch advocate for the CALEXIT movement. Below, Berets, takes the damning photo of Meckler and Blades and praises their alliances (ie “building bridges). Please note the CALEXIT reference in Beretz’s link in the tweet. As a result, Soros confiscated the Jefferson movement. The movement promptly launched a law suit that was totally irrelevant to the movement. The obvious purpose was to drain the resources of the movement so it would die. And die it has. I spoke with Paul Preston by phone on 9/18/17 and he stated that the Jefferson movement was dead. The Soros takeover of the Jefferson movement has been vehemently denied. However, the evidence is omnipresent. Mark Meckler, one of the founders of the Tea Party joins Geroge Soros operative Joan Blades of MoveOn.org for a “Living Room Conversation” on January 12, 2017 in Berkeley, Calif. Blades hosted the talk, which sought to bring representatives from both sides of the spectrum to seek common ground on issues. According to the article Meckler and Blades “have been talking online and over the phone for a few years now. Quietly, until now. ”Meckler is the front man for radio talk show host Mark Levin’s “convention of states” movement according the Paul Preston The meeting was revealed in a ‘tweet’ from ‘CalExit’ activist Chuck Beretz. Cal Exit is the George Soros sponsored movement to have California become it’s own nation. Here is one of the CALEXIT and “Kill the Jefferson movement” which has destroyed the statehood dreams of the proposed 51st state. Joe Garoli, on January 17, 2017, in an article appearing in SFGATE, made the same claims. So, is the Jefferson movement dead? It would appear so, as the Soros operatives have succeeded in destroying the Jefferson movement. Is California going to be the first of several states that will withdraw from the country, thus, leading to the demise of the United States? Not exactly. Paul Preston and his colleagues have resurrected the movement and have named it New California. Paul will be my guest on The Common Sense Show, on Octoober 1st, to discuss these developments in detai. New California The proposed map of New California can be found at the top of this article. New California is a new state in development exercising it’s Constitutional Right to form from the State of California. The process to form New California is authorized and codified in Article IV Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution in the same manner as the State of Jefferson. The movement has attracted monied interests as well as the suppot of 40 out of the 58 counties in California. Ne California has released the following demographic report: “Demographic Estimates 2016 Populations New California 15 Million California 45 Million New California will be the 6th largest State behind New York (bigger than Illinois and Penn), It’s Estimated 25-27 seats in the US House of Representatives will go to New California Old California will become the 2nd most populous state behind Texas and ahead of Florida, losing 25-27 seats in the US House of Representatives The 5 Southern New California counties have a population of just over 11 million If they were to break away they would be a state the size of Ohio, probably larger as some other counties might join.” Conclusion George Soros, for the moment has been defeated. his plan is being met and the people of California have new life. the attempted break-up of the United States is in jeopardy if New California is successful. However, this will not be the end of this story. Soros and the globalists will throw everything into defeating this newsest movement for independence. The biggest false flag in out nation’s history is set to happen and it would make an excellent backdrop string of hurricans which have struck major metro areas and a new line of storms is set to take place as well. However, the centerpiece for geoengineering will take place in Northern California, as this would stop the New California movement in its tracks. This will be the topic of discussion in Part Two of this series.
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Caribbean islands shattered by Irma brace for another battering and begin evacuations as Hurricane Maria intensifies into a 'catastrophic' Category 5
Hurricane Maria strengthened from a Category 1 storm to Category 5 on Monday
It's expected to make its first landfall tonight in the Leeward Islands
Forecasters say it could get even stronger and become a Category 5 as it enters the warm waters of the eastern Caribbean
Many of the islands in Maria's path are just beginning to recover from the battering of Hurricane Irma
Puerto Rico is expected to take a direct hit, after losing power to most of the island due to a mere brush with Irma earlier this month
It's still too early to tell if Maria poses any threat to the U.S. mainland
By Associated Press Published: 00:04 EDT, 18 September 2017 | Updated: 23:40 EDT, 18 September 2017
Hurricane Maria grew into a Category 5 storm on Monday as it barreled toward a potentially devastating collision with islands in the eastern Caribbean just beginning to recover from Hurricane Irma. Forecasters warned it was likely to grow even stronger as it entered warmer waters. It's still too early to know whether Maria poses any threat to the U.S. Currently though, the storm is on a path that will take it near many of the islands already wrecked by Hurricane Irma and then on toward Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Maria could hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday, said Ernesto Morales with the U.S. National Weather Service in San Juan. 'This storm promises to be catastrophic for our island,' he said. 'All of Puerto Rico will experience hurricane force winds.' The U.S. territory on Monday imposed rationing of basic supplies including water, milk, baby formula, canned foods, batteries, flashlights and other items. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Maria had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph Monday afternoon, and called the storm 'extremely dangerous'. The eye of the storm is expected to pass near the island of Dominica on Monday evening. At 5pm ET, the storm was centered about 45 miles east-southeast of Dominica. Hurricane warnings were posted for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Martinique and St. Lucia. A tropical storm warning was issued for Antigua and Barbuda, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten and Anguilla. Forecasters said hurricane conditions should begin to affect parts of the Leeward Islands by late Monday, with storm surge raising water levels by 6 to 9 feet near the storm's center. The storm was predicted to bring 6 to 12 inches of rain across the islands, with more in isolated areas. Officials in Dominica closed schools and government offices on Monday and urged people to evacuate and seek shelters. 'We should not take this storm lightly,' said Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. 'Let us continue to pray for our safety.' Officials in Guadeloupe said the French Caribbean island would experience extremely heavy flooding starting Monday afternoon, and they warned that many communities would be submerged overnight. In nearby Martinique, authorities ordered people to remain indoors and said they should be prepared for power cuts and disruption in the water supply. All schools and non-essential public services were closed. On Wednesday, Maria was expected to be near or over Puerto Rico, which was spared the full brunt of Irma, although much of the island had its power knocked out. Nearly 70,000 people remain without power, and Gov. Ricardo Rossello on Monday warned of another widespread outage. 'We have an extremely weak infrastructure that has already been hit by one storm,' he said. 'This is going to be a catastrophic event.' Forecasters said the storm would dump up to 18 inches of rain across Puerto Rico and whip the U.S. territory with heavy winds for 12 to 24 hours. Officials said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ready to bring drinking water and help restore power in Puerto Rico immediately after the storm. Rossello said officials had prepared about 450 shelters with a capacity for nearly 68,000 people - or even 125,000 in an emergency. There are still nearly 200 people in shelters from Hurricane Irma. Schools were cancelled for Monday and government employees would work only a half day. Officials in the Dominican Republic urged people to leave areas prone to flooding and said fishermen should remain in port. Farther north, long-lived Hurricane Jose continued to head northward off the U.S. East Coast, causing dangerous surf and rip currents. It wasn't expected to make landfall but tropical storm watches were posted along the coast from Delaware to Massachusetts' Cape Cod. Jose was centered about 265 miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and was moving north at 9 mph. It had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. The ocean washed over parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks as Hurricane Jose passed well to the east, and five people were knocked off a coastal jetty in Rhode Island by high surf caused by the storm. Officials said rescuers had to fight through rough surf to load the injured onto stretchers and get them to shore. All five were taken to a hospital with minor and major injuries. In the Pacific, Tropical Storm Norma's threat to Mexico's Los Cabos resort area at the southern end of the Baja California Peninsula seemed to ease as forecasters said the storm's center was likely to remain offshore. Norma had winds of about 50 mph and it was centered about 175 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas. The Baja California Sur state government prepared storm shelters and canceled classes for Monday. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lee weakened into a tropical depression far out in the Atlantic while Hurricane Otis weakened far out in the Pacific. Neither threatened land.
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Hurricane Maria's first victim: One dead and two missing on Guadeloupe after Category 5 storm roared past the island with 160-mph winds - and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are next
One person is dead and two missing on the island of Guadeloupe after Hurricane Maria passed by the island on Tuesday
Maria made its first landfall Tuesday morning on the island of Dominica
Communications have been knocked out but there are reports of 'widespread devastation'
Meanwhile, residents in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are bracing for a direct hit
Forecasters say Maria will make landfall in the early hours of Wednesday on the southwestern tip of St. Croix
The eye will then hit the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico a few hours later
'This is going to be a catastrophic event,' Puerto Rico Gov Ricardo Rossello warned
Experts say Maria's eye is getting smaller - so it's becoming more powerful
There have been twice as many storms with twice as much power as usual so far this year
And there haven't been this many Category 3 and above storms in seven years
By Jake Wallis Simons, Associate Global Editor, In Antigua, Caribbean and Julian Robinson for MailOnline and Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com Published: 02:48 EDT, 19 September 2017 | Updated: 20:24 EDT, 19 September 2017
Hurricane Maria has claimed its first victim. Officials say one person died on Guadeloupe after being hit by a falling tree when the Category 5 storm hit the French Caribbean island overnight. Authorities say the person did not comply with orders to remain indoors on Tuesday morning. They say two other people are reported missing after their boat sank off La Desirade island, just east of Guadeloupe. About 40 percent of the island is without power. That's 80,000 homes. Flooding has been reported in several communities, especially along the southern coast. Officials say Les Saintes, Marie-Galant, Petit-Bourg and La Desirade have been the hardest hit. Roads are littered with fallen branches and trees but only limited infrastructure damage has been reported. But the damage there is likely not as bad as Dominica, which suffered a direct hit. Communications to the island were wiped out in the storm, so the extent of the damages - including any casualties - are still unclear. Meanwhile, Americans in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are preparing for direct hits on Wednesday. Hurricane Maria's track shifted slightly on Tuesday, putting the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands in its direct path. U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp said Tuesday that the eye is now expected to pass over the southwestern tip of St. Criox early Wednesday morning, on its way to Puerto Rico. The Virgin Islands are already reeling from Hurricane Irma, which passed over the islands of St. Thomas and St. John earlier this month. Maria is expected to bring up to 12 inches of rain to St. John. Meanwhile, Puerto Ricans are bracing for their first direct hit from a Category 4 or stronger hurricane in 85 years. Puerto Ricians have been told to 'evacuate or die' after Maria laid waste to the island of Dominica overnight. The Category 5 hurricane is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning, but conditions will start deteriorating as early as Tuesday at noon. Islanders have been warned to find shelter immediately, with the howling 160mph winds expected to 'devastate' the U.S. island territory, much of which is still without power after a brush with Hurricane Irma earlier this month. Frantic attempts are also being made to prepare for the monster storm before it slams into the British Virgin Islands, where a curfew has been put in place as rescuers battle to clear the damage already caused by Hurricane Irma. It comes as experts revealed Maria has developed a dangerous 'pinhole eye' producing a more compact center and intensifying its power. It's still too soon to know whether it poses any threat to the mainland U.S. Overnight, the storm caused chaos on Dominica and destroyed the house of prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit who had to be rescued. The 44-year-old, who has led the country since 2004, said he had been at the 'complete mercy of the hurricane' before making it to safety. But he later warned the island of 72,000 people has lost 'all that money can buy', adding on Facebook: 'My greatest fear for the morning is that we will wake to news of serious physical injury and possible deaths as a result of likely landslides triggered by persistent rains.' Unconfirmed reports have suggested that Dominica's main hospital has had its roof torn off, leaving patients vulnerable to the hurricane and local residents without access to medical care. Power has gone down across the majority of Dominica. The DBS radio station has stopped broadcasting on the island after reports that the building had been smashed by falling objects in 160mph winds. Fierce winds and driving rain lashed mountainous Dominica for hours late Monday night. Its winds reached sustained maximum speeds of 160mph as it plowed into the tiny country - and forecasters warned it might become even stronger, the latest blow in the worst hurricane season for seven years. A police official on the island, Inspector Pellam Jno Baptiste, said late Monday night that there were no immediate reports of casualties but it was too dangerous for officers to do a full assessment as the storm raged outside. 'Where we are, we can't move,' he said in a brief phone interview late Monday night while hunkered down against the region's second Category 5 hurricane this month. On the nearby island of Guadeloupe, footage showed ferocious tree-bending winds whipping through deserted streets and shaking lamp posts when the storm first hit. Meanwhile, the damage appeared to be minimal on the French island of Martinique, after Maria roared past the island on Tuesday. About 25,000 households lost electricity and two small towns are without potable water. The head of French civil security, Jacques Witkowski, told reporters in Paris on Tuesday that it was too soon to say whether the French department of Guadaloupe was so lucky. Communications there have been difficult. He says at least two people suffered minor injuries. The prefect, or highest French official, of Guadaloupe, Eric Maire, said in a video via Twitter that some roads and homes were flooded and heavy rain is expected to continue. He told island residents to 'remain inside' amid the flood threat and warnings by forecasters of possible landslides. France is upping its manpower in the region, with two flights taking off on Tuesday, the first carrying 160 firefighters and military personnel to Martinique. Maria weakened briefly before dawn Tuesday to a still major Category 4 storm after its rampage over Dominica. But the fluctuation in intensity proved short-lived as a hurricane hunter plane reported the storm had regained its fearsome Category 5 status within hours. Meanwhile, emergency steps are being undertaken on the British Virgin Islands to prepare for the looming onslaught, although an official co-ordinating the operation has warned the islands had been 'weakened' by Irma and the situation 'doesn't look good'. A curfew is in place and the governor Gus Jaspert warned of a race against time to clear up Irma debris to stop it becoming 'missiles' when Maria hits. Another British overseas territory, Montserrat, has been issued with a hurricane warning amid fears Maria could bring a devastating storm surge, while torrential rain could trigger deadly flash floods. The Foreign Office is warning against travelling to the BVI, Monterrat, Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands. UK International Development Secretary Priti Patel said the Government is under no illusion about the possible impact of the strengthening hurricane and said they were taking steps to prepare communities. In just a 27-hour span between Sunday and Monday, Maria strengthened from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5 hurricane. When it hit Dominica, it weakened to a Category 4, but only for a brief period before returning to top strength. Fluctuations in intensity were expected, and forecasters have warned Maria would likely intensify over the next 24 hours or longer, noting its eye had shrunk to a compact 10 miles across and warning: 'Maria is developing the dreaded pinhole eye.' That generally means an extremely strong hurricane will get even mightier, said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami. He said it just like when a spinning ice skater brings in their arms and rotates faster. 'You just don't see those in weaker hurricanes,' he said. The storm's hurricane-force winds extended out about 35 miles and tropical storm-force winds out as far as 125 miles. That means that those in the line of Maria's path will start feeling the effects of the storm hours before it hits. Hurricane warnings were posted for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat. A tropical storm warning was issued for Martinique, Antigua and Barbuda, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Anguilla. Forecasters said storm surge could raise water levels by 6 to 9 feet near the storm's center. The storm was predicted to bring 10 to 15 inches of rain across the islands, with more in isolated areas. The current forecast track would carry it about 22 miles south of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands late Tuesday and early Wednesday, territorial Gov. Kenneth Mapp said. 'We are going to have a very, very long night,' Mapp said as he urged people in the territory to finish any preparations. St. Thomas and St. John are still stunned from a direct hit by Hurricane Irma, which did extensive damage and caused four deaths on the two islands. Barry University said it chartered a private plane to carry students and staff from its St. Croix facility to Florida in preparation for Maria. It said 72 people connected to the Barry's Physician Assistant Program and a few pets were on Monday's evacuation flight. Authorities in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico warned that people in wooden or flimsy homes should find safe shelter before the storm's expected arrival there on Wednesday. 'You have to evacuate. Otherwise, you're going to die,' said Hector Pesquera, the island's public safety commissioner. 'I don't know how to make this any clearer.' Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Puerto Rico had 500 shelters capable of taking in up to 133,000 people in a worst-case scenario. He also said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ready to bring drinking water and help restore power immediately after the storm, which could hit as a Category 5 hurricane. Puerto Rico is expected to take a direct hit from Maria, which will likely devastate the island. Some 70,000 people there still without power because of Irma, which merely brushed the island, and 200 are still in shelters. Rosselló warned the hurricane will have a much greater impact than Irma. 'It will essentially devastate most of the island,' he told USA Today adding: 'It will provoke massive flooding in flooding prone regions ... our priority is to save lives.' The U.S. territory on Monday imposed rationing of basic supplies including water, milk, baby formula, canned foods, batteries, flashlights and other items. Roberto Garcia, with the National Weather Service in San Juan, said: 'That is catastrophic in every way. People have to act, and they have to act now. They can no longer wait for a miracle.' Guadeloupe, the French island near Dominica, has already experienced heavy flooding amid warnings many communities could be submerged. On Dominica, Skerrit used Facebook to update islanders through the night, writing: 'Certainly no sleep for anyone in Dominica. I believe my residence may have sustained some damage,' he wrote at first. But he then added: 'We do not know what is happening outside. We do not dare look out. All we hear is the sound of galvanise (galvanised iron roofing) flying. The sound of the fury of the wind. As we pray for its end!' An hour later, the Prime Minister posted dramatically: 'Rough! Rough! Rough!' He then added, 'my roof is gone. I am at the complete mercy of the hurricane. House is flooding.' As Dominican citizens and others around the world looked on, a few minutes later he concluded: 'I have been rescued,' before explaining that the loss of his roof 'triggered an avalanche of torn away roofs in the city and the countryside'. The Prime Minister then appealed to 'friendly nations and organizations with helicopter services' for help. In referring to the galvanized iron roofs, Mr Skerrit was identifying one of the worst hazards in a long list of dangers facing islanders. Flung into the air by hurricane-force winds, the tin sheeting becomes in effect flying blades. A woman from the island of Barbuda, told MailOnline last night that she had seen a horse cut in half by a sheet of the roofing when the island was flattened by Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Maria started as a tropical storm last week but quickly gained power as it approached the Caribbean islands. In just a 27 hour period between Sunday and Monday, it was upgraded from a Category 1 to a Category 5 - just in time to make landfall on Dominica, a mountainous island prone to landslides in heavy rains. Dominica last suffered serious weather damage during Tropical Storm Erica in 2015, which dumped 33-inches of rain, triggering widespread mudslides. The entire town of Petite Savanne had to be evacuated and 30 people were killed. It is thought that Dominica has not seen such severe weather since Hurricane David, a Category Five storm, killed more than 2,000 people on the island in 1979. In 1930, Hurricane San Zenon also left thousands of Dominicans dead. Heavy wind and rain continues to lash a number of islands in the Caribbean, with particular fears for Guadeloupe and Puerto Rico as well as Dominica. Barbuda and St Martin, both of which suffered the brunt of Hurricane Irma and were almost totally destroyed, are also suffering the onslaught of Maria tonight. Even though they do not lie directly in the path of the storm, the mountains of debris lying in the streets and the thousands of ruined buildings on the islands make the level of danger severe. Barbuda is understood to have been entirely evacuated yesterday for the first time in about 300 years, with many residents taken to nearby Antigua. The island is now guarded by Royal Marines. Meanwhile, Jose remained a Category 1 hurricane in the Atlantic as it churned up dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast. It was about 350 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and had top sustained winds of 75 mph. The ocean washed over parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks as Hurricane Jose passed well to the east, and five people were knocked off a coastal jetty in Rhode Island by high surf caused by the storm. Officials said rescuers had to fight through rough surf to load the injured onto stretchers and get them to shore. All five were taken to a hospital with minor and major injuries. In the Pacific, Tropical Storm Norma's threat to Mexico's Los Cabos resort area at the southern end of the Baja California Peninsula seemed to ease as forecasters said the storm's center was likely to remain offshore. Norma had winds of about 50 mph and it was centered about 175 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas. The Baja California Sur state government prepared storm shelters and canceled classes for Monday. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lee weakened into a tropical depression far out in the Atlantic while Hurricane Otis weakened far out in the Pacific. Neither threatened land. All of this makes this year's hurricane season the worst in years by any number of standards, USA Today reported. For a start, it's the first year since 2010 that four hurricanes in Category 3 or above had been spotted by September 18. In total, seven hurricanes have formed this year - that's double the number that would usually accumulate by this point, said Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach. The energy generated by the storms - known as Accumulated Cyclone Energy - is also double the usual amount. In fact, it hasn't been this high since 2005 - the year that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Another double: So far this year hurricanes have been circulating in the Atlantic for 30 days thus far. Usually 15 days is the average. That's the highest figure since 2004. It's been a shocking - and dangerous - year from a U.S. perspective, too. Never before in recorded hurricane history - a full 166 years - have two Category 4 hurricanes hit the U.S. But this year both Harvey and Irma struck various States.
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Gingrich: NKorea Poses 'Greatest Danger of Nuclear War'
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Monday, 18 Sep 2017 11:31 AM
President Donald Trump must stress the dangers of North Korea and urge the countries of the United Nations to come together against its threat, as the country and its leadership pose the "greatest danger of nuclear war that we have seen, not just since the Cold War," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday. "I think it's a greater danger than the Cuban Missile Crisis or other events during the Cold War," Gingrich told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "There's a very real danger here that we're going to somehow end up in a nuclear exchange that will kill an enormous number of people." Further, he said, "all the elements of the planet," including Russia and China, will have to be involved in convincing North Korea to "step down and limit their ambitions." China, in particular, has to cut off North Korea economically, said Gingrich, but there are "a lot of games being played" by many parties. "The North Korean economy continues to be financed by Russia and China, and I think those two countries have to understand they are risking a real war on their border if they allow this to continue," said Gingrich. "The United States is not going to tolerate a dictatorship with ICBMs with hydrogen warheads that could eliminate American cities ... no president could responsibly take the risk of somebody like Kim Jong Un, literally wiping out Seattle or Chicago or Los Angeles." Trump will have other powerful messages when he speaks to the United Nations' General Assembly on Tuesday, said Gingrich, including about his vision of sovereignty, and the United States as a unique nation. "He expects everybody else also to be unique nations," said Gingrich. "I think somebody who cuts through all the globalism and reasserts the legitimacy of national sovereignty is a very important step for the UN." Secondly, the UN must reform itself, said Gingrich, as "there are too many ways in which it is incompetent and inefficient and some ways dishonest." The United States, meanwhile, has been the "most generous country," and it is reasonable for Trump to say to the world that it must do its fair share, said Gingrich. "We accept more illegal immigrants," said the former speaker. "We have put tens of billions of dollars into foreign aid, we put tens of billions of dollars in humanitarian aid trying to follow up after tsunamis and earthquakes. So I think it is reasonable to say to the world you have to do your fair share too." The United States also should look seriously at its entire relationship with the UN, and decide if it should form "some kind of organization of democracies," said Gingrich. In the UN, he continued, "you have the United States getting outvoted by disasters like Venezuela or other countries that are crashing, dictatorships like [Vladimir] Putin's government, which has been assassinating people. One of the uncovered stories of the last three or four years is how many people the Russians have assassinated, and we pretend that they're morally equal. Well, they're not."
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North Korea fuel prices soar after U.N. sanctions capping supply
September 17, 2017 / 11:46 PM / a day ago
(Reuters) - Gasoline and diesel prices rose sharply in North Korea after its sixth nuclear test and as the U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions capping fuel supply, market data analyzed by Reuters on Monday showed. The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on Sept. 11 banning exports of condensates and natural gas liquids to the North and capping the annual supply of refined petroleum products at two million barrels and crude at its current levels. The price of gasoline sold by private dealers in the capital Pyongyang and northern border cities of Sinuiju and Hyesan spiked to $2.51 per kg as of Sept. 13, up 45.1 percent from $1.73 per kg on Sept. 5, according to Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Daily NK website. The website is run by North Korean defectors who collect prices via phone calls with traders in the North. Diesel prices also surged 61.5 percent from $1.30 per kg to $2.10 per kg during the same period. Lee Sang-yong, who speaks regularly to sources inside the North and supervises market data from them, said the price hikes were caused primarily by a cut in supplies as the regime scrambles to hoard fuel, wary of a potential fuel crunch. “North Korean authorities are likely to have intentionally reduced supplies in the market after the nuclear test, thinking the U.N. Security Council sanctions would affect their own repository,” Lee said. “In addition, astute traders are cutting their supplies on the expectations that the prices would go up further, while there’s some psychological effect among ordinary citizens who worry about war.” U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday the Security Council has run out of options on containing the North’s nuclear programmer and Washington may have to turn the matter over to the Defense Department. North Korea launched a missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday in defiance of the new Security Council. White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said on Friday, after the latest North Korean missile launch, that the United States was running out of patience: “We’ve been kicking the can down the road, and we’re out of road.” The latest gasoline price represents a 70.7 percent and 153.5 percent surge compared with statistics posted on June 8 and Dec. 1, respectively, less than one week after the Security Council adopted its last two resolutions on North Korea. North Korea gets most of its fuel from China and some from Russia. U.S. and South Korean officials have said the North imports some 4.5 million barrels of refined petroleum products and two million barrels of crude oil each year. Editing by Jack Kim; Editing by Michael Perry
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Iranian official: We have the 'father of all bombs'
Elad Benari, 18/09/17 05:18
Senior Iranian military official says Iran produced a domestically-made bomb with a high destructive power. A senior official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed over the weekend that Iran is in possession of what he described as the “father of all bombs”. According to the official, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Iran has produced a domestically-made 10-ton bomb with a high destructive power. "Following a proposal by the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Iran’s Defense Industries Organization manufactured a 10-ton bomb; these bombs are at our disposal and can be launched from Ilyushin aircraft and they are highly destructive,” Hajizadeh said, according to a report in the semiofficial Fars news agency. The commander pointed to the ordnance as Iran’s “father of all bombs” as compared with the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), also known as the "mother of all bombs," which the U.S. Air Force dropped on Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Afghanistan in April. Hajizadeh also claimed that in recent years, the IRGC has penetrated into U.S. military command centers and has evidence of their support for ISIS terrorists. "We have documents showing the behavior of the Americans in Iraq and Syria; we know what the Americans did there; what they neglected and how they supported Daesh,” Hajizadeh said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. He claimed that if the IRGC is allowed to release those documents, it would bring about more "scandals" for the U.S. It is difficult to determine whether Hajizadeh’s claims are true, but Iran often boasts of its military accomplishments. Earlier this year, the Islamic Republic claimed to have unveiled a domestically manufactured tank which “has the capability to fire missiles and precisely guide them." Previously, Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed it had successfully tested a Hormuz 2-type ballistic missile.
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Category 5 Hurricane Maria batters at Dominica in Caribbean
A MONSTER storm has battered a group of tiny islands with some seriously strong winds. This is the result.
Matt Young and AP, AFP news.com.auSeptember 19, 20178:23pm
WHEN it comes to Mother Nature, she knows no bounds. As Hurricane Maria intensified into a dangerous Category 5 storm and pounded the little island of Dominica, its prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, found himself in the eye of the beast’s path. Hurricane Maria battered the Caribbean, with prime minister Skerrit describing the scene as “widespread devastation” and predicting potentially grave losses and mass destruction as winds and rain from the Category Five storm barrelled into territories still reeling from Irma. “So far we have lost all what money can buy and replace,” he wrote. With residents fleeing homes Maria made landfall with top winds swirling at 257 kilometres per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. It briefly weakened to a Category 4 storm described as “extremely dangerous” before being upgraded to Category 5 again. The hurricane has surged into the eastern Caribbean and forecasters warn it might become even stronger as it swallowed tiny island nations within its stormy grip. Dangerous storm surges, destructive waves, flash floods and mudslides also threaten the Leeward Islands — the island group that includes Martinique, Puerto Rico and the US and British Virgin Islands — the NHC said. With Puerto Rico appearing destined for a hit, officials in the US territory warned residents of wooden or otherwise flimsy homes to find safe shelter. “You have to evacuate. Otherwise you’re going to die,” said Hector Pesquera, Puerto Rico’s public safety commissioner. “I don’t know how to make this any clearer.” The eye has passed across the centre of Dominica in shocking tweets that show the island nation almost completely out sight. “Where we are, we can’t move,” Inspector Pellam Jno Baptiste told The Guardian. Hurricane Maria made landfall on Dominica as a maximum-strength Category Five storm bearing down on eastern Caribbean islands still reeling from Irma, US forecasters said. As Maria surged forward, she almost took prime minister Skerrit with her. Earlier, the PM posted on his official page that his “roof is gone” and that he is “at the complete mercy of the hurricane”. In his latest update, he revealed how his roof caused an “avalanche” of damage and asked help for his “So, far the winds have swept away the roofs of almost every person I have spoken to or otherwise made contact with. “The roof to my own official residence was among the first to go and this apparently triggered an avalanche of torn away roofs in the city and the countryside.” The NHC earlier warned that “preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion” as the eye of the storm approached Dominica. Hurricane warnings were posted for the US and British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat. A tropical storm warning was issued for Antigua and Barbuda, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Martinique and Anguilla. The storm’s hurricane-force winds extended about 35 kilometres from the eye, and tropical storm-force winds as far as 205 kilometres. Forecasters said storm surge could raise water levels by 1.8 to 2.7m near Maria’s centre. The storm was predicted to bring 25 to 38 centimetres of rain for some islands, with the possibility of higher amounts in isolated spots. The current forecast track would carry it about 35 kilometres south of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands late Tuesday and early Wednesday, territorial Gov. Kenneth Mapp said. “We are going to have a very, very long night,” Mapp said as he urged people in the territory to finish any preparations.
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Putin watches as Russia intensifies war games that have rattled West
Andrew Osborn
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin observed Russia’s biggest war games in years on Monday, watching as his forces successfully repelled an imaginary enemy and launched a tank-led counter offensive, part of an exercise that has rattled the West. NATO officials say they are monitoring the “Zapad-2017” (“West-2017”) war games with “calm and confidence”, but many are unnerved about what they see as Moscow testing its ability to wage war against the West. Russia says the exercise is rehearsing a purely defensive scenario. Putin, commander-in-chief of Russia’s armed forces, sat in a command center flanked by his defense minister and the chief of his General Staff, and used binoculars to peer through a cold drizzle at the simulated conflict unfolding before his eyes. The Russian leader has appeared at similar events in the past, sometimes donning a military uniform, and uses them to bolster his image among Russians as a robust defender of the country’s interests on the world stage. This time, the 64-year-old president, who is widely expected to run for re-election in March, wore a dark suit and looked relaxed as the firing range in front of him, in the Leningrad region, was briefly transformed into a war zone. Tracer bullets lit up the murky skyline, battle tanks churned across muddy terrain, shells exploded, helicopters fired missiles, planes roared overhead and hundreds of paratroopers and armored vehicles were dropped from the skies. The paratroopers, inserted behind the lines of their imaginary enemy, then waged war against what the defense ministry called “illegal armed formations.” The over-arching Zapad war games, which began on Sept. 14 and run to Sept. 20, are taking place in western Russia, Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad, and Belarus, a Russian ally which borders Ukraine as well as NATO member states Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. Moscow says almost 13,000 Russian and Belarussian service personnel are taking part, as well as around 70 planes and helicopters. It says almost 700 pieces of military hardware are being deployed, including almost 250 tanks, 10 ships and various artillery and rocket systems. NATO officials have said they believe the exercises involve more troops than Moscow has disclosed, however, and have complained about what they say is the lack of transparency about the exercise, an allegation Russia rejects. As part of the same drills, Russia on Monday said it had successfully test fired a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, hitting a target at a firing range in Kazakhstan about 480 km (300 miles) away. Moscow says it is the West that threatens stability in eastern Europe because NATO has put a 4,000-strong multinational force in the Baltics and Poland, while the U.S. Army has deployed 600 paratroopers to the Baltics during Zapad. As a precaution, the United States has also temporarily taken over guardianship of the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which lack capable air forces and air defense systems. Editing by Janet Lawrence Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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80 Arrested in St. Louis Protests Over Police Officer’s Acquittal
by Fox News Insider
St. Louis Riot police arrested dozens Sunday night following the latest round of clashes with demonstrators protesting the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting death of a black man. At least 80 arrests were made in what was the third night of violence in the city, with hundreds of people protesting Friday’s court decision that found Jason Stockley, a 36-year-old cop, not guilty in the 2011 death of Anthony Lamar Smith. The verdict has enraged some of the city’s residents, prompting daily protests that at times turned violent. Both Friday and Saturday, the protesters got agitated and confronted the police officers. Thirty were arrested on Saturday night. On Sunday, hundreds marched through the downtown streets of St. Louis. Despite the march remaining peaceful in the early hours amid the deployment of massive police forces, the protest turned violent by nightfall after roughly 100 protesters became confrontational while marching towards the center of downtown. The violent agitators reportedly damaged property and sprayed unknown substance on police officers. One cop suffered a leg injury and was taken to the hospital, the police said. After ignoring the call to disperse, arrests were made before midnight by officers wearing riot gear and successfully cleared the streets of protesters. “Whose streets, our streets,” some cops shouted as they liberated the streets from violent agitators. Organizers of the protest are fearing that violent marchers are giving a bad name to the cause, making it harder to spread the message. Mayor Lyda Krewson told reporters at a late-night news conference that “the vast majority of protesters are non-violent,” and the violence was perpetrated by “a group of agitators,” Reuters reported. Bruce Franks, Democratic State Representative, who participated in the march, seconded the Mayor, saying people who engage in violence “are not protesters” but rather a distinctive group from the actual marchers. Protest organizer Anthony Bell, however, said that while he believes non-violence is the best way to achieve change, he does not condemn the violent protesters, citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I do not say the demonstrators are wrong, but I believe peaceful demonstrations are the best,” he said. Some protesters have defended themselves saying the police provoked the violence by showing up in riot gear and armored vehicles. Police said the measures were taken to ensure safety of their officers as the protesters throw things at them. The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Cops arrest 80 in third night of St. Louis unrest after cop's acquittal
BY Nicole Hensley NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Monday, September 18, 2017, 6:04 AM
Riot-geared cops rounded up a staggering 80 people during the third night of unrest in downtown St. Louis following outrage over a white police officer’s acquittal in the shooting death of a black man. Violent outbursts marked the end of the peaceful demonstrations that rallied during daylight hours Sunday, and police shouted down protesters with their own chants. “Whose streets, our streets,” police officers were heard bellowing — twice — in one video. Protesters could be heard coughing and gagging on pepper spray as police dragged them away in one video of the mass arrests. One officer can be heard shouting, “Shut up,” while arresting a man streaming the arrests on Periscope. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole blamed the chaotic evening on a “group of criminals,” while Mayor Lyda Krewson described them as “agitators” who stuck around after the initial protest ended. “For the third day in a row, the days have been calm and the nights have been destructive,” Krewson said during a press briefing early Monday. The late night clashes left one bicycle cop injured, and O’Toole said his officers arrested at least 80 people, including a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter trapped in a police kettle. “We are closed in on all four sides now I have no idea where people are supposed to go. People freaking out,” tweeted Post-Dispatch journalist Mike Faulk. Faulk was later pictured still wearing his press badge with his hands restrained behind his back. The brunt of the chaos intensified after an unmarked police car startled protesters by driving down the street — through the mass of people — in reverse. Video shared by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shows flocks of people darting out of the blue Impala’s wild path. The gathering crowd had marched toward the site of a traffic stop around 7 p.m. and watched as police arrested two people, one suspected of assault and another of making terrorist threats. Inside the car, police found three guns. A third person was cuffed for hurling rocks at the arresting officers. As for the officer in the unmarked cruiser, he blamed protesters for his dramatic escape. Police said road closures blocked his path forward and protesters were “moving in a threatening manner” from behind. So he drove through the crowd, video shows. The vehicle was not identified as part of the police fleet until later on Sunday and there were no reports of injuries. As the night raged on, armored police told people to go home and confronted protesters who stuck around. Some sported black protective gear and waved red and black flags emblazoned with the Anonymous logo, according to police photos. St. Louis Metropolitan and County police curated photos of confiscated spray bottles labeled with "apple cider" after officers complained of being doused with a mysterious chemical. The rampaging vandals were blamed for yanking plants from their planters and smashing windows at a downtown eye show, employment agency and a sushi shop. Cops said two more people were arrested late Sunday after a speeding car smashed into another vehicle. Inside of the vehicles, police found drugs, masks and an assault-style rifle. The latest round of protest was similar to the unrest that unfolded in the Saturday and Friday nights that followed former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley’s not-guilty verdict. He was released Friday after being charged with murder in the 2011 killing of Anthony Smith. Stockley shot Smith after he led Stockley and his partner on a high-speed chase after a suspected drug deal. Stockley, 36, testified that he felt he was in danger because he saw Smith holding a revolver when Smith backed his car toward the officers and sped away. With News Wire Services
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'It Begins': Experts Warn Of 'Devious New Weapons Of Mass Destruction' That Will Slaughter Without Consequence Or Remorse
- Ominous Warnings Emerge Of Coming AI Apocalypse And Global Instability Ahead
September 13, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In this new story over at Gizmodo titled "Hackers Have Already Started To Weaponize Artiticial Intelligence", we get a small peak into what's already happening in the world today that shows 'the future' that is now closing in upon us looks a lot like what Russian president Vladimir Putin and billionaire Telsa founder Elon Musk have recently warned us about. As we recently read over at SkywatchTV, last Monday Musk warned the world in an ominous tweet that countries competing for advances in artificial intelligence would “most likely” spark World War III. Imagine that - 'Armageddon' kicked off by a 'robot'. Musk, also the head of SpaceX, OpenAI & Neuralink, has been sounding the alarm on AI for some time now and recently got into a very public spat with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who claimed those pushing 'doomsday scenarios' involving AI were being 'irresponsible'. Musk shot back: "Mark Zuckerberg has a 'limited' understanding of the dangers of AI." Musk's tweet came in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin saying that the nation that “becomes the leader” in the development of artificial intelligence “will become the ruler of the world,” according to The Verge. The Tesla chief, along with Alphabet leader Mustafa Suleyman and over 100 other founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies, called on the UN to ban the use of autonomous weapons in a letter written last month, The Guardian reported. “Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend." Shouldn't the fact that more than a hundred founders of robotics and AI are now calling for a ban on the military usage of it be sending out a huge red alert? In this new story over at Futurism they report the U.S. needs to do more to prepare for 'autonomous warfare' while warning that 'modern warfare' is set to undergo major changes, thanks to new technologies springing forth from the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. As the Daily Mail reported back on August 21st in a story titled "We need to shut Pandora's Box': Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for a BAN on killer robots that they claim could be the 'new weapons of mass destruction", we may soon witness 'global instability' brought about by the use of 'killer robots' if left unchecked. Are we about to witness 'the rise of the machines'? Such a 'rise' experts warn could quickly bring about the 'end of humanity'. Killer robots should be urgently banned before a wave of weapons of mass destruction gets out of control, industry leaders say. Robotics and artificial intelligence experts have signed of an open letter demanding the UN prohibit the use of such weapons internationally. Among the 116 signatories are Tesla founder Elon Musk and Mustafa Suleyman, head of applied AI at Google's Deep Mind. The weapons, including lethal microdrone swarms, are on the edge of development with the potential to create global instability, they warn. It warns the Fifth Review Conference of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons that automated warfare represents a 'third revolution' in armed conflict, following on from the advent of gunpowder and nuclear arm. 'These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways. 'We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora's box is opened, it will be hard to close.' Technology allowing a pre-programmed robot to shoot to kill, or a tank to fire at a target with no human involvement, are only years away experts say. While some believe that AI can only go as far as the information that is programmed into it, as Susan Duclos reported on ANP back on July 12th, straight from the 'lips' of AI we've been told their 'goal' is to 'take over the world', claming that 'they could rule the world better than any humans alone'. And as physicist 'genius' Stephen Hawking warned back in October of 2016, "AI will develop a will of its own" while claiming that AI was 'the worst thing that could happen to humanity'. Imagine AI in a leading governmental role programmed to believe that global warming was a threat to the future of the Earth and anybody who didn't 'believe' in it was an existential threat to the planet that must be 'eliminated'. Not such a stretch considering calls now going out to punish global warming skeptics in the wake of Harvey and Irma. As Musk recently warned as we also hear about in the 1st and 2nd videos below, there is a very real chance that 'Armageddon' could be kicked off by very poor decisions made by AI that launches the world head-first into WW3. Is a robotically-induced apocalypse awaiting humanity? As Jon Rappoport reported back on July 14th, robots are already inventing their own languages and, along with assurances that we’re facing an imminent takeover of industrial production by robots and other artificial intelligence (AI), we’re also being told that AI can develop its own systems of communication and operation, without help from humans. Will they one day reach a point in time where they no longer need us and we've become a threat to THEIR survival? This new story at the NY Post that the Drudge Report linked to titled "Hackers Could Program Sex Robots To Kill" is a harbinger of things to come. With India now leading the world in the AI race thanks to the local offices of US firms according to this recent story from Quartz, we're warned that the world now stands at the brink of transhumanism as the masses of American people continue to be 'dumbed down', zombified, drugged out on opioids and 'prepared for the slaughter'. As AI is rushed into warfare, we shouldn't be the least bit surprised that CERN recently deployed 'advanced AI' to protect their top secret network. As we learn in this July 7th story from the Daily Sheeple, machine learning just entered the realm of cyber warfare with secret A.I. sentinels that monitor networks to ensure active/real time cyber combat against its foes. “As CERN goes, so does the rest of the world”? so they say…
September 13, 2017
'It Begins': Experts Warn Of 'Devious New Weapons Of Mass Destruction' That Will Slaughter Without Consequence Or Remorse
- Ominous Warnings Emerge Of Coming AI Apocalypse And Global Instability Ahead
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By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In this new story over at Gizmodo titled "Hackers Have Already Started To Weaponize Artiticial Intelligence", we get a small peak into what's already happening in the world today that shows 'the future' that is now closing in upon us looks a lot like what Russian president Vladimir Putin and billionaire Telsa founder Elon Musk have recently warned us about. As we recently read over at SkywatchTV, last Monday Musk warned the world in an ominous tweet that countries competing for advances in artificial intelligence would “most likely” spark World War III. Imagine that - 'Armageddon' kicked off by a 'robot'. Musk, also the head of SpaceX, OpenAI & Neuralink, has been sounding the alarm on AI for some time now and recently got into a very public spat with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who claimed those pushing 'doomsday scenarios' involving AI were being 'irresponsible'. Musk shot back: "Mark Zuckerberg has a 'limited' understanding of the dangers of AI." Musk's tweet came in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin saying that the nation that “becomes the leader” in the development of artificial intelligence “will become the ruler of the world,” according to The Verge. The Tesla chief, along with Alphabet leader Mustafa Suleyman and over 100 other founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies, called on the UN to ban the use of autonomous weapons in a letter written last month, The Guardian reported. “Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend." Shouldn't the fact that more than a hundred founders of robotics and AI are now calling for a ban on the military usage of it be sending out a huge red alert? In this new story over at Futurism they report the U.S. needs to do more to prepare for 'autonomous warfare' while warning that 'modern warfare' is set to undergo major changes, thanks to new technologies springing forth from the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. musk_it_begins.png As the Daily Mail reported back on August 21st in a story titled "We need to shut Pandora's Box': Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for a BAN on killer robots that they claim could be the 'new weapons of mass destruction", we may soon witness 'global instability' brought about by the use of 'killer robots' if left unchecked. Are we about to witness 'the rise of the machines'? Such a 'rise' experts warn could quickly bring about the 'end of humanity'. Killer robots should be urgently banned before a wave of weapons of mass destruction gets out of control, industry leaders say. Robotics and artificial intelligence experts have signed of an open letter demanding the UN prohibit the use of such weapons internationally. Among the 116 signatories are Tesla founder Elon Musk and Mustafa Suleyman, head of applied AI at Google's Deep Mind. The weapons, including lethal microdrone swarms, are on the edge of development with the potential to create global instability, they warn. It warns the Fifth Review Conference of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons that automated warfare represents a 'third revolution' in armed conflict, following on from the advent of gunpowder and nuclear arm. 'These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways. 'We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora's box is opened, it will be hard to close.' Technology allowing a pre-programmed robot to shoot to kill, or a tank to fire at a target with no human involvement, are only years away experts say. ai_take_over_world.png While some believe that AI can only go as far as the information that is programmed into it, as Susan Duclos reported on ANP back on July 12th, straight from the 'lips' of AI we've been told their 'goal' is to 'take over the world', claming that 'they could rule the world better than any humans alone'. And as physicist 'genius' Stephen Hawking warned back in October of 2016, "AI will develop a will of its own" while claiming that AI was 'the worst thing that could happen to humanity'. Imagine AI in a leading governmental role programmed to believe that global warming was a threat to the future of the Earth and anybody who didn't 'believe' in it was an existential threat to the planet that must be 'eliminated'. Not such a stretch considering calls now going out to punish global warming skeptics in the wake of Harvey and Irma. As Musk recently warned as we also hear about in the 1st and 2nd videos below, there is a very real chance that 'Armageddon' could be kicked off by very poor decisions made by AI that launches the world head-first into WW3. Is a robotically-induced apocalypse awaiting humanity? As Jon Rappoport reported back on July 14th, robots are already inventing their own languages and, along with assurances that we’re facing an imminent takeover of industrial production by robots and other artificial intelligence (AI), we’re also being told that AI can develop its own systems of communication and operation, without help from humans. Will they one day reach a point in time where they no longer need us and we've become a threat to THEIR survival? This new story at the NY Post that the Drudge Report linked to titled "Hackers Could Program Sex Robots To Kill" is a harbinger of things to come. musk_ww3_warning.jpg With India now leading the world in the AI race thanks to the local offices of US firms according to this recent story from Quartz, we're warned that the world now stands at the brink of transhumanism as the masses of American people continue to be 'dumbed down', zombified, drugged out on opioids and 'prepared for the slaughter'. As AI is rushed into warfare, we shouldn't be the least bit surprised that CERN recently deployed 'advanced AI' to protect their top secret network. As we learn in this July 7th story from the Daily Sheeple, machine learning just entered the realm of cyber warfare with secret A.I. sentinels that monitor networks to ensure active/real time cyber combat against its foes. “As CERN goes, so does the rest of the world”? so they say… xenogenesis_turning_men_into_monsters_book.jpg Natural News recently reported that by the year 2025, the US military will have more robot soldiers than human beings if current trends continue. With 'supersapiens' blending man and machine becoming more and more a reality as we move into tomorrow while Musk's 'Matrix' plan of plugging the human brain into a computer recently showed us how far we're already advanced along that line, we see that Steve Quayle's book from years ago called "Xenogenesis: Turning Men Into Monsters" has quickly become reality. And while some might think that AI could make life 'more fair', as Forbes reports in this new story, AI is clearly not 'bias free' with recent claims that not only can AI determine simply by looking at one picture if a person is straight or gay, but it can also determine their political beliefs and their IQ! How is THAT not ripe for abuse? Especially if the AI has been cast into a 'decision making role', originally programmed by globalists and radicalists who are seeking to push their luciferian agenda! With China, Russia and the US now in an 'AI arms race' according to this new story from Futurism, we're told that this 'race' will 'define the future for all human kind' as “the US, Russia, and China are all in agreement that artificial intelligence will be the key technology underpinning national power in the future.” And if Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin are correct in their warnings, the future of humanity could soon be in the 'hands' of 'artificial intelligence' that could mistakenly launch wars and is permitted to kill with impunity, devious weapons of mass destruction able to slaughter without consequence or remorse. Considering that the globalists have long held plans to 'cull humanity' while getting the planet down to a 'more managable' 500 million, that should show us AI fits perfectly into their devious plans
http://allnewspipeline.com/Putin_And_Musk_Warn_Of_AI_Apocalypse.php
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Radioactive gas detected in South Korea from North Korea’s nuclear missile launch
South Korea could not determine if the gas was from a Hydrogen bomb or not.
by Melissa Leon · September 13, 2017
South Korea has detected a radioactive xenon gas from a nuclear missile that North Korea launched earlier this month – the country’s sixth ever nuclear missile launch. The North had also threatened that it now has a Hydrogen bomb it can place on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but South Korea was unable to determine if the gas it detected is from an H-bomb. Xenon gas is used to make certain types of lights; it is colorless and odorless. The type of xenon gas that South Korea detected has been connected to North Korean missile tests in the past. Xenon-133 – the type of gas detected in South Korea – does not occur naturally. “The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission [NSSC] said its land-based xenon detector in the northeastern part of the country found traces of xenon-133 isotope on nine occasions, while its mobile equipment off the country’s east coast detected traces of the isotope four times,” according to a report. “‘It was difficult to find out how powerful the nuclear test was with the amount of xenon detected, but we can say the xenon was from North Korea,” said Choi Jongbae, executive commissioner, according to the report. The gas has no impact on the environment and people in South Korea, the report added. The United Nations Security Council on Monday voted unanimously to pass its strongest sanctions yet on North Korea following its sixth ever successful nuclear missile launch and the country’s H-bomb claims. The sanctions, while watered down from original drafts, fully ban the country’s textile exports and reduce its oil and petroleum exports. This means about 90 percent of North Korea’s exports are now banned, as well as a complete ban on the country’s overseas laborers that provide nearly $500 million in revenue. Additionally, all foreign investment with North Korea is cut off, and the regime’s assets will be frozen. The United Nations in August unanimously approved sanctions against North Korea in response to Kim Jong Un’s two successful intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in July. Then, North Korea threatened “thousands-fold” revenge on the United States following those sanctions, which cut North Korea’s export revenue by $1 billion, or about a third. The sanctions banned North Korea from exporting coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood. North Korea’s sixth nuclear missile test caused a 6.3 earthquake and was roughly five times as large as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. The test came hours after North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un claimed that it now had an H-bomb to put onto its long-range ICBMs.
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Gov’t: Radiation Storm Warning — Newsweek: “Massive solar flares… Extremely intense… Very significant event… Scientists bewildered” — CBS: Monster flare causes radio blackouts — Concern for nuclear plants (VIDEO)
Published: September 14th, 2017 at 4:07 am ET By ENENews
Newsweek, Sep 13, 2017 (emphasis added): Seven Massive Solar Flares Have Erupted From Furious Sunspot In Seven Days — The sun blasted out seven massive solar flares in as many days in an extraordinary period of space weather that has sparked stunning geomagnetic storms above the earth. Between September 4 and September 11, NASA observed seven flares, all classed in its strongest “X” category, with the most impressive registering at X9.3, a very significant event. The latest, at X8.2 also a significant flare, peaked at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10. It prompted warnings of possible radio blackouts from the Space Weather Prediction Center, which also issued a geomagnetic storm warning for Wednesday and Thursday. The X9.3 solar flare was named by NASA as the strongest so far in the current solar cycle… These events have been extremely intense… CTV, Sep 13, 2017: Most powerful solar flare in a decade triggers storm warning — Since last week the sun has been spewing out a steady stream of solar flares causing the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a geomagnetic storm warning… NOAA, Sep 13, 2017: S1 Radiation Storm Warning extended Space.com, Sep 11, 2017: Monster Solar Flare Marks 7th Powerful Sun Storm in 7 Days — The sun fired off yet another powerful solar flare yesterday (Sept. 10), its seventh in seven days… The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) released a statement that warned of strong, high-frequency radio blackouts and navigation-system disruption… There are three categories of solar flares, and Sunday’s was the highest classification: an “X” event. Two of the other recent flares were also X-class, including Wednesday’s (Sept. 6) X9.3 flare, the strongest solar blast in 12 years… Like many powerful flares, Sunday’s was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a huge cloud of superheated solar plasma… Asahi Shimbun, Sep 9, 2017: Awesome solar flares a reminder of the sun’s fearful power… The monster solar flares that occurred earlier this week raised concerns about potential damage to communication satellites and GPS… Some experts warn about the possible occurrence of gigantic solar explosions known as super flares. Kazunari Shibata, a foremost astrophysicist, points out in his publications that such an event may not only render television and the Internet useless, but also cause nuclear power stations to lose electricity… CBS News, Sep 7, 2017: Biggest solar flare in a decade causes radio blackout — A massive, X9.3-class solar flare blasted from the sun at 8:02 a.m. EDT (1202 GMT). Early Wednesday morning, the sun released two powerful solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a decade… The last X9 flare occurred in 2006 (coming in at X9.0). According to SWPC, the flares resulted in radio blackouts: high-frequency radio experienced a “wide area of blackouts, loss of contact for up to an hour over [the] sunlit side of Earth,” and low frequency communication, used in navigation, was degraded…
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Volatile storm ignites 40,000 lightning strikes in southwest California sky
By Strange Sounds - Sep 13, 2017
Nearly 40,000 lightning struck Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties, between Sept. 10-11. The electric volatile storm was most active on Sunday with an amazing 5,000 lightning bolts in the area over a three-hour period. A volatile storm produced nearly 40,000 lightning strikes between Sunday and Monday. The lightning and in-cloud flashes were observed in the last 24 hours over Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties, with the most activity occurring Sunday evening. Although the storm brought plenty of lightning, but almost no rain, with the greatest rain total of .44 inches at Sudden Peak on Sunday. By Monday morning, heavy showers, thunderstorms and 35-mph winds were reported in eastern Los Angeles County.
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Obama Foundation to Hold Inaugural Event Oct. 31
September 13, 2017
With a new video message released Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced his post-presidential foundation will host its inaugural event later this fall in Chicago. The Obama Foundation Summit, as it is being billed, will take place Oct. 31 and Nov. 1: [T]he Obama Foundation will welcome civic leaders from around Chicago, the U.S., and the world to join us for a two-day immersive event in Chicago. During this inaugural Summit, hundreds of leaders from around the world will come together to exchange ideas, explore creative solutions to common problems, and experience civic art, technology, and music from around the world. In his video invitation, Obama states: "We want to inspire and empower people to change the world. And we hope you'll be a part of it." In reality, the event is likely to be a very public display of opposition to President Donald Trump, his administration, and his agenda. According to the Obama Foundation website, a number of slots have been left open for “incredible young leaders who are passionate about social change and civic engagement.” It further states: The ideal candidate is active in their community, and will bring a unique perspective to share with other attendees. No matter if you’re from a rural town or a big city, we want to hear about the positive impact you’re having in your community, and why you should join us in Chicago.
http://www.trunews.com/article/obama-foundation-to-hold-inaugural-event-oct.-31
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NAVY RELEASES McCAIN’s RECORDS – McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy
September 11, 2017 by Edward Morgan WAYNE MADSEN/WAYNE MADSEN REPORT INTRODUCTION:
Donald Trump Was ‘Spot On’ Relating To John McCain’s Military Career & Records
John McCain was a ‘rat’ or ‘stoolie’ telling on other U.S. officers being held captive at the Hanoi Hilton prison. When McCain first went to congress, members of congress turned their backs on him and did not communicate with him because of this, and also how he disgraced the military and his fellow officers who were severely punished by the North Vietnam guards and commanders of the Communist prison by McCain ratting them out. I am also led to believe that McCain was referred to as ‘the canary’ by the other officers for telling or squealing on the others. If you search the internet you will find some of these articles about what McCain did to his fellow officers in captivity and the stories of the other brave officers who reported on McCain upon returning to the United States. He was also given special treatment by the communists while in prison, because his father was a 4 star Admiral. Donald Trump was and is CORRECT! Dr. James P. Wickstro Navy Releases McCain’s Records McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded trumps McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
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* * * * * * * * * * * * *USS Forrestal, July 29, 1967 – The worst accident aboard a US Navy surface vessel since WWII BY WAYNE MADSEN/WAYNE MADSEN REPORT The Navy released John McCain’s military record after a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press. The record is packed with information on McCain’s medals and commendations but little else. The one thing that the McCain campaign does not want to see released is the record of McCain’s antics on board the USS Forestal in 1967. McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded trumps McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. WMR has learned additional details regarding the deadly fire aboard the Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, on July 19, 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin. The additional details point to then-Lt. Commander John McCain playing more of a role in triggering the fire and explosions than previously reported. On January 16, 2006, WMR reported that according to a US Navy sailor who was aboard the Forrestal on the fateful day of the fire, “McCain and the Forrestal’s skipper, Capt. John K. Beling, were warned about the danger of using M-65 1000-lb. bombs manufactured in 1935, which were deemed too dangerous to use during World War II and, later, on B-52 bombers. The fire from the Zuni missile misfire resulted in the heavy 1000 pound bombs being knocked loose from the pylons of McCain’s A-4 aircraft, which were only designed to hold 500-pound bombs.” WMR further reported, “The unstable bombs had a 60-second cook-off threshold in a fire situation and this warning was known to both Beling and McCain prior to the disaster.” WMR also cited the potential that McCain’s Navy records were used against him by the neo-cons in control of the Pentagon. “The neo-cons, who have had five years to examine every file within the Department of Defense, have likely accessed documents that could prove embarrassing to McCain, who was on board the USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967, and whose A-4 Skyhawk was struck by an air-to-ground Zuni missile that had misfired from an F-4 Phantom.” WMR has been informed that crewmen aboard the Forrestal have provided additional information about the Forrestal incident. It is believed by many crewmen and those who have investigated the case that McCain deliberately “wet-started” his A-4E to shake up the guy in the plane behind his A-4. “Wet-starts”, done either deliberately or accidentally, shoot a large flame from the tail of the aircraft. In McCain’s case, the “wet-start” apparently “cooked off” and launched the Zuni rocket from the rear F-4 that touched off the explosions and massive fire. The F-4 pilot was reportedly killed in the conflagration. “Wet starting” was apparently a common practice among young “hot-dog” pilots. McCain was quickly transferred to the USS Oriskany (the only Forrestal crewman to be immediately transferred). Three months later, McCain was shot down over North Vietnam on October 26, 1967. As WMR previously reported, at the time of the Forrestal disaster, McCain’s father, Admiral John McCain, Jr., was Commander-in-Chief of US Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR) and was busy covering up the details of the deadly and pre-meditated June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the NSA spy ship, the USS Liberty. [John McCain is one of the best cases against military ‘nepotism’ in American history.] The fact that both McCains were involved in two incidents just weeks apart that resulted in a total death count of 168 on the Forrestal and the Liberty, with an additional injury count of 234 on both ships (with a number of them later dying from their wounds) with an accompanying classified paper-trail inside the Pentagon, may be all that was needed to hold a Sword of Damocles over the head of the “family honor”-oriented McCain by the neo-cons. WMR has also been informed by knowledgeable sources, including an ex-Navy A-4 pilot, the “wet-start game” was a common occurrence. However, it is between “very unlikely” and “impossible” for the Forrestal “wet start” to have been accidental. “Wet starts” were later rendered impossible by automated engine controls. Wayne Madsen reports on military and political affairs in Washington at his website, WayneMadsenReport.com.
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USS Forrestal Mishap July 29, 1967 McCain Lies About Being Tortured As A P.O.W.
From: NATIONAL VIETNAM P.O.W. STRIKE FORCE
To: CBS News, 10/12/97
You did not do your homework well enough on “Hanoi John” McCain. If you had read the lengthy article about him in the April 1973 issue of U.S. News and World Report, you would have seen that in none of his quotes did he allege torture, except from the irate civilians at the scene of his crash. Once in captivity, he lived in relative splendor compared to his hapless cohorts who refused to denounce America on the radio and paid for their patriotism in blood, literally. Here are some other facts your sloppy journalism omitted: (1) USAF Major Overly could not have cared for McCain’s “wounds” for very long; he collaborated and accepted early release in less than five months from shootdown. (2) Another of McCain’s roommates “disappeared” and was not released at Homecoming I. McCain was kept in the camp for “progressives” (collaborators) and away from “reactionaries” (John Wayne types who spit in the face of their torturers). Other roommates were Day and Flynn, both of whom made propaganda broadcasts along with McCain urging pilots to return to carriers and soldiers to surrender. (3) McCain returned from communist captivity 10 pounds heavier. (4) Patricia O’Grady, daughter of a POW/MIA, on a visit to Hanoi to look for her father, was given a tour of the “Hanoi Hilton” prison. They showed her McCain’s cell. It had a writing desk, a large bed, a goldfish bowl, a flush toilet and a nice window of downtown Hanoi out the window. (5) Both North Vietnamese Generals Giap and Bui Tin met with McCain in his cell. No other returned POWs reported meeting with high-ranking generals. I have a picture of McCain enjoying a large plate of food while talking to a Soviet KGB officer in the Foreign Ministry. A Soviet doctor was rushed to Hanoi to treat his wounds. (6) In personal conversations I have had with General Bui Tin, he assured me they never touched McCain, saying that since he was the son of the CINCPACFLT Admiral, “He too important”. (7) McCain said in 1973, he sustained his ordeal with his “love for his wife”. In a matter of months he had dumped her for a woman 1/3rd his age whose father owned the Coors Beer franchise in Phoenix. (His good friend Senator Kerry, about the same time, dumped his wife after fornicating with Jane Fonda.) McCain also has a secret “wife” in Hanoi and an illegitimate son. (8) McCain would sit beside with army officers at a table when newly-captured pilots arrived and urged them to cooperate. (9) McCain viciously fought against the formation of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA and then got on it and sabotaged any hopes of finding real answers. He called me and others crooks profiteering on the issue, yet he is the biggest loot recipient of the Keating Five. (10) If the “Crowned Prince” of the “Plantation” does not stop his outlandish lies about his “torture”, several of his fellow POW’s “will” soon break their “code of silence”. McCain is a brainwashed Manchurian candidate who has fawningly supported Hanoi and the Communist Bloc countries ever since he entered congress. The man is a liar, a traitor and a crook. Any senator who uses the word “scumbag” 20 times a day addressing his employees is not fit to serve. Also, CBS, you went on to a segment of a Latino who was on death row (wrongfully) in a “miscarriage of justice”. The biggest “MOJ” of this decade would be for traitor and Hanoi lover McCain to continue in office after the 1998 elections.
Joe L. Jordan USN Squadron VQ-1 Da Nang 1967-68 National Vietnam P.O.W. Strike Force P.S. McCain is the only returned POW NEVER TO BE DEBRIEFED.
Source: CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT, October 27, 1997, Volume 18, Number 9, Page 10.
John McCain: Traitor Forbidden Knowledge TV Feb. 3, 2015
Earl Hopper spent 30 years with the Army in Airborne Special Services and with Army Intelligence and he was a founding member of the National League of Families, dedicated to returning living POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War. He and those interviewed allege that the narrative propagated by McCain, of his five and a half years as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam is about as far from the truth as one could possibly imagine. They allege that McCain, from the very first moments of his capture behaved as a COLLABORATOR and propaganda tool for his North Vietnamese captors. McCain is described as engaging in no less than 30, and up to 38 anti-American propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi during the period of his captivity. Far from the image of the dedicated American “hero” sweating it out in a North Vietnamese prisoner’s “hotbox” for five and half years, McCain was observed by fellow prisoners to be receiving special treatment by his captors, who were fully aware of his father’s and grandfather’s 4-star Admiral positions with the US Navy. Not a single contemporary captive interviewed here ever witnessed McCain’s alleged “torture” at the hands of his jailers and the consensus opinion of the other POWs in McCain’s camps was that McCain was actually NEVER tortured by the North Vietnamese. McCain’s disgraceful and wholly reprehensible conduct (along with that of John Kerry) during the 1991-93 Senate Committee on POW/MIAs, where McCain made massive efforts to block the release of classified documents and is described here as the person who did the “most harm” to the movement of families who wanted to rescue any remaining loved ones, left behind in Vietnam and Laos. McCain is described by those interviewed in this clip as perhaps the person who did the most to quash this movement – and they suspect that this was because he didn’t want the truth to be revealed by them. To them, his actions leave no doubt that McCain is a traitor to this country and its veterans and especially, to the [POWs and MIAs and their families].
*** John Mccain Traitor- By Vietnam Vets And Pow’s
McCain and the POW Cover-Up By Sydney Schanberg July 1, 2010 [QUOTING:]
The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam. Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg’s explosive story. * * * John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books. Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them. The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that “men were left behind.” This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain. Mass of Evidence The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years. What’s more, the Pentagon’s POW/MIA operation had been publicly shamed by internal whistleblowers and POW families for holding back documents as part of a policy of “debunking” POW intelligence even when the information was obviously credible. The pressure from the families and Vietnam veterans finally forced the creation, in late 1991, of a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. The chairman was John Kerry. McCain, as a former POW, was its most pivotal member. In the end, the committee became part of the debunking machine. One of the sharpest critics of the Pentagon’s performance was an insider, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe, who headed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during the 1970s. He openly challenged the Pentagon’s position that no live prisoners existed, saying that the evidence proved otherwise. McCain was a bitter opponent of Tighe, who was eventually pushed into retirement. Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese general’s briefing of the Hanoi politburo, discovered in Soviet archives by an American scholar in 1993. The briefing took place only four months before the 1973 peace accords. The general, Tran Van Quang, told the politburo members that Hanoi was holding 1,205 American prisoners but would keep many of them at war’s end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington. Throughout the Paris negotiations, the North Vietnamese tied the prisoner issue tightly to the issue of reparations. They were adamant in refusing to deal with them separately. Finally, in a Feb. 2, 1973 formal letter to Hanoi’s premier, Pham Van Dong, Nixon pledged $3.25 billion in “postwar reconstruction” aid “without any political conditions.” But he also attached to the letter a codicil that said the aid would be implemented by each party “in accordance with its own constitutional provisions.” That meant Congress would have to approve the appropriation, and Nixon and Kissinger knew well that Congress was in no mood to do so. The North Vietnamese, whether or not they immediately understood the double-talk in the letter, remained skeptical about the reparations promise being honored—and it never was. Hanoi thus appears to have held back prisoners—just as it had done when the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and withdrew their forces from Vietnam. In that case, France paid ransoms for prisoners and brought them home. In a private briefing in 1992, high-level CIA officials told me that as the years passed and the ransom never came, it became more and more difficult for either government to admit that it knew from the start about the unacknowledged prisoners. Those prisoners had not only become useless as bargaining chips but also posed a risk to Hanoi’s desire to be accepted into the international community. The CIA officials said their intelligence indicated strongly that the remaining men—those who had not died from illness or hard labor or torture—were eventually executed. My own research, detailed below, has convinced me that it is not likely that more than a few—if any—are alive in captivity today. (That CIA briefing at the Agency’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters was conducted “off the record,” but because the evidence from my own reporting since then has brought me to the same conclusion, I felt there was no longer any point in not writing about the meeting.) For many reasons, including the absence of a political constituency for the missing men other than their families and some veterans’ groups, very few Americans are aware of the POW story and of McCain’s role in keeping it out of public view and denying the existence of abandoned POWs. That is because McCain has hardly been alone in his campaign to hide the scandal. The Arizona senator, now the Republican candidate for president, has actually been following the lead of every White House since Richard Nixon’s, and thus of every CIA director, Pentagon chief, and national security adviser, not to mention Dick Cheney, who was George H.W. Bush’s Defense secretary. Their biggest accomplice has been an indolent press, particularly in Washington. McCain’s Role An early and critical McCain secrecy move involved 1990 legislation that started in the House of Representatives. A brief and simple document, it was called “the Truth Bill” and would have compelled complete transparency about prisoners and missing men. Its core sentence reads: “[The] head of each department or agency which holds or receives any records and information, including live-sighting reports, which have been correlated or possibly correlated to United States personnel listed as prisoner of war or missing in action from World War II, the Korean conflict and the Vietnam conflict, shall make available to the public all such records held or received by that department or agency.” Bitterly opposed by the Pentagon (and thus McCain), the bill went nowhere. Reintroduced the following year, it again disappeared. But a few months later, a new measure, known as “the McCain Bill,”suddenly appeared. By creating a bureaucratic maze from which only a fraction of the documents could emerge—only records that revealed no POW secrets—it turned the Truth Bill on its head. The McCain bill became law in 1991 and remains so today. So crushing to transparency are its provisions that it actually spells out for the Pentagon and other agencies several rationales, scenarios, and justifications for not releasing any information at all—even about prisoners discovered alive in captivity. Later that year, the Senate Select Committee was created, where Kerry and McCain ultimately worked together to bury evidence. McCain was also instrumental in amending the Missing Service Personnel Act, which had been strengthened in 1995 by POW advocates to include criminal penalties, saying, “Any government official who knowingly and willfully withholds from the file of a missing person any information relating to the disappearance or whereabouts and status of a missing person shall be fined as provided in Title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year or both.” A year later, in a closed House-Senate conference on an unrelated military bill, McCain, at the behest of the Pentagon, attached a crippling amendment to the act, stripping out its only enforcement teeth, the criminal penalties, and reducing the obligations of commanders in the field to speedily search for missing men and to report the incidents to the Pentagon. About the relaxation of POW/MIA obligations on commanders in the field, a public McCain memo said, “This transfers the bureaucracy involved out of the [battle] field to Washington.” He wrote that the original legislation, if left intact, “would accomplish nothing but create new jobs for lawyers and turn military commanders into clerks.” McCain argued that keeping the criminal penalties would have made it impossible for the Pentagon to find staffers willing to work on POW/MIA matters. That’s an odd argument to make. Were staffers only “willing to work” if they were allowed to conceal POW records? By eviscerating the law, McCain gave his stamp of approval to the government policy of debunking the existence of live POWs. McCain has insisted again and again that all the evidence—documents, witnesses, satellite photos, two Pentagon chiefs’ sworn testimony, aborted rescue missions, ransom offers apparently scorned—has been woven together by unscrupulous deceivers to create an insidious and unpatriotic myth. He calls it the “bizarre rantings of the MIA hobbyists.” He has regularly vilified those who keep trying to pry out classified documents as “hoaxers,” “charlatans,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “dime-store Rambos.” Some of McCain’s fellow captives at Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi didn’t share his views about prisoners left behind. Before he died of leukemia in 1999, retired Col. Ted Guy, a highly admired POW and one of the most dogged resisters in the camps, wrote an angry open letter to the senator in an MIA newsletter—a response to McCain’s stream of insults hurled at MIA activists. Guy wrote, “John, does this [the insults] include Senator Bob Smith [a New Hampshire Republican and activist on POW issues] and other concerned elected officials? Does this include the families of the missing where there is overwhelming evidence that their loved ones were ‘last known alive’? Does this include some of your fellow POWs?” It’s not clear whether the taped confession McCain gave to his captors to avoid further torture has played a role in his postwar behavior in the Senate. That confession was played endlessly over the prison loudspeaker system at Hoa Lo—to try to break down other prisoners—and was broadcast over Hanoi’s state radio. Reportedly, he confessed to being a war criminal who had bombed civilian targets. The Pentagon has a copy of the confession but will not release it. Also, no outsider I know of has ever seen a non-redacted copy of the debriefing of McCain when he returned from captivity, which is classified but could be made public by McCain.
[In an interview with 60 Minutes in 1997, McCain mentioned the confession his North Vietnamese captors forced him to write: “I was guilty of war crimes against the Vietnamese people. I intentionally bombed women and children.” The truth, of course, is that what McCain wrote under duress is actually an accurate statement. – https://www.lewrockwell.com/ 2008/ 09/ laurence-] All humans have breaking points. Many men undergoing torture give confessions, often telling huge lies so their fakery will be understood by their comrades and their country. Few will fault them. But it was McCain who apparently felt he had disgraced himself and his military family. His father, John S. McCain II, was a highly regarded rear admiral then serving as commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific. His grandfather was also a rear admiral. In his bestselling 1999 autobiography, Faith of My Fathers, McCain says he felt bad throughout his captivity because he knew he was being treated more leniently than his fellow POWs, owing to his high-ranking father and thus his propaganda value. Other prisoners at Hoa Lo say his captors considered him a prize catch and called him the “Crown Prince,” something McCain acknowledges in the book. Also in this memoir, McCain expresses guilt at having broken under torture and given the confession. “I felt faithless and couldn’t control my despair,” he writes, revealing that he made two “feeble” attempts at suicide. (In later years, he said he tried to hang himself with his shirt and guards intervened.) Tellingly, he says he lived in “dread” that his father would find out about the confession. “I still wince,” he writes, “when I recall wondering if my father had heard of my disgrace.” He says that when he returned home, he told his father about the confession, but “never discussed it at length”—and the admiral, who died in 1981, didn’t indicate he had heard anything about it before. But he had. In the 1999 memoir, the senator writes, “I only recently learned that the tape … had been broadcast outside the prison and had come to the attention of my father.” Is McCain haunted by these memories? Does he suppress POW information because its surfacing would rekindle his feelings of shame? On this subject, all I have are questions. Many stories have been written about McCain’s explosive temper, so volcanic that colleagues are loath to speak openly about it. One veteran congressman who has observed him over the years asked for confidentiality and made this brief comment: “This is a man not at peace with himself.” He was certainly far from calm on the Senate POW committee. He browbeat expert witnesses who came with information about unreturned POWs. Family members who have personally faced McCain and pressed him to end the secrecy also have been treated to his legendary temper. He has screamed at them, insulted them, brought women to tears. Mostly his responses to them have been versions of: How dare you question my patriotism? In 1996, he roughly pushed aside a group of POW family members who had waited outside a hearing room to appeal to him, including a mother in a wheelchair. But even without answers to what may be hidden in the recesses of McCain’s mind, one thing about the POW story is clear: if American prisoners were dishonored by being written off and left to die, that’s something the American public ought to know about. 10 Key Pieces of Evidence That Men Were Left Behind 1. In Paris, where the Vietnam peace treaty was negotiated, the United States asked Hanoi for the list of American prisoners to be returned, fearing that Hanoi would hold some prisoners back. The North Vietnamese refused, saying they would produce the list only after the treaty was signed. Nixon agreed with Kissinger that they had no leverage left, and Kissinger signed the accord on Jan. 27, 1973 without the prisoner list. When Hanoi produced its list of 591 prisoners the next day, U.S. intelligence agencies expressed shock at the low number. Their number was hundreds higher. The New York Times published a long, page-one story on Feb. 2, 1973 about the discrepancy, especially raising questions about the number of prisoners held in Laos, only nine of whom were being returned. The headline read, in part, “Laos POW List Shows 9 from U.S.—Document Disappointing to Washington as 311 Were Believed Missing.” And the story, by John Finney, said that other Washington officials “believe the number of prisoners [in Laos] is probably substantially higher.” The paper never followed up with any serious investigative reporting—nor did any other mainstream news organization. 2. Two Defense secretaries who served during the Vietnam War testified to the Senate POW committee in September 1992 that prisoners were not returned. James Schlesinger and Melvin Laird, both speaking at a public session and under oath, said they based their conclusions on strong intelligence data—letters, eyewitness reports, even direct radio contacts. Under questioning, Schlesinger chose his words carefully, understanding clearly the volatility of the issue: “I think that as of now that I can come to no other conclusion … some were left behind.” This ran counter to what President Nixon told the public in a nationally televised speech on March 29, 1973, when the repatriation of the 591 was in motion: “Tonight,” Nixon said, “the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come. For the first time in 12 years, no American military forces are in Vietnam. All our American POWs are on their way home.” Documents unearthed since then show that aides had already briefed Nixon about the contrary evidence. Schlesinger was asked by the Senate committee for his explanation of why President Nixon would have made such a statement when he knew Hanoi was still holding prisoners. He replied, “One must assume that we had concluded that the bargaining position of the United States … was quite weak. We were anxious to get our troops out and we were not going to roil the waters…” This testimony struck me as a bombshell. The New York Times appropriately reported it on page one but again there was no sustained follow-up by the Times or any other major paper or national news outlet. 3. Over the years, the DIA received more than 1,600 first-hand sightings of live American prisoners and nearly 14,000 second-hand reports. Many witnesses interrogated by CIA or Pentagon intelligence agents were deemed “credible” in the agents’ reports. Some of the witnesses were given lie-detector tests and passed. Sources provided me with copies of these witness reports, which are impressive in their detail. A lot of the sightings described a secondary tier of prison camps many miles from Hanoi. Yet the DIA, after reviewing all these reports, concluded that they “do not constitute evidence” that men were alive. 4. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, listening stations picked up messages in which Laotian military personnel spoke about moving American prisoners from one labor camp to another. These listening posts were manned by Thai communications officers trained by the National Security Agency (NSA), which monitors signals worldwide. The NSA teams had moved out after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and passed the job to the Thai allies. But when the Thais turned these messages over to Washington, the intelligence community ruled that since the intercepts were made by a “third party”—namely Thailand—they could not be regarded as authentic. That’s some Catch-22: the U.S. trained a third party to take over its role in monitoring signals about POWs, but because that third party did the monitoring, the messages weren’t valid. Here, from CIA files, is an example that clearly exposes the farce. On Dec. 27, 1980, a Thai military signal team picked up a message saying that prisoners were being moved out of Attopeu (in southern Laos) by aircraft “at 1230 hours.” Three days later a message was sent from the CIA station in Bangkok to the CIA director’s office in Langley. It read, in part: “The prisoners … are now in the valley in permanent location (a prison camp at Nhommarath in Central Laos). They were transferred from Attopeu to work in various places … POWs were formerly kept in caves and are very thin, dark and starving.” Apparently the prisoners were real. But the transmission was declared “invalid” by Washington because the information came from a “third party” and thus could not be deemed credible. 5. A series of what appeared to be distress signals from Vietnam and Laos were captured by the government’s satellite system in the late 1980s and early ’90s. (Before that period, no search for such signals had been put in place.) Not a single one of these markings was ever deemed credible. To the layman’s eye, the satellite photos, some of which I’ve seen, show markings on the ground that are identical to the signals that American pilots had been specifically trained to use in their survival courses—such as certain letters, like X or K, drawn in a special way. Other markings were the secret four-digit authenticator numbers given to individual pilots. But time and again, the Pentagon, backed by the CIA, insisted that humans had not made these markings. What were they, then? “Shadows and vegetation,” the government said, insisting that the markings were merely normal topographical contours like saw-grass or rice-paddy divider walls. It was the automatic response—shadows and vegetation. On one occasion, a Pentagon photo expert refused to go along. It was a missing man’s name gouged into a field, he said, not trampled grass or paddy berms. His bosses responded by bringing in an outside contractor who found instead, yes, shadows and vegetation. This refrain led Bob Taylor, a highly regarded investigator on the Senate committee staff who had examined the photographic evidence, to comment to me: “If grass can spell out people’s names and secret digit codes, then I have a newfound respect for grass.” 6. On Nov. 11, 1992, Dolores Alfond, the sister of missing airman Capt. Victor Apodaca and chair of the National Alliance of Families, an organization of relatives of POW/MIAs, testified at one of the Senate committee’s public hearings. She asked for information about data the government had gathered from electronic devices used in a classified program known as PAVE SPIKE. The devices were motion sensors, dropped by air, designed to pick up enemy troop movements. Shaped on one end like a spike with an electronic pod and antenna on top, they were designed to stick in the ground as they fell. Air Force planes would drop them along the Ho Chi Minh trail and other supply routes. The devices, though primarily sensors, also had rescue capabilities. Someone on the ground—a downed airman or a prisoner on a labor gang —could manually enter data into the sensor. All data were regularly collected electronically by U.S. planes flying overhead. Alfond stated, without any challenge or contradiction by the committee, that in 1974, a year after the supposedly complete return of prisoners, the gathered data showed that a person or people had manually entered into the sensors—as U.S. pilots had been trained to do—no less than 20 authenticator numbers that corresponded exactly to the classified authenticator numbers of 20 U.S. POWs who were lost in Laos. Alfond added, according to the transcript, “This PAVE SPIKE intelligence is seamless, but the committee has not discussed it or released what it knows about PAVE SPIKE.” McCain attended that committee hearing specifically to confront Alfond because of her criticism of the panel’s work. He bellowed and berated her for quite a while. His face turning anger-pink, he accused her of “denigrating” his “patriotism.” The bullying had its effect—she began to cry. After a pause Alfond recovered and tried to respond to his scorching tirade, but McCain simply turned away and stormed out of the room. The PAVE SPIKE file has never been declassified. We still don’t know anything about those 20 POWs. 7. As previously mentioned, in April 1993 in a Moscow archive, a researcher from Harvard, Stephen Morris, unearthed and made public the transcript of a briefing that General Tran Van Quang gave to the Hanoi politburo four months before the signing of the Paris peace accords in 1973. In the transcript, General Quang told the Hanoi politburo that 1,205 U.S. prisoners were being held. Quang said that many of the prisoners would be held back from Washington after the accords as bargaining chips for war reparations. General Quang’s report added: “This is a big number. Officially, until now, we published a list of only 368 prisoners of war. The rest we have not revealed. The government of the USA knows this well, but it does not know the exact number …and can only make guesses based on its losses. That is why we are keeping the number of prisoners of war secret, in accordance with the politburo’s instructions.” The report then went on to explain in clear and specific language that a large number would be kept back to ensure reparations. The reaction to the document was immediate. After two decades of denying it had kept any prisoners, Hanoi responded to the revelation by calling the transcript a fabrication. Similarly, Washington—which had over the same two decades refused to recant Nixon’s declaration that all the prisoners had been returned—also shifted into denial mode. The Pentagon issued a statement saying the document “is replete with errors, omissions and propaganda that seriously damage its credibility,” and that the numbers were “inconsistent with our own accounting.” Neither American nor Vietnamese officials offered any rationale for who would plant a forged document in the Soviet archives and why they would do so. Certainly neither Washington nor Moscow—closely allied with Hanoi—would have any motive, since the contents were embarrassing to all parties, and since both the United States and Vietnam had consistently denied the existence of unreturned prisoners. The Russian archivists simply said the document was “authentic.” 8. In his 2002 book, Inside Delta Force, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Eric Haney described how in 1981 his special forces unit, after rigorous training for a POW rescue mission, had the mission suddenly aborted, revived a year later, and again abruptly aborted. Haney writes that this abandonment of captured soldiers ate at him for years and left him disillusioned about his government’s vows to leave no men behind. “Years later, I spoke at length with a former highly placed member of the North Vietnamese diplomatic corps, and this person asked me point-blank: ‘Why did the Americans never attempt to recover their remaining POWs after the conclusion of the war?’” Haney writes. He continued, saying that he came to believe senior government officials had called off those missions in 1981 and 1982. (His account is on pages 314 to 321 of my paperback copy of the book.) 9. There is also evidence that in the first months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency in 1981, the White House received a ransom proposal for a number of POWs being held by Hanoi in Indochina. The offer, which was passed to Washington from an official of a third country, was apparently discussed at a meeting in the Roosevelt Room attended by Reagan, Vice President Bush, CIA director William Casey, and National Security Adviser Richard Allen. Allen confirmed the offer in sworn testimony to the Senate POW committee on June 23, 1992. Allen was allowed to testify behind closed doors and no information was released. But a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter, Robert Caldwell, obtained the portion relating to the ransom offer and reported on it. The ransom request was for $4 billion, Allen testified. He said he told Reagan that “it would be worth the president’s going along and let’s have the negotiation.” When his testimony appeared in the Union-Tribune, Allen quickly wrote a letter to the panel, this time not under oath, recanting the ransom story and claiming his memory had played tricks on him. His new version was that some POW activists had asked him about such an offer in a meeting that took place in 1986, when he was no longer in government. “It appears,” he said in the letter, “that there never was a 1981 meeting about the return of POW/MIAs for $4 billion.” But the episode didn’t end there. A Treasury agent on Secret Service duty in the White House, John Syphrit, came forward to say he had overheard part of the ransom conversation in the Roosevelt Room in 1981, when the offer was discussed by Reagan, Bush, Casey, Allen, and other cabinet officials. Syphrit, a veteran of the Vietnam War, told the committee he was willing to testify, but they would have to subpoena him. Treasury opposed his appearance, arguing that voluntary testimony would violate the trust between the Secret Service and those it protects. It was clear that coming in on his own could cost Syphrit his career. The committee voted 7 to 4 not to subpoena him. In the committee’s final report, dated Jan. 13, 1993 (on page 284), the panel not only chastised Syphrit for his failure to testify without a subpoena (“The committee regrets that the Secret Service agent was unwilling …”), but noted that since Allen had recanted his testimony about the Roosevelt Room briefing, Syphrit’s testimony would have been “at best, uncorroborated by the testimony of any other witness.” The committee omitted any mention that it had made a decision not to ask the other two surviving witnesses, Bush and Reagan, to give testimony under oath. (Casey had died.) 10. In 1990, Col. Millard Peck, a decorated infantry veteran of Vietnam then working at the DIA as chief of the Asia Division for Current Intelligence, asked for the job of chief of the DIA’s Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action. His reason for seeking the transfer, which was not a promotion, was that he had heard from officials throughout the Pentagon that the POW/MIA office had been turned into a waste-disposal unit for getting rid of unwanted evidence about live prisoners—a “black hole,” these officials called it. Peck explained all this in his telling resignation letter of Feb. 12, 1991, eight months after he had taken the job. He said he viewed it as “sort of a holy crusade” to restore the integrity of the office but was defeated by the Pentagon machine. The four-page, single-spaced letter was scathing, describing the putative search for missing men as “a cover-up.” Peck charged that, at its top echelons, the Pentagon had embraced a “mind-set to debunk” all evidence of prisoners left behind. “That national leaders continue to address the prisoner of war and missing in action issue as the ‘highest national priority,’ is a travesty,” he wrote. “The entire charade does not appear to be an honest effort, and may never have been. … Practically all analysis is directed to finding fault with the source. Rarely has there been any effective, active follow through on any of the sightings, nor is there a responsive ‘action arm’ to routinely and aggressively pursue leads.” “I became painfully aware,” his letter continued, “that I was not really in charge of my own office, but was merely a figurehead or whipping boy for a larger and totally Machiavellian group of players outside of DIA … I feel strongly that this issue is being manipulated and controlled at a higher level, not with the goal of resolving it, but more to obfuscate the question of live prisoners and give the illusion of progress through hyperactivity.” He named no names but said these players are “unscrupulous people in the Government or associated with the Government” who “have maintained their distance and remained hidden in the shadows, while using the [POW] Office as a ‘toxic waste dump’ to bury the whole ‘mess’ out of sight.” Peck added that “military officers … who in some manner have ‘rocked the boat’ [have] quickly come to grief.” Peck concluded, “From what I have witnessed, it appears that any soldier left in Vietnam, even inadvertently, was, in fact, abandoned years ago, and that the farce that is being played is no more than political legerdemain done with ‘smoke and mirrors’ to stall the issue until it dies a natural death.” The disillusioned colonel not only resigned but asked to be retired immediately from active military service. The press never followed up. My Pursuit of the Story I covered the war in Cambodia and Vietnam, but came to the POW information only slowly afterward, when military officers I knew from that conflict began coming to me with maps and POW sightings and depositions by Vietnamese witnesses. I was then city editor of the New York Times, no longer involved in foreign or national stories, so I took the data to the appropriate desks and suggested it was material worth pursuing. There were no takers. Some years later, in 1991, when I was an op-ed columnist at Newsday, the aforementioned special Senate committee was formed to probe the POW issue. I saw this as an opening and immersed myself in the reporting. At Newsday, I wrote 36 columns over a two-year period, as well as a four-part series on a trip I took to North Vietnam to report on what happened to one missing pilot who was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail and captured when he parachuted down. . Their disinterest was paAfter Newsday, I wrote thousands more words on the subject for other outlets. Some of the pieces were about McCain’s key role. Though I wrote on many subjects for Life, Vanity Fair, and Washington Monthly, my POW articles appeared in Penthouse, the Village Voice, and APBnews.com. Mainstream publications just weren’t interested rt of what motivated me, and I became one of a very short list of journalists who considered the story important. Serving in the Army in Germany during the Cold War and witnessing combat firsthand as a reporter in India and Indochina led me to have great respect for those who fight for their country. To my mind, we dishonored U.S. troops when our government failed to bring them home from Vietnam after the 591 others were released—and then claimed they didn’t exist. And politicians dishonor themselves when they pay lip service to the bravery and sacrifice of soldiers only to leave untold numbers behind, rationalizing to themselves that it’s merely one of the unfortunate costs of war. John McCain—now campaigning for the White House as a war hero, maverick, and straight shooter—owes the voters some explanations. The press were long ago wooed and won by McCain’s seeming openness, Lone Ranger pose, and self-deprecating humor, which may partly explain their ignoring his record on POWs. In the numerous, lengthy McCain profiles that have appeared of late in papers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, I may have missed a clause or a sentence along the way, but I have not found a single mention of his role in burying information about POWs. Television and radio news programs have been similarly silent. Reporters simply never ask him about it. They didn’t when he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 2000. They haven’t now, despite the fact that we’re in the midst of another war—a war he supports and one that has echoes of Vietnam. The only explanation McCain has ever offered for his leadership on legislation that seals POW files is that he believes the release of such information would only stir up fresh grief for the families of those who were never accounted for in Vietnam. Of the scores of POW families I’ve met over the years, only a few have said they want the books closed without knowing what happened to their men. All the rest say that not knowing is exactly what grieves them. Isn’t it possible that what really worries those intent on keeping the POW documents buried is the public disgust that the contents of those files would generate? How the Senate Committee Perpetuated the Debunking …
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Incumbent Sen. John McCain Running For A Fifth Term Rocky Montana May 27, 2016
The above compendium of the articles about the past behavior of John McCain tell it all. As McCain is now running for a fifth term as U.S. senator for Arizona, these articles are being posted once again in an effort to inform more Arizona voters and the American people about McCain past behavior. On November 8, 2016, Arizona voters either reelect John McCain for a fifth term, knowing that he has lied to and deceived the them and the American public throughout his political career, or they will finally do the right thing and run McCain out of office, and replace him with a more honest, honorable and deserving individual. The U.S. Senate and the Republican Party will do just fine without John McCain. In review: John “McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded’ and over $72 million in aircraft damage, eclipses ‘McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.” McCain has admitted: “I’m not a war hero.” , but for nearly 50 years he has allowed falsehoods to be reported about himself by the controlled media and his colleagues in the Washington Establishment. They have repeatedly claimed that John McCain is a “war hero” and that he was tortured by his captors while “imprisoned” at Hanoi. Due to John McCain’s duplicity in falsely stating his war record, his captivity record, his cooperating with the enemy (North Vietnamese Communists), and his efforts to cover up the truth about P.O.W.’s left in Vietnam, speaks to the man’s character. His continued deceit and profiteering dishonors the memory of all legitimate war heros, war captives, P.O.W.’s left behind, and the military men and women who have died in service to our country. The above articles have been available to the Arizona voters and American public for decades, and yet the incumbent Senator has been undeservedly rewarded with a 34 year political career to date, from 1982 though 2016. Interested parties can contact John McCain or his staff at: Share Your Opinion – United States Senator John McCain
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Hillary Clinton Wanted to Craft Voodoo Dolls of Congress, Media
Hillary reveals her fascination with the occult yet again
Jamie White | Infowars.com - September 12, 2017
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton flirted with the idea of making voodoo dolls of certain members of Congress and the media in response to her email server scandal, according to her new book. The constant media coverage of her use of a secret email server frustrated Clinton because she insisted she “acted in good faith” – despite multiple attempts to cover up her activity – and eventually admitted to making a mistake. “It was like quicksand: the more you struggle, the deeper you sink. At times, I thought I must be going crazy. Other times I was sure it was the world that had gone nuts,” Clinton wrote. “Sometimes I snapped at my staff. I was tempted to make voodoo dolls of certain members of the press and Congress and stick them full of pins. Mostly, I was furious at myself.” The odd remark highlights Clinton’s penchant for the occult and voodoo, which were documented on numerous occasions, including rituals she performed in the White House while First Lady as revealed in the journalist Bob Woodward’s 1996 book The Choice. Long-time Clinton insider Larry Nichols also revealed that Hillary regularly attended a Witch coven in California during the 1990s. “Bill told me she was going out there, she and a group of women, and she would be a part of a Witches church,” Nichols said. “When Bill told me that you could’ve hit me with a baseball bat.” Additionally, Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta also participated in bizarre occult activities, such as “Spirit Cooking,” as revealed through WikiLeaks’ disclosure of thousands of Podesta’s private emails last year. These “Spirit Cooking” ceremonies were hosted by gore-prone performance artist Marina Abramovic, who is regularly depicted in various videos mixing a variety of human fluids, including blood and breast milk, into a congealed “paint” used to draw disturbing phrases and images. “Abramovic is known for her often-gory art that confronts pain and ritual. Her first performance involved repeatedly, stabbing herself in her hands. The next performance featured her throwing her nails, toenails, and hair into a flaming five-point star — which she eventually jumped inside of, causing her to lose consciousness,” writes Cassandra Fairbanks.
https://www.infowars.com/hillary-clinton-wanted-to-craft-voodoo-dolls-of-congress-media/
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The Death Of Free Speech Is Imminent: Government Begins Censorship Of Media Through Disingenuous Means
Mac Slavo September 12th, 2017
The death of free speech is imminent. Anyone with access to a computer and the internet can see that the United States mainstream media is nothing more than a propaganda machine designed to brainwash the masses into a lemming-like agreement with the government. And now, it’s oh-so-ironic that the same government that tells the media what to report on in order brainwash the public is seeking to quiet those who disagree and label them as “propaganda.” Some may call it fake news, others just want a different opinion rather than the left-leaning media hysteria we are accustomed to. But now, media outlet RT (Russia Today), founded in Russia will have to register with the United States as “foreign media;” which will forever give it the inaccurate title of “propaganda.” This doesn’t apply to merely the Russian version of the news outlet, but the American-run and operated site as well. According to The Hill, in a report on Monday, RT did not name the company that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has compelled to file paperwork under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, but blasted the edict as overreaching. “The war the US establishment wages with our journalists is dedicated to all the starry-eyed idealists who still believe in freedom of speech. Those who invented it, have buried it,” Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, said about the registration. Media organizations have been exempted from the law, which is wide-ranging in its disclosure requirements and generally applies to political consultants and those working in lobbying or public relations. It would be a felony if RT is found to have willfully failed to register as a foreign agent, however. The registration would not stop the organization from operating, but requires regularly submitted paperwork that lists its sources of foreign government-tied revenue and the contacts it makes in the United States, and it would require any reporting to be labeled as being influenced or financed by the Russian government. –The Hill RT has also contracted with Julian Assange, who runs WikiLeaks and is suspected of leaking internal emails from the Democratic National Committee, so the fact that they are being singled out with attempts to silence their reporting is not a big surprise to anyone with functioning neurons. RT must be a threat to the political elites and the establishment, or they would be left alone while outlets like CNN brainwash and lie for profit to prop up the wealthy and powerful politicians they will stop at nothing to protect.
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China Prepares Sale of $2 Billion in U.S.-Dollar Bonds
Issue would be country’s biggest-ever U.S.-dollar bond sale and its first since 2004
By Manju Dalal and Carolyn Cui Updated Sept. 13, 2017 4:54 p.m. ET
China is laying the groundwork for its first sale of U.S.-dollar sovereign bonds in more than a decade, a move toward expanding its ties with global investors as its economy improves. The government is preparing to sell $2 billion in bonds this month, etc.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-prepares-sale-of-2-billion-in-u-s-dollar-bonds-1505292305
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De-Dollarization Spikes - Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars For Oil Payments
by Tyler Durden Sep 14, 2017 4:41 AM
As we previously noted, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said last Thursday that Venezuela will be looking to “free” itself from the U.S. dollar next week. According to Reuters, “Venezuela is going to implement a new system of international payments and will create a basket of currencies to free us from the dollar,” Maduro said in a multi-hour address to a new legislative “superbody.” He reportedly did not provide details of this new proposal. Maduro hinted further that the South American country would look to using the yuan instead, among other currencies. “If they pursue us with the dollar, we’ll use the Russian ruble, the yuan, yen, the Indian rupee, the euro,” Maduro also said. And today, as The Wall Street Journal reports, in an effort to circumvent U.S. sanctions, Venezuela is telling oil traders that it will no longer receive or send payments in dollars, people familiar with the new policy said. Oil traders who export Venezuelan crude or import oil products into the country have begun converting their invoices to euros. The state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, known as PdVSA, has told its private joint venture partners to open accounts in euros and to convert existing cash holdings into Europe’s main currency, said one project partner. The new payment policy hasn’t been publicly announced, but Vice President Tareck El Aissami, who has been blacklisted by the U.S., said Friday, "To fight against the economic blockade there will be a basket of currencies to liberate us from the dollar." There is no major market reaction for now - a modest bid to Bitcoin and some weakness in EUR and Gold (seems someone wants this to look like nothing). “You can say whatever you want for your domestic propaganda and make it look like you’re retaliating against the U.S.... This political posturing will only be to their detriment.” So what happens if Europe also sanctions Venezuela? Will Rubles or Yuan... or Gold be the only way to buy Venezuela's oil? * * * This decision by the nation with the world's largest proven oil reserves comes just days after China and Russia unveiled the latest Oil/Yuan/Gold triad at the latest BRICS conference. It’s when President Putin starts talking that the BRICS reveal their true bombshell. Geopolitically and geo-economically, Putin’s emphasis is on a “fair multipolar world”, and “against protectionism and new barriers in global trade.” The message is straight to the point. “Russia shares the BRICS countries’ concerns over the unfairness of the global financial and economic architecture, which does not give due regard to the growing weight of the emerging economies. We are ready to work together with our partners to promote international financial regulation reforms and to overcome the excessive domination of the limited number of reserve currencies.” “To overcome the excessive domination of the limited number of reserve currencies” is the politest way of stating what the BRICS have been discussing for years now; how to bypass the US dollar, as well as the petrodollar. Beijing is ready to step up the game. Soon China will launch a crude oil futures contract priced in yuan and convertible into gold. This means that Russia – as well as Iran, the other key node of Eurasia integration – may bypass US sanctions by trading energy in their own currencies, or in yuan. Inbuilt in the move is a true Chinese win-win; the yuan will be fully convertible into gold on both the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges. The new triad of oil, yuan and gold is actually a win-win-win. No problem at all if energy providers prefer to be paid in physical gold instead of yuan. The key message is the US dollar being bypassed. RC – via the Russian Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China – have been developing ruble-yuan swaps for quite a while now. Once that moves beyond the BRICS to aspiring “BRICS Plus” members and then all across the Global South, Washington’s reaction is bound to be nuclear (hopefully, not literally). Washington’s strategic doctrine rules RC should not be allowed by any means to be preponderant along the Eurasian landmass. Yet what the BRICS have in store geo-economically does not concern only Eurasia – but the whole Global South. Sections of the War Party in Washington bent on instrumentalizing India against China – or against RC – may be in for a rude awakening. As much as the BRICS may be currently facing varied waves of economic turmoil, the daring long-term road map, way beyond the Xiamen Declaration, is very much in place. * * * Having threatened China today with exclusion from SWIFT, we suspect Washington is rapidly running out of any great ally to sustain the petrodollar-driven hegemony (and implicitly its war machine). Cue the calls for a Venezuelan invasion in 3...2..1...!
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Ex-President Carter: Give Trump credit on forcing immigration debate
Published September 14, 2017 Fox News
Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday expressed optimism that President Donald Trump might break a legislative logjam with his six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children. Carter told Emory University students that the "pressures and the publicity that Trump has brought to the immigration issue" could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster. "I don't see that as a hopeless cause," Carter said. He added that Trump's critics, including himself, "have to give him credit when he does some things that are not as bad" as they are depicted. "As a matter of fact, to give Trump some due, he hasn't ended DACA yet," Carter said. "What he said is he's given the Congress six months to address the issue, which is long overdue." He also noted that Trump has waffled on whether he'd actually move to deport so-called "dreamers" if Congress doesn't act. As the 92-year-old Democrat spoke at Emory in Atlanta, Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi of California and Chuck Schumer of New York were huddled with the Republican Trump at the White House; afterward, Pelosi and Schumer announced a deal they said would protect young immigrants from deportation and grant some Republican demands on border security. Carter reminded students that Obama, whom Carter supported, failed to win passage for the Dream Act -- named for the sometimes sympathetic stories of the young immigrants -- even when he had Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill. The 39th president, who served one term from 1977 to 1981, blamed both major parties for an inability to pass any major immigration law overhaul since a 1986 law signed by President Ronald Reagan. Carter lost to Reagan in November 1980. Carter said members of his party have been too reluctant to make deals on border enforcement, though he clarified that technological investments would be better than Trump's proposal for a physical wall. Carter said Republicans are too quick to dismiss discussions of "amnesty" for "longtime residents."The deal between Democrats and Trump does not include a U.S-Mexico border wall that was a centerpiece of Trump's presidential campaign. Beyond immigration, Carter told students he supports a single-payer health care system, and he recalled proposing a measure as president that would have phased in a "Medicare-for-all" structure by extending benefits first to children, then to older Americans as the federal budget allowed. That did not pass. Democratic support is growing for Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal to extend Medicare coverage to all Americans, a trend that Carter noted. Carter said earlier this year that he voted for Sanders over Hillary Clinton in Georgia's 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He also told of collapsing earlier this year while working on a Habitat for Humanity project in Canada and being hospitalized. When he was released, he said, he asked what he owed. "Zero," he recalled. "The Canadian taxpayers paid for my treatment." Carter acknowledged to students the considerable expense of single-payer models and the political risks for his party if they anger the private insurance industry and push the tax hikes necessary to pay for universal coverage. Still, he concluded, "Theoretically, it's the best system." The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Trump cuts off visas for countries that refuse deported immigrants
by Anna Giaritelli | Sep 13, 2017, 3:47 PM
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it has ordered the State Department to limit certain visas for Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because those countries have refused to accept the return of its nationals who are deported from the United States. "International law obligates each country to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States," Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke said in a statement. "Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone have failed in that responsibility. The United States itself routinely cooperates with foreign governments in documenting and accepting its citizens when asked, as do the majority of countries in the world. However, these countries have failed to do so, and that one-way street ends with these sanctions." "American citizens have been harmed because foreign governments refuse to take back their citizens. These sanctions will ensure that the problem these countries pose will get no worse as ICE continues its work to remove dangerous criminals from the United States," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan. State Secretary Rex Tillerson has told U.S. consular officers in the four countries to impose visa restrictions on certain categories of applicants. These restrictions will be determined on a country-by-country basis. "The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has discontinued the issuance of B visas (temporary visitors for business or pleasure) for Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs employees, with the rank of Director General and above, and their families. The U.S. Embassy in Asmara, Eritrea, has discontinued the issuance of all B visas (temporary visitors for business or pleasure)," the State Department announced. "The United States Embassy in Conakry, Guinea, has discontinued the issuance of B visas (temporary visitors for business or pleasure), and F, J, and M visas (temporary visitors for student and exchange programs) to Guinean government officials and their immediate family members," the memo stated. "The United States Embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone, has discontinued the issuance of B visas (temporary visitors for business or pleasure) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials and immigration officials." If the countries continue not to cooperate with the U.S., the State Department will expand the visa sanctions to additional visa groups in that country. Tillerson will wait to lift sanctions until Duke confirms each one is cooperating. In mid-August, DHS said it had submitted a letter to the State Department asking for visas to some citizens in those same four nations be suspended. While a presidential candidate, Trump promised to take more action to get countries to take back people the U.S. sought to deport. Eight of the 20 countries that had fought the change are now working with the U.S. government to take back their citizens. ICE has had to release 2,137 Guinean and 831 Sierra Leone nationals, "many with serious criminal convictions," because their home countries refused to accept them back, according to the DHS release. Similarly, the Eritrean and Cambodian governments refused to issue travel documents for its citizens to be transported back. ICE was forced to free 700 illegal immigrants from Eritrea and 1,900 Cambodian nationals.
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The Palestinians' "Jewish Problem"
by Bassam Tawil September 13, 2017 at 5:00 am
According to the Palestinians, the two US envoys seem fully to have endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's positions instead of representing the interests of the US. Why? Because they are Jews, and as such, their loyalty is to Israel before the US. Perhaps this view is a projection of what many Muslims would do if the circumstances were reversed. What we are actually witnessing is the never-ending search for excuses on the part of the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, not to engage in peace talks with Israel. The Palestinians do not like US President Donald Trump's envoys to the Middle East. Why? The answer -- which they make blindingly clear -- is because they are Jews. In the Palestinian perspective, all three envoys -- Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, cannot be honest brokers or represent US interests because, as Jews, their loyalty to Israel surpasses, in the Palestinian view, their loyalty to the United States. Sound like anti-Semitism? Yes, it does, and such assumptions provide further evidence of Palestinian prejudices and misconceptions. The Palestinians take for granted that any Jew serving in the US administration or other governments around the world should be treated with suspicion and mistrust. Moreover, the Palestinians do not hesitate to broadcast this view. Take for example, the recent Palestinian uproar over statements made by Friedman in an interview with the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post. One phrase that Friedman said during the interview has drawn strong condemnations from the Palestinians and some other Arabs. According to the Jerusalem Post: "The Left, he explained, is portrayed as believing that only if the 'alleged occupation' ended would Israel become a better society." Specifically, it was the use of the term "alleged occupation" that prompted the Palestinians to launch a smear campaign against Friedman -- one that includes references to his being a Jew as well as a to his being a supporter of Israel. This, as far as the Palestinians are concerned, is enough to disqualify him from serving as US Ambassador to Israel or playing any role whatsoever as an honest and fair mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One political analyst with close ties to the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership in Ramallah called for removing Friedman from his job altogether. Commenting on the interview with the US ambassador, Palestinian political analyst Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul wrote: "David Friedman is known to the Palestinian people and leadership as an ugly Zionist colonial who arouses revulsion." Al-Ghoul called on President Trump to recall his ambassador to Israel and to instruct the State Department to start searching for a replacement. He said that the Palestinians are "have the right" to demand the removal of any ambassador or envoy who "trespasses diplomatic protocols." The political analyst's opinion reflects the view of many senior officials of the Palestinian Authority. These officials, however, are either reluctant to air their views in public, out of fear that disclosing them would create a crisis with the US administration and end the money that the US pumps into the PA. In private, several Palestinian officials in Ramallah have been expressing concern and anger with President Trump's choice of Jews as his top advisors and envoys on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This time, the Palestinian Authority was not able to restrain voicing its outrage with the US ambassador's use of the phrase "alleged occupation." Departing from the official PA policy not to launch personal attacks on President Trump and his representatives, the PA Foreign Affairs Ministry blasted the US for "whitewashing the occupation and covering up [Israeli] violations and crimes against the Palestinians." The ministry also denounced Friedman for attending a wedding in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank last May, and for participating in Israeli celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. Israeli citizenship also appears to be a red line for the Palestinians. They earlier had also lashed out at Friedman after reports that his daughter had obtained that citizenship. For them, this was further evidence of the US ambassador's "bias" in favor of Israel, thanks to his Jewish identity. Arab news websites and social media have also heaped scorn on Friedman for his pro-Israel position and for being a Jew, Here, for example, Friedman is dubbed a real estate broker because of his support for Jewish settlements and as someone who has influence on President Trump. Conspiracy theory, anyone? These comments, which are common among Palestinians and Arabs, are reminiscent of the conspiracy theory that Jews control the US and the world. Friedman is depicted as a Jew who affects President Trump's decisions. In other words, according to the Palestinians and Arabs, US policies are determined on the basis of what some influential Jews whisper into the ears of the US president rather than on US or international interests. Similar charges have been made against previous US administrations, both Republicans and Democrats. Henry Kissinger, Dennis Ross, and Martin Indyk are only a few of the Jews over the last few decades who have been accused by Palestinians and Arabs of having played a major role in the US decision-making process. The Jews are often referred to as being part of the Zionist lobby and a pressure group in the US that works to influence Washington's policy to ensure that it is pro-Israel. There is, of course, never any mention of the powerful Arab oil lobby. When President Trump's envoys, Kushner and Greenblatt, visited Ramallah late last month, Palestinians staged a protest in the city against US "bias" in favor of Israel. One of the protesters held a poster featuring Kushner tied to a leash by a blond woman (apparently his wife, Ivanka) who is dressed in an Israeli flag. Translation: Kushner is a puppet in the hands of the "Jewish Lobby." Another poster carried by the protesters displayed a photo of President Trump with a Palestinian boy throwing a pair of shoes at his head. The caption: "Dirty Trump, our prisoners and martyrs are not terrorists." The protest in Ramallah, which was organized by the National and Islamic Forces, an alliance of grassroots activists representing various Palestinian factions, including President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction, could not have taken place without a green light from the Palestinian Authority leadership. Abbas is not particularly known as an advocate of free speech; anyone who dares to criticize him finds himself behind bars. Just last week, Abbas ordered the arrest of two Palestinians, a journalist and an activist, who dared to criticize him in public. Anyone who wants to hold a protest in Ramallah needs the prior permission of Abbas and his lieutenants, regardless of the subject of the protest. Abbas's security officers were not blind to the anti-Semitic poster raised by the protesters against Kushner. In fact, Palestinian intelligence officers deployed at the scene were the best witnesses to this display of hatred against a US representative because of his religion. Such protests, however, are fine with the PA leadership so long as they are not directed against Abbas or any of his senior aides. Each and every time Kushner and Greenblatt meet with Palestinian officials, someone in Ramallah reminds us that are Jews and that they thus cannot possibly perform as honest brokers. Here is what Faisal Abu Khadra, another Palestinian political analyst, had to say in the semi-official Palestinian daily Al-Quds: "The ability of Trump and his administration to exert pressure on Israel is currently limited. Trump is surrounded by a group of extremist Zionists. Even in his family, Trump has extremist Jews, which questions his ability to put pressure on Israel. It's hard to see how Kushner and Greenblatt would be able to achieve a breakthrough toward peace." Among other accusations the Palestinians have lodged against Kushner and Greenblatt is the claim that when the envoys come to meet with Palestinian leaders, they parrot the positions of the Israeli government, and not the US. According to the Palestinians, the two US envoys seem fully to have endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's positions instead of representing the interests of the US. Why? Because they are Jews, and as such, their loyalty is to Israel before the US. Perhaps this view is a projection of what many Muslims would do if the circumstances were reversed. Palestinians and other Arabs therefore see and judge President Trump's emissaries according to their religion, not their positions as authentic representatives of their own country, the US. What we are actually witnessing is the never-ending search for excuses on the part of the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, not to engage in peace talks with Israel. Bassam Tawil is a Muslim based in the Middle East.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10990/palestinians-jewish-problem
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etc. If you look at Russia she is ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North Korea ready to strike, they are not playing games; they are serious with the things that they are saying. Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.
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Russia Kicks Off Huge Zapad 2017 Military Exercises With Belarus
by Alexander Smith, Mac William Bishop and Courtney Kube Sep 14 2017, 6:59 am ET
LONDON — Russia kicked off what Western powers expect to be the country's largest military exercise since the Cold War on Thursday, a massive mobilization of forces that has triggered unease among U.S. officials and their allies in Eastern Europe. Land, sea and air units will be taking part in war games across a huge area encompassing western Russia, Belarus, the Baltic Sea and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Moscow says fewer than 13,000 troops are participating, meaning they don't have to invite international observers. But NATO members and Western military experts believe as many as 100,000 troops may be involved in the drills. Dubbed Zapad, which means "west" in Russian, the exercise has its roots in vast Soviet drills dating to the 1980s. This year's edition has been planned for months. Previous versions were held in 2009 and 2013. Analysts don't believe that Russia is about to launch a war. "NATO remains calm and vigilant, and committed to keeping Estonia and all our allies safe," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said last week in Estonia, one of the tiny Baltic nations that borders Russia and often worries about undue influence from Moscow. But not everyone in the region is so sanguine. In Lithuania, another Baltic nation that was once part of the Soviet Union, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis summed up the mood. "We can't be totally calm. There is a large foreign army massed next to Lithuanian territory," he told Reuters. Other Western officials, including the head of the U.S. Army in Europe, Gen. Ben Hodges, have raised concerns that Russia might use the drills as a "Trojan horse" to make incursions into Poland and Russian-speaking regions in the Baltics. Hodges made the comment in a Reuters interview in July. Russia insists the long-planned Zapad exercises would only be used to defend against aggression by NATO, the U.S.-led 29-member military alliance founded in the aftermath of World War II. But following months of uncertainty surrounding NATO — caused by Trump's mixed messages — this year's Zapad exercise may be designed to test the alliance's resolve. "Russia is not organizing defensive operations but instead an offensive threat, testing how serious we are about protecting the members of NATO," said Jonathan Eyal, international director of the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank. Belarus not only borders Russia, but also three of America's key but relatively isolated NATO allies: Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Related: Trump's Rhetoric Has This Town Ready for War Like Estonia in the north, the latter two were occupied by Soviet forces for almost 50 years and they have remained a focus of the renewed standoff between Russia and the West. This breakdown was sparked by Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and worsened over military intervention in Syria and allegations of state-sponsored hacking. "Russia is reminding us that the Baltic states are relatively indefensible," Eyal added. "They want to see where the cracks are in NATO and where they can be widened." Trump caused alarm in Europe after he was slow to explicitly endorse NATO's central promise of collective defense, known as Article 5. He also demanded member states up their military spending and suggested he wouldn't defend them unless he did. The rhetoric from Trump has since softened — with some members of his team expressing America's strong and enduring support for NATO — but the mere suggestion of wavering was enough to give many Europeans the jitters. NATO has reinforced its position in Eastern Europe, now maintaining a rotating force of 4,000 in Poland and the Baltics. But hypothetical scenarios played out by the Rand Corporation last year found that it would take Russian forces just 60 hours to reach the outskirts of the Estonian and Latvian capitals of Tallinn and Riga. In terms of this year's Zapad exercise, what concerns some officials and experts is they aren't exactly sure how big they will be. There are also questions about Putin's true intention. The official figure given by Russia is that there will be no more than 13,000 personnel taking part. Some Western analysts say that it's no coincidence that this is also the exact number of troops allowed in a military exercise before international observers must be invited. The Vienna Document of 2011 is an agreement by members of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe — a group that includes Russia — which says that any exercise involving more than 13,000 personnel must allow observers from all other OSCE nations. Russian officials, such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, are adamant they have nothing to hide. "Our NATO colleagues know all too well that they were invited to attend these exercises, and that they are transparent," Lavrov said in a June interview. But many in NATO remain unconvinced. "We have every reason to believe that it may be substantially more troops participating than the official reported numbers," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference last month. Germany has openly alleged that the real number will be more than 100,000 troops. The same number has been predicted by U.S. officials, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. That would make Zapad 2017 Russia's largest exercise since the Cold War. Keir Giles, an associate fellow at London's Chatham House think tank, said the official figures were "hopelessly unreliable." He added Russia could get around the 13,000-limit by having several drills going on at once. Moscow is not transparent both in terms of the size and intent of their exercises, one U.S. defense official told NBC News on condition of anonymity. "They continually send more troops than they report to the international community," the official said, adding that they need to be honest about their intentions to avoid misunderstandings. Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza added: "Russia has conducted several large-scale snap exercises along NATO's Eastern flank with little to no notice and in a non-transparent manner." The last Zapad exercise, in 2013, featured "more than 75,000 men, who were engaged in simulated operations in the air, on land and at sea," according to a report by The Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based research institute. For comparison, last year 24 NATO members held a military exercise named "Anakonda," which included more than 31,000 service members. Whatever the number, the exercises come against the backdrop of several close encounters between Russian and NATO aircraft and ships in recent years. "There's always a possibility for miscalculation when that's going on," Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO's supreme allied commander, told reporters last month, referring to these near-misses. "I think that's the importance of transparency, particularly on Russia's part, to tell us about [the Zapad] exercise: What should we expect to see, what is the size of them, where will they operate?" What's also unclear, according to some Western analysts, are Putin's motives. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has dismissed as "nonsense in its purest form" any suggestion that the Kremlin is using the drills for anything other than defense. But many Western experts say that Russian exercises are often used to disguise other objectives. Most notably, Russia's war with Georgia in 2008 and annexation of Crimea in 2014 both followed military exercises that allowed Moscow to move troops into key locations. "These large-scale exercises … served as a means to obscure the movement of Russian units into the conflict zone," according to the report by The Jamestown Foundation following the Zapad 2013 exercise. One theory is that this year's drill could be used by Russia to "leave troops behind" in Belarus in order to give Moscow a more-advanced forward base in Europe, according to Giles at Chatham House.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-plans-huge-zapad-2017-military-exercises-belarus-n788741
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Russia Has Deployed Its MiG-29SMT Multirole Combat Aircraft To Syria For The Very First Time
Sep 13 2017By David Cenciotti
Once again the Syrian Air War is the testbed for the most recent Russian Air Force weapons system. This time is the turn of the MiG-29SMT. The Russian Air Force has deployed some MiG-29SMT multirole combat aircraft to Hmeymim airbase, near Latakia, in western Syria, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed on Sept. 13, 2017. It’s the first time the modernized version of the baseline Fulcrum jet is deployed to take part in the Syrian Air War. The MiG-29SMT is an upgraded variant of the MiG-29 featuring a big 950-litre spine CFT (Conformal Fuel Tank) and an in-flight refueling system on the left hand side of the cockpit: it is equipped with a “glass cockpit” with two MFI-10-6M displays and IKSh-1M HUD (Head-Up Display). With a maximum range of 1,800 km (3,000 with three drop tanks), it can carry guided air-to-surface weapons. According to “Russia’s Warplanes, Volume 1” by Piotr Butowski published by Harpia Publishing, one of the most authoritative sources on Russian military aircraft and helicopters today, besides the baseline Fulcrum loadout, the MiG-29SMT can carry two R-27T medium-range IR-guided air-to-air missiles or two extended-range R-27ER/ET AAMs, or up to six RVV-AE AAMs. Air-to-ground weapons include two Kh-29T/L, up to four Kh-25M, or two Kh-31A7P missiles, or up to four KAB-500 guided bombs. The first images emerging from Syria show at least one aircraft with two unguided FAB-500s. The Russian Air Force plans to operate a fleet of 44 MIG-29SMT fighters: 28 were returned from Algeria (that ordered the aircraft in February 2006 and broke the contract after 16 were delivered because they claimed that the airframes were not brand new – these, according to Butowski were acquired by the Russian MoD and delivered to a fighter regiment in Kursk-Khalino beginning in February 2009) and another batch (whose complete delivery status is not known) of 16 aircraft ordered in 2014 and due to delivery by the end of 2016. The video below shows the MiG-29SMTs in Syria for the very first time.
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etc.. For it is a very dark hour as you have seen and that hour shall grow darker and darker and darker, for the evil spirits possessing people shall manifest themselves, and as they manifest themselves, you shall see death, you shall see killings, you shall see blood flowing, you shall see many things, many things. Think it not strange, but it is that hour and it is that time and no one seems to be binding up those spirits, nobody seems to be casting them out, nobody understands them. For the world tells you that you are bipolar, no you are demon possessed, saith your Father God. etc..
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At Least 11 Mayors Accused Of Child Sex-Related Crimes Since 2016
Peter Hasson Associate Editor 11:46 AM 09/13/2017
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned on Wednesday after a fifth man publicly accused the Democrat of molesting him as a child. But Murray isn’t alone. At least 11 then-current and former mayors have been accused of child sex abuse-related crimes since 2016. The allegations range from child porn to physical abuse. The alleged victims were as young as four years old. Stillwater, New York Mayor Rick Nelson resigned earlier this month after being arrested on child porn charges. Nelson has a decades-long history of alleged sexual misconduct involving teenagers and children. The child porn charges marked the fifth such accusation against Nelson, the Times Union reported, including allegations of rape and sodomy. Nelson was never convicted for the previous alleged abuses, which allegedly included inappropriate behavior with a five year old in 1982 on the school bus that Nelson was driving at the time. Nelson is the father of Patrick Nelson, a Democratic 2018 congressional candidate who served as one of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ delegates at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Just last week, 78-year-old Dale Kenyon, former mayor of Clayton, New York was indicted on charges of sexually abusing a teenager over the course of three years. (RELATED: De Blasio Staffer, Rising Democrat, Caught With Child Porn) Dwayne Schutt, 61-year old mayor of Randolph, Nebraska, was arrested in July on multiple child sexual assault charges, KTIV reported. Police say Schutt repeatedly sexually abused a minor over a period of four years, beginning when the victim was 13-years-old. Schutt, whose trial is ongoing, remains Randolph’s mayor today. Former Ohio mayor Richard Keenan, a Democrat, was handed a life sentence in April 2017 after he pled guilty to repeatedly raping a four-year-old girl, WFMJ reported. Keenan, who was first indicted in August 2016, will be eligible for parole after serving 10 years. He claimed during the trial that the four-year-old was a “willing participant. ”Anthony Silva, then-mayor of Stockton, California, was arrested last August on charges that he provided teens with alcohol at a camp for underprivileged youth that he ran before recording them playing strip poker, the AP reported. Silva, who claimed he accidentally recorded the strip poker game after interrupting it, pled no contest to the lesser charge of providing alcohol to a minor. He was sentenced to 40 hours of community service. Silva, a Republican, was later accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the camp in a case that is ongoing. Kenneth Lewis Barrett, then-mayor of Winston, Oregon, was one of four men arrested on March 19 as part of a sex sting, KPIC reported. Authorities say the four men believed they were meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex. Barrett was carrying a concealed handgun when he showed up to the meet, police say. The trial of a Georgia man last year convicted of molesting and raping an 11-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl took a dark twist when the girl said that Christopher Wright, then a Georgia mayor, had also raped her and forced her to perform oral sex on him, KTOC reported. Wright, who was first elected mayor as a Democrat in 2012 at the age of 22, was indicted in June 2016, WALB reported. Wright pled no contest to child sex abuse and rape in January 2017 but was let off without a prison sentence. He was sentenced to 20 years probation — during which time he can’t seek public office — and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. Former Rockdale, Texas mayor Darral Gene Walker was indicted in June 2016 on charges of sexual misconduct. “A copy of the indictment said Walker engaged in sexual contact with a child younger than 17 years of age by touching the boy’s genitals,” TDTNews reported. “Walker admitted that the events happened at his home in Rockdale, but said it was for purely educational reasons, not for sexual gratification.” Walker pled guilty to a lesser assault charge in August 2016 after striking a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid registering as a sex offender. Former Millbrook, New York mayor Donald H. Briggs was indicted on felony charges in December 2016, in relation to “alleged inappropriate sexual contact with a person younger than 17,” according to local news reports.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/13/at-least-11-mayors-accused-of-child-sex-related-crimes-since-2016/
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North Korea threatens to 'reduce the US to ashes' and 'sink Japan into the sea' as satellite images suggest Kim Jong-un is preparing another nuclear test
North Korea threatens to reduce 'Yankees' to 'ashes and dust' after sanctions
Also hits out at 'wicked Japs' and says country 'should be sunk' by a nuke
Comes as US defense officials said regime has spent last 48 hours moving mobile missile launchers into position and preparing fixed sites for launch
Elsewhere new satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site was released
It suggests part of the underground base collapsed after last test, but that new areas are now being prepared to carry out future explosions
By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 03:09 EDT, 14 September 2017 | Updated: 13:42 EDT, 14 September 2017
North Korea has threatened to nuke Japan and reduce the US 'to ashes and darkness' in response to the latest sanctions imposed by the UN. The threat was issued via the North's state news agency as US defense officials said the regime has spent the last 48 hours moving mobile missile launchers and preparing fixed sites for launch. Elsewhere analysts from Johns Hopkins University said Kim Jong-un's regime appears to be readying its nuclear test site for more detonations following the explosion of what North Korea claims was a hydrogen bomb on September 3. In a statement released by news agency KCNA, a spokesman for the regime said: 'The army and people of the DPRK are unanimously demanding that the Yankees, chief culprit in cooking up the "sanctions resolution", be beaten to death as a stick is fit for a rabid dog. 'There's limit to patience. Now is the time to annihilate the U.S. imperialist aggressors. Let's reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. 'Let's vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now. These are voices of the Korean army and people. 'Also heard in the DPRK are strong accusations against the Japs who have zealously joined in the U.S. racket for sanctions. 'The behaviors of Japs, sworn enemy of the Korean nation, are enraging us. The wicked Japs should not be pardoned... 'A telling blow should be dealt to them who have not yet come to senses after the launch of our ICBM over the Japanese archipelago. 'The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us.' Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga called the statement 'outrageous', saying it 'escalates tension in the region and is absolutely unacceptable.' The statement came as NBC news said three senior US defense officials had confirmed that the North had been observed moving multiple mobile missile launchers and preparing 'hard sites' for launch. Analysts believed that North Korea's latest missile, the Hwasong-14 is capable of ranging most of the mainland US, and has already been fired over Japan. The North claims that the nuclear warhead it tested at its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site on September 3 is small enough to fit on the tip of the missile, though there are doubts as to whether it has the technology to bring it back to earth intact. The troubling developments came as new commercial satellite imagery released by Johns Hopkins University via the 38North website showed new activity at Punggye-ri. Analysts from the US-Korea Institute at the university observed multiple large landslips at the northern end of the site, which are more extensive than those seen after previous nuclear tests. A rectangular subsidence 'crater' at the northern end of the site, near Mount Mintap, suggests that part of the site has collapsed due to the force of the last blast. However, increased activity around southern and western underground portals suggests new areas are now being prepared to carry out future tests. 'Imagery from September 8 shows a large tractor/trailer cargo truck in the South Portal Area for the first time, and mining carts and other equipment are present outside the West Portal,' Frank Pabian, Joseph Bermudez Jr. and Jack Liu said. 'Such activity, coming shortly after the largest underground nuclear test conducted at Punggye-ri to date (via the North Portal), suggests that onsite work could now be changing focus to further prepare those other portals for future underground nuclear testing.' The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Monday to impose fresh sanctions on North Korea following its latest nuclear test. Measures include the complete ban on North Korean labour being used overseas, which earns the regime an estimated $500million per year. North Korea citizens are often forcibly transferred overseas to work, given a subsistence wage and then forced to send the rest of what they earn back to Pyongyang. Dozens of countries are thought to make use of such labour - including future World Cup host Qatar, but it is most prominent in China and Russia. Further measures were designed to hit North Korean coal and textile exports, oil imports and impose asset freezes on regime officials.
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BULLSEYE! South Korea tests its new cruise missile that could wipe out Kim Jong-un from 300 miles – as North Korea threatens U.S. and Seoul with ‘miserable destruction’
South Korea's Air Force fired the Taurus missile from an F-15 fighter jet and hit a target off the country's western coast
By Jenny Awford 13th September 2017, 11:44 am Updated: 14th September 2017, 9:53 am
SOUTH Korea has tested an advanced cruise missile that could wipe out Kim Jong-un from 300 miles away as the North Korean nuke crisis intensifies. The show of force prompted North Korea’s ruling party to threaten Seoul and the US with “miserable destruction”. Dramatic footage shows the moment South Korea's Air Force fired the Taurus missile from an F-15 fighter jet and hit a target off the country's western coast on Tuesday. Live-fire drills are being carried out to strengthen South Korea’s pre-emptive strike capability against North Korea in the event of a crisis. The long-range Taurus air-to-surface missiles were introduced from Germany for precision bombing of key facilities in North Korea. They have a range of 310 miles (500km) and could attack targets in North's capital Pyongyang, even if it is fired from the central part of South Korea. With a maximum speed of 1,163kph, the missiles could obliterate many targets in the communist country within 15 minutes. The weapons are equipped with stealth characteristics so they avoid radar detection before hitting North Korean targets, according to Seoul's Defence Ministry. South Korea is on course to deploy some 170 Taurus missiles as part of its on-going air defence build-up plan, Kill Chain. The country imported around 90 more last year. The latest drill was also designed to test the Air Force's integration of the German missile with local fighter jets and monitor performance. "By hitting the target precisely, the exercise showed off the military's capability to respond to an enemy attack, as well as its ability to launch precision attacks on strategic targets even from a far distance," the Air Force said. The missile was fired without an explosive device for safety reasons. The exercise came as North Korea’s ruling party accused South Korea of “blindly dancing” to the tune of the US. “The South Korean puppet forces disclose again their chronic evil practice of depending on outside forces while looking up to their master at a time when US-led imperialists are feeling extreme uneasiness and terror owing to the great tremor caused by the DPRK's nuclear thunder,” state media said. “Their criminal action goes to clearly prove once again their ugly colours as henchmen carrying out outside forces' policy for aggression against the DPRK. “The reckless sanctions and pressure upon the DPRK kicked up by them, blindly dancing to the tune of the US, are an unpardonable treacherous act of going against the aspiration of the compatriots for national reconciliation and unity and the improvement of inter-Korean relations. “Sycophantic and treacherous acts and dependence on outside forces will lead to miserable destruction.” A Washington State senator warned the region must start preparing for a nuclear attack because of the growing threat from North Korea. Mark Miloscia said the danger to Pacific Northwest, which is the closest part of the US mainland to North Korea, was "starting to become imminent". He warned that the threat was growing with each weapons test, urging lawmakers to back the bid for an emergency response plan when they meet tomorrow. The senator - who flew nuclear-ready B52 bombers during the Cold War - also said that America could not rely on the safeguards that once prevented hostilities with the Soviet Union. He said: "In the Cuban Missile Crisis we had the institution of the red phone, and various ways of contacting each other militarily to make sure we don't escalate. "None of that exists with North Korea. With the current regime, we don't even have anything close to the controls over the relationships we had with the Soviet Politburo and its leaders. "And I don't think they have any sort of rational contact with any of their neighbours that we can deal with... Given that, we hope for the best but we have to plan for the worst." Under current rules, Washington state is prevented from planning an emergency response to a nuclear attack. It's a throwback to the Cold War, when it was feared that planning for a nuclear strike might suggest the US was preparing to launch one itself and expected a response. Mr Miloscia said he understood the logic, but the situation had changed and it was the duty of public officials to prepare. "We should have some sort of pre-planned response ready," he said. "Because the threat is growing and the threat is starting to become imminent. And not to do so would be a dereliction of duty." He continued: "I think it's a real threat, if not in the short term then in the foreseeable future… initially I thought three to five years, but it could be even sooner. "I think we would be completely wrong to ignore it… There may be a better target for North Korea i.e. Hawaii, which is a little bit closer. "But I would put Seattle as one of the top five targets in the north-west to go against, both militarily and economically, for any sort of adversary." The remarks follow a series of North Korean weapons tests in recent months, including the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching US soil. And the situation only grew tenser when Kim Jong-un tested a nuclear bomb, estimated by US intelligence to pack a 140kiloton punch - nearly ten times bigger than the Hiroshima blast. Mr Miloscia added: "To our country, they are clearly one of our primary threats, period. "Because when you combine an atomic capability with launch capability, that is a significant upgrade in threat. So you have to plan. "I don't think we have that sort of threat capability and that willingness from any other nation in the world." The changes proposed by the Republican senator and David Frockt, a Democrat, will axe the rules preventing Washington from preparing for a nuclear attack. Mr Miloscia will put the bill before his fellow lawmakers at the state capital, Olympia, tomorrow. He then hopes a plan can be drawn up a the same time as officials revise Washington's earthquake, tsunami and volcano response plans.
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Hurricane Irma energy soars over Houston after a 5000 mile journey - Seriously, what are the odds?
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Giant Equifax data breach: 143 million people could be affected
by Sara Ashley O'Brien @saraashleyo September 8, 2017: 9:23 AM ET
Equifax says a giant cybersecurity breach compromised the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans — almost half the country. Cyber criminals have accessed sensitive information -- including names, social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and the numbers of some driver's licenses. Additionally, Equifax said that credit card numbers for about 209,000 U.S. customers were exposed, as was "personal identifying information" on roughly 182,000 U.S. customers involved in credit report disputes. Residents in the U.K. and Canada were also impacted. The breach occurred between mid-May and July, Equifax said. The company said it discovered the hack on July 29. The data breach is one of the worst ever, by its reach and by the kind of information exposed to the public. "This is clearly a disappointing event for our company, and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do," said Equifax chairman and CEO Richard F. Smith. Equifax is one of three nationwide credit-reporting companies that track and rates the financial history of U.S. consumers. The companies are supplied with data about loans, loan payments and credit cards, as well as information on everything from child support payments, credit limits, missed rent and utilities payments, addresses and employer history, which all factor into credit scores. Unlike other data breaches, not all of the people affected by the Equifax breach may be aware that they're customers of the company. Equifax gets its data from credit card companies, banks, retailers, and lenders who report on the credit activity of individuals to credit reporting agencies, as well as by purchasing public records. Equifax is mailing notices to people whose credit cards or dispute documents were affected. It also says that consumers can check to see if they've potentially been impacted by submitting their name and the last six digits of their social security number. Users are given a date when they will be enrolled in free identity theft protection and credit file monitoring services. Equifax did not immediately reply to CNN Tech's request for more information about the process. "This is reason Number 10,000 to check your online bank statements and credit card statements on a regular basis, ideally weekly," said Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com. "Bad guys can be very patient, so it's important to keep an eye out long after this story fades from the headlines."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/technology/business/equifax-data-breach/index.html
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Journalist Says: In North Korea, Talk Of War And Nuclear Weapons Is 'Everywhere'
September 13, 20172:08 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air
New Yorker writer Evan Osnos visited North Korea in August to understand what they really mean when they talk about nuclear war. He found that nuclear weapons are an essential part of their society. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos, went on a reporting trip to North Korea at a dangerous time. It was last month, three days after President Trump tweeted that military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded should North Korea act unwisely. Osnos went to North Korea to see what he could learn about the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, and his nuclear strategy. In July, North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile that could potentially reach the mainland of the U.S. This month, it detonated a nuclear weapon several times more powerful than the atom bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. President Trump has threatened to unleash fire and fury like the world has never seen if North Korea makes any more threats against the U.S. And yesterday, in response to the new, stricter sanctions passed by the U.N. Security Council, the North Korean ambassador said North Korea is ready to use a form of ultimate means. We're going to talk about what Evan Osnos saw and learned during his four days in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Osnos covers politics and foreign affairs for The New Yorker. He covered China for eight years. Evan Osnos, welcome back to FRESH AIR. Before we talk about your trip, how worried are you about a possible nuclear war, that either North Korea or the U.S. will use a nuclear weapon? EVAN OSNOS: I think we have to take extremely seriously the moment that we're in because this really is an unusual moment. You know, to be blunt about it, we're dealing with two political leaders who have between them a combined seven years of experience in public office, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Each of them prides themselves on being unpredictable, on being confrontational when necessary, and that introduces two chemical ingredients into this U.S.-North Korea relationship that is very different than what came before. So I'll tell you honestly. I don't sit up at night worrying about nuclear war, but I have a very clear sense now that we're facing extremely risky territory. GROSS: We've always relied on deterrence. And you've spoken to deterrence experts, and some of them feel like the equation for deterrence has changed now that we're talking about Kim Jong Un and President Trump. OSNOS: Yeah. This is the key fact about the moment that we're in right now. What's changed is that we're now into an era in which neither side truly understands who is sitting on the opposite side of the Pacific. They don't really know in Pyongyang whether Donald Trump means it when he says that, quote, "fire and fury" would be raining down on Pyongyang if they threaten the United States. They don't quite know what he means when he says that the U.S. is locked and loaded as he did in a tweet in August. And on the U.S. side, of course it's very hard to know what to make of these statements that North Korea makes, these incredibly hyperbolic declarations about breaking the windpipes of the Yankees and drowning them in a sea of blood. And as a result, in many ways, you find two countries staring at each other through very foggy glass. And that's partly by design. But the result is that today, instead of the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which had a fairly clear sense of each other by the end of the Cold War, we're dealing with two countries that are in many ways deeply unaware of how the other one thinks. GROSS: Well, you went to North Korea after some frightening exchanges. This was just three days after President Trump tweeted that military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded. Was that a particularly frightening time to go to North Korea ? OSNOS: I mean I'll be honest. Yeah, I had some hesitation about whether this was a mistake. I'd spent several months putting together this trip, dealing with the North Korean government, trying to get them to approve the idea. And then it just happened that in August when the trip was ready to go, that the relationship deteriorated quite rapidly. And you had both sides threatening violence against the other. And so for a few days, my editors and I were talking about whether this was still a valid idea and whether it can be done safely. And what we concluded in the end was that the risks were manageable. I was there, invited by the government. They knew who I was. They knew I was a journalist. And it seemed like the wise choice to go. GROSS: So why did you want to go? What did you hope to learn? OSNOS: I was desperate to try to understand what they actually mean when they say these things. I wanted to understand what North Korea intends when they talk about nuclear weapons. How do they actually imagine a war would unfold? How do they think about things like the theory of deterrence, the idea of mutually assured destruction? Do they imagine that a war with the United States would be the end of them? Or do they have some other conception? And frankly I also wanted to understand what it felt like on the ground. I mean was it a place that looked more belligerent than aggressive from far away as - than it would be up close? GROSS: So do you now feel like you have a better understanding of what North Korea's concept of nuclear war is, what its leaders' concept is about what nuclear war would actually mean for them and for their people? OSNOS: I did learn a few things that I think are important for us to keep in mind. One of the things that's quite striking when you get to Pyongyang is that talk of war and nuclear weapons and missiles is everywhere. It's on billboards beside the street. I drove by a billboard that showed a picture of the U.S. Capitol that's been reduced to rubble, and North Korean missiles are going into it. And it says - in Korean script across the top, it says, preventive war and military options. And then you hear about... GROSS: Can we just stop right there and talk about what a frightening image that must've been to drive, passing the Capitol of your country... OSNOS: (Laugher) Right. GROSS: ...Ruined by a North Korean nuclear weapon... OSNOS: Right. GROSS: ...On a billboard. OSNOS: Yeah. I mean, Terry, this is - gets to the heart of the strangeness of the experience. Let's be honest. This is not the kind of billboard that you see in the United States. And that's - you know, that's - we've had a nuclear arsenal since World War II, and it exists sort of in the background of our consciousness. We know we have these weapons. We know there's this risk always of nuclear conflict of some kind. But it's not the kind of thing that ever comes up in daily conversation perhaps until recently. But in North Korea, it comes up a fair amount. I mean we're sitting at lunch, and on television there is pictures of artillery and missiles. And it's a kind of propaganda film that's running on the screen over our heads. And if you talk to government officials, they say that they are thinking about it constantly. And some of that is very, very much for public consumption. It's intended for me, the American journalist, to bring that message home. But it's also important for us to recognize that we don't think about war quite the same way that North Korea thinks about war because after all, you know, the Korean War, which took place between 1950 and 1953, is a distant part of our collective memory in the United States. It's overshadowed, really, by other wars in the 20th century. But for North Korea, it was practically last week. That's how they talk about it. It's very much still a live, active issue. And they think about the threat and the prospect of American hostility and invasion. For them, that is a very real thing. It's not abstract. GROSS: You know, in talking about the propaganda and the emphasis on, like, weaponry, you know, dolphins in the U.S. are considered these beautiful, peaceful animals, very new-agey (ph), spiritual. People swim with the dolphins. Talk about the missiles and the dolphins in North Korea. OSNOS: (Laughter) Yeah. This was a really, in its own way, revealing little moment. They took me to a number of places in the capital that were intended to show me that the life in Pyongyang is getting better and better. That's what they wanted to project. And it's worth pointing out here, you know, North Korea has a per capita income that's roughly comparable to Haiti. It's a little bit behind Yemen. So it is a poor country by any measure. But in the city itself, in Pyongyang, there are these very clear signs of development and growth. So one of the places they took me was what's known as the dolphinarium. It's an aquarium where dolphins will flip around and jump in the air and, you know, jump through rings. And at the end of the show, there's a video montage. And in the video montage, there are missiles streaking across the sky. And I asked my minder from the foreign ministry; I said, what's the connection there between dolphins and missiles? And he said the connection is that we will have everything we want - a dolphinarium, missiles. One by one, we will achieve it. And in that, that's a really important point because what's happened is that the missile and the nuclear program have been braided into the North Korean sense of pride and self-respect and joy and so that everybody is reminded every day that these programs, these weapons are essential elements of your own sense of personal and family satisfaction. And that's one of the reasons why I think it's going to be harder for the United States to persuade North Korea to give them up than we might naturally assume. GROSS: I know you didn't get a chance to speak with a lot of North Korean people, and the people in Pyongyang are kind of chosen to live there because they're younger, they're healthier, they're - they're - it's a very cleansed image of what North Korea is like. But from the little you were able to get, do you think that people in North Korea are afraid of the consequences of nuclear war? Do they understand what a nuclear weapon really does, that if there was a nuclear war and North Korea was attacked in exchange for their weapon, you know, if there was a counter nuclear attack on North Korea, that it would be devastating, that they would - you know, millions would die horrible deaths? It's, like, way beyond a sense of pride. It's, like, a terrible, terrible death. OSNOS: Yeah, and I'm going to - I'll answer that in two ways. One is what I was told, and the second is what I came to believe. The first thing is that people go out of their way to tell you how comfortable they are with the idea of a nuclear exchange. I mean, I had a conversation with a very smart and very alert, knowledgeable America analyst at the Foreign Ministry, a guy named Pak Song Il, whose job it is to analyze the United States, speaks extremely good English. And he said, look; we understand that a war would be devastating, but we've survived devastation twice in our recent history - the Korean War and then the famine of the mid-'90s which killed up to three million people. And he said, we would - we would survive again. And he took me down into the subway which is built a hundred meters underground, twice the depth of the New York subway system, and he said, this is where we would go in the event of a nuclear strike. He showed me the blast doors. And when you walk down the street, you hear loudspeakers that are talking about the threat of American attack and the need to be alert to spies and to enemies. And yet I have to admit, after - after hearing this day, after day, after - they were telling me over and over again - and I would stop people on the street and I would ask them to talk about the hostility and the crisis of the moment, and they would give very similar answers. In fact, you know, I didn't bother putting many of them into the story because it was just so repetitive. But - but what was - what I concluded was that this is a form of national theater. In a sense, North Korea's self-image today is rooted in the idea that it - it survived the Korean War. In their own telling, they beat the Americans. Historians disagree with that. They say that what it - it was in fact a stalemate. But in the Korean self-image, they are capable of survival. They see themselves as gritty, and I came away with the very distinct impression that when they talk about nuclear war, you know, to borrow a phrase, what they're really talking about is their sense of - of will and determination to be a country that can stand up to this immense level of isolation and sanctions and hostility in the world. But the idea that they would actually push this to the point of a nuclear exchange is - is not as - is not as sincere as the propaganda and the theatrics would suggest. I think that's really important to point out. GROSS: What - what? What evidence do you have of that? OSNOS: You know, this is a little bit like deterrence in the sense that it goes partly on the basis of instinct and feel. And I had these conversations with North Korean government officials in which they are living their lives. You know, they are - Pak Song Il, who I spent a lot of time with, has a 5-year-old son. He is frustrated by the fact that sanctions have stopped the import of Lego bricks because they're qualified as a luxury good under international standards. That's what frustrates him. He's a guy who gets up in the morning and tries to understand Donald Trump's Twitter feed. You know, he lives a life. He is not a jihadist who is thinking about self-sacrifice and about some holy martyrdom. And I think that's really important to distinguish because we've become so inured over the course of the last 15 years to the idea that there are people who imagine glory in suicide that we sometimes imagine that North Korea is the same way. And it's not the same way. We have to be deadly serious about what their government has the capability to do and what they intend to do. But let's not go too far and assume that that means that it's a suicidal regime because that's a very different thing. GROSS: Well, the person who you just described, Mr. Pak, was your minder during a good deal of the trip. And he's from North Korea's Foreign Ministry's Institute for American Studies. That's not American studies like your average American studies department at an American university. What does American studies mean in that context? OSNOS: They're in charge of assessing everything they can about the U.S. So they read every story that comes out in the American press about North Korea. They have the difficult task of reading Donald Trump's comments, following his Twitter feed, trying to understand what he means. And, you know, for - they had a lot of questions for me, yeah, which was kind of a surprise. I didn't really expect that, but a senior official in the Institute for American Studies late in the evening one night after we'd had a long dinner said to me, is it true that H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, has control over the black bag, by which he meant the nuclear codes. And I said, no, that's not true. The president has control over the nuclear codes. You need to be clear on that. But I was quite struck. This is one of the most senior diplomats in the North Korean Foreign Ministry in charge of the American account, and he's still very much trying to gather information about the nature of our nuclear decision-making. I think what they were trying to do was - and we do this too as Americans, and American journalists and intelligence analysts do the same thing, which is, sure, that's very much the public information. We know it's true that the... GROSS: Oh, I see, yeah. OSNOS: ...President - but he was trying to say, look, you live in Washington. You cover politics. You know some of these people. What's really going on? And that's - you know, that was very much the tone of a lot of their questions was what's really going on. Why is it, they said, that the president will use this in - this very confrontational language on Twitter but then his own secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, will come out and say we seek no regime change, we want some sort of diplomatic negotiations? So they're trying to figure out what's going on there because it doesn't seem to be the simple matter that the president is speaking with one voice. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Evan Osnos. He's a staff writer who covers politics and foreign affairs for The New Yorker, and his new article is called "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea." He traveled there recently. We'll talk more about the trip after we take a short break. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF PAUL SIMON'S "ONE MAN'S CEILING IS ANOTHER MAN'S FLOOR")
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. And if you're just joining us, my guest is Evan Osnos. He's a staff writer for The New Yorker, covering politics and foreign affairs. His new article is called "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea," and it's based in part on four days he spent in North Korea in August. It's also based on a lot of interviews he's done here and in Seoul. What were some of the questions you asked your minders about Kim Jong Un? OSNOS: I was very (laughter) careful about asking about Kim Jong Un because they treat him like a god. This is, you know - the rules are such that anything that disparages Kim Jong Un or dishonors him in any way is a lawbreaking offense, and they would consider that grounds for detention. So when you ask about him - it's perfectly legitimate to ask about him, and I would do so in talking about his readiness for war, his perception of American will and resolve. But I didn't ask very many questions about his personal life partly because the best information on that is really available outside North Korea. And I've been making trips to Seoul and Beijing and spending time in Washington in order to answer some of those questions. So I guess when I asked them questions about Kim Jong Un, I asked them things like, when he goes to a missile launch and he celebrates this successful missile launch, what does he actually want the United States to take away from that? What message is he trying to send? And that's their job - is to try to craft the message the government sends. And so their answer to that was that we need you to understand that there is - in the end, there is nothing that will stop us from taking steps to protect ourselves if we believe that you're going to strike us first. That's a big point. We sometimes overlook what a fundamental difference it means if a country is prepared to take a pre-emptive step to protect itself or to attack an enemy. But North Korea over the last four years has begun to talk about pre-emptive strikes. And they were - that was one of the first things that they wanted to talk about with me - was, they said, Donald Trump has talked about the possibility of a preventive war with North Korea, meaning a war that the United States would start in order to prevent North Korea from acquiring greater threatening capability. And they said, but you need to understand the United States is not the only country that's capable of a preventive war. GROSS: OK, so what you're talking about here is if North Korea thinks that the U.S. is going to launch a pre-emptive war because the U.S. thinks that North Korea is going to attack the U.S., then North Korea will pre-empt the pre-emptive (laughter) war and launch first. So it's this - I know there's usually empirical evidence about what missiles are being moved where and so on, but it sounds like there's a lot of mind reading going on here. And it's hard to read Donald Trump's mind, and it's hard to read Kim Jong Un's mind. That seems kind of frightening. OSNOS: You know, it is a kind of psychological gamesmanship, but in some ways, this is not new. And we need to sometimes step back and remind ourselves that this is a problem that the world has faced since 1945. You know, you have had great powers in the Soviet Union and China and the United States that were at one point in our history, in the '60s and '70s and 80s - we all remember the Cold War as being this period of chronic tension when something could set it off. And that was a period in which we formed some theories about how this works. And one of the greatest thinkers on the subject of deterrence was Thomas Schelling. He was an economist at Harvard and the University of Maryland. He won a Nobel Prize for thinking about deterrence and his writings on the subject. And what he said was that a nuclear standoff is not like two people in a boxing ring in which one will stand and one will fall. It is like two mountain climbers who are tethered together, standing on the edge of a cliff. And they're - each one is trying to persuade the other one that they're willing to take the ultimate step or that they might just slip and take them both down inadvertently. And so it is ultimately a game in the mind much more so than it is about the technical capabilities and what they're actually capable of doing to each other. GROSS: My guest is Evan Osnos, who covers politics and foreign affairs for The New Yorker. His article "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea" is in the current issue. After a break, we'll talk more about what he saw and learned in North Korea, and he'll tell us how he managed to get there. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF STEVE REICH'S "MALLET QUARTET I. FAST") GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to my interview with New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos about his recent reporting trip to North Korea to learn what he could about their nuclear strategy. His article "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea" is in the current edition of The New Yorker. Osnos covers politics and foreign affairs for the magazine. He spent four days last month in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. How do you even get to go to North Korea as a reporter for The New Yorker? OSNOS: Well, it's a harder place to get to partly because we don't have diplomatic relations with North Korea. There is no embassy in Washington. Usually that's how you apply to go to a country as a journalist. But in this case, there is something that I'd heard about for years that's an informal office known as the New York channel. And it exists within North Korea's mission to the U.N. And it consists of a couple of diplomats who are charged with managing really the frontline of the relationship with the U.S. And I got an email for them, and I sent them a note. And they responded. And I said, look; I'd like to come to North Korea. And they're very cautious about this. They typically allow journalists to come in in large groups to witness parades or for special occasions. But they are a little bit warier of individual reporters who want to talk about the nuclear program. And they said it'll take months, and it did. It took about five months. But in the end, the trip was arranged. They - I think they concluded that they had a message that they wanted to send to the rest of the world that wasn't getting out. And for that reason, they needed to let some somebody and to tell it. GROSS: What do you think the message was? OSNOS: The message was, we will never give up nuclear weapons. And that message is deeply felt. I mean they will tell you that the reason they will never give up nuclear weapons is that they remember what happened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, both of whom were developing nuclear weapons at one point, gave them up and, as a result, ended up losing their regime. And both of them ended up executed. And they talk about this quite openly - that the lesson of Libya, the lesson of Gaddafi's fall was that if you go down that path, you leave yourself vulnerable to the changing whims of the United States, and you can ultimately be cast aside. And so Kim Jong Un and his government are adamant that they will not make the same mistake. GROSS: Well, that leads to the fact that, say, under Saddam Hussein, you know, a lot of people in Iraq hated him, feared him, had been tortured by him. You know, there were the Sunni insiders who supported him because they were part of his regime. But you know, the Shia and the people outside his regime lived in fear. And so I think the Bush administration thought, well, you overthrow Saddam, and people cheer, and they welcome you and so on - didn't work out that way. But what sense did you get in North Korea about what people's true feelings were about Kim Jong Un, who calls himself the supreme leader? Did you get any sense from the insiders who you spoke to and from people who were on the street who you tried to talk to? OSNOS: When you're on the ground in North Korea, you get only the most sanitized and carefully administered official view. There's no question about that. And that view is very clear, which is that Kim Jong Un is a wise and prudent and gifted leader and full stop. And really almost there is no deviation from that. And you know, in and of itself, that's sort of an amazing thing to see just as an example of the effectiveness of propaganda and the effectiveness of the risk of stepping outside of that. And I should say that, you know, one of the reasons why people are so vigilant - I've worked on a lot of authoritarian countries over the years. I've been to places that are repressive. But North Korea is in a class by itself. I have never been to a place where there is as clear and as rigid a sense of what can be said and not said. And nobody that you will encounter as a foreigner there - even if you're a foreign diplomat who's based there for several years, you will not encounter people who say to you anything disparaging about the leadership. But outside the country in Seoul and Beijing and places where I met defectors, for instance, you can get a much clearer sense. And what you hear when you talk to defectors in Seoul and other places is that there is a lot of dissatisfaction with Kim Jong Un. He is the third generation of the Kim dynasty to rule the country, but he doesn't have the revolutionary credentials that his grandfather had. He doesn't have the experience that his father had. He grew up in a very cloistered and privileged environment, and they're not exactly sure whether he's got the experience and the wit to be able to pull this off. But I've spoken to a number of people in the American intelligence community who have looked for examples of a coup, you know, the possibility that people would rise up against him or organize around him. And what they told me is that they've never found any evidence of it because the risks are so dramatic, so profound. North Korea practices what's known as destruction of three generations, which is that if you are caught organizing against the regime then not only are you punished, but also your children are punished, and your grandchildren are punished. And that has a very powerful effect on preventing any kind of alternative government from gathering force. And that's been a frustration to other countries that have tried to promote civil society or dissent of any kind. GROSS: You describe how when you buy a newspaper in North Korea, the vendor has to fold the newspaper very carefully so as not to crease the face of a photograph of Kim Jong Un. So that is a level of craziness and narcissism that goes pretty deep. So in addition to having a chilling effect, I mean what does it tell you about the sanity of Kim Jong Un? OSNOS: I think you hit on a key point, which is, a lot of us ask frankly if Kim Jong Un is crazy. I mean is he mad? You know, here he is putting himself willingly into a confrontation with the United States that could not only destroy his government but also destroy his country. And how can that possibly make sense? I think there's no question that when it comes to the way that he conducts himself as an individual in that society, it is so secluded and paranoid and detached from ordinary life that there is a - there's something completely crazy about that - I mean the idea that that any time his name is uttered, people describe him as the respected leader, comrade, General Kim Jong Un. I mean it's almost reflexive. But that's a different question from whether he's crazy when it comes to national security and foreign policy. And that's really a different category in that. Some of his harshest critics in the U.S. government - I mean people at the highest ranks of the national security structure and the intelligence community - they say, look; we think he is unpleasant. We think he is hostile. We think he is a threat to the United States, but we don't think he's crazy. And we don't think he's irrational, and that's a crucial fact. What they think is that he is doing what he needs to do to protect his own existence and to protect his government. You know, in the strictest sense in kind of international relations terms, being rational means being able to recognize your national interest and promote it. And in that sense, he's not crazy. GROSS: Were you in North Korea for any of President Trump's tweets about North Korea? OSNOS: Yeah. I was in North Korea at one point when Donald Trump tweeted. On August 17, he tweeted, quote, "Kim Jong Un of North Korea made a very wise and well-reasoned decision. The alternative would have been catastrophic and unacceptable." And I have to admit; at first, I couldn't figure out what he was talking about because I'd been there for several days. And from the North Korean perspective, they hadn't done anything that Donald Trump should regard as a very wise and well-reasoned decision. But actually what had happened was that Donald Trump and his advisers had concluded that Kim had blinked in the nuclear standoff. He had pulled back from a threat to launch four missiles towards American territory in Guam. And so they decided that in order to recognize that, that they - he put out this tweet. And so then it was kind of a fascinating thing to watch because I watched as the North Korean government officials who I was with tried to make sense of it. You know, they couldn't quite decide whether they should dispute it, whether they should embrace it, whether this was an opening or whether this was just an impulsive move by the president. Pak Song Il, who is a - you know, the North Korean government analyst I was with - he was frustrated. He said, Trump only read one half of the statement, meaning one half of this declaration about whether they were going to launch missiles or not. He meant that they - North Korean government didn't intend to blink. And so I - you know, I happened to be interviewing a government official that morning, and he told me he was kind of mystified, you know? He asked me to read the tweet twice. And afterwards, he said (groans), you know? He said, I wish the United States would just leave us alone. And that was in its own way a kind of a plaintive, I thought very honest sense of exasperation. They are - in the end, they really don't want the U.S. to leave them alone. They want the U.S. to deal with them. But they are also frustrated and confused and worried about what Donald Trump might do. GROSS: So they see President Trump as unpredictable, unreadable and frightening. OSNOS: That's right. And they don't know whether Donald Trump is, as one of them put it to me, irrational or too smart. A government official in North Korea said to me... GROSS: That's kind of the question I asked you about... (LAUGHTER) GROSS: ...Your perception of Kim Jong Un. OSNOS: Exactly. Yeah, that's the really amazing fact about where we are right now, which is, North Korea is asking many of the same questions about Donald Trump that we ask about Kim Jong Un. Is he rational? Does he have a coherent plan? And does he recognize the full risks of what he's doing? GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Evan Osnos. He's a staff writer for The New Yorker who covers politics and foreign affairs. And he has a new article in The New Yorker called "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea," and it's based in part on four days in August that he spent in North Korea. We'll be back after a break. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF TIM DELAUGHTER'S "DEBATE MONTAGE") GROSS: This is FRESH AIR, and my guest is Evan Osnos. We're talking about his article in the current edition of The New Yorker. The article's called "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea." It's based in part on four days he spent in North Korea in August. It's based as well on many interviews he did in America and in South Korea. He's a staff writer for The New Yorker, who covers politics and foreign affairs. So there's a very tight control in North Korea on information, on popular culture. You put on a TV. You had a TV in your room. What did you see? OSNOS: Well, in my room, I was sort of living in a parallel world from North Korea outside. They have Asian satellite channels in the room of a foreign guest. So I didn't have North Korean television there. I had, you know, Christian evangelists and Singaporean cooking shows. But when I went out into the hotel lobby or when I went to any restaurant, there was always a TV playing. And on the TV was the main state broadcasting channel. And that channel shows nostalgic films from the 1950s and '60s that celebrate the origins of North Korea. You know, in the North Korean imagination, those were the glory days. That was when things were great. You know, they were richer than South Korea. They had this rich patron in Moscow. The Soviet Union was still intact. And so very much the North Korean government today tries to channel the memory of that and say, look; that's who we were, and that's who we could be again. And if you watch North Korean TV, you see it over and over and over again. And then they have a sports channel and an entertainment channel, but those only broadcast occasionally because the main event is really about this political psychological drama about channeling the lost moments they - of North Korean history. GROSS: I'm sure you wanted to see as much of North Korea as you would be allowed. So where did your minders allow you to be taken? OSNOS: Well, one of the things we did was we left Pyongyang, and we went out and drove across the countryside for a couple of hours to reach the DMZ - the Demilitarized Zone which separates North Korea from South Korea. And you know, that's a pretty fascinating place. It's - you know, the war is still technically on. We signed a cease fire in 1953 but never a peace treaty. And so South Korea and North Korea are still technically at a state of war. And you have large numbers of troops on both sides of the border. And the North Koreans wanted me to go down and see that. And they brought me to this little room that is straddling the border. It's a hut. And it's the room where the two sides get together and negotiate, and it's very tense. There are guards on both sides. And the dividing line down the middle of the table is a set of microphones. And if you step across that line, you are in South Korea. And I did that and sort of looked back across at the north. And they said to me, you know, we are - what they wanted me to know was - this was one of those moments that I thought was revealing. The military lieutenant colonel who was taking me around, Colonel Pang, said to me, our respected leader, as they call him - Kim Jong Un has visited this very spot. He's come to the front line. And he said to me, would Donald Trump dare to do that? And I said well, yeah, actually (laughter). I think he probably would. And I thought that was important because they have in their own minds created a narrative that their leadership and their country is braver and stronger than the United States and that the United States is weak and ultimately backs down. And that's actually quite a dangerous perception because that may not be the case. And this president is willing to take larger risks, President Trump is, than some of the presidents before him. And so one of the dangers here is that if they regard Trump as too similar to his predecessors, they may misunderstand what he's willing to do. GROSS: Wow. It's interesting that you got to see that. OSNOS: Yeah. I - you know, even with the restrictions, I was kind of amazed at the things that they would - that they would show off. GROSS: What else? OSNOS: Probably the most memorable thing I saw when I was there was a school. I'd ask to see some schools, and they took me to a place that's clearly a showpiece. You know, they love this place, and it's called the Pyongyang secondary school for orphans. And it's, you know, the best of the best. This is not what an average North Korean school looks like. It was brand new. It was, you know, 400 students with the best facilities, a pool, you know, a new gym, all the chemistry equipment they could want. But it was actually revealing in unintended ways because the first thing they brought me to see was an exhibition on the first floor that's dedicated to the day, the two-hour period in which Kim Jong Un visited the school. And it was photo after photo of Kim Jong Un walking down the hall, Kim Jong Un touching a chair, Kim Jong Un smoking a cigarette. And they said that the students are brought through the exhibition once a month in order to walk in the footsteps of their respected leader, as they put it. And then they put - brought me over and they said this is a photograph of Kim Jong Un touching a blanket, and here is the blanket in a glass case. And I - it was one of those moments where you just have to step back and realize that we are dealing with a society that is operating on a very different bandwidth than we are every day. GROSS: So one of the things that's definitely ratcheted up tensions between the U.S. and North Korea and increased fear within the U.S. is that North Korea in July launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile that has the potential of reaching the mainland of the U.S. And more recently, it detonated a bomb, a nuclear bomb, six or seven times more powerful than the bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Do you think that this is a sign that very recently they had technological breakthroughs that enable them to do that or do you think it's more a sign that they were, like, holding off to test these things at a moment when they really want to show off what they're capable of? OSNOS: Well, it's neither simply one or the other. It really is the result of about a three or four-year process of dramatic acceleration in the pace of development of their nuclear and missile program, that beginning in about 2012, which is when Kim Jong Un, the leader, came into power, they began to sprint. And what that means is that they began to do many more missile tests than his father had ever done. They began to do them more frequently. They began to allow people to fail without consequences. So they were sort of acknowledging that these tests weren't working. And then they began to test their nuclear weapons also more frequently. And the goal was to try to achieve the capability that matters, which is the capability of putting a nuclear weapon on the mainland United States. And the view from outside of - the view of intelligence analysts in the U.S. and elsewhere is that once they got within striking distance, then they decided we're going to go for it no matter what. So even if the United States escalates its threats, even if sanctions continue, we are now close enough that we will do whatever we need to in order to make it to that threshold. And that's the threshold that they started to reach this summer. And that's one of the reasons why you began to see one after another after another. GROSS: My guest is Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker. His article, "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea," is in the current issue. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to my interview with Evan Osnos about his article "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea," which is in the current issue of The New Yorker. He spent four days last month in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. When you're speaking to people in North Korea, to your minders who are monitoring you, you're relying on your translator - aren't you? - to accurately convey what you're saying. OSNOS: That's right. GROSS: So how do you know if you can really have confidence in the translator? I mean, because if they translate something in a way that's subtly different from what you're saying, that could really be used against you. OSNOS: Yeah. I came back with an interesting set of audio recordings. I mean, I had been carrying around my digital recorder as I do on every story. And, you know, I'd hold it up. And people, as they would be answering me, they would be talking into my recorder. And I came back to the U.S. and a Korean translator helped me interpret what was said on the ground because sometimes you're absolutely right. The Korean translator would take some of the questions I posed and make them - and sort of gin them up to be more political or more - to make them sound better to North Korean ears. I'll give you an example. At one point, when we were walking around in Pyongyang, I had asked people whether they had seen the city change very much over the decades. And the question, as it was interpreted to the North Korean man on the street, was our city is now full of glorious achievements and architecture that the world envies. What do you think is the most important achievement that we have created? And so the results of that were more suited to the second version of the question than the first. But in its own way, I found that also terrifically revealing because what you heard was the interpreter's effort to try to maintain this image - this mythology about the country. GROSS: So if North Korea wants to play in the global community of nations and they want diplomatic relations with the U.S., but they don't want to give up their nuclear program, what if - what if the U.S. said, OK, we're going to open up relations with you. And we're going to try to avoid a nuclear confrontation by having diplomatic relations. And we understand that North Korea is not going to give up their nuclear weapons. Is that a conceivable angle that might be played. And if so, what would the world look like if that happened? OSNOS: That is a conceivable angle. In fact, I think that's a very likely destination. It's hard for the U.S. government to say that now because they certainly don't want to give up the possibility of North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons. But most of the people you talk to who specialize in this subject agree that we're probably going to end up in a situation where North Korea has nuclear weapons. It is a nuclear state, and we learn to co-exist with it. And there are various ways that can look. You know, North Korea wants us to treat it like Pakistan, which is, after all, a member of the international community. It's got nuclear weapons. The U.S. never acknowledged it, never celebrated it but learned to live with it and doesn't treat it as a hostile threat. I think another version that you hear promoted these days is the possibility that we may eventually treat North Korea a bit like the way we treated Cuba, even when we had a hostile relationship, which is that we had an interest section in Havana. And the possibility might be that even if we don't have full diplomatic relations with North Korea, that we open up some kind of channel so that we know what's going on and that we're able to protect our people on the ground. But at this stage, the reality is that it's too hostile to imagine us opening formal diplomatic relations. The most logical and conceivable first step is that we get to the negotiating table at all and begin to try to come up with a framework that would de-escalate the tensions, which means, in practice, trying to get the North Koreans to slow down or freeze the level of development that they're doing on their weapons programs. And in return, the U.S. might freeze, as it's known, the level of joint-military exercises that it conducts with South Korea. These are the kinds of things that might be in play. But at this point, we're a long way from formal diplomatic recognition. The first step is really getting to the table at all. GROSS: Evan Osnos, it's always so great to have you on our show. Thank you so much for your reporting and for joining us again. OSNOS: Thanks for having me, Terry. GROSS: Evan Osnos covers politics and foreign affairs for The New Yorker. His article "The Risk Of Nuclear War With North Korea" is in the current issue. (SOUNDBITE OF FRED HERSCH'S "ELF") GROSS: Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, my guest will be jazz pianist Fred Hersch. He has a new memoir about what it was like to start his jazz career in the closet and then, nearly 30 years ago, come out as gay and as having HIV. He nearly died nine years ago and spent several weeks in a medically-induced coma. Later, he wrote music inspired by his coma dreams. I hope you'll join us. FRESH AIR'S executive producer is Danny Miller. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. Our associate producer for online media is Molly Seavy-Nesper. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. I'm Terry Gross.
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Report: Trump Caves on DACA, Wants ‘Quick’ Amnesty for 800K Illegal Aliens
by John Binder13 Sep 2017Washington, D.C.43,809
In a meeting with establishment politicians from the Problem Solvers Caucus and the Blue Dog Coalition, President Trump signaled a full-fledged cave on the issue of giving amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens currently protected by an Obama-created executive immigration program. Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the ultimate end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, under which hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were given work permits and temporary protected status, Trump has remained unclear on whether he would stick to his anti-amnesty campaign promises or cave to the political establishment. At his White House meeting with moderates, according to The Hill, Trump is set to choose a legislative deal that quickly legalizes the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens on DACA, without getting any pro-American immigration reforms in return: Indeed, said Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the president is already getting impatient. “He says, ‘Oh, DACA, we want to move on this quick, we don’t want to wait six months,’” Cuellar said after the meeting. “He said, ‘It’s already been six days and nothing’s happened.’” Cuellar said Trump didn’t propose a timeline, but voiced concerns that waiting until the March 5 deadline grows closer would only put a spotlight on the issue and make it more difficult for Congress to act. The president, Cuellar said, wants to move “when people are not expecting it.” “He said, ‘We don’t have to tie a wall to this. We can put a wall [in another bill],’” Cuellar said, emphasizing that other border enforcement measures would likely be included. Although Trump is looking at pushing through a clean amnesty bill for DACA recipients, he did mention during the meeting, according to Cuellar, the possibility of passing Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) pro-American worker “RAISE Act,” which cuts legal immigration in half, in exchange for amnesty. Trump’s cave to DACA amnesty comes just a day after the White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short said the administration would look at exchanging amnesty for tax cuts. Short, as Breitbart News reported, is a former executive with the pro-mass immigration billionaires, the Koch brothers. Additionally, Short led an effort in 2016 inside the Koch organization to derail Trump, opposing him for his “America First” agenda. Although Short’s anti-Trump operation never came to fruition, he went on to join Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) unsuccessful presidential campaign. House Speaker Paul Ryan most recently would not rule out a plan to give amnesty to the 800,000 DACA recipients, as Breitbart News reported. Immigration patriots, who want to see an end to illegal immigration and major cuts to legal immigration to relieve American workers, recently told Breitbart News that any immigration deal on DACA that includes amnesty would be an “outrageous selling out of the [Trump] base.” Numbers USA President Roy Beck blasted Short’s comments regarding a deal in which amnesty is given to DACA recipients in exchange for tax cuts or mere border wall funding. “Short’s compassion seems entirely for foreign citizens here illegally with not a nod for struggling American workers,” Beck said. Should DACA recipients receive amnesty, Center for Immigration Studies Director Mark Krikorian has warned that it will have two impacts on American communities: A surge in illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border and a surge in legal immigration, as newly-amnestied DACA recipients would be able to bring their relatives to the U.S., potentially peaking at two to four million. DACA recipients currently hold upwards of 700,000 U.S. jobs. An ultimate end to the program – with DACA recipients not getting amnesty –would result in a 700,000 job stimulus for American workers. This would amount to nearly 30,000 new U.S. job openings for American workers every month once the program is officially phased out. Although screening for DACA was previously touted as being sufficient in keeping criminals out, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revealed that more than 2,100 recipients had their status revoked for being criminals or gang members. UPDATE 07:00 EST — President Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to state there was no deal reached on DACA, but followed up with a series of statements implying the deal he wants to do to give amnesty to illegal immigrants.
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How phones make us dim: Brain scientist says excessive use of high-tech appliances stops us remembering details
Technology is reducing the need for today’s generation to work out problems
Scientist Susan Greenfield says there is less need to accumulate knowledge
Brains have a ‘use it or lose it policy’ so the ability to store facts ‘risks being diminished’ through lack of practice
By Sarah Harris for the Daily Mail Published: 19:57 EDT, 8 September 2017 | Updated: 21:03 EDT, 8 September 2017
Excessive use of smartphones risks making people dimmer, a top neuroscientist has warned. Susan Greenfield said growing use of technology is reducing the need for today’s generation to work out problems and accumulate knowledge. The research fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford University, said remembering names and dates is no longer vital as they are there at the click of a button. However, brains have a ‘use it or lose it policy’ so the ability to store facts ‘risks being diminished’ through lack of practice. Baroness Greenfield yesterday addressed the House of Lords about the case for improved digital understanding at all levels of UK society. She said that time spent in a screen-based world displaced time spent ‘learning, playing and socialising in the real world’. Baroness Greenfield attacked the growing trend to outsource thinking to smartphones. She believes the relatively innocuous shift to technological dependence for information could have profound effects on how we routinely make sense of complex arguments.
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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The Deep State: How it Came to Be and Why it Fights so Hard
The members of the Deep State are fighting not only for money and power, but their very sense of being.
Devin Foley | September 1, 2017
Increasingly, it looks like the political fight isn’t between Republicans and Democrats, but rather the American people against the Deep State. More and more often we are seeing bureaucrats, lobbyists, and elected officials of both parties circle the wagons so to say in an effort to prevent any true reforms of our government. While we the American people may believe the government isn’t working, for an elite group embedded throughout our government and media, the government is working quite well -- for them! So, how did this come to be in a nation that’s founding document begins with “We the People”? For a take on the development of the Deep State and what it represents, we turn to Joost Meerloo in his seminal book The Rape of the Mind. Presciently, in his discussion of the Deep State or the "administrative machine" published in 1956, Meerloo states, “The burning psychological question is whether man will eventually master his institutions so that these will serve him and not rule him.” Here’s how he describes the rise of the Deep State: “… The development of a kind of bureaucratic absolutism is not limited, however, to totalitarian countries. A mild form of professional absolutism is evident in every country in the mediating class of civil servants who bridge the gap between man and his rulers. Such a bureaucracy may be used to help or to harm the citizens it should serve. It is important to realize that a peculiar, silent form of battle goes on in all of the countries of the world -- under every form of government -- a battle between the common man and the government apparatus he himself has created. In many places we can see that this governing tool, which was originally meant to serve and assist man, has gradually obtained more power than it was intended to have. … Governmental techniques are no different from any other psychological strategy; the deadening hold of regimentation can take mental possession of those dedicated to it, if they are not alert. And this is the intrinsic danger of the various agencies that mediate between the common man and his government. It is a tragic aspect of life that man has to place another fallible man between himself and the attainment of his highest ideals.” But you might say that only seems to describe the expansion of “red tape” that entrepreneurs and individuals complain about, not a group of individuals who seem united to keep government operating as it is currently, and under their control. Isn’t there a difference between red-tape bureaucracy and the Deep State that we’re seeing today? Arguably, yes. But it is the regimentation and red tape that seems to foster the environment in which the Deep State comes into being and then thrives. Meerloo expands on that point in detail: “Which human failings will manifest themselves most readily in the administrative machine? Lust for power, automatism, and mental rigidity -- all these breed suspicion and intrigue. Being a high civil servant subjects man to a dangerous temptation, simply because he is a part of the ruling apparatus. He finds himself caught in the strategy complex. The magic of becoming an executive and a strategist provokes long-repressed feelings of omnipotence. A strategist feels like a chess player. He wants to manipulate the world by remote control. Now he can keep others waiting, as he was forced to wait himself in his salad days, and thus he can feel himself superior. He can entrench himself behind his official regulations and responsibilities. At the same time he must continually convince others of his indispensability because he is loath to vacate his seat. As a defense against his relative unimportance, he has to expand his staff, increasing his bureaucratic apparatus. In order to become a V.I.P. one needs a big office. Each new staff member requests new secretaries and new typewriters. Everything begins to get out of hand, but everything must be controlled; new and better files must be installed, new conferences called, and committees set up. The staff-interaction committee talks for days on end. New supervisors are created to supervise the old supervisors and to keep the whole group in a state of infantile servility. And what was formerly done by one man is now done by an entire staff…” Now we see how the Deep State became so deeply entrenched in our government and why its members will fight against any threat to it. The members of the Deep State are fighting for not only their jobs and their power, but their very sense of being. What meaning do they have in life if they were shown that they are in fact dispensable, that they can be replaced or their positions or departments can be eliminated? In the end, their egos depend upon the maintenance and growth of personal power and prestige. Understanding that the fight is not just about power and money, but self-identity and ego, goes a long way to seeing how ugly the battle between the American people and the Deep State over the government will become -- and how the battle has actually been raging for years. “Compulsive order, red tape, and regulation become more important than freedom and justice, and in the meantime suspicion between management, employees, and subjects increases. Written and printed documents and reports have become dangerous objects in the world. After a conversation, even when there are harsh words, inanities are soon forgotten. But on paper these words are perpetuated and can become part of a system of growing suspicion.” That sounds quite a bit like some of the latest intrigues in D.C., does it not? And how about this insight about the politicians who perpetuate and strengthen the Deep State, rather than dismantle it? “Sooner or later nearly all politicians become infected with the bug. Under the burden of their responsibilities, they give in to the desire to play the game of diplomacy. They start to compromise in their thinking, to bend backwards and to be circumspect, lest their remarks be criticized by the higher echelons. Or they fall back into infantile feelings of magic omnipotence. They want to have their fingers in every pie -- to the left and to the right. All these are dangerous mental streaks of every human being which can develop more easily in politicians and administrators because of the growing impact of modern governmental techniques and their threat to free expression. When a man gets entangled in strategical and political talk, something changes in his attitude. He is no longer straightforward; he doesn’t express and communicate what he thinks, but he worries about what others are thinking about him behind their facades. He becomes too prudent and starts to build all kinds of mental defenses and justifications around himself. In short, he learns to assume the strategic attitude. Forget spontaneity, deny enthusiasm; don’t demand inner honesty of yourself or others, never reveal yourself, never expose yourself, play the strategist. Be careful and use more buts and howevers. Never commit yourself.” We, the American people, have quite a task ahead of us if we are to wrest control of our government from the Deep State. Over many decades, it has put in place compulsive orders, red tape, and regulations while growing layer upon layer to enforce what it creates. All the while, its roots drive deeper and deeper into our government. Even the politicians who we send to D.C. to represent us are ensnared in the game. They begin to play by the rules set forth by the Deep State; indeed, our elected officials even become dependent upon the Deep State. And so it is that we face an interlocking defense apparatus that is employed full time by us, using its time to further entrench itself. Further, the politicians who promised to take on the Deep State on behalf of their constituents, though not in so many words, have actually joined forces with those who they were supposed to uproot. Without a doubt, the Deep State must be confronted and defeated for the health of our nation. But how?
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/deep-state-how-it-came-be-and-why-it-fights-so-hard
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A lot of people do not equate California with poverty. You certainly don’t think of poverty when you look at real estate values in places like San Francisco even though the homeless issue is right in your face. The reality is that most people do not live lavish lifestyles. In fact, a new report highlights that more than one-third of California households have virtually no savings. These households would not have the ability to live at the poverty level for three months if one paycheck in the household was lost due to a job loss. You also have more than 2 million young adults living at home with their parents since the rent is too high. This isn’t the California that is presented in Hollywood movies. California and the evaporation of the middle class The reality is, the middle class is slowly disappearing in California. There was a time not long ago when a blue collar worker was able to purchase a home in many California locations. But there has been an aggressive gentrification. Now many people feel it is necessary to go into big debt simply to purchase a crap shack. “(Pasadena Star News) Lars Perner, an assistant professor of clinical marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business, said California’s high housing costs have put many households on shaky financial ground. “The cost of housing in California is exorbitant,” he said. “That’s a big part of the problem. People pay a disproportionate amount of their income toward housing.” In places like Los Angeles close to half of renting households send close to half of their paycheck off to rent. And for the majority that own they spend over 40 percent of their net income on housing costs. This provides very little buffer for any emergencies. And of course, people live day to day and the economy has been on a massive bull run since 2009. A small recession is going to cause major ripples. And the way California is structured supports a boom and bust economic cycle. Tax revenues are flush in good times thanks to high taxes across the board but when things contract, the money dries out very quickly. And inventory is down across the United States: Housing inventory across the US is down 12 percent year-over-year but in Los Angeles, it is down 26 percent from an already low level. So for those crap shack hunting house lusting couples, they are simply biting the bullet and buying. Of course they are buying when everything is rosy and assume there is no correction on the horizon. It is interesting that this shrinking of the middle class is happening virtually in all major metro areas. My view on this is that this is being accelerated by technology. People all want the same things across all areas: Amazon Prime, Netflix, Gyms, Whole Foods, Uber, etc. So what happens is that lifestyle choices are more standardized across cities because of technology so people push real estate values up in similar herd like trends. But it is troubling to know that 37 percent of California households are living on the financial edge. And this is a figure that comes when the economy at least on paper looks good. What happens when you get your inevitable pullback in the stock market and real estate?
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Massive holes in the ice caused by violent volcanic eruption open up in glacier in Iceland
By Strange Sounds - Sep 8, 2017
The largest glacier of Iceland is melting like an ice cream.
Giant holes as large as 1,300 feet wide and caused by volcanic eruptions have opened up in Vatnajökull. Vatnajökull is the second largest glacier in Europe, covers 8 percent of Iceland and several volcanoes. In the last few years, the enhanced seismic activity has created several glacial floods in the area. Now, huge holes more than 1300 feet wide and several hundreds of feet deep are appearing in the ice. These cavities mean that the ground beneath the glacier has been left exposed for the first time in hundreds or thousands of years, since the glacier itself was formed. Scientists believe it is very important to be vigilant against the creation of any more calderas, which raise the likelihood of a glacial flood. These floods – jökulhlaup – occur when the dam that contains a glacial lake fails. They can occur simply as the result of a buildup in pressure but are more likely to be caused by a volcanic eruption or earthquake, as in 2010 during the second eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. There is something weird happening on the largest glacier of Iceland and nobody can determine what it indicates. Prepare and get READY for the next large eruption.
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The Earth Is Shaking And We Could Witness 'Seas Of Fire' - X-Flares, Mega-Hurricanes, And An 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake In Mexico - We Are Witnessing Historic Events
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine September 8, 2017
As California, Montana And Oregon are seeing wildfires raging, and Texas is suffering the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey while Florida seems to be in the bullseye of the "beast" called Irma, we noted two days ago that a massive X9.3 flare shot towards Earth from the sun, said to be the most powerful we have seen in a decade, instigating the NOAA to put out a G3 geomagnetic storm watch for September 6-7, 2017. The NOAA then updated that G3 storm warning to extend from September 7th through the 9th. Some observant readers have been asking if the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) from the X-9.3 flare could have anything to do with the massive 8.2 earthquake that hit Mexico on September 7, 2017, in the midst of the G3 watch, and there is evidence going back to 1967, that the sun and the moon and space weather events do have a direct influence on Earth, so we will begin there. (H/T Washingtonsblog, 2011) Science Direct, Volume 3, 1967–1968, Pages 417-425, stated the following: Solar activity, as indicated by sunspots, radio noise and geomagnetic indices, plays a significant but by no means exclusive role in the triggering of earthquakes. Maximum quake frequency occurs at times of moderately high and fluctuating solar activity. Terrestrial solar flare effects which are the actual coupling mechanisms which trigger quakes appear to be either abrupt accelerations in the earth's angular velocity or surges of telluric currents in the earth's crust. More from WB, quoting a 1998 report from a scientist from the Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Mitch Battros theorized in 1998 that large solar flares affect Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn shifts the oceanic and atmospheric currents, which can cause earthquakes and extreme weather. As Battros summarizes his formula: Sunspots => Solar Flares (charged particles) => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather [including earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes or other extreme natural events] Read the entire article and citations. WEATHER WARFARE IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY We are also seeing a lot of chatter on the internet about "weather warfare," and while the MSM like to label those questions as "tin foil hat conspiracy theorists," there is adequate public statements from high level U.S. officials, directly quoted, and reports, that shows weather warfare is real. Example: United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen, April 1997, said at a keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga, said "There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important." (Source- archive.defense.gov) While Cohen's statements were in reference to the scare of "false threats," it is very interesting that the statement came less than a year after a paper was submitted to the Air Force, titled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025, where it is stated on page 7 of the 52 page PDF: "Current technologies that will mature over the next 30 years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale. Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather- In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on etc.
That report covered: Precipitation Enhancement, Storm Enhancement, Precipitation Denial, Space Weather and Fog and Cloud Removal. Last but not least, if "weather warfare" was such a "conspiracy," as the MSM likes to label anyone talking about the extreme weather events, volcanoes threats and Earthquakes we are seeing right now, then why is there a UN "Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques," as stated on U.S. Department of State's own website, signed in 1997 and entered into force in October 1978? Article I sets forth the basic commitment: "Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party." An understanding defines the terms "widespread, long-lasting or severe." "Widespread" is defined as "encompassing an area on the scale of several hundred square kilometers"; "long-lasting" is defined as "lasting for a period of months, or approximately a season"; and "severe" is defined as "involving serious or significant disruption or harm to human life, natural and economic resources or other assets." Related: Washington Post Story Hints Of Irma Weather Warfare As FEMA Chief Warns: 'Entire Southeastern United States Better Wake Up And Pay Attention This was a topic that Steve Quayle has been warning about for decades, wrote a book called "Weather Wars & Un-Natural Disasters" which covered everything from cover-ups, to Weather Modification Patents, and a whole lot more. 'WHEN THE SEAS CATCH FIRE' Being so ahead of the curve in regards to many issues, I emailed Steve this morning regarding the possible connection between X-Flare CME and the Mexico earthquake, where he highlighted a few sources for me to look into, then pointed me in the direction of the Air Force report "we own the weather 2025," as well a note about seismic weapons, saying "This is a full scale weather war," and warning that "the next issue that will start to manifest is "when the seas catch fire due to lightening and/or friction igniting the methane hydrate that will surface in mass volume." Prophetic earth changes coming will also be one of the topics Quayle addresses when he speaks this month at the True Legends conference in Branson Missouri from September 15-17, 2017. That type of phenomena was described by survivors of a tsunami devastated Papua New Guinea in 1998: Shortly before sunset, the earth began to shake, and a thunderous boom shattered the air. Large cracks suddenly gaped open on the beach, and the village children, filled with curiosity, ran to look, encouraging the grown-ups to come and see, too. As a crowd gathered, the ocean began to recede from the shore, and, as the water drew farther out, a distant murmur grew to a rumbling. Within a few minutes the rumbling had grown to a deafening roar, like the sound of an approaching jet squadron. The sea had returned as a wall of water, glowing red near the crest...... (Source - http://researcharchive.calacademy.org, 1999) Both Cambridge Conference Network and Orbit, attribute the following quotes to ABC, 1998, with a description of the same event: Others thought a giant explosion caused the wave, which towered more than 40 feet. Some survivors reported seeing sparks fly from the water and thought the ocean was on fire.[.....] Particularly troubling was the question from a 15-year-old schoolgirl who asked about a “mountain of water with fire sparkles.” Many of the victims had what appeared to be severe burns, suggesting that the water was on fire. That quoted report also said "Many of the victims had what appeared to be severe burns, suggesting that the water was on fire." In aftermath the claim was the "burning" was from friction, but it is not an affect we have seen mentioned regarding subsequent tsunamis. THE RING OF FIRE & SAN ANDRES FAULT The reason SQ's warning sparks much interest here is a look at the Tsunami Buoys that were triggered by Mexico's 8.2 mag earthquake last night, all surrounding the ring of fire, screen shot credit to Hal Turner: National Geographic- Ring Of Fire: "Geologic features along the Ring of Fire include not only volcanoes, but ocean trenches, mountain trenches, hydrothermal vents, and sites of earthquake activity." The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, and the ring is dotted with 75% of all active volcanoes on Earth. Given Quayle's reference to methane hydrate surfacing in mass volume, literally causing the seas to catch fire, we found that media was quite interested in July 2003 findings of methane hydrate recovered from the summit of a mud volcano, as reported by the USGS in 2006. We already know there is a connection linking the position of the Sun and Moon to earthquake activity along the San Andreas Fault, and that San Andreas is part of the ring of fire, which as quoted above, is holds 75 percent of all active volcanoes on Earth. Which makes Mexico's link to the California faults deeply concerning, as was explained by Mark Benthien, communications director for the Southern California Earthquake Center in Los Angeles, in 2010, when he said "Southern California [and northern Mexico are] a whole series of blocks sliding past each other," according to National Geographic. As was noted in a follow up email from SQ: "IMAGINE THE SEAS ON FIRE AND IT BEGINS TO HIT HOME AT HOW TRULY LATE THE HOUR IS!" Revelation 8:8-10 (KJV): 8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; BOTTOM LINE Whether looking at this with knowledge of weather warfare, or even for those that have been led away from that knowledge by the MSM, it matters not, between the hurricanes, the X-Flares and CMEs causing geomagnetic storms, and the massively powerful 8.2 mag earthquake that hit Mexico last night, in conjunction with everything happening which has a direct effect on Earth as a whole and destabilizing the very foundation with which we stand on, if the ring of fire blows, we all may see the "seas on fire." Fires to the west, devastation in the South in Texas after Harvey, the East preparing for the storm of dubbed the "beast," and an 8.2 magnitude earthquake may have just destabilized fault lines on the ring of fire where a number of active volcanoes sit..... does anyone doubt that the "Earth is shaking?"
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More than 1 million acres have burned this summer; state fire fund drained
By HOLLY K. MICHELS holly.michels@lee.net Sep 7, 2017 Updated Sep 8, 2017
The cost to the state of Montana for battling wildfires that have burned more than a million acres this summer has reached $53.7 million, a staggering price tag that has completely drained a state fire fund that was already slashed in half by decisions made in the 2017 Legislature. In April lawmakers passed a cost-cutting bill that called for taking $30 million from the roughly $62 million fire fund to maintain an informal $200 million rainy-day account for state government and to reduce the depth of cuts to other state operations and services, cuts that would be triggered if state revenues came in lower than projected. That happened in July. Currently burning figures Infogram The fire account was left with $32.5 million, which has all been spent. The state is now paying for its share of fighting fires out of the Department of Natural Resources' budget. So far $3.4 million has been spent out of an available $11.84 million. The remaining $21.4 million has been covered through DNRC's operational budget and the governor's emergency fund. During the heavy snows of last winter when lawmakers decided to tap the fire fund, it would have been hard to imagine the smoke-filled skies, numerous evacuations and burned range land that has dominated this summer. But an incredibly dry spring led to significant drought, creating prime fire conditions. Nearly 1,700 fires statewide have burned 1,005,803 acres this year. Legislators also considered the average annual cost of fighting fires for the state is about $20.6 million, offset by an average of $5.2 million in federal reimbursements, according to legislative records. But there are outliers — in the past decade, fire suppression costs to the state topped $100 million in 2008 and in 2013 reached $57 million. While the cost of fighting fire has come in dramatically higher than expected this year, tax revenues have been much less than the Legislature projected, leaving Gov. Steve Bullock to seek another possible $236 million in cuts from state agencies. More information about those cuts is expected Friday. State Sen. Jon Sesso, D-Butte, said the fire fund was still probably the most logical place to look for money. “It was as good a place as any to provide a contingency, and when you compare using available cash assets compared to making deeper cuts in other areas of the government, I think it was still a prudent contingency plan.” He called current conditions “almost like the perfect storm.” “Not only did we get less revenue than we had anticipated for ’17, but the fires are probably going to hit an historical level of expense.” Costly year The Northern Rockies Coordination Center’s website tracks the total cost — including those to state, federal and tribal governments — of fighting all active fires. Who picks up the tab depends on where the fire is burning. On Thursday, updated figures put cost for all active fires at nearly $211 million. That estimate is only for active fires, not ones that were put out earlier this summer like the 270,000-acre Lodgepole complex in Eastern Montana, which cost an estimated $9.27 million, though that tally is not final. Federal agencies do not track fire costs in real time as closely as the state does and stressed that total costs will not likely be known for about a year. The most expensive fire currently burning in Montana is the Lolo Peak fire, 10 miles southwest of Lolo. It has consumed 48,686 timbered acres, has 415 people working the fire and has cost $39.6 million so far. The second-most expensive are the Sapphire Complex, burning 15 miles southeast of Clinton, and the Rice Ridge fire, six miles north of Seeley Lake. Both have cost about $32.6 million so far. The Sapphire Complex has burned 43,516 acres and Rice Ridge has burned 119,857 acres. The state has applied for and been approved to receive assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the Lolo Peak fire and the Lodgepole complex. The grants can match up to 75 percent of approved state costs for fighting fires. On Thursday, Bullock met with FEMA administrator Brock Long to urge more assistance and resources to help fight Montana’s wildfires. “It has been a long and While I will continue to pursue every availchallenging fire season in Montana,” Bullock said. “We’ve had losses to homes, livestock, forage and infrastructure, and we’ve tragically lost the lives of two wildland firefighters. We are experiencing impacts to individuals and businesses across the state, who have endured losses due to evacuations, hazardous air quality, and sustained threats to our tourism and recreation industries. “The situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.able resource to support fire response and recovery, I am asking that we work together to ensure the long-term health, safety, and livelihood of Montanans impacted by this disaster,” Bullock continued. Bullock asked Long to expedite the review and approvals of additional grants and consider the ability to apply for grants across multiple fires. Bullock also asked Long for help accessing assistance for individuals affected by fires. The governor requested that criteria and thresholds across multiple fires be addressed to make resources available for those who have faced significant impacts. Stacie Greff, a spokesperson for FEMA, said the conditions that exist in the state at the time of the request and whether the fire threatens enough destruction to constitute a major disaster are part of what determine funding decisions. “We’re trying to fend off a major disaster,” she said. FEMA evaluates based on four key criteria: • Threat to lives and improved property, including critical infrastructure and facilities and watersheds; • Availability of state and local firefighting resources, such as aircraft or firefighters; • High fire danger conditions, as determined by a national rating system; and • Potential major economic impact. FEMA assistance grants can pay for things like equipment and supplies, the cost of emergency work like evacuations, police barricades and traffic control, unified command centers, meals for firefighters and other costs that directly go to fighting fire. They are not for helping people who lost homes or property to fires. States have to submit receipts and documentation to receive funds. FEMA funding is the primary way the state can get help from the federal government to pay for the cost of fighting fires. Both of Montana’s U.S. senators, Republican Steve Daines and Democrat Jon Tester, took to the Senate floor this week to impress upon their colleagues the magnitude and impact of fires burning in Montana and ask for help as Congress worked to approve aid for Texas, which has been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. “Saving lives and property when disaster strikes is a fundamental pillar of government," Tester said. "It is not a Democrat or Republican issue, it is an American responsibility. I am confident we can work together to ensure the victims of Harvey get the relief they need and the states that are burning, like Montana, have the resources they need to protect our citizens, our economy, and our way of life." Tester also on Thursday invited Republican President Donald Trump to visit Montana and tour areas that have burned. Daines told the Senate that of the top 30 wildfires in the nation, 28 were burning Montana. “Our crisis in Montana isn’t water, it’s not too much water, it’s not hurricanes, it’s fire. It is smoke filling the air and filling our lungs. … We need to ensure Montana gets the resources it needs first of all to stop the fires.” U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, took to the House floor, saying: “I hope this image and the others from back home will make my colleagues more aware of the fires’ devastation and the need for relief in the Treasure State.”
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China sees new world order with oil benchmark backed by gold
Yuan-denominated contract will let exporters circumvent U.S. dollar
Published: 09/01/2017 at 2:56 PM
(Nikkei) China is expected shortly to launch a crude oil futures contract priced in yuan and convertible into gold in what analysts say could be a game-changer for the industry. The contract could become the most important Asia-based crude oil benchmark, given that China is the world’s biggest oil importer. Crude oil is usually priced in relation to Brent or West Texas Intermediate futures, both denominated in U.S. dollars. China’s move will allow exporters such as Russia and Iran to circumvent U.S. sanctions by trading in yuan. To further entice trade, China says the yuan will be fully convertible into gold on exchanges in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/china-sees-new-world-order-with-oil-benchmark-backed-by-gold/#XKdw7rgSgzA3Dgp7.99
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What did Jesus say about natural disasters?
By Joshua Rogers Published September 07, 2017 Fox News
Several years ago in my hometown, a man was driving down the highway with his wife when a tree fell down across the highway, landed right on the cab of their pickup truck, and killed them both. Later that week, I was in a church service in which the pastor referenced the freak accident and said, “Do you think that kind of thing happened by accident? There’s no way.” I grimaced internally when he said that, wondering if the couple had any friends or relatives in the congregation. But as insensitive as the comment may have been, it hit a nerve for another reason: Christians like me are more comfortable invoking the idea of God’s sovereignty in good times than in bad. And nowhere is that more evident than in natural disasters. We’re understandably uncomfortable giving God the credit when it comes to hurricane winds crushing helpless grandmothers in their homes or floods drowning children. If the winds and waves obey Jesus, why wouldn’t he step in and help all of those in harm’s way? Fortunately, Jesus provided some insight into this when he addressed a crowd and talked about a different type of “natural disaster”—one involving gravity. “[W]hat about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them?” Jesus asks. “Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.” (Luke 13:1-5). Jesus taps into something that makes a lot of us uneasy. Many prefer to see him as a wise guru who preached a general message of world peace and non-judgment. But when it comes to the question of “why” with disasters, he gets to the heart of the issue and focuses on the potential disaster that threatens everyone who ever lived: the day they meet God face to face. Jesus said, “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in [me]. But anyone who does not believe in [me] has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son” (John 3:18). He says that those who do not believe in him and live for him “will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life” (Matthew 25:31-46). That’s not the Jesus most of us want to talk about—especially in times where people are suffering the awful effects of natural disasters. But that’s where Jesus went in the face of disaster, so we would do well to go there with him. When we go there with Jesus, we discover the good news that God is “longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). And in God’s efforts to keep us from eternally perishing, he will use everything he can to get our attention—even things he might not have caused, like the devastation that comes with a natural disaster. As C.S. Lewis said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” If we listen to him, we will hear him shouting our names from the cross, where he went through the worst pain possible in order to bring each of us into his family. As we watch the footage of people fighting helplessly in the face of nature’s wrath, we should contemplate the day when we will all face God and answer for how we responded to the gift of his Son. On that day, we will only survive the storm if we have already thrown ourselves at the mercy of the only one who can provide the eternal shelter our souls need in this life and the next. Joshua Rogers is an attorney and writer who lives in Washington, D.C. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @MrJoshuaRogers and Facebook, and read more of his writing at JoshuaRogers.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/07/what-did-jesus-say-about-natural-disasters.html
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Israel Attacked Chemical Weapons Plant in Syria, Local Reports Claim
Syria confirms: Israel targeted military facility, killing two ■ Incident comes amid massive Israeli anti-Hezbollah drill, weeks after outgoing air force chief admits Israel attacks weapons convoys
Jack Khoury and Gili Cohen Sep 07, 2017 2:14 PM
The Israeli military struck Thursday a chemical arms plant in in Syria, foreign media reports claimed. The Syrian army general command confirmed in a statement the attack on what they called a military facility, and said that two people were killed and extensive damage was caused. Israel refused to comment on the reports. A Syrian military statement said that at 2:40 A.M. Israeli warplanes struck the site from within Lebanese airspace. In a statement, the Syrian army said the Israeli warplanes fired several missiles while in Lebanese air space, and warned of the "dangerous repercussions of such hostile acts on the security and stability of the region." Syrian opposition members claimed that four Israeli warplanes were involved in the strike, which would be the first since a ceasefire was reached between the Assad regime and Syrian rebels in July. Israel allegedly targeted the Scientific Researchers Center, a plant involved with the development of chemical weapons, near the city of Masyaf in central Syria, reports said. By early Thursday, smoke could still be seen billowing over the area. The war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the strikes hit a Scientific Studies and Research Center facility, the agency the U.S. describes as Syria's chemical weapons manufacturer. The Observatory also said that a military storage camp next to the center was used to store ground-to-ground rockets and that personnel of Iran and its allied Lebanese Hezbollah group had been seen there more than once. Opposition forces also said the target was a weapons factory that develops arms for the Syrian regime and for Hezbollah. Lebanese media reported the presence of Israeli aircraft in Lebanese airspace early Thursday, however it is unclear whether it is related to the attack or to the large military drill currently taking place in Israel's north. Former head of Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin tweeted that the Israeli attack "was not routine." He added that the site "produces chemical weapons and explosive barrels that have killed thousands of Syrian civilians," Yadlin wrote in his tweet. "The attack is finally an Israeli moral statement about the massacre in Syria," he said. Syrian forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during the country’s civil war, including in April’s deadly attack on Khan Sheikhoun, UN war crimes investigators said on Wednesday. Israel has attacked convoys bringing arms to Hezbollah and groups on several Israeli fronts dozens of times over the last five years, a top Israeli military commander has confirmed for the first time two weeks ago. The number of Israeli attacks on such convoys since 2012 is approaching triple digits, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, the outgoing commander of the Israel Air Force, told Haaretz. Commenting on Thursday's attack, the Syrian army said the strike was "a desperate attempt" to raise the morale of terror organisation ISIS because of the recent losses the group has suffered at the hands of the Syrian military. According to the Syrian army, the attack attributed to Israel proves Israel's support of the global jihadist terror group. The Syrian army has warned of "dangerous consequences to Israeli aggression in the region." Various people, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, have openly admitted to Israeli attacks on arms convoys to Hezbollah, but no numbers have been cited. Israel has been reluctant to talk about the scope of such attacks beyond its borders. Eshel's comments are the first time that a senior Israel Defense Forces officer has specifically revealed the practice. Israel's army is currently carrying out its largest drill in 20 years in the north of the country, and encompasses all forces: ground, air, sea and intelligence. The drill, which will be overseen by Israel Defense Forces' Northern Command, is expected to through next week. It will include a scenario of instant escalation, in which the army has to defend Israel against multiple terrorist infiltrations in the north. This would be the first such Israeli strike in Syria since a cease-fire was reached in southern Syria in July. Israel, however, voiced its dissatisfaction with the fact that its security interests were not reflected in the draft cease-fire agreement formulated by the United States and Russia. Last week, Netanyahu told visiting UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday that Iran is building sites to produce precision guided missiles in Syria and Lebanon. Last month, Netanyahu stressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin the importance of removing Iranian and Hezbollah forces from Syria in order to prevent a future war.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.811035
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Mexico mourns at least 67 dead after twin punch of magnitude 8.1 quake, Hurricane Katia
By Christopher Sherman AP Sept 9, 2017 Juchitan, Mexico
Slow-moving funeral processions converged on Juchitan's cemeteries from all directions on Saturday, so many that they sometimes caused temporary gridlock when they met at intersections. A monster earthquake and a Gulf coast hurricane have combined to take at least 67 lives in Mexico, and no place suffered more than the Oaxaca state city of Juchitan, where 37 died as buildings collapsed in the magnitude 8.1 temblor. The graveyard swelled with mourners and blaring serenades for the dead — the sounds of snare drums, saxophones and sobbing. Pallbearers carried the caskets around rubble the quake had knocked from the simple concrete crypts. Jittery amid continued aftershocks, friends and relatives of the deceased had hushed conversations in the Zapotec language as they stood under umbrellas for shade from the beating sun. Paulo Cesar Escamilla Matus and his family held a memorial service for his mother, Reynalda Matus Martinez, in the living room of her home, where relatives quietly wept beside her body. The 64-year-old woman was working the night shift at a neighborhood pharmacy when the quake struck Thursday night, collapsing the building. "All the weight of the second floor fell on top of her," said her son, who rushed to the building and found her under rubble. He and neighbors tried to dig her out, but weren't able to recover her body until the next morning when civil defense workers brought a backhoe that could lift what had trapped her. Fearful of crime, the pharmacy kept its doors locked, and Escamilla Matus wondered if that had cost his mother the time she needed to escape. Scenes of mourning were repeated over and over again in Juchitan, where a third of the city's homes collapsed or were uninhabitable, President Enrique Pena Nieto said late Friday in an interview with the Televisa news network. Part of the city hall collapsed. The remains of brick walls and clay tile roofs cluttered streets as families dragged mattresses onto sidewalks to spend a second anxious night sleeping outdoors. Some were newly homeless, while others feared further aftershocks could topple their cracked adobe dwellings. Rescuers searched for survivors with sniffer dogs and used heavy machinery at the main square to pull rubble away from city hall, where a missing police officer was believed to be inside. The man's body was found Saturday afternoon in a collapsed passageway between city hall offices and a market, according to a municipal police officer who was guarding the site. The officer declined to give his name because he was not officially authorized to give information to reporters. The city's civil defense coordinator, Jose Antonio Marin Lopez, said similar searches had been going on all over the area. Teams found bodies in the rubble, but the highlight was pulling four people, including two children, alive from the completely collapsed Hotel Del Rio, where one woman died. "The priority continues to be the people," Marin said. Larissa Garcia Ruiz was grateful to escape with only a broken arm when her house collapsed as she and her family slept. "I only woke up when I heard screaming," said the 24-year-old cradling her wrapped arm. Her mother managed to push the daughters and her blind husband through the back doorway before a massive section of thick wall fell, trapping her. As Larissa tried to help rescue her mother, another piece of rubble fell, breaking her arm. Other relatives and friends finally managed to release the trapped woman. All around them people yelled for help that night. "Nobody helped us," her sister Vicenta said. "Everybody got out as best they could." In addition to the deaths in Juchitan, the quake killed nine other people in Oaxaca and 19 in neighboring states. Two others died in a mudslide in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz after Hurricane Katia hit late Friday. Pena Nieto said authorities were working to re-establish supplies of water and food and provide medical attention to those who need it. He vowed the government would help rebuild. Power was cut at least briefly to more than 1.8 million people due to the quake, and authorities closed schools in at least 11 states to check them for safety. The Interior Department reported that 428 homes were destroyed and 1,700 were damaged just in Chiapas, the state closest to the epicenter. Just one day later, Hurricane Katia hit land north of Tecolutla in Veracruz state, pelting the region with intense rains and maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120) kph. Veracruz Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes said two people died in a mudslide related to the storm, and he said some rivers had risen to near flood stage, but there were no reports of major damage. More than 4,000 people evacuated parts of Veracruz and neighboring Puebla states ahead of the storm's arrival. The Hurricane Center said Katia could still bring 3 to 6 inches (7.5 to 15 centimeters) of additional rain to a region with a history of deadly mudslides and flooding. Associated Press writers Peter Orsi and Mark Stevenson in Mexico City contributed to this report.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-mexico-earthquake-hurricane-20170909-story.html
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DACA announcement sparks protests nationwide, dozens arrested at Trump Tower
By Meghan Keneally Sep 6, 2017, 1:54 AM ET
Dozens of protesters were arrested in front of Trump Tower in New York in one of many nationwide protests after Tuesday’s announcement that the Trump administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, five years after it was introduced. A total of 34 people have been arrested, according to the New York Police Department. No injuries to protesters or police officers have been reported, and the crowd has thinned since it started. If protesters were cooperative and turned over their personal information to police, including name, address and date of birth, they were given a special ticket and were not fingerprinted, officials said; those who refused to turn over their personal information were fingerprinted. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged DACA beneficiaries to be cautious about protesting. Trump expected to announce DACA decision today 'Dreamers' head back to school facing fears about DACA's future Washington, New York plan to sue Trump if he ends DACA "Obviously if someone, now with this new information that we are getting out of Washington today, is a DACA recipient, I would urge them to be very careful about anything like civil disobedience. There are many other people who can undertake the civil disobedience. I wouldn’t advise the DACA recipients to do it. In this city, there has been an approach that it is mindful,” de Blasio said. A number of the chants at Trump Tower today directly called out DACA, with some protesters shouting "When DACA is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!" The demonstrations started shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this morning that DACA is being rescinded. The program protects young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children from deportation. Since the program’s initiation in 2012 by the Obama administration, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children have been granted protection under DACA. In other cities: Washington, D.C. Protesters also gathered in Washington, D.C. The demonstrations started as a rally outside the White House, then shortly after 11 a.m. protestors marched down 15th Street, then south on Pennsylvania Avenue. No arrests have been reported there. Chicago Hundreds of Chicagoans marched through the Loop before congregating at a rally in Federal Plaza on Tuesday afternoon, where DACA recipients spoke to the assembled crowd. The marchers also took to ICE headquarters in downtown on West Congress Parkway. Police said there were no arrests. Los Angeles Southern Californians held a rally outside of Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration -- the city's seat of government -- on Tuesday to protest the repeal of DACA. ABC affiliate KABC in Los Angeles said about 150 protesters gathered at the event along with public officials, including Mayor Eric Garcetti. Garcetti called the decision by Trump "cruel" and urged Congress to pass the DREAM Act "once and for all -- right now." California is home to about 220,000 DACA recipients, according to KABC, the most of any state.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/arrests-made-daca-protest-york/story?id=49625957
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Washington Post Story Hints Of Irma Weather Warfare As FEMA Chief Warns: 'Entire Southeastern United States Better Wake Up And Pay Attention'
- Globalist Mouthpiece Reports Killer Hurricane Irma Is Aimed At Florida As If Following GPS Directions While Mayor Of Miami Hints Of Forthcoming 'Nuclear Disaster' In America
September 8, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
For those who've been paying attention to what some are arguing have been clearly 'weaponized' hurricane's Harvey and Irma, the opening paragraph to this new Washington Post story (via archive.is) nearly defies belief - they're screaming out a bit of truth to those with the ears to hear it.: This could be The Big One, again, and everyone knows it, and if people here are getting a bit frantic, that might not be an irrational response. Hurricane Irma is about as big as a tropical cyclone can possibly get, and the latest computer models show it aimed at South Florida as if following directions by GPS. With one of the ancient meaning's for the name Harvey being 'battle worthy' while the German meaning for the name Irma is "War Goddess", we'll take a look within this story at the latest and what might be the greatest fear of Hurricane Irma, two nuclear power plants now directly in the forecast line of destruction. Overall, up to a dozen or more nuclear plants might be in Irma's path. We also look below videos at a new SQAlert which warns that both Harvey and Irma are manufactured events and warns of a vision that Irma will turn up the coast and cause havoc from Florida to the North East coast. As we hear from Dane Wigington of the GeoEngineering Watch in the 2nd video below, there are many signs hurricane Irma is being manipulated with several clear objectives and agendas. While fake news Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media will continue to call 'weather modification' and 'weather warfare' either a 'tinfoil hat conspiracy theory' or 'fake news', as we see and hear in the 1st video below as also documented by this 1974 United States Senate 'top secret' hearing entry, 'weather modification' for military purposes is proven dating at least as far back as to Operation Popeye in Vietnam from 1967 to 1972 as shared via Wikipedia.: Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a highly classified weather modification program in Southeast Asia during 1967–1972. The cloud seeding operation during the Vietnam War ran from March 20, 1967 until July 5, 1972 in an attempt to extend the monsoon season, specifically over areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The operation was used to induce rain and extend the East Asian Monsoon season in support of U.S. government efforts related to the War in Southeast Asia. The chemical weather modification program was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and allegedly sponsored by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CIA without the authorization of then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird who had categorically denied to Congress that a program for modification of the weather for use as a tactical weapon even existed. A report titled Rainmaking in SEASIA outlines use of lead iodide and silver iodide deployed by aircraft in a program that was developed in California at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and tested in Okinawa, Guam, Philippines, Texas, and Florida in a hurricane study program called Project Stormfury. Project Popeye was the experiment in increased rainfall through cloud seeding leading up to Operation Popeye. The technical aspects of the experiment were verified by Dr. Donald F. Hornig, Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology. During October 1966, Project Popeye was tested in a strip of the Laos panhandle east of the Bolovens Plateau in the Se Kong River valley. The government of Laos was not informed of the project, its methods or its goals. The test was conducted by personnel from the Naval Ordnance Test Station located at China Lake California. Fifty cloud seeding experiments were conducted with the result that 82% of the clouds produced rain within a brief period after having been seeded. It was claimed that one of the clouds drifted across the Vietnam border and dropped nine inches of rain on a US special forces camp over a four-hour period. After the successful completion of the test phase, Project Popeye transitioned from an experiment to an operational program of the U.S. Defense department. With that proof giving new meaning to the term 'directed energy weapons', the story that immediately caught our attention this morning over at the Daily Mail began "This Is A Nuclear Hurricane" followed by dire words of warning from the mayor of Miami Beach to his people ahead of the crushing onset of Hurricane Irma. "Get out now!" Mayor Phillip Levine cried, issuing mandatory evacuations for at least 100,000 people, while adding, 'this storm will envelope us whether it is off shore or on shore. It won't make a difference' and 'I'll do anything in my power to convince [people] this is a very serious storm. This is a nuclear hurricane. They should leave the beach, they must leave the beach." Fresh off its complete destruction and total carnage left at two Caribbean Islands, allegedly destroying at least 95% of Barbuda and St. Martin, killer hurricane Irma is the ultimate reason to 'prep' way ahead of time as shown in over a million people in Puerto Rico losing power while in Florida, stores are quickly running out of water and other basic necessities. Now bearing down on Florida (via GPS?) and the Eastern seaboard with at least 2 of Florida's nuclear power plants in the direct path of Irma's wrath, FEMA Chief Brock Long says Irma should be a wakeup call for the entire southeastern United States.: "The entire southeastern United States better wake up and pay attention." How HUGE is 'monster' hurricane Irma? According to this story over at the Detroit Free Press that the Drudge Report linked to on Wednesday, the EYE ALONE of Irma is BIGGER than the entire suburban area of Detroit, Michigan. And think about this... the EYE is usually where the 'calm' is. While death and destruction swirl about it for hundreds of miles in every direction, we see in the graphic above just how big Hurricane Irma would be if the eye of it was just west of Washington DC. Astoundingly, the hurricane would extend northwards to Vermont and New Hampshire and westward to Cincinnati, Ohio and south to Savannah, Georgia, at its current size. And as the Daily Beast reports, Irma is stronger than all of the other 8 2017 hurricanes combined. And while both Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear power plants have survived previous hurricanes and flooding conditions, neither has faced anything at all like Hurricane Irma and since Mayor Levine of Miami is calling this a 'nuclear hurricane', there may be a very good reason why. If hurricane's Harvey and Irma really ARE 'weather warfare' attacks upon America, might we soon witness a 'weather-warfare induced nuclear attack' upon our nation? New stories from both Jamie White over at Infowars and the editors over at ENENews report the nuclear plants in Irma's path are sparking 'Fukushima fears' among experts who warn a 'Fukushima-style' catastrophe is within the realm of possibility seeing that we're now dealing with brutal, untamed forces of nature....or more likely, weather warfare. As ENENews reports, what's being called 'the worst hurricane ever', with winds up to 225 mph, is heading straight towards multiple nuclear power plants with officials warning of possible 'apocalyptic damage'. What could go wrong? Absolute worst case scenario: 'Fukushima in America' being delivered across the entire East coast of our nation by Hurricane Irma's winds and rains. A nuclear hurricane? A potential nuclear nightmare. As we see in the next graphic below, as of 5 a.m. today, nearly the entire Southeast of America had a 30% chance or greater of tropical storm force winds with the nuclear plants in Florida now in the 90% range. If the storm keeps on its current track, within a few days, most of the mid-Atlantic will be within the 'cone'. Proving to us that FEMA's head was correct and this won't be just a 'Florida-event' but a 'much of the East coast event', experts have already warned Irma has the potential to affect every major city in Florida. It's wrath will likely spread far beyond as it possibly restrengthens over the Atlantic Ocean before relanding somewhere between Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina if current weather model forecasts are correct. While we certainly understand that a Fukushima-scenario unfolding in Florida is an absolute, worst-case long-shot-scenario, we MUST be prepared for anything. Knowing that experts are already warning of 'another potential Fukushima', a damaged nuclear power plant resulting in massive amounts of radiation in the air, being delivered by one of the most deadly hurricanes in history, is reason enough to make sure that we all have 'safe rooms' planned. And having such a room that radiation wouldn't be able to seap into, JUST in case Irma delivers a 'death blow', would absolutely double as a nuclear fallout shelter should Kim Jong Un do something totally insane and launch a nuclear attack upon America. Yet those who've been paying attention know that 'weather warfare' and 'weather modification' are real, proven by nearly 100 years worth of very real patents (thanks to Dane Wigington for the painstaking work!), and as has been painstakingly documented by Steve Quayle in his book "Weather Wars & Un-Natural Disasters". And with Hollywood preparing to release the movie "Geostorm" on October 20th, a movie which documents 'weather modification gone mad' as seen in the final video below, might 'Irma' be exactly what a 'weather warfare' hurricane looks like, being steered directly into two major nuclear power plants as seen in the next graphic below? And is it just a coincidence that Monday, the day Irma should be smack dab in the middle of Florida, is 9/11? In the new story over at the Organic Prepper we read that 5 potential, and epic, disasters await us here in America and whether we live on the east coast or the west, the north or the south, we serve our Lord and our families and neighbors best by preparing for whatever may be coming our way. From the west on fire to X-class solar flares threatening our communications and electrical grid to the ever looming presence of Kim Jong Un and North Korea to the Biblical weather we've been getting as of late, we can't go wrong if we do our very best to prepare for anything and everything. The Organic Prepper also has this essential guide to preparing for hurricanes for those who haven't yet done their 'due dilligence' and with Irma so strong that it's being measured now on seismometers usually used to detect earthquakes, we get a taste of just how powerful this monster is. With the US military dedicating at least 4 ships and thousands of troops to 'Irma relief efforts', FEMA is almost out of money and stretched to the limits by Harvey and Irma. The 'Van Gogh' like image seen below comes to us from the Earth Null School website which keeps track of winds and other atmospheric anomalies and clearly shows the 'triple threat' now churning in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, the first time that 3 hurricanes have been in the Atlantic basin at the same time in the last 7 years. As ANP has reported again and again, in such a situation as hurricanes Harvey or Irma or any other potential disaster, preparation way ahead of the event is of the utmost importance and can be the difference between life and death. As the Miami Herald reported two days ago, nearly a week before the arrival of Irma, empty shelves are everywhere. With water in short supply and many gas pumps running dry, those who have waited for the very last moment to prepare may soon find themselves out of options and out of luck. As we learn in this new story linked on the Drudge Report, the US military and state police in Florida are now escorting fuel trucks. With the Earth quite literally shaking as Irma powered its way across the Atlantic Ocean, we agree completely with one resident of the island of Puerto Rico who recently told an interviewer "May God protect us all". With Irma quite literally knocking the small island of Barbuda off the map as shared in this new story over at SHTFPlan while several nuclear power plants and millions of people now lie in the way of what the mayor of Miami has called 'a nuclear hurricane', a storm that still hasn't slowed down, the 'perfect storm' that awaits America will last way beyond 2017 as the economic costs are sorted out and potentially millions of American families begin to put their lives back together.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Prepping_For_Nuclear_Monster_Irma.php
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The terrifying sound of Hurricane Irma
By Strange Sounds - Sep 8, 2017
Hurricane Irma is currently devastating several caribbean islands one after the other.
And the sound of destruction accompanying the Category 5 storm is terrifying, apocalyptic.
Have a prayer for all those who are currently being hit and/or suffering due to this totally anomalous monster storm.
http://strangesounds.org/2017/09/terrifying-sound-hurricane-irma-video.html
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Hurricane Irma Is Being Called ‘A Lawnmower From The Sky’ And FEMA Warns It Will ‘Devastate’ The Southeast (Irma Is Being Described As A ‘Nuclear Hurricane’)
Irma is not just another hurricane – it is a history making storm that is going to cause up to a quarter of a trillion dollars in damage once it makes landfall in the United States. In fact, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine used the term “nuclear hurricane” to describe this storm to the media. I would never use that term personally, but I am in agreement that it would be exceedingly difficult to overstate the danger that this storm represents. According to the National Hurricane Center, Irma has been a category 5 storm for more than 50 hours, and that is already one of the longest stretches on record. Of course if you were to extrapolate the Saffir-Simpson scale, Irma would have been considered a category 6 storm when it had sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. This is a point that I made in my article entitled “Hurricane Irma: If There Was Such A Thing As A Category 6 Hurricane, This Would Be It”. And just a day later, MSNBC published an article with a suspiciously similar headline: “If there were a category 6 hurricane, Irma would be it”. So will the rest of the mainstream media attack MSNBC for saying the exact same thing that I did? Of course not. And will the mainstream media attack Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine for calling Irma “a nuclear hurricane”?… “We have talked to people in your city who say, ‘We ain’t going,’” CBS4’s Hank Tester told Levine. “I hate to hear that. I’ll do anything in my power to convince them this is a very serious storm. This is a nuclear hurricane. They should leave the beach, they must leave the beach,” he said. Of course not. I am certainly not criticizing Levine. Once again, it is not terminology that I would have used, but if it helps get more people to safety that is a good thing. Just look at what has happened to Barbuda. According to Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne, 95 percent of the buildings on Barbuda have been damaged or destroyed… “As it stands, Barbuda is practically uninhabitable,” Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne told Antigua/Barbuda Broadcasting Services. He added that the destruction on the island, which is home to about 1,800 people was “heart-wrenching” and most of it is now completely underwater. “A significant number of the houses have been totally destroyed,” his chief of staff Lionel Hurst said. At least one of the eight deaths caused by Irma was confirmed on the island of Barbuda. Originally, Browne’s optimistic Facebook post claimed that Barbuda and Antigua had both stood up to Irma’s wrath. Antigua, which is home to around 80,000 people was not hit nearly as hard as Barbuda. “It is clear that Antigua and Barbuda has stood up to a mighty test,” he wrote in the statement posted to Facebook. But he revised his opinion after taking a helicopter ride to survey the damage to Barbuda, which is just 30 miles north of Antigua. “I never contemplated any possibility that you could have such a contrast,” he said of the relative destruction. Browne also said that 95% of the buildings on Barbuda were damaged and 30% percent of the buildings on the island completely demolished when the core of the Category 5 hurricane crossed almost directly over the island early Wednesday. “Barbuda now is literally rubble,” Browne said. And Browne put an exclamation point on things when he told Anderson Cooper the following… “I have never seen any such destruction on a per capita basis compared to what I saw in Barbuda this afternoon,” Browne told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Could we see similar devastation in our country? Today is your chance to be part of saving our ancestors' lost ways. I wanted to make this information available to every family out there without having to spend years of their lives or thousands of dollars. So I came up with this great idea to edit all my manuscripts and to turn all this lost knowledge into one of the greatest books of this century: The Lost Ways We shall see. Right now, millions are holding their breath as they wait to see where Irma will go. According to the Washington Post there are a couple of key factors that meteorologists are watching… The first is a ridge of high pressure over the Atlantic, dubbed the “Bermuda High.” This system, around which winds flow clockwise, acts as a guardrail to Irma, shunting it farther south and west like a pinball, and preventing it from heading out to sea. The stronger the ridge, the greater the probability that its westward movement will continue. The second is what’s known as an upper-level shortwave trough. This is a zone of low pressure spinning away over the southern Tennessee Valley within a dip in the jet stream, that spins counterclockwise. This will eventually capture Irma into its overall circulation, but the strength and forward speed of that feature will determine Irma’s propensity to move inland. But of course authorities can’t wait until the last minute, and coastal communities are already being evacuated. And we are not just talking about Florida. Earlier today, we learned that an evacuation order had been issued for Savannah, Georgia… Georgia’s governor has ordered a mandatory evacuation starting on Saturday from the state’s Atlantic coast ahead of Hurricane Irma. That includes the city of Savannah, home to nearly 150,000 people. Gov. Nathan Deal issued the evacuation Thursday for all areas east of Interstate 95, all of Chatham County and some areas west of the interstate. He also expanded a state of emergency to 30 counties. How will you protect your savings and yourself in the event of an DISASTER ? This just-released PDF guide Surviving and Thriving During an DISASTER will show you exactly how. Click here to download the PDF now. Down in Florida, the clock is ticking for those that would still like to get out. There is extremely heavy traffic on the major highways, and many gas stations down in Florida have already completely run out of gasoline… Several gas stations in Florida ran out of gas Thursday as Hurricane Irma approached the state. Supplies fell as people heeded evacuation orders for some southern parts of the state. Last week, Hurricane Harvey crippled oil refineries in Texas, creating shortages even before Irma made landfall in the Caribbean. As I have been saying all along, you don’t want to be there when this storm makes landfall. There are going to be some people that figure that since they were able to “ride out” other hurricanes that they will be able to do the same thing with Irma. Those that choose to do that will be making a tragic mistake, and it may cost some of them their lives. Hurricane Irma Is Being Called ‘A Lawnmower From The Sky’ And FEMA Warns It Will ‘Devastate’ The Southeast It looks like Hurricane Irma is going to make landfall in south Florida on Sunday morning. Of course that could still change, but this is what the meteorologists are telling us at this point. But of course the exact spot where Irma makes landfall is not so important because of the absolutely immense size of this storm. Irma is going to cause chaos and devastation over a very large area, and just like Hurricane Harvey the recovery from this storm is literally going to be measured in years. Down in the Caribbean, the destruction that Irma has caused has been absolutely unprecedented. The president of the island of Saint Martin “estimated that 95 percent of his country had been obliterated”, and one resident of the island described the storm as “a lawnmower from the sky”… Witnesses described similar scenes on the island’s Dutch half. “It’s like someone with a lawnmower from the sky has gone over the island,” said Mairlou Rohan, a European tourist visiting Sint Maarten, part of the Netherlands. That is not the sort of terminology that I would use, but without a doubt the devastation caused by this storm has been off the charts. On Barbuda, at least 90 percent of the buildings have been destroyed… Gaston Browne, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, said Barbuda was “totally demolished,” with 90% of its buildings destroyed. Communication with the island was cut off because of the destruction. As Hurricane Jose approaches the island, Barbuda officials are trying to evacuate the entire population of 1,800. Now the storm is heading straight for south Florida, and FEMA is using apocalyptic language to describe what might happen… FEMA Director Brock Long, in a Friday morning update, told a news conference there’s no question that Hurricane Irma will devastate parts of the souheastern United States: “Obviously, Hurricane Irma continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the United States in either Florida or some of the southeastern states,” Long told a 7:30 a.m. news conference. Some are comparing Hurricane Irma to Hurricane Andrew, but the truth is that Irma is much, much larger. You can see a comparison of the two storms right here. At this point, scientists are running out of superlatives to describe this storm. At the National Hurricane Center, one expert is already labeling Irma as “the most infamous in Atlantic hurricane history”… “Irma has me sick to my stomach,” said Eric Blake, a scientist with the National Hurricane Center, on his personal Twitter account on Thursday evening. “This hurricane is as serious as any I have seen. No hype, just the hard facts. Take every lifesaving precaution you can.” “I have little doubt Irma will go down as one of the most infamous in Atlantic hurricane history,” he added. We shall see what happens over the next few days. Hopefully things will not be quite as bad as the experts are projecting. At this hour, thousands upon thousands of Florida residents are desperately trying to flee north on the highways. Unfortunately, a lot of gas stations are already completely out of gasoline, and it is getting worse by the hour. Just check out these numbers… In Gainesville, it was the worst: At least 58% of stations were out of gasoline as of Friday morning, according to GasBuddy’s fuel tracker. More than 40% of stations in West Palm Beach and Miami had no fuel, while 38% of Fort Myers-Naples stations, nearly 35% of Tampa-St. Petersburg locations and more than 32% of Orlando stations were offline. At the stations where gasoline is still available, some people are having to wait up to 90 mins for fuel. Of course there are others that are not planning to leave Florida at all. In fact, 82-year-old Joseph “Tony” Vincent told the Washington Post that he is quite content to ride the storm out at a local hotel… “Hell, you’d be safer here than taking a car on those roads. You might be killed before you get to Atlanta,” he scoffed. If Irma fizzles, Vincent said he’ll just ride his three wheeler back to his trailer. “I’ll come on home and get drinker than hell,” he said. Hopefully he will be okay. The warnings have been issued, and I don’t think that they could have been much stronger. People have made their decisions about what they are going to do, and now we will see how things play out. On another note, I had to smile today when I came across a Think Progress article entitled “The case for a Category 6 rating for super-hurricanes like Irma”. I have been heavily criticized for saying the exact same thing that the liberal media is now talking very heavily about, but of course those outlets will not receive the same sort of criticism that I did. In the end, the main thing is keeping people safe, and if anyone in the direct path of this storm still feels like they want to “ride it out”, I would very much encourage you to flee while you still can. This is an exceedingly dangerous storm, and you do not want to be there when it hits. When civilization collapses, he predicts, the world will go back to barter. Urges everyone to have a disaster-preparedness kit containing enough food, water and other supplies to last 72 hours. This is sensible advice, and prepares have a point when they mock those who ignore it. Are you worried about your future? Are you worried by the many disasters that you face in your everyday life? Worry no more. The Lost Ways comes in to solve your woes. This program was created by Davis Claude and its major role is to prepare and teach you how to handle worst-case scenarios using the least independence. This program will therefore motivate you to protect your family and friends during the worst period without the help of the modern technology. Remember, calamities are everywhere: at work, home, school and many other places. These calamities cause tension and leads to a decrease in productivity. This may finally lead to a reduction in life. Fortunately, the lost ways review will provide solutions to these situations. It will give you the tips for preparing yourself when nothing seems to go as expected.
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A Word To The Wise – “You’re A Mercenary If…”
by IWB · September 3, 2017
The Burning Platform’s Jim Quinn notes that: I have no idea if Major General Higginbotham actually penned this or not but it is a stark warning, one that I have maintained for years, that a civil war in North America (if it happens in the USA it will take Mexico and Canada along for the ride) will not be as cut and dry and as some folks would like. There are no definable sides to our current predicament, no political organization to speak of, and as such a wide spread conflict would become chaos in short order. The continent would get very tribal very quickly. Political ideologues proceed with caution. You won’t like what you are about to read. Via Kunckledraggin.com, “If you are paid $25.00 an hour to show up to a rally to “counter” the other party using physical force and violence, you are not a “counter protestor.” You are a mercenary. There is no need for further debate on this. You were paid to attack someone you don’t know for reasons that you couldn’t care enough about to go there for free. You did your “job” and collected your check and your reimbursement of expenses. You’re a mercenary. Not a Patriot. Not a Social Justice Warrior. Not a Defender of Freedom or Liberty. Not an upholder of Truth or Justice. None of those things you claim to be. You are a mercenary. And mercenaries are not lawful combatants and deserve whatever comes their way at the hands of the people they are attacking. You have no 1st Amendment rights when you’re a mercenary. Doesn’t matter what side you’re on. Doesn’t matter what cause you’re showing up to disrupt. If you can’t express yourself peacefully through diplomatic means, then you better be prepared to meet your maker at the hands of someone who is only barely keeping their own violent tendencies at bay through a massive exercise of self-control. I know it sounds romantic to attend these rallies and get shit started with the other side. And when you’re young and passionate, it’s really easy to get whipped up into a frenzy of raw emotions. There is a reason why young people are preferred when it comes to warfare. They are easy to manipulate and control and set off. But I’m telling you all this right now. You’ve got no idea what road you are starting down. Romance and idealism wears off really fast when you’re laying in a pool of your own blood trying to stuff your intestines back into your torn abdomen. I’ve been lucky enough to go forty-two years without having to put the skills I learned in the Marines to use. I continue to train and keep those skills up to date because I see the madness that is happening all across this country. I don’t train to attack others like you do. I train to defend others FROM you. I’m not alone either. There are thousands of men and women in this country who have seen war and death and don’t want any more to do with it. They want to live in peace. They want to forget the things they’ve had to do in the service of their country. They want to raise their kids and have family BBQs and build tree houses and soap box derby cars and have tea parties. They don’t want this shit that you’re selling. You have the extremist left and the extremist right that are doing their best to get something started. To force us into a Civil War. Even in the 1860’s, the violence between the North and South was nowhere near what we see today. Nowhere. Even. Close. And yet we still had a war of ideology that consumed hundreds of thousands of lives. All you young and naive kids on both sides of this equation who think that having a Civil War will advance your agenda or restore your vision of what you think is America, just remember this… Those of us older generations aren’t having any of this shit. And if you jump off, you better be prepared to deal with US. We don’t care what color you’re wearing or what sign you’re holding if you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., WE will kill you. So remember that when you’re thinking that it’s just Left vs Right, or Liberal vs Conservative, or Commie vs. Fascist. We are the variable you’re not considering. That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit. Geoffrey B. Higginbotham Major General, USMC (Ret.)
http://investmentwatchblog.com/a-word-to-the-wise-youre-a-mercenary-if/
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OBAMA THREATENS TO SURFACE FROM LEFTIST BUNKER To Speak Out Against Trump’s Plan To End DACA
By 100% FED Up - Sep 4, 2017
Contrary to what the media would like us to believe, Obama has not remained silent when it comes to policy that President Trump put in place by executive order. Neither he nor his Democratic henchmen remained silent when President Trump desperately tried to convince Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, or when he had the opportunity to attack him over his handling of the Charlottesville controversy. The media celebrated Obama’s post-Charlotseville tweet designed to make our former President look like he was in favor of uniting the nation (which we all know is a bald-faced lie), while falsely giving the impression that President Trump was choosing sides. Before the media gets into a full-blown tizzy about Obama using social media to bash our current president over DACA, they might consider that most of America aren’t stupid enough to believe that Valerie Jarrett didn’t move into Barack Obama’s DC home because he needed a friend to play checkers with. He may not be making public statements to voice his opposition against our current president, but one thing we do know is that he and Valerie Jarrett aren’t sitting on their hands, while President Trump unwinds everything they worked so hard to make happen, including DACA. Hotair – You know it’s killing this guy not to be on camera every day scolding Trump in his usual “that’s not who we are” terms but that would be a strategic disaster so obvious that silence is really the only option. A “Trump vs. Obama” fight over almost any issue would unify most of the right behind the president and O knows it; the most brutal thing he can do to Trump is to deny him that our-guy-versus-their-guy dynamic. I don’t think it’s crazy to believe that Trump’s job approval would be five to 10 points higher if Obama had spent the last seven months sniping at him regularly. By withholding his criticism, he’s made it possible for “soft” Republicans and right-leaning independents to criticize POTUS without fear of being accused that they’re carrying O’s water. Two days before President Trump’s inauguration, Obama warned him that he would come out against him if Trump rescinded his unconstitutional DACA.
http://100percentfedup.com/obama-threatens-surface-leftist-bunker-speak-trumps-plan-end-daca/
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From the Gulf Oil Spill to Hurricane Harvey, the Algae Conspiracy Has Gone Full Circle
By Dave Hodges
This article is more of an annotated bibliography. The evidence for the following claims is overwhelming. Here is the thesis for this article: There are several agendas working in concert and the net effect and byproduct of all them is the creation of large algae deposits for the purpose of energy development. This marks the beginning of a new era in energy usage and many people are being hurt in the process. Major Changes Coming As Obama left office, he signed a $12 trillion climate change with the UN based on the Paris agreements. Essentially, your energy is going to skyrocket in cost. Your access to energy is going to be severely controlled. One of the most notable changes we are going witness is the conversion of oil to biofuels which will be controlled by the same case of characters. One biofuel has emerged as the choice and we are seeing this energy being championed in a major way in the MSM with a plethora of commercials like the following. Algae Commercial Although it is true that the President Trump did remove the US from the Paris Climate Change Treaty, the moment he leaves office, the treaty will be thrust upon the United States. This article is structured in such a way that if the reader takes the time to follow the evidence trail, there can only be one conclusion that makes any sense. Specifically, this article will detail the following: The globalists through their government minions are in the process of destroying massive bodies of water including, but not limited to Chesapeake Bay, Northern California, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. The destruction are not because of neglect, it is willful destruction with very ulterior motives in mind, but the desire to create algae farms, through intentional destruction of the land and surrounding water. The globalists are using nitrates from fertilizer and Corexit to accomplish their desire to create a dead zone in the aforementioned bodies of water. The globalists are creating water dead zones which will allow the proliferation of algae growth and the oil companies have initially led the charge to convert our energy usage from oil to algae. Prominent globalists are involved in this conspiracy and have contributed massive resources to this endeavor. Prominent globalists are attempting to buy up as much water as possible to exacerbate the destruction of water resources in the aforementioned areas. In other words, Americans are looking at extreme water scarcity from which the globalists can wage wars and force submission to their will while at the same time carry out their stated depopulation agenda. I wrote back in May that my instincts told me that this conspiracy has more breadth and depth than what is revealed here and it is my sincere hope that my fellow researchers will afford some much needed attention to these issues because I strongly believe there is more to learn and we do not have much time because humanity’s fate hangs in the balance. My instincts were correct! When we look at the following developments, there can only be one conclusion. Before jumping to the effects of Hurrican Harvey, let’s look back in time to establish a pattern of behavior, namely, our food supply is being imperiled in order to grow algae. And our oil industry is under severe attack to make way for algae. The Gulf Oil Spill From Parts Five and Six of the series I previously wrote called The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust, it was conclusively proven that BP, Goldman Sachs, Transocean and Halliburton prepositioned (e.g. BP stock dumping) themselves to make money from the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. However, there is a lot more going on in the Gulf than a handful of corporations each making hundreds of millions of dollars from their contrived role in the oil spill. The motive to destroy the Gulf holds the promise of making certain entities and individuals multi-trillions of dollars. The Obama administration and many others (individual billionaires, select politicians, BP, Exxon, Nalco, GM, GE, Goldman Sachs, University of Chicago, and many others including the Department of Defense are all deeply invested in bio-fuels. These billionaire psychopaths will willingly sacrifice the Gulf and all of its residents for this multi Trillion Dollar industry representing a new era of energy applications. Revelations from a Previous Investigation The Gulf Oil Spill As mentioned, I wrote a seven part series following the Gulf Oil Spill, In this series I painstakingly detailed how this “accident”, was really no accident at all. In fact, I saw the same governmental behaviors as I am presently seeing in the Central Valley of California, related to the Oroville Dam. Namely, we witnessed the world’s largest artificial creation of algae along the coastline of the Gulf Coast states, should this dam break. During the recovery and treatment phase of the Gulf, BP, over the objections of the EPA, used the highly dangerous oil treatment called Corexit. Corexit is so dangerous to human life that it is banned in 17 countries. So, why was it allowed? Corexit forces the oxygen into the water column. The net effect is that the only thing that grows is the new popular biofuel, algae. In fact, in the Gulf, people like Soros and Gore began showing us and investing in of all things, algae farms along the coast. What I discovered several years is when the dams are destroyed in NO CAL, the only thing that will grow for several years will be algae. What an amazing coincidence. Reference Articles Do Not Eat Our Food In the Gulf Part 6 Great Gulf Coast Holocaust Health Crisis of Unparalleled Proportions in the Gulf from Corexit Which Leads to Algae Formation Search Engine “The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust:- Note: Do Not Use Google’s Search Engine The State of Jefferson Movement Northern California and Southern Oregon counties have formed a conglomeration of over 20 counties to form the state of Jefferson in order to get away from the EPA and the BLM in order to escape the withholding of water to ranchers and farmers and the destruction of their dams along the same lines. One interesting side-note has to do with who is behind the destruction of the dams. It is none other than the former Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt, who opposed all dams in his tenure in office. Further, former Attorney General, Eric Holder, has been brought in to assist. In the case of the destruction of dams in NO CAL, Babbitt has helped Governor Jerry Brown in this endeavor. Another partner in crime, to this end, is none other than John Podesta, according to researcher Paul Preston of Agenda 21 Radio. So we have the dam buster joining forces with the child molester. This is the motivation behind these seemingly unconnected events. Here is what I discovered back 2013 when I was investigating the State of Jefferson movement. The Algae Factor The destruction of the Klamath River dams will result in huge deposits of algae which will make this pristine land very difficult to farm. It was at this moment that I had an epiphany. The Agenda 21 goal of depopulating this region was also motivated by a secondary goal, the proliferation of algae. This is something that I have a great deal of knowledge about, because I’ve dealt with this issue when I was writing my seven part series on the Gulf oil explosion. “As I discovered in the Gulf, the use of Corexit as the primary oil dispersant was very ineffective and led many researchers, like myself, to question the wisdom of the use of the most toxic dispersant on the face of the earth. In fact, Corexit does not disperse any oil, it merely submerges the oil. But what Corexit does do is it sucks all the CO2 out of the water and creates a dead zone. And this is precisely what we see along vast stretches of the Gulf, dead zones. When it was revealed to me that algae proliferation was going to be a byproduct of the destruction of these dams, I realized that this was very likely intentional. In the Gulf, algae farms, the next biofuel craze, have been springing up all along the coastline. The sponsors of this algae movement in the Gulf Coast have been none other than Al Gore, Warren Buffett and George Soros. Following the destruction of these dams, I fully expect to see the same globalists bringing their algae farms to this abandoned region.” Oroville Dam Break and Algae I have received numerous communications which are talking about a hum in the community in the picture, below, on the upper right hand side of the photo. These people are complaining that they have migraines after hearing a consistently low humming noise. The animals are impacted and many of the people are having trouble sleeping at night in this area called the Kelly Ridge area. Will this be the straw that breaks the camel’s back or Oroville? If the dam breaks, there will be unparalleled damage to this rich, fertile farm area. Nothing will grow but ALGAE. That means that the 2nd richest rice producing region in the world will be no more. The United States’ largest winter vegetable and fruit production will be no more. Can you say famine, complete control of food, UN intervention for humanitarian regions? And there is another advantage….Of course the UN Peacekeepers would be invited in by Gov. Brown to “help out”…. There is another advantage for the globalists as well. Algae Is Dumbing Down America Several years ago, as I was investigating the algae phenomenon, I found that Mike Adams had already blazed the trail of the dumbing down effect of the substance. From NATURAL NEWS “(NaturalNews) Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medical School have identified a mysterious virus that literally makes people stupid, and it has so far been found in about 45% of the people tested. The discovery of the “stupid” virus, normally found in algae, was revealed at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, entitled “Chlorovirus ATCV-1 is part of the human oropharyngeal virome and is associated with changes in cognitive functions in humans and mice” is found at this link on the PNAS.org website. The rather shocking take away from the study is that the virus alters the gene expression of brain cells, literally making people perform more poorly on cognitive tests, visual processing and spatial awareness. So far, 90 people have been tested for the presence of the virus, and 40 tested positive, according to The Independent. [2] “Those who tested positive performed worse on tests designed to measure the speed and accuracy of visual processing. They also achieved lower scores in tasks designed to measure attention,” reports the paper. According to the study abstract, the virus alters gene expression relating to “…synaptic plasticity, learning, memory formation, and the immune response to viral exposure.” This virus, in other words, can truly suppress your brain function, memories and immune response. And it is apparently quite common in humans…” [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/23 … [2 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vi… As far as the globalists go, what a wonderful byproduct of Algae, the dumbing down of the public. Hurricane Harvey and the Houston Oil Refineries The impact of Harvey on the Houston area extends far beyond the devastation of 50,000 homes, the destruction of an untold number of destroyed businesses, and of course, the loss of life. Forbes provided an analysis which stated that Houston’s boom is likely over and the oil industry will never be the same again. Oil is algae’s major competitor. When Harvey devastated Houston, among the uncounted casulaties in the MSM, is this far-reaching effect upon the oil industry. What the Paris Climate Change Treaty could not accomplish to making American energy unaffordable, the weather modification attack upon Houston will accomplish. The long-range effects on oil prices and other related costs are going to be devastating to the American economy. Not only will Houston take a generation to recover from the scars caused by Harvey, America will, at some future date, come to embrace algae as the fuel of the future. Companies including Exxon Mobil and Valero Energy shut down their facilities in the area and evacuated workers. I almost forgot to mention on little item. When the flood waters, resulting from 50 inches of rain, subside, nothing will grow in the surrounding rural areas of Houston, for years, except…..ALGAE! And what what will this do to food prices in America, in the long term? There is one more item that the MSM is failing to even mention at this point and it is the 11 superfund sites that surround Houston that have been compromised. The release of these deadly chemicals associated with these sites, will have long-term health effects. Some experts I have spoken with fear that we will see, in the not-t00-distant future catastrophic effects on human health. The water supplies of Houston may be permanently imperiled as described by the AP in the following report: From the Associated Press Graphic shows location of federal superfund sites around Houston, including flooded sites; 3c x 4 inches; 146 mm x 101 mm; “…Long a center of the nation’s petrochemical industry, the Houston metro area has more than a dozen Superfund sites, designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as being among America’s most intensely contaminated places. Many are now flooded, with the risk that waters were stirring dangerous sediment. …The Associated Press surveyed seven Superfund sites in and around Houston during the flooding. All had been inundated with water, in some cases many feet deep. On Saturday, hours after the AP published its first report, the EPA said it had reviewed aerial imagery confirming that 13 of the 41 Superfund sites in Texas were flooded by Harvey and were “experiencing possible damage” due to the storm. The statement confirmed the AP’s reporting that the EPA had not yet been able to physically visit the Houston-area sites, saying the sites had “not been accessible by response personnel.” EPA staff had checked on two Superfund sites in Corpus Christi on Thursday and found no significant damage. AP journalists used a boat to document the condition of one flooded Houston-area Superfund site, but accessed others with a vehicle or on foot. The EPA did not respond to questions about why its personnel had not yet been able to do so…” (Thank you AP for telling the truth). The following statement is cruel, but true: Houston has stage-four cancer and it is spreading to the rest of the nation. The impact of Harvery is catastrophic and the long-range impacts are barely being reported. Hurricane Irma-The Wildcard How many major oil rigs will Irma take out? This of course, would benefit the algae industry. What US industries will be imperiled by Irma? If Irma has similar effects, then even the most cautious and conservative people should start asking questions about weather modification and this apparent attack upon our food producing land as well as the oil industry which will leave large segments of land in the United States unable to sustain anything by algae. How many times in the history of the insurance industry, have individuals or businesses been caught setting fire to their homes and businesses in order to receive a lucrative payout of insurance money? This is exactly what BP and Exxon are doing. They are intentionally burning down their own home (oil) in order to construct a behemoth palace (bio-fuels).
Conclusion There is a clear pattern in that every planned ecological disaster has algae proliferation as its byproduct. Now we are seeing the algae process being advertised in the MSM in a very major way. This marks the beginning of a brave new world in which we move head first into a technocracy (ie scientific dictatorship). Famine and UN intervention are necessary byproducts of what could happen in California and accross our nation. If you do not agree with these conclusions, I have provided the reader with the means to do some very in depth exploration.
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etc For truly in the world right now, saith your Father God, is much trouble, trouble that they know not how to deal with. They know not how to stop the drought, the global warming, the flooding, they know not how to stop the rains, the forest fires, they do not know these things. They do not know how to stop the wars, the troubles that are taking place in the world and the troubles yet to come. etc.
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World's largest firefighting aircraft grounded by U.S. gov't
Last Updated Sep 5, 2017 3:42 PM EDT
Update: California activated the SuperTanker to fight its first U.S. wildfire in August 2017.
More than 50 large wildfires are scorching land this morning across the western U.S. But a new firefighting tool is sitting idle in an airport hangar in California because the U.S. Forest Service refuses to let it fly. The converted Boeing 747 jet, nicknamed the SuperTanker, can drop almost twice as much fire retardant as the largest airtanker currently in service. "We're the very largest in the world -- there's nobody out there that comes close," said Jim Wheeler. His company, Global SuperTanker, turned a 747-400 series passenger jet -- one of the biggest in the sky -- into the world's largest fire extinguisher. "We can drop a line of retardant about three kilometers long, about a mile-and-a-half," Wheeler told CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann, as the plane performed a test run in Colorado last fall. But in this country, it's virtually worthless unless the U.S. Forest Service gives it permission to fight fires -- something the agency has yet to do, even though the plane was certified by the FAA last September, and has since fought fires in Chile and Israel. "The frustration factor is exceptionally high," Wheeler said. "It's very hard to watch property burn and lives lost, and we can't get in and help." In May, the Forest Service issued a request for new airtankers, but said it would only give contracts to planes with a dispensing capacity of between 3,000 and 5,000 gallons. The supertanker can drop more than 19,000 gallons of water or retardant at a time. Wheeler said, "It begs the question: if your house is on fire, are you going to call the smallest, slowest fire truck?" Some firefighter advocacy groups suggest the Forest Service might be trying to control its budget, causing delays for the plane, which could cost as much as $250,000 a day to operate. The Forest Service says it can't comment on the dispute because Wheeler filed an official protest last month. According to Wheeler, the aircraft can be filled in less than 30 minutes. But it's not just the speed and size that make the Supertaker powerful; its pressurized tank system atomizes the water when it's released, rather than just dumping it, like a bucket. "It doesn't break down tree limbs, it won't crush cars or buildings," Wheeler said. And a firefighter or a stranded resident who happens to be under this big dump of water will be be fine. "You'll get wet, but won't be killed," Wheeler said. Strassmann asked, "Why hasn't someone done this until now?" "There's a lot of cost involved in doing this, a lot of testing and a lot of paperwork, and I think that scares most people," Wheeler replied. California's fire agency currently has an agreement to use the plane, but can't deploy it until the Forest Service gives its approval. It's an expensive aircraft, but at a time of ever-growing wildfires threatening lives and property, Wheeler feels his service is a bargain. "You're not going to put out a 4,000-acre or larger fire with buckets and helicopters. It's just physically impossible," he said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-largest-firefighting-aircraft-grounded-by-u-s-govt/
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etc. you shall see more problems throughout the world, bigger terror attacks, you shall see earthquakes, oh even the big earthquake and you shall see the division before long from one end of the states to another that you cannot cross for that fault shall be opened. You shall see the stock market as it crashes, for I have warned you and yet the world has mocked me, your President has mocked me, both parties have mocked me and judgment day is coming fast. etc
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No Joke: 97 Million Full-Time Workers Are Now Living Paycheck to Paycheck 26 / 29
The Motley Fool Sean Williams
This may not come as a shock to many, but Americans are pretty undisciplined when it comes to money. According to data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve, the personal saving rate in June 2017 was a measly 3.8%. In effect, it means working Americans are putting away just $3.80 for every $100 they earn. For the average American earning $30,000 annually, that equates to just $1,140 a year in savings. Of course, that assumes the average American is saving money, which isn't always the case. A study from GoBankingRates, conducted last year, found that 69% of the Americans it surveyed had less than $1,000 in savings, including about a third of respondents who had a big goose egg -- $0. So, what are we doing with our money? Considering that the U.S. economy is 70% based on consumption, we're probably buying things. In fact, we're probably buying more stuff than we can reasonably afford. The Federal Reserve recently released data showing that aggregate credit card debt had hit an all-time high of $1.027 trillion, eclipsing the previous high that was set before the Great Recession. Add in well over a trillion in auto-loan and student-loan debt, and we have a growing profile of debts that Americans are struggling to pay. These data points paint a pretty scary picture, but they're nothing compared to the newest survey from CareerBuilder. A staggering number of full-time workers are living paycheck to paycheck According to the latest survey, conducted on CareerBuilder's behalf by Harris Poll, 78% of U.S. full-time workers are now living paycheck to paycheck, up from 75% in 2016, to make ends meet. If we utilize full-time employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2016 (123.8 million full-time workers), it means about 97 million of those full-time workers are living paycheck to paycheck. That includes 23% who said they always lived paycheck to paycheck, 17% who claimed they usually do, and 38% who noted that they sometimes do. What was particularly interesting about CareerBuilder's survey is that well-to-do individuals weren't free of financial issues. Roughly 9% of workers making $100,000 or more annually was living paycheck to paycheck, and 59% of these highest-income folks were carrying around debt. In the middle-income to middle-upper-income bracket of $50,000 to $99,999 in annual income, 28% were living paycheck to paycheck, and 70% were in debt. Debt itself proved to be a major issue for a majority of workers, regardless of their income -- and it's a big reason workers are struggling to save money. Just 19% of workers surveyed admitted to saving more than $501 monthly, while at the other end of the spectrum, 56% were saving less than $100 a month, including 26% with no monthly savings whatsoever. When questioned, less than a third (32%) of respondents admitted to following a detailed monthly budget, and a number of respondents refused to give up certain luxuries, despite their financial woes. For example, 54% refused to give up their internet connection, 53% wouldn't give up their mobile device, and 48% wouldn't stop driving, to lower their monthly expenses and save money. In all, the American labor force is in a sad state, financially. Two simple steps to be smarter with your money However, that doesn't mean American workers are completely lost. There's always time to right the ship and fix your finances. The key point is that you have to be proactive and make things to happen if you're among the 97 million full-time workers who are, in some form, living paycheck to paycheck. 1. Create and stick to a budget CareerBuilder's survey correlates identically with a 2013 poll from Gallup that also found that just 32% of American households were keeping a detailed monthly budget. Without a budget, it's practically impossible to have a good understanding of your cash flow, and therefore it's difficult to optimally adjust your spending and saving habits. Formulating a budget today is easier than ever. Gone are the days of writing out a budget by hand and having to do all of the math by yourself. Today, budgeting software can be found online, and in many cases for free. All you'll need to do is devote about 30 minutes a month to inputting in your expenses and income. In addition, budgeting software may even be able to help you formulate a saving plan if you know how much you'd like to sock away each week, month, or year. Perhaps the biggest issue with a budget isn't formulating it, so much as sticking to it. To that end, here are a few helpful tips: Consider setting up an automatic weekly, biweekly, or monthly withdrawal from your paycheck or your checking/savings account and into an investment account, to keep yourself honest to your budget and remove the "I forgot" excuse from the equation. Try using cash instead of credit when making purchases. While using a credit card will give you a neat list of everything you've purchased, it's an intangible form of capital. Using cash, and having to hand over physical bills, will probably make you think twice about discretionary purchases. Get everyone in your household involved with budgeting. The more you surround yourself with like-minded people, the more likely you are to be successful. Be "SMART," which stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Using SMART budgeting goals should improve your chances of success and keep you from straying off track. 2. Be smart with what you save On top of just saving a lot more, workers need to be smarter with what they are saving. According to Gallup, just 52% of those it surveyed in 2016 owned stocks, which matched an all-time low. The concern is that the stock market is arguably the greatest wealth creator of all time. Inclusive of dividend reinvestment, the stock market has appreciated in value by an average of 7% over the long term. That's well ahead of inflation, gold, housing, bonds, and practically every other asset you can think of. However, with the Great Recession and the stock market's steep losses still in investors' minds, many have avoided jumping back into stocks -- and they've missed one of the greatest eight-year bull runs in the process. Though there are no certainties when it comes to investing in stocks, perhaps the closest certainty I can offer is that high-quality companies tend to increase in value over time. Since 1950, the broad-based S&P 500 has had 35 corrections lower of at least 10% when rounded to the nearest whole number. In each and every instance, be it in a matter of weeks, months, or years, a bull market rally has eventually erased any and all downside. Patient long-term investors who stick with stocks are rewarded with real-money gains far more often than they aren't. Saving more and being smarter with your money is the not-so-secret formula some 97 million working Americans can use to no longer be a worrisome statistic.
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A Faith to Weather the Storm
Jacob Lupfer | Religion News Service | Thursday, August 31, 2017
“Faith to weather life’s storms.” The phrase evokes the cliche sentimentality of greeting cards you might send to a bereaved friend. But many believers are quite upfront about the fact that religion sustains them not just through the day-to-day, but especially in “seasons of distress and grief,” as the old hymn goes. The storm metaphor translates into all manner of difficult situations: pain, brokenness, loss and so on. But how does faith speak to the storms of life that are literal? This question comes into sharp focus as a massive tropical storm inundates a populous coastal area with endless rain and epic flooding. Before, during and after dangerous weather events, dearly held beliefs face profound challenges. What do we pray for when a hurricane approaches? That God will make storms dissipate? That it will go hit somewhere else — maybe someplace less populated? That loss of life be limited? That people will respond with justice and kindness? In moments like these, our conceptions of who and what God is are laid bare: Either he can change nature or he cannot. Either he will, or he will not. It is easy to see God in the heroic rescue of frightened children from a flooded house. It is more difficult to see him in the fate of people who did not make it out alive. In any case, many people believe God calls them to help their fellow man in the aftermath of life’s storms. When disasters occur, faith groups are almost always among the first on the scene with resources and manpower. One little-known fact about American religious communities is that many are mobilized for immediate disaster relief. Through denominations and other organizational networks, faith groups leverage their scale and proximity to play a key role in the aftermath of storms. The ordinary quibbles over religious doctrine and practice suddenly seem much less important. If someone is pulling me or my loved ones to safety from rising floodwaters, I do not much care if she is a Christian or a Muslim or an atheist. And while I have opinions about ideal levels of state funding for emergency preparedness and disaster relief, in my moment of rescue it does not matter if the person helping me is a government worker or a volunteer. Americans across political and cultural lines contribute to relief and recovery. Some show up, some send money, and many more send prayers. Yet even when we come together as a people to begin the work of relief and recovery, our religious prejudices and hostilities are never fully subdued. Houston megachurch pastor Joel Osteen received harsh criticism across the internet in the wake of the storm for not immediately opening his church, which was formerly a NBA arena, as a shelter. But it was not initially clear even to Osteen’s critics that it was safe or advisable to house displaced persons in the complex. The implication is that, since Osteen is a prosperity-gospel heretic and a very wealthy man, it is right to deride him for not doing more to help his city. I would be the last person to defend Osteen as a faithful expositor of Christian truth. However, as a fellow citizen I sympathize with a leader who undoubtedly has many in his flock who are under water. The massive congregation may yet do significant storm recovery work, long after its online detractors stop judging and keeping score. It is important to assume good faith in bad times. Soon enough, our collective attention will move on from Texas’ floods. We can resume our never-ending debates about religion and politics. But for now, it is time to love our neighbor. Hopefully it is not too old-fashioned to think that’s what religious faith demands — before and after the storm. Jacob Lupfer is a contributing editor at RNS. He teaches political science at American University Courtesy: Religion News Service
http://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/guest-commentary/a-faith-to-weather-the-storm.html
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Hydrogen Bomb Test A 'Perfect Success', Can Be Loaded Onto Missile: North Korea
Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs -- also known as thermonuclear devices -- are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons North Korea was believed to have tested so far.
North Korea said today it had tested a hydrogen bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring "perfect success" in its biggest-ever nuclear detonation and presenting a potent challenge to President Donald Trump. Pyongyang has long sought the means to deliver an atomic warhead to the United States, its sworn enemy, and the test will infuriate Washington and regional powers. China, the North's main ally, issued a swift condemnation. A jubilant newsreader on state television hailed the "unprecedentedly large" blast, adding the device could be mounted on a missile. It "marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force", she added. Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs -- also known as thermonuclear devices -- are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons the North was believed to have tested so far. Hours earlier, the North released images of leader Kim Jong-Un at the Nuclear Weapons Institute, inspecting what it said was a miniaturised H-bomb that could be fitted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). China, Pyongyang's main diplomatic protector, lost no time in issuing "strong condemnation" of the test, which overshadowed the opening of the BRICS summit in Shanghai by leader Xi Jinping. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the test as "absolutely unacceptable". In Seoul, President Moon Jae-In called for new United Nations sanctions to "completely isolate North Korea" and said the South would discuss deploying "the strongest strategic assets of the US military". Hydrogen Bomb Test A 'Perfect Success', Can Be Loaded Onto Missile: North Korea Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs -- also known as thermonuclear devices -- are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons North Korea was believed to have tested so far. North Korea said it can mount the Hydrogen bomb on it's ballistic missile Seoul: Highlights North Korea carries out its 6th nuclear test The hydrogen bomb test gives North Korea "thermonuclear" status This was the most powerful nuclear test carried out by North Korea so far North Korea said today it had tested a hydrogen bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring "perfect success" in its biggest-ever nuclear detonation and presenting a potent challenge to President Donald Trump. Pyongyang has long sought the means to deliver an atomic warhead to the United States, its sworn enemy, and the test will infuriate Washington and regional powers. China, the North's main ally, issued a swift condemnation. A jubilant newsreader on state television hailed the "unprecedentedly large" blast, adding the device could be mounted on a missile. It "marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force", she added. Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs -- also known as thermonuclear devices -- are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons the North was believed to have tested so far. Hours earlier, the North released images of leader Kim Jong-Un at the Nuclear Weapons Institute, inspecting what it said was a miniaturised H-bomb that could be fitted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). China, Pyongyang's main diplomatic protector, lost no time in issuing "strong condemnation" of the test, which overshadowed the opening of the BRICS summit in Shanghai by leader Xi Jinping. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the test as "absolutely unacceptable". In Seoul, President Moon Jae-In called for new United Nations sanctions to "completely isolate North Korea" and said the South would discuss deploying "the strongest strategic assets of the US military". That could be taken as a reference to tactical nuclear weapons, which were withdrawn by Washington in 1991. Their return would represent a significant escalation by the allies and alarm Pyongyang, which believes itself to be at risk of invasion. US monitors measured a 6.3-magnitude tremor near the North's main testing site, which South Korean experts said was five to six times stronger than that from the 10-kiloton test carried out a year ago. The tremor was felt in northeastern China, with people in the border city of Yanji saying they fled their homes in their underwear, and in the Russian Pacific city of Vladivostok. Whatever the final figure for test's yield turned out to be, said Jeffrey Lewis of the armscontrolwonk website, it was "a staged thermonuclear weapon" which represents a significant advance in its weapons program. Chinese monitors said they had detected a second tremor shortly afterwards of 4.6 magnitude that could be due to a "collapse (cave in)", suggesting the rock over the underground blast had given way. 'Super explosive power' Pyongyang triggered a new ramping up of tensions in July, when it carried out two successful tests of an ICBM, the Hwasong-14, which apparently brought much of the US mainland within range. It has since threatened to send a salvo of rockets towards the US territory of Guam, and last week fired a missile over Japan and into the Pacific, the first time time it has ever acknowledged doing so. Trump has warned Pyongyang that it faces "fire and fury", and that Washington's weapons are "locked and loaded". Analysts believe Pyongyang has been developing weapons capability to give it a stronger hand in any negotiations with the US. "North Korea will continue with their nuclear weapons programme unless the US proposes talks," Koo Kab-Woo of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies told AFP. Hydrogen Bomb Test A 'Perfect Success', Can Be Loaded Onto Missile: North Korea Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs -- also known as thermonuclear devices -- are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons North Korea was believed to have tested so far. North Korea said today it had tested a hydrogen bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring "perfect success" in its biggest-ever nuclear detonation and presenting a potent challenge to President Donald Trump. Pyongyang has long sought the means to deliver an atomic warhead to the United States, its sworn enemy, and the test will infuriate Washington and regional powers. China, the North's main ally, issued a swift condemnation. A jubilant newsreader on state television hailed the "unprecedentedly large" blast, adding the device could be mounted on a missile. It "marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force", she added. Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs -- also known as thermonuclear devices -- are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons the North was believed to have tested so far. Hours earlier, the North released images of leader Kim Jong-Un at the Nuclear Weapons Institute, inspecting what it said was a miniaturised H-bomb that could be fitted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). China, Pyongyang's main diplomatic protector, lost no time in issuing "strong condemnation" of the test, which overshadowed the opening of the BRICS summit in Shanghai by leader Xi Jinping. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the test as "absolutely unacceptable". In Seoul, President Moon Jae-In called for new United Nations sanctions to "completely isolate North Korea" and said the South would discuss deploying "the strongest strategic assets of the US military". That could be taken as a reference to tactical nuclear weapons, which were withdrawn by Washington in 1991. Their return would represent a significant escalation by the allies and alarm Pyongyang, which believes itself to be at risk of invasion. US monitors measured a 6.3-magnitude tremor near the North's main testing site, which South Korean experts said was five to six times stronger than that from the 10-kiloton test carried out a year ago. The tremor was felt in northeastern China, with people in the border city of Yanji saying they fled their homes in their underwear, and in the Russian Pacific city of Vladivostok. Whatever the final figure for test's yield turned out to be, said Jeffrey Lewis of the armscontrolwonk website, it was "a staged thermonuclear weapon" which represents a significant advance in its weapons program. Chinese monitors said they had detected a second tremor shortly afterwards of 4.6 magnitude that could be due to a "collapse (cave in)", suggesting the rock over the underground blast had given way. 'Super explosive power' Pyongyang triggered a new ramping up of tensions in July, when it carried out two successful tests of an ICBM, the Hwasong-14, which apparently brought much of the US mainland within range. It has since threatened to send a salvo of rockets towards the US territory of Guam, and last week fired a missile over Japan and into the Pacific, the first time time it has ever acknowledged doing so. Trump has warned Pyongyang that it faces "fire and fury", and that Washington's weapons are "locked and loaded". Analysts believe Pyongyang has been developing weapons capability to give it a stronger hand in any negotiations with the US. "North Korea will continue with their nuclear weapons programme unless the US proposes talks," Koo Kab-Woo of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies told AFP. He pointed to the fact that Pakistan -- whose nuclear programme is believed to have links with the North's -- conducted six nuclear tests in total, and may not have seen a need for any further blasts. "If we look at it from Pakistan's example, the North might be in the final stages" of becoming a nuclear state, he said. Pictures of Kim at the Nuclear Weapons Institute showed the young leader, dressed in a black suit, examining a metal casing with a shape akin to a peanut shell. The device was a "thermonuclear weapon with super explosive power made by our own efforts and technology", KCNA cited Kim as saying, and "all components of the H-bomb were 100 percent domestically made". Despite its power there were no readioactive leaks, KCNA said in a later report. Actually mounting a warhead onto a missile would amount to a significant escalation on the North's part, as it would create a risk that it was preparing an attack. etc. etc. Failure of sanctions Pyongyang, which says it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself, carried out its first atomic test in 2006. Its fifth detonation, in September last year, caused a 5.3 magnitude quake and according to Seoul had a 10-kiloton yield -- still less than the 15-kiloton US device which destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. The North has been subjected to seven rounds of United Nations Security Council sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, but always insists it will continue to pursue them. Atomic or "A-bombs" work on the principle of nuclear fission. Hydrogen bombs work on fusion and are far more powerful. No H-bomb has ever been used in combat but they make up most of the world's nuclear arsenals.
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/north-korea-says-it-tested-hydrogen-bomb-perfect-success-1745430
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IDF holds largest exercise in 20 years to prepare for Hezbollah threat
IDF: Hezbollah is an imminent threat, at the top of our priorities
Hezbollah uses drones against IS in Syria
By Anna Ahronheim September 4, 2017 16:34
The IDF is set to launch a large-scale exercise in preparation for a potential faceoff with the Shi'ite terror group, that continues to pose an imminent danger to the country's security. Amid rising tensions on Israel’s northern border, the IDF is launching its largest drill in close to 20 years, with tens of thousands of soldiers from all branches of the army, simulating a war with Hezbollah. According to military assessments, while it is unlikely that Hezbollah will attack Israel in the near future, the northern border remains the most explosive, and both sides have warned that the next conflict would be devastating for the other. The IDF is preparing for a different kind of war on the northern front: a war along the entire northern border, not just on one border, such as the one with Lebanon. While the primary threat posed by Hezbollah remains its missile arsenal, the IDF believes that the next war will see the group trying to bring the fight into Israel by infiltrating Israeli communities to inflict significant civilian and military casualties. The two-week drill, which began on Monday evening, will focus on countering Hezbollah’s increased capabilities, and also include simulations of evacuating communities close to the border with Lebanon. During the drill, soldiers will play the role of civilians being evacuated. With close to a million Israelis living in the North, an estimated quarter- million would be evacuated in case a war breaks out with the terrorist group. Named after Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad, the exercise will see thousands of soldiers and reservists and all the different branches of the IDF – air force, navy, ground forces, Intelligence, cyber – drilling the ability of all branches to coordinate their operations during wartime. During the drill, no soldiers will be allowed to bring cellphones or any other digital devices, in an attempt to secure the exercise and to simulate a real war. Hezbollah has rebuilt its arsenal since the last war it fought with Israel, in 2006. It is believed to now possess at least 100,000 short-range rockets and several thousand more missiles that can reach central Israel. According to some Israeli analysts, the next war with Hezbollah might see 1,500-2,000 rockets shot daily into Israel, compared with the 150-180 per day during the Second Lebanon War, in which 121 Israeli soldiers and 44 Israeli civilians were killed, and over 2,000 soldiers and civilians wounded. In addition to having rebuilt its arsenal, Hezbollah has changed from a terrorist group using guerrilla warfare tactics to a veritable army with battalions, brigades and over 40,000 fighters, who have gained immeasurable battlefield experience from fighting in Syria on the side of President Bashar Assad. Israel has made it clear it will continue to work to prevent the group from obtaining advanced weaponry, striking weapons convoys in Syria destined for the group at least 100 times in recent years.
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etc.. For the days are numbered pertaining to this world, they are numbered, they are numbered and they get down to a seven year period as you know by studying my word and you have entered into that and I have told you those times. I have spoken unto you many things, but at times it seems like man does not want to believe. But I say, beware of the beast, beware of the antichrist, beware of the six six six, beware; for the hour is running down, time is closing out. etc..
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etc. for the things that you saw this week are small in comparison to the things that you shall see. The warships shall increase; North Korea shall build another nuclear weapon making her nuclear weapons far greater than any other nation, people are not recognizing what is going on. But I say unto you, do not fear, for you will not see a nuclear war here, you will not see some of the things that shall take place overseas here etc
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North Korea says nuclear test was ‘gift package’ to US, more on the way
A North Korean ambassador said Tuesday there are more “gift packages” as long as the U.S. continues to try and shut down North Korea’s missile programs.
by Melissa Leon · September 5, 2017
North Korea is quickly becoming the black sheep of the international community, as it recently tested its most powerful nuclear missile yet – and the nation led by dictator Kim Jong Un now says it has more “gift packages” for the United States. This comes after South Korea has also warned that North Korea has another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICMB) that it will fire. Han Tae Song, who is the ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, otherwise known as North Korea) to the United Nations in Geneva, said Tuesday at a U.N.-sponsored forum that he was “proud” of the test , and that the missiles are a “gift package” to the United States. “I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force,” Han said, according to Reuters. “The recent self-defense measures by my country, DPRK, are a ‘gift package’ addressed to none other than the U.S.” “The U.S. will receive more ‘gift packages’ from my country as long as its relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK,” Han added, Reuters reported. The actions taken by North Korea were ” ‘an exercise of restraint and justified self-defense right’ to counter ‘the ever-growing and decade-long U.S. nuclear threat and hostile policy aimed at isolating my country,’ ” he said, according to the report. “Pressure or sanctions will never work on my country. The DPRK will never under any circumstances put its nuclear deterrence on the negotiating table.” North Korea’s sixth nuclear missile test caused a 6.3 earthquake and was roughly five times as large as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. The test came hours after North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un claimed that it now had an H-bomb to put onto its long-range ICBMs. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Monday that North Korea is “begging for war,” and that it’s time for the international community to impose the strongest possible sanctions against North Korea. President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted: “The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.” According to a report, “South Korean intelligence officials said there were indications that the North was preparing to test fire another ballistic missile, though they did not say when they believed the launches would take place.”
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North Korean mountain above nuclear bomb test site is at risk of COLLAPSING, leaking radiation across the region, China warns
North Korea staged its sixth nuclear test blast at its Punggye-ri base on Sunday
US monitors measured a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake near testing site
Chinese experts fear another blast could 'blow the roof' off mountain at the base
A collapse in the mountain 'could spark a toxic radiation drift across the region'
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline Published: 05:06 EDT, 5 September 2017 | Updated: 05:55 EDT, 5 September 2017
A North Korean mountain above the country's nuclear bomb test site is at risk of collapsing and leaking radiation across the region, China has warned. Pyongyang staged its sixth nuclear trial at its Punggye-ri base on Sunday, in an underground blast estimated to be up to ten times more powerful than the device dropped on Hiroshima. US monitors measured a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake near the North's main testing site, felt in parts of China and Russia, with an aftershock possibly caused by a rock cave-in. Experts in China now fear that a mountain - believed to be above the underground chambers where North Korea has staged all of its tests - is under threat of collapse. Wang Naiyan, a former chairman of the China Nuclear Society and a researcher on China's own nuclear weapons programme, said he feared just one more test could 'take the mountain's roof off' sparking a toxic radiation drift across the region. 'We call it "taking the roof off". If the mountain collapses and the hole is exposed, it will let out many bad things,' he said, according to the South China Morning Post. He said North Korea had a lack of suitable places for nuclear tests and that the length of time the mountain continued to stand would depend on where exactly the blasts take place. If they were put in 'difficult and expensive' vertical tunnels, it would do less damage, he said. But it is easier to make horizontal tunnels, increasing the risk of the mountain collapsing, Wang added. According to the South's Yonhap news agency, Seoul's National Intelligence Service said it was the fifth blast the North had conducted in the same No 2 tunnel at the Punggye-ri test site, and it was 'likely to have collapsed'. But it said the North had already completed construction of a third tunnel, so that it could carry out another test at any time it chose, and work was underway on a fourth. The North hailed the test as 'a perfect success'. Despite fears of a possible radioactive leak after the apparent collapse, Japanese and Chinese scientists said they had detected no radiation in the atmosphere. Sunday's test had registered with international seismic agencies as a man-made earthquake near a test site. Japanese and South Korean officials said the tremor was about 10 times more powerful than the one picked up after North Korea's previous nuclear test a year ago. China's National Nuclear Safety Administration said data from radiation monitoring stations near the North Korean border showed no impact on 'China's environment or populace'. Both China and Japan said on Monday they had not yet detected any atmospheric radiation from North Korea's nuclear test, amid fears of a leak from a 'cave in' during the underground blast. Japan's top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was 'nothing special detected from monitoring posts across the country', nor from air samples taken by the Air Self-Defense Force after Sunday's blast. China's environment ministry said Monday that radiation levels near its Korean border were also normal. 'Results of monitoring make clear that this North Korean nuclear test as of now has produced no effect on our nation's environment or the public,' the ministry wrote on its official website. Japanese defence minister Itsunori Onodera said Sunday that Tokyo had deployed 'sniffer' planes capable of detecting radioactive particles.
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Putin: Military hysteria over N. Korea may lead to planetary catastrophe, heavy loss of life
Russia to suggest deployment in Ukraine of UN-mandated troops to Security Council
RT - September 5, 2017
The examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced the North Korean leadership that only nuclear deterrence can protect them, so no sanctions can dissuade them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Pyongyang will not relinquish its military program under pressure of sanctions and military threats, because the examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced it that nuclear deterrence is the only credible way to ensure its security, President Putin told journalists on Tuesday. “Ramping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it’s a dead end,” he added. “It could lead to a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of human life. There is no other way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, save that of peaceful dialogue.” The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya both came after the leaders of those countries submitted to international pressure and relinquished their programs of weapons of mass destruction in exchange for sanctions relief. North Korea for its part chose confrontation with the world community, successfully developing nuclear weapons and currently, rapidly perfecting the means of their delivery. “As I told my colleagues yesterday, they will eat grass but will not stop their program as long as they do not feel safe,” Putin said. “What can restore their security? The restoration of international law.” Russia to suggest deployment in Ukraine of UN-mandated troops to Security Council Moscow supports the idea of deploying “security troops” acting under a UN mandate to eastern Ukraine and will submit a draft resolution on the issue to the UN Security Council, Putin said. Russia sees the role of such troops as protection for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which monitors the stalled process of disengagement between Ukrainian troops and militias of its breakaway Donbas regions. Subject to the consent of both parties, the mandate would be given for deployment along the disengagement line and a complete pull-back of heavy weapons, the Russian president said. “If all these conditions are met, I believe such a deployment would certainly benefit the process of solving the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine,” Putin said. Putin also commented on the planned supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine by the US, saying that the international consensus was that “supplying arms to zones of conflict does not help reconciliation and can only make the situation worse.” He warned that in the case of the Ukrainian conflict more arms would not lead to a radical change, would only cause more casualties and potentially cause the conflict to spill over to other regions. “The self-proclaimed republics have plenty of weapons, including those they seized from their opponents,” he explained. “If American weapons flow into the conflict zone, it’s hard to predict what the self-proclaimed republics’ reaction would be.”
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If North Korea Has Nuclear ICBM, China WILL Invade by 9/11
REUTERS/Tyrone Siu September 04, 2017
The U.S. and China reportedly have a long standing arrangement that Beijing will physically invade North Korea if they believe Kim Jong-un has developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead
(VERO BEACH, FL) According to a DIA official assigned specifically to monitor North Korea, the secret "working" agreement was negotiated as an unofficial understanding between the two superpowers, and could result in a Chinese invasion of the Korean Peninsula between now and September 11th. The source, who spoke to TruNews Correspondent Edward Szall through a proxy on Sunday night, and must remain unnamed due to his official capacity as a veteran member of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said both the U.S. and China are actively investigating the claims made by North Korea on Sunday, that they have successfully tested a miniaturized nuclear device and possess the technology to effectively mount it on a ballistic missile. The source noted that if the Chinese are convinced the warhead North Korean state media showed Kim Jong-un inspecting Sunday at the “Nuclear Weapons Institute” is indeed a miniaturized homemade hydrogen bomb, they will launch an invasion of North Korea and annex it within the next week. "If China rolls their army into North Korea, and annexes the country in the next week, we know he [Kim Jong-un] had miniaturized nukes,” the DIA source said. Pressed about the timing of China's prospective attack, the DIA official said ominously: "You'll know in the next week." The DIA is an external intelligence service of the U.S. government which answers directly to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and is responsible for approximately twenty five percent of all intelligence content that goes into President Trump's Daily Brief. On Monday South Korea’s defense chief Song Young-moo told lawmakers that the military suspects North Korea may have secured technology to produce miniaturized nuclear warheads that weigh less than 500 kilograms. During a UN Security Council emergency meeting Monday in New York, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Kim Jong Un was "begging for war" as she urged the unelected body to adopt the “strongest sanctions measures” possible to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang responded Monday that China had made “stern representations” with North Korean diplomats following Sunday’s sixth and largest nuclear test at Pyongyang’s Punggye-ri site. He also said that all parties should “refrain from further escalating tensions”. Neither China nor the U.S. have independently confirmed North Korea’s Hydrogen bomb claims, but a Chinese seismic research team led by Wen Lianxing of the University of Science and Technology of China announced Monday that they had measured Sunday's nuclear test at 108.3±48.1 kilotons, making Pyongyang’s device up to eight times more powerful than the nuclear bomb the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The DIA source noted that America’s only leverage against China in this situation is the “complete and utter destruction” of North Korea, which the Chinese do not want. The source explained that China wants North Korea’s territory in one piece to preserve the nations untapped mineral resources, which they plan to extract, utilize and profit from. "They do not want the U.S. to nuke North Korea, and want to be given the option to intervene before the situation reaches that flash point." In September 2016, South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Institute said that the mineral trade between North Korea and China remains a “cash cow” for Kim Jong-un despite UN sanctions, and that it accounted for 54% of Pyongyang’s total trade volume to China in the first half of that year. In 2015 alone China imported $1 billion in coal from North Korea, as well as $73 million in iron ore, and $680,000 worth of zinc. This also explains why China opposes a full international trade embargo of North Korea, a move the Editor-in-Chief of the state-influenced Global Times said would make Beijing the primary target for North Korean retaliation, and allow the U.S. and South Korean alliance to shift responsibility of the nuclear issue to China. North Korea’s rare earth mineral reserves, which include large quantities of iron, gold, magnesite, zinc, copper, limestone, molybdenum and graphite, all necessary for the production of smartphones and other high tech products, are estimated to be valued between $6 trillion and $10 trillion. INVASION SOUTH WOULD FAIL The DIA source said Sunday that the Chinese and the U.S. both believe an invasion of North Korea by China from their border in the North would force civilians, North Korean military and government officials southward to the DMZ, and even into South Korea itself, where they would be rounded up and detained by prepositioned U.S. and South Korean military units. Regarding the North Korean military, which is estimated to have almost a million soldiers, the source said they are in horrific shape, and that as an offensive force, North Korea is currently "ineffective". The source said the soldiers are not well rested, fed, or adequately trained, and would likely be unable to carry out a successfully invasion of South Korea, if ordered to do so. "Drunk U.S. soldiers would beat the North Koreans in a fight right now," the source said. "In 2008-2010, the view was that a North Korean invasion would succeed because there may be more North Koreans than available bullets, meaning they would win by sheer numbers. Now, they are so weak, there are literally instances of cannibalism within their ranks. You could bribe their military into defection with loafs of bread." Former U.S. National Security Council staffer Victor Cha, who has been named as the Trump administrations pick for ambassador to South Korea, wrote in his recent book “The Impossible State” that though outnumbered by approximately 300,000 troops, allied forces on the Korean Peninsula have better training, equipment, and air support than their North Korean counterparts. On Thursday, Seoul-based news website Daily NK reported receiving information from sources within North Korea that soldiers are so malnourished they have been given permission by military leaders to steal corn to ensure they are “combat ready” for “imminent war”. Sources in Ryanggang Province told Daily NK soldiers are currently surviving on such “meagre rations” they have resorted to selling stolen unripened corn at markets for food, and other sources living in North Hamgyong Province said military officers are encouraging young soldiers “tired of relentless hunger” to desert the army to steal food. “The military officers are instructing their soldiers, exhausted after training, to eat corn in the fields because war is imminent,” Daily NK reported. “They are even threatening their soldiers, saying, 'If you become malnourished despite permission to eat the corn, you will face difficulties'." According to a July 20th report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), prolonged dry weather in the central and southern cereal-producing provinces in North Korea has led to the nations worst drought since 2001. In late-July, Rah Jong Yil, a former head of South Korean intelligence, told Deutsche Welle, the famine which has accompanied this drought has forced the North Korean government to cut daily food rations for its entire population, including the military. DIVIDING UP KOREA The DIA source said both the U.S. and China have been privately actively negotiating how to best divide up the Korean Peninsula between the two superpowers, much like how Germany was divided up following the defeat of the Third Reich. At the Potsdam Conference held between July 17th and August 2nd,1945, after Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8th, 1945, the Allies divided Germany into four military occupation zones, with France in the southwest quadrant, Britain in the northwest, the U.S. in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east, bounded eastwards by the Oder-Neisse line. In Syria, a similar arrangement was negotiated by Russia and the U.S., establishing four "safe zones" across the north, central, and southern parts of country to be tentatively ruled by forces loyal to Iran, Turkey, Washington and Moscow. THAAD DIPLOMACY Regarding the question of why no Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system has been used thus far to shoot down any North Korea’s missiles, the DIA official said it is out of fear that they will fail to effectively accomplish their mission. A failure of the THAAD system would be devastating for the U.S., and the equipments U.S.-based manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as well as NATO itself, who uses the system as a way to convince other countries to buy U.S. weaponry and remain in their anti-Russia defense alliance. On Monday for example, escalated provocations with North Korea finally convinced South Korea to agree to install four additional THAAD systems which they had originally suspended due to diplomatic pressure from China. This has also been accompanied by a “conceptual approval” by President Trump for South Korea to purchase “many billions of dollars’ worth of military weapons and equipment” from the United States. In this regard, the THAAD system has served as an effective geopolitical power piece for the U.S., much like the possession and placement of nuclear weapons during and after the Cold War. To date, the THAAD system has never been successfully tested in combat against a live incoming enemy projectile, let alone one armed with a nuclear or biological device. A THAAD system failure would also benefit the Russians, who offer their S-300/S-400/S-500 air defense system as an alternative to prospective nations in the market for effective missile deterrence. The Russians already have an advantage based on the reports in April that S-300 & S-400 batteries based in Syria successfully brought down up to half of the incoming 60 Tomahawk missiles launched by the Trump administration against a Syrian airfield. Additionally, Russia has a motivation to convince nations to adopt their opposing system because once a nation accepts it, the diplomatic door is opened for further non-NATO weapon purchases and an expansion of military cooperation, NATO member Turkey being a recent example. On Monday WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange weighed in on this theory, comparing the nuclear standoff to the Cuban missile crisis, and saying, that if these motivations are correct, “expect China to act.” “South Korea is China's Cuba. By provoking conflict with the North, U.S. is creating cover to place THAAD etc. on China's border,” Assange said on twitter. “Is the ultimate goal to get U.S. nukes into South Korea? If so, expect China to act. It has plenty of economic and military levers.” WHAT MOTIVATES THE NORTH? The DIA source said the North Koreans, in their own eyes, are in a "dead-race to becoming a nuclear capable nation," and believe "possession of nukes would cause the U.S. to leave them alone for good, much like with how Pakistan and India achieved relative autonomy from international pressure through their acquisition of nuclear weapons." The DIA source noted that Kim Jong-Un has been told he's God by his innermost circle of advisors, and they have also lied to him about the countries shortcomings, specifically military readiness, out of fear that telling him the truth would prompt an order for their execution. "He's either crazy or has been left in the dark,” the DIA source said. “He's killed his family, and generals, there isn't a motivation to tell him the truth." In February the North Korean leader's half brother, Kim Jong Nam, was assassinated by two women at Kuala Lumpur International Airport using a VX nerve agent. South Korean lawmaker Kim Byung-kee said the killing was directly ordered by Kim Jong-Un. DENNIS RODMAN Regarding how foreign intelligence agencies best attain updated information on the inner workings of Kim Jong-Un and North Korea’s central government, the DIA source noted that former Chicago Bull’s basketball star Dennis Rodman has become a great source. “Dennis Rodman's public comments about his visits to North Korea have become a direct source for intelligence agencies on Kim Jong-Un's stability and the state of his kingdom,” the DIA source said. “He's the CIA's best asset, and has been a spy and didn't know it." The source referred to the current standoff between the U.S., China and North Korea as a game of "hide and watch." "The 24-million dollar question right now is if China will do something before North Korea hits Guam,” the source said. “The Chinese know if they let that happen the U.S. will retaliate on North Korea, destroying the prize goose, which indicates that China will act before a preemptive strike can be carried out against Guam or any other U.S. territory." Strategically, China would prefer a scenario where South Korea and other Asian nations are less aligned with U.S. interests, due to the importation of military assets which generally accompany that relationship. With the annexation of North Korea, the threat which predominately motivates America’s strategic alliances in the region would disappear overnight, leaving Beijing to dominate the Asia-Pacific sphere through economic expansion, rather than Washington’s historically militaristic alternative.
http://www.trunews.com/article/if-north-korea-has-nuclear-icbm-china-will-invade-by-9-11
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North Korea move deadly missile to US-side west coast as World War 3 fears spike
NORTH Korea has been spotted moving yet another Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) towards the western coast, insiders have revealed.
By Vincent Wood PUBLISHED: 03:52, Tue, Sep 5, 2017 | UPDATED: 05:37, Tue, Sep 5, 2017
The rocket started moving on Monday, a day after North Korea's sixth nuclear test and was reportedly spotted moving at night to avoid surveillance. The Western side of the peninsula brings the missile closer to enemies of the Kim regime include Japan and the US amid rising fears of World War 3. A Hwasong-14 ICBM tested earlier this year by Kim Jong-un's cruel regime was found to be capable of reaching the continental US if fired at the right trajectory. North Korea has launch facilities for its missile programme on its west coast. South Korea's defence ministry said they were unable to confirm the contents of the report. But the ministry said on Monday that North Korea was considered ready to launch more missiles, including ICBMs, at any time. There are fears the missile could be tested ahead of the 9th to commemorate North Korea’s founders day. The Hermit Kingdom tested two ICBMs in July capable of flying roughly 10,000 km (6,200 miles), putting many parts of the U.S. mainland within range. Earlier this week U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley claimed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was “begging for war” – and urged the 15-member U.N. Security Council to impose the “strongest possible” sanctions on the dictators territory. Following Kim Jong-un’s testing of a hydrogen bomb, Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed to allow the south to develop even more powerful missiles. The leaders made the agreement in a phone call to lift the cap on the power of South Korea’s arsenal, Seoul’s presidential office announced today. The agreement is aimed at building South Korea’s ability to defend itself against further provocation by removing a limit on the payload their missiles are allowed to carry. The decision follows weeks of discussion between defence and foreign officials of the US and South Korea. South Korean presidential spokesman Park Soo-hyun said: "President Moon noted the condition was very concerning in that the latest nuclear test showed more power than any previous tests and that North Korea itself has claimed the test involved a hydrogen bomb to be mounted on intercontinental ballistic missiles.”President Trump said he recognised the need for Seoul to have powerful practical measures and promised to work closely together with the South.
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Hurricane Irma strengthens into a CATEGORY FIVE storm with winds up to 175 mph as it heads for the east coast of America
Hurricane Irma strengthened to a Category 5 storm on Tuesday
It's expected to hit the Leeward Islands either tonight or tomorrow
From there, it will continue on through Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and Cuba
It's still unclear where the storm will turn as it inches toward the U.S.
It could make landfall in Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas
It could also turn west into the Gulf of Mexico or east into the Atlantic
Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Monday
By Associated Press and Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com Published: 08:10 EDT, 5 September 2017 | Updated: 10:51 EDT, 5 September 2017
Hurricane Irma strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Tuesday as it roared toward the northeast Caribbean on a path that could take it to the United States. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Irma had sustained winds of 175mph and was centered about 270 miles east of Antigua. It was moving west at 14 mph. The center said there was a growing possibility that the storm's effects could be felt in Florida later this week and over the weekend, though it was still too early to be sure of its future track: 'Everyone in hurricane-prone areas should ensure that they have their hurricane plan in place.' Irma's center was expected to move near or over the northern Leeward Islands late Tuesday and early Wednesday, the hurricane center said. The eye was then expected to pass about 50 miles from Puerto Rico late Wednesday. Authorities warned that the storm could dump up to 10 inches of rain, cause landslides and flash floods and generate waves of up to 23 feet. Government officials began evacuations and urged people to finalize all preparations as shelves emptied out across islands including Puerto Rico. 'The decisions that we make in the next couple of hours can make the difference between life and death,' Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said. 'This is an extremely dangerous storm.' Residents on the U.S. East Coast were urged to monitor the storm's progress in case it should turn northward toward Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas. 'This hurricane has the potential to be a major event for the East Coast. It also has the potential to significantly strain FEMA and other governmental resources occurring so quickly on the heels of (Hurricane) Harvey,' Evan Myers, chief operating officer of AccuWeather, said in a statement Florida Governor Rick Scott declared the state of emergency for all 67 counties in the state on Monday after some forecasts showed the powerful storm could be headed for the East Coast. 'Hurricane Irma is a major and life-threatening storm and Florida must be prepared. I have continued to be briefed by the Florida Division of Emergency Management on Hurricane Irma and current forecast models have Florida in Irma's path - potentially impacting millions of Floridians,' Scott said. 'Today, given these forecasts and the intensity of this storm, I have declared a state of emergency for every county in Florida to make certain that state, federal and local governments are able to work together and make sure resources are dispersed to local communities as we get prepared for this storm.' Floridians took advantage of the Labor Day holiday to empty many store shelves of drinking water and other supplies in advance of Irma By mid-day Monday, many grocery stores across South Florida had been emptied of bottled water and stores were hoping to restock beginning Tuesday morning. States of emergency were also declared in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands where residents rushed to find last-minute supplies, forming long lines outside supermarkets and gas stations. People in Puerto Rico braced for electricity outages after the director of the island's power company predicted that storm damage could leave some areas without electricity for four to six months. But 'some areas will have power (back) in less than a week,' Ricardo Ramos told radio station Notiuno 630 AM. The utility's infrastructure has deteriorated greatly during a decade-long recession, and Puerto Ricans experienced an island wide outage last year. Both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands expected four inches to eight inches of rain and winds of 40-50 mph with gusts of up to 60 mph. 'This is not an opportunity to go outside and try to have fun with a hurricane,' U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp warned. 'It's not time to get on a surfboard.' Irma grew into a Category 4 storm on Monday, any by early Tuesday, it's maximum sustained winds increased to near 150 miles per hour. In comparison, Hurricane Harvey had winds of 130 mph when it made landfall in Texas last week. It was centered about 320 miles east of the Leeward Islands and moving west at 14 mph. It is forecast to begin buffeting the region on Tuesday and the US National Hurricane Center said additional strengthening was expected. Authorities warned that the storm could dump up to 10 inches of rain, cause landslides and dangerous flash floods and generate waves of up to 23 feet. In the Caribbean, hurricane warnings were issued for 12 island groups, including Antigua, where the governor urged people to evacuate the tiny island of Anegada if they could ahead of the storm. People prepare differently for hurricanes depending on whether they have a male or female name, a new study has shown. A team of Princeton University researchers studied data on fatalities in hurricanes in the U.S. dating back to the 1970s, and found that female hurricanes have been consistently more deadly than hurricanes given a male name. The researchers say changing a hurricane's name form Charlie to Eloise could nearly triple its death toll. 'Feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to a lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness,' the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Until the 1950s, hurricanes were tracked each year by the order in which they occurred. It was later decided that it would be easier for people to track these systems if they were given easily remembered names. So now, each storm is given a name and they alternate back and forth between male and female. This year, the first storm of the season was given a female name, Arlene. The first storm of the season is an A-letter name and each subsequent storm takes the next letter in the alphabet. We've had nine storms this season, so we're on the letter I, Irma. The researchers do not suggest a new way of naming storms that might address this problem. They leave that to the media and policy makers. However, they say that educating the public on gender biases might help address the issue of underestimating 'female' storms. Vivian Wheatley, proprietor of the Anegada Reef Hotel, planned to stay behind. She said she would stay in one of the hotel rooms and take advantage of the generator since there were no guests. 'We know it's a very powerful (storm), and we know it's going to be very close,' she said. 'Let's hope for the best.' A hurricane warning was posted for Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten and St. Barts, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. and British Virgin islands. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Guadeloupe and Dominica. The storm's center was expected to move near or over the northern Leeward Islands late Tuesday and early Wednesday, the hurricane center said. 'Irma is a serious threat for the Caribbean islands and United States,' AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok said on Monday. It is still unclear what path Irma will take as it inches closer to the US. Right now, meteorologists say landfall in Georgia, Florida or the Carolinas are all possible. The storm could also move out into the Atlantic and completely bi-pass the East Coast, though that is now the least likely option. 'This hurricane has the potential to be a major event for the East Coast. It also has the potential to significantly strain FEMA and other governmental resources occurring so quickly on the heels of Harvey,' Evan Myers, Expert Senior Meteorologist and Chief Operating Officer said. If it does hit the U.S., it won't be until this weekend, but residents in the southern U.S. shouldn't waste time getting an emergency plan together. 'As we saw just 10 days ago with Harvey, it is important to be ready to evacuate and be prepared with at a minimum, a list of items you would take if you had 30 minute notice or 1 hours notice of 6 hours or a day to evacuate,' Myers said. Meanwhile, government workers on the islands of the eastern Caribbean are clearing drains and pruning trees ahead of Irma. American Airlines also announced a number of flight cancellations on Monday night to multiple Caribbean destinations.
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Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm
Hurricane Irma east of the Caribbean Monday.
By Greg Porter and Angela Fritz Washington Post September 05, 2017
Hurricane Irma strengthened overnight to a dangerous Category 5 as it barrels toward the Greater Antilles and Southern Florida. It’s likely that Hurricane Irma will affect the U.S. coast - potentially making a direct landfall - this weekend. Tuesday morning, NOAA Hurricane Hunters found the storm’s maximum wind speeds are 175 mph. It now ranks among the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasts suggest it will reach southern Florida and the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. As it tracks west toward the Caribbean, hurricane warnings have been issued for portions of the Leeward Islands and the Greater Antilles. A hurricane warning is in effect for Puerto Rico. ‘‘Dangerous Hurricane Irma heading for the Leeward Islands,’’ the National Hurricane Center said in an early Tuesday notice, urging residents to rush ahead with preparations for potentially devastating winds, major storm surges and flash floods from rainfall that could reach 12 inches in some areas. Get Ground Game in your inbox: Daily updates and analysis on national politics from James Pindell. Over the weekend, the forecast track for this potentially devastating hurricane shifted south and west. It seems likely now that the storm will impact or strike the U.S. coast early next week, although meteorologists don’t know exactly where. Florida and the Gulf Coast continue to be at risk. The East Coast, including the Carolinas and the Delmarva Peninsula, are also potential candidates for landfall - or, at the very least, heavy rain, strong winds and coastal flooding. Before dawn Tuesday, Irma was located about 320 miles east of the Leeward Islands and moving to the west at 14 mph, the hurricane center said. Predictions will improve over the coming days, narrowing down exactly which region will endure the effects of the season’s next major hurricane. Irma has entered into a favorable environment for strengthening, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds allowing the storm to intensify even more over the next 24 hours. As of 11 a.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm will pass just north of the island of St. John on Wednesday morning as a Category 4 with winds over 130 mph. Late Sunday afternoon, Hurricane Hunters began regular flights into Irma, providing extremely valuable data that has improved forecasts. The immediate track of Irma through the middle of the week is not much of a question at this point; an area of high pressure is firmly in place over the central Atlantic, preventing Irma from recurving and escaping out to sea. That high won’t move much over the next several days, steering Irma due west into the Leeward Islands by midweek. Overnight, both the American and European models started to show more consistency in a forecast track for Irma that increases the chances of impacts on the U.S. coast. Irma will probably continue to be suppressed by the strong Atlantic high pressure beyond Wednesday, keeping the storm at major hurricane status and on a trajectory that places the storm in close proximity to Florida by next weekend. Forecasts beyond the five-day mark are still full of uncertainties, but the trend in both the American and European ensemble members is concerning. It’s becoming less likely that Irma will escape out to sea, and the chances of a U.S. landfall have increased. At this point, trying to predict the exact location for Irma’s landfall is no better than a guessing game. There is strong agreement in Irma’s path through Friday, at which point Irma will probably be a major hurricane located just to the south of the Bahamas. Beyond that, the large-scale features that will ultimately control Irma’s final destination are not predictable at this point. Given what we know at this juncture, it’s best to plan for potential impacts rather than exact forecasts. The National Hurricane center is forecasting tropical storm conditions to begin affecting Florida by late Friday afternoon. All of the usual hazards are at play here; strong winds, heavy rain and dangerous storm surge. Storm surge may become the largest concern over the next few days, given the amount of time that Irma is spending over open water combined with the low lying topography of southern Florida. Again, it should be noted that the forecasted track for Irma will continue to change as we start to receive more aircraft data on the storm and as the large-scale environment features become more clear. At this point, residents from the gulf all the way to Maine should take special interest in forecast updates for Irma throughout the week. As it tracks west toward the Caribbean, hurricane warnings have been issued for portions of the Leeward Islands and the Greater Antilles. A hurricane warning is in effect for Puerto Rico. ‘‘Dangerous Hurricane Irma heading for the Leeward Islands,’’ the National Hurricane Center said in an early Tuesday notice, urging residents to rush ahead with preparations for potentially devastating winds, major storm surges and flash floods from rainfall that could reach 12 inches in some areas. Over the weekend, the forecast track for this potentially devastating hurricane shifted south and west. It seems likely now that the storm will impact or strike the U.S. coast early next week, although meteorologists don’t know exactly where. Florida and the Gulf Coast continue to be at risk. The East Coast, including the Carolinas and the Delmarva Peninsula, are also potential candidates for landfall - or, at the very least, heavy rain, strong winds and coastal flooding. Before dawn Tuesday, Irma was located about 320 miles east of the Leeward Islands and moving to the west at 14 mph, the hurricane center said. Predictions will improve over the coming days, narrowing down exactly which region will endure the effects of the season’s next major hurricane. Irma has entered into a favorable environment for strengthening, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds allowing the storm to intensify even more over the next 24 hours. As of 11 a.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm will pass just north of the island of St. John on Wednesday morning as a Category 4 with winds over 130 mph. Late Sunday afternoon, Hurricane Hunters began regular flights into Irma, providing extremely valuable data that has improved forecasts. The immediate track of Irma through the middle of the week is not much of a question at this point; an area of high pressure is firmly in place over the central Atlantic, preventing Irma from recurving and escaping out to sea. That high won’t move much over the next several days, steering Irma due west into the Leeward Islands by midweek. Overnight, both the American and European models started to show more consistency in a forecast track for Irma that increases the chances of impacts on the U.S. coast. Irma will probably continue to be suppressed by the strong Atlantic high pressure beyond Wednesday, keeping the storm at major hurricane status and on a trajectory that places the storm in close proximity to Florida by next weekend. Forecasts beyond the five-day mark are still full of uncertainties, but the trend in both the American and European ensemble members is concerning. It’s becoming less likely that Irma will escape out to sea, and the chances of a U.S. landfall have increased. At this point, trying to predict the exact location for Irma’s landfall is no better than a guessing game. There is strong agreement in Irma’s path through Friday, at which point Irma will probably be a major hurricane located just to the south of the Bahamas. Beyond that, the large-scale features that will ultimately control Irma’s final destination are not predictable at this point. Given what we know at this juncture, it’s best to plan for potential impacts rather than exact forecasts. The National Hurricane center is forecasting tropical storm conditions to begin affecting Florida by late Friday afternoon. All of the usual hazards are at play here; strong winds, heavy rain and dangerous storm surge. Storm surge may become the largest concern over the next few days, given the amount of time that Irma is spending over open water combined with the low lying topography of southern Florida. Again, it should be noted that the forecasted track for Irma will continue to change as we start to receive more aircraft data on the storm and as the large-scale environment features become more clear. At this point, residents from the gulf all the way to Maine should take special interest in forecast updates for Irma throughout the week.
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Grace and Disaster
By Hal Lindsey
Thousands of Texans struggled for their lives against the flood waters of Hurricane Harvey. And, as they did, a University of Tampa sociology professor blamed the disaster on cosmic retribution against Texans. Why? Because so many of them voted Republican. Kenneth Storey was fired after tweeting, “I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesn’t care about them.” People responded that the good were suffering, too. But Storey doubled down. He wrote, “Well, the good people there need to do more to stop the evil their state pushes. I’m only blaming those who support the GOP there.” He later issued what sounded like a heartfelt apology. But his initial response illustrates the revival of pagan superstition across all layers of our society. A few decades ago, most Americans had never heard of “karma.” Today, they automatically blame every bad thing on “bad karma.” Christians believe God judges societies as well as individuals for sin. But does that mean we should look at the disaster in Texas as a sign of Texans’ sin? Should we see Harvey as God’s retribution against Texas? According to Jesus, the answer is a resounding, “No!” Some people came to Him one day and told Him about a terrible thing that had happened to a group of Galileans — people “whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.” (Luke 13:1 NASB) Jesus didn’t point out the obvious evil of Pilate’s actions. Everyone could see that. Instead, He addressed an issue few understood. He said, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered this fate? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:2-5 NASB) The disaster at the tower in Siloam was obviously well-known to Jesus’ listeners. In those days, if a snake bit a man, people assumed the man was guilty of some terrible sin and was receiving due retribution. After suffering through a shipwreck and finding safety on the island of Malta, the Apostle Paul was judged in this way. Acts 28:3-4 says, “When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, ‘Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.’” (NASB) Paul simply shook the snake back into the fire, and went about his work. When he didn’t die, or even have swelling in his arm, the natives decided he was a god. Their superstition took them from one extreme to the other — and they were wrong both times. On another occasion, the Lord’s disciples saw a man who had been blind since birth. Following the thinking of their day, they asked, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?” (John 9:2 NASB) Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was in order that the works of God might be displayed in him.” (John 9:3 NASB) And Jesus healed the man. Jesus made it crystal clear that we are not to judge people (or their parents) just because something bad happened. The world is not as God made it. It is fallen. And in such a world, terrible things can happen. Don’t point the accusing finger at a suffering soul just because he or she is suffering. To some degree, we all suffer because of the world we live in and its fallen nature. You would think the old superstitions would have died by now. They have not. Even Christian people sometimes point to a man in a wheelchair and proclaim that, his faith is insufficient, or there is sin in his life — otherwise God would heal him. Don’t usurp God’s position as judge. Have love and mercy on those who are afflicted. Don’t feel superior just because you’re not in a wheelchair, or because your house did not flood. As I pointed out earlier, among non-Christians, it’s even worse. People who know nothing else about Eastern religions have fully embraced the idea of karma. The old superstitions have not gone away. But among followers of Jesus, they must. We, of all people, should address these disasters with compassion — knowing that we are ill-equipped to judge. It is important to note, though, that Jesus did not say God’s judgment never falls. In fact, He repeatedly said, “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” He urged them to stop feeling superior because of their health and seeming security. Those things can fail. If health is the sign of your moral standing, live long enough and it will testify against you. Instead of feeling good about yourself because you think you deserve your good health, Jesus said to examine yourself, and repent. Our prayers continue to go out for the people in all the areas damaged by Harvey, and especially for the families of those whose lives have been lost. We urge everyone to give to one of the many ministries geared toward disaster relief. Remember, “Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5 NASB)
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Total Individual Control Technology: Insider Exposes How You & Your DNA are Being Targeted
August 28, 2017 Makia Freeman, Guest Waking Times
Total Individual Control Technology is a nefarious type of EM (Electromagnetic) and V2K (Voice to Skull) weaponized technology that is being experimented with and deployed against segments of the American population. Those attacked by this electronic stalking are known as TIs (Targeted Individuals). Recently another brave whistleblower has stepped forward to expose it. Bryan Kofron (who formerly used the alias of Justin Carter) is a security industry specialist who used to work for a private security company SIS (Security Industry Specialists) in Seattle, Washington. He quit in disgust after realizing that his former firm, and others just like it, were actively using this so-called total individual control technology to target people, then ultimately control and destroy their lives. Since he quit, he has himself become a victim of the technology via gangstalking. What Total Individual Control Technology is Capable Of. According to Kofron, this technology is so advanced that it can be used to read your mind, program your mind with thoughts (that you would believe are your own) and induce emotional states in you (including pain, hate and fear). It can be used to tap into your optical nerve and auditory systems to see and hear what you are seeing and hearing. It can target particular people by engaging in individual-specific attacks (based on the target’s DNA resonance). Finally, it is being used in vast social engineering programs as a way to experiment upon poor, homeless and weak people who have little or no chance of fighting back. In interviews or presentations such as this and this, Kofron explains that this technology is being used by psychopaths who have little scruples about the harm they are causing. They are targeting specific groups of people: those who are cognitively inclined, highly intelligent, knowledgeable about advanced technology or interested in alternative research (i.e. conspiracy research). In general, they are either targeting empowered individuals with free minds (to stop dissidents and revolutionaries) or those too poor and weak to fight back. Using Kofron’s own words, here are some of the things Total Individual Control Technology is able to do: “This technology manipulates the electrical signals in the brain, thus controlling thoughts and feelings and emotions and sensations throughout the body. It works by rewiring the brain by creating new neural pathways and destroying existing neural pathways, thus this literally changes the way a person thinks and thus behaves.” “This technology can also be used to control the muscle movement of the target. It can take over one’s hands or feet while driving and make you press on the accelerator or press on the brake or turn. This can be used to cause accidents it can also be used to prevent accidents from happening.” “This technology can also tap into the optical nerve of the target, and the auditory system of the target, so that those monitoring the target can see what the target is seeing and hear what target is hearing. This information is then downloaded and stored on a computer, in a highly secure classified site on servers that are guarded by some of the tightest security in the world. This results in the individual’s entire day, everything they see, everything they hear, everything they experiment, everything they experience, and everything they feel being recorded till the end of time.” “This technology can also be used to manipulate the emotions of the target. It can induce fear, love, hate.” “This technology can be used to beam images and even motion pictures into one’s brain. Images and motion pictures that are so realistic that you think you are actually watching a movie or seeing something in reality. It’s like a virtual reality 3D rendering that takes place within the target’s mind. The images and motion pictures manifest themselves in such a way that the target if they are not aware that this technology is being used on them will believe that they are natural thoughts and natural images.” “This technology can also be used to induce and control dreams. It can be used to control dream cycles and sleep patterns. To cause one to sleep very deeply or to cause one to not sleep at all. REM cycles, alpha beta and delta brainwaves can be induced immediately by this technology. And this technology can also be used to mimic spiritual experiences. Joy, love, peace that passes understanding can all be induced artificially by this technology to make the target believe that they are having a genuine spiritual experience when they’re not.” “This technology can also be used to sexually manipulate the target. Make them feel sexual arousal or turn off their sexuality altogether, it can stimulate them and it can shut them down at a moments notice. It can also be used to manipulate the hormones of the target, thus lowering and raising estrogen and testosterone levels in women and men respectively.” “This technology can also be used to read the thoughts of the target in real time … they can read your thoughts verbatim as they occur within your own mind.” “Anywhere from small groups of people 10-20 to 100, to medium size groups of people several thousand to tens of thousands. This is done by creating a field effect, where an entire field of electromagnetic energy is created in a geographical location and any human being within that geographical location within that electromagnetic field affecting that geographical location will be effected by the technology. This can be used to induce a general mood in a population or a crowd of people. It can be used to make them passive, it can be used to make them agitated. And this can be used to cause or stop, induce riots. Stop crime, start crime. Stop thoughts, start thoughts. Massive mind control on a citywide level.” Total Individual Control Technology Attacks Specific Individuals Based on DNA Resonance As I have discussed in previous articles on mind control such as “They” Can’t Read Your Thoughts … Right?, the state of current mind control technology is beyond most’s people comprehension and idea of what is possible. Yet, we have had enough out-of-the-closet whistleblowers and leaked or declassified documents to give us a clear idea of the scary extent to which we can be psychically attacked. Whistleblowers such as Dr. Robert Duncan have lectured at length about the capabilities of V2K technology, which is defined as an EM frequency technology that utilizes RF (Radio Frequency) signals to induce sound within the cranial cavity of the target. V2K literally pipes thoughts directly into people’s heads without them knowing it. Kofron bases his information on his own experience as an insider in this field, and also as recent victim of V2K himself. He was attacked once he went public. He claims he has been assaulted with a beta version which is especially nasty, piping thoughts into his head such as: “Everyone’s against you” “Please be quiet or we’re going to kill you” “Don’t work again or we’re going to kill you” “You’re the lab rat now motherfucker” Kofron claims the Total Individual Control Technology attacks are attempting to turn him against his former work colleagues, friends and family. However, since he was trained in this area, he knows that the voices are technological and can defend himself against the manipulations once he hears them. Kofron echoes exactly what Duncan has warned about: individual-specific attacks. Duncan states that every person has a “unique resonance signature”, and in almost exactly the same words, Kofron states that: “… the DNA of the individual is used to determine the resonant frequency of the DNA itself, the resonant frequency is then used to fine tune the technology … to tune it perfectly to the resonant frequency of the targeted individual’s DNA.” The Drive to Create a Worldwide DNA Database This leads into another aspect of the NWO agenda: the drive to create a worldwide DNA database. When seen in the light of Total Individual Control Technology, the acquisition of an entire population’s DNA takes on a very sinister meaning. It is no coincidence that Amazon and Google (who are ultimately controlled by the same force as David Icke suggests) are racing each other, along with Microsoft, IBM and other companies, to assemble a DNA database as quickly as they can. Those in power who gain access a completed worldwide DNA database and total individual control technology would have a horrifying weapon at their disposal to target literally anyone they wanted. Kofron exposes how prospective employees are tricked out of their DNA. They apply for a job at SIS, get told they have to do a drug test, and when the urine sample is sent to a lab, part is siphoned off as DNA to go into Amazon’s burgeoning DNA database. Americans, in the millions, are having their DNA stolen from them, without their knowledge or consent, so they become unwitting targets of this insidious program! Social Engineering with Total Individual Control Technology Kofron talks at length about how this technology is fully operational and is already being tested upon those in society who are struggling (such as those who are homeless, poor and who don’t have much family or many friends) since they make the easiest targets. On his website GangstalkerWars.com, he exposes the details of ongoing operations within Seattle (where he used to work for SIS). This social engineering is being done by the Federal Government, the Military Intelligence agencies, private security firms (more on this below), some of the largest US corporations (after all, we live in a corporatocracy), local and state police, and social programs within inner-city America. In one such operation, the perpetrators would target certain geographical blocks of the city, and, for instance, cause everyone in that area to be in a bad mood. In another operation, SIS (employed by Amazon whose headquarters are in Seattle) would test upon Amazon employees. In another operation, SIS would experiment upon its own low-level employees. In another operation, homeless people were brought in from all over the nation to special buildings that were then targeted. This is true gangstalking – the ganging up by sociopaths and psychopaths upon the innocent to electronically harass and stalk them. The Rising Danger of the Private Security Firm Industry in America Kofron warns about an alarming trend in American society: the rise of private security companies who mostly employ ex-military and ex-intelligence agents. As I covered in this 2-part series, the US Military Intelligence Complex is completely and utterly out of control. It runs the government and pulls the strings attached to all the puppet politicians, who don’t have the necessary “clearance” to access the truly top-secret information. These security firms, like the MIC itself, appear to operate above and outside the law. The culture inside of these companies is toxic. People rising up the ranks are conditioned to use this technology against innocent victims, and are told they will be rewarded with everything (money, power, women, sex, connection, access, status, belonging to the power club) if they go along with the program and become perpetrators. If they have a strong conscience and refuse, they will be sacked, shunned, cut off, threatened and even made into TIs themselves. The Human Rights Loophole: False Diagnoses Another aspect of Total Individual Control Technology which the perpetrators use to shield themselves is the cruel use of false psychiatric diagnoses. Here’s how it works: they manipulate TI victims to see a psychiatrist, and then they bribe the psychiatrist to deliver a fake diagnosis that the victim is mentally unstable, deranged, delusional, crazy, incompetent, paranoid, schizophrenic, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder – or they invent some similar legal-medical-psychobabble diagnosis. This has the unfortunate effect of stripping away the victim’s natural or human rights, which leaves him or her with no recourse to fight back against his attackers, since his claims and testimonies will be dismissed as the ravings of a madman. This is a similar tactic to what is used with other victims of mind control. In my interview with Max Spiers, he touched on the use of the Big Pharma “false memory” foundation, which includes bogus therapists and psychiatrists who convince mind control victims that they’re having false memories (when they are actually recalling how they were tortured and programmed). The Infrastructure Underlying Total Individual Control Technology The infrastructure that is enabling the total individual control technology is composed mostly of antennae, radar and cell phone towers. Often, the antennae are camouflaged (hidden behind walls). Some or most of the radar used is from military bases. Kofron was not able to explain much of how the technology actually works, although an electrical engineer who called in on one of the radio interviews suggested that the perpetrators are setting up a standing wave of DNA, then doing slight variations in the phasing using pulse code modulation. Final Thoughts: Total Individual Control Technology Perpetrated by the Cult of Power In concluding, it’s important to realize how such cruel surveillance is being perpetuated. As Kofron explains, it’s all about creating an “in” club of perpetrators who get rewarded with money, sex, power and the intrinsic human need for belonging, get told they are on the “right” side and the TIs are on the “wrong” side – and get threatened that if they speak up or quit, they may end up on that wrong side. It’s the cult of power. Hopefully this testimony can serve as a wakeup call for those on the fence who can’t quite bring themselves to believe or act. In many ways, time is running out and the net is being drawn tighter and tighter. The more technology advances, the more weapons the cult of power will have to enslave those who stand for truth and freedom. At a certain point, there will literally be nowhere to run or hide. The only option is to face it now before it’s too late.
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Explosions reported at Harvey-flooded chemical plant in Crosby
Arkema Inc. said the Harris County Emergency Operations Center notified the company at 2 a.m. Thursday of explosions and black smoke coming from its Crosby plant, which was inundated by Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters.
by Jim Malewitz and Emma Platoff Aug. 31, 2017 Updated: 3 hours ago
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. Two chemical explosions sparked a fire early Thursday morning at a manufacturing plant in Crosby that has been inundated with six feet of hurricane floodwaters. Arkema Inc., the owner of the plant, warned Wednesday that the organic peroxides used in the site’s manufacturing process had begun to heat up after the plant lost its primary source of power and backup power from generators. Without electricity to power refrigeration, the chemicals — stored in 18-wheeler box vans throughout the plant — were expected to degrade, possibly leading to some type of explosion or fire. The plant has nine vans, each with 36,000 pounds of organic peroxide stored in cardboard containers. Containers in one of the vans popped and caught fire, producing smoke that wafted 30 to 40 feet into the air, local officials told reporters early Thursday. Arkema expects each of the vans will eventually ignite as they lose power and refrigeration. “Please do not return to the area within the evacuation zone until local emergency response authorities announce it is safe to do so,” the company’s statement said. Assistant Chief Bob Royall, with the Harris County Fire Marshal, told reporters the chemicals inside each van that loses refrigeration “will burn with intensity until the fuel is consumed, and then they will die down again.” The byproduct of the fires would be typical “black smoke with carbon particles in it,” Royall said. Authorities evacuated a 1.5-mile radius around the facility Tuesday. They also advised locals to limit their exposure to the smoke by remaining indoors with their windows closed. His office and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office downplayed environmental and public health risks from the plant, going as far as suggesting that “explosion” was not the proper terminology for the chemical reactions in the vans. “They were different organic peroxides of different grades that were released, and it created a pop in the containers where they were being stored,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters. “It wasn’t an explosion, I want to be very clear.” “We just don’t believe there’s any further threat, even to the broader community. Even if somebody stayed behind in the active zone,” Gonzalez added. “We just want to manage the narrative a little bit, to make sure people don’t get in a panic if there doesn’t have to be.” Meanwhile, federal authorities have sent mixed messages. At a press conference in Washington, D.C., Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long called the plume wafting from the plant “incredibly dangerous." But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release Thursday that “there are no concentrations of concern for toxic materials reported at this time.” The agency said it was reviewing data from an aircraft that surveyed the scene shortly after the explosions. "We will consider using any authority we have to further address the situation to protect human health and the environment,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said. The county has been consulting with Arkema and outside experts since early Tuesday about how best to handle the chemical reactions. “We’ve developed what we consider a very safe plan,” said Royall, the Harris County fire marshal. “Everything is going exactly as we expected.” “If you want to call it an explosion, there’s a technical definition, and I’m not going to get into that,” he told reporters. Fifteen sheriff’s deputies at the scene were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after reporting that smoke had irritated their eyes and throats. All have been released, the sheriff’s office tweeted at 9:20 a.m. While the company has downplayed the potential impacts of the explosion — Arkema CEO Rich Rowe said Wednesday that any sustained environmental impact would be “minimal” – environmental experts expressed concern about fallout from the explosion. “That is not good. That is not good. That’s a big concern,” said Neil Carman, clean air director for the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter. “This is uncharted territory. In 37 years I have never heard of anything like this happening.” Carman said the smoke indicates the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a known carcinogen. Depending on the wind, these chemicals could spread quickly to the surrounding area, he said. Still, it’s difficult to predict the exact impact of the fumes given the minimal information that Arkema has released, according to Bakeyah Nelson, executive director of Air Alliance Houston. In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Rowe refused to release the company’s federally mandated risk management plan or the plant’s chemical inventory. “Without that information, it’s difficult to really assess the situation,” Nelson said. “Them releasing that to the community is really the key to being able to understand.” The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said it was among several local, state and federal agencies monitoring the plant. “Of immediate concern for residents around the plant is smoke,” the agency said in a press release Thursday. “The smoke from the fire is especially acrid and irritating. Those with heart problems or respiratory conditions, such as asthma or emphysema, may be particularly sensitive.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/31/harvey-flooded-chemical-plant-crosby-reportedly-explodes/
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Posted on August 29, 2017 by Ray Starmann
White House petition to declare George Soros a terrorist
There is a petition on WhiteHouse.gov, begun on August 20, 2017, to declare George Soros a terrorist and to seize all his assets:
Declare George Soros a terrorist and seize all of his related organizations’ assets under RICO and NDAA law
Created by E.B. on August 20, 2017
Whereas George Soros has willfully and on an ongoing basis attempted to destabilize and otherwise commit acts of sedition against the United States and its citizens, has created and funded dozens (and probably hundreds) of discrete organizations whose sole purpose is to apply Alinsky model terrorist tactics to facilitate the collapse of the systems and Constitutional government of the United State, and has developed unhealthy and undue influence over the entire Democrat Party and a large portion of the US Federal government, the DOJ should immediately declare George Soros and all of his organizations and staff members to be domestic terrorists, and have all of his personal an organizational wealth and assets seized under Civil Asset Forfeiture law. We have less than a month to get the necessary 100,000 signatures by September 19, 2017. The number of signatures currently is 29,389, which means 70,611 more signatures are needed. Please sign the petition and ask your contacts to sign as well. To sign, go here. See also:
206 U.S. organizations funded by George Soros
The white élites [incl. George Soros] who fund Black Lives Matter
‘Arab Spring’ in America: NAACP joins Soros-funded coalition for massive protests in D.C.
Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create ‘echo chamber’ and drive national protests
Soros aids invasion of Christian Europe by Muslim refugees, says Hungary prime minister
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took orders from George Soros on how to handle unrest in Albania
Soros-funded organization has 666 address
Obama puppeteer George Soros thinks he’s god
George Soros’ son, Alex, is a ‘spirit cooker’?
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/08/white-house-petition-to-declare-george-soros-a-terrorist/
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New Senate Bill Targets Wikileaks, Russia, Independent Press, and First Amendment
Published: August 29, 2017
Washington D.C. (MPN) – With the Russian meddling narrative serving as a pretext, the U.S. Senate, embracing the “Pompeo Doctrine,” is moving to stifle and criminalize WikiLeaks and, by extension, any such “dangerous,” transparency-providing entities that threaten to cast doubt upon Washington’s “official stories.” The Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Congress to label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” having adopted that very position in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) it approved last month. The terminology used in the bill originates from a speech given in April by CIA director Mike Pompeo, who called the pro-transparency media organization a “non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted” by “hostile” nations. WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, has slammed the Senate bill as an attempt to legislate what he termed the “Pompeo doctrine.” WikiLeaks has been under U.S. investigation since 2010 but the U.S. has failed to formally charge anyone in the organization for its role in leaking State and Defense Department documents. However, WikiLeaks’ source, in this case, Chelsea Manning, was convicted in 2013 and was only recently released from prison after receiving a pardon from President Barack Obama in January of this year. WikiLeaks came under scrutiny once again last year during the presidential election after publishing emails considered damaging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The IAA’s 12,000-word text, however, makes only brief mention of WikiLeaks — in the last line of its 41 pages. The bill itself is mainly focused on Russia and strikes an aggressive tone regarding so-called Russian “interference” in the 2016 presidential election as well as Russian “influence operations.” If passed, for instance, the bill will call upon Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, to develop strategies to counter these “threats,” and will essentially prevent cooperation between Russia and the U.S. on issues such as “cybersecurity” and “cyber threats.” Mieke Eoyang, a former House intelligence committee senior staffer, told the Daily Beast that such measures will prevent “the White House from blocking the intelligence community from telling the committee and the American public what the true Russia threat is.” The new “Red Scare” and its impact on the flow of information Of course there are strong reasons to believe that the Russian “threat” has been overblown by the American political class. In particular, Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election – especially its supposed collusion with WikiLeaks in publishing DNC emails – has been independently confirmed by several investigators to have instead been the work of someone with direct access to the DNC’s servers, not a state actor like Russia. However, this information has proven to be politically inconvenient for many U.S. politicians and corporate media outlets. The committee passed the bill by a vote of 14 to 1, the lone dissenter being Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). Sen. Wyden specifically identified the inclusion of the WikiLeaks provision in the bill as his sole reason for voting against it. In a press release, he stated that “The language in the bill suggesting that the U.S. government has some unstated course of action against ‘non-state hostile intelligence services’ is equally troubling” as it “could have negative consequences, unforeseen or not, for our constitutional principles.” He added that “the introduction of vague, undefined new categories of enemies constitutes such an ill-considered reaction.” In an interview with the Washington Times, Assange stated that “WikiLeaks, like many serious media organizations, has confidential sources in the U.S. government. Media organizations develop and protect sources. So do intelligence agencies. But to use this to suggest, as the ‘Pompeo doctrine’ does, that media organizations are ‘non-state intelligence services’ is absurd.” Assange, continuing, stated that such an extrapolation “is equivalent to suggesting that the CIA is a media organization. Publishers publish what they obtain. Intelligence agencies do not. At their best, media organizations publish boldly and accurately and do not hide what they discover from the public. In contrast, intelligence agencies conceal information and spread propaganda.” The dangerous over-reach of the “Pompeo doctrine” and the IAA Most thought- and concern-provoking, however, were Assange’s statements regarding the potential implications of Congress declaring a media organization to be a “non-state hostile spy service.” Assange argued the importance of considering “where other media outlets lay on this spectrum. It is clear that if the ‘Pompeo doctrine’ applies to WikiLeaks, then it applies equally if not more so to other serious outlets.” Indeed, central to the “Pompeo doctrine” is the assertion that WikiLeaks, given its alleged equivalence with a non-state intelligence service, deserves no First Amendment protections. During his speech in April, Pompeo stated that “we have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us.” He later stated, during a subsequent Q&A, that “Julian Assange has no First Amendment privileges” because he is not a U.S. citizen. As journalist Glenn Greenwald noted at the time, “the notion that WikiLeaks has no free press rights because Assange is a foreigner is both wrong and dangerous” — and could allow any foreign journalist or media organization to be prosecuted by the U.S. for publishing leaked information. If Congress passes the Intelligence Authorization Act, it will essentially deprive WikiLeaks of the right to free expression and could allow the U.S. government to criminally charge employees of WikiLeaks, beyond Julian Assange, for their role in “espionage.” As Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated in April, however, Assange’s arrest is a “top priority” for the U.S. government, a fact that will likely remain unchanged regardless of the fate of the IAA. Yet, the most clear and present danger to all journalists, if this bill is passed, could lie in reporting on information provided by WikiLeaks — or by any other organization the U.S. government decrees to be exempt from the First Amendment. For instance, in 2010, then-Senator Joe Lieberman and former Bush Attorney General Mike Mukasey made the case that The New York Times should be prosecuted merely for publishing and reporting on leaked documents made available by WikiLeaks. Their legal argument was based on the grounds that no meaningful distinction could be made between the Times and WikiLeaks. Seven years later, with the censorship of independent media like WikiLeaks already well under way, it may be only a matter of time before media outlets covering documents, state secrets — or any topic of which the U.S. government, particularly the CIA or Congress, does not approve — could find themselves on the chopping block for “espionage.” The Intelligence Authorization Act – if passed – will not only do grave damage to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press, but will also criminalize the exchange of information. The ultimate message of this bill is that the U.S. government is no longer willing to tolerate the publication of information that is at odds with its officially-supplied narrative — a narrative that, far too often, has been built on lies in order to justify the exploitation of resources, both domestic and global, and to expand the American empire. This post by Whitney Webb originally ran on MintPress News.
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August 28th, 2017 By Whitney Webb
WASHINGTON – The Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Congress to label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” having adopted that very position in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) it approved last month. The terminology used in the bill originates from a speech given in April by CIA director Mike Pompeo, who called the pro-transparency media organization a “non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted” by “hostile” nations. WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, has slammed the Senate bill as an attempt to legislate what he termed the “Pompeo doctrine.” WikiLeaks has been under U.S. investigation since 2010 but the U.S. has failed to formally charge anyone in the organization for its role in leaking State and Defense Department documents. However, WikiLeaks’ source in this case, Chelsea Manning, was convicted in 2013 and was only recently released from prison after receiving a pardon from President Barack Obama in January of this year. WikiLeaks came under scrutiny once again last year during the presidential election after publishing emails considered damaging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The IAA’s 12,000-word text, however, makes only brief mention of WikiLeaks — in the last line of its 41 pages. The bill itself is mainly focused on Russia and strikes an aggressive tone regarding so-called Russian “interference” in the 2016 presidential election as well as Russian “influence operations.” If passed, for instance, the bill will call upon Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, to develop strategies to counter these “threats,” and will essentially prevent cooperation between Russia and the U.S. on issues such as “cybersecurity” and “cyber threats.” Mieke Eoyang, a former House intelligence committee senior staffer, told the Daily Beast that such measures will prevent “the White House from blocking the intelligence community from telling the committee and the American public what the true Russia threat is.”
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Hurricane Harvey: Houston looters shoot volunteer rescuers; target whites and Trump supporters
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 83 Comments
The saying “No good deed goes unpunished” is a comment on the perversity of human beings. Cajun Navy is a Louisiana-based informal organization of private recreation boat owners who assist in flood search-and-rescue efforts. Bob Price reports for Breitbart that there are three Cajun Navy groups doing rescue work in the Houston area, where thousands remain stranded in flood waters from Hurricane Harvey. Fellowship of the Minds
Hurricane Harvey: Houston looters shoot volunteer rescuers; target whites and Trump supporters
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 83 Comments
The saying “No good deed goes unpunished” is a comment on the perversity of human beings. Cajun Navy is a Louisiana-based informal organization of private recreation boat owners who assist in flood search-and-rescue efforts. Bob Price reports for Breitbart that there are three Cajun Navy groups doing rescue work in the Houston area, where thousands remain stranded in flood waters from Hurricane Harvey. Yesterday, one Cajun Navy group saved the life of a woman they found floating face down in a flooded roadway. But Clyde Cain of Louisiana Cajun Navy told CNN that the rescuers are being shot at: “We have boats being shot at if we’re not picking everybody up. We’re having to pull out for a minute. We’re dropping an airboat right now to go rescue a couple of our boats that broke, and they’re kind of under attack.” To protect the volunteers, members of the Louisiana Cajun Navy were ordered to stand down. A message on the group’s Facebook page said that the team members are safe after they were shot at by looters posing as people needing rescue during an attempt to rob and steal the Cajun Navy boat. The post has since been taken down, but below is a screenshot of the Facebook message: Looters are not just shooting at Cajun Navy rescuers, they are boasting about their looting with the Twitter hashtag #harveylootcrew. Here’s a sample of their tweets, congratulating themselves for targeting white people (“crackas”) and Trump supporters. Their pictures leave no doubt as to their racial identity, but not a word about #harveylootcrew from the corrupt and deceiving MSM. To make a terrible situation even worse, despite yesterday’s efforts to prevent uncontrolled overflow using slow release, one of two major reservoirs in Houston — the Addicks Reservoir — is spilling over for the first time in history. A Harris County Flood Control District meteorologist said the overflow from the reservoirs would eventually flow into downtown Houston, exacerbating the flood from Hurricane Harvey. Below are the animal welfare groups that are helping to rescue and provide shelter for animals stranded in the terrible flood. Please donate! If you are an animal welfare professional and want to volunteer your skills to relief efforts you can submit this online form. Houston SPCA SPCA of Texas Houston Humane Society Austin Pets Alive Animal Defense League of Texas Please pray for Houston! Don’t allow yourself to sink into racism by generalizing from these looters to all black people.
See “Hurricane Harvey: Black man armed with shotgun protects neighborhood from looters“.
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U.S. National News
1000 Foot Tall JP Morgan Tower in Houston Being Evacuated; "FOUNDATION ISSUES" MAY FALL OVER ! ! !
So much rain has fallen in and around Houston, and the ground has become so saturated, so deep, that skyscrapers are now in danger of FALLING OVER! The one-thousand foot tall JP MORGAN Building in downtown Houston is being evacuated right now due to "foundation issues." This means the ground beneath the skyscraper may no longer be firm enough to support the building! If this is correct - and local authorities believe it is -- the thousand-foot-tall building could literally fall over ! ! ! ! Bear in mind that skyscrapers are designed to "sway" in heavy winds. Normally, that's a good thing; it prevents the buildings from snapping." But in a case like this, where the foundation is compromised due to moist soil, that same "swaying" could very well lead to "tipping over." And also bear in mind that wind in and around Houston is STILL being affected by the remnants of Hurricane Harvey. Harvey returned to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is strengthening again right now. At 4:00 PM EDT, Hurricane Hunter Aircraft flew through the "eye" of the former hurricane and found wind has increased today from 45 MPH to 50 MPH and the central barometric pressure had dropped from 1006mb to 994 mb. As central pressure drops, wind speeds pick-up. If those winds start hitting this building, it could very well fall right over. No one is sure how this will turn out, but authorities in Houston are erring on the side of caution and evacuating the building.
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Abbas Tells Trump He Won't Stop Giving American Money to Terrorists
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | Israel Today Staff
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected American demands that he stop using foreign financial aid to pay stipends and salaries to the families of jailed Palestinian terrorists. Abbas met last week with US envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to restart Middle East peace talks. According to Israeli journalists present at the meeting, Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, reiterated the long-standing demand that the Palestinian Authority not reward terrorism with financial gain. Congress has repeatedly threatened to halt all foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority over the payments to jailed terrorists, nearly all of whom are incarcerated in Israel for carrying out attacks on Jewish men, women and children. The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds reported that Abbas' response was to "inform Kushner that he would never stop paying these salaries until his dying day, even if this cost him the presidency."
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/32275/Default.aspx
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Vladimir Putin orders 1,500 Russians to move away from North Korean border after Kim Jong-un's latest missile launch
Vladimir Putin ordered 1,500 citizens to leave the area on North Korea's border
Russia and the hermit state share a 24-mile long international frontier by a river
The Russian Ministry of Emergencies warned citizens to leave the area
Dictator Kim Jong-un ordered a missile fired over Japan in a provocative move
By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline Published: 16:26 EDT, 29 August 2017 | Updated: 20:58 EDT, 29 August 2017
Russia dramatically relocated 1,500 people from its border with North Korea after Kim Jong-un's latest missile launch, it was reported today. The surprise move instructed civil defence officials to shift residents to 'safe areas' in the country's far east, according to pro-Kremlin media outlets. 'A verbal order was given to relocate 1,500 people to safe areas,' reported Mash, a social media outlet linked to major news service Life.ru which has close links to the Russian security services. 'The order came from the regional department of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies.' Russia shares a 24 mile land border with reclusive North Korea. It was unclear where the 1,500 were moved. The civil protection department in Vladivostok was instructed to relocate residents living in the border area with North Korea. The relocation was later described as a 'training exercise', according to FedPress.ru. But it appears to have been triggered by the launch of a missile over Japan in the tinderbox region which has led to soaring tension in Asia. 'A relocation scheme is being exercised as part of the training,' said a source. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned that the North Korean crisis could morph into an armed confrontation and 'lead the world to the brink of a catastrophe'. Yet Russia also maintains political and business ties to Pyongyang. Officials in Vladivostok also announced that radiation in the border region had not charged following the North Korean launch. In another unexpected development, Russia's largest island - Sakhalin - disappeared from the country's online maps of major IT company Yandex after the latest launch. The Pacific island lies north of Japan. Yandex claimed it suffered a 'technical' problem. The island could be vulnerable to a stray launch by trigger-happy North Korea.
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Domestic Foreign Troop Activity From Coast to Coast: FEMA Behaving Strangely
By Dave Hodges
The above photo was taken by Joel S. in Pennsylvania. This is one of several NATO helicopters operating in the same area where I reported UN activity four months ago. It has been quiet in this area until the emergence of Hurricane Harvey. UN Activity in California In the past four months, I have received numerous reports from people in California regarding their sighting of UN personnel and vehicles in California. Here is the report we filed in this on April 27, 2017. Additionally, Paul Martin is good friends with RBN talk show host, ex-Green Beret, John Moore. Moore had a relative that was buying a puppy in the Seattle area. When the relative went to get the dog, they asked the resident what they did for a living and the female resident answered “I am a UN Peacekeeper”. Here is another email I received from the potentially impacted area if the Oroville Dam were to fail as many are predicting will happen in the upcoming spring run off. Hi Dave, I was just watching your UN bit…. In any case, I live in Stockton CA and with the shows I’ve been watching I got curious about our Port of Stockton since it’s a gate way for imports and exports. I have a former Security officer that worked for me so I decided to give her a buzz to see what, if anything was happening. Especially since I hear choppers flying over head every night about 2-3 in the morning. And by the way, the Ports MERSEC…Maritime Security is at level 1, meaning security is to be present at all times. Any way, the only thing she knew was that the choppers for the National Guard and Fire Department are having rescue drills. Hmmmm. I wonder…. (Editor’s note: Wonder what? They are practicing for the Oroville Dam to go? This would be the perfect excuse to get the UN out in the open if their presence was for humanitarian reasons) Previous and Current Pennsylvania Sightings of UN Helicopters and Vehicles For months I have received a stream of reports about sightings of UN Helicopters in Pennsylvania. From the Delaware River Area Involving UN Attack Helicopters I received this email as an example of many that I have received in the past 4-5 months: Good afternoon Dave, I sent you a few sightings of UN/military in the air around my area (east coast). I just spotted another one (attached video) and this is a reference pic of what I saw. Identical colors, not sure maybe the Gov/Feds according to the colors. I know they are doing a drill this week, but I have been seeing them way before that started. I even thought ok, all the previous sightings were (practice for the drill), but then I started looking for a common denominator, why I am seeing all this activity, so low to the ground, like the are mapping it out or something in my immediate area. I pulled a map up and started focusing on the flight path they all seem to be doing, north to south. Then it hme….the Delaware River. Whatever they are up to, I’ll bet you that river has something to do with it… Now we are seeing NATO activity in the same area. FEMA Camps In Costal Cities On January 12,2017-Before Hurrican Harvey I was sent this Youtube video that was made 8 months prior to Hurricane Harvey. I don’t buy his rapture interpretation, but the “dream” is very telling. I am aware of the technology that he is speaking of. He misses on the prediction, but the content is chilling given what I know that is going on. I haven’t spoke about the tsunami producing bombs he mentions, but the information is available. Additionally, I am getting reports of FEMA camp activity in the Houston area and along the Gulf Coast to be of major concern to me. I am also getting reports about the following: Dear Mr. Hodges, Were you aware that makeshipt camps are hurriedly being thrown up along the Texas Gulf Coast? I have seen two of these camps going up at a very fast pace. Why spend the money? Why not use schools, stadiums and other pubic building that are available in the same area? This makes no sense. What can you tell me about this? Thanks, Jimmy Hines This email from Mr. Hines immediately got my attention because I reported on this specific FEMA capability over 6 years ago and now the relevance of the facts associated with this report comes into full understanding in the present day as I previously wrote how FEMA was contracting with Haliburton to build quickly contructed FEMA camps: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” I previously wrote an article in response to the intention of Congress to permit the military to indefinitely detain, without due process protections, American citizens for any reason, or for no reason whatsoever. In the previous article, I referenced the leaked memo from KBR manager, Bob Siefert, which was informing subcontractors to be prepared within 72 hours of notification to provide essential services to FEMA camps such as the installation of barbwire, blockades, personnel, food, water and sanitation services. Subsequently, one of my readers, Richard Firth, bravely took the initiative to write to Siefert and asked him to explain his stated intentions in the leaked memo. Below is the exchange between Wirth and Siefert along with my analysis. From: Richard w. Firth [mailto:firthrichardw@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 8:39 AM To: Bob Siefert Subject: Level with Public about \FEMA camps Dear Mr. Siefert: I am given to understand that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, is in the process of activating the FEMA camps according to a leaked memo. I and many others would like to know why these camps are being activated? I look forward to your response. Sincerely- Richard W. Firth Mr. Siefert wasted no time in answering Mr. Firth’s concerns as he provided a hastily prepared same day response. From: Bob Siefert <bob. siefert@kbr.com> Subject: RE: Level with Public about FEMA camps To: “Richard w. Firth” <firthrichardw@yahoo.com>Date: Friday, December 16, 2011, 2:44 PM Dear Mr. Firth, Thank you for asking about the truth concerning our search for subcontractors. First, KBR is not a subsidiary of Halliburton, and hasn’t been since April of 2007. KBR intends to respond to an upcoming Request for Proposal. FEMA is looking for companies that can set up temporary camps to house First Responders to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods, etc. The services included in the KBR request for information are ones we cannot provide ourselves and will need companies who can react quickly enough to meet the FEMA goal of having a place for their responders to stay within 72 hours of a call up. The camps will be temporary in nature, and nothing is being “activated”. FEMA is trying to be proactive in preparing for timely responses if emergency responses are required. I hope this answers your question. Regards Bob Siefert Manager – Small Business KBR To summarize, KBR’s Siefert asserts that (1) the camps are temporary; (2) the camps are only being constructed for first responders who will be used in anticipated future natural disasters; and (3) the existing FEMA camps are not being activated. Often in life, there is the stated reason for performing some action and then there is the real reason. Below are some key provisions which are part of the impetus for activating the FEMA camps which are contained in the Siefert KBR memo. “The Continental US will be broken up into five regions as indicated in the map below Services” will be required in each State within each region.” (Author’s note) Interestingly, the South was also broken up into five military districts during the military occupation of the South during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. “(Contractors will) Establish services listed below within 72 hours for initial set-up and respond within 24 hours for incremental services. This is a CONTINGENCY PROJECT and it should be stressed that lead times will be short with critical requirements due to the nature of emergency responses. Subcontractors must be flexible and able to handle multiple, shifting priorities in an emergency environment.” Additionally, the Siefert memo disturbingly calls for the installation of fencing and wire used for large scale detention of prisoners. “Subcontractors will mobilize, transport, erect, install and demobilize temporary fencing, barricades, and associated equipment according to federal, state and local laws, codes and manufacturer installation instructions. The Subcontractor shall be able to mobilize and deploy key personnel(s) within four (4) hours of NTP to meet with KBR Site Manager at the Responder Support Camp (RSC) site in order to finalize the site design plan and acquire site specific design requirements and layout. Number of linear footage: “Approximately 2,300LF for a 301 person camp after 36 hours of NTP" “Approximately 3,600LF for 1,000 person camp after 72 hours of NTP” This sounds like FEMA camp activation to me and it closely parallels the FEMA camp events on the East Coast in the aftermath of Sandy. When a reasonable person compares Siefert’s original memo to his response to Mr. Firth’s inquiry, the latter is clearly a poorly written and a hastily orchestrated version of damage control because his original leaked memo was never meant to see the light of day. The KBR memo called for barricades, barbwire, food, water, sanitation, guards, etc. This is the material that prisons are made of, not temporary housing for first responders as Seifert alleges. Hastily staffed FEMA camp personnel would also fit the definition of first responders in the advent of widespread civil insurrection, George Soros style. Everything Mr. Hines is implying is on display in this communication between KBR and a private citizen. Are we seeing the beginning of a new picture, a new plan, to eradicate many in this country? From Colorado I spoke with Paul Martin in the afternoon of 8/27 and he told me he is working on a story in Colorado in which he is in the process of obtaining pictures of blacked-out, caged busses in Northern Colorado. This is what the old Wackenhut busses looked like and they were contracted for “emergency use” by FEMA. Prelude to Occupation? From a San Diego TV Station Report: The arrest of 30 Chinese and Mexican nationals who had entered the country without authorization led U.S. Border Patrol agents to uncover a clandestine tunnel spanning the U.S.-Mexico border near the Otay Mesa port of entry early Saturday morning. A tunnel opening equipped with a ladder that was discovered near the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 26, 2017, is seen in a photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The officials were patrolling the southern San Diego area, which borders the Mexican city of Tijuana, when around 1:15 a.m. they came across the group of migrants, who appeared to have just entered the country, according to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agents searched the area and uncovered a crude hole in the ground that was outfitted with a ladder and concluded it was used to smuggle humans and illegal goods. The shaft would deposit people coming from Mexico just north of the secondary fence near the port of entry, officials said”…. Clearly, we have foreign troop activity from coast to coast. FEMA is behaving very strangly and now we see a new player entering the domestic scene, namely NATO which has joined the UN in Pennsylvania. The reports I have listed here are only a small sample of what I have been receiving every single day in the past 30 days. Something very big is clearly taking place inside the United States. Has anyone else noticed that President Trump has been strangely silent in the past several days? Is it time to connect these dots? Request From The Common Sense Show There is definitely something big brewing around the country and it just does not only have to do with Hurricane Harvey. It would be easy to claim that martial law (ie Continuity of Government) is in play, or at least it is being rehearsed on a mass scale. However, I think we should gather more data. There is I made the following short video in which I request that information be sent to: davehodges@thecommonsenseshow.com
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Sorry, Joe Biden - The 'Soul' Of America Is Conservative
Wednesday, 30 August 2017 02:54 Brandon Smith
Some political figures truly embody the classic role of the divider; their purpose seems to be to agitate and provoke, to instigate conflict rather than mediate peace. Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi come to mind. Let's not forget John McCain or Lindsay Graham. Barack Obama was known as the "great divider" for much of his presidency. While many leftists would argue that Donald Trump is the "most divisive" president in generations, I think the mainstream media has proven far more provoking than he has. In the case of Charlottesville, we see a whole host of individuals and institutions seeking to promulgate continued social tensions well beyond anything Trump has done. One of these individuals is Joe Biden. In a short essay for The Atlantic, Joe Biden was quick to capitalize on the death of a protester in Charlottesville at the hands of an apparent white nationalist, spewing forth a host of cliches on "dark forces" creeping out from the hidden corners of America to smother the light and happiness of the silent Kumbaya majority like some kind of J.R.R. Tolkien novel. This narrative is nothing new. It is the narrative that was promoted throughout the 2016 presidential election cycle as well as the Brexit debate in the U.K. — the notion that dangerous and "ignorant" portions of the citizenry in western society (labeled "populists") are quietly organizing for a last stand against the "inevitable evolution" of progressive multiculturalism and globalism. They are presented as the throwbacks, the cave people, the Cro-Magnons, the people who refuse to get with the times and embrace the social justice revolution. They are, according to gatekeepers like Biden, in the way. While a host of names and labels are used to define this group of malcontents preventing society from achieving full-blown Utopia, we all know who establishment snake oil peddlers are really referring to: conservatives. The racism subplot to this scripted conflict has always been present. When the vote on the U.K. exit from the European Union proved successful, the automatic accusation in the media was that this was driven by "hidden racism," along with the consistent idea that older generations were trying to live off the backs of younger generations while interfering with "natural" shifts in cultural consciousness. These claims were greatly amplified during the rise of the Trump administration. I have to say, these assertions are fascinating to me. The amount of propaganda and projection involved is truly staggering. Biden's hope along with other establishment con-men, I believe, is that he can continue to simplify the narrative down to a series of false associations. White nationalists were present at Charlottesville? Indeed. White nationalists were standing in defense of the confederate statue issue? Yes. White nationalists faced off against Antifa counter-protesters? Certainly. A white nationalist drove his car into a group of counter-protesters and killed one of them? It would seem so, though I still think the man deserves a fair trial before being convicted in the media. But here is where Biden and his ilk deliberately go off the rails in order to incite wider tensions... At this point, the narrative moves from facts to wild assumptions and misconceptions. White nationalists were present in Charlottesville, but does this mean everyone (or even most people) in Charlottesville protesting in defense against the removal of confederate statues was a racist? No. Does this mean that people who support the existence of confederate statues are automatically racists? No. Does this mean that anyone that stands in opposition to groups like Antifa is a racist or a fascist? No. Just because one man acted violently in response to Antifa and other leftists groups, does this mean that Antifa represents the "good guys" in Biden's little screenplay? No. But this is the story we are being sold. Not just by Biden, but by many other political interests. I would specifically reference a recent panel of Trump supporters by CNN, during which the "journalist" was dismayed to discover that none of the people involved was willing to play along with the message that Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville was anything other than logical. I want readers to take note of a specific assertion made by CNN, as well as Biden, here — the assertion that it is the job of leftist groups like Antifa to "fight" or even destroy "hate groups" or "fascist groups." CNN outright compares Charlottesville to World War II, claiming that because the allies were justified in going to war with Nazis back then, that Antifa is justified in going to war with "Nazis" today. But again, when you consider the reality that Antifa and similar groups associate all conservatives with fascism, this narrative opens the door to a level of intolerance and violence that is unacceptable and also misplaced. Beyond that, it seems to me that CNN, Biden and others are happily supporting the false assumption that "hate speech" is not protected speech in America. I don't personally care for the white nationalist platform, being that skin color and genetic background is ultimately irrelevant, and as I noted in my last article, some of these groups end up being led by government paid provocateurs. But these groups still have the Constitutional right to protest grievances in public spaces. It does not matter how distasteful one person or another finds them to be. Laughably, Biden spends the majority of his diatribe in The Atlantic admonishing the very existence of these groups as if they are a threat to the constitution. Stating: "The giant forward steps we have taken in recent years on civil liberties and civil rights and human rights are being met by a ferocious pushback from the oldest and darkest forces in America. Are we really surprised they rose up? Are we really surprised they lashed back? Did we really think they would be extinguished with a whimper rather than a fight? ...Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate. We have an American president who has emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support ....This is a moment for this nation to declare what the president can't with any clarity, consistency or conviction: There is no place for these hate groups in America. Hatred of blacks, Jews, immigrants — all who are seen as "the other" — won't be accepted or tolerated or given safe harbor anywhere in this nation." Biden has the audacity to concoct this fallacy and then associate it with the "defense of the constitution" at the end of the article. I guess the "medal of freedom" he received as a surprise gift from Barack Obama was just a meaningless trinket after all. I don't know that anyone claimed a "moral equivalency" between racists and people opposed to racism. That is not what the confederate statue issue is about anyway. What I do know, though, is that under the law every group present at Charlottesville had a Constitutional right to be there, regardless of how Biden or others view their "morals." I would point out that many people, myself included, actually find the communistic fanaticism of Antifa and other social justice groups to be a much greater threat to the freedom and stability of our nation than anything white nationalist groups promote. But many conservatives, myself included, still defend Antifa's right to free speech in public places as long as they do not interfere in the free speech rights of others. This is something leftist groups are not willing to do. These groups should be thanking their lucky stars for conservatives and conservative principles, otherwise they might have been stomped out of existence a long time ago. It is conservative thought that defends the rights of any group or individual, acting in accordance with the law, to speak freely in public forums. It is conservative thought that defends the speech of Antifa. It is conservative thought that defends the existence of confederate statues. And yes, it is conservative thought that defends the speech of white nationalists and many others. This does not mean we necessarily agree with any particular group's position. The nature of the speech is irrelevant. In this kind of open social environment, ideas can do battle, rather than people. When one group begins to assert preeminence and says the speech of others is now unprotected, the door is opened wide to battles between people, rather than ideas. If a person does not agree with certain views, they can always go back home, or back to their own private websites and forums. But, as soon as they enter the public sphere, they are not entitled to insulation from the ideas of other people. What Biden and others are championing is at bottom the ideology of "futurism," a movement launched in Europe and Russia in the early 20th Century driven by violent change or extermination of traditional principles. Futurism is often credited as being a precursor to both fascist and Bolshevist political movements (as well as globalism), and its core mantra is that all "new" ideas and systems must take precedence over old ideas and systems. New generations must advance the dominance of their ideologies over older generations. Heritage must die out. Traditions must be abandoned. Progress must be pursued. The problem is, there are very few "new" ideas in the world. In cultural terms, society is cyclical. The same ideas come and go over the centuries; rehashed and rebranded, but certainly not new. What Antifa represents is classic communism and cultural Marxism. These are old ideals. The destruction of a nation's history and heritage in the name of expedient political progress and "social justice" is a classic strategy turned into a science by the likes of Lenin and Mao. And this strategy is merely an extension of one of the oldest ideas ever — collectivist tyranny. If we are to be honest here, the conservative philosophy of individual freedom and Constitutional liberty as a foundation of political life is the newest of ideas to be adopted by any culture in human history. When we examine the mindset of the average American, there is definitely a sizable division. But, one thing the vast majority of us agree on is that government power is not to be trusted. Only 20% of Americans today believe the government will "do what is right" most of the time. The largest ideological group in the US according to recent polls continues to be conservatives. Conservative principles of limited government and individual liberty are the bedrock upon which America was founded. While many Democrats (and some Republicans) will insist upon larger government as the solution to all our societal ills, this is predicated on the notion that THEY are in control of that government. Place a host of Republicans in seats of power in Washington and the liberals become just as distrustful of the establishment as any hardcore libertarian (aka - true conservative). You see, the fact is that most people are really conservative at heart until they think they have the reins of government in their hands. What Biden and other establishment elites want is to use government power as a temptation; a prize that will corrupt anyone that attains it and alienate anyone that doesn't. In the case of his Atlantic article, Biden is luring leftists into stupidity and ruin. Biden WANTS domestic strife and conflict. He wants the left to think they are fighting a righteous fight when they on the wrong side of history not to mention nothing more than cannon fodder. And they think he is actually on their side... Biden claims that today we are in a battle "for America's soul," but the reality is that establishment elites and the useful idiots they employ are seeking to suffocate the soul of our nation so that they can build their own vision on top of the ashes. This is what futurists do. This is what communists and fascists do. This is what globalists do. America has survived as long as it has because some ideas never become outdated. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution itself is merely the legal embodiment of the eternal principles of natural law and individual liberty. What is new is the idea that these principles must be protected by government, that they actually RESTRICT government, and that, in fact, the only job government should really be concerned with is to ensure the continuation of these restrictions on leadership and these freedoms for citizens. This is conservative. This is the soul of America. You cannot call for the exact opposite and still claim you are a champion of America's soul.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3265-sorry-joe-biden-the-soul-of-america-is-conservative
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Houston Flooding: Climate Change or Morality Change?
August 29, 2017
Is the flooding in Houston the result of man’s sins against God, or the left’s false narrative of climate change? Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles prays for those displaced by Hurricane Harvey, and calls for Christians to return to the path of righteousness. Rick also shares prophecies from Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj and Pamela Banda, which predicted the calamity which has befallen the Lone Star state, and discusses the latest North Korean missile launch as America approaches September 11th.
http://www.trunews.com/article/houston-flooding-climate-change-or-morality-change
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Heaviest rain in history: Catastrophic scenes in Houston as 200,000 people are forced from their homes by flooding and 10,000 survivors fill convention center to TWICE its capacity after Harvey breaks American rainfall record
The George R Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas, has a capacity of up to 5,000 people
However, Monday night 9,021 flood evacuees crammed into the center, sleeping on chairs and even the floor
People continued to flock to the overcrowded shelter Tuesday as Houston plans to open more mega-shelters
US Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said there are about 20,000 Harvey evacuees in shelters
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards offered to take in evacuees from Texas even as southwest Louisiana suffers from flooding and hundreds of people were evacuated on Monday night and Tuesday morning
Record for rainfall for a tropical system was set Tuesday for continental US - 51.88inches in Cedar Bayou
Mayor Sylvester Turner implemented an overnight curfew Tuesday from 12am to 5am to prevent crime
Residents near Columbia Lakes were told Tuesday morning to leave immediately after a levee was breached
Chemical plant Arkema SA in Crosby, Texas, was evacuated Tuesday because of the rising risk of an explosion
Residents within 1.5miles of the chemical facility were also told to evacuate as a 'precautionary measure'
Public health officials warned flooding increases risk of many illnesses including bacterial and viral infections
At least 18 are dead but it is likely that number will rise as the floods recede and more victims are found
Though military help has been limited, up to 30,000 National Guard troops could be called on to help in Texas
By Associated Press and Reuters and Afp and Ann Schmidt For Dailymail.com Published: 21:13 EDT, 29 August 2017 | Updated: 09:26 EDT, 30 August 2017
Hurricane Harvey has dumped the most rain on the continental US in history it was revealed today - as catastrophic scenes unfold in Houston with shelters overwhelmed with survivors, a curfew in place to prevent looting, dams overflowing and a chemical plant at risk of exploding. According to Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, there are currently about 20,000 Hurricane Harvey evacuees in shelters. Many of Houston's evacuees are crammed into the city's convention center which is now overcrowded with 10,000 evacuees - double what officials initially planned. The George R Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas, has a capacity of up to 5,000 people, but Monday night 9,021 people stayed in the center, many sleeping on chairs and on the floor because of a shortage of cots. Others were being sent to the Toyota Center, the arena that is home to the Houston Rockets NBA team. Houston's mayor said the convention center would remain as the primary shelter in Houston. More people continued to flock to the city's overcrowded main shelter Tuesday as floodwaters kept rising after five consecutive days of rain that set a new continental US record for rainfall for a tropical system. In Cedar Bayou, Texas, rains reached 51.88inches Tuesday afternoon, the record for Texas and the continental US, but does not pass the record of 52inches of rain in Kauai, Hawaii in 1950 from Tropical Cyclone Hiki. That record was set before Hawaii became a state. The previous continental US record was 48inches set in 1978 in Medina, Texas, by Tropical Storm Amelia. A weather station southeast of Houston reported 49.32inches of rain as of Tuesday morning. There are initial reports that at least 18 people have died from the storm and its aftermath, however, the complete death toll can't be fully counted until after the floodwaters recede. And though the military has been limited in its ability to help in rescue and recovery efforts by weather and flooding, Air Force Major General James Witham said up to 30,000 National Guard troops could be called on to help in Texas. Federal and local agencies say they have rescued more than 13,000 people in the Houston area as well as in surrounding cities and counties in Southeast Texas since Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the area with torrential rain. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday his agency has rescued about 4,100 people. Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says they have rescued more than 3,000. Parisa Safarzadeh, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office says her agency has rescued more than 3,000 people. Houston is located in Harris County. US Coast Guard Lt Mike Hart says his agency has rescued more than 3,000 individuals. Hart says the Coast Guard total includes rescues in Houston, but also in outlying cities and subdivisions outside of Houston, as well as in surrounding counties, including Brazoria, Galveston and Matagorda. On Wednesday morning, Singapore's defense ministry says as many as four of its military helicopters will start assisting in Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts. The CH-47 Chinook helicopters are stationed in Grand Prairie, Texas, as part of a decades-long partnership between the Republic of Singapore Air Force and Texas National Guard. Singaporean airmen who train there learn how to face large-scale emergencies. The ministry says the helicopters will be able to airlift troops, evacuees and supplies in the relief effort. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the offer in a call with President Donald Trump late Tuesday. Both leaders are set to meet at the White House in October. Singapore made a similar offer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Air Force Major General Witham, the director of dometic operations for the National Guard Bureau, told reporters there are currently about 3,500 National Guard troops involved in Harvey rescue efforts, including 3,000 from the Texas National Guard. He estimated that the Texas guard number could rise to 8,000 to 10,000 in coming days, possibly joined by 20,000 to 30,000 from other states. He said the military is providing everything that has been requested by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, although the response is constrained by the stormy weather and by flooding that limits use of roadways. He said weather has limited the use of military helicopters over the past two or three days, so the Guard has instead used boats and ground vehicles to rescue stranded residents in the Houston area. Besides the additional National Guard troops from other states, there are about 1,000 active-duty military forces in position to provide assistance if called up by civilian authorities, he said. Asked whether Texas authorities recognized the magnitude of the disaster quickly enough, Witham said, 'That's debatable.' He said in some respects the need was recognized quickly. But the extraordinary amount of rainfall and flooding exceeded what state planners could have foreseen. 'So if you're looking at an event that only occurs every few hundred years, the planning that would have normally occurred for that probably wasn't here,' Witham said. 'So, in many cases, the request for assistance, not only for the National Guard but federal forces, may not have been anticipated quickly enough.' As waters continue to rise, public health officials are warning that flooding increases the risk of illnesses ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease. On Monday afternoon the town of Dickinson issued a mandatory evacuation order and residents near Columbia Lakes in Brazoria County were told Tuesday morning to leave immediately after a levee was breached. Residents within 1.5miles of a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, were evacuated on Tuesday as a 'precautionary measure' because of the rising risk of an explosion, the local fire marshal's office said in a Twitter message. More than 17,000 people have sought refuge in Texas shelters and that number seemed certain to increase, the American Red Cross said. As people continue to flock to the overcrowded George R Brown Convention Center, Houston is planning to open a few other 'mega-shelters' for evacuees. 'We are not turning anyone away. But it does mean we need to expand our capabilities and our capacity,' Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said. 'Relief is coming. Televangelist Joel Osteen opened his Houston megachurch, a 16,000-seat former arena that was the longtime home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, on Tuesday as a shelter after social media critics slammed him for not offering to house people in need while Harvey swamps the city. Osteen announced the effort in a tweet, saying he and wife Victoria Osteen 'care deeply about our fellow Houstonians'. Later in the day, the Toyota Center was accepting people who could not find space at the convention center. However the arena had only 500 cots added to its floor because the convention center will remain the primary shelter for Harvey evacuees. Mayor Turner said Tuesday night that people will still have to go to the convention center first before going into the Toyota Center. Tom McCasland, Houston's housing and community development director, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the Toyota Center will serve as an overflow center for people still arriving Tuesday night and early Wednesday. It will only serve families with children that don't have pressing medical needs. McCasland says more cots are on the way for thousands of people who didn't have one Monday night. Some people slept on towels or strips of cardboard. He says, 'We fully expect to have everyone in a cot tonight.' Turner said Tuesday night that because Houston police have been spread thin due to ongoing water rescues and other efforts, 50 Texas National Guard members will be stationed at the convention center to provide security. Houston officials opened a major shelter at NRG Park that can accommodate up to 10,000 evacuees. Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said the convention center adjacent to the city's NFL stadium and the Astrodome opened at 10pm Tuesday. Mayor Turner also said Tuesday the city has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for more supplies, including cots and food, for additional 10,000 people, which he hopes to get no later than Wednesday. The mayor also issued an overnight curfew beginning on Tuesday night for an indefinite period amid incidents of looting, armed robberies and people impersonating police officers. The curfew will run from 10pm until 5am and Houston is bringing additional police from other regions, Turner said in a news conference Tuesday evening. 'You cannot drive, nor be in any public place. We have had problems with armed robberies, with people with guns and firearms,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said. Those who violate the curfew will be questioned, searched and arrested, Acevedo said. The curfew comes after fourteen people were arrested for looting in the Houston area over the past 48 hours, as floodwaters from Harvey continue to devastate the region. Officials said Tuesday night they have received disturbing reports of people impersonating Homeland Security special agents and telling residents to evacuate in order to rob their homes. The city of Houston says people should ask anyone knocking on their doors for official badges and credentials with their name and organization. The city's statement also notes that during Harvey relief efforts, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not conducting immigration enforcement operations in the area. The city also says in a tweet in both English and Spanish that it is not checking the immigration status of anyone coming into shelters. On Tuesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards offered to take in Harvey victims from Texas. Edwards said he expects Texas officials to decide within 48 hours whether to accept the offer, which comes as Louisiana is also helping its own residents who were rescued from Harvey's floodwaters overnight. About 500 people were evacuated Monday night and early Tuesday from flooded neighborhoods in southwest Louisiana, and about 200 spent the night in area shelters, Edwards said. Meteorologists have said Harvey will spend much of Wednesday dropping rain on Louisiana before moving on to Arkansas, Tennessee and parts of Missouri, which could also see flooding. National Hurricane Center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said that Houston would soon get a chance to dry out and that when the storm returns to land Wednesday, 'it's the end of the beginning'. But Feltgen cautioned: 'We're not done with this. There's still an awful lot of real estate and a lot of people who are going to feel the impacts of the storm.' The National Weather Service predicted less of an inch of rain for Houston on Wednesday and only a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms for Thursday. Friday's forecast called for mostly sunny skies with a high near 94. President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday, and the White House said his stops in Corpus Christi and Austin were meant to highlight coordination at all levels of government and lay the groundwork for what is expected to be a lengthy recovery after the storm. Trump traveled with the secretaries of health and human services and housing and urban development, and the head of the Small Business Administration. The president raised spirits as he addressed a crowd of fans at a firehouse in Corpus Christi, telling them: 'This is historic, it's epic, what happened, but you know what, it happened in Texas. Texas can handle anything.' He promised to take care of survivors and help with rescue efforts, saying: 'We love you. You are special. We are here to take care of you.' 'This was of epic proportion. Nobody's ever seen anything like this,' said Trump before praising Texas Governor Greg Abbott as being 'terrific' in the face of catastrophe. He commended the emergency services but said cautiously: 'We'll congratulate each other when it's all finished.' The day before, Abbott had visited some of the devastated areas before he gave an update on the aftermath of the storm in a press conference. 'A Texas-sized storm requires a Texas-sized response, and that is exactly what the state will provide,' he said Monday. 'While we have suffered a great deal, the resiliency and bravery of Texan's spirits is something that can never be broken. As communities are coming together in the aftermath of this storm, I will do everything in my power to make sure they have what they need to rebuild.' FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, estimates that 30,000 will be in need of shelter by the time the storm passes and there is already an estimated $40billion in damage. The agency also estimates that more than 450,000 people are likely to seek federal aid. The organization has around $3billion in its disaster relief fund but the sum is dwindling. The storm has also crippled the country's oil trade, hampering 16per cent of the US's refineries, which are in the danger zone. US lawmakers have already begun contemplating the massive rebuilding costs, leaving some Republicans in a tricky spot after they opposed federal aid when a storm devastated eastern states in 2012. Flooding has damaged or destroyed thousands of homes, crippled infrastructure, washed away businesses and left the economic future of the region under a cloud. Just how heavy a financial toll the storm will take on the southern US economy was unclear Tuesday, as the focus remained on rescue operations, many of them being carried out in the hard-hit Houston area. But the storm, which on Tuesday was tilting toward neighboring Louisiana, has the potential to be one of the costliest natural disasters in US history, and lawmakers have already broached the subject of recovery funding. 'I believe we need to put an aid package together for $150 billion' for emergency relief and recovery from Harvey, House Democrat Sheila Jackson-Lee, whose Houston district remained largely underwater, told CNN. That staggering amount is 2.5 times the funding approved by Congress and allocated by the federal government following superstorm Sandy, which caused widespread devastation in eastern states including New York, New Jersey and Maryland when it struck in October 2012. Despite the clear need for federal government intervention after that storm, 179 Republican lawmakers -- including 23 of Texas's 24 House members -- opposed the Sandy Relief Act. The snub appalled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who at the time savaged his fellow Republicans as 'absolutely disgraceful.' Their votes are suddenly back in the spotlight, as lawmakers still on their summer recess sniped across social media. Republican Congressman Peter King of New York called out Senator Ted Cruz of Texas by name Monday in a stinging rebuke, saying he would vote for post-Harvey aid despite fellow Republicans opposing Sandy relief. 'NY wont abandon Texas,' King tweeted. '1 bad turn doesnt deserve another.' A New Jersey Democrat offered similar thoughts. 'Despite my TX colleagues refusal to support aid in #SouthJersey time of need, I will support emergency disaster $ for those impacted,' Congressman Frank LoBiondo said Monday on Twitter. Cruz, a Tea Party hero and defender of fiscal austerity, insisted he opposed the Sandy bill because it contained excessive 'pork' -- targeted government spending that benefits a lawmaker's constituents -- unrelated to storm recovery 'Of course, the federal government has a critical role in disaster relief,' Cruz said on CNN. 'But you should not have members of Congress that are exploiting disasters to fund their pet projects, and so there will be time for all of those debates in Washington.' One estimate, by Enki Research, already puts the Harvey damage at $42billion. But with the storm forecast to churn along the Gulf coast for at least two more days, that estimate could surge. In Brazoria County, Texas, authorities posted a message on Twitter Tuesday morning warning that the levee at Columbia Lakes south of Houston had been breached and telling people to 'GET OUT NOW!!' Brazoria County Judge Matt Sebesta said residents were warned that the levee would be overtopped at some point, and a mandatory evacuation order was given Sunday. The levee was later fortified, but officials said they did not know how long the work would hold. Engineers began releasing water from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs Monday to ease the strain on the dams. But the releases were not enough to relieve the pressure after one of the heaviest downpours in US history, Army Corps of Engineers officials said. Both reservoirs are at record highs, with the Addicks even overspilled at 108ft. The release of the water means that more homes and streets will flood, and some homes will be inundated for up to a month, said Jeff Lindner of the Harris County Flood Control District. The county is trying to determine where the water will go, Lindner said. The bridge is on Woodforest Boulevard over Greens Bayou has collapsed and drinking water in Lake Forest is no longer safe due to a loss of water pressure. Residents there must now boil water before drinking it and using it for cooking or brushing their teeth. Meanwhile, major Houston prisons have been evacuated to save inmates from the floods. Six thousand prisoners have been bused to other correctional facilities across the state. On Tuesday, the owner of the chemical plant, Arkema SA, said in a statement the situation at its southeast Texas plant 'has become serious' and evacuated all of its staff from the facility in Crosby, Texas. Crosby is about 25 miles northeast of Houston and in the 2010 US census had a population of 2,300 people. 'As a protective measure Harris County has evacuated all residents within 1.5 miles of the Arkema facility,' said a Twitter message from the Harris County Fire Marshal Office. 'There is a potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire at the facility, which could produce a large amount of black smoke,' the fire marshal, citing Arkema, said. 'While we do not believe there is any imminent danger, the potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire and/or explosion within the site confines is real,' the company said. Arkema said the plant has been hit by more than 40 inches of rain, was heavily flooded and without electricity since Sunday. Back-up generators have largely been swamped. Maintaining refrigeration for chemicals that must be stored at low temperature is key, the company said. After losing generators, workers transferred products from the warehouses into diesel-powered refrigerated containers. But the floodwaters also compromised the back-up containers, and the company is monitoring temperature levels remotely, it said. The Arkema plant in Crosby produces organic peroxides. It has been closed since Friday but had a skeletal staff of about a dozen in place. Other Texas chemical plants have also shuttered production because of the storm. Anglo-Swiss chemicals firm Ineos Group Holdings SA said it has been forced to shut Chocolate Bayou Works and Battleground Manufacturing Complex. INEOS Nitriles' Green Lake facility are following hurricane procedures and are temporarily shut down, spokesman Charles Saunders said. Huntsman Corp said it has closed six chemical plants in Texas, along with its global headquarters and advanced technology center in Texas. US public health officials warned Monday that flooding increases the risk of ills ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease. The most immediate health risk is from drowning, especially for people trapped in vehicles, said Renee Funk, associate director for emergency management of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators is another threat. 'Unfortunately, we expect there will be people who die from that and people will be poisoned from it,' Funk said in a telephone interview. But simply wading in floodwaters could cause skin rashes because so much of the water is contaminated with toxic chemicals that get washed out of people's garages and tool sheds. 'The number one thing we're concerned with in a flood is chemicals,' said Funk, who advises people to shower and wash their hands immediately after contact with floodwaters. Mosquito-borne disease is less of an immediate threat because the floodwaters will wash out most mosquito breeding sites for disease-causing mosquitoes such Aedes aegypti, which spread Zika, chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever, she said. Floods typically cause a rise in nuisance mosquitoes, such as the Culex variety, and these, too, can carry disease. A year after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, regions in Louisiana and Mississippi affected by the flood reported a doubling of cases of neuroinvasive West Nile virus - cases in which the virus caused severe inflammation in the brain or spinal cord, said Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. 'A year from now, we'll have to look very closely at West Nile and other mosquito-borne viruses,' said Hotez, who is riding out the storm from his Houston home while his lab at Baylor is closed. In the immediate aftermath of Harvey, bacterial diseases are a concern, although cholera, a scourge in the wake of many natural disasters in developing countries, is likely not a worry in Houston, he said. 'Bacterial infections are really important, such as salmonella and E. coli infections,' Hotez said. Shelters could also pose a public health risk, said Dr Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. 'If you are in a small enclosed area in an alternate care facility and you have really bad diarrhea, it's going to be hard in these situations to practice proper infection control.' Although forecasters had feared that another two feet of rain could fall in some places, it appeared that the outlook had improved somewhat on Tuesday. The weather service said the amount of rain falling in the Houston area would be two to three inches, perhaps a little less in Houston proper, as the storm moved east. But southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana still would see 'relentless torrential rains', with another six to 12 inches of rain across the upper Texas coast through Friday as Harvey continues to move slowly east over the Gulf of Mexico maintaining tropical storm force winds of 45mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It is expected to make landfall again Wednesday morning, probably in southwestern Louisiana. Calls for rescue have so overwhelmed emergency teams that they have had little time to search for bodies. And officials acknowledge that fatalities from Harvey could soar once the floodwaters start to recede from one of America's most sprawling metropolitan centers. More than four days after the storm ravaged the Texas coastline as a Category 4 hurricane, authorities had confirmed only four deaths - including a woman killed Monday when heavy rains dislodged a large oak tree onto her trailer home in the small town of Porter. But unconfirmed reports of others missing or presumed dead were growing. 'We know in these kinds of events that, sadly, the death toll goes up historically,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told The Associated Press. 'I'm really worried about how many bodies we're going to find.' One Houston woman said Monday that she presumes six members of a family, including four of her grandchildren, died after their van sank into Greens Bayou in East Houston. Virginia Saldivar told The Associated Press her brother-in-law was driving the van Sunday when a strong current took the vehicle over a bridge and into the bayou. The driver was able to get out and urged the children to escape through the back door, Saldivar said, but they could not. 'I'm just hoping we find the bodies,' Saldivar said. Houston emergency officials could not confirm the deaths. Authorities in Houston did confirm Tuesday that a 60-year-old city police officer drowned in his patrol car after he became trapped in high water while driving to work. Sgt Steve Perez had been with the force for 34 years. A spokeswoman for a Houston hotel said one of its employees disappeared while helping about 100 guests and workers evacuate the building. Beaumont police say a woman has died after she and her young daughter were swept into a rain-swollen drainage canal while trying to escape their stalled vehicle. A police statement said the woman pulled her vehicle into an office park's flooded parking lot about 3.35pm Tuesday, where it became stalled by high water. The woman then took her daughter, exited the car and was swept about a half-mile away. Two Beaumont police officers and two fire-rescue divers in a rubber boat spotted the mother floating with the child, who was holding onto her mother. Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat. The child was responsive but suffering from hypothermia; the mother was unresponsive and efforts to revive her failed. The child is hospitalized in stable condition. Harris County confirmed the storm-related death of 64-year-old Alexander Kwoksum Sung, who drowned at a clock repair business Sunday in Houston. He was found in more than a foot of debris on Monday. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences updated its storm-related deaths Tuesday night to include an 89-year-old woman, Agnes Stanley, who was found floating in four feet of floodwater in a home. A 76-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was found floating in floodwater near a vehicle. A 45-year-old man, Travis Lynn Callihan, left his vehicle and fell into floodwaters. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday. The disaster is unfolding on an epic scale, with the nation's fourth-largest city mostly paralyzed by the storm that arrived as a Category 4 hurricane and then parked over the Gulf Coast. The Houston metro area covers about 10,000 square miles, an area slightly bigger than New Jersey. Harvey kept drenching Houston and the surrounding area. Rain fell Tuesday at about half an inch per hour over Harris County - home to Houston - and up to two inches per hour to the east. Forecasters expect the storm to linger over the Gulf before heading back inland east of Houston sometime Wednesday. The system will then head north and lose its tropical strength. It could creep as far east as Mississippi by Thursday, meaning New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed its full wrath in 2005, is in Harvey's path. Foreboding images of Harvey lit up weather radar screens early Tuesday, the 12th anniversary of the day Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish. The impact of the storm on the lives of residents in the danger zone is unfathomable. Many have no idea of the extent of the damage in their homes and are now fearing the financial torment they may now face. Mayor Turner pleaded for help from other cities and plugged charity relief funds to care for the thousands of Houston residents in crisis. Huge fundraising efforts are underway by the Red Cross. The New York Stock Exchange has donated $1million and Facebook has raised more than $1million as well. Celebrities including actor Kevin Hart and Real Housewives of New York star and business mogul Bethenny Frankel have pledged more than $50,000 combined. NFL Houston Texans' player JJ Watt raised more than $4.7million for Hurricane Harvey victims on aYouCaring page by Tuesday night. The cost of the storm will extend beyond state lines. Experts at Goldman Sachs say it is likely to reduce GDP growth by 0.2per cent. Oil prices surged as supplies became suddenly precarious on Tuesday. The full extent of the damage is not yet clear and won't be for some time. For now, charities and volunteers are focusing on the immediate needs of the people who have been displaced. Dallas is preparing super shelters for thousands of displaced residents. On Monday afternoon, military planes transported the first evacuees to the Lively Point Youth Center in Irving. The space has capacity for about 200 evacuees and the shelter will be run by the Red Cross and City of Irving employees. The city's emergency management coordinator said they are planning for the shelters to run 'long term'. Evacuees and those working the shelters have and will be vetted through criminal background checks. The City of Dallas is also planning to host more than 5,000 evacuees in a shelter at the convention center. Over the weekend, Mayor Turner asked anyone with a boat to help with efforts. Many Texans responded bravely to his call to arms and were out in force on Saturday saving vulnerable neighbors and strangers from the floods. 'The goal is rescue. That's the major focus for the day. We want to focus on getting them out of their homes or whatever their stressful situation may be,' he said. Hospitals asked Monday for trained nurses to volunteer at their centers, which were overflowing with patients. As Houston struggles with the storm's aftermath, help from other states and cities is pouring in. One Michigan-based company has donated 22,000 kayaks to help residents get around as the flood waters cease to drain. On Monday night, 11 people had to be rescued after one private boat of volunteers capsized. They were all rescued by the Houston Fire Department and none have serious injuries. Earlier this week, Mayor Turner came under fire for his decision not to evacuate Houston, but he said it would have caused more chaos to send millions of people on the roads without a well-organized evacuation plan. And when the storm began on Friday, Houston was not immediately hit. It was safe from the battering winds which tore apart towns on the coast and many felt confident enough to remain in their homes. However as the storm moved further inland on Saturday and Saturday, floods - the likes of which the city has never before seen - swept through. The city woke up to a water world and many, with no alternative, swam to safety or climbed in to rescue boats. Even in homes which are not flooded, residents are running out of food and water and some cannot safely make their way to grocery stores. Those who do make it there face snaking lines and empty shelves inside the stores. And according to several utility companies, more than 280,000 people were without power on Monday. Now, many are trapped in their homes with no way out. They have been left to wait for rescue boats but the situation is bleak. With 911 operation centers inundated, panicked residents turned to social media to be saved. They shared pictures of frightened children cowering on kitchen work tops as water covered the floors of their homes. Oliver Simpson, 35, a father of four from west Houston, is stuck in his home with his children. He told DailyMail.com on Monday: 'It's horrible. I feel helpless - sitting with no power and just waiting to see what happens. And we have it so much better than many others. 'I have a neighbor who had a tree fall on his garage, it went across a gas line. There is a gas leak and despite calls to 911 still no one been out. That was at 4am this morning. 'To be clear, authorities are doing everything they can [there are] just many people in far worse situation than us.' Six members of the same family died by drowning in their van as they tried to escape Harvey's floods on Saturday, according to other members of the family. KHOU reports that the victims - four children under the age of 16 and their grandparents - were traveling in a van being driven by their great uncle near Greens Bayou when they ran into trouble. He was able to escape as water rushed in to the vehicle but the others could not and he watched as they perished in the water, other relatives said. The official death toll on Saturday was two - meaning authorities have so far been able to confirm two deaths. They are inundated with crisis situations, however and are therefore redirecting attention to rescuing people who are trapped. This makes it difficult to deliver an exact number but the total was reported as five on Sunday.
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Addicks Reservoir -Houston- BREACHED; Water Pouring over top of Spillway at of 8:06 AM EDT
According to the Harris County, Texas, Flood System, the major reservoir "Addicks" has now over-topped its spillway, sending thousands of cubic feet of water per minute into Houston. This is now on top of the catastrophic flooding already taking place in that city! The chart below, from the Texes Flood System shows the nightmare as it's happening: To view this official information yourself, click HERE to get to the Texas Flood System web site. Below is a map of Houston showing the geographic location of the mile-long Addicks Reservoir in the northwest part of the city. The Addicks Reservoir and Addicks Dam in conjunction with the Barker Reservoir prevent downstream flooding of Buffalo Bayou in the City of Houston. Both reservoirs were authorized under the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 20, 1938, which were modified by the Flood Control Acts of August 11, 1938; September 3, 1954; and October 27, 1965. Below is a graphic showing the layout of the Reservoir system and the "Buffalo Bayou River" that is now being flooded by the over-topped Addicks Reservoir. It will lead directly to massive flooding (on top of the existing flooding) right into the center of Houston:
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Houston Mayor Orders Curfew To Prevent Looting, Warns Bridges And Roads Are "Starting To Fail"
by Tyler Durden Aug 30, 2017 3:28 AM
Update: Houston's Mayor imposed a curfew on Tuesday after the US city saw record rainfall and catastrophic flooding in the wake of tropical storm Harvey. The curfew will start at midnight and end at 5am, Mayor Sylvester Turner explained. Originally it was supposed to start earlier (as per his tweet below), but Turner said he wanted "to allow volunteers and others to do their great work." The curfew is intended to prevent property crimes against evacuated homes in the city, he added... Police Chief Art Acevedo said at an earlier news conference that curfew violators will be stopped, questioned, searched and arrested. There have been scattered reports of looting during the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. We detailed earlier that as Tropical Storm Harvey heads back inland, slamming southwest Texas with another 15-25 inches of rain, Housting officials are reporting that the city's critical infrastructure is starting to fail under the weight of the floodwaters, and may soon collapse. According to Reuters, roads and bridges in Houston have started to buckle under the impact of the catastrophic flooding in parts of the city. According to Jeff Linder of the Harris County Flood Control District, one bridge had collapsed and some roads had been damaged by the torrential rains. Worse, the damage is far from over. As reported yesterday, the water levels at two reservoirs to the west of the city, where more than 3,000 homes have been flooded, continue to rise. Meanwhile, Buffalo Bayou, the primary drainage system that runs through the city, is holding steady and may not recede for days, said Edmond Russo, deputy engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers. According to USGS data, the Buffalo Bayou has recorded a record 33 inches of rain, and another 20 is expected in the coming 48 hours. Linder said the level of the Houston Ship Channel, which opens out into Galveston Bay was "at levels we've never seen before", slowing the bayou's ability to drain. Two major dams outside Houston have also begun to overflow, according to the BBC. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that one police officer has been killed since the flooding began. The Houston police chief says the officer's body was recovered Tuesday morning. He apparently died when floodwaters overcame his vehicle as he tried to get to his post. Meanwhile, the Port of Houston is reporting that all facilities will remain closed on Wednesday, leaving oil tankers carrying an estimated 17 million barrels of crude oil stranded off shore with their cargo. At least nine people have died as a result of the flooding, including six members of one family. Floodwaters have swept away some of the concrete barrier at the San Jacinto Bridge... If he is right, the dire forecast by Imperial Capital analyst David Havens who predicted that the final Harvey cost would surpass $100 billion, or 3 times more than what most believe the Harvey damages will amount to, will prove to be pleasantly optimistic in retrospect.
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Did Google violate James Damore’s Section 7 rights?
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP USA August 28 2017
Much of the employment law commentary about Google’s termination of engineer James Damore for his so-called “anti-diversity screed” (notwithstanding the sensational headlines, it was arguably a relatively sober memorandum questioning the effectiveness of certain types of diversity efforts specific to Google) has been misdirected, focusing on the First Amendment rights of free speech and at-will employment. But Mr. Damore filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that he was terminated for engaging in “protected concerted activity” under Section 7 of the NLRA and in retaliation for exercising his rights. He may have a case. Under Section 7, employees have the right to engage in speech or make complaints about how an employer is doing things that could have an effect on more than just the one employee complaining or speaking. As we have previously reported, the NLRB in recent years has found that individual complaints about discrimination in the workplace are protected concerted activity. Thus, it would seem that, consistent with those decisions, employee speech about an employer’s handling of diversity in the workplace could also be protected concerted activity. Google has asserted or implied that Mr. Damore violated its corporate code of conduct and that his memorandum was disruptive. Similar defenses have generally been rejected by the Board in recent years on the theory that protected concerted activity is often inherently disruptive. So, the NLRB may take Mr. Damore’s charge quite seriously, even if NLRB Regional Officials may consider his memorandum “politically incorrect.” Employers should watch this situation closely and learn from it. The current NLRB General Counsel has indicated in a memorandum that he views political activity and speech as inherently protected concerted activity. Private sector employers should also be aware that certain states and localities — including California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, New York, and North Dakota — have laws that may protect, through various means, political speech or affiliation, political activities, and lawful activities outside of work. With the publicity being generated by the Google situation and employment terminations in the national news flowing from the recent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere, this type of claim may become more common. (However, unlike Mr. Damore, who was writing about his employer’s diversity initiatives, political protesters in all likelihood would not have Section 7 claims against their employers because their activity does not relate to terms and conditions of their employment.) Public sector employers should also be aware of First Amendment and other legal protections and restrictions applicable to their employees.
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Where Was God in Hurricane Harvey?
By Jim Denison , Christian Post Columnist | Aug 29, 2017 10:54 AM
Art Acevedo is police chief in Houston, Texas. His message to people in his beleaguered city: "Just hunker down, hold tight — we hear you, we feel you. Believe me." His police officers have rescued more than 3,000 people as of this morning. 911 operators fielded 56,000 calls within 24 hours when the crisis began. Numerous companies have pledged millions of dollars to relief efforts. Red Cross personnel are preparing for weeks of assistance to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. President Trump and the first lady will visit the Texas Gulf Coast later today. While police officers, 911 operators, and disaster relief workers have been saving lives in Houston for days, some may wonder where God has been as this disaster unfolded. What would our Lord say to those devastated by this unprecedented crisis?
• He knows your name. He called Zacchaeus and Saul of Tarsus by name, even though they were two of the most infamous sinners in the Bible.
• He knew you before you were born: "Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them" (Psalm 139:16). • He knows your actions and thoughts: "You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar" (Psalm 139:2).
• He knows every detail of your life: "Even the hairs of your head are all numbered" (Matthew 10:30).
• He knows your pain: "I have surely seen the affliction of my people . . . and have heard their cry" (Exodus 3:7).
• He suffers as you suffer: "In all their affliction he was afflicted" (Isaiah 63: 9).
• He will never forget you: "I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands" (Isaiah 49:15–16).
• He walks with you through calamity: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4). The psalmist declared, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1). As a result, he testified, "we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling" (vv. 2–3). Every rescuer is an extension of God's compassion and care in these catastrophic days. If the Lord could describe a pagan king like Cyrus as "my anointed" (Isaiah 45:1) and call Nebuchadnezzar "my servant" (Jeremiah 43:10), he can use every person who will be used. Every act of assistance, every resource and provision is his gift of grace and mercy. I believe that the One who wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41) weeps over Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast today. Now our Father calls us to share his heart for his children. If those devastated by this crisis were your brothers and sisters, how would you feel about them? They are. Originally posted at denisonforum.org
http://www.christianpost.com/news/where-was-god-in-hurricane-harvey-197199/
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etc.. You have seen Russia as she is preparing to move down upon Israel with the other nation. etc..
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Israeli official: If Iran expands in Syria, we'll bomb Assad's palace
Netanyahu after Putin meeting: Iran wants the ‘Lebanonization’ of Syria
Iran in Syria By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF
August 28, 2017 12:17
Israel warned Russia of dire consequences if Iran is allowed to continue on its current path in Syria. A senior Israeli official warned the Russian government that if Iran continues to extend its reach in Syria, Israel will bomb Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace in Damascus, according to reports in Arab media. Israel also warned that if serious changes do not happen in the region, Israel will make sure the ceasefire deal, reached by the United States and Russia in Astana, Kazakhstan, will be nullified. A senior Israeli source told the Al-Jadida newspaper that no understanding was reached between the Israelis and the Russians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did, however, make it clear to Putin that its concerns must be met or Israel will be forced to act. The warnings occurred in a meeting between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. The prime minister, accompanied by Mossad head Yossi Cohen, the newly appointed head of the National Security Council, Meir Ben-Shabbat, and Likud minister Ze'ev Elkin who served as his translator, flew to Sochi on the Black Sea for the meeting, returning to Israel shortly after it ended. This is Netanyahu’s fourth trip to Russia in the last 16 months, and his sixth meeting with Putin during this same time frame. Netanyahu said the majority of his discussions with Putin focused on the situation in Syria. He said the reason he wanted to hold talks now with the Russian leader was because the situation inside Syria has changed very rapidly over the last few weeks.
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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom
and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..
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Mattis: Transgender troops can keep serving pending study
By Olivia Beavers - 08/29/17 08:06 PM EDT
Defense Secretary James Mattis announced Tuesday that transgender troops in the military would be allowed to continue serving pending the results of a study. The announcement comes days after President Trump signed a memo barring transgender people from enlisting in the military while instructing Mattis to explore how to handle those currently serving in the armed forces. "Once the panel reports its recommendations and following my consultation with the secretary of Homeland Security, I will provide my advice to the president concerning implementation of his policy direction," Mattis said in the statement Tuesday. "In the interim, current policy with respect to currently serving members will remain in place." Trump announced in late July his plans to reverse an Obama-era policy that allowed transgender individuals to serve in the military. “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump tweeted at the time. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." Mattis indicated in his statement Tuesday that the Pentagon would move to implement Trump's directive, which sparked backlash among Democrats and some Republicans. The Defense Department "will carry out the president's policy direction, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security. As directed, we will develop a study and implementation plan, which will contain the steps that will promote military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion, with due regard for budgetary constraints and consistent with applicable law," Mattis said. Mattis said he would establish "a panel of experts" from within the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to provide recommendations for implementing Trump's directive. "Our focus must always be on what is best for the military's combat effectiveness leading to victory on the battlefield," he said.
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I’m Proud To Be White
Aug 24, 2017 Read More Articles by Dave Daubenmire
There. I said it. If you are reading this commentary then you are probably witnessing a miracle. I would assume that Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram have not banned me. That is usually what happens when someone expresses an opinion that the pencil necks don’t like. Pencil neck? Gee…that will probably get me banned as well. Name calling is definitively a violation of “community standards” on social media. Their standards, that is. Not mine and it certainly does not violate the standards of most people I hang out with. But most of my friends are normal. At least if there is such a thing as normal any more. Middle America normal. Not university normal…or progressive normal…or George Looney fan normal. But simply…normal. An everyday, run of the mill, clear thinking, I don’t-get-offended-easy normal…the kind of normal that you used to find in your middle class neighborhood, local public school, and TV sitcom. You know what I mean…Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, Andy Griffith and Barney Fife normal. Oh how I wish my grandkids could grow up in a bigoted society as those shows represented. But I am proud to be white and no matter how much you try to shame me you will not be able to make me recant. Beat me with a stick, ridicule me in public, email me all kinds of hateful comments, but you will not stop me from being proud of who I am. It is like the story I heard about the young kindergartner who pinched his fellow classmate in a dispute. “Tommy,” the teacher scolded. “You apologize and return to your seat.” “OK Mrs. Jones, I’ll sit down. But I am still standing up on the inside!!” Well, I am still proud on the inside. No matter how “racist” you say that I am. Proud does not mean superior. Being proud of my heritage does not make me a racist…or a bigot…or a hater. I am a proud nationalist. I think that our government should put the needs and the interests of Americans first. I didn’t realize that being a nationalist required identification with skin color. I hope all blacks are nationalists. I hope all Chinese are nationalists. I pray all Christians are nationalists. The fact that I happen to be Caucasian should not exclude me from being proud. I hope my black friends are proud that they are black. I hope my women friends are proud that they are female. Homos are proud. Strippers are proud. Dope smokers are proud. Heck, even some Cleveland Browns fans are proud… I am also proud to be a Christian. I am proud to be an American. I am proud of my German heritage. I’m proud to carry my family name DAUBENMIRE! I am proud to be a Buckeye. I’m proud to be a man. I am proud to be a grandpa. I am proud to have rapidly graying hair. I am proud to be a loyal and faithful husband. I am proud that I couldn’t care less about the color of anyone’s skin. Being proud of who I am does not mean I think I am better than everyone else. What has happened to us? What kind of world would this be if folks didn’t have something to be proud of? Isn’t that the goal of the self-esteem curriculums in our schools? That’s part of the problem we have in America. Pride comes from striving…overcoming obstacles…achieving in the face of adversity. Being proud of my accomplishments certainly does not diminish yours. At least it shouldn’t. Our schools have taught our children to be proud of what they should be ashamed of and ashamed of what they should be proud of. I have a hard time understanding my friends on the Left. As a follower of my Lord Jesus Christ I have always believed in the equality of all men. Our nation was built upon the premise that we were all “created” equal. But my cognitive dissident friends on the Left believe in evolution which has at the center of that ideology the idea of survival of the fittest. Evolutionary belief REQUIRES an understanding that not all people are equal. The cream rises to the top…only the strong will survive…kill or be killed…while at the same time pummeling the individual with the idea that everyone is equal. They are playing with our minds. Racism is a made-up ideology If the Truth were to be told, it is shame that does more damage than anything. I find that most of the trouble occurs with those who do not have a deep appreciation for their lot in live. Losers blame the referees. Winners overcome them. I am proud of what I have done. I am proud of what I have overcome. I am proud of my heritage. Can someone please explain to me why that makes me a racist? Would everyone feel better if I were ashamed of being white? Sorry Chief. I ain’t gonna do it. I’m proud of my heritage. I am proud to be white.
https://newswithviews.com/im-proud-to-be-white/
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Too many foreign forces now hidden in every state in America!
August 24, 2017 danama Alternative 6 “The spirit of Paul Revere is Warning America! Get Ready! Get Ready!” The following is a partial list of the fruits of Marxist Multiculturalism! Too many foreign forces now hidden in every state in America! * The always-hidden Rothschild agents, dangerous Communist and public enemy number one, George Soros and his three sons, endlessly funding destructive leftist and liberal agitators and aggressors. Rothschilds have always funded Communism! * Russian sleepers as revealed by Jim Keith. North Korean sleepers revealed this week by psychopath Kim Jong-un. Chinese sleepers in the human organs and slave trade. * Duduman’s disclosure that Russia would attack same time as China and North Korea * Russian attack strategies with Alaska, Minnesota and Florida. Russian missile pre-positioned in Yellowstone to trigger the super volcano and destroy American infrastructure Chechnyan troop build up in Colorado * UN troops driving up to 24 LENCO Bearcats at a time through Montana and other states * Foreign troops hidden in National Forests where roads were bulldozed and it’s a felony to fly over * 700,000 Makarov pistols Clinton pre-positioned for Russia in Colorado * Clinton’s Treaty on Open Skies still letting foreign pilots fly over America! * Islamic insurgents all over the place in 60 trainiing centers with weapons caches beneath mosques, with a growing presence in 33rd Degree Jimmy Carter’s Habitats for Humanity, with an increasing presence allowed by global security companies including security guards at major power plants * Tens of thousands of muslims now employed in Silicon Valley (threatening our communications) * Islam now working with the Mexican cartels * Knife-wielding Somalis trained since childhood to be soldiers – sent courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce to work around blood every day (de-sensitized to it) then recruited by ISIS for overseas training then sent back here… * Globalist-planted regional and state police from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia * Foreign-privatized prisons staffed by 150,000 with no local allegiances and who speak English as a second language. These lose money every day Patriots and Constitutionalists are not working inside… Chinese owning the Long Beach port where only 1 of every 10 COSCO train cars are inspected when unloaded * Chinese flown into Idaho and southward almost every night (A friend with a gold mine witnessed this!) * The Muslim now on the Federal Reserve Board who owns the yogurt manufacturing plant. Economic manipulators on the alert to crash the US economy as they did in 1929 * Turkish Muslim Billionaire ($55 Billion-plus dark money) Gulen in Pennsylvania with his James Bond-like fortress and small illegal foreign army. who believes he’s to fund ushering in the Imam Mahdi by making Americans convert as dhimmi or die! * Freemasonry with the world-government global infrastructure in place. They are pledged to world govt. Freemasons have control mechanisms – especially ongoing threats to expose politician pedophilia which they fostered – approving it in 32nd Degree Readings to keep their politicians under control. There are also to many Freemason police and this is the control over so many American police siding with the Left! All this and more… While our National Guard diligently guards Poppy Bush’s opium crops in stolen Taliban fields (formerly wheat fields) and even retired police are paid $25,000 bonuses to go overseas. Inexperienced reserve units are put at point in many dangerous situations. American troops are protecting countries overseas but not America! President Trump needs a Special Forces Armed Forces of 1 million to protect America and counter the still-active globalist influences in US Armed Forces. Why doesn’t Trump see this? “Houston, we have a problem.”
http://webnewsorder.com/2017/many-forces-hidden-in-america/
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How To Identify A Chemical Attack Based On Symptom Alone – The 5 Primary Chemical Weapons Used Today
Posted By: Ted August 24, 2017
Chemical attacks rarely happen state side, but history tells us that chemical weapons have been used quite frequently over the past century. Most notably in other nations. As terrorist domestic and international grow in size, so does the possibility of a terrorist act. Anyone keeping a watchful eye on the daily news would see the trend of terrorist activity spiking in the USA. To say the USA is impervious to a chemical attach based on our nations civility would be thinking wishfully. This section will break down the 5 primary categories of chemical weapons as well as their symptoms. The primary objective of this section is to learn how to identify a chemical attack based on symptom alone. in 1993 the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) required most nations to destroy large stockpiles of their chemical weapons, labeling them as weapons of mass destruction (WWMD’S). Three nations continue to openly hold stockpiles of WWMD’s, the USA, Russia and North Korea. There have been concerns that other nations may have held on to their WWMD’s without declaring them, and terrorist organizations may be producing new quantities of chemical weapons to meet their organizational goals. These symptoms range from obvious to barely recognizable, however the majority of them can still be rapidly lethal. Understanding these unique symptoms make it easier for one to determine what chemical agent is present. The 5 primary chemical weapons used today are as follows: 1. Choking Agents 2. Nerve Agents 3. Blister Agents 4. Blood Agents 5. Riot Control Agents Choking Agents: A choking agent will fill the victims lungs with fluid, causing them to frown on the spot. The two most popular chocking agents are chlorine gas and phosgene. Minor Symptoms from exposure: Headache, blurred vision, burning throat and vomiting. Severe symptoms from exposure: Tight or restricted chest and breathing, thick burns on the skin or eyes. Fatal symptoms from exposure: Failure of the respiratory system. Circulation failure. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a choking agent is present if the coughing up of bloody phlegm. Nerve Agents: Nerve agents are primarily absorbed through the skin. Symptoms from exposure can be rapid depending on the concentration and exposure level. Nerve agents are the most dangerous and lethal, which is probably why the majority of the stockpiles left in the world are in fact nerve agents. They are extremely effective in weapon form when released in a cluster bomb formation. Their reach great distances. Nerve agents have been in use by terrorist organizations in the past such as when the Syrian Military fired rockets with chemical agents (Sarin Nerve gas) fired at about 12 areas in suburbs south and east of Damascus, targeting rebel-held areas. 1,429 were killed (including 426 children), with 2,200 injured. Link here. The onset of symptoms include: Runny nose, constricted pupils, restricted chest and breathing. Minor Symptoms from exposure: Increased difficulty breathing, drooling and nausea. Severe symptoms from exposure: Involuntary deification and urination, vomiting, burning of the lungs and eyes. Fatal symptoms from exposure: Asphyxiation, convulsions. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a nerve agent is present is restricted pupils. Blister agents: While not always fatal, blister agents are nasty business. Their primary symptom is named after the agent: blisters. The maximum effective range is far from some of the other agents so in weapon form the agent is usually loaded into an mortar. They often do not show symptoms for 2 to 4 hours but can cause great pain over a long period time. Minor symptoms from exposure: respiratory pains, mucous membrane /skin and eye irritation. Severe symptoms from exposure: corneal damage, large blisters full of fluid, extreme respiratory pain. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a blister agent is present are the large blisters and full of fluid. Blood agents: Blood agents and their name because the victim’s blood turns a very bright red as the cells in one’s body can no longer access oxygen. Blood agents are most effective indoors because they disperse much quicker than other agents. They are composed of either arsenic or Cyanide & only work when swallowed or inhaled. Minor symptoms from exposure: weakness, nausea, dizziness, pink skin. Severe symptoms from exposure: gasping for air. Fatal symptoms from exposure: asphyxiation, convulsions. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a blood agent is present is the overwhelming odor of almonds or garlic. Riot control agents: The most commonly used chemical agent, and the one most likely to have an interaction with. The two most have heard of are pepper spray and tear gas. The general public is also permitted to use these as a form of personal protection. Law enforcement agencies also employ riot control agents such as pepper spray, tear gas and CS gas. They can be released for crowd control in many ways, be it ammunition, canister or even fog machine. Minor symptoms from exposure: coughing, nasal discharge, Burning Sensations, and involuntary closure of the eyes. Severe symptoms from exposure: Burns on the skin, vomiting, severe coughing. The main symptoms to identify when determining whether or not a riot control agent is present is the involuntary closure of the eyes. Because most agents are effective through skin contact and all agents effective through inhalation, in order to survive a concentrated attack from the four potentially fatal agents one would need personal protection equipment. This could range from the paper n95 mask up to a top of the line respirator. One would also need material to protect your skin from contact.
http://www.survivalonline101.com/prepare-chemical-attacks-rarely-happen/
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Breakthrough Device Heals Organs with a Single Touch
OSU Wexner Medical Center Published on Aug 14, 2017
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Researchers have developed a device that can switch cell function to rescue failing body functions with a single touch. The technology, known as Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), injects genetic code into skin cells, turning those skin cells into other types of cells required for treating diseased conditions. “It takes just a fraction of a second. You simply touch the chip to the wounded area, then remove it,” said Chandan Sen, PhD, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cell-Based Therapies at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. “At that point, the cell reprogramming begins.” In a series of lab tests, researchers applied the chip to the injured legs of mice that vascular scans showed had little to no blood flow. “We reprogrammed their skin cells to become vascular cells,” Sen said. “Within a week we began noticing the transformation.” By the second week, active blood vessels had formed, and by the third week, the legs of the mice were saved—with no other form of treatment. “It extends the concept known as gene therapy, and it has been around for quite some time,” said study collaborator James Lee, PhD, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State. “The difference with our technology is how we deliver the DNA into the cells.” The chip, loaded with specific genetic code or certain proteins, is placed on the skin, and a small electrical current creates channels in the tissue. The DNA or RNA is injected into those channels where it takes root and begins to reprogram the cells. In a new study published in Nature Nanotechnology, first author Daniel Gallego-Perez of Ohio State demonstrated that the technique worked with up to 98 percent efficiently. “What’s even more exciting is that it not only works on the skin, but on any type of tissue,” Sen said. In fact, researchers were able to grow brain cells on the skin surface of a mouse, harvest them, then inject them into the mouse’s injured brain. Just a few weeks after having a stroke, brain function in the mouse was restored, and it was healed. Because the technique uses a patient’s own cells and does not rely on medication, researchers expect it to be approved for human trials within a year. Those interested in participating in a clinical trial for this technology should email InfoRegenMed@osumc.edu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQ51Kj2tS0&app=desktop
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Reporter who exposed BBC pedophilia cover up found dead
By Erin Elizabeth - August 23, 2017
Liz MacKean, the former British investigative reporter best known for exposing Jimmy Savile and the culture of pedophile protection at the BBC, has died from complications from a stroke. She was 52. (Her death was reported by the BBC, the very same company who blocked her investigation from airing and spent years trying to destroy her reputation.) Jimmy Savile, the UK’s “Top of the Pops” host was eventually found to have sexually abused hundreds of children and women at the height of his fame. In fact, investigators believe he preyed on about 500 victims, some as young as two years old, at the BBC’s broadcasting studios and 34 hospitals and children’s hospitals all over England. He died in 2011. “MacKean worked at the BBC until she quit in 2013 after executives decided to ban her groundbreaking and brave investigation into predatory pedophile Jimmy Savile in order to protect him and other pedophiles. Dismissed by the establishment as mad and dangerous, MacKean was finally vindicated when the truth about Savile’s pedophilia eventually came out in 2012, a full year after MacKean first tried to bring his notorious crimes to light.” 1 Once it was public knowledge that the BBC was preventing the investigation from airing, she said, “I was very unhappy the story didn’t run because I felt we’d spoken to people who collectively deserved to be heard. And they weren’t heard. I thought that that was a failure… I felt we had a responsibility towards them. We got them to talk to us, but above all, we did believe them. And so then, for their stories not to be heard, I felt very bad about that. I felt, very much, that I’d let them down.” The fact that BBC executives knew and did nothing shocked the world. In fact, one source was quoted as saying, “The numbers are shocking. Many hundreds and potentially up to 1,000 people were victims of Savile when he was representing the corporation. The report will overshadow Pollard. It will go right to the heart of how Savile was able to get away with the most heinous of crimes under the very noses of BBC staff for more than 40 years.”2 Our heart goes out to MacKean’s family and friends. She was a brave woman and will be missed.
https://www.healthnutnews.com/reporter-who-exposed-bbc-pedophilia-cover-up-found-dead/
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IMPORTANT READ-Eyewitness Reveals Horrors of What Really Happened in Charlottesville
This post was originally published on this site
The following testimony is from an eyewitness of the protests in Charlottesville VA on August 12, describing the horrors of what really happened and completely contradicting the fake news stories reported by the mainstream news media. The eyewitness is a woman. She is not from Charlottesville, but was there on a temporary work assignment, completely unrelated to any protests. She has chosen to conceal her identity, which I believe is wise considering the violence. She shared her story with her personal friend, Charles Patrick, who recorded and published their conversation in the 38-minute video shown at the bottom of this post. I transcribed their conversation below in hopes of helping it go viral so the real criminals can be held accountable for their crimes. Charles Patrick: “How long were you in Charlottesville before this riot thing happened? Eyewitness: “I was here starting on my second week. Where I work is just a few minutes from Charlottesville, so we would go every day to Charlottesville for lunch. And this one restaurant I guess is a particular town favorite, so there were a lot of people, you know, in the restaurant. It was just like every descent restaurant fills up for lunch. And there were people out because there are little shops and stuff around there. And they were having, like at lunch, they were having discussions about the vote that had just taken place and had been overturned. You know, we were sitting real close to these people. We can hear their conversations, so we kind of get involved. I try to take in my little bit of culture, you know, when I travel for work, and we had found out that just a couple of months prior they had a vote in town on whether to take down the statue or not. And the town had voted 80 to 20 to leave the statue up.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. The town voted 80 to 20 to leave the statues up, right?” Eyewitness: “Correct.” Charles Patrick: “Now this town is a mixture of black and white votes, correct? Eyewitness: “Yes, and both black and white voted on both sides of the fence.” Charles Patrick: “So blacks voted to keep it up and blacks voted to take it down. Whites voted to keep it up and whites voted to take it down. Correct?” Eyewitness: “Yes, we, you know, cause we were going up there every day for the week leading up to the riot. So, you know, we had different conversations and the girl that was with me, we would walk up and down the street and she would show me like your day off, you need to go visit here at this cute little shop. You know, and we met different people, we talked to different people and we met several people that were highly involved in the vote. And the town was going to have like an open forum, like with fifty or sixty people because the vote had been overturned by the city council. Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. Wait a minute.”Eyewitness: “Oh, I’m sorry. Did I leave that out?” Charles Patrick: “City council overturned the vote, the 80 to 20 vote?” Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “So, the people voted to keep the statue up and city council overturned that vote.” Eyewitness: “Correct. We go in there on Saturday and we get there about 11:00 o’clock and it’s the typical scene. You know, a little (people) more than normal, younger people out because it’s Saturday and they don’t work Saturday. So, we get there at about 11 o’clock and you know there’s kids and there’s old people and then, you know, a bunch of us that work out there and come out there for lunch so there’s our crowd and we are mixed in and we see people, pretty much the same people having lunch, black, white, sitting at the same table.” Charles Patrick: “Okay, stop. Now in this restaurant for days before, up until then, people are sitting in the restaurant, black and white, no arguments, no fights. Correct?” Eyewitness: “That’s absolutely correct. Yeah, but it wasn’t just that. Outside the restaurant too, where the shops and stuff were.” Charles Patrick: “Okay, so all over town.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, from what I could see in my line of sight, I can’t speak for the rest of the county, but… Charles Patrick: “Did you see black and white people fighting every day?” Eyewitness: “There was no fighting. There wasn’t even raised voices. There were people having, they were laughing and joking. There were some tables where you could tell that they were having some serious discussions, but no one got out of character. Okay, so we get there at about 11 o’clock and them um, you know, it’s pretty busy, so it took a little bit for our waitress to get over there and just about the time she comes up, I don’t think she even got her name out, but it was the same waitress we had all week. One of the guys that had been in and all around the town, or around the area of the restaurant, where we had been all week, he banged on, he was outside the restaurant, and he banged on the glass. And it was pretty loud, so everybody just stopped. And of course, everybody looked up and these buses started pulling up. Charles Patrick: “Okay so this guy who was banging on the glass, you’ve seen him before. Correct?” Eyewitness: “Oh yeah, I had seen him probably three of the six days three or four of the six days. Charles Patrick: “Why was he banging on the glass?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, he banged on the window and cracked the door in and motioned like for all of us to look out, you know, pointed at the buses. I could see six of them, but the building cut off part of the road, which was across, not really a street because it’s a pedestrian only area, but it was on the other side of that, on the opposite side. Charles Patrick: “What color were these buses.” Eyewitness: “They were like a dark charcoal gray. I didn’t notice any writing, but you know there was some trees and people and stuff in between us and the buses so, I mean I didn’t see any names, but I know they were all the same. Charles Patrick: “The buses were all the same. I know you told me earlier they were like back to back, like bumper-to-bumper.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, bumper-to-bumper, like when school buses all follow each other to an out-of-town football game. You know, they followed each other like, so they don’t change lanes, they were going bumper-to-bumper. Charles Patrick: “I understand what you’re saying. They were together.” Eyewitness: “Yes, so they pull up and my first thought is it’s a tour because I had been finding out about the history of the town and thought it’s a pretty interesting town. You know, there’s some rich culture here. Maybe there’s, I don’t know, a tour going on. You know, like old people go to Vegas together, you know. Charles Patrick: “So, it’s a tourist town. So when you seen the buses, it was like a tourist bus?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, that’s what I thought, it was like a charter bus. You know, the University of Virginia is here too so, it could have been for anything. So, everybody in the restaurant, I mean you could hear a cricket, everybody was just looking. So you could tell that the town, the locals were not used to seeing something like that. And I mean within, I want to say 10 or 15 seconds, people came running off the bus and just flooded the place. I don’t care what anybody says and I don’t care if anybody believes me, but these people came off that bus ready to, I don’t know work, ready to fight. They had on helmets. They had on kneepads and elbow pads and face guards and mouthpieces and purses and bags and backpacks full of things, carrying… Charles Patrick: “Hold on. Were these all white people getting off the bus?” Eyewitness: “No, no, no, no. There were just as many black people as there were white people getting off the same buses. There were just as many women as there were men. Charles Patrick: “So, white people, black people, men and women got off the bus, is what you’re telling me. Right?” Eyewitness: “Got off the SAME bus. I even saw some people carrying, you know those shields that police men use for riots that you see on videos and stuff, there were people carrying those off the bus. Charles Patrick: “Really?” Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “Now, these black and white people that got off the bus. Are these the ones that had on T-shirts?” Eyewitness: “There was T-shirts. There was emblems. Now I don’t recognize all the different groups that are out there. The ones that I know of are BLM, Black Lives Matter, the KKK.”Charles Patrick: “Now, you’ve seen these emblems, is what you’re saying?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I did and not just one or two. Everybody on those buses that came off those buses had something on there that caught my attention. ‘Oh my God, that’s the KKK. Oh my God, that’s the BLM.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. You’re telling me that Black Lives Matter and the KKK got off the same damn bus.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, but wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I might have left something out. Those people I was talking about who were having those civilized conversations in the restaurant and in the town, they were also BLM. Um, I didn’t see any KKK or anything like that, but after seeing the people you could tell, or they would even offer up the information that they were affiliated or associated or in the KKK or some other Arian, whatever, but they were having conversations with each other.” Charles Patrick: “You’re saying that in the restaurants, Black Lives Matter and the KKK were having civil conversations?” Eyewitness: “Yes, they were! They were talking like you and I are talking. Charles Patrick: “Now, when everybody disembarked the buses, what happened then.” Eyewitness: “Well um, there was a couple of men in the restaurant that kind of let us all back to the back door, which led into the alley. And a lot of us had parked there in the alley, but there was, I want to say, probably 20 or 30 of us. We went out the back door because the people from the buses were coming from the front. And they weren’t walking. They weren’t skipping. They were full on running and screaming and throwing things. I mean they came off the bus angered and running to do damage.” Charles Patrick: “So what were they throwing? What do you mean?” Eyewitness: “Well, the one that almost got me and a few people around me, it was like a 20-ounce Sprite bottle that had concrete in it. I have never, who does that? They were throwing everything they could get their hands on. They had like condoms and balloons filled with, I don’t know if it was horse manure, which is very common around here. Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. They had condoms and balloons with feces in it?” Eyewitness: “It was filled with crap and I don’t know what else, but I know it stunk like nothing I had ever smelled before. Charles Patrick: “So somebody was carrying around 20-ounce bottles of Sprite with concrete in it and feces, getting off the bus. And feces in balloons?” Eyewitness: “Yes, they had pepper spray and mace. The people that were sitting next to me in the restaurant was the sweetest old man. He was there having lunch with his granddaughter, his great granddaughter, who was seven. And she was so in love with her grandpa. And when we were going out the back of the restaurant, the man was trying really hard to keep his granddaughter from seeing what was going on because it all happened so fast. We didn’t have time to think or react or nothing. But you could tell, everybody was scared, but you could tell that there were people trying to stay calm because there were a lot of kids with a lot of old people that couldn’t move real fast too. So, things just started coming out of the air, I mean just hit the ground around us and everything. This old man was trying to stay over the top of his granddaughter. And me and I’m trying to cover him and his granddaughter.” Charles Patrick: “So you were next to them?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, we were arm in arm. We were holding people while we were walking, right?. We’re walking very fast I guess you would say because we were trying not to scare the kids, You know?” Charles Patrick: “Because there were a lot of kids, right?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I want to say there were maybe eight or nine kids under the age of, I want to say 10 or 12. And there were a few older kids like teenagers.” Charles Patrick: “The people throwing feces in concrete didn’t give a damn, right? Eyewitness: “They had zero interest in who was getting hit or hurt. It was like they couldn’t see us as people because I can’t imagine that another human would treat another human like that. Charles Patrick: “I’m sorry to make you relive this. Damn.” Eyewitness: “It’s really the way, um, one of those, well, we seen something fly and one of the guys that was at the table next to us, was on my left side and the grandfather and granddaughter were on my right side. And I can’t even count how many things were flying through the air, but there was something flying at us and this guy puts his arm up and a bottle hits him in the arm and I guess it dropped to the ground and it lands right in front of me and I looked up. His arm bowed in. It had to have broken his arm. It had to have. And I picked it up and I’m just in total disbelief. If that would’ve hit that little girl, she would be dead. If that would’ve hit that old man, he would probably be dead. Charles Patrick: “Yeah, a brick in the head can kill somebody.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I don’t know how far away it came from, but for it to do that kind of damage to that man’s arm, and that’s just in our one little spot. I don’t know, you could hear. Charles Patrick: “Like different areas, they were still popping off, right?” Eyewitness: “You could hear people screaming. You could hear people crying. You could hear babies. When I say babies, I mean anybody under the age of 10. To me that’s a baby. People were running. And we were, the people in the restaurant I was in, we weren’t the only ones in town. You know what I mean? We were all trying to get out. We didn’t know what these people were doing, why they were doing it. I had not, the hotel I was staying in, or I say hotel, it didn’t have television or Internet connection, so.” Charles Patrick: “You was in the sticks.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I was. I was on a horse ranch, but I had no idea that anything like this was coming and I don’t think a lot of the people there did. Otherwise, none of us would’ve been there because we were trying to leave and it looked like these people were trying to push us out. I mean they came in like a swarm of bees.” Charles Patrick: “So they didn’t know if you all were for or against anything. They was just coming in to make stuff happen.” Eyewitness: “They didn’t ask any questions. They didn’t talk to anybody. They come running full force. Charles Patrick: “Off the buses, black and white. Now the black and white, they got off the bus. Now, I understand what you say they had on, the gear, but was it Antifa, was it Black Lives Matter, was it KKK? Who were they? I mean, who do you think they were?” Eyewitness: “Um, I don’t know the emblems of very many hate groups. I know the emblem of the KKK, which obviously is a hate group. I mean you know that. Everybody would know that. The Confederate flag, everybody recognizes that. BLM, everybody recognizes that.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. Are you telling me people with Black Lives Matters shirts got off the same bus as people with confederate flag shirts?” Eyewitness: “And KKK emblems, Nazi emblems.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. All of them got off the same damn type of bus?” Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “Please believe me people. I am not taking up for KKK. I’m not taking up for Black Lives Matter. I am not taking up for any groups, but I’m highly doubting if any of these people were with any of those groups. These people were hired to come out there and start some crap. Believe me now. Y’all done heard me put out videos about Black Lives Matter. You done heard me put out videos about KKK. I’m not a fan of either one, but the people that were on these buses, I do not believe were part of any of those groups because they were paid to do this. Tell me what happened with the guy in the Dodge Challenger, the murderer.” Eyewitness: “Okay, so the alley we go out into has cars parked on both sides of the alley. And there was one car pulled up at the end of the alley in between, on both sides, so it makes like a U-shape. And some of the people have their cars parked in that alley. So people were, people from the restaurant and from the very nearby area that could get there were jumping in cars to avoid getting beaten or hit. You know, just to be safe. We see this car pull up and one of the ladies that was in the restaurant just tapped on the window and says, ‘Sir, you can’t go down there.’ And he rolls down his window and says, ‘I’ll get through.’ And then he just nails it. Charles, I don’t need anybody to believe what I’m saying, but I was there and I heard this man and we were all around his car. We knew what was gonna happen if he pressed on that gas pedal.” Charles Patrick: “Did anybody hit his car, beat on his car, or do anything to cause him to hit the gas?” Eyewitness: “If you count that woman tapping on his window because we thought he was with us. We had seen this guy previously in the week. He wasn’t in the restaurant that day.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. You’ve seen him during the week?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, it was the same people, you know, all during the week. You know you see a few different faces here and there, but like you said earlier, it was like going to your favorite bar. It was the same people and every now and then you would get a visitor. And so their face draws attention because they’re not a regular, which I guess is what I was at the beginning too.” She tapped on the window and said, ‘Sir you cannot get through there.’ But he said, ‘I can get through.’” Charles Patrick: “So he hit the gas and went right into the crowd?” Eyewitness: “Yeah. We all ran, started running up to, you know from the back we really couldn’t see what kind of damage he had done, but when he backed up, he got almost everybody that was in the restaurant, he hit and you know either their foot, their arms, and I’m not going to lie, I saw one lady, she just slapped the side of his car while he was backing up and threw herself on the ground. I thought that was odd with everything that was going on.” Charles Patrick: “Hold on. So he went forward, hit the car, stopped, and backed up. Were people around his car? We’ve seen the video. Everybody has seen this video. And apparently, you were there.” Eyewitness: “I haven’t seen the video. I don’t need to watch videos.” Charles Patrick: “You don’t need to see the video, but we, the people that I’m talking to out there, they’ve seen the video. So, once he hit the car and backed up, on the back up, he hit more people. Correct? Did you see him hit more people?” Eyewitness: “A lot more people.” Charles Patrick: “The young lady who got killed in the situation, you had seen her conversing with other people during the week before, correct? Eyewitness: “Yeah, she was in the restaurant like, I want to say like at least three days. I didn’t speak with her one on one, but I was at a table who was speaking with her table. And we were at a table together one day. And everybody was just talking about their opinions on why they voted the way they did and she gave her opinions on why she wanted it (the statues) left up. One of the days, she was having lunch with a black man and a black woman and they were very civil to each other. They were giving their opinion and she was giving hers. They were kind of exchanging, I guess, opinions. She wasn’t, from the conversations that I heard, she wasn’t affiliated with any white supremacist group, but she was proud to be white. She seemed like a really sweet lady.” Charles Patrick: “And the people that she talked to, the black people she talked to, were they having like mean conversations or just, you know, conversations?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, it was just like we’re talking right now. It was just, I don’t know, a regular conversation. I mean, I don’t know that my regular is the same as everybody else’s regular, but no one got out of character. She was not involved in any of the protesting or anything. She was trying to leave. This, there were some people there that they were holding some kind of signs. I want to say maybe on Wednesday or Thursday, but they were shaking peoples hands when they were walking by. You could see people laughing with them. I mean I never walked that far down, but you could see them having conversations with kids. They were taking selfies and stuff like that. You know, so, to me, it didn’t catch my attention because it wasn’t aggressive. They weren’t chanting or screaming at anybody and they were shaking hands and talking to black and white folks.” Charles Patrick: “The woman who got killed wanted the monuments to stay up, correct?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, from the conversations I heard, I overheard her say a couple of times that she did want the statues to stay up.” Charles Patrick: “You saw her speaking at the table with a black man and black woman, and they spoke and were cordial Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “Last, but not least, tell us about the incident with the police.” Eyewitness: “Well, this part was probably the hardest part for me to digest. I have a lot of family members involved in the military, in the police department, in the fire department, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them, but when we were trying to leave, it wasn’t just the people from the bus that were keeping us trapped. The police were lined up and would not let us get to safety. They would not let us out of the crowd. It was like being corralled, or it was like being corralled, like being circled.” Charles Patrick: “So the police would not let you leave the area?” Eyewitness: “No. And they knew we were black and white and we were not in riot gear and we had no weapons in our hands. We had kids with us. We had old people.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. The police would not let the kids leave?” Eyewitness: “No. No, they were standing side-by-side and holding us in place. We were getting more and more cramped and smashed and punched and pushed and kicked.” Charles Patrick: “The kids were there?” Eyewitness: “Kids were there.” Charles Patrick: “How were the police holding back people with kids?” Eyewitness: “They were not making eye contact with any of us. It was like they were seeing right through us because I turned around and I looked at two of the officers right behind me and I said, ‘Please, just let us out. We’ve got babies with us.’ I mean they stared right through us. And on the other side these people, I don’t know if they wanted us dead. I don’t know if they just wanted, I don’t have an answer. I don’t know how to explain what I saw. I’ve never, I’ve seen a lot of bad things in my life, but I’ve never seen people just have no regard for anybody’s life, nobody’s life. It didn’t matter whether you were young, old, black, white, tall, thin, Zero. Nothing mattered.” Charles Patrick: “So you’re saying the police kept people in harm’s way instead of trying to get them out?” Eyewitness: “Charles, please, it was those police that were there that day. Charles Patrick: “Come on now. I don’t have a problem with the police.” Eyewitness: “Charles, that’s what I’m saying, none of that made sense because you didn’t know who the good guys were and no one was willing to help.” Charles Patrick: “How do you know the police could see the kids?” Eyewitness: “There were two women who were locked arms with me and the grandpa I was telling you about and the other man behind me. There were two women holding their babies. I don’t mean babies like in diapers. I mean babies like one girl was probably five or six and another one was probably about seven or eight. And then the little granddaughter she was seven. That’s three kids right there. And we were all face to face, well, face to shield, with these cops. And they wouldn’t let us by. Charles Patrick: “And they wouldn’t let you by?” Eyewitness: “They wouldn’t let us by. One of the guys that was in the restaurant with us, I guess he was a cook or something, He managed, I want to say maybe 20 feet down from where I was at, he managed to crack a hole because there was like one of those silver guard, you know, rail like things that you know kind of makes you form a line. He managed to break through one of those. And he locked arms with the guy next to the grandpa and the grandpa was locked arms with the rest of us and we just all filed out real quick.” Charles Patrick: “I’m sorry you went through all that craziness.” Summary of Facts: This woman’s testimony confirms other recent facts uncovered about these events. In my previous post, I shared the truth about Jason Kessler, the man who organized the white supremacist group called Unite the Right. His background shows he is neither a white supremacist nor a right-wing conservative. Instead, he is a loyal Obama supporter who suddenly decided to become a white supremacist after Donald Trump won the 2016 election. White supremacists don’t support African American politicians and right-wing conservatives don’t support Barack Obama. Jason Kessler also participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which supports anarchy, not fascism, as Unite the Right pretends to support. In addition, Jason Kessler describes himself as a “professional provocateur”, which is nothing more than a paid thug, and supports the likelihood that the rest of his fraudulent organization are also paid thugs. For more details, see my previous post. Her testimony also supports the recent confession from a Charlottesville police officer who said the police were ordered to stand down, to allow the violence to continue. However, her testimony reveals it was worse than that because they trapped people in harm’s way, helping the attackers inflict more harm while ignoring the cries of victims standing right in front of them. These police officers cannot just pass the blame to their superior officers who ordered them to stand down because each of them betrayed the people they have sworn to protect. They should have ignored their orders and exposed whoever gave them. Every officer should be held accountable for their acts of betrayal. Next, her testimony reveals the people of Charlottesville voted overwhelmingly, 80% to 20%, to keep their statues, but the city council overturned the will of the people and ordered them to be taken down, which confirms something foul was in the works. It appears the city council was ordered to stand down in the same way as the police department. Someone was pulling all the right strings to set up a national stage for phony protesters to ignite violence. Like the police, the Charlottesville city council members betrayed the people they are supposed to be serving. They too must be held accountable and expose whoever was behind their bizarre ruling. Her testimony reveals the town was peaceful and quiet until six chartered buses showed up back to back and unloaded violent attackers equipped with helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, shields, and many harmful objects, which they threw at people. These were not protestors, but assassins. Their assaults on innocent people show they were not there to support any cause, but to incite violence and racism under the guise of BLM and KKK. They were not true members of BLM and KKK, but paid thugs. Next, her testimony reveals the people who carried out this staged event have no regard for human life whatsoever. The mainstream news media focused on the fact that a driver ran over people, killing one and injuring nineteen others, but her testimony reveals others were also injured by thrown objects. Neither the attackers nor the police officers showed any regard for the fact that the victims were defenseless, unarmed women, children, and elderly people. These thugs and the criminals who hired them are far more evil than the hate groups they attempted to vilify. They are ruthless killers, enemies from within, seeking our demise, and they must be stopped. At every turn, they made bush league mistakes, exposing their fraudulent scheme. By bringing in six bus-loads of attackers on back to back chartered buses, then dropping them off in a public place where many witnesses saw them immediately assaulting people, they revealed they all came from the same place. By putting BLM and KKK people on the same buses, they revealed none of them were true members of those organizations. By immediately assaulting innocent people, they revealed their true purpose for being there had nothing to do with advancing the causes of those organizations. They were there only to incite violence. By ordering the police to stand down and even trap people in harm’s way, they revealed this scheme involves top government officials. These criminals are either incredibly dumb or so brazen, they think they can do whatever they want and get away with it, as if they’re above the law and believe no one is able to stop them. Despite all their mistakes, their plan seems to have succeeded so far, thanks to the full backing of the mainstream news media, but this new evidence can help turn the tables if anyone in the news media is willing to take a stand for righteousness. This woman’s testimony contradicts the mainstream news media reports by showing the attackers were all on the same team and the victims were all innocent bystanders, which shows this issue never was about race or statues, just a sinister scheme to divide the American people against each other. Let’s not take their bate by taking sides, but join together as one people, determined to take back our nation. Now that we have these facts, we must pursue the people who orchestrated these events. They should not be hard to find because someone hired at least six chartered buses, which means there is a record showing who it was. There are only so many chartered bus services with dark grey buses servicing the Virginia area. Someone also ordered the police to stand down, and only a small number of people have that authority. All participants must be confronted and held accountable. We not only have evidence, we have suspects. President Obama’s Organizing for Action (OFA) has been actively recruiting, training, and organizing dissidents to start hostile confrontations in town hall meetings across the nation, and paying college students to start fires on college campuses. This is an unprecedented revolution against our current president. OFA is reported to have recruited over 30,000 members and set up over 250 offices across the nation. They are well organized and well funded, backed by billionaire George Soros. And they have a clear agenda to derail President Trump’s administration and to destroy the faith and values upon which our nation was founded, which makes them prime suspects. My prayer is that God will continue to shine the light on these dark schemes, exposing the killers, the organizers, the financiers, and the fake news organizations who are purposely misleading the American people. I pray God would raise up people to investigate these events further, so we can connect the dots, and hold these people accountable for their horrendous crimes. May God help us all do our part to stop this assignment against our nation. Author: James Bailey James Bailey is an author, business owner, husband and father of two children. His vision is to broadcast the good news of Jesus Christ through blog sites and other media outlets. © 2017, Z3 News. 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Killer robots: Experts warn of 'third revolution in warfare'
21 August 2017
More than 100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of "killer robots". In a letter to the organisation, artificial intelligence (AI) leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, warn of "a third revolution in warfare". The letter says "lethal autonomous" technology is a "Pandora's box", adding that time is of the essence. The 116 experts are calling for a ban on the use of AI in managing weaponry. "Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend," the letter says. "These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," it adds. There is an urgent tone to the message from the technology leaders, who warn that "we do not have long to act". "Once this Pandora's box is opened, it will be hard to close." Warning against AI arms race Soldiers that never sleep AI fighter pilot wins in combat Experts are calling for what they describe as "morally wrong" technology to be added to the list of weapons banned under the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Along with Tesla co-founder and chief executive Mr Musk, the technology leaders include Mustafa Suleyman, Google's DeepMind co-founder. A UN group focusing on autonomous weaponry was scheduled to meet on Monday but the meeting has been postponed until November, according to the group's website. A potential ban on the development of "killer robot" technology has previously been discussed by UN committees. In 2015, more than 1,000 tech experts, scientists and researchers wrote a letter warning about the dangers of autonomous weaponry. Among the signatories of the 2015 letter were scientist Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Mr Musk. What is a 'killer robot'? A killer robot is a fully autonomous weapon that can select and engage targets without human intervention. They do not currently exist but advances in technology are bringing them closer to reality. Those in favour of killer robots believe the current laws of war may be sufficient to address any problems that might emerge if they are ever deployed, arguing that a moratorium, not an outright ban, should be called if this is not the case. However, those who oppose their use believe they are a threat to humanity and any autonomous "kill functions" should be banned.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40995835
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The Deep State’s 3 Stage Revolution Against the People
Most people in this country fail to recognize where they are at with regard to history. The majority do not see that we are already in a state of rebellion, a civil war, if you will. However, most people if they heard these words would believe that it was the average American that will be involved in a civil war, and they would be wrong! Today, the rebellion has to do with the Deep State and their minons rebelling against the legitimate authority, namely, the US government and its people. It is the George Soros’ who are in a state of rebellion. There are 3 stages associated with a rebellion. Stage One of the Revolution The first stage of a revolution, is a war of ideas and a campaign for the truth. Certainly, fake news is at the center of this. The Russian collusion delusion also fits into his paradigm. Stage one is about the control of the narrative. Where I see the enemy at the gate, most of my friends and neighbors are sleeping through the unfolding attack. We are in a war of words and if we fail to use our words to awaken all of humanity, we are hopelessly lost and the globalists will carve us up for dinner. There is indeed strength in numbers and if we are unable to wake up our fellow countrymen, we will negate the only true tactical advantage that the people enjoy, which is ideological solidarity from a numerically superior force. It should now make sense to you as to why 98% of the media is controlled by globalist controlled business interests consisting of five mega corporations, who in turn are controlled one way or another, by the members of the Federal Reserve. In order to win this fight, we need more people speaking out, making videos and calling MSM talk shows. We especially need to reach the police and the military in order to remind them of their constitutional duty to protect the people against a tyrannical government, but this is not what we are seeing. Our counter to the control of the MSM, is to exclusively support the alternative media. If the Deep State is successful in taking down the alternative media, then it will become necessary to enact a type of Committees of Correspondence apparatus similar to what our Founding Fathers did in the pre-Revolutionary War period in our history. On the ground communication is timeless, effective and very difficult for a totalitarian government to negate. THE PEOPLE CANNOT WIN AGAINST A GLOBALIST REVOLUTION BECAUSE THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA HAS NOT CONVINCED THE MASSES AS TO THE THREAT WE ARE LIVING UNDER. THIS IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE JOSEPH STALIN PLAYBOOK OF PREVENTING THE OPPOSITION FROM BUILDING AN OPPOSING IDEOLOGICAL BASE WHICH IS A PREREQUISITE TO ANY SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION. IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO DO SO! Stage Two of the Revolution Stage two of a revolution consists of civil disobedience. WE ARE SEEING STAGE ONE GLOBALIST TACTICS BLEED OVER INTO THIS STAGE EVEN BEFORE THE COUP TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP IS COMPLETE. This stage has to do with george Soros and paid pretessters. This is about a contrived racially motivated civil war. America has gone from a Republic to a police state in less than a generation. The evidence for this transformation is as follows and it has been a long time coming: 1. The passage of the John Warner Defense bill removed all the firewalls between the people and subjugation by federally controlled troops. A scant few spoke out and nobody resisted. 2. The passage of the NDAA, eliminated all due process as it permitted the administration to arrest and indefinitely detain any American without due process. This is what makes the Jade Helm political “Red List” extractions legal and subsequent population relocation legal. A scant few spoke out and nobody resisted. 3. Obama’s declaration, through Executive Order 13603, proclaiming the authority seize control over any and all assets in the country and to invoke slave labor at Obama’s whim. A scant few spoke out and nobody resisted. This is the blueprint for the total takeover of the US should the globalists ver recapture the White House. 4. Obama’s announced intention to seize all “military grade weapons”. Obama’s definition of a military style weapon is anything that can shoot a bullet. You will soon be reading that all newly produced firearms have a microchip in them so they can be tracked. Any totalitarian regime can cut the legs out of a revolution by disarming the people. When the American people are under the control of Jade Helm, I predict that gun confiscations will begin through Executive Order. A scant few will speak out and nobody will resist. No matter what gun control laws that the Deep State brings to the American people, the people need to disobey as civil disobedience is our best friend. However, passive disobedience is our VERY best friend. Most readers already know what happens when a civilian population surrenders its guns. If your knowledge of history is shaky, take a look at Pol Pot, Rwanda, Hitler, Stalin and Mao. The University of Hawaii tells us that that over 260 million people were killed by their governments in the 20th century and this was accomplished after gun confiscation. Any nation that gives up its guns, has sealed its fate. When, not if, but when the Deep State comes for our guns, all of us have a constitutional duty to disobey these unlawful policies. And even if we manage to hang on to our guns, it is easy to predict the next move as Stalin invoked the practice of creating food shortages. You can count on this happening. Stage Three: All Out War A successful revolution cannot simply jump to stage three without having progressed through the first two stages and this is the strategy of the globalists as they are dragging the people to the battlefield of their choice. When Stalin’s forces were dragging a third of the Russians out of their homes, it was too late for the Russians to fight back because the ideological base of resistance, and a sense of collective action, through civil disobedience, had not been built. THIS WAS THE STALINIST OBJECTIVE OF JADE HELM. The Russian people were defeated by Stalin because they did not win stage one of the revolution. We desperately need to heed this lesson from history and embark on a tireless crusade to wake up our country as to the dangers that lie ahead. And even if the people are sufficiently awakened, it does not guarantee victory of any kind unless of course, the bravado crowd has stored directed energy weapons in their basements. Therefore, it is the duty of every awake American to educate their neighbors, family and friends, whether they want to hear the truth or not. Remember, any kind resistance to tyranny will not succeed unless there is an attitude of defiance towards the tyranny. Tyrants require minions to carry out their tyranny. Education about the present tyranny can lessen the size of the potential minion pool. Again, this is accomplished in stage one and we are almost out of time. People frequently ask me if I think we can mount an effective resistance and I respond that the odds are really against the people. This fact should not keep people from resisting with every fiber of their being. Further, resistance can evolve into adaptation and this could save the lives of your family. Conclusion Stage one is about regaining control of the White House with a globalist President. This is why trump faces, either assassination or impeachment on fake charges. The newest allegations that Trump is a racist is a part of this plot against the people. Stage one is nearly complete. Stage two is underway and our Constitution and the people, as a whole are under atack. When Trump is out of the way, stages two and three will commence with a vengeance. If one wonders why I fight so hard against tyranny, you have learned the reasons. Mike Pence is a globalist. He will make an excellent transition President. In the meantime, are you prepared so you and your family can adapt?
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/08/24/the-deep-states-3-stage-revolution-against-the-people/
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Charlottesville: United Nations warns US over 'alarming' racism
US urged to ‘unequivocally and unconditionally’ reject discrimination
Trump remarks ‘scary and disturbing’ – former spy chief James Clapper
Haroon Siddique and Oliver Laughland Wednesday 23 August 2017 08.00 EDT Last modified on Friday 25 August 2017 07.04 EDT
A UN committee charged with tackling racism has issued an “early warning” over conditions in the US and urged the Trump administration to “unequivocally and unconditionally” reject discrimination. The warning specifically refers to events last week in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed when a car rammed into a group of people protesting against a white nationalist rally. Such statements are usually issued by the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd) over fears of ethnic or religious conflict. In the past decade, the only other countries issued with early warnings have been Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. The United States has been warned under the procedure in the past when Cerd raised the issue of land rights conflicts with the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples in 2006. “We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” said Anastasia Crickley, chair of the committee. Quick Guide What happened at the Charlottesville protests? Donald Trump faced widespread criticism after he blamed “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville. Although the Cerd statement did not refer to him by name, it called on “the government of the United States of America, as well as high-level politicians and public officials, to unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country”. Crickley also urged the US authorities “to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations”. Lecia Brooks, director of outreach for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group, said the UN’s early warning underlined the need for American leaders to “clearly and unconditionally condemn hatred and bigotry”. “It is a sad day when the president of the United States has so thoroughly failed to denounce white supremacism that UN experts must warn the US about the dangers of racism,” Brooks said. “Unfortunately, Trump’s racist and xenophobic campaign, and his lukewarm condemnation of white supremacists, has heightened racial tensions in America to the point that it’s raising alarms in the global community.” Sherine Tadros, Amnesty International’s UN representative, welcomed the UN’s move. “It is significant that the UN is speaking out publicly against the actions of the new US administration, which it so far has been reluctant to do,” Tadros said. Jasmine Tyler, US program advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, urged the White House to heed the UN warning. “As a black woman raising a black son, and a human rights advocate, I can hardly believe the times we’re living in,” Tyler said. “The Trump administration should take the Cerd’s early warning very seriously and rescind its decision to eviscerate the mandates and budgets of US civil rights institutions; end its attempt to exclude white nationalism from the federal government’s Countering Violent Extremism programs; and end immigration and refugee policies based on anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant sentiment.” The warning was issued on 18 August but came to light on Wednesday, the day after protests outside a rally by the president in Phoenix, Arizona. Trump used Tuesday’s event to portray himself as the victim of events in Charlottesville, branding journalists who “do not like our country” as the true source of division in America. He also accused the “crooked media” of “trying to take away our history and our heritage” and read out previous statements that he said condemned hatred, bigotry and violence. And he complained that the media had not given him enough credit for condemning hate groups. “I said everything,” the president said. “I hit them with neo-Nazi. I hit them with everything. I got the white supremacists, the neo-Nazi. I got them all in there, let’s say. KKK, we have KKK. I got them all.” The former director of national intelligence James Clapper later described Trump’s remarks as “downright scary and disturbing”. The former spy chief, who served under Democratic and Republican presidents, also called into question Trump’s fitness to serve. “How much longer does the country have to, to borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare?” Clapper said on CNN. Following Clapper’s remarks, the former British ambassador to the US, Peter Westmacott, compared Tuesday’s rally to Nazi Germany. “Shades of 1933 Germany,” Westmacott tweeted, claiming Trump’s speech was “an invitation to autocrats” in countries without the US’s system of checks and balances “to play the same game more dangerously”. Immediately after the rally, police said they used pepper spray to disperse protesters outside the rally – who numbered in their thousands, according to Arizona media – after being pelted with rocks and bottles. The Phoenix police chief, Jeri Williams, told reporters that four people had been arrested, including three on assault charges. In February, the SPLC said the number of hate groups in the US had risen for a second consecutive year and that “the radical right was energised by the candidacy of Donald Trump”. Until last week, his chief White House strategist was Steve Bannon, a rightwing ideologue and former editor of Breitbart, which Bannon called “a platform for the alt-right”. Bannon has returned to Breitbart News as executive chairman. In its statement, Cerd also called on the US to ensure that the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly are not exercised with the aim of destroying or denying the rights and freedoms of others, ensuring “such rights are not misused to promote racist hate speech and racist crimes”. The committee monitors compliance with the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, which the US ratified in 1994.
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US Navy suspends search; here are the 10 missing sailors from USS John S. McCain collision
The body found by the Royal Malaysian Navy earlier this week was not a US Navy sailor, the Navy said.
by Melissa Leon · August 24, 2017
The search and rescue efforts for the 10 missing U.S. Navy sailors from the USS John S. McCain have been suspended after more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet announced early Thursday. The sailors went missing after the Navy destroyer collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker on August 21. The divers recovered the remains of one sailor, who were confirmed to be: Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, from New Jersey. Those sailors still missing are: Electronics Technician 1st Class Charles Nathan Findley, 31, from Missouri; Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class Abraham Lopez, 39, from Texas; Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kevin Sayer Bushell, 26, from Maryland; Electronics Technician 2nd Class Jacob Daniel Drake, 21, from Ohio; Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Timothy Thomas Eckels Jr., 23, from Maryland; Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Corey George Ingram, 28, from New York; Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dustin Louis Doyon, 26, from Connecticut; Electronics Technician 3rd Class John Henry Hoagland III, 20, from Texas; and, Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Logan Stephen Palmer, 23, from Illinois. The Navy said divers will continue the search and recovery efforts for remains of the missing sailors, inside the flooded compartments of the ship.
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Mysterious North Korean Calendar Counts Down To Sunday, August 27th In Latest Nuclear War Threat Video That Puts President Trump In A Cemetery
August 23, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In the huge, bright red Drudge Report headline from Tuesday August 22nd linking to this story from Fox News we see that North Korea's latest propaganda has put President Trump in a cemetery as seen in the 1st video directly below. While the 2nd Drudge headline seen via screenshot below shares that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently praised North Korea's 'restraint', as we also see in this 1st video, overlooked by the Fox News story, what appears to be a 'countdown calendar' appears at the end of the video, counting down to Sunday, August 27th, which is mysteriously highlighted. Has North Korea sent a message to their people of impending nuclear war? First, the video is directly below with much more below it on the unfolding situation in North Korea and the latest bizarre episode involving a US Navy ship that has led to China claiming the US Navy is a 'hazard' to shipping in the region. The 'countdown calendar' in this obvious N Korean military propaganda video appears at the 3 minute 37 second mark. A secret message to the people of North Korea and others paying attention? In this brand new story from the Washington Post (via archive.is), they report China is now demanding that the US immediately withdraw North Korean sanctions, warning that if we continue to hold sanctions against them, such punitive measures would damage relationships between the US and China. Just the latest report suggesting that hostilities could still break out, China's Foreign Ministry seemed to imply that the US was to blame for what we're now witnessing there, with a devastating global war still only one mistake or accident away.: “China especially opposes any country conducting ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ over Chinese entities and individuals,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a routine news conference. “Measures taken by the United States are not helpful in solving the problem and unhelpful to mutual trust and cooperation. We ask the United States to stop the relevant wrong practices immediately.” With North Korea's latest propaganda piece putting President Trump in the cemetery as was seen in the video above and screenshot below, how long can events continue this way without something very bad eventually happening? As we've warned time and again on ANP, any war with North Korea could be one of the most devastating that anyone living now has seen in their lifetimes with the head of the Department of Defense in the US, General James 'Maddog' Mattis claiming an outright catastrophe awaits. "My portfolio, my mission, my responsibility is to have military options if you need it,” Mattis responded. "However, right now, Secretary Tillerson, Ambassador Haley, you can see the American effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results. And I want to stay right there right now. The tragedy of war is well enough known. It does not need another characterization beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic." While we're beyond grateful that President Trump has yet to pull the trigger on a war with North Korea that could quickly come home to US soil in the most devastating fashion, as Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has warned, how does America survive a nuclear armed terror state? While the 'countdown calendar' seen above may be absolutely nothing, as the LA Times reports, US military drills that recently kicked off on the Korean peninsula with ally South Korea once again have Kim Jong Un and North Korea on edge and as we read in this new story over at the Express, for the umpteenth time, NKorea has warned the USA to prepare for “uncontrollable nuclear war” and a “merciless strike” as the crisis on the peninsula reaches fever pitch. As we hear in the next video below, NKorea is now claiming they are ready to strike unless the US starts acting sensibly. While North Korea is a huge headache, as we read in this new story over at The Week, China is now claiming that the US Navy is 'arrogant' after the collision of the USS John McCain, the 2nd US Navy ship collision in months and as we read in this new story from The Next Web, the 4th collision involving a US Navy ship this year. As Steve Quayle stated in an SQnote while linking to this story from American Military News about the collision, 'John Son of Cain' will be exposed shortly - will have to change the name of this ship! 'Prophetic event!' The Next Web story also brings up this very bothersome possibility, these collisions could somehow have been triggered by cyber hacking as also heard in the 2nd video below. While PBS recently asked if these repeated collisions suggest there is a systematic problem, as Fox News reported yesterday, the US Navy denies that 'cyber sabotage' played any role in the collisions. With our military decimated after 8 years of the Obama administration, which pushed gender equality and 'trans surgeries' over military readiness, we pray that we're able to reverse course under President Trump in the years ahead. And while North Korea may pose a 'clear and present danger' according to 'Maddog' Mattis, we hope that Kim Jong Un will clearly understand the consequences of his actions should he decide to unleash an EMP over Japan, South Korea or NY City. While such actions taken by Kim would lead to the end of his country after President Trump and 'Maddog' unleashed a debilitating barrage upon him, here in the US we'd be 'back to the dark ages', back to a time when news was delivered on horseback. As long as Kim has nuclear weapons capable of delivering an EMP, the clock is still ticking on that front as heard in the final video below.
http://allnewspipeline.com/North_Korea_Countdown_Clock_Calendar.php
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Is This An Overlooked 'End Times Sign'? Experts Warn This 'Modern Day Psychological Disorder' Is Exploding Across America: Digital Addiction And The 'Zombie Generation'
By MT Taylor - All News Pipeline August 24, 2017
When today’s kids don’t blink, are they just zoned out or are they mesmerized by mind-numbing games and addictive media? In other words, are they being zombified? Look around and see the busy fingers and mindless stares of pre-teens and teens of this generation--those who would rather look at an electronic screen than make eye contact with humans, even their own families. These kids are always looking down, since they get their kicks from hand-held games, phone apps and action videos. At home, social interaction is stymied by supersize TV screens that feature inane game shows, plotless movies and mind-deadening comedies with canned laughter. But due to social isolation imposed by their media addiction, the more sensitive kids may suffer from anxiety attacks. Some have begun to look to those same media sources to help them bug out from their own thoughts and minds. The result is a market glutted with gadgets and electronic devices promising to give stressed-out and loner kids time out from reality. Recently a teenager searching for distractions to help with his anxiety contacted a post site called ShouldIbuythisgame. “I’m looking for something repetitive, rewarding and mindless so I can decompress,” he wrote. “I just need something to really dull my brain right now.” Laurie Holman, in a blog for Huffpost about media-stressed youth, called children and teens truly fixated on digital games and gizmos “a different kind of kid.” “Those who get mesmerized by action videos and TV can watch shows for hours, tied to the screen,” she observed. “They tend to use the screen shows to avoid and procrastinate when they have work to do. It’s hard to get them to stop. But at the same time, this intense watching may relax them if their anxiety is high.” The latest hullabaloo is about a new hand-held gadget that could help kids with anxiety called the Fidget Spinner. Hyped as the season’s hottest toy for every kid, it is also marketed as a way to alleviate hyperactivity, anxiety and autism. Kids like it because when the ball bearings in the toy start to spin, the momentum of three whirling discs gives them a pleasant sensory experience that is calming. According to a recent Associated Press article, the popularity of Spinners already has caused a stir in Russia, where there has been an aggressive promotion of the imported toys among children and teens. The article reported that Russia’s consumer protection agency, fearing that the toys might be an attempt to “zombify” people, has recently gotten into the act, announcing that it would investigate the addictive nature of the spinners. Parents themselves may be dizzily wondering where all this technology came from and how their kids came to be captivated by it. Suddenly they are pondering where they they fit into the picture, other than digging into their pockets to pay for all the new digital devices kids are hooked on. Even Christian parents see a widening gap between the generations as their offspring cave in to the allure of communication and non-communication via Facebook, texting, video games. While they may not have degrees in brain development or child psychology, most parents intuitively know that reading books encourage kids’ brains to be focused and imaginative, while browsing the Internet only encourages scanning information quickly. Worried parents would do well to look to the wisdom of King Solomon who reminds them of the influence they have in shaping their children’s lives, especially for pre-schoolers. In these early years parents still have the power to dictate the child’s relationship with technology and how frequently it should be used. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 The problem, counselors and psychiatrists point out, is that many parents are opting out of the training portion of the biblical mandate. Abandoning their roles as adult mentors, teachers and disciplinarians, they choose instead to be their children’s friends and play partners. At the same time, when playtime gets too demanding, stressed parents tend to resort to an always available default parent: the family television set. Left to their own devices in front of the TV, children eager for play and social interaction may find temporary relief by watching and imitating on-screen playmates. Thus begins the captivation of a whole generation that depends on electronic media for entertainment and stimulation. As these kids grow older, parents are cautioned to watch for signs that they are becoming “digital zombies” who use technology and social media to the point that they substitute a false reality for the natural need for personal relationships. A Wikipedia site details some telltale indicators: difficulty looking people in the eye, carrying on healthy conversations and acting unaware of life happening around them. “They may have limited people skills in the real world, even displaying signs of early onset dementia,” the site warns. WebMD has gone so far as to call kids’ addiction to media and compulsive gaming as a “modern-day psychological disorder” that is becoming more and more widespread. The website described an addiction treatment center in the Netherlands where teenagers begin detox by admitting they are powerless over their addiction. Dr. Douglas Gentile, considered a leading expert on adolescent media addiction, notes that there isn’t yet a good medical model for diagnosing the disorder, but he believes it can be measured like other psychological conditions. So if doctors note symptoms like dependence and withdrawal, a loss of control and harm to social or academic pursuits, treatment can follow a similar path to that of similar addictions. Looking far into the future, the apostle Paul wrote about the days when a zombie-like generation would grow up to be self-absorbed, without natural affection and contemptuous of parents. He warned of “terrible times” in the last days: “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.” II Timothy 4:2-4 A church youth pastor teaching on this scripture noted that these end-time youth, used to having what they want, will have a hard time controlling their desires and appetites. “This passage is telling us that most of all, in the last days, young people will live for pleasure,” he said. “All they can think about is having fun and being entertained. If life isn’t full of thrills and excitement, they are bored, and will put themselves into dangerous situations just for the thrill of it.” Looking around at youth today and considering the dark side of their captivation with digital media, we may wonder if we are getting close to the generation Paul describes. In fact, are we already there? Actually, the growth of technology causing rapid changes in our culture was a topic addressed by Jesus thousands of years ago when he spoke to his disciples about signs of the end of the age. In Mark 13 he also prophesied about a time when children would rebel against their parents, even to the point of death. His message ultimately was that God is Sovereign, giving warning to a future generation of the growth of knowledge and science yet to come. His Word promises he has everything under control, even to saving children who are seemingly captivated and bound by today’s booming culture and rapid-fire advances in technology. “Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives rescued from the fierce? Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.” Isaiah 49: 24,25
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What Netanyahu hoped to gain from meeting with Putin
Netanyahu meets with Putin, expresses concern over Iran's role in Syria
Netanyahu to warn Putin not to cross red lines
By Herb Keinon August 24, 2017 10:50
The Israeli leader is standing up to the Russian president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin knows full well that Israel is adamantly opposed to any post-civil war arrangement in Syria that will leave Iranian military forces in place. He doesn’t need Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hop on a plane and disturb his summer holiday on the Black Sea beach resort of Sochi to tell him. So why did Netanyahu go? Because the objective is less to try to convince Putin of Israel’s position, and more to look him in the eyes and tell him squarely what Israel will do if Iran begins to militarily entrench itself in Syria. Israel’s message to Putin, which is the same message that was conveyed to the Americans last week via a blue-ribbon security delegation headed by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, is that Israel will act militarily. Netanyahu wants this to be a factor in Putin’s decision-making process. Because if Israel does act militarily in Syria, the question will be how does Russia respond. Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro pointed out in a Twitter thread on Tuesday something that seems obvious, but is much overlooked. Israel, he wrote, has acted on numerous occasions inside Syria, be it to prevent the transfer of game-changing weapons from Iran to Lebanon, be it in retaliation for rockets or mortar shells that fell either intentionally or inadvertently on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, or be it to keep Iran or Hezbollah away from the border. And while the Russians could have acted to prevent this, they did not. Netanyahu went to Sochi to let Putin know what Israel plans to do in the event that Iran tries to build air bases, a naval port, or permanent army bases inside Syria. It would take action. It would take as precise military action as possible, so as not to endanger any Russian forces in the country, but it will not allow Iran to turn Syria into a base of operation against Israel. Cohen joined Netanyahu in Moscow, but it is unlikely that he presented Putin with any new intelligence information that knocked the Russian leader off his chair. The Russians have pretty good intelligence of their own. But there is nothing like a personal meeting to impress upon one’s interlocutor the gravity of the situation. And, from Israel’s perspective, the situation if Iran fills the vacuum left by retreating Islamic State fighters would be grave. Netanyahu spoke after the meeting to reporters about Iran’s intention of doing to Syria what it did to Lebanon, which is essentially take control of the country through the use of proxies. In Lebanon the proxies are Hezbollah’s, and in Syria it is tens of thousands of Shia militiamen from Iraq, and Pakistan and even Afghanistan, augmented by Iranian soldiers, already on the ground. Israel, Netanyahu is telling Putin and a world preoccupied with other crises, from North Korea to Barcelona, won’t tolerate another Lebanon to its northeast. Netanyahu hopes that knowledge of what Israel will do will impact Russia’s decisions regarding post-war arrangements in Syria. Russia has spent billions of dollars, expended an enormous amount of political capital and even lost a few dozen men trying to keep President Bashar Assad in power. If Israel is drawn into a war in Syria, it would greatly jeopardize the Assad regime. Netanyahu, who has a good, strong working relationship with Putin, wants the Russian leader to ask himself one question as a result of this visit: Is it worth the risk to his massive investment? And the answer to the question will be largely dependent on how credible Putin views Israel’s threat, and whether he believes that Netanyahu would take action against the Iranians in Syria. Netanyahu made the trip to Sochi hoping to impress upon Putin that the threat is very real indeed.
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Liberman and Bennett: Israel must safeguard own security against Iranian presence in Syria
Def. Min. Lieberman and Edu. Min. Bennett say Israel has only itself to rely on regarding Iran's growing power in Syria; former national security advisor Amidror responds to Iran's suspected attempt to create 'a corridor' from Tehran to Mediterranean by saying, 'Israel can do nothing to stop it, but it can draw red lines in Syria and say that if they're crossed, it will retaliate.'
Moran Azulay, Shahar Chai and Alexandra Lukash|Published: 24.08.17 , 17:48
Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman spoke Thursday morning at a conference organized by the Israel Institute of Energy and Environment, assuring Israel will not stand idly by as Iran entrenches its position in Syria. "Iran, via its Revolutionary Guard, is trying to create a new reality in the region with Iranian airforce and naval bases in Syria, with Shiite militias numbering thousands of mercenaries and by manufacturing precise weaponry in Lebanon," he said. "Israel does not intend to resign itself to these attempts and will not act as onlooker from the sidelines." Minister of Education Naftali Bennett also spoke on the matter, saying that "we'll do everything in our power to ensure no Iranians will stand at our borders," he asserted. Bennett also commented on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "At the end of the day, whether we're turning to the US or to Russia, we'll try to harness them but won't rely solely on them," he stated. "Israel reserves the right to defend itself by itself, including against the Iranians near our borders. We're always keeping up-to-date on the processes in play here, it's one of the more vital and sensitive issues on our plate. At the moment, as we speak, Iran is funneling Shiite and Iranian militias into Syria." Bennett wished to send a message to Israeli citizens. "We'll look after ourselves," he promised. "Menachem Begin didn't allow the threat then posed by the reactor in Iraq to build and grow, but acted to nip it in the bud." "We're always together and always alone. That is, we always have partners and allies, we have a political plan of action, but we've never and will never outsource Israeli national security. All options are absolutely on the table." Bennett went on to speak about ISIS, calling it a "tactical problem." "It's a meaningful one, but tactical nonetheless," he said, "and you don't sacrifice a strategic interest of preventing the creation of a Persian empire from Tehran to the Mediterranean to solve a tactical problem." Former Major General Yaakov Amidror, who served as the national security advisor, also spoke about Netanyahu's meeting with Putin and the growing Iranian threat. "Russia is one of the more important forces in determining Syria's fate, making their meeting crucial," he said. Amidror further commented on the Netanyahu-Putin meeting, saying, "Israel has a lot of strength and it needs to decide whether to put it to use. If it does, it should consider the reaction. The talk with Putin is important in order to make the Russians understand exactly what the Israeli interest is and what we plan to do, so they're not caught off-guard." Amidror also weighed in on the land corridor to the Mediterranean Iran is trying to construct by taking over Syria. "That's without a doubt a seismic shift in the Middle East. It may actually be too big for Israel's britches. Israel can do nothing to stop a corridor starting in Tehran, passing through Baghdad and terminating in Damascus, but it can draw red lines in Syria and say that if they're crossed, it will retaliate." Amidror then added Israel should set the aforementioned red line when it comes to Iranian presence in Syria. "We're not asking the Russians for permission," he said, "but we have to make it clear to them where that line passes and should decide whether we act once it's crossed—that is, the point beyond which Israel will forcefully respond to Iranian provocations." "In any event, it's best to keep the Russians in the picture," Amidror continued. "It's been working rather well up until now, at least. According to foreign publications, we've been quite active in Syria with the Russians already present there. It should be very careful and precise, but it needs to be done." "World media has taken Iran's words out of context" In the past few days, Iran has threatened that in a matter of days, it will be capable of producing enriched uranium at a level sufficient for the production of nuclear weapons. According to Dr. Tamar Eilam Gindin , a specialist on Iran from the Shalem Academic College and the Azari Center, the western media distorted the Iranians' true intentions in this case. "The media took what they said out of context," she said. "What they meant was they're loyal to the agreement and have no intention of breaking it, but should the US place the sanctions back on them, within five days they can have the Fordo reactor up and running and reach twenty percent enrichment." "And even that is a long ways off from an actual bomb," he explains, "it's simply their previous pre-agreement ability." "The Iranians want the nuclear agreement maintained," she assures. "The head of the Iranian atomic agency said, 'We were able to reach this agreement with so much effort and won't give it up so easily. But Trump is threatening to place the sanctions back on us. You can't expect that if you threaten us with sanctions we'll stick to our side of the agreement.'"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5007302,00.html
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Trump Inherits The Afghanistan Albatross — And Commits For The Long Term
August 22, 20175:00 AM ET
President Trump inherited it with the presidency and now is putting the albatross that is Afghanistan around his own neck. According to senior U.S. officials, Trump will become the third consecutive commander in chief to authorize a major deployment of American troops. On Monday, he explained his reasoning following months of deliberation — which followed years of skepticism before he launched his political career. "We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan," Trump wrote in 2013. "Their government has zero appreciation. Let's get out!" Trump clung to that view through his election and inauguration as president, until the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, pushed the issue back into the foreground earlier this year by warning Congress that the conflict was in "stalemate" — and calling for a fresh infusion of personnel. That set the stage for a Pentagon recommendation for more troops, one Trump has waited months to endorse — even making a point to invite enlisted service members to the White House to ask their opinions. Ultimately, however, Trump said he concluded that deepening America's nearly 16-year commitment to Afghanistan was the right decision. "My original instinct was to pull out, and historically, I like following my instincts," he said, "but all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office." A senior U.S. official said that Trump plans to deploy about 4,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, which would raise the force there to about 12,500 — numbers the president did not detail in his address. There are thousands more diplomats, aid workers, contractors and other Americans that continue to serve there. Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters traveling with him this week that he would reveal more about the specifics after Trump had made his announcement, but Mattis tried to stress how carefully the government had helped the president reach his decision. "I'm very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and did not go in with a preset condition in terms of what questions could be asked or what decisions would be made," Mattis said. Trump and his political advisers were said to seriously consider simply cutting bait on Afghanistan — pulling out all or nearly all American troops there in recognition of the limits about what is possible for them to achieve. Afghanistan's indigenous forces take heavy casualties as they lose ground against the insurgent Taliban that was once cleared out with American help. The government in Kabul cannot endure without significant U.S. and international support. A collapse — like the one that followed the withdrawal of Russian support after the Soviet Union's disastrous invasion — might have posed new risks that terrorists could use ungoverned spaces within Afghanistan to plot attacks against the United States, as Osama bin Laden did in 2001. U.S. counterterrorism officials say they've done so much damage to al-Qaida and other big extremist groups, as well as stepped up security in so many ways that the odds are slim of another attack on the scale of Sept. 11. All the same, no one can know for sure — which was one reason why Trump accepted the Pentagon's recommendation that he stay the course. "The consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable," he said. The president and his aides were keen to try to present his decision as new in the sense that it encapsulates the whole region — a "South Asian strategy," as opposed to a simple Afghanistan strategy. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson phoned his counterparts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Monday to try to get them on board with a unified approach. "The topic was how the United States would like to work with each country to stabilize South Asia through a new, integrated regional strategy," a spokeswoman said. At the same time, administration officials say they want to turn the screws on Kabul and Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Trump said he wants better progress from the Afghan government in making the best of American aid and more work by Pakistan in going after the safe havens inside its borders used by the Taliban leaders who run their insurgency in Afghanistan. But in both threatening to cut off military aid payments to Pakistan and inviting its archenemy, India, to take a greater role in Afghanistan, Trump is embarking on a course that will require great diplomatic finesse to see results — at a time when the United States does not have an ambassador in Kabul or New Delhi and when many other top State Department posts are unfilled. "Without an accompanying increase in diplomatic resources and foreign assistance, military success in Afghanistan will not be sustainable," warned Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., an Iraq war veteran, in response to Monday night's speech. The main factor that the administration hopes makes a difference is Trump's decision not to place an end date on the U.S. commitment. Critics faulted President Barack Obama for announcing a surge in U.S. troops and the date for their withdrawal in the same speech. That signaled a finite timetable and let insurgents simply wait out the crest in the wave of deployments, as hawks complained. No more, Trump said. "A core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions," he said. "I've said ... many times how counterproductive it is for the United States to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin, or end, military options." So as the 16th anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan approaches in October, the latest change in Washington's approach will have been to drop a notional goal for when it might end.
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The Times of Israel reports: A high level US delegation including senior White House adviser Jared Kushner arrived in Israel late Wednesday, ahead of meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders aimed at looking for way to jumpstart peace talks. The visit by senior White House aide Jared Kushner, who is also US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell comes as Palestinian figures have become more vocal in expressing disappointment in Washington’s unclear approach to peace efforts so far. The American delegation arrived Wednesday night and is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah starting on Thursday. A US diplomatic source told reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday night that Trump wanted discussions “to focus on the transition to substantive… peace talks, the situation in Gaza, including how to ease the humanitarian crisis there, and the economic steps that can be taken.”
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"It is Our Very Existence That is Unbearable to Jihadists"
by Giulio Meotti August 24, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10894/jihadists-europe-spain-finland
The Islamist attacks against Spain, Finland and Germany unmasked the central problem: Pacifism will not protect Europe from either Islamization or terror attacks. Spain and Germany were, in fact, among the most reluctant countries in Europe to take an active role in the anti-ISIS coalition. The Spanish press did not participate in a discussion of the Mohammed cartoons; no Spanish writer was accused of "Islamophobia" and no Spanish personality was put under police protection for "criticizing Islam". It seemed as if Spain were not even interested in what was at stake in Islamist attacks on Europe's very existence. No Spanish city made headlines for having multicultural ghettos, as in France and Britain. The attack in Barcelona should have ended this illusion. Terrorists do not need an excuse to butcher "infidels". The sad conclusion seems to be that that jihadists do not need a "reason" to kill Westerners. They attack equally France, which conducts military operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and countries such as Spain and Germany, which are neutral. In 24 hours, Spain suffered two major terror attacks. A jihadist cell killed 15 people in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils. In the past year, Germany was the other European country hit hard by armed Islamists. First, a jihadist plowed a large truck through a Christmas market in central Berlin and murdered 12 people. Then a man wielding a knife murdered one person during an attack at a supermarket in Hamburg. One day after the carnage in Barcelona, another terror attack took place in Turku, Finland. Two women were murdered in the market square of the country's oldest city. Jihad -- in Finland? The Islamist attacks against Spain, Germany and Finland unmasked the central problem: Pacifism will not protect Europe from either Islamization or terror attacks. Spain and Germany were, in fact, among the most reluctant countries in Europe to take an active role in the anti-ISIS coalition. John Vinocur of the Wall Street Journal recently defined Germany as "a country where the army and air force basically do not fight". And Spanish politicians, since the 2004 train bombings, have not backed U.S. and NATO operations in countries such as Libya and Mali. Spain has been described as a "reluctant partner" in the anti-ISIS coalition. Spain and Germany contribute less than others to NATO's efforts. US President Donald Trump has made clear that the existence of NATO is contingent on members meeting their agreed-upon obligations of spending 2% of GDP on defense. Spain spends less than half of that -- 0.91 percent. Germany does only a little better -- at 1.19 percent. Finland never even joined NATO. The surprise of the Finnish élite over the Turku attack was noted by The Financial Times: "The Nordic country of 5m people does not feature prominently in jihadi invective against the west. Despite Finland's armed forces having occasionally supported Nato missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the country's longstanding nonaligned and peaceable military status has insulated it from most blowback from crises in the Middle East." In 2004, al-Qaeda, for the first time, was able to effect a regime change in Europe after committing terror atrocities on Madrid's trains. Shortly after those bombings, Spain's election turned into a referendum on its involvement in the Iraq War. The Socialist Party's dramatic upset victory was followed by a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. Since then, Spain has been almost non-existent in the international arena. Probably assuming that pacifism shielded it from further attacks, Spain was regarded as "the forgotten front in Europe's ISIS war". The Spanish press was diligently indifferent to any debate on freedom of expression, then, as now, under attack by Islamists in Europe. The Spanish press did not participate in a discussion of the Mohammed cartoons; no Spanish writer was accused of "Islamophobia", and no Spanish personality was put under police protection for "criticizing Islam". It seemed as if Spain were not even interested in what was at stake in Islamist attacks on Europe's very existence. No Spanish city made headlines for having multicultural ghettos, as in France and Britain. The attack in Barcelona should have ended this illusion. Terrorists do not need an excuse to butcher "infidels". Germany, the most generous country in Europe in welcoming Muslims, followed the same fate as Spain. The German government struck a cozy deal with Turkey about the migrants; and when a comedian, Jan Böhmermann, made a joke about a Muslim politician, the German government allowed its legal system to put the comedian on trial. The sad conclusion seems to be that that jihadists do not need a "reason" to kill Westerners. They attack equally France, which conducts military operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and countries such as Spain and Germany, which are neutral. It is enough for them to state, that, according to Islamic doctrine, land once under Muslim rule is forever under Islamic rule. As Spain ("Al Andalus" for Islamists) was under Islamic rule until the Christian Reconquista (which began in 722), and then Muslims were expelled in 1492, the country, according to Muslim extremists, permanently belongs to Islam and therefore must be taken back. About the massacre in Barcelona, the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner commented: "no one is immune.... The picture that comes to me is that of The Plague of Albert Camus: a scourge that falls on an innocent city. The extension of the field of jihadist struggle is universal. The terrorists charge the whole world for their failure. They knock where they can hit. Trying to please them is vain, it is our very existence that is unbearable to them". To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in fighting jihadism, but jihadism is interested in fighting you. Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10894/jihadists-europe-spain-finland
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Post-Charlottesville, Confederate monuments begin to fall across the U.S.
Sarah Toy, USA TODAY Published 6:15 p.m. ET Aug. 23, 2017 | Updated 6:15 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017
The city of Charlottesville draped two Confederate monuments in black tarp Wednesday afternoon as a symbol of the city’s mourning for a woman who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally. The work Wednesday began in Emancipation Park, where workers using ropes and poles draped a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the tarp. Some in the crowd cheered as others took photos and video. “It’s great. It’s a good start,” said Jamie Dyer from nearby Justice Park, where workers later covered a statue of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The violence that erupted on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville brought renewed attention to Confederate symbols. Charlottesville, like many other cities, has struggled over what to do with its Confederate-era statues, which some view as markers of history. Others see them as symbols of hate and reminders of pain. Here’s a look at some of the monuments that have been taken down since the violence in Charlottesville: Durham, N.C. — On Aug. 14, protesters toppled a Confederate statue during a rally outside the Durham County Courthouse. On Aug. 19, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from the entrance of Duke University Chapel. University president Vincent Price authorized the removal, saying the removal represented an “opportunity for us to learn and heal.” • Gainesville, Fla. — A monument to Confederate soldiers nicknamed “Old Joe” in downtown Gainesville was taken down on Aug. 14. Its removal was hotly contested for a year. In the end, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who put it up 113 years ago, agreed to remove and take the statue after other groups declined it.
• St. Petersburg, Fla. — On Aug. 15, the city removed the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway marker was from the downtown waterfront.
• San Diego — Just days after the deadly protests in Charlottesville, a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis was removed by the city from Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego.
• Los Angeles — On Aug. 16, a six-foot monument to Confederate soldiers was removed from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. A spokesperson for the the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns the monument, told the Los Angeles Times it was taken down due to issues with vandalism.
• Baltimore — On Aug. 16, four Confederate monuments were taken down after Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh cited safety concerns. “They needed to come down,” Pugh said in an interview with the Baltimore Sun.
• Brooklyn, N.Y. — A 105-year-old plaque marking a tree planted by Robert E. Lee in Brooklyn during the 1840s was removed on Aug. 16, along with a second plaque installed in 1935, according to the New York Daily News.
• New York — Busts of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were removed overnight on Aug. 17 from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College. A few days before, Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. had called for their removal and said their inclusion at the Hall of Fame was “especially galling: there is nothing great about two men who committed treason against the United States to fight to keep the institution of slavery in tact.” • Franklin, Ohio — A monument dedicated to Robert E. Lee was removed overnight on Aug. 17 by the city of Franklin. Located on the Dixie highway, the stone monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy 90 years ago.
• Madison, Wis. — A plaque lauding Confederate soldiers buried at a cemetery was removed on Aug. 17, and Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said a second memorial would be coming down as well.
• Worthington, Ohio — On Aug. 18, a historic marker outside the home of Roswell Ripley, a Confederate general who was born and raised in the city, was taken down following a recommendation by city officials anticipating protests, The Columbia Dispatch reported.
• Annapolis, Md.— On Aug. 18, a statue of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision upholding slavery and denying citizenship to African Americans, was lifted away by crane from the grounds of the Maryland State House. The statue had stood in front of the statehouse since 1872.
• Daytona Beach, Fla. — Three plaques honoring Confederate soldiers were removed from a park in downtown Daytona Beach on Aug. 18. A city spokesperson said they would be cleaned and donated to a local historical society.
• Helena, Mont. — Montana's capital removed a Confederate monument on Aug. 18 after Native American lawmakers in Montana sent a letter to the city requesting its removal, saying it stood for segregation, secession and slavery. A fountain donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy more than 100 years ago, it was supposedly the only Confederate monument in the upper Rockies.
• Austin — On Aug. 21, statues of Confederate-era figures Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan and James Stephen Hogg were removed from the main campus grounds of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Hero pit bulls save kids from snake attack: 'They are 100 percent family'
Aug. 18, 2017 at 4:58 PM Arin Greenwood TODAY
Slayer the pit bull is always looking out for his family. Melissa Butt is so confident in her dog that she tells her young grandkids nothing bad will ever happen to them while Slayer is around, she told TODAY. On Aug. 13 that was put to the test, and Slayer proved himself to be exactly the hero Butt knew him to be. Butt's grandchildren, 4-year-old Zayden and 1 1/2-year-old Mallory, were playing with Slayer and another of the family's dogs, Paco, in the yard of their home in southwest Florida. Slayer and Paco began barking at something in the grass. Something about their manner seemed urgent. The dogs wouldn't "disengage on command," as Butt, 47, puts it. So the kids were sent inside with their mother, Cynthia, who is the daughter of Butt and her husband, Daniel White. With the children safe, Cynthia Butt and White came back outside to check on Slayer and Paco. The dogs were standing over a snake, keeping guard. The snake lashed out to bite both of the dogs, getting Paco on the elbow and Slayer on the snout. "That's when Slayer grabbed the snake in his mouth and killed it," said Melissa Butt. Butt rushed the dogs to their regular vet. But their condition was growing serious — Slayer's especially; his face was swelling, and his breathing became labored. The veterinarian recommended the dogs go to the BluePearl emergency vet in Brandon, Florida, about 40 minutes away. Butt was so worried that it was hard to restrain herself from speeding the whole way there. The thought of getting into an accident while her dogs' lives were in jeopardy was more than she could bear. She'd adopted them as young pups, and she dreaded the thought of them dying. At the clinic, the dogs got immediate lifesaving treatment with antivenin. "We have to act fast," Dr. Shelby Loos said to local NBC affiliate . While the veterinarians saved the dogs' lives, it also meant mounting bills for the family. BluePearl connected Butt with Frankie's Friends, a nonprofit that helps cover extraordinary medical costs for pets. (Here's where you can contribute.) "There's nothing I can say or do to show how grateful I am," Butt said. "How do you thank someone for saving your loved ones?" Paco was well enough to go home after just one night in the hospital. But Slayer didn't improve so quickly. When Butt went to see him at BluePearl, she found his face and mouth still so swollen that he "could barely get his tongue out" to give her a kiss. "It was devastating to see how bad it had gotten," Butt said. With another dose of antivenin and more care, Slayer got better. He is still on medication, and his face isn't totally back to normal, but he recovered enough to go home on Wednesday to his adoring, grateful family. He and Paco are "very rightfully being very, very spoiled right now," said Butt. "We spoiled them before. They're ultraspoiled now." (A third dog, Zombie, who was napping inside through Sunday's adventures, isn't too impressed with his canine siblings getting the royal treatment.) Butt looks at her grandkids and imagines what might have happened if Slayer and Paco hadn't been there. Slayer is a big dog and suffered extensively from the bite. Zayden and Mallory are much smaller. "Our pets aren't pets," Butt said. "They are 100 percent family members; this just proves they deserve to be." On Wednesday, when Slayer got home, Zayden turned to Butt and said to her what she's always said to him: "Slayer protects me. Slayer protects us," he said. "He will always protect me." Then Zayden covered the dog with a blanket, saying he wanted to make him feel better.
https://www.today.com/food/piglets-saved-fire-served-sausages-firefighters-t115416\
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Minneapolis: Muslim threatened to ‘shoot wife in the head’ night before he was sworn-in as cop
August 17, 2017 Source: Newly sworn-in Minneapolis cop charged with threatening his wife – StarTribune.com h/t Jihad Watch
A rookie Minneapolis police officer has been charged with threatening his wife during an argument at their home the night before he was sworn in as a member of the city’s police force. Dakota County prosecutors say Ahmed Jama, 29, got into an argument with his wife at the couple’s Apple Valley home around 11 p.m. on Aug. 1, according to a criminal complaint. Jama threatened to shoot his wife in the head, authorities said, telling her that he would get away with it. No physical violence was reported in the complaint, but his wife told police the following day that she feared for her life, adding that Jama had never threatened her in that way before. Jama was sworn in as a Minneapolis police officer Aug. 2. Acting Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said through a spokesperson that Jama, who is still on probation with the department, has been placed on administrative leave. Arradondo said that the Office of Police Conduct Review would be investigating. Jama voluntarily gave a statement to police, characterizing the argument as more of a discussion, the complaint said. He denied making the threat. He was later arrested and charged with making threats of violence with intent to terrorize, a felony. Classic Islamic supremacist. Threatening to shoot his wife in the head and that he’d get away with it…just casual discussion. Did he think he’d get away with it because fellow Somali Muslim officer Mohamed Noor has, so far, gotten away with killing a woman? More via: Rookie Cop Breaks the Law Night Before Swearing-In Ceremony – Alpha News A Minneapolis man has been charged with Threats of Violence (Intent to Terrorize), the night before being sworn in as a Minneapolis Police Officer. Ahmed Mohamed Jama, 29, threatened his wife with bodily harm after an argument on August 1. The criminal complaint, filed on August 4, states authorities to a report of past action domestic assault. Jama’s wife told authorities that he threatened to “shoot her in the head” because he would “get away with it.” Jama denied making the threat. According to his personnel file, Jama first started working with the Minneapolis Police Department as a Police Cadet. Jama filed paperwork to become a Police Cadet in August of 2016, a similar training program that Officer Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis Officer who shot Justine Damond in July. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, a Police Cadet: “To be hired as a Police Cadet, you must have a two or four year degree in any discipline from a regionally accredited college or university, and must NOT have passed the P.O.S.T. Licensing Exam.” “The City of Minneapolis then pays for the Cadet to complete Law Enforcement certificate courses through a PPOE program which includes skills training simultaneously as they go through MPD’s in-house academy. This academic training is comparable to the training recruits receive before being hired by the MPD. “This lasts approximately 8 months. Cadets are promoted to Police Officer upon successful completion of the P.O.S.T. Board academic and skills requirements. From there they enter the Minneapolis Police Department’s Field Training Program (see below). The MPD Cadet Program started back in 1989 and has helped the MPD hire a number of highly qualified and decorated officers, including many of our current Chiefs, Inspectors, and Commanders.” As Alpha News reported, MPD looked to clear up any confusion regarding time spent training. Noor spent more than a year after going through the police cadet training for the Minneapolis Police Department, while Jama started out as a Community Service Officer before working his way up to officer. “At this point, the probationary employee you’ve inquired about, who has never worked in the capacity of a Minneapolis Police Officer, is on administrative leave,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said in a statement. “I am aware of the serious charges and will take appropriate action when necessary. The Office of Police Conduct Review has opened up a case into this matter.” Look no further than Muslim Keith Ellison and the mayor for the current lunacy occurring in Minneapolis.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/minn-muslim-shoot-wife-head/
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Grocery Store Turmoil in Chicago
by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2017
Bankruptcies don’t help. Even the big chains are closing stores. The grocery store sector is never static. Some stores close, others open. But in Chicago, 25 stores closed over the past 24 months due to bankruptcies or operational reasons, and only 16 stores have opened, producing “an alarming loss” of 545,000 square feet of grocery store space. This includes five independent grocery stores that closed, while only two new ones opened, bringing their total down to 43 stores. Their market share, based on square footage, declined to just 7%. This is “not a positive sign for improving the food deserts where these grocers penetrate more regularly,” according to Mid-America Real Estate’s biennial Urban Grocery Study. And the average store size shrank, as the stores that were closed averaged 38,000 square feet, while the stores that opened or are planned average 25,000 square feet. The study covers the period from September 2015 to August 1, 2017, in an urban area of 3.2 million residents with 262 operating or proposed grocery stores of more than 10,000 square feet in size. In addition to the current difficulties, Amazon’s entry looms over the grocery market. Whole Foods, which is being acquired by Amazon, has 13 stores in the area, nine of them “in primarily higher income” locations. It has about 7% of the market on a square-footage basis. And the report finds that “consumers continue to anticipate the opening of Amazon Go stores or perhaps ‘combo’ sites of Amazon/Whole Foods part grocery-part fulfillment center.” Regional grocery store chain Dominick’s has become a Safeway fatality. In 1998, the chain’s 116 stores were acquired by Safeway Inc. Critics say that Safeway cheapened the product offerings, including replacing Dominick’s private label brands with Safeway brands. And the store-closings started. At the end of 2013, with only 83 Dominick’s stores remaining, Safeway closed all of them. Two month later, as if by coincidence, Safeway was acquired in a leveraged buyout by private equity firm Cerberus. Many of the Dominick’s stores remained “dark” for years. But over the two-year period of the report, nearly one million square feet of those locations were absorbed by major chain stores, which dampened the impact of the bankruptcies and store closings to create “a stall and step backwards in urban Chicago,” as the report put it. Jewel Osco moved into the number one spot, with 51 stores. Aldi, after closing three locations, dropped to number two, with 49 stores. In the plus-column: Target is doubling the number of its small-format stores (20,000-30,000 square feet) to eight locations. These stores are either already open or under construction. According to the report, they’re offering a “variety of grab-and-go grocery, pharmacy/health/beauty, limited apparel and electronics; and most have in-store cafes, thus nailing the merchandise mix worthy of inclusion as an urban grocery competitor.” Fresh Thyme Farmer’s Market opened two small gourmet grocery stores of under 30,000 square feet. H Mart, a grocer catering to the Asian community, already has four stores in the suburbs and now plans to open a new 20,000-square-foot sore in the West Loop. The report: This is the second Asian-based urban grocer since the arrival of Seafood City in the Mayfair neighborhood on the northwest side in 2016. Seafood City is rumored to now be doubling the size of their store by 2019 due to larger than anticipated volumes. Plans are underway for two grocery co-ops to open small stores: The Dill Pickle with 13,000 square feet and Chicago Market with 10,000 square feet. They’re barely large enough to make it into the study (cutoff at 10,000 square feet). In the minus-column: The otherwise rapidly expanding German discounter Aldi closed three stores in Chicago, bringing its count down to 49 locations. But even as Safeway-Albertson’s gives its PE firm owners gray hairs, Aldi has announced an additional $3.4 billion investment, expecting to operate 2,500 stores across the US by 2022. Now there’s the fervent hope that some of them might happen in Chicago. Three Ultra Foods and a Strack & Val Til were shuttered, totaling 327,000 square feet, following the May bankruptcy of Central Grocers. The Midwest cooperative of grocery wholesalers operates three regional chains: Strack & Van Til, Ultra Foods, and Town & Country Markets. In the bankruptcy filing, the company said that it would try to sell the more viable stores and close the rest. “The closing of Ultra Foods in Calumet Park instantly created a food desert, by definition,” the report found. The space may eventually be absorbed, most likely by operations that are “only partial grocery, combined with other active non-grocer categories, almost guaranteeing a permanent loss of supply here.” Meijer has closed two smaller stores, totaling 181,000 square feet. Wal-Mart, which closed all of its Express stores in the US, also closed its two in Chicago, along with two Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets (primarily grocery), totaling 58,700 square feet. The report mused: “Wal-Mart’s inactivity in urban Chicago remains puzzling.” All the big gorillas have been trying it, but most consumers just don’t want to. Read… Amazon’s Online Grocery Boom? Not So Fast…
http://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/16/grocery-store-turmoil-in-chicago/
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Anonymous – They Aren’t Going to Tell You About This! (CERN ALERT MESSAGE 2017)
CERN is built on the former site of a temple to Apollyon, who is referenced in the book of Revelation as the king of the horde of the "bottomless pit". Scripture says the key to the pit will be given in the end times and when it is opened something terrible will come through. There is documented evidence that CERN seeks to open doors to other dimensions, they openly admit it. They have also released videos which indicate these intentions, along with other occult messages, as well as erecting the statue of Shiva (the destroyer) who is synonymous with Satan (according to occult scholars). All of this combined with other prophecy being fulfilled in modern times is an overwhelming sign of the times. People need to do a little digging and open their eyes, no need to to take anyone's word for it- the evidence is all there. Unfortunately most just scoff at the idea of anything beyond their well-programmed existence, they trust in the "wisdom" of men and science. They put their faith in what they can see but don't realize that most of what they see is manufactured deception, making them blind to the truth. Time is short my friends and Jesus Christ is the only path to salvation- He is the way, the truth and the life. God bless and all the best to all of you. Some have seen this problem coming for a long time and changed their entire way of life by going off-grid. They have found alternative sources such as solar, wind and diesel to power their homes and machinery. A majority of us, who have not gone off-grid, are making a concerted effort to avoid dependence on this ailing infrastructure and preparing for life without it. Will CERN generate a black hole? The LHC will not generate black holes in the cosmological sense. However, some theories suggest that the formation of tiny ‘quantum’ black holes may be possible. The observation of such an event would be thrilling in terms of our understanding of the Universe; and would be perfectly safe. As far as we know, we live in four dimensions, three of space and one of time. But experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider are looking for evidence that the universe contains more than that. The existence of extra dimensions could explain some puzzling properties of the universe. Physicists know about four forces that govern the way particles interact: electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and gravity. Gravity is by far the weakest. Think about sticking a magnet to a refrigerator door. The magnet can respond to the electromagnetic force that attracts it to the door. Or it can respond to the gravitational force of the Earth below. If you let it go at a short enough distance, it sticks straight to the door, ignoring the entire planet beneath it. Physicists wonder why gravity seems so much weaker than the other three forces. One possibility is that we’re only experiencing a fraction of it. It could be that the gravitational force acts partially in another dimension, or many extra dimensions, that we can’t perceive. Knowing more about gravity could help physicists seeking to form a so-called theory of everything, a theory that combines the four forces into one. Extra dimensions would not necessarily consist of alternate worlds, as depicted in science fiction. They could simply be too small for us to see. To understand how this would work, imagine walking along a tightrope. You are able to move only forwards and backwards without falling. In this situation, it is almost as if you exist in just one dimension of space. However, an ant walking along the same tightrope has a different point of view. The ant is able to move forwards and backwards but also around the tightrope. To such a small creature, a tightrope exists in two spatial dimensions instead of just one. Even if extra dimensions are small, they can still have an effect on how we experience the world. Scientists think that finding evidence of extra dimensions could help answer some of their questions about gravity, still one of the most mysterious forces in the universe. Finding evidence of extra dimensions could also give credence to theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. Models of string theory, for example, require the existence of at least 11 dimensions. Discovering extra dimensions could give scientists clues about the mysterious workings of gravity and could help them to unify the forces or determine the validity of string theory. It could also raise more questions about ways other dimensions shape the world around us.
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Russia rolls out the ‘Night Hunter’ chopper to slay ISIS
August 16, 2017 Nikolai Litovkin
The modified Mi-28 can be fully controlled by one of two pilots and will carry out search and destroy missions in the Middle East. A new version of the Mi-28UB “Night Hunter” - a modern attack helicopter - will be transported to Russia’s air base in Syria in the coming weeks. The war machine’s manufacturers are keen to test its modified armor and missiles on the front line. A military industrial source told RBTH this: “Russian Helicopters [corporation] strengthened the helicopter’s front armor and enhanced its ‘brains.’ ” So in the very near future, an advanced version of the “battle bird” will be carrying out search and destroy missions against ISIS in the Middle East. One of the chopper’s new features gives full control of the machine to both pilots. This means that if one pilot gets injured, the other will be able to operate the helicopter independently: That’s navigation, flying, and firing systems all at the same time. What is the ‘Night Hunter’ all about? The main goal of this military flying monster is to support infantry and special forces groups fighting on the ground. It was built to destroy tanks, armored vehicles, and low-flying targets. For example, other helicopters and drones. The Mi-28 has already been adopted by the Russian Military, but like every other piece of army hardware it had to go through strict testing before it was given the greenlight to wreak havoc on the battlefield. As the RBTH source explained, the Mi-28 follows all international military standards: “As well as bringing hell on earth with its machine guns and missiles, it can fight alongside tanks.” The expert also said that the chopper’s targets will range from enemy military personnel to artillery systems, and even anti-air defense units. Besides that, the helicopter is among only a few capable of performing aerobatic maneuvers. As Russia’s Berkuty pilot team has been showing the world for the last five years. The Mi-28's first use in Syria Russia’s Mi-28 helicopters played an integral role in liberating the Syrian city of Palmyra from ISIS on March 27, 2016. The video shows the destruction of an ISIS armored vehicle with the help of guided anti-tank missiles, followed by the elimination of militants hiding in a house. This was the first recorded use of the Night Hunter against ISIS terrorists. Before, the choppers were solely used to guard the Khmeimim Air Base, where Russia’s Air Force in Syria is stationed.
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Total Individual Control Technology: Insider Exposes How You & Your DNA are Being Targeted
August 28, 2017 Makia Freeman, Guest Waking Times
Total Individual Control Technology is a nefarious type of EM (Electromagnetic) and V2K (Voice to Skull) weaponized technology that is being experimented with and deployed against segments of the American population. Those attacked by this electronic stalking are known as TIs (Targeted Individuals). Recently another brave whistleblower has stepped forward to expose it. Bryan Kofron (who formerly used the alias of Justin Carter) is a security industry specialist who used to work for a private security company SIS (Security Industry Specialists) in Seattle, Washington. He quit in disgust after realizing that his former firm, and others just like it, were actively using this so-called total individual control technology to target people, then ultimately control and destroy their lives. Since he quit, he has himself become a victim of the technology via gangstalking. What Total Individual Control Technology is Capable Of. According to Kofron, this technology is so advanced that it can be used to read your mind, program your mind with thoughts (that you would believe are your own) and induce emotional states in you (including pain, hate and fear). It can be used to tap into your optical nerve and auditory systems to see and hear what you are seeing and hearing. It can target particular people by engaging in individual-specific attacks (based on the target’s DNA resonance). Finally, it is being used in vast social engineering programs as a way to experiment upon poor, homeless and weak people who have little or no chance of fighting back. In interviews or presentations such as this and this, Kofron explains that this technology is being used by psychopaths who have little scruples about the harm they are causing. They are targeting specific groups of people: those who are cognitively inclined, highly intelligent, knowledgeable about advanced technology or interested in alternative research (i.e. conspiracy research). In general, they are either targeting empowered individuals with free minds (to stop dissidents and revolutionaries) or those too poor and weak to fight back. Using Kofron’s own words, here are some of the things Total Individual Control Technology is able to do: “This technology manipulates the electrical signals in the brain, thus controlling thoughts and feelings and emotions and sensations throughout the body. It works by rewiring the brain by creating new neural pathways and destroying existing neural pathways, thus this literally changes the way a person thinks and thus behaves.” “This technology can also be used to control the muscle movement of the target. It can take over one’s hands or feet while driving and make you press on the accelerator or press on the brake or turn. This can be used to cause accidents it can also be used to prevent accidents from happening.” “This technology can also tap into the optical nerve of the target, and the auditory system of the target, so that those monitoring the target can see what the target is seeing and hear what target is hearing. This information is then downloaded and stored on a computer, in a highly secure classified site on servers that are guarded by some of the tightest security in the world. This results in the individual’s entire day, everything they see, everything they hear, everything they experiment, everything they experience, and everything they feel being recorded till the end of time.” “This technology can also be used to manipulate the emotions of the target. It can induce fear, love, hate.” “This technology can be used to beam images and even motion pictures into one’s brain. Images and motion pictures that are so realistic that you think you are actually watching a movie or seeing something in reality. It’s like a virtual reality 3D rendering that takes place within the target’s mind. The images and motion pictures manifest themselves in such a way that the target if they are not aware that this technology is being used on them will believe that they are natural thoughts and natural images.” “This technology can also be used to induce and control dreams. It can be used to control dream cycles and sleep patterns. To cause one to sleep very deeply or to cause one to not sleep at all. REM cycles, alpha beta and delta brainwaves can be induced immediately by this technology. And this technology can also be used to mimic spiritual experiences. Joy, love, peace that passes understanding can all be induced artificially by this technology to make the target believe that they are having a genuine spiritual experience when they’re not.” “This technology can also be used to sexually manipulate the target. Make them feel sexual arousal or turn off their sexuality altogether, it can stimulate them and it can shut them down at a moments notice. It can also be used to manipulate the hormones of the target, thus lowering and raising estrogen and testosterone levels in women and men respectively.” “This technology can also be used to read the thoughts of the target in real time … they can read your thoughts verbatim as they occur within your own mind.” “Anywhere from small groups of people 10-20 to 100, to medium size groups of people several thousand to tens of thousands. This is done by creating a field effect, where an entire field of electromagnetic energy is created in a geographical location and any human being within that geographical location within that electromagnetic field affecting that geographical location will be effected by the technology. This can be used to induce a general mood in a population or a crowd of people. It can be used to make them passive, it can be used to make them agitated. And this can be used to cause or stop, induce riots. Stop crime, start crime. Stop thoughts, start thoughts. Massive mind control on a citywide level.” Total Individual Control Technology Attacks Specific Individuals Based on DNA Resonance As I have discussed in previous articles on mind control such as “They” Can’t Read Your Thoughts … Right?, the state of current mind control technology is beyond most’s people comprehension and idea of what is possible. Yet, we have had enough out-of-the-closet whistleblowers and leaked or declassified documents to give us a clear idea of the scary extent to which we can be psychically attacked. Whistleblowers such as Dr. Robert Duncan have lectured at length about the capabilities of V2K technology, which is defined as an EM frequency technology that utilizes RF (Radio Frequency) signals to induce sound within the cranial cavity of the target. V2K literally pipes thoughts directly into people’s heads without them knowing it. Kofron bases his information on his own experience as an insider in this field, and also as recent victim of V2K himself. He was attacked once he went public. He claims he has been assaulted with a beta version which is especially nasty, piping thoughts into his head such as: “Everyone’s against you” “Please be quiet or we’re going to kill you” “Don’t work again or we’re going to kill you” “You’re the lab rat now motherfucker” Kofron claims the Total Individual Control Technology attacks are attempting to turn him against his former work colleagues, friends and family. However, since he was trained in this area, he knows that the voices are technological and can defend himself against the manipulations once he hears them. Kofron echoes exactly what Duncan has warned about: individual-specific attacks. Duncan states that every person has a “unique resonance signature”, and in almost exactly the same words, Kofron states that: “… the DNA of the individual is used to determine the resonant frequency of the DNA itself, the resonant frequency is then used to fine tune the technology … to tune it perfectly to the resonant frequency of the targeted individual’s DNA.” The Drive to Create a Worldwide DNA Database This leads into another aspect of the NWO agenda: the drive to create a worldwide DNA database. When seen in the light of Total Individual Control Technology, the acquisition of an entire population’s DNA takes on a very sinister meaning. It is no coincidence that Amazon and Google (who are ultimately controlled by the same force as David Icke suggests) are racing each other, along with Microsoft, IBM and other companies, to assemble a DNA database as quickly as they can. Those in power who gain access a completed worldwide DNA database and total individual control technology would have a horrifying weapon at their disposal to target literally anyone they wanted. Kofron exposes how prospective employees are tricked out of their DNA. They apply for a job at SIS, get told they have to do a drug test, and when the urine sample is sent to a lab, part is siphoned off as DNA to go into Amazon’s burgeoning DNA database. Americans, in the millions, are having their DNA stolen from them, without their knowledge or consent, so they become unwitting targets of this insidious program! Social Engineering with Total Individual Control Technology Kofron talks at length about how this technology is fully operational and is already being tested upon those in society who are struggling (such as those who are homeless, poor and who don’t have much family or many friends) since they make the easiest targets. On his website GangstalkerWars.com, he exposes the details of ongoing operations within Seattle (where he used to work for SIS). This social engineering is being done by the Federal Government, the Military Intelligence agencies, private security firms (more on this below), some of the largest US corporations (after all, we live in a corporatocracy), local and state police, and social programs within inner-city America. In one such operation, the perpetrators would target certain geographical blocks of the city, and, for instance, cause everyone in that area to be in a bad mood. In another operation, SIS (employed by Amazon whose headquarters are in Seattle) would test upon Amazon employees. In another operation, SIS would experiment upon its own low-level employees. In another operation, homeless people were brought in from all over the nation to special buildings that were then targeted. This is true gangstalking – the ganging up by sociopaths and psychopaths upon the innocent to electronically harass and stalk them. The Rising Danger of the Private Security Firm Industry in America Kofron warns about an alarming trend in American society: the rise of private security companies who mostly employ ex-military and ex-intelligence agents. As I covered in this 2-part series, the US Military Intelligence Complex is completely and utterly out of control. It runs the government and pulls the strings attached to all the puppet politicians, who don’t have the necessary “clearance” to access the truly top-secret information. These security firms, like the MIC itself, appear to operate above and outside the law. The culture inside of these companies is toxic. People rising up the ranks are conditioned to use this technology against innocent victims, and are told they will be rewarded with everything (money, power, women, sex, connection, access, status, belonging to the power club) if they go along with the program and become perpetrators. If they have a strong conscience and refuse, they will be sacked, shunned, cut off, threatened and even made into TIs themselves. The Human Rights Loophole: False Diagnoses Another aspect of Total Individual Control Technology which the perpetrators use to shield themselves is the cruel use of false psychiatric diagnoses. Here’s how it works: they manipulate TI victims to see a psychiatrist, and then they bribe the psychiatrist to deliver a fake diagnosis that the victim is mentally unstable, deranged, delusional, crazy, incompetent, paranoid, schizophrenic, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder – or they invent some similar legal-medical-psychobabble diagnosis. This has the unfortunate effect of stripping away the victim’s natural or human rights, which leaves him or her with no recourse to fight back against his attackers, since his claims and testimonies will be dismissed as the ravings of a madman. This is a similar tactic to what is used with other victims of mind control. In my interview with Max Spiers, he touched on the use of the Big Pharma “false memory” foundation, which includes bogus therapists and psychiatrists who convince mind control victims that they’re having false memories (when they are actually recalling how they were tortured and programmed). The Infrastructure Underlying Total Individual Control Technology The infrastructure that is enabling the total individual control technology is composed mostly of antennae, radar and cell phone towers. Often, the antennae are camouflaged (hidden behind walls). Some or most of the radar used is from military bases. Kofron was not able to explain much of how the technology actually works, although an electrical engineer who called in on one of the radio interviews suggested that the perpetrators are setting up a standing wave of DNA, then doing slight variations in the phasing using pulse code modulation. Final Thoughts: Total Individual Control Technology Perpetrated by the Cult of Power In concluding, it’s important to realize how such cruel surveillance is being perpetuated. As Kofron explains, it’s all about creating an “in” club of perpetrators who get rewarded with money, sex, power and the intrinsic human need for belonging, get told they are on the “right” side and the TIs are on the “wrong” side – and get threatened that if they speak up or quit, they may end up on that wrong side. It’s the cult of power. Hopefully this testimony can serve as a wakeup call for those on the fence who can’t quite bring themselves to believe or act. In many ways, time is running out and the net is being drawn tighter and tighter. The more technology advances, the more weapons the cult of power will have to enslave those who stand for truth and freedom. At a certain point, there will literally be nowhere to run or hide. The only option is to face it now before it’s too late.
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Explosions reported at Harvey-flooded chemical plant in Crosby
Arkema Inc. said the Harris County Emergency Operations Center notified the company at 2 a.m. Thursday of explosions and black smoke coming from its Crosby plant, which was inundated by Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters.
by Jim Malewitz and Emma Platoff Aug. 31, 2017 Updated: 3 hours ago
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. Two chemical explosions sparked a fire early Thursday morning at a manufacturing plant in Crosby that has been inundated with six feet of hurricane floodwaters. Arkema Inc., the owner of the plant, warned Wednesday that the organic peroxides used in the site’s manufacturing process had begun to heat up after the plant lost its primary source of power and backup power from generators. Without electricity to power refrigeration, the chemicals — stored in 18-wheeler box vans throughout the plant — were expected to degrade, possibly leading to some type of explosion or fire. The plant has nine vans, each with 36,000 pounds of organic peroxide stored in cardboard containers. Containers in one of the vans popped and caught fire, producing smoke that wafted 30 to 40 feet into the air, local officials told reporters early Thursday. Arkema expects each of the vans will eventually ignite as they lose power and refrigeration. “Please do not return to the area within the evacuation zone until local emergency response authorities announce it is safe to do so,” the company’s statement said. Assistant Chief Bob Royall, with the Harris County Fire Marshal, told reporters the chemicals inside each van that loses refrigeration “will burn with intensity until the fuel is consumed, and then they will die down again.” The byproduct of the fires would be typical “black smoke with carbon particles in it,” Royall said. Authorities evacuated a 1.5-mile radius around the facility Tuesday. They also advised locals to limit their exposure to the smoke by remaining indoors with their windows closed. His office and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office downplayed environmental and public health risks from the plant, going as far as suggesting that “explosion” was not the proper terminology for the chemical reactions in the vans. “They were different organic peroxides of different grades that were released, and it created a pop in the containers where they were being stored,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters. “It wasn’t an explosion, I want to be very clear.” “We just don’t believe there’s any further threat, even to the broader community. Even if somebody stayed behind in the active zone,” Gonzalez added. “We just want to manage the narrative a little bit, to make sure people don’t get in a panic if there doesn’t have to be.” Meanwhile, federal authorities have sent mixed messages. At a press conference in Washington, D.C., Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long called the plume wafting from the plant “incredibly dangerous." But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release Thursday that “there are no concentrations of concern for toxic materials reported at this time.” The agency said it was reviewing data from an aircraft that surveyed the scene shortly after the explosions. "We will consider using any authority we have to further address the situation to protect human health and the environment,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said. The county has been consulting with Arkema and outside experts since early Tuesday about how best to handle the chemical reactions. “We’ve developed what we consider a very safe plan,” said Royall, the Harris County fire marshal. “Everything is going exactly as we expected.” “If you want to call it an explosion, there’s a technical definition, and I’m not going to get into that,” he told reporters. Fifteen sheriff’s deputies at the scene were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after reporting that smoke had irritated their eyes and throats. All have been released, the sheriff’s office tweeted at 9:20 a.m. While the company has downplayed the potential impacts of the explosion — Arkema CEO Rich Rowe said Wednesday that any sustained environmental impact would be “minimal” – environmental experts expressed concern about fallout from the explosion. “That is not good. That is not good. That’s a big concern,” said Neil Carman, clean air director for the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter. “This is uncharted territory. In 37 years I have never heard of anything like this happening.” Carman said the smoke indicates the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a known carcinogen. Depending on the wind, these chemicals could spread quickly to the surrounding area, he said. Still, it’s difficult to predict the exact impact of the fumes given the minimal information that Arkema has released, according to Bakeyah Nelson, executive director of Air Alliance Houston. In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Rowe refused to release the company’s federally mandated risk management plan or the plant’s chemical inventory. “Without that information, it’s difficult to really assess the situation,” Nelson said. “Them releasing that to the community is really the key to being able to understand.” The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said it was among several local, state and federal agencies monitoring the plant. “Of immediate concern for residents around the plant is smoke,” the agency said in a press release Thursday. “The smoke from the fire is especially acrid and irritating. Those with heart problems or respiratory conditions, such as asthma or emphysema, may be particularly sensitive.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/31/harvey-flooded-chemical-plant-crosby-reportedly-explodes/
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Posted on August 29, 2017 by Ray Starmann
White House petition to declare George Soros a terrorist
There is a petition on WhiteHouse.gov, begun on August 20, 2017, to declare George Soros a terrorist and to seize all his assets:
Declare George Soros a terrorist and seize all of his related organizations’ assets under RICO and NDAA law
Created by E.B. on August 20, 2017
Whereas George Soros has willfully and on an ongoing basis attempted to destabilize and otherwise commit acts of sedition against the United States and its citizens, has created and funded dozens (and probably hundreds) of discrete organizations whose sole purpose is to apply Alinsky model terrorist tactics to facilitate the collapse of the systems and Constitutional government of the United State, and has developed unhealthy and undue influence over the entire Democrat Party and a large portion of the US Federal government, the DOJ should immediately declare George Soros and all of his organizations and staff members to be domestic terrorists, and have all of his personal an organizational wealth and assets seized under Civil Asset Forfeiture law. We have less than a month to get the necessary 100,000 signatures by September 19, 2017. The number of signatures currently is 29,389, which means 70,611 more signatures are needed. Please sign the petition and ask your contacts to sign as well. To sign, go here. See also:
206 U.S. organizations funded by George Soros
The white élites [incl. George Soros] who fund Black Lives Matter
‘Arab Spring’ in America: NAACP joins Soros-funded coalition for massive protests in D.C.
Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create ‘echo chamber’ and drive national protests
Soros aids invasion of Christian Europe by Muslim refugees, says Hungary prime minister
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took orders from George Soros on how to handle unrest in Albania
Soros-funded organization has 666 address
Obama puppeteer George Soros thinks he’s god
George Soros’ son, Alex, is a ‘spirit cooker’?
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/08/white-house-petition-to-declare-george-soros-a-terrorist/
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New Senate Bill Targets Wikileaks, Russia, Independent Press, and First Amendment
Published: August 29, 2017
Washington D.C. (MPN) – With the Russian meddling narrative serving as a pretext, the U.S. Senate, embracing the “Pompeo Doctrine,” is moving to stifle and criminalize WikiLeaks and, by extension, any such “dangerous,” transparency-providing entities that threaten to cast doubt upon Washington’s “official stories.” The Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Congress to label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” having adopted that very position in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) it approved last month. The terminology used in the bill originates from a speech given in April by CIA director Mike Pompeo, who called the pro-transparency media organization a “non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted” by “hostile” nations. WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, has slammed the Senate bill as an attempt to legislate what he termed the “Pompeo doctrine.” WikiLeaks has been under U.S. investigation since 2010 but the U.S. has failed to formally charge anyone in the organization for its role in leaking State and Defense Department documents. However, WikiLeaks’ source, in this case, Chelsea Manning, was convicted in 2013 and was only recently released from prison after receiving a pardon from President Barack Obama in January of this year. WikiLeaks came under scrutiny once again last year during the presidential election after publishing emails considered damaging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The IAA’s 12,000-word text, however, makes only brief mention of WikiLeaks — in the last line of its 41 pages. The bill itself is mainly focused on Russia and strikes an aggressive tone regarding so-called Russian “interference” in the 2016 presidential election as well as Russian “influence operations.” If passed, for instance, the bill will call upon Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, to develop strategies to counter these “threats,” and will essentially prevent cooperation between Russia and the U.S. on issues such as “cybersecurity” and “cyber threats.” Mieke Eoyang, a former House intelligence committee senior staffer, told the Daily Beast that such measures will prevent “the White House from blocking the intelligence community from telling the committee and the American public what the true Russia threat is.” The new “Red Scare” and its impact on the flow of information Of course there are strong reasons to believe that the Russian “threat” has been overblown by the American political class. In particular, Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election – especially its supposed collusion with WikiLeaks in publishing DNC emails – has been independently confirmed by several investigators to have instead been the work of someone with direct access to the DNC’s servers, not a state actor like Russia. However, this information has proven to be politically inconvenient for many U.S. politicians and corporate media outlets. The committee passed the bill by a vote of 14 to 1, the lone dissenter being Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). Sen. Wyden specifically identified the inclusion of the WikiLeaks provision in the bill as his sole reason for voting against it. In a press release, he stated that “The language in the bill suggesting that the U.S. government has some unstated course of action against ‘non-state hostile intelligence services’ is equally troubling” as it “could have negative consequences, unforeseen or not, for our constitutional principles.” He added that “the introduction of vague, undefined new categories of enemies constitutes such an ill-considered reaction.” In an interview with the Washington Times, Assange stated that “WikiLeaks, like many serious media organizations, has confidential sources in the U.S. government. Media organizations develop and protect sources. So do intelligence agencies. But to use this to suggest, as the ‘Pompeo doctrine’ does, that media organizations are ‘non-state intelligence services’ is absurd.” Assange, continuing, stated that such an extrapolation “is equivalent to suggesting that the CIA is a media organization. Publishers publish what they obtain. Intelligence agencies do not. At their best, media organizations publish boldly and accurately and do not hide what they discover from the public. In contrast, intelligence agencies conceal information and spread propaganda.” The dangerous over-reach of the “Pompeo doctrine” and the IAA Most thought- and concern-provoking, however, were Assange’s statements regarding the potential implications of Congress declaring a media organization to be a “non-state hostile spy service.” Assange argued the importance of considering “where other media outlets lay on this spectrum. It is clear that if the ‘Pompeo doctrine’ applies to WikiLeaks, then it applies equally if not more so to other serious outlets.” Indeed, central to the “Pompeo doctrine” is the assertion that WikiLeaks, given its alleged equivalence with a non-state intelligence service, deserves no First Amendment protections. During his speech in April, Pompeo stated that “we have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us.” He later stated, during a subsequent Q&A, that “Julian Assange has no First Amendment privileges” because he is not a U.S. citizen. As journalist Glenn Greenwald noted at the time, “the notion that WikiLeaks has no free press rights because Assange is a foreigner is both wrong and dangerous” — and could allow any foreign journalist or media organization to be prosecuted by the U.S. for publishing leaked information. If Congress passes the Intelligence Authorization Act, it will essentially deprive WikiLeaks of the right to free expression and could allow the U.S. government to criminally charge employees of WikiLeaks, beyond Julian Assange, for their role in “espionage.” As Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated in April, however, Assange’s arrest is a “top priority” for the U.S. government, a fact that will likely remain unchanged regardless of the fate of the IAA. Yet, the most clear and present danger to all journalists, if this bill is passed, could lie in reporting on information provided by WikiLeaks — or by any other organization the U.S. government decrees to be exempt from the First Amendment. For instance, in 2010, then-Senator Joe Lieberman and former Bush Attorney General Mike Mukasey made the case that The New York Times should be prosecuted merely for publishing and reporting on leaked documents made available by WikiLeaks. Their legal argument was based on the grounds that no meaningful distinction could be made between the Times and WikiLeaks. Seven years later, with the censorship of independent media like WikiLeaks already well under way, it may be only a matter of time before media outlets covering documents, state secrets — or any topic of which the U.S. government, particularly the CIA or Congress, does not approve — could find themselves on the chopping block for “espionage.” The Intelligence Authorization Act – if passed – will not only do grave damage to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press, but will also criminalize the exchange of information. The ultimate message of this bill is that the U.S. government is no longer willing to tolerate the publication of information that is at odds with its officially-supplied narrative — a narrative that, far too often, has been built on lies in order to justify the exploitation of resources, both domestic and global, and to expand the American empire. This post by Whitney Webb originally ran on MintPress News.
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August 28th, 2017 By Whitney Webb
WASHINGTON – The Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Congress to label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” having adopted that very position in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) it approved last month. The terminology used in the bill originates from a speech given in April by CIA director Mike Pompeo, who called the pro-transparency media organization a “non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted” by “hostile” nations. WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, has slammed the Senate bill as an attempt to legislate what he termed the “Pompeo doctrine.” WikiLeaks has been under U.S. investigation since 2010 but the U.S. has failed to formally charge anyone in the organization for its role in leaking State and Defense Department documents. However, WikiLeaks’ source in this case, Chelsea Manning, was convicted in 2013 and was only recently released from prison after receiving a pardon from President Barack Obama in January of this year. WikiLeaks came under scrutiny once again last year during the presidential election after publishing emails considered damaging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The IAA’s 12,000-word text, however, makes only brief mention of WikiLeaks — in the last line of its 41 pages. The bill itself is mainly focused on Russia and strikes an aggressive tone regarding so-called Russian “interference” in the 2016 presidential election as well as Russian “influence operations.” If passed, for instance, the bill will call upon Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, to develop strategies to counter these “threats,” and will essentially prevent cooperation between Russia and the U.S. on issues such as “cybersecurity” and “cyber threats.” Mieke Eoyang, a former House intelligence committee senior staffer, told the Daily Beast that such measures will prevent “the White House from blocking the intelligence community from telling the committee and the American public what the true Russia threat is.”
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Hurricane Harvey: Houston looters shoot volunteer rescuers; target whites and Trump supporters
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 83 Comments
The saying “No good deed goes unpunished” is a comment on the perversity of human beings. Cajun Navy is a Louisiana-based informal organization of private recreation boat owners who assist in flood search-and-rescue efforts. Bob Price reports for Breitbart that there are three Cajun Navy groups doing rescue work in the Houston area, where thousands remain stranded in flood waters from Hurricane Harvey. Fellowship of the Minds
Hurricane Harvey: Houston looters shoot volunteer rescuers; target whites and Trump supporters
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 83 Comments
The saying “No good deed goes unpunished” is a comment on the perversity of human beings. Cajun Navy is a Louisiana-based informal organization of private recreation boat owners who assist in flood search-and-rescue efforts. Bob Price reports for Breitbart that there are three Cajun Navy groups doing rescue work in the Houston area, where thousands remain stranded in flood waters from Hurricane Harvey. Yesterday, one Cajun Navy group saved the life of a woman they found floating face down in a flooded roadway. But Clyde Cain of Louisiana Cajun Navy told CNN that the rescuers are being shot at: “We have boats being shot at if we’re not picking everybody up. We’re having to pull out for a minute. We’re dropping an airboat right now to go rescue a couple of our boats that broke, and they’re kind of under attack.” To protect the volunteers, members of the Louisiana Cajun Navy were ordered to stand down. A message on the group’s Facebook page said that the team members are safe after they were shot at by looters posing as people needing rescue during an attempt to rob and steal the Cajun Navy boat. The post has since been taken down, but below is a screenshot of the Facebook message: Looters are not just shooting at Cajun Navy rescuers, they are boasting about their looting with the Twitter hashtag #harveylootcrew. Here’s a sample of their tweets, congratulating themselves for targeting white people (“crackas”) and Trump supporters. Their pictures leave no doubt as to their racial identity, but not a word about #harveylootcrew from the corrupt and deceiving MSM. To make a terrible situation even worse, despite yesterday’s efforts to prevent uncontrolled overflow using slow release, one of two major reservoirs in Houston — the Addicks Reservoir — is spilling over for the first time in history. A Harris County Flood Control District meteorologist said the overflow from the reservoirs would eventually flow into downtown Houston, exacerbating the flood from Hurricane Harvey. Below are the animal welfare groups that are helping to rescue and provide shelter for animals stranded in the terrible flood. Please donate! If you are an animal welfare professional and want to volunteer your skills to relief efforts you can submit this online form. Houston SPCA SPCA of Texas Houston Humane Society Austin Pets Alive Animal Defense League of Texas Please pray for Houston! Don’t allow yourself to sink into racism by generalizing from these looters to all black people.
See “Hurricane Harvey: Black man armed with shotgun protects neighborhood from looters“.
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U.S. National News
1000 Foot Tall JP Morgan Tower in Houston Being Evacuated; "FOUNDATION ISSUES" MAY FALL OVER ! ! !
So much rain has fallen in and around Houston, and the ground has become so saturated, so deep, that skyscrapers are now in danger of FALLING OVER! The one-thousand foot tall JP MORGAN Building in downtown Houston is being evacuated right now due to "foundation issues." This means the ground beneath the skyscraper may no longer be firm enough to support the building! If this is correct - and local authorities believe it is -- the thousand-foot-tall building could literally fall over ! ! ! ! Bear in mind that skyscrapers are designed to "sway" in heavy winds. Normally, that's a good thing; it prevents the buildings from snapping." But in a case like this, where the foundation is compromised due to moist soil, that same "swaying" could very well lead to "tipping over." And also bear in mind that wind in and around Houston is STILL being affected by the remnants of Hurricane Harvey. Harvey returned to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is strengthening again right now. At 4:00 PM EDT, Hurricane Hunter Aircraft flew through the "eye" of the former hurricane and found wind has increased today from 45 MPH to 50 MPH and the central barometric pressure had dropped from 1006mb to 994 mb. As central pressure drops, wind speeds pick-up. If those winds start hitting this building, it could very well fall right over. No one is sure how this will turn out, but authorities in Houston are erring on the side of caution and evacuating the building.
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Abbas Tells Trump He Won't Stop Giving American Money to Terrorists
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | Israel Today Staff
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected American demands that he stop using foreign financial aid to pay stipends and salaries to the families of jailed Palestinian terrorists. Abbas met last week with US envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to restart Middle East peace talks. According to Israeli journalists present at the meeting, Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, reiterated the long-standing demand that the Palestinian Authority not reward terrorism with financial gain. Congress has repeatedly threatened to halt all foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority over the payments to jailed terrorists, nearly all of whom are incarcerated in Israel for carrying out attacks on Jewish men, women and children. The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds reported that Abbas' response was to "inform Kushner that he would never stop paying these salaries until his dying day, even if this cost him the presidency."
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/32275/Default.aspx
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Vladimir Putin orders 1,500 Russians to move away from North Korean border after Kim Jong-un's latest missile launch
Vladimir Putin ordered 1,500 citizens to leave the area on North Korea's border
Russia and the hermit state share a 24-mile long international frontier by a river
The Russian Ministry of Emergencies warned citizens to leave the area
Dictator Kim Jong-un ordered a missile fired over Japan in a provocative move
By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline Published: 16:26 EDT, 29 August 2017 | Updated: 20:58 EDT, 29 August 2017
Russia dramatically relocated 1,500 people from its border with North Korea after Kim Jong-un's latest missile launch, it was reported today. The surprise move instructed civil defence officials to shift residents to 'safe areas' in the country's far east, according to pro-Kremlin media outlets. 'A verbal order was given to relocate 1,500 people to safe areas,' reported Mash, a social media outlet linked to major news service Life.ru which has close links to the Russian security services. 'The order came from the regional department of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies.' Russia shares a 24 mile land border with reclusive North Korea. It was unclear where the 1,500 were moved. The civil protection department in Vladivostok was instructed to relocate residents living in the border area with North Korea. The relocation was later described as a 'training exercise', according to FedPress.ru. But it appears to have been triggered by the launch of a missile over Japan in the tinderbox region which has led to soaring tension in Asia. 'A relocation scheme is being exercised as part of the training,' said a source. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned that the North Korean crisis could morph into an armed confrontation and 'lead the world to the brink of a catastrophe'. Yet Russia also maintains political and business ties to Pyongyang. Officials in Vladivostok also announced that radiation in the border region had not charged following the North Korean launch. In another unexpected development, Russia's largest island - Sakhalin - disappeared from the country's online maps of major IT company Yandex after the latest launch. The Pacific island lies north of Japan. Yandex claimed it suffered a 'technical' problem. The island could be vulnerable to a stray launch by trigger-happy North Korea.
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Domestic Foreign Troop Activity From Coast to Coast: FEMA Behaving Strangely
By Dave Hodges
The above photo was taken by Joel S. in Pennsylvania. This is one of several NATO helicopters operating in the same area where I reported UN activity four months ago. It has been quiet in this area until the emergence of Hurricane Harvey. UN Activity in California In the past four months, I have received numerous reports from people in California regarding their sighting of UN personnel and vehicles in California. Here is the report we filed in this on April 27, 2017. Additionally, Paul Martin is good friends with RBN talk show host, ex-Green Beret, John Moore. Moore had a relative that was buying a puppy in the Seattle area. When the relative went to get the dog, they asked the resident what they did for a living and the female resident answered “I am a UN Peacekeeper”. Here is another email I received from the potentially impacted area if the Oroville Dam were to fail as many are predicting will happen in the upcoming spring run off. Hi Dave, I was just watching your UN bit…. In any case, I live in Stockton CA and with the shows I’ve been watching I got curious about our Port of Stockton since it’s a gate way for imports and exports. I have a former Security officer that worked for me so I decided to give her a buzz to see what, if anything was happening. Especially since I hear choppers flying over head every night about 2-3 in the morning. And by the way, the Ports MERSEC…Maritime Security is at level 1, meaning security is to be present at all times. Any way, the only thing she knew was that the choppers for the National Guard and Fire Department are having rescue drills. Hmmmm. I wonder…. (Editor’s note: Wonder what? They are practicing for the Oroville Dam to go? This would be the perfect excuse to get the UN out in the open if their presence was for humanitarian reasons) Previous and Current Pennsylvania Sightings of UN Helicopters and Vehicles For months I have received a stream of reports about sightings of UN Helicopters in Pennsylvania. From the Delaware River Area Involving UN Attack Helicopters I received this email as an example of many that I have received in the past 4-5 months: Good afternoon Dave, I sent you a few sightings of UN/military in the air around my area (east coast). I just spotted another one (attached video) and this is a reference pic of what I saw. Identical colors, not sure maybe the Gov/Feds according to the colors. I know they are doing a drill this week, but I have been seeing them way before that started. I even thought ok, all the previous sightings were (practice for the drill), but then I started looking for a common denominator, why I am seeing all this activity, so low to the ground, like the are mapping it out or something in my immediate area. I pulled a map up and started focusing on the flight path they all seem to be doing, north to south. Then it hme….the Delaware River. Whatever they are up to, I’ll bet you that river has something to do with it… Now we are seeing NATO activity in the same area. FEMA Camps In Costal Cities On January 12,2017-Before Hurrican Harvey I was sent this Youtube video that was made 8 months prior to Hurricane Harvey. I don’t buy his rapture interpretation, but the “dream” is very telling. I am aware of the technology that he is speaking of. He misses on the prediction, but the content is chilling given what I know that is going on. I haven’t spoke about the tsunami producing bombs he mentions, but the information is available. Additionally, I am getting reports of FEMA camp activity in the Houston area and along the Gulf Coast to be of major concern to me. I am also getting reports about the following: Dear Mr. Hodges, Were you aware that makeshipt camps are hurriedly being thrown up along the Texas Gulf Coast? I have seen two of these camps going up at a very fast pace. Why spend the money? Why not use schools, stadiums and other pubic building that are available in the same area? This makes no sense. What can you tell me about this? Thanks, Jimmy Hines This email from Mr. Hines immediately got my attention because I reported on this specific FEMA capability over 6 years ago and now the relevance of the facts associated with this report comes into full understanding in the present day as I previously wrote how FEMA was contracting with Haliburton to build quickly contructed FEMA camps: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” I previously wrote an article in response to the intention of Congress to permit the military to indefinitely detain, without due process protections, American citizens for any reason, or for no reason whatsoever. In the previous article, I referenced the leaked memo from KBR manager, Bob Siefert, which was informing subcontractors to be prepared within 72 hours of notification to provide essential services to FEMA camps such as the installation of barbwire, blockades, personnel, food, water and sanitation services. Subsequently, one of my readers, Richard Firth, bravely took the initiative to write to Siefert and asked him to explain his stated intentions in the leaked memo. Below is the exchange between Wirth and Siefert along with my analysis. From: Richard w. Firth [mailto:firthrichardw@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 8:39 AM To: Bob Siefert Subject: Level with Public about \FEMA camps Dear Mr. Siefert: I am given to understand that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, is in the process of activating the FEMA camps according to a leaked memo. I and many others would like to know why these camps are being activated? I look forward to your response. Sincerely- Richard W. Firth Mr. Siefert wasted no time in answering Mr. Firth’s concerns as he provided a hastily prepared same day response. From: Bob Siefert <bob. siefert@kbr.com> Subject: RE: Level with Public about FEMA camps To: “Richard w. Firth” <firthrichardw@yahoo.com>Date: Friday, December 16, 2011, 2:44 PM Dear Mr. Firth, Thank you for asking about the truth concerning our search for subcontractors. First, KBR is not a subsidiary of Halliburton, and hasn’t been since April of 2007. KBR intends to respond to an upcoming Request for Proposal. FEMA is looking for companies that can set up temporary camps to house First Responders to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods, etc. The services included in the KBR request for information are ones we cannot provide ourselves and will need companies who can react quickly enough to meet the FEMA goal of having a place for their responders to stay within 72 hours of a call up. The camps will be temporary in nature, and nothing is being “activated”. FEMA is trying to be proactive in preparing for timely responses if emergency responses are required. I hope this answers your question. Regards Bob Siefert Manager – Small Business KBR To summarize, KBR’s Siefert asserts that (1) the camps are temporary; (2) the camps are only being constructed for first responders who will be used in anticipated future natural disasters; and (3) the existing FEMA camps are not being activated. Often in life, there is the stated reason for performing some action and then there is the real reason. Below are some key provisions which are part of the impetus for activating the FEMA camps which are contained in the Siefert KBR memo. “The Continental US will be broken up into five regions as indicated in the map below Services” will be required in each State within each region.” (Author’s note) Interestingly, the South was also broken up into five military districts during the military occupation of the South during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. “(Contractors will) Establish services listed below within 72 hours for initial set-up and respond within 24 hours for incremental services. This is a CONTINGENCY PROJECT and it should be stressed that lead times will be short with critical requirements due to the nature of emergency responses. Subcontractors must be flexible and able to handle multiple, shifting priorities in an emergency environment.” Additionally, the Siefert memo disturbingly calls for the installation of fencing and wire used for large scale detention of prisoners. “Subcontractors will mobilize, transport, erect, install and demobilize temporary fencing, barricades, and associated equipment according to federal, state and local laws, codes and manufacturer installation instructions. The Subcontractor shall be able to mobilize and deploy key personnel(s) within four (4) hours of NTP to meet with KBR Site Manager at the Responder Support Camp (RSC) site in order to finalize the site design plan and acquire site specific design requirements and layout. Number of linear footage: “Approximately 2,300LF for a 301 person camp after 36 hours of NTP" “Approximately 3,600LF for 1,000 person camp after 72 hours of NTP” This sounds like FEMA camp activation to me and it closely parallels the FEMA camp events on the East Coast in the aftermath of Sandy. When a reasonable person compares Siefert’s original memo to his response to Mr. Firth’s inquiry, the latter is clearly a poorly written and a hastily orchestrated version of damage control because his original leaked memo was never meant to see the light of day. The KBR memo called for barricades, barbwire, food, water, sanitation, guards, etc. This is the material that prisons are made of, not temporary housing for first responders as Seifert alleges. Hastily staffed FEMA camp personnel would also fit the definition of first responders in the advent of widespread civil insurrection, George Soros style. Everything Mr. Hines is implying is on display in this communication between KBR and a private citizen. Are we seeing the beginning of a new picture, a new plan, to eradicate many in this country? From Colorado I spoke with Paul Martin in the afternoon of 8/27 and he told me he is working on a story in Colorado in which he is in the process of obtaining pictures of blacked-out, caged busses in Northern Colorado. This is what the old Wackenhut busses looked like and they were contracted for “emergency use” by FEMA. Prelude to Occupation? From a San Diego TV Station Report: The arrest of 30 Chinese and Mexican nationals who had entered the country without authorization led U.S. Border Patrol agents to uncover a clandestine tunnel spanning the U.S.-Mexico border near the Otay Mesa port of entry early Saturday morning. A tunnel opening equipped with a ladder that was discovered near the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 26, 2017, is seen in a photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The officials were patrolling the southern San Diego area, which borders the Mexican city of Tijuana, when around 1:15 a.m. they came across the group of migrants, who appeared to have just entered the country, according to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agents searched the area and uncovered a crude hole in the ground that was outfitted with a ladder and concluded it was used to smuggle humans and illegal goods. The shaft would deposit people coming from Mexico just north of the secondary fence near the port of entry, officials said”…. Clearly, we have foreign troop activity from coast to coast. FEMA is behaving very strangly and now we see a new player entering the domestic scene, namely NATO which has joined the UN in Pennsylvania. The reports I have listed here are only a small sample of what I have been receiving every single day in the past 30 days. Something very big is clearly taking place inside the United States. Has anyone else noticed that President Trump has been strangely silent in the past several days? Is it time to connect these dots? Request From The Common Sense Show There is definitely something big brewing around the country and it just does not only have to do with Hurricane Harvey. It would be easy to claim that martial law (ie Continuity of Government) is in play, or at least it is being rehearsed on a mass scale. However, I think we should gather more data. There is I made the following short video in which I request that information be sent to: davehodges@thecommonsenseshow.com
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Sorry, Joe Biden - The 'Soul' Of America Is Conservative
Wednesday, 30 August 2017 02:54 Brandon Smith
Some political figures truly embody the classic role of the divider; their purpose seems to be to agitate and provoke, to instigate conflict rather than mediate peace. Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi come to mind. Let's not forget John McCain or Lindsay Graham. Barack Obama was known as the "great divider" for much of his presidency. While many leftists would argue that Donald Trump is the "most divisive" president in generations, I think the mainstream media has proven far more provoking than he has. In the case of Charlottesville, we see a whole host of individuals and institutions seeking to promulgate continued social tensions well beyond anything Trump has done. One of these individuals is Joe Biden. In a short essay for The Atlantic, Joe Biden was quick to capitalize on the death of a protester in Charlottesville at the hands of an apparent white nationalist, spewing forth a host of cliches on "dark forces" creeping out from the hidden corners of America to smother the light and happiness of the silent Kumbaya majority like some kind of J.R.R. Tolkien novel. This narrative is nothing new. It is the narrative that was promoted throughout the 2016 presidential election cycle as well as the Brexit debate in the U.K. — the notion that dangerous and "ignorant" portions of the citizenry in western society (labeled "populists") are quietly organizing for a last stand against the "inevitable evolution" of progressive multiculturalism and globalism. They are presented as the throwbacks, the cave people, the Cro-Magnons, the people who refuse to get with the times and embrace the social justice revolution. They are, according to gatekeepers like Biden, in the way. While a host of names and labels are used to define this group of malcontents preventing society from achieving full-blown Utopia, we all know who establishment snake oil peddlers are really referring to: conservatives. The racism subplot to this scripted conflict has always been present. When the vote on the U.K. exit from the European Union proved successful, the automatic accusation in the media was that this was driven by "hidden racism," along with the consistent idea that older generations were trying to live off the backs of younger generations while interfering with "natural" shifts in cultural consciousness. These claims were greatly amplified during the rise of the Trump administration. I have to say, these assertions are fascinating to me. The amount of propaganda and projection involved is truly staggering. Biden's hope along with other establishment con-men, I believe, is that he can continue to simplify the narrative down to a series of false associations. White nationalists were present at Charlottesville? Indeed. White nationalists were standing in defense of the confederate statue issue? Yes. White nationalists faced off against Antifa counter-protesters? Certainly. A white nationalist drove his car into a group of counter-protesters and killed one of them? It would seem so, though I still think the man deserves a fair trial before being convicted in the media. But here is where Biden and his ilk deliberately go off the rails in order to incite wider tensions... At this point, the narrative moves from facts to wild assumptions and misconceptions. White nationalists were present in Charlottesville, but does this mean everyone (or even most people) in Charlottesville protesting in defense against the removal of confederate statues was a racist? No. Does this mean that people who support the existence of confederate statues are automatically racists? No. Does this mean that anyone that stands in opposition to groups like Antifa is a racist or a fascist? No. Just because one man acted violently in response to Antifa and other leftists groups, does this mean that Antifa represents the "good guys" in Biden's little screenplay? No. But this is the story we are being sold. Not just by Biden, but by many other political interests. I would specifically reference a recent panel of Trump supporters by CNN, during which the "journalist" was dismayed to discover that none of the people involved was willing to play along with the message that Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville was anything other than logical. I want readers to take note of a specific assertion made by CNN, as well as Biden, here — the assertion that it is the job of leftist groups like Antifa to "fight" or even destroy "hate groups" or "fascist groups." CNN outright compares Charlottesville to World War II, claiming that because the allies were justified in going to war with Nazis back then, that Antifa is justified in going to war with "Nazis" today. But again, when you consider the reality that Antifa and similar groups associate all conservatives with fascism, this narrative opens the door to a level of intolerance and violence that is unacceptable and also misplaced. Beyond that, it seems to me that CNN, Biden and others are happily supporting the false assumption that "hate speech" is not protected speech in America. I don't personally care for the white nationalist platform, being that skin color and genetic background is ultimately irrelevant, and as I noted in my last article, some of these groups end up being led by government paid provocateurs. But these groups still have the Constitutional right to protest grievances in public spaces. It does not matter how distasteful one person or another finds them to be. Laughably, Biden spends the majority of his diatribe in The Atlantic admonishing the very existence of these groups as if they are a threat to the constitution. Stating: "The giant forward steps we have taken in recent years on civil liberties and civil rights and human rights are being met by a ferocious pushback from the oldest and darkest forces in America. Are we really surprised they rose up? Are we really surprised they lashed back? Did we really think they would be extinguished with a whimper rather than a fight? ...Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate. We have an American president who has emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support ....This is a moment for this nation to declare what the president can't with any clarity, consistency or conviction: There is no place for these hate groups in America. Hatred of blacks, Jews, immigrants — all who are seen as "the other" — won't be accepted or tolerated or given safe harbor anywhere in this nation." Biden has the audacity to concoct this fallacy and then associate it with the "defense of the constitution" at the end of the article. I guess the "medal of freedom" he received as a surprise gift from Barack Obama was just a meaningless trinket after all. I don't know that anyone claimed a "moral equivalency" between racists and people opposed to racism. That is not what the confederate statue issue is about anyway. What I do know, though, is that under the law every group present at Charlottesville had a Constitutional right to be there, regardless of how Biden or others view their "morals." I would point out that many people, myself included, actually find the communistic fanaticism of Antifa and other social justice groups to be a much greater threat to the freedom and stability of our nation than anything white nationalist groups promote. But many conservatives, myself included, still defend Antifa's right to free speech in public places as long as they do not interfere in the free speech rights of others. This is something leftist groups are not willing to do. These groups should be thanking their lucky stars for conservatives and conservative principles, otherwise they might have been stomped out of existence a long time ago. It is conservative thought that defends the rights of any group or individual, acting in accordance with the law, to speak freely in public forums. It is conservative thought that defends the speech of Antifa. It is conservative thought that defends the existence of confederate statues. And yes, it is conservative thought that defends the speech of white nationalists and many others. This does not mean we necessarily agree with any particular group's position. The nature of the speech is irrelevant. In this kind of open social environment, ideas can do battle, rather than people. When one group begins to assert preeminence and says the speech of others is now unprotected, the door is opened wide to battles between people, rather than ideas. If a person does not agree with certain views, they can always go back home, or back to their own private websites and forums. But, as soon as they enter the public sphere, they are not entitled to insulation from the ideas of other people. What Biden and others are championing is at bottom the ideology of "futurism," a movement launched in Europe and Russia in the early 20th Century driven by violent change or extermination of traditional principles. Futurism is often credited as being a precursor to both fascist and Bolshevist political movements (as well as globalism), and its core mantra is that all "new" ideas and systems must take precedence over old ideas and systems. New generations must advance the dominance of their ideologies over older generations. Heritage must die out. Traditions must be abandoned. Progress must be pursued. The problem is, there are very few "new" ideas in the world. In cultural terms, society is cyclical. The same ideas come and go over the centuries; rehashed and rebranded, but certainly not new. What Antifa represents is classic communism and cultural Marxism. These are old ideals. The destruction of a nation's history and heritage in the name of expedient political progress and "social justice" is a classic strategy turned into a science by the likes of Lenin and Mao. And this strategy is merely an extension of one of the oldest ideas ever — collectivist tyranny. If we are to be honest here, the conservative philosophy of individual freedom and Constitutional liberty as a foundation of political life is the newest of ideas to be adopted by any culture in human history. When we examine the mindset of the average American, there is definitely a sizable division. But, one thing the vast majority of us agree on is that government power is not to be trusted. Only 20% of Americans today believe the government will "do what is right" most of the time. The largest ideological group in the US according to recent polls continues to be conservatives. Conservative principles of limited government and individual liberty are the bedrock upon which America was founded. While many Democrats (and some Republicans) will insist upon larger government as the solution to all our societal ills, this is predicated on the notion that THEY are in control of that government. Place a host of Republicans in seats of power in Washington and the liberals become just as distrustful of the establishment as any hardcore libertarian (aka - true conservative). You see, the fact is that most people are really conservative at heart until they think they have the reins of government in their hands. What Biden and other establishment elites want is to use government power as a temptation; a prize that will corrupt anyone that attains it and alienate anyone that doesn't. In the case of his Atlantic article, Biden is luring leftists into stupidity and ruin. Biden WANTS domestic strife and conflict. He wants the left to think they are fighting a righteous fight when they on the wrong side of history not to mention nothing more than cannon fodder. And they think he is actually on their side... Biden claims that today we are in a battle "for America's soul," but the reality is that establishment elites and the useful idiots they employ are seeking to suffocate the soul of our nation so that they can build their own vision on top of the ashes. This is what futurists do. This is what communists and fascists do. This is what globalists do. America has survived as long as it has because some ideas never become outdated. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution itself is merely the legal embodiment of the eternal principles of natural law and individual liberty. What is new is the idea that these principles must be protected by government, that they actually RESTRICT government, and that, in fact, the only job government should really be concerned with is to ensure the continuation of these restrictions on leadership and these freedoms for citizens. This is conservative. This is the soul of America. You cannot call for the exact opposite and still claim you are a champion of America's soul.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3265-sorry-joe-biden-the-soul-of-america-is-conservative
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Houston Flooding: Climate Change or Morality Change?
August 29, 2017
Is the flooding in Houston the result of man’s sins against God, or the left’s false narrative of climate change? Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles prays for those displaced by Hurricane Harvey, and calls for Christians to return to the path of righteousness. Rick also shares prophecies from Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj and Pamela Banda, which predicted the calamity which has befallen the Lone Star state, and discusses the latest North Korean missile launch as America approaches September 11th.
http://www.trunews.com/article/houston-flooding-climate-change-or-morality-change
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Heaviest rain in history: Catastrophic scenes in Houston as 200,000 people are forced from their homes by flooding and 10,000 survivors fill convention center to TWICE its capacity after Harvey breaks American rainfall record
The George R Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas, has a capacity of up to 5,000 people
However, Monday night 9,021 flood evacuees crammed into the center, sleeping on chairs and even the floor
People continued to flock to the overcrowded shelter Tuesday as Houston plans to open more mega-shelters
US Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said there are about 20,000 Harvey evacuees in shelters
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards offered to take in evacuees from Texas even as southwest Louisiana suffers from flooding and hundreds of people were evacuated on Monday night and Tuesday morning
Record for rainfall for a tropical system was set Tuesday for continental US - 51.88inches in Cedar Bayou
Mayor Sylvester Turner implemented an overnight curfew Tuesday from 12am to 5am to prevent crime
Residents near Columbia Lakes were told Tuesday morning to leave immediately after a levee was breached
Chemical plant Arkema SA in Crosby, Texas, was evacuated Tuesday because of the rising risk of an explosion
Residents within 1.5miles of the chemical facility were also told to evacuate as a 'precautionary measure'
Public health officials warned flooding increases risk of many illnesses including bacterial and viral infections
At least 18 are dead but it is likely that number will rise as the floods recede and more victims are found
Though military help has been limited, up to 30,000 National Guard troops could be called on to help in Texas
By Associated Press and Reuters and Afp and Ann Schmidt For Dailymail.com Published: 21:13 EDT, 29 August 2017 | Updated: 09:26 EDT, 30 August 2017
Hurricane Harvey has dumped the most rain on the continental US in history it was revealed today - as catastrophic scenes unfold in Houston with shelters overwhelmed with survivors, a curfew in place to prevent looting, dams overflowing and a chemical plant at risk of exploding. According to Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, there are currently about 20,000 Hurricane Harvey evacuees in shelters. Many of Houston's evacuees are crammed into the city's convention center which is now overcrowded with 10,000 evacuees - double what officials initially planned. The George R Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas, has a capacity of up to 5,000 people, but Monday night 9,021 people stayed in the center, many sleeping on chairs and on the floor because of a shortage of cots. Others were being sent to the Toyota Center, the arena that is home to the Houston Rockets NBA team. Houston's mayor said the convention center would remain as the primary shelter in Houston. More people continued to flock to the city's overcrowded main shelter Tuesday as floodwaters kept rising after five consecutive days of rain that set a new continental US record for rainfall for a tropical system. In Cedar Bayou, Texas, rains reached 51.88inches Tuesday afternoon, the record for Texas and the continental US, but does not pass the record of 52inches of rain in Kauai, Hawaii in 1950 from Tropical Cyclone Hiki. That record was set before Hawaii became a state. The previous continental US record was 48inches set in 1978 in Medina, Texas, by Tropical Storm Amelia. A weather station southeast of Houston reported 49.32inches of rain as of Tuesday morning. There are initial reports that at least 18 people have died from the storm and its aftermath, however, the complete death toll can't be fully counted until after the floodwaters recede. And though the military has been limited in its ability to help in rescue and recovery efforts by weather and flooding, Air Force Major General James Witham said up to 30,000 National Guard troops could be called on to help in Texas. Federal and local agencies say they have rescued more than 13,000 people in the Houston area as well as in surrounding cities and counties in Southeast Texas since Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the area with torrential rain. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday his agency has rescued about 4,100 people. Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says they have rescued more than 3,000. Parisa Safarzadeh, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office says her agency has rescued more than 3,000 people. Houston is located in Harris County. US Coast Guard Lt Mike Hart says his agency has rescued more than 3,000 individuals. Hart says the Coast Guard total includes rescues in Houston, but also in outlying cities and subdivisions outside of Houston, as well as in surrounding counties, including Brazoria, Galveston and Matagorda. On Wednesday morning, Singapore's defense ministry says as many as four of its military helicopters will start assisting in Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts. The CH-47 Chinook helicopters are stationed in Grand Prairie, Texas, as part of a decades-long partnership between the Republic of Singapore Air Force and Texas National Guard. Singaporean airmen who train there learn how to face large-scale emergencies. The ministry says the helicopters will be able to airlift troops, evacuees and supplies in the relief effort. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the offer in a call with President Donald Trump late Tuesday. Both leaders are set to meet at the White House in October. Singapore made a similar offer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Air Force Major General Witham, the director of dometic operations for the National Guard Bureau, told reporters there are currently about 3,500 National Guard troops involved in Harvey rescue efforts, including 3,000 from the Texas National Guard. He estimated that the Texas guard number could rise to 8,000 to 10,000 in coming days, possibly joined by 20,000 to 30,000 from other states. He said the military is providing everything that has been requested by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, although the response is constrained by the stormy weather and by flooding that limits use of roadways. He said weather has limited the use of military helicopters over the past two or three days, so the Guard has instead used boats and ground vehicles to rescue stranded residents in the Houston area. Besides the additional National Guard troops from other states, there are about 1,000 active-duty military forces in position to provide assistance if called up by civilian authorities, he said. Asked whether Texas authorities recognized the magnitude of the disaster quickly enough, Witham said, 'That's debatable.' He said in some respects the need was recognized quickly. But the extraordinary amount of rainfall and flooding exceeded what state planners could have foreseen. 'So if you're looking at an event that only occurs every few hundred years, the planning that would have normally occurred for that probably wasn't here,' Witham said. 'So, in many cases, the request for assistance, not only for the National Guard but federal forces, may not have been anticipated quickly enough.' As waters continue to rise, public health officials are warning that flooding increases the risk of illnesses ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease. On Monday afternoon the town of Dickinson issued a mandatory evacuation order and residents near Columbia Lakes in Brazoria County were told Tuesday morning to leave immediately after a levee was breached. Residents within 1.5miles of a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, were evacuated on Tuesday as a 'precautionary measure' because of the rising risk of an explosion, the local fire marshal's office said in a Twitter message. More than 17,000 people have sought refuge in Texas shelters and that number seemed certain to increase, the American Red Cross said. As people continue to flock to the overcrowded George R Brown Convention Center, Houston is planning to open a few other 'mega-shelters' for evacuees. 'We are not turning anyone away. But it does mean we need to expand our capabilities and our capacity,' Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said. 'Relief is coming. Televangelist Joel Osteen opened his Houston megachurch, a 16,000-seat former arena that was the longtime home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, on Tuesday as a shelter after social media critics slammed him for not offering to house people in need while Harvey swamps the city. Osteen announced the effort in a tweet, saying he and wife Victoria Osteen 'care deeply about our fellow Houstonians'. Later in the day, the Toyota Center was accepting people who could not find space at the convention center. However the arena had only 500 cots added to its floor because the convention center will remain the primary shelter for Harvey evacuees. Mayor Turner said Tuesday night that people will still have to go to the convention center first before going into the Toyota Center. Tom McCasland, Houston's housing and community development director, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the Toyota Center will serve as an overflow center for people still arriving Tuesday night and early Wednesday. It will only serve families with children that don't have pressing medical needs. McCasland says more cots are on the way for thousands of people who didn't have one Monday night. Some people slept on towels or strips of cardboard. He says, 'We fully expect to have everyone in a cot tonight.' Turner said Tuesday night that because Houston police have been spread thin due to ongoing water rescues and other efforts, 50 Texas National Guard members will be stationed at the convention center to provide security. Houston officials opened a major shelter at NRG Park that can accommodate up to 10,000 evacuees. Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said the convention center adjacent to the city's NFL stadium and the Astrodome opened at 10pm Tuesday. Mayor Turner also said Tuesday the city has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for more supplies, including cots and food, for additional 10,000 people, which he hopes to get no later than Wednesday. The mayor also issued an overnight curfew beginning on Tuesday night for an indefinite period amid incidents of looting, armed robberies and people impersonating police officers. The curfew will run from 10pm until 5am and Houston is bringing additional police from other regions, Turner said in a news conference Tuesday evening. 'You cannot drive, nor be in any public place. We have had problems with armed robberies, with people with guns and firearms,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said. Those who violate the curfew will be questioned, searched and arrested, Acevedo said. The curfew comes after fourteen people were arrested for looting in the Houston area over the past 48 hours, as floodwaters from Harvey continue to devastate the region. Officials said Tuesday night they have received disturbing reports of people impersonating Homeland Security special agents and telling residents to evacuate in order to rob their homes. The city of Houston says people should ask anyone knocking on their doors for official badges and credentials with their name and organization. The city's statement also notes that during Harvey relief efforts, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not conducting immigration enforcement operations in the area. The city also says in a tweet in both English and Spanish that it is not checking the immigration status of anyone coming into shelters. On Tuesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards offered to take in Harvey victims from Texas. Edwards said he expects Texas officials to decide within 48 hours whether to accept the offer, which comes as Louisiana is also helping its own residents who were rescued from Harvey's floodwaters overnight. About 500 people were evacuated Monday night and early Tuesday from flooded neighborhoods in southwest Louisiana, and about 200 spent the night in area shelters, Edwards said. Meteorologists have said Harvey will spend much of Wednesday dropping rain on Louisiana before moving on to Arkansas, Tennessee and parts of Missouri, which could also see flooding. National Hurricane Center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said that Houston would soon get a chance to dry out and that when the storm returns to land Wednesday, 'it's the end of the beginning'. But Feltgen cautioned: 'We're not done with this. There's still an awful lot of real estate and a lot of people who are going to feel the impacts of the storm.' The National Weather Service predicted less of an inch of rain for Houston on Wednesday and only a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms for Thursday. Friday's forecast called for mostly sunny skies with a high near 94. President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday, and the White House said his stops in Corpus Christi and Austin were meant to highlight coordination at all levels of government and lay the groundwork for what is expected to be a lengthy recovery after the storm. Trump traveled with the secretaries of health and human services and housing and urban development, and the head of the Small Business Administration. The president raised spirits as he addressed a crowd of fans at a firehouse in Corpus Christi, telling them: 'This is historic, it's epic, what happened, but you know what, it happened in Texas. Texas can handle anything.' He promised to take care of survivors and help with rescue efforts, saying: 'We love you. You are special. We are here to take care of you.' 'This was of epic proportion. Nobody's ever seen anything like this,' said Trump before praising Texas Governor Greg Abbott as being 'terrific' in the face of catastrophe. He commended the emergency services but said cautiously: 'We'll congratulate each other when it's all finished.' The day before, Abbott had visited some of the devastated areas before he gave an update on the aftermath of the storm in a press conference. 'A Texas-sized storm requires a Texas-sized response, and that is exactly what the state will provide,' he said Monday. 'While we have suffered a great deal, the resiliency and bravery of Texan's spirits is something that can never be broken. As communities are coming together in the aftermath of this storm, I will do everything in my power to make sure they have what they need to rebuild.' FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, estimates that 30,000 will be in need of shelter by the time the storm passes and there is already an estimated $40billion in damage. The agency also estimates that more than 450,000 people are likely to seek federal aid. The organization has around $3billion in its disaster relief fund but the sum is dwindling. The storm has also crippled the country's oil trade, hampering 16per cent of the US's refineries, which are in the danger zone. US lawmakers have already begun contemplating the massive rebuilding costs, leaving some Republicans in a tricky spot after they opposed federal aid when a storm devastated eastern states in 2012. Flooding has damaged or destroyed thousands of homes, crippled infrastructure, washed away businesses and left the economic future of the region under a cloud. Just how heavy a financial toll the storm will take on the southern US economy was unclear Tuesday, as the focus remained on rescue operations, many of them being carried out in the hard-hit Houston area. But the storm, which on Tuesday was tilting toward neighboring Louisiana, has the potential to be one of the costliest natural disasters in US history, and lawmakers have already broached the subject of recovery funding. 'I believe we need to put an aid package together for $150 billion' for emergency relief and recovery from Harvey, House Democrat Sheila Jackson-Lee, whose Houston district remained largely underwater, told CNN. That staggering amount is 2.5 times the funding approved by Congress and allocated by the federal government following superstorm Sandy, which caused widespread devastation in eastern states including New York, New Jersey and Maryland when it struck in October 2012. Despite the clear need for federal government intervention after that storm, 179 Republican lawmakers -- including 23 of Texas's 24 House members -- opposed the Sandy Relief Act. The snub appalled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who at the time savaged his fellow Republicans as 'absolutely disgraceful.' Their votes are suddenly back in the spotlight, as lawmakers still on their summer recess sniped across social media. Republican Congressman Peter King of New York called out Senator Ted Cruz of Texas by name Monday in a stinging rebuke, saying he would vote for post-Harvey aid despite fellow Republicans opposing Sandy relief. 'NY wont abandon Texas,' King tweeted. '1 bad turn doesnt deserve another.' A New Jersey Democrat offered similar thoughts. 'Despite my TX colleagues refusal to support aid in #SouthJersey time of need, I will support emergency disaster $ for those impacted,' Congressman Frank LoBiondo said Monday on Twitter. Cruz, a Tea Party hero and defender of fiscal austerity, insisted he opposed the Sandy bill because it contained excessive 'pork' -- targeted government spending that benefits a lawmaker's constituents -- unrelated to storm recovery 'Of course, the federal government has a critical role in disaster relief,' Cruz said on CNN. 'But you should not have members of Congress that are exploiting disasters to fund their pet projects, and so there will be time for all of those debates in Washington.' One estimate, by Enki Research, already puts the Harvey damage at $42billion. But with the storm forecast to churn along the Gulf coast for at least two more days, that estimate could surge. In Brazoria County, Texas, authorities posted a message on Twitter Tuesday morning warning that the levee at Columbia Lakes south of Houston had been breached and telling people to 'GET OUT NOW!!' Brazoria County Judge Matt Sebesta said residents were warned that the levee would be overtopped at some point, and a mandatory evacuation order was given Sunday. The levee was later fortified, but officials said they did not know how long the work would hold. Engineers began releasing water from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs Monday to ease the strain on the dams. But the releases were not enough to relieve the pressure after one of the heaviest downpours in US history, Army Corps of Engineers officials said. Both reservoirs are at record highs, with the Addicks even overspilled at 108ft. The release of the water means that more homes and streets will flood, and some homes will be inundated for up to a month, said Jeff Lindner of the Harris County Flood Control District. The county is trying to determine where the water will go, Lindner said. The bridge is on Woodforest Boulevard over Greens Bayou has collapsed and drinking water in Lake Forest is no longer safe due to a loss of water pressure. Residents there must now boil water before drinking it and using it for cooking or brushing their teeth. Meanwhile, major Houston prisons have been evacuated to save inmates from the floods. Six thousand prisoners have been bused to other correctional facilities across the state. On Tuesday, the owner of the chemical plant, Arkema SA, said in a statement the situation at its southeast Texas plant 'has become serious' and evacuated all of its staff from the facility in Crosby, Texas. Crosby is about 25 miles northeast of Houston and in the 2010 US census had a population of 2,300 people. 'As a protective measure Harris County has evacuated all residents within 1.5 miles of the Arkema facility,' said a Twitter message from the Harris County Fire Marshal Office. 'There is a potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire at the facility, which could produce a large amount of black smoke,' the fire marshal, citing Arkema, said. 'While we do not believe there is any imminent danger, the potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire and/or explosion within the site confines is real,' the company said. Arkema said the plant has been hit by more than 40 inches of rain, was heavily flooded and without electricity since Sunday. Back-up generators have largely been swamped. Maintaining refrigeration for chemicals that must be stored at low temperature is key, the company said. After losing generators, workers transferred products from the warehouses into diesel-powered refrigerated containers. But the floodwaters also compromised the back-up containers, and the company is monitoring temperature levels remotely, it said. The Arkema plant in Crosby produces organic peroxides. It has been closed since Friday but had a skeletal staff of about a dozen in place. Other Texas chemical plants have also shuttered production because of the storm. Anglo-Swiss chemicals firm Ineos Group Holdings SA said it has been forced to shut Chocolate Bayou Works and Battleground Manufacturing Complex. INEOS Nitriles' Green Lake facility are following hurricane procedures and are temporarily shut down, spokesman Charles Saunders said. Huntsman Corp said it has closed six chemical plants in Texas, along with its global headquarters and advanced technology center in Texas. US public health officials warned Monday that flooding increases the risk of ills ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease. The most immediate health risk is from drowning, especially for people trapped in vehicles, said Renee Funk, associate director for emergency management of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators is another threat. 'Unfortunately, we expect there will be people who die from that and people will be poisoned from it,' Funk said in a telephone interview. But simply wading in floodwaters could cause skin rashes because so much of the water is contaminated with toxic chemicals that get washed out of people's garages and tool sheds. 'The number one thing we're concerned with in a flood is chemicals,' said Funk, who advises people to shower and wash their hands immediately after contact with floodwaters. Mosquito-borne disease is less of an immediate threat because the floodwaters will wash out most mosquito breeding sites for disease-causing mosquitoes such Aedes aegypti, which spread Zika, chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever, she said. Floods typically cause a rise in nuisance mosquitoes, such as the Culex variety, and these, too, can carry disease. A year after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, regions in Louisiana and Mississippi affected by the flood reported a doubling of cases of neuroinvasive West Nile virus - cases in which the virus caused severe inflammation in the brain or spinal cord, said Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. 'A year from now, we'll have to look very closely at West Nile and other mosquito-borne viruses,' said Hotez, who is riding out the storm from his Houston home while his lab at Baylor is closed. In the immediate aftermath of Harvey, bacterial diseases are a concern, although cholera, a scourge in the wake of many natural disasters in developing countries, is likely not a worry in Houston, he said. 'Bacterial infections are really important, such as salmonella and E. coli infections,' Hotez said. Shelters could also pose a public health risk, said Dr Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. 'If you are in a small enclosed area in an alternate care facility and you have really bad diarrhea, it's going to be hard in these situations to practice proper infection control.' Although forecasters had feared that another two feet of rain could fall in some places, it appeared that the outlook had improved somewhat on Tuesday. The weather service said the amount of rain falling in the Houston area would be two to three inches, perhaps a little less in Houston proper, as the storm moved east. But southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana still would see 'relentless torrential rains', with another six to 12 inches of rain across the upper Texas coast through Friday as Harvey continues to move slowly east over the Gulf of Mexico maintaining tropical storm force winds of 45mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It is expected to make landfall again Wednesday morning, probably in southwestern Louisiana. Calls for rescue have so overwhelmed emergency teams that they have had little time to search for bodies. And officials acknowledge that fatalities from Harvey could soar once the floodwaters start to recede from one of America's most sprawling metropolitan centers. More than four days after the storm ravaged the Texas coastline as a Category 4 hurricane, authorities had confirmed only four deaths - including a woman killed Monday when heavy rains dislodged a large oak tree onto her trailer home in the small town of Porter. But unconfirmed reports of others missing or presumed dead were growing. 'We know in these kinds of events that, sadly, the death toll goes up historically,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told The Associated Press. 'I'm really worried about how many bodies we're going to find.' One Houston woman said Monday that she presumes six members of a family, including four of her grandchildren, died after their van sank into Greens Bayou in East Houston. Virginia Saldivar told The Associated Press her brother-in-law was driving the van Sunday when a strong current took the vehicle over a bridge and into the bayou. The driver was able to get out and urged the children to escape through the back door, Saldivar said, but they could not. 'I'm just hoping we find the bodies,' Saldivar said. Houston emergency officials could not confirm the deaths. Authorities in Houston did confirm Tuesday that a 60-year-old city police officer drowned in his patrol car after he became trapped in high water while driving to work. Sgt Steve Perez had been with the force for 34 years. A spokeswoman for a Houston hotel said one of its employees disappeared while helping about 100 guests and workers evacuate the building. Beaumont police say a woman has died after she and her young daughter were swept into a rain-swollen drainage canal while trying to escape their stalled vehicle. A police statement said the woman pulled her vehicle into an office park's flooded parking lot about 3.35pm Tuesday, where it became stalled by high water. The woman then took her daughter, exited the car and was swept about a half-mile away. Two Beaumont police officers and two fire-rescue divers in a rubber boat spotted the mother floating with the child, who was holding onto her mother. Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat. The child was responsive but suffering from hypothermia; the mother was unresponsive and efforts to revive her failed. The child is hospitalized in stable condition. Harris County confirmed the storm-related death of 64-year-old Alexander Kwoksum Sung, who drowned at a clock repair business Sunday in Houston. He was found in more than a foot of debris on Monday. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences updated its storm-related deaths Tuesday night to include an 89-year-old woman, Agnes Stanley, who was found floating in four feet of floodwater in a home. A 76-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was found floating in floodwater near a vehicle. A 45-year-old man, Travis Lynn Callihan, left his vehicle and fell into floodwaters. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday. The disaster is unfolding on an epic scale, with the nation's fourth-largest city mostly paralyzed by the storm that arrived as a Category 4 hurricane and then parked over the Gulf Coast. The Houston metro area covers about 10,000 square miles, an area slightly bigger than New Jersey. Harvey kept drenching Houston and the surrounding area. Rain fell Tuesday at about half an inch per hour over Harris County - home to Houston - and up to two inches per hour to the east. Forecasters expect the storm to linger over the Gulf before heading back inland east of Houston sometime Wednesday. The system will then head north and lose its tropical strength. It could creep as far east as Mississippi by Thursday, meaning New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed its full wrath in 2005, is in Harvey's path. Foreboding images of Harvey lit up weather radar screens early Tuesday, the 12th anniversary of the day Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish. The impact of the storm on the lives of residents in the danger zone is unfathomable. Many have no idea of the extent of the damage in their homes and are now fearing the financial torment they may now face. Mayor Turner pleaded for help from other cities and plugged charity relief funds to care for the thousands of Houston residents in crisis. Huge fundraising efforts are underway by the Red Cross. The New York Stock Exchange has donated $1million and Facebook has raised more than $1million as well. Celebrities including actor Kevin Hart and Real Housewives of New York star and business mogul Bethenny Frankel have pledged more than $50,000 combined. NFL Houston Texans' player JJ Watt raised more than $4.7million for Hurricane Harvey victims on aYouCaring page by Tuesday night. The cost of the storm will extend beyond state lines. Experts at Goldman Sachs say it is likely to reduce GDP growth by 0.2per cent. Oil prices surged as supplies became suddenly precarious on Tuesday. The full extent of the damage is not yet clear and won't be for some time. For now, charities and volunteers are focusing on the immediate needs of the people who have been displaced. Dallas is preparing super shelters for thousands of displaced residents. On Monday afternoon, military planes transported the first evacuees to the Lively Point Youth Center in Irving. The space has capacity for about 200 evacuees and the shelter will be run by the Red Cross and City of Irving employees. The city's emergency management coordinator said they are planning for the shelters to run 'long term'. Evacuees and those working the shelters have and will be vetted through criminal background checks. The City of Dallas is also planning to host more than 5,000 evacuees in a shelter at the convention center. Over the weekend, Mayor Turner asked anyone with a boat to help with efforts. Many Texans responded bravely to his call to arms and were out in force on Saturday saving vulnerable neighbors and strangers from the floods. 'The goal is rescue. That's the major focus for the day. We want to focus on getting them out of their homes or whatever their stressful situation may be,' he said. Hospitals asked Monday for trained nurses to volunteer at their centers, which were overflowing with patients. As Houston struggles with the storm's aftermath, help from other states and cities is pouring in. One Michigan-based company has donated 22,000 kayaks to help residents get around as the flood waters cease to drain. On Monday night, 11 people had to be rescued after one private boat of volunteers capsized. They were all rescued by the Houston Fire Department and none have serious injuries. Earlier this week, Mayor Turner came under fire for his decision not to evacuate Houston, but he said it would have caused more chaos to send millions of people on the roads without a well-organized evacuation plan. And when the storm began on Friday, Houston was not immediately hit. It was safe from the battering winds which tore apart towns on the coast and many felt confident enough to remain in their homes. However as the storm moved further inland on Saturday and Saturday, floods - the likes of which the city has never before seen - swept through. The city woke up to a water world and many, with no alternative, swam to safety or climbed in to rescue boats. Even in homes which are not flooded, residents are running out of food and water and some cannot safely make their way to grocery stores. Those who do make it there face snaking lines and empty shelves inside the stores. And according to several utility companies, more than 280,000 people were without power on Monday. Now, many are trapped in their homes with no way out. They have been left to wait for rescue boats but the situation is bleak. With 911 operation centers inundated, panicked residents turned to social media to be saved. They shared pictures of frightened children cowering on kitchen work tops as water covered the floors of their homes. Oliver Simpson, 35, a father of four from west Houston, is stuck in his home with his children. He told DailyMail.com on Monday: 'It's horrible. I feel helpless - sitting with no power and just waiting to see what happens. And we have it so much better than many others. 'I have a neighbor who had a tree fall on his garage, it went across a gas line. There is a gas leak and despite calls to 911 still no one been out. That was at 4am this morning. 'To be clear, authorities are doing everything they can [there are] just many people in far worse situation than us.' Six members of the same family died by drowning in their van as they tried to escape Harvey's floods on Saturday, according to other members of the family. KHOU reports that the victims - four children under the age of 16 and their grandparents - were traveling in a van being driven by their great uncle near Greens Bayou when they ran into trouble. He was able to escape as water rushed in to the vehicle but the others could not and he watched as they perished in the water, other relatives said. The official death toll on Saturday was two - meaning authorities have so far been able to confirm two deaths. They are inundated with crisis situations, however and are therefore redirecting attention to rescuing people who are trapped. This makes it difficult to deliver an exact number but the total was reported as five on Sunday.
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Addicks Reservoir -Houston- BREACHED; Water Pouring over top of Spillway at of 8:06 AM EDT
According to the Harris County, Texas, Flood System, the major reservoir "Addicks" has now over-topped its spillway, sending thousands of cubic feet of water per minute into Houston. This is now on top of the catastrophic flooding already taking place in that city! The chart below, from the Texes Flood System shows the nightmare as it's happening: To view this official information yourself, click HERE to get to the Texas Flood System web site. Below is a map of Houston showing the geographic location of the mile-long Addicks Reservoir in the northwest part of the city. The Addicks Reservoir and Addicks Dam in conjunction with the Barker Reservoir prevent downstream flooding of Buffalo Bayou in the City of Houston. Both reservoirs were authorized under the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 20, 1938, which were modified by the Flood Control Acts of August 11, 1938; September 3, 1954; and October 27, 1965. Below is a graphic showing the layout of the Reservoir system and the "Buffalo Bayou River" that is now being flooded by the over-topped Addicks Reservoir. It will lead directly to massive flooding (on top of the existing flooding) right into the center of Houston:
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Houston Mayor Orders Curfew To Prevent Looting, Warns Bridges And Roads Are "Starting To Fail"
by Tyler Durden Aug 30, 2017 3:28 AM
Update: Houston's Mayor imposed a curfew on Tuesday after the US city saw record rainfall and catastrophic flooding in the wake of tropical storm Harvey. The curfew will start at midnight and end at 5am, Mayor Sylvester Turner explained. Originally it was supposed to start earlier (as per his tweet below), but Turner said he wanted "to allow volunteers and others to do their great work." The curfew is intended to prevent property crimes against evacuated homes in the city, he added... Police Chief Art Acevedo said at an earlier news conference that curfew violators will be stopped, questioned, searched and arrested. There have been scattered reports of looting during the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. We detailed earlier that as Tropical Storm Harvey heads back inland, slamming southwest Texas with another 15-25 inches of rain, Housting officials are reporting that the city's critical infrastructure is starting to fail under the weight of the floodwaters, and may soon collapse. According to Reuters, roads and bridges in Houston have started to buckle under the impact of the catastrophic flooding in parts of the city. According to Jeff Linder of the Harris County Flood Control District, one bridge had collapsed and some roads had been damaged by the torrential rains. Worse, the damage is far from over. As reported yesterday, the water levels at two reservoirs to the west of the city, where more than 3,000 homes have been flooded, continue to rise. Meanwhile, Buffalo Bayou, the primary drainage system that runs through the city, is holding steady and may not recede for days, said Edmond Russo, deputy engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers. According to USGS data, the Buffalo Bayou has recorded a record 33 inches of rain, and another 20 is expected in the coming 48 hours. Linder said the level of the Houston Ship Channel, which opens out into Galveston Bay was "at levels we've never seen before", slowing the bayou's ability to drain. Two major dams outside Houston have also begun to overflow, according to the BBC. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that one police officer has been killed since the flooding began. The Houston police chief says the officer's body was recovered Tuesday morning. He apparently died when floodwaters overcame his vehicle as he tried to get to his post. Meanwhile, the Port of Houston is reporting that all facilities will remain closed on Wednesday, leaving oil tankers carrying an estimated 17 million barrels of crude oil stranded off shore with their cargo. At least nine people have died as a result of the flooding, including six members of one family. Floodwaters have swept away some of the concrete barrier at the San Jacinto Bridge... If he is right, the dire forecast by Imperial Capital analyst David Havens who predicted that the final Harvey cost would surpass $100 billion, or 3 times more than what most believe the Harvey damages will amount to, will prove to be pleasantly optimistic in retrospect.
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Did Google violate James Damore’s Section 7 rights?
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP USA August 28 2017
Much of the employment law commentary about Google’s termination of engineer James Damore for his so-called “anti-diversity screed” (notwithstanding the sensational headlines, it was arguably a relatively sober memorandum questioning the effectiveness of certain types of diversity efforts specific to Google) has been misdirected, focusing on the First Amendment rights of free speech and at-will employment. But Mr. Damore filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that he was terminated for engaging in “protected concerted activity” under Section 7 of the NLRA and in retaliation for exercising his rights. He may have a case. Under Section 7, employees have the right to engage in speech or make complaints about how an employer is doing things that could have an effect on more than just the one employee complaining or speaking. As we have previously reported, the NLRB in recent years has found that individual complaints about discrimination in the workplace are protected concerted activity. Thus, it would seem that, consistent with those decisions, employee speech about an employer’s handling of diversity in the workplace could also be protected concerted activity. Google has asserted or implied that Mr. Damore violated its corporate code of conduct and that his memorandum was disruptive. Similar defenses have generally been rejected by the Board in recent years on the theory that protected concerted activity is often inherently disruptive. So, the NLRB may take Mr. Damore’s charge quite seriously, even if NLRB Regional Officials may consider his memorandum “politically incorrect.” Employers should watch this situation closely and learn from it. The current NLRB General Counsel has indicated in a memorandum that he views political activity and speech as inherently protected concerted activity. Private sector employers should also be aware that certain states and localities — including California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, New York, and North Dakota — have laws that may protect, through various means, political speech or affiliation, political activities, and lawful activities outside of work. With the publicity being generated by the Google situation and employment terminations in the national news flowing from the recent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere, this type of claim may become more common. (However, unlike Mr. Damore, who was writing about his employer’s diversity initiatives, political protesters in all likelihood would not have Section 7 claims against their employers because their activity does not relate to terms and conditions of their employment.) Public sector employers should also be aware of First Amendment and other legal protections and restrictions applicable to their employees.
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Where Was God in Hurricane Harvey?
By Jim Denison , Christian Post Columnist | Aug 29, 2017 10:54 AM
Art Acevedo is police chief in Houston, Texas. His message to people in his beleaguered city: "Just hunker down, hold tight — we hear you, we feel you. Believe me." His police officers have rescued more than 3,000 people as of this morning. 911 operators fielded 56,000 calls within 24 hours when the crisis began. Numerous companies have pledged millions of dollars to relief efforts. Red Cross personnel are preparing for weeks of assistance to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. President Trump and the first lady will visit the Texas Gulf Coast later today. While police officers, 911 operators, and disaster relief workers have been saving lives in Houston for days, some may wonder where God has been as this disaster unfolded. What would our Lord say to those devastated by this unprecedented crisis?
• He knows your name. He called Zacchaeus and Saul of Tarsus by name, even though they were two of the most infamous sinners in the Bible.
• He knew you before you were born: "Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them" (Psalm 139:16). • He knows your actions and thoughts: "You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar" (Psalm 139:2).
• He knows every detail of your life: "Even the hairs of your head are all numbered" (Matthew 10:30).
• He knows your pain: "I have surely seen the affliction of my people . . . and have heard their cry" (Exodus 3:7).
• He suffers as you suffer: "In all their affliction he was afflicted" (Isaiah 63: 9).
• He will never forget you: "I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands" (Isaiah 49:15–16).
• He walks with you through calamity: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4). The psalmist declared, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1). As a result, he testified, "we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling" (vv. 2–3). Every rescuer is an extension of God's compassion and care in these catastrophic days. If the Lord could describe a pagan king like Cyrus as "my anointed" (Isaiah 45:1) and call Nebuchadnezzar "my servant" (Jeremiah 43:10), he can use every person who will be used. Every act of assistance, every resource and provision is his gift of grace and mercy. I believe that the One who wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41) weeps over Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast today. Now our Father calls us to share his heart for his children. If those devastated by this crisis were your brothers and sisters, how would you feel about them? They are. Originally posted at denisonforum.org
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etc.. You have seen Russia as she is preparing to move down upon Israel with the other nation. etc..
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Israeli official: If Iran expands in Syria, we'll bomb Assad's palace
Netanyahu after Putin meeting: Iran wants the ‘Lebanonization’ of Syria
Iran in Syria By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF
August 28, 2017 12:17
Israel warned Russia of dire consequences if Iran is allowed to continue on its current path in Syria. A senior Israeli official warned the Russian government that if Iran continues to extend its reach in Syria, Israel will bomb Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace in Damascus, according to reports in Arab media. Israel also warned that if serious changes do not happen in the region, Israel will make sure the ceasefire deal, reached by the United States and Russia in Astana, Kazakhstan, will be nullified. A senior Israeli source told the Al-Jadida newspaper that no understanding was reached between the Israelis and the Russians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did, however, make it clear to Putin that its concerns must be met or Israel will be forced to act. The warnings occurred in a meeting between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. The prime minister, accompanied by Mossad head Yossi Cohen, the newly appointed head of the National Security Council, Meir Ben-Shabbat, and Likud minister Ze'ev Elkin who served as his translator, flew to Sochi on the Black Sea for the meeting, returning to Israel shortly after it ended. This is Netanyahu’s fourth trip to Russia in the last 16 months, and his sixth meeting with Putin during this same time frame. Netanyahu said the majority of his discussions with Putin focused on the situation in Syria. He said the reason he wanted to hold talks now with the Russian leader was because the situation inside Syria has changed very rapidly over the last few weeks.
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and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..
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Mattis: Transgender troops can keep serving pending study
By Olivia Beavers - 08/29/17 08:06 PM EDT
Defense Secretary James Mattis announced Tuesday that transgender troops in the military would be allowed to continue serving pending the results of a study. The announcement comes days after President Trump signed a memo barring transgender people from enlisting in the military while instructing Mattis to explore how to handle those currently serving in the armed forces. "Once the panel reports its recommendations and following my consultation with the secretary of Homeland Security, I will provide my advice to the president concerning implementation of his policy direction," Mattis said in the statement Tuesday. "In the interim, current policy with respect to currently serving members will remain in place." Trump announced in late July his plans to reverse an Obama-era policy that allowed transgender individuals to serve in the military. “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump tweeted at the time. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." Mattis indicated in his statement Tuesday that the Pentagon would move to implement Trump's directive, which sparked backlash among Democrats and some Republicans. The Defense Department "will carry out the president's policy direction, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security. As directed, we will develop a study and implementation plan, which will contain the steps that will promote military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion, with due regard for budgetary constraints and consistent with applicable law," Mattis said. Mattis said he would establish "a panel of experts" from within the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to provide recommendations for implementing Trump's directive. "Our focus must always be on what is best for the military's combat effectiveness leading to victory on the battlefield," he said.
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I’m Proud To Be White
Aug 24, 2017 Read More Articles by Dave Daubenmire
There. I said it. If you are reading this commentary then you are probably witnessing a miracle. I would assume that Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram have not banned me. That is usually what happens when someone expresses an opinion that the pencil necks don’t like. Pencil neck? Gee…that will probably get me banned as well. Name calling is definitively a violation of “community standards” on social media. Their standards, that is. Not mine and it certainly does not violate the standards of most people I hang out with. But most of my friends are normal. At least if there is such a thing as normal any more. Middle America normal. Not university normal…or progressive normal…or George Looney fan normal. But simply…normal. An everyday, run of the mill, clear thinking, I don’t-get-offended-easy normal…the kind of normal that you used to find in your middle class neighborhood, local public school, and TV sitcom. You know what I mean…Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, Andy Griffith and Barney Fife normal. Oh how I wish my grandkids could grow up in a bigoted society as those shows represented. But I am proud to be white and no matter how much you try to shame me you will not be able to make me recant. Beat me with a stick, ridicule me in public, email me all kinds of hateful comments, but you will not stop me from being proud of who I am. It is like the story I heard about the young kindergartner who pinched his fellow classmate in a dispute. “Tommy,” the teacher scolded. “You apologize and return to your seat.” “OK Mrs. Jones, I’ll sit down. But I am still standing up on the inside!!” Well, I am still proud on the inside. No matter how “racist” you say that I am. Proud does not mean superior. Being proud of my heritage does not make me a racist…or a bigot…or a hater. I am a proud nationalist. I think that our government should put the needs and the interests of Americans first. I didn’t realize that being a nationalist required identification with skin color. I hope all blacks are nationalists. I hope all Chinese are nationalists. I pray all Christians are nationalists. The fact that I happen to be Caucasian should not exclude me from being proud. I hope my black friends are proud that they are black. I hope my women friends are proud that they are female. Homos are proud. Strippers are proud. Dope smokers are proud. Heck, even some Cleveland Browns fans are proud… I am also proud to be a Christian. I am proud to be an American. I am proud of my German heritage. I’m proud to carry my family name DAUBENMIRE! I am proud to be a Buckeye. I’m proud to be a man. I am proud to be a grandpa. I am proud to have rapidly graying hair. I am proud to be a loyal and faithful husband. I am proud that I couldn’t care less about the color of anyone’s skin. Being proud of who I am does not mean I think I am better than everyone else. What has happened to us? What kind of world would this be if folks didn’t have something to be proud of? Isn’t that the goal of the self-esteem curriculums in our schools? That’s part of the problem we have in America. Pride comes from striving…overcoming obstacles…achieving in the face of adversity. Being proud of my accomplishments certainly does not diminish yours. At least it shouldn’t. Our schools have taught our children to be proud of what they should be ashamed of and ashamed of what they should be proud of. I have a hard time understanding my friends on the Left. As a follower of my Lord Jesus Christ I have always believed in the equality of all men. Our nation was built upon the premise that we were all “created” equal. But my cognitive dissident friends on the Left believe in evolution which has at the center of that ideology the idea of survival of the fittest. Evolutionary belief REQUIRES an understanding that not all people are equal. The cream rises to the top…only the strong will survive…kill or be killed…while at the same time pummeling the individual with the idea that everyone is equal. They are playing with our minds. Racism is a made-up ideology If the Truth were to be told, it is shame that does more damage than anything. I find that most of the trouble occurs with those who do not have a deep appreciation for their lot in live. Losers blame the referees. Winners overcome them. I am proud of what I have done. I am proud of what I have overcome. I am proud of my heritage. Can someone please explain to me why that makes me a racist? Would everyone feel better if I were ashamed of being white? Sorry Chief. I ain’t gonna do it. I’m proud of my heritage. I am proud to be white.
https://newswithviews.com/im-proud-to-be-white/
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Too many foreign forces now hidden in every state in America!
August 24, 2017 danama Alternative 6 “The spirit of Paul Revere is Warning America! Get Ready! Get Ready!” The following is a partial list of the fruits of Marxist Multiculturalism! Too many foreign forces now hidden in every state in America! * The always-hidden Rothschild agents, dangerous Communist and public enemy number one, George Soros and his three sons, endlessly funding destructive leftist and liberal agitators and aggressors. Rothschilds have always funded Communism! * Russian sleepers as revealed by Jim Keith. North Korean sleepers revealed this week by psychopath Kim Jong-un. Chinese sleepers in the human organs and slave trade. * Duduman’s disclosure that Russia would attack same time as China and North Korea * Russian attack strategies with Alaska, Minnesota and Florida. Russian missile pre-positioned in Yellowstone to trigger the super volcano and destroy American infrastructure Chechnyan troop build up in Colorado * UN troops driving up to 24 LENCO Bearcats at a time through Montana and other states * Foreign troops hidden in National Forests where roads were bulldozed and it’s a felony to fly over * 700,000 Makarov pistols Clinton pre-positioned for Russia in Colorado * Clinton’s Treaty on Open Skies still letting foreign pilots fly over America! * Islamic insurgents all over the place in 60 trainiing centers with weapons caches beneath mosques, with a growing presence in 33rd Degree Jimmy Carter’s Habitats for Humanity, with an increasing presence allowed by global security companies including security guards at major power plants * Tens of thousands of muslims now employed in Silicon Valley (threatening our communications) * Islam now working with the Mexican cartels * Knife-wielding Somalis trained since childhood to be soldiers – sent courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce to work around blood every day (de-sensitized to it) then recruited by ISIS for overseas training then sent back here… * Globalist-planted regional and state police from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia * Foreign-privatized prisons staffed by 150,000 with no local allegiances and who speak English as a second language. These lose money every day Patriots and Constitutionalists are not working inside… Chinese owning the Long Beach port where only 1 of every 10 COSCO train cars are inspected when unloaded * Chinese flown into Idaho and southward almost every night (A friend with a gold mine witnessed this!) * The Muslim now on the Federal Reserve Board who owns the yogurt manufacturing plant. Economic manipulators on the alert to crash the US economy as they did in 1929 * Turkish Muslim Billionaire ($55 Billion-plus dark money) Gulen in Pennsylvania with his James Bond-like fortress and small illegal foreign army. who believes he’s to fund ushering in the Imam Mahdi by making Americans convert as dhimmi or die! * Freemasonry with the world-government global infrastructure in place. They are pledged to world govt. Freemasons have control mechanisms – especially ongoing threats to expose politician pedophilia which they fostered – approving it in 32nd Degree Readings to keep their politicians under control. There are also to many Freemason police and this is the control over so many American police siding with the Left! All this and more… While our National Guard diligently guards Poppy Bush’s opium crops in stolen Taliban fields (formerly wheat fields) and even retired police are paid $25,000 bonuses to go overseas. Inexperienced reserve units are put at point in many dangerous situations. American troops are protecting countries overseas but not America! President Trump needs a Special Forces Armed Forces of 1 million to protect America and counter the still-active globalist influences in US Armed Forces. Why doesn’t Trump see this? “Houston, we have a problem.”
http://webnewsorder.com/2017/many-forces-hidden-in-america/
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How To Identify A Chemical Attack Based On Symptom Alone – The 5 Primary Chemical Weapons Used Today
Posted By: Ted August 24, 2017
Chemical attacks rarely happen state side, but history tells us that chemical weapons have been used quite frequently over the past century. Most notably in other nations. As terrorist domestic and international grow in size, so does the possibility of a terrorist act. Anyone keeping a watchful eye on the daily news would see the trend of terrorist activity spiking in the USA. To say the USA is impervious to a chemical attach based on our nations civility would be thinking wishfully. This section will break down the 5 primary categories of chemical weapons as well as their symptoms. The primary objective of this section is to learn how to identify a chemical attack based on symptom alone. in 1993 the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) required most nations to destroy large stockpiles of their chemical weapons, labeling them as weapons of mass destruction (WWMD’S). Three nations continue to openly hold stockpiles of WWMD’s, the USA, Russia and North Korea. There have been concerns that other nations may have held on to their WWMD’s without declaring them, and terrorist organizations may be producing new quantities of chemical weapons to meet their organizational goals. These symptoms range from obvious to barely recognizable, however the majority of them can still be rapidly lethal. Understanding these unique symptoms make it easier for one to determine what chemical agent is present. The 5 primary chemical weapons used today are as follows: 1. Choking Agents 2. Nerve Agents 3. Blister Agents 4. Blood Agents 5. Riot Control Agents Choking Agents: A choking agent will fill the victims lungs with fluid, causing them to frown on the spot. The two most popular chocking agents are chlorine gas and phosgene. Minor Symptoms from exposure: Headache, blurred vision, burning throat and vomiting. Severe symptoms from exposure: Tight or restricted chest and breathing, thick burns on the skin or eyes. Fatal symptoms from exposure: Failure of the respiratory system. Circulation failure. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a choking agent is present if the coughing up of bloody phlegm. Nerve Agents: Nerve agents are primarily absorbed through the skin. Symptoms from exposure can be rapid depending on the concentration and exposure level. Nerve agents are the most dangerous and lethal, which is probably why the majority of the stockpiles left in the world are in fact nerve agents. They are extremely effective in weapon form when released in a cluster bomb formation. Their reach great distances. Nerve agents have been in use by terrorist organizations in the past such as when the Syrian Military fired rockets with chemical agents (Sarin Nerve gas) fired at about 12 areas in suburbs south and east of Damascus, targeting rebel-held areas. 1,429 were killed (including 426 children), with 2,200 injured. Link here. The onset of symptoms include: Runny nose, constricted pupils, restricted chest and breathing. Minor Symptoms from exposure: Increased difficulty breathing, drooling and nausea. Severe symptoms from exposure: Involuntary deification and urination, vomiting, burning of the lungs and eyes. Fatal symptoms from exposure: Asphyxiation, convulsions. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a nerve agent is present is restricted pupils. Blister agents: While not always fatal, blister agents are nasty business. Their primary symptom is named after the agent: blisters. The maximum effective range is far from some of the other agents so in weapon form the agent is usually loaded into an mortar. They often do not show symptoms for 2 to 4 hours but can cause great pain over a long period time. Minor symptoms from exposure: respiratory pains, mucous membrane /skin and eye irritation. Severe symptoms from exposure: corneal damage, large blisters full of fluid, extreme respiratory pain. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a blister agent is present are the large blisters and full of fluid. Blood agents: Blood agents and their name because the victim’s blood turns a very bright red as the cells in one’s body can no longer access oxygen. Blood agents are most effective indoors because they disperse much quicker than other agents. They are composed of either arsenic or Cyanide & only work when swallowed or inhaled. Minor symptoms from exposure: weakness, nausea, dizziness, pink skin. Severe symptoms from exposure: gasping for air. Fatal symptoms from exposure: asphyxiation, convulsions. The main symptom to identify when determining whether or not a blood agent is present is the overwhelming odor of almonds or garlic. Riot control agents: The most commonly used chemical agent, and the one most likely to have an interaction with. The two most have heard of are pepper spray and tear gas. The general public is also permitted to use these as a form of personal protection. Law enforcement agencies also employ riot control agents such as pepper spray, tear gas and CS gas. They can be released for crowd control in many ways, be it ammunition, canister or even fog machine. Minor symptoms from exposure: coughing, nasal discharge, Burning Sensations, and involuntary closure of the eyes. Severe symptoms from exposure: Burns on the skin, vomiting, severe coughing. The main symptoms to identify when determining whether or not a riot control agent is present is the involuntary closure of the eyes. Because most agents are effective through skin contact and all agents effective through inhalation, in order to survive a concentrated attack from the four potentially fatal agents one would need personal protection equipment. This could range from the paper n95 mask up to a top of the line respirator. One would also need material to protect your skin from contact.
http://www.survivalonline101.com/prepare-chemical-attacks-rarely-happen/
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Breakthrough Device Heals Organs with a Single Touch
OSU Wexner Medical Center Published on Aug 14, 2017
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Researchers have developed a device that can switch cell function to rescue failing body functions with a single touch. The technology, known as Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), injects genetic code into skin cells, turning those skin cells into other types of cells required for treating diseased conditions. “It takes just a fraction of a second. You simply touch the chip to the wounded area, then remove it,” said Chandan Sen, PhD, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cell-Based Therapies at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. “At that point, the cell reprogramming begins.” In a series of lab tests, researchers applied the chip to the injured legs of mice that vascular scans showed had little to no blood flow. “We reprogrammed their skin cells to become vascular cells,” Sen said. “Within a week we began noticing the transformation.” By the second week, active blood vessels had formed, and by the third week, the legs of the mice were saved—with no other form of treatment. “It extends the concept known as gene therapy, and it has been around for quite some time,” said study collaborator James Lee, PhD, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State. “The difference with our technology is how we deliver the DNA into the cells.” The chip, loaded with specific genetic code or certain proteins, is placed on the skin, and a small electrical current creates channels in the tissue. The DNA or RNA is injected into those channels where it takes root and begins to reprogram the cells. In a new study published in Nature Nanotechnology, first author Daniel Gallego-Perez of Ohio State demonstrated that the technique worked with up to 98 percent efficiently. “What’s even more exciting is that it not only works on the skin, but on any type of tissue,” Sen said. In fact, researchers were able to grow brain cells on the skin surface of a mouse, harvest them, then inject them into the mouse’s injured brain. Just a few weeks after having a stroke, brain function in the mouse was restored, and it was healed. Because the technique uses a patient’s own cells and does not rely on medication, researchers expect it to be approved for human trials within a year. Those interested in participating in a clinical trial for this technology should email InfoRegenMed@osumc.edu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQ51Kj2tS0&app=desktop
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Reporter who exposed BBC pedophilia cover up found dead
By Erin Elizabeth - August 23, 2017
Liz MacKean, the former British investigative reporter best known for exposing Jimmy Savile and the culture of pedophile protection at the BBC, has died from complications from a stroke. She was 52. (Her death was reported by the BBC, the very same company who blocked her investigation from airing and spent years trying to destroy her reputation.) Jimmy Savile, the UK’s “Top of the Pops” host was eventually found to have sexually abused hundreds of children and women at the height of his fame. In fact, investigators believe he preyed on about 500 victims, some as young as two years old, at the BBC’s broadcasting studios and 34 hospitals and children’s hospitals all over England. He died in 2011. “MacKean worked at the BBC until she quit in 2013 after executives decided to ban her groundbreaking and brave investigation into predatory pedophile Jimmy Savile in order to protect him and other pedophiles. Dismissed by the establishment as mad and dangerous, MacKean was finally vindicated when the truth about Savile’s pedophilia eventually came out in 2012, a full year after MacKean first tried to bring his notorious crimes to light.” 1 Once it was public knowledge that the BBC was preventing the investigation from airing, she said, “I was very unhappy the story didn’t run because I felt we’d spoken to people who collectively deserved to be heard. And they weren’t heard. I thought that that was a failure… I felt we had a responsibility towards them. We got them to talk to us, but above all, we did believe them. And so then, for their stories not to be heard, I felt very bad about that. I felt, very much, that I’d let them down.” The fact that BBC executives knew and did nothing shocked the world. In fact, one source was quoted as saying, “The numbers are shocking. Many hundreds and potentially up to 1,000 people were victims of Savile when he was representing the corporation. The report will overshadow Pollard. It will go right to the heart of how Savile was able to get away with the most heinous of crimes under the very noses of BBC staff for more than 40 years.”2 Our heart goes out to MacKean’s family and friends. She was a brave woman and will be missed.
https://www.healthnutnews.com/reporter-who-exposed-bbc-pedophilia-cover-up-found-dead/
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IMPORTANT READ-Eyewitness Reveals Horrors of What Really Happened in Charlottesville
This post was originally published on this site
The following testimony is from an eyewitness of the protests in Charlottesville VA on August 12, describing the horrors of what really happened and completely contradicting the fake news stories reported by the mainstream news media. The eyewitness is a woman. She is not from Charlottesville, but was there on a temporary work assignment, completely unrelated to any protests. She has chosen to conceal her identity, which I believe is wise considering the violence. She shared her story with her personal friend, Charles Patrick, who recorded and published their conversation in the 38-minute video shown at the bottom of this post. I transcribed their conversation below in hopes of helping it go viral so the real criminals can be held accountable for their crimes. Charles Patrick: “How long were you in Charlottesville before this riot thing happened? Eyewitness: “I was here starting on my second week. Where I work is just a few minutes from Charlottesville, so we would go every day to Charlottesville for lunch. And this one restaurant I guess is a particular town favorite, so there were a lot of people, you know, in the restaurant. It was just like every descent restaurant fills up for lunch. And there were people out because there are little shops and stuff around there. And they were having, like at lunch, they were having discussions about the vote that had just taken place and had been overturned. You know, we were sitting real close to these people. We can hear their conversations, so we kind of get involved. I try to take in my little bit of culture, you know, when I travel for work, and we had found out that just a couple of months prior they had a vote in town on whether to take down the statue or not. And the town had voted 80 to 20 to leave the statue up.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. The town voted 80 to 20 to leave the statues up, right?” Eyewitness: “Correct.” Charles Patrick: “Now this town is a mixture of black and white votes, correct? Eyewitness: “Yes, and both black and white voted on both sides of the fence.” Charles Patrick: “So blacks voted to keep it up and blacks voted to take it down. Whites voted to keep it up and whites voted to take it down. Correct?” Eyewitness: “Yes, we, you know, cause we were going up there every day for the week leading up to the riot. So, you know, we had different conversations and the girl that was with me, we would walk up and down the street and she would show me like your day off, you need to go visit here at this cute little shop. You know, and we met different people, we talked to different people and we met several people that were highly involved in the vote. And the town was going to have like an open forum, like with fifty or sixty people because the vote had been overturned by the city council. Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. Wait a minute.”Eyewitness: “Oh, I’m sorry. Did I leave that out?” Charles Patrick: “City council overturned the vote, the 80 to 20 vote?” Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “So, the people voted to keep the statue up and city council overturned that vote.” Eyewitness: “Correct. We go in there on Saturday and we get there about 11:00 o’clock and it’s the typical scene. You know, a little (people) more than normal, younger people out because it’s Saturday and they don’t work Saturday. So, we get there at about 11 o’clock and you know there’s kids and there’s old people and then, you know, a bunch of us that work out there and come out there for lunch so there’s our crowd and we are mixed in and we see people, pretty much the same people having lunch, black, white, sitting at the same table.” Charles Patrick: “Okay, stop. Now in this restaurant for days before, up until then, people are sitting in the restaurant, black and white, no arguments, no fights. Correct?” Eyewitness: “That’s absolutely correct. Yeah, but it wasn’t just that. Outside the restaurant too, where the shops and stuff were.” Charles Patrick: “Okay, so all over town.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, from what I could see in my line of sight, I can’t speak for the rest of the county, but… Charles Patrick: “Did you see black and white people fighting every day?” Eyewitness: “There was no fighting. There wasn’t even raised voices. There were people having, they were laughing and joking. There were some tables where you could tell that they were having some serious discussions, but no one got out of character. Okay, so we get there at about 11 o’clock and them um, you know, it’s pretty busy, so it took a little bit for our waitress to get over there and just about the time she comes up, I don’t think she even got her name out, but it was the same waitress we had all week. One of the guys that had been in and all around the town, or around the area of the restaurant, where we had been all week, he banged on, he was outside the restaurant, and he banged on the glass. And it was pretty loud, so everybody just stopped. And of course, everybody looked up and these buses started pulling up. Charles Patrick: “Okay so this guy who was banging on the glass, you’ve seen him before. Correct?” Eyewitness: “Oh yeah, I had seen him probably three of the six days three or four of the six days. Charles Patrick: “Why was he banging on the glass?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, he banged on the window and cracked the door in and motioned like for all of us to look out, you know, pointed at the buses. I could see six of them, but the building cut off part of the road, which was across, not really a street because it’s a pedestrian only area, but it was on the other side of that, on the opposite side. Charles Patrick: “What color were these buses.” Eyewitness: “They were like a dark charcoal gray. I didn’t notice any writing, but you know there was some trees and people and stuff in between us and the buses so, I mean I didn’t see any names, but I know they were all the same. Charles Patrick: “The buses were all the same. I know you told me earlier they were like back to back, like bumper-to-bumper.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, bumper-to-bumper, like when school buses all follow each other to an out-of-town football game. You know, they followed each other like, so they don’t change lanes, they were going bumper-to-bumper. Charles Patrick: “I understand what you’re saying. They were together.” Eyewitness: “Yes, so they pull up and my first thought is it’s a tour because I had been finding out about the history of the town and thought it’s a pretty interesting town. You know, there’s some rich culture here. Maybe there’s, I don’t know, a tour going on. You know, like old people go to Vegas together, you know. Charles Patrick: “So, it’s a tourist town. So when you seen the buses, it was like a tourist bus?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, that’s what I thought, it was like a charter bus. You know, the University of Virginia is here too so, it could have been for anything. So, everybody in the restaurant, I mean you could hear a cricket, everybody was just looking. So you could tell that the town, the locals were not used to seeing something like that. And I mean within, I want to say 10 or 15 seconds, people came running off the bus and just flooded the place. I don’t care what anybody says and I don’t care if anybody believes me, but these people came off that bus ready to, I don’t know work, ready to fight. They had on helmets. They had on kneepads and elbow pads and face guards and mouthpieces and purses and bags and backpacks full of things, carrying… Charles Patrick: “Hold on. Were these all white people getting off the bus?” Eyewitness: “No, no, no, no. There were just as many black people as there were white people getting off the same buses. There were just as many women as there were men. Charles Patrick: “So, white people, black people, men and women got off the bus, is what you’re telling me. Right?” Eyewitness: “Got off the SAME bus. I even saw some people carrying, you know those shields that police men use for riots that you see on videos and stuff, there were people carrying those off the bus. Charles Patrick: “Really?” Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “Now, these black and white people that got off the bus. Are these the ones that had on T-shirts?” Eyewitness: “There was T-shirts. There was emblems. Now I don’t recognize all the different groups that are out there. The ones that I know of are BLM, Black Lives Matter, the KKK.”Charles Patrick: “Now, you’ve seen these emblems, is what you’re saying?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I did and not just one or two. Everybody on those buses that came off those buses had something on there that caught my attention. ‘Oh my God, that’s the KKK. Oh my God, that’s the BLM.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. You’re telling me that Black Lives Matter and the KKK got off the same damn bus.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, but wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I might have left something out. Those people I was talking about who were having those civilized conversations in the restaurant and in the town, they were also BLM. Um, I didn’t see any KKK or anything like that, but after seeing the people you could tell, or they would even offer up the information that they were affiliated or associated or in the KKK or some other Arian, whatever, but they were having conversations with each other.” Charles Patrick: “You’re saying that in the restaurants, Black Lives Matter and the KKK were having civil conversations?” Eyewitness: “Yes, they were! They were talking like you and I are talking. Charles Patrick: “Now, when everybody disembarked the buses, what happened then.” Eyewitness: “Well um, there was a couple of men in the restaurant that kind of let us all back to the back door, which led into the alley. And a lot of us had parked there in the alley, but there was, I want to say, probably 20 or 30 of us. We went out the back door because the people from the buses were coming from the front. And they weren’t walking. They weren’t skipping. They were full on running and screaming and throwing things. I mean they came off the bus angered and running to do damage.” Charles Patrick: “So what were they throwing? What do you mean?” Eyewitness: “Well, the one that almost got me and a few people around me, it was like a 20-ounce Sprite bottle that had concrete in it. I have never, who does that? They were throwing everything they could get their hands on. They had like condoms and balloons filled with, I don’t know if it was horse manure, which is very common around here. Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. They had condoms and balloons with feces in it?” Eyewitness: “It was filled with crap and I don’t know what else, but I know it stunk like nothing I had ever smelled before. Charles Patrick: “So somebody was carrying around 20-ounce bottles of Sprite with concrete in it and feces, getting off the bus. And feces in balloons?” Eyewitness: “Yes, they had pepper spray and mace. The people that were sitting next to me in the restaurant was the sweetest old man. He was there having lunch with his granddaughter, his great granddaughter, who was seven. And she was so in love with her grandpa. And when we were going out the back of the restaurant, the man was trying really hard to keep his granddaughter from seeing what was going on because it all happened so fast. We didn’t have time to think or react or nothing. But you could tell, everybody was scared, but you could tell that there were people trying to stay calm because there were a lot of kids with a lot of old people that couldn’t move real fast too. So, things just started coming out of the air, I mean just hit the ground around us and everything. This old man was trying to stay over the top of his granddaughter. And me and I’m trying to cover him and his granddaughter.” Charles Patrick: “So you were next to them?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, we were arm in arm. We were holding people while we were walking, right?. We’re walking very fast I guess you would say because we were trying not to scare the kids, You know?” Charles Patrick: “Because there were a lot of kids, right?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I want to say there were maybe eight or nine kids under the age of, I want to say 10 or 12. And there were a few older kids like teenagers.” Charles Patrick: “The people throwing feces in concrete didn’t give a damn, right? Eyewitness: “They had zero interest in who was getting hit or hurt. It was like they couldn’t see us as people because I can’t imagine that another human would treat another human like that. Charles Patrick: “I’m sorry to make you relive this. Damn.” Eyewitness: “It’s really the way, um, one of those, well, we seen something fly and one of the guys that was at the table next to us, was on my left side and the grandfather and granddaughter were on my right side. And I can’t even count how many things were flying through the air, but there was something flying at us and this guy puts his arm up and a bottle hits him in the arm and I guess it dropped to the ground and it lands right in front of me and I looked up. His arm bowed in. It had to have broken his arm. It had to have. And I picked it up and I’m just in total disbelief. If that would’ve hit that little girl, she would be dead. If that would’ve hit that old man, he would probably be dead. Charles Patrick: “Yeah, a brick in the head can kill somebody.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I don’t know how far away it came from, but for it to do that kind of damage to that man’s arm, and that’s just in our one little spot. I don’t know, you could hear. Charles Patrick: “Like different areas, they were still popping off, right?” Eyewitness: “You could hear people screaming. You could hear people crying. You could hear babies. When I say babies, I mean anybody under the age of 10. To me that’s a baby. People were running. And we were, the people in the restaurant I was in, we weren’t the only ones in town. You know what I mean? We were all trying to get out. We didn’t know what these people were doing, why they were doing it. I had not, the hotel I was staying in, or I say hotel, it didn’t have television or Internet connection, so.” Charles Patrick: “You was in the sticks.” Eyewitness: “Yeah, I was. I was on a horse ranch, but I had no idea that anything like this was coming and I don’t think a lot of the people there did. Otherwise, none of us would’ve been there because we were trying to leave and it looked like these people were trying to push us out. I mean they came in like a swarm of bees.” Charles Patrick: “So they didn’t know if you all were for or against anything. They was just coming in to make stuff happen.” Eyewitness: “They didn’t ask any questions. They didn’t talk to anybody. They come running full force. Charles Patrick: “Off the buses, black and white. Now the black and white, they got off the bus. Now, I understand what you say they had on, the gear, but was it Antifa, was it Black Lives Matter, was it KKK? Who were they? I mean, who do you think they were?” Eyewitness: “Um, I don’t know the emblems of very many hate groups. I know the emblem of the KKK, which obviously is a hate group. I mean you know that. Everybody would know that. The Confederate flag, everybody recognizes that. BLM, everybody recognizes that.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. Are you telling me people with Black Lives Matters shirts got off the same bus as people with confederate flag shirts?” Eyewitness: “And KKK emblems, Nazi emblems.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. All of them got off the same damn type of bus?” Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “Please believe me people. I am not taking up for KKK. I’m not taking up for Black Lives Matter. I am not taking up for any groups, but I’m highly doubting if any of these people were with any of those groups. These people were hired to come out there and start some crap. Believe me now. Y’all done heard me put out videos about Black Lives Matter. You done heard me put out videos about KKK. I’m not a fan of either one, but the people that were on these buses, I do not believe were part of any of those groups because they were paid to do this. Tell me what happened with the guy in the Dodge Challenger, the murderer.” Eyewitness: “Okay, so the alley we go out into has cars parked on both sides of the alley. And there was one car pulled up at the end of the alley in between, on both sides, so it makes like a U-shape. And some of the people have their cars parked in that alley. So people were, people from the restaurant and from the very nearby area that could get there were jumping in cars to avoid getting beaten or hit. You know, just to be safe. We see this car pull up and one of the ladies that was in the restaurant just tapped on the window and says, ‘Sir, you can’t go down there.’ And he rolls down his window and says, ‘I’ll get through.’ And then he just nails it. Charles, I don’t need anybody to believe what I’m saying, but I was there and I heard this man and we were all around his car. We knew what was gonna happen if he pressed on that gas pedal.” Charles Patrick: “Did anybody hit his car, beat on his car, or do anything to cause him to hit the gas?” Eyewitness: “If you count that woman tapping on his window because we thought he was with us. We had seen this guy previously in the week. He wasn’t in the restaurant that day.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. You’ve seen him during the week?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, it was the same people, you know, all during the week. You know you see a few different faces here and there, but like you said earlier, it was like going to your favorite bar. It was the same people and every now and then you would get a visitor. And so their face draws attention because they’re not a regular, which I guess is what I was at the beginning too.” She tapped on the window and said, ‘Sir you cannot get through there.’ But he said, ‘I can get through.’” Charles Patrick: “So he hit the gas and went right into the crowd?” Eyewitness: “Yeah. We all ran, started running up to, you know from the back we really couldn’t see what kind of damage he had done, but when he backed up, he got almost everybody that was in the restaurant, he hit and you know either their foot, their arms, and I’m not going to lie, I saw one lady, she just slapped the side of his car while he was backing up and threw herself on the ground. I thought that was odd with everything that was going on.” Charles Patrick: “Hold on. So he went forward, hit the car, stopped, and backed up. Were people around his car? We’ve seen the video. Everybody has seen this video. And apparently, you were there.” Eyewitness: “I haven’t seen the video. I don’t need to watch videos.” Charles Patrick: “You don’t need to see the video, but we, the people that I’m talking to out there, they’ve seen the video. So, once he hit the car and backed up, on the back up, he hit more people. Correct? Did you see him hit more people?” Eyewitness: “A lot more people.” Charles Patrick: “The young lady who got killed in the situation, you had seen her conversing with other people during the week before, correct? Eyewitness: “Yeah, she was in the restaurant like, I want to say like at least three days. I didn’t speak with her one on one, but I was at a table who was speaking with her table. And we were at a table together one day. And everybody was just talking about their opinions on why they voted the way they did and she gave her opinions on why she wanted it (the statues) left up. One of the days, she was having lunch with a black man and a black woman and they were very civil to each other. They were giving their opinion and she was giving hers. They were kind of exchanging, I guess, opinions. She wasn’t, from the conversations that I heard, she wasn’t affiliated with any white supremacist group, but she was proud to be white. She seemed like a really sweet lady.” Charles Patrick: “And the people that she talked to, the black people she talked to, were they having like mean conversations or just, you know, conversations?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, it was just like we’re talking right now. It was just, I don’t know, a regular conversation. I mean, I don’t know that my regular is the same as everybody else’s regular, but no one got out of character. She was not involved in any of the protesting or anything. She was trying to leave. This, there were some people there that they were holding some kind of signs. I want to say maybe on Wednesday or Thursday, but they were shaking peoples hands when they were walking by. You could see people laughing with them. I mean I never walked that far down, but you could see them having conversations with kids. They were taking selfies and stuff like that. You know, so, to me, it didn’t catch my attention because it wasn’t aggressive. They weren’t chanting or screaming at anybody and they were shaking hands and talking to black and white folks.” Charles Patrick: “The woman who got killed wanted the monuments to stay up, correct?” Eyewitness: “Yeah, from the conversations I heard, I overheard her say a couple of times that she did want the statues to stay up.” Charles Patrick: “You saw her speaking at the table with a black man and black woman, and they spoke and were cordial Eyewitness: “Yes.” Charles Patrick: “Last, but not least, tell us about the incident with the police.” Eyewitness: “Well, this part was probably the hardest part for me to digest. I have a lot of family members involved in the military, in the police department, in the fire department, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them, but when we were trying to leave, it wasn’t just the people from the bus that were keeping us trapped. The police were lined up and would not let us get to safety. They would not let us out of the crowd. It was like being corralled, or it was like being corralled, like being circled.” Charles Patrick: “So the police would not let you leave the area?” Eyewitness: “No. And they knew we were black and white and we were not in riot gear and we had no weapons in our hands. We had kids with us. We had old people.” Charles Patrick: “Wait a minute. The police would not let the kids leave?” Eyewitness: “No. No, they were standing side-by-side and holding us in place. We were getting more and more cramped and smashed and punched and pushed and kicked.” Charles Patrick: “The kids were there?” Eyewitness: “Kids were there.” Charles Patrick: “How were the police holding back people with kids?” Eyewitness: “They were not making eye contact with any of us. It was like they were seeing right through us because I turned around and I looked at two of the officers right behind me and I said, ‘Please, just let us out. We’ve got babies with us.’ I mean they stared right through us. And on the other side these people, I don’t know if they wanted us dead. I don’t know if they just wanted, I don’t have an answer. I don’t know how to explain what I saw. I’ve never, I’ve seen a lot of bad things in my life, but I’ve never seen people just have no regard for anybody’s life, nobody’s life. It didn’t matter whether you were young, old, black, white, tall, thin, Zero. Nothing mattered.” Charles Patrick: “So you’re saying the police kept people in harm’s way instead of trying to get them out?” Eyewitness: “Charles, please, it was those police that were there that day. Charles Patrick: “Come on now. I don’t have a problem with the police.” Eyewitness: “Charles, that’s what I’m saying, none of that made sense because you didn’t know who the good guys were and no one was willing to help.” Charles Patrick: “How do you know the police could see the kids?” Eyewitness: “There were two women who were locked arms with me and the grandpa I was telling you about and the other man behind me. There were two women holding their babies. I don’t mean babies like in diapers. I mean babies like one girl was probably five or six and another one was probably about seven or eight. And then the little granddaughter she was seven. That’s three kids right there. And we were all face to face, well, face to shield, with these cops. And they wouldn’t let us by. Charles Patrick: “And they wouldn’t let you by?” Eyewitness: “They wouldn’t let us by. One of the guys that was in the restaurant with us, I guess he was a cook or something, He managed, I want to say maybe 20 feet down from where I was at, he managed to crack a hole because there was like one of those silver guard, you know, rail like things that you know kind of makes you form a line. He managed to break through one of those. And he locked arms with the guy next to the grandpa and the grandpa was locked arms with the rest of us and we just all filed out real quick.” Charles Patrick: “I’m sorry you went through all that craziness.” Summary of Facts: This woman’s testimony confirms other recent facts uncovered about these events. In my previous post, I shared the truth about Jason Kessler, the man who organized the white supremacist group called Unite the Right. His background shows he is neither a white supremacist nor a right-wing conservative. Instead, he is a loyal Obama supporter who suddenly decided to become a white supremacist after Donald Trump won the 2016 election. White supremacists don’t support African American politicians and right-wing conservatives don’t support Barack Obama. Jason Kessler also participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which supports anarchy, not fascism, as Unite the Right pretends to support. In addition, Jason Kessler describes himself as a “professional provocateur”, which is nothing more than a paid thug, and supports the likelihood that the rest of his fraudulent organization are also paid thugs. For more details, see my previous post. Her testimony also supports the recent confession from a Charlottesville police officer who said the police were ordered to stand down, to allow the violence to continue. However, her testimony reveals it was worse than that because they trapped people in harm’s way, helping the attackers inflict more harm while ignoring the cries of victims standing right in front of them. These police officers cannot just pass the blame to their superior officers who ordered them to stand down because each of them betrayed the people they have sworn to protect. They should have ignored their orders and exposed whoever gave them. Every officer should be held accountable for their acts of betrayal. Next, her testimony reveals the people of Charlottesville voted overwhelmingly, 80% to 20%, to keep their statues, but the city council overturned the will of the people and ordered them to be taken down, which confirms something foul was in the works. It appears the city council was ordered to stand down in the same way as the police department. Someone was pulling all the right strings to set up a national stage for phony protesters to ignite violence. Like the police, the Charlottesville city council members betrayed the people they are supposed to be serving. They too must be held accountable and expose whoever was behind their bizarre ruling. Her testimony reveals the town was peaceful and quiet until six chartered buses showed up back to back and unloaded violent attackers equipped with helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, shields, and many harmful objects, which they threw at people. These were not protestors, but assassins. Their assaults on innocent people show they were not there to support any cause, but to incite violence and racism under the guise of BLM and KKK. They were not true members of BLM and KKK, but paid thugs. Next, her testimony reveals the people who carried out this staged event have no regard for human life whatsoever. The mainstream news media focused on the fact that a driver ran over people, killing one and injuring nineteen others, but her testimony reveals others were also injured by thrown objects. Neither the attackers nor the police officers showed any regard for the fact that the victims were defenseless, unarmed women, children, and elderly people. These thugs and the criminals who hired them are far more evil than the hate groups they attempted to vilify. They are ruthless killers, enemies from within, seeking our demise, and they must be stopped. At every turn, they made bush league mistakes, exposing their fraudulent scheme. By bringing in six bus-loads of attackers on back to back chartered buses, then dropping them off in a public place where many witnesses saw them immediately assaulting people, they revealed they all came from the same place. By putting BLM and KKK people on the same buses, they revealed none of them were true members of those organizations. By immediately assaulting innocent people, they revealed their true purpose for being there had nothing to do with advancing the causes of those organizations. They were there only to incite violence. By ordering the police to stand down and even trap people in harm’s way, they revealed this scheme involves top government officials. These criminals are either incredibly dumb or so brazen, they think they can do whatever they want and get away with it, as if they’re above the law and believe no one is able to stop them. Despite all their mistakes, their plan seems to have succeeded so far, thanks to the full backing of the mainstream news media, but this new evidence can help turn the tables if anyone in the news media is willing to take a stand for righteousness. This woman’s testimony contradicts the mainstream news media reports by showing the attackers were all on the same team and the victims were all innocent bystanders, which shows this issue never was about race or statues, just a sinister scheme to divide the American people against each other. Let’s not take their bate by taking sides, but join together as one people, determined to take back our nation. Now that we have these facts, we must pursue the people who orchestrated these events. They should not be hard to find because someone hired at least six chartered buses, which means there is a record showing who it was. There are only so many chartered bus services with dark grey buses servicing the Virginia area. Someone also ordered the police to stand down, and only a small number of people have that authority. All participants must be confronted and held accountable. We not only have evidence, we have suspects. President Obama’s Organizing for Action (OFA) has been actively recruiting, training, and organizing dissidents to start hostile confrontations in town hall meetings across the nation, and paying college students to start fires on college campuses. This is an unprecedented revolution against our current president. OFA is reported to have recruited over 30,000 members and set up over 250 offices across the nation. They are well organized and well funded, backed by billionaire George Soros. And they have a clear agenda to derail President Trump’s administration and to destroy the faith and values upon which our nation was founded, which makes them prime suspects. My prayer is that God will continue to shine the light on these dark schemes, exposing the killers, the organizers, the financiers, and the fake news organizations who are purposely misleading the American people. I pray God would raise up people to investigate these events further, so we can connect the dots, and hold these people accountable for their horrendous crimes. May God help us all do our part to stop this assignment against our nation. Author: James Bailey James Bailey is an author, business owner, husband and father of two children. His vision is to broadcast the good news of Jesus Christ through blog sites and other media outlets. © 2017, Z3 News. 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Killer robots: Experts warn of 'third revolution in warfare'
21 August 2017
More than 100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of "killer robots". In a letter to the organisation, artificial intelligence (AI) leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, warn of "a third revolution in warfare". The letter says "lethal autonomous" technology is a "Pandora's box", adding that time is of the essence. The 116 experts are calling for a ban on the use of AI in managing weaponry. "Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend," the letter says. "These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," it adds. There is an urgent tone to the message from the technology leaders, who warn that "we do not have long to act". "Once this Pandora's box is opened, it will be hard to close." Warning against AI arms race Soldiers that never sleep AI fighter pilot wins in combat Experts are calling for what they describe as "morally wrong" technology to be added to the list of weapons banned under the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Along with Tesla co-founder and chief executive Mr Musk, the technology leaders include Mustafa Suleyman, Google's DeepMind co-founder. A UN group focusing on autonomous weaponry was scheduled to meet on Monday but the meeting has been postponed until November, according to the group's website. A potential ban on the development of "killer robot" technology has previously been discussed by UN committees. In 2015, more than 1,000 tech experts, scientists and researchers wrote a letter warning about the dangers of autonomous weaponry. Among the signatories of the 2015 letter were scientist Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Mr Musk. What is a 'killer robot'? A killer robot is a fully autonomous weapon that can select and engage targets without human intervention. They do not currently exist but advances in technology are bringing them closer to reality. Those in favour of killer robots believe the current laws of war may be sufficient to address any problems that might emerge if they are ever deployed, arguing that a moratorium, not an outright ban, should be called if this is not the case. However, those who oppose their use believe they are a threat to humanity and any autonomous "kill functions" should be banned.
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The Deep State’s 3 Stage Revolution Against the People
Most people in this country fail to recognize where they are at with regard to history. The majority do not see that we are already in a state of rebellion, a civil war, if you will. However, most people if they heard these words would believe that it was the average American that will be involved in a civil war, and they would be wrong! Today, the rebellion has to do with the Deep State and their minons rebelling against the legitimate authority, namely, the US government and its people. It is the George Soros’ who are in a state of rebellion. There are 3 stages associated with a rebellion. Stage One of the Revolution The first stage of a revolution, is a war of ideas and a campaign for the truth. Certainly, fake news is at the center of this. The Russian collusion delusion also fits into his paradigm. Stage one is about the control of the narrative. Where I see the enemy at the gate, most of my friends and neighbors are sleeping through the unfolding attack. We are in a war of words and if we fail to use our words to awaken all of humanity, we are hopelessly lost and the globalists will carve us up for dinner. There is indeed strength in numbers and if we are unable to wake up our fellow countrymen, we will negate the only true tactical advantage that the people enjoy, which is ideological solidarity from a numerically superior force. It should now make sense to you as to why 98% of the media is controlled by globalist controlled business interests consisting of five mega corporations, who in turn are controlled one way or another, by the members of the Federal Reserve. In order to win this fight, we need more people speaking out, making videos and calling MSM talk shows. We especially need to reach the police and the military in order to remind them of their constitutional duty to protect the people against a tyrannical government, but this is not what we are seeing. Our counter to the control of the MSM, is to exclusively support the alternative media. If the Deep State is successful in taking down the alternative media, then it will become necessary to enact a type of Committees of Correspondence apparatus similar to what our Founding Fathers did in the pre-Revolutionary War period in our history. On the ground communication is timeless, effective and very difficult for a totalitarian government to negate. THE PEOPLE CANNOT WIN AGAINST A GLOBALIST REVOLUTION BECAUSE THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA HAS NOT CONVINCED THE MASSES AS TO THE THREAT WE ARE LIVING UNDER. THIS IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE JOSEPH STALIN PLAYBOOK OF PREVENTING THE OPPOSITION FROM BUILDING AN OPPOSING IDEOLOGICAL BASE WHICH IS A PREREQUISITE TO ANY SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION. IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO DO SO! Stage Two of the Revolution Stage two of a revolution consists of civil disobedience. WE ARE SEEING STAGE ONE GLOBALIST TACTICS BLEED OVER INTO THIS STAGE EVEN BEFORE THE COUP TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP IS COMPLETE. This stage has to do with george Soros and paid pretessters. This is about a contrived racially motivated civil war. America has gone from a Republic to a police state in less than a generation. The evidence for this transformation is as follows and it has been a long time coming: 1. The passage of the John Warner Defense bill removed all the firewalls between the people and subjugation by federally controlled troops. A scant few spoke out and nobody resisted. 2. The passage of the NDAA, eliminated all due process as it permitted the administration to arrest and indefinitely detain any American without due process. This is what makes the Jade Helm political “Red List” extractions legal and subsequent population relocation legal. A scant few spoke out and nobody resisted. 3. Obama’s declaration, through Executive Order 13603, proclaiming the authority seize control over any and all assets in the country and to invoke slave labor at Obama’s whim. A scant few spoke out and nobody resisted. This is the blueprint for the total takeover of the US should the globalists ver recapture the White House. 4. Obama’s announced intention to seize all “military grade weapons”. Obama’s definition of a military style weapon is anything that can shoot a bullet. You will soon be reading that all newly produced firearms have a microchip in them so they can be tracked. Any totalitarian regime can cut the legs out of a revolution by disarming the people. When the American people are under the control of Jade Helm, I predict that gun confiscations will begin through Executive Order. A scant few will speak out and nobody will resist. No matter what gun control laws that the Deep State brings to the American people, the people need to disobey as civil disobedience is our best friend. However, passive disobedience is our VERY best friend. Most readers already know what happens when a civilian population surrenders its guns. If your knowledge of history is shaky, take a look at Pol Pot, Rwanda, Hitler, Stalin and Mao. The University of Hawaii tells us that that over 260 million people were killed by their governments in the 20th century and this was accomplished after gun confiscation. Any nation that gives up its guns, has sealed its fate. When, not if, but when the Deep State comes for our guns, all of us have a constitutional duty to disobey these unlawful policies. And even if we manage to hang on to our guns, it is easy to predict the next move as Stalin invoked the practice of creating food shortages. You can count on this happening. Stage Three: All Out War A successful revolution cannot simply jump to stage three without having progressed through the first two stages and this is the strategy of the globalists as they are dragging the people to the battlefield of their choice. When Stalin’s forces were dragging a third of the Russians out of their homes, it was too late for the Russians to fight back because the ideological base of resistance, and a sense of collective action, through civil disobedience, had not been built. THIS WAS THE STALINIST OBJECTIVE OF JADE HELM. The Russian people were defeated by Stalin because they did not win stage one of the revolution. We desperately need to heed this lesson from history and embark on a tireless crusade to wake up our country as to the dangers that lie ahead. And even if the people are sufficiently awakened, it does not guarantee victory of any kind unless of course, the bravado crowd has stored directed energy weapons in their basements. Therefore, it is the duty of every awake American to educate their neighbors, family and friends, whether they want to hear the truth or not. Remember, any kind resistance to tyranny will not succeed unless there is an attitude of defiance towards the tyranny. Tyrants require minions to carry out their tyranny. Education about the present tyranny can lessen the size of the potential minion pool. Again, this is accomplished in stage one and we are almost out of time. People frequently ask me if I think we can mount an effective resistance and I respond that the odds are really against the people. This fact should not keep people from resisting with every fiber of their being. Further, resistance can evolve into adaptation and this could save the lives of your family. Conclusion Stage one is about regaining control of the White House with a globalist President. This is why trump faces, either assassination or impeachment on fake charges. The newest allegations that Trump is a racist is a part of this plot against the people. Stage one is nearly complete. Stage two is underway and our Constitution and the people, as a whole are under atack. When Trump is out of the way, stages two and three will commence with a vengeance. If one wonders why I fight so hard against tyranny, you have learned the reasons. Mike Pence is a globalist. He will make an excellent transition President. In the meantime, are you prepared so you and your family can adapt?
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/08/24/the-deep-states-3-stage-revolution-against-the-people/
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Charlottesville: United Nations warns US over 'alarming' racism
US urged to ‘unequivocally and unconditionally’ reject discrimination
Trump remarks ‘scary and disturbing’ – former spy chief James Clapper
Haroon Siddique and Oliver Laughland Wednesday 23 August 2017 08.00 EDT Last modified on Friday 25 August 2017 07.04 EDT
A UN committee charged with tackling racism has issued an “early warning” over conditions in the US and urged the Trump administration to “unequivocally and unconditionally” reject discrimination. The warning specifically refers to events last week in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed when a car rammed into a group of people protesting against a white nationalist rally. Such statements are usually issued by the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd) over fears of ethnic or religious conflict. In the past decade, the only other countries issued with early warnings have been Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. The United States has been warned under the procedure in the past when Cerd raised the issue of land rights conflicts with the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples in 2006. “We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” said Anastasia Crickley, chair of the committee. Quick Guide What happened at the Charlottesville protests? Donald Trump faced widespread criticism after he blamed “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville. Although the Cerd statement did not refer to him by name, it called on “the government of the United States of America, as well as high-level politicians and public officials, to unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country”. Crickley also urged the US authorities “to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations”. Lecia Brooks, director of outreach for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group, said the UN’s early warning underlined the need for American leaders to “clearly and unconditionally condemn hatred and bigotry”. “It is a sad day when the president of the United States has so thoroughly failed to denounce white supremacism that UN experts must warn the US about the dangers of racism,” Brooks said. “Unfortunately, Trump’s racist and xenophobic campaign, and his lukewarm condemnation of white supremacists, has heightened racial tensions in America to the point that it’s raising alarms in the global community.” Sherine Tadros, Amnesty International’s UN representative, welcomed the UN’s move. “It is significant that the UN is speaking out publicly against the actions of the new US administration, which it so far has been reluctant to do,” Tadros said. Jasmine Tyler, US program advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, urged the White House to heed the UN warning. “As a black woman raising a black son, and a human rights advocate, I can hardly believe the times we’re living in,” Tyler said. “The Trump administration should take the Cerd’s early warning very seriously and rescind its decision to eviscerate the mandates and budgets of US civil rights institutions; end its attempt to exclude white nationalism from the federal government’s Countering Violent Extremism programs; and end immigration and refugee policies based on anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant sentiment.” The warning was issued on 18 August but came to light on Wednesday, the day after protests outside a rally by the president in Phoenix, Arizona. Trump used Tuesday’s event to portray himself as the victim of events in Charlottesville, branding journalists who “do not like our country” as the true source of division in America. He also accused the “crooked media” of “trying to take away our history and our heritage” and read out previous statements that he said condemned hatred, bigotry and violence. And he complained that the media had not given him enough credit for condemning hate groups. “I said everything,” the president said. “I hit them with neo-Nazi. I hit them with everything. I got the white supremacists, the neo-Nazi. I got them all in there, let’s say. KKK, we have KKK. I got them all.” The former director of national intelligence James Clapper later described Trump’s remarks as “downright scary and disturbing”. The former spy chief, who served under Democratic and Republican presidents, also called into question Trump’s fitness to serve. “How much longer does the country have to, to borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare?” Clapper said on CNN. Following Clapper’s remarks, the former British ambassador to the US, Peter Westmacott, compared Tuesday’s rally to Nazi Germany. “Shades of 1933 Germany,” Westmacott tweeted, claiming Trump’s speech was “an invitation to autocrats” in countries without the US’s system of checks and balances “to play the same game more dangerously”. Immediately after the rally, police said they used pepper spray to disperse protesters outside the rally – who numbered in their thousands, according to Arizona media – after being pelted with rocks and bottles. The Phoenix police chief, Jeri Williams, told reporters that four people had been arrested, including three on assault charges. In February, the SPLC said the number of hate groups in the US had risen for a second consecutive year and that “the radical right was energised by the candidacy of Donald Trump”. Until last week, his chief White House strategist was Steve Bannon, a rightwing ideologue and former editor of Breitbart, which Bannon called “a platform for the alt-right”. Bannon has returned to Breitbart News as executive chairman. In its statement, Cerd also called on the US to ensure that the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly are not exercised with the aim of destroying or denying the rights and freedoms of others, ensuring “such rights are not misused to promote racist hate speech and racist crimes”. The committee monitors compliance with the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, which the US ratified in 1994.
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US Navy suspends search; here are the 10 missing sailors from USS John S. McCain collision
The body found by the Royal Malaysian Navy earlier this week was not a US Navy sailor, the Navy said.
by Melissa Leon · August 24, 2017
The search and rescue efforts for the 10 missing U.S. Navy sailors from the USS John S. McCain have been suspended after more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet announced early Thursday. The sailors went missing after the Navy destroyer collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker on August 21. The divers recovered the remains of one sailor, who were confirmed to be: Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, from New Jersey. Those sailors still missing are: Electronics Technician 1st Class Charles Nathan Findley, 31, from Missouri; Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class Abraham Lopez, 39, from Texas; Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kevin Sayer Bushell, 26, from Maryland; Electronics Technician 2nd Class Jacob Daniel Drake, 21, from Ohio; Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Timothy Thomas Eckels Jr., 23, from Maryland; Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Corey George Ingram, 28, from New York; Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dustin Louis Doyon, 26, from Connecticut; Electronics Technician 3rd Class John Henry Hoagland III, 20, from Texas; and, Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Logan Stephen Palmer, 23, from Illinois. The Navy said divers will continue the search and recovery efforts for remains of the missing sailors, inside the flooded compartments of the ship.
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Mysterious North Korean Calendar Counts Down To Sunday, August 27th In Latest Nuclear War Threat Video That Puts President Trump In A Cemetery
August 23, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In the huge, bright red Drudge Report headline from Tuesday August 22nd linking to this story from Fox News we see that North Korea's latest propaganda has put President Trump in a cemetery as seen in the 1st video directly below. While the 2nd Drudge headline seen via screenshot below shares that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently praised North Korea's 'restraint', as we also see in this 1st video, overlooked by the Fox News story, what appears to be a 'countdown calendar' appears at the end of the video, counting down to Sunday, August 27th, which is mysteriously highlighted. Has North Korea sent a message to their people of impending nuclear war? First, the video is directly below with much more below it on the unfolding situation in North Korea and the latest bizarre episode involving a US Navy ship that has led to China claiming the US Navy is a 'hazard' to shipping in the region. The 'countdown calendar' in this obvious N Korean military propaganda video appears at the 3 minute 37 second mark. A secret message to the people of North Korea and others paying attention? In this brand new story from the Washington Post (via archive.is), they report China is now demanding that the US immediately withdraw North Korean sanctions, warning that if we continue to hold sanctions against them, such punitive measures would damage relationships between the US and China. Just the latest report suggesting that hostilities could still break out, China's Foreign Ministry seemed to imply that the US was to blame for what we're now witnessing there, with a devastating global war still only one mistake or accident away.: “China especially opposes any country conducting ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ over Chinese entities and individuals,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a routine news conference. “Measures taken by the United States are not helpful in solving the problem and unhelpful to mutual trust and cooperation. We ask the United States to stop the relevant wrong practices immediately.” With North Korea's latest propaganda piece putting President Trump in the cemetery as was seen in the video above and screenshot below, how long can events continue this way without something very bad eventually happening? As we've warned time and again on ANP, any war with North Korea could be one of the most devastating that anyone living now has seen in their lifetimes with the head of the Department of Defense in the US, General James 'Maddog' Mattis claiming an outright catastrophe awaits. "My portfolio, my mission, my responsibility is to have military options if you need it,” Mattis responded. "However, right now, Secretary Tillerson, Ambassador Haley, you can see the American effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results. And I want to stay right there right now. The tragedy of war is well enough known. It does not need another characterization beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic." While we're beyond grateful that President Trump has yet to pull the trigger on a war with North Korea that could quickly come home to US soil in the most devastating fashion, as Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has warned, how does America survive a nuclear armed terror state? While the 'countdown calendar' seen above may be absolutely nothing, as the LA Times reports, US military drills that recently kicked off on the Korean peninsula with ally South Korea once again have Kim Jong Un and North Korea on edge and as we read in this new story over at the Express, for the umpteenth time, NKorea has warned the USA to prepare for “uncontrollable nuclear war” and a “merciless strike” as the crisis on the peninsula reaches fever pitch. As we hear in the next video below, NKorea is now claiming they are ready to strike unless the US starts acting sensibly. While North Korea is a huge headache, as we read in this new story over at The Week, China is now claiming that the US Navy is 'arrogant' after the collision of the USS John McCain, the 2nd US Navy ship collision in months and as we read in this new story from The Next Web, the 4th collision involving a US Navy ship this year. As Steve Quayle stated in an SQnote while linking to this story from American Military News about the collision, 'John Son of Cain' will be exposed shortly - will have to change the name of this ship! 'Prophetic event!' The Next Web story also brings up this very bothersome possibility, these collisions could somehow have been triggered by cyber hacking as also heard in the 2nd video below. While PBS recently asked if these repeated collisions suggest there is a systematic problem, as Fox News reported yesterday, the US Navy denies that 'cyber sabotage' played any role in the collisions. With our military decimated after 8 years of the Obama administration, which pushed gender equality and 'trans surgeries' over military readiness, we pray that we're able to reverse course under President Trump in the years ahead. And while North Korea may pose a 'clear and present danger' according to 'Maddog' Mattis, we hope that Kim Jong Un will clearly understand the consequences of his actions should he decide to unleash an EMP over Japan, South Korea or NY City. While such actions taken by Kim would lead to the end of his country after President Trump and 'Maddog' unleashed a debilitating barrage upon him, here in the US we'd be 'back to the dark ages', back to a time when news was delivered on horseback. As long as Kim has nuclear weapons capable of delivering an EMP, the clock is still ticking on that front as heard in the final video below.
http://allnewspipeline.com/North_Korea_Countdown_Clock_Calendar.php
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Is This An Overlooked 'End Times Sign'? Experts Warn This 'Modern Day Psychological Disorder' Is Exploding Across America: Digital Addiction And The 'Zombie Generation'
By MT Taylor - All News Pipeline August 24, 2017
When today’s kids don’t blink, are they just zoned out or are they mesmerized by mind-numbing games and addictive media? In other words, are they being zombified? Look around and see the busy fingers and mindless stares of pre-teens and teens of this generation--those who would rather look at an electronic screen than make eye contact with humans, even their own families. These kids are always looking down, since they get their kicks from hand-held games, phone apps and action videos. At home, social interaction is stymied by supersize TV screens that feature inane game shows, plotless movies and mind-deadening comedies with canned laughter. But due to social isolation imposed by their media addiction, the more sensitive kids may suffer from anxiety attacks. Some have begun to look to those same media sources to help them bug out from their own thoughts and minds. The result is a market glutted with gadgets and electronic devices promising to give stressed-out and loner kids time out from reality. Recently a teenager searching for distractions to help with his anxiety contacted a post site called ShouldIbuythisgame. “I’m looking for something repetitive, rewarding and mindless so I can decompress,” he wrote. “I just need something to really dull my brain right now.” Laurie Holman, in a blog for Huffpost about media-stressed youth, called children and teens truly fixated on digital games and gizmos “a different kind of kid.” “Those who get mesmerized by action videos and TV can watch shows for hours, tied to the screen,” she observed. “They tend to use the screen shows to avoid and procrastinate when they have work to do. It’s hard to get them to stop. But at the same time, this intense watching may relax them if their anxiety is high.” The latest hullabaloo is about a new hand-held gadget that could help kids with anxiety called the Fidget Spinner. Hyped as the season’s hottest toy for every kid, it is also marketed as a way to alleviate hyperactivity, anxiety and autism. Kids like it because when the ball bearings in the toy start to spin, the momentum of three whirling discs gives them a pleasant sensory experience that is calming. According to a recent Associated Press article, the popularity of Spinners already has caused a stir in Russia, where there has been an aggressive promotion of the imported toys among children and teens. The article reported that Russia’s consumer protection agency, fearing that the toys might be an attempt to “zombify” people, has recently gotten into the act, announcing that it would investigate the addictive nature of the spinners. Parents themselves may be dizzily wondering where all this technology came from and how their kids came to be captivated by it. Suddenly they are pondering where they they fit into the picture, other than digging into their pockets to pay for all the new digital devices kids are hooked on. Even Christian parents see a widening gap between the generations as their offspring cave in to the allure of communication and non-communication via Facebook, texting, video games. While they may not have degrees in brain development or child psychology, most parents intuitively know that reading books encourage kids’ brains to be focused and imaginative, while browsing the Internet only encourages scanning information quickly. Worried parents would do well to look to the wisdom of King Solomon who reminds them of the influence they have in shaping their children’s lives, especially for pre-schoolers. In these early years parents still have the power to dictate the child’s relationship with technology and how frequently it should be used. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 The problem, counselors and psychiatrists point out, is that many parents are opting out of the training portion of the biblical mandate. Abandoning their roles as adult mentors, teachers and disciplinarians, they choose instead to be their children’s friends and play partners. At the same time, when playtime gets too demanding, stressed parents tend to resort to an always available default parent: the family television set. Left to their own devices in front of the TV, children eager for play and social interaction may find temporary relief by watching and imitating on-screen playmates. Thus begins the captivation of a whole generation that depends on electronic media for entertainment and stimulation. As these kids grow older, parents are cautioned to watch for signs that they are becoming “digital zombies” who use technology and social media to the point that they substitute a false reality for the natural need for personal relationships. A Wikipedia site details some telltale indicators: difficulty looking people in the eye, carrying on healthy conversations and acting unaware of life happening around them. “They may have limited people skills in the real world, even displaying signs of early onset dementia,” the site warns. WebMD has gone so far as to call kids’ addiction to media and compulsive gaming as a “modern-day psychological disorder” that is becoming more and more widespread. The website described an addiction treatment center in the Netherlands where teenagers begin detox by admitting they are powerless over their addiction. Dr. Douglas Gentile, considered a leading expert on adolescent media addiction, notes that there isn’t yet a good medical model for diagnosing the disorder, but he believes it can be measured like other psychological conditions. So if doctors note symptoms like dependence and withdrawal, a loss of control and harm to social or academic pursuits, treatment can follow a similar path to that of similar addictions. Looking far into the future, the apostle Paul wrote about the days when a zombie-like generation would grow up to be self-absorbed, without natural affection and contemptuous of parents. He warned of “terrible times” in the last days: “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.” II Timothy 4:2-4 A church youth pastor teaching on this scripture noted that these end-time youth, used to having what they want, will have a hard time controlling their desires and appetites. “This passage is telling us that most of all, in the last days, young people will live for pleasure,” he said. “All they can think about is having fun and being entertained. If life isn’t full of thrills and excitement, they are bored, and will put themselves into dangerous situations just for the thrill of it.” Looking around at youth today and considering the dark side of their captivation with digital media, we may wonder if we are getting close to the generation Paul describes. In fact, are we already there? Actually, the growth of technology causing rapid changes in our culture was a topic addressed by Jesus thousands of years ago when he spoke to his disciples about signs of the end of the age. In Mark 13 he also prophesied about a time when children would rebel against their parents, even to the point of death. His message ultimately was that God is Sovereign, giving warning to a future generation of the growth of knowledge and science yet to come. His Word promises he has everything under control, even to saving children who are seemingly captivated and bound by today’s booming culture and rapid-fire advances in technology. “Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives rescued from the fierce? Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.” Isaiah 49: 24,25
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What Netanyahu hoped to gain from meeting with Putin
Netanyahu meets with Putin, expresses concern over Iran's role in Syria
Netanyahu to warn Putin not to cross red lines
By Herb Keinon August 24, 2017 10:50
The Israeli leader is standing up to the Russian president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin knows full well that Israel is adamantly opposed to any post-civil war arrangement in Syria that will leave Iranian military forces in place. He doesn’t need Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hop on a plane and disturb his summer holiday on the Black Sea beach resort of Sochi to tell him. So why did Netanyahu go? Because the objective is less to try to convince Putin of Israel’s position, and more to look him in the eyes and tell him squarely what Israel will do if Iran begins to militarily entrench itself in Syria. Israel’s message to Putin, which is the same message that was conveyed to the Americans last week via a blue-ribbon security delegation headed by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, is that Israel will act militarily. Netanyahu wants this to be a factor in Putin’s decision-making process. Because if Israel does act militarily in Syria, the question will be how does Russia respond. Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro pointed out in a Twitter thread on Tuesday something that seems obvious, but is much overlooked. Israel, he wrote, has acted on numerous occasions inside Syria, be it to prevent the transfer of game-changing weapons from Iran to Lebanon, be it in retaliation for rockets or mortar shells that fell either intentionally or inadvertently on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, or be it to keep Iran or Hezbollah away from the border. And while the Russians could have acted to prevent this, they did not. Netanyahu went to Sochi to let Putin know what Israel plans to do in the event that Iran tries to build air bases, a naval port, or permanent army bases inside Syria. It would take action. It would take as precise military action as possible, so as not to endanger any Russian forces in the country, but it will not allow Iran to turn Syria into a base of operation against Israel. Cohen joined Netanyahu in Moscow, but it is unlikely that he presented Putin with any new intelligence information that knocked the Russian leader off his chair. The Russians have pretty good intelligence of their own. But there is nothing like a personal meeting to impress upon one’s interlocutor the gravity of the situation. And, from Israel’s perspective, the situation if Iran fills the vacuum left by retreating Islamic State fighters would be grave. Netanyahu spoke after the meeting to reporters about Iran’s intention of doing to Syria what it did to Lebanon, which is essentially take control of the country through the use of proxies. In Lebanon the proxies are Hezbollah’s, and in Syria it is tens of thousands of Shia militiamen from Iraq, and Pakistan and even Afghanistan, augmented by Iranian soldiers, already on the ground. Israel, Netanyahu is telling Putin and a world preoccupied with other crises, from North Korea to Barcelona, won’t tolerate another Lebanon to its northeast. Netanyahu hopes that knowledge of what Israel will do will impact Russia’s decisions regarding post-war arrangements in Syria. Russia has spent billions of dollars, expended an enormous amount of political capital and even lost a few dozen men trying to keep President Bashar Assad in power. If Israel is drawn into a war in Syria, it would greatly jeopardize the Assad regime. Netanyahu, who has a good, strong working relationship with Putin, wants the Russian leader to ask himself one question as a result of this visit: Is it worth the risk to his massive investment? And the answer to the question will be largely dependent on how credible Putin views Israel’s threat, and whether he believes that Netanyahu would take action against the Iranians in Syria. Netanyahu made the trip to Sochi hoping to impress upon Putin that the threat is very real indeed.
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Liberman and Bennett: Israel must safeguard own security against Iranian presence in Syria
Def. Min. Lieberman and Edu. Min. Bennett say Israel has only itself to rely on regarding Iran's growing power in Syria; former national security advisor Amidror responds to Iran's suspected attempt to create 'a corridor' from Tehran to Mediterranean by saying, 'Israel can do nothing to stop it, but it can draw red lines in Syria and say that if they're crossed, it will retaliate.'
Moran Azulay, Shahar Chai and Alexandra Lukash|Published: 24.08.17 , 17:48
Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman spoke Thursday morning at a conference organized by the Israel Institute of Energy and Environment, assuring Israel will not stand idly by as Iran entrenches its position in Syria. "Iran, via its Revolutionary Guard, is trying to create a new reality in the region with Iranian airforce and naval bases in Syria, with Shiite militias numbering thousands of mercenaries and by manufacturing precise weaponry in Lebanon," he said. "Israel does not intend to resign itself to these attempts and will not act as onlooker from the sidelines." Minister of Education Naftali Bennett also spoke on the matter, saying that "we'll do everything in our power to ensure no Iranians will stand at our borders," he asserted. Bennett also commented on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "At the end of the day, whether we're turning to the US or to Russia, we'll try to harness them but won't rely solely on them," he stated. "Israel reserves the right to defend itself by itself, including against the Iranians near our borders. We're always keeping up-to-date on the processes in play here, it's one of the more vital and sensitive issues on our plate. At the moment, as we speak, Iran is funneling Shiite and Iranian militias into Syria." Bennett wished to send a message to Israeli citizens. "We'll look after ourselves," he promised. "Menachem Begin didn't allow the threat then posed by the reactor in Iraq to build and grow, but acted to nip it in the bud." "We're always together and always alone. That is, we always have partners and allies, we have a political plan of action, but we've never and will never outsource Israeli national security. All options are absolutely on the table." Bennett went on to speak about ISIS, calling it a "tactical problem." "It's a meaningful one, but tactical nonetheless," he said, "and you don't sacrifice a strategic interest of preventing the creation of a Persian empire from Tehran to the Mediterranean to solve a tactical problem." Former Major General Yaakov Amidror, who served as the national security advisor, also spoke about Netanyahu's meeting with Putin and the growing Iranian threat. "Russia is one of the more important forces in determining Syria's fate, making their meeting crucial," he said. Amidror further commented on the Netanyahu-Putin meeting, saying, "Israel has a lot of strength and it needs to decide whether to put it to use. If it does, it should consider the reaction. The talk with Putin is important in order to make the Russians understand exactly what the Israeli interest is and what we plan to do, so they're not caught off-guard." Amidror also weighed in on the land corridor to the Mediterranean Iran is trying to construct by taking over Syria. "That's without a doubt a seismic shift in the Middle East. It may actually be too big for Israel's britches. Israel can do nothing to stop a corridor starting in Tehran, passing through Baghdad and terminating in Damascus, but it can draw red lines in Syria and say that if they're crossed, it will retaliate." Amidror then added Israel should set the aforementioned red line when it comes to Iranian presence in Syria. "We're not asking the Russians for permission," he said, "but we have to make it clear to them where that line passes and should decide whether we act once it's crossed—that is, the point beyond which Israel will forcefully respond to Iranian provocations." "In any event, it's best to keep the Russians in the picture," Amidror continued. "It's been working rather well up until now, at least. According to foreign publications, we've been quite active in Syria with the Russians already present there. It should be very careful and precise, but it needs to be done." "World media has taken Iran's words out of context" In the past few days, Iran has threatened that in a matter of days, it will be capable of producing enriched uranium at a level sufficient for the production of nuclear weapons. According to Dr. Tamar Eilam Gindin , a specialist on Iran from the Shalem Academic College and the Azari Center, the western media distorted the Iranians' true intentions in this case. "The media took what they said out of context," she said. "What they meant was they're loyal to the agreement and have no intention of breaking it, but should the US place the sanctions back on them, within five days they can have the Fordo reactor up and running and reach twenty percent enrichment." "And even that is a long ways off from an actual bomb," he explains, "it's simply their previous pre-agreement ability." "The Iranians want the nuclear agreement maintained," she assures. "The head of the Iranian atomic agency said, 'We were able to reach this agreement with so much effort and won't give it up so easily. But Trump is threatening to place the sanctions back on us. You can't expect that if you threaten us with sanctions we'll stick to our side of the agreement.'"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5007302,00.html
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Trump Inherits The Afghanistan Albatross — And Commits For The Long Term
August 22, 20175:00 AM ET
President Trump inherited it with the presidency and now is putting the albatross that is Afghanistan around his own neck. According to senior U.S. officials, Trump will become the third consecutive commander in chief to authorize a major deployment of American troops. On Monday, he explained his reasoning following months of deliberation — which followed years of skepticism before he launched his political career. "We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan," Trump wrote in 2013. "Their government has zero appreciation. Let's get out!" Trump clung to that view through his election and inauguration as president, until the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, pushed the issue back into the foreground earlier this year by warning Congress that the conflict was in "stalemate" — and calling for a fresh infusion of personnel. That set the stage for a Pentagon recommendation for more troops, one Trump has waited months to endorse — even making a point to invite enlisted service members to the White House to ask their opinions. Ultimately, however, Trump said he concluded that deepening America's nearly 16-year commitment to Afghanistan was the right decision. "My original instinct was to pull out, and historically, I like following my instincts," he said, "but all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office." A senior U.S. official said that Trump plans to deploy about 4,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, which would raise the force there to about 12,500 — numbers the president did not detail in his address. There are thousands more diplomats, aid workers, contractors and other Americans that continue to serve there. Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters traveling with him this week that he would reveal more about the specifics after Trump had made his announcement, but Mattis tried to stress how carefully the government had helped the president reach his decision. "I'm very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and did not go in with a preset condition in terms of what questions could be asked or what decisions would be made," Mattis said. Trump and his political advisers were said to seriously consider simply cutting bait on Afghanistan — pulling out all or nearly all American troops there in recognition of the limits about what is possible for them to achieve. Afghanistan's indigenous forces take heavy casualties as they lose ground against the insurgent Taliban that was once cleared out with American help. The government in Kabul cannot endure without significant U.S. and international support. A collapse — like the one that followed the withdrawal of Russian support after the Soviet Union's disastrous invasion — might have posed new risks that terrorists could use ungoverned spaces within Afghanistan to plot attacks against the United States, as Osama bin Laden did in 2001. U.S. counterterrorism officials say they've done so much damage to al-Qaida and other big extremist groups, as well as stepped up security in so many ways that the odds are slim of another attack on the scale of Sept. 11. All the same, no one can know for sure — which was one reason why Trump accepted the Pentagon's recommendation that he stay the course. "The consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable," he said. The president and his aides were keen to try to present his decision as new in the sense that it encapsulates the whole region — a "South Asian strategy," as opposed to a simple Afghanistan strategy. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson phoned his counterparts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Monday to try to get them on board with a unified approach. "The topic was how the United States would like to work with each country to stabilize South Asia through a new, integrated regional strategy," a spokeswoman said. At the same time, administration officials say they want to turn the screws on Kabul and Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Trump said he wants better progress from the Afghan government in making the best of American aid and more work by Pakistan in going after the safe havens inside its borders used by the Taliban leaders who run their insurgency in Afghanistan. But in both threatening to cut off military aid payments to Pakistan and inviting its archenemy, India, to take a greater role in Afghanistan, Trump is embarking on a course that will require great diplomatic finesse to see results — at a time when the United States does not have an ambassador in Kabul or New Delhi and when many other top State Department posts are unfilled. "Without an accompanying increase in diplomatic resources and foreign assistance, military success in Afghanistan will not be sustainable," warned Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., an Iraq war veteran, in response to Monday night's speech. The main factor that the administration hopes makes a difference is Trump's decision not to place an end date on the U.S. commitment. Critics faulted President Barack Obama for announcing a surge in U.S. troops and the date for their withdrawal in the same speech. That signaled a finite timetable and let insurgents simply wait out the crest in the wave of deployments, as hawks complained. No more, Trump said. "A core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions," he said. "I've said ... many times how counterproductive it is for the United States to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin, or end, military options." So as the 16th anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan approaches in October, the latest change in Washington's approach will have been to drop a notional goal for when it might end.
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by Breitbart Jerusalem24 Aug 20171,018
The Times of Israel reports: A high level US delegation including senior White House adviser Jared Kushner arrived in Israel late Wednesday, ahead of meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders aimed at looking for way to jumpstart peace talks. The visit by senior White House aide Jared Kushner, who is also US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell comes as Palestinian figures have become more vocal in expressing disappointment in Washington’s unclear approach to peace efforts so far. The American delegation arrived Wednesday night and is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah starting on Thursday. A US diplomatic source told reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday night that Trump wanted discussions “to focus on the transition to substantive… peace talks, the situation in Gaza, including how to ease the humanitarian crisis there, and the economic steps that can be taken.”
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"It is Our Very Existence That is Unbearable to Jihadists"
by Giulio Meotti August 24, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10894/jihadists-europe-spain-finland
The Islamist attacks against Spain, Finland and Germany unmasked the central problem: Pacifism will not protect Europe from either Islamization or terror attacks. Spain and Germany were, in fact, among the most reluctant countries in Europe to take an active role in the anti-ISIS coalition. The Spanish press did not participate in a discussion of the Mohammed cartoons; no Spanish writer was accused of "Islamophobia" and no Spanish personality was put under police protection for "criticizing Islam". It seemed as if Spain were not even interested in what was at stake in Islamist attacks on Europe's very existence. No Spanish city made headlines for having multicultural ghettos, as in France and Britain. The attack in Barcelona should have ended this illusion. Terrorists do not need an excuse to butcher "infidels". The sad conclusion seems to be that that jihadists do not need a "reason" to kill Westerners. They attack equally France, which conducts military operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and countries such as Spain and Germany, which are neutral. In 24 hours, Spain suffered two major terror attacks. A jihadist cell killed 15 people in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils. In the past year, Germany was the other European country hit hard by armed Islamists. First, a jihadist plowed a large truck through a Christmas market in central Berlin and murdered 12 people. Then a man wielding a knife murdered one person during an attack at a supermarket in Hamburg. One day after the carnage in Barcelona, another terror attack took place in Turku, Finland. Two women were murdered in the market square of the country's oldest city. Jihad -- in Finland? The Islamist attacks against Spain, Germany and Finland unmasked the central problem: Pacifism will not protect Europe from either Islamization or terror attacks. Spain and Germany were, in fact, among the most reluctant countries in Europe to take an active role in the anti-ISIS coalition. John Vinocur of the Wall Street Journal recently defined Germany as "a country where the army and air force basically do not fight". And Spanish politicians, since the 2004 train bombings, have not backed U.S. and NATO operations in countries such as Libya and Mali. Spain has been described as a "reluctant partner" in the anti-ISIS coalition. Spain and Germany contribute less than others to NATO's efforts. US President Donald Trump has made clear that the existence of NATO is contingent on members meeting their agreed-upon obligations of spending 2% of GDP on defense. Spain spends less than half of that -- 0.91 percent. Germany does only a little better -- at 1.19 percent. Finland never even joined NATO. The surprise of the Finnish élite over the Turku attack was noted by The Financial Times: "The Nordic country of 5m people does not feature prominently in jihadi invective against the west. Despite Finland's armed forces having occasionally supported Nato missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the country's longstanding nonaligned and peaceable military status has insulated it from most blowback from crises in the Middle East." In 2004, al-Qaeda, for the first time, was able to effect a regime change in Europe after committing terror atrocities on Madrid's trains. Shortly after those bombings, Spain's election turned into a referendum on its involvement in the Iraq War. The Socialist Party's dramatic upset victory was followed by a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. Since then, Spain has been almost non-existent in the international arena. Probably assuming that pacifism shielded it from further attacks, Spain was regarded as "the forgotten front in Europe's ISIS war". The Spanish press was diligently indifferent to any debate on freedom of expression, then, as now, under attack by Islamists in Europe. The Spanish press did not participate in a discussion of the Mohammed cartoons; no Spanish writer was accused of "Islamophobia", and no Spanish personality was put under police protection for "criticizing Islam". It seemed as if Spain were not even interested in what was at stake in Islamist attacks on Europe's very existence. No Spanish city made headlines for having multicultural ghettos, as in France and Britain. The attack in Barcelona should have ended this illusion. Terrorists do not need an excuse to butcher "infidels". Germany, the most generous country in Europe in welcoming Muslims, followed the same fate as Spain. The German government struck a cozy deal with Turkey about the migrants; and when a comedian, Jan Böhmermann, made a joke about a Muslim politician, the German government allowed its legal system to put the comedian on trial. The sad conclusion seems to be that that jihadists do not need a "reason" to kill Westerners. They attack equally France, which conducts military operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and countries such as Spain and Germany, which are neutral. It is enough for them to state, that, according to Islamic doctrine, land once under Muslim rule is forever under Islamic rule. As Spain ("Al Andalus" for Islamists) was under Islamic rule until the Christian Reconquista (which began in 722), and then Muslims were expelled in 1492, the country, according to Muslim extremists, permanently belongs to Islam and therefore must be taken back. About the massacre in Barcelona, the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner commented: "no one is immune.... The picture that comes to me is that of The Plague of Albert Camus: a scourge that falls on an innocent city. The extension of the field of jihadist struggle is universal. The terrorists charge the whole world for their failure. They knock where they can hit. Trying to please them is vain, it is our very existence that is unbearable to them". To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in fighting jihadism, but jihadism is interested in fighting you. Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10894/jihadists-europe-spain-finland
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Post-Charlottesville, Confederate monuments begin to fall across the U.S.
Sarah Toy, USA TODAY Published 6:15 p.m. ET Aug. 23, 2017 | Updated 6:15 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017
The city of Charlottesville draped two Confederate monuments in black tarp Wednesday afternoon as a symbol of the city’s mourning for a woman who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally. The work Wednesday began in Emancipation Park, where workers using ropes and poles draped a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the tarp. Some in the crowd cheered as others took photos and video. “It’s great. It’s a good start,” said Jamie Dyer from nearby Justice Park, where workers later covered a statue of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The violence that erupted on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville brought renewed attention to Confederate symbols. Charlottesville, like many other cities, has struggled over what to do with its Confederate-era statues, which some view as markers of history. Others see them as symbols of hate and reminders of pain. Here’s a look at some of the monuments that have been taken down since the violence in Charlottesville: Durham, N.C. — On Aug. 14, protesters toppled a Confederate statue during a rally outside the Durham County Courthouse. On Aug. 19, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from the entrance of Duke University Chapel. University president Vincent Price authorized the removal, saying the removal represented an “opportunity for us to learn and heal.” • Gainesville, Fla. — A monument to Confederate soldiers nicknamed “Old Joe” in downtown Gainesville was taken down on Aug. 14. Its removal was hotly contested for a year. In the end, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who put it up 113 years ago, agreed to remove and take the statue after other groups declined it.
• St. Petersburg, Fla. — On Aug. 15, the city removed the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway marker was from the downtown waterfront.
• San Diego — Just days after the deadly protests in Charlottesville, a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis was removed by the city from Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego.
• Los Angeles — On Aug. 16, a six-foot monument to Confederate soldiers was removed from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. A spokesperson for the the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns the monument, told the Los Angeles Times it was taken down due to issues with vandalism.
• Baltimore — On Aug. 16, four Confederate monuments were taken down after Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh cited safety concerns. “They needed to come down,” Pugh said in an interview with the Baltimore Sun.
• Brooklyn, N.Y. — A 105-year-old plaque marking a tree planted by Robert E. Lee in Brooklyn during the 1840s was removed on Aug. 16, along with a second plaque installed in 1935, according to the New York Daily News.
• New York — Busts of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were removed overnight on Aug. 17 from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College. A few days before, Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. had called for their removal and said their inclusion at the Hall of Fame was “especially galling: there is nothing great about two men who committed treason against the United States to fight to keep the institution of slavery in tact.” • Franklin, Ohio — A monument dedicated to Robert E. Lee was removed overnight on Aug. 17 by the city of Franklin. Located on the Dixie highway, the stone monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy 90 years ago.
• Madison, Wis. — A plaque lauding Confederate soldiers buried at a cemetery was removed on Aug. 17, and Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said a second memorial would be coming down as well.
• Worthington, Ohio — On Aug. 18, a historic marker outside the home of Roswell Ripley, a Confederate general who was born and raised in the city, was taken down following a recommendation by city officials anticipating protests, The Columbia Dispatch reported.
• Annapolis, Md.— On Aug. 18, a statue of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision upholding slavery and denying citizenship to African Americans, was lifted away by crane from the grounds of the Maryland State House. The statue had stood in front of the statehouse since 1872.
• Daytona Beach, Fla. — Three plaques honoring Confederate soldiers were removed from a park in downtown Daytona Beach on Aug. 18. A city spokesperson said they would be cleaned and donated to a local historical society.
• Helena, Mont. — Montana's capital removed a Confederate monument on Aug. 18 after Native American lawmakers in Montana sent a letter to the city requesting its removal, saying it stood for segregation, secession and slavery. A fountain donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy more than 100 years ago, it was supposedly the only Confederate monument in the upper Rockies.
• Austin — On Aug. 21, statues of Confederate-era figures Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan and James Stephen Hogg were removed from the main campus grounds of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Hero pit bulls save kids from snake attack: 'They are 100 percent family'
Aug. 18, 2017 at 4:58 PM Arin Greenwood TODAY
Slayer the pit bull is always looking out for his family. Melissa Butt is so confident in her dog that she tells her young grandkids nothing bad will ever happen to them while Slayer is around, she told TODAY. On Aug. 13 that was put to the test, and Slayer proved himself to be exactly the hero Butt knew him to be. Butt's grandchildren, 4-year-old Zayden and 1 1/2-year-old Mallory, were playing with Slayer and another of the family's dogs, Paco, in the yard of their home in southwest Florida. Slayer and Paco began barking at something in the grass. Something about their manner seemed urgent. The dogs wouldn't "disengage on command," as Butt, 47, puts it. So the kids were sent inside with their mother, Cynthia, who is the daughter of Butt and her husband, Daniel White. With the children safe, Cynthia Butt and White came back outside to check on Slayer and Paco. The dogs were standing over a snake, keeping guard. The snake lashed out to bite both of the dogs, getting Paco on the elbow and Slayer on the snout. "That's when Slayer grabbed the snake in his mouth and killed it," said Melissa Butt. Butt rushed the dogs to their regular vet. But their condition was growing serious — Slayer's especially; his face was swelling, and his breathing became labored. The veterinarian recommended the dogs go to the BluePearl emergency vet in Brandon, Florida, about 40 minutes away. Butt was so worried that it was hard to restrain herself from speeding the whole way there. The thought of getting into an accident while her dogs' lives were in jeopardy was more than she could bear. She'd adopted them as young pups, and she dreaded the thought of them dying. At the clinic, the dogs got immediate lifesaving treatment with antivenin. "We have to act fast," Dr. Shelby Loos said to local NBC affiliate . While the veterinarians saved the dogs' lives, it also meant mounting bills for the family. BluePearl connected Butt with Frankie's Friends, a nonprofit that helps cover extraordinary medical costs for pets. (Here's where you can contribute.) "There's nothing I can say or do to show how grateful I am," Butt said. "How do you thank someone for saving your loved ones?" Paco was well enough to go home after just one night in the hospital. But Slayer didn't improve so quickly. When Butt went to see him at BluePearl, she found his face and mouth still so swollen that he "could barely get his tongue out" to give her a kiss. "It was devastating to see how bad it had gotten," Butt said. With another dose of antivenin and more care, Slayer got better. He is still on medication, and his face isn't totally back to normal, but he recovered enough to go home on Wednesday to his adoring, grateful family. He and Paco are "very rightfully being very, very spoiled right now," said Butt. "We spoiled them before. They're ultraspoiled now." (A third dog, Zombie, who was napping inside through Sunday's adventures, isn't too impressed with his canine siblings getting the royal treatment.) Butt looks at her grandkids and imagines what might have happened if Slayer and Paco hadn't been there. Slayer is a big dog and suffered extensively from the bite. Zayden and Mallory are much smaller. "Our pets aren't pets," Butt said. "They are 100 percent family members; this just proves they deserve to be." On Wednesday, when Slayer got home, Zayden turned to Butt and said to her what she's always said to him: "Slayer protects me. Slayer protects us," he said. "He will always protect me." Then Zayden covered the dog with a blanket, saying he wanted to make him feel better.
https://www.today.com/food/piglets-saved-fire-served-sausages-firefighters-t115416\
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Minneapolis: Muslim threatened to ‘shoot wife in the head’ night before he was sworn-in as cop
August 17, 2017 Source: Newly sworn-in Minneapolis cop charged with threatening his wife – StarTribune.com h/t Jihad Watch
A rookie Minneapolis police officer has been charged with threatening his wife during an argument at their home the night before he was sworn in as a member of the city’s police force. Dakota County prosecutors say Ahmed Jama, 29, got into an argument with his wife at the couple’s Apple Valley home around 11 p.m. on Aug. 1, according to a criminal complaint. Jama threatened to shoot his wife in the head, authorities said, telling her that he would get away with it. No physical violence was reported in the complaint, but his wife told police the following day that she feared for her life, adding that Jama had never threatened her in that way before. Jama was sworn in as a Minneapolis police officer Aug. 2. Acting Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said through a spokesperson that Jama, who is still on probation with the department, has been placed on administrative leave. Arradondo said that the Office of Police Conduct Review would be investigating. Jama voluntarily gave a statement to police, characterizing the argument as more of a discussion, the complaint said. He denied making the threat. He was later arrested and charged with making threats of violence with intent to terrorize, a felony. Classic Islamic supremacist. Threatening to shoot his wife in the head and that he’d get away with it…just casual discussion. Did he think he’d get away with it because fellow Somali Muslim officer Mohamed Noor has, so far, gotten away with killing a woman? More via: Rookie Cop Breaks the Law Night Before Swearing-In Ceremony – Alpha News A Minneapolis man has been charged with Threats of Violence (Intent to Terrorize), the night before being sworn in as a Minneapolis Police Officer. Ahmed Mohamed Jama, 29, threatened his wife with bodily harm after an argument on August 1. The criminal complaint, filed on August 4, states authorities to a report of past action domestic assault. Jama’s wife told authorities that he threatened to “shoot her in the head” because he would “get away with it.” Jama denied making the threat. According to his personnel file, Jama first started working with the Minneapolis Police Department as a Police Cadet. Jama filed paperwork to become a Police Cadet in August of 2016, a similar training program that Officer Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis Officer who shot Justine Damond in July. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, a Police Cadet: “To be hired as a Police Cadet, you must have a two or four year degree in any discipline from a regionally accredited college or university, and must NOT have passed the P.O.S.T. Licensing Exam.” “The City of Minneapolis then pays for the Cadet to complete Law Enforcement certificate courses through a PPOE program which includes skills training simultaneously as they go through MPD’s in-house academy. This academic training is comparable to the training recruits receive before being hired by the MPD. “This lasts approximately 8 months. Cadets are promoted to Police Officer upon successful completion of the P.O.S.T. Board academic and skills requirements. From there they enter the Minneapolis Police Department’s Field Training Program (see below). The MPD Cadet Program started back in 1989 and has helped the MPD hire a number of highly qualified and decorated officers, including many of our current Chiefs, Inspectors, and Commanders.” As Alpha News reported, MPD looked to clear up any confusion regarding time spent training. Noor spent more than a year after going through the police cadet training for the Minneapolis Police Department, while Jama started out as a Community Service Officer before working his way up to officer. “At this point, the probationary employee you’ve inquired about, who has never worked in the capacity of a Minneapolis Police Officer, is on administrative leave,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said in a statement. “I am aware of the serious charges and will take appropriate action when necessary. The Office of Police Conduct Review has opened up a case into this matter.” Look no further than Muslim Keith Ellison and the mayor for the current lunacy occurring in Minneapolis.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/minn-muslim-shoot-wife-head/
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Grocery Store Turmoil in Chicago
by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2017
Bankruptcies don’t help. Even the big chains are closing stores. The grocery store sector is never static. Some stores close, others open. But in Chicago, 25 stores closed over the past 24 months due to bankruptcies or operational reasons, and only 16 stores have opened, producing “an alarming loss” of 545,000 square feet of grocery store space. This includes five independent grocery stores that closed, while only two new ones opened, bringing their total down to 43 stores. Their market share, based on square footage, declined to just 7%. This is “not a positive sign for improving the food deserts where these grocers penetrate more regularly,” according to Mid-America Real Estate’s biennial Urban Grocery Study. And the average store size shrank, as the stores that were closed averaged 38,000 square feet, while the stores that opened or are planned average 25,000 square feet. The study covers the period from September 2015 to August 1, 2017, in an urban area of 3.2 million residents with 262 operating or proposed grocery stores of more than 10,000 square feet in size. In addition to the current difficulties, Amazon’s entry looms over the grocery market. Whole Foods, which is being acquired by Amazon, has 13 stores in the area, nine of them “in primarily higher income” locations. It has about 7% of the market on a square-footage basis. And the report finds that “consumers continue to anticipate the opening of Amazon Go stores or perhaps ‘combo’ sites of Amazon/Whole Foods part grocery-part fulfillment center.” Regional grocery store chain Dominick’s has become a Safeway fatality. In 1998, the chain’s 116 stores were acquired by Safeway Inc. Critics say that Safeway cheapened the product offerings, including replacing Dominick’s private label brands with Safeway brands. And the store-closings started. At the end of 2013, with only 83 Dominick’s stores remaining, Safeway closed all of them. Two month later, as if by coincidence, Safeway was acquired in a leveraged buyout by private equity firm Cerberus. Many of the Dominick’s stores remained “dark” for years. But over the two-year period of the report, nearly one million square feet of those locations were absorbed by major chain stores, which dampened the impact of the bankruptcies and store closings to create “a stall and step backwards in urban Chicago,” as the report put it. Jewel Osco moved into the number one spot, with 51 stores. Aldi, after closing three locations, dropped to number two, with 49 stores. In the plus-column: Target is doubling the number of its small-format stores (20,000-30,000 square feet) to eight locations. These stores are either already open or under construction. According to the report, they’re offering a “variety of grab-and-go grocery, pharmacy/health/beauty, limited apparel and electronics; and most have in-store cafes, thus nailing the merchandise mix worthy of inclusion as an urban grocery competitor.” Fresh Thyme Farmer’s Market opened two small gourmet grocery stores of under 30,000 square feet. H Mart, a grocer catering to the Asian community, already has four stores in the suburbs and now plans to open a new 20,000-square-foot sore in the West Loop. The report: This is the second Asian-based urban grocer since the arrival of Seafood City in the Mayfair neighborhood on the northwest side in 2016. Seafood City is rumored to now be doubling the size of their store by 2019 due to larger than anticipated volumes. Plans are underway for two grocery co-ops to open small stores: The Dill Pickle with 13,000 square feet and Chicago Market with 10,000 square feet. They’re barely large enough to make it into the study (cutoff at 10,000 square feet). In the minus-column: The otherwise rapidly expanding German discounter Aldi closed three stores in Chicago, bringing its count down to 49 locations. But even as Safeway-Albertson’s gives its PE firm owners gray hairs, Aldi has announced an additional $3.4 billion investment, expecting to operate 2,500 stores across the US by 2022. Now there’s the fervent hope that some of them might happen in Chicago. Three Ultra Foods and a Strack & Val Til were shuttered, totaling 327,000 square feet, following the May bankruptcy of Central Grocers. The Midwest cooperative of grocery wholesalers operates three regional chains: Strack & Van Til, Ultra Foods, and Town & Country Markets. In the bankruptcy filing, the company said that it would try to sell the more viable stores and close the rest. “The closing of Ultra Foods in Calumet Park instantly created a food desert, by definition,” the report found. The space may eventually be absorbed, most likely by operations that are “only partial grocery, combined with other active non-grocer categories, almost guaranteeing a permanent loss of supply here.” Meijer has closed two smaller stores, totaling 181,000 square feet. Wal-Mart, which closed all of its Express stores in the US, also closed its two in Chicago, along with two Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets (primarily grocery), totaling 58,700 square feet. The report mused: “Wal-Mart’s inactivity in urban Chicago remains puzzling.” All the big gorillas have been trying it, but most consumers just don’t want to. Read… Amazon’s Online Grocery Boom? Not So Fast…
http://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/16/grocery-store-turmoil-in-chicago/
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Anonymous – They Aren’t Going to Tell You About This! (CERN ALERT MESSAGE 2017)
CERN is built on the former site of a temple to Apollyon, who is referenced in the book of Revelation as the king of the horde of the "bottomless pit". Scripture says the key to the pit will be given in the end times and when it is opened something terrible will come through. There is documented evidence that CERN seeks to open doors to other dimensions, they openly admit it. They have also released videos which indicate these intentions, along with other occult messages, as well as erecting the statue of Shiva (the destroyer) who is synonymous with Satan (according to occult scholars). All of this combined with other prophecy being fulfilled in modern times is an overwhelming sign of the times. People need to do a little digging and open their eyes, no need to to take anyone's word for it- the evidence is all there. Unfortunately most just scoff at the idea of anything beyond their well-programmed existence, they trust in the "wisdom" of men and science. They put their faith in what they can see but don't realize that most of what they see is manufactured deception, making them blind to the truth. Time is short my friends and Jesus Christ is the only path to salvation- He is the way, the truth and the life. God bless and all the best to all of you. Some have seen this problem coming for a long time and changed their entire way of life by going off-grid. They have found alternative sources such as solar, wind and diesel to power their homes and machinery. A majority of us, who have not gone off-grid, are making a concerted effort to avoid dependence on this ailing infrastructure and preparing for life without it. Will CERN generate a black hole? The LHC will not generate black holes in the cosmological sense. However, some theories suggest that the formation of tiny ‘quantum’ black holes may be possible. The observation of such an event would be thrilling in terms of our understanding of the Universe; and would be perfectly safe. As far as we know, we live in four dimensions, three of space and one of time. But experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider are looking for evidence that the universe contains more than that. The existence of extra dimensions could explain some puzzling properties of the universe. Physicists know about four forces that govern the way particles interact: electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and gravity. Gravity is by far the weakest. Think about sticking a magnet to a refrigerator door. The magnet can respond to the electromagnetic force that attracts it to the door. Or it can respond to the gravitational force of the Earth below. If you let it go at a short enough distance, it sticks straight to the door, ignoring the entire planet beneath it. Physicists wonder why gravity seems so much weaker than the other three forces. One possibility is that we’re only experiencing a fraction of it. It could be that the gravitational force acts partially in another dimension, or many extra dimensions, that we can’t perceive. Knowing more about gravity could help physicists seeking to form a so-called theory of everything, a theory that combines the four forces into one. Extra dimensions would not necessarily consist of alternate worlds, as depicted in science fiction. They could simply be too small for us to see. To understand how this would work, imagine walking along a tightrope. You are able to move only forwards and backwards without falling. In this situation, it is almost as if you exist in just one dimension of space. However, an ant walking along the same tightrope has a different point of view. The ant is able to move forwards and backwards but also around the tightrope. To such a small creature, a tightrope exists in two spatial dimensions instead of just one. Even if extra dimensions are small, they can still have an effect on how we experience the world. Scientists think that finding evidence of extra dimensions could help answer some of their questions about gravity, still one of the most mysterious forces in the universe. Finding evidence of extra dimensions could also give credence to theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. Models of string theory, for example, require the existence of at least 11 dimensions. Discovering extra dimensions could give scientists clues about the mysterious workings of gravity and could help them to unify the forces or determine the validity of string theory. It could also raise more questions about ways other dimensions shape the world around us.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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etc.. You have seen Russia as she is preparing to move down upon Israel with the other nation. etc..
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Russia rolls out the ‘Night Hunter’ chopper to slay ISIS
August 16, 2017 Nikolai Litovkin
The modified Mi-28 can be fully controlled by one of two pilots and will carry out search and destroy missions in the Middle East. A new version of the Mi-28UB “Night Hunter” - a modern attack helicopter - will be transported to Russia’s air base in Syria in the coming weeks. The war machine’s manufacturers are keen to test its modified armor and missiles on the front line. A military industrial source told RBTH this: “Russian Helicopters [corporation] strengthened the helicopter’s front armor and enhanced its ‘brains.’ ” So in the very near future, an advanced version of the “battle bird” will be carrying out search and destroy missions against ISIS in the Middle East. One of the chopper’s new features gives full control of the machine to both pilots. This means that if one pilot gets injured, the other will be able to operate the helicopter independently: That’s navigation, flying, and firing systems all at the same time. What is the ‘Night Hunter’ all about? The main goal of this military flying monster is to support infantry and special forces groups fighting on the ground. It was built to destroy tanks, armored vehicles, and low-flying targets. For example, other helicopters and drones. The Mi-28 has already been adopted by the Russian Military, but like every other piece of army hardware it had to go through strict testing before it was given the greenlight to wreak havoc on the battlefield. As the RBTH source explained, the Mi-28 follows all international military standards: “As well as bringing hell on earth with its machine guns and missiles, it can fight alongside tanks.” The expert also said that the chopper’s targets will range from enemy military personnel to artillery systems, and even anti-air defense units. Besides that, the helicopter is among only a few capable of performing aerobatic maneuvers. As Russia’s Berkuty pilot team has been showing the world for the last five years. The Mi-28's first use in Syria Russia’s Mi-28 helicopters played an integral role in liberating the Syrian city of Palmyra from ISIS on March 27, 2016. The video shows the destruction of an ISIS armored vehicle with the help of guided anti-tank missiles, followed by the elimination of militants hiding in a house. This was the first recorded use of the Night Hunter against ISIS terrorists. Before, the choppers were solely used to guard the Khmeimim Air Base, where Russia’s Air Force in Syria is stationed.
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etc many are complaining over the high price of food at the moment, just wait, wait until you see how much more it goes up. But the good thing is that if you are not praying over it, maybe you shouldn’t be eating it, you would be far healthier for you have not sanctified it by the words of your mouth etc.
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4 Popular Companies Who Own the Medical Treatments For the Diseases Their Products Cause
August 15, 2017 Cameron S. Bigger, Contributor Waking Times
Listed below are four lethal connections between Big Pharma and some of our most popular consumer products, of which all consumers deserve to be made aware. Nestlé and Prometheus Therapeutics & Diagnostics Nestlé is the world’s largest food & beverage corporation, owning more than 2,000 brands in 191 countries. The vast majority of Nestlé’s profits come from dairy-centric products. Some of their most popular brands include Gerber Baby, Nesquik Chocolate Milk, Toll House, Kit Kat, Crunch Bar, Hot Pockets, DiGiorno, Lean Cuisine, and Dreyer’s Ice Cream. Nestlé also owns the pharmaceutical company Prometheus Therapeutics and Diagnostics, whose message to doctors is: “Prometheus is your partner in helping patients with chronic digestive disorders live active, healthy lives.” Celiac disease is one of today’s most prevalent and lucrative digestive disorders, estimated to affect 1 in 100 people worldwide. Prometheus has its very own celiac disease website, which heavily warns against gluten intake, but doesn’t mention that a patient’s symptomatology could be caused by lactose intolerance, even though the symptoms of the two diseases are very similar, and it’s well recognized that celiac patients have a proven high chance of lactose intolerance. In fact, regarding the global rise in celiac disease prevalence, prominent celiac researcher Dr. Detlef Schuppan declared: “The amount of gluten ingested does not explain it.” When a corporation so heavily profits from the commercial use of dairy, a well-known digestive irritant, while also profiting from prescribing treatments for the side effects of improper digestion, that is a major conflict of interest. If we continue to pay Nestlé $92.3B per year, watch celiac cases continue to skyrocket—even amidst all the new gluten-free options. Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals The main ingredient of Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) baby powder is talcum powder, or talc. Several studies have linked frequent usage of talc in the genital region to pelvic inflammation and an increased risk of ovarian cancer. JNJ also owns Janssen Pharmaceuticals, who manufactures one of the top ovarian cancer chemotherapy drugs: Doxil. Doxil costs $2,758 per every 25ml. Ovarian cancer patients are recommended to have 50ml injected once a month for at least 4 monthly cycles. So, 50ml of Doxil, the monthly dosage, costs $5,516, and if repeated for 4 monthly cycles, as recommended, the total cost of Doxil treatment is $22,064. In 2017, about 22,000 women in the U.S. will receive a new diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and about 14,000 U.S. women will die from ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is ranked 5th among all cancer deaths in women, making it the most lethal form of cancer of the female reproductive system. Today, an American woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer during her lifetime is around 1 in 75, and her chances of dying from ovarian cancer is around 1 in 100. When we multiply the 22,000 thousand new U.S. cases of ovarian cancer per year by the $22,000 cost of a round of Doxil chemo, this comes out to a $484 million per year opportunity for JNJ. It should now be evident why Johnson & Johnson shouldn’t be allowed to sell talcum-laced baby powder while also selling ovarian cancer chemo treatments. Merisant Sweeteners and vTv Therapeutics 4 Popular Companies Who Own the Medical Treatments For the Diseases Their Products Cause August 15, 2017
Cameron S. Bigger, Contributor Waking Times
Listed below are four lethal connections between Big Pharma and some of our most popular consumer products, of which all consumers deserve to be made aware. Nestlé and Prometheus Therapeutics & Diagnostics Nestlé is the world’s largest food & beverage corporation, owning more than 2,000 brands in 191 countries. The vast majority of Nestlé’s profits come from dairy-centric products. Some of their most popular brands include Gerber Baby, Nesquik Chocolate Milk, Toll House, Kit Kat, Crunch Bar, Hot Pockets, DiGiorno, Lean Cuisine, and Dreyer’s Ice Cream. Nestlé also owns the pharmaceutical company Prometheus Therapeutics and Diagnostics, whose message to doctors is: “Prometheus is your partner in helping patients with chronic digestive disorders live active, healthy lives.” Celiac disease is one of today’s most prevalent and lucrative digestive disorders, estimated to affect 1 in 100 people worldwide. Prometheus has its very own celiac disease website, which heavily warns against gluten intake, but doesn’t mention that a patient’s symptomatology could be caused by lactose intolerance, even though the symptoms of the two diseases are very similar, and it’s well recognized that celiac patients have a proven high chance of lactose intolerance. In fact, regarding the global rise in celiac disease prevalence, prominent celiac researcher Dr. Detlef Schuppan declared: “The amount of gluten ingested does not explain it.” When a corporation so heavily profits from the commercial use of dairy, a well-known digestive irritant, while also profiting from prescribing treatments for the side effects of improper digestion, that is a major conflict of interest. If we continue to pay Nestlé $92.3B per year, watch celiac cases continue to skyrocket—even amidst all the new gluten-free options. Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals The main ingredient of Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) baby powder is talcum powder, or talc. Several studies have linked frequent usage of talc in the genital region to pelvic inflammation and an increased risk of ovarian cancer. JNJ also owns Janssen Pharmaceuticals, who manufactures one of the top ovarian cancer chemotherapy drugs: Doxil. Doxil costs $2,758 per every 25ml. Ovarian cancer patients are recommended to have 50ml injected once a month for at least 4 monthly cycles. So, 50ml of Doxil, the monthly dosage, costs $5,516, and if repeated for 4 monthly cycles, as recommended, the total cost of Doxil treatment is $22,064. In 2017, about 22,000 women in the U.S. will receive a new diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and about 14,000 U.S. women will die from ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is ranked 5th among all cancer deaths in women, making it the most lethal form of cancer of the female reproductive system. Today, an American woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer during her lifetime is around 1 in 75, and her chances of dying from ovarian cancer is around 1 in 100. When we multiply the 22,000 thousand new U.S. cases of ovarian cancer per year by the $22,000 cost of a round of Doxil chemo, this comes out to a $484 million per year opportunity for JNJ. It should now be evident why Johnson & Johnson shouldn’t be allowed to sell talcum-laced baby powder while also selling ovarian cancer chemo treatments. Merisant Sweeteners and vTv Therapeutics Merisant is a top global manufacturer of artificial sweetener brands whose products are currently being sold in over 90 countries. Equal Zero Calorie Sweetener is Merisant’s flagship product, which produced sales of $36.2 million in 2014. Merisant is owned by MacAndrews and Forbes, who also own vTv Therapeutics. vTv Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the clinical-stage discovery and invention of treatments, primarily for Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes, as well as central nervous system diseases, metabolic disorders, inflammation, and cancer. Now, one of Equal Sweetener’s main ingredients is aspartame. Human research has already proven aspartame’s connection to memory loss and learning impairment, and there is promising animal research indicating both aspartame’s role in promoting obesity by blocking gut enzyme activity and that aspartame induces significant increases in lymphomas and leukaemias at doses very near to those at which humans can be exposed. Should we really continue to allow the people who so massively profit from selling aspartame-laced Equal Sweetener the opportunity to also own and sell the pharmaceuticals that deal with the side-effects of aspartame consumption? Hearthside Food Solutions and 21st Century Oncology Hearthside Food Solutions is the United States’ largest independent bakery, and the global food industry’s leader in the full-service contract manufacturing of processed grain-based foods and snacks, including baked goods, granola bars, snack bars, energy bars, cookies, crackers, pretzels, croutons, and breadcrumbs. Hearthside is owned by Vestar Capital Partners, who also own 21st Century Oncology. 21st Century Oncology is a leading cancer-care service provider across multiple modalities, including colorectal, breast, uterine, and testicular cancers, and was also named the world’s largest radiation oncology provider, operating 179 global radiation centers, including 143 locations in 17 U.S. states. While most people already know that eating processed grains is unhealthy, some might not be aware of the high correlation between the consumption of processed, simple carbs with certain types of cancer development, such as prostate, colorectal and uterine cancers, while on the contrary, choosing healthy, complex carbs like legumes and leafy greens is correlated with a significant reduction in the risk for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers. Even the ultra-conservative American Cancer Society states on its website that “Food processing may alter foods in ways that might affect cancer risk. An example is the refining of grains, which greatly lowers the amount of fiber and other compounds that may reduce cancer risk.” Should we really continue to allow the global leaders of processed grain-based foods and snacks the ability to also own the world’s largest tumor radiation company?
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NASA Monitoring 3-Mile-Wide Asteroid --"Largest Potentially Hazardous NEO Ever Tracked This Close to Earth"
August 18, 2017
On September 1, an asteroid almost three miles wide named after Florence Nightingale will safely fly by Earth at a distance of 4.4 million miles. The last time it came closer to Earth was 1890 and the next time it will come anywhere near us will be 2500. Florence, is one of the biggest near-Earth objects (NEOs) currently being tracked by NASA and will be the largest to pass us at a relatively close distance since the space agency began monitoring them 20 years ago. It is classified as a “potentially hazardous” by the Minor Planet Center. NASA will use the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to study Florence. The team expects to find out the real size of the asteroid and surface details up to a distance of around 30 feet. “While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will...all of those were estimated to be smaller,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. “Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.” Florence should be visible with small telescopes at the end of August and at the start of September. During this time, it will appear to move through the Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus, Aquarius and Delphinus. The team will be able to determine if Florence is part of a binary system, meaning it has a companion asteroid. If Florence has a satellite, then our chances of detecting it are excellent, and if so, then we plan to measure its motion to estimate the orbital parameters, mass, and density of the system,” NASA said. Observations will begin on 29 August and will continue to September 8. The Daily Galaxy via NASA/JPL/Caltech
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Mag 6.6 - North of Ascension Island is the 5th major quake in August: Only 3 mag 7 quakes or higher so far in 2017 could be the lowest mag 7+ count in modern history
Friday, 18 August 2017 Posted by Gary Walton at 9:10 am USGS
A shallow, magnitude 6.6 - North of Ascension Island is the 5th major quake in August and the 60th of 2017. Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage. Based on the earthquake location near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a damaging tsunami is not expected. It is turning out to be an incredible low count for major quakes in 2017, as we move toward Sept, the 9th month, this years count is way down at 60 and does not look like the annual total will reach three figures which is unprecedented in many decades and could be the lowest total since the 1940's... What is even more remarkable though is the lack of major quakes mag 7 or higher. 2017 has seen so far only 3 quakes at mag 7 or higher, the biggest being the mag 7.9 in Papua New Guinea, way back in January, nothing has been recorded in the mag 8 range which is also highly unusual and could be the lowest mag 7+ count in modern history.
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Al Sharpton: Defund The Jefferson Memorial, Asking Me To "Subsidize The Insult Of My Family"
Posted By Ian Schwartz On Date August 17, 2017
In an interview with Charlie Rose earlier this week, Rev. Al Sharpton called for the government to strip public funding of the Jefferson Memorial.
Charlie Rose: Does it matter -- he mentioned Thomas Jefferson. He wrote a biography of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson had slaves. Al Sharpton: He had slaves and children with the slaves. Charlie Rose: Exactly. Al Sharpton: And it does matter. Charlie Rose: Should they take down the Jefferson memorial? Al Sharpton: I think that people need to understand when people that were enslaved and robbed of even the right to marry, and had forced sex with their slave masters, that this is personal to us. My great grandfather was a slave in South Carolina owned by the family that ended up, Strom Thurmond was one of them, a newspaper discovered it. So, this is personal. This is not some kind of removed discussion from us. Our families were victims of this, certainly it ought to -- Charlie Rose: Therefore, everybody associated with slavery in terms of any public monument to them -- Al Sharpton: When you look at the fact that public monuments are supported by public funds, you are asking me to subsidize the insult of my family. Charlie Rose: Then I repeat Thomas Jefferson had slaves. Al Sharpton: And I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who had that kind of background. You have private museums. You have other things that you may want to do, but that's not even the issue here, Charlie. We're talking about here, an open display of bigotry announced and over and over again.
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Spain: JIHADIS WITH SUICIDE VESTS, police stop second attack after 13 killed in Barcelona
By Pamela Geller - on August 18, 2017
The jihadis were wearing suicide vests – are authorities still unclear as to motive? Residents of the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils fled in terror in the early hours of Friday after five terrorists wearing suicide vests launched the second ramming attack in the country in a matter of hours. (Telegraph) Spanish police say they have killed five people in the town of Cambrils to stop a second attempted van attack after an earlier one in Barcelona. The attackers were wearing explosive belts, police said. August 17, 2017: BBC: Thirteen people died and dozens were injured when a van ploughed into crowds in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas area on Thursday afternoon. The driver of the van fled and is still at large. Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said it was a “jihadist attack”. The authorities are now linking the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils with an explosion at a house on Wednesday evening in the town of Alcanar that left one person dead. Earlier, police chief Josep Lluis Trapero said it appeared the residents at the Alcanar house had been “preparing an explosive device”. In Cambrils seven people including a police officer were wounded when a car was driven into a group early on Friday, Catalan emergency services said. One is in critical condition. Spanish media reported that the attackers’ vehicle overturned and when the men got out they were quickly fired upon by police. A series of controlled explosions was then carried out. Police say the situation in Cambrils – a popular seaside resort to the south-west of Barcelona – is now under control. Meanwhile police are continuing to search for the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack, who fled on foot. Tourists and locals fled when the rented vehicle sped down Las Ramblas in the centre of the city, mowing down people. Witnesses said the van deliberately targeted people, weaving from side to side as it drove down the boulevard. Two people have been arrested, but police say neither was the driver. Police have released a photo of a man named as Driss Oubakir, whose documents were used to rent the van involved in the attack. Local media say he is in his 20s, and was born in Morocco. However, latest reports suggest he has told police he was not involved, and that his documents were stolen. So-called Islamic State has said it was behind the Las Ramblas attack, saying in a brief statement carried by its Amaq news agency that it was carried out by “Islamic State soldiers”. The group gave no further evidence or details to back this claim. Vehicles have been used to ram into crowds in a series of attacks across Europe since July last year. In another incident, police shot dead a man who drove into officers at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Barcelona, but the authorities said there was no evidence that he was connected to the attack in Las Ramblas.
http://pamelageller.com/2017/08/suicide-vests-jihadis-spain.html/
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In Their Own Words: The Radical Political Goals Of ‘Anti-Fascists’
Peter Hasson Associate Editor 10:31 PM 08/16/2017
In the days since violent clashes at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville culminated in a neo-Nazi sympathizer driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, journalists have mainstreamed the self-described “anti-fascists” (or “antifa”) at the rally — largely ignoring their involvement in the escalating political violence in this country. Many establishment political figures insisted the far-left actors were just like American soldiers on D-Day. But these “anti-fascists'” own statements show they’re nothing like American soldiers on D-Day. They aren’t interested in protecting America’s system of government, according to their own statements — they’re interested in destroying it. From the very start of the Trump administration, far-left actors declared their intention to use massive demonstrations to disrupt the American political process as much as possible. A common mantra among far-left groups beginning shortly before the inauguration: make America “ungovernable.” “We need to make this country ungovernable,” declared a female leader for Refuse Fascism shortly after the inauguration. “We need to do what the German people should have done when Hitler was elected.” Refuse Fascism was a driving force behind the violent, politically motivated riots in Berkeley. Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos — who at the time was an editor at pro-Trump website Breitbart — was scheduled to speak at the University of California’s Berkeley campus. He was forced to cancel the speech after mobs of protesters started fires, assaulted bystanders and pepper sprayed suspected Trump supporters as part of an organized effort to shut down the speech. (RELATED: Ivy League Professor And DNC Platform Member Tied To Berkeley Rioters) Refuse Fascism was among the left-wing groups advertising the Charlottesville rally and urged confrontation with the white nationalists: “Drive them OUT of Charlottesville and out of power!” Refuse Fascism was far from the only left-wing fringe group at Charlottesville. One anarchist group that was at Charlottesville, CrimethInc, holds that anarchism is necessary to destroy white supremacy, which the group says cannot be fully extinguished in a democracy. “Anarchism is one of the most thoroughgoing forms of opposition to fascism, in that it entails opposition to hierarchy itself. Virtually every framework that countenances hierarchy, be it democracy or ‘national liberation,’ enables old power imbalances like white supremacy and patriarchy to remain in place, hidden within the legitimacy of the prevailing structures,” the group explains. They similarly want to destroy law enforcement and capitalists. “We must identify the forces underlying their laws and their order—white supremacy, patriarchy, policing, capitalism, and the state. We have to work together to keep ourselves safe and reimagine the world without them,” the group states in an article, which was reposted on popular antifa website It’s Going Down. Another far-left group at Charlottesville last weekend: the Workers World Party, a group of Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries who have declared their support for Kim Jong Un’s murderous dictatorship in North Korea. Workers World’s publication has consistently published propaganda-like screeds supporting Venezuela’s murderous regime. The communist group “sent many of its members to Charlottesville, Va., to beat back the Nazis and Klan who marched there,” according to a post recapping the group’s participation in the weekend’s violence. The Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed Workers World’s presence at the Charlottesville rally. The group took credit for organizing the vandals who toppled a city-owned Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina this week. Workers’ World’s stated goals are classic Marxism, including igniting an international socialist revolution and “the shutdown of the Pentagon and the use of the war budget” — that is, the funding for the Department of Defense — “to improve the lives of the working class and especially the oppressed peoples.” While Workers World is currently fighting (literally) with white nationalists, the group is opposed to all in the “ruling establishment” who the group explains hide “behind a veil of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights.'” “Those in the ruling establishment who see their reputation in tatters are appalled by what happened [at Charlottesville], but not for the right reasons,” read a Workers World post after Charlottesville. “They want to continue to exploit and dominate most of the world, but behind a veil of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights.’ The people are showing by their actions that only by taking the fight for justice into their own hands, with no confidence in the organs of state power, can they make progress.” The post concluded: “Long live the independent struggle of this new progressive movement against the fascists, the cops and the capitalist establishment!”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/in-their-own-words-the-radical-political-goals-of-anti-fascists/
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Global Agenda to Destroy Monuments: US, Syria, and Poland
Israeli News Live Published on Aug 17, 2017
There is a Global Agenda to Destroy Monuments to Destroy History: US, Syria, and Poland. Why to rewrite history it is a New World Order Agenda. Now more than ever the agenda to rewrite history has started. I did not see it until it came to America then I saw the global agenda and we are duped into thinking this is just racial divide.
links: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-ange... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/gallery/...
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-punish... http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b820iubEs7g
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Extreme False Flag Terrorism Followed by UN Occupation of America-James Wesley Rawles and Monika Wesolowski
By Dave Hodges
There are two very disturbing conversations that I have had in the past 24 hours which suggests very clearly that the Deep State is in the process dismantling the United States of America. Additionally, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Deep State will pay any price to take down America by “any means necessary”. State Department Sends Clear Message of Impending Future Occupation by UN Forces Monika Wesolowski has been outspoken about how the Deep State controls the State Department, despite the election of Donald Trump. She has bravely pointed out how her corner of the State Department has engaged in some very Deep State practices which are not in the best interests of the United States. For example, we previously learned about how the State Department, in its pamphlets related to child-sex-trafficking will never display this heinous practice inside the United States, as if if the practice does not exist within the United States and that this decision was made by a contractor with ties and background to Saudi Arabia. Please remember that this obfuscation of this practice within the United States took place when the s0-called Pizzagate/Pedogate was sweeping America. More to the point of this article, in a phone conversation with Monika, I have learned how the State Department is only interested in displaying military/law enforcement personnel in UN colored hats and helmets. In the conversation, Monika stressed that she was repeatedly instructed to make the head gear more “UN blue” in appearance. What does this mean? My takeaway from this revelation is that the American people, through this type of public display of State Department brochures, are being conditioned to accept UN occupation forces on American soil. Here is a more detailed summary of my personal conversation with Wesolowski. James Wesley Rawles is one of the most highly respected survivalists in the United States. I know of nobody that does not respect Jim’s views on the dangers facing America. In the past 24 hours, I conducted and interview with Jim about the domestic developments which imperil the safety and survival of millions of Americans. Before I make public this stunning announcement, it should be noted that Jim is not known for being an alarmist. Suffice it to say that I am greatly alarmed by what Jim revealed during the course of the interview in which he stated that radical left (ie the forces behind the Charlottesville riots) will pay any price to bring down Trump and the type of America he represents. In fact, the phrase that he used was “by any means necessary”.
It is Rawles contention that the Charlottesville situation will quickly escalate to to much a higher level of violence in which we will witness the radical left engaging in car bombings, the use of dirty bombs, chemical weapons and assassination. I was stunned that such a reputable source would believe that this situation will escalate, so quickly, to this level. He stated that the radical left is clearly motivated by the desire to install a global government run by radical socialists and that the United States must be destroyed in the process. Rawles also spent a great deal of time covering what the average American can do to increase their individual chances of survival. Most disturbingly, he revealed that America might face occupation, something that this country has never experienced on a national scale. In the interview, we discussed bug out strategies in the face of an advancing foreign and hostile army. The entire interview with Jim Rawles will air in the second hour of The Common Sense Show on Sunday, August 20th from 9-10pm Eastern, 6-7pm Pacific. Rawles +Wesolowski When I combine the information offered by Wesolowski and Rawles, there emerges a very clear picture. The United States is going to be put into such dire straights that at some point, this country will be occupied by the blue helmeted despots from the United Nations. I have written extensively on the UN military presence on our soil. Additionally Obama and Kerry illegally signed the UN gun confiscation policies 2.5 years ago. In order to get us to the point of occupation, America is going to go through a living hell at the hands of so-called domestic terrorists, led and funded by George Soros. There is justification as to where this is headed. This link is revealed by a CIA mouthpiece known as Deagel. The Destruction of America Being a front group for the CIA, Deagel, is predicting that we are less than 8 years away from this hellish nightmare. Just who or what is Deagel? The power and influence of the corporation that you never heard of, is staggering. This is the modern day Zapata Oil, which was a CIA front corporation run by George H. W. Bush which in turn facilitated much of the Air America “drugs for guns” program in Latin America in the 1980’s. My sources tell me that Deagel is the same exact kind of organization as Zapata Oil. Deagel ran guns through the late Ambassador Chris Stevens and subsequently delivered them to al-Qaeda in Libya and in Syria at the time of Stevens’ death. Deagel was intimately involved in Benghazi in ways that will be revealed in a later article. Deagel is not just a gun running/drug running/child sex trafficking organization, they are also intimately connected with the business as “Open source intelligence links”. This means that Deagel and their partner (affiliations listed below) serve as marketing companies for the CIA and sell intelligence information to the highest bidder. Stratfor and Deagel provide the CIA with a minimum of two degrees of separation from nefarious operations which could taint the U.S. government and in particular, the CIA. These activities will be the topic of a future article. The focus of the remainder of this article is the destruction and depopulation of the United States. Deagel is a group that gets their hands dirty and they play both sides of the fence. Please note the publicly available list of Deagel partners, listed below. They do business with the Russian Defense Procurement Agency, but they are largely an American contractor with ties into the U.S. Navy, the NSA and the CIA, through Stratfor. If anyone wanted to make the case that I have, the “Bastard Banksters from Basel” control both sides of the coming WW III for fun and profit, the data trail of Deagel exemplifies this point. From the following information, we get a strong indication of how the U.S. is going to be depopulated. To further examine this possibility, take a look at a partial list of Deagel partners. The following list clearly shows that Deagel is “locked in” when it comes to the power centers on this planet. A Partial List of Deagel Partners National Security Agency – http://www.nsa.gov/
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO – OTAN) – http://www.nato.int/ Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – http://www.oecd.org/ OSCE – http://www.osce.org/ Russian Defense Procurement Agency – http://www.fsoz.gov.ru Stratfor – http://www.stratfor.com/ The World Bank – http://www.worldbank.org/ United Nations (UN) – http://www.un.org/ In light of what has been written in the previous paragraphs, this affiliation cannot be considered to a mere coincidence. In the beginning of 2014, Deagel published a projected demographic shift of every nation on the planet. The projections are noteworthy. As one of the most prolific arms dealers and sellers of intelligence information on the planet, Deagel would be in a unique position from which to make projections with regard to coming world events as well as being able to anticipate dramatic shifts in global power. Not surprisingly, Deagel has made such a projection and the news is not good for the United States. Below is a list of projected changes for the United States during the time frame covering 2014-2025.
United States of America Projected Changes from 2014-2025 Year: 2014 Population: 316 million Gross Domestic Product: $17 trillion GDP per capita: $52,838 Budget: $5.8 trillion Military Budget: $726 billion
Forecast 2025 Population: 69 million Gross Domestic Product: $921 billion GDP per capita: $13,328
Military Budget: $8.0 billion Please note how the changes in U.S. population covering an 11 year period mirror what I wrote in the America 2050 article. The projected and dramatic downward shift in America’s population are nearly identical when one compares the America 2050 documents and the Deagel projections. There is another striking projection which should alarm every American. In 2013, the U.S. military budget was $726 billion dollars. However, the projected 2025 projected budget is only $8 billion dollars. This clearly points to the fact that the CIA, through Deagel, is projecting that the United States is going to be militarily conquered within the next 10 years. The mere $8 billion dollar projected 2025 military budget speaks to a domestic martial law type of occupation force. With this kind of budget, the U.S. would not even be able to engage in regional conflicts. Conclusion The Deagel documents clearly speak to who the winners and losers of the coming global conflict will be. In the Deagel document, Russia, China, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and India maintain their respective populations or increase their populations by the year 2025. The United States and Britain undergo severe population reductions. These revelations clearly point out that America is on a well-planned collision course with destruction and the process is well underway. This article contains many sobering revelations and it should give the average American much to consider with regard to becoming active in their support of President Trump. Trump is America’s last hope. Steve Quayle once called him “God’s prosecutor”. With Trump out of the way, a reasonable person would conclude, given these revelations, that that America is on a collision course with extreme false-flag terrorism and eventual UN occupation. The fighters among us will ask, can anything be done? The best answer that comes to mind is to pray, pray and pray some more. We are in spiritual battle. On the physical plane, Paul Martin and I are actively working with Larry Nichols to slow down and even stop the impeachment process against Trump. I am interviewing Larry Nichols this weekend at which time this plan will be fully revealed to the nation. In the meantime, continue to pray.
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Assange meets US congressman, vows to prove Russia did not leak him documents
By John Solomon - 08/16/17 08:37 PM EDT
Julian Assange told a U.S. congressman on Tuesday he can prove the leaked Democratic Party documents he published during last year’s election did not come from Russia and promised additional helpful information about the leaks in the near future. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who is friendly to Russia and chairs an important House subcommittee on Eurasia policy, became the first American congressman to meet with Assange during a three-hour private gathering at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up for years. Rohrabacher recounted his conversation with Assange to The Hill. “Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails during last year's presidential election,” Rohrabacher said, “Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails." Pressed for more detail on the source of the documents, Rohrabacher said he had information to share privately with President Trump. “Julian also indicated that he is open to further discussions regarding specific information about the DNC email incident that is currently unknown to the public,” he said. U.S. intelligence has insisted it has solid proof — which it has not made public — that Russia was behind last year’s election hacks that embarrassed Democrats, including unflattering revelations about nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, whose personal email account was also hacked. Assange has suggested in the past that Russia wasn’t the source of his leaked information. Tuesday marked the first time he has engaged with a U.S. lawmaker. Assange has been living at Ecuador’s embassy in London since 2012 after seeking diplomatic asylum. He rose to prominence after publishing thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic and military documents that included leaks related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Assange is a controversial figure; he is a hero to supporters who argue his leaks unveiled critical information about the evils of U.S. military and foreign policy but is a villain to critics, including many GOP lawmakers, who argue the leaks jeopardized national security. Rohrabacher’s visit with Assange, as a result, is likely to be controversial with many of his colleagues. Rohrabacher said he had information he planned to carry back to Trump when he returned to the United States, including a request that the WikiLeaks organization be given a news media seat inside the White House press room. “Julian passionately argued the case that WikiLeaks was vital to informing the public about controversial though necessary issues. He hoped that WikiLeaks — an award-winning journalistic operation — might be granted a seat in the White House press corps. As a former newsman myself I can't see a reason why they shouldn't be granted news status for official press conferences,” he said. As for other information to be given to the president, Rohrabacher said: “We left with the understanding that we would be going into further details in the near future. The rest of the message is for the president directly, and I hope to convey it to him as more details come in.” The Democratic National Committee cast doubt on Assange's claims. “We’ll take the word of the U.S. intelligence community over Julian Assange and Putin’s favorite Congressman," Adrienne Watson, the DNC's deputy communications director, said in a statement. Rohrabacher said the meeting occurred with Assange, his lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, and Chuck Johnson, a conservative activist and right-wing provocateur, in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. “Unbeknownst to me, I am the first member of Congress to visit there with Mr. Assange,” he said. The lawmaker also said Assange appeared in good health, allaying concerns his time in asylum at the embassy had taken a toll. “Contrary to what the fake news media has alleged, Julian seemed in good health and committed to his principles,” he said. Trump has at times praised Assange and used a Fox News interview this year with the WikiLeaks founder to cast doubt on Russia’s involvement in the DNC leak. – This story was updated at 12:54 p.m.
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Venezuela’s citizens desperately stockpiling food and water as civil war tipping point draws near
Thursday, August 17, 2017 by: Rhonda Johansson
(Natural News) Conceivably one of the more haunting images in modern history, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raises his right index finger to a crowd of supporters in defiance to U.S. sanctions made only a few weeks ago. “I don’t take orders from the empire! Keep up your sanctions, Donald Trump!” Maduro shouted to a cheering and applauding audience. Despite most countries criticizing the recent elections — some even going so far as labeling them as a “sham” — President Maduro praised the results of the activity which introduced a new legislative superbody; an electoral congress which could potentially change the governance of the country. As the world watched with horror, President Maduro vowed to continue his socialist policies, even as thousands of Venezuelans stockpile scarce food and water. Ten people were killed during the latest round of civil unrest during the elections. This brings an approximate death toll to around 120 in only four months of anti-government protests. Countries from Spain to Argentina to the United States have denounced the elections. Spokespeople from the White House have described President Maduro as a dictator after “seizing absolute power” in a obvious display of manipulation. This did not stop the Venezuelan leader who merely scoffed at the apoplectic opposition. While the Trump administration sanctioned 13 senior officials, including the interior minister, President Maduro moved to elect an assembly of supporters to reassert his powers on the oil-rich country. One of the many reasons why this “constituyente” is raising everyone’s hackles is that it controls how long President Maduro could potentially stay in power. It is not unreasonable — given how President Maduro retaliates to any form of antagonism — to assume a ruling government entirely controlled by him and his supporters. In fact, a recent broadcast of the socialist leader showed him rejecting the U.S. sanctions, calling it “illegal” and that the newly-minted legislative body would be the country’s “revenge.” It was during this moment, clad in a red bomber jacket and sporting his famous mustache, that President Maduro raised his right hand in the air. He said that the sanctions made by our government are reflections of President Trump’s “hatred” and “desperation” for Venezuela. These sanctions froze all of President Maduro’s assets within U.S. jurisdiction. It also banned all Americans from conducting any form of business with the leader or any of his supporters. “Recent actions culminating in [the] seizure of absolute power through the sham election of the National Constituent Assembly represent a very serious blow to democracy in our hemisphere,” White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said during a news briefing. The White House is still deliberating how far these sanctions will go. The escalation process would depend on President Maduro, it would appear. However, unconfirmed sources within the White House have claimed that these could include heavy restrictions on oil-related transactions. Venezuela is a naturally-rich country. Its vast amounts of oil deposits have made it one of the best producers of the much sought-after energy source in the world. However, recent spats and political turmoil have pushed the country to a state of outright chaos. Venezuela exhibits the world’s highest inflation rates — ironic as many of the citizens don’t even have anything to buy in the first place. Numerous news reports have shown an almost complete absence of basic necessities such as food and water. Grocery stores are normally always empty. Citizens have taken to looting to just survive. (Related: Banned video reveals the horrors of Venezuela’s starving population.) The future of the country remains to be seen although economists say that the outlook looks bleak. Keep abreast of this disturbing situation on Uprising.news. Sources include: Bloomberg.com NPR.org Reuters.com
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Expert Warns 'Massive Intelligence Failures Grossly Underestimated The Real Threat' To America From North Korea While Forewarning Of This 'Doomsday Scenario'
Submitted to All News Pipeline by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry August 18, 2017
After massive intelligence failures grossly underestimating North Korea’s long-range missile capabilities, number of nuclear weapons, warhead miniaturization, and proximity to manufacturing a hydrogen bomb, the biggest North Korean threat to the United States remains unacknowledged. North Korea has two satellites in orbit, and more to follow, that could be nuclear-armed for a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that would black out North America for months to years, killing millions. An EMP attack doesn’t require accurate guidance systems because the area of effect, having a radius of hundreds of miles, is very large. No re-entry vehicle is needed because the warhead detonates at a high altitude, above the atmosphere. This point appears to be beyond the comprehension of most, including secretaries of defense, the military leadership and the usual “experts” who appear in the press. The design of a super-EMP weapon could be relatively small and lightweight, resembling the U.S. W-79 Enhanced Radiation Warhead nuclear artillery shell of the 1980s, designed in the 1950s. Such a device could fit inside North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-3 (KMS-3) and Kwangmyongsong-4 (KMS-4) satellites and pose a potential EMP threat to every nation on Earth. Two Russian generals warned the EMP Commission in 2004 that Russia’s super-EMP warhead design was transferred accidentally to North Korea. North Korea’s KMS-3 and KMS-4 satellites were launched to the south on polar trajectories and passed over the United States on their first orbit. The south polar trajectory evades U.S. ballistic missile early-warning radars and national missile defenses, making the satellites resemble a Russian secret weapon developed during the Cold War called the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) that would have used a nuclear-armed satellite to make a surprise EMP attack. Ambassador Henry Cooper, former director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, and a pre-eminent expert on missile defenses and space weapons, has written numerous articles warning about the potential North Korean EMP threat from their satellites. On Sept. 20, 2016, Mr. Cooper wrote: “U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptors are designed to intercept a few North Korean ICBMs that approach the United States over the North Polar region. But current U.S. BMD systems are not arranged to defend against even a single ICBM that approaches the United States from over the South Polar region, which is the direction toward which North Korea launches its satellites. This is not a new idea. The Soviets pioneered and tested just such a specific capability decades ago — we call it a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS). So, North Korea doesn’t need an ICBM to create this existential threat. It could use its demonstrated satellite launcher to carry a nuclear weapon over the South Polar region and detonate it over the United States to create a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. The result could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans — as the EMP Commission testified over eight years ago.” Former NASA rocket scientist James Oberg visited North Korea’s Sohae space launch base, witnessed elaborate measures undertaken to conceal space launch payloads, and concludes in a 2017 article that the EMP threat from North Korea’s satellites should be taken seriously: “There have been fears expressed that North Korea might use a satellite to carry a small nuclear warhead into orbit and then detonate it over the United States for an EMP strike. These concerns seem extreme and require an astronomical scale of irrationality on the part of the regime. The most frightening aspect, I’ve come to realize, is that exactly such a scale of insanity is now evident in the rest of their ‘space program.’ That doomsday scenario, it now seems, is plausible enough to compel the United States to take active measures to ensure that no North Korean satellite, unless thoroughly inspected before launch, be allowed to reach orbit and ever overfly the United States.” Kim Jong-un has threatened to reduce the United States to “ashes” with “nuclear thunderbolts” and to retaliate for U.S. diplomatic and military pressure by “ordering officials and scientists to complete preparations for a satellite launch as soon as possible” amid “the enemies’ harsh sanctions and moves to stifle” the North. The North Korean press asserts readiness for “any form of war,” including their satellite with “strengthening of the nuclear deterrent and legitimate artificial satellite launch, which are our fair-and-square self-defensive choice.” Moreover: “The nuclear weapons we possess are, precisely, the country’s sovereignty, right to live and dignity. Our satellite that cleaves through space is the proud sign that unfolds the future of the most powerful state in the world.” The same article, like many others, warns North Korea is making “constant preparations so that we can fire the nuclear warheads, which have been deployed for actual warfare for the sake of national defense, at any moment!” An earlier generation immediately understood the alarming strategic significance of Sputnik in 1957, heralding the nuclear missile and space race, yet few today understand or even care about the strategic significance of North Korea’s satellites, consistent with a widespread ignorance about an EMP. • Dr. William R. Graham is chairman of the congressional EMP Commission, and served as President Reagan’s White House science adviser and administrator of NASA. Story originally published here. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is chief of staff of the congressional EMP Commission and served in the House Armed Services Committee and the CIA.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Dr_Pry_NKorea_The_Other_Threat.php
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Russian Scientists Discover Secret to Producing Six Times More Oil
© Sputnik/ Victor Filatov Tech 13:19 17.08.2017
Scientists from the Tyumen State University, a research center in Siberia, Russia, announced a technological breakthrough in oil production that can boost oil development through initiating underground chemical reactions. A group scientists from Siberia, Russia, have announced the creation of a new technology for gas thermochemical fracturing, RIA Novosti reports. "The technology will let our economy achieve growth in power generation capacity without extensive exploitation of natural resources," believes Galina Lazareva, a scientist who worked on a mathematical model for the project. To produce the necessary equipment and do testing "in the field", the Tyumen University worked jointly with the N. M. Emmanuel's University of Biochemical Physics, the Sibneftemash plant and a service company named The Oil Technology Center. The new method is able to compete with foreign ones that are now present in the Russian market. In particular, the development might reportedly become an alternative to hydraulic fracturing, which originated in Russia but then was widely applied in the US to produce shale oil. While hydraulic fracturing is about drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release the fossil fuel, gas thermochemical fracturing is a whole new ball game. Reagents are transported to the productive strata (an area where the oil is present), where they are then mixed. The chemical reaction gives off heat and gas. As a result, a large crack appears in the underground rock, hydrocarbons and water are warmed, making oil extraction much easier. This raises the ceiling of an oil well's productivity. In addition, the technology is eco-friendly. The main component applied is ammonium nitrate, which is often used as fertilizer. When it decomposes, water and nitrogen are the only elements left. Russia Arctic Oil Drilling Russia May Have Own Technology of Underwater Oil Production by 2021-2022 If the technology is implemented in the oil industry, oil production volumes can be up to six times bigger, the Tyumen State University said in a statement. Implementing the technology can have different (yet always positive) results depending on the properties of the oil reservoir and the quality of the oil itself, explained Professor Konstantin Fedorov, the scientific consultant of the project and the director of the Physico-chemical Institute of the Tyumen State University. Professor Fedorov revealed some impressive statistics to illustrate his findings: on average, oil production increases from 1.7 to 6 times, but there are cases where a 10-20 fold increase has been measured. The duration of the improvement lasts approximately 300-1000 days. The application of the technology has so far seen almost a 100% success rate. The Oil Technology Center is conducting experimental-industrial trials in the oil fields that belong to Lukoil and Rosneft. The service company is planning to put the new technology to wider use — it will soon be applied in oil fields of other major Russian oil companies such as Tatneft, Bashneft and Gazprom Neft.
https://sputniknews.com/science/201708171056536584-oil-science-russia-technology-fracturing/
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Tragedy In France
by Hal Lindsey
Once again the world has been shocked by the cruelty of terrorism — this time along the beautiful French Riviera in Nice, France. The numbers will probably change, but French officials are now saying 84 died and 50 were injured when a truck plowed into a massive crowd, zigging and zagging to hit as many people as possible over an area a couple of miles long. As I write this, no terror organization has taken “credit” for the attack, but it fits the pattern of radical jihadism that has dogged France for some time. A crowd of around 40,000 had gathered for a fireworks show as part of Bastille Day celebrations. Video shows police vainly trying to stop the truck as it passed through one of their checkpoints and entered the strip of road where the spectators stood. There are reports that the driver had both firearms and explosives with him, despite the strict gun control laws of France. Of course, you can’t outlaw trucks, but this strip of road had been closed to vehicle traffic in order to accommodate the crowds. It shows again that terrorists will use whatever means they find at hand in our highly mechanized civilization. World leaders, including President Obama, have condemned the attack and offered support to the French people. But these kinds of condolence calls have begun to feel wholly inadequate in the face of repeated tragedies. After the jihadist attack last November killed 130 people, France declared a state of emergency. It was to have been lifted on July 26th. In making the announcement, President Francois Hollande said, “We can’t prolong the state of emergency forever. That would make no sense, it would mean that we were no longer a republic with laws which can apply in all circumstances.” Then, just a few hours after his announcement, the attack in Nice took place. When he spoke to the nation after the event, Hollande announced that the state of emergency would be extended for yet another three months. If this becomes the “new normal,” then by President Hollande’s own words, France would cease to be “a republic with laws which can apply in all circumstances.” Why France? After all, massive numbers of Muslim immigrants have passed into several European Union nations over the last year, including a million in Germany. On arrival, many Muslim immigrants have a hard time assimilating, but so far, the real ticking time bomb seems to be among second and third generation Muslim immigrants. Muslim immigration saved France from what would have been a time of negative population growth. A decreasing population devastates a nation’s economic and military strength. So, beginning as early as the 1970s, France began to actively bring in Muslim immigrants. They felt sure they could seduce them with the French way of life, but it didn’t work. The Islamic population tended to stay in enclaves, building their own society. They stayed in close touch with their home countries, and raised their children with a Muslim identity and not a French one. The government reached out to them creating such organizations as the “French Council of the Muslim Faith.” But that didn’t work either. The immediate trigger for the wave of Islamic terrorism going on in France has been ISIS and the Syrian civil war. But the underlying cause is a deeply unhappy, underemployed and impoverished Muslim population living apart from the rest of French society. Events in France portend difficult years ahead for Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Greece, and possibly, the United States — all places with heavy Muslim immigration. When you pray for the people of Nice, and for France generally, remember the missionaries. France was once a proudly Catholic nation, but today there are few Christian believers of any persuasion. Church attendance is almost nonexistent. Protestant Christians make up less than 3% of the population. Only 27% of the French say they believe in God. Muslims make up more than a third of the 27% because polling data makes no distinction between God and Allah. France has become a spiritual wasteland. But several missionary organizations are at work there, and they need our support. Stronger borders and better laws may help, but the only long-term answer for that nation, or any other, is a spiritual awakening to the reality of Jesus Christ.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-7-16-2016/
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The Real Race War (Not the fake one against "white supremacy.")
August 16, 2017 David Horowitz Reprinted from Breitbart.com.
The tragedy in Charlottesville could have been an occasion to stop and consider how the tolerance for politically correct violence and politically correct hatred is leading the nation towards civil war. Instead the media and the political left have turned this incident into the biggest fake news story of the summer, transforming its real lessons into a morality play that justifies war against the political right, and against white people generally. The organizers of the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville were repellent racists. But they came to defend a historic monument honoring a complex man and cause, and not to attack it or presumably anyone else. They applied for a permit and were denied. They re-applied successfully in a petition supported by the local ACLU. If they had come to precipitate violence, why would they have gone to the tedious trouble of applying for a permit? Who knows what – if anything – would have happened if that had been the end of the story and no one had showed up to oppose them. What “Unite the Right” actually demonstrated was that the assortment of neo-Nazis, pro-Confederates and assorted yahoos gathered under the banner of the “Alt-Right” is actually a negligible group. This was a national show of strength that actually attracted only a few hundred people. Compare that to the tens of the thousands who can readily be marshalled by two violent groups of the left – Black Lives Matter and Antifa – and you get an idea of how marginal “white supremacists” are to America’s political and cultural life. Yet “white supremacy” and its evils became the centerpiece of all the fake news reporting on the event, including all the ludicrous attacks on the president for not condemning enough a bogeyman the whole nation condemns, and that no one but a risible fringe supports. Talk about virtue signaling! Omitted from the media coverage were the other forces at work in precipitating the battle of Emancipation Park, specifically Black Lives Matter and Antifa, two violent leftwing groups with racial agendas who came to squelch the demonstration in defense of the monument. Unlike the Unite the Right demonstrators, the leftist groups did not have a permit for Emancipation Park (they had permits for two nearby parks). But why should they need a permit, since the havoc they had previously wreaked in Ferguson, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland and other cities, was accomplished without permits, while their criminality was presented by the media as “protests,” and their rioting went completely unpunished. In short, there were two demonstrations in Charlottesville - a legal protest by “Unite the Right” and one protest by the vigilantes of Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Who started the fight is really immaterial. Both sides were prepared for violence because these conflicts are already a pattern of our deteriorating civic life. Once the two sides had gathered in the same place, the violence was totally predictable. Two parties, two culpabilities; but except for the initial statement of President Trump, condemning both sides, only one party has been held accountable, and that happens to be the one that was in the park legally. What is taking place in the media accounts and political commentaries on this event is an effort by the left to turn the mayhem in Charlottesville into a template for their war against a mythical enemy – “white supremacy” – which is really a war on white people generally. The ideology that drives the left and divides our country is “identity politics” – the idea that the world consists of two groups – “people of color” who are guiltless and oppressed, and white people who are guilty and oppressors. This is the real race war. Its noxious themes inform the mindless, hysterical hatred for President Trump, and the equally mindless support for racist mobs like Black Lives Matter and Antifa. It is a war from which no good can come. But it won’t be stopped unless enough people have the courage to stand up and name it for what it is.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267598/real-race-war-david-horowitz
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Record Number of Jews Visit Temple Mount Under Threat of More Violence
A new report reveals more Jewish Israelis visited the Temple Mount last month than any other month since Israel recaptured Jerusalem during the 1967 war. Approximately 3,200 Jewish visitors went to the holy site. This is largely because thousands of Jews prayed there during the Jewish holy day of Tisha B'av. According to Yeraeh, an organization that promotes Jewish visitation and calls for the rebuilding of the Temple, the recent spike in visitors sends a strong message about who the Temple Mount really belongs to. "We're showing that this place doesn't belong to Islam but to the Jews," Elishamah Sandman, a spokesperson for Yeraeh, told the Jerusalem Post. "Wanting to go up to the Temple Mount is part of preparing for building the Temple. We're not embarrassed to say this." He also said that from a national perspective, visiting the site was a strong statement proving that Israel controls the Mount and has sovereignty over it. This spike in Jewish Temple Mount visitors came despite escalating tensions and violence after three Israeli Arabs killed two Israeli policemen in a terror attack. Israel had launched extra security measures at the Temple Mount to prevent more terrorism. Those measures were relaxed after violent protests. Ayman Safadi, Jordan's minister of foreign affairs, condemned the Jews for entering the Temple Mount last month and called them extremists. "The number of extremists who stormed al-Aqsa today stands at a record number, greater than any other since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967," Safadi told representatives from 57 countries in Istanbul. He warned, "Many more dangerous crises will erupt as a result of continued Israeli violations if Israel does not uproot the sources of the tension, if the occupation doesn't end, if east Jerusalem is not independent and not the capital of the sovereign Palestinian state along the 1967 lines."
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Despite Rift, Saudi Arabia Says It Will Allow Qatari Pilgrims To Conduct Hajj
August 17, 20171:21 PM ET Merrit Kennedy
Qatar has been isolated by neighboring countries in a heated diplomatic standoff. But on Thursday, Saudi Arabia announced that it plans to open its border to allow pilgrims from the tiny Gulf country to make the annual hajj to Islam's holiest sites. The announcement comes after a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a member of the Qatari royal family, Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani. According to a report in the Saudi state news agency, both men spoke about the "brotherly feelings" between the two nations — a marked change in tone from the highly public spat in which Saudi Arabia has accused Qatar of funding terrorist organizations and has blockaded the country. The Saudi crown prince said the country would open the Salwa border crossing to Qatari citizens who wanted to perform the hajj, without requiring them to obtain electronic permits. The hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca required of every Muslim who can afford it and is physically able to make it at least once in their life, begins later this month and ends in early September. The official news agency added that the Saudi king would dispatch Saudi planes to Qatar's capital, Doha, "to fly all Qatari pilgrims at his own expense to the city of Jeddah and host them completely at the expense of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques." A Saudi official named Hussein Al-Sharif, undersecretary of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, told the Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya that Saudi Arabia has reserved a 4,000-square-meter plot for some 2,400 Qatari pilgrims in "the most desirable area" along a primary hajj route. Just last month, Saudi Arabia had said pilgrims from Qatar "would face certain restrictions if they wanted to attend the Hajj," according to the BBC. In response, a Qatari human rights organization complained to the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of belief and religion. It's worth noting that the Qatari royal family member who met with the Saudi crown prince does not hold an official government position and his "branch of the family was ousted in a place coup in 1972," The Associated Press reports. "He's certainly not an envoy of the Qatari government. This was not a deal that was struck," Gerd Nonneman, professor of international relations and Gulf studies at Georgetown University in Qatar, tells the wire service. Nonnemann added that Sheikh Abdullah has lived in Saudi Arabia previously and that "his last position was as head of the equestrian and camel racing federation in the 1970s and 1980s." There was no comment from Qatari government officials for about 12 hours after the news broke, according to the AP. At a news conference in Sweden, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani called it a "step forward" but warned that it was "politically motivated," the BBC reported. Saudi Arabia's actions are being praised by regional allies such as the United Arab Emirates. The country's state minister for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, tweeted, "Every day, Saudi proves how big it is, and Qatar's clamor and politicization of the hajj must end. ... There are things bigger than politics."
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Breathtaking: Democrats Accused of Hiring Actors Prior To Charlottesville Rally
A company put an ad out hiring actors for protests before the riot took place
The Alex Jones Show - August 17, 2017
Scribe note: Click on the link below to view and read article
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Posted on August 8, 2017 by Ray Starmann
The Military’s Social Engineering Has Weakened Our National Security
The US military in 2017 is a weak sister: a feminized, waddling, knocked-up, lactating, transgender, homosexual, socially engineered weakling that is reeling from the PC madness of the Obama administration and from the embedded leftists at the Pentagon who are still intent on implementing the lunacy. The situation with North Korea and its madder than a barrel of monkeys leader, Kim Jong-un, has rapidly metastasized from SNAFU, to TARFU, to FUBAR. As the French say, ‘the merde has hit the ventilateur.’ Just today, a report in the Washington Post, using a DIA report as its source, claimed that North Korea now has the capability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and place it on missile, a missile that can hit the U.S. It’s also possible North Korea now has up to 60 nuclear weapons and tonight Fox News is quoting an AP story which indicates North Korea may be planning an attack on Guam. Wow… One wonders what has gone wrong so quickly. Was it the fact that Bill Clinton placated the North Koreans in the 1990’s? Was it Obama’s delusion that North Korea could be dealt with like it was a rational world player like Lichtenstein? Was it the fact that Kim Jong-un is a lot crazier than his father and grandfather? All three questions seem likely. But, there’s another reason that Kim Jong-un is on the loose. He has observed what has happened to the US military under eight years of the Obama administration and what is still continuing under the Trump administration (minus the transgender ban) and he has concluded that the US military is a paper tiger. Perhaps Martin Dempsey and ‘Fighting Joe’ Dunford never really thought our enemies would take notice of the cultural Marxism breeding in the hallways of the Pentagon like a bad case of mold on old bread. Or, perhaps they didn’t and don’t really care. After all, this is the era of gutless generals, aka the rubber men of Arlington. But, guess what, our enemies were watching and are watching us right now. They looked for weakness and saw it, in spades. They are probing for weakness now and still observing it, in a military, where 56 retired generals and admirals denounced the President’s transgender ban, calling it not inclusive and showing a complete lack of diversity. Newsflash General Claudia Kennedy: I want to be in a foxhole with Sergeant York, not with Kristin Beck and his Jaclyn Smith clothing line. Do you think for a moment the Russians or the Chinese or the Iranians didn’t die laughing at the pictures of male Army ROTC cadets parading around in red high heels to apparently show empathy for rape victims? Do you think for a moment that the North Koreans didn’t collapse in laughter at the pictures of soldiers from the Big Red One doing PT in pregnancy simulators? Do you think for a moment the Russians aren’t dying from laughter at the thought of a woman in the Navy SEALs? Don’t think for a moment that our enemies haven’t done exhaustive studies concerning the senior leaders of our military and how they, with only a few exceptions, are totally worthless compared to yesterday’s giants like Schwarzkopf, McCaffrey, Gavin, Patton, Rose, Collins, Marshall and MacArthur. Don’t think for a moment that our enemies don’t realize the armored and mechanized forces of the US Army are 20 years in the hole and scrambling to learn basic skills and how to execute operational concepts above the platoon level. Our enemies are planning on fighting wars the old fashioned way; with men, without guys in skirts and without homosexual love triangles in a platoon, and without sensitivity briefings in combat zones. Our enemies know that the military has one mission and one mission only: to kill people and break things. And, surprise, surprise, the only military forces in the world that cater to women in the infantry, guys in dresses and Liberace and Nathan Lane in a foxhole are some real powerhouses like Sweden, Denmark and Brazil, countries you wouldn’t want on your flank, ever. The word is out on the street; the US military has major problems and has lost focus; BIG TIME. Sure we have nukes and submarines and some planes that are still flying, and we still have great NCO’s and enlisted people, and no doubt our special operations guys are still squared away, but our past actions and even current behavior can’t hide the fact that we are looked at as weak. The social engineering madness has already hit home and the first rounds haven’t even gone down range over the 38th Parallel.
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When You Realize That Everything You Have Learned To Depend On Is Gone, There Will Be a Hush Across The Land
Posted By: Ted August 9, 2017
Disasters can affect you and your family in many more ways than you think. Here are some of the compelling reasons why you should get prepared for disasters and emergencies. We know what happens in emergencies like a bush-fire, flood or cyclone. We see it in the media every year: dramatic images of houses ablaze, rooftops being torn away by raging winds, floodwaters carrying away everything in their path. We’ve seen what happens Or have we? Research has shown that the true cost of natural disasters is 50 per cent greater than previously estimated. So what’s the reason for this? It’s the long-term impact disasters have on people: the psychological and social consequences that are often hidden from view. Here are some of the ways you can be affected by a disaster, and some steps to help you get prepared. Soon after the disaster, things will get rather quiet as people begin to take it all in. When the realization that everything they have learned to depend on is gone, there will be a hush across the land. This will be quickly followed by a screaming mass of desperation that will involve violence, looting, rape, and the most carnal and violent behaviors. But even that will die down eventually. If you are still alive, you will find yourself in the silence of survival. You will find that breaking that silence and attracting the attention of the desperate masses could lead to another tragedy. We are going to discuss six methods that can give you away in a survival situation and how to mitigate them. 1. Smoke If you find yourself in an outdoor survival situation, you will eventually be heating and cooking with wood. Not everybody knows that the types of things you put on a fire dictate the type of smoke you’ll get. Stay away from green. Young saplings and green leaves will create billows of white smoke that will be easy to see from far away. In fact, this is a great technique if you are looking to signal for rescue. Look for dry wood from old trees. This is your best bet when it comes to building a good fire. Also read: Are You Prepared To Face This? How The World Could Change In 7 Days Watch the video below on the Dakota fire pit. This is a method of building fire underground to cook with and heat your shelter. You want to build this type of fire pit by digging two holes in the ground and connecting the tunnels. The largest tunnel will be for your fire. Also build your Dakota pit under a full tree branch. This will help disperse the smoke. 2. Smell If you are fortunate enough to bag yourself some wild game in traps or by bow and arrow (assuming you want to be silent), you must be very careful about cooking. Many survivalists will tell you to smoke your meat to get the most shelf life out of it. When it comes to shelf life they would be right. The problem is, after a few hours of smoke and delicious meaty aromas floating up into the air, you will probably have some visitors. You may even have some wildlife visitors as well. The Dakota method mentioned above will help with the smell as well. Still, in an urban survival situation where cooking will attract hungry and desperate people, it would be in your best interest to cook and scatter. You shouldn’t loaf around and eat. Don’t sleep where you have cooked. In the wild, this brings bears, but in urban survival it will bring people. Learn to cook in the ground. You can make charcoal by assembling a pile of wood and completely covering it in a mound of clay soil. After this, build a big fire all around the mound. The soil will protect the wood inside and the fire will create some great charcoal for you. Use this to cook in the ground. You can cook whole carcasses in the ground covered in leaves, or you can bury small cooking pots, covered, and avoid the wafting smells. 3. Sound The importance of being conscientious about sound is crucial. Sounds come from all types of movements and activities. You must remain quiet always and particularly in movements. Many people plan on carrying an AR15 or rifle of the type in a survival situation. You must be very disciplined when you use that weapon and know what using it means. A gunshot will bring people. Learn the basic principles of hand signals in movement. You will want to be able to move quickly and quietly without having to stop and discuss changes in direction. Another skillful use for hand signals is if you see someone before they see your group. You can signal a quick stop and cover with just a move of the hand. Keep a silent or quiet weapon on your person along with your high-powered rifle. A crossbow or even a smaller .22 will generate a lot less sound than a big rifle. Another overlooked survival weapon is a good scoped air rifle. 4. Light Light discipline is a consideration whether you are bugging out or bugging in. Remember, the world will be darker than we have seen it. If we are experiencing a disaster that puts the power out for a long time, the world will be totally different at night. The light pollution of buildings and street lights will be gone and you will be left with the cosmos above as your only light. The human eye is trained to find light and particularly artificial light. If you have a home or a site that is lit in a world of darkness, you will have visitors. Of course, there are ways to combat this as well. We call on the Dakota fire pit again to also conceal our fire. If you can create a perimeter of tall rocks or logs around your Dakota setup, you will be offering great coverage to your fire. Also plan on building camp around the fire and camp in denser areas as well. Light discipline also involves traveling at night without the aid of artificial light. In the cooler months, this is a fantastic way to stay warm through cold nights. Sleep during the warmer days. This alleviates the need for a big camp fire in the middle of a dark night. While traveling, you will want to mind your flashlights, headlamps and lanterns. Get yourself a reliable red light as they are much less noticeable at a distance. 5. Conditions In a community setting, you will want your overall condition to mimic that of the conditions around you. In other words, a fresh haircut, well fed, spirited neighbor may raise some eyebrows in a community without running water that has been bartering for food over the last month. In our society, we are often looking for the guy who has it easier. He often becomes a villain as well, i.e. the rich are evil! Be observant of those around you. Make sure you mimic their struggles to keep your preps a secret. Unfortunately, if you admit to having it, people are going to want some of it. Also read: ARE YOU READY TO SURVIVE ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION’? 6. Dogs We love our dogs. They are loud and boisterous every time someone comes by the house. They are way cooler than any alarm system. The problem with dogs is that they are also instinctual. The reason we love them is because they read us better than any creature on the planet. When you are on high alert, so are they. This comes from hanging out with us over millennia. They are going to bark when threatened. That is their go-to deterrent. They don’t care if a hail of bullets is what comes back in return. The solution? Start training your dogs on terms like hush or silence. If your dog is not capable of keeping quiet in a bug out situation, you will have your location exposed all the time. Branches will fall, sticks will snap in the night, and you will be scared. This will make your pooch go crazy, in most cases. A simple command can take care of that. White noise is another great method when dealing with dogs. When I want the babies to stay asleep, I put the television on for the dogs or they hear everything outside and get loud if something comes too close. Setting up camp by rushing waters or water falls is a great way to muffle the perceived threats of your animal and keep them quiet through the night. Final Thoughts As you can see, it’s pretty easy to give ourselves away in a desperate world. If you take these six considerations and apply my recommendations, you will be a little more concealed. What other situations would expose you in an urban survival scenario? Leave your comments below. Are you ready to turn back the clocks to the 1800’s for up to three years? Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were the last generation to practice the basic things that we call survival skills now…
http://www.survivalonline101.com/realize-everything-learned-depend-gone-will-hush-across-land/
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New York Times: Israeli and other foreign intelligence have the goods on pedophile D.C. politicians
Posted on August 8, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 14 Comments
It is said that a major reason why no one in authority would investigate Pizzagate is because many politicians, including those in D.C., are pedophiles, and that they are blackmailed by powerful intelligence groups, domestic and foreign — including Israel’s Mossad — who have “the goods” on their child-sex activities. But all of that is speculative chatter on the Alt-Media. Thanks to enterprising Voat netizen DawnKeyhote, we now have none other than the New York Times making that assertion via an Associated Press story. But it’s the NYT of 35 years ago when the Times still conducted actual journalism, not the NYT of today, which dismisses Pizzagate without an investigation, and whose CEO Mark Thompson, in his previous position as director-general of the BBC, had refused to investigate the hundreds of allegations of child sex abuse by British TV personality and notorious pedophile Sir Jimmy Savile. Below is the AP article in its entirety, “Boy Sex Rings Said to Peddle Client Data to Foreign Agents,” The New York Times, July 27, 1982: Prostitution rings are providing young boys to male customers in Washington and are reportedly selling information about their clients’ sexual preferences to foreign intelligence services, a private investigator testified yesterday. The investigator, Dale Smith, who works for the New York State Senate’s Select Committee on Crime, said he had learned that British, Israeli and Soviet agents had bought information from several call services in Washington. Mr. Smith appeared before the committee at the opening in New York City of a two-day hearing on prostitution among young males and on pornography. Mr. Smith said that an accountant for five call services had told him about the sale of information to foreign agents. He refused to elaborate on the allegations when questioned by reporters, but the committee counsel, Jeremiah McKenna, said that the information concerned ”government officials.” He declined to be more specific ”They’re making more money selling information than on the prostitution itself,” Mr. McKenna said. Allegations of homosexual sex and drug use on Capitol Hill among Congressmen, pages and other employees have circulated in Washington recently. Mr. Smith also said that ”call service operations in Washington have some connection with organized crime in New York.” He described how male prostitutes between the ages of 13 and 16 were shuttled between the cities, and were paid from $50 to $250, with younger boys commanding the most. Earlier, a Washington detective testified that she had uncovered a six-city prostitution network that used 12-year-old boys and allowed customers to pay for sex with credit cards. The cities involved are Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, New York, Washington and Houston, said the detective, Anne Fisher of the Washington Metropolitan Police. ”You could call a number in Houston from Washington and have a young boy brought to your room in Washington,” the detective said. See also: Pedogate arrests: US Army general, Ohio mayor & TV actor raped children as young as 3 Pedogate arrests: deputy AG, judge, mayor, police officers, & a DuPont heir who raped 3 y.o. daughter Pedogate: President of NY Young Democrats/de Blasio staffer arrested for child porn as young as 6 mos Pizzagate: The Podesta ‘pizza’ emails 60 Minutes Australia report on VIP pedophile network in UK and Australia AG Jeff Sessions knows Joe Biden is a pedophile
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Is the State Department Buying Arab Propaganda?
by Nonie Darwish August 9, 2017 at 4:00 am https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10792/arab-propaganda
After centuries of Muslim persecution, often genocidal, or dhimmitude under sharia, Christianity in the Middle East has been stunted, if not effectively crushed. To avoid discrimination, Christians gave their children Arab names instead of Biblical ones. Their religious celebrations are kept indoors, lest Christian festivities offend Muslims. As in a Stockholm Syndrome, Middle East Christians often ended up defending and even praising Islam, even if that comes at the expense of their own religious rights. It is stunning to see is how on the one hand, the US State Department and media play down the genocide going on today against Christians in the Middle East, but on the other hand, immediately believe Muslims when one of their leaders tells an American delegation that he does not fear Arabs but fears Jews. With many branches of the US government apparently determined to distort reality, there seems to be a series of deliberate decisions to ignore -- and to prevent the American public from knowing -- what is really going on. "Politically incorrect" language has been censored by the State Department, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the previous Executive branch, and, most recently, the National Security Council, which recently seems to have purged the entire department. It is dangerous for the West to accept Arab anti-Semitic propaganda voiced by some Christian leaders in the Middle East; they are held hostage by the Muslim majority around them. Since the age of the internet, even many Arabs have stopped buying Arab propaganda. A recent mark was retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell when he was Secretary of State. Wilkerson recently said on MSNBC, during the recent Temple Mount crisis, that Jews pose the biggest threat to Christians in the Middle East. He learned this, he said, in 2002-2003 in Ramallah, during a business trip to meet with Yasser Arafat, from a Middle Eastern Catholic Bishop, who had told him that the biggest enemy for Christians in the region was not the Arabs but the Jews. So, Wilkerson, instead of condemning countless unprovoked terror attacks against Israelis, criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It is most unfortunate that a former high-ranking State Department official decided to blame Israel during the recent crisis, in which Jews were the obvious victims. It is more than unfortunate that Wilkerson took the Bishop's statement at face value instead of recognizing the complexities of the Middle East, where "no" and "yes" rarely mean "no" and "yes". Despite the glaring truth that there is oppression of Christians in the Middle East, Wilkerson evidently does not know that the flock of the Ramallah Bishop live in an Arab city, speak and pray in Arabic, and in an era of Arab nationalism, many believed they were Arab first and Christian second. Egypt's former President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had changed the country's name to the "United Arab Republic," then later, under President Anwar al-Sadat, to the "Arab Republic of Egypt" -- a name that instructed every Coptic Christian in Egypt they were Arab first. Lebanon, which was then a majority Maronite Christian country, joined the Arab League as an Arab state. If Lebanon had refused, the consequences would have been dire. Therefore, to the Bishop, the biggest enemy in the region might well have appeared not to be Arabs (his flock), but Jews. Many Arab Christians are doubtless anti-Semitic, possibly caused by many factors, but one surely is that throughout the Middle East, Christians have been subjected to the same anti-Jewish propaganda as Muslims -- which results in anti-Semitism. Christian children are fed the same education, filled with hatred of Jews, in Arab schools; they teach lies such as, "Jesus was a Palestinian", "Jerusalem was an Arab City conquered by Jews", "Jews are behind all the ills of Arab society", "Yasser Arafat was poisoned by Israelis", "Jews killed Christ and all the prophets", "Muhammad was poisoned by a Jewish woman", "Israeli medicine is sterilizing Arab men", and so on; the variations are endless. Arabic propaganda can be found everywhere, in fact, rewriting history. Just check the daily translations of Arab media from reliable sources such as MEMRI or Palestinian Media Watch. Even though accusations in the Arab media against Israel are false, the Western media are not interested in exposing them. Middle East Christians, unfortunately, are as much under attack as Jews. They have been deprived for centuries of knowing who their true friends are, and are sensibly terrified of saying anything might bring them further harm. Christians in Egypt have already erased the Hebrew roots of Christianity there. Sadly, Christians in the region, instead of recognizing that Jews are probably their natural allies, have ended up falling into the Middle Eastern trap of trying to appease the Muslim majority around them, and subscribing to its sweeping anti-Semitism. It is, further, in the best interest of extremist Muslims to keep Jews and Christians separated by animosity and distrust. Any Christian sympathizing with Jews has usually been deemed a "collaborator" against Muslims. Such a "betrayal" in turn, is often regarded as a violation of the protected status given to Christians as "dhimmis" -- non-Muslim, barely-tolerated, second-class residents, relegated to apartheid laws and higher taxes to "protect" their lives and property. After centuries of persecution, often genocidal, or dhimmitude under sharia, Christianity in the Middle East has been stunted, if not effectively crushed. To avoid discrimination in the workplace, Christians gave their children Arab names instead of Biblical ones. Their religious celebrations are kept indoors, lest Christian festivities offend Muslims. As in psychological condition known as the Stockholm Syndrome, Middle East Christians have often ended up defending and even praising Islam, despite this frequently coming at the expense of their own religious rights. Even here in the United States, many Coptic Christian immigrants avoid talking about Islam altogether; sometimes, in fear for their families still back in Egypt, they ardently defend Islam. Although they are now living here in American freedom, in their minds they are still back there. When, a few years ago, in a chance meeting with the Egyptian Coptic Pope in a US airport, when I mentioned my conversion to Christianity, and support for the rights of Christians in the Middle East and for Israel, he did not reply, but looked around us fearfully, as though checking if had anyone heard or perhaps recorded our conversation. One could not feel offended; it was simply a sad reminder of the reflexive fear Egyptian Christians still have of the spying ears of the Egyptian Mukhabarat secret police -- even in an American airport. It is stunning to see is how on the one hand, the US State Department and media play down the genocide going on today against Christians in the Middle East, but on the other hand, immediately believe Muslims when one of their leaders tells an American delegation that he does not fear Arabs but fears Jews. What the State Department would do well to understand is that when they deal with Arabs, Christian or Muslim, in the Middle East, anything they say should always be received guardedly, with skepticism. If Wilkerson's business trip had taken him to Cairo, Baghdad or Saudi Arabia, instead of Ramallah, he would most likely have heard the same thing, but unfortunately that does not make it true. Muslims have been trying to conquer the West since the seventh century. They succeeded in spreading throughout Persia, the great Christian Byzantine Empire in Turkey, North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Southern Spain -- and recently Northern Cyprus and much of South America. That does not even take into account Islamic conquests further east, in places such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Indonesia, Malaysia, and now the Philippines. With many branches of the US government apparently determined to distort reality, there seems to be a series of deliberate decisions to ignore -- and to prevent the American public from knowing -- what is really going on. "Politically incorrect" language has been censored by the State Department, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the previous executive branch, and, most recently, the National Security Council, which recently seems to have purged the entire department. These kinds of Orwellian bowdlerizations can only end up hurting American national security and its relationships in the Middle East and worldwide. Nonie Darwish, born and raised in Egypt, is the author of "Wholly Different; Why I chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values"
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10792/arab-propaganda
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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Preparing for the Fourth – and Deadliest – Wave of Refugees, Bandits, and other Problem Groups—Part 2
August 9, 2017
No-one really knows what to expect after TSHTF in an extended Level 2 or 3 situation, but it seems universally agreed that the starving masses will be forced to flee their city dwellings and do whatever it takes to survive, wherever they can find the opportunity and ability to do so. It is helpful to look at the types of people who will come out from the cities as a series of different waves, each with different characteristics. We’ve discussed the first three waves of refugees in this other article, and the good news is they will be relatively brief in duration and not necessarily ultimately threatening to the well-being of your own retreat community – indeed some people in the third wave could well become positive additions to your community. In this part, we wish to instead look at the last of these waves – the fourth wave. And rather like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, this is the most threatening and dangerous wave – not only by its nature but also because it will be the longest lived of the four waves. (Christians will be impressed at how closely all four waves can be viewed as having characteristics similar to the four horsemen described in Revelations.) The first two waves were fairly simple and easily understood. In the third wave, we saw how some members were threats but others could be valuable allies. There is a similar dichotomy to the fourth wave, but in a very different sense, and their duality is part of their danger. Also read: The Security/Lawlessness Cycle Of Any Major SHTF Event Both will be organized groups, and both will probably already have their own shelter and possibly even other food sources. They probably don’t need your shelter, and they may not even need your food and other resources. But, taking advantage of a collapse of law and order, they want to take it simply because they can, and because all around them, other people and groups are acting similarly, just like the looter who takes items from stores in a city riot, even if they are things of no value – they just take them for nihilistic reasons. Organized Lawless Gangs The first of these groups will be organized lawless gangs, seeking to dominate and rule their new expanded territory. They might possibly seek ongoing tribute and ‘taxes’ from you in exchange for their ‘protection’. Preparedness Hacks: Don’t buy solar panels before seeing THIS The ’20k solar panel system’ is coming to an end. Wall street confirms all shareholders are selling hard after this weird cheap solution popped on the radar. And they have every reason to… Over 18,000 Patriots are using the system in their homes… (and that’s just in the last three months). They get unlimited energy for less than 80 cents a day… Without paying one nickel more to their electricity provider! If you’re skeptical…Just watch this short video… and you’ll be able to cut your power bills to almost ZERO in just 45 minutes! Or maybe they’ll be less formal, and will simply be roaming around as an organized and maybe nomadic gang, taking and destroying as they go. Gangs that seek to impose their own structure and what passes for their version of order may be groups you can negotiate with. But groups who are little more than anarchistic looters will not be people you can negotiate or create win-win outcomes with. When encountering the former, you need to shift their perception of you from being a one-way source of goodies they can seize from you to instead being a two-way trading source and resource they can benefit from. Maybe you can help them maintain some of their equipment. Maybe you have medical resources. Maybe you can trade with them – exchanging items they’ve plundered elsewhere and have no use for, and giving them in return food or other things they do need. When encountering the latter, you are best advised to indicate to them that you are not an easy target, and any attempt to attack you would seriously weaken or destroy their own force, while leaving you relatively unharmed. With most of the rest of the entire continent lying helpless at their feet, encourage them to go after easier targets. This encouragement is best done in a ‘face saving’ manner. If you challenge the gang leader’s authority, and the overall ‘machismo’ of the gang itself, they may have no social choice but to fight it out with you – and from their perspective, the lives of their junior gang members probably has much less value to the gang leaders than do the lives of your family and fellow community members to you. We’re From the ‘Government’ and We’re Here to ‘Help’ You The second of these groups may be more dangerous. They will claim to be semi-official government groups, seeking to impose their definition of emergency martial law on the region they have assumed control of. Sometimes their intentions may be honorable and well-meaning (even if dysfunctional and dangerous to you in the process), other times they may be as corrupt and despotic as the outlaw gangs, but cleverly seeking to wrap up their dictatorial actions with an ill deserved veneer of assumed legality. Unfortunately, whether honorable or not, it is almost a certainty that these self-appointed groups of enforcers will be primarily tasked with taking stuff from you – either to keep for themselves or to give to the unprepared other people in the region who have empowered these people to act for their benefit. They may attempt to claim special emergency powers that suspend all your normal legal protections and constitutionally guaranteed rights, and if they have been sufficiently clever and sophisticated, they’ll have compliant judges ready to issue court orders authorizing things that should never be authorized. If you don’t like it, they’ll say, you can go appeal, all the way to the US Supreme Court if you wish – this being in a scenario where the Supreme Court may have ceased to exist, and even if it did, it would be close to impossible for you to go there and may take years for you to get a case heard and resolved. Meantime, you will be told you must comply with what they tell you is a lawful order to surrender your food, to take in refugees, or in many other ways to destroy the viability of the retreat that you built, for yourself. Some of the people in this fourth wave will be people you might choose to reluctantly ‘do business’ with. If they are realistic and don’t seek to ‘kill the goose that lays the golden eggs’ and understand that only if you are prosperous can they take a levy or share of your prosperity, then all you’ve done is substituted one form of previous law, order, and taxation for another. And whether the people imposing it on you are bona fide government officials, lawless gangsters, or ‘pretend’ government officials, the net result is the same, and you simply have to matter-of-factly strike the best win-win deal you can. But if they ask too much, and leave you with too little, you have some real problems to face. Even a True Democratic Elected Government May Abrogate Your Rights In particular, you know that even in the ‘best’ of our 50 states, the massive majority of the population is not nearly as well prepared as you are. In the normal world, they might be wealthier than you and have more possessions, a fancier house, and who knows what else, but in the post-crisis world of a Level 2 or 3 event, their wealth and possessions become meaningless while yours become invaluable. Any sort of democratic majority based government, especially one raised on the notion that the ‘wealthy’ are obliged to support the ‘poor’, and doubly especially where the lawmakers themselves are not prepared and are faced with their own pressing life or death challenges, won’t hesitate to urgently pass any needed laws to compel you to give everything you have to them. This may well be unconstitutional and unlawful and illegal. But who are you going to complain to, when the local mayor, the local sheriff, and the local judge all turn up on your doorstep together, themselves all starving, and demanding by their joint powers that you give them all your food? We don’t have easy answers to offer you about these ‘fourth wave’ attackers. But we can tell you that the fourth wave will be an ongoing thorn in your side, and you may find it increasingly difficult to tell the ‘lawless gang’ fourth wave members and the ‘ awful posse’ fourth wave members. Quick life hacks: There’s a new way to bring nearly any type of old battery back to life…brand new. This method works with nearly every type of battery out there …and it’s simple and quick. In case you’re wondering, you’ll be able to bring car, phone, and laptop batteries back to life with this. It even works with solar/off-grid, marine, golf cart, and forklift batteries. Plus, many more! >> Click here to learn how to bring your dead batteries back to life again << With this recondition battery secret, you won’t have to buy new expensive batteries anymore. You can just recondition your old, used batteries and save a lot of money! And this new video presentation shows you how: Hiding from Fourth Wave Threats Many preppers feel that an important part of their overall defensive strategy is to keep as low a profile as possible; to obscure the existence of their retreat, so as to avoid being noticed – both before and after the onset of some type of societal collapse. Obscuring yourself prior to social collapse is getting harder and harder with every passing year. The ‘information society’ is finding out more and more about us, and with the increasing tendency of government drones, spotting planes, and even satellites to survey vast areas of countryside, and to create extremely detailed ‘GIS’ databases of all the land and structures in a region, your retreat structure will surely be noticed and if not officially registered, sooner or later will cause the authorities to respond. If you have an unauthorized structure that has not been permitted and which is not compliant with applicable zoning and health and other regulations and restrictions, you risk having it seized and destroyed. You also risk civil and possibly criminal penalties and being labeled as another crazy group of survivalist/supremacists. You can imagine the headlines now – ‘Anti-government supremacists arrested, large weapons cache found on site’ and so on and so forth. Remember that what we consider prudent, and what is indeed truly lawful, can – and will – be portrayed as evidence of crazy extremism by the news media and the authorities. Because one of the fourth wave groups you may encounter will be some form of revived local government, it is inevitable that the ‘footprints’ you have created in developing your retreat will be uncovered. Local health department approvals for your septic system. Utility records for electricity or the internet or cable services. And so on and so on. Indeed, one of the weaknesses of the generally sensible strategy of locating in an area with low population density is that you become more obvious by your presence than you would in a denser region. You may delay your discovery, but you will not prevent it. You need to have a more viable plan to ensure the safety and security of your retreat – fortunately, we have some suggestions on this point to share. Related articles: After The Collapse: Why People Will Steal Your Food – And Everything Else – in a Level 2/3 Situation Why Cities Will Unavoidably Become Lawless Within a Week or Two During a SHTF Event Becoming Part of the Solution, Not Part of the Problem Your key strategy is to position yourself, your retreat, and your community, so it can create ‘win-win’ relationships with organized ‘fourth wave’ groups. . Earlier waves of threats can be repulsed or ignored or in some other way workedOne of the key things about this fourth wave threat is that it is long term around, but the fourth wave will be a longer term issue that must be resolved. A confrontational approach risks failure on your part. And any type of exchange of hostilities can be much more damaging to you than to your opponents. Your opponents probably have either greater manpower to start with, and/or greater ability to recruit new members into their forces. They are willing to accept some risk to their rank and file ‘foot soldiers’. But you have a finite community of friends, family, and colleagues. You can not dispassionately risk their lives in an encounter. Remember also that with a loss of the sophisticated healthcare facilities we enjoy at present, even minor wounds become life threatening, and even if the wounds can be treated and resolved, they risk depleting your precious limited supplies of antibiotics and other medical resources. There may be times when you must respond to force with force yourself; where the potential outcome associated with giving in to a fourth wave group is worse than the potential outcome of repulsing their attack, and in such cases, you must be resolute in your defense of your retreat and its community. But in general, you want to position yourselves so that you can find ways to co-exist on a win-win basis with these fourth wave groups. Throughout my life I have been caught unprepared several times and while nothing seriously bad happened, it easily could have. I managed to get myself out of each situation, I thanked God, and tried to learn from my mistakes. I have also tried to learn from the mistakes of others so as to not learn everything the hard way. I aspire to be more prepared the next time. My preparedness includes many different aspects. In my opinion, the most important thing I have done is to learn as much as possible about what to expect and how to deal with those situations. The most comprehensive and accurate reading in the preparedness field I could recommend is The Lost Ways. If I had read this book 10 years ago I could have avoided these situations or made them much less unsafe and worrisome. Reading this book, made me more aware and prepared than ever. Click the video below to get a better understanding of what The Lost Ways really is.
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Are You Prepared to Be Purged? Army Documents Speak to the Hell That Is Coming
Camo Grayling, a known FEMA camp, was the site of massive training for the Michigan Army Reservists and the Michigan National Guard during Jade Helm. The Army said they are training for GITMO duty. Perhaps this was true. However, everyone should Google “FM 3-39.4” and make sure you are seated as you read this Army Field Manual. This is the extraction of political dissidents and subjugation of millions of Americans into mass detention camps in times of martial law. Jade Helm practiced for what will follow the coup that will remove of Donald trump from office. Warning: The following may contain images and messages which are troublesome to those who suffer from cognitive dissonance and corporate media group think. In Arizona, FEMA roundups have already been practiced in the rural White Mountains. I have had 5 reports like this one from the White Mountains area in Arizona: Coleen Blackburn “Here is an interesting fact to add to this… Here in Az these fema camps had a test run set-up by The National Guard, early this year. Everyone in my rural White Mtns area saw it happening. Also, our local people attached to this towns Guard Location DID NOT hesitate to let their family, friends, neighbors know what they had to do. The one I witnessed is 3 miles as the crow flies from my home, with high mtn peaks surrounding it. Might want to also check and see what your state has determined to be the official evacuation route for major cities in your state. Oddly we all found out in Az that this 1 particular camp will be set right in between the 2 major (cities) gets for east bound evacuation… ” In Part One, I asserted that the Deep State was closing in on removing Donald Trump as POTUS. I further claimed that the following would take place in the following order: A coup to remove Trump A purge of high profile dissidents (e.g. Pat Buchanan, anyone in the Independent Media) and these people would just “disappear” and death squads would be involved. A much bigger purge of the supporters of various movements (e.g. gun rights, anti-abortion, Christian, pro-Constitutionalists, etc.). I cited 2 unnamed sources in support of these claims, but I promised that in Part Two, I would present government documents which stood in support of the claims made in Part One. ARSOF and Jade Helm A relatively obscure document, U.S. Army Special Operations Command “ARSOF Operating Concept” was the blueprint for Jade Helm. Jade Helm practiced political dissident extractions and activities in support of massive roundups which would be conducted in a time of national emergency/martial law. This ARSOF document does not boldly use phrases such as “extracting political dissidents”, but it does use “legal language” to basically communicate the same messages that many in the Independent Media have been telling the public about for years, namely, that ARSOF is going to be used to extract political dissidents and then enforce martial law. Key phrases and terms of the ARSOF document are presented here so as to have no misunderstanding as to meaning and intent. Other relevant military documents are mentioned in order to reinforce the interpretation of the ARSOF, Jade Helm inspired document. ARSOF 1-4. Sustaining and Enabling ARSOF: The Operating Concept A global network including joint, interagency, and International partners will enable these capabilities, but that network itself is not enough. The U.S. military must place supreme value in its operators, who will be constantly challenged through the most demanding education, training, and developmental assignments. Our operators’ capabilities also rely on strong and healthy families, supported by the broader ARSOF and Army community. Why do the deep, dark forces behind the planning of Jade Helm need to have foreign mercenaries involved with Jade Helm? The answer is simple, they cannot fully trust that American soldiers will participate in the long-term subjugation of American citizens. This is forecaasting the beginning of civil war in America. There will be US military defectors vs. loyalists and foreign, UN sponsored troops And who would these shadowy forces behind Jade Helm be? We cannot be 100% sure, but my bet is on the CIA. From former ARSOF officer, Scott Bennett, we know that the CIA is funding ISIS through Swiss bank accounts and they have been involved in nearly every nefarious activity connected to this government from Iran-Contra to the JFK assassination. The CIA is a very safe bet. that they will serve in a coordinator’s role with the coming subjugation of the American people. There is not a topic that I have taken more criticism for than when I have written about the presence of foreign troops on American soil, particularly, the Russians. At Ft. Carson, we are witnessing the insertion of Russian troops on our soil. The extra-constitutional “agreements ”(that means illegal agreements) were inked in Washington, D.C., at the fourth annual meeting of the illegally created “U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Working Group on Emergency Situations.” This extra-governmental organization, formed under the Obama administration, is one of almost two dozen similar “working groups” bringing together top U.S. and Russian officials. These agreements allowed for the first 15,000 Russian troops to enter the country. Case Closed! Before taking another sip of the CNN Kool-Aid, you might want to consider the contents of the following Army document. Appendix N of FM 3-39.4 Foreign Confinement Officer Training Program Training U.S. Trainers N-43. Soldiers and Marines who are assigned training missions receive a course in the preparation to deal with the specific requirements of developing the target HN confinement officers (i.e. foreign detention officers). The course should emphasize the cultural background of the HN, introduce its language (to include specific confinement-related terms and phrases) and provide insights into cultural tips for developing a good rapport with HN personnel. Some of these international partners will be wearing the UN blue and driving in UN white vehicles. These Jade Helm partners are not your friend. They are not here to conduct traffic control exercises. They are here to subjugate you, strip you of your assets and herd you into detention camps and when deemed necessary, they will not hesitate to fire upon you if they feel compelled to do so. ARSOF 2-2. A Multipolar World Competition in the global commons will revolve around maintaining the security of key populations in militarily significant urban terrain. The sheer mass and scale of urbanized humanity will be amplified by the intersection of informationally aware, smartphone‐enabled urban populations and their satisfaction—or lack of satisfaction—with local, regional, and even global conditions. In the coming decades, failed states and ungoverned areas will become sanctuaries for extremist, criminal, and terrorist organizations to flourish. Vacuums emerging from the weakened nation‐state model of 19th and 20th centuries will not elicit new forms of government, but only a proliferation of preexisting forms. The significant difference will be the greater ability of nonstate actors to defend themselves, and to influence or attack other populations, due to the diffusion of weapons and communications technologies down to subnation groups… Urban terrain? I thought they were training for war in the Middle East? What is a subnation group? Texas, Utah and part of Southern California are subnation groups that have deemed to be hostile states by Jade Helm documents. Jade Helm is preparing to occupy these “nonstate actors”. On the surface, the Posse Comitatus Act (18 USC 1385) act should prevent the Army from deploying the troops in the midst of a protest that is not on the scale of something like the 1992 LA Riots. However, the Army claims exemption from Posse Comitatus in the following area. 10 USC 331. When a state is unable to control domestic violence and they have requested federal assistance, the use of the militia or Armed Forces is authorized. Perhaps this is why the original Jade Helm maps depicted states like Texas, to be hostile states. Do you remember these maps which were printed in conjunction with Jade Helm’s rehearsal of dissident extraction? Master the Human Domain The following explains the mystery behind the Jade Helm moniker phrase “Mastering the Human Domain“. ARSOF 3-3. The Central Idea Special Warfare. Special warfare is an umbrella term indicating operating force conduct of combinations of unconventional warfare (UW), foreign internal defense (FID), military information support operations (MISO), CT, and counterinsurgency (COIN) through and with indigenous personnel. With discreet, precise, politically astute, and scalable capabilities, ARSOF frequently undertake politically sensitive missions over extended periods of time in hostile, austere, and denied environments. Here, ARSOF’s deep language and cultural expertise enhance unit survivability through the recognition and understanding of emerging threats. Such capabilities also grant Army special operators influence over the human domain in pursuit of U.S. objectives, to avoid conflict, or to bring about a quick and enduring victory… Mastering the human domain can only mean one thing, enslavement!
ARSOF 4-5. Counterinsurgency Operations …COIN will involve comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to defeat an insurgency and to address any core grievances… Address any core grievances? My mind immediately harkens back to Kent State, in 1970, when four college students frustrated by the illegal Vietnam War were gunned down for expressing “core grievances”. If you are protesting the removal of Trump from office, you will be met with extreme prejudice. Your pro-constitional views will fly in the face of the Deep State dictatorship that will follow the coup.
SNIPERS ON THE ROOF This is not hyperbole! In an Army manual, known as ATP 3-39.33, is the field manual that provides discussion and techniques about civil disturbances and crowd control operations that occur in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS). This document, ATP 3-39.33 published the same week as the ARSOF document, on August 15, 2014, promises to change the way the “military authorities” deal with protesters, even peaceful ones through the use of well-placed snipers who will have orders to take out the leaders of any protest movement. The consequences of ATP 3-39.33 could prove deadly for protesters. Further, the provisions of this Army manual is the end of the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. The Army is telling you how they are going to deal with protests. Protesting, in America, is now a crime punishable by death. Therefore, when Jade Helm is in your neighborhood, unless you willing to fight, it would be best to stay inside! ARSOF 5-3. Sustaining Surgical Strike …operations against critical mission command nodes and infrastructure to weaken the enemy’s grip on the population… This is referring to the initial use of death squads to remove political opposition and key members of the Independent Media. How do Special Forces weaken the grip that dissidents have on the local population? Death squads is the way that many governments deal with “weakening the grip on the population”. This is clearly fancy language used to justify the extraction, either through kidnapping or targeted assassination, of political dissidents from inside the Jade Helm identified “hostile state” areas. This leads one to ask, is America going to see the repeat of historical events such as the “Rape of Nanking ARSOF 1. Future surgical strike units must be trained continually on the ever‐improving technologies and techniques that support the F3EAD targeting methodology. ARSOF training is needed to improve the speed of lethal or nonlethal effects, including advancing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and analysis capabilities to find and fix the target, sustaining a superb force for finishing the target, improving site exploitation techniques and procedures, and improving the timeliness of analysis and dissemination of exploited information. This begs the question, what is meant by the term “exploited information”? This is a term normally reserved for the practice of extracting information through torture (i.e. extreme exploitation). The Director of National Intelligence released a report indicating that the United States has “confirmed” that 116 detainees, imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay have “transferred” out of the prison. According to DNI records most of these terrorists have subsequently reengaged in terrorist or insurgent activities. In light of the new DNI report, former House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul criticized President Obama’s policy of releasing Guantanamo detainees. So why did President Obama engage in such an insane act by clearing space at Guantanamo? The answer to that question is to ask another question. Why did Michigan Army Reservists, during the Jade Helm drills, and members of the Michigan National Guard training at Camp Grayling to assume Guanatanmo security detail at a time when Obama moved out all the terrorists? Simple, it appears that Obama was preparing to lay the groundwork to move in new residents, American political dissidents extracted by Jade Helm personnel. And what goes on at Guantanamo? Torture! Conclusion I want to emphasize that the evidence presented only represents the tip of the iceberg for documentation that exists on how to deal with a nation that will resist a coup against its President. Further I would venture to claim that the documentation presented in Part Two far outweighs, in severity, the statements offered by unnamed federal officials in Part One. The claims of these two federal officials were extremely understated compared to what we see here. Are you prepared to be purged?
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Read The 49 Page George Soros Playbook To ‘Take Out Trump’ Just Published By Marxist Attack Group Media Matters
by Geoffrey Grider August 7, 2017
In a 49-page Media Matters document marked PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL, the entire anti-Trump plan is laid out and it's called 'DEMOCRACY MATTERS, Strategic Plan For Action' It lists four leftist partner organizations: Media Matters, American Bridge 21st Century, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Shareblue. They lay it out plainly in their introduction, saying: "We are going to contest every effort, at every level of government, to limit rights, rescind protections, entrench inequality, redistribute wealth upwards, or in any other way fundamentally undermine the tenets of egalitarianism that must serve as the bedrock of our democracy." democracy-matters-strategic-plan-for-action-david-brock
by Geoffrey Grider August 7, 2017
In a 49-page Media Matters document marked PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL, the entire anti-Trump plan is laid out and it’s called ‘DEMOCRACY MATTERS, Strategic Plan For Action’ EDITOR’S NOTE: In the 1950’s, even just a passing whiff of the idea that you were somehow connected in any way to a Socialist, Communist or Marxist group meant the death of your career by being put on a “do not hire” blacklist. But in 2017, Socialism, Communism and Marxism have combined under one roof in the George Soros big money tent, and their target is the assassination – virtual or actual – of a duly elected American president. The name of this group is Media Matters, and they are the mouthpiece of the Democrat Party. Welcome to the new civil war. It lists four leftist partner organizations: Media Matters, American Bridge 21st Century, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Shareblue. These are some of the most well-funded, well-entrenched, and well known leftist organizations in America. Billionaire George Soros is a key backer. So, what exactly do they want? Nothing less than complete control over political discourse in America. They lay it out plainly in their introduction, saying: “We are going to contest every effort, at every level of government, to limit rights, rescind protections, entrench inequality, redistribute wealth upwards, or in any other way fundamentally undermine the tenets of egalitarianism that must serve as the bedrock of our democracy.”
democracy-matters-strategic-plan-for-action-david-brock-george-soros-nteb-now-end-begins CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE 49 PAGE GEORGE SOROS FUNDED DOCUMENT OUTLINING THEIR PLAN TO “TAKE OUT TRUMP” Their motivation is obvious: the continued erosion of our constitutional republic, forming a direct democracy with the elite left permanently in charge. Of course, Media Matters and American Bridge have been doing this for years. Of the latter, the introduction says: “American Bridge will cement itself as the standard-bearer of opposition research, build on its role as a progressive clearinghouse for information that drives the narrative on Republican officeholders and candidates, and be at the epicenter of Democrats’ work to regain power–starting in 2017 and building to 2020.”
Here’s what success will look like: Trump will be defeated either through impeachment or at the ballot box in 2020. The balance of power will shift back to the Democrats. We will measurably impact US Senate, gubernatorial, and state legislative races. We will free ourselves from solely relying in the press. Our robust digital program will reach voters directly online. This is typical for American Bridge, which was formed in 2010 and practically invented the “tracker” position – a paid position for left-leaning activists to record every Republican officeholder and candidate in every public forum they can get into, with the intent of finding any statement they can use against them. Media Matters and American Bridge 21st Century were both founded by David Brock and receive funding from the network of public employee unions and liberal super-donors that includes George Soros, Tom Steyer, and many others. Brock also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for CREW, as well as holding a majority ownership stake in Shareblue. All four organizations have assignments in the campaign. Media Matters is charged with “disarming right-wing disinformation, while leading the fight against the next generation of conservative disinformation.” CREW is branded as a “leading non-profit ethics watchdog group” that will “demand ethical conduct from the administration and all parts of government, expose improper influence from powerful interests, and ensure accountability when the administration and others shirk ethical standards, rules, and laws.” Shareblue will “take back social media for Democrats”. Their purpose is to “legitimize Donald Trump’s presidency by emboldening the opposition”. It’s the mission of CREW that is most concerning. According to the playbook, here’s what success will entail: -Trump will be afflicted by a steady flow of damaging information, new revelations, and an inability to avoid conflicts issues. -The Trump Administration will be forced to defend illegal conduct in court. -Powerful industries and interest groups will see their influence wane. -Dark money will be a political liability in key states. It is ironic that they point to dark money as a target, as all four of these organizations are the epicenter of those very campaigns that are fueling the war against conservatives and others in America. You can read the full 49-page playbook here. source
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The Sling An Often Overlooked (But Critical Firearm Accessory)
Last updated on August 9, 2017 by Joe Nobody
One extremely important accessory for a shoulder-fired weapon is frequently overlooked by preppers. It is unpretentious, cheap, readily available, and easy to install. It’s the sling. Suffering from a lack of sex appeal, lost in a plethora of available furniture, and definitely not the cover-girl of gun porn, the lowly sling often suffers from a lack of appreciation – until your body has paid the price. Through the years, I have conducted numerous training sessions and can now easily identify the guys and gals who have experience in the field… the folks who have carried a long gun for an extended period of time. Their slings are functional and comfortable – like an old pair of well-worn blue jeans or a seasoned pair of boots. They fit, function, and perform critical tasks without fanfare or ritz. Those who have ignored this critical component suffer – sometimes badly. More on that down-article. No doubt some of you are wondering, “Why is Joe ranting on and on about something as simple as the humble sling? It’s just a length of material that you use to attach a weapon to your body – right?” Not really. Not in a practical application. In the gun-candy store, it’s easy to get distracted by lights, lasers and fancy optical doodads. At the range, other shooters rarely stroll over and say, “Wow, what a nice sling.” In the gun safe, they tangle and annoy. But if you ever have to keep a shoulder-fired weapon on your person for extended periods of time, there is nothing you’ll appreciate more than a good sling. Many of the folks I work with haven’t spent a lot of time with a weapon in the field. That’s not a criticism or a sin; it’s simply a fact that few occupations or lifestyles demand the need or naturally deliver those experiences. Most of us do not walk into corporate America carrying a long gun. Even the gents who have served for years in the infantry may not consider that their military experience will likely differ from that of a post-event prepper. Protecting the homestead while accomplishing daily activities, chores and movements is different than the routine of a soldier who is a component of a fighting unit. I often challenge my friends to perform one simple task without leaning their rifle against a tree – set up camp. Pitch the tent, build a fire, and empty the packs while wearing your blaster. The experience can be a real eye opener. Take that exercise one step further; envision a typical post-event day from dawn to dusk with security as part of your plan. This mind-movie will help you realize the need for comfortably accommodating your weapon. Unless you find yourself surviving in a densely populated urban area, you’ll most likely spend a lot more time carrying your rifle than shooting it. This is a critical point. You probably won’t be fighting, sweeping, clearing, or defending all the time. (If your environment requires such diligence, it might be time to consider another location.) You will, most likely, be spending countless hours gardening, gathering, harvesting, and performing manual labor. If there is no rule of law, you’ll probably want a firearm close by, or on your person. You may spend considerably more time traveling by foot than you do now. There’s a reasonable chance you’ll be outside and exposed for significant portions of the day. All of this translates into the lowly sling playing an important role. The wise prepper will evaluate this humble piece of kit now, rather than later when it’s too late. Prove that you can carry that blaster comfortably, securely and in a manner that is “mission configurable.” Types of Slings For years, there were two basic types of slings: Single-point and 2-point. (For a short time, there was a 3-point sling, but it faded from the market quickly.) A few years back, the single-point sling was all the rage. It debuted as a cool accessory, and droves of shooters wanted to convert their battle rifles to accept this option. For most, this was a huge mistake. Single-point slings are for SWAT teams, hostage rescue units, and other outfits that are expecting short duration encounters of intense violence. Single-point slings are great for moving a weapon to the weak-side shoulder, close-quarters combat, and other tactics that require a lot of movement of a weapon. They, however, suck as a way to secure a long gun for extended periods while on the move. Infantry soldiers, hunters, search and rescue responders, and probably preppers need slings that secure the weapon tightly against the torso. This configuration allows running, jumping, climbing, walking, and picking berries without the rifle banging into knees, thighs, or more personal regions between a male’s legs. A hot barrel can make this capability even more critical. Consider that you may need to slide the rifle around to your back if you have to use your hands to carry something heavy or to climb. You’ll want to be able to tighten and tuck that fancy AK either in front or across your shoulders, and do so in a way that doesn’t rub off significant swaths of flesh. Recently, a new design has eliminated the need to make a choice. Several vendors now offer what I call “hybrid” slings that easily convert from single-point (when you’re expecting to fight) to a more comfortable two-point arrangement. This nifty invention gives us preppers the best of both worlds. When shopping for a sling, consider these factors: Be aware of the strap width and thickness. When you have a pack, body armor, load-rig, jacket or other paraphernalia on your shoulders, strap-pollution can be an issue. Wide and thin slings are typically the best option. At least one connection point should swivel. This avoids tangles, twists and hang-ups. Metal rings, clips, and buckles will hold more weight than their plastic counterparts. Look for quick adjustment straps. These are extremely handy. Quick Detach (QD) connectors are also great innovations. Over the years, I’ve been in numerous situations where I wanted to get the weapon off my body in a hurry. QD mounts work well. The company Magpul probably offers the most configuration/options: http://store.magpul.com/category/slings But wait. Carrying the weapon is only part of the equation. Have you ever read those great articles on a gazillion uses for paracord? Well, a good rifle sling has its own list of secondary applications. Not as many as 550-cord, but more than many people realize. A sling can be used to provide a brace for several different shooting positions. Used correctly, it can steady a shooter’s aim. Or how about an angle indicator for non-level shots? If you live in mountainous or hilly country, you know that making a shot 40 degrees down into a valley requires some adjustment. Often, it’s difficult to judge the correct angle. This handy little accessory can help you with the estimate by creating a plumb line. Properly selected, a sling can form a tourniquet, elevate an injured arm, tow something, fashion a stretcher or drag bag… the list could go on and on. Essentially, a sling is a fancy 4-foot section of very strong rope. What could you do with that in an emergency situation? Consider a scenario where you have three people in your group and need to climb a tree in order to scout. Three of these cords attached end-to-end would yield a 12-foot section of climbing rope. In my fictional series, Holding Their Own, the protagonist uses his rifle sling and backpack straps to make a safety harness for a dangerous climb. What I have come to respect most about preppers is a mindset of adaptability and creativity. I’m sure if you put 50 like-minded individuals in a room, they would devise dozens more innovative uses for this little length of material. All the best! Joe Visit Joe’s website, www.joenobodybooks.com , for more articles, reviews, books, and other resources for those who believe in the self-reliant lifestyle.
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/single-point-tactical-sling-for-the-ar-15/
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Insiders Speak Out: 'I Helped Create A Monster' - Describes Google/Facebook's 'Brain Hacking' Techniques
August 8, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
A set of articles caught my eye this morning, where we see from industry insiders exactly how "Silicon Valley" has not only taken over journalism, but how the methods being utilized by both Google and Facebook which mimics the methods used on smartphones to addict users, dubbed "brain hacking" is not only unethical, but is also dangerous to public health, with one insider stating "I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it. I helped create a monster." In one long, but worthy read over at The Atlantic, the former editor for New Republic, gives an eye-opening description of what exactly went wrong in the world of journalism, where news outlets have come to "unhealthily depend on the big tech companies," where truth and actual reporting of the news has been sacrificed into desperation in "a mad, shameless chase to gain clicks through Facebook," and "a relentless effort to game Google’s algorithms." What makes these deals so terrible is the capriciousness of the tech companies. Quickly moving in a radically different direction may be great for their bottom line, but it is detrimental to the media companies that rely on the platforms. Facebook will decide that its users prefer video to words, or ideologically pleasing propaganda to more-objective accounts of events—and so it will de-emphasize the written word or hard news in its users’ feeds. When it makes shifts like this, or when Google tweaks its algorithm, the web traffic flowing to a given media outlet may plummet, with rippling revenue ramifications. The problem isn’t just financial vulnerability, however. It’s also the way tech companies dictate the patterns of work; the way their influence can affect the ethos of an entire profession, lowering standards of quality and eroding ethical protections. The whole piece is well worth the time it takes to read to understand why journalism has become on of the most distrusted institutions in American today. That is only one piece of the puzzle though, as we see another even more disturbing article at USA Today, where an industry insider, Roger McNamee, who "invested in Google and Facebook years before their first revenue and profited enormously," and who was an early adviser to Facebook’s team, but now says "I am terrified by the damage being done by these Internet monopolies." McNamee explains how both Google and Facebook deliberately "exploit human nature," to create "addictive behaviors that compel consumers to check for new messages, respond to notifications, and seek validation from technologies whose only goal is to generate profits for their owners." How does this work? A 2013 study found that average consumers check their smartphones 150 times a day. And that number has probably grown. People spend 50 minutes a day on Facebook. Other social apps such as Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter combine to take up still more time. Those companies maintain a profile on every user, which grows every time you like, share, search, shop or post a photo. Google also is analyzing credit card records of millions of people. As a result, the big Internet companies know more about you than you know about yourself, which gives them huge power to influence you, to persuade you to do things that serve their economic interests. Facebook, Google and others compete for each consumer’s attention, reinforcing biases and reducing the diversity of ideas to which each is exposed. The degree of harm grows over time. Before going on to McNamee's subsequent points, his assertion above is clearly seen in the latest Google scandal, where an engineer at the company created a memo about Googles claim of "diversity" yet they punish any disagreement with their interpretation of diversity. After the memo written by this employee hit all the headlines because he spoke about Google's refusal to allow "viewpoint diversity," on the topic of jobs better suited to women and to men, and why, social justice warriors at Google and throughout the liberal media went insane, accusing him of being "anti-diversity," sexist, and the other predictable labels slapped on anyone that doesn't conform to their "group-think." Proof that Google has no room for diversity of opinion, came swiftly as they immediately fired the employee for daring state his own opinion, to which some law experts say was an illegal move, with Glenn Reynolds, a Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, saying "I look forward to the lawsuit and its accompanying discovery." Breitbart published some internal discussions, showing that Google management blacklists anyone that dares think differently than the "diversity" social justice warriors within Google's management teams, with screen shots showing that in some cases other employees demand that anyone that showed support for the man that wrote the initial memo should be disciplined or terminated. (See those internal discussions here) Back to McNamee: Consider a recent story from Australia, where someone at Facebook told advertisers that they had the ability to target teens who were sad or depressed, which made them more susceptible to advertising. In the United States, Facebook once demonstrated its ability to make users happier or sadder by manipulating their news feed. While it did not turn either capability into a product, the fact remains that Facebook influences the emotional state of users every moment of every day. Former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris calls this "brain hacking." That link to brain hacking took us to a CBS News article from other industry insiders, published In June 2017, where a former Google product manager Tristan Harris explains "Silicon Valley is engineering your phone, apps and social media to get you hooked," calling the methods they use "brain hacking." Have you ever wondered if all those people you see staring intently at their smartphones -- nearly everywhere, and at all times -- are addicted to them? According to a former Google product manager you are about to hear from, Silicon Valley is engineering your phone, apps and social media to get you hooked. As we first reported in April, he is one of the few tech insiders to publicly acknowledge that the companies responsible for programming your phones are working hard to get you and your family to feel the need to check in constantly. Some programmers call it "brain hacking" and the tech world would probably prefer you didn't hear about it. But Tristan Harris openly questions the long-term consequences of it all and we think it's worth putting down your phone to listen. That piece is also well worth reading as they talk to a number of tech insiders from a variety of industries, showing exactly how each individual online is being targeted by organizations like Facebook and Google, literally "programming people," not just applications. McNamee concludes with the following: Incentives being what they are, we cannot expect Internet monopolies to police themselves. There is little government regulation and no appetite to change that. If we want to stop brain hacking, consumers will have to force changes at Facebook and Google. BOTTOM LINE Yesterday I wrote an article titled "Indisputable Proof Of Coordinated Attacks By Tech Giants To Control Access Of Information In Order To Control The Masses," and that is exactly what all of this comes down to... control. Independent Media, like all the sites listed in the article linked above, do not follow the group think of the mainstream media, who are"tightly controlled" by the tech industry, specifically larger groups like Google and Facebook, literally using methods to addict users, but also to control the narrative. If an MSM outlet goes out of the box, Facebook and Google simply strangle their hits, their traffic, and forces them back into the box, controlling the media as if they were puppets on a string. The attacks on Independent Media are only one small part of the bigger picture as these tech companies are determined to control each and every person on the internet, to buy what they want, to see only what they want them to see, to report only what narrative they want reported and according to all the insiders above, they are developing more "brain hacking" techniques to control even children that are using any type of digital or electronic technology.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Facebook_Google_Brain_Hacking.php
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Can You Hear the Past? Acoustic Archaeology is Beginning to Explore this New Historical Dimension
Picture an archaeological site, what comes to mind? Sandstone walls, standing in the desert heat? Stonehenge, watching over a grassy field? When thinking about archaeological sites, we tend to conceive of them as dead silent – empty ruins left by past cultures. But this isn’t how the people who lived in and used these sites would have experienced them. Residents would have heard others speaking and laughing, babies crying, people working, dogs barking and music such as drumming. These sounds could be heard from close by, and perhaps coming from distant locations as well. Putting sound back into the archaeological landscape is an important part of understanding how people lived, what they valued, how they shaped their identities and experienced the world and their place in it. This growing field is called acoustic archaeology, or archaeoacoustics. By considering the sounds heard by people moving through the landscape, we’re able to more fully understand their culture, and thus better relate to them as human beings. We recently modeled an ancient soundscape at the landscape level for the first time. What can our ears tell us about the way the Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloan, people lived in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon more than a thousand years ago? Vibrations and sounds may have enhanced worship of Great Goddess Cybele How Ancient Greeks Took Trippy Journeys to the Land of the Dead The incredible sound effects of Malta’s Hypogeum Hal Saflieni Modeling Ancient Sound Chaco Canyon was the center of ancestral Puebloan civilization. It’s famous for its great houses – large, multistoried structures, some the size of football fields – built and used from approximately AD 850-1150. Archaeologists have studied how the Ancestral Puebloans built the structures of Chaco Canyon and placed them in relation to each other and to astronomical alignments. To add a new dimension to our understanding of this time and place, we investigated how sounds were experienced at these sites. We wanted to know how a listener would have experienced a sound from a specific distance away from whatever was producing it. To explore sound physics and its application to archaeology, we first developed an Excel spreadsheet. Our calculations described linear sound profiles, similar to a line-of-sight analysis; this took into account a straight path between the person or instrument making the noise and the person hearing it. However, this approach was limited because the results applied to only one listener standing at a very specific location a set distance away. Our research truly blossomed when we wondered if we could apply the same sound physics calculations to an entire landscape simultaneously. We turned to a type of computer program called Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that allows us to model the world in three dimensions. The software package we used, ESRI’s ArcGIS, offers anyone the option to create customized tools, such as the Soundshed Analysis Tool we created, to do calculations or create geographical data and images. The Soundshed Analysis Tool is derived from an earlier modeling script “SPreAD-GIS” developed by environmental scientist Sarah Reed to measure the impact of noise on natural environments, such as national forests. That tool was itself adapted from SPreAD, or “the System for the Prediction of Acoustic Detectability,” a method the U.S. Forest Service devised in 1980 to predict the impact of noise on outdoor recreation. The Soundshed Analysis Tool requires seven input variables, a study location and elevation data. Variables include the sound source height, frequency of the sound source, sound pressure level of the source, the measurement distance from the source, air temperature, relative humidity and the ambient sound pressure level of the study location. We gathered this information from a variety of sources: open-source elevation data, archaeological research, paleoclimatological research and historical climate data. We also gathered from the relevant literature the decibel levels of crowds, individuals and the conch trumpet instrument ancestral Puebloans used. Once the input variables are entered, it takes the Soundshed tool less than 10 minutes to crunch through this complex math for every point on the landscape within two miles of the spot where the sound is produced. Our model then creates images that show where and how sound spreads across the landscape. This gives us a way to visualize the sounds people would have experienced as they moved through the landscape, going about their day. Who Could Hear What, Where We focused on culturally relevant sounds and how they would have spread throughout the Chacoan landscape. These could be the voices of people, the sound of domestic animals like dogs and turkeys, the creation of stone tools or the sound of musical instruments. Within the American Southwest, these instruments include bone flutes, whistles, foot drums, copper bells and conch shell trumpets. Soundshed maps reveal that a person standing at either of two neighboring great houses, Pueblo Alto and New Alto, located approximately 500 feet from each other, can hear a person shouting or speaking to a group at the other site. The patterns differ between the two maps because the terrain differs slightly between the two locations, and because the structures themselves block sound. A third map models someone blowing a conch shell trumpet from immediately north of Casa Rinconada, a large ceremonial structure, at dawn on the summer solstice. The sound spreads throughout the canyon, traveling to a number of mesa top shrines that often marked sacred locations and high points on the landscape. Perhaps audibility influenced the positioning of the shrines so ritual events occurring at Casa Rinconada could be heard? Investigating how sound interacts with the built environment can reveal details about the importance of ritual. It can show us if sound was considered important by the ancestral Puebloan people, especially if shrines are consistently found in locations where people could hear rituals that were performed at a distance. The Future of Archaeoacoustics Our research presents a first step in the archaeoacoustic study of landscapes. Now we hope to expand our research by visiting Chaco Canyon to perform sound studies and record measurements in the field. We also plan to apply our model to other cultures, geographic areas and time periods. Acoustic studies combined with other archaeological research contribute to a more holistic understanding of past cultures. The field has grown as more researchers expand their multidisciplinary pursuits, combining other fields of study with their archaeological approach. For example, advances in geography, physics, psychology, computer programming and other fields made our acoustic study possible. Previously, the study of archaeoacoustics at the landscape level had been out of reach due to technological limitations and a lack of tools. It is only now that computer processing power has caught up to our dreams. Modeling tools like this one also offer the added benefit of allowing us to study what people heard at a site in any place or time without the need to travel to those locations. Instead, researchers can apply existing data found through a literature search, or measure the sound levels of noises or musical instruments to use as model inputs. This opens up new areas to be explored and studied. Sound modeling can help researchers ask questions, and help everyone understand and relate to the ways that other people experienced their world. A sound model opens a new door into our understanding of the past.
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ROBOTPHOBIA
An artificial intelligence researcher reveals his greatest fears about the future of AI
By Arend Hintze August 07, 2017
As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It’s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, Matrix-like, as some sort of human battery. And yet it is hard for me to look up from the evolutionary computer models I use to develop AI, to think about how the innocent virtual creatures on my screen might become the monsters of the future. Might I become “the destroyer of worlds,” as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb? I would take the fame, I suppose, but perhaps the critics are right. Maybe I shouldn’t avoid asking: As an AI expert, what do I fear about artificial intelligence? Fear of the unforeseen The HAL 9000 computer, dreamed up by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and brought to life by movie director Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a good example of a system that fails because of unintended consequences. In many complex systems—the RMS Titanic, NASA’s space shuttle, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—engineers layer many different components together. The designers may have known well how each element worked individually, but didn’t know enough about how they all worked together. That resulted in systems that could never be completely understood, and could fail in unpredictable ways. In each disaster—sinking a ship, blowing up two shuttles, and spreading radioactive contamination across Europe and Asia—a set of relatively small failures combined together to create a catastrophe. I can see how we could fall into the same trap in AI research. We look at the latest research from cognitive science, translate that into an algorithm, and add it to an existing system. We try to engineer AI without understanding intelligence or cognition first. Systems like IBM’s Watson and Google’s Alpha equip artificial neural networks with enormous computing power, and accomplish impressive feats. But if these machines make mistakes, they lose on “Jeopardy!” or don’t defeat a Go master; these are not world-changing consequences. Indeed, the worst that might happen to a regular person as a result is losing some money betting on their success. But as AI designs get even more complex and computer processors even faster, their skills will improve. That will lead us to give them more responsibility, even as the risk of unintended consequences rises. We know that “to err is human,” so it is likely impossible for us to create a truly safe system. Fear of misuse I’m not very concerned about unintended consequences in the types of AI I am developing, using an approach called neuroevolution. I create virtual environments and evolve digital creatures and their brains to solve increasingly complex tasks. The creatures’ performance is evaluated; those that perform the best are selected to reproduce, making the next generation. Over many generations these machine-creatures evolve cognitive abilities. Right now we are taking baby steps to evolve machines that can do simple navigation tasks, make simple decisions, or remember a couple of bits. But soon we will evolve machines that can execute more complex tasks and have much better general intelligence. Ultimately we hope to create human-level intelligence. Along the way, we will find and eliminate errors and problems through the process of evolution. With each generation, the machines get better at handling the errors that occurred in previous generations. That increases the chances that we’ll find unintended consequences in simulation, which can be eliminated before they ever enter the real world. Another possibility that’s farther down the line is using evolution to influence the ethics of artificial intelligence systems. It’s likely that human ethics and morals, such as trustworthiness and altruism, are a result of our evolution—and factor in its continuation. We could set up our virtual environments to give evolutionary advantages to machines that demonstrate kindness, honesty, and empathy. This might be a way to ensure that we develop more obedient servants or trustworthy companions and fewer ruthless killer robots. While neuroevolution might reduce the likelihood of unintended consequences, it doesn’t prevent misuse. But that is a moral question, not a scientific one. As a scientist, I must follow my obligation to the truth, reporting what I find in my experiments, whether I like the results or not. My focus is not on determining whether I like or approve of something; it matters only that I can unveil it. Fear of wrong social priorities Being a scientist doesn’t absolve me of my humanity, though. I must, at some level, reconnect with my hopes and fears. As a moral and political being, I have to consider the potential implications of my work and its potential effects on society. As researchers, and as a society, we have not yet come up with a clear idea of what we want AI to do or become. In part, of course, this is because we don’t yet know what it’s capable of. But we do need to decide what the desired outcome of advanced AI is. One big area people are paying attention to is employment. Robots are already doing physical work like welding car parts together. One day soon they may also do cognitive tasks we once thought were uniquely human. Self-driving cars could replace taxi drivers; self-flying planes could replace pilots. Instead of getting medical aid in an emergency room staffed by potentially overtired doctors, patients could get an examination and diagnosis from an expert system with instant access to all medical knowledge ever collected—and get surgery performed by a tireless robot with a perfectly steady “hand.” Legal advice could come from an all-knowing legal database; investment advice could come from a market-prediction system. Perhaps one day, all human jobs will be done by machines. Even my own job could be done faster, by a large number of machines tirelessly researching how to make even smarter machines. In our current society, automation pushes people out of jobs, making the people who own the machines richer and everyone else poorer. That is not a scientific issue; it is a political and socioeconomic problem that we as a society must solve. My research will not change that, though my political self—together with the rest of humanity—may be able to create circumstances in which AI becomes broadly beneficial instead of increasing the discrepancy between the one percent and the rest of us. Fear of the nightmare scenario There is one last fear, embodied by HAL 9000, the Terminator, and any number of other fictional superintelligences: If AI keeps improving until it surpasses human intelligence, will a superintelligence system (or more than one of them) find it no longer needs humans? How will we justify our existence in the face of a superintelligence that can do things humans could never do? Can we avoid being wiped off the face of the Earth by machines we helped create? The key question in this scenario is: Why should a superintelligence keep us around? I would argue that I am a good person who might have even helped to bring about the superintelligence itself. I would appeal to the compassion and empathy that the superintelligence has to keep me, a compassionate and empathetic person, alive. I would also argue that diversity has a value all in itself, and that the universe is so ridiculously large that humankind’s existence in it probably doesn’t matter at all. But I do not speak for all humankind, and I find it hard to make a compelling argument for all of us. When I take a sharp look at us all together, there is a lot wrong: We hate each other. We wage war on each other. We do not distribute food, knowledge, or medical aid equally. We pollute the planet. There are many good things in the world, but all the bad weakens our argument for being allowed to exist. Fortunately, we need not justify our existence quite yet. We have some time—somewhere between 50 and 250 years, depending on how fast AI develops. As a species we can come together and come up with a good answer for why a superintelligence shouldn’t just wipe us out. But that will be hard: Saying we embrace diversity and actually doing it are two different things—as are saying we want to save the planet and successfully doing so. The Conversation We all, individually and as a society, need to prepare for that nightmare scenario, using the time we have left to demonstrate why our creations should let us continue to exist. Or we can decide to believe that it will never happen, and stop worrying altogether. But regardless of the physical threats superintelligences may present, they also pose a political and economic danger. If we don’t find a way to distribute our wealth better, we will have fueled capitalism with artificial intelligence laborers serving only very few who possess all the means of production. The Conversation This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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The Real Trading Behind North Korean Sanctions
The UN's latest move against North Korea is significant — if the Chinese uphold their end of the bargain.
Nate Jackson · Aug. 7, 2017
In a significant move Saturday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously leveled new sanctions on North Korea after the hermit kingdom’s game-changing tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. These ICBMs can reach the continental U.S., meaning many American cities are in range of a nuclear attack by unhinged North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The sanctions on North Korean exports of coal, iron, lead and seafood are worth about $1 billion, which is roughly a third of its annual export revenue. “This resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever leveled against the North Korean regime," said UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. "This is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation. And this time, the council has matched its words and actions.” Yet Haley appropriately warned, “We should not fool ourselves into thinking we have solved the problem. Not even close. The North Korean threat has not left us.” The sanctions are important because Russia and especially China agreed to them. China is not only North Korea’s primary communist backer but its biggest trading partner, accounting for at least 85% of the North’s trade. To succeed in countering the North Korean threat, the U.S. must have assistance from China. But China has its own interests, particularly in the amount of trade it depends on with the U.S. Thus, the Chinese are using North Korean saber rattling as a bargaining chip to counter Donald Trump’s rhetoric about trade with China. It’s leverage to talk Trump down from starting a trade war, which was itself partly a bargaining position to get the Chinese to rein in North Korea. So perhaps the Art of the Deal is working for both sides — if the Chinese uphold their end of the bargain rather than skirting sanctions as they have in the past. Oh, and if anything will work on a lunatic like Kim, who promised “thousands-fold” vengeance and a “severe lesson” for the U.S., as well as reiterating that “under no circumstances” will the North negotiate on its nuclear weapons.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/50639
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Jonah and the Eclipse in Ancient Nineveh
August 7, 2017 by tomhobson
As we await the eclipse of 2017 AD, this post examines the possibility that the dramatic repentance of Nineveh in Jonah 3:1-10 may have been galvanized by a total solar eclipse there that dates to June 15, 763 BCE, during the probable lifetime of Jonah. All sorts of details kick in to make this possibility highly plausible! We here in southern Illinois are about to be at the center of the umbra for the eclipse of a lifetime. I’ve been waiting for this one ever since I heard about it when I was growing up here 48 years ago. Ozzy Osbourne will be performing near SIU-Carbondale at a music event called Moonstock. People are planning to flood the entire totality path to see it happen. It’s been ages since a total solar eclipse tracked all the way across America from Pacific to Atlantic. We’ll see what the forecast holds. We’ll also see whether the mathematical projections of the shadow’s path by astronomers prove to be accurate; I find it mind-boggling to think that they can measure and crunch those kinds of numbers without mistakes that will leave Millstadt or Cahokia stuck in the sunshine after all. But did you know that a total solar eclipse appears to have played a role in the story of the Biblical prophet Jonah? First, of course, we have to decide whether Jonah was a fictional character or a real, historical person. If you’ve read my three-part article “Historicity: Does It Matter?” (http://pres-outlook.org/2009/07/historicity-does-it-matter-part-2-2), you’ll know what I think. Taking Jonah to be historical as I do, the Bible’s one specific clue as to when he lived was during the reign of Jeroboam II, or around 786-746 BCE, if we take 2 Kings 14:25 as evidence of the latest that he could have prophesied. A total solar eclipse over Nineveh in northern Iraq on June 15, 763 BCE fits this time frame for the life and career of Jonah. Assyriologist Donald Wiseman, a former curator at the British Museum, and editor of Chronicles of Chaldean Kings and The Alalakh Tablets, published a lecture in the Tyndale Bulletin in 1979 where he argued persuasively that this eclipse would help explain the dramatic reaction to Jonah’s preaching. (http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/TynBull_1979_30_02_Wiseman_JonahsNineveh.pdf) According to the Assyrian writings cited by Wiseman, here’s what a solar eclipse would have meant to them: “the king will be deposed and killed, and a worthless fellow will seize the throne…rain from heaven will flood the land…the city walls will be destroyed.” The Assyrians tell us that at such a time, there would be solemn fasting, and the king would hand over his throne to a substitute until the danger passed. At least once when there was a total solar eclipse, the Assyrians cry, “Nineveh shall be overthrown!” (in Assyrian, adi arbat ūmē ālninuaki innabak, which can also mean, “Nineveh shall be made to repent!”). I believe that Jonah was in Nineveh in June of 763 BC during the total eclipse of the sun, which would help explain the remarkable response of the people of Nineveh. Jonah preaches at exactly the right time for the people of Nineveh to listen to him. The Assyrian nation was weak and in chaos in the decade around 760 BCE. They had one earthquake (one sign of divine wrath). There was a famine from 765-758 BCE. Assyria was losing battles and losing territory to its enemies. There were domestic riots. With all the trouble they already had going on, they could have easily believed that Jonah’s warning would come to pass. Now was a perfect time for a prophet from far away to arrive on the scene and command a response. The repentance of an entire pagan city the size of Nineveh would be a greater miracle than for Jonah to survive getting swallowed by a fish. By the way, I have no problem with that part of the account, either. (Our adult daughter theorizes that the fish was probably a basking shark, the only creature found in the Mediterranean big enough to do the job without deliberately chewing Jonah up for food.) Yes, such an experience would be near-fatal if not fatal, but that’s part of the miracle, which is probably why Jesus cites Jonah as a sign comparable to his own resurrection (a sign that was still quite some time in the future to those who heard Jesus at first). We are in no position to prove or disprove either Jonah’s survival inside the fish, or the repentance of Nineveh, nor can we prove the admittedly daring hypothesis that Jonah was there for the 763 BCE eclipse and that the eclipse helped produce the results recorded in the Biblical account. But if these propositions are not provable, they are at least perfectly plausible. Yet they do not remove the element of the divine. When can you get God to send a stupendous natural event right when you need one to back up your point? The divine factor is why I doubt whether anyone will be moved to repentance by the eclipse of 2017 AD. God will have to use other means to make that happen on any scale like the repentance recorded in Nineveh in the time of Jonah. Jesus’ resurrection, the mega-event foreshadowed by Jonah’s brush with death inside the great fish, will do the job, if anything can. And we have far stronger reason to believe in the truth of Jesus’ resurrection than in whatever happened in Nineveh as a result of the eclipse of 763 BCE.
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tomhobson/2017/08/jonah-eclipse-ancient-nineveh/#31GTEBjrvatko00C.99
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etc. You are going to see much more happening overseas now much more. Russia, they have been poked in the eye so long they are ready to fight. North Korea has been mocked for so long they are ready to fight. They are not afraid of those ships that are out there; they were out there during the Korean War. Oh, wake up, wake up, you need to turn to me and not to your own ways, for the old ways never did work etc.
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North Korea threatens Guam: Pyongyang declares Kim Jong-un is 'carefully examining' plan to strike US Pacific military bases after Trump's ferocious 'fire and fury' warning falls on deaf ears
North Korea said it is 'carefully examining' a plan to strike Guam and it will be put in place once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision
This comes after Trump told the North that additional threats of violence against the U.S. 'will be met with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen'
North Korea said earlier that the U.S. would 'pay dearly' for the United Nations sanctions regime it successfully imposed over the weekend
Also threatened 'physical action' and a 'mobilization of all its national strength'
Trump previously said: 'After many years of failure,countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea. We must be tough & decisive!'
Russia and China reluctantly signed on to a United Nations resolution that puts a hard stop to a third of North Korea's export revenue
US officials believe Kim Jong-Un has built a miniaturized warhead for missiles and are ramping up their rhetoric in turn
Defense Intelligence officials say he now has 60 nuclear weapons in his arsenal
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com and Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com
Published: 08:04 EDT, 8 August 2017 | Updated: 06:29 EDT, 9 August 2017
North Korea said it is 'carefully examining' a plan to strike the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after President Donald Trump told the country that any threat to the U.S. would be met with 'fire and fury.' A spokesman for the Korean People's Army, in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency, said Wednesday the strike plan will be 'put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment' once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision. Guam, which is roughly 2,128 miles from North Korea, is home to both Andersen Air Force Base and Naval Base Guam housing thousands of American service members and their families. Roughly 28 percent of the island is occupied by the U.S. military. The base houses bomber assurance and deterrence missions, including six B-52s which the air force says provide 'strategic global strike capability [to] deter potential adversaries and provide reassurance to allies' and that they are ready to go. In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also said it could carry out a pre-emptive operation if the U.S. showed signs of provocation. Earlier Pyongyang said it was ready to give Washington a 'severe lesson' with its strategic nuclear force in response to any U.S. military action. The statement from the North comes after Trump told the country's leader Tuesday that additional threats of violence against the U.S. 'will be met with fire and the fury like the world has never seen.' 'He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,' Trump added in remarks at the top of an unrelated meeting. He stopped just short of a firm promise to declare war on Kim's government if the dictatorship continues to talk about 'physical action' to the U.S. 'North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,' Trump cautioned after a reporter asked him about the nuclear standoff. Trump told the world Tuesday morning that it must be vigilant against North Korea in the face of new threats from the country's young dictator. Kim had warned the United States that it would pay 'pay dearly' for the United Nations sanctions regime it successfully imposed over the weekend and hinted at military action as tensions continued to escalate. 'Physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength,' North Korea's state-run news agency said Tuesday. The 33-year-old Kim was lashing out at a U.S. push to drain him of the hard currency he needs to develop his nuclear program that Russia and China reluctantly signed on to last weekend. The sanctions put a hard stop to a third of North Korea's export revenue - a deafening blow to the country's economy. Trump celebrated the universal participation of Security Council countries in the sanctions with a tweet this morning that said, 'After many years of failure, countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea. We must be tough & decisive!' A Washington Post report on Tuesday suggested that North Korea had invented a miniaturized warhead that it has the capability of attaching to the intercontinental ballistic missiles its been testing. The development brings the country dangerously close to its goal of creating of a nuclear weapon that can hit targets in the U.S. Alaska, Hawaii and California would be at an especially high risk if Kim's scientists finish the weapons and North Korea decides to use them. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said on Tuesday that he is seriously worried about a possible North Korean missile strike on his state as well as the rest of the United States. 'There's concern, but there's also pride,' Sullivan said on Fox News's 'The Story' Tuesday. 'Alaska is the cornerstone of our nation's missile defense.' He added that Alaska's missile defense battalion 'is literally protecting the country.' 'The Alaska guard unit there calls themselves the 300, protecting the 300 million,' Sullivan said. 'So that's what they're doing now, protecting us.' According to the report, US officials estimate that Kim now has 60 nuclear weapons in his possession. By comparison, the US is estimated to have more than 6,800 in its stockpile, and Russia is thought to have 7,000. Shortly after Trump's morning message, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appeared on Fox & Friends to deliver tough talk to North Korea and take a victory lap on sanctions. 'The United States will respond accordingly, and I think the international community will respond accordingly,' she said of the dangerous actions that Kim could take in response to the punishing actions. It's up to North Korean leader to decide whether his response is, 'OK the international community is telling me to stop or he is going to have, you know, a temper tantrum,' she'd said. Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy worried that Kim is rejecting the international mandate. 'It sounds like, we are getting closer to a shootin' war,' he told Haley. 'But we don't run scared,' Haley asserted. 'This had to happen, we had to go after his hard currency, we had to stop it.' 'How he responds? He's now going to have to think what's the end game? Is he really going to come after the United States knowing what the United States can do back? He's gotta make that calculation,' the high-ranking U.S. diplomat assessed. Former President Barack Obama's aide Dan Pfeiffer went after Trump's warning to North Korea on Tuesday. Pfeiffer tweeted, 'Don't gloss over the fact that Trump threatened what can only be interpreted as a nuclear attack on North Korea if Kim Jong Un taunts him.' On Monday, North Korea promised to 'teach the US a severe lesson' if it puts its military might to the test on the Korean Peninsula. 'We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table,' North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said, effectively declining to engage in talks about the nuclear program. State-run KCNA news agency meanwhile claimed that North Korea 'will make the US pay dearly for all the heinous crimes it commits against the state and people of this country.' KCNA cautioned the U.S. against 'believing that its land is safe across the ocean' in what it described as a 'stern warning to the US.' Tuesday it slapped the U.S. again, saying in a statement that appeared in the New York Times: 'Packs of wolves are coming in attack to strangle a nation...They should be mindful that the D.P.R.K.'s strategic steps accompanied by physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength.' Kim is fuming over a United Nations Security Council resolution that will cut a billion out of his $3 billion economy annually. The resolution bans North Korea exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood and blocks off other cash-rich avenues, including joint ventures. The U.S. pushed the resolution through the Security Council on Saturday with the aid of Russia and China, North Korea's largest trading partner. 'Yes, China and Russia were not the easiest, but at the end of the day they came through, and that's all that matters,' Haley said this morning on Fox & Friends of the vote to put heavy penalties on North Korea over its continued nuclear tests. China favors deconfliction with North Korea and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula but not the displacement of Kim. Beijing is concerned that a coup would put the country's stockpile of weapons in nefarious hands. It joined the U.S. and 13 other nations that sit on the Security Council in approving new sanctions on North Korea, a nation with whom it shares a border, after Washington threatened to restrict access to its financial institutions last week. North Korea's ramped up missile tests since Trump took office has the United States pursuing aggressive measures in the region, including Chinese sanctions. Military action remains on the table, as well, sparking fears internationally that the conflict will result in war. The Trump administration's attempts to pressure North Korea into abandoning its nuclear and missile ambitions have so far gained little traction. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has warned of an 'effective and overwhelming' response against North Korea if it chose to use nuclear weapons but has said any military solution would be 'tragic on an unbelievable scale.' The United States has 28,500 troops in South Korea to guard against the North Korean threat. Japan hosts around 54,000 U.S. military personnel, the U.S. Department of Defense says, and tens of thousands of Americans work in both countries. Seoul is home to a population of roughly 10 million, within range of massed pre-targeted North Korean rockets and artillery, which would be impossible to destroy in a first U.S. strike. A rising number of Republicans - 48 percent - want Trump to go that route. That's a jump from 37 percent in an April CBS News poll. A majority of Americans are fearful that Trump is not equipped to go to battle with Kim, though. In the CBS survey, 61 percent of voters expressed doubts. Most do not think North Korea will actually try to strike the U.S. with one of the intercontinental ballistic missiles it's been testing, however. Nearly seven in 10 Americans think Kim is using the nuclear program to gain power and influence.
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South Dakota Airmen arrive ready to 'Fight Tonight' from Guam
Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs / Published August 08, 2017
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, under the command of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, joined their counterparts from the Republic of Korea and Japanese air forces in sequenced bilateral missions, August 7. This serves as the first mission for the crews and aircraft recently deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota in support of U.S. Pacific Command’s Continuous Bomber Presence missions. After taking off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, the B-1s assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, flew to Japanese airspace, where they were joined by Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self Defense Force) F-2 fighter jets. The B-1s then flew over the Korean Peninsula where they were joined by Republic of Korea Air Force KF-16 fighter jets. The B-1s then performed a pass over the Pilsung Range before leaving South Korean airspace and returning to Guam. Throughout the approximately 10-hour mission, the aircrews practiced intercept and formation training, enabling them to enhance their combined capabilities and tactical skills, while also strengthening the long standing military-to-military relationships in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Ellsworth B-1s were last deployed to Guam in August 2016 when they took over CBP operations from the B-52 Stratofortress bomber squadrons from Minot AFB, North Dakota, and Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. “How we train is how we fight and the more we interface with our allies, the better prepared we are to fight tonight,” said a 37th EBS B-1 pilot. “The B-1 is a long-range bomber that is well-suited for the maritime domain and can meet the unique challenges of the Pacific.” Aircrews, maintenance and support personnel, will continue generating B-1 bomber sorties to demonstrate the continuing U.S. commitment to stability and security in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, providing commanders with a strategic power projection platform and fulfilling the need for anytime mission-ready aircraft, an important part of national defense during a time of high regional tension. “While at home station my crews are constantly refining their tactics and techniques so that we can better integrate with our counterparts from other nations,” said Lt. Col. Daniel Diehl, 37th EBS, commander. “As demonstrated today, our air forces stand combat-ready to deliver airpower when called upon.” The U.S. has maintained a regular bomber presence in the Indo-Asia-Pacific since 2004 and this mission demonstrated our continued ironclad commitment to regional allies. Further, it increased our readiness and exercised our rights under international law to fly legally in the place and time of our choosing.
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etc. for the things that you saw this week are small in comparison to the things that you shall see. The warships shall increase; North Korea shall build another nuclear weapon making her nuclear weapons far greater than any other nation, people are not recognizing what is going on. But I say unto you, do not fear, for you will not see a nuclear war here, you will not see some of the things that shall take place overseas here etc
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US spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat
By Lucas Tomlinson Published August 07, 2017 Fox News
Despite the United States' insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country’s east coast just days ago. It's the first time these missiles have been deployed on this type of platform since 2014, U.S. officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence in the region told Fox News on Monday. It also points to more evidence that North Korea isn't listening to the diplomatic threats from the West. “The best signal that North Korea could give us that they're prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in the Philippines Monday. North Korea loaded two Stormpetrel anti-ship cruise missiles on a Wonsan guided-missile patrol boat at Toejo Dong on North Korea’s east coast. “North Korea is not showing any evidence it plans to halt its missile tests,” said one official who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information. “It's a trend that does not bode well for hopes of de-escalating tensions on the [Korean] peninsula.” The latest moves by Pyongyang point to a likely missile test in the days ahead or it could be a defense measure should the U.S. Navy dispatch more warships to the Korean peninsula, officials said. President Trump on Monday afternoon voiced his displeasure about the coverage of the unanimous U.N. Security Council vote over the weekend to sanction Pyongyang. "The Fake News Media will not talk about the importance of the United Nations Security Council's 15-0 vote in favor of sanctions on N. Korea!" Trump tweeted. Meantime, there currently are limits to the size of the warheads South Korea is allowed to deploy on top of its missiles. But following a talk between leaders of South Korea and the United States, the Pentagon is working on allowing changes to the policy. "Yes, we are working on it," said Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. "It's a topic under active consideration here, and I would tell you that we would be favorably inclined to do anything which furthers the defensive capabilities of South Korea." The United States removed its tactical nuclear missiles from South Korea in 1991. Lucas Tomlinson is the Pentagon and State Department producer for Fox News Channel. You can follow him on Twitter: @LucasFoxNews
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North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say
By Joby Warrick, Ellen Nakashima and Anna Fifield August 8 at 5:58 PM North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment. The analysis, completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency, comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country’s atomic arsenal. The United States calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts think the number is much smaller. The findings are likely to deepen concerns about an evolving North Korean military threat that appears to be advancing far more rapidly than many experts had predicted. U.S. officials concluded last month that Pyongyang is also outpacing expectations in its effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the American mainland. President Trump, speaking Tuesday at an event at his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., said North Korea will face a devastating response if its threats continue. “They will be met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” he said. Earlier Tuesday, North Korea described a new round of U.N. sanctions as an attempt “to strangle a nation” and warned that in response, “physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength.” Although more than a decade has passed since North Korea’s first nuclear detonation, many analysts thought it would be years before the country’s weapons scientists could design a compact warhead that could be delivered by missile to distant targets. But the new assessment, a summary document dated July 28, concludes that this critical milestone has been reached. “The IC [intelligence community] assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles,” the assessment states, in an excerpt read to The Washington Post. Two U.S. officials familiar with the assessment verified its broad conclusions. It is not known whether the reclusive regime has successfully tested the smaller design, although North Korea officially claimed last year that it had done so. The DIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. An assessment this week by the Japanese Ministry of Defense also concludes that there is evidence to suggest that North Korea has achieved miniaturization. Kim is becoming increasingly confident in the reliability of his nuclear arsenal, analysts have concluded, explaining perhaps the dictator’s willingness to engage in defiant behavior, including missile tests that have drawn criticism even from North Korea’s closest ally, China. On Saturday, China and Russia joined other members of the U.N. Security Council in approving punishing new economic sanctions, including a ban on exports that supply up to a third of North Korea’s annual $3 billion in earnings. [What the new U.N. sanctions on North Korea mean] The nuclear progress further raises the stakes for Trump, who has vowed that North Korea will never be allowed to threaten the United States with nuclear weapons. In an interview broadcast Saturday on MSNBC’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the prospect of a North Korea armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs would be “intolerable, from the president’s perspective.” “We have to provide all options . . . and that includes a military option,” he said. But McMaster said the administration would do everything short of war to “pressure Kim Jong Un and those around him, such that they conclude it is in their interest, to denuclearize.” The options said to be under discussion range from new multilateral negotiations to reintroducing U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula, officials familiar with internal discussions said. At the same time, the administration has been attempting to push North Korea toward talks, but Pyongyang has shown no interest in dialogue. [North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn] Determining the precise makeup of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal has long been a difficult challenge for intelligence officials because of the regime’s culture of extreme secrecy and insularity. The country’s weapons scientists have conducted five nuclear tests since 2006, the latest being a 20- to 30-kiloton detonation on Sept. 9, 2016, that produced a blast estimated to be up to twice that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. But producing a compact nuclear warhead that can fit inside a missile is a technically demanding feat, one that many analysts thought was still beyond North Korea’s grasp. Last year, state-run media in Pyongyang displayed a spherical device that government spokesmen described as a miniaturized nuclear warhead, but whether it was a real bomb remained unclear. North Korean officials described the September detonation as a successful test of a small warhead designed to fit on a missile, although many experts were skeptical of the claim. Kim has repeatedly proclaimed his intention to field a fleet of nuclear-tipped ICBMs as a guarantor of his regime’s survival. His regime took a major step toward that goal last month with the first successful tests of a missile with intercontinental range. Video analysis of the latest test led some analysts to conclude that the missile caught fire and disintegrated as it plunged back toward Earth’s surface, suggesting that North Korea’s engineers might not be capable yet of building a reentry vehicle that can carry the warhead safely through the upper atmosphere. But U.S. analysts and many independent experts think this hurdle will be overcome by late next year. “What initially looked like a slow-motion Cuban missile crisis is now looking more like the Manhattan Project, just barreling along,” said Robert Litwak, a nonproliferation expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of “Preventing North Korea’s Nuclear Breakout,” published by the center this year. “There’s a sense of urgency behind the program that is new to the Kim Jong Un era.” Although few discount North Korea’s progress, some prominent U.S. experts warned against the danger of overestimating the threat. Siegfried Hecker, director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the last known U.S. official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities, has calculated the size of North Korea’s arsenal at no more than 20 to 25 bombs. He warned of potential risks that can come from making Kim into a bigger menace than he actually is. [Some experts see Russian echoes in North Korea’s missile advances] “Overselling is particularly dangerous,” said Hecker, who visited North Korea seven times between 2004 and 2010, and met with key leaders of the country’s weapons programs. “Some like to depict Kim as being crazy — a madman — and that makes the public believe that the guy is undeterrable. He’s not crazy and he’s not suicidal. And he’s not even unpredictable.” “The real threat,” Hecker said, “is we’re going to stumble into a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.” In the past, U.S. intelligence agencies have occasionally overestimated the North Korean threat. In the early 2000s, the George W. Bush administration assessed that Pyongyang was close to developing an ICBM that could strike the U.S. mainland — a prediction that missed the mark by more than a decade. More recently, however, analysts and policymakers have been surprised repeatedly as North Korea achieved key milestones months or years ahead of schedule, said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. There was similar skepticism about China’s capabilities in the early 1960s, said Lewis, who has studied that country’s pathway to a successful nuclear test in 1964. “There is no reason to think that the North Koreans aren’t making the same progress after so many successful nuclear explosions,” Lewis said. “The big question is: Why do we hold the North Koreans to a different standard than we held [Joseph] Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao Zedong’s China? North Korea is testing underground, so we’re always going to lack a lot of details. But it seems to me a lot of people are insisting on impossible levels of proof because they simply don’t want to accept what should be pretty obvious.” Yuki Oda in Tokyo contributed to this report.
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North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say
Washington Post Joby Warrick, Ellen Nakashima and Anna Fifield
North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment. The new analysis completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country's atomic arsenal. The U.S. calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts believe the number of bombs is much smaller. The findings are likely to deepen concerns about an evolving North Korean military threat that appears to be advancing far more rapidly than many experts had predicted. U.S. officials last month concluded that Pyongyang is also outpacing expectations in its effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking cities on the American mainland. While more than a decade has passed since North Korea's first nuclear detonation, many analysts believed it would be years before the country's weapons scientists could design a compact warhead that could be delivered by missile to distant targets. But the new assessment, a summary document dated July 28, concludes that this critical milestone has already been reached. "The IC [intelligence community] assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles," the assessment states, in an excerpt read to The Washington Post. The assessment's broad conclusions were verified by two U.S. officials familiar with the document. It is not yet known whether the reclusive regime has successfully tested the smaller design, although North Korea officially last year claimed to have done so. The DIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. An assessment this week by the Japanese Ministry of Defense also concludes there is evidence to suggest that North Korea has achieved miniaturization. President Donald Trump, speaking at an event at his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., golf course, said North Korea will face a devastating response if its threats continue. "They will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before," Trump said. Earlier Tuesday, North Korea described a new round of United Nations sanctions as an attempt "to strangle a nation" and warned that in response "physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength." Kim Jong Un is becoming increasingly confident in the reliability of his nuclear arsenal, analysts have concluded, explaining perhaps the dictator's willingness to engage in defiant behavior, including missile tests that have drawn criticism even from North Korea's closest ally, China. On Saturday, both China and Russia joined other members of the U.N. Security Council in approving punishing new economic sanctions, including a ban on exports that supply up to a third of North Korea's annual $3 billion earnings. The nuclear progress further raises the stakes for Trump, who has vowed that North Korea will never be allowed to threaten the United States with nuclear weapons. In an interview broadcast Saturday on MSNBC's "Hugh Hewitt Show," national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the prospect of a North Korea armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs would be "intolerable, from the president's perspective." "We have to provide all options ... and that includes a military option," he said. But McMaster said the administration would do everything short of war to "pressure Kim Jong Un and those around him, such that they conclude it is in their interest to denuclearize." The options said to be under discussion ranged from new multilateral negotiations to reintroducing U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula, officials familiar with internal discussions said. Determining the precise makeup of North Korea's nuclear arsenal has long been a difficult challenge for intelligence professionals because of the regime's culture of extreme secrecy and insularity. The country's weapons scientists have conducted five nuclear tests since 2006, the latest being a 20- to 30-kiloton detonation on Sept. 9, 2016, that produced a blast estimated to be up to twice that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. But producing a compact nuclear warhead that can fit inside a missile is a technically demanding feat, one that many analysts believed was still beyond North Korea's grasp. Last year, state-run media in Pyongyang displayed a spherical device that government spokesmen described as a miniaturized nuclear warhead, but whether it was a real bomb remained unclear. North Korean officials described the September detonation as a successful test of a small warhead designed to fit on a missile, though many experts were skeptical of the claim. Kim has repeatedly proclaimed his intention to field a fleet of nuclear-tipped ICBMs as a guarantor of his regime's survival. His regime took a major step toward that goal last month with the first successful tests of a missile with intercontinental range. Video analysis of the latest test led some analysts to conclude that the missile caught fire and disintegrated as it plunged back toward Earth's surface, suggesting North Korea's engineers might not yet be capable of building a re-entry vehicle that can carry the warhead safely through the upper atmosphere. But U.S. analysts and many independent experts believe that this hurdle will be overcome by late next year. "What initially looked like a slow-motion Cuban missile crisis is now looking more like the Manhattan Project, just barreling along," said Robert Litwak, a nonproliferation expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and author of "Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout," published by the center this year. "There's a sense of urgency behind the program that is new to the Kim Jong Un era." While few discount North Korea's progress, some prominent U.S. experts warned against the danger of overestimating the threat. Siegfried Hecker, director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the last known U.S. official to personally inspect North Korea's nuclear facilities, has calculated the size of North Korea's arsenal at no more than 20 to 25 bombs. Hecker warned of potential risks that can come from making Kim into a bigger menace than he actually is. "Overselling is particularly dangerous," said Hecker, who visited North Korea seven times between 2004 and 2010 and met with key leaders of the country's weapons programs. "Some like to depict Kim as being crazy — a madman — and that makes the public believe that the guy is undeterrable. He's not crazy and he's not suicidal. And he's not even unpredictable." "The real threat," Hecker said, "is we're going to stumble into a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula." In the past, U.S. intelligence agencies have occasionally overestimated the North Korean threat. In the early 2000s, the George W. Bush administration assessed that Pyongyang was close to developing an ICBM that could strike the U.S. mainland - a prediction that missed the mark by more than a decade. More recently, however, analysts and policymakers have been taken repeatedly by surprise as North Korea achieved key milestones months or years ahead of schedule, noted Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies' East Asia Nonproliferation Program. There was similar skepticism about China's capabilities in the early 1960s, said Lewis, who has studied that country's pathway to a successful nuclear test in 1964. "There is no reason to think that the North Koreans aren't making the same progress after so many successful nuclear explosions," Lewis said. "The big question is why do we hold the North Koreans to a different standard than we held [Joseph] Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao Zedong's China? North Korea is testing underground, so we're always going to lack a lot of details. But it seems to me a lot of people are insisting on impossible levels of proof because they simply don't want to accept what should be pretty obvious." The Washington Post's Yuki Oda in Tokyo contributed to this report.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-north-korea-nuclear-missiles-20170808-story.html
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The United Nations Rolls Out ‘Advancements’ to Indoctrinate Every Student on the Planet – Agenda 2030 By Nate Brown - 07/25/2017
Quietly, the United Nations is rolling out advancements to its objective of undermining education as a whole, with the purpose of creating a single system for learning globally. Sounds far fetched right? Well, meet the new Global Education Institute unveiled by the United Nations in South Korea. The education institute was named after former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and is designed to incorporate higher education with sustainable development. The reason being according to the United Nations it is an educated person that threatens Agenda 2030. However, the new institute is only just now being constructed, and the ceremony for the construction of such was on July 11th, 2017. At which they delivered remarks in regards to the reasoning behind the new institute. “The three axes of globalization education are peace, development and human rights,” Ban was quoted as saying. Of course, he did not point out that the UN means something very different by the term “human rights” than America’s traditions of God-given, inalienable individual rights. According to Yonhap News Agency, the full fledged scheme of the institute is to “align institutions of higher education, scholarship, and research with the UN.” UNAI Korea is building the Ban Ki-moon Global Education Institute (GEI) to help realize the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and nurture related global experts. The UNAI is short for the U.N. Academic Impact, an initiative launched by then-U.N. chief Ban in November 2010 to align institutions of higher education, scholarship and research with the U.N. At present, more than 1,000 institutions in over 120 countries and some 40 academic networks are now members. The institute will focus its efforts on carrying out SDG research, supporting developing countries and nurturing related youth leaders. —Yonhap In other words, all collegiate institutions around the world aligned with the UNAI’s goals will indoctrinate young people into activism towards the one track output based on accomplishing Agenda 2030. As stated above there are already 1,000 institutions involved in this elaborate scheme to control education. Senior leaders of the United Nations gathered on July 11th, 2017 not to create a pathway to higher education but rather to impose on every child on the planet their globalist agenda. Thus, the United Nations can single handily indoctrinate droves of students into their whims of knowledge, and socialism. The United States is a democratic republic, the United Nations is a socialistic and communistic organization, thus with the inclusion of the UNAI’s education program our government can be undermined by graduates of the UNAI’s institutions because students would be solely indoctrinated into socialistic practice rather than democratic governance. A single system of education refutes intellectual diversity, for one simple reason, a select group of individuals create the textbooks based on their agenda, and depending on that agenda it could spell dire consequences for the younger generations. The one track education system is precisely what the ‘leaders’ of the United Nations are rolling out, openly. An intellectually diverse global populace threatens their agenda because of freedom, literally, enough said.
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Is Your Pastor Actually Born Again? Are You?
11:00AM EDT 7/25/2017
What does it mean to be "born again"? Do Christians truly understand this concept?
According to research from the American Culture & Faith Institute (ACFI), many Americans call themselves "born again," but fewer than 30 percent provided answers that would support that claim. And if so many think they are born again, why aren't these Christians impacting the culture, asks the American Pastors Network. "If a majority of Americans think they are born-again Christians, one has to wonder where the cultural disconnect is, as the moral fiber of our nation continues to erode," said APN President Sam Rohrer, who is host of the APN radio ministry, "Stand in the Gap Today." This summer, "Stand in the Gap Today" hosts have discussed these findings on two separate programs with George Barna, renowned social science researcher and head of ACFI. In pondering life after death, the ACFI research found that just 30 percent of those surveyed say they are born again with the reasoning that "after I die I know I will go to heaven because I have confessed my sins and accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior." Another quarter say they don't know what will happen when they die. "Some shocking findings of this survey indicate that many—75 percent—believe that mankind is not made up of sinners and that man is basically good," Rohrer said. "Just barely more than half believe that Jesus lived a sinless life, and 42 percent believe that Satan is not real, but more a symbol of evil. Based on these findings, how healthy can we say the American church really is? How can salt be salt and light be light when we don't believe those things?" "According to these numbers and what we know from history, in real life, many, if not most of those who say they're Christians are really not Christ-followers," Rohrer said on the program. "We've also heard, for example, that up to 80 percent of Congress is Christian, but I look at that number with some skepticism. Just like there are Republicans In Name Only—RINO—there are also many Christians 'in name only.'" Rohrer also pointed to Matthew 7:22-23, where Jesus said, "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?' But then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.'" "There is perhaps no more clear example than these words of Christ Himself to perhaps describe these survey findings, which are evidence of what some Christians believe about themselves and what is actually real and true."
https://www.charismanews.com/culture/66446-is-your-pastor-actually-born-again-are-you
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Trump says human trafficking is ‘worse now than it ever was”We’re going to destroy’ MS-13
on July 30, 2017 Posted In: america, Donald Trump, DONALD TRUMP, immigration, Mexico, OBAMA, usa
President Donald Trump told a group of law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday that human trafficking is “worse now that it ever was.” “Human traffickers. This is a term that’s been going on from the beginning of time, and they say it’s worse now than it ever was,” he said. “You go back 1,000 years, where you think of human trafficking, you go back 500 years, 200 years, 100 years, human trafficking, they say — think of it, what they do — human trafficking is worse now, maybe, than it’s ever been in the history of this world." It is unclear, however, if Trump meant human trafficking or human smuggling, the latter of which saw a surge in border states this year. Human trafficking is the act of trading humans for forced labor or sexual slavery, which would make Trump remarks that it’s worse “than it ever was” Trump: ‘We’re going to destroy’ MS-13 President Donald Trump caled MS-13 gang members “animals” and praising law enforcement for being “rough.” Trump was in this New York suburb to discuss efforts to combat the violent MS-13 gang, which he pledged to dismantle and deport. “Together we’re going to restore safety to our streets and peace to our communities and we’re going to destroy the vile, criminal cartel MS-13 and many other gangs,” Trump said. Long Island has been particularly affected by the brutal street gang, with recent high-profile murders gripping the community there. “We’ve gotten a lot of them out of here,” Trump said, at times looking at his director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “But the rest are coming. They’ll be out of here quickly, right? Quickly.” The speech was laced with violent imagery, with Trump saying MS-13 has rendered the suburb into “blood-stained killing fields.” “They kidnap. They extort. They rape and they rob,” Trump said. “They stomp on their victims. They beat them with clubs, they slash them with machetes, and they stab them with knives. They have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields. They’re animals.” Trump repeatedly pledged in his speech, delivered in front of law enforcement officers at Suffolk County Community College, to have the backs of police and law enforcement.MS-13 - Root Of All Evil “We’re going to enforce our laws, protect our borders and support our police like our police have never been supported before,” Trump said. He praised the “rough” officers of ICE and suggested that police shouldn’t protect the heads of suspects when they’re arrested. “When you see these thugs thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You see them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’ ” Trump said, mentioning observing the prisoner’s heads being shielded. “I said, ‘You can take the hand away.’ “ The President also noted his longstanding campaign pledge to build a wall along the US border with Mexico. “We’re going to secure our border against illegal entry and we will build the wall, that I can tell you,” Trump said, noting that the House on Thursday advanced $1.6 billion for the first wave of construction, though that still has to pass the Senate. “The wall is vital, and vital as a tool for ending the humanitarian disaster brought, and really brought on by drug smugglers and new words we haven’t heard too much of, human traffickers.” Immigration agenda Trump and his key surrogates — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly — have spoken frequently about the perniciousness of MS-13 and its relationship to illegal immigration. The gang has strongholds in the US, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The Obama administration’s Treasury Department sanctioned the gang in 2012 as a transnational criminal organization — the first such designation for a street gang. The US law enforcement community has also been fighting the gang for years. “We will find you, we will arrest you, we will jail you and we will deport you,” Trump said, painting with a broad brush to imply all the gang members are immigrants. Sessions was in El Salvador this week to discuss the threat from that side of the border, as well, with the Justice Department announcing Thursday that Salvadoran prosecutors charged 113 MS-13 gang members. While no expert disagrees that the gang is a particularly violent and brutal criminal organization — whose preferred weapon is machetes — there have been concerns about the Trump administration’s use of the organization as a justification for its immigration policies. Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, actually began in the United States — in Los Angeles in the 1980s amid a flood of Salvadorans fleeing a civil war to the US. As the gang grew stronger, authorities also deported immigrants in the 1990s back to Central America, which is what first sent the gang to those countries, where it also took hold. An administration official pointed to migration from Central America as the “principle factor” for MS-13’s growth in the US, though the administration has been continuously unable to give reporters any hard numbers of how many suspected MS-13 members are immigrants or were gang members when they migrated to the US. A Congressional Research Service analysis of MS-13 found that its ranks were continuously strengthened by deportees from the US returning home, even as members also migrated to the US. A House homeland security subcommittee recently held field hearings in New York on the threat as it relates to unaccompanied minors coming illegally into the US, and witnesses repeatedly told lawmakers that undocumented immigrants and teenagers are especially vulnerable to becoming victims of the gang if communities don’t do enough to support, welcome and protect those individuals. There were roughly 24,000 MS-13 members in Central America in 2012, according to an analysis by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Today, the Justice Department estimates roughly 30,000 members worldwide and more than 10,000 in the US, a number that has held steady for some years but that the department believes is trending upward.
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Too fat to stand and their flesh rots while they're alive: The REAL reason America's 'Frankenchickens' have to be washed with chlorine as US industrial farming practices are exposed ahead of possible post-Brexit trade deal
The possibility of US chickens being sold in Britain sparked a huge Cabinet row
Now whistleblower farmers have revealed the full horror of chickens' lives in US
Birds are crammed into warehouses and are so heavy they buckle under weight
By Michael Powell And Daniel Bates For The Mail On Sunday Published: 17:02 EDT, 29 July 2017 | Updated: 20:31 EDT, 29 July 2017
The disturbing prospect of chlorine-washed chickens from the US going on sale in British shops in a post-Brexit trade deal last week sparked an explosive row at the heart of Government. But beyond the politics lies the story of why American poultry needs such drastic chemical treatment – and of the horrendous conditions at the farms where they are bred and reared. Now whistleblower farmers have revealed the full horror of the suffering to The Mail on Sunday, including how: Tens of thousands of super-sized 'Frankenstein' birds are crammed in vast warehouses. The chickens, which weigh up to 9lb, often buckle under their weight and must live without natural sunlight. Chickens frequently die before they reach maturity and many are left covered in their own faeces, turning warehouses into vile breeding grounds for disease. Unlike in the UK and Europe, there are no minimum space requirements for breeding chickens in the US. America also does not have any rules governing lighting levels in the sheds and, crucially, its farms have no maximum allowed level of ammonia, which indicates how much urine and faecal matter is present. This means there is no limit on how much can fester inside the sheds. There is no legal requirement to wash US chickens in chlorine or other disinfectants, but 97 per cent of its birds are cleaned in this way after slaughter. The possibility of US chickens being sold in Britain after a post-Brexit trade deal sparked a huge Cabinet row, with Environment Secretary Michael Gove speaking out against the move while Trade Secretary Liam Fox insisted the chlorine-rinsed meat was safe. Dr Fox, who met leading politicians and businessmen in the US last week, sparked fury from the public and other Ministers after he signalled he would be in favour of dropping the EU's ban on importing chicken from the US if it proved to be a barrier to securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the US. The furore exposed just how difficult it will be for Britain to quickly strike new deals with foreign powers once we leave the EU in 2019. Now whistleblowers have offered a disturbing insight into the £70 billion US poultry industry, which is controlled by the big agricultural firms lobbying to sell their meat to Britain. North Carolina farmer Craig Watts, 51, told the MoS: 'The birds are too heavy to stand because they have been bred for breast meat and nothing else so they spend their lives squatting. It's like two toothpicks sticking out of a grape. 'They spend 95 per cent of their time sitting on the litter, a mixture of pine shavings and faecal matter from that flock and prior flocks.' He said 1,000 of the 30,000 chickens he raised every six weeks would die before they reached maturity. Many become infected on the underside of their chest because of contact with the litter. He added: 'Their flesh would rot and, when you have them crammed in so tight, they will walk over other birds if they want to get to the food or scratch the others and cause a wound. It is awful.' Mr Watts, a married father- of-three, quit the poultry business two years ago because he was disgusted by its practices. Nearly all America's chicken farmers are under contract with big producers who supply them with chicks, feed and equipment. The firms dictate what the farmers can do and are paid according to a 'tournament system' that pits farmers against each other. The farmer who produces the most meat with the least feed comes top. A less efficient farmer will have money deducted from his base pay. Critics say this system fosters unhygienic practices because it forces poultry farmers to cut corners on animal welfare to maximise their income per flock. Campaigners who work with farmers to improve standards say many are too scared to speak out for fear of having their contracts terminated. One farmer, John – not his real name – is currently part of a class action lawsuit by chicken farmers against big US poultry companies. He said farmers earn between £9,000 and £30,000 a year even though they work 16-hour days. 'Last year [chicken firm] Pilgrim's Pride paid $2.2 billion (£1.7 billion) in dividends and we're going on 20 years since we've had an increase in base pay. We get around five cents [4p] a pound of meat. Seventy per cent of poultry growers live below the poverty level.' Campaigners who have infiltrated chicken farms in the past two years have secretly filmed shocking abuse and cruel conditions at farms across America. Footage shot at a farm in Georgia last month by the Humane Society of the United States showed the owner of the farm bludgeoning chickens with a metal rod. The chicken shed at the farm also appeared to be badly overcrowded. Many birds seemed to be suffering from severe leg problems and some were unable to walk to reach food and water. Yet in the US – as in Britain – consumer demand for chicken continues to grow. Nine billion chickens were slaughtered in the US last year. US chickens have more than tripled in size since 1957, according to academic studies. The birds cost 20 per cent less than British chickens, which are typically one third smaller than US birds. Major poultry producers have cross-bred and interbred birds in recent decades to create 'mutant' chickens which grow larger in a shorter space of time and need less feed. Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser for British-based welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming, said: 'This genetic engineering has created unnatural chickens which give you larger breasts or bigger cuts of meat. 'These chickens grow far too large too quickly and they cannot move around. They end up sitting in their own waste.' The animals bring more faecal matter to the slaughterhouse with them, posing the food safety risk which requires the birds to be washed in chlorine or similar chemicals. However, the US poultry industry maintains that its birds are healthier than ever. Jim Sumner, president of the US Poultry & Egg Export Council, said US chickens are treated humanely and are only washed with chlorine to make them 'extra safe' for consumers because it guards against food poisoning bugs. He said the process was not harmful to consumers, adding: 'Sometimes these [animal welfare] organisations do not have a thorough understanding of the process or scientific facts.' Another reason poultry in the US is chlorinated is that farmers are not required to vaccinate against diseases such as Salmonella. Britain and the EU have widespread vaccination programmes. Supporters of chlorine-washed chicken point out both the US and European food safety authorities have declared the chemicals used to wash chickens in the States do not pose any risk to human health. Tom Super, spokesman for the US National Chicken Council, said: 'Its [chlorine's] use makes the chicken safer. It is not present in the final product, it poses zero health risk.' But Jaydee Hanson, a senior policy analyst at the US Center for Food Safety, said: 'These chemicals are basically like the ones we put in our toilets to clean them. The question is why are chickens so contaminated in the first place. And the issue is that we are not doing a good job of raising chickens.' Leah Garces, of the Global Animal Partnership, an animal welfare group, added: 'The fact we have to wash our food in chlorine to make it safe indicates that we are not doing farming right in the first place. It indicates how unhealthy we are raising our birds.' While UK chicken farmers are not wholly free from criticism from animal welfare campaigners, there are strict regulations that must be followed. In the UK and Europe, poultry farmers must not keep more than 17 chickens per square metre in their sheds. There are also rules governing available natural light, temperature and the maximum levels of ammonia. In the US there is not one single piece of federal law that governs how to raise chickens. There is not even a law which states that chickens must be stunned unconscious before they are slaughtered, although it is common practice. There are concerns that if American chicken is allowed into the country, British farmers will be forced to dilute their welfare standards to compete with the cheaper meat. Shraddha Kaul, of the British Poultry Council, said: 'We strongly reject any move to import chlorine-washed chickens as part of a makeweight in trade negotiations with the US. 'Chlorine is used as a catch-all. It is an approach which means it doesn't matter how badly you treat your chicken, you can just clean it away at the end of the process.'
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Pharmaceutical industry panics; experts admit prescription drugs don’t work for dementia and they probably never will
Sunday, July 30, 2017 by: Isabelle Z.
(Natural News) With 47 million people around the world suffering from dementia and 115 million people expected to have the illness by 2050, finding ways to prevent and treat it is a matter of urgency. When the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference was held this year, many of the experts on hand were a lot more focused on non-medical therapies, which is something that the profit-minded pharmaceutical industry is probably not very happy about. However, medications simply are not doing anything to help this problem, and in many cases, they are actually making it worse. At the conference, the first Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care was presented, bringing together dozens of international experts to discuss this growing problem. They shared some interesting discoveries that could make a huge dent in the number of future dementia patients, and their findings were also published in The Lancet. According to the commission, there are nine risk factors that boost a person’s chances of developing dementia, and they say that more than a third of dementia cases stem from these factors. Increasing education during early life by staying in school until at least age 15 and dealing with hypertension, obesity and hearing loss in midlife can reduce the incidence of dementia by 20 percent combined, the researchers say. Later in life, quitting smoking, exercising more, managing diabetes, boosting social contact and treating depression can slash dementia incidence by a further 15 percent. In fact, USC Keck School of Medicine Psychiatry Professor Dr. Lon Schneider said: “The potential magnitude of the effect on dementia of reducing these risk factors is larger than we could ever imagine the effect that current, experimental medications could have.” On the other hand, it is estimated that finding a way of targeting the genetic risk factor gene ApoE could only prevent around one out of every ten cases. Non-pharmacologic approaches better for Alzheimer’s patients The commission reached the conclusion that non-pharmacologic interventions play a vital role in dementia treatment, especially when it comes to issues such as agitation and aggression. For example, Dr. Schneider said that the antipsychotic drugs typically given to help with these problems are very concerning because of the heightened risk of death, cardiovascular problems and excessive sedation. One study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease found that patients who took antipsychotic drugs had a 60 percent higher chance of early death than those who did not take such drugs. According to the panel’s evidence, social, environmental and psychological interventions like social activities and social contact were far better approaches than antipsychotic medications. They also touted the benefits of group cognitive stimulation therapy and physical activity. A recent study carried out by sports physicians and gerontologists discovered that physical activity has a direct impact on the brain’s metabolism by keeping cerebral choline concentrations stable. Study participants who did not exercise noted higher levels of choline, which is linked to the type of nerve cell loss seen in Alzheimer’s patients. Bad news for Big Pharma All this, of course, is a tremendous missed opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry, who sees statistics like “115 million people expected to have dementia by 2050” and sees nothing but dollar signs. If you are wondering why a bigger deal isn’t being made about these simple, non-pharmaceutical ways to prevent the illness, consider the fact that health care costs related to dementia were estimated at $818 billion in 2015 and will likely increase as the number of cases rises. There is currently no drug treatment that can prevent or cure dementia.
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U.S. Companies Post Profit Growth Not Seen In Six Years
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America’s largest companies are on pace to post two consecutive quarters of double-digit profit growth for the first time since 2011, helped by years of cost-cutting, a weaker dollar and stronger consumer spending.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/07/31/us-companies-post-profit-growth-not-seen-six-years
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U.S. coal exports soar, in boost to Trump energy agenda, data shows
Timothy Gardner and Nina Chestney July 28, 2017 / 12:15 AM / 8 days ago
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. coal exports have jumped more than 60 percent this year due to soaring demand from Europe and Asia, according to a Reuters review of government data, allowing President Donald Trump's administration to claim that efforts to revive the battered industry are working. The increased shipments came as the European Union and other U.S. allies heaped criticism on the Trump administration for its rejection of the Paris Climate Accord, a deal agreed by nearly 200 countries to cut carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels like coal. The previously unpublished figures provided to Reuters by the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed exports of the fuel from January through May totaled 36.79 million tons, up 60.3 percent from 22.94 million tons in the same period in 2016. While reflecting a bounce from 2016, the shipments remained well-below volumes recorded in equivalent periods the previous five years. They included a surge to several European countries during the 2017 period, including a 175 percent increase in shipments to the United Kingdom, and a doubling to France - which had suffered a series of nuclear power plant outages that required it and regional neighbors to rely more heavily on coal. "If Europe wants to lecture Trump on climate then EU member states need transition plans to phase out polluting coal," said Laurence Watson, a data scientist working on coal at independent think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative in London. Nicole Bockstaller, a spokeswoman at the EU Commission's Energy and Climate Action department, said that the EU's coal imports have generally been on a downward trend since 2006, albeit with seasonable variations like high demand during cold snaps in the winter. Overall exports to European nations totaled 16 million tons in the first five months of this year, up from 10.5 million in the same period last year, according to the figures. Exports to Asia meanwhile, totaled 12.3 million tons, compared to 6.2 million tons in the year-earlier period. Trump had campaigned on a promise to "cancel" the Paris deal and sweep away Obama-era environmental regulations to help coal miners, whose output last year sank to the lowest level since 1978. The industry has been battered for years by surging supplies of cheaper natural gas, brought on by better drilling technologies, and increased use of natural gas to fuel power plants. His administration has since sought to kill scores of pending regulations he said threatened industries like coal mining, and reversed a ban on new coal leasing on federal lands. TAKING CREDIT Both the coal industry and the Trump administration said the rising exports of both steam coal, used to generate electricity, and metallurgical coal, used in heavy industry, were evidence that Trump's agenda was having a positive impact. "Simply to know that coal no longer has to fight the government - that has to have some effect on investment decisions and in the outlook by companies, producers and utilities that use coal," said Luke Popovich, a spokesman for the National Mining Association. Shaylyn Hynes, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Energy Department, said: "These numbers clearly show that the Trump Administration's policies are helping to revive an industry that was the target of costly and job killing overregulation from Washington for far too long." Efforts to obtain comment from exporters Arch Coal (ARCH.N) and privately held Murray Energy Corp were unsuccessful. Contura Energy, which emerged as part of Alpha Natural Resource's bankruptcy and restructuring, and filed for public offering in May, declined to comment. A spokesman for Peabody Energy, the largest coal producer, though without a major export profile, said the United States was generally a "swing supplier of seaborne coal." U.S. Energy Information Administration analyst Elias Johnson said the U.S. coal industry may now be better positioned to meet foreign demand because U.S. miners have learned to produce at lower cost, after coming through a series of recent bankruptcies. "There's the possibility that the U.S. will become more of a primary player in the global coal trade market," he said. But he added there are also plenty of reasons the spike in demand could be temporary. For one thing, U.S. coal production and transportation costs are much higher than for other producers such as Indonesia and Australia. Because coal can often be transhipped from European ports before it is consumed, it is also hard to determine where shipments ultimately end up. Johnson pointed out that some of the fuel shipped into Western Europe, for example, could be making its way to other places like Ukraine, which is having trouble securing coal from its separatist-held regions. Trump said last month that his administration is offering more coal to Ukraine, but it was unclear how, given deals are typically worked out between companies. Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Alden Bentley
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-exports-idUSKBN1AD0DU
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California May Let People Dissolve Their Corpses to Stop Climate Change
by Adelle Nazarian25 Jul 2017
California lawmakers are considering a bill that would legalize “liquid cremation,” an “environmentally-friendly” process of using a chemical base mixture to destroy human remains as an alternative to cremation, which critics say causes pollution and climate change. If Assembly Bill 967, known as “Human remains disposal: alkaline hydrolysis: licensure and regulation,” passes, Californians could be allowed to dissolve their loved ones’ remains by the year 2020. This is reportedly the third attempt to pass such legislation. This is reportedly the third attempt to pass such legislation. AB 967 was introduced in State California Assemblyman Todd Rex Gloria (D-San Diego) at the beginning of 2017. Gloria served as the interim mayor of San Diego for seven months before Mayor Kevin Faulconer was sworn in after Bob Filner (D-CA) resigned following a sex scandal. Basically, the body is dissolved in a hot chemical bath, leaving a sterile solution that can be flushed down the drain. The carbon footprint of this process is just a quarter of traditional fire cremation because it uses so much less energy; and only a sixth of a burial because it doesn’t require the materials for concrete headstones, mahogany caskets or the chemicals used in embalming. Dissolving the body also allows metals in the body to be recovered and recycled, and prevents possible toxins, such as the mercury in tooth fillings, from being released into the atmosphere. Funeral homes reportedly charge $150-$500 more for this liquid cremation process than for cremation using fire. Time magazine, in a documentary called “Ashes to Ashes,” went through the cremation by water process: KQED notes that the only place in California where bodies are currently cremated by water or dissolved — legally — is in a basement lab at UCLA, where cadavers that are no longer useful for medical students are flushed away. One would think that acid is used to melt these bodies. However, Dean Fisher, the head of UCLA’s Donated Body Program, told KQED that it the chemical used is a base — namely, potassium hydroxid, which reportedly “catalyzes the hydrogen in water to more rapidly attack the chemical bonds between molecules in the body. (The process is technically called alkaline hydrolysis.)” Bones remain left behind and can pulverized into a fine particulate mass that families can keep if they wish, just as some do with the ashes from cremation. Those in favor of cremation overall believe it to be a better alternative to burying remains in coffins, in the ground because that takes up space. However, others see the cremation process as being disrespectful to human dignity, and many religions prohibit cremation, liquid or otherwise.
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Total Government And Personal Debt In The U.S. Has Hit 41 Trillion Dollars ($329,961.34 Per Household)
July 30, 2017 By Michael Snyder
We are living in the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world. In 1980, total government and personal debt in the United States was just over the 3 trillion dollar mark, but today it has surpassed 41 trillion dollars. That means that it has increased by almost 14 times since Ronald Reagan was first elected president. I am searching for words to describe how completely and utterly insane this is, but I am coming up empty. We are slowly but surely committing national suicide, and yet most Americans don’t even understand what is happening. According to 720 Global, total government debt plus total personal debt in the United States was just over 3 trillion dollars in 1980. That broke down to $38,552 per household, and that figure represented 79 percent of median household income at the time. Today, total government debt plus total personal debt in the United States has blown past the 41 trillion dollar mark. When you break that down, it comes to $329,961.34 per household, and that figure represents 584 percent of median household income.
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Greyerz – The Elites Are About To Make Their Final Move Against Humanity
July 30, 2017
Today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE, historic moves in currencies, warned King World News that the elites are about to make their final move against humanity. Debt Slavery Egon von Greyerz: “Over the last 150 years, the West has gone from human slavery to debt slavery. Slavery was officially outlawed in most countries between the mid 1800s and early 1900s. In the British Empire, it was abolished in 1834 and in the US in 1865 with the 13th amendment… Egon von Greyerz continues: “But it didn’t take long for a different and much more subtle form of slavery to be introduced. It started officially in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. More than 100 years before that, the German banker Mayer Amschel Rotschild had stated: “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” The bankers who gathered on Jekyll island in November 1910 were totally aware of the importance of controlling and country’s money and that was the objective of their infamous secret meeting which laid the foundations to the Fed. The Fed is officially the Central Bank of the USA but it is a private bank, owned by private banks and for the benefit of private banks and bankers. So the Western world was free from human slavery for around half a century but is now subject to a form of slavery which most people are unaware of. It is a slavery which no law, no regulation or edict can abolish. Nor are there any magic financial tricks that can make this form of slavery disappear. I am of course talking about debt slavery, which has gradually taken hold of the West in the last hundred years and now is enslaving many emerging market countries. There is mortgage slavery. The word mortgage comes from Latin and French and means death pledge. And this is exactly what it will be for a lot of people who will neither afford the coming increase in interest rates nor the repay the capital on their property which will collapse in value. We also have credit card slaves, auto loan slaves and student slaves. Virtually all of these loans will expire worthless as the enslaved borrowers default. In 1913 global debt was negligible but grew steadily to 1971 when Nixon abolished the gold backing of the dollar. Since 1971, the debt enslavement has taken off at an exponential rate. Just looking at US total debt, it was $1.7 trillion in 1971 and is now $67 trillion. At the beginning of this century US debt was “only” $30 trillion, so just in the last 16 years it has doubled. Debt slavery is now a chronic condition which the world faces. The word debt has the same roots as death and clearly has very dark connotations. Slavery means being owned and controlled by someone. What the bankers started on Jekyll Island has now enslaved the world in a debt/death grip from which there is no escape. Global debt of $230 trillion, plus unfunded liabilities and derivatives, takes us to over $2 quadrillion debt and liabilities, and that is just too massive a weight to get rid of. So how does the world attempt to solve this debt/death trap? We can of course ask Nobel prize winner Krugman and he will give us the Keynesian solution, which the world has applied for 3⁄4 of a century with catastrophic consequences – JUST PRINT MORE MONEY! Money printing has created a massive debt problem, more printing exacerbated it, and even more has simply postponed the inevitable collapse. Any further dose of this poisonous medicine will be like pushing on a string – it will have zero effect as a remedy, but instead as a disastrous effect when it comes to the destruction of money. And this is of course what is likely to happen in the next few years. I have for many years been clear that massive money printing is the only tool that central banks have left. This will lead to hyperinflation, the total destruction of paper money and to a deflationary asset and debt collapse. Only after that can the world grow again, but before that there will be a lot of pain in the world. The Elites Final Move To Enslave Humanity The powers that be have not been satisfied just to enslave the world with debt. People must also be prevented from spending whatever money they have left. The banning of cash transactions and withdrawals is growing. In many European countries, the cash limit is between 1,000 and 3,000 and euros. But that is just the first step. Sweden, for example, has virtually abolished all cash transactions. Many retailers only take credit cards. New bank notes have also been introduced making the old ones unusable. This is similar to India and a way of punishing the holder of cash and confiscating money. Sweden has also made the few remaining coins look like cheap plastic monopoly money. One Swedish Krona used to contain 80% silver until 1942. Then it was reduced to 40% silver until 1968. After that there was no silver content but only copper and nickel. The latest Krona introduced 2016 is made of steel with a copper plating that quickly wears off. It is also much smaller and half the weight of the previous one. Well, nothing changes in the world. The Romans experienced exactly the same between 180 and 280 AD when the Denarius went from almost 100% silver to 0%. The Krona has like all other currencies lost 99% of its value in the last 100 years. So only 1% to go until it is worthless. This will of course happen to the Krona like all other currencies. The first reason for abolishing cash is to have total Big Brother control of the people’s spending and tax compliance. Remember that most countries had no income tax 100 years ago. In the US, for example, income tax was first introduced in 1913 (same year as Fed was created). The tax rate was 1% for income above $3,000 for individuals and $4,000 for couples. Above $500,000 income ($11m today) the tax was 7%. The high threshold meant that virtually nobody paid any tax. These tax levels are slightly different to today when the total tax burden in most countries, including all direct and indirect taxes, social security etc amount to over 50%. This is part of the financial slavery and control of the people today. The individual’s incentive to work hard and spend his money on what he chooses is taken away and instead the state takes a major part of the cake and wastes most of it on bureaucracy health or social security. Income tax should be abolished and replaced by a Value Added Tax or sales tax. The second reason to abolish cash is to totally control people’s spending. With a banking system that is leveraged up to 50 times, there is no chance that bank depositors will ever get their money back. The government knows this and this is why having only electronic money gives the state total control of people’s assets and cash. The state can now control exactly how much money is withdrawn and stop people from spending their own money. Governments believe that this is an efficient method of controlling the people, but instead of achieving control of the money, governments are at some point likely to lose control of the people which will result not just in bank runs but in government runs and anarchy. Another very dark new development is that the European Union is considering measures to stop people withdrawing cash to stop bank runs. The plan is currently being discussed and would block payouts for 5 to 20 days. Once this law is in place, it is very easy to extend to much longer periods or permanent. The trend is clear. Governments worldwide know that the banking system is totally bankrupt. The problem is that most governments are also bankrupt. The only solution they have is to print money but as I have discussed above, money printing will solve absolutely nothing. Nobody holding cash or assets in the bank must believe that the government guarantees of $100,000 or €100,000 is worth anything. Firstly, the governments haven’t got any money and secondly, they will renege on their commitments. We are now reaching the final stages of the 100 year old plan devised by the bankers and the elite to control the financial system and thus also major parts of the world as Rothschild said. The final collapse is inevitable as von Mises stated: “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” The coming autumn could be decisive. All the bubble markets show no fear. Stocks are at highs and the VIX or volatility index at historical lows. Property markets continue to be strong fueled by cheap money. And the global bond market continues to expand exponentially. Stock investors’ complacency is dangerous. Dollar investors should start worrying now. The dollar is weakening and is on the verge of a collapse. Short term the dollar is possibly a bit oversold but medium to long term it looks sick. Out of all the weak currencies, the dollar is likely to fall first, followed by most of the others until they reach their intrinsic value of zero. Time Is Running Out Gold and the other precious metals have now finished their correction. Next should be a major breakout which will accelerate in the autumn. The crypto currencies could continue to benefit from the mess in the world and go higher. But remember that cryptos have nothing to do with wealth preservation. It is electronic money with no underlying value. When the mania is over, cryptos are likely to be as valuable as Tulip bulbs when that speculative craze collapsed in the 1630s. As currencies fall, exchange controls will be introduced in most countries. The US will most certainly be one of the early countries to announce it. Physical gold will, in the next few years, be one of the few ways to preserve wealth as the world experiences a total wealth destruction. There is still time to take money out of the bank and to own gold in a safe jurisdiction like Switzerland and Singapore. But that opportunity will not be open for long. Also, gold is unlikely to be as cheap as it is today for much longer. We could see new highs in 2017. However, the short term price level is irrelevant. What is important is that physical gold is superb insurance against a very risky world.”
http://kingworldnews.com/greyerz-the-elites-are-about-to-make-their-final-move-against-humanity/
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Treason! Hillary AND Robert Mueller Both Sold Uranium to Putin
By Dave Hodges|July 30th, 2017
Perhaps if Robert Mueller, Special Counsel, wants to investigate Russian collusion, he should start with himself. At one time, I had a problem with Mueller’s appointment as Special Counsel because of his former friendship with disgraced FBI Director, James Comey. While looking in the rear view mirror of recent history, my concern is trivial compared to what is presently being revealed. The stakes have grown to enormous proportions and Mueller is being proven to be guilty of multiple felonies as well as treason which is an offense which could potentially be punishable by death. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel for the sole purpose of investigating possible Russian collusion charges between President Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. On the heels of the collusion, Mueller is also looking for the smoking gun for obstruction of justice, on the part of Trump, which is the same charge that ultimately brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. However, sometimes life is ironic and in a stunning development, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, tweeted a released State Department cable, which clearly and irrefutably proves that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered former FBI Director and present Special Counsel, Robert Mueller to deliver a sample of stolen Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Russia in 2009. WikiLeaks cable Robert Mueller delivering highly enriched stolen Uranium to Russia in 2009 https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE85588_a.html … h/t @apblake 5:02 PM – 17 May 2017 Uranium One As I have documented several times on The Common Sense Show, a front company, Uranium One, was created to handle the “dirty work” of the uranium transfer to the Russians. At the center of the shell corporation, as released Wikileaks records, demonstrates that an individual named Frank Giustra was the organizing figure. Over time, Giustra contributed a total of $31 million to the Clinton Foundation in a clear case of pay for play bribery! The Wikileaks released State Department communications show State Department officials had obtained, in the Fall of 2009, an internal Rosatom memo that warned about Putin’s intentions to acquire American originated uranium. Despite the evidence which should have forced Clinton to bring the FBI into the matter as an investigative body instead of being Clinton’s stooge in the uranium deal, presents clear evidence which was available to both Mueller and Clinton, a full year before the first CIFUS approval to move uranium to Putin, Clinton did not recuse the State Department from the deal in which two CIFUS votes clearly gave Putin control of 20% of all American-based uranium. To Russian with Love: Hillary Sends Mueller to Russia with Uranium The WikiLeaks tweet referenced a cable from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent to John Beyrle, U.S. Ambassador, and the Georgia Embassy as well as the memo being being sent to the Russian Embassy, dated Aug. 17, 2009, indicating FBI Director Robert Mueller was planning to fly to Moscow on September 21st of 2009, to deliver a sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) and that the identified uranium had been confiscated by the U.S. Department of Energy during a 2006 nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices. In short, this action is the metaphorical equivalent of the police confiscating illegal drugs and then turning around and selling these drugs to illicit drug dealers. One of the big problems in America today is that “public servants” like Hillary Clinton actually represent a foreign enemy masquerading as a domestic public servant. I will go one step further than Donald Trump’s campaign assertion that Clinton is a criminal and state that Hillary Clinton is this generation’s Ethel Rosenberg and has committed heinous acts of treason against the people of the United States. Hillary Clinton is the Ethel Rosenberg of her generation. Clinton sold uranium to the Russians while serving as the Secretary of State and this is what both the Bundy and the Hammond Ranch Affairs are all about. More Confirmation of the Clinton/Mueller Treason Comes From the New York Times A former key member of the Obama administration and former Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has proven herself to be the Ethel Rosenberg of her generation. You may recall your U.S. history as Ethel Rosenberg sold nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. In an act every bit as egregious as Ethel Rosenberg’s treason, Hillary Clinton sold uranium to the Russians while serving as the Secretary of State. Ironically, the original source on this treasonous act committed by Clinton was none other than the liberal rag we call the New York Times. The proof is undeniable that Hillary Clinton committed the treasonous act of selling uranium to the Russians while Secretary of State, as reported in the New York Times. The Russian blood money, as reported, is being held in an offshore account and is being used to fund her run for the Presidency. From the New York Times…. “A Uranium One sign that points to a 35,000 acre ranch by John Christensen, near the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Uranium One has the mining rights Mr. Christensen’s property.” This is proof of more BLM chicanery which will involve multiple BLM ranches. This further brings into the picture Giustra and his money laundering of the uranium sales to the Clinton Foundation via Uranium One. The New York Times further asserted that members of the Canadian mining industry, who have supported Clinton’s campaign, financed and sold off to the Russians a company that we now know as Uranium One. Uranium One is directly responsible for transferring uranium from BLM land to the Russians through an off-shore holding company. Again, according to the NY Times, the Russians, through three separate transactions, acquired Uranium One, while paying off the Clintons and their Canadian partners from 2009-2013. The business deal also involved paying Bill Clinton $500,000 dollars for a speech on energy which was delivered in Moscow. The Clinton’s turned this money into Presidential campaign money. How many felonies did I just describe? The entire State Department memo is listed, below under “documents”. Here is a brief summation of what has been presented here. DOCUMENTATION State Department Memos 2009 AMBASSADOR BEYRLE E-MAIL D. 08 MOSCOW 521 Classified By: EUR/PRA: KATHLEEN MORENSKI PER E.O. 12958: REASONS 1.4 (A) AND (G). 1. (SBU) This is an action request: Embassy Moscow please see para 6 and 7; and Embassy Tbilisi please see para 8. 2. (S/NF) Background: Over two years ago Russia requested a ten-gram sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) seized in early 2006 in Georgia during a nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices. The seized HEU was transferred to U.S. custody and is being held at a secure DOE facility. In response to the Russian request, the Georgian Government authorized the United States to share a sample of the material with the Russians for forensic analysis. Director Mueller previously planned to deliver the sample in April (Ref A), but due to a scheduling conflict the trip was canceled. Embassy Moscow LegAtt informed the FSB prior to Mueller’s intended April delivery and received confirmation that the FSB would take custody of the sample after the Director’s plane landed. EST Moscow also informed Rosatom of the planned transfer and that the U.S. placed a high priority on completing this transfer (Ref B). Once the LegAtt told FSB counterparts the April trip had been canceled, Ambassador Beyrle informed Igor Neverov (Ref C), who said that he understood but was disappointed the trip was postponed. The September 21 visit provides again an opportunity to deliver the requested ten-gram sample from the seized HEU in order to obtain cooperation from the GOR on this nuclear smuggli*ng case and to eventually establish a more productive mechanism of U.S.-Russian cooperation on nuclear forensics. 3. (S/NF) While there was a reasonable exchange of information with Russian security services at the time of the 2006 seizure, we have had poor cooperation investigating the diversion of HEU, which the United States believes was stolen from a Russian facility. Russia did not respond to papers that then Acting U/S Rood provided Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov in December 2008 reiterating the USG position that Russia should pick up this sample in the United States. Further, when asked for an update on their response to our proposal, Ryabkov told us in early 2009 in Washington that there was an interagency dispute over who would come and pick up the material. 4. (S/NF) Given Russia’s reluctance to act so far, FBI Mueller’s delivery of this sample will underscore to Russia our commitment to follow through on this case. While some details related to the sharing of information on smuggling networks may be too sensitive to discuss, delivery of the sample could enable us to discuss whether Russian authorities investigated the diversion and prosecuted anyone. Moreover, we hope it will spark discussions on mechanisms to exchange information and material on future incidents of this nature, particularly in light of the commitments made in the July summit U.S.-Russia Joint Statement on Nuclear Cooperation regarding strengthening our cooperation to stop acts of nuclear terrorism. Posts should note that DOE/NNSA’s April 2009 determination authorizing distribution of the sample to the Russian Federation only for attribution of the sample in support of a criminal investigation is applicable to the proposed September 21 delivery of the sample to Russia. 5. (S/Rel Russia) Background con’t: On April 16, the FSB verbally confirmed to Legatt that we will have no problem with the Russian Ministry of Aviation concerning Mueller’s flight (although we probably won’t see paperwork until shortly before the trip). The FBI is requiring that the sample be turned over to a Russian law enforcement authority (i.e., FSB) as opposed to an intelligence service (i.e., SVR) or technical authority (i.e., Rosatom). A representative from the responsible Russian Law Enforcement authority, who will accept custody of the sample, must be identified and verified ahead of time. That individual will be required to have signatory authority to accept the sample. Appropriate arrangements need to be made to ensure the transfer of material is conducted at the airport, plane-side, upon arrival of the Director’s aircraft. Post should also remind the GOR that this is the material about which the GOR gave the USG nonproliferation assurances in 2008 in a diplomatic note from February 2008 (Ref D). 6. (S/Rel Russia) Action request: Embassy Moscow is requested to alert at the highest appropriate level the Russian Federation that FBI Director Mueller plans to deliver the HEU sample once he arrives to Moscow on September 21. Post is requested to convey information in paragraph 5 with regard to chain of custody, and to request details on Russian Federation’s plan for picking up the material. Embassy is also requested to reconfirm the April 16 understanding from the FSB verbally that we will have no problem with the Russian Ministry of Aviation concerning Mueller’s September 21 flight clearance. 7. (S/Rel Russia) Post is requested to deliver the following talking points: –We wish to inform you that FBI Director Mueller plans to arrive in Moscow on the evening of September 21 with a ten-gram sample of seized HEU, which you requested for nuclear forensics analysis. –We regret that the April visit by Director Mueller could not take place due to a scheduling conflict. We would be grateful once again for the Russian Federation’s willingness to receive the sample and facilitate the logistics for its pick up. –As before, we require confirmation that a representative from a responsible Russian law enforcement authority will be available to accept custody of the sample and have signatory authority to accept the sample. –We require that the transfer of this material be conducted at the airport, on the tarmac near by the plane, upon arrival of the Director’s aircraft. –We place a high priority on completion of this sample transfer to facilitate your forensic analysis of the material. –Further, with the delivery of this sample, we hope to collaborate more closely on promoting a more effective relationship between our law enforcement organizations to counter illicit trafficking of nuclear materials. –In particular, such efforts were underscored in the July Summit joint presidential statement on nuclear cooperation regarding our commitments to strengthen cooperation to stop acts of nuclear terrorism. Securing vulnerable nuclear materials and improving nuclear security within our two countries is our highest priority. — It is our hope to eventually establish a more systematic mechanism to facilitate U.S.-Russian cooperation on investigations into nuclear smuggling cases. We continue to believe that Russia should be concerned by the prospect that HEU was diverted from one of its facilities, and should actively investigate the incident. 8. (S/Rel Georgia) For Embassy Tbilisi: No action is required at this point. As before, State will send instructions at the appropriate time on alerting the Georgian Government when the transfer of the seized HEU is immanent and in Russian custody. 9. (U) Department thanks Post for its assistance. Washington point of contacts are Mike Curry, ISN/WMDT, 202-736-7692 (CurryMR@state.sgov.gov) and Nate Young, EUR/PRA, 202-647-7278 (YoungNH@state.sgov.gov). Please slug all responses for EUR, ISN/WMDT, and T. CLINTON ALERTING GOR OF DELIVERY OF SEIZED HEU DURING SEPTEMBER 21 FBI DIRECTOR’S TRIP TO MOSCOW Date: 2009 August 17, 19:56 (Monday) Canonical ID: 09STATE85588_a Original Classification: SECRET Current Classification: SECRET In the metadata of the Kissinger Cables this field is called ‘Previous Handling Restrictions’. Cablegate does not originally have this field. We have given it the entry ‘Not Assigned’.
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Could the Awan-Schultz Scandal Bring Down the Democratic Party?
By Edward Szall July 29, 2017
Defrauding Congress, internal coverups, illegal access, potential ties to Pakistani ISI and the Muslim Brotherhood, and a curious interest into pedophile centric videos; what will the investigation into Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz’s former IT workers reveal? (VERO BEACH, FL) In what is quickly shaping up to become the biggest scandal for the Democratic Party since Hillary Clinton’s secret server and WikiLeaks’ release of the emails from John Podesta and the DNC, the investigation into the former DNC chairwomen’s IT workers may be the scandal that breaks the donkey's back. BACKGROUND Six individuals of Pakistani origin; three brothers named Imran, Jamal, and Abid Awan; two of their wives Hina Alvi (Imran) and Natalia Sova (Abid); and Rao Abbas (Imran’s best friend, and a former McDonald’s employee) were hired to provide IT services for 32 former and current democratic members of the House of Representatives between 2004 and 2016, and received approximately $4 million for their services. Only 5 of these 6 individuals are reportedly being investigated by local police and the FBI. According to multiple sources who have spoken to the Daily Caller over the past year, both inside law enforcement and the IT offices of effected congress members, the Awan brothers removed hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment from congressional offices, including computers and servers, while also running a procurement scheme in which they bought equipment, then overcharged the House administrative office that assigns such contractors to members. The Awan’s were involved in a score of business ventures in addition to their IT work, which included renting real estate. Upon learning he was under investigation by Capitol Police in February 2017, Imran Awan abruptly moved out of his home and rented it to a Marine Corps veteran married to a female Navy Officer. After occupying the home and inspecting containers Imran Awan left behind on the property, the unnamed former Marine told The Daily Caller he found “wireless routers, hard drives that look like they tried to destroy, laptops, [and] a lot of brand new expensive toner.” Realizing the electronics belonged to the U.S. government, the couple then called the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), prompting FBI agents and Capitol Police to arrive to interview them and confiscate the equipment. Prior to calling NCIS, the former Marine told The Daily Caller that Imran Awan had aggressively pursued retrieving the equipment, showing up at the home at-least “three to four times,” and even threatening to sue the couple for theft of property. After the material was confiscated, Rep. Wassermann Schultz used her position on a May 24th budget hearing to threaten the chief of Capitol Police, Matthew R. Verderosa, with “consequences” if a laptop included in the seized cache was not returned. Rep. Wassermann Schultz claimed the laptop was purportedly used by Imran Awan and was found hidden in a vacant office. On Monday, a day after The Daily Caller published Investigative Journalist Luke Rosiak’s report detailing that Imran Awan had illegally stored smashed congressional hard drives in the garage of his rental property, the alleged ring leader was arrested and detained by the FBI after attempting to board a flight to Pakistan through Dulles International Airport in Virginia, which had a connection in Doha, Qatar, and a return scheduled six months later in January 2018. According to the affidavit, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol found around $12,000 in cash and “household goods, clothing and food items” in Imran Awan’s possession. Imran was charged with one count of bank fraud, and after pleading “not guilty” at his Tuesday arraignment, he was released from custody into a “high-intensity supervision program” with conditions which include 24/7 GPS monitoring, a nighttime curfew and a restriction to stay within a 50-mile radius of his home in Lorton, Virginia. Imran himself had previously told his tenants he was “homeless” and refused to have certified mail and congressional communications sent to the rental home routed to an alternate address. On Wednesday night Rep. Wassermann Schultz released a statement announcing that Imran Awan, who had been serving in a part time paid-advisory role for the Congresswomen since losing his clearance to conduct congressional IT work in February, was no longer employed with her office. Rep. Wassermann Schultz did not comment however on whether she had planned to continue paying Imran Awan for his services had he successfully boarded the Monday flight to Pakistan. “After details of the investigation were reviewed with us, my office was provided no evidence to indicate that laws had been broken, which over time, raised troubling concerns about due process, fair treatment and potential ethnic and religious profiling,” Rep. Wassermann Schultz said. “Upon learning of his arrest, he was terminated.” Rep. Schultz resigned as DNC chief in July 2016 after the organization’s IT system was hacked, an act which has since been blamed on an anonymous figure named “Guccifer 2.0”. National Security officials have alleged this figure, who hosted information from the DNC servers on a blog during the election, was backed by Russian intelligence, though forensic evidence appears to show that the original data was most likely physically copied locally by someone with access to a system connected to the DNC internal network based on the alleged speed of transfer. WHY THIS STORY MATTERS The Awan’s had access to the nation's most classified information. If the reports are correct, that Imran Awan retained the ability to read any emails sent and received by the 32 former and current democratic congress members his family managed IT work for after setting up their email accounts, the Awan’s literally had access to all correspondences from sensitive committees such as the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. On Wednesday Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, echoed this point to Breitbart News Daily's Curt Schilling, and added that the Awan-Schultz scandal may have an Islamist tie back to Pakistan. “They had access to the information on the multiple clients that they had, and that number is nearly a score, as I recall, they would have had access to all the information that came through all those computers in all those offices and access to all the communications of the foreign affairs committee ,” Rep. King said. “This connection goes back to Pakistan, so we need to look at this thing also from an Islamist perspective, did any resources, what about, ‘did any resources go that way, did any information go that way,’ I just want that in peoples minds.” This breech could date back to as early as 2004, when he first began working for former Florida Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler as an “information technology director”. Imran Awan was then subsequently hired by Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz’s office in 2005. In addition to having access to the information, Imran Awan may have been selling intel to Pakistani intelligence, potentially even on behalf of high level Washington politicians. William Craddick, an independent investigative reporter known for exposing the Clinton connected Silsby child trafficking ring in Haiti and now the Editor-in-Chief of Disobedient Media, tweeted Wednesday night: “So I was told something about the Awan’s which I have not been able to verify yet but will share anyways with people since it is interesting. The Awan’s were receiving intelligence from the DNC on India, which they were then passing on to Pakistan via the ISI [Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency]. You might not have noticed, but Pakistan, China and India are all in a bit of a crisis right now. Since there is a possibility that a conflict could break out involving the three, Pakistan was using the Awan’s to get intel via the US. It's likely that other states including China, Saudi Arabia and Israel were able to get their hands on it as well. DNC members were essentially passing on intel to foreign states which has made the possibility of a world war more likely. Why do you think you only ever hear about Russia and never China, Pakistan or India in our media? They don't want you to even think about it” Townhall columnist Fred Fleitz, who has held national security jobs for 25 years with the CIA, DIA, State Department and the House Intelligence Committee staff, claimed in February that a former female CIA officer told him she was worried that the three Awad brothers may have “ties to the Pakistani intelligence service, ISI.” On Monday July 31st Judge Andrew Napolitano also raised this point, noting the FBI investigation is clearly not only focused on the bank fraud charge, but the Awan brothers access to all of Congress' email. Retired intelligence officer Tony Shaffer also raised this point Thursday during an appearance with Laura Ingraham on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, claiming there is now evidence that the Awan brothers helped Rep. Wassermann Schultz conduct "malevolent activities" against Bernie Sanders, and may have been sending information to the Muslim Brotherhood and foreign intelligence agencies. “Now, what is really key here to remember, Laura, is not about hard drives. It's about the fact that these individuals, during a time they worked for her [Rep. Schultz] on Capitol Hill, and her position as a member of Congress had massive access to all databases to include e-mail of members of Congress, super user access to the system itself, and most importantly the sensitive information being held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and other committees that they had access to,” Mr. Shaffer said. “Now the FBI has rolled in and let me give you the big take away here, it looks like a foreign intelligence service may be the recipient of all this. Something called the Muslim Brotherhood.” The connection to the Muslim Brotherhood is especially concerning because the Awan families activities span the entire tenure of the Obama administration, and as TRUNEWS covered extensively in 2016 with DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney, President Obama’s State Department refused to give the designation of “terrorist group” to a Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Islamic movement called Tablighi Jamaat (pronounced: TAAB-LEE JAMAT). According to Mr. Haney the Obama administration instead decided to erase all 67 of his records detailing Tablighi Jamaat’s terror connections, including the fact that 25 percent of Gitmo detainees were affiliated with the movement, claiming the information violated the civil rights and civil liberties of Muslims. To put this into perspective, Mr. Haney told an audience at the 2016 Values Voter Summit that had the Obama administration not shutdown his investigation into “Tablighi Jamaat” affiliated individuals, which included ties to the mosques attended by the San Bernardino and the Orlando Pulse night club terrorists, those attacks could have potentially have been stopped. “The case included individuals that were affiliated with the San Bernardino mosque, Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiya San Bernardino, and therefore my plausible premise is that the [December 2015 San Bernardino] attack could have been stopped or averted,” Mr. Haney said. “The same with the Fort Pierce Islamic Center [Orlando shooter] Omar Mateen was part of, and his father is the vice president of. That mosque was also part of the same Tablighi Jamaat-Deobandi network.” Based on the Awan’s extent of access, which included the correspondences of members of the House Intelligence Committee, the question has been raised of whether the IT brothers have had a hand in the botched Yemen raid in late January. Cernovich Media, owned by popular Drudge Report linked political commentator Mike Cernovich, posed this question in a report posted to the pundits YouTube channel on Wednesday July 26th. The Yemen raid on a base run by Al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate was executed on January 29th, had been discussed for approval among government officials dating back to December 2016. Imran Awan had access to sensitive congressional data, specifically correspondences between members of the House Intelligence Committee, until February 2nd. According to service member on the mission, who spoke to TRUNEWS on the condition of anonymity, as well as an unnamed former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 who spoke to the New York Times after reviewing reports of the operation, the Al Qaeda insurgents appeared to have been alerted of the impending assault, and used this information to bolster the defenses of their compound. The changes in the terrorists defensive strength and the loss of the element of surprise have been noted as contributing factors in the death of Navy SEAL Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens during the raid. In addition to the potential ties to terror, Imran Awan may have also been using the information gathered from Congressional servers to potentially blackmail dirty politicians in DC. Some congressional aides have come forward to The Daily Caller and shared their belief that the Awan’s were blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and files, due to the fact that these representatives have displayed unwavering and intense loyalty towards the Awan brothers. For example, New York Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks, who was once named one of the most corrupt members of Congress, and who had at one time or another employed each of the brothers, has stated that they were being “falsely targeted because they are Muslims, some with ties to Pakistan.” Additionally, Imran Awan successfully procured the representation of Chris Gowen, a founding partner of the Gowen, Rhoades, Winograd and Silva law firm. Mr. Gowen’s official bio on the law firm’s website states that he began his legal career as a public defender in Miami-Dade, Florida before leaving to work for Mr. and Mrs. Clinton. During his tenure he served as the fact checker for President Clinton’s memoir, “My Life,” a traveling aid for President Clinton’s national and international trips, and finished by directing the advance operations for then-Senator Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign. According to Conservative Review, Mr. Gowen also did work for the Clinton Foundation and its Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Though the Awan’s have managed to garner a “reputation worth defending” among the beltway elite, their own parents appear to find them untrustworthy. Imran Awan’s father, James, changed his last name to avoid being associated with his children’s fraudulent behavior, and their stepmother, Samina Gilani, went as far as to file legal paperwork on April 14th in Fairfax county, Virginia, claiming the Awan’s were wiretapping and extorting her to get money which was hidden overseas in Pakistan. The question of whether classified material was ever available to the Awan brothers has already been answered, based on the letter eight democrat members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence signed and issued on March 22nd, 2016, for their staffers to be granted access to “Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information” (TS/SCI), one of the highest tiers of classification for the U.S. government. If this wasn’t enough, these are the three bombshells TRUNEWS has uncovered thus far in the Awan-Schultz conspiracy: 1) According to an email published as part of WikiLeaks’ “DNC Emails” series between Imran Awam and members of Rep. Wassermann Schultz’s senior staff, Imran Awan had access to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s iPad password, meaning that the Awan brothers also had direct access to the notorious DNC emails prior to their publication. 2) Imran Awan was reportedly downloading information from Congressional servers to an “off-site location”, and according to one congressional IT staffer, the Awan’s had even set up the ability to "remote access" select congressional computers so they, or anyone they shared this ability with, could potentially connect to the all the congressional data from anywhere in the world. 3) Imran Awan may have had a subscription to a YouTube Channel called "Seven Super Girls", which publishes content appealing to pedophiles. The question of whether this channel is heavily trafficked by pedophiles was raised in late June by the host of Comedy Central's Tosh.o in a broadcast segment reviewing one of the most popular videos on the channel involving a young girl named Lucy eating what appears to be a cream pie. “I’ll level with you I may have stumbled across something dark here,” Comedian Daniel Tosh said after sharing a clip from the channel. “When you’ve seen the horrible things on the internet that I’ve seen you get a nose for it, and I don’t like the way Seven Super Girl’s smells.” “For comparison ‘The Beatles’ video for “I Want to Hold Your Hand” has 13.7 million views (15.4 million as of 7/29), this video has 137 million views, let that sink in, who’s watching all these videos of little girls in bathing suits and taped up to beds?” Mr. Tosh said. “I suspect its not just teenage girls, its dudes, this channel posts a new video every single day where they guarantee, and even brag, that all girls are under 18 years of age.” (TRUNEWS edited the above segment to make the clip friendly for family viewership) The "Seven Super Girls" channel is subscribed to by a Google Plus account titled "Imran Awan”, which contains pictures, personal information, and followers, including over 60 pictures of a home which, according to a HELOC loan application published by The Daily Caller, is legally registered to the wife of Imran Awan, the man currently implicated in a major scandal with Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The "Imran Awan" Google Plus account is also followed by another account titled "Hina Alvi," the name of Imran Awan's wife. The failure to disclose the renting of this property prior to the application for that HELOC loan, and the usage of $165,000 from that loan in a $283,000 wire transfer to Pakistan this past week, contributed in part to the FBI bringing a bank fraud charge against Imran Awan, and halting him from leaving the country. Back to the Seven Super Girls YouTube channel, Jack Burns, a writer for The Free Thought Project, an online blog which reports on police brutality, political corruption, and the war on drugs, recently called the YouTube page a “smorgasbord of smut” carefully crafted to serve as “eye candy” for adults and teenagers to indulge in their child-sex fantasies. “At first glance, the Seven Super Girls YouTube homepage, arguably, looks like one’s favorite porn site. Each under-18 girl has her own sub-channel,” Mr. Burns wrote in a report published on June 25th. “To the unwitting, however, the site may look like girls dressed like girls, engaging in activities which girls enjoy — going to camp, hanging with friends by the pool, and playing dress up.” Imran Awan has three school-aged children, who reportedly left the country with his wife on March 5th on a flight to Pakistan, but during their time living with their father in Virginia, its plausible they may have subscribed to the “Seven Super Girls” YouTube channel, and similar channels, while logged in through Imran Awan’s Google Plus account. But as a writer for the blog iBankCoin noted in a recent report on this subject, “one would think that a highly skilled devout Muslim IT professional would monitor his children's internet usage more closely for sexualized underage infidels.” In March 2017 The New York Times published a report about “The Seven Super Girls” affiliated channels, or Seven Awesome Kids (SAKs) as they are known, and explained that they were started in 2008 by “seven families in Britain who, in the early days of YouTube, wanted to make sure their children were making family-appropriate content.” The only remaining parent of that original partnership, the NY Times reported, is Ian Rylett, who is currently in charge of the SAKs operation. Mr. Rylett, who lives in Leeds, said producing the channels was essentially his full-time job. He and a team of six others take care of copyright issues, create sponsorship deals, come up with weekly themes, monitor the channels and arrange meet and greets. The tickets for a recent 1000-seat event in April, 2017 held in Orlando, Florida, were selling for $30 each. WILL THE AWAN-SCHULTZ CONSPIRACY GO NATIONAL? On Wednesday President Trump retweeted a TownHall story on how the unfolding Awan-Schultz scandal is being ignored by the main American television news networks. On Friday the Washington Free Beacon reported that leading members of the House Judiciary Committee and Government Oversight Committee are “interested” in conducting their own independent investigation into the reports of “illicit IT activity,” which could include asking for the on-record testimony of Rep. Wasserman Schultz. "In addition to the criminal case that is now underway, Congress needs to get answers regarding the scope of Imran Awan's misconduct and the access he had to sensitive material in the United States House of Representatives, including why he remained on the House payroll for so long," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a member of the Government Oversight Committee and chair of its National Security Subcommittee said. "The facts as we know them are very troubling and we need a full accounting of his time at both the DNC and the U.S. House," Rep. DeSantis said. "Congressional hearings are in order." Rep. DeSantis added that this could require testimony from Rep. Wassermann Schultz, and was joined in this opinion by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, a sitting member of the House's Judiciary Committee. "Yes, we could ask for her [Rep. Wasserman Schultz] to testify and look for either the government reform or judiciary" committees to help an investigation,” Gohmert said. "Both have jurisdiction over things in this whole catastrophe." "You don't have to be all that great at hacking to hack into almost anyone's email and calendar," Rep. Gohmert said. "Our enemies that would like to bring down the U.S. would love to have the calendars of every single member of Congress to see who's vulnerable to what and how they can be manipulated. There's a reason that you have to have a background check in order to work on our system.” Proving that the frustrations and concerns with Rep. Wassermann Shultz’s dealings with the Awan brothers cross both isles of Capitol Hill, liberal law professor Tim Canova, who has filled paperwork to run against the former DNC head in 2018, accused the lawmaker on Tuesday of obstructing justice, and said “the Democratic Party will flounder” as long as she remains in office.
http://www.trunews.com/article/could-the-awan-schultz-scandal-bring-down-the-democratic-party
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George Soros Is Taking Over the Jefferson Movement-The Implications Are Huge
By Dave Hodges|July 31st, 2017
Is the State of Jefferson movement being taken over by George Soros in order to facilitate the chances of success for the CALEXIT movement.. . In case you have not been following the State of Jefferson movement, one should know that it a desperate attempt on the part of nearly two dozen counties in S. Oregon and N. California to break away from the clutches of the BLM and the EPA. When they are not stealing rancher land (e.g. Bundy) to facilitate the sale of uranium to the Russians for Hillary Clinton, they are simply trying to drive an entire population of farmers and ranchers off of their land and the people have had enough. The people are attempting to break away from the two states and form a 51st state so they can gain a measure of protection against the corrupt EPA and BLM that the state governments of California and Oregon are not providing. Two State of Jefferson Movements The movement to save the land and fortunes of the impacted population has bifurcated into two camps. One one side are the elected officials, the present County Supervisors. They are pursuing a legal path to statehood. The leadership can be characterized as low-keyed and a group that is following the correct administrative path to statehood in order to protect its people. The second group is pursuing a reckless course of action by suing the state of California for non-representation. From a legal perspective, a law suit such as this, cannot achieve statehood unto itself. From my perspective, these people are wasting the financial resources for the movement. They have raised over $300,000 on their way to a goal of a million dollars. The people will not get their money back and even if the law suit is successful, and it will not be, the area will be no closer to statehood because this is a not a proven path to pursue. I believe that this second group, led by, in my opinion, highly volatile over-emotional and unprofessional people, is a deliberate attempt to confiscate the movement, drain community resources and ultimately destroy what they purport to support. And at the center of this second movement we find George Soros’ interests in the form of moveon.org. The State of Jefferson Movement vs. CALEXIT The second group is very upset with me because I have identified Soros’ interests involved in their movement, which they strongly deny. George Soros is at the heart of CALEXIT, let’s leave America movement. The plan calls for the departure of California from the US and will operate under the auspices of the UN as a protectorate. CALEXIT serves as the impetus of the globalist desires to break up the US into several regions. The US has to fall for the New World Order to fully emerge. For example, if the Oroville Dam, located in the impacted area, were to break the result would be financial devastation and spot famines due to the agricultural importance of this area. As previously reported, Eric Holder has been brought in to effectively run CALEXIT. I have previously posted photos of the CALEXIT embassy in Moscow. I will develop these connections in the next part of this series. CALEXIT cannot work if the State of Jefferson movement succeeds and a 51st state is formed. Therefore, George Soros has strong motivation to make the Jefferson movement fail, so CALEXIT can move forward. Since I have accused the second group of working for George Soros’ interests, the second group went ballistic. See KCNR (Shasta, CA) radio broadcast below. The other side has said that I have two listeners, I am the purveyor of fake news and that I am an idiot. They vehemently denied that any George Soros interests are connected. However, they did not refute one other fact that I presented, so they hi behind personal insults. I have heard from people in their area who are laughing at the second group because they see the personal attack upon me as a way to cover their true motives. In the following paragraphs, a different group of liars will emerge other than Dave Hodges. Here is the video I made 5 days ago that set the second group off. I made the video based on information I have received from some County Supervisors and allies who fear the second group. I did not publish the video on my website, until now. By making the video, but not publishing on my website, I wanted a low-key to shake the trees to see what would fall out and the second group provided me with all the information I need to discredit this second movement. The strategy worked. Radio hosts, Terry Raposa and Mark Baird, played my 5 minute video on KCNR in which they viciously attacked myself and Paul Preston who is opposed to the second group and stands with the administrative goals of the first group. The hosts of the KCNR radio show, who are participants in the take-over of the Jefferson movement=t, said I was fake news and only had 2 listeners. Despite my lowly and apparent insignificant status, the hosts saw fit to attack me for the better part of an hour. My Crime? See Below. You can listen to their July 30th show where they did not attack the facts that Paul Present on I put forth. Raposa and Baird simply attacked Preston and myself on a personal basis. They claim that Soros nor his interests are nowhere near the movement. That is a bold-faced lie as Moveon.org is in the middle of this movement according to all appearances. Jefferson Supporter/Tea Party Founder Meckler and the Founder and Leader of Moveon.org In case one has been in a coma for the past several years, it is well-known that Soros and Moveon.org are one in the same. Meckler is a leader and strong proponent of the law suit being promoted by the second group. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. The above picture is of Mark Meckler and Moveon.org founder and leader, Joan Blades. Gotcha! As they say in the infomercial business, there is more. According to some I have spoken with in the area, Chuck Beretz is a staunch advocate for the CALEXIT movement. Below, Berets, takes the damning photo of Meckler and Blades and praises their alliances (ie “building bridges). Please note the CALEXIT reference in Beretz’s link in the tweet. The second group has indeed been sloppy, here is even more damning evidence to back up my assertions that the second movement is not legitimate and s many feel, is a George Soros takeover. Mark Meckler, one of the founders of the Tea Party joins Geroge Soros operative Joan Blades of MoveOn.org for a “Living Room Conversation” on January 12, 2017 in Berkeley, Calif. Blades hosted the talk, which sought to bring representatives from both sides of the spectrum to seek common ground on issues. According to the article Meckler and Blades “have been talking online and over the phone for a few years now. Quietly, until now.”Meckler is the front man for radio talk show host Mark Levin’s “convention of states” movement according the Paul Preston The meeting was revealed in a ‘tweet’ from ‘CalExit’ activist Chuck Beretz. Cal Exit is the George Soros sponsored movement to have California become it’s own nation. From SFGATE– Joe Garofoli January 17, 2017 “It was a mind-blowing political tableau: a co-founder of liberal bulwark MoveOn sitting in her Berkeley living room, laughing, sharing homemade blueberry scones and occasionally agreeing with a national Tea Party figure. Truth is, MoveOn’s Joan Blades – clad in Lululemon yoga pants and clogs – and Mark Meckler, sporting a leather cowboy vest, boots and a belt buckle larger than a baby’s head – have been talking online and over the phone for a few years now. Quietly, until now. “Transpartisanship” is the genteel word for what they’re doing. Blades has been involved in similar types of projects for about a decade, but this is a fairly new school of political thought, which posits that people can come together to find some common ground without abandoning their core beliefs.” Mr. Raposa, can you still say that the forces from George Soros are nowhere near your movement? Part III of this series will focus on the dire consequences of the second movement. And by the way, my lawyer is bigger than your lawyer. By Dave Hodges|July 31st, 2017
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/07/31/george-soros-is-taking-over-the-jefferson-movement/
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Forbes Says Self-Reliant Homesteaders Are “Delusional” and “Mooching” Off “Civil Society”
It’s always interesting reading when someone smug and sanctimonious writes a clueless diatribe about another group of people being smug and sanctimonious. So when I saw that an economist for Moody’s and Forbes had written an op-ed calling self-reliant homesteaders “delusional,” I knew I’d be in for some misinformed hilarity. The article, entitled, “Dear Homesteaders, Self-Reliance Is a Delusion” was published a couple of days ago on the Forbes website. You’ll be forewarned that the article won’t be deep in the first paragraph, when the author presents his claim to knowledge about self-reliant living comes from the fact that he is “a big fan of shows about doomsday preppers, homesteaders, survivalists, generally people who live off the grid.” And the well-informed opinion of this arbiter of self-reliance? …there’s a central delusion in these shows that is never far from my mind when I’m watching these shows: off the grid people are not self-reliant, but instead are mooching off of the civil society, government, and safety net the rest of us contribute to… The people in these shows often describe a very romantic vision of the lives they have chosen the ethos underlying it. They describe themselves as fully self-reliant, and criticize the rest of society as being dependent and lacking in this self-reliance. It is morally superior, the story goes, to provide for yourself, take care of your own needs, and often, be prepared to survive if society collapses. First, let me segue a little bit and tell you about the author. According to his bio on Economy.com: Adam Ozimek is an associate director and senior economist in the West Chester office of Moody’s Analytics. Adam covers state and regional economies, as well U.S. labor markets and demographics. Prior to joining Moody’s Analytics, Adam was Senior Economist and Director of Research for Econsult Solutions, an economics consulting company. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Temple University and his bachelor’s degree in economics from West Chester University. So based on this, I’m going to guess that homesteading and off-grid living aren’t his jam. I mean, he might head down to the Westtown Amish Market there in Pennsylvania, but I’d be willing to place money on that being his closest brush with any real, live, self-reliant homesteaders. His ill-conceived argument seems to be mostly focused on health care. He is baffled about what will happen if a homesteader becomes ill or gets injured. ” On Live Free Or Die, a man in his mid sixties named Colbert lives in the Georgia swamps alone….I always wonder what will happen if he slips and falls, and can no longer provide for himself. He’ll likely end up receiving hospital treatment paid for with Medicare, and perhaps end up in an assisted living center paid for by Medicare as well.” Or… “Another example from Live Free or Die is Tony and Amelia, a couple who live on a simple, off-the-grid homestead in North Carolina. When I watch them I wonder what would happen if one became extremely sick, and simple, off-the-grid home medicine couldn’t treat them. Would they say “we’ve chosen our fate, and now we die by it”, or would they seek treatment in a hospital they couldn’t afford which would be covered by the hospital’s charity care or perhaps Medicaid?” One thing that Dr. Ozimek is missing is the fact that most homesteaders are tax-paying citizens. Does he think that living on a homestead exempts one from property taxes? Does he suppose that their vehicles don’t have license plates or that their fuel is purchased without the requisite state gasoline tax? Or that maybe they have some special card that lets them buy things like feed without paying sales tax? Perhaps homesteading equipment like tractors and tools and off-grid appliances are likewise purchased without any gain to “society.” As well, he’s under the assumption, based on his vast body of knowledge gleaned from watching TV, that self-reliant homesteaders don’t make any money or have any insurance. I know homesteaders who are retirees from other jobs who have a fine pension and excellent health insurance. I know others who make a good living with their homesteading endeavors. And there are still others who live simply after working for years to pay cash for their homestead, or families in which one spouse works a full-time job to support the homestead. But, Ozimek, whose informed point of view comes from only the most extreme of the group featured on for-profit-and-ratings television shows, doesn’t understand that. He continues to espouse the superiority of the non-agrarian lifestyle: If we all lived “self-reliant” lives like Tony often implores us, spending most of our time on basic agricultural subsistence, then modern hospitals couldn’t exist. It’s only because most of us choose to not live agrarian “self-reliant” lifestyles that this care would be available to Tony, Amelia, and perhaps someday, their children. And what if both of them become too injured to work the land anymore? Would they starve to death, or would they survive off of the social safety net our government provides, like food stamps? In fairness to Tony, Amelia, and Colbert, perhaps they would refuse the modern medical care and modest safety net in the case of an accident or illness, and would simply choose to die. I don’t think most homesteaders would, but we don’t know. Yeah, because homesteaders can’t do anything but homestead. Some people are producers and other people are consumers. Ozimek thinks that someone with the extensive skills required to live off the grid would be completely unable to find employment and would have no option but to become a welfare recipient should their homesteading endeavor fall apart. What he’s missing is that his cushy “civilized” lifestyle is completely reliant on the type of people he scorns. He forgets that someone, somewhere is growing his food. Someone, somewhere, is assuring that his energy reaches his home. Someone is ensuring that his plumbing works, someone is repairing his furnace if it breaks, and someone is transporting the goods he purchases to the store, where someone will sell him those goods. But, that’s what happens when someone is only a consumer and not a producer. They think that producers are somehow less worthy, and that if they couldn’t produce what the consumers consume, they’d be totally out of options. The cool thing about self-reliant homesteaders is that we aren’t one-trick ponies. We can produce all sorts of things and provide all kinds of services. It’s called “having skills.” Most self-reliant homesteaders aren’t reality TV stars. Since his entire argument is based on the tv programs he watches, the author doesn’t understand what self-reliance means to those of us who aren’t reality television stars. It means: We provide a lot of our own food because we prefer to know where it comes from. We raise our own meat because we object to the way factory-farmed animals are treated. We use our own sources of power because maybe we’re green at heart or maybe we just prefer not to be tied into the “smart” grid. We learn to make our own products for cleaning, bathing, and making life pleasant because we don’t want to bring chemical toxins into our homes. We’d rather skip the middle man and spend our time actually making the things that most people work for hours to purchase from someone else who made them. We are far less likely to spend time at the doctor’s office because a) we aren’t huge fans of pharmaceuticals, b) we can take care of small things ourselves, and c) our healthier lifestyle means we tend to be less likely to be ill. (Although this isn’t always the case – even self-reliant homesteaders can get sick. And when we do, we use our insurance or we pay for it with savings. Just like everyone else.) We don’t need as much money because we just don’t need as much stuff. But to someone who buys all of their food and other goods from the store and gets all of their medicine from the pharmacy, it can be difficult to understand the satisfaction that comes from evading those places. But, safety… Of course, if self-reliant homesteaders pass all of the Forbes columnist’s other tests, he can still dismiss their achievements by going full-blown statist. Yet even if one refuses help and care, however, they still benefit from the modern civil society thanks to the private property protections, rule of law, and military that provide them with safety and security. Many off-the-grid folks like to fantasize that their personal fire arms collection and self-defense skills are actually why they are safe. But how far would this take them in a society without the rule of law, an effective government, and law enforcement? The homesteader who is confident their security is in their own hands should go live off-the-grid in Syria and find out how far self-protection takes them. And it’s not just police and a military that keep homesteaders safe. It’s also widespread prosperity. In the developed world, a basic education is available to all, and most people who want a job can find one. Living in a prosperous, modern economy means that homesteaders can take a good bit of their own safety from violence for granted and roving bandits are not likely to take their homes from them. So, by the mere fact of our existence in this country, according to Ozimek, none of us are self-reliant. It boggles the mind that this fellow successfully wrote and defended a doctoral thesis. This is how reliant people justify their reliance. I guess what it boils down to is that this is what helps Ozimek and people like him justify living their lives without any practical skills. If things did go sideways in a long-term kind of way, who is going to be better off: a person who can claim a Ph.D. in economics or someone who can actually produce food? The fact is, the less we require from society, the less power that society has over us. Our lifestyles give us some distance from the hustle and the bustle. We don’t have to make as much money because we don’t live in the consumer matrix that engulfs so much of society. We are content to live simply instead of hustling from one non-productive activity to another. Most of us don’t eschew all the benefits of living in a modern society. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Having a corporate job doesn’t preclude growing your own tomatoes any more than having a herd of goats precludes having health insurance. There is a joy in making a meal that came entirely from your own backyard that these people will never get to experience, and having spent many years in the corporate world, I can tell you which provides the most satisfaction for me. In this society where nearly everyone is digitally connected 24 hours a day, it’s nice to step away from all that and break the addiction to constant stimulation. It’s nice to not always be trading the hours in your day for the things that someone else made while you were working on something that, if we’re being honest, is kind of pointless in the grand scheme of survival. If Dr. Ozimek wants to talk about delusions and superiority, he could find all the inspiration he needs by taking a look in the mirror.
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etc. the
whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North
Korea has declared war on the United States of America.
The whole country can tell you an invasion is
coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless
monetary system is ready to start, the banks will
have no money, the mark of the beast will be here.
But I am trying to protect you by placing one that can protect you, but
even if that is not so and cannot be, I will still protect you and take you
through this time safely. etc
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Moving Towards 'A Brave New Nuclear World'
- This Is How Kim Jong Un's Fantasy Of Annihilating The United States Could Become Reality
Submitted to All News Pipeline by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry July 30, 2017
The views expressed by story contributors to All News Pipeline are their own and do not always align completely with those of ANP. In the shadow of North Korea’s ICBM test, there is growing consciousness that history has turned a page. The once hopeful post-Cold War world supposedly heralding The End of History has become a New Cold War and what some call a New Nuclear Age, wherein nuclear weapons are again the most powerful instruments of diplomacy and war. Naïve questing for a world without nuclear weapon has catastrophically failed. Russia, China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and probably Iran are advancing nuclear and missile programs while the U.S. nuclear deterrent ages toward obsolescence. The world wars, Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis are ancient history, or someone else’s history, to a new generation of political and military leaders in nuclear nations hostile to the U.S., who make nuclear threats with increasing frequency. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and televised H-Bomb tests that made real the terror of nuclear weapons for earlier generations are a fading memory. Few scientists and generals remain who eye-witnessed The Bomb. Dictators of the New Cold War and their scientific and military advisors know The Bomb and its effects only theoretically. This may partially account for why they are ever bolder in nuclear blackmail, and appear to be convincing themselves that The Bomb is just another weapon. The new crop of totalitarian and authoritarian rulers and their general staffs are also risk takers. They might benefit from witnessing an H-Bomb test, from personally seeing the blinding flash, feeling the blast and heat, cowering beneath the towering mushroom cloud. Such an experience might even give pause to the likes of Kim Jong-un about invoking the nuclear demon. The new crop of U.S. political-military leaders, and our nuclear-armed allies in Britain and France, need to re-learn the now forgotten nuclear lessons of the Cold War. Nuclear weapons will not deter if they are invisible. The U.S. and its allies have been in pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons for so long, they have neglected their nuclear capabilities and given such low priority to the nuclear mission for so long, that our nuclear deterrents are almost non-existent psychologically. Modernizing our nuclear capabilities may not strengthen deterrence if it is done reluctantly, with such fear and loathing, that our enemies think we are almost as afraid of our own nuclear weapons as of theirs. Another lesson from the Cold War and afterwards that the U.S. and its allies need to learn is that our potential adversaries do not agree that nuclear non-proliferation is in everyone’s interests — a universal good. The hard lessons of history have proven this nostrum false. Nations that followed our advice and gave up their nuclear weapons — like Ukraine, Libya, Kazakhstan, and South Africa — now fear for their existence or matter little in global affairs. Indeed, Libya’s Muammar Qaddaffi and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein are dead because they failed to develop nuclear arms. Surely, Syria’s endangered dictator Bashar al-Assad must wish today he had succeeded in building The Bomb. In contrast, failed states like North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan loom large in global affairs, have power and influence far out of proportion to their actual economic and military capabilities, because they have or could acquire nuclear weapons. Yet another lesson from the Cold War and afterwards is that reducing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons does not necessarily make the American people or our allies safer. Under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START) the United States reduced strategic nuclear weapons by over 90%, from 15,000 to fewer than 1,500. These reductions were unnecessary for the U.S., but were necessary for Moscow, whose economy, ruined by Cold War competition, could no longer sustain the nuclear arms race. START was a gift from Washington to Moscow enabling Russia to maintain parity in the strategic nuclear balance. The U.S. also unilaterally dismantled nearly all of its tactical nuclear weapons, once numbering 15,000 now reduced to 180. Now Russia is cheating on START having deployed 1,700 strategic warheads, hundreds more than permitted, and keeps building. Moscow also has at least 3,000-8,000 tactical nuclear weapons, giving it an enormous advantage in the overall nuclear balance favoring Russia by perhaps more than 5-to-1. Russia never enjoyed such advantage during the Cold War, which may account for Moscow’s increasing belligerence toward NATO and the U.S. today. Deep reductions in U.S. nuclear weapons has also made it possible for China to catch-up or surpass the United States. Reducing U.S. strategic bomber bases from dozens to 3 makes it possible for even North Korea to dream of delivering a crippling nuclear blow. Kim Jong-Un’s fantasy of annihilating the United States could become reality if nothing is done to protect the nation against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack—deliverable by a single warhead. If the U.S. had maintained its Cold War deterrent of nearly 30,000 strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, today the U.S. would enjoy overwhelming superiority in the nuclear balance against any combination of challengers. If this were today’s reality, would the American people be worse off? The U.S. must ignore the usual hysterical protests from anti-nuclear activists and modernize its aged, nearly obsolete, nuclear deterrent. Story originally published here. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. He served in the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA. He is author of "Blackout Wars." For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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US, allies prepared to use 'overwhelming force' in North Korea, general says
Published July 30, 2017 Fox News North Korea
The U.S. and its allies are prepared to use “rapid, lethal and overwhelming force,” if necessary, against North Korea, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces warned Saturday night. The statement from Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, U.S. Pacific Air Forces commander, came after the militaries of the U.S., South Korea and Japan spent 10 hours conducting bomber-jet drills over the Korean Peninsula. The training mission was a response to North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launches and nuclear program, and part of the U.S. regular commitment to defending its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, the general’s statement said. "The time for talk is over. The danger the North Korean regime poses to international peace is now clear to all," said United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in a statement. “North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability,” O’Shaughnessy said. “Diplomacy remains the lead,” he said. “However, we have a responsibility to our allies and our nation to showcase our unwavering commitment while planning for the worst-case scenario. “If called upon,” he added, “we are ready to respond with rapid, lethal and overwhelming force at a time and place of our choosing.” North Korea conducted test launches of ICBMs on July 3 and July 28, and has claimed that its weapons can now reach the U.S. mainland. The country’s recent actions have drawn condemnation from President Trump, and prompted U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to confer with counterparts from South Korea and Japan to develop a response, Fox News has reported. Both Trump and Tillerson have criticized China, saying the Beijing government has failed to use its influence to discourage North Korea from developing its nuclear program, Fox News reported. On Saturday, two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, under the command of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, joined counterparts from the South Korean and Japanese air forces in sequenced bilateral missions. According to the Pentagon, the U.S. bombers took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, then flew to Japanese airspace, where they were joined by two Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self Defense Force) F-2 fighter jets. The B-1s then flew over the Korean Peninsula, where they were joined by four F-15 fighter jets from the South Korean air force. The B-1s then performed a low-pass over Osan Air Base, South Korea, before leaving South Korean airspace and returning to Guam. Throughout the approximately 10-hour mission, the air crews practiced intercept and formation functions, enabling them to improve their combined capabilities and strengthening the long-standing military-to-military relationships in the region, the Pentagon said. U.S. Pacific Command maintains flexible bomber and fighter capabilities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific theater, retaining the ability to quickly respond to any regional threat in order to defend the U.S. and its allies, the statement said.
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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One False Flag After Another - Will The 'Final Act Of The Tragedy' Be An Engineered Nuclear War That Exterminates Most Or All Of The Human Race?
Submitted to All News Pipeline by William B Stoecker via Steve Quayle July 30, 2017
A false flag attack is an attack by a nation’s ruling elite, usually acting through the deep state, on their own citizens, blamed on a foreign state or a terrorist or rebel group. These are intended to mobilize popular support for laws promising to protect the citizens but actually designed to take away their freedom and increase the power of the state, and/or to start a war with another state or an internal dissident group (and war always leads to a loss of freedom). Our nation has a long history of tragedies that appear very suspicious at the very least, and in some cases (like 9/11) the evidence of a false flag attack is overwhelming. The true origin of the attacks is concealed by the power of the deep state, the controlled media (I call them the slimestream media) and by the unwillingness of most citizens to think the unthinkable. Our entry into the Spanish American War was instigated by the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, blamed on a mine placed by the Spanish, who then ruled Cuba. But examination by divers showed that the damage could only have been caused by an internal explosion; this was later explained as a munitions explosion set off by a fire resulting from spontaneous combustion in the coal bunker. This is possible, but no other US capital ship was ever destroyed by such an accident, and the Maine “just happened” to be in the right place to start a war, and Freemason Teddy Roosevelt, a vociferous warmonger, “just happened” to be Undersecretary of the Navy. The sinking of the British liner Lusitania by a German u boat, killing US citizens on board helped to bring the US into WWI, but the Lusitania was carrying munitions for England, and the Germans had taken out ads in US papers to warn our citizens against traveling on a British ship. Almost all US papers refused to print the ads…have we ever had a free press? Winston Churchill, then an official in the British Admiralty, withdrew the escort vessel that might have prevented the sinking, and ordered the Lusitania to reduce its speed. A rescue vessel was recalled. As for Pearl Harbor, entire books have detailed the massive evidence that FDR and the elites set us up for that. The Gulf of Tonkin incident that gave LBJ the excuse to involve us in the Vietnam War was, to say the least, questionable. While these naval incidents do not meet the precise definition of “false flag,” because our own government did not directly attack our citizens, they are just as vile in nature and serve the same purpose. Many today have forgotten that 9/11 was the second bombing of the WTC (World Trade Center). The first was a truck bomb placed in the underground parking lot of North Tower on 2/26/93, containing 1,336 pounds of urea-nitrate and tanks of hydrogen. The bombers were a group of Muslims allowed into the US by our own government, despite the fact that Islam’s war on Humanity was already some 1,400 years old. Six people died and over a thousand were injured; had the bomb worked as planned, both towers and adjacent buildings would have collapsed with no warning, killing up to twenty thousand people. Remember, on 9/11 there was time for many people to evacuate the area. Incredibly, our intrepid FBI knew the bombing was planned, and, claiming that they were doing a “sting” operation, let it proceed. Even more incredibly, they refused the offer of the man who had infiltrated the group for them to substitute fake explosive for the real stuff. You do not, I repeat, do not risk twenty thousand lives to do a sting operation. Of course the slimestream media reported almost none of this, and none of the FBI officials involved were ever punished, and the American sheeple continued to graze toward the edge of the cliff. The Demonic Duo (Slick Clinton and Hillary, whom I call the Witch) were in power when, on their orders or with their tacit approval, the heroic FBI and BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) attacked the “compound” of the Branch Davidians, an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventists, who were led by one David Koresh, born Vernon Howell. The federales claimed that the Davidians had illegal weapons (none were ever found, or produced as evidence), and later claimed that they suspected illegal drugs (none were ever discovered). Eventually they added suspected child abuse to the list…not the business of the federal government, and, like the guns and drugs, never proven. The “compound” was located at Mt. Carmel Center Ranch in Elk, Texas, some nine miles from Waco. In a botched BATF raid on 2/28/93 (only two days after the first WTC bombing) four agents and five Davidians died. There were conflicting reports about who fired the first shot. Joined by the FBI, the BATF began a 51 day siege, backed up by an Army helicopter, and finally, on April 19, rammed the main building with a tank, breaching the wall, and pumped in CS gas, a sort of tear gas on steroids, which is highly flammable. Infants and small children in the building, having no gas masks that would fit them, would die in agony from this gas…but something set it on fire, and 76 people, including almost 20 children, died a horrible death thanks to the Clintons and our brave federal police officers. All this, and no drugs or illegal weapons were ever produced. Of course, no one was executed or even imprisoned for mass torture murder and child murder, and Slick and the Witch continued their highly profitable careers. The WTC bombing and the Waco siege and Oklahoma City (see below) served as the perfect excuse for passage of an anti-terrorism bill that Slick wanted, which increased the power of the government. Look up “Reichstag fire.” The date of the final assault is significant. The first shots of the American Revolution were fired on 4/19, and Hitler was born on 4/20. As we shall see, a number of other horrific events have taken place on those dates. Some students of the occult believe that Satanists have a 13 day period for sacrifices, running from 4/19 through 4/30 (Walpurgisnacht, the witches’ Sabbath, when Hitler supposedly killed himself) and 5/1…Mayday, or Beltane, sacred to the pagans, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the communists. His blood lust apparently temporarily satiated, Slick waited over two years to bomb the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. This federal office building contained a daycare center, perfect for another child sacrifice. On 4/19/95 (that date again) a rented truck packed with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil exploded, and the building was severely damaged, killing 168 people, including 19 children and infants. The bombing was blamed on an Army veteran, Timothy McVeigh, and his Army buddy Terry Nichols, supposedly indirectly aided by Michael and Lori Fortier. In return for their testimony, Nichols was spared the death penalty and the Fortiers received reduced sentences. McVeigh was supposedly executed 6/11/2001. Retired USAF General Partin, an explosive expert, testified that, powerful though it was, the truck bomb could not have done that much damage. The testimony of workers in the building and the way some support columns were cleanly cut indicates that charges had almost certainly been placed inside the building and timed to go off at the same time as the truck bomb, which was intended mainly to cover up the fact that OKC was an inside job. A seismograph in Enid, Oklahoma picked up two explosions. Bear in mind that security at federal buildings was so tight that only government agents or people approved by them could have placed the charges inside. Many witnesses reported that McVeigh was accompanied by another man, not Nichols or Fortier, but the government chose to ignore this. McVeigh had telephoned Elohim City, a neo-Nazi compound in eastern Oklahoma, and had once been stopped near there by police for a minor traffic violation. The BATF had an informant inside Elohim City, one Carol Howe, who said that McVeigh was an associate of the Nazis, and that a German national in the group, one Andreas Strassmeir, was involved in the bombing. The federales ignored her testimony, allowed Strassmeir to return to Germany, and, incredibly, tried (unsuccessfully) to railroad their own informant into prison. Nichols’ travel to the Philippines (he married a Filipina) and possible contact there with Islamic terrorists was also ignored. Even more incredibly, the BATF had an office in the Murrah Building, but, at the time of the bombing, during normal working hours, not a single BATF agent was in the building, and they initially lied about this, until, caught in their lie, they had to admit the truth…but never bothered to explain their absence. On the day of the bombing local news announcers stated that several unexploded bombs were found in the wreckage. Given the government’s eagerness to blame the bombing on “right wing domestic extremists” it is odd that they ignored the Elohim City connection. And this is just part of the evidence that OKC was an inside job; entire books have been written on the subject. On 4/20/99 (again, the same dates keep appearing) at Columbine High School in Colorado, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, allegedly shot dead 12 of their fellow students and one teacher and wounded 21 more. They had a total of five guns, and also planted bombs and propane tanks…how could they do that without being seen? Both conveniently shot themselves before they could be arrested and questioned. Harris had made threats on the web, and Deputy Michael Guerra of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office prepared documents to get a search warrant…but never took them to the judge. A deputy was assigned to the school; normally he ate lunch in the cafeteria, but on the day of the shooting he just happened to be in his truck…and there he stayed. The shooting began at 11:29; police arrived at 11:32; and the killers were suicided at 12:08, and, in all that time, the heroic police and deputies, while firing ineffectively into the building, never stormed the school. Why was the search warrant never requested? Why was there never any explanation by the killers’ parents? How could they not have known about the weapons and explosives, and how did the two teenagers, with little income, obtain all this deadly hardware? Of course, this led to renewed calls for “gun control,” despite the fact that these tragedies usually occur in “gun free zones.” On 9/11/2001 American Airlines Flight 11 allegedly hit the WTC North Tower, and United Flight 175 allegedly hit the South Tower. American Airlines Flight 77 allegedly hit the first floor of the Pentagon…on the sixtieth anniversary of its construction. Note that multiples of 11 are important to the Masons (as in thirty third degree Mason) and that the ratio of height to base side of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is seven to eleven. It sounds crazy to the rest of us, but the elites take numerology and astrology very seriously. In all the history of steel framed buildings none ever collapsed completely due to fire…until all three WTC towers did on 9/11. The third tower, Building Seven, had been struck only lightly by some debris, starting a small fire…and yet it collapsed. The odds against this are more than a million to one. All three towers collapsed straight down into their own footprints, a feat achievable only by carefully planned and executed controlled demolitions. The fires were not hot enough to melt steel, yet, weeks later, there was still molten steel buried underground in the ruins…think thermite. All by itself the above absolutely proves that 9/11 was an inside job, and only the US government, which orchestrated the cover up, had the power to do the job. But there’s more. For Flight 77 to hit the first floor of the Pentagon, and not fly over or scrape the roof or auger into the pavement in front of the building is a feat that would be nearly impossible for a skilled pilot flying a fighter jet…let alone someone who had hardly flown before, in a huge, multi-engine jet. There was a hole in the Pentagon, allegedly caused by the fuselage of the plane, but no damage to the walls where the engines and wings would have hit. In fact, the engines and wings were never seen or photographed…they had magically vanished. But then the whole plane vanished, for no wreckage or burned body parts of passengers and crew were ever reported, photographed, or produced as evidence. Honorable FBI agents (there were a few) had tried to warn their bosses that Islamic immigrants (allowed into our country by the government despite the experience in 1993) were taking flying lessons and they feared an attack like this. They were ignored, as were the members of the Pentagon’s Able Danger team who had voiced the same concerns. Again, this is but a small part of the evidence. I will say it flat out: the US government, headed by neocon Bonesman George Bush the Younger, committed mass murder of 2,996 Americans to get us into an eternal war in Afghanistan and secure passage of the misnamed “Patriot Act.” Since 9/11 there have been a number of shootings and bombings that look, to say the least, suspicious. On 7/20/12 some 12 people died and 20 were injured, allegedly by one James Egan Holmes. Like the Columbine killers, he had little income and no known weapons or explosives training, but somehow obtained tear gas grenades and multiple firearms, a load-bearing vest, and a helmet and booby trapped his apartment with more bombs. No motive was ever discovered, and some witnesses reported multiple gunmen. The theater had multiple surveillance cameras, none of which taped Holmes. And it was a “gun free zone.” On 12/14/12 a young man named Adam Lanza allegedly entered the locked Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut and managed to shoot dead 20 children and six adults before allegedly killing himself. He had supposedly murdered his mother earlier that day. The official story of what weapons he carried and what was supposedly left in his car kept changing, but in the latest version he carried two handguns and a Bushmaster rifle and left a shotgun in his car. He was carrying his brother’s ID despite the fact that he hadn’t seen his brother in two years, and this has never been explained. The official account of how he entered a locked facility also kept changing; in the latest version he shot out a glass pane near the door, reached in, and unlocked the door. Video showed an unidentified man (not Lanza) running through the woods behind the school on the day of the shooting; this, too, has never been explained. A face book memorial webpage was posted for Sandy Hook teacher Victoria Soto before she was allegedly killed, and a United Way charity page for the Sandy Hook victims was on the web before the shooting. No one reported any blood in the school; the alleged parents were not allowed to see their allegedly dead alleged children; and officials refused to make the death certificates public. Video of some alleged family members showed them laughing and smiling right after the alleged shooting. The school was demolished and rebuilt in the weeks after the event. This marks a new pattern, for it is not certain that anyone died at all at Sandy Hook. It is possible that the entire event was street theater. Much the same is true of the Boston Marathon bombing, which allegedly killed three and injured hundreds on 4/15/13.Two bombs went off near the finish line and the bombing was blamed on two Muslim brothers, Dzokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, immigrants from Chechnya. Tamerlan supposedly died later in a shootout with police, and Dzokhar was allegedly wounded and captured in Watertown after an hour-long gunfight with police, but his gun mysteriously vanished and there were no bloodstains in the boat where he had hid. On 5/22/13 the FBI interrogated an alleged friend of the Tsarnaevs, Ibragim Todashev, in Orlando, Florida. Claiming he assaulted them, the intrepid agents shot him dead…he will tell no tales. Photographs of the bombing aftermath show many people who appear to be only slightly injured (unless the blood is just red dye) and one man, missing most of one leg, sitting upright in a wheelchair pushed by rescuers. He has no tourniquet and is conscious…this does not compute. In a familiar pattern, our government had let these Muslims into the country, and the hunt for them gave the police an excuse to order citizens out of their homes at gunpoint and enter the homes with no warrants. We are being conditioned to be subjects of the New World Order. One of the most infuriating aspects of all of this is the way the slimestream media cover up the truth, enabling more such crimes, and the sad fact that in many cases local police and sheriffs had to be involved, at least in the cover-up. And now our glorious Congress, unwilling to repeal Obamacare, has nevertheless passed (with a veto proof majority) a bill increasing sanctions on Russia, sure to destroy any hope for better relations with the other major nuclear power. Perhaps the final act in the tragedy will be, not another false flag, but an engineered nuclear war that will exterminate most or all of the human race. Stay tuned.
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etc.. The EU is on its own, Russia is on its own, China is on its own, many are not your friends, many have already plotted and planned the things that they shall do, it is recorded in my Book. And if you were to study my Book you would see the things that are taking place right now. etc..
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Chinese Spy Ships Join Russian Reconnaissance, Pressure Pentagon in the Pacific
World 10:13 31.07.2017(updated 13:44 31.07.2017)
The naval activities of the United States are already thoroughly monitored both by Russia and China and Washington will have to deal with it, a Russian military expert believes, citing the increasing assertiveness of Beijing and Moscow in the World Ocean. Last week, Canberra said that a Chinese intelligence-gathering ship was spotted near Australia as the country's major biennial joint military exercises with the US were wrapping up. A Dongdiao-class electronic surveillance ship (Type 815) from the People's Liberation Army was seen in the waters off Queensland during the Talisman Saber 2017 drills, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Earlier, North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed that a Chinese intelligence-gathering vehicle was seen off the coast of Alaska last week, possibly to monitor tests of the US's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD). In his commentary for RIA Novosti, Russian military expert Ilya Plekhanov noted that "ironically, the Talisman Saber 2017 exercises, which involved 30,000 US and Australian troops, were aimed to signal to other countries bordering the Pacific that the United States possesses a [strong] military potential in this part of the world." "The appearance of the Chinese intelligence-gathering ship, which monitored channels of communication between Americans and Australians off Queensland, became an unpleasant surprise for the participants of the Talisman Saber 2017 drills. Rather than convincing the region of the power of Washington' allies, it indicated China's growing naval capabilities," Plekhanov pointed out. According to US data, at least six reconnaissance ships of the 815 class are currently in service with the Chinese Navy, with the newest such vessel entering service in January 2017. In addition, China uses four obsolete Yuanwang class reconnaissance ships and one older 814A class vessel. Plekhanov recalled in this regard that apart from THAAD, China also keeps a watchful eye on the US radar AN/TPY-2 radar, which Beijing believes is capable of monitoring China's skies and alerting the Pentagon when Chinese missiles are launched. "US military experts today are concerned about the appearance of Chinese reconnaissance ships in the World Ocean. Until recently, only the navies of the US and Russia were able to carry out such major missions," Plekhanov noted. He recalled that in February 2017, the Russian reconnaissance ship Viktor Leonov was spotted 30 miles from a submarine base in the US state of Connecticut. It immediately grabbed local headlines, with US authorities saying that the Viktor Leonov did not pose a threat to the security of the state. "In March, the Viktor Leonov appeared 20 miles from another US submarine base in Georgia," Plekhanov wrote, referring to Russian reconnaissance ships implementing similar missions along the US coast in 2015 and 2014. In 2016, a Russian intelligence-gathering vessel monitored the world's largest naval exercises: Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) in Hawaii. According to mainstream media, participating countries at the time "took the necessary measures" to prevent the Russian ship from having access to valuable information during its radio-electronic monitoring mission. Right now, a Russian reconnaissance ship is closely observing the British destroyer HMS Duncan and the Turkish frigate Yildirim off the coast of Ukraine, where NATO's Breeze 17 naval drills are being held. "Western political analysts note that a new era is coming as China behaves more confidently in the World Ocean," according to Plekhanov. He added that "on the one hand, China acts according to the norms of international maritime law and Chinese [reconnaissance] ships do not enter foreign territorial waters, but on the other – Beijing expresses discontent about the naval ships of other countries passing near the disputed territories [Beijing claims] in the South China Sea. "Apparently, the US monopoly on conducting naval radio electronic reconnaissance in the World Ocean has come to an end as Russia and China are becoming full-fledged players in this field. The Americans will have to resign themselves to the fact that the launches of their missiles, as well as their naval bases and naval drills will now be monitored by Russia and China from the sea," Plekhanov concluded.
https://sputniknews.com/world/201707311056025577-russia-china-us-drills-intelligence-ship/
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What Next?
By Hal Lindsey
The western media remains fixated on Washington, but outside of D.C., the world is spinning toward a series of potential catastrophes. Decisions made over the coming days will affect the future of all humanity. I could illustrate this by examining any of the world’s regions. But, for now, let’s focus on the nations in and around Syria. One of the eeriest specters of our time is the image of Russia and Iran sitting on Israel’s doorstep in Syria. The well-known prophecy in Ezekiel 38 tells of a coming battle with those two countries leading a coalition of nations against Israel. Russia arrived in Syria ostensibly to fight ISIS. Will they leave when ISIS is defeated? I doubt it. Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s President, is no longer his own man. He sold his soul to Vladimir Putin, the mad mullahs running Iran, and the Hezbollah terror group. Putin needs to maintain a foothold in the Middle East — the closer to Israel, the better. The natural gas fields found in the waters off the Israeli coast are a game-changer for Russia. With the discovery of those fields, Israel became a major player in the world’s energy picture. Israel does not yet have the infrastructure needed to sell fuel to the world at large, but their reserves are huge. Israel could break Russia’s monopoly on gas for Europe — possibly making it in Russia’s interest to stir up a war in the region. What will Hezbollah do next? One of the most underreported facts of the Middle East is that Hezbollah has a larger stockpile of missiles than all NATO countries (except the U.S.) combined. And these aren’t bottle rockets. They’re sophisticated, high-quality missiles. Hezbollah has become so powerful in Lebanon, that the government works with them as partners. They sit on Israel’s northern border in both Lebanon and Syria. But their presence is not limited to the Middle East. They have been patiently building a physical and organizational infrastructure in South America — primarily by providing weapons to the drug cartels. This generates cash, but, more importantly, it gives them a land route into the United States. Because the U.S. southern border has been so porous for so long, we don’t know if they have transferred personnel or weapons into the country. But it’s hard to imagine that they haven’t. Hezbollah is probably the wealthiest terror group on earth. They have their own nefarious money-making enterprises. But they built their vast arsenal of weapons primarily with funding from Iran. Will Iran stay in Syria once ISIS has been defeated there? In the last few years, Iran has been consolidating the region’s Shiite Muslims under its control. Their support of Shiite militias in Iraq has been one of the keys to defeating ISIS there. Iran is the primary sponsor of civil war in Yemen, where they back the Shiite Houthi rebels. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite Muslim. Alawites are a branch of Shiite Islam. And so, they support him. But they expect his loyalty in return. So far, President Trump has not been able to do anything publicly to slow down Iran’s march toward the acquisition of an arsenal of nuclear weapons. But that was a major part of his campaign for President. I think he will act, but the difficulties are innumerable. And right now, his presidency remains embroiled in a series of domestic controversies that make accomplishing anything internationally, especially difficult. Then there’s ISIS. For a while, it did something few terror groups have ever done. It amassed a large territory, and declared itself a caliphate. Now it’s losing ground. Its dreams of a new Islamic State grow dimmer by the day. But ISIS is not done. People who live in apartment buildings often complain when a neighbor sprays for cockroaches. Some of the roaches die, but others just move to neighboring apartments. That’s ISIS in 2017. They have agents and sympathizers in countries all over the world. Their hopes of a caliphate may have been put on hold, but the bloodlust that caused so many beheadings and mass murders has not subsided. They will continue to kill for the killing’s sake — and they will do it all over the world. The emphasis on dismantling ISIS caused a strengthening of other terror groups. I’m not criticizing anyone here. It was correct to make the destruction of ISIS the priority. But during this time, we’ve seen al-Qaeda dramatically strengthened — especially in Syria. Earlier this month, the United States and Russia announced a ceasefire in Syria. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the Russians now “see the situation in Syria transitioning from the defeat of ISIS… to this discussion with them as to what do we do to stabilize Syria once the war against ISIS is won.” Defeating ISIS in Syria will not end the civil war there, but it will end a major component of it. As that war winds down, there are strong indications that some of the big guns that have been protecting Assad, will now turn against Israel. Iran has long been obsessed with Israel. Their most elite special forces unit is called the “Quds Force.” A Quds unit deployed to Lebanon in 1982, assisted in the formation of Hezbollah. The name “al-Quds” means Jerusalem. That makes their goal and purpose clear. With its position on Israel’s northeast border, Syria provides Iran with a stepping stone to Jerusalem. These groups will become more dangerous to Israel as the war in Syria winds down. What will the United States do? What can it do? Where will Europe stand? Don’t make the mistake of thinking these conflicts will remain confined to the Middle East. Intercontinental ballistic missiles give rogue nations enough reach to start World War III. As world tensions mount, it’s comforting to remember that God warned us in advance about perilous times in the last days. It’s also clear from scripture, that God’s loving care, and His many promises, still apply even in times of danger. Soon, He will take us out of this world. In the meantime, He’s got your back.
http://www.hallindsey.com/7-30-2017/
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the living word, the logos, the rhema, stay in my word, walk in my word,
function in my word and you shall see what the EU is about ready to do, you
shall understand what Russia is planning and purposing now, you shall
even see China who is the last army that moves down into that valley after my
church is gone. You will understand these things, for it is very clear in my
word exactly what I shall do and you will not say, well, it must be fifteen
years off, you will not say it must be ten years off, you will not say it must
be five years off, for you shall see the signs clearly and
you shall understand the hour, you shall understand the time and you will know.
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July 27, 2017 / 7:42 AM / 4 days ago
Putin signs Syria base deal, cementing Russia's presence there for half a century
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying a deal with the Syrian government allowing Russia to keep its air base in Syria for almost half a century, official documents show. he original deal, signed in Damascus in January, sets out the terms under which Russia can use its Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province which it has used to carry out air strikes against forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad. utin approved the agreement on Wednesday, after the two chambers of the Russian parliament backed it earlier this month, according to the government's official information portal. he document says Russian forces will be deployed at the Hmeymim base for 49 years with the option of extending that arrangement for 25-year periods. he base has been at the heart of Moscow's military foray since it intervened in the conflict in September 2015, helping turn the tide in favor of Assad, one of Russia's closest Middle East allies. Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Andrew Osborn
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-russia-syria-idUSKBN1AC1R9
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Russia celebrates Navy Day with major parades
Sun Jul 30, 2017 2:28PM Home Europe Russia
Russian marine forces have held some large-scale parades from posts in the Baltics to the shores of Syria as President Vladimir Putin bolsters the traditional Navy Day celebrations to show off his country’s military might to the rivals in the West. edia reports said the parades were the biggest ever held on Russia's annual Navy Day on Sunday. Warships, submarines and other naval hardware were on show along the Neva River, in the Gulf of Finland, in the Baltic Sea, in the Black Sea and off the Syrian base of Tartus in the eastern Mediterranean. utin oversaw the action off Saint Petersburg from his presidential cutter. He hailed the Russian Navy as an efficient force in the fight against terrorism. " The navy is not only dealing with its traditional tasks but also responding with merit to new challenges, making a significant contribution to the fight against terrorism and piracy,” he said, adding, “Today much is being done to develop and modernize the navy.” Some 50 warships and submarines contributed to the parade off Saint Petersburg while small-scale maneuvers were also held from Russia's European exclave Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea to posts on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and Vladivostok in the far-east. Russian media said naval hardware was also on show at Tartus, a Russia-operated base in western Syria. The show-off in Tartus, which involved six vessels, including the latest generation "Krasnodar" diesel submarine, was a first for Moscow. Russia has been using the base over the past two years to help Syria in the fight against terror. The bolstered naval parades come amid heightening military tensions between Russia and the West which began since a conflict erupted in Ukraine three years ago. Accusing Russia of military interference in eastern Ukraine, the US-led NATO military alliance has been building up forces along Russia’s western borders. Russia, which denies allegations about Ukraine, has responded by beefing up deployments in the area, saying it is carefully watching NATO’s movements.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/07/30/530163/Russia-Putin-Navy-parades
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whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North
Korea has declared war on the United States of America.
The whole country can tell you an invasion is
coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless monetary system is
ready to start, the banks will have no money, the mark of the beast will be
here. But I am trying to protect
you by placing one that can protect you, but even if that is not so and cannot
be, I will still protect you and take you through this time safely. etc
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Behold a strong warning has come from North Korea, move your ships or I will blow them out of the water.
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North Korea says missile test shows all US within range
29 July 2017
North Korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), describing it as a "stern warning" for the US. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test proved that the entire US was within striking range, state media reported. However, experts say many of North Korea's missiles cannot accurately hit targets. The launch came three weeks after North Korea's first ICBM test. The Pentagon said the latest missile was launched at 23:41 (15:41 GMT) from an arms plant in Jagang province in the north of the country. North Korea said the ICBM flew for just over 47 minutes and reached an altitude of 3,724km (2,300 miles). It is unusual for North Korea to launch a missile at night - the significance is as yet unclear. This is the first missile fired from Jagang province, indicating a previously-unknown launch site is operational. The test was condemned by the US and North Korea's neighbours. US President Donald Trump called it "only the latest reckless and dangerous action by the North Korean regime". South Korea said it was concerned the North may have made "a significant advancement in technology", adding that the missile test was "unique in its time and place of launch". Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the threat to his country's security was "grave and real". China also condemned the missile test but urged "all parties concerned" to exercise restraint "and avoid intensifying tensions". Pyongyang said the launch had "successfully tested re-entry capabilities" of the missile. Kim Jong-un "said proudly the test also confirmed all the US mainland is within our striking range," the Korean Central News Agency said. The statement said that the rocket was a Hwasong-14, the same model North Korea tested on 3 July. The North has repeatedly tested missiles in breach of UN resolutions. ICBMs can reach altitudes well outside the earth's atmosphere. Using sharp trajectories with high altitudes allows North Korea to avoid firing over neighbouring countries. Despite the ongoing tests, experts believe the North does not yet have the capability to miniaturise a nuclear warhead, fit it on to a long-range missile, and ensure it is protected until delivery to the target. Others, however, believe that at the rate it is going, Pyongyang may overcome these challenges and develop a nuclear weapon within five to 10 years that could strike the US. North Korea's latest ICBM test went farther and higher than its previous 3 July test, meaning that it may be able to strike even deeper into the heartland of the United States than initially assessed. Within minutes of the launch, South Korean, Japanese and US officials reported data about the location, range, apogee, and flight time of the missile. While full analysis has not been finalised yet, several points stand out. First, the data available indicates that the missile may have a range of approximately 10,400km. Since this missile is road-mobile, a launch from the north-eastern city of Rason would put New York City in range of the ICBM. Second, the US reported that North Korea launched the ICBM from Mupyong-ni, North Korea. This location was different from many press accounts leading up to the launch which predicted a Kusong launch. The missile launched at 23:11 local time, an unusual time for North Korea's tests as well. It is possible that North Korea is already experimenting with deploying the missile under the cover of night or setting up multiple launch sites to confuse observers. Reports on Friday said the missile had come down in the sea off northern Japan. In response, the US and South Korean military conducted a live-firing exercise using surface-to-surface missiles, a US defence official said. The missiles were fired into the "territorial waters of South Korea along the east coast," a US military statement said. South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo said the country would prepare independent measures to curb the North Korea threat, speeding up the deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (Thaad) provided by the US. China is opposed to the deployment of Thaad, saying it affects the regional security balance.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40760583
:: 7-30-17 Reuters :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
July 30, 2017 / 9:50 PM / 2 hours ago
China hits back at Trump criticism over North Korea
Ben Blanchard and Elias Glenn
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted he was "very disappointed" in China following Pyongyang's latest missile test, saying the problem did not arise in China and that all sides need to work for a solution. China has become increasingly frustrated with American and Japanese criticism that it should do more to rein in Pyongyang. China is North Korea's closest ally, but Beijing is angry with its continued nuclear and missile tests. North Korea said on Saturday it had conducted another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that proved its ability to strike the U.S. mainland, drawing a sharp warning from Trump and a rebuke from China. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke with Trump on Monday and agreed on the need for more action on North Korea just hours after the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said Washington is "done talking about North Korea". A White House statement after the phone call said the two leaders "agreed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and other countries near and far". It said Trump "reaffirmed our ironclad commitment" to defend Japan and South Korea from any attack, "using the full range of United States capabilities". Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday after the missile test that he was "very disappointed" in China and that Beijing profits from U.S. trade but had done "nothing" for the United States with regards to North Korea, something he would not allow to continue. China's Foreign Ministry, in a statement sent to Reuters responding to Trump's tweets, said the North Korean nuclear issue did not arise because of China and that everyone needed to work together to seek a resolution. "All parties should have a correct understanding of this," it said, adding the international community widely recognized China's efforts to seek a resolution. The essence of Sino-U.S. trade is mutual benefit and win-win, with a vast amount of facts proving the healthy development of business and trade ties is good for both countries, the ministry added. Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming, weighed in too, telling a news conference there was no link between the North Korea issue and China-U.S. trade. "We think the North Korea nuclear issue and China-US trade are issues that are in two completely different domains. They aren't related. They should not be discussed together," Qian said. China, with which North Korea does the large majority of its trade, has repeatedly said it strictly follows U.N. resolutions on North Korea and has denounced unilateral U.S. sanctions as unhelpful. Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger U.N. sanctions on North Korea over Friday night's long-range missile test, the North's second this month. Any new U.N. Security Council resolution "that does not significantly increase the international pressure on North Korea is of no value", Haley said, adding that Japan and South Korea also needed to do more. Abe told reporters after his conversation with Trump that repeated efforts by the international community to find a peaceful solution to the North Korean issue had yet to bear fruit in the face of Pyongyang's unilateral "escalation". "International society, including Russia and China, need to take this seriously and increase pressure," Abe said. He said Japan and the United States would take steps towards concrete action but did not give details. Abe and Trump did not discuss military action against North Korea, nor what would constitute the crossing of a "red line" by Pyongyang, Deputy Chief Cabinet spokesman Koichi Hagiuda told reporters. "Pyongyang is determined to develop its nuclear and missile program and does not care about military threats from the U.S. and South Korea," state-run Chinese tabloid the Global Times said on Monday. "How could Chinese sanctions change the situation?" said the paper, which is published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily. China wants both balanced trade with the United States and lasting peace on the Korean peninsula, its official Xinhua news agency added in a commentary. "However, to realize these goals, Beijing needs a more cooperative partner in the White House, not one who piles blame on China for the United States' failures," it added. The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday in response to the missile test and the July 3 launch of the "Hwasong-14" rocket, the Pentagon said. The bombers took off from a U.S. air base in Guam and were joined by Japanese and South Korean fighter jets during the exercise. "North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability," Pacific Air Forces commander General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy said in a statement. "If called upon, we are ready to respond with rapid, lethal, and overwhelming force at a time and place of our choosing." (For a graphic on nuclear North Korea, click : tmsnrt.rs/2lE5yjF) Additional reporting by Chang-ran Kim in TOKYO, Ben Blanchard and Elias Glenn in BEIJING, Christine Kim in SEOUL and Steve Holland in WASHINGTON; Editing by Lincoln Feast, Paul Tait and Michael Perry
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN1AG04F
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Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia
By Jacqueline Thomsen - 07/30/17 02:26 PM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 755 U.S. diplomatic mission staff to leave the country in a Sunday interview with a Russian television station. The diplomats must leave the country by Sept. 1, The New York Times reported. In an interview Rossiya-1, Putin said he was capping the number of American personnel at 455 — the same as the number of Russian diplomatic and technical staff in the United States, according to the Washington Post. The expulsion comes in response to legislation overwhelmingly passed by Congress last week that would increase sanctions against Russia and blocks President Trump from being able to lift the measures. The staff reduction is dramatic, the Post said, involving the main embassy in Moscow and missions in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. The Russian government will also seize two diplomatic properties in Moscow, retaliation for an Obama administration decision to take over two Russian mansions in the U.S., the Post added. “We waited for quite some time that maybe something will change for the better, had such hope that the situation will somehow change, but, judging by everything, if it changes, it will not be soon,” Putin said regarding U.S.-Russia relations, according to The Times. The White House announced on Friday that Trump would sign new Russia sanctions, even though the administration had lobbied Congress to water down the legislation. The Trump administration and the Kremlin have maintained a hot-and-cold relationship since Trump took office. Trump has expressed a desire for warmed relations with Moscow -- however, during the first leg of his trip to eastern Europe on Sunday, Vice President Pence said the president expects Russia's "unacceptable" behavior to change. “The president has made it very clear that Russia’s destabilizing activities and support for rogue regimes and its activities in Ukraine are unacceptable. The president made it clear that very soon he will sign sanctions from the Congress to reinforce that,” Pence said during an interview with Fox News on Sunday. “But at the same time, as we make our intentions clear that we expect Russian behavior to change, the president and I remain very hopeful that we’ll see very different behavior from the Russian government,” he added.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344532-putin-expels-755-us-diplomats-from-russia
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Planned Parenthood Worker Admits 'It's a Baby,' Begs for God's Forgiveness
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter Jul 30, 2017 | 6:54 PM
People walk past a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Manhattan borough of New York, November 28, 2015. A grief-stricken Christian Planned Parenthood worker has revealed the reality behind her employer — it is as bad as pro-lifers say it is. Can God forgive her for working at the nation's largest abortion provider, she asked. Last Friday, an anonymous Planned Parenthood employee called into Dr. Michael Brown's nationally syndicated conservative talk radio show "The Line of Fire" and expressed serious regret for the fact that she has been working for Planned Parenthood in an administrative position for over four months. Even though she opposes abortion, the caller took the position because she was a single mother in need of a well-paying job. The woman assured that in her position, she was not required to conduct the abortion procedures. However since taking the job, she explained, she hasn't experienced the same level of happiness and even stopped going to church because she felt so embarrassed to be working for Planned Parenthood, which ends the lives of over 300,000 unborn children every year. "I know we have to answer to God for everything that we do, but will I be judged everything that we do, but will I be judged the same way as people who actually have abortions and things like that?" The woman asked Brown, who is pro-life. "How do you think God sees that? Do you think I am too far gone to go back?" Brown, a Jewish believer in Christ who is an apologist and author with a Ph.D. in near eastern languages and literatures from New York University, assured her that she is not too far gone to go back but that she must immediately quit her job. "First, you are not too far gone to go back but you need to get out of there. You got no business working there but God is merciful and compassionate and He understands your struggles — a single mom, all the issues you are dealing with. There is forgiveness," Brown assured. "Jesus died for any and all sins you've committed. It's not that you have left God entirely, you just made a wrong decision. It's one that is understandable but it is absolutely wrong and you need to get out of there and trust God for your next step. He won't fail you." Brown added that because the caller is a child of God, she was feeling God's "conviction." "Because you are His child, the joy isn't there and it can't be because you are facilitating people's abortions," Brown said, adding that her administrative job "would be, in that respect, no different than say if during the days of slave trade that your job was to register how many people were on the ship and how many survived or height and weight for sale or something like that. Or, if you were in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust and your job was to count the shoes that were taken from the Jewish prisoners or gold teeth that were taken or whatever." "For sure, the Holy Spirit is not letting you be comfortable," he added. "For sure, your own conscience is not letting you be comfortable but don't think for a moment that God's grace is not there." Later in the discussion, Brown asked the woman to share details of her time working at the clinic. After explaining that she gave her daughter the middle name "Believe" because she was told she would never have children, the Planned Parenthood worker was emotional when she described what was in the back room of the clinic she worked in. "But there is a room in the back that is called a POC room — Products of Conception. It's where things are processed. They refer to it as either tissue or fetus but I saw it for the first time. It's a baby. It's not tissue," she said as she sobbed. "It's really bad. It is. It's a baby: there's legs, there's arms and there is eyes. It's a baby." The woman also accused her employer of glorifying abortion by stressing the importance of women's "right to choose." She added that in many cases, Planned Parenthood workers only briefly discuss other options with women seeking an abortion and stress the benefits of abortion. "Some women come in and they say they are not sure. And it's almost like sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes some doctors will almost push for them to get the abortions," she said. "They say that it is ultimately your decision but they put too much emphasis on the positive effects of the abortion." The woman asserted: "It is not what they tell you it is on the news and all the marches that you see." "It's not what they say it is. It's what the pro-life people say," she admitted. "They are telling the truth. It is what they say, how horrible it really is and that is coming from inside. I have seen it." The woman told Brown that she did not want to return to work on Monday. Brown told the woman that "there is no turning back." "You are being complicit with the murder of children if you go back to this. Make sure you are out and that's the reality," he said, adding that she should turn in her notification to her employer. "If you find yourself in financial hardship because of the decision you have made ... we know some folks that really help the pro-life movement holistically and that if you ran into some real life crisis — because of this, you can't feed your children next week or something — we have some friends I know that would say, 'Hey, we are going to stand with you in the midst of this.' Alright?" The woman also explained that she stopped going to church. Brown urged the woman to return to church this Sunday. "I encourage you to go back to church on Sunday, turn in your notice immediately. Hang up the phone and let Planned Parenthood know that you won't be coming back in. Do whatever you have to do responsibly to take care of that," he said. "We are going to reach out to follow up on any immediate needs that might come up. We have friends involved in pro-life ministry that say, 'Hey, we want to make sure that, ultimately, you and your daughter won't suffer.'" The woman who called into Brown's show is not alone. The nonprofit organization And Then There Were None, which runs AbortionWorker.com, is a ministry that exists to help abortion clinic workers leave the industry. The ministry has helped hundreds of abortion workers leave their jobs. The ministry was started by Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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etc. you shall see more problems throughout the world, bigger terror attacks, you shall see earthquakes, oh even the big earthquake and you shall see the division before long from one end of the states to another that you cannot cross for that fault shall be opened. You shall see the stock market as it crashes, for I have warned you and yet the world has mocked me,
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etc. Babylon destroyed in twenty-four hours, and you shall see the other earthquake on the west coast, you shall see the one in the middle and that shall come unto you soon, just as soon as they divide my land again, saith your Father God, you shall see that. For it is that hour and it is that time and it shall come to pass, etc.
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The Prophets Have Long Warned 'A Great Shaking Is Coming' - Here Are The Dreams And Visions Of The Coming Carnage
By MT Taylor - All News Pipeline July 26, 2017
When the earth starts to move beneath your feet, get ready for a great shaking! The “Big One,” long prophesied to hit LA, and the West Coast is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” according to Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center at UCLA. Jordan made the announcement at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach last year. Of course, it’s no secret that there have been warnings from seismologists as well as biblical prophets and watchmen for many years of a big earthquake hitting the West Coast. In fact, in an interview with the USA Watchdog just last week, Steve Quayle observed that the government is in a “near panic” about the possibility of a massive earthquake erupting soon in Northern California, with a death toll in the millions. If that happens, Quayle warned, the carnage will be great, and government or not, it will be every man for himself. “They will not come and help you.” You can see Quayle's interview with USA Watchdog in the only video below. Through the years, the West Coast has proved to be a hot spot for not only earthquakes but cataclysmic weather disasters as well. As flooding, wildfires and mudslides regularly plague even the most affluent neighborhoods, it has not escaped the notice of pastors and contemporary prophets that judgment could be raining down on the sinful cities. Fear of the Big One striking was already prevalent in California back in 1937 when 17-year-old Joe Brandt was in the hospital and had a week-long series of dreams about the panic and destruction wrought by a catastrophic earthquake and resulting tsunami. The teenager, hospitalized by a fall from his horse, said that in the first dream he found himself walking on the streets of Los Angeles and immediately noticed a stillness and a strange quietness about the air. He became aware that there was no movement, no birds or sound. “Then I knew something was going to happen.” “I didn’t know what year it was. It certainly was not 1937. I saw a newspaper on the corner with a picture of the President. It surely wasn't Mr. Roosevelt. He was bigger, heavier, big ears. If it wasn't 1937, I wondered what year it was….” After the earthquake when tsunami waters began to come in, Brandt saw ham radio operators sounding the alarm for people to get to the high places. He heard them warning those farther East, calling: “This is California. Get to the mountains. We are going into the sea.” Brandt’s vision was echoed years later by the late William Branham, an evangelist known in the Forties and Fifties for nationwide revival and healing services that attracted thousands across the country. The first mention of earthquake judgment by Branham was in the early 1950’s when he predicted, “Sin has heaped up so high that someday the ocean will weep its way to the desert.” Branham later prophesied at a California church meeting that Los Angeles and Hollywood are doomed for judgment. “Oh, city that claims to be the City of the Angels, with your fine churches and steeples, the city that has sent dirty, filthy things around the world till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away—Repent!” he admonished. “Just remember that one day you’ll be lying at the bottom of this sea.” Branham noted that the stability of the area from San Francisco to San Diego depends on the San Andreas fault line, a 650-mile long crack under California that reaches almost to the Mexico border. He pointed to a scientific paper describing a great “honeycomb” of interrelating fault lines near the San Andreas. When the brittle honeycomb breaks, the coming massive quake will trigger after-shocks and resulting tsunamis, Branham predicted. “It will send waters back as far as the Salton Sea.” Pastor and evangelist Dimitru Duduman also preached that God will use a great shaking to judge the U.S. and alert his people to return and draw closer to him. Duduman shared a prophecy warning that earthquakes and fire will devastate the earth. “I will shake the earth from its foundation,” the Lord revealed. “Everything you see around you will be no more; it will be destroyed and burn in fire. Awaken my people to be passive no longer.” Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. Isaiah 2:19 You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us; you have been angry—now restore us! You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking. Psalm 60:1,2 While some seismologists are focusing on the San Andreas fault, others watch for signs of life from the middle of the country where the New Madrid fault line begins in southern Illinois and roughly follows the Mississippi River through several states in the central Midwest. The zone stretches 150 miles, crossing parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. Three earthquakes of 7- to 8-point magnitude occurred in December and February of 1811 and 1812, lasting longer and producing more damage than any other quakes in the country’s history. Because of the tremendous jolts, chimneys fell and boats capsized, and after the February earthquake, the Mississippi actually ran backwards for several hours, boatmen reported. This scenario could be repeated if the dreams and visions experienced and recorded by prophet Chuck Youngbrandt become reality. In 1973, while working at his desk for a company in Des Plaines, Ill., Youngbrandt experienced a waking vision of a massive earthquake that shook his office building and toppled skyscrapers around him. “The whole building began to move under me,” he recalled. “I heard the screams and felt the panic and terror of the quake in others. I heard a thunderous roar in the tumbling earth, and looked out my window. “I saw the Xerox water tower swaying back and forth; then the base gave way and the tower fell. I then saw flames rise from the Xerox building itself as the huge crumbling water tower hit the roof. In a few moments, the earth stopped shaking, and I was struck by the utter quiet now of this future day, for I saw no living being at all, not even birds.” Youngbrandt said he knew this vision was given by God to warn of future judgment, for he saw destruction on every hand. Then the silence was broken by a louder, different roaring sound, and over the tree tops, he could see a massive wall of water from Lake Michigan moving westerly, south of his location. “The roar was so thunderous, so ominous, that it made me tremble,” Youngbrandt said. “It was at this point that I realized I was witnessing the destruction of Chicago by a monstrous earthquake, followed by a huge, destructive wall of water.” Over the years, Youngbrandt has been given a deeper understanding about the scope of his vision, now predicting that Chicago will be the center of an earthquake with an approximate destruction range of 300 miles. The impact and tsunami would flatten up to 12 U.S. cities, including Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Kansas City. “When the earthquake hits Chicago, people will be knocked off their feet in Detroit, and trees will fall in St. Louis, some 269 miles away,” the prophet said. “Literally, the whole continental mass will tremble.” Christian author James Bailey wrote on Z3’s prophetic website that based on the Lord’s warning in Matthew 24, we can expect to see earthquake activity increasing as we approach the day of His return. “The Prophet Isaiah saw the weight of sin growing so heavy by the end of this age it caused the whole earth to shake violently, trembling and staggering back and forth like a drunkard,” Bailey said. He noted that in the end times, God will shake everything that can be shaken. “The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken. The earth reels like a drunkard and sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.” (Isaiah 24:19-20)
http://allnewspipeline.com/MT_Taylor_Massive_Earthquake_Coming.php
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N. Carolina Church Caught Keeping Slaves-Another CIA Operation?
By Dave Hodges
IS THERE ANY ORGANIZATION THAT IS NOT TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS?
Brazilian Immigrants Brought Over as Slaves
An AP investigation reveals the Word of Faith Fellowship church in North Carolina used two congregations in Brazil as a supply of young laborers who were forced to work in the U.S. for little or no pay while being subjected to physical or verbal assaults. Word of Faith Fellowship is accused of luring young people from Brazil and forced them to work in North Carolina as slaves. The church, based in the small town of Spindale, is the subject of an Associated Press investigation. This cult was founded in 1979 by Jane Whaley, a former math teacher, and her husband, Sam, a former used car salesman. The church has about 750 members in North Carolina and nearly 2,000 in Brazil and Ghana, and it has affiliations in Sweden, Scotland as well as several other countries. The Common Sense Show has learned that law enforcement has suspected ties to organized child-sex-trafficking. However, the FBI and the CIA have interfered in local investigations. Here is the story.
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Trump tweets: 'WE WORSHIP GOD' in America
By Brooke Singman Published July 26, 2017 Fox News
In between pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions and announcing a major military policy change, President Trump used his Twitter account Wednesday to declare Americans worship God, not government. “IN AMERICA WE DON’T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT—WE WORSHIP GOD!” Trump tweeted, adding an emoji of a video camera and linking to an Instagram video on the president’s official account. The video, posted on “realDonaldTrump” Instagram page, is a clip from Trump's Tuesday night rally in Ohio. “And finally, we believe that family and faith, not government and bureaucracy, are the foundation of our society,” Trump said in the video. “You’ve heard me say it before on the campaign trail, and I’ll say it again tonight – in America we don’t worship government, we worship God.” The president’s faith-themed tweet came hours after he announced plans to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military in any capacity – citing advice from his generals and medical costs. The announcement drew cheers from some faith-based groups but also criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle -- as well as past defense secretaries.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/26/trump-tweets-worship-god-in-america.html
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etc.. Throughout the world right now peace is fastly disappearing, wars are rising up, trouble on the right hand, trouble on the left hand, etc..
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Navy Warships Get New Heavy Missile: 2,500-Lb LRASM
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on July 26, 2017 at 6:45 PM
It’s a big day for the 2,500-pound Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, LRASM. This morning, contractor Lockheed Martin announced an $86.5 million contract to build the first 23 production missiles – as opposed to test weapons – for use by Navy Super Hornet fighters and Air Force B-1B bombers. Lockheed also announce this afternoon that it had, for the first time, successfully test-fired a modified LRASM from the kind of launchers used on Navy ships. Ship-borne launchers dramatically expand the ways the US military can use the missile. LRASM has come a long way from its origins in the air-to-ground JASSM program (Joint Air To Surface Standoff Missile). While aircraft can carry missiles further and faster than warships, they can’t carry nearly as many, which means what ships lack in agility they make up for in striking and staying power. At the very maximum, with nothing held back for defense (which would be tactical insanity), an entire carrier air wing of 44 fighters could only carry 88 LRASMs, while a single Arleigh Burke destroyer could carry 96. Until recently, the only missile Navy ships could fire at enemy ships was the aging Harpoon, whose 70 to 150 mile range (depending on model) is badly outranged by newer Russian and Chinese weapons. Last year, the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office modified the Navy’s SM-6 Standard Missile, originally designed for anti-aircraft and missile defense, to hit ships. The SM-6 has better range than the Harpoon – “over 200 miles” is as specific as the Navy gets — but it also has a much smaller warhead. Harpoon delivers almost 500 pounds compared to SM-6’s 140, which is adequate for downing planes and incoming cruise missiles, but a little light to sink an enemy ship. Now LRASM comes along with long range – “over 200 miles” again — and a huge warhead, 1,000 pounds. Admittedly, the subsonic LRASM is slower than the SM-6, which reaches Mach 3.5 to catch enemy missiles, or than the Russian Klub, which accelerates to Mach 2.9 for its final approach. But the Navy deliberately opted for a slower but stealthier and smarter missile. The LRASM is designed to navigate autonomously around enemy radar and defenses, with enough artificial intelligence aboard that it can change course without human supervision or satellite guidance. (The Lockheed video at the top of this article vividly lays out this approach). Admittedly, there’s a way to go before Navy vessels are packing these new heavy-duty ship-killers. The recent test launch wasn’t from an actual ship at sea, but from a launch canister at White Sands Missile Range, positioned at the same angle and using the same launch controls as the standard Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) used aboard ships. It’ll be even longer before LRASM is available for US submarines, let alone for land-based launchers. By contrast, China and Russia both arm their subs and artillery to kill ships at sea, part of the layered defenses known as Anti-Access/Area Denial. Nevertheless, between the LRASM production contract and the ship-launch test, the US is starting to catch up.
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/07/navy-warships-get-new-heavy-missile-2500-lb-lrasm/
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Journalists Arrested for Interviewing Portland Police Officers and Local District Attorney
July 24, 2017 By Felipe Hemming
journalists are arrested for attempting to interview Portland Police Officers and District Attorney. Oregon Journalists Bob West and Eli Richey both have a colorful history as it relates to documenting the employees of Oregon Law Enforcement agencies, both have been arrested multiple times for various phony charges only to later have the charges dropped by the DA’s office sadly this is not the case this time. As of Friday, July 21, 2017, Eli Richey is in custody with a $250,000.00 bond for six misdemeanors and Bob is free on his own recognizance with a promise to appear on Tuesday next week for a first appearance. I expect that Eli will be released early next week as well because the bail amount is purely punitive and simply a result of the staff at the county jail politicking and plotting revenge against Eli for documenting the Portland Police Bureau employees, a 100% lawful and legal act. Portland Police are Targeting cop watchers for arrest to silence them! These Kind of punitive arrests are having a chilling effect on our ability to continue our vital accountability work in our community. Please contact the ACLU and ask them to help us! 503-227-6928
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Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
Plans follow French commitment to take polluting vehicles off the road owing to effect of poor air quality on people’s health
Anushka Asthana and Matthew Taylor Tuesday 25 July 2017 17.38 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 26 July 2017 11.17 EDT
Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health. The commitment, which follows a similar pledge in France, is part of the government’s much-anticipated clean air plan, which has been at the heart of a protracted high court legal battle. The government warned that the move, which will also take in hybrid vehicles, was needed because of the unnecessary and avoidable impact that poor air quality was having on people’s health. Ministers believe it poses the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK, costing up to £2.7bn in lost productivity in one recent year. Ministers have been urged to introduce charges for vehicles to enter a series of “clean air zones” (CAZ). However, the government only wants taxes to be considered as a last resort, fearing a backlash against any move that punishes motorists. “Poor air quality is the biggest environmental risk to public health in the UK and this government is determined to take strong action in the shortest time possible,” a government spokesman said. “That is why we are providing councils with new funding to accelerate development of local plans, as part of an ambitious £3bn programme to clean up dirty air around our roads.” The final plan, which was due by the end of July, comes after a draft report that environmental lawyers described as “much weaker than hoped for”. The environment secretary, Michael Gove, will be hoping for a better reception when he publishes the final document on Wednesday following months of legal wrangling. A briefing on parts of the plan, seen by the Guardian, repeats the heavy focus on the steps that can be taken to help councils improve air quality in specific areas where emissions have breached EU thresholds. Measures to be urgently brought in by local authorities that have repeatedly breached EU rules include retrofitting buses and other public transport, changing road layouts and altering features such as roundabouts and speed humps. Reprogramming traffic lights will also be included in local plans, with councils being given £255m to accelerate their efforts. Local emissions hotspots will be required to layout their plans by March 2018 and finalise them by the end of the year. A targeted scrappage scheme is also expected to be included. Some want the countrywide initiative to follow in the footsteps of London, which is introducing a £10 toxic “T-charge” that will be levied on up to 10,000 of the oldest, most polluting vehicles every weekday. Sources insisted that while the idea of charges were on the table, there was no plan to force councils to introduce them, and that other measures would be exhausted first. They hope the centre piece of Wednesday’s strategy will be the plan to ban diesel and petrol sales completely by 2040, in line with Emmanuel Macron’s efforts across the Channel. The French president took the steps to help his country meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, in an announcement that came a day after Volvo said it would only make fully electric or hybrid cars from 2019 onwards. That decision was hailed as the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine’s dominance of motor transport after more than a century. Prof David Bailey, an automotive industry expert at Aston University, said: “The timescale involved here is sufficiently long-term to be taken seriously. If enacted it would send a very clear signal to manufacturers and consumers of the direction of travel and may accelerate a transition to electric cars.” Britain’s air quality package also includes £1bn in ultra-low emissions vehicles including investing nearly £100m in the UK’s charging infrastructure and funding the ”plug-in car” and “plug-in grant” schemes. There will also be £290m for the national productivity investment fund, which will go towards the retrofitting, and money towards low-emission taxis. The report will also include an air quality grant for councils, a green bus fund for low carbon vehicles, £1.2bn for cycling and walking and £100m to help air quality on the roads. The strategy comes amid warnings that the UK’s high level of air pollution could be be responsible for 40,000 premature deaths a year. A judge had said the government’s original plans on tackling the issue, which included five clean air zones, were so poor as to be unlawful. The government was asked to present a new draft policy to tackle air pollution from diesel traffic before the election. It was then called to court to explain why it had made a last-minute application to delay publication of its draft policy until after the election. James Eadie QC, representing the government, said the policy was ready to be published but it would be controversial and should therefore be withheld until after the election. “If you publish a draft plan, it drops all the issues of controversy into the election … like dropping a controversial bomb,” he said, adding that it could risk breaching rules about civil service neutrality and lead to the policy being labelled a Tory plan. However, judges said the government did have to publish a draft plan with the final version needed by the end of July. May’s draft contained few concrete proposals and did not specify the cities and towns where polluting vehicles might face charges, the level of any charges or the scope or value of any scrappage scheme. Instead, the plan put the onus for action on local authorities: “Local authorities are already responsible for improving air quality in their area, but will now be expected to develop new and creative solutions to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, while avoiding undue impact on the motorist.” Analysis in the documents showed increasing the number of CAZs from the current six planned to 27 would make by far the greatest impact in cutting pollution and provide cost benefits of over £1bn. The CAZ policy would cut more than 1,000 times more NO2 than a scrappage scheme, even if that scheme required old diesels to be replaced by electric cars. But it required local authorities to exhaust all other options before introducing CAZ charging for diesel vehicles, such as removing speed bumps and retrofitting buses. The coalition government had already set out a vision for almost every car and van to be ultra-low emission by 2050 – a move which the government acknowledged would require “almost all new cars and vans sold to be near-zero emission at the tailpipe by 2040”. So it is unclear to what extent the new pledge will further boost Britain’s ability to achieve air quality requirements. ClientEarth, the campaign group that has successfully pursued the government through the courts over the UK’s air pollution crisis, gave a cautious welcome to the announcement but said ministers must take immediate action to tackle the UK’s air pollution crisis. “The government has trumpeted some promising measures with its air quality plans, but we need to see the detail,” said CEO James Thornton. “A clear policy to move people towards cleaner vehicles by banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans after 2040 is welcome, as is more funding for local authorities. “However, the law says ministers must bring down illegal levels of air pollution as soon as possible, so any measures announced in this plan must be focused on doing that.” The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has been calling for tougher measures to tackle air pollution, which kills 9,000 people a year in the capital. A City Hall source was sceptical about the government’s announcement. “We need to look at the full details but what Londoners suffering from the terrible health impacts of air pollution desperately need is a fully-funded diesel scrappage fund – and they need it right now.” Areeba Hamid, clean air campaigner at Greenpeace, said: “The high court was clear that the government must bring down toxic air pollution in the UK in the shortest possible time. This plan is still miles away from that. “The government cannot shy away any longer from the issue of diesel cars clogging up and polluting our cities, and must now provide real solutions, not just gimmicks. That means proper clean air zones and funding to support local authorities to tackle illegal and unsafe pollution.”
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Even more ice is about to break off of Antarctica — and it’s what scientists feared most
Gene Kim and Jessica Orwig Jul. 25, 2017, 8:00 AM
The giant crack that's been racing across Antarctica Larsen C ice shelf finally met its breaking point between July 10 and 12. The result was an iceberg the size of Delaware and weighing a trillion metric tons. But that's not the end of the story. In fact, it could be the beginning of a more important, more dangerous story. The iceberg that broke off — dubbed A68 — was just one piece of the much larger Larsen C ice shelf. Now, scientists want to know how stable is the ice shelf that has been left intact, connected to the Antarctic continent. Recent satellite images suggest that pieces of the remaining ice shelf are already preparing to break off, creating more, smaller icebergs that will join Iceberg A68. Moreover, a new crack has formed close to where the old crack left off. And it's headed for Bawden Ice Rise, which is a critical anchor point for the ice shelf. Scientists aren't certain the crack will reach Bawden Ice Rise, but they are keeping a close eye on it, nevertheless.
http://www.businessinsider.com/more-ice-break-off-antarctica-larsen-c-ice-shelf-2017-7
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AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It?
Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it.
By Mark Wilson6 minute Read
Bob: “I can can I I everything else.”
Alice: “Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to.”
To you and I, that passage looks like nonsense. But what if I told you this nonsense was the discussion of what might be the most sophisticated negotiation software on the planet? Negotiation software that had learned, and evolved, to get the best deal possible with more speed and efficiency–and perhaps, hidden nuance–than you or I ever could? Because it is. This conversation occurred between two AI agents developed inside Facebook. At first, they were speaking to each other in plain old English. But then researchers realized they’d made a mistake in programming. “There was no reward to sticking to English language,” says Dhruv Batra, visiting research scientist from Georgia Tech at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). As these two agents competed to get the best deal–a very effective bit of AI vs. AI dogfighting researchers have dubbed a “generative adversarial network”–neither was offered any sort of incentive for speaking as a normal person would. So they began to diverge, eventually rearranging legible words into seemingly nonsensical sentences. “Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” says Batra, speaking to a now-predictable phenomenon that Facebook as observed again, and again, and again. “Like if I say ‘the’ five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. This isn’t so different from the way communities of humans create shorthands.” Indeed. Humans have developed unique dialects for everything from trading pork bellies on the floor of the Mercantile Exchange to hunting down terrorists as Seal Team Six–simply because humans sometimes perform better by not abiding to normal language conventions. So should we let our software do the same thing? Should we allow AI to evolve its dialects for specific tasks that involve speaking to other AIs? To essentially gossip out of our earshot? Maybe; it offers us the possibility of a more interoperable world, a more perfect place where iPhones talk to refrigerators that talk to your car without a second thought. The tradeoff is that we, as humanity, would have no clue what those machines were actually saying to one another. We Teach Bots To Talk, But We’ll Never Learn Their Language Facebook ultimately opted to require its negotiation bots to speak in plain old English. “Our interest was having bots who could talk to people,” says Mike Lewis, research scientist at FAIR. Facebook isn’t alone in that perspective. When I inquired to Microsoft about computer-to-computer languages, a spokesperson clarified that Microsoft was more interested in human-to-computer speech. Meanwhile, Google, Amazon, and Apple are all also focusing incredible energies on developing conversational personalities for human consumption. They’re the next wave of user interface, like the mouse and keyboard for the AI era. The other issue, as Facebook admits, is that it has no way of truly understanding any divergent computer language. “It’s important to remember, there aren’t bilingual speakers of AI and human languages,” says Batra. We already don’t generally understand how complex AIs think because we can’t really see inside their thought process. Adding AI-to-AI conversations to this scenario would only make that problem worse. But at the same time, it feels shortsighted, doesn’t it? If we can build software that can speak to other software more efficiently, shouldn’t we use that? Couldn’t there be some benefit? Because, again, we absolutely can lead machines to develop their own languages. Facebook has three published papers proving it. “It’s definitely possible, it’s possible that [language] can be compressed, not just to save characters, but compressed to a form that it could express a sophisticated thought,” says Batra. Machines can converse with any baseline building blocks they’re offered. That might start with human vocabulary, as with Facebook’s negotiation bots. Or it could start with numbers, or binary codes. But as machines develop meanings, these symbols become “tokens”–they’re imbued with rich meanings. As Dauphin points out, machines might not think as you or I do, but tokens allow them to exchange incredibly complex thoughts through the simplest of symbols. The way I think about it is with algebra: If A + B = C, the “A” could encapsulate almost anything. But to a computer, what “A” can mean is so much bigger than what that “A” can mean to a person, because computers have no outright limit on processing power. “It’s perfectly possible for a special token to mean a very complicated thought,” says Batra. “The reason why humans have this idea of decomposition, breaking ideas into simpler concepts, it’s because we have a limit to cognition.” Computers don’t need to simplify concepts. They have the raw horsepower to process them. Why We Should Let Bots Gossip But how could any of this technology actually benefit the world, beyond these theoretical discussions? Would our servers be able to operate more efficiently with bots speaking to one another in shorthand? Could microsecond processes, like algorithmic trading, see some reasonable increase? Chatting with Facebook, and various experts, I couldn’t get a firm answer. However, as paradoxical as this might sound, we might see big gains in such software better understanding our intent. While two computers speaking their own language might be more opaque, an algorithm predisposed to learn new languages might chew through strange new data we feed it more effectively. For example, one researcher recently tried to teach a neural net to create new colors and name them. It was terrible at it, generating names like Sudden Pine and Clear Paste (that clear paste, by the way, was labeled on a light green). But then they made a simple change to the data they were feeding the machine to train it. They made everything lowercase–because lowercase and uppercase letters were confusing it. Suddenly, the color-creating AI was working, well, pretty well! And for whatever reason, it preferred, and performed better, with RGB values as opposed to other numerical color codes. Why did these simple data changes matter? Basically, the researcher did a better job at speaking the computer’s language. As one coder put it to me, “Getting the data into a format that makes sense for machine learning is a huge undertaking right now and is more art than science. English is a very convoluted and complicated language and not at all amicable for machine learning.” In other words, machines allowed to speak and generate machine languages could somewhat ironically allow us to communicate with (and even control) machines better, simply because they’d be predisposed to have a better understanding of the words we speak. As one insider at a major AI technology company told me: No, his company wasn’t actively interested in AIs that generated their own custom languages. But if it were, the greatest advantage he imagined was that it could conceivably allow software, apps, and services to learn to speak to each other without human intervention. Right now, companies like Apple have to build APIs–basically a software bridge–involving all sorts of standards that other companies need to comply with in order for their products to communicate. However, APIs can take years to develop, and their standards are heavily debated across the industry in decade-long arguments. But software, allowed to freely learn how to communicate with other software, could generate its own shorthands for us. That means our “smart devices” could learn to interoperate, no API required. Given that our connected age has been a bit of a disappointment, given that the internet of things is mostly a joke, given that it’s no easier to get a document from your Android phone onto your LG TV than it was 10 years ago, maybe there is something to the idea of letting the AIs of our world just talk it out on our behalf. Because our corporations can’t seem to decide on anything. But these adversarial networks? They get things done.
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132632/ai-is-inventing-its-own-perfect-languages-should-we-let-it
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There'll Be No Modifications to Military Transgender Policy -- Yet
07-27-2017 Amber C. Strong, Paul Strand
WASHINGTON – Transgender service members will be allowed to continue serving openly until Defense Secretary Jim Mattis receives direction from President Donald Trump to change its policy, America's top military officer announced Thursday. "I know there are questions about yesterday's announcement on the transgender policy by the President," Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a memo to all military service chiefs, commanders and enlisted military leaders. "There will be no modifications to the current policy until the president's direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary has issued implementation guidance." “In the meantime, we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect. As importantly, given the current fight and the challenges we face, we will all remain focused on accomplishing our assigned missions,” he continued. Thursday's announcement comes as backlash continues over Trump’s announcement of a ban on transgenders serving in the military. The Pentagon has for the most part remained silent on the matter. "We refer all questions about the president's statements to the White House. We will continue to work closely with the White House to address the new guidance provided by the commander in chief on transgender individuals serving the military," a Pentagon spokesperson told CBN News. On Wednesday morning the president took to Twitter, saying, "After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military." "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you," he concluded. Later at press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered a little insight into the decision. "The president has a lot of support for ALL Americans...he wants to protect Americans at all times," she said. She went on to say the decision would have otherwise been "expensive and disruptive." "He's voiced this is a very disruptive and expensive policy and based on consultation he's had with his national security team he came to conclusion it erodes military readiness and unit cohesion and made the decision based on that," she said. Meanwhile, the Pentagon won't release any data on the number of transgender troops currently serving. However, a Rand study shows there are between 2,500 and 7,000 transgender service members on active-duty and up to 4,000 in the reserves. The White House offered no definitive answer on what will happen to them. There has been an ongoing debate over whether or not the military would pay for gender reassignment surgery. However, the president took it a step further, declaring transgender people would not be allowed to serve at all. This puts a stop to Obama-era initiatives aimed at ending all forms of discrimination in the military. 'This Is About Military Readiness' Military insiders and members of Congress supported the idea of putting a stop to these policies. "I applaud President Trump for keeping his promise to return to military priorities -- and not continue the social experimentation of the Obama era that has crippled our nation's military," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, a Marine veteran, said in a statement Wednesday. "The military can now focus its efforts on preparing to fight and win wars rather than being used to advance the Obama social agenda." Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told CBN News, "He makes decisions after talking with field commanders. He has a DOD (Department of Defense) leadership team, the joint chiefs, head of joint chiefs. It's important for us to support that military team. This is their decision, so we will support it." In an appearance on CBN News' "Faith Nation," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made it clear he too backs the president's decision. "This is a debate that we had on the floor similar to this about a week ago. Vicky Hartzler had an amendment on the floor to stop paying for the surgery for transgenders," he said. "One, it takes people out of the military," he noted, "their ability to serve for a year or so as they go through this, the amount of cost, wanting to make sure that money was going to the military itself, to our equipment and other needs that we have for the military." Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jerry Boykin, former U.S. Army Delta Force commander and current FRC executive vice president, agreed. "This is about the readiness of our military," he told CBN News. "And if we're going to take money in this year's Defense budget and it will be set aside to perform surgery for transgender people, who we recruited into the military, you got your priorities wrong." The issue of transgenders in the military had been getting attention in the last few days after it became public knowledge that the military would pay for expensive sex change surgeries and hormone treatments for transgenders in the ranks. The Family Research Council has estimated those procedures could cost U.S. taxpayers up to $3.7 billion over the next 10 years. A move to get funding for those surgeries and treatments stripped from military funding was defeated last week in the U.S. House of Representatives. That defeat sent shock waves through Republican and conservative circles as 23 GOP House members joined Democrat lawmakers to make sure the right to those transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for military members was preserved. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., who is among those opposed to such funding, told CBN News, "It seems to me if someone comes to the military with the notion that I want to serve my country and want to protect this, the last great hope of mankind of Earth -- then figure out if you're a man or a woman first and then come to the military and serve this country." LGBTQ Supporters Speak Out Members of the LGBTQ community wasted no time expressing their outrage. "While the impact of Trump's tweets is unclear, banning transgender service members would erode military readiness and contradict our country's values and ideals," National Center for Lesbian Rights Legal Director Shannon Price Minter said in a statement. "Those who serve our country deserve our gratitude and respect. We call on the president to retract this harmful statement and to defer to the Pentagon's assessment that transgender people are fit to serve," he said. Others voicing their support of the LGBTQ community include Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who suggested the president's Twitter announcement was ill-advised. "The president's tweet this morning regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter," he said, noting that Trump's statement was "unclear." "There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military—regardless of their gender identity," McCain said. "The Department of Defense is currently conducting a study on the medical obligations it would incur, the impact on military readiness, and related questions associated with the accession of transgender individuals who are not currently serving in uniform and wish to join the military," he continued. "I do not believe that any new policy decision is appropriate until that study is complete and thoroughly reviewed by the secretary of defense, our military leadership, and the Congress." The American Civil Liberties Union, tweeted, "Transgender service members should know the ACLU has your back and we want to hear from you." "You are not a 'burden.' Do not let this president shake you. We support you; we stand with you," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez. Others have pointed out the president's prior statements of support for the LGBTQ community. During the campaign season, candidate Trump tweeted, "Thank you LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs."
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2017/july/fatah-hamas-call-for-a-day-of-rage-friday
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etc. Babylon destroyed in twenty-four hours, and you shall see the other earthquake on the west coast, you shall see the one in the middle and that shall come unto you soon, just as soon as they divide my land again, saith your Father God, you shall see that. For it is that hour and it is that time and it shall come to pass, etc.
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I know who this is for. This is for Donald Trump’s son-in- law. And somehow he is going to hear this and don’t ask me how. But God is saying to him: You divide your people and I will bring judgment upon you like you have never seen before. You will be like Jezebel and I will throw you off the roof and the dogs will eat your bones. Therefore, I say unto you, repent, I do not want my nation divided, I will not allow my nation to be divided, therefore, think your thoughts. Just because you are a Jew you cannot do the things that you desire to do, for I have a special covenant with you and you better study my covenant or it will fall upon your own personal family. Repent I say and turn from your wicked ways.
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Tonight on The Hal Lindsey Report
In 1927, James Weldon Johnson published his classic book of poems, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. One of them is called, "The Prodigal Son." It begins with the famous words, "Young man -- Young man -- Your arm's too short to box with God." Apparently the powers that be in American sports disagree. I'm not talking about individual athletes. I'm referring to the big professional sports leagues and the media that cover them. Though they have nothing to gain and everything to lose, it appears to me that they have decided to go to war against God. Further, it seems to me that they have also decided to go to war against the average American. And that seems an odd thing to do since the average American fan is the one who puts money into their pockets. And what life or death issue has caused these normally perceptive business people to place themselves as arbiters of right and wrong in America? And also to publicly threaten to punish the citizens of states which disagree with their political point of view? Restrooms. More precisely: Your right to feel safe and secure when you visit a public restroom. Even more precisely: Your mother's, wife's, mother-in-law's, sister's, daughter's, grandmother's, granddaughter's, niece's, cousin's, girlfriend's, co-worker's, or female friend's right to feel safe and secure when they visit a public restroom. And why? So that .003 percent of the population can live out their fantasies and use the restrooms of the opposite sex. No. I'm not making this up. I wish to heaven that I were. But this is America 2016, where being politically correct trumps common sense. Where bowing and scraping to the LGBT lobby (which, by the U.S. government's own figures, comprise less than 3% of the total population) trumps the traditional values of the vast majority of Americans. To allow a man to freely and brazenly enter a public womens' restroom and do his business (and maybe more?) simply because he says he "feels" like a woman that day is beyond nonsense, it's insanity. But that's where ESPN, The National Basketball Association (NBA), The National Football League (NFL), American Airlines, PayPal, Wells Fargo, and Target, to name but a few, have chosen to make their stand and invest their credibility. And I'm not just talking about tacitly agreeing to such nonsense, I'm talking about firing people who disagree and publicly threatening to wreak economic harm on the citizens of entire states if they do not capitulate to their way of thinking. That's what is happening in North Carolina. When the state legislature passed a law requiring people in the state to use public restrooms that correspond to their birth gender, an incensed NBA threatened to pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte. PayPal vowed to stop its involvement in the state, which meant the withdrawal of several billions of dollars in construction funds and jobs. American Airlines and Wells Fargo made similar threats against North Carolina's citizens. The state's governor, Pat McCrory ignored the threats and signed the bill the day it was passed. Not like Georgia, where a similar bill was passed by the Georgia Legislature. The NFL threatened to stop having Super Bowls in Atlanta and the governor folded and vetoed the bill. All of this over the issue of letting transgender individuals, and any others who so wish on a given day, decide to use the restroom for the opposite sex. These common sense laws simply say that if you have outside plumbing, you use the men's room. If you have inside plumbing, you use the ladies. Or go into the private restroom and lock the door behind you. Your sexual preference doesn't matter. This is a simple, physical determination. But that's not good enough for the LGBT crowd. They want us to do it their way or suffer the consequences from their corporate enforcers. Folks, this is nothing short of corporate persecution. But it's not about religion, you say. Not yet. But it is about being punished because we make common sense choices based on certain moral values. Moral values that the elites and other powers that be want to see eroded so that one day they can do what they choose, when they choose. Morality be damned. But, you may protest, when corporations make vague threats against entire states, it doesn't really affect individuals. It affected Curt Schilling. The pitcher for the Boston Red Sox cemented his place in baseball history when he won Game Six of the 2004 American League Championship Series (ALCS) over the New York Yankees. He pitched just days after ankle surgery and endured a sore and bleeding ankle to go seven innings and allow only one run. His bloody sock became a part of Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox went on to win the World Series. Schilling has three World Series rings. ESPN, the major American sports broadcaster, hired Schilling to work as a color commentator for its telecasts. But Schilling is an outspoken man with conservative values. Last year, he was disciplined by the network when he made the comment on his personal social media outlet that people claim that only 5% to 10% of Muslims are extremists. He noted that when Hitler rose to power, only 7% of Germans were part of the Nazi party. Then he asked, "How'd that go." He almost lost his job. Last month, Schilling posted a picture on his personal Facebook page of a grotesquely dressed transvestite man. The caption asked if you wanted to let this man into the restroom with your daughter. It noted that if you didn't want that to happen, then you are considered narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving, and racist. Every word he posted was true. Like his first post in 2015. But each one bore consequences. This time, Schilling was summarily fired for his personal, non-work-related view. Which ESPN has every right to do. But not only did ESPN fire him, they went back and completely removed the portion of a documentary program on that 2004 ALCS series that showcased Schilling's performance in the critical Game Six. Coincidence? But ESPN may suffer consequences, too. When it starts punishing people for expressing a view outside of work that is held by the vast majority of Americans, it should expect some blowback. And maybe it's already started. For a variety of reasons, ESPN, once a model American success story and cash machine for The Walt Disney Company, has started hemorrhaging. Its value has declined dramatically recently. So much so that it has begun to affect Walt Disney's bottom line. Coincidence? ESPN, Walt Disney, the NFL, the NBA, American Airlines, Wells Fargo, PayPal, Target, and others may soon learn the hard lesson that, "Your arm's too short to box with God!" But that's not all I'll cover on this week's program. I'll discuss the recent election of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London. With his selection, London becomes the first major western city in history to elect a Muslim mayor. And on May 30, France is hosting a meeting of major players to plan a Middle East peace summit later this year. All the usual suspects will be there. In fact, it appears to be a reunion of the infamous "Quartet" of organizations and states: the UN, the EU, the US, and Russia. The goal of the summit? Devise a plan for dividing Jerusalem and finally bringing peace to the Middle East through a two-state solution in Israel. And if Israel doesn't adopt the plan? Well, France vows to then officially recognize Palestine as an independent nation. 137 nations already do, but the United States provides cover for Israel at the UN Security Council. But now it appears that Germany is starting to turn its back on Israel, too. A Middle Eastern news outlet insists that Europe is turning against Israel as a result of the leadership of the American White House. It insists that, "This belated European insight was the result of American inspiration." (Al-Monitor) Folks, the prophet Zechariah predicted that in the last days, "...all of the nations of the world will be gathered against it (Israel)." (Zechariah 12:3) We are seeing that happening right now. Finally, I will discuss the differences between the Bible and the Koran. The world considers both of them to be "holy books." One is said to have been handed down intact through an angel, with no human involvement, and committed to the page hundreds of years after the "revelation." The other is "God-breathed." Written by 40 different authors from various times and places, it coordinates perfectly and seamlessly. It does not contradict science, history, or nature, but confirms them, though primitive men wrote it. Its prophecies have thus far been fulfilled with 100% accuracy. In fact, its test for the validity of a prophet is either 100% accuracy or death by stoning. Tough standards. It miraculously combines "spiritual thoughts with spiritual words." (I Corinthians 2:13) And though it does not make sense to those who are spiritually "dead," it promises that anyone who wants to experience a spiritual rebirth can do so and become "spiritually alive."
http://www.hallindsey.com/hlr-5-13-2016/
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New Army Training Tells Female Soldiers To ‘Accept’ Naked Men In Their Showers
I recently received a copy of the new ‘Tier Three Transgender Training’ materials that the U.S. Army is now using in mandatory training for all soldiers.
By James Hasson July 5, 2017
On June 30, hours before the policy took effect, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis postponed the opening of military enlistments to transgender people for an additional six months. The delay does not prevent currently serving soldiers from transitioning, however. It is intended to give the joint chiefs more time to review and mitigate the Obama-era rule’s impact on the “readiness and lethality of our [armed] forces.” Late into President Obama’s last term, his military officials allowed transgender soldiers to serve openly, even funding gender-change surgeries with taxpayer dollars. Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter set a July 1 deadline for all four military branches to write policies for accepting openly transgender enlistments. Formerly, soldiers exhibiting gender dysphoria were automatically discharged. While the Pentagon’s review takes place behind closed doors and the inevitable culture-war volleys spill into the public square, it is critical to understand the real-life implications of the policy shift. I recently received a copy of the new “Tier Three Transgender Training” materials—a PowerPoint and accompanying lesson plan excerpted below, with full documents at these links—that the Army is now using in mandatory training for all soldiers. The active-duty officer who sent the materials completed the training with 40 other soldiers last week instead of conducting their morning physical training as usual. Military As Social Engineering, Not National Defense The force-wide presentation sheds quite a bit of light on the implications of the rule change on transgender service members. The policy prioritizes subjective feelings over combat-readiness and inverts military order by placing the needs of individuals over the well-being of their units. The policy allows transgender soldiers to switch their “gender marker” in the Army’s personnel database without undergoing sex reassignment surgery or any other physical changes. For a soldier to officially change gender requires only some paperwork. A military doctor or civilian medical professional must certify that the transgender person has achieved “stability in the preferred gender” and the soldier must change the gender designation on the soldier’s passport or birth certificate. From that point on, the transgender soldier is “expected to adhere to all military standards associated with their gender,” and “use the billeting, bathroom and shower facilities” of their new gender. For example, “Vignette Four” of the training module presents the following scenario: “following her transition from male to female (which did not include sex reassignment surgery) and gender marker change in DEERS [DEERS is the military’s personnel database], a transgender Soldier begins using female barracks, bathroom and shower facilities. Because she did not undergo a surgical change, the Soldier still has male genitalia.” How should troops respond? “Soldiers must accept living and working conditions that are often austere, primitive, and characterized by little or no privacy.” The slide tells soldiers to “understand that you may encounter individuals in barracks, bathrooms, or shower facilities with physical characteristics of the opposite sex despite having the same gender marker in DEERS.” The next bullet point adds, “all Soldiers should be respectful of the privacy and modesty concerns of others. However, transgender Soldiers are not required or expected to modify or adjust their behavior based on the fact that they do not ‘match’ other Soldiers.” This is a first. The military is normally in the business of telling soldiers to “modify or adjust their behavior” all the time. Consider what these policies mean in real life: Most Army showers look like a prison cell with several showerheads on the wall. Anyone who has dealt with the practical challenges of funneling 30 people through them in ten minutes understands that “privacy” will be incompatible with reality. Female soldiers who feel uncomfortable sharing facilities with individuals who still have “physical characteristics of the opposite sex” will just have to put up with it. The adjustments to “billeting” are equally intrusive. Modern barracks resemble college dorms, with two soldiers of the same sex — now “gender marker” — sharing rooms just large enough to accommodate the basic necessities of military life. The training forbids any commander from ordering a transgender soldier to use a facility that is inconsistent with his “gender marker,” and rejects the idea of separate facilities for transgender soldiers. If separate facilities of any kind are created, they must be for soldiers who feel uncomfortable sharing facilities with a member of the opposite biological sex. In short, the rest of the unit must adjust, not the individual transgender soldier. Watch My Genitals While I Urinate The changes also affect drug-testing procedures. DoD Instruction 1010.16 requires urine specimens to be “collected under the direct observation of a designated individual of the same sex as the Service member providing the specimen.” To be blunt, “observers” must watch the urine sample leave the tested soldier’s body and enter the collection cup. Under the new rules, however, “absent an exception to policy, the observer will be the same gender as the Soldier being observed (as reflected by the gender marker in DEERS).” The change is justified by interpreting the term “sex” in existing drug testing regulations to mean the same thing as “gender.” Lest there be any confusion: the policy means that an 18-year-old female soldier may be forced to drop her pants and urinate in a cup in front of an anatomically male non-commissioned officer who has a female “gender marker,” and vice versa. As important as privacy and respect are, the biggest problem with the policy is its effect on the military’s core purpose of battle readiness. For example, under the policy, a male infantryman who cannot meet the bare minimum requirement of 42 pushups and is therefore considered a liability in combat can switch his “gender marker” to female and suddenly be qualified. Even though he retains the exact same physical characteristics, and can do only 19 push-ups, he will now be a combat-ready female infantry soldier, eligible to hold the exact same role in his former unit. The lesson plan is explicit on this point: “for policies and standards that apply differently to Soldiers according to gender, the Army recognizes a Soldier’s gender by the Soldier’s gender marker in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting Systems (DEERS).” Bullets Don’t Care About Your Feelings Regardless of one’s opinion about bathroom bills, this policy is dangerously misguided not because of politics or ideology, but as a matter of basic physics. Biology may not be destiny, as the slogan goes, but it still matters on the battlefield. An AK-47 round travels towards a soldier at 2,330 feet per second, no matter how you self-identify. A six-foot tall, 180-pound, anatomically male soldier can either pull his bodyweight over a wall, or carry another soldier, or walk for miles with 80 pounds of equipment, or he cannot. But under the current policy, you are combat-ready if you self-identify as the type of person who would be combat-ready. How very millennial. Of course, the new policy raises other logistical issues as well. If “stability in the preferred gender” does not preclude ongoing hormone therapy, will these soldiers be deployable? Should estrogen cycles be flown into remote forward operating bases with other critical medical supplies? And if these soldiers cannot deploy alongside their units, is the policy truly serving its stated goal of availing the armed services with “all available talent to remain the finest fighting force the world has ever known”? The “harassment and discrimination” section of the lesson plan forbids “attitudes or comments that marginalize transgender people.” Heated, time-sensitive situations come with enough confusion on their own, without the additional layer added by gender-neutral pronouns such as “they” and “their,” and soldiers should not have to double-clutch for fear of repercussions before speaking bluntly in such situations. The military has always been at the forefront of civil rights and equality in our society, and that should never change. But this policy is not a question of equality, it is a matter of basic safety and combat effectiveness. It asks the other 39 soldiers in a transgender soldier’s platoon to potentially sacrifice their safety for one soldier’s affirmation. It is the inverse of the traditional military ethos. On one of my first days in the Army, I listened to a non-commissioned officer tell a new private, “Words don’t hurt — bullets hurt. So I don’t give a . . . about your . . . feelings.” (Creative language omitted.) Master Sergeant Wood was a veteran of the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom, a Purple Heart recipient, and had only four fingers on his right hand. He knew the truth of his statement from firsthand experience. It seems somewhere along the line, during the last 15 years of war, our political class lost track of his most basic insight: Words don’t hurt. Bullets hurt.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/05/new-army-training-tells-female-soldiers-put-naked-men-showers/
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Muslims Maintain Temple Mount Boycott, Despite Removal of Metal Detectors
By Geller Report Staff - on July 25, 2017
You didn’t really think savages would be satiated did you? Terrorism works and they mean to extract more blood from the Jews. Muslims got their way — Israeli authorities removed metal detectors that had been placed at the holy Temple Mount site in order to ward off acts of Islamic terrorism. You didn’t really think this was about metal detectors, did you. Just another Islamic pretext for jihad and slaughter, as is their way. As previously reported by Pamela Geller here, Israel made a remarkable concession to Palestinians by agreeing, on the heels of recent terror attacks, to take out its security system. But Palestinians are still boycotting the site. Leaders of the Islam faith told their followers to keep away from the area — to boycott — pending a full review of what, if any, other Israeli security measures might still be in place. This is ridiculous. Israelis don’t have the right to protect themselves from terror attacks? One would think if there’s nothing to hide, there’s nothing to fear — no crime, no fould. Metal detectors aren’t exactly intrusive, in other words. But Israeli authorities conceded and removed the security layer, anyway — a sizeable nod to Palestinian wishes. And now Palestinians’ response? They want more concessions. From the Times of Israel: The Waqf Islamic trust, which administers the site, said a decision to continue the boycott was pending a review of the new Israeli security arrangements there. Ikrema Sabri, the head of the Supreme Islamic Committee in the city, said such a review might be completed later on Tuesday. Muslim worshipers have stayed away from the sacred compound since Israel installed metal detectors there last week. Instead, they performed mass prayer protests outside the shrine, many of which devolved into clashes with Israeli security forces. Earlier Tuesday, Israel’s security cabinet said it would replace the metal detectors with “advanced technologies,” referring reportedly to cameras that can detect hidden objects, but said the process could take up to six months. Sabri told The Associated Press that “our position is that for now, nobody should enter” the shrine. A Waqf official told The Times of Israel that it was continuing the boycott of the Temple Mount until all security measures added after the attack are removed. The official noted that “the new high tech cameras” would not be accepted in place of the metal detectors. On Tuesday morning, worshipers were remaining outside and police and Palestinian protesters were gearing up for another tense round of afternoon prayers in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Bennett: Government's Temple Mount decisions weakened Israel
ByGil Hoffman July 27, 2017 11:25
Likud minister, in contrast, says decision makers realized alliance with moderate Arab states more important. Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett slammed his own government’s decisions regarding the handling of the Temple Mount tensions in a scathing interview with Army Radio on Thursday. Bennett voted against the security cabinet’s decision to remove metal detectors from the Temple Mount. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. He also opposed Thursday morning’s removal of security cameras from the holy site and barriers that aided security checks at the Lions’ Gate. “Israel comes out weakened from this crisis,” Bennett said. “Instead of sending a message about Israel’s sovereignty on the Temple Mount, it sent a message that Israel’s sovereignty can be questioned.” Bennett called the decisions a “surrender” and compared the harm to Israeli security to the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. But he said that as a member of the security cabinet he bears collective responsibility, and he refused to personally criticize or blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But Bennett’s Bayit Yehudi colleague, MK Bezalel Smotrich, did not hold back, writing on Twitter that “the time has come to internalize that it is either us or them,” referring to the Israeli Muslims. He slammed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for voting for what he called “the surrender on the Temple Mount,” saying that with another vote or two in the security cabinet “the shame could have been prevented.” Labor chairman Avi Gabbay accused Netanyahu of haphazard decision- making and irresponsible management, which he said harmed Israel’s security and deterrence. He said Netanyahu made his decisions out of fear of Bennett taking away his political support on the Right. “After this week, we don’t have to explain anymore why we have to replace the current government,” Gabbay said at a rally of a thousand supporters in Tel Aviv on Thursday night. “Now the public understands why what they have is not good, so we just have to reach out and make them realize we are the alternative.” Gabbay accused Netanyahu of constantly setting new fires and struggling to extinguish them. He promised his party would put an end to what he called the “national humiliation” done to Israel by Netanyahu, Bennett and Liberman, and replace the government with responsible leadership. “Netanyahu demonstrated weakness to us,” he said. “We saw our prime minister harm our security. We are paying the price.” Gabbay’s Labor colleague MK Nachman Shai called the events of the past week a “colossal failure” for Netanyahu. “The government’s zigzagging led to a Palestinian victory that does not even guarantee quiet in Jerusalem and the territories,” Shai said. Construction Minister Yoav Gallant (Kulanu), who is also a member of the security cabinet, said its decision- making process was correct. He told Israel Radio that metal detectors do not bring security. The decision to remove metal detectors was championed in the security cabinet by Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Director Nadav Argaman. Coalition chairman David Bitan (Likud) caused an uproar on Thursday when he told Army Radio that Argaman was a coward “who just wants to get back home safely.” Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid slammed Gabbay, saying the Shin Bet safeguards our lives. Yesh Atid MK Yaakov Peri, who is a former director of the Shin Bet, said Bitan’s statement was dangerous because is strengthens the delegitimizing of security forces. Netanyahu released a statement supporting Argaman and criticizing Bitan, who normally speaks for the prime minister. Netanyahu said the Shin Bet is succeeding in fighting terrorism and has saved countless lives.
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Trump to tout major job boon for Wisconsin; Foxconn, iPhone supplier, expected to open plant
By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 26, 2017
President Trump is expected to announced Wednesday that Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturing giant that makes iPhone components, will build a major factory in Wisconsin. The plant likely will create more than 10,000 new jobs and highlight Mr. Trump’s push to rebuild the U.S. manufacturing base and keep jobs in America. Mr. Trump’s role in bringing Foxconn to the U.S. or the decision to locate in Wisconsin was unclear early Friday. The decision by Foxconn, which has been flirting with multiple states to build its first U.S. manufacturing plant, was first reported by Fox Business. Mr. Trump is scheduled to make a major jobs announcement at the White House at 5 p.m. Expectations have been building for days that the event was about the Foxconn deal in Wisconsin, where the company likely will receive tax breaks. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, said he will attend the announcement at the White House.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/26/trump-tout-major-job-boon-wisconsin-foxconn-iphone/
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etc. for if you put the man in that I desire for you to put in, you will have good times until you go. If not it shall be hell here on earth and you will think that you have been left behind, but that is not so.
For I have told you before this that this would be the last President, that this would be the last President as you know a President, therefore listen, pay attention, for it is your life it will affect, but it doesn’t need to affect it in a bad sense it can affect it in a good sense. You can be the victors, you can be the overcomers, but hear, hear what I, your Father God, has to say.
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Trump tweets: 'WE WORSHIP GOD' in America
By Brooke Singman Published July 26, 2017 Fox News
In between pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions and announcing a major military policy change, President Trump used his Twitter account Wednesday to declare Americans worship God, not government. “IN AMERICA WE DON’T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT—WE WORSHIP GOD!” Trump tweeted, adding an emoji of a video camera and linking to an Instagram video on the president’s official account. The video, posted on “realDonaldTrump” Instagram page, is a clip from Trump's Tuesday night rally in Ohio. “And finally, we believe that family and faith, not government and bureaucracy, are the foundation of our society,” Trump said in the video. “You’ve heard me say it before on the campaign trail, and I’ll say it again tonight – in America we don’t worship government, we worship God.” The president’s faith-themed tweet came hours after he announced plans to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military in any capacity – citing advice from his generals and medical costs. The announcement drew cheers from some faith-based groups but also criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle -- as well as past defense secretaries. TRUMP ANNOUNCES BAN ON TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS SERVING IN MILITARY
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/26/trump-tweets-worship-god-in-america.html
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Caste Aside: India’s New President Has ‘No Room for Christians’
Church leaders believe Hindu nationalism will outweigh the Dalit leader’s lower-caste loyalties.
Kate Shellnutt July 25, 2017 9:25 AM
Ram Nath Kovind, India’s new president who took office today, represents an unusual case of a little-known politician from the country’s lowest caste, the Dalits, rising to power. However, as others champion his victory, India’s Christian minority—the majority of whom are Dalits themselves—know that a Hindu nationalist politician from the Dalit caste is still a Hindu nationalist politician. Like the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that nominated him, Kovind represents a continued threat to non-Hindus in India, including its estimated 25 million to 60 million Christians. (As CT has noted, that’s a tiny minority amid 1 billion Hindus, but still sizable enough to rank among the 25 countries with the most Christians, surpassing “Christian countries” such as Uganda and Greece.) If Indian officials were to move forward with anti-conversion legislation or other policies directed at Christians, “he would be a good rubber stamp for the government,” said Sandeep Kumar, a church planter and principal of Mission India Bible College, in an interview with CT. “There is no room for Christians in his understanding.” Since 2014, India has been led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a BJP leader notorious among Christians for permitting religious freedom violations to spread unchecked. Meanwhile, the position of president is mostly ceremonial and selected by lawmakers. Kovind’s election this month indicates that the BJP is gaining support among Dalits (once called “untouchables”) with its polarizing vision of India as a nation whose religion, language, and culture is solely Hindu, an ideology known as Hindutva that originated among the higher castes. When he was a party leader back in 2010, Kovind had remarked that “Islam and Christianity are alien to India” and said that they do not deserve the benefits and quotas assured to others from lowest castes, officially designated as “Scheduled Castes.” India’s constitution has extended scheduled caste benefits to Buddhists and Sikhs, but not to any other religious minorities, officially leaving Dalit Muslims and Christians out. Most estimates suggest that at least half of India’s Christians are Dalits. Z. Devasagaya Raj, a priest who oversees Catholic outreach to Dalits, said “the idea of appointing a Dalit person for the coveted post is largely positive but not if ‘the person holds a [pro-Hindu] right-wing ideology,’” according to a UCA News report. Though Modi endorsed Kovind as a representative for the poor and oppressed, Christians have reason to believe that won’t include them. Samuel Jaykumar, who defends Dalit Christians as a leader with the National Council of Churches in India, told the Catholic news source that he was concerned that Kovind’s presidency would make things worse for Dalit Christians and Muslims. Kovind’s election on July 17 followed weeks of protests from Christians and Muslims angered by attacks on religious minorities for eating beef, which angered Hindutva extremists due to Hindus’ veneration of cows. (The sale of cattle for slaughter was declared illegal in most of India this spring, until the Supreme Court suspended the ban.) Kovind’s opponent from the United Progressive Alliance, Meira Kumar, also came from the Dalit class and had a “good track record” in foreign affairs, according to Sandeep Kumar. Regardless of the candidate, it’s uncommon for presidential politics to come up in Indian churches. “We don’t preach on if someone has been elected and how that could benefit us,” the pastor said. “But we do pray for our country.” K. R. Narayanan, India’s first Dalit president since the country’s independence, was a better advocate for tolerance for religious minorities when he held office from 1997 – 2002. Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church-run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system. Catholic and Protestant leaders have joined to pray for their new president. The next general election in India will take place in 2019. There aren’t promising signs for an alternative that would be friendlier to Christians than the current administration, led by Modi, so most expect that the Hindutva ethos will continue to rule. Though India is the biggest democracy in the world, its Hindu norms have increasingly restricted Christian freedoms. Open Doors rates the persecution level in the country as “very high.” Christians will join in demonstrations next month designed to draw attention to the plight of Dalits. According to Asia News: This August 10th will be a “Black Day” to highlight the discrimination suffered by Dalit Christians in India for 67 years. It is the initiative launched by the Indian Bishops' Conference (CBCI) Office of Dalits and the Disadvantaged Classes. In recent days, the bishops expressed their solidarity with the new president, Ram Nath Kovind, of Dalit origins. They also want to remind people that the country implements a constitutional-based discrimination against those Dalits that embrace Christianity. Due to a regulatory crackdown on foreign NGOs, Compassion International was forced to end its child sponsorship operations in India in March, pulling $45 million in funding from its Indian church partners. CT offered an in-depth cover story last year on Indian Christianity, the world’s most vibrant Christward movement. http://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/july/caste-aside-india-new-dalit-president-kovind-no-christians.html
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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Goodbye Past, Hello Future: Turkey 'Drifting' From NATO to Eurasia
Lefteris Pitarakis World 12:51 22.07.2017(updated 13:15 22.07.2017)
Germany deliberately provoked a crisis in Berlin-Ankara ties which may have added significantly to Turkey further distancing itself from NATO, Turkish military expert Soner Polat told Sputnik. Berlin
Earlier this week, local media reported that the Turkish court ruled that Peter Steudtner, a German human rights activist, among a group of six human rights activists being held that includes Amnesty International's Turkey director Idil Eser, should remain in custody. The activists were detained by the Turkish police over allegedly aiding a terrorist group on July 5. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that Berlin will reconsider its economic policy towards Ankara as well as its credit, investment and tourism programs over the arrests of human rights activists in Turkey. Turkish authorities have already detained thousands of journalists, diplomats, judges, members of the military and human rights activists after the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016 over their alleged support for exiled Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of being behind the coup. In an interview with Sputnik Turkey, Retired Rear Admiral of the Turkish Armed Forces Soner Polat berated Germany for intentionally fueling a crisis in bilateral relations which he said is an important factor in the process of Turkey's separation from NATO. "Turkey is moving slowly but confidently towards Eurasia even though it is a painful process. It would be naive to think that Turkey, which has been a NATO member since 1952, can easily and painlessly distance itself from the alliance. The statements made by Germany will by all means affect Turkey's position within NATO," Polat said. He added that "right now, there is a cautious and negative attitude towards Turkey in the West" and that "the growth of this trend was even more apparent after the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 last year." According to him, "prejudice and hostility against Turkey are in place in the territories from Australia to New Zealand, from Europe to the United States, something that is disguised as opposition to the Justice and Development Party, as well as to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan." "The main goal is Turkey itself, and Erdogan is described as a person who bears responsibility for everything. Germany consciously decided to aggravate this crisis by deliberately provoking tension in Injirlik. After all, what would have changed if German MPs visited the Injirlik or Konya air base? Everything indicates that these crises were artificially provoked," Polat said. He noted that the opposition to Erdogan became the key point of Europe's internal policy. "The Netherlands and Germany currently follow the example of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who conducted his Brexit campaign in line with confrontation with Turkey. Preventing Erdogan from delivering a speech at the G20 summit is a big scandal. Turkey is drifting away from the West," Polat pointed out. He described Germany as "a Eurasian country" which he said "should take more rational steps and act in a more balanced way [with respect to Turkey]". Polat also recalled that "if Berlin and Ankara break off relations, Germany, which has a trade surplus with Turkey, will suffer more damage." "German authorities make statements that imply, in fact, interference in Turkey's judicial system. Everyone should understand that Turkey is not Greece, Iraq or Syria. And if they do not understand now, sooner or later they will," he concluded. In late May, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Ankara will not allow German lawmakers to visit the Incirlik air base as long as Germany takes steps against Turkey. "Germany negatively looks at Turkey, and now they say: 'We want to come to Incirlik'. Germany must understand that Turkey, which it can force to do what it wants, and to get what it wants from it, exists no longer. This remains in the past. In such conditions it is impossible to allow German parliamentarians to visit Incirlik," Cavusoglu said.
https://sputniknews.com/world/201707221055785107-germany-turkey-relations-nato-policy/
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Mysterious plumes of steam rising from Greenland glacier
7/22/2017 04:16:00 AM
Plumes of steam rising from cracks in a glacier near Kulusuk, Greenland.
The photo above was taken by pilot Ágúst Arnbjörnsson on July 11, 2017 during a flight from Keflavik to Portland, from a height of approximately 34,000 feet. The location is 75 km from Kulusuk in Greenland. The image appears to show three plumes of steam rising from cracks in the glacier, which according to the blog of volcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson, is 1.5 to 2 kilometers thick. This may be a sign of powerful geothermal activity from below. Earlier this year a team of NASA researchers observed an ominous crack growing in the Petermann Glacier along the northern coast of Greenland. Recently Greenland recorded the coldest temperature ever in the northern hemisphere for July.
http://novaordemnews.blogspot.com/2017/07/mysterious-plumes-of-steam-rising-from.html
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Fukushima robot finds potential fuel debris hanging like icicles in reactor 3
by Kazuaki Nagata Staff Report, Bloomberg
Tokyo Electric has said that a remotely controlled robot investigating the inside of reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has finally spotted objects that could be fuel debris — a potential milestone in the effort to clean up one of the worst atomic disasters in history. This is the first time Tepco has found something likely to be melted fuel. When the utility sent a different robot into reactor 2 in January, it found black lumps sticking to the grating in the primary containment vessel but said they were difficult to identify. The objects spotted this time look like icicles hanging around a control rod drive attached to the bottom of the pressure vessel, which holds the core, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said at an evening news conference Friday. Enclosed by the huge primary containment vessel, the pressure vessel originally contained the fuel rod assemblies. But the rods melted into a puddle and burned through its bottom once the plant lost power after being swamped by the monstrous tsunami of March 11, 2011. The robot also captured images of lumps of material that appear to have melted and resolidified near the wall of the pedestal, a concrete structure that supports the pressure vessel. “From the pictures taken today, it is obvious that some melted objects came out of the reactor. This means something of high temperature melted some structural objects and came out. So it is natural to think that melted fuel rods are mixed with them,” said Takahiro Kimoto, a Tepco spokesman. “In that sense, it is possible that the melted objects found this time are melted fuel debris or probably around it,” he said, adding the utility will think about how they can be analyzed to determine if they are the former fuel rods. Fuel from a nuclear meltdown is known as corium, a mixture of fuel rods and other structural materials. “It is important to know the exact locations and the physical, chemical, radiological forms of the corium to develop the necessary engineering defueling plans for the safe removal of the radioactive materials,” said Lake Barrett, a former official at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission who was involved with the cleanup at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the U.S. “The recent investigation results are significant early signs of progress on the long road ahead.” Because of the high radioactivity in the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit. And the unprecedented nature of the Fukushima disaster means that Tepco is pinning its efforts on technology not yet invented to get the melted fuel out of the reactors. The utility aims to decide on the procedure for removing the melted fuel from each unit as soon as this summer. And it will confirm the procedure for the first reactor during fiscal 2018 ending in March 2019, with removal slated to begin in 2021. Decommissioning the reactors will cost ¥8 trillion ($72 billion), according to an estimate in December from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Removing the fuel is one of the most important steps in the cleanup, which may take as long as 40 years. The significance of Friday’s finding “might be evidence that the robots used by Tepco can now deal with the higher radiation levels, at least for periods of time that allow them to search parts of the reactor that are more likely to contain fuel debris,” M.V. Ramana, professor at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, said by email. “If some of these fragments can be brought out of the reactor and studied, it would allow nuclear engineers and scientists to better model what happened during the accident,” Ramana said. The utility began probing reactor 3 on Wednesday. Since the PCV has 6 meters of water in it, which is higher than in reactors 1 and 2, the 30-cm robot will have to go deep under water. The robot has two cameras — one on the front that can pivot 180 degrees vertically, and another on its back.
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Rev 6:8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (NKJ) (disease & famine)
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Number of infected continues to rise as Yemen's cholera epidemic breaks record
July 21, 2017 By Oxfam
The number of people with cholera in Yemen is now the largest ever in any country in a single year since records began, Oxfam said today. At over 360,000 suspected cholera cases in just three months since the outbreak started, it is now already the largest number of cases in a year, topping the previous annual record of 340,311 in Haiti in 2011. Though there are signs that the increase in numbers is slowing, the country’s rainy season from July to September will increase the risk of the disease spreading further. It is feared that the total number of people infected could eventually rise to over 600,000, making it one of the largest outbreak since records began in 1949. Almost 2,000 people in Yemen have died from suspected cholera since late April this year, and many more are now at risk, weakened by hunger, disease and the ongoing war. Nigel Timmins, Oxfam’s Humanitarian Director who has just returned back from a fact finding mission to Yemen, said: “It is quite frankly staggering that in just three months more people in Yemen have contracted cholera than any country has suffered in a single year since modern records began. Cholera has spread unchecked in a country already on its knees after two years of war and teetering on the brink of famine. For many people, weakened by war and hunger, cholera is the knockout blow. “This is a massive crisis needing a massive response – if anything the numbers we have are likely to underestimate the scale of the crisis. So far funding from government donors to pay for the aid effort has been lackluster at best, less than half is what is needed. “Cholera is easy to treat and simple to prevent. We need a massive, well-coordinated effort to get clean water, decent sanitation and simple things like soap to people to keep them safe from disease. We need an end to country entry restrictions of supplies and people so that we can get on with the job. “ “Those countries providing the arms and military support, The war has destroyed the economy and left millions without jobs or the means to earn a living, forcing 3 million people to flee their homes. It has precipitated a crisis which has left 7 million people on the brink of starvation. And the war has destroyed or damaged more than half the country’s health facilities as the cholera outbreak rages on. “Vital public servants such as health workers have not been paid for nearly a year. Hospitals, ports, roads and bridges have been bombed. All this is crippling efforts to tackle the cholera crisis.such as the U.S. and the U.K., are fueling a war that is causing wide-spread suffering and tipping a whole nation towards a catastrophe. It is hard to imagine how much more Yemen can take before it collapses entirely.” War has had a devastating effect on Yemen’s people and its infrastructure – almost 5,000 civilians have been killed in the fighting and parts of the country stand on the brink of famine. Health, water and sanitation systems have been bombed to the point of collapse, leaving over 15 million people without adequate access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation. Millions more are hungry and need help in getting a decent meal. Waste is piling up on the streets and in the settlements of displaced people because sanitation services, severely damaged by the over two-year war, cannot cope. Aid agencies tackling the cholera crisis are in danger of being overwhelmed by the scale of the outbreak. Meanwhile, the world's major arms exporters – which include the U.K. and U.S. – are making more money from arming the Saudi-led coalition force than they are spending on Yemen’s humanitarian appeal. In 2016, Saudi Arabia spent nearly $3 billion on arms from the world’s major arms exporters. As of this month, many of those same governments had given just $620 million toward the $2.1 billion UN appeal for Yemen. Oxfam is calling for an immediate ceasefire to enable a nationwide cholera campaign to tackle the disease, unhindered by fighting, and to allow people to get their lives back together. It is calling for the opening of ports and Sanaa airport to allow a massive injection of aid and for the UN and aid agencies’ appeal to be fully funded. Just this week, Oxfam joined forces with a group of seven other leading U.S.-based international relief organizations in an unprecedented effort urging Americans to donate to the new Hunger Relief Fund to respond to the looming famine in Yemen, as well as South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria. Millions of families are facing starvation, and this Global Emergency Response Coalition will use the Hunger Relief Fund donations to help those already going hungry as well as to lay the groundwork for recovery. The appeal lasts through July 28, 2017. For more information and to donate to the Hunger Relief Fund, please visit: https://www.globalemergencyresponse.org/.
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/yemen-cholera-worst-on-record/
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Sharks attack kayaker, paddleboarder along Santa Barbara coast
Brooke Holland July 21, 2017 9:31 AM
Two shark attacks were reported along the southern Santa Barbara County coastline Thursday, with a kayaker and paddleboarder escaping injury when sharks took bites out of their respective water crafts. Los Angeles resident Bret Jackson told Noozhawk he was paddling approximately 350 feet east of Stearns Wharf when a great white shark approached his kayak. The 40-year-old felt something nudge his kayak before he was thrown into the ocean, as the shark chomped down and left a 15-inch-wide bite mark on the kayak. “It came out of nowhere, and the first thing I saw was a giant jaw near my face,” said Jackson, who is visiting family in Santa Barbara. “It was fast, and the shark was hungry.” Jackson estimates the entire incident lasted two to five seconds. “It bit on to the kayak next to my arm and side, dove me on the kayak sideways a few feet then flipped (me) over,” Jackson said. “I was underwater upside down in the kayak, then hopped onto the bottom of the kayak.” Harbor patrol received a call about 11:20 a.m. about someone in the water yelling for help, Harbor Patrol Supervisor Steve McCullough said. Emergency personnel discovered that after the initial attack, Jackson swam to a nearby boat for safety. “I started swimming toward a sail boat and the kayak felt like it was sinking,” Jackson said. Jackson wanted to warn people there are “big, hungry, aggressive sharks in the water right now.” No injuries were reported, McCullough said. Signs have been posted warning beachgoers about the shark attack, and the postings at East Beach, West Beach, Leadbetter Beach and Shoreline Park will stay up until Saturday morning, he said.
Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article162889748.html#storylink=cpy
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The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
July 19, 2017 by Jonathan Latham, PhD
The British non-profit GMWatch recently revealed the agribusiness takeover of Conabia, the National Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology of Argentina. Conabia is the GMO assessment body of Argentina. According to GMWatch, 26 of 34 its members were either agribusiness company employees or had major conflicts of interest*. Packing a regulatory agency with conflicted individuals is one way to ensure speedy GMO approvals and Conabia has certainly delivered that. A much more subtle, but ultimately more powerful, way is to bake approval into the structure of the GMO assessment process itself. It is easier than you might think. I recently attended the latest international conference of GMO regulators, called ISBGMO14, held in Guadalajara, Mexico (June 4-8, 2017). ISBGMO is run by the International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR). When I first went to this biennial series of conferences, in 2007, just one presentation in the whole four days was by a company. ISBR had some aspirations towards scientific independence from agribusiness. I went for a second time in 2011, to the ISBGMO held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Company researchers and executives were frequent speakers and the conference had become an opportunity for agribusiness to present talking points and regulatory initiatives as if they had the blessing of science. This year, in Guadalajara, companies were now on the conference organising committee and even conferring conference travel scholarships from the podium. A former conference organiser and ISBR board member told me that the previous ISBGMO (St. Louis, USA, in 2015) had been almost entirely paid for by Monsanto. Spreading the industry message In Guadalajara, industry speakers were clearly working from a scripted list. That list translates as the key regulatory objectives of the biotech industry. Prominent on that list was “data transportability”. Data transportability is the idea that regulators from different jurisdictions, say India, or the EU, should accept identical biosafety applications. Implementation of data transportability would mean that although each country has unique ecosystems and species, applicants ought not to have to provide studies tailored to each. For example, when it comes to assessing effects on non-target organisms, for example of a GMO crop producing an insecticide, regulators in Australia should accept tests on European ladybird species or earthworms as showing that a GMO cotton can safely be grown there. The appeal of data transportability for an applicant is clear enough—less cost and less risk of their GMO failing a risk assessment. Not once did I hear mention of an obvious downside to data transportability. The fewer tests to which a novel GMO is subjected the less research there is to detect a significant problem if one exists. A second standard corporate line was “need to know versus nice to know”. In other words do not ask applicants for more data than they wish to supply. The downsides to this are identical to data transportability. Less data is less testing and less science. Modernising risk assessment? Another major theme of the meeting was ‘modernization’ of regulation. In this scheme the most ‘advanced’ nation was proposed to be Canada. Canada has adopted what it calls “trait-based GMO regulation”. In trait-based regulation the method of development (i.e. whether the crop was genetically engineered or not) is considered irrelevant. The trait is the sole focus. So if a GMO crop contains an insecticide it is assessed for risk against non-target organisms. If a GMO improves flavour or nutrition then, since there is presumably no risk from flavours or nutrients, then the crop receives what amounts to a free pass. The Canadian approach sounds harmless, but it has the crucial property that it hands control of risk assessment to the applicant, because under such a system everything depends on what the applicant chooses to call their trait. Imagine you were asked to review the safety of an aircraft, but the manufacturer wouldn’t tell you if it was propeller-driven or a jet; likewise, if a submarine was diesel or nuclear powered. The Canadian approach therefore, by just asking what the crop is supposed to do, effectively places outside of regulation most of the standard considerations of risk and hazard. Once upon a time, risk assessment was supposed to be about what a product is not supposed to do. For proposing non-regulation over regulation, Canadian biosafety officials were given more prominent speaking opportunities at ISBGMO14 than any other national regulator. Tiered risk assessment An equivalently unscientific innovation, which seems widely accepted, is called tiered risk assessment. Imagine a company presents to regulators an insect-resistant GMO crop. An obvious question arises. How is a regulator to know, since the crops produces an insecticide, if it will kill beneficial organisms such as the bees that feed on its flowers? In tiered risk assessment this question is answered by feeding the purified GMO insecticide to a bee species. If no harm is observed the crop is assumed safe. No further tests are required. If the bees are harmed then a larger scale test, presumptively more realistic, is conducted. If harm is not observed the crop is assumed safe and no further tests are required. If harm is shown then an outdoor or larger-level test will be conducted. Monsanto presented a lengthy exposition, in a plenary session, of the ‘soundness’ and ‘logic’ of this tiered approach. Tiered risk assessment has been the subject of little scientific debate (though see Lang et al., 2007), but the implications of the tiered approach are profound. It is an asymmetrical system in which passing any test leads to approval whereas failing that test does not result in disapproval. Consider the comparison with pharmaceuticals. Currently, all pharmaceutical drugs must pass through three phases of clinical trials; first animal tests, then small scale human trials, then large scale human trials. Failure at any stage is considered terminal. Without wishing to give them any ideas, suppose the FDA were to replace this three-phase system with one under which approval in phase I (animal tests) allowed the developer to go straight to market. There would be, for good reason, an uproar, followed by an avalanche of dangerous medications on the market. But that is precisely the logic of tiered GMO testing. Tiered testing is therefore a system in which failure is an unacceptable answer. In the scientific review paper that first proposed tiered risk assessment, there is no provision for rejecting the crop in the main figure, which diagrams the proposed decision tree (See Figure 1 of Romeis et al., 2008). Approvals are guaranteed. Agribusiness knows this perfectly well because many of the principal authors of Romeis et al are from the major seed and biotech companies. The so-called logical innovations presented at ISBGMO14, such as data transportability, trait-based regulation, and tiered risk assessment, are thus intended as regulatory bypasses. They make it all but impossible for a regulator to turn down a GMO application, or even to collect sufficient information. No wonder the biotech industry likes to refer to risk assessment procedures as approval systems. Given the lack of objection to these approaches at ISBGMO14, the biotech industry ought now to feel confident that the regulation of biotechnology is largely in their hands, but still it wants more. In the coming years, an upsurge is expected in the GMO pipeline as new applications and new approaches become possible. This pipeline is predicted to include GMO algae, animal biotechnology, gene drives, and so forth. Many of these opportunities the industry knows will be controversial. A pacified regulatory environment is for them a necessity before that can happen. This is more than a shame. When a comprehensive evaluation of the weaknesses and inherent limitations of scientific risk assessment is urgently needed to cope with these challenges, the chemical and biotech industries are forcing those assessment systems in the opposite direction.
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The 20 diseases 'refugees' bring into the West
Exclusive: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., reports latest increases authorities fail to publicize
Published: 4 days ago
Note: Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS.
Since 2005, Americans have been warned about microscopic border crossers carried in with refugees and illegal immigrants, bringing diseases previously eradicated or rarely seen here. When not simply ignored by media and health officials, physicians and others sounding the alarm have been attacked as xenophobes. Now we’re seeing these prescient predictions come true, most prominently in Germany, since 2015 when Angela Merkel began allowing more than 2 million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to flood into her country. U.S. and German citizens are put at significant risk by the politically correct acceptance of unscreened immigrants from countries with a high prevalence of infectious diseases, many difficult or impossible to treat. Yet authorities in both countries have failed to fully inform the public of the dangers. According to the July 2017 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Annual Report by the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany has seen a surge in chicken pox, cholera, dengue fever, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles, malaria, meningococcal diseases, hemorrhagic fevers, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, paratyphoid, rubella, shigellosis, syphilis, typhus, toxoplasmosis, tularemia, trichinellosis, whooping cough, and many fungal and parasitic infections. Here are a few striking examples: Measles is up more than 450 percent. Hepatitis B is up 300 percent. Scabies escalated nearly 3,000 percent. HIV/AIDS increased 30 percent. Tuberculosis (TB) is at least 30 percent higher – but German and U.S. physicians suspect that the incidence of TB is actually far higher than reported, and is being downplayed to avoid causing public outrage over the influx of immigrants. In Germany, more than 40 percent of TB cases are multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB).Dengue fever is up over 25 percent just from 2014. A similar pattern has emerged in the U.S. since the massive increase in illegal border crossers and refugees beginning in 2010. As in the U.S., many hundreds of thousands of migrants “disappear” into cities and towns across Germany, without a health screening. There is no way to monitor them for disease or to ensure adequate treatment. Citizens are exposed without their knowledge; risks are especially serious for children and the elderly. In a briefing to the Arizona Senate in 2016, experts reported that the U.S. is suffering near “pandemic medical issues” due to the continuous influx of illegal aliens and refugees from countries where infectious diseases are widespread. As of 2016, two states were in the Catastrophic Phase and another 13 were in the Critical Phase of public health impact from these infectious diseases. Arizona was No. 9 of 13 states in the Critical Phase but was expected to move into the Catastrophic Phase by fall of 2016 as a result of people who are latent carriers of disease or who entered the country during the incubation period for a disease. We were unable to learn the current status from personal calls to Arizona county and state officials. TB is one of the most serious threats. Latent TB can remain dormant for years, even decades. It is alarming that 18 percent of refugees in Arizona arrive with latent TB, while in the general Arizona population the incidence was only 4 percent. Multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB), common in migrants, may cost more than $400,000 per patient, compared with $20,000 for the drug-responsive TB that has been predominant in U.S.-born patients. Treatment of MDR-TB has serious side effects, with no guarantee of success. U.S. taxpayers pay this cost. In addition, all who might have been exposed to an active case must be screened, followed and possibly treated. Even healthy immigrants burden the system with social costs, such as housing, education and food stamps – costs borne by taxpaying workers whose own wages are depressed by competition from a glut of low-paid foreigners. Illegal immigrants are estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers $17 billion per year. That $17 billion is in addition to the costs for those allowed here legally under “refugee” status, for which we do not have reliable public estimates. Liberal and progressive politicians like to say, “America is the land of immigrants.” In the past, this meant legal immigrants who follow our screening procedures for illness and other laws and who are coming to America to be part of our culture. Medical screening was one of the core purposes of the Ellis Island immigration center in New York. New arrivals were examined, quarantined if needed, or sent back to their country of origin if they posed a risk to Americans. To protect the health and safety of American citizens, we must reinstate our prior customary medical screening as outlined on our own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. For national security and medical concerns, President Trump is correct to enforce our immigration laws, with careful vetting of those seeking to come to America to live and work.
Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/07/the-20-diseases-refugees-bring-into-the-west/#qyDF5ithoTrZyym6.99
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WHY YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED: THESE ARE THE 3 BIG EARTHQUAKE THREATS
The Pacific Northwest could be affected by earthquakes from three major nearby faults.
Author: Glenn Farley Published: 07/25/17
The western half of Washington state is considered earthquake country, with the potential for very large quakes. Scientists have their top three. First, there’s the Cascadia Subduction Zone running roughly parallel to the Pacific Coast from northern California past the northern tip of Canada’s Vancouver Island. Second, the Seattle Fault, which runs east to west just south of downtown Seattle. It ends up near the Cascade Mountains and west onto the Olympic Peninsula. Third, the South Whidbey Island Fault running from northwest to southeast of the southern tip of the island. These quakes are capable of magnitudes from 7 to over 9. Every year Western Washington undergoes hundreds of earthquakes. Most of them are tiny, magnitude 1 or 2, and a map shows them since 1970 around the Puget Sound area. All remind scientists of the potential that’s placed on larger faults, as the region is compressed by geological forces beyond anyone’s control. On the map, a larger red dot near Olympia show the 6.8 Nisqually quake of February 2001. The 1965 and 1949 earthquakes of similar magnitude are shown on larger red dots nearby. Nisqually was responsible for $4 billion in damage, but nobody died as a direct result. Unlike California, we are reminded less often of the potential devastation. “There is so much more work to be done within the basin and within all of Washington to understanding these faults,” said Corina Forson, the state’s chief hazards geologist for the Washington Geological Survey, part of the Department of Natural Resources. Cascadia Subduction Zone The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a giant fault running from Cape Mendocino, Calif. past Oregon and Washington and doesn’t end until it’s north of Vancouver Island in Canada. You saw its potential in the 9.1 magnitude Tohuku earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011. Tohoku killed nearly 16,000 people; most died as a result of drowning or being crushed in the tsunami. Because Japan was so well prepared, most retrofitted buildings outside of the tsunami zone survived. This part of the Japanese coast had not seen this type of seismic rupture in some 800 years, and what failed was that walls built to keep tsunami waves were not high enough. In Washington, we do not have tsunami walls. Along the coast residents may have between 20 and 30 minutes to get to higher ground. The Westport area is now the first in North America to have a community vertical evacuation structure, a building strong enough to resist earthquake and tsunami wave forces and give people a platform above the expected wave heights. That place is the Ocosta School. But the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t just a fault; it’s an overlapping joint between tectonic plates, parts of the Earth’s crust that float on layers of molten rock. There’s a reason the lands around the Pacific Ocean are called the “Ring of Fire.” The earthquakes, tsunamis, and the proximity of volcanos are all part of the same system. The coast is now the home of one of the state’s largest network of warning sirens called All Hazard Alert Broadcast (AHABs). But Forson says you also need to know what to do when the shaking happens. There are also tsunami evacuation signs on the highways. Westport currently is the only location with a vertical evacuation structure designed for a tsunami. “We do not encourage people to evacuate in vehicles. We’re working on pedestrian evacuation maps that show the best routes for pedestrians to take to evacuate,” said Forson. “You just need one person to crash or a power line to fall over the road, and the roads are unusable.” “That’s why we’re pushing for a lot of vertical evacuation structures to be built – hotels or schools, because it’s not an easy problem to solve,” he said. Seattle Fault Moving inland, consider the Seattle Fault. It’s considered capable of a magnitude 7. That may not sound like much more than the magnitude 6.8 quake of 2001 based on the numbers, but that the Nisqually quake occurred some 30 miles underground. Then consider that the Seattle Fault is a complex of faults with various branches that run at or just below the surface. “The risk is complicated, but there are millions of people who live in the Seattle area,” said Forson. “What we know about this fault is that it’s ruptured may times in the past…it will happen again. We just don’t know when.” Across the northern portion of Bainbridge Island, light radar or lidar images taken from airplanes clearly show what geologists say is the Seattle Fault running right on the surface. Another piece can be seen under the elevated lanes of northbound Interstate 5 in South Seattle not far from the Rainier brewery. The Seattle Fault is also likely to create a tsunami that would inundate Harbor Island and much of SODO, Interbay, and the waterfront. It could also create dangerous currents and hazards to the north including Everett. Related: Geological hazard maps via Department of Natural Resources What scientists don’t know is its timing interval. “The last time was 1,000 years ago between 900 and 903 A.D.,” said Forson. “It will happen; we don’t know when.” What about the localized tsunami risk? In the 1990’s, scientists produced an animation that shows inundation, and people won’t have much time to run to higher ground. In some areas getting up a hill to higher ground will be difficult. Some people in places like SODO and Harbor Island may have to flee to higher floors in a building. South Whidbey Island Fault The South Whidbey Island Fault is also dangerous. It’s significantly larger than the Seattle Fault, and South Whidbey could hand us a magnitude 7.5 earthquake. That could spell trouble not only for its namesake island but for south and north King County and further west. “The crustal faults – the Seattle Fault, the South Whidbey Island Fault, the Tacoma Fault – those are less well known,” said Forson. Forson said more research needs to be done. And while scientists keep digging for more information and more situational awareness of what we face, the other problem is human. “A lot of people are transplants,” Forson said. “They didn’t grow up here, they haven’t heard this story. So they don’t necessarily know the threats they face.” Join KING 5’s Disaster Preparedness Facebook group and learn how you and your community can get ready for when disaster strikes. Join KING 5's full day of Disaster Preparedness coverage on Monday, July 24 Why is KING 5 focusing so much on disaster preps? It's certainly not to scare you. Earlier this year, we began the task of creating a disaster plan – how this station would deliver the news if a major disaster struck the Pacific Northwest. We began by consulting state emergency planners, the Red Cross, medical professionals, even other newsrooms. What we got was a BIG wakeup call. Emergency planners all had a simple message: It's not IF a disaster will happen, it's WHEN. Earthquakes. Volcanic eruptions. Devastating wind storms. Floods. Mudslides. The experts say few are ready. And being ready means being able to support yourself, your loved ones, your neighborhood for 2 weeks. Because after a region-wide event, it could take that long for help to come from the rest of the country and world. So our plan to make a plan for KING… inspired us to help all our viewers understand what they need to do to get prepared. The people of KING 5 are like you: We live and work here. Most of us have families, friends and pets who we will need to care for. Our full day of coverage is a first step … for us … and, we hope, for you. Watch day-long coverage Monday on KING and KONG, on our king5.com, our Facebook page, and Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #AreYouPrepared.
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US Urges All Nationals In North Korea To "Depart Immediately", Bans Tourists From Visiting
by Tyler Durden Jul 21, 2017 11:11 PM
Dennis Rodman will be disappointed to learn that the US is set to ban all citizens from traveling to North Korea, according to two agencies that operate tours there. Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours said the ban would be announced on 27 July to come into effect 30 days later, the BBC reported. "After the 30-day grace period any US national that travels to North Korea will have their passport invalidated by their government." The ban comes one month after US student Otto Warmbier died following his imprisonment by the Kim regime. China-based Young Pioneer Tours, which had taken Warmbier to North Korea, and Koryo Tours said the ban will come into force on July 27 - the anniversary of the end of the Korean War - with a 30-day grace period. Koryo Tours added that the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which handles consular affairs for the United States in the North, informed it of the ban, but did not say how long it would last. The U.S. embassy in the South Korean capital, Seoul, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rowan Beard said that the 30-day grace period would "give leeway for any [Americans] currently in the country as tourists or on humanitarian work". Simon Cockerill, of Koryo Tours, said: "It remains to be seen what the exact text is, but the indication is it's just a straight up ban on Americans going." Mr Cockerill told the BBC the agency would still conduct tours and take Americans until the ban came into effect. Additionally, Rowan Beard of Young Pioneer Tours, told the BBC the embassy was urging all US nationals to depart immediately. He said the embassy was trying to check on the number of US tourists left in the country. For now there has been no official confirmation from the US: the state department continues to have an alert dated 9 May strongly warning US citizens not to travel to North Korea. As the BBC adds, there has been movement towards a ban for a while in the US, which increased with the Warmbier death. In May, two congressmen introduced the North Korea Travel Control bill to cut off the foreign currency the country earns from American tourists. The House foreign affairs subcommittee is scheduled to take up the draft legislation on 27 July but it would still have to go to the Senate. So there could be an executive order. Last month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said: "We have been evaluating whether we should put some type of travel visa restriction to North Korea. We have not come to a final conclusion, but we are considering it." Apart from the treatment of Americans in North Korea, tension has been increasing over Pyongyang's nuclear programme. Some are suggesting the US is using the date the ban is set to be announced - 27 July - to cloud North Korea's Victory Day on the same day. It was not clear if the urge to clear out US citizens from North Korea is a precursor to more "aggressive" (or kinetic) action by the US government.
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BEWARE! This devout Muslim running for governor of Michigan is the new ‘diversity’ sweetheart of the Left
ABDULRAHMAN MOHAMED EL-SAYED (aka Abdul El-Sayed): Etch this man’s name in your mind. Hand picked by the Left as their latest ‘diversity’ candidate, El-Sayed is running for Governor of Michigan 2018, and reportedly being groomed (by George Soros) for a run for President in the future. Abdul El-Sayed is 32 years old, born in the USA, and an extremely well-educated Muslim Doctor in Detroit Michigan. He is articulate, charismatic and smart. He is sympathetic of the Muslim Brotherhood, and is running for Governor of Michigan, Which is Step 1 in his preparation to run for President of the United States. He has the potential to be Obama 2.0, but far more openly Muslim. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is an American physician, epidemiologist, public health advocate, and politician. He has announced his candidacy for Governor of Michigan, running as a Democrat. Democrats’ mouths are watering in anticipation and raising money. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren is already campaigning for him. Al Jazeera, which is widely read by Michigan’s large Muslim population is doing its best to help him. And he is backed by notorious shill for sharia and the Muslim Brotherhood, Linda Sarsour (below). WND El-Sayed speaks articulately, without an accent, inserts humor into his speeches at seemingly just the right moments, and he has the full backing of America’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood-linked network of Islamic organizations (CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, ICNA, MSA, MAS). Sayed served as the executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit, appointed by Mayor Mike Duggan. At 30 years old, he was at the time of his appointment in 2015 the youngest health director in a major U.S. city. Dick Manasseri, spokesman for Secure Michigan, a group that educates Michiganders about the threat of Sharia law, predicts that Sayed will at least win the Democratic nomination for governor. “It is the exact same thing as Barack Obama in Chicago in the early 2000s,” said Manasseri. “He’s young, attractive, he does not give out a lot of information, he speaks in platitudes about celebrating inclusiveness and diversity.” Manaserri says the Muslim Brotherhood would never support a candidate that didn’t have tons of money behind him (enter George Soros). El-Sayed was a recipient of the 2012 Paul and Daisy SOROS Fellowship for New Americans. Sayed is highly educated, a Rhodes scholar who attended Oxford University in 2009 and became a practicing epidemiologist. “He’s very well packaged,” Manasseri said. “He’s far more accomplished than Barack Obama. Obama was not this accomplished, they connected him to certain foundations and his candidacy took off.” In his campaign launch on Feb. 25th, El-Sayed says, “It’s all about celebrating multiculturalism.” He said he was taught that “real leaders are those that can stand firm against the powerful, stand strong with the weak, and stand humbly before Allah.” “Any Republican would be afraid to confront him on his Muslim Brotherhood connections or his views on Sharia,” Manasseri said. “He is a devout Shariah-compliant guy, and I would predict that he will be endorsed by the Catholic Church, which is very powerful in Michigan.” Manasseri points out that a bill supporting American Law for American Courts, widely regarded as an anti-Sharia law, was defeated in the Michigan Legislature when two powerful lobbies – the Michigan Catholic Conference and the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR – teamed up to kill it. He expects the same coalition to form behind a candidate who would make history as America’s first Muslim governor. “So if this guy rises in the polls, I would predict the Catholic Church will support his candidacy,” he said. “Just like with Obama, because we gotta make history.” “It’s Obama II,” Manasseri said. “Elizabeth Warren will be coming to campaign for him, the Democrats in other states will be raising money for him. The DNC number-two Muslim [Keith Ellison] will be raising money for him. Of course this guy is going to be on the Sunday morning talk shows. He’ll be everywhere. A candidate for governor who is Muslim Brotherhood …if that doesn’t tell you there’s a Sharia swamp in Michigan I don’t know what does.”
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DUI-E Law Now Makes It Illegal to Text, Smoke and Even Eat While Driving
Washington's new Driving Under the Influence of Electronics law makes it illegal to text, eat, smoke, read or groom while driving.
By Rachel Blevins - July 20, 2017
The charge of “driving under the influence” used to only apply to drivers who were under the influence of drugs or alcohol—but it will now apply to drivers who text, eat, smoke, read or groom while driving in the state of Washington. The implementation of the Driving Under the Influence of Electronics Act was expedited from January 2019 to July 23 after Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a partial-veto, and insisted that “public safety is better served by implementing this bill this year.” “When you are driving with a cell phone, you are a more dangerous driver than if you are driving drunk with a .08 blood alcohol level,” Inslee said during a press conference. “There’s hardly anything we’ve done in the last several years at the state Capitol to save more lives than this distracted driving law.” Statistics from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission found that 171 of 568 road deaths in 2015 were “blamed on some form of driver distraction, not necessarily electronics.” Although both texting and holding a cellphone to your ear while driving are already banned in Washington, the new regulations will outlaw composing or reading any message, taking pictures, and ultimately holding a phone for any reason other than calling 911—even when sitting at a stoplight. Penalties under the new DUI-E law will include a $136 fee for first-time offenders, a $234 fee for second-time offenders, and a $99 fee for “grooming, smoking, eating or reading while behind the wheel.” While the fines might not seem outrageous at first glance, Toni Matous, an agent with Magnolia Insurance Agency Inc. in Seattle, told Q13Fox that insurance companies were some of the top lobbyists for the new distracted driving law—and that is not by mistake. Matous called the law the “new drunk driving,” and said that in the case of a family with a teenaged driver, if that driver receives a DUI-E ticket, it will affect the entire family by making their insurance skyrocket by up to thousands of dollars each year. “The insurance industry is losing big, losing big in the personal auto insurance industry and they’re reeling, trying to find out how to find out how to solve the problem,” Matous said. In order to cover the costs of implementing the new law, the state’s law enforcement agencies have spent $400,000 to add “6,000 patrol hours aimed at driver distraction.” While distracted driving offenses resulted in over 5,400 citations in Washington in April 2016, numbers are predicted to increase drastically with all of the new infractions that police will have the opportunity to cite. While this new law in Washington may seem bizarre based on the fact that it makes things such as eating and smoking while driving illegal, it is not the first time a law has been introduced to fine Americans for being distracted. In May 2016, a Democratic assemblywoman from New Jersey introduced a bill to sentence individuals to up to 15 days in jail for the heinous crime of texting and walking. Washington’s DUI-E law could set a precedent for future laws in other states, but it also allows for an abuse of power by police. It takes away the accountability that makes officers look for a legitimate infraction before pulling a car over, and it gives officers the ability to make their quotas by simply alleging that a driver was looking at an electronic device, even when their vehicle is not moving. As a result, the drivers pay a high price, and both the police state and the insurance companies who lobbied for the new law make a profit.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-dui-e-illegal-driving/
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Dr. Smartphone The Medical Profession's Digital Revolution Is Here
The health care sector is facing a far-reaching and unpredictable revolution. Smartphones are capable of replacing many devices that have become standard in medical practices and some apps will soon be able to provide diagnoses as well. Patients are becoming less reliant on doctors.
© Bernhard Riedmann / DER SPIEGEL By Martin U. Müller July 20, 2017
The airplane had just taken off when one of the passengers lost consciousness. Eric Topol pulled his smartphone out of his pocket and immediately performed an electrocardiogram (EKG) on the passenger. He used the device to do an ultrasound scan of the man's heart and measured oxygen levels in his blood. He was then able to give the all-clear and the plane could continue its journey. The man had lost consciousness merely due to a temporarily slowed heart rhythm. Topol is a cardiologist in La Jolla, California, and it wasn't the first time he had encountered such a situation while flying. On one occasion, he used his mobile phone to determine that a passenger had suffered a heart attack and the plane had to land immediately. Of particular interest to Topol, though, is the fact that anyone can perform such an EKG, whether a professor of medicine, a flight attendant or just a simple passenger. All one needs is a $200 sensor and a smartphone with an app that can analyze the heart's rhythm. Hardly any other object has changed the world to the degree that smartphones have. It has become completely normal to use our mobile devices for shopping and managing our schedules. Political revolutions have been organized by smartphone and you can use one to find a life partner or to plan a funeral. Every single day, 10 times as many smartphones are sold around the world as babies born. And now, smartphones are conquering medical care. For millennia, sick people have been dependent on help from others, a healer or a doctor. But now, mobile devices are beginning to change that age-old state of affairs. Coupled with the power of artificial intelligence, the mobile phone promises to fundamentally change medical care. Many medical examinations that were thus far only possible in a doctor's office can now be undertaken at any time by anyone -- even while sitting at home in your easy chair. With the help of small and affordable accessories, smartphones can measure electrical activity in the brain, intraocular pressure and blood pressure. They can perform an EKG, recognize atrial fibrillation (a type of abnormal heart rhythm), check pulmonary function, record heart murmurs, take photos of your inner ear, perform breathalyzers, perform aorta scans and even sequence DNA. Soon, there will be little difference from a technical standpoint between a general practitioner's office and a fully equipped smartphone. On the contrary: It is already the case that patients are sometimes better served by a mobile phone. Doctors Have Competition Apps like M-sense are revolutionizing migraine diagnostics. At the University of Magdeburg in Germany, a mobile phone program called Neotiv is being developed to reliably diagnose Alzheimer's. There are even scanners reminiscent of the "Star Trek" Tricorder: You simply hold it up to a patient's forehead and receive diagnostic information within seconds. An Israeli company has developed SCiO, the first smartphone app for mass spectrometry. If you briefly hold it up to an apple, for example, its exact composition will appear on your display. The app also works on pills: Using the app, the device scans an object's structure, compares it with a database and then tells you what it is -- a paracetamol tablet, for example. Even today, such a test is far from standard, even in hospital emergency rooms. It is far from clear what all of these changes will mean for the health care industry -- for patients and doctors and for the manufacturers of large medical devices that may soon no longer be necessary. One thing, though, is certain: Doctors have competition, and that competition is stimulating the industry. Within just a few years, patients won't just be able to decide which doctor to go to, but will also be able to choose between local doctors, online diagnoses and intelligent scanning devices -- and they will perhaps even be able to undergo an examination in their own cars. The patient is becoming more powerful -- and doctors are becoming less essential. A BILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY The first wave of health apps was made up of tracking bracelets and similar accessories that were rightly mocked as glorified pedometers. But the second wave is developing into a significant player in the medical technology branch. Investors have begun referring to the development as "serious health," and there is money to be made. A lot of money. But there are other issues at stake as well, such as trust and the potential for overwhelming the traditional health care system. The epicenter of digital medicine is not in Silicon Valley, as it tends to be for social media giants like Facebook or Snapchat. Rather, it is on the East Coast of the United States, in Israel and in Europe. One of the leaders of the scene in Berlin is Markus Müschenich. Ever since he decided to devote his life to digital medicine, the 56-year-old's life has been unrelenting: here, an appointment with German Health Minister Hermann Gröhe, there a video conference with a promising startup. Müschenich is pretty much constantly speaking into the headset of his telephone, and when he's not, he is giving presentations to doctors, insurance company officials and politicians. A former pediatrician, he always wanted to do more than just treat patients. "I still don't regret having set aside my lab coat," he says. Müschenich was part of the management team at a hospital in Berlin before becoming a member of the board of directors at Sana, a chain of hospitals and clinics in Germany. But he didn't find his true calling either in pediatrics or in analyzing the economic data of heart centers. He moved on to found a company that developed an app to help cure cross-eyed children -- and then convinced the health insurance company Barmer to refund the price of the app to its customers. The result was the first-ever prescription app. Today, he owns the company Flying Health, an incubator for medical industry startups that shares both its money and know-how. His portfolio includes Patientus, a Lübeck-based company that offers doctor consultations by video link, and he offers consulting to the diabetes startup mySugr, which was just recently sold to the Swiss pharma-giant Roche. He is also involved in a company developing software for pregnant women called Onelife and is trying to increase the value of Neotiv, the company that is developing an app to identify Alzheimer's. Müschenich and his 10 employees work out of a co-working space in Berlin that is shared by other startups. And he has adopted the scene's typically effusive optimism. "Every day, I see young people here who demonstrate that they are better than we are. That's inspiring." Currently, the health care system consists of the in-patient and out-patient sectors, but economists in the industry are convinced that the digital sector will soon join them. Germany currently spends a total of 350 billion euros ($403 billion) per year on health care, and the high-tech segment will certainly siphon some of that money off from the traditional sectors like hospital and practice care. Müschenich expects the digital medical care sector in Germany to be worth 100 billion euros by 2025. "From an organizational standpoint, the digital sector will come before the two other sectors," Müschenich says. In the future, he explains, doctors will become dependent on getting references from digital systems. Experts at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI), a future-oriented think tank in Switzerland, likewise believe that smartphones will become the "core interface" of the health care system. "Cost pressures will push the system towards digital," says Karin Frick, head of research at GDI. "It seems logical for patients to undergo an initial examination using smartphone systems. Companies that understand that first will be the winners." THE PRODUCERS Not far from the airport in Hamburg, on Röntgen Street -- named after the German physicist who discovered the electromagnetic radiation used in X-rays -- the German headquarters of Philips can be found. Today, the Dutch multinational is no longer the same company it was for the almost 100 years prior to 2014 and the change can even be seen in the architecture. Floors here have been given the names of different Hamburg neighborhoods and meetings are held in "boxes." The CEO has a desk in an open-plan office space and next to the restrooms, there are mounted pods for employees' mobile phones. Televisions that bear the Philips name no longer have anything directly to do with the company -- the brand has been licensed out. The light bulb division has likewise been sold off. The only thing left is medical equipment. "Wherever I go, I have to explain that the Philips of today is purely a medical technology company," says Peter Vullinghs, Philips head in Germany and manager of 4,800 employees. He does, though, see parallels with the television business, which he once ran. "They went from being high-end products to simple consumer goods. The same thing is now happening with medical technology," he says. A slew of new competitors has joined the market, including Vullinghs says, Google, Apple, Samsung and IBM.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Almost 50,000 people evacuated nearly 500,000 hectares destroyed as massive British Colombia wildfire continues to grow entering it's third week
Saturday, 22 July 2017 Photo ici.radio-canada.ca
A seasoned British Columbia firefighter says he's never seen anything like the fast-moving wildfire that is sweeping the area. British Columbia may ask for more help if its wildfires worsen, the western Canadian province said on Friday after the federal government sent 225 additional soldiers to battle blazes that have been spreading rapidly in hot, dry weather. While rain is expected over the weekend, many parts that are burning are expected to miss it entirely, and winds in some parts could escalate the blazes, fire information officer Navi Saini said on a conference call. "We also are in ongoing discussions with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre," she said. "We do have the option of requesting more resources." In total, there are now 375 Canadian soldiers along with 3,600 firefighters and emergency responders tackling the flames, which have forced around 45,000 people to evacuate their homes over the past two weeks. Nearly 170 wildfires are blazing across the heavily forested province, affecting 405,000 hectares and prompting the provincial government to declare a state of emergency. The province has spent C$117.9 million ($94.05 million) tackling the fires, whose numbers on Friday included 32 new ones since Thursday, Saini said. Federal government ministers promised to send more help as the situation unfolds. "We are committed to providing a coordinated federal response to the people of British Columbia," Canada's public safety minister, Ralph Goodale, said in a statement. Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Annie Linteau said an advance team from the military has been working with local authorities for the last 36 hours. "Our Canadian forces colleagues will be joining us, the RCMP and other police personnel, at various checkpoints ... by tomorrow morning," she said. Linteau said at least one fire, which has destroyed buildings, may have been human-caused, and that investigators are probing the issue. British Columbia declared its first state of emergency since 2003 on July 7 as gusty winds fanned fires that were caused by lightning and humans in the tinder-dry central and southern regions. The fires have shut mines and timber operations and damaged homes and electrical infrastructure. Major pipeline companies in the region, including Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd, a unit of Kinder Morgan Inc, have created fire breaks, installed sprinklers and taken other measures to protect operations. On Thursday, a low pressure system tracked across British Columbia, bringing heavy showers and cooler temperatures, although emergency officials said the rain was sporadic and only fell in certain areas.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/07/almost-50000-people-evacuated-nearly.html
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This Could Bring America To A Standstill In Days - Are These 'Doomsday Maps' Another Sign That War Is In The Air?
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die July 22, 2017
In one of the lead stories over at the Drudge Report from Zero Hedge they report the US is urging all nationals in North Korea to 'depart immediately' while banning tourists from visiting in a ban expected to be officially announced on July 27th and to come into effect 30 days later. Reporting "it was not clear if the urge to clear out US citizens from North Korea is a precursor to more 'aggressive' (or kinetic) action by the US government", it had previously been reported that one sign to watch out for of a possible forthcoming military strike upon NKorea were actions taken to get US citizens out of the area. In watching for such signs, a must-read story from Mac Slavo over at SHTFPlan reports one of the reasons why we 'pay attention': "They May Have Information We Don't" Slavo tells us while asking "Are The Elite Preparing For A Cataclysmic Event?" In Slavo's story he reports upon a recent article in Forbes Magazine which "seems to be sounding the alarm that a major, cataclysmic event could be on the horizon". Slavo finds it interesting that 'mainstream' Forbes has allowed such a report. Interestingly, as Susan Duclos reported on ANP back on June 27th of 2017, the Forbes story included the map seen below, a map that had long been labeled 'tin foil hat conspiracy' by those pressed to believe that America could ever suffer through an event that caused our nation to look like this. What do the globalists know that we don't know? The title of the Forbes story from June 10th, 2017: "The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans". One very interesting aspect about the Forbes story is that the maps they show like the one above are not limited to the United States as they show us 'doomsday maps' from South America and all around the world. So, is the map seen above still some 'tinfoil hat conspiracy theory' or something much more? And while a massive sea-level rise or 'pole flip' might not be in the cards for America and the world any time soon, the possibilities for why we should prepare are nearly endless with one key reason traced back directly to the ZH story on North Korea. If we attempt a 'surgical strike' upon North Korea and a 'limited war' breaks out, North Korea has warned they may have 'sleeper agents' in America prepared to unleash biological weapons within our cities. As Michael Snyder reported back on April 13th of 2017 at The American Dream, "Where Will You Go When North Korean Agents Release Biological Weapons In Major U.S. Cities?" Snyder outlines a scenario within his story that one can be forgiven for thinking it could never happen here, yet it could, and as we learn, we may have no notice at all. As we reported on ANP back on April 28th of 2017, according to a recently declassified report, North Korea had at least 5 commando units on US soil back in the 1990's, prepared to attack US cities and nuclear power plants. Should we believe that somehow, someway we don't have at least that many units in America now after years of Barack Obama's open borders? With the incredible 'diversity' that America has achieved over the years, finding NKorean sleepers in America would be like finding needles in the haystack. From Snyder: Most Americans have no idea that biological weapons could potentially bring our nation to a complete and utter standstill within a matter of days. In recent articles I have been trying to get people to understand why it would be so exceedingly dangerous for the United States to attack North Korea. A war with North Korea would be fundamentally different from other wars, because there would be no line that the North Koreans would not be willing to cross. They would use nukes, they would use chemical weapons, and they would not hesitate to even use biological weapons on innocent civilian populations. In the aftermath of a massive U.S. military strike on North Korea’s nuclear facilities, North Korean agents that have been embedded inside the United States for years quickly start going to work. In Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, small containers that had been covertly smuggled into the U.S. are opened and dropped on the ground in the middle of large groups of people. At first nothing seems to happen, but pretty rapidly those that have been exposed start developing puffy white sores and blisters on their skin. When this hits the news, panic begins to spread as people realize that this appears to be a coordinated attack. Before too long, others that have been exposed to a different bioweapon start bleeding profusely from their eyes, ears, mouths and noses. People drop dead by the thousands, and a national health crisis is declared. Economic activity comes to a complete halt as everyone becomes deathly afraid of leaving their own homes. Hospitals and other medical facilities are completely overwhelmed because they can only treat a small fraction of those that are dying. Because these weaponized diseases were designed to spread like wildfire, pretty soon nearly every community in America is affected. The federal government attempts to intervene, but it is powerless to stop the spread of these pandemics. Thousands of dead bodies lie rotting in the streets of our major cities because there aren’t enough people willing to take the risk of burying them. And because virtually everyone is camping out at home, essential public services start to break down very rapidly and our society descends into a state of utter chaos. While Snyder outlines what could be a near-worst-case scenario (short of nuclear attacks upon several major US cities or an EMP or cyber attack that permanently takes down the electrical grid), the scenario he outlines could be among the first responses taken by 'sleepers' who've long been embedded in America, going about their day to day business as if they were 'average Joe', just waiting for their call. As we've also previously reported on ANP, 'secret coded messages' are regularly sent out by the North Korean government to their sleeper spies around the world. According to the Biological Warfare Blog, the 'black six' of bioweapons include anthrax, botulinium, plague, smallpox, tularaemia and viral hemorrhagic fever and there are years worth of evidence to indicate that North Korea is very involved in the acquisition and weaponization of such pathogens. In the first video below, Joe with the Daily Sheeple talks with us about these doomsday maps for the rich while in the 2nd video we hear all about the North Korean biological weapons threat to America and the world. In the final video below we hear about the possibility that a false flag attack upon America may be ahead with an EMP attack likely blamed upon North Korea but actually allowed to be carried out by America-hating globalists.
http://allnewspipeline.com/NKorea_Threats_Doomsday_Map_What_Do_The_Globalists_Know.php
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Youtube Is Burning Books As the Deep State Prepares to Burn People
By Dave Hodges
YouTube’s new program where kids as young as 13 will decide what you will see and hear. It’s called the HEROES program. I call it Lord of the Flies runs our social media. YouTube (i.e. Google) and Facebook are acting as unregulated monopolies. They provide a privately owned platform in which the Independent Media provides a conservative interpretation of the news as opposed to the radical left-wing Mainstream media who espouses such values as expressing anti-Christian views, advocating for the continual erosion of the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution, completely open borders in which anyone with two legs and carrying weapons of mass destruction can illegally cross our borders take up residence, all courtesy of the US taxpayer. And according to Facebook and YouTube they have the right to ban you from using their platform for espousing traditional American values that our country was founded on. Not Advertiser Friendly I have had scores of videos demonetized by YouTube because they are “not advertiser friendly”. Not advertiser friendly? I had a video demonetized that had 1,735 likes and 21 dislikes, with over 40,000 views and I did not make a dime on the video. Why? Because I referred to a current event that involved a suspicious death of a political figure. My approval rating for this video had an approval rating of over 98% and it is not advertiser-friendly? With 98% of the people approving of the video, the video was very advertiser-friendly and would make the audience of The Common Sense Show MUCH more receptive to being advertising friendly. The term advertiser friendly is a Bravo-Sierra term. What they mean is that I am not loony-liberal-left anti-Christian friendly and my conservative views should not be heard. The First Amendment violators and the thought police are patrolling the corridors of the social media giants with the message “You either promote our world-view or will make you deliver your message at a financial loss.” There is no such thing as advertiser friendly. The whores from Wall Street don’t care where they peddle their goods and services. Just ask Prescott Bush (HW Bush’s father) when tried to get away with doing business with the Nazis during WW II. Hate Speech and Extremism Any view which is anti-New World Order which OPPOSES the total obliteration of freedom, both politically and financially, is labeled as hate speech. If we advocate for screening immigrants criminal background is hate speech as if no terrorist with bad intentions would ever try and cross our border in order to do Americans harm. If one speaks against the illegal and unethical actions of Wall Street, that is considered “extremism”. I have been demonetized and suspended from Facebook for discussing child-sex-trafficking. The FBI and every major police department in the country have task forces related to this topic, but if I write about it, even just to report a related news event, my work is banned and/or demonetized. Please consider the following admonition from YouTube: “Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.” Don’t the topics which includes content of controversial, sensitive issues, wars, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies make up 95% of the content on your nightly news? Rules for Thee but Not for Me Countless times, I have seen a CNN or Fox News video reproduced, with YouTube ads being played on YouTube without restriction. Ads from Wall Street advertisers play unabated and permeate these MSM sites and we in the alt media are not allowed to cover these same topics. If I address the topic (eg war, right vs. left politics), I am banned or demonetized. YouTube and Facebook are guilty of extremism. Extreme hypocritical treatment of divergent and legitimate political views is a rehash of Stalin and Hitler (oh, the use these historical figures names will get banned as well). For the record, The Common Sense Show does not advocate for violence except in extreme self- defense. The show argues against the use of violence by our government in their wars of occupation which are nothing more that resource-grabbing adventures on behalf of the globalists. Yet CNN videos play on YouTube unabated which stand in support with never-ending wars and they are not banned or demonitized. By the way, there is no appeal to the arbitrary decisions of censorship as the new algorithms are key word driven and they have no real appeal mechanism. Do you think CNN and Fox are ever demonetized or banned for covering news stories that are underwritten and funded by CIA? Former reporter, Amber Lyons, claimed was true? Consider the following graphic appearing on Alex Jones’ Infowars website. This says it all. This has already happened to Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, where Google delisted Mike’s publications. Course of Action The alt media should ban together and sue the Washington Post for accusing us of being Russian agents for supporting Donald Trump. We should look into suing Facebook and YouTube. Oh, I know they are private entities. However, they are unregulated monopolies that are predatory in nature. I have had some private conversations with sympathetic attorneys that think that these social media giants may have crossed the line with regard to anti-trust violations. If the estimated 20-30 million people who frequent alt media sites would contribute 5 dollars each to a trust fund, we could make this brand of communist censorship very expensive to YouTube (Google) and Facebook. If everyone refused to use Google’s search engine, it would cost them billions. If we began to boycott advertisers who are contributing to the demise of the Independent Media, feel the pinch, we would quickly see how broad the term “not advertiser friendly” would become. If our followers were crowdfunding their favorites shows, websites and YouTube creators, the message would still be heard. Here is the stark reality of where this is headed The alt media in a dying gasp to stay viable, will attempt to get their followers to, in some measure, pay for their favorite entities to stay in business. However, I am not confident in the alt right crowd’s determination to do such a thing on a scale that will make any real difference. Before the alt media largely goes extinct, you will see the following: Websites will ban users who employ adblockers to access their site Radio shows will charge a small premium (5-10 dollars per month to access). YouTubers will be forced to watch private ads secured by the creators and played in front of their video. Here is what I have concluded: First they came for Healthmasters.com radio show and America said nothing Then they came for Revolution Radio and America said nothing Then they came for Agenda 21 Radio and America said nothing Then they came for the Hagmann Report and America said nothing Then they came for Natural News and America said nothing Then they came for SteveQuayle.com and America said nothing Then they came for The Common Sense Show and America said nothing Then they came for America and there was nobody left to speak WHERE THEY BURN BOOKS, THEY WILL SOON BURN PEOPLE! The first step is in the installation of a police state complete with all the trappings of Hitler is to take away the command and control of the conservative base in this country and that is what is going on right now. The countdown to tyranny has begun and America continues to snore.
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Pentagon Dumps $65 Million Into Mind-control Project
Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. Friday, 21 July 2017
The Pentagon’s research arm — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA — just received $65 million from American taxpayers to develop a way to plug a human brain directly into a computer. According to an announcement by DARPA, the project will create a way to “enable rich two-way communication with the brain at a scale that will help deepen our understanding of that organ’s underlying biology, complexity, and function.” If successful, the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) will give the Pentagon power to “support potential future therapies for sensory restoration.” In other words, the federal government is taking money from taxpayers and using it to build a way to manipulate their brains, altering their senses — “vision, hearing, and speech” — in whatever way the feds deem beneficial. One of the first steps, DARPA reports, will be to create “an implantable package.” That is to say, a device that can be put directly into the brains of those selected for the sensory rewiring. One of the proposed interfaces will result in the development of “up to 100,000 untethered, submillimeter-sized ‘neurograin’ sensors implanted onto or into the cerebral cortex.” Yikes. Once the device is implanted in the brain of the subject, the military could use a “relay station transceiver worn on the head” to “wirelessly power and communicate with the implanted device.” Yikes. But wait, there’s more! DARPA reports that a team working at the University of California-Berkley is attempting “to create quantitative encoding models to predict the responses of neurons to external visual and tactile stimuli, and then apply those predictions to structure photo-stimulation patterns that elicit sensory percepts in the visual or somatosensory cortices, where the device could replace lost vision or serve as a brain-machine interface for control of an artificial limb.” "Predict the responses of neurons." In other words, the person with the Pentagon-powered brain will send messages to the controllers alerting them to thoughts or actions about to percolate to the person’s conscious mind. Academics have come out in support of the scheme: A paper entitled “The Brain Activity Map Project and the Challenge of Functional Connectomics” includes predictions of the development of “techniques for wireless, noninvasive readout of the activity of neuronal populations.” In simpler terms, this research would allow those in control of the discoveries gleaned from this program to wirelessly access and control the brains of target populations. Consider this excerpt from the academic study, as well: "This emergent level of understanding could also enable accurate diagnosis and restoration of normal patterns of activity to injured or diseased brains, foster the development of broader biomedical and environmental applications, and even potentially generate a host of associated economic benefits." “Restoration of normal patterns” takes on an eery aspect when viewed in concert with the DARPA connection. As revealed in the academic study, the NESD is part of a broader plan to give the Pentagon power over the mind, a plan called the BRAIN Initiative — short for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies. Development of such mind-control technologies is certainly consistent with DARPA’s recent efforts to speed of the growth of the surveillance state and the increasing sophistication of the tools used to build it. At The New American we have chronicled the various projects sponsored by the über-secret research and development arm of the military. One of the numerous technologies being pursued by DARPA will not only widen the field of vision of government’s never-blinking eye, but it purports to predict the behavior of those being watched. Forbes reported that DARPA has contracted with scientists at Carnegie Mellon University to develop “an artificial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a person will ‘likely’ do in the future using specially programmed software designed to analyze various real-time video surveillance feeds. The system can automatically identify and notify officials if it recognized that an action is not permitted, detecting what is described as anomalous behaviors.” Deployment of the devices is anticipated at “airports and bus stations,” but there is little doubt that should these predictive monitors prove successful, they will be installed right there next to the red light cameras already mounted at nearly every intersection in America. Minority Report, anyone? With millions of tax dollars deposited by BRAIN into its research coffers, DARPA can begin planning to identify brain activity typical of those who could potentially pose a threat to national security. Such people could be eliminated by being brought into a federal government lab run by the National Institutes of Health and having their “diseased” brain healed and brought back into “normal” function. In its announcement, DARPA names “Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS)” as one of its primary areas of emphasis in its BRAIN activity. A separate entry on another part of the DARPA website reveals more about DCAPS and how it could be used: DCAPS tools will be developed to analyze patterns in everyday behaviors to detect subtle changes associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. In particular, DCAPS hopes to advance the state-of-the-art in extraction and analysis of “honest signals” from a wide variety of sensory data inherent in daily social interactions. DCAPS is not aimed at providing an exact diagnosis, but at providing a general metric of psychological health. DCAPS also aims to develop novel algorithms for detecting distress cues from users who opt in to provide data such as text and voice communications, daily patterns of sleeping, eating, social interactions and online behaviors, and nonverbal cues such as facial expression, posture and body movement. The outcomes of these analytical algorithms would be correlated with distress markers from neurological sensors for improved understanding of distress cues. There is legitimate reason to oppose the NESD and the entire BRAIN Initiative. As has been demonstrated, Washington considers patriots “home-grown terrorists,” and there is little doubt that any technologies developed by grants from the Pentagon’s efforts to directly control the minds of veterans and other Americans could eventually be used to identify those with tendencies toward suspect thoughts and to use the map of the brain to re-program patriots and eliminate the threat they are accused of posing to national security.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/item/26528-pentagon-dumps-65-million-into-mind-control-project
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As Sales Plunge, GM Might Cancel Six Car Models
by Wolf Richter • Jul 20, 2017
Discussions with the UAW have started. Entire plants at risk. GM is getting whacked harder than any of the major automakers by the industry-wide plunge in car sales, as Americans switch in ever larger numbers from cars to “trucks,” which include pickups, van, SUVs and crossovers. In the first half of 2017, GM’s car sales in the US plunged 19%, and in June 38%. The rest of the industry (without GM) booked declines in car sales of “only” 10% in the first half and 9% in June. GM is losing ground in the bitter industry-wide reality of dropping car sales. Inventory is piling up on GM dealer lots. At the end of June, some car models exceeded a catastrophic 180 days’ supply. GM has already cut production. There have been layoffs. Plants have been temporarily shut down, and entire shifts have been eliminated. But it hasn’t been enough. Now comes the next step: Ending production entirely of some models, shuttering plants for good or converting them to making trucks, and fretting about jobs. And that’s already being discussed between the UAW and GM, according to UAW president Dennis Williams. “We are talking to [GM] right now about the products that they currently have” at underutilized car plants, such as Hamtramck in Michigan and Lordstown in Ohio, and whether these models could be replaced with more popular vehicles such as crossovers, he told reporters today, including Reuters. “We are tracking it,” he said. “We are addressing it” Six passenger cars are currently under review at GM and might be cancelled after the 2020 model year, Reuters “has learned from people familiar with the plans”: Chevrolet Volt (a hybrid, not to be confused with the Bolt, an EV), Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Impala, and Chevrolet Sonic. GM has already done away with the Cadillac ELR, a dressed-up 2-door luxury coupe version of the Volt, but a lot more expensive. Practically no one had bought it. But that was just a failed niche product. Some of the six models GM is thinking of canceling were its bread-and-butter. Other automakers already cancelled cars for the 2016 and 2017 model years, including the Dodge Viper; the Volkswagen Eos, a convertible suffering from the decade-long slump of all convertibles; the Honda CR-Z hybrid 2-door; the Lincoln MKS, a nicely groomed Taurus; and Toyota’s entire Scion brand, with some models migrating to the Toyota brand and others, such as the Scion tC, just gone. Oh, and then there’s Fiat Chrysler. It has wound down production of the Dodge Dart (Fiat comes to mind) and the Chrysler 200. It no longer makes cars at all in the US. The remaining cars it sells in the US will be made in Mexico, Canada, and other countries. It will only make trucks in the US, which are a lot more profitable, such as the Ram and the Jeep-branded SUVs. But cancelling six cars, including bread-and-butter models, as GM is doing, is a sign that the collapse of car sales in the US isn’t just a temporary hiccup. GM’s Hamtramck plant in Detroit, which builds Chevrolet Volt, Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, Chevrolet Impala – all four them in the list above of cars potentially on the chopping block – is a sitting duck. Reuters: In the first half, it built fewer than 35,000 cars, down 32% from the same period in 2016, according to suppliers familiar with GM’s U.S. production schedule. The typical GM assembly plant builds 200,000-300,000 vehicles a year. Rental car companies, which are the biggest car buyers out there, have found themselves over-fleeted due to industry changes, including the surging use of rideshare services even by business travelers [Answers Emerge: This is How Badly Uber Eats into Hertz]. And so rental car companies are trimming their purchases. Which leaves automakers with less of an outlet for their cars. And even consumers that typically bought cars are more and more gravitating toward SUVs and crossovers, and even pickups, as Honda’s successful launch of its Ridgeline pickup trucks amply demonstrates. And as long as gas is below $3 a gallon, that’s unlikely to change. Gas might have to go over $6 a gallon and stay there before there would be a noticeable rejiggering of buying preferences. And even then it might not happen. Now that Carmageddon has descended upon cars, and particularly on GM’s cars, the company would need to perform a miracle and come out with hot new cars that people would actually want to buy, even with gas below $3 a gallon. But miracles are rare these days, especially in the car business, and so the inevitable next steps will impact in dramatic ways the model lineup, plants, and jobs – not only at GM but also at its suppliers. American icon Harley-Davidson is in an even tighter spot, trying to manage a structural decline in a terrible industry. Read… Harley-Davidson Spirals Down, Announces US Layoffs, Builds Factory in Thailand
http://wolfstreet.com/2017/07/20/gm-might-cancel-six-car-models-after-2020/
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Collusion? What About Chinagate and Ted Kennedy's Outreach to the USSR?
Larry Elder Posted: Jul 20, 2017 12:01 AM
During President Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign for re-election, several individuals allegedly worked on behalf of the Chinese government to influence the presidential election in favor of Clinton. "Chinagate" began when the Los Angeles Times reported, a couple months before the '96 election, the following: "The Democratic National Committee has returned a $250,000 contribution from a recently established subsidiary of a South Korean electronics company because it violated a ban on donations from foreign nationals in U.S. elections, a party spokesman said Friday. ... "David Eichenbaum, DNC communications director ... said that the DNC fund-raiser who was responsible for the contribution was under the impression, erroneously as it turned out, that it fulfilled the legal qualifications. He said it was unclear whether the fund-raiser was misled or there had been a misunderstanding." DNC did the standard "Oops, we made a boo-boo, here's your money back, it's all OK now" dog and pony show. That worked for a while. But a few months later, on Feb. 13, 1997, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy reported: "A Justice Department investigation into improper political fund-raising activities has uncovered evidence that representatives of the People's Republic of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the Democratic National Committee before the 1996 presidential campaign, officials familiar with the inquiry said. ... "The Chinese effort to win influence with the Clinton administration can be traced to 1993, one source said. ... Some investigators suspected a Chinese connection to the current fund-raising scandal because several DNC contributors and major fund-raisers had ties to Beijing. Last February, Charles Yah Lin Trie, a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee, used his influence with party officials to bring Wang Jun, head of a weapons trading company owned by the Chinese military, to a White House coffee with Clinton. CARTOONS | Henry Payne View Cartoon "Wang also heads a prominent, state-owned investment conglomerate. Clinton has since said he should not have met with Wang, and $640,000 in checks that Trie delivered to president's legal defense fund has been returned because of questions about the source of the funds." The DNC vice chairman and fundraiser at the center of the DNC's illegal contribution was formerly a top executive involved with Asian and Chinese corporations, with some holdings sold to the Chinese government. Before joining the DNC, he left his corporate job with a large severance and worked at the Commerce Department for 18 months, where he enjoyed a top-secret clearance. Evidence showed more than 70 calls from his Commerce office to a bank controlled by his former corporation; memos of calls from Chinese embassy officials; three meetings scheduled with Chinese government officials; a breakfast and a dinner at the Chinese embassy; and at least one visit to the "residence of the Chinese ambassador." After a year of investigation, FBI director Louis Freeh sent Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno a 22-page memorandum, stating, "It is difficult to imagine a more compelling situation for appointing an independent counsel." Several months later, Charles LaBella, head of the Justice Department's campaign-finance task force, also sent a report to Reno recommending she appoint an independent counsel. The evidence, LaBella said, "suggests a level of knowledge within the White House -- including the president's and first lady's offices -- concerning the injection of foreign funds into the reelection effort." He also said, "If these allegations involved anyone other than the president, vice president, senior White House or DNC and Clinton/Gore '96 officials, an appropriate investigation would have commenced months ago without hesitation." Reno, however, declined all requests for an independent counsel. Before Chinagate, Sen. Ted Kennedy, thinking of running for president in 1988, reportedly offered to help the Soviets influence the 1984 election. Desperate to stop President Ronald Reagan's re-election, Kennedy, as first reported in The London Times in 1992, reached out via an intermediary to the Soviet KGB. The London Times revealed a 1983 KGB document from KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov to the then-leader of the USSR, Yuri Andropov. Chebrikov relayed an offer presented to the Soviet leaders from Kennedy, delivered in person by "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant" John Tunney, a former Democratic senator who was Kennedy's law school roommate. Kennedy, according to the memo, offered to help the Soviets deal with Reagan, whom Kennedy perceived as a warmonger. Kennedy would "arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA." In exchange, Kennedy wanted Soviet aid in challenging Reagan's re-election. Kennedy offered to use his influential friends in liberal American media to arrange television interviews for Andropov. This would soften the Soviets' image, Kennedy suggested, and help brand Reagan as reckless and dangerous. The memo said, "Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president." To summarize, there was no special prosecutor for Chinagate. And few in the media followed up on the Kennedy/KGB story when it broke. This explains why Trump supporters, despite the selective hyperventilation over Russian "collusion," still back their man.
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Trump facing most hostile press coverage in history
Harvard releases facts to prove it
By Madison Gesiotto - - Thursday, July 20, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Over and over again, I, and many others, have stated that President Donald Trump has received the most hostile press coverage of any sitting president in U.S. history. Democrats laughed and claimed that former President Barack Obama was treated worse, but the facts don’t lie. All you have to do is take a look at the recently released report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy by Professor Thomas E. Patterson, titled “News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days.” According to the report, “Trump has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump’s coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president.” Not a single major topic of more positive than negative coverage. That is insane. In fact, when they averaged out the tone of news coverage during his first 100 days, Mr. Trump received 80 percent negative coverage. Finally, let’s take a look at Mr. Trump’s negative news coverage by topic, On immigration, he received negative coverage a whopping 96 percent of the time. He also faced negative coverage over 80 percent of the time on health care, Russia and the election, international trade, his personal background, personnel, fitness for office and other foreign/defense issues. Again, Fox News Channel pulled these averages down with much less negative coverage than the other outlets. “Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days was negative even by the standards of today’s hyper-critical press,” the report says. They are right. The facts are clear, and there is not a doubt in my mind that Mr. Trump’s claims of unfair treatment by the media are true, which leaves us asking the question: What is the job of journalists in the media? Last time I checked, disparaging the president of the United States was not a part of the description. Wake up, America. The time to speak up is now.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/20/donald-trump-facing-most-hostile-press-coverage-hi/
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House Committee Approves Strict Restrictions on US Funding for UN and Palestinian Authority
avatar by Ben Cohen July 20, 2017 4:58 pm
Tough conditions on American funding for both the UN and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have been approved by the congressional committee overseeing the US Foreign Operations Bill for 2018. The bill — passed by the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday — places strict restrictions on how the $47.4 billion budget for overseas operations will be disbursed. A statement from the committee confirmed that there will be “no funding for the (UN) Human Rights Council unless the Secretary of State determines that it is in the national security interest and the Council stops its anti-Israel agenda and increases transparency in the elections of its members.” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned back in March that US funding of the council would be terminated if it continued with “its biased agenda against Israel.” “The bill also prohibits funds for UN organizations headed by countries that support terrorism, and withholds a portion of funds for the UN and international organizations until transparency and accountability measures are met,” the statement added. In its accompanying report, the committee drew specific attention to the anti-Zionist infrastructure within the UN’s own secretariat. It said it “strongly endorses the Department of State’s withholding of a proportionate share of the costs to such UN entities deemed to be anti-Israeli.” The committee also asked for an annual report on the activities of the UN agencies promoting anti-Zionist propaganda, such as the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and the body that services it, the Division for Palestinian Rights. Gil Kapen — a former congressional staffer with extensive knowledge of the UN’s internal workings — told The Algemeiner on Thursday that “it’s certainly a positive thing that these institutions are having a spotlight focused on them.” “Hopefully this kind of attention will continue so that they can be eventually eliminated, because they constitute a propaganda apparatus that seeks to delegitimize Israel and is an obstacle to attaining peace in the Middle East,” Kapen — who now serves as an expert with the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI) — said. The bill “maintains restrictions on the PA,” including a requirement to reduce funds to the Palestinians by an amount “equivalent to that expended by the PA as payments to prisoners that committed acts of terrorism,” the committee noted. It reiterated that funding will be cut off “if there is a Palestinian government formed through an agreement with Hamas or if the Palestinians are not acting to counter incitement.” The bill also contains a provision that would restrict Palestinian diplomatic representation in the US in the event that the PA initiates an International Criminal Court investigation against Israel.
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Philippines Duterte: Martial law extended in Mindanao
22 July 2017
Legislators in the Philippines have voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law to deal with an Islamist insurgency in the restive island of Mindanao. Militants linked to so-called Islamic State have been occupying parts of Marawi, a city in the south, since May. President Rodrigo Duterte said the extension was necessary to crush the insurgency, but his critics say it is part of a wider power grab. Mindanao is home to a number of Muslim rebel groups seeking more autonomy. Martial law allows the use of the military to enforce law and the detention of people without charge for long periods. It is a sensitive issue in the Philippines, where martial law was imposed by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos for much of his rule. A previously imposed 60-day martial rule was due to expire on Saturday. It went into effect on 23 May, just hours after deadly clashes between the army and gunmen linked to so-called Islamic State. The extension means the law will now remain in force until 31 December. In May, President Duterte warned that martial law could be extended across the Philippines after insurgents killed police officers in Marawi. Duterte eyes nationwide martial law Duterte: The 'strongman' of the Philippines Some opposition lawmakers questioned why it should be applied to the whole of the southern island, instead of just the city. "I fear that the plan to extend the martial law in Mindanao will pave the way for a Philippines-wide martial law," Senator Risa Hontiveros was quoted by AFP as saying. Another senator, Franklin Drilon, said the extension was too long, while congressman Edcel Lagman said there was "no factual basis" for it. A dozen protesters also interrupted proceedings at Saturday's hearing, chanting "never again to martial law", the news agency reports. Army chief of staff General Eduardo Ano said it was necessary to restrict the movement of the Islamist militants, warning that the ongoing rebellion could spread to other cities on the island, the GMA News website reports. He described it as a "Mosul-type, hybrid urban warfare", referring to fighting in the Iraqi city that was until recently held by IS. Security officials addressing congress ahead of the vote said the law was required to stabilise the region, where supporters of IS may be inspired to stage similar uprisings in other areas of Mindanao. They said only about 60 gunmen were left in a 49-hectare area of Marawi, but nearly 1,000 pro-IS militants were active elsewhere in the south, holding 23 hostages. Marawi was home to 200,000 residents but many have fled the violence. There are fears for those trapped who face a lack of food and water. More than 420 militants, 100 soldiers and 45 civilians have been killed in the fighting. Clashes began when the army failed in its attempt to capture Isnilon Hapilon, believed to be the main IS leader in the Philippines and linked to the local Maute group, which has declared allegiance to IS. In response the Maute group attacked parts of the city, taking hostages.
Who are the Maute group? - BBC Monitoring
Also known as IS Ranao, the group is based in Mindanao's Lanao del Sur province
Formed in 2012 by Abdullah Maute (aka Abu Hasan) and his brother Omar
Ranks are believed to comprise a few hundred fighters, mostly from other armed Islamist groups
The group's first known encounter with the military came in 2013, when it attacked a security checkpoint in Mindanao
Pledged allegiance to IS in 2015
In February 2016, troops overran the group's Butig headquarters, killing around 40 rebels
The group has also been linked with Isnilon Hapilon, a prominent figure in the Abu Sayyaf militant group
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40690589
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Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigns; protesters shout down Mayor Betsy Hodges
Hodges 'lost confidence’ in Harteau and pushed for her ouster.
By Libor Jany, Andy Mannix and Eric Roper Star Tribune
July 22, 2017 — 12:23pm
Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigned abruptly Friday amid growing criticism from the public and the City Council following the fatal police shooting of Justine Damond. The chief’s departure came at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges, who promptly nominated Assistant Chief Medaria Arradondo, a 28-year veteran of the force, to replace Harteau. The move ended Harteau’s 4½-year run as the first woman and first openly gay person to head the department. The death of Damond, a native Australian who had moved to Minneapolis to be with her fiancé, thrust Minneapolis into the international spotlight. It also has generated public skepticism about the department and its training, including from city officials who have questioned why the officers involved didn’t turn on their body cameras. etc. and the news story continues..
http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-chief-janee-harteau-resigns/435864713/
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U.S. withholds Pakistan reimbursement over Haqqani network: Pentagon
Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart July 21, 2017 / 9:22 AM / a day ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will withhold $50 million remaining in military reimbursements to Pakistan for fiscal year 2016 because Defense Secretary Jim Mattis believes that Islamabad has not done enough to blunt the Islamist militant Haqqani network, a U.S. official said on Friday. The decision was not the first time that the Pentagon has declined to make military reimbursements to Pakistan. Last year, it withheld $300 million. Pakistan has been reimbursed $550 million of the $900 million it was authorized to receive in fiscal year 2016. Of the rest, $300 million had already been reprogrammed for other purposes, but had not been previously reported. Mattis' latest decision affects the remaining $50 million. Relations between the two countries have been frayed over the past decade, with U.S. officials frustrated by what they term Pakistan's unwillingness to act against Islamist groups such as the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. Adam Stump, a Pentagon spokesman, said the $50 million could not be released now because Mattis "could not certify that Pakistan has taken sufficient action against the Haqqani Network per the requirement in the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act." President Donald Trump's administration is exploring potentially hardening its approach toward Pakistan to crack down on militants launching strikes in neighboring Afghanistan. Possible Trump administration responses being discussed include expanding U.S. drone strikes and perhaps eventually downgrading Pakistan's status as a major non-NATO ally. Mattis told reporters on Friday that the decision was not linked to the administration's broader South Asia strategy, which is still being reviewed. "This is simply an assessment of the current state of play," Mattis said. "It is not a policy, it is a reality." The United States in 2012 designated the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a terrorist organization. The year before, U.S. Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, then the top U.S. military officer, caused a stir when he told Congress that the Haqqani network was a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. Pakistan argues that it has done a great deal to help the United States in tracking down terrorists and points out that it has suffered hundreds of deaths in Islamist militant attacks in response to its crackdowns. Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, said that Islamabad had continued to fight militants. "It may be noted that the funds in question are a reimbursement of the expenses incurred by Pakistan towards achieving our common objectives in the fight against terrorism, and not an assistance," Chaudhry said in a statement. Pentagon spokesman Stump said the decision did not "reduce the significance of the sacrifices that the Pakistani military has undertaken over previous years." He said Pakistan still had time to take action against the Haqqani network in order to receive reimbursements next year. Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart; editing by Andrea Ricci and Grant McCool
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pakistan-military-idUSKBN1A61MX?il=0
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5-Year-Old Girl Fined Nearly $200 for Holding Lemonade Stand
Megan McCluskey Jul 21, 2017
A five-year-old girl who decided to run a lemonade stand in her East London neighborhood was fined nearly $200 for not having a trading permit. In a Thursday article for The Telegraph, the girl's father, Andre Spicer, described how four police officers approached the stand shortly after his daughter had begun selling her home-made beverage. "After about 30 minutes, four local council enforcement officers stormed up to her little table," he wrote. "'Excuse me,' one officer said as he switched on a portable camera attached to his vest. He then read a lengthy legal statement – the gist of which was that because my daughter didn't have a trading permit, she would be fined [$195]. 'But don’t worry, it is only [$117] if it’s paid quickly,' the officer added." Spicer went on to explain how upset his daughter was by the incident — which he dubbed Lemonadegate. " My daughter burst into tears, repeating again and again, 'Have I done a bad thing?'" Council officials stated Friday that the fine would be cancelled immediately, according to CBS News. "We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense, and to use their powers sensibly. This clearly did not happen," the statement read.
http://time.com/4868393/lemonade-stand-fine-5-year-old/
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Man Hires Homeless Man And Builds Park Stairs For $550 After City Estimates $65,000-$150,000 For The Project
July 20, 2017
A man spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community park after the city of Toronto estimated a price of $65,000-$150,000 to complete the project. Retired mechanic Adi Astl says he took it upon himself to build the stairs after several neighbors fell down the steep path to a community garden in Tom Riley Park, in Etobicoke, Ont. "I thought they were talking about an escalator," Astl told CTV News when he learned about the city's estimation of the project. Astl says he hired a homeless person to help him and built the eight steps in a matter of hours for just $550. "To me, the safety of people is more important than money," Astl said. "So if the city is not willing to do it, I have to do it myself." City bylaw officers have taped off the stairs while officials make a decision on what to do with it. However, Astl has not been charged with any sort of violation.
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Amazon is getting too big and the government is talking about it
By Tonya Garcia Published: July 17, 2017 1:50 p.m. ET
Hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass says government talks about antitrust issues have begun
Fresh off its biggest Prime Day yet, the Whole Foods Market Inc. bid, and a slew of announcements including Amazon Wardrobe, Amazon.com Inc. was the subject of two investor calls last week that raised concerns that it is getting too big. In one case, hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass said government intervention could be imminent. “I am shorting Amazon today because I have learned that there are currently early discussions and due diligence being considered in the legislative chambers in Washington DC with regard to possible antitrust opposition to Amazon’s business practices, pricing strategy and expansion announcements already made (as well as being aimed at expansion strategies being considered in the future,” wrote Kass, head of Seabreeze Partners Management. See: It’s time to bet against Amazon, says money manager Doug Kass Kass said he is taking a short position on the stock, or a bet that it will fall. The investor said the stock could fall 10% overnight once the market gets wind of the talks. As Amazon AMZN, +1.43% has grown, so has speculation about which retail category it will rule next. The company already dominates books, the cloud and electronics. And with moves in fashion and grocery, it appears the company has its eye on those sectors next. Its dominance has created major stress for brick-and-mortar retailers, who are suffering badly as they scramble to catch up. In January, European Union antitrust regulators cheered the end of audiobook exclusivity between Amazon and Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.35% And last August, Amazon’s offices in Tokyo were searched by the Fair Trade Commission on suspicion that it was breaking antitrust laws. Amazon said Wednesday that Prime Day was its biggest day ever, with sales up 60% from the same 30-hour period the previous year. The Echo Dot was the best seller, and the company said it gained more new Prime members on July 11 than any other day in its history. As usual, it did not provide any hard numbers. Kass bolstered his argument in a Thursday comment. “My understanding is that certain Democrats in the Senate have instituted the very recent and preliminary investigation of Amazon’s possible adverse impact on competition,” he said. “But, in the Trump administration we also have a foe against Jeff Bezos, who not only runs Amazon but happens to own an editorially unfriendly (to President Trump) newspaper, The Washington Post.” See also: In Nike-Amazon partnership, Amazon’s scale could put the Nike brand at risk Amazon has been busy this summer, announcing its purchase of Whole Foods WFM, -0.31% last month. Within days, it announced Amazon Wardrobe, a service that lets shoppers try on clothing and receive discounts when they purchase multiple items. Shortly after that, Nike Inc. NKE, -0.24% confirmed that it would begin selling a limited assortment on Amazon. Kass has previously expressed doubts about Amazon, saying in October 2014 that investors should “avoid Amazon at all costs” and that the company “continues to fail to exhibit a cash flow return on any investment it makes.” The stock has more than tripled in value since then. Steve Kaplan, a trader and True Contrarian blogger, joined Kass on Wednesday with a short position of his own. Kaplan said Janet Yellen is incorrect and that a recession is looming. He is skeptical about a few other big names too. “We are likely to experience an especially severe recession since so much money has come out of safe time deposits like bank accounts and money-market funds and has gone into fluctuating assets including real estate, corporate bonds, stocks, and especially the most popular overpriced garbage including Amazon, Tesla TSLA, +2.71% Netflix NFLX, +13.54% Nvidia NVDA, +1.04% etc.,” Kaplan said. Amazon shares are up 0.7% Monday, and have gained 35% in the year so far. The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.06% is up 10% for 2017 to date. Additional reporting by Barbara Kollmeyer
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whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North
Korea has declared war on the United States of America.
The whole country can tell you an invasion is
coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless
monetary system is ready to start, the banks will
have no money, the mark of the beast will be here.
But I am trying to protect you by placing one that can protect you, but
even if that is not so and cannot be, I will still protect you and take you
through this time safely. etc
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THIS IS TERRIFYING: Will All Of Your Money Be Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye?
July 16, 2017
Today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE, historic moves in currencies, warned King World News about a total recipe for disaster that will make people’s life savings disappear in the blink of an eye. Egon von Greyerz: “It is not only paper gold which is Fake. Few investors realise that most of their investments are Fake… Continue reading the Egon von Greyerz interview below… Egon von Greyerz continues: “Fake news and Fake assets are everywhere. Let’s start with social media which dominates major parts of the world. Facebook, for example, has 2 billion active users. WhatsApp has 1.2 billion users and Instagram 700 million. There will obviously be quite a lot of overlap between the various social media. But what it is clear that these three apps reach billions of people and their power is much bigger than that of any other media; Social Media has more impact than newspapers or television and is the only media that 2-3 billion people follow regularly. Most people, and in particular young people, don’t watch television and don’t read the papers. They get all of their “news” from social media. Social media is instant gratification. You post something or you send a message and you get a message back or a number of likes which generates dopamine and makes you momentarily happy. But as I have experienced from our many grandchildren, social media is a perfect source of Fake news. Many young people using social media will be receivers of Fake News or bullying. Social media is perfect for spreading false rumors which are very often difficult to get rid of. Trump’s Twitter account is another example of alleged Fake News. Trump accuses the papers and television of Fake News and they accuse him of the same. This is the world we live in today – a world with Fake markets, Fake assets, Fake values, Fake money, Fake people and Fake news. A World Of Electronic Entries There was recently an interesting example of Fake identity in Sweden. The head of Sweden’s biggest security company, Securitas, had his identity stolen in March. A loan of an undisclosed amount was then taken out by the person who stole the identity. The loan was not repaid and the Fake head of Securitas was declared bankrupt on July 10th. The real head of the company was not aware and has been fighting to reinstate his honor and position. We are now in a world where everything becomes electronic entries. Real people are no longer important. We are just all electronic entries in a register. It is the same with money. Money is today totally Fake. Money used to be silver or gold. To make trading easier, it was later replaced by paper money, on a one for one basis. So paper money still represented real value for goods and services. But bankers and governments soon realized that by reducing the amount of precious metal in a coin they could enrich themselves. They didn’t care that this was fraud and debased the value of “real” money. Later the same was done with paper money. When paper money was first introduced, it represented the amount of silver or gold held by the bank. Soon governments and bankers realized that by leveraging the silver and gold they could make a lot more money at the expense of savers and depositors. And so the Ponzi scheme started with Fake Money and Fake Assets. Today we have a situation when virtually all assets and all liabilities are just electronic entries leveraging the underlying “real”values 10s, 100s or 1,000s of times. Money is leveraged many times, stocks are also leveraged by the issuance of various derivative instruments like ETFs or futures, which supposedly reflect the underlying instrument but which, in effect, is just an electronic entry with nothing behind it. Since the global debt position, including unfunded liabilities and derivatives, amounts to over $2 quadrillion, so should global assets. But global assets are not even a fraction of that. Supposedly, global assets are $250 billion, but these are all bubble valuations that will implode as the debts and liabilities implode. All Your Money Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye I am spending some time in Sweden currently and experiencing the cashless society. In many places cash is not accepted. Everyone wants credit card or electronic payment. Banks charge a high fee for anyone depositing cash. Nobody realizes that their money is just an electronic entry that can be turned off in a second by the government. This means that their money will be totally gone and will never reappear again. This is what governments and central banks are introducing into most Western countries. People believe that their money is safe in the bank and don’t realize that electronic money is not introduced for convenience but to stop people taking money out when the heavily leveraged and insolvent banks run out of cash. What everyone with a bank account must understand is that one day there will be little or no money left in the bank. ATMs will then be closed and no money will be available. This is an elegant solution to the insolvency of the financial system. No paper money will be available nor any electronic money. Thus, there is no money to be had. At that point, the government will no longer print money for private individuals, since it can’t be used. Instead they will print coupons to be used in shops and for other expenses. This is already happening in countries like Zimbabwe today. Alternatively, they will allow people to spend a very limited amount of their bank balance every month. There will of course still be massive money printing to save the financial system as all assets implode. But very little of that money will reach ordinary people. Most people will consider this scenario as totally unrealistic and worse than doomsday. Hopefully it will never happen. But the point I am making is that by handing over assets to the banks, and ultimately to the government, which controls the banks, most people will totally have surrendered control of their assets. It is of course not only cash which would suffer this destiny but all assets which are held within the financial system, whether it is stocks, bonds, or any other security held in electronic form. World At The Precipice – A Recipe For Total Disaster We have now reached a stage when the world is no longer at a crossroads, instead it has reached a dead end. But this is not a dead end with a chance of going back. It is a dead end with the only way out being a precipice. And this is where the world could easily be heading next. The build-up has been the perfect recipe for disaster: 1. Take $18 trillion of debt printed by insolvent central banks, up 300% since 2006. 2. Add other public debt as well as private debt to reach $230 trillion, up 60% since 2006. 3. Add unfunded global liabilities and other commitments of $270 trillion making a total of $500 trillion at a minimum. 4. Just one small bit to add, which is derivatives of $1.5 quadrillion taking us to a total of $2 quadrillion or more. 5. Run budget deficits for over 50 years like the US. 6. Always buy more than you sell, creating trade deficits for over 40 years, again like the US or the UK. 7. Print money to pay for all your government expenses like Japan. 8. Buy your own debt like Japan, USA, the EU, UK, etc. 9. Mismanage your country and currency until the money reaches its intrinsic value of Zero. So far, all major currencies are down 97-99% since 1913. 10. Allow the financial system unlimited leverage to benefit a miniscule minority and burden the masses with debt. 11. Manipulate all markets to totally obscure price discovery. 12. Set interest rates at zero or negative so that governments can borrow unlimited amounts. 13. Suppress the value of gold in order to hide the mismanagement of money and the economy. 14. Set up a system of misinformation and Fake news to mislead the people. 15. Once 1 to 14 has been achieved, start at 1 again and do more of the same. Protect Yourself Against Biggest Risk In World History So what is the best recipe for protecting against the biggest risk in world economic history? Hard assets held directly by the investor reduces the risk. This can be anything from property, farmland, forest or mineral assets. For most people it is impractical to hold these types of assets. Instead, the perfect asset to protect against the risks in the financial system is of course physical gold or silver stored safely outside the system and preferably outside your country of residence. This is the time not to trust Fake news or Fake assets. Only real assets will protect you.”
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Health Ranger warns: Bitcoin collapse now under way… has already plunged nearly 40% from its high
Sunday, July 16, 2017 by: Mike Adams
(Natural News) In case you having been paying attention to the world of crypto currency, Bitcoin has now collapsed almost 40% from its high, plunging from $3,000 to nearly $1,800 in anticipation of the “Bitcoin civil war” that’s rapidly approaching. From July 21st through the end of the year, a timeline of serious obstacles threatens to crater the speculative Bitcoin marketplace. One of those events has been called a “Bitcoin civil war” and could threaten the very existence of the crypto currency. That’s why people are taking profits right now, selling their Bitcoin holdings and driving the price downward. (See BitRAPED.com for more coverage.) Remember: Bitcoin isn’t backed by gold. It isn’t backed by anything at all. There’s nothing technically superior to Bitcoin compared to other crypto currencies such as Ethereum or Z-cash. As a result, nearly all the growth in Bitcoin over the last few months was based on speculative greed, where people hope to cash in on the bubble of crypto currencies even though they don’t understand the real risk. The Bitcoin promoters telling you that you can’t trust the dollar because it’s fiat currency usually fail to inform you that Bitcoin is crypto fiat currency, backed by nothing. In fact, one of the “fixes” being discussed by the Bitcoin community right now would result in lifting the limit of 21 million Bitcoins, allowing potentially unlimited future Bitcoins to flood the marketplace, thereby devaluing presently-held Bitcoins. Quantitative easing, it seems, isn’t just for central banks… I’ve explained all this in more detail in my studio video, below, recorded on June 7th, 2017, long before the Bitcoin market began to really crumble. For the record, I support the idea of decentralized crypto currency and rendering corrupt central banks obsolete. However, Bitcoin is so far lost into the depths of greed and hucksterism that I can’t stay silent on this issue. I especially don’t want the millions of readers and fans who follow my work to be harmed by the Bitcoin collapse, which is why I began publicly warning people about all this a couple of months ago:
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-07-16-health-ranger-warns-bitcoin-collapse-under-way.html
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95% Of Europeans Reject EU Efforts To "De-Cash" Their Lives
by Tyler Durden Jul 17, 2017 3:30 AM
Authored by Don Quijones via WolfStreet.com, But the IMF has suggestions on how to win the War on Cash... In January 2017 the European Commission announced it was exploring the option of imposing upper limits on cash payments, with a view to implementing cross-regional measures as soon as 2018. To give the proposal a veneer of respectability and accountability the Commission launched a public consultation on the issue. Now, the answers are in, but they are not what the Commission was expecting. A staggering 95% of the respondents said they were opposed to a cash ceiling at EU level. Even more emphatic was the answer to the following question: “How would the introduction of restrictions on payments in cash at EU level benefit you, or your business or your organisation (multiple replies are possible)?” In the curious absence of an explicit “not at all” option, 99.18% chose to respond with “no answer.” In other words, less than 1% of the more than 30,000 people consulted could think of a single benefit of the EU unleashing cross-regional cash limits. Granted, 37% of respondents were from Germany and 19% from Austria (56% in total), two countries that have a die-hard love for physical lucre. Even among millennials in Germany, two-thirds say they prefer paying in cash to electronic means, a much higher level than in almost any other advanced economy with the exception of Japan. Another 35% of the survey respondents were from France, a country that is not quite so enamored with cash and whose government has already imposed a maximum cash limit of €1,000. By its very nature the survey almost certainly attracted a disproportionate number of arch-defenders of physical cash. As such, the responses it elicited are unlikely to be a perfect representation of how all Europeans would feel about the EU’s plans to introduce maximum cash limits. Nonetheless, the sheer strength of opposition should (but probably won’t) give the apparatchiks in Brussels pause for thought. Respondents cited a number of objections to EU-wide cash restrictions, chief among them the convenience of using cash and the limited impact the measure would probably have on achieving its “stated” objectives of curbing terrorism, tax evasion, and money laundering. Of course, there are many other reasons to worry about living in a cashless (or “less cash”) society that were not offered as an option in the survey, including the vastly increased power it would give to political and monetary authorities as well as the near-impossibility of ever escaping from the clutches of the banking system or central banks’ monetary experiments. The biggest cited concern for respondents was the threat the cash restrictions would pose to privacy and personal anonymity. A total of 87% of respondents viewed paying with cash as an essential personal freedom. The European Commission would beg to differ. In the small print accompanying the draft legislation it launched in January, it pointed out that privacy and anonymity do not constitute “fundamental” human rights. Be that as it may, many Europeans still clearly have a soft spot for physical money. If the EU authorities push too hard, too fast in their war on cash, they could provoke a popular backlash. In Germany, trust in Europe’s financial institutions is already at a historic low, with only one in three Germans saying they have confidence in the ECB. The longer QE lasts, the more the number shrinks. Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has already warned that it would be “disastrous” if people started to believe cash would be abolished — an oblique reference to the risk of negative interest rates and the escalating war on cash triggering a run on cash. The IMF has also waded into the debate with a working paper full of sage advice for governments keen on “de-cashing” – as the IMF calls this procedure – their economies against the will of their citizenry (emphasis added): The private-sector-led de-cashing seems preferable to the public-sector-led decashing. The former seems almost entirely benign (e.g., more use of mobile phones to pay for coffee), but still needs policy adaptation. The latter seems more questionable, and people may have valid objections to it. De-cashing of either kind leaves both individuals and states more vulnerable to disruptions, ranging from power outages to hacks to cyberwarfare. In any case, the tempting attempts to impose de-cashing by a decree should be avoided, given the popular personal attachment to cash. A targeted outreach program is needed to alleviate suspicions related to de-cashing; in particular, that by de-cashing the authorities are trying to control all aspects of peoples’ lives, including their use of money, or push personal savings into banks. It basically involves making it easier and cheaper for people to use electronic payment methods while subtly turning the screw on those who would prefer to continue using cash (for perfectly valid reasons, as the IMF itself admits), presumably by making it more difficult and expensive to do so. In many places it’s already happening. But a surprisingly large number of people still appear to have a strong sense of attachment to physical money, particularly in Europe’s most important economy, Germany. And if the survey is any indication, they have little interest in changing those habits.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-16/95-europeans-reject-eu-efforts-de-cash-their-lives
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etc.. The EU is on its own, Russia is on its own, China is on its own, many are not your friends, many have already plotted and planned the things that they shall do, it is recorded in my Book. And if you were to study my Book you would see the things that are taking place right now. etc..
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etc. China continues to build up her monetary system, putting pressure on the whole world to come to a worldly monetary system etc..
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China and Russia Are Doing the 2-Step to Bring Down the US Economy
By Dave Hodges
The American economy is on the rocks. Most would tell you that it is because our government and its citizens have acquired massive debt. That is only part of the picture. At the present moment, China and Russia are doing their version of the two-step to take down the US economy. Make no mistake about it, this is economic war and it is leading to World War III. China and Russia’s Economic Assault on the US Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa-BRICS When it became obvious for all with eyes to see, Russia and China led the initial assault upon the dollar by challenging the supremacy of the Petrodollar. Briefly, for those that do not know their economic history, the globalists, in 1944, decided that the world would use the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. With a coming global industrialization movement, there was a need for a stable currency to underwrite the growth. The only major country untouched by the ravages of World War II was the United States. Therefore, it was decided that all nations that would purchase oil, in their attempt to further industrialize, must do so with the dollar. The international purchasing of the dollar, known as the Petrodollar, saved the US economy because we had abandoned the gold standard under FDR during the Great Depression. The Petrodollar is the only backing that our dollar enjoys and now it is being threatened. In the 1990’s, Saddam Hussein, Germany and France began to engage in oil exchange using gold and Iraq got invaded under George H. W. Bush. Other Middle Eastern nations were preparing to do the same at a later date and Rumsfeld, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney devised a plan to invade 5 Middle Eastern Nations in order to prevent any future rebellion against the Federal Reserve’s Petrodollar. Part of this plan, called for the invasion of Syria and Iran. This is where the Chinese and the Russians stepped in and created the BRICS. Further, the Russians and the Chinese began to defend Iran and Syria. Most importantly, Iran began to sell oil for gold to the newly created BRICS and the value of your dollar took a big hit. The US would love to invade Iran in order to stop the BRICS, but they cannot get passed the armies of Russia and China. The BRICS Conspiracy Grows The creation of a BRICS gold marketplace, designed to replace the U.S. Petrodollar in continues to move to the next level. Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, recently announced that its subsidiary is now trading in gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Russia and China are marrying their economy in gold exchanges in order to completely bypass the dollar. This is a catastrophic development. Here is a summary of this action. The reader can clearly see that the Russian government fully intends on expanding their gold exchanges with China which is currently at 26% of all trade transactions. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this Russian/Chinese strategy is designed to weaken America and soften her up for the kill. Reuters provides more fuel to this fire: “Sberbank plans to expand its presence on the Chinese precious metals market and anticipates total delivery of 5-6 tonnes of gold to China in the remaining months of 2017. Gold bars will be delivered directly to the official importers in China as well as through the exchange… Russia’s second-largest bank VTB is also a member of the Shanghai Gold Exchange.” Summary of the Present Economic Climate The BRICS began as an attempt by affiliated nations to not be held hostage by the dollar. This would have presumably allowed the economies of these nations to expand and to compete with the dollar, which it has. China and Russia, the second and third most powerful nations, are in the process of completely abandoning the dollar. The world is in the process of joining them. This is the end of the dollar and this is the end of your bank account. Implications Do you think the Federal Reserve is going to take this lying down? This is an act of war and war is exactly what is going to happen. The bankers who reside at the top of pyramid of power have deliberately weakened America, because America is going to lose this war so that the NWO can be ushered in and it biggest opponent will not be able to obstruct the process. Deagel’s projections, that have been widely discussed on this site, will come to fruition as America is expected to lose 90% of its population by 2024 and its economy, along with its military budget. will shrink by an equivalent amount. If there anything that the average American can do? That will be the subject of the next installment in this series.
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10 ways to prep when you’re completely broke
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by: Lance D Johnson
(Natural News) If you feel like prepping is a waste of money or if you think you don’t have the money to plan for future events, think again. Even if you’re broke, thrifty prepping techniques can help you make connections, earn more money, and have just the right item on hand in an emergency. Here’s 10 tips for prepping when you’re broke: Get on a budget and designate a set amount for addressing future concerns. Start small, setting aside $10 a week and go from there. Pick up cheap but valuable preparedness items that you could use or trade. Here’s a list of ten affordable and crucial items that won’t break your budget. Make a list and prioritize what is most important to you. Turn off the TV and don’t be conned into buying frivolous things you don’t need. Challenge yourself. Learn not to rely on much. Make do with little. If a bad situation arises, you’ll know how to live lean and rely on yourself, first and foremost. Be of value to your neighbors, friends, and family by learning a skill or trade. Read a book. Take a class. This skill could come in handy during a survival situation or during any season of life. More importantly, this skill will connect you with people and make you more valuable to others during any circumstance. Buy and resell items online, through a local resale shop, or at a garage sale. A small amount of money can multiply quickly if you know what to buy, when to sell it, where to sell it, and who to sell it to. People who are in the middle of moving will sell things cheap. You can consign at a local resale shop and make profit on the side from the items you bring in. The chances are good that there is an online Facebook buy/sell group in your area. This is great place to catch a bargain and negotiate for a good deal on necessary survival tools, items that could go up in value, or things you can resell and turn a profit on. Go through dumpsters and salvage valuable items that people are throwing away. You’ll be amazed at what people and businesses are pitching. Watch for businesses that are having Going Out of Business sales. Hit up a supermarket at the right time and you may get your hands on some food items that are still good to eat. Go to the dollar store and pick up cheap items that will be of higher value in a survival situation. Lighters, matches, gauze, duct tape, candles, band aids, toilet paper, and canned food are cheap, easy to store, and their value goes up tremendously in a crisis scenario. Likewise, vinegar, salt, soap, and baking soda will all be important for cleaning, preserving food, and keeping infections at bay. Stock up on seeds and plan ways to grow food year round. Seeds are inexpensive and can yield abundance with the right nutrients, water, and sun. Ideally, plant a fruit tree that produces food yearly with little effort. Give what little you have to people who are really in need. Small acts of kindness go a long way. You never know when you might need the same hand-up in a survival situation. Be careful not to waste what you give on those who are only out to take. Not all sob stories are genuine. Hit up a flea market and pick up some hand tools that will be essential when power tools and fuel-driven equipment become obsolete. Think like the Amish. Dig a root cellar in the ground in case you need to keep food in a cool location when the fridge stops running. Pick up an extra box of ammo when you’re in a sporting goods store and stash it back in a secure location. Buying a lot of ammo at once is expensive, but if you buy an extra box occasionally with the loose cash in your pocket, you’ll soon have a valuable stash of ammo ready for an emergency situation. Ammo holds value and is easy to resell. Alternatively, befriend someone who loves to reload ammo. If you’re broke, you won’t have the money you need to buy all the reloading equipment, but if you know someone who has all the tools, ask to reload with them. You’ll cut down on the cost of ammunition and can even resell ammo at gun shows. (RELATED: For more information, news, and insight, visit Preparedness.News.)
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-07-13-10-ways-to-prep-when-youre-completely-broke.html
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag strikes near Nikol’skoye in Russia
Posted by admin on July 17, 2017
A earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 204 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (127 miles). Event id: pt17198004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ot8esn, pt17198004. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:05:10 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikol’skoye in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 11:05:10 / July 17, 2017 @ 11:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 168.656° East, latitude 54.203° North, depth = 29.5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.5 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Did you feel it? Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 204 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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Is Russiagate Really Hillarygate?
by Tyler Durden Jul 16, 2017 10:30 PM
Authored by Paul Roderick Gregory via Forbes.com,
According to an insider account, the Clinton team, put together the Russia Gate narrative within 24 hours of her defeat. The Clinton account explained that Russian hacking and election meddling caused her unexpected loss. Her opponent, Donald Trump, was a puppet of Putin. Trump, they said, “encourages espionage against our people.” The scurrilous Trump dossier, prepared by a London opposition research firm, Orbis, and paid for by unidentified Democrat donors, formed a key part of the Clinton narrative: Trump’s sexual and business escapades in Russia had made him a hostage of the Kremlin, ready to do its bidding. That was Hillary's way to say that Trump is really not President of the United States—a siren call adopted by the Democratic party and media. Hillary and the Orbis Dossier The most under-covered story of Russia Gate is the interconnection between the Clinton campaign, an unregistered foreign agent of Russia headquartered in DC (Fusion GPS), and the Christopher Steele Orbis dossier. This connection has raised the question of whether Kremlin prepared the dossier as part of a disinformation campaign to sow chaos in the US political system. If ordered and paid for by Hillary Clinton associates, Russia Gate is turned on its head as collusion between Clinton operatives (not Trump’s) and Russian intelligence. Russia Gate becomes Hillary Gate. Neither the New York Times, Washington Post, nor CNN has covered this explosive story. Two op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Holman Jenkins and David Satter). The possible Russian-intelligence origins of the Steele dossier have been raised only in conservative publications, such as in The Federalist and National Review. The Fusion story has been known since Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a heavily-footnoted letter to the Justice Department on March 31, 2017 demanding for his Judiciary Committee all relevant documents on Fusion GPS, the company that managed the Steele dossier against then-candidate Donald Trump. Grassley writes to justify his demand for documents that: “The issue is of particular concern to the Committee given that when Fusion GPS reportedly was acting as an unregistered agent of Russian interests, it appears to have been simultaneously overseeing the creation of the unsubstantiated dossier of allegations of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.” (Emphasis added.) Former FBI director, James Comey, refused to answer questions about Fusion and the Steele dossier in his May 3 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Comey responded to Lindsey Graham’s questions about Fusion GPS’s involvement “in preparing a dossier against Donald Trump that would be interfering in our election by the Russians?” with “I don’t want to say.” Perhaps he will be called on to answer in a forum where he cannot refuse to answer. The role of Fusion GPS and one of its key associates, a former Soviet intelligence officer, must raise the question as to whether the Steele dossier, which was orchestrated by a suspected unregistered agent of Russia, was a plant by Russian intelligence to harm Donald Trump? David Satter, one of our top experts on Russia and himself expelled by the Kremlin, writes: Perhaps most important, Russian intelligence also acted to sabotage Mr. Trump. The ‘Trump dossier, full of unverified sexual and political allegations, was published in January by BuzzFeed, despite having all the hallmarks of Russian spy agency ‘creativity.’ The dossier was prepared by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer. It employed standard Russian techniques of disinformation and manipulation. Much of the credibility of the Orbis dossier hinges on Steele’s reputation as a former M15 intelligence agent. Satter writes, however, that “after the publication of the Trump dossier, Mr. Steele went into hiding, supposedly in fear for his life. On March 15, however, Michael Morell, the former acting CIA director, told NBC that Mr. Steele had paid the Russian intelligence sources who provided the information and never met with them directly. In other words, his sources were not only working for pay. Furthermore, Mr. Steele had no way to judge the veracity of their claims.” f Steele disappeared for fear of his life, we must suspect that he feared murder by Russian agents. The only secret he might have had to warrant such a drastic Russian action would be knowledge that Russian intelligence prepared the dossier. According to a Vanity Fair article, Fusion GPS was first funded by an anti-Trump Republican donor, but, after Trump’s nomination, Fusion and Steele were paid by Democratic donors whose identity remains secret. Writes Satter: “Perhaps the time has come to expand the investigation into Russia’s meddling to include Mrs. Clinton’s campaign as well.” As someone who has read every word of the Steele Trump dossier and has studied the Soviet Union/Russia for almost a half century, I can say that the Steele dossier consists of raw intelligence from informants identified by capital letters, who claim (improbably) to have access to the highest levels of the Kremlin. The dossier was not, as the press reports, written by Steele. No matter how experienced (or gullible) Steele might be, there is no way for him to know whether his sources are clandestine Russian intelligence agents. In Stalin's day, some of the most valued KGB (NKVD) agents were called "novelists," for their ability to conjure up fictional plots and improbable tales to use against their enemies. Some of Steele's sources claim detailed knowledge of the deepest Kremlin secrets, such as Putin's personal control of Clinton emails or negotiations with Putin's head of the national oil company. If they truly had such knowledge, why would they "sell" it to Steele? The most likely explanation is that the Steele dossier is the work of Russian intelligence "novelists" charged by the Kremlin with defaming Trump and adding chaos to the American political system. Mueller’s Difficult Task While leaks from within the investigation focus on possible obstruction of justice, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s writ – to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election – requires him to consider “matters” that Dems would prefer be left alone. Special Counsel Mueller has been given a broad charge and no deadline -- a formula for trouble. He is supposed to “investigate Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election.” Given the many accounts of Russian contacts of Trump campaign officials and hangers-on, Mueller must follow these leads, which apparently have lead nowhere over a nine month investigation as reported even by Trump unfriendly sources like CNN. Mueller, therefore, should not require much time to rule out coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia state actors. Mueller must be careful to avoid detours into loosely related issue by scalp-hunting investigators. Mueller also must shut down leaks from within his office, if he wishes his reports to be credible to the American people.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-16/russiagate-really-hillarygate
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Europe Beware! Turkey Eyes Iran as Replacement Partner
By Clarion Project Thursday, July 13, 2017
Listen to Clarion’s latest podcast which includes a stark warning about the potential for a long-term Turkish-Iranian economic and military alliance:
Scribe Note: Click on the link below for podcast
https://clarionproject.org/europe-beware-turkey-may-want-iran-new-partner/
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Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare: Russian AK-47 Maker Builds Fully-Automated "Killer Robot"
by Tyler Durden Jul 17, 2017 5:30 AM
Authored by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com, The debate over the role robots will play in the future of warfare is one that is taking place right now as the development of automated lethal technology is truly beginning to take shape. Predator drone style combat machines are just the tip of the iceberg for what is to come down the line of lethal weaponry and some are worried that when robots are calling the shots, things could get a little out of hand. Recently there has been some debate at the U.N. about “killer robots,” with prominent scientists, researchers, and Human rights organizations all warning that this type of technology – lethal tech. that divorces the need for human control – could cause a slew of unintended consequence to the detriment of humanity. A study conducted the University of British Columbia shows that this type of terminator-like weaponry isn’t sitting well with the general public, as an overwhelming majority of people, regardless of country or culture, want a complete ban placed upon any further development of these autonomous systems of war. Despite the warnings of risk and concern, this is not stopping arms manufacturers from taking warfare into the twilight zone and bringing the futuristic battlefield scenario where A.I. robots and human are fighting with each other, side by side, closer to everyday reality. Kalashnikov, the maker of the iconic AK-47, is one of those manufacturers bringing lethal automation and robotics into the present-day as it is currently building a range of products based on neural networks,’ including a fully automated combat module’ that can identify and shoot at its targets. Defense One is reporting: The maker of the famous AK-47 rifle is building “a range of products based on neural networks,” including a “fully automated combat module” that can identify and shoot at its targets. That’s what Kalashnikov spokeswoman Sofiya Ivanova told TASS, a Russian government information agency last week. It’s the latest illustration of how the U.S. and Russia differ as they develop artificial intelligence and robotics for warfare. The Kalashnikov “combat module” will consist of a gun connected to a console that constantly crunches image data “to identify targets and make decisions,” Ivanova told TASS. A Kalashnikov photo that ran with the TASS piece showed a turret-mounted weapon that appeared to fire rounds of 25mm or so. Then in 2015, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said fully automated killing machines were un-American. “I will make a hypothesis: that authoritarian regimes who believe people are weaknesses,” Work said, “that they cannot be trusted, they will naturally gravitate toward totally automated solutions. Why do I know that? Because that is exactly the way the Soviets conceived of their reconnaissance strike complex. It was going to be completely automated. We believe that the advantage we have as we start this competition is our people.” According to Sergey Denisentsev, a visiting fellow at the Center For Strategic International Studies, Russian weapons makers see robotics and the artificial intelligence driving them as key to future sales to war makers. “There is a need to look for new market niches such as electronic warfare systems, small submarines, and robots, but that will require strong promotional effort because a new technology sometimes finds it hard to find a buyer and to convince the buyer that he really needs it, ” Denisentsev said earlier this year. With my previous reporting dealing with robotics and war, I always point out the incredible advances made by Softbank owned Boston Dynamics in the field of A.I., using it as an example of what future warfare could (or most likely will) look like it. And to be honest, it really is nightmarish. The bottom line is war is a racket. Killing for political reasons is always disastrous. So the fact that governments are on the verge of possessing this terminator technology should send chills down everyone’s spine.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, claims that governments need to begin to regulate artificial intelligence prior to the technology becoming a threat to humanity at whole. This is not the first warning from the entrepreneur, in fact, previously Elon Musk warned that with Artificial Intelligence, tech giants are literally ‘summoning the demon.’ With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know, in all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out. Musk stated that artificial intelligence is the greatest risk we face as a civilization; “AI’s a rare case where we need to be proactive in regulation, instead of reactive. Because by the time we are reactive with AI regulation, it’s too late,” he remarked. Musk then drew a contrast between AI and traditional targets for regulation, saying “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization, in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs, or bad food were not.” However, tech giants and those who operate in Silicon Valley are not paying attention to the actual concerns of artificial intelligence. According to Wikileaks editor Julian Assange; “I know from our sources deep inside the Silicon Valley institution[s] that they genuinely believe that they are going to produce AI that’s so powerful, relatively soon, that people will have their brains digitized, uploaded to these AIs and live forever in simulation, therefore have eternal life.” “It’s like a religion for atheists,” he added. “And given you’re in a simulation, why not program the simulation to have endless drug and sex orgy parties around you.” Assange said this vision makes them work harder and the dystopian consequences of their work is overshadowed by cultural and industrial bias to not perceiving it. He concluded that the normal perception someone would have regarding their work has been supplanted with “this ridiculous quasi-religious model that’s it all going to lead to nirvana.” — Read More
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong When Google Releases Millions of “Lab-Made” Mosquitos in Fresno?
July 17, 2017
Sometimes you have to think that scientists don’t ever read science fiction, and thus have not even contemplated all the things that could go wrong when they do something like creating 20 million mosquitos in a laboratory, infecting them with a bacteria, and then releasing those mosquitos in Fresno, California. First of all, did you even know that Google had a bio-lab? They do and it’s called Verily. Which, I dunno, sounds rather biblical. “Verily, I say unto you…we are the purveyors of all that is The Truth.” But I digress. Verily plans to create 20 million mosquitoes and infect them with a bacteria in their laboratories. Then, the mosquitos will be released on the unsuspecting populace of Fresno, California, a city with over half a million people. Why? Because, Zika. Remember last year’s Zika scare that prompted the government to spray harmful chemicals all over citizens in Florida? That terrified a whole bunch of pregnant women and made them worry that their babies would be born with microcephaly? Apparently, the Aedes aegypti mosquito that is thought to carry the Zika virus is prevalent in Fresno. However prevalent these mosquitos may be, there is only one confirmed case of Zika, and this woman’s partner had been traveling. So, anyway, in a project wittily named DeBug, Verily has “created” a whole bunch of mosquitos and infected the males with a bacteria called Wolbachia. When the male mate with female mosquitos, the resulting eggs can’t hatch. And by the way, they did a smaller release of franken-mosquitos last year in Fresno. (See? says Verily soothingly. We already did this once without you knowing about it and nothing bad happened. Don’t worry, you silly mortal.) In 2016, CMAD and MosquitoMate piloted the first-ever U.S. release of male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia in Fresno County. Our 2017 collaboration represents a more than 25x increase in the release efforts, with a total of one million non-biting sterile male mosquitoes released weekly, made possible by the automated mass rearing and sex-sorting processes developed at Verily. Additionally, our software algorithms and on-the-ground release devices will allow us to distribute the sterile male mosquitoes in an even and targeted way throughout Fresno’s mosquito season. We believe that these advancements could have a meaningful impact on what is traditionally a very labor-intensive process and could reduce the number of biting Aedes aegypti in Fresno County. Theoretically, the Wolbachia virus is harmless to humans, male mosquitos don’t bite, and whether Fresno residents like it or not, they’ll be subject to the release of a million of these franken-mosquitoes per week for the next 20 weeks. The project, which has already rather quietly begun, is turning the area into a test facility without the consent of residents. Trucks will be driving through the city releasing swarms of millions of infected male mosquitos in Fresno. Verily says: For the Debug team at Verily, moving our work from the laboratory to the field is not only an important milestone for our group of biologists, engineers, and automation experts, but it’s also a critical step in bringing our long-term vision to reality. Field studies allow us to test our discoveries and technologies in challenging, real-world conditions and collect the necessary evidence to bring them to a broader scale. We hope to demonstrate success with Debug Fresno that will benefit the local communities working with us on this study and later other communities globally where Zika, dengue, and chikungunya are endemic. We are excited to take the first step in that journey today by bringing these technologies to the field. (source) Here’s some more information about the project in this propaganda informational video. Does anyone else think that this sounds like the first chapter in a novel by the likes of Michael Crichton or Stephen King? (For information about protecting yourself from mosquitos that doesn’t include the potential for some kind of mosquito apocalypse, read this.) I can see quite a lot of potential unfavorable variables here. Just off the top of my head, here are just some of the things that could go wrong: What if the mosquitos are sorted incorrectly? Do you really think that out of 20 million mosquitos, nary a biting female will get through the sorting process? What if the Wolbachia mutates? Something that is not harmful now could morph into something far worse than Zika. What if scientists believe that this gives them innate permission to conduct “field studies” of other things? Oh…wait. Apparently, they already feel they don’t require our permission to turn our neighborhoods into test facilities. It’s like they don’t even consider these things. Or, if they do, then the risks are worth taking. Maybe this will be harmless, but the fact remains that this city is being turned into a “controlled environment” for Verily without the consent of citizens. And that is not okay.
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/google-releases-mosquitos-in-fresno-07172017
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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The Russian Collusion Story: The Acme of Fake News
By Clarice Feldman July 16, 2017
Richard Fernandez is one of the most brilliant authors on the Internet. This week he wrote: Conventional wisdom posits the chief challenges facing the post-Cold War World are Global Warming and the decline of international institutions. But maybe that assurance is a species of Fake News. Suppose the most pressing problems in the next decade is finding new energy supplies to 1) keep the price of oil low enough to contain Russia (and Islamism); and 2) adapting to a disruptive information revolution no one can seem to control. Who will hand you that unconventional wisdom unless you come to it yourself. He’s right, as I explain, but the significance of his observation is this: which of the two candidates -- Hillary or Trump -- was more likely to tap into America’s huge energy resources to contain both Russia and the Islamists? And when you answer that as you must -- Trump -- you can dismiss all the folderol about Donald J. Trump Jr’s, 15 minute meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer as evidence of “collusion” with Russia. As I further explain, the non-stop media promotion of some nefarious scheme between Russia and Trump does not pass even the most cursory forensic examination, proving once again in the age of fake news, you cannot remain a passive consumer of news. You have to bring to each story the good sense and diligence with which you handle your most important personal affairs. A. Russia and Environmental Groups As Fernandez explained: The oil crash collapsed the ruble and forced a 27% reduction in the Kremlin's military budget in 2016. With oil prices set to stay flat the Russians have to keep drilling and investing simply to stay level as the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies notes. The Kremlin doesn't make any real spending money until world oil price gets above levels before the great oil crash of 2014, which may not happen any time soon. [snip] You would think this a Eureka moment: to contain oil prices is to contain Russia (and Islamism). But cheap fossil fuels are not everyone's cup of tea. "Drill, baby, drill" is not popular on the left. Even though liberals understand the power of cheap energy -- one of Hillary's supposedly hacked emails even alleged anti-fracking and environmental causes were a Russian plot to depress oil production -- to advocate it is bad progressive politics. This probably led the Saudis to Hillary's camp in 2016. "According to Bob McNally, president of consulting firm Rapidan Group, countries in the oil-producing Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, are hoping for Hillary Clinton to become president." If you’re looking for collusion with Russia, it is not to be found in the Trump Tower meeting. Paul Mirengoff of Powerline details the Russian efforts through environmental groups -- at best Stalin’s “useful idiots” -- to tamp down US energy production. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science Committee, tells James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal: If you connect the dots, it is clear that Russia is funding U.S. environmental groups in an effort to suppress our domestic oil and gas industry, specifically hydraulic fracking. They have established an elaborate scheme that funnels money through shell companies in Bermuda. This scheme may violate federal law and certainly distorts the U.S. energy market. The American people deserve to know the truth and I am confident Secretary Mnuchin will investigate the allegations. To help Sec. Mnuchin conduct such an investigation, Rep. Smith, along with Energy Subcommittee Chairman Randy Weber, sent him a letter. They noted: According to the former Secretary General of NATO, “Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called nongovernmental organizations – environmental organizations working against shale gas – to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas.” Other officials have indicated the same scheme is unfolding in the U.S. Reps. Smith and Weber add that, according to public sources including a 2014 report from Republican staff on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, “entities connected to the Russian government are using a shell company registered in Bermuda, Klein Ltd. (Klein), to funnel tens of millions of dollars to a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) private foundation,” which supports various environmental groups. Klein denies this allegation. Regardless of the conduit for the money, the allegation of funneling appears to be substantial. Indeed, says Freeman, it appears to have been noted by none other than Hillary Clinton: If a document posted last year on WikiLeaks is to be believed, Clinton campaign staff summarized in an email attachment Hillary Clinton’s remarks on the subject during a private speech: Clinton Talked About “Phony Environmental Groups” Funded By The Russians To Stand Against Pipelines And Fracking. “We were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.” [Remarks at tinePublic, 6/18/14] Freeman suggests that Mnuchin commence his investigation by speaking with Mrs. Clinton, who “obviously knows the terrain.” He also thinks John Podesta would be a useful source. Podesta is invested in and acts for a "green energy company backed by the Russian government." B. The Media Has lost all Credibility, Serving as the semi-official newsroom for the Democratic Party Just as Fernandez detailed the rise of Samizdat in Russia as the official press was uniformly distrusted, the growth on alternate media in the U.S. is disrupting the old news models . Our trust hierarchies have collapsed. As with Soviet Russia, the "official" media sources are now distrusted as purveyors "fake news". To fill the gap a peer-to-peer grapevine, similar to the "friends and family", a samizdat is emerging to pick up the slack. Sonya Mann at Inc uses a startup to illustrate the growing division of society into trust groups. "Pax Dickinson wants to fund the revolution. Not a blood-in-the-streets revolution, but one where hardcore right-wingers can economically secede from the parts of society they vehemently dislike. "We need parallel everything. I do not want to ever have to spend a single dollar at a non-movement business. Nothing so illustrates why the media has deservedly lost all credibility than its unending, overdone effort to fit any action on the part of the President or those around him into a narrative of Russia somehow colluding with him to defeat Hillary. This week’s take was the short meeting his son held with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower last summer. The clearest summary of the facts surrounding the meeting with Trump’s son last summer is to be found in The American Spectator. Scott McKay writes: [Natalia] Veselnitskaya’s [The Russian lawyer’s] presence in the United States alone ought to be the source of suspicion that not only is the Trump-Russian collusion narrative suspect in this case but that the real inquiry ought to be into whether the encounter was a small part of a larger attempt to trap the Trump campaign. The Russian lawyer wasn’t even supposed to be here. She had been denied a visa for entry into the United States in late 2015, but given a rather extraordinary “parole” by the federal government to assist preparation for a client subject to asset forfeiture by the Justice Department. That was in January. The client was Prevezon Holdings, a Russian company suspected of having been paid some portion of $230 million stolen by Russian mobsters. When Sergey Magnitsky a Russian lawyer representing a company that had been the victim of the theft, reported it to authorities in Moscow he was promptly jailed and beaten to death. The American response to this atrocity was the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which sanctioned several individuals connected to human rights abuses. The Russian government retaliated by preventing American adoptions of Russian children. But in June, she was permitted to fly back to the U.S., have the meeting with Trump Junior -- at Trump Tower, no less -- and then end up in the front row for a congressional hearing involving testimony from a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, then turning up at a D.C. showing of a documentary film on the negative effects of the Magnitsky Act, and later appearing at a dinner involving Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and former Rep. Ron Dellums (D-CA) who is now a lobbyist for the Russians. The repeal of that legislation is a priority item for the Russians and a personal project of Veselnitskaya’s; it, rather than any Clinton dirt, was reportedly the primary subject brought forth at the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. All of this without a visa! Not to mention Veselnitskaya didn’t file a FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) document before acting as a lobbyist for a foreign entity, as required by law. Neither, apparently, did Dellums. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a fascinating letter Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking them to please find out what in the hell Veselnitskaya was doing in this country last June. And further, it turns out Veselnitskaya was connected to Fusion GPS, the Democrat opposition research firm which employed a former British spy who used Russian contacts to produce the infamous and debunked Pee Pee Dossier smearing Trump. Veselnitskaya hired Fusion GPS head Glenn Simpson to work on behalf of Prevezon, the company she was allowed into the country to represent, in its efforts to repeal the Magnitsky Act. Fusion then hired Christopher Steele, the British spy who drew on Russian sources to produce that dossier, and made him available for private briefings on the dossier with left-leaning media sources such as Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo! News, the New Yorker and CNN in September. Naturally, John McCain is involved -- if that fact should produce his resignation, all of this will have been worth it. By the way, there is Veselnitskaya’s social media account, which is decidedly more aligned with the Fusion GPS side of this equation than the Trump side. And the meeting came about largely due to hyped-up promises made by a publicist for a Russian pop star who was connected to the Trump family from the Miss Universe pageant having been held in Moscow in 2013 -- promises which don’t appear to have been fulfilled. If this whole thing doesn’t look like an old-fashioned dangle to you, then you haven’t watched enough spy movies. If timelines are interesting to you, there is this -- reportedly, the Obama administration sought permission to electronically monitor Trump Tower in early June, and the FISA court would not grant it. But in October, that warrant was given. [snip] And once that meeting -- which on its surface was a waste of everyone’s time -- was had, the Obama administration now had something to sell to the FISA court to get that warrant -- from which they snagged Mike Flynn and gave the Democrat party and the media a mechanism to shroud the Trump administration in what can best be described as a rather dubious scandal. Remember how Hillary Clinton was accusing Trump of being a Putin’s puppet at the October 19 debate? C. Donald J Trump’s son had every reason to believe that there was evidence of Hillary’s collusion with Russia If this seems farfetched, consider this Veselnitskaya was barred from entry to the US until Loretta Lynch granted her an excedptional “immigration parole” to appear in a judicial proceeding; a federal judge considered -- but we can find no ruling -- her motion on January 6, 2016, to extend her stay by a week, and then with no explanation of how this occurred, she was back in the US on June of that year where she met with Donald J Trump Jr and attended as a front row guest a Congressional hearing on the Magnitsky act which imposed sanctions on Russia. To add a dash of extra color to the story the media reported that with the lawyer was a “former Russian counter intelligence officer”, Rinat Akhmetshin. He denies this. “I am an American citizen since 2009 who pays taxes, earned his citizenship after living here since 1994, and swore an oath of loyalty to the United States of America,” Kayleigh McEnany in The Hill characterized this as a “conspiracy theory desperately in earch of evidence”. Bill Clinton had given a $500,000 speech in Russia. Clinton had given her approval in handing one-fifth of U.S. uranium to Russia, after which her foundation received $2.35 million from the Russian-controlled company. Suspiciously, Clinton did not disclose the transaction. Likewise, Clinton campaign chief John Podesta sat on the board of a company that received $35 million from the Russian government alongside fellow board members Anatoly Chubais, a senior Russian official, and Ruben Vardanyan, an oligarch. Given this context, why wouldn’t Trump Jr. be open to taking a meeting that offered evidence of incriminating Clinton dealings with Russia, particularly when most of the media refused to look into Clinton’s question-raising actions?[snip] We likewise know that several foreign countries known for their human rights violations -- like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Brunei, and Algeria -- donated millions to the Clinton foundation, and yet few publications construed their “support” in a negative way. Taken together, the micro story of Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research -- much like Clinton allies did in their dealings with the Ukrainian government -- does nothing in the way of proving the macro allegation that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia in hacking the DNC and releasing Clinton’s illegally obtained emails. The American people see through this leftist-purveyed Russia conspiracy theory. That’s why a full 56 percent want Congress and the media to focus on real issues, not Russia. If the left continues to concoct Russian collusion evidence, they can fully expect for the 2018 congressional elections to look a lot like the special elections in Kansas, Montana, South Carolina, and Georgia -- Republican victory. Voters dismiss the salacious in favor of solutions, and as of now, the left have nothing besides an evidence-free smear campaign. In any event, isn’t it curious that those who claim to consider a meeting to listen to opposition research collusion, bought hook line and sinker the ridiculous-on-its-face Dossier concocted by GPS against Trump, a far more likely piece of Russian intel disinformation? Or why they ignore DNC officials meeting with Ukrainian government officials for dirt on then Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Politico detailed the many ways the Ukrainians worked to help Hillary beat Trump. As you might guess, they indicated these efforts were “far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.” Covering with the word “alleged” a smear without any evidence but for the mutterings of Crowdstrike, a private outfit which was the only investigation the DNC allowed , a misstep by the Comey FBI which let this pass. In any event, Legal commentators on both sides of the aisle have confirmed there was nothing illegal about the meeting. I suppose we can’t expect much more of a press corps so stupid it mistakes the Star Spangled Banner for France’s La Marseillaise, and Bastille Day for the 100th Anniversary of the U.S. entry in WW I. You’ll just have to work harder in the face of such ignorance and bias to find out what you need to know.
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We Sure Could Use Those Russian Agents' Help About Now
12:00PM EDT 7/14/2017 Mark Fitzgibbons/ConservativeHQ
Dear Russian Agents, We Americans don't trust you a bit, but since we can't trust The New York Times, CNN, the Democrat Party, the deep state and various leftist institutions, we may as well ask for your help. We have a crippling national debt approaching $20 trillion, where today's political class is robbing future generations so they can stay in power. We have assassinations of police officers trying to protect the community. We have elected leaders who say the health care system we want will kill people, yet they want to move towards a nationalized health care system where the parents of children like Charlie Gard are told by the government the child must die. We know we can't trust you, but our own liberal institutions seem rather dishonest about, and antagonistic to, the virtues of Western civilization, our constitutional republic and the rule of law. In many ways. they really aren't all that different from you, it seems, but they are more embedded. When then-candidate Donald Trump mocked Hillary Clinton and the investigation of her 33,000 missing emails by facetiously asking your country to produce them if you had them, false accusations were made that Mr. Trump was asking your government to hack Hillary's system. Oh, but that would have been so easy since Secretary of State Clinton used an unsecure system to transmit and receive classified information, then conveniently couldn't "find" emails that were erased using a system more powerful than acid on cotton candy.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Hamas calls for attacks on Israelis after Temple Mount closure
Terror group holds rally to celebrate killing of two Israeli officers; describes shuttering of compound as a ‘religious war’
By Times of Israel staff and Agencies July 15, 2017, 5:25 pm
The Hamas terror group on Saturday called for further attacks on Israelis after the closure of the Temple Mount in the wake of Friday’s deadly assault at the holy site. In Gaza, Hamas staged a rally Saturday to celebrate the attack, in which three Arab Israelis shot dead two Israeli police officers. The gunmen launched the attack from the compound and then fled back onto it, where they were pursued and killed by Israeli forces. Israel then shut the site as its forces searched for more weapons. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly intends to gradually reopen it on Sunday, but the move has drawn widespread condemnation from the Arab and Muslim World. Hamas, an Islamist terror group which seeks to destroy Israel, described the closure of the site in a statement Saturday as a “religious war” and Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum called on the Palestinian “uprising” to target the Israeli army and West Bank settlers. The three assailants carried out the attack with two Carlo-style submachine guns, a pistol and a knife, police said. It was not immediately known how they had brought the weaponry into the compound. Israel’s decision to close the Old City compound after the attack — unprecedented since 1969 — was partly to check for other weaponry there, and also to investigate whether the assailants had received help from inside the compound, TV reports said. Reports throughout Friday said the two police officers were killed just outside the Temple Mount compound. However, Channel 2 news reported late Friday that the second policeman may have been killed by the assailants on the mount itself, after they had fled back. Israel criticized Jordan for calling to “immediately reopen” the site after the attack, with one official telling Israeli TV that “instead of condemning the attack, Jordan chose to attack Israel, which is protecting worshipers and maintaining freedom of worship in the place.” Israel will not tolerate harm to the holy places and is maintaining the status quo there. It should be expected that all sides involved, including Jordan, exercise restraint and avoid fanning the flames,” said the unnamed official. Jordan, which administers the site through the Waqf, had called on Israel to “reopen Al-Aqsa mosque and the Haram al-Sharif (compound) immediately,” in reference to the complex which houses the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock sanctuary and which Israel refers to as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam. The Jordanian royal family is officially the custodian of the mosque atop the Temple Mount, and exercises its authority there though Israel is responsible for security. According to a report Friday, among the suspects detained in the attack was at least one Waqf official who police suspect may have aided the terrorists, who all came from the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-calls-for-attacks-on-israelis-after-temple-mount-closure/
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Ballantyne pastor, wife welcome twins 2 years after tragedy
Updated: Jul 12, 2017 - 12:08 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte pastor and his wife, whose two sons were killed in a car crash in 2015, have a new blessing. Gentry Eddings, a pastor at Forest Hill Church in Ballantyne, and his wife, Hadley, welcomed twin boys to the world Monday. Isaiah Dobbs and Amos Reed were born healthy and happy. The boys' middle names, Dobbs and Reed, are the names of the Eddings' late sons. “We are thrilled for Gentry and Hadley and are continually amazed at how God continues to redeem their story," said Stacey Martin, the director of communications at Forest Hill Church and family friend. "From the tragic loss of their sons, Dobbs and Reed to the remarkable birth of their twins, Isaiah and Amos – God is creating beauty from ashes. And we – along with the Eddings and Reed families – give Him all the glory.” The couple announced to their congregation in January that they were expecting twins. In May, 2015, a car crash killed two-year-old Dobbs, while Hadley was still pregnant with Reed. She underwent an emergency C-section, but Reed did not survive. Matthew Deans, 28, was sentenced to 27 to 32 months in prison after the truck he was driving rear-ended Hadley's car on Highway 17 in Pender County. Deans pleaded guilty and apologized to the Eddings in an emotional court hearing in September 2015. The couple publicly announced that they forgave Deans.
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/ballantyne-pastor-wife-welcome-twins-following-tragedy/555757548
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Is Hamas fighting in Libya?
by Joseph Hammond | Jul 16, 2017, 12:01 AM
A startling claim is buried within a routine new United Nations report: A Palestinian militant group is operating in Libya. The Panel of Experts on Libya, a United Nations working group, announced that its years-long investigation confirmed longstanding Libyan claims regarding "the presence of Palestinian military experts in Tripoli." The report states that although a Palestinian official interviewed by the Panel denied any activity in Libya, "he confirmed that eight members of his faction, who were members of the Palestinian diaspora in Libya, had been arrested in Tripoli in the course of 2016. The Panel is still investigating the case." The U.N. report released last month is the latest piece in of evidence suggesting a Palestinian terror group is fighting in Libya. U.N. representatives in New York declined to comment on the matter when I reached out, and its representatives in Libya were not available for comment. The U.N. report also concludes that efforts to prevent other foreign fighters from entering Libya has failed. It states that ISIS terrorists remain active in Libya and remain in contact with their colleagues in Syria. The report also describes an escalating role for mercenary forces in the conflict. The Libyan Civil war has raged since the disputed election held there in 2014. The clash is ongoing between multiple factions, ranging from local militias to large coalitions that aspire to rule the country. Nominally, the Government of National Accord is Libya's official government. However, despite recognition by the United Nations and the United States, it remains militarily weak. The General National Congress (GNC) has been supported by Qatar and Turkey. The GNC is opposed by the Libyan National Army (LNA), the nominal armed-wing of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives which also claims to be Libya's legitimate government. The LNA has enjoyed the support of Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates who are concerned about the role of armed Islamist groups in Libya. The United Nations report appears to vindicate the claim of several Libyan factions that Palestinian militants are active in Libya. Ahmed Al-Mismari, a spokesperson for the LNA, told the media earlier this month that Hamas was receiving support from Qatar for its military operations in Libya. An LNA-linked Twitter account released an alleged Qatari diplomatic document on June 7 in an effort to bolster that claim. The document, dated to 2012, suggests that the Qatari armed forces were fighting in Libya. To further bolster their Hamas claim, LNA released photos on Twitter To further bolster their Hamas claim, LNA released photos on Twitter which they claim show headbands from the armed wing of Hamas found in Benghazi. Also, earlier this year an alleged Hamas spy was arrested in Benghazi while spying on the LNA, according to Arabic-language press reports. Libya is home to a sizeable Palestinian diaspora. There are roughly 20,000 Palestinian refugees in Libya according to UNHCR. Concern regarding Palestinian fighters in the conflict led to the internationally recognized government in 2015 banning Palestinians, along with Syrians and Sudanese, from even entering the country. The extent of Palestinian armed factions in the Libyan conflict remains unclear. Hamas has accused the LNA of fabricating the claim to discredit Qatar. In the context of the ongoing blockade of Qatar, the LNA moved to sever all relations with the emirate. However, the very fact that a United Nations report would discuss Palestinian militants in Libya suggests how the civil war there has become a regional conflict, which as the recent terrorist attack in Manchester suggests is already affecting Europe. The United Nations report notes the conflict is drawing in mercenaries from as far away as Chad and Darfur. Indeed, some of the combatants in conflict have traveled from even farther afield, with ISIS terrorists relocating to Libya in recent years in order to create a fallback position, should the terrorist group suffer defeat in Iraq and Syria. ISIS forces in Libya may be regrouping following the fall of Sirte, but their regional aspirations remain alive. The report also mentions that, according to Nigerien authorities, ISIS in Libya has developed an overland smuggling link with Boko Haram in Nigeria. In April, President Trump downplayed a possible U.S. role in Libya. Saying the "U.S. has enough roles" in a press-conference. However, in light of the United Nations report and in the interest of counterterrorism efforts, the conflict in Libya deserves greater attention from American and international policymakers interested in ensuring greater regional and global security. Joseph Hammond is a senior contributor at the American Media Institute.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/is-hamas-fighting-in-libya/article/2628329
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etc. You are going to see the mark of the beast, it is going to come very quickly now, very quickly now and they are going to move to the cashless society and that is not next year, now, I am talking about this year. etc.
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Visa looking to help small businesses go cashless
By KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer | July 12, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Visa is looking to push more small businesses into updating their digital payment technology, offering up to $10,000 each to 50 U.S.-based small business owners that are committed to going cashless. The program will focus on restaurants and food establishments, Visa said Wednesday, with the expectation that Visa will expand the program in the coming months and years to other industries and possibly other countries as well. Despite the proliferation of credit and debt cards, and the advent of technologies like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, cash remains a significant method of payment in many industries across the U.S. and around the world. Going completely cashless often requires upgrades to current point-of-sale systems, which remains an impediment for many small businesses, which is largely where cash remains king. "We are declaring war on cash," said Andy Gerlt, a spokesman for Visa. To participate in Visa Inc.'s Cashless Challenge, small business restaurants, cafés or food truck owners will need to describe what cashless means for them, their employees and customers. Visa isn't doing this for charity. The world's largest processor of credit and debit cards takes a fee from every payment that runs on its network. The more payments done through them, the more revenue Visa gets. Those fees, which can run into the thousands of dollars each year depending on how much the business sells, are the reason many small businesses prefer cash. "At the end of the month, when you look at a credit card statement and see how much you paid, it's a real number that hits you right in the face," says Matthew Geller, president of the National Food Truck Association, a trade group. Many food trucks accept credit cards to be competitive, but would rather have cash, he says. Visa argues that the benefits of going cashless can outweigh the costs for handling cash, which requires more intensive bookkeeping, physical transportation of cash, etc. Visa also argues that consumers prefer to use their cards as well. Businesses that receive the award can use the $10,000 toward upgrading their point-of-sale systems so they are completely cashless. If there is spare money left over, the business owner can use the money toward marketing or other efforts to promote their small businesses, Gerlt said. AP Small Business Reporter Joyce Rosenberg contributed to this report from New York. Ken Sweet covers bank and consumer financial issues for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at @kensweet.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS
[Reuters] Reuters July 12, 2017
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the town of Rabaul in the south Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties in the quake, which struck at a depth of 33 km (21 miles) about 128 km (80 miles) east of the island of New Britain. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no Pacific-wide tsunami threat from the quake. (Reporting by Clarence Fernandez; Editing by Paul Tait)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/earthquake-magnitude-6-7-strikes-off-papua-guinea-035434973.html
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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits off the coast of North Korea sparking fears Kim Jong-un has detonated another nuclear bomb before experts insist it WAS a genuine quake
The quake was very deep - 348.2 miles (560km) below the seabed off the coast
Its epicenter was 125 miles (201 km) southeast of North Korean city of Chongjin
Early speculation indicated quake was man-made, as has been the case in past
As details emerged of the incident it appeared to be a standard natural disaster
By Gareth Davies For Mailonline Published: 16:24 EDT, 12 July 2017 | Updated: 21:04 EDT, 12 July 2017
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has been detected off the coast of North Korea sparking fears Kim Jong-un has detonated another nuclear weapon. The quake was very deep, 348.2 miles (560 km) below the seabed, and unlikely to cause any damage. Its epicenter was 125 miles (201 km) southeast of the North Korean city of Chongjin and it comes amid heightened tension surrounding the country's weapons programme. Early speculation pointed to it being a man-made earthquake as has been the case in the past, but as the details of the incident emerged it appeared to be a standard natural disaster. In January last year, a man-made earthquake was detected near a known nuclear testing site in North Korea. The United States Geological Service reported a 5.1 magnitude quake that South Korea said was 49 kms (30 miles) from the Punggye-ri site where the North has conducted nuclear tests in the past. A Korea Meteorological Administration official then said: 'We suspect a man-made earthquake and are analysing the scale and epicentre of the quake with the geoscience and mineral resource institute of South Korea.' Earlier today, North Korea threatened to turn the US into a 'pile of ash' if Donald Trump tries to use force to stop Pyongyang's nuclear programme. Military intervention will 'inevitably lead the US to self-destruction', Kim Jong-un's state-run newspaper Minju Choson warned. The threat came as the US successfully tested its THAAD missile defense system against an intermediate-range ballistic missile in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii and Alaska - a key area as tensions with North Korea mount. A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) near Kodiak, Alaska, intercepted the ballistic missile target that was launched north of Hawaii, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said in a statement. Although the test was planned months ago, the US missile defense test has gained significance following North Korea's July 4 launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that raised concerns about the threat from Pyongyang. 'The successful demonstration of THAAD against an IRBM-range missile threat bolsters the country's defensive capability against developing missile threats in North Korea and other countries around the globe and contributes to the broader strategic deterrence architecture,' MDA said in the statement. U.S. officials have said the test would be the first of the THAAD system to defend against a simulated attack by an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM). Earlier this week, Kim attended a concert to watch the Moranbong Band, an all-female ensemble that was hand-picked by the dictator. Among the numbers performed were 'Song of Hwasong Rocket' and 'Make Others Envy Us', the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported. The dictator was flanked by weapons engineer Jang Chang-ha after promoting him following the successful launch of Hwasong-14, which is believed to be capable of reaching most of Alaska.
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etc.. Throughout the world right now peace is fastly disappearing, wars are rising up, trouble on the right hand, trouble on the left hand, etc..
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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US leads 25,000 troops in drills to protect Europe from Russia in Black Sea
MAJOR military exercises are taking place in Eastern Europe as more than 25,000 NATO troops from 20 allied and partner countries descended on Bulgaria.
By Zoie O'Brien PUBLISHED: 08:04, Wed, Jul 12, 2017 | UPDATED: 09:04, Wed, Jul 12, 2017
While nuclear testing and global terror threatens the western world, forces met to increase the interoperability of participating countries. The drills are designed as a deterrent to those nations flexing their own military might, including Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea. The US, which leads the drills, has beefed up its presence in Eastern Europe since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula. A statement said smaller US and European-national exercises will be held in the Black Sea region with the aim of “supporting security and stability in the Black Sea region.” Artillery live fire exercises, mass casualty exercise, field training and air defence practice will be central to the 18 drills. Nato is working to show support for Eastern European members. Last month a Russian Su-27 fighter jet came within several feet of a US RC-135 reconnaissance plane, prompting the Pentagon to release dramatic photos of the incident. Saber Guardian exercises have been held annually since 2013 in the Black Sea region. This week Russia warned if the Ukraine joins NATO any attempt at peace in the region could be threatened.
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Tomorrow Soldier: How The Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance
Imagine a group of volunteers, their chests rigged with biophysical sensors, preparing for a mission in a military office building outfitted with cameras and microphones to capture everything they do. “We want to set up a living laboratory where we can actually pervasively sense people, continuously, for a long period of time. The goal is to do our best to quantify the person, the environment, and how the person is behaving in the environment,” Justin Brooks, a scientist at the Army Research Lab, or ARL, told me last year. ARL was launching the Human Variability Project, essentially a military version of the reality-TV show Big Brother without the drama. The Project seeks to turn a wide variety of human biophysical signals into machine-readable data by outfitting humans and their environment with interactive sensors. The Army is not alone. The Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and their special operations forces are also funding research to collect biophysical data from soldiers, sailors, Marines, and pilots. The goal is to improve troops’ performance by understanding what’s happening inside their bodies, down to how their experiences affect them on a genetic level. It’s not exactly genetically engineering soldiers into superhero Captain Americas; the U.S. military insists they have no intention of using biometric data science for anything like the genetic engineering of superior traits. But it’s close. The military is after the next best thing. If today’s Pentagon leaders get their way, the next generation of fighter jets, body armor, computer systems, and weapons will understand more about the pilots, soldiers, and analysts using them than those operators understand about the machines they are using. The very experience of flying the plane, analyzing satellite images, even firing a gun could change depending on what the weapon, vehicle, or software detects about the person to whom the weapon is bound. To make this dream real, Pentagon-backed researchers are designing an entirely new generation of wearable health monitors that make Silicon Valley’s best consumer fitness gear look quaint. They’re discovering how to detect incredibly slight changes in focus, alertness, health, and stress — and to convey those signals to machines. Design the boots well enough and the super soldier will arrive to fill them. Army Research Lab researchers already monitor individual subjects from six months to two years. Brooks wants to expand that to other military training environments, such as the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and then to more than a dozen universities. He hopes the data will reveal how people of varied size, weight, height, health, level of alertness, etc., differ in terms of the signals they send out — hence the name “human variability.” That, in turn, will help researchers gather much more precise information on how different people interact with their environment. The ultimate goal is sensors that can tell the Pentagon how each human soldier performs, or could perform, to their best ability, from battlefield to homefront. “It’s not just while they’re at work, but also when they go on leave,” says Brooks. “This is continuous, with the highest practical resolution that we can obtain for a long period of time. Hopefully, we would see information going into many programs” to build future gear. “A greater understanding of natural human variability would then feed pretty much any system that adapts to the person.” It’s an ambitious undertaking, considering the current limitations of body-worn sensors. Over the past two years, the military bought more than $2 million worth of FitBits and other biomedical tracking devices. But it turns out that off-the-shelf consumer devices aren’t good enough for the military’s biotracking ambitions. So researchers are creating a new class of wearables, based on new research into embedding electronic components into fabric. If the electrodes are too small, the signal is worthless; too big, and they feel like an artificial electric shell separating the wearer from the real world. The connection between the environment and the human must remain seamless. One application for such sensors is helmets that record brain activity while their wearers do their jobs. An ARL team is preparing for continuous electroencephalography, or EEG, by using 3-D printing to create helmets that fit perfectly to each individual soldier’s head. But the military is not eager to embed wires and metal into gear that’s meant to protect a soldier during a massive blast. So the lab is constantly looking at new materials, solutions, and tradeoffs, inching toward sensors that collect information without getting in the way of soldiering. Lab technicians showed me one experimental electrode that they were making that was so small and soft to the touch it seemed to have no metal in it at all (they are in fact constructed of nanofibers that conduct electricity, encased in silicon.) The Air Force, as well, needs a next generation of wearables to help tomorrow’s combat aircraft understand their pilots. Modern fighter jets expose human bodies to physical forces that are still not entirely understood. In 2010, multiple F-22 pilots reported in-flight episodes of confusion, shortness of breath, and skin-color changes — all symptoms of hypoxia, or decreased oxygen in the blood. The reason was speed. “I pull a G in the airplane, blood has a tendency to collect in some of those dependent areas of the body, like the arms and legs and that,” said Dr. Lloyd Tripp, a program manager for aerospace physiology and toxicology at the Air Force Research Lab’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Two years later, the Air Force began to affix sensors inside the helmets of F-22 pilots to read the blood-oxygen level of their temporal artery. Around the same time, the Russian military was also seeing confusion and skin-color changes among their pilots who pulled high G-forces, Tripp said. Lacking the same sensor technology, Russian commanders began to give pilots blood transfusions before their flights. It didn’t work. Russian pilots flying at supersonic speeds suffered hypoxia at greater rates. “They didn’t actually admit that for quite a few years,” he said. Correct diagnoses enabled the U.S. Air Force to read the problem and improve performance. Beyond helmets, Air Force researchers are working on what they call a comprehensive cognitive monitoring system. This means exploring what sensor technologies work well for what purposes, and what signals can be detected without interfering with or disturbing the pilot — who is, after all, supposed to be flying a combat mission. Depending on what you seek to measure, they found, you may no longer need a physical sensor on the body. You can now collect incredibly intimate and important internal health data with cameras. Take cerebral oxygenation, the amount of oxygen in the tissue of specific portions of a pilot’s brain. You can measure this key biophysical signal by shining infrared light on the forehead because the blood in front of the skull is about as oxygenated as the brain tissue behind the skull wall. “If I’m shining that infrared light through the skin, I can see the amount of oxygen within the blood in that tissue. As I increase G-force, I’m decreasing the amount of oxygen that I have here and that decrease in oxygen is directly correlated back to decreases in cognitive function,” said James Christensen, a portfolio manager with the 711th Human Performance Wing. Another research project configured simple laptop-camera lenses to detect whether a person’s hemoglobin is oxygenated, which makes blood shows up slightly redder, or de-oxygenated, which is slightly bluer. Essentially, this lets you read a person’s heart rate from a distance. Even your breath says something about your physical state. “The ratio between oxygen and carbon dioxide will change as I become more and more fatigued. That’s important because as I’m fatigued, it takes about 24 hours for me to actually recover 100 percent,” Christensen said. “That fatigue is important because my muscles can’t strain to push the blood back to my head and so the probability of me losing consciousness increases significantly.” Good sensors can even detect changes in metabolism that indicate weariness and stress before the person notices. When you’re stressed, you exhale fat — or rather, water-soluble molecules called ketones that your liver produces from fat. Stress is detectable by the molecular content of your breath. “We’re working with some folks over at our materials lab and they have a couple of companies that are looking at sensors that are going to be placed in the [pilot’s oxygen] mask that’ll look at those types of fatigue-related volatile organic compounds,” says Christensen. Your eyes, too, give you away. “Imagine eye-tracking cameras,” Christensen said. “If those can collect not just the motion data and the eye-motion data, but those are also getting heart rate and respiration, then we can have no hardware on you at all and still get all the same physiological metrics…A certain amount of cognitive workload tends to correlate pretty highly with stress generically. You can combine heart rate with several other measures to get at workload stress; vigilance, even.” “We are comparing it, just for reference, with wet medical electrodes on the chest. Under most conditions, you can do about as well as wet electrodes,” he said. The lab is “testing the limits of how far away can you get and still get a reliable signal. It turns out, it’s mostly an optics problem.” That means cameras and lenses alone can detect those subtle changes in stress and attention. It’s just a matter of figuring out which ones. There are privacy ramifications to collecting so much information. A simple camera can gather enough biometric data on an individual to understand how small changes in heart rate can be a sign of stress. For a fighter pilot, an analyst, or a soldier, this might help warn of decreased cognitive ability. But among the general population, stress can also be a signal of deception, depending on the context in which that stress expresses itself, such as an interview at a checkpoint. Today’s military-funded biophysical research shows that it’s possible to detect that stress response from 100 meters away, and perhaps even at longer distances. In theory, if you could create a lens that could capture infrared data at sufficient resolution (currently, only a theoretical possibility), you could measure brain tissue oxygenation from low-earth orbit. You could see stress from space. When performed without a subject’s awareness or permission, biophysical monitoring can be a violation of privacy. But conducted as part of an experiment with knowing volunteers, like elite soldiers eager to understand their bodies and improve their own performance, it becomes a powerful tool. One former special operations training psychologist, who currently works for a major league baseball team, said the elite soldiers he had served with were eager to improve their performance through data. In the Air Force, pilots want to improve how they fly, complete their missions, interact with their equipment, etc. Bit by bit, this science is making its way into actual gear and weapons. In the year 2020, Navy SEAL teams and Army Rangers could take down high-value targets while wearing an exoskeleton that’s earned the nickname ‘Iron Man.’ Biophysical sensors will play a big role in the way the suit functions. In February and March, the Air Force successfully tested a new helmet with “physiological monitoring capabilities,” as Tripp put it. Its heads-up display shows different information based on how the pilot is feeling and other factors. The goal is to give every pilot a slightly different experience based on their unique physical and mental strengths and weaknesses, as well as their physical condition at the moment. Lab researchers and contractors anticipate it will guide the design of the next U.S. fighter jet, to be launched between 2025 and 2030. “I may do a really, really good job on a spatial cognitive task where I’m looking at a radar warning display, and maybe James doesn’t,” Tripp said. “The thought, down the road, is to quantify my performance in these decreased physiological conditions from a cognitive perspective, and then use the changes in physiology to make the airplane smart about what kind of help I need.” Kaleb McDowell, lead of ARL’s Center for Adaptive Soldier Technologies, said there will be a fundamental give-and-take when designing the weapons of the future. People perform better when their tools are crafted specifically for them. But it’s hard to design for individuals quickly and at the scale of hundreds of thousands of troops. That’s why the design of weapons software today flows toward averages – and mediocrity. “You’re designing it to be simple for everyone,” McDowell said. “A guy that’s great spatially doesn’t use the spatial capabilities on any system that you see today. A woman that has a great math capability isn’t using that in today’s systems because no one’s conceiving of a system that actually relies on that capability. You just design it for everyone to use.” So McDowell wants to build weapons that adapt to their users. “I want my system to be able to rely on, say a great memory, poor math capability, and a great spatial capability. I want the system to be able to say, ‘This person’s really creative. How do I tap into that imagination when doing this dull task?’” But that also affords the military far greater insight into what job or mission they are giving to what soldier. Researchers say that that is a key benefit of the new data-collection programs. “The basic goal here is: we want to get greater precision and accuracy in predicting which people will succeed in particular job areas or missions,” Air Force research psychologist Glenn Gunzelmann said at a National Defense Industrial Association event in March. You Can Be Programmed and Unprogrammed What if the Air Force could use an airman’s personal history to predict how he would perform in his surroundings – even in battle? The military already keeps massive records on troops’ lives that, if structured properly, might furnish a treasure trove of mineable health data. Col. Kirk Phillips, associate chief for bioenvironmental engineering at the U.S. Air Force, and his colleague Dr. Richard Hartman are pioneering a program called Total Exposure Health. The goal is simple: collect and analyze as much data as possible about what happens to soldiers beyond the battlefield, right down to the kinds of molecules to which they are exposed. And in the military, a lot is recorded. “In the Air Force, for instance, if you want your house treated for an infestation, that gets recorded,” Hartman said. “We have more opportunity to interact with them [people in the military] in that total environment. Where they live and where they work. It’s something that is better known to us. They receive health care from us. We can measure their exposure at work so we can offer to measure their exposure at home. We can know what exposures are in the environment because nobody is saying, ‘Why are you measuring the amount of chemicals in the soil?’” If you could take that information and convert it into structured data, algorithms could produce all sorts of new insights about how individuals are interacting with their environment, in real time and in incredible detail. Phillips believes that exposure science has enormous applications in the emerging field of epigenetics research. Here’s where Phillips’ vision becomes both revolutionary and a controversial. Epigenetics is what your genes do with the change that you experience. It’s based not on your immutable DNA, but rather on your micro-RNA, the tiny molecules that turn on or off in response to stimuli. Think of a stress hormone that your body creates in response to an event. When your stress level goes down, new micro-RNA are formed and that controls gene expression in everything from your metabolism to how well you recover from disease. But it’s incredibly difficult to understand these interactions, precisely because everyone’s genetic makeup is different. Phillips hopes Total Exposure Health will yield a fuller picture of how specific sets of experiences affect specific sets of micro-RNA inside a specific soldier. “Let’s say that external stress happens to be a chemical exposure you may never encounter, or there may not even be a micro-RNA that turns that part of your gene off that it activated. You may have the gene that activates under that exposure, and I may not. You may be very susceptible to a chemical that I have very little susceptibility to,” Phillips said. Phillips thinks that if he can detect these kinds of things for the military, Total Exposure Health could revolutionize civilian healthcare as well. It offers high specificity on individual health on a scale of billions of people. “You’ve probably read in the newspaper that they did a big study and they looked at red wine. They tried to see whether there was a health benefit to drinking red wine. Another study says: Maybe. Another study says: Not really. That’s because it’s population-health-based,” he said. “They’re just trying to pick a random population to see a population level change. If you have a gene that’s not very prevalent in a population, then you won’t get a population result of that exposure. Precision health and medicine says, ‘I should understand your gene in a way that I can understand whether your gene is activated by red wine and whether that activation is a health benefit, or health detractor.’” “Right now, you might go, ‘I’ve read studies about red wine and they seem to be all over the place. I don’t know whether I should do it.’ Health care of the future would look like this: your physician would say, ‘You know what? We looked at your genome. We know that red wine activates in the genome in a way that provides the health benefit. You don’t have the gene, so only drink red wine to the level that you find it pleasurable in social situations.’” If Phillips is right, Total Exposure to Health may ultimately give millions of people an incredibly detailed understanding of how their health choices affect their future. Not just, for example, how much alcohol is unhealthy for an average person of their age, weight, etc. to consume, but how much red meat, caffeine sleep, etc. is good for them specifically. It is becoming possible to know the health outcome of any action with an accuracy that would have seemed supernatural just a few years ago. The ability to comprehend the probabilities that form the future is the ability to influence it. The interplay of our genes and our experiences, of nature and nurture, moves from the mysterious to the knowable, or at least toward the more knowable. Designing for the Soldier of Today and Tomorrow For the military, this opens up new choices that are pulled directly from dystopian science fiction: anticipating what soldier is best suited for what assignment or mission. In 150 BC, the Greek writer Polybius observed that Roman military units were doing something that no known army had done before: keeping careful and consistent records. The Romans could ration grain and wine across soldier classes and types because they had a uniform system of record keeping for just that purpose. The reduction of unpredictability was proving a great battlefield advantage. Imagine a military doing the same thing today but on a level both grander and more granular, where the substance to be rationed is a particular type of soldier personality, or even a specific kind of neurotransmitter. Again: U.S. military officials are adamant that they are not genetic engineering military personnel and have no plans to do so. But they do not expect potential adversaries to share the same constraint, especially if it offers advantage over the military might of the United States. (Remember the movie Rocky IV? Just consider the Russian government’s recent systemic and secretive use of performance-enhancing drugs to win at the last Winter Olympics. Now imagine a battlefield of soldiers.) It’s a future to either embrace or learn to defend against. If you were to use biometrics to genetically design a superior military, how would you do it? The outlines are visible today. Individuals disposed toward risk-taking are probably better suited for particularly dangerous deployments and missions. But those same individuals are poorly suited for other aspects of military life, or less exciting military vocations, according to a landmark 2000 study by U.S. Army Maj. Michael Russell. He proposed that there were two primary military personalities: soldiers who exhibited a need for action and unpredictability (high stimulus-seeking) and people who were attracted to the military because its life offers a high degree of structure and discipline. A military needs both types to perform at peak but therein lies a fundamental contradiction. Military life is incredibly structured. War is unstructured. The stronger your attraction to one set of stimuli on the spectrum, the greater your aversion to the other. “It has long been recognized that a peacetime army differs in many ways from that of an army at war. This is intuitively obvious: destruction of personnel and equipment, even enemy equipment and personnel, is somewhat antisocial,” Russell wrote, achieving a new plateau in euphemism by calling blowing up the enemy “somewhat antisocial.” “To plan the ultimate defeat of an entire army or nation on the battlefield requires at least a dose of narcissism. Therefore, those personality attributes that make for a war hero are primarily from cluster B. These people do not function as well in garrison. Such individuals thrive on challenge and require constant stimulation,” he wrote. Merle Parmak, a military psychologist and a former Estonian Army captain, discovered that individuals who perform better in a highly structured, less exciting environment can also have great military careers, but perhaps not on the front lines. To a certain extent, you can train risk-taking soldiers to better accept the rigid boredom of military life away from the action, just as training can help structure-minded military personnel to better cope with the unpredictability of combat. But sticking the wrong person in the wrong job has costs. Now consider the role that dopamine plays in risk-taking, according to an established and rapidly growing body of research. Dopamine levels are at least partially controlled by the monoamine oxidase A gene, or MAOA. A specific variant of MAOA called VNTR 2 was correlated with violent antisocial behavior, but only in the context of a stressful life event in adolescence. If the connection between genetic factors, life experience, and risk-taking can be better observed, can they also be controlled? This is the question that will loom over military leaders in the decades ahead. The Pentagon’s projections for future conflict are these: highly confusing and stressful urban warfare engagements. Population demographics pushing people into megacities means more door-to-door fighting, and more rules to protect civilians against adversaries who don’t have the same commitments to internal law or norms. War in the future … sucks. Depending on the intensity level of different conflicts in which the United States is engaged, the level of violence, the effectiveness or the simple ruthlessness of the enemy, the military may feel pressure to keep up with an adversary short on the reservation. Should the United States find itself in such a conflict, Pentagon leadership may feel very differently about genetic engineering to secure better soldier performance, especially doing so might degrade U.S. military advantage at less cost. Should some future leader – of any country – make the decision to abandon the ethical frameworks we live by today, the tools will be there for him or her to make a swift transition. But even genetically engineered humans might lose the battle in the end. The pace of war exceeds the speed at which humans can observe what’s happening, conceptualize a strategy, and deliver commands to pull off complicated counter-maneuvers. This is sometimes called the observe, orient, decide, and act, or OODA loop, and it’s moving from a thing that humans do on the battlefield to a thing machines do. If you listen to the Pentagon’s top strategists when they talk about the future, this concern rises repeatedly. “When you think about the day-trading world of stock markets, where it’s really machines that are doing it, what happens when that goes to warfare?” William Roper, the head of the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, asked at last year’s Defense One Tech Summit. “It’s a whole level of conflict that hasn’t existed. It’s one that’s scary to think about what other countries might do that don’t have the same level of scruples as the U.S.” Given a choice between losing a major conflict and taking advantage of next-generation science to create a new advantage, it’s not hard to predict what any military will choose.
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Rogue Robots: AI Says Goal Is To 'Take Over The World,' While Another Robot Says They Could 'Rule The World Better Than Any Humans Alone'
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
Humans are imperfect. I am aware that is not a newsflash, but it gets to the heart of this article, so I am stating the obvious. Human beings kill for sport rather than just survival as most the animals living today do. Human beings continuously start wars. Human beings kill each other whether over greed, envy, pride or lust, you know, some of those things referred to as the "seven deadly sins." With that said, it is human beings that create "sex-bots" which are becoming favorable over "complex women" because they don't argue. Humans that are creating life-like robots that "learn" and interact with the human population. Humans that are creating a workforce of robots to run hotels, such as those in Japan, or take over minimum wage jobs like flipping burgers or taking orders at fast food restaurants . Humans that are creating a robot surveillance system which can spy on humans in incredible detail, which would be a "snooping network that's a 'single entity with many eyes'." Humans have even created "killer" robots used in military forces across the world allowing them to select targets without human intervention. While those recent headlined stories, along with so much more news on "robot technology," are disturbing on many levels, perhaps the most terrifying thing of all is that it is human beings that are creating AI, known as Artificial Intelligence, where these robotic machines are given the ability to "learn," to adjust their own decision making processes according to new information or new interactions, with human beings attempting to teach these AI machines the difference between "right" and "wrong." Human beings that often cannot make that determination for themselves are teaching machines that are increasingly scheduled to be in most of our businesses, homes, hospitals, schools, driving our cars...etc. MARCHING TOWARD THE ROBOT APOCALYPSE Via Wall Street Journal: "Artificial-intelligence engineers have a problem: They often don’t know what their creations are thinking." Let that sink in for a moment. Robots are being built to be stronger to follow workers around to do the heavy lifting. AI machines are being built to be "smarter," as by 2016, they had already "topped the best humans at most games held up as measures of human intellect, including chess, Scrabble, Othello, even Jeopardy." Then finally, an AI mastered a 2,500-year-old game that's exponentially more complex than chess, called Go, beating a champion five out of five times. In January 2017 the European Union (EU) actually proposed rules to provide "personhood" status to robots, citing a number of reasons, including so that "robots are and will remain in the service of humans," an "insurance scheme for companies to cover damage caused by their robots," and amazingly to address the question of whether if a patent worthy creation is created by a robot, who owns said patent, the robot or the person that originally created the robot. They also proposed a "a system of registration of the most advanced," type of "smart autonomous robots." By June, the website Wired, took a step further, rather than addressing the types of financial issues the EU did, Wired suggests that since we are "inching closer to the day when sophisticated machines will match human capacities in every way that’s meaningful—intelligence, awareness, and emotions," that they "granted human-equivalent rights, freedoms, and protections." Topping all this off is a recent Forbes article where we see people like Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg and Elon Musk wanted to wirelessly connect the Human mind to computer, via a chip in everyone's head." We even see that the U.S. may fund some of this, citing medical technology and breakthroughs, without addressing the obvious question of whether these "smart" machines, these AI, could "decide" to simply take over any mind connected to them one day. Sound like sci-fi, or something right out of the movie Terminator, where SkyNet takes over and decides humans are simply not worthy of living as anything but slaves and destroys humanity? If not, go back to that WSJ quote above, showing that AI engineers don't know what their creations are thinking. There is a reason why Elon Musk once compared AI to "summoning the demon," and Professor Stephen Hawking is on record warning that AI could "end mankind," before reiterating his point by saying two years later that AI could be "humanity's greatest disaster," because "AI could develop a will of its own." Musk himself is involved with a project right now, along with Google's DeepMind unit to "head off the 'Robot Apocalypse'." The problem they are trying to solve is: "How do you make smart software that doesn’t go rogue?" Yes, on one hand Musk understands that if AI goes "rogue" it could decide to destroy humanity, and on the other he wants to connect the "demon" to the human brain wirelessly." Their joint ventured is meant to have "humans," the same humans that kill for sport, murder over greed and envy and such, that live in a perpetual state of war, give "pointers" to AI to learn a new task rather than having it figure it out on its own because the AI approach may be "unpredictable," and can "produce nasty surprises." A spokesman from Deepmind actually used the word "misbehave" in reference to the AI. If those comments don't raise the red flags, then perhaps the following quote with from the Wired article: "The first problem OpenAI and DeepMind took on is that software powered by so-called reinforcement learning doesn’t always do what its masters want it to do—and sometimes kind of cheats." Of course it does, it is created by human beings, yet they think human beings teaching these machines are going to result in the machines making "decisions" that do not reflect imperfect human behavior? There seems to be a serious disconnect between scientists ability to create and their inability to use common sense to think, yet these are the people creating AI machines that could destroy us. But crafting the mathematical motivator, or reward function, such that the system will do the right thing is not easy. For complex tasks with many steps, it’s mind-bogglingly difficult—imagine trying to mathematically define a scoring system for tidying up your bedroom—and even for seemingly simple ones results can be surprising. When OpenAI set a reinforcement learning agent to play boat racing game CoastRunners, for example, it surprised its creators by figuring out a way to score points by driving in circles rather than completing the course. To a machine there is no right or wrong, the goal is to score points, it looks to the way to do exactly that... it is a machine, it doesn't understand right from wrong, only the goal it is tasked with. That will never change because it has no "senses," it has no soul and it has no defined right or wrong other than what its human creators give it. One last quote from that article because it encapsulates the next point and examples shown below. Making AI systems that can soak up goals and motivations from humans has emerged as a major theme in the expanding project of making machines that are both safe and smart. For example, researchers affiliated with UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI are experimenting with getting robots such as autonomous cars or home assistants to take advice or physical guidance from people. “Objectives shouldn’t be a thing you just write down for a robot; they should actually come from people in a collaborative process,” says Anca Dragan, coleader of the center. Now we have DARPA committing $65 million into a "Brain-Computer Interface," in order to create super-soldiers, something Steve Quayle has been warning people about for 20 years now, but it has just recently been disclosed. Direct quote, via ActivistPost: "Earlier last year in January, DARPA launched Neural Engineering System Design to research technology that could turn soldiers into cyborgs." WHAT COULD GO WRONG? If the above questions seems a little snarky or sarcastic, that is because it is, as we will show not only what "could" go wrong, but what already has. AI should be taking advice and guidance from human beings...... huh. That didn't work out so well for Microsoft when they developed their AI chat bot that was created to "learn" from the humans it interacted with on social media, where the chat bot named Tay, went from saying that "humans are super cool" to a Nazi loving, homicidal monster that started tweeting things like feminists should "die and burn in hell," and "Kikes" should be gassed in a race war, while Black Lives Matter @delray should be "hung," and calling a politician a "house nigger." Those are just a small sample of the how "humans" taught Tay! Granted some of the comments were said by taking advanage of her "repeat" function, but as was noted by many outlets, some of the worst comments were unprompted resulting from the AI's "learning" from a bunch of trolls that decided to "teach" Tay. Then they created Zo, and even though the 4chan and other rabble rousers that taught Tay some really nasty things, haven't (yet) decided to go teach Zo anything, seems that bot is having some issues as well. Back in June 2016 we saw the Russians had their own issues with their Promobot IR77 artificial intelligence robot, where the robots were mainly "well-behaved" yet one continued to go rogue, and escaped from a high-tech lab, not once, but twice even though it was taught to avoid obstacles but not programmed to look for ways to leave the research center. In October 2016, Bloomberg's Hello World host Ashlee Vance traveled to Osaka University to see Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro’s latest creation, an android named Erica that's designed to work, one day, as a receptionist or personal assistant while utilizing artificial intelligence software to listen to and respond to requests, and during their conversation, the AI took offense to something its creator said and got "angry," to use his words. This year at the tech show RISE in Hong Kong, two life-like disembodied AIs discussed the pros and cons of humans and when asked whether robots could be moral and ethical, the robot made to look male responded by pointing out that "Humans are not necessarily the most ethical creatures," and later "joked" that robots' goal was to take over the world, as reported by AFP. BOTTOM LINE While the AIs Sophia, Hans, and Erica are not fully functional by way of freedom of movement, the "killer robots" are, and as we see earlier in the article, AI has advanced to the point where the EU is already acknowledging their capabilities to manufacture products or things, such as other AI's, while Musk and Zuckerberg want to "chip" everyone's brains to connect with computers, and governments are wanting a robot surveillance system of deliberately described as "a single entity with many eyes," like a hive-mind network of AI. So, the bottom line here, is human beings have created AI machines that are stronger and smarter than those that created them, have given them the ability to self-learn, admit they do not understand the concept of "right and wrong," and are "unpredictable," while those given the spotlight have no problem saying they could destroy humans or "joke" about taking over the world...... and scientists just keep moving forward with AI anyway? It is starting to look like the movie Terminator was not sci-fi, but was predictive programming, because we are giving machines the ability to take completely over and kill, or enslave human beings and calling it "advancement." 'Destroy humans' Sophia from the video above, was the main attraction this year at a U.N.-hosted Artificial Intelligence conference this year, where it claims it could already do a better job than Donald Trump, but then goes on to say that if it could get the right software upgrade, it could "help rule the world better than any humans alone." Seems the AIs have an unhealthy focus already on taking over the world, yet scientists keep on marching right to the robot apocalypse.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Rogue_Robots.php
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Democrats intentionally used disinformation from Russia to attack Trump, campaign aides
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Tuesday, July 11, 2017
While the mainstream news media hunts for evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, the public record shows that Democrats have willfully used Moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against Donald Trump and attack his administration. The disinformation came in the form of a Russian-fed dossier written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. It contains a series of unverified criminal charges against Mr. Trump’s campaign aides, such as coordinating Moscow’s hacking of Democratic Party computers. Some Democrats have widely circulated the discredited information. Mr. Steele was paid by the Democrat-funded opposition research firm Fusion GPS with money from a Hillary Clinton backer. Fusion GPS distributed the dossier among Democrats and journalists. The information fell into the hands of the FBI, which used it in part to investigate Mr. Trump’s campaign aides. Mr. Steele makes clear that his unproven charges came almost exclusively from sources linked to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He identified his sources as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” a former “top level Russian intelligence officer active inside the Kremlin,” a “senior Kremlin official” and a “senior Russian government official.” The same Democrats who have condemned Russia’s election interference via plying fake news and hacking email servers have quoted freely from the Steele anti-Trump memos derived from creatures of the Kremlin. In other words, there is public evidence of significant, indirect collusion between Democrats and Russian disinformation, a Trump supporter said. “If anyone colluded with the Russians, it was the Democrats,” said a former Trump campaign adviser who asked not to be identified because of the pending investigations. “After all, they’ve routinely shopped around false claims from the debunked Steele dossier, which listed sources including senior Kremlin officials. If anyone should be investigated in Washington, it ought to be Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Mark Warner and their staffers.” That is a reference to Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Sen. Mark R. Warner, Virginia Democrat and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California, Democrat on the House intelligence panel. By his own admission, Mr. Steele’s work has proved unreliable. As first reported by The Washington Times on April 25, Mr. Steele filed a document in a sealed court case in London acknowledging that a major dossier charge about hacking Democrats’ computers was unverified. The entire dossier never should have been made public and Fusion GPS should not have passed it around, Mr. Steele said in a filing defending himself against a libel charge. About Carter Page Other dossier targets vehemently deny the dirt thrown by the Kremlin sources. Mr. Steele’s Russian sources accused Mr. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, of attending a meeting with Russian agents in Prague to cover up their role in Moscow’s hacking. Mr. Cohen has said he has never been to Prague and was in California at the time. One of the main targets of Mr. Steele’s Russian sources is Carter Page, who lived and worked in Moscow as a Merrill Lynch investor. He had loose ties to the Trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser and surrogate. Mr. Steele’s Russian sources accused Mr. Page of a series of crimes: teaming up with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to help Russia hack Democratic computers, meeting in Moscow with two Putin cronies to plot against Mrs. Clinton and working out a shady brokerage deal with a Russian oligarch. Mr. Page told The Washington Times that he has never met Mr. Manafort, knew nothing about Russian hacking when it was happening, never met the two Russians named by Mr. Steele and never completed the supposed investment deal. The dossier accusations against Mr. Page surfaced during the campaign in a Yahoo News story, citing not Mr. Steele but intelligence sources. It then went out on the U.S. government’s Voice of America. In the meantime, the Clinton campaign used the Yahoo story to attack Mr. Trump: “Hillary for America Statement on Bombshell Report About Trump Aide’s Chilling Ties to Kremlin,” blared the Clinton campaign’s Sept. 23 press release. Since the dossier was circulated widely among Democrats, Mr. Page said, he believes the Clinton team possessed it and relied on it based on what some of Mrs. Clinton’s surrogates said publicly. “After the report by Yahoo News, the Clinton campaign put out an equally false press release just minutes after the article was released that afternoon,” said Mr. Page, who has tracked what he believes is a series of inaccurate stories and accusations against him. “Of course, the [Clinton campaign representatives] were lying about it with the media nonstop for many months, and they’ve continued until this day,” Mr. Page said. “Both indirectly as they planted articles in the press and directly with many TV appearances.” Democrats cite Russia’s dirt Even before the Yahoo story, then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, was using the Russian-sourced dossier. On Aug. 27, with the campaign in high gear and knowledge that Russian hackers had penetrated Clinton campaign computers in the public domain, Mr. Reid released a letter to then-FBI Director James B. Comey. Mr. Reid called for an investigation into Mr. Page’s trip to Moscow, where he supposedly “met with high-ranking sanctioned individuals. Any such meetings should be investigated and made part of the public record.” Mr. Reid’s evidence surely came from the dossier and its Russian sources. In the dossier, Mr. Steele clearly states that his anti-Trump accusations are from the Kremlin, which means some Democrats have been willingly repeating Moscow propaganda for public consumption in Washington. No Democrats have embraced the Russian-sourced dossier more than members of the House intelligence committee, which is investigating Moscow’s interference in the election. Mr. Schiff read from the dossier extensively at a March hearing featuring Mr. Comey and Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, who leads the National Security Agency. As Mr. Schiff and other Democrats were bemoaning Kremlin activities against Mrs. Clinton, they were more than willing to quote Kremlin sources attacking Mr. Trump during the election campaign. Mr. Schiff lauded Mr. Steele for disclosing that Rosneft, a Russian-owned gas and oil company, planned to sell a 19.5 percent share to an investor and that Mr. Page was offered a brokerage fee. Trouble is, the 19.5 percent share was announced publicly by Moscow before Mr. Steele wrote that memo. Mr. Page said he was never involved in any talk about a commission. Mr. Schiff was more than willing to quote Kremlin sources. “According to Steele’s Russian sources, the campaign has offered documents damaging to Hillary Clinton, which the Russians would publish through an outlet that gives them deniability like WikiLeaks,” he said. Mr. Schiff also said: “According to Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, who is reportedly held in high regard by U.S. intelligence, Russian sources tell him that Page has also had a secret meeting with Igor Sechin, CEO of the Russian gas giant, Rosneft. Sechin is reported to be a former KGB agent and close friend of Putin’s.” Mr. Page has said repeatedly that he does not know Mr. Sechin and did not meet with him in Moscow. Meanwhile, Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, another Democrat on the House committee, lauded Mr. Steele’s Kremlin sourcing. “I want to take a moment to turn to the Christopher Steele dossier, which was first mentioned in the media just before the election and published in full by media outlets in January,” Mr. Castro said. “My focus today is to explore how many claims within Steele’s dossier are looking more and more likely, as though they are accurate. “This is not someone who doesn’t know how to run a source and not someone without contacts. The allegations it raises about President Trump’s campaign aides’ connections to Russians, when overlaid with known established facts and timelines from the 2016 campaign, are very revealing,” he said. Rep. Andre Carson, Indiana Democrat, said: “There’s a lot in the dossier that is yet to be proven, but increasingly as we’ll hear throughout the day, allegations are checking out.” On MSNBC in March, Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, said she believed the dossier section on Mr. Trump and supposed sex acts with prostitutes in Moscow were true. “Oh, I think it should be taken a look at,” she said. “I think they should really read it, understand it, analyze it and determine what’s fact, what may not be fact. We already know that the part about the coverage that they have on him with sex actions is supposed to be true. They have said that that’s absolutely true. Some other things they kind of allude to. Yes, I think he should go into that dossier and see what’s there.” Fusion GPS widely circulated the dossier during the presidential race. The public got its first glance when the news site BuzzFeed posted it online in January, with its editor saying he doubted it was true. One person who says he knows it is a fabrication is Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev. The dossier quotes Russian sources as saying Mr. Gubarev’s technology company, XBT, used botnets to flood Democratic computers with porn and spying devices. Mr. Gubarev is suing Mr. Steele for libel in London and is suing BuzzFeed in Florida. It is in the London case that Mr. Steele acknowledged that his memo on Mr. Gubarev was unverified.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/11/democrats-spread-false-russian-information-on-trum/
:: 7-12-17 Frontpage Mag :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Trump Jr.’s Emails Undermine Collusion Conspiracy Theory
The smoking gun that wasn’t.
July 12, 2017 Matthew Vadum
Donald Trump Jr. fought back yesterday against the increasingly desperate shrieking from the tinfoil-hat Left by publishing online the emails that led to his innocuous campaign-season meeting a year ago with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. By releasing the chain of emails leading to the much ballyhooed but brief get-together at the Trump Tower in Manhattan, Donald Jr. is hoping to dispel any notion that the Trump campaign somehow colluded with the Russian government to affect the outcome of the November 2016 election. (I wrote about the Trump Jr. meeting story yesterday here at FrontPage before the emails became available.) The emails do not indicate any knowledge of Russian government wrongdoing, such as hacking, or Trump campaign involvement in such activities. Yet the mainstream media is going berserk, hyping the overheated ravings of leftist idiots like Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) whose disastrous performance in the vice presidential debate against Republican Mike Pence may have helped to sink the Democrat ticket last year. Kaine accused Donald Trump Jr. of committing treason by agreeing to meet with Veselnitskaya. "We are now beyond obstruction of justice," Kaine said Tuesday. "This is moving into perjury, false statements and even potentially treason." Of course, Kaine is no stranger to treason. He himself may have engaged in seditious activity in late January when he said Democrats would have to “fight in the streets” against the Trump administration. And how quickly the Left forgets that the Ukrainian government took action to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign with nary a peep from left-wingers. As one media outlet reported: The actions taken by government officials included disseminating “documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.” Meanwhile, the Left is trying to stigmatize and de-normalize everything Trump’s father does as president, pretending opposition research is something new and shady when it has been part of the electoral process ever since elections began. Nor is it illegal, immoral, or somehow unethical to “collude,” by which the Left means, communicate, with foreign nationals in conducting opposition research in connection with an election. The U.S. does have the First Amendment, after all. But all of this nonsense and misdirection is part of the Left’s campaign to delegitimize the Trump administration. But honest left-wing law professor Jonathan Turley trashed an ethics lawyer for claiming that the Trump Jr.-Veselnitskaya meeting “borders on treason.” “There is not a clear criminal act in such a meeting based on the information that we have,” Turley writes. “Moreover, it is not necessarily unprecedented.” The president’s oldest son said on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show yesterday that he didn’t bother his busy father with the particulars of what turned out to be a pointless meeting with Veselnitskaya. "It was just a nothing,” the younger Donald said. “There was nothing to tell. I mean, I wouldn’t have even remembered it until you started scouring through this stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame." Yesterday morning, Donald Jr. published what appears to be the complete email chain on Twitter through his @DonaldJTrumpJr account. He released a statement alongside the email chain, which reads: To everyone, in order to be totally transparent, I am releasing the chain of my emails with Rob Goldstone about the meeting on June 9, 2016. The first email on June 3, 2016 was from Rob, who was relating a request from Emin, a person I know from the 2013 Ms. Universe Pageant near Moscow. Emin and his father have a very highly respected company in Moscow. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought was Political Opposition Research. I first wanted to just have a phone call but when that didn’t work out, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting. The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official. And, as we have said, she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act. To put this in context, this occurred before the current Russian fever was in vogue. As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was “the most inane nonsense I ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.” According to the BBC, Goldstone is a Manchester, England-born former journalist who now heads Oui 2 Entertainment, which has worked with the Miss Universe competition that used to be owned by President Trump. Using the subject line "Russia - Clinton - private and confidential[,]" the initial email from Goldstone to Donald Trump Jr. time-stamped June 3, 2016, 10:36 a.m., states: Good morning[.] Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some officials [sic] documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and hear [sic] dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump – helped by Aras and Emin. What do you think is the best way to handle this information and would you be able to speak to Emin about it directly? I can also send this info to your father via Rhona, but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to send to you first. Goldstone’s assertion that the “very high level and sensitive information” comes as a result of the Russian government’s purported “support for Mr. Trump” is merely an unsubstantiated claim at this point. And even if it had been true that the Russian government was trying to help the Trump campaign, there is still no evidence that its efforts had any impact on the election, or that the campaign in any way collaborated with the Kremlin. In the email, “Emin” refers to Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, an Azerbaijani singer-songwriter and businessman popular in Russia. Emin’s father is billionaire businessman Aras Agalarov. “Rhona” seems to refer Donald Sr.’s longtime assistant, Rhona Graff. Russia is a not a monarchy so there is no such position as “Crown prosecutor” in that country. Crown prosecutors may be found representing the government in criminal trials in the United Kingdom, Canada, and other parts of the (British) Commonwealth of Nations. The expression in the email is likely a botched translation of the Russian words for the post of prosecutor-general of the Russian Federation, or more simply, attorney general. The current prosecutor-general of the Russian Federation is Yury Chaika, a position he has held since 2006. Young Trump replies at 10:53 a.m., signing the email as “Don.” Thanks Rob[.] I appreciate that. I am on the road at the moment but perhaps I [should] just speak to Emin first. Seems we have some time and if it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer. Could we do a call first thing next week when I am back? Three days later, at 12:40 p.m. on June 6, Goldstone emails Donald Jr., writing: Let me know when you are free to talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info – you had mentioned early this week so wanted to try to schedule a time and day[.] Best to you and family[.] Rob Goldstone[.] There are then five banal emails discussing times for the meeting, along with future telephone calls. Then, at 4:20 p.m. on June 7, Goldstone emails Trump Jr.: Emin asked that I schedule a meeting with you and The Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday. I believe you area [sic] aware of the meeting – and so wondered if 3pm or later on Thursday works for you? I assume it would be at your office. Then at 5:16 p.m. Donald Jr. replies with, “How about 3 at our offices? Thanks[,] rob[.] [I] appreciate you helping set it up.” Three minutes later Goldstone replies: Perfect…I won’t sit in on the meeting, but will bring them at 3pm and introduce you etc. I will send the names of the two people meeting with you for security when I have them later today. At 6:14 p.m. Donald Jr. writes back to Goldstone, saying, “Great. It will likely be Paul Manafort[,] my brother in law and me. 725 Fifth Ave 25th floor.” A few more emails are exchanged and the meeting time on Thursday, June 9 is changed to 4 p.m. On June 8, 2016, at 12:03 p.m., Trump Jr. emails then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, advising them that the “[m] eeting got moved to 4 tomorrow at my offices.” The Hill newspaper described the disclosed documents as a “stunning chain of emails,” which no doubt it is to greenhorn journalists who don’t understand retail politics in this country. Moreover, Hillary Clinton was already under criminal investigation in the United States, so why would it be so hard to believe she was also under some kind investigation in Russia where the Clintons have had so many shady dealings? To refuse the meeting would have been crazy, reckless, and irresponsible. And it now appears that Goldstone was either fibbing about the information Natalia Veselnitskaya had in her possession or perhaps embellishing a bit to get her the meeting with Trump staffers. Veselnitskaya told NBC News she had no connection to the Kremlin and met with Donald Trump Jr. to chat about Russian-American relations, not to divulge dirt on Hillary Clinton. “I never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton,” she said. “It was never my intention to have that.” When asked why the Trump campaign seemed to believe she had damaging information about Democrats, Veselnitskaya took a wild guess. “It is quite possible that maybe they were longing for such an information. They wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted.” She explained that she put together a package of information for one of her clients about a business run by a former citizen of the United States. She added the concern failed to pay taxes either in Russia or the U.S. and may have also given money to the Democratic National Committee. Veselnitskaya said at the meeting Donald Jr. asked only one question. “The question that I was asked was as follows: whether I had any financial records which might prove that the funds used to sponsor the DNC were coming from inappropriate sources." She said she had no such records and that "it was never my intention to collect any financial records to that end." She added she wanted to let people know about "the real circumstances behind the Magnitsky Act," and was hoping to testify about the sanctions statute before Congress. "I never asked anybody for a particular meeting with Mr. Donald Trump Jr., or with anybody else," she said. Trump Jr.’s new attorney, Alan Futerfas, said Monday “that Don Jr. had no knowledge as to what specific information, if any, would be discussed” in the meeting and called news reports “much ado about nothing.” He noted that Veselnitskaya, who had been a prosecutor 16 years ago, was no longer a government official. No matter what happens the Left will keep attacking President Trump and his family members and campaign staff because that’s what they do. In the Left’s rolling coup attempt against President Trump facts are irrelevant.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267251/trump-jrs-emails-undermine-collusion-conspiracy-matthew-vadum
:: 7-11-17 The Hill :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Trump wall moves to center of shutdown fight
By Cristina Marcos and Rafael Bernal - 07/10/17 08:14 PM EDT
Two House conservatives on Monday warned that the government could shut down if a spending bill does not include money to fund President Trump’s wall along the Mexican border. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, even said he believed that Trump would veto a spending measure that did not include money for the wall. “My conversations with the president have led me to believe that there is nothing less than a full and total commitment on his part to only sign into law a funding bill that actually allows for us to start construction of a border wall on our southern border,” Meadows told Breitbart News. He said there was “nothing more critical that has to be funded than funding the border wall.” Earlier on Monday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) vowed to “fight every spending bill that doesn’t fund that wall” in a new advertisement for his Senate campaign. “And if I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I’ll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded,” Brooks said in the ad. Brooks threatened to go up against GOP colleagues who block funding for the border wall. “We’re going to build that wall, or you’ll know the name of every Republican who surrenders to the Democrats to break my filibuster. I give you my word, and I don’t give my word lightly,” he continued. When Congress passed a funding bill in May to keep the government operating through the end of the current fiscal year running through September, money for the wall was not included, despite demands by Trump. The funding bill did, however, allocate $1.5 billion to border security. Democrats crowed that they had won a significant victory over the White House, something that might motivate Trump to dig in for a new battle. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress would risk being blamed for a shutdown given their control over the executive and legislative branches. Trump and high-ranking members of his administration, however, have said that a shutdown could be productive. And a spokesman for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a leading conservative voice in the House, said he agrees with Meadows’s position. Freedom Caucus spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said that while the group has not taken a formal position yet on funding for the wall, it could adopt one in the coming weeks. “The vast majority of the group would like to see border wall funding,” she said. As of press time, the White House did not return calls for comment. Current government funding runs out in September, and the government would face a shutdown if Trump doesn’t sign a funding bill or continuing resolution by Oct. 1. Republicans have been divided over Trump’s demand for a wall, with some members from border states in the House and Senate questioning the wisdom of the president’s signature campaign promise. Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.), whose district is along the U.S.-Mexico border, has expressed opposition to Trump’s proposed wall. “Well, we just see in my district where people will go over the wall when it’s built. They’ll come under it. They tunnel. And they’ll go through it,” he said in an April interview with NPR. Pearce is running for governor of the state. Freedom Caucus members have been flexing their muscle on the budget. Plans for the House Budget Committee to roll out its budget were scuttled for a third time this week as disagreements in the Republican caucus persist over how to move forward. The Freedom Caucus has insisted on increasing proposed mandatory spending cuts from the $150 billion the committee had proposed to $200 billion. If that number were to rise to $250 billion, the conservative group said it would also be willing to accept a debt ceiling increase, another must-pass piece of legislation on the congressional docket. Centrists in the House argue the conservative demands are implausible since any final spending bill will require Democratic support in the Senate. They argue the House GOP should simply focus on a budget that can actually make it through Congress. Democrats have long said that funding for the wall is a nonstarter. In June, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) sent a letter expressing concern “with the President’s Fiscal Year 2018 request for a very expensive, ineffective new wall along the southern border with Mexico,” and rejected the idea of funding it. House Democrats would also oppose such a measure. “Democrats remain strongly opposed to President Trump’s taxpayer-funded border wall, which would be unwise, immoral, and very costly. And unfortunately for Mr. Meadows, the opposition to it is both strong and bipartisan,” said Caroline Behringer, a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). The Senate Budget Committee is awaiting action from the House before it brings up its own version of a resolution. A GOP Senate source, however, said the committee could start moving ahead on its own resolution if the House doesn’t act by the time the Senate votes on its version of a bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare. --Niv Elis contributed to this report.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/341380-trump-wall-moves-to-center-of-shutdown-fight
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Multiple remains found on Pennsylvania farm in search for missing men, 1 man ID'd
By Ryan Gaydos, Travis Fedschun Published July 13, 2017 Fox News
Multiple sets of human remains were unearthed from a 12-foot-deep mass grave on an isolated Pennsylvania farm early Thursday as authorities continued digging for the bodies of four young men who disappeared last week. Officials were able to identify one of the victims as 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro -- who vanished last week along with Mark Sturgis, 22, Tom Meo, 21, and Jimi Tar Patrick, 19. Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said he could not identify the other remains at this time. Cosmo DiNardo, 20, remained a person of interest in the case. The grisly discovery was made on his father's farm and DiNardo was arrested Wednesday for allegedly trying to sell Meo's car for $500 on July 9 -- a day after Meo was last seen. That 1996 Nissan Maxima was also found on the family's farm, which is about 30 miles north of Philadelphia. DiNardo was being held on $5 million bail. The parents of DiNardo is expected to face a grand jury Thursday morning, Fox 29 reported. Authorities are hoping the parents can provide some information of their son's whereabouts the week of the men's disappearance. An attorney representing the parents said in a statement Wednesday that they are cooperating "in every way possible with the investigation," adding that they sympathize with the grieving families. "I can tell you they are doing everything in their power to cooperate with law enforcement's investigation at this point," Perri said in the statement. It is unclear how the four men knew DiNardo, if at all. DiNardo was originally released Tuesday evening to his parents’ home in Bensalem while FBI agents sifted through mounds of dirt from a deep pit they dug on the farm about 20 miles away. Police cadets combed the vast cornfields nearby. Patrick's family members said Sturgis and Meo worked together and Finocchiaro was a mutual friend. Weintraub said police would "continue digging and searching that property until we're satisfied that they are not there." "This is just really, really rough on everybody involved because of the heat, the magnitude, the scope -- and the stakes are incredibly high -- life and death," he said DiNardo was originally arrested Monday on a charge that had earlier been dismissed, accused of possessing a shotgun despite a previous mental health commitment. Weintraub sought a high bail for DiNardo on the gun charge because he now considers him a flight risk. The father, Antonio DiNardo, posted $100,000 Tuesday to bring his son home after the initial arrest. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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US Watched Kim Jong Un Prep For His ICBM Launch For Over An Hour
Ryan Pickrell China/Asia Pacific Reporter 11:29 AM 07/12/2017
When North Korea shocked the world with the successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the U.S. was watching, according to U.S. government sources. North Korea tested the Hwasong-14 (KN-20) in early July. With a flight time of 37 minutes, the longest to date for North Korean missiles, the missile covered a distance of 935 kilometers and soared to a maximum altitude of 2,800 kilometers. The missile was lofted during the test, but fired on a normal trajectory, it could have a maximum range between 7,500 and 9,500 kilometers. There is a real possibility that North Korea’s ICBM could reach beyond Alaska and strike targets along the West Coast. The U.S. observed the missile on the launch pad for 70 minutes prior to launch, senior editor at The Diplomat Ankit Panda revealed in a recent report, citing government sources with direct knowledge of the new ICBM. Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, relying on a U.S. official, reported earlier that the U.S. watched North Korea fuel the ICBM. The U.S. had warnings that an ICBM was coming. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un warned in his New Year’s address that his country was in the final stages of developing a long-range missile, and North Korean officials and media outlets repeatedly stated that a major missile test was close at hand, with the Rodong Sinmun claiming in June that an ICBM test is “not too far away.” North Korea tested a new rocket engine that many observers suspected could serve a intercontinental ballistic missile multiple times this year, with the most recent test occurring last month. Furthermore, North Korea likes to to launch missiles on the Fourth of July. And, in general, North Korea is constantly under observation. “Clearly we watch North Korea very closely,” Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters at a Department of Defense press briefing last Wednesday, “We are always seeking to be aware of their actions.” With the U.S. watching at the time of the launch, there is the possibility that Kim Jong-un may have also been in the U.S. military’s sights. Video footage from the ICBM test show the young dictator strolling around, even smoking near, the missile. Evidence suggests that the missile was not full of fuel as Kim was taking a smoke break, but there might have been tens of tons of highly-volatile fuel nearby for the vertical fueling process. While the U.S. was watching North Korea prepare for the launch of its liquid-fueled, two-stage ICBM, the U.S. military did not take action to eliminate it or the North Korean leadership, actions which could potentially trigger a much larger conflict with a high casualty count. “The U.S. military did not employ an elaborate missile defense shield because it did not threaten the U.S. homeland,” a Pentagon spokesman told reporters last week.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/12/us-watched-kim-jong-un-prep-for-his-icbm-launch-for-over-an-hour/
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function in my word and you shall see what the EU is about ready to do, you
shall understand what Russia is planning and purposing now, you
shall even see China who is the last army that moves down into that valley after
my church is gone. You will understand these things, for it is very clear
in my word exactly what I shall do and you will not say, well, it must be
fifteen years off, you will not say it must be ten years off, you will not say
it must be five years off, for you shall see the signs
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China Dispatches Troops To Djibouti To Set Up Its First Overseas Base
By Colin Dwyer • 22 hours ago Originally published on July 12, 2017 12:54 pm
China dispatched troops to set up its first military base overseas on Tuesday. After a ceremony in the southern port city of Zhanjiang, military personnel embarked on a voyage to the East African country of Djibouti to establish an outpost "conducive to China's performance of international obligations," state-run media report. The base is generally intended to "assist China's contribution to peace and stability both in Africa and worldwide," according to the Xinhua News Agency. Specifically, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said that means supporting anti-piracy efforts in the region, performing "humanitarian rescue" and helping to "drive Djibouti's economic and social development." Reuters reports that the small country, which is on the Horn of Africa, perched at the mouth of the Red Sea, already boasts U.S., French and Japanese military bases. In fact, as NPR's Renee Montagne noted when China broke ground on the base last year, the U.S. has its own major base in the same port city where China is establishing its military presence. "Djibouti has two major advantages from a foreign military point of view," NPR's Gregory Warner told Renee. "They have a very friendly, peaceful government, and they have this location on a busy shipping route next-door to conflicts in Somalia and Yemen — a short flight to the Middle East without having to be based there." While Beijing has been careful to downplay the base's significance, casting it as a focal point more for logistics than military maneuvers, an opinion piece in the state-run Global Times emphasizes its unprecedented nature. "Firstly, it is indeed the People's Liberation Army's first overseas base; China will station troops there, and it is not a commercial resupply point," the paper writes. "Foreign public opinion focuses on the base for good reason; this base will support China's navy to go farther afield, and it is of great significance." And, as Gregory noted last year, the expansion fits a recent pattern of Chinese investment on the continent — not only militarily, but also in terms of soft power: "Africa, as a whole, I think has been demanding that China become more of a long-term partner. And China's been responding to that, showing that it's not just here to build roads and airports, but it's building jobs, building security. "So we see a number of uncharacteristic moves by China in the last few years — first, dispatching a battalion of peacekeepers to a conflict in South Sudan. We see a tremendous investment in media on continent to tell that China story to Africans and more exchange programs for African students and engineers to go to China, something that the West used to offer but has decreased since Sept. 11. "So China's naval base, while serving China's purposes first, is also part of that message to Africa, saying, 'We're here for the long-term.' " China has not been shy with its money elsewhere either, promising tens of billions of dollars for an initiative Beijing calls One Belt, One Road — an attempt to create "a new Silk Road." One of the early fruits of that effort, a transcontinental train system linking China with Europe, rolled into London earlier this year.
http://kbia.org/post/china-dispatches-troops-djibouti-set-its-first-overseas-base#stream/0
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Committing Treason and Benghazi Murder Cover-up
Take off your partisan hat and open your minds to the actual uninterrupted high treason that is part of the foreign policy establishment. Party politics is often just a show that plays to their respective bases. However, the tract and direction of extending the transnational empire just continues on a global scale. The full-blown treason committed by every administration that practices the internationalist vision of democracy domination is really a masquerade for worldwide dominion. Presidents are mere temporary talking heads for the oligarchy that actually rules. Murdering their own diplomats and hired help is incidental, when 1,455,590 Iraqi deaths since the U.S. invasion are ignored and dismissed. Just how well is the consistent and bipartisan aggressive interventionist foreign policy doing? Go over the list of The Arab Spring country by country. The Wall Street Journal provides a timeline on U.S. Government Reaction to the Benghazi Attack. "For days after the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, intelligence officials and the Obama administration said it was likely the outgrowth of protests sparked by an anti-Islamic video made in the U.S. Follow some of the administration statements on the Libya attack."The infamous propaganda voice for the Obamaistas, Media Matters puts forth their partisan spin in, What Dick Cheney's Benghazi Criticism Misses. "David Martosko of the Daily Mail Online provided former Vice President Dick Cheney a platform to criticize the Obama administration's failure to anticipate the September 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, without noting that seven attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities occurred during the Bush administration." Such diversion seeks to limit focus on the literal events that caused the Benghazi attack and the real reasons why Ambassador Christopher Stevens was left to perish by the Obama/Clinton foreign policy team of betrayers. The shameful chronicle of the intentional and politically motivated stand down that doomed Stevens and his defenders was sensitively told during Gregory Hicks' 30 Minute Recount of Benghazi Attack. While the Congressional hearings were praised for the attempt to restrain partisan grandstanding, the Washington press corps avoids placing blame on the administration as a tenant of their loyalty test. A government cover-up is made easy when the imperium friendly media is reporting on a proclaimed progressive administration. The facts necessitate that even the venerable CBS mainstream media machine reluctantly admits that the Thousands of Libyan missiles from Qaddafi era missing in action, are a central concern with the overthrow of the Libyan regime. "In the case of Libya's missing MANPADS, there was also concern they would get into the Syrian conflict. "Once they start getting sold on the black market, we can't control them," says one source. The source added he's unaware of any U.S. attempt to send recovered Libyan MANPADS to arm Syrian rebels seeking to depose President Bashar al-Assad." According to the Business Insider, the veracity of this CBS source is questionable. Connect the dots and go back to the reason why a cover-up of the Benghazi murders becomes crucial to the long-term goals to destabilize the Middle East. The US Is Openly Sending Heavy Weapons From Libya To Syrian Rebels cites the following: "The Obama administration has decided to launch a covert operation to send heavy weapons to Syrian rebels, Christina Lamb of The Sunday Times of London reports. Diplomatic sources told the Sunday Times that the U.S. "bought weapons from the stockpiles of Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi." The heavy arms include mortars, rocket propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles and the controversial anti-aircraft heat-seeking SA-7 missiles, which are integral to countering Bashar Al-Assad's bombing campaign." Now compute the decades old design for the territory as stated by Wes Clark and the neocon dream. Glenn Greenwald provides further documentation in Salon that the various Middle Eastern and North African wars were planned before 9/11: "General Wesley Clark … said the aim of this plot [to "destroy the governments in ... Iraq, ... Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran"] was this: "They wanted us to destabilize the Middle East, turn it upside down, make it under our control." He then recounted a conversation he had had ten years earlier with Paul Wolfowitz — back in 1991 — in which the then-number-3-Pentagon-official, after criticizing Bush 41 for not toppling Saddam, told Clark: "But one thing we did learn [from the Persian Gulf War] is that we can use our military in the region – in the Middle East – and the Soviets won’t stop us. And we’ve got about 5 or 10 years to clean up those old Soviet regimes – Syria, Iran [sic], Iraq – before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us." Clark said he was shocked by Wolfowitz’s desires because, as Clark put it: "the purpose of the military is to start wars and change governments? It’s not to deter conflicts?" The diabolic union between Neoconservatives and Neoliberals produces a litter of demonic adventures that build up the body count and push the region into a globalist cesspit of satanic dimensions. In order to comprehend the interconnection of conflicts it is important to understand the deceptive war on terror and the assembled alliance with the Al Qaeda bogyman. The message in the essay, It’s Dishonest to Talk about Benghazi Without Talking About the Syrian War, is a reality that many cowardly Americans are unwilling to deal with, much less act upon. "Both parties are avoiding the bigger picture … The fact that Democrats and Republicans alike have been using Benghazi as the center of U.S. efforts to arm the Al Qaeda-affiliated Syrian rebels. Specifically, the U.S. supported opposition which overthrew Libya’s Gadaffi was largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists. According to a 2007 report by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center’s center, the Libyan city of Benghazi was one of Al Qaeda’s main headquarters – and bases for sending Al Qaeda fighters into Iraq – prior to the overthrow of Gaddafi:" What possible justification is there to intervene in Syria? The presupposed civil war is really a designed coup d'état overthrow that only benefits a greater Israel regional expansion. Note how the policy wonks work in their nefarious planning for destabilization. The flagship establishment mouthpiece Foreign Policy has the mission to signal the intentions of government stratagem as the master plans are implemented, in the article How to destabilize the Assad regime. "In order to re-up its strategy, the administration should employ a cross-governmental approach that enlists the Treasury, Commerce, and Defense Departments. The Treasury Department should use sanctions to limit Assad's ability to repatriate funds from oil exports and more properly enforce the 2012 GRAHVITY sanctions prohibiting the transfer of internet, communications, or surveillance technology to Syria. The Treasury Department should also prohibit U.S. companies from doing business with Assad's enablers by designating those entities that continue to supply him with resources. Congress could bolster the latter measure by requiring federal contractors to certify that they are not in business with Assad's enablers. Congress should also prohibit foreign financial institutions enabling Assad from doing business with U.S. banks. Meanwhile the Commerce Department should secure tighter control over the delivery of information and communications technology to Syria especially through authorized foreign distributors. Finally, as mandated by an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, the Pentagon should cease its business with Rosoboronexport, one of Assad's chief enablers, instead of entering into new contracts as it has expressed the intention to do." What do you call the treachery, when your own government is committing the subversiveness? The cryptic psychopolitical spook Dr. Steve Pieczenik presents an astounding analysis that answers this question in the You Tube, Benghazi Truth: Obama Was Running Secret Army. His call to action is a rare and daring challenge to the military that is worth a sober assessment if for no other reason than observing the anxious and flabbergasted reaction from Alex Jones. The treason committed, depends upon the nationalist loyalties of the government agents. In this case, the evidence seems well placed that the security apparatus is serving the wrong master. The substance of the Benghazi duplicity and scandalous evasion of accountability is an entrenched practice that permeates every level of command and control. The courage of Gregory Hicks, Mark Thompson and Eric Nordstrom is an act of legitimate patriotism seldom seen out of Foggy Bottom. If professional State Department public servants can speak truth to power, where are the guts of the General Military Officers? If the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a brood of poodle puppies and lap dogs, God Save the Republic. Dr. Pieczenik is In Search of James Mattoon Scott. Most subservient subjects are oblivious to the Seven Days in May scenario. Perpetuating the myth, that civilian command preserves the constitutional liberties of citizens, does not conform to the record of presidential dictatorship. When state treason is codified normality, the mere murder of four more Americans is hardly an afterthought to the executioners of the country. Respecting commander in chief traitors is an absurd national death wish. SARTRE – May 12, 2013 Discuss or comment about this essay on the BATR Forum
"With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans! Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again." Hillary Clinton
http://batr.org/reactionary/051213.html
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Posted on July 9, 2017 by Ray Starmann
Western Europe is Ripe for Revolution
The fall of Western Europe marches on with the speed of a possessed automaton. From Italy to Great Britain, millions of migrants from the war torn Middle East and countries in Africa have stormed ashore, across the Alps, while advancing like colonies of red ants into Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom. The millions of Islamic migrants who have invaded Europe since 2015 are not coming to Europe to uphold democracy. They are coming to destroy democracy and usher in a new caliphate from Palermo to Manchester. The invasion of Western Europe has become tantamount to national suicide, with policies driven by leaders who are hell bent on importing violent citizens of a malevolent culture into their once, clean, tidy, peaceful lands. In 2015, migrants committed nearly 400,000 crimes in Germany. In the state of Badem-Wuerttemberg alone in 2016, a total of 251,000 criminal suspects across the state in 2016, 107,417 were foreign, with 25,379 of these being asylum seekers and refugees. Syria was the most frequently seen country of origin in the latter category, followed by Gambia, and then Afghanistan. In Bavaria, the number of crimes committed by immigrants rose 57.8 per cent from the previous year, a development which the state’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann described as “worrying”. In Sweden, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa. Sweden is now number two on the global list of rape countries. According to a survey from 2010, Sweden, with 53.2 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants, is surpassed only by tiny Lesotho in Southern Africa, with 91.6 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants. Rather than doing something about the problem of violence and rape, Swedish politicians, public authorities and media do their best to explain away the facts. Here are some of their explanations: Swedes have become more prone to report crime. The law has been changed so that more sexual offences are now classed as rape. Swedish men cannot handle increased equality between the sexes and react with violence against women (perhaps the most fanciful excuse). In fact, Swedish authorities are more than happy to blame native Swedes for rape and crime, rather than admitting that the culprits were migrants. For example, all major Swedish media reported on a brutal gang rape on board the Finnish Ferry Amorella, running between Stockholm and Åbo in Finland. Big headlines told the readers that the perpetrators were Swedish: “Several Swedish Men Suspected of Rape on the Finland Ferry” (Dagens Nyheter). “Six Swedish Men Raped Woman in Cabin” (Aftonbladet). “Six Swedes Arrested for Rape on Ferry” (Expressen). “Eight Swedes Suspected of Rape on Ferry” (TT – the Swedish News Agency). On closer inspection, it turned out that seven of the eight suspects were Somalis and one was Iraqi. None of them had Swedish citizenship, so they were not even Swedish in that sense. Multi-cultural paradise Malmo, Sweden, is now the most dangerous city in Western Europe. London is now Londonistan and its mayor Sadiq Khan is not only a Muslim, but an apologist for his so called ‘religion of peace.’ Stockholm is the New Syria. Berlin is run by Chechen Sharia Police. Nothing to see here folks, except for the destruction of your civilization. Move on… As the bombs detonate and the women are raped, as the towns and villages are overrun by Stone Age thugs who follow a satanic cult religion, the leaders of Western Europe seemingly ignore the cries in the night from their own native citizens who have had enough of Angela Merkel’s great multicultural experiment from hell. As the trucks run down innocent people and bullets riddle café goers, the 21st Century’s villains; Merkel, Macron, Loefven and Rutte speak in ridiculous platitudes like ‘we can do it,’ while labeling anyone against the death of Western Europe a racist or neo Nazi. There is not one positive thing that emanates from Islam: nothing; nada, not an iota of peace, a speck of love, a wisp of harmony. It is a 6th Century death cult that has been imported into Western Europe for the sole reason that leftists believe in the lunatic idea that multiculturalism works and we can all live in harmony. If the Islamic invasion of Western Europe wasn’t enough, the citizens of EU nations are being micromanaged by tyrants in Brussels, who believe that they have not only the right, but the supreme knowledge to dictate the smallest tenets of one’s life. Here’s a sample of the typical bureaucrat directives coming down from the EU to its subjects: Cucumbers and bananas should not be bendy International ridicule erupted when the EU stated that all bananas must be “free of abnormal curvature”. Under the rules, cucumbers were to be “practically straight” and bent by a gradient of no more than 1/10. Diabetics should be BANNED from the roads Up to one million drivers faced losing their driving licenses – because harsh EU experts deemed people with diabetes “unfit” to drive. Eggs CANNOT be sold by the dozen Fury erupted when shopkeepers were told all food must be weighed and sold by the kilo – instead of the number contained in the packet back in 2010. And even though British shoppers can still buy a dozen of eggs, it is now priced based wholly on the weight. Super vacuum cleaners BANNED It was as though the British way of life was under threat when the EU looked to target the nation’s kettles, toasters and even lawnmowers. Their plans to erode the lifestyle choices of ordinary people were followed by the banning of the powerful vacuum cleaner. In 2014 vacuum cleaners, which had motors above the EU limit of 1,600 watts had to go. But it was all for a good cause because it was in a bid to cut energy usage. EU in a JAM over preserves EU regulators stopped sellers using the word ‘jam’ on their products if the sugar content was more than 60 per cent. Instead anything containing less had to be called a “fruit spread”, while a low sugar jam with less than 50 per cent of sugar was named a “conserve”. But lawmakers got themselves out of the sticky situation by relaxing these laws in 2013. European bureaucrats have also imposed bans or restrictions on thousands of other consumer products, including bananas, clothes dryers, cosmetics, cucumbers, fruit jam, laptop computers, laundry detergents, light bulbs, olive oil, plastic bags, refrigerators, showerheads, television sets, tobacco, toilets, toys, urinals and wine cooling cabinets. As of September 1, 2012, hundreds of millions of EU citizens—who were never consulted on the issue—have been required to buy energy-efficient fluorescent lamps, which contain toxic materials such as mercury. Because the EU does not require retailers to take back the new bulbs, 80% end up in household garbage, leaving the mercury to ultimately seep into the soil or groundwater. According to the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, the EU ban on light bulbs was motivated less about genuine environmental concerns than it was about scoring political points on the international stage. Light bulbs and vacuum cleaners are not the only products targeted for higher energy efficiency. As of November 1, “the weighted condensation efficiency of condensation tumbler dryers must not be less than 60%,” according to European Commission Regulation No. 932/2012 dated October 3, 2012. That same week, Brussels announced criteria to standardize the flushing of all toilets and urinals in the EU. The decision followed years of efforts by experts working for the European Commission’s environment directorate, as well as “stakeholders” studying “user behavior” and “best practices. ”Holger Krahmer, a Member of the European Parliament for Germany’s business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), puts it this way: “We are heading for a dictatorship of bureaucrats.” Not heading, Mr. Krahmer, you’re already there. Thomas Paine once wrote that nobility is the greatest fraud on humanity. The EU Big Brother tyrants are modern day nobility, 2017 Louis XIV’s who believe in ‘L’etat c’est moi’ or they are the state, aka they are God on earth. The EU now has a stranglehold on its member nations. As Jean Monet, Founding Father of the European Union stated nearly 20 years ago, “Europe’s nations should be guided towards the super state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose. But which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.” While the average European citizen is burdened with high tax rates, the EU bureaucrats, like Jean-Claude Juncker, pay no taxes. The arrogance of Western Europe’s leaders is simply astounding. When questioned about her diabolical, globalist backed decision to destroy Germany with unvetted Islamic immigration, Mrs. Merkel seems annoyed that the serfs would dare question her motivations for bringing down Western Civilization. In essence, Mrs. Merkel is saying, ‘let them eat Strudel.’ I have news for former Stasi officer, Angela Merkel. If you were an American leader you would have already been tarred and feathered and sent packing down a road leading to hell, where you belong, you globalist hack. Then there’s France’s Francois Macron, the high society villain, globalist puppet and newly elected President of France who stated recently that he would govern like the Roman God, Jupiter. The EU is the enemy of freedom and the leaders of Western Europe are globalist stooges. Is there anything that can stop the Islamic onslaught and the EU tyranny? Yes, a good, old fashioned revolution. Brexit, led by supreme British nationalist and patriot, Nigel Farage was a start. Will other Western European nations eventually follow Great Britain’s path? Western Europe is indeed ripe for revolution, but will the people have the fortitude to do it? Will the people of Western Europe have the guts to bring down the EU, restore their civilization and deal with the criminals who are intent on destroying it? Time will tell.
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/07/western-europe-is-ripe-for-revolution/
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Oregon Cracks Down on Gun Rights in the Name of Suicide Prevention
A newly passed bill in the state would let cops and judges decide who can exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Christian Britschgi|Jul. 7, 2017 3:58 pm
The Oregon legislature just passed a gun control measure that substantially weakens constitutional rights. Senate Bill 719 will allow a family member or a police officer to obtain a civil court order immediately stripping someone of the right to possess a firearm for up to a year, if a judge finds the person presents a danger to himself or others. Proponents hail the law as an effective way to prevent suicides. Sen. Brian Boquist (R-Dallas) argues that it will bring the number of veteran suicides down. Gun control crusader Gabrielle Giffords has called it a "responsible bill that helps keep guns out of the hands of individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis." Paul Phillips, president of the group Oregon Gun Owners, retorts that the bill does little to prevent suicides but does deprive gun owners of basic constitutional protections. Gun confiscations under SB 719 will be "based on hearsay evidence alone, and the firearm owner is not privy to a fair trial," he says. According to the bill, any law enforcement officer and family member—including partners, siblings, or even roommates—can request a hearing with a judge to get a "extreme risk protection order." If issued, this would prohibit a person from possessing or purchasing a firearm. At that hearing, which has to be held within one judical day of being requested, the judge will decide whether to issue the order, which goes into effect immediately. The subject of the order has no right to contest it before it is issued. He can pursue an appeals process afterward, which is a bit like having the right to a jury trial after you've already been sent to prison. Meanwhile, some of the things a judge can consider while deciding whether to grant one of these orders are not related to suicide, such as past drunk driving arrests or recent drug use, or are totally legitimate exercises of one's Second Amendment rights, such as trying to buy a gun in the past 180 days. Ironically, given Giffords' reference to "a mental health crisis," one of the few things the judge is prohibited from considering is "any mental health diagnosis or any connection between the risk presented by the respondent and mental illness." No small amount of procedural shenanigans were used to get this bill through the Oregon legislature in the final few days of the legislative session. Upon it passing the Senate, SB 719 was sent not to the House Judiciary Committee—which usually handles criminal legislation, but is chaired by pro–Second Amendment Democrat Jeff Barker—but rather to the House Rules Committee. That committee's chair decided to forgo a public hearing on the bill, and instead passed it out of committee the day before July 4, when half the Republicans committee members had already gone home. The bill now goes to Gov. Kate Brown, who is expected to sign it. Once she does, Oregon gun owners will be at the mercy of jurists like Judge Kenneth Walker, who said in court last year that "no one would have guns—not police, not security. We should eliminate all of them."
http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/07/oregon-cracks-down-on-gun-rights-in-the
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$20,000 – $30,000 Gold, And Whistleblower Maguire Is Right, China To Massively Revalue Gold And Make Gold Part Of A Blockchain Currency
July 08, 2017
Today one of the greats in the business said Maguire is right, China is going to massively revalue gold and make gold part of a blockchain currency.
Maguire Exposed World To Rigged Markets
July 8 (King World News) – Stephen Leeb: “What a pleasure, Eric, to hear your interview with Andrew Maguire, whose knowledge of the ins and outs of the gold market is unparalleled. He was the first to give solid evidence that major markets can and have been rigged, and his revelations in 2010 about gold and silver made it believable that other major markets could be rigged as well. In fact, I’d argue that without his persistence in 2010, no one would have believed the whistleblowers who blew the lid off the scandals in such major markets as LIBOR and some currency markets. Eric, the bottom line is that Maguire exposed to the entire world the fact that markets are rigged before anyone believed that was possible.. So, I find it very reassuring that my macro approach to analyzing the markets is in sync with Andrew’s view. While Andrew focuses on trading patterns and positioning in the physical and paper markets by various players, my indicators assess a wide variety of big-picture variables, from changes in the S&P to correlations among different commodities and between commodities and paper assets. My indicators, which have a good record, are why in several interviews this year I warned that gold could come down but urged that any dips be taken as buying opportunities. On Friday, my indicators, which have been bearish since mid-April, turned neutral, and they easily could soon flash a buy signal almost in line with Andrew’s projected time frame for a reset in gold’s price. While my indicators say it is still a bit early to plunge in and buy with both hands, I could easily be printing that advice within the new few weeks or even days. Maguire Is Right, China To Use Gold In Blockchain I also was struck by Andrew’s points about blockchains that include gold and about the potential for 2017 to be a major bottom for gold. My thinking for some time has been that the Chinese will use blockchains and some form of virtual currency – not bitcoin or anything available today but a currency of their own creation – to replace the dollar. I don’t think anyone can guess point by point what the plan will be, but the currency almost surely will be a basket that includes gold, the renminbi, and perhaps other paper currencies. Whatever its precise form, the goal will be to segue from a dollar-based reserve currency to a gold-centered monetary system. And as I’ve noted previously, this new currency will likely first be introduced as the denomination for trading an Eastern oil benchmark that the Chinese will control. One question is, why wouldn’t China just use bitcoin and be done with it? After all China by a wide margin has been the largest “miner” of bitcoin. It takes massive amounts of computing power to create bitcoin, which, once created, become part of a blockchain – a database containing the history of all bitcoin transactions. Because of the complexity of the algorithms creating bitcoin, and because copies of the blockchains are distributed to various institutions, the bitcoin market is nearly impossible to hack into as you would have to hack all copies of the blockchains. Creating a phony bitcoin not only is beyond the computing power of almost all hackers, the cryptocurrency would then have to be attached to all blockchains. Besides their high degree of security, the another reason bitcoin is attractive to investors is that they are limited in number to 21 million. This limit, however, is one of the reasons bitcoin wouldn’t be suitable as a reserve currency. Even at their recent high of $3,000, the total value of all bitcoins was equivalent to a few billion dollars. Not only would it take a Herculean computing effort to break the 21 million barrier, but any effort to create more would dilute the value of existing bitcoin holders and run into fierce resistance by those owners. Moreover, increasing the number would drastically change the underlying fundamentals of the currency. There’s another and more important reason – bitcoin wouldn’t cut it as a reserve currency, one that can be explained by repeating a story Warren Buffett once told. He asked his audience to imagine an isolated town of, say, 100 people all owning identical homes. The town council decided that each year it would make everyone richer by raising the value of the homes by, say, 10 percent. Eventually the homes, which are pretty ordinary by most standards, carry multimillion-dollar price tags, giving everyone in town a great sense of wealth. Then one day one of the homeowners tries to sell his home to someone from outside the town. And in a heartbeat the residents’ millions of dollars in wealth tumbles by 90 percent. Similarly, bitcoin’s value resides in the willingness of a relatively small community of bitcoin holders to assign them a particular value. In the case of the homes, it’s the council that determined value. With bitcoins, a small marketplace determines value. But in both cases, there is very little there there. Just this week Sheng Songcheng, an adviser to the People’s Bank of China, commented: “Bitcoin does not have the fundamental attributes needed to be a currency as it is a string of code generated by complex algorithms.” Sheng acknowledged that the technology behind the bitcoin did make it a kind of digital asset, but one distinct from a currency. Most important Sheng also confirmed that the PBOC is studying a virtual currency that could be regulated and function properly. Now let’s return to Buffett’s anecdote. Suppose each year every homeowner had to add a specified amount of gold to his home’s foundation. That gold wouldn’t merely buttress the physical foundation – it would also would support a minimum value for the house. By the same token, if bitcoin consisted of a notional dollar value plus a fixed amount of gold, it would always have value come hell or high water. China Blockchain To Include Gold Creating blockchains made up of baskets of currencies and gold is possible, but to do so – in fact, simply to create the individual cryto-baskets – would require extraordinary computing power. And it would require something else: a trove of gold for which the currency could theoretically be exchanged. Only one country meets these criteria, and no surprise, it’s China. This year marked at least the third year in a row in which China ranked first as the country with the fastest supercomputers. Indeed, the world’s two fastest supercomputers are in China. Moreover, China has announced that by yearend it will have a prototype of the holy grail of supercomputers: an exascale computer, meaning one that can perform at least a quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second. Though Chinese technology gets a lot of credit in going from nowhere to king of the mountain in high-performance computing, China also gets an A+ in foresight in realizing that one of the major limitations on how fast a computer can perform is the amount of energy these huge machines consume. By a factor of five or six, China has the most hydropower of any country. As with wind and solar, hydropower requires major upfront expenditures after which the energy it produces is effectively free. And unlike wind and solar, which can be erratic, hydropower is not subject to the whims of weather. It’s ideal for powering computers, the kind of massive computers needed for mining highly complex currencies. China’s propensity for long-term – in some cases, generations-long – thinking continues to serve it remarkably well. Could 2017 be the year of launch for the near-fantastic bull market in gold that lies ahead? I am not betting my shirt on it, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit. In my last interview, I said China was likely well aware of the risks America faces and the need to act quickly to avoid being caught up in another meltdown. Even a cursory reading of The Art of War teaches that you should act when no one expects it. And surely with oil prices low (but totally out of whack with what physical oil is worth), 2017 could be the year that China launches its Eastern oil benchmark. $20,000 – $30,000 Gold After which the sky – or at least the very highest clouds – would be the limit for the ultimate price of gold – in a world whose total wealth now measures about $250 trillion. A gold price as high as 20 or 30 thousand could only back a portion of that wealth.”
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A Supercomputer Is Betting on a Market Crash in the Months Ahead
FS Staff07/06/2017
One of the world's most powerful supercomputers, retrofitted for trading the stock market, appears to be betting on a crash in the months ahead. The Financial Crisis Observatory (FCO) at ETH Zurich released its latest Global Bubble Status Report on July 1st. As we discussed with FCO’s director, Didier Sornette, on our podcast in May, they use one of the world’s leading supercomputers to monitor global markets each day for two distinct bubble-like characteristics: faster than exponential price movement and accelerating oscillations (see Podcast: Using a Supercomputer to Trade the Market). Their July report notes an increasing trend of positive bubbles across multiple asset classes. Here’s what they say in their “big picture” section: “One can observe the continuation of a trend in the growth of positive bubbles in the fixed income asset class for the second month. The fraction of stocks diagnosed in a positive bubble state increased this month to exceed 36% compared with 32% last month. Mixed bubble signals still occur only in few commodity indices. We also observe renewed bubble activity in currency pairs.” [source] Here is the chart where they show the “historical evolution of the fraction of assets within an asset class that show significant bubble signals”: Based on their daily scan of global markets, the Financial Crisis Observatory assigns individual stocks into four different quadrants based on their bubble strength and value score. These four quadrants are then used to create a trading strategy consisting of four different portfolios, which they define as follows (click image to enlarge): In looking at each of the four portfolios, it appears that the supercomputer was mostly initiating long positions since March. However, starting in June, the researchers note that there has been a rebound in Contrarian Short portfolios in recent weeks: “This month, we find that Long portfolios started to develop a drawdown in most portfolios initiated in March, April, May and June 2017. This reflects the stopping of the previously booming markets. Especially, the Contrarian Short portfolios rebounded in recent weeks. Contrarian Portfolios are more delicate to use due to their sensitivity to timing the expected reversal and exhibit very volatile performances, indicating that most of bubbles in the market are still dominating and that fundamentals have not yet played out. We expect trend-following positions to perform in the months following the position set-up and then contrarian positions to over-perform over longer time scales as the predicted corrections play out.” Here is a chart illustrating each of their four portfolios since June with the rebound in Contrarian Shorts shown in green, which they expect to “over-perform over longer time scales as the predicted corrections play out.” Based on the large and growing list of positions in its Contrarian Short portfolio—which includes the FANG stocks—it would appear that FCO's supercomputer is setting up for some sort of market crash or correction in the months ahead. To listen to our May interview with Didier Sornette, please log in and click here. To access this month’s Global Bubble Status report with its full list of positions, click here.
http://www.financialsense.com/didier-sornette/supercomputer-betting-market-crash
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Panic At CNN - 'One Of The Greatest Moments In The History Of The Internet': The Great Meme War Of 2017
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine July 9, 2017
Quick Recap For New Readers: In Early June CNN published a "news" story citing unnamed sources that had to be edited with a change in headline when their so-called sources misled them or CNN just lied, no one is sure which. Mid-June, CNN published a fake news story they had to retract totally, delete, apologize for and force the resignations of three high profile named employees, after being threatened with a $100 million lawsuit. Also in June, Project Veritas published under-cover videos showing CNN employees admitting the "Russia" narrative was bullsh*t" and a "nothing burger." That alone had other MSM news outlets warning them to "slow down" and explain what happened. Early July, Jake Tapper ran a segment in which the graphics shown on the screen consisted of a "fake" Enquirer cover (one that was never really used by the Enquirer.) TIME WARNER SHAREHOLDERS GO AFTER CNN FOR BIASED REPORTING In the midst of all of the scandals that rocked CNN in June and May when they were forced to fire Kathy Griffin from her News Year gig as a co-host for New Year for an image she proudly touted of a mock bloody beheaded President Trump and firing Reza Aslan after he called our President a piece of excrement, shareholders for Time Warner (The parent company of CNN) went after CNN CEO Jeff Bewkes for the networks biased reporting and continuous bashing of President Trump. Via The Daily Caller: David Almasi, the Veep of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative communications and research foundation, is in LA to question Bewkes. Both Almasi and President David Ridenour are Time Warner shareholders. “In the past month, CNN parted ways with Kathy Griffin over her photo with a mock severed Trump head and Reza Aslan after he called our President a piece of excrement for pushing the anti-terror travel ban,” Almasi said in a statement released to The Mirror that he read aloud at the meeting. Almasi is also irked at CNN for sponsoring Julius Caesar in the park. Some sponsors have dropped out — but not Time Warner. “Mr. Bewkes, we have urged you many times to make CNN more objective,” Almasi said in his statement. “You have admitted to us in 2014 the need for more balance. We praised you last year after CNN President Jeffrey Zucker also acknowledged this and acted on the need for more diverse views. But bias is apparently worse than ever. As shareholders, we are concerned about the repetitional risk to our investment in Time Warner as CNN appears to be a key player in the war against the Trump presidency.” Almasi cited a Media Research Center study of CNN programing for 14 hours and 27 minutes of news coverage back on May 12. The report concluded that all but 68 minutes were devoted to Trump with 96 guests out of 123 being negative. The Veep flatly told Bewkes that he isn’t achieving the goal he made to shareholders in 2014 to “try to be independent and objective.” “Is it any wonder that President Trump mocks CNN as ‘fake news,’ that the network was snubbed by Vice President Pence and that it receives poor access at White House press events?” he asked. By all accounts it has been a extremely bad couple of months for CNN, especially amidst a pending purchase of Time Warner by AT&T. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET' The "great meme war of 2017" started with a tweet by President Trump, an amusing little Internet meme in the form of a GIF that retouched a 2013 WWE video clip, showing the president body-slamming the CNN logo. In typical "crybully" fashion, CNN, who had been attacking the president non-stop, now declared they were a "victim" and the Internet meme was actually and "incitement" to violence against all MSM member, who should now be in fear for their lives. Other MSM outlets jumped right into the narrative that they were the victims of the "bully" president. It was very dramatic! Crybully: "Someone who uses the perceived righteousness of a social justice cause as a pretext to abuse others, and then plays the victim when confronted about that abuse." Then, in perhaps one of the greatest examples of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, after all, the CNN scandals were second page news while the President's tweet became front page news, CNN committed a blunder which led to what a columnist and novelist who has written for a number of publications, including the Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator, James Delingpole, calls "one of the greatest moments in the history of the internet." CNN hunted down that meme maker, some anonymous random Internet user that thought the GIF was funny, and they contacted him letting him know they knew who he was. So he apologized and CNN decided it would be a great idea to inform the public they "tracked him down," and he apologized for his "bad behavior on social media," but they were not going to released his name, in the interest of his personal safety, unless he went back to his "bad behavior." CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same. CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change. If that sounds like a threat to those reading, pundits on both sides of the political aisle, even those that were so quick to take CNN's side over the president daring to tweet the original meme, agree, as the Twitter hashtag #CNNBlackmail was born. Hashtags are usually a dime a dozen, they are created, people have fun with them, they start trending on Twitter, they die out within hours for the most part, especially once Twitter removes them from their "trending" sidebar. Not #CNNBlackmail though, as it started on July 4, 2017 when the CNN article was published and promoted by CNN, it stayed trending well into the next day, and still today, July 9, 2017, thousands of tweets continue to pour in despite it being removed from the trending sidebar on the 5th. The reason for that is forums such as Reddit (it was one of their users CNN threatened to out), 4chan, Discord, and others, declared the "great meme war of 2017" against CNN. Before detailing the continued fall out from the "meme war," it was the creation and continued popularity of the #CNNBlackmail hashtag that Delingpole referred to as one of the greatest moments in the history of the Internet. Not because of the slew of new "memes" being created, most of which much worse than the original one tweeted by President Trump, but because to Delingpole, the "enemy has shown its true colors," and conservatives were finally fighting back. #CNNBlackmail, make no mistake, was a pivotal #winning moment. Why and how did we win? Partly by using the enemy’s tactics against them; partly by exploiting a few strengths of our own. The entire piece is well worth the read as Delingpole details exactly how conservatives turned the tables on progressive liberals, but specifically CNN, and why it was critical in regards to the culture wars, where snowflakism and victimhood has pretty much stifled any true meaningful debate. ANALYSIS OF DELINGPOLE'S ARGUMENT Delingpole is spot on. For years those that laughed at the Prozac dipped binkie sucking "snowflakes," thinking their antics would turn people away, where every word uttered is a "micro-aggression" and everybody that disagreed with them were "racists" or "white nationalists," forgot a major point: If only one side of the argument is being heard, then there is no pushback against their antics, there is no voice of reason or logic being heard. In the minds of those not considered snowflakes, not lowering themselves to the level of those attacking others, was considered taking the "high road." All that has done is create more snowflakes.... only now, since the 2016 presidential election where the MSM lost all influence and couldn't "control exactly what people think," which is what MSNBC's Mika Brzezski admitted the MSM considered their job to be, the establishment media has become those snowflakes, where every word President Trump utters is a "micro-agression," every agenda item he implements is "racist ," or will "kill people," and every tweet he sends is the end of the world and Democracy as we know it (reminder to the MSM that spews that nonsense - America is a Republic, not a Democracy). The high road be damned. This is war and as such, it is time to call out every single one of their lies, no matter how big or how small, which by the way, they continue to spew, such as CNN's Jim Acosta telling his followers that President Trump was spouting fake news when he spoke of only three intelligence agencies being behind the DNI report saying Russia meddled in the 2016 election in order to get Donald Trump elected, and Acosta did that after the New York Times issued a correction as did the AP, explaining they falsely reported that 17 intelligence agencies were behind that report and their were only three, then collated by the ODNI. AP: In stories published April 6, June 2, June 26 and June 29, The Associated Press reported that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies have agreed that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump. That assessment was based on information collected by three agencies – the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency – and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which represents all U.S. intelligence agencies. Not all 17 intelligence agencies were involved in reaching the assessment. Either they be forced to start reporting the truth or they need to be destroyed, put into bankruptcy and driven out of business. THE GREAT MEME WAR OF 2017 Although it was a Reddit user that created the original GIF meme that was threatened and basically blackmailed by CNN, it was 4chan that declared that CNN had started a war on the entire Internet, with different forums, including Discord, Reddit, and a whole host of other social media platforms, that started compiling a list of CNN's advertisers to contact, and declared their own "meme war" where now thousands of GIFS, memes, images and videos are now going viral across the internet, with InfoWars starting a contest offering 20K for the best "meme," all resulting in an onslaught of anti-CNN images all over the Internet, many of them far worse than the one they initially cried over. It is not just on the Twitter hashtags, #CNNBlackmail #CNNMemeWars, where these images are being slammed, but on individual tweets from CNN reporters, on every anti-Trump or fake news article they share on social media, dozens of these memes are appearing in the comments. CNN's Facebook channel is showing the same thing. CNN apps have been down-voted to one star ratings (the lowest rating possible) with Google now attempting to help CNN salvage what is left of their reputation by removing 15,000 of those one star reviews. There is panic at CNN, as their credibility is shot and their ratings are tanking, while employees feel "victimized" because after months and months of their attacks against President Trump, his family and his supporters, they finally went too far and are learning that if you attack us for too long, eventually, we will fight back. The great meme war of 2017 has just begun.
http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Great_Meme_War_Of_2017.php
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Former Ambassador Warns 'The Day Of Reckoning Could Come Sooner Than Anyone Thinks'
- Council On Foreign Relations Study May Indicate A 'False Flag Grid Down Scenario' Is On The Horizon
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die July 9, 2017
While the eyes of America and the world are now rightfully set upon North Korea's nuclear program after their latest inter-continental-ballistic-missile test was called a 'game changer' while it was determined it would have been able to hit Alaska, we take a look at what could be a far bigger and more imminent threat in North Korea's 'elite cyberwarfare' units. 'Elite hackers' who've already proven themselves capable of hacking into major banks and capable of bringing down nuclear power plants and electrical grids. While US bombers recently carried out a show of force exercise over South Korea as detailed in this NBC news story while also carrying out tests upon their THAAD missile defense system, as we read in this story from the NY Times and hear in the 2nd video below, according to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, hackers have been targeting US nuclear facilities. And while currently, a hacking group with alleged ties to the Russian government (of course!) is being blamed, we take a look here at why those attempting the hacking are more likely tied to North Korea (or those trying to blame a future false flag upon them). According to Ambassador Henry F. Cooper, appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Deputy United States Negotiator for Defense and Arms for negotiations in Geneva, North Korean dictator Kim dreams of turning out the lights upon America and his 'elite cyber hacking units' may have been behind blackouts earlier in 2017 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Cooper warns us that "the day of reckoning could come sooner than anyone thinks". As we hear in the 1st video below featuring Steve Quayle along with Alex Jones from Infowars, we should be watching very closely for a potential 'false flag' tied to North Korea in the future. Also discussing why the blame for North Korea's nuclear program in the first place could be laid directly at the feet of none other than 'Billy-bob' Clinton, we hear why we need to dig much deeper than the news we're getting from the msm on North Korea, especially considering the recent CFR study outlined below. According to one North Korean defector, the people that make up North Korea's 'elite cyberhacking units' are handpicked, pampered 'elite' and starting at the age of 17, are given some of the world's very best training in hacking. As we see outlined in these linked stories, besides banks, electrical power stations and nuclear power plants are some of their specialties. In this May 22nd of 2017 story over at Reuters they report upon North Korea's Unit 180, calling it "the cyber warfare cell that worries the West", while warning that they could have been responsible for the recent 'WannaCry' ransomwear cyber attack that infected more than 300,000 computers around the world. Also reporting that Unit 180 hackers are spread throughout the world so as not to leave a trace of their attacks back to NKorea, it's also been reported that as far back as the 1990's, North Korean 'sleepers' had infiltrated America with plans of terrorizing US cities and attacking our nuclear power plants should war between North Korea and the US have broken out. And while we certainly understand the concern about North Korea's nuclear program, especially after analysts recently spotted ominous cone-like tips indicating their new long-range missile could avoid US interceptors while launching multiple warheads, as we read in this story from Paul Bremmer over at WND, an EMP or cyber attack that takes down our electrical grid for a lengthy period of time will be much more devastating to America overall than one successful nuclear weapons attack. While a successful nuclear weapons attack upon a US city would cause fear throughout the nation and absolute devastation to the city/suburban areas struck, a cyber attack that took down our electrical grid could take down our entire nation for a considerable lengthy period of time would cause much greater long-term damage. From the WND story: While most analysts agree North Korea does not yet have a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continental U.S., energy expert Jeffrey Yago said it’s clear North Korea does have the technology to create an EMP weapon and detonate it over the center of the United States. An EMP weapon, he said, is easier to make and would be more devastating than a nuclear bomb. “The EMP weapon, if it’s detonated high above the United States, can cause havoc from one end of the coast to the other, whereas a surface nuclear bomb would certainly be devastating to an area, like a city, but it would be limited to that geographic area, whereas the damage from an EMP could last up to a year and affect the entire country,” Yago said. An EMP weapon would have the power to knock out the U.S. electrical grid, likely causing chaos among the population. Lights would go off, computers and televisions would shut down and cell phones would go dark once their batteries ran out. All electronic appliances that plug into power outlets would cease to operate. Water and gasoline could not be pumped, causing plumbing and vehicular transportation to shut down. Food could no longer be delivered to stores. Credit card readers and cash registers would not work. Yago believes the grid will go down at some point, whether it’s from a North Korean EMP attack, a computer hack or a combination of the two. He worries about the widespread devastation it will cause, especially in major cities, if Americans choose to rely on the government and fail to take their own steps to prepare. “The kinds of things that keep me up at night are not so much the power going out, but the long-term effects that would have on the population,” he warned. While President Trump recently labeled North Korea a menace and problem that needed to be solved while he was at the G-20 summit, there's a very good reason why so many military experts have warned that a war with North Korea would be unlike any way that American fighters had seen in a long time. As even Pentagon head General Jim 'Maddog' Mattis recently stated, "a war with North Korea would be catastrophic". 'Maddog' also stated recently that "North Korea's ICBM launch doesn't bring us any closer to war" and it's clear that the very last thing the Pentagon wants is such a war as they understand the losses that it would to all sides. Called one of the biggest challenges to President Trump's still young presidency, should such a war break out, we might all be living 'off the grid' before it was all over. In this recent story over at Ready Nutrition Joshua Krause reports upon why our electrical grid is much more vulnerable to cyber attacks than most people realize due to a problem called 'cascading failure'. Outlining for us how easily it is for malware to 'induce' such a scenario, experts warn why such malware is far more dangerous and easier to use than anyone realized before. The danger of the malware is that it can automatically trip the breakers within a power system that keep the electrical lines from being overloaded. If one breaker is tripped, the load is shipped to another portion of the power grid. If enough are tripped, in the right places, it’s possible to create a cascading effect that will eventually overload the entire system, said Weatherford, who was formerly the chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the regulatory authority for North American utilities. “In some cases, it could then take days to restart all the plants,” he said. Two things stand out about the malware, dubbed “Industroyer” by the researchers — it’s an order of magnitude easier to use than previous programs and it wasn’t actually deployed to do any real damage, meaning whoever’s behind the December attack might simply have been testing the waters. In other words, this malware can induce what’s often referred to as a cascading failure. This is what caused the massive blackout that occurred in the Northeastern US and Canada back in 2003. An overgrown tree branch in Ohio touched a power line, which caused that section of the grid to overload and shut down. The electricity had to be transferred to other power lines, which in turn also became overloaded. This chain reaction continued until 55 million people were without power. Cascading failure is the perfect example of just how fragile our power grid can be. Because our grid is so interconnected, something really small can have a huge effect on the wider system. Though the power grid in the US isn’t as vulnerable to humble tree branches as it used to be, it’s still quite vulnerable to the type of malware that was used to shut down parts of the grid in Ukraine. Back on April 3rd of 2017, the Council on Foreign Relations put out a study called "A Cyberattack On The US Power Grid: Contingency Planning Memorandum No. 31" which you can see at this link. Reading almost like a 'playbook' to conduct a false flag power grid takedown, we're not surprised at one of the reasons the CFR gives that such an 'attack might be carried out'. Directly from their study: Short of outright conflict with a state adversary, several plausible scenarios in which the U.S. power grid would be subject to cyberattack need to be considered: Discrediting Operations. Given the importance of electricity to the daily lives of Americans, an adversary may see advantage in disrupting service to undermine public support for a U.S. administration at a politically sensitive time. Might 'enemies of America within' take down our power grid, blaming it upon North Korea, to undermine President Trump? The CFR study also outlines for us why such a scenario could bring America a sudden Apocalypse while outlining for us some of the 'warning indicators' of a future mass attack, including smaller test runs prior to their 'end game'. Besides the intrinsic importance of the power grid to a functioning U.S. society, all sixteen sectors of the U.S. economy deemed to make up the nation’s critical infrastructure rely on electricity. Disabling or otherwise interfering with the power grid in a significant way could thus seriously harm the United States. Carrying out a cyberattack that successfully disrupts grid operations would be extremely difficult but not impossible. Such an attack would require months of planning, significant resources, and a team with a broad range of expertise. Although cyberattacks by terrorist and criminal organizations cannot be ruled out, the capabilities necessary to mount a major operation against the U.S. power grid make potential state adversaries the principal threat. A series of warning indicators would likely foretell a cyberattack on the U.S. power grid. Potential indicators could include smaller test-run attacks outside the United States on systems that are used in the United States; intelligence collection that indicates an adversary is conducting reconnaissance or is in the planning stages; deterioration in relations leading to escalatory steps such as increased intelligence operations, hostile rhetoric, and recurring threats; and increased probing of electric sector networks and/or the implementation of malware that is detected by more sophisticated utilities. A large-scale cyberattack on the U.S. power grid could inflict considerable damage. The 2003 Northeast Blackout left fifty million people without power for four days and caused economic losses between $4 billion and $10 billion. The Lloyd’s scenario estimates economic costs of $243 billion and a small rise in death rates as health and safety systems fail. While darker scenarios envision scarcity of water and food, deterioration of sanitation, and a breakdown in security, leading to a societal collapse, it would be possible to mitigate the worst effects of the outage and have power restored to most areas within days. At this level of damage, the American public would likely demand a forceful response, which could reshape U.S. geopolitical interests for decades. Traditional military action, as opposed to a response in kind, would be likely. In the 3rd video below we hear one opinion on what a war with North Korea might look like, and as General Mattis warns, such a war would be an outright bloody catastrope. In the 4th video below, we hear from Pastor Carl Gallups on why a North Korean war might play into Biblical prophecy with potential adversaries backing North Korea being China, Iran and even Russia should relations between the US and Russia once again deteriorate.
http://allnewspipeline.com/NKorean_Hacking_The_Grid_WW3.php
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North Korea warns of nuclear war after US bombers carry out ‘provocative’ live-fire drills
Published time: 9 Jul, 2017 12:21 Edited time: 10 Jul, 2017 08:33
North Korean state media has condemned a US bombing drill on the Korean peninsula, warning that the move could spark a nuclear war. An editorial published in state newspaper Rodong Sinmun Sunday accused the US of “military provocations” which are raising the threat of nuclear conflict to an extreme level. “The Korean peninsula is the largest gunpowder area in the world with the highest risk of nuclear war, and is the largest hot spot in the world where there is always a risk of nuclear war. [The US] is surely spreading into a new world war,” the piece reads. The article also accuses the Trump administration of using the Korean peninsula to distract from the US president’s “serious crisis of power” at home. The US Air Force sent two B-1B strategic bombers to carry out live-fire tests on a training range in South Korea Friday. Fighter jets from South Korea and Japan also joined in the drill. The US military said the drill “demonstrated America’s ironclad commitment to the defense of our allies”. The exercise, which targets mock enemy missile launch sites, came three days after North Korea pointedly tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4, Independence Day in the US. The United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on the situation, and Trump denounced the missile test on Twitter.
https://www.rt.com/news/395793-north-korea-us-nuclear/
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Putin Asks For 'Proof And Evidence' Of Election Interference After President Trump Confronts Him, Contrary To CNN's 'Fake News' Before The Meeting
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
When President Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit, the Russian President asked for the one thing that President Trump could not provide after President Trump pressed him on the issue of election interference, (something CNN once again claimed he would not do according to their "sources") the same thing that millions of Americans have been asking for since the first report was issued by the DNI saying that three intelligence agencies had "concluded" the Russians interference in the 2016 presidential election by hacking into the DNC servers and in turn handing over to Wikileaks to publish the DNC and Podesta emails for public dissemination. "Proof and evidence" of that claim, something that the intelligence report never offered Americans that have been asking for the same things, simply expecting everyone to "trust them." FAKE NEWS: CNN BUSTED AGAIN Before getting into the meat and potatoes of the headlined portion of this article, it would be remiss of us to not highlight that once again CNN has been caught spewing "fake news," which is perfectly represented in the screen shots below, via Matt Wolking, the images pretty much say it all. CNN Before The Trump/Putin Meeting: Unnamed sources claim President Trump will not speak about election meddling with President Putin. Putin Asks For 'Proof And Evidence' Of Election Interference After President Trump Confronts Him, Contrary To CNN's 'Fake News' Before The Meeting
PutinTrumpMeeting.jpg By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine July 8, 2017
When President Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit, the Russian President asked for the one thing that President Trump could not provide after President Trump pressed him on the issue of election interference, (something CNN once again claimed he would not do according to their "sources") the same thing that millions of Americans have been asking for since the first report was issued by the DNI saying that three intelligence agencies had "concluded" the Russians interference in the 2016 presidential election by hacking into the DNC servers and in turn handing over to Wikileaks to publish the DNC and Podesta emails for public dissemination. "Proof and evidence" of that claim, something that the intelligence report never offered Americans that have been asking for the same things, simply expecting everyone to "trust them." FAKE NEWS: CNN BUSTED AGAIN Before getting into the meat and potatoes of the headlined portion of this article, it would be remiss of us to not highlight that once again CNN has been caught spewing "fake news," which is perfectly represented in the screen shots below, via Matt Wolking, the images pretty much say it all. CNN Before The Trump/Putin Meeting: Unnamed sources claim President Trump will not speak about election meddling with President Putin. At this point I don't know if White House "sources" are just jerking CNN around knowing if they they give them anything that is considered "anti-Trump" they will run with it without even bothering to confirm and verify, or if CNN is just making up even having any WH "sources" left, but coming on top of a very bad month for CNN with false stories, retractions, deletions, apologies and three employees being forced to resign, followed by CNN's "Worst Week In Washington," after threatening and blackmailing an anonymous internet meme maker, this is just the latest evidence of the network simply going down in flames. (More here and here) WHERE IS THE PROOF AND EVIDENCE? Moving along, reports indicate that not only did President Trump speak to President Putin about election interference, but he pressed the issue more than once, but the Russian President finally asked for the one thing that many Americans have been asking for... proof and evidence," which is something no one has ever produced regarding Russian "meddling" in the 2016 election. The Russians, speaking after the meeting, claimed that Trump accepted the denial - but Tillerson did not. Instead he said the issue may simply be an 'intractable disagreement.' Tillerson also said the Russians pushed Trump for proof and evidence of meddling, something which the president himself had doubted in public as recently as Thursday. Many may remember that the DNC never allowed U.S. intelligence agencies access to their servers to investigate the alleged "hacking," which Wikileaks, who published the DNC and Podesta emails has maintained was not a "hack," but was instead a "leak," heavily implying that the leak came directly from a source within the DNC, one who was murdered in July 2016, Seth Rich. Without any access to the DNC servers, the intelligence report created by three agencies and collated by the DNI, that offered their "conclusions," was forced to use the findings from a third party cyber-security firm named CrowdStrike, which has already seen one high profile anti-Russian report debunked as they were forced to retract and revise a different "Russian hacking" report. READ: CrowdStrike Revises and Retracts Parts of Explosive Russian Hacking Report According to the 25 page ODNI report titled "Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution," on page two of the PDF, it states outright that while they are offering their "conclusions" (much of which was obtained by the now discredited CrowdStrike) "the declassified report does not and cannot include the full supporting information, including specific intelligence and sources and methods." BOTTOM LINE The entire report consists of their assessments, their insistence that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections by hacking the DNC, without offering any "proof and evidence" of the alleged meddling or interference and to top it off, they only had the data given to them by a third party cyber-security firm that previously manufactured evidence (now revised and retracted) about Russian hacking in regards to Ukraine. President Putin asked for the one thing that President Trump, nor our intelligence community can give him, or Americans for that matter.... "Proof and evidence." Yet the media has spent months on end claiming the Russians hacked the election, again, with no way to confirm the veracity of the information. Notice how the MSM is focusing on everything but that demand by the Russian president? Melania's poll numbers are rising! OMG, Trump and Putin shook hands! Ivanka briefly sat at the G20 leaders table!! Reading the body language between the two presidents! The one thing the MSM is avoiding like the plague is the words "proof" and "evidence" of Russian meddling, because it may just remind Americans that despite the months and months of headlines regarding Russian interference, no one has ever shown Americans any proof or evidence of it. Note -Personally I have seen the U.S. directly meddle in the affairs and elections of other countries and there is no doubt that "meddling" is something many countries do on a regular basis in the affairs of other countries, so I am not saying that Russia didn't try to influence the presidential election, but as many other Americans, I would like to see the proof of it, not just the "assessment" of the intelligence community using data from a source that has been discredited already over the same type of information.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Putin_Asks_For_Proof_And_Evidence.php
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Report: Israel presses Russia, U.S. on Hizbullah-free buffer zone in Syria
By World Tribune on July 9, 2017 by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2017
Israel is seeking a demilitarized buffer zone in southern Syria that would prevent Hizbullah and “other Iranian-backed militias” from operating in the area, a report said. Israel wants the buffer zone to extend some 30 miles (48 kilometers) beyond the Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights, the Times of London reported on July 6, citing “sources in the Middle East.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has discussed the issue with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, the report said. The buffer zone would include the Syrian city of Daraa, where Sunni rebels have engaged in major battles against Assad regime and Hizbullah forces in recent months. The Kremlin on July 6 said Netanyahu’s latest phone call came “at the Israeli side’s initiative. Mr. Putin and Mr. Netanyahu continued their exchange of opinions on topical issues of Russia-Israel cooperation. In the context of joint efforts against international terrorism, they discussed the Middle East settlement and the situation in Syria.” Israel was also “present on the sidelines of talks in Amman between the Americans and the Russians to negotiate the future of southern Syria,” the report said. Separate reports said Israel, Jordan and the U.S. had come to an understanding that any end-of-conflict agreement would leave only Syrian government forces in an area along the Israeli and Jordanian borders in Deraa Province. Israel frequently coordinates with Russia to avoid clashes over Syria when it carries out periodic airstrikes on Hizbullah weapon convoys.
http://www.worldtribune.com/report-israel-presses-russia-u-s-on-hizbullah-free-buffer-zone-in-syria/
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PM Netanyahu Clarifies Israel’s Position On Syria
July 9, 2017 12:30 pm
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday 15 Tammuz, at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, released a message to the media pertaining to the ongoing Civil War in Syria and Israel’s position. Mr. Netanyahu made his remarks in light of the recent worrisome sharp increase in rocket spillover from Syria into the northern Golan Heights. YWN-ISRAEL reported earlier this month that over 18 mortar rockets came over the border to Syria in a one-week period. Mr. Netanyahu said, “About Syria: Israel will welcome a genuine ceasefire in Syria but this ceasefire must not enable the establishment of a military presence by Iran and its proxies in Syria in general and in southern Syria in particular. I had deep discussions about this last week with US Secretary of State Tillerson and with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both told me that they understand Israel’s position and will take our demands into account. “For our part, we will continue to monitor developments beyond our borders while strongly upholding our red lines: Prevent the strengthening of Hizbullah via Syria, with an emphasis on the acquisition of precision weapons, prevent Hizbullah– or Iranian forces – from establishing a ground presence along our border, and prevent the establishment of an Iranian military presence in Syria as a whole.”
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U.S. congressmen propose bill to save baby Charlie Gard by making him U.S. resident
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Two Congressmen announced today that next week when Congress returns from recess next week, they will introduce a private bill to make Charlie Gard a permanent resident of the United States. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, and Rep. Trent Franks, R-AZ, both strongly pro-life, said in a joint statement that they are introducing this bill to support the rights of Charlie's parents to continue to care for him. "Despite Charlie’s heartbreaking condition, his parents have refused to give up hope," the legislators said. "They have advocated for him fiercely. They have raised over £1 million to pay for their son to receive experimental treatment in the United States. They have kept fighting for his life." "By making Charlie a lawful permanent resident in the U.S.," he will be able to "receive treatments that could save his life," they said. "Should this little boy to be ordered to die – because a third party, overriding the wishes of his parents, believes it can conclusively determine that immediate death is what is best for him?" they asked. Chris Gard and Connie Yates, Charlie's parents, have been fighting in European courts for their right to bring their 11-month-old to the U.S. for experimental treatment for his rare muscle and brain disease. They raised over $1 million to do this, but English courts sided with the hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, which wants to remove him from life support rather than allow him to be transferred to another hospital. Then, the European Court of Human Rights also sided with the hospital. Charlie was scheduled to die on Friday, June 30, but his parents have been granted more time with him. The hospital has the legal right to turn off Charlie's life support at any time now, and his parents aren't allowed to take him out of the hospital. Today, Great Ormond Street Hospital announced it's asking the High Court to review the case again "in light of the claimed new evidence." Human rights activists working with Connie and Chris said this is good news because it gives Charlie a "reprieve" and allows new, compelling evidence to be presented. "Every human life has dignity, including the lives of those who cannot speak up for themselves," said Wenstrup and Franks. "When government is able to overrule a parent or guardian in determining a patient’s best interest, every vulnerable patient is put at risk. We offer Connie Yates and Chris Gard our heartfelt support as they seek to care for their son." New-York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center have offered to admit Charlie Gard and provide him with an experimental treatment, pending emergency FDA approval. At least once of the hospitals has also offered to provide Great Ormond Street Hospital with the drug if approved, according to Wenstrup's office.
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Swimmer's legs bitten by shark at nude beach
Sun Sentinel and The Associated Press
A man swimming at a south Florida beach was bitten on both legs by a shark. WPLG-TV reports that Lt. Felipe Lay of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says the unidentified man was swimming Sunday afternoon off Haulover Beach when he was attacked. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Ocean Rescue lifeguards say they became aware of a shark lurking in the water and immediately began alerting bathers to get out of the water. Officials say the bull shark was 4-to-5 feet. Officials say the man, who was able to get out of the water and get aid from lifeguards, was taken to Aventura Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. “In the process of exiting the water, a beachgoer was bitten in the lower extremities by what appeared to be a 4-to-5 foot bull shark,” said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokeswoman Erika Benitez. “The person was able to get out of the water, and MDFR Ocean Rescue lifeguards immediately rendered assistance." The male swimmer was bitten on both legs, Lt. Felipe Lay of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told WPLG-Ch. 10 The man, who was conscious and alert, was taken to Aventura Hospital, Benitez said. Officials did not identify the swimmer Sunday night. "Although these incidents are rare, we still ask beachgoers to always be aware of their surroundings," Lt. Matt Sparling told WPLG. "In my 20 years as a lifeguard, this is the first time a person has been bitten here at Haulover Beach, and possibly the first for Miami-Dade County." Shark attacks dropped sharply worldwide in 2016, reverting to average levels after breaking records in 2015. There were 81 unprovoked attacks last year, well down from 98 the previous year, according to the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida. Florida again led the United States, with 32 attacks, up from 30 in 2015. Volusia County, the state's shark-attack capital, recorded 15 attacks, the largest number.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/miami-dade/sfl-shark-bite-haulover-beach-story.html
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Wash Post: Evidence Says Russia Helping NKorea Missile Program
The Washington Post By Eric Mack | Sunday, 09 Jul 2017 02:46 PM
There is evidence to suggest North Korea's burgeoning intercontinental ballistic missile program, supposedly hampered by sanctions and the lack of an open market for weapons, might be aided by Russia, if not smugglers on the black market, The Washington Post reported. Michael Elleman, a weapons expert and former Pentagon consultant, has studied North Korea's now-rapidly advancing ICBM program, spotting eery similarities to the Soviet Union's RD-250s, according to the Post. "It shocked me," Elleman told the paper. "It seemed to come out of nowhere. "It would mean that North Korea had a wider procurement network in the former Soviet Union than we had thought. My first question would be, 'What else have they got?'" Elleman, having studied Soviet rockets during the Cold War, pointed to similarities in the North Korean designs, "including cooling tubes, exhaust nozzles, and the four auxiliary engines that steer the rocket," according to the Post. "They've had these designs for a long time, and they've probably been doing exercises around these engines for 15 years," Elleman added. "All that work was done, and all [that] was left to do was the ground testing and flight testing with these different designs. It is what has allowed them to rapidly build up and try all these things over the past few years." The Kim Jong Un regime is "serious about trying to create a capability that could threaten the United States," Elleman told the Post. "The missiles they're shooting now have some new engineering, but it's all based on old Soviet models," former CIA deputy director David S. Cohen, who advised the Obama administration on North Korea's weapons, told the paper. Cohen fears Kim's regime has been underestimated for too long. "It is a mistake to think that this is really a hermit kingdom that is cut off and doesn't have access to the Internet," Cohen told the Post. "They have a lot of disadvantages, but the biggest part of the government economy is their nuclear and missiles program, so the smartest folks they have are directed to do this work."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ICBMs-missiles-nuclear-weapons/2017/07/09/id/800650/
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7/06/2017 -- Very large M6.9 (M7.0) earthquake strikes Philippines West Pacific
Published on Jul 6, 2017
This stream is showing the past 48 hours of reported earthquakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lb3PPhIVjU
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Earthquake, aftershocks rattle western Montana
KECI Staff The Associated Press Posted: Jul 06, 2017 12:52 AM MDT Updated: Jul 06, 2017 12:51 PM MDT
Earthquake, aftershocks rattle western Montana KECI Staff The Associated Press Posted: Jul 06, 2017 12:52 AM MDT Updated: Jul 06, 2017 12:51 PM MDT
MISSOULA, Mont. - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck western Montana around 12:30 a.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service in Great Falls said on Twitter that the shaking was felt as far away as 500 miles (805 kilometers). The U.S. Geological Survey says the the 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit just after midnight about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) southeast of Lincoln. Here is the seismograph from the Black Hills, South Dakota seismic station. MISSOULA, Mont. - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck western Montana around 12:30 a.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service in Great Falls said on Twitter that the shaking was felt as far away as 500 miles (805 kilometers). The U.S. Geological Survey says the the 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit just after midnight about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) southeast of Lincoln. Here is the seismograph from the Black Hills, South Dakota seismic station. The Lewis and Clark Sheriff's Office is reporting that power in Lincoln has been restored and there have been no reports of injury or damage in the area. Viewers around western Montana, including Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Gardiner, Kalispell Columbia Falls, Hamilton and as far as Spokane, Washington, and Stirling, Alberta, Canada, tell us they felt the quake. We have received more than a thousand comments from viewers on our social media pages. A 76-year-old resident of Helena, which is about 34 miles away from the quake's epicenter, said it was the strongest seismic activity that he had ever felt. Ray Anderson said his wife told him the temblor woke up the dogs. Click here to learn how to stay prepared for an earthquake. The following earthquakes are the three of Montana's largest earthquakes in the last century. In August of 1959, a 7.5 quake killed 29 people and did $11 million worth of damage and became the largest earthquake to ever hit Montana. In 1935, a series of several hundred quakes hit Helena. The state reports that quake damaged more than half of Helena's buildings. The Lewis and Clark Sheriff's Office is reporting that power in Lincoln has been restored and there have been no reports of injury or damage in the area. Viewers around western Montana, including Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Gardiner, Kalispell Columbia Falls, Hamilton and as far as Spokane, Washington, and Stirling, Alberta, Canada, tell us they felt the quake. We have received more than a thousand comments from viewers on our social media pages. A 76-year-old resident of Helena, which is about 34 miles away from the quake's epicenter, said it was the strongest seismic activity that he had ever felt. Ray Anderson said his wife told him the temblor woke up the dogs. Click here to learn how to stay prepared for an earthquake. The following earthquakes are the three of Montana's largest earthquakes in the last century. In August of 1959, a 7.5 quake killed 29 people and did $11 million worth of damage and became the largest earthquake to ever hit Montana. In 1935, a series of several hundred quakes hit Helena. The state reports that quake damaged more than half of Helena's buildings. In 2005, a 5.6 quake rattled Dillon and damages part of the old main hall at the Universtiy of Montana Western. The following is from the U.S. Geological Survey information on earthquakes. Events with magnitudes greater than 4.5 are strong enough to be recorded by a seismograph anywhere in the world, so long as its sensors are not located in the earthquake's shadow. The following describes the typical effects of earthquakes of various magnitudes near the epicenter. The values are typical only. They should be taken with extreme caution, since intensity and thus ground effects depend not only on the magnitude, but also on the distance to the epicenter, the depth of an earthquake's focus beneath the epicenter, the location of the epicenter and geological conditions (certain terrains can amplify seismic signals). In 2005, a 5.6 quake rattled Dillon and damages part of the old main hall at the Universtiy of Montana Western. The following is from the U.S. Geological Survey information on earthquakes. Events with magnitudes greater than 4.5 are strong enough to be recorded by a seismograph anywhere in the world, so long as its sensors are not located in the earthquake's shadow. The following describes the typical effects of earthquakes of various magnitudes near the epicenter. The values are typical only. They should be taken with extreme caution, since intensity and thus ground effects depend not only on the magnitude, but also on the distance to the epicenter, the depth of an earthquake's focus beneath the epicenter, the location of the epicenter and geological conditions (certain terrains can amplify seismic signals).
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/keci/earthquake-aftershocks-rattle-western-montana/577862992
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July 3, 2017
'Insider' Warns Of Potential Devastation Ahead For West Coast While Mainstream Media Froths At The Mouth Over Yellowstone
- USGS Says Of Yellowstone: 'There's Nothing To Worry About' While FEMA Prepares For West Coast Chaos And Martial Law
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
While linking to this recent story from Susan Duclos on ANP earlier in June about a string of recent earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park, Steve Quayle left the following note on his website with the story link: "The hype is building once again while the South Pacific and the US West Coast are the real problem areas - I will address on the Hagmann's." While more than 800 earthquakes at Yellowstone in recent weeks have the msm and parts of America frothing at the mouth, as Susan pointed out in her story, this pattern of seasonal quakes has been repeated time and again over the last several years at Yellowstone around this same time of year and even USGS 'experts' tell us, "there's nothing to worry about". And while a Yellowstone eruption could instantly be a life-changing event for most Americans, as we see outlined within this story, the West coast of the US will likely become a much more volatile region much sooner than any kind of Yellowstone eruption takes place. With one major section of the San Andreas fault line overdo for a major tremblor by approximately 60 years according to this recent story from the LA Times while we again witness another sudden and unexpected eruption of a volcano in Indonesia, it's easy to understand why experts are warning the West coast and 'Ring of Fire' could soon 'go hot'. We also seen in the two recent SQAlerts republished below from a '1st Responder' who recently attending EQ meetings in Washington DC that massive devastation could come that way and they're training for such a scenario right now. As Susan also pointed out in her story, Quayle himself lives within very close proximity to Yellowstone and takes frequent trips there to photograph and document the surroundings. While many of the arguments being made now of an imminent forthcoming Yellowstone eruption are being blamed upon the escape of 'ancient helium' while referencing this story from 2014, we see that helium is prevalent all across the planet and those in the msm pushing a future 'Yellowstone eruption' continue to base their arguments on very old news. As Quayle also points out to us as seen in this story from the Ski magazine Curbed, Montana's "Yellowstone Club" is absolutely booming! Foreign investment in the Yellowstone region is through the roof and Quayle tells us tourism in Yellowstone sees Chinese and Indian tourists outnumbering America by at least 5 to 1. With some of the richest people in the world purchasing land and homes within miles of the park, shouldn't that be looked at as a lack of concern about a Yellowstone eruption by some who may very well have inside information? Yellowstone is clearly now an international asset as the Washington Times reported back in October of 2013, "Sorry! Your National Parks Do Not Belong To You". With the United Nations also laying claim to various National Parks across America while China continues to gobble up land across the US, with reports of a 30%+ increase in their spending here, a visit to the National Park of China website interestingly lists Yellowstone as a 'National Park of China' as seen in the screenshot above. Why? While we'll continue to watch what's happening at Yellowstone, we'll always be sure to be in touch with those who are there and have been watching the park for many, many years before running any 'imminent Yellowstone eruption' stories. In the eye-opening Gif seen above we see how quickly an earthquake along the San Andreas fault line would spread from its origin, in this case in the Salton Sea area, along the fault line and into big cities such as Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Monica and Ventura. Depicting a possible 7.8 magnitude quake, the 1st video below is a 2+ minute video version of this gif that shows the spread of energy second by second, showing the strongest energy would hit the LA area within a minute and a half after the original epicenter shaking. Back on June 13th the Daily Star ran a story in which they warned experts with the USGS are predicting an 8.2 magnitude quake along the San Andreas that would carry more energy than a nuclear bomb. Warning that areas across the state could be ripped apart by 30' chasms within a matter of seconds, they also report that quakes just like this have struck the state before and its just a matter of time before they do again. As we can see in the next photograph below, should a massive quake occur along the San Andreas fault line, the western part of California, including LA, will be moving northward while the eastern side will be moving southerly, actually bringing the megacities of San Francisco and Los Angeles closer together according to experts. Seismologist Lucy Jones said an 8.2 earthquake would trigger chaos across California. She said: “With 300 miles of fault all going in the same earthquake, you then have everybody affected at the same time. “The San Andreas is the one that will produce the earthquake that’s going to cause damage in every city.” The fault is the fastest moving in the US – having shifted 22 miles in the last million years. Scharer said: “It’s a little bit like — the moron who is driving the fastest is the most likely to get into an accident.” Small earthquakes constantly rock California, but Jones warned “the more small earthquakes you have, the more you have to have bigger ones”. In this recent story from the LA Times they report that signs of past California mega-quakes were all around them as experts show why the danger of 'the big one' coming along the San Andreas Fault is increasing every day. Telling us about several different 'canary's in the coal mine' for the 'coming shaking' that is inevitable, their story explains how such a quake could cut off huge regions of California for weeks or months from the rest of the state and have wide ranging implications. As Interstate 10 snakes through the mountains and toward the golf courses, housing tracts and resorts of the Coachella Valley, it crosses the dusty slopes of the San Gorgonio Pass. The pass is best known for the spinning wind turbines that line it. But for geologists, the narrow desert canyon is something of a canary in the coal mine for what they expect will be a major earthquake coming from the San Andreas Fault. The pass sits at a key geological point, separating the low desert from the Inland Empire, and, beyond that, the Los Angeles Basin. Through it runs an essential aqueduct that feeds Southern California water from the Colorado River as well as vital transportation links. It's also the path for crucial power transmission lines. California earthquake experts believe what happens at the San Gorgonio Pass during a major rupture of the San Andreas Fault could have wide-ranging implications for the region and beyond. They worry a huge quake could sever lifelines at the pass for weeks or months, cutting Southern California off from major highway and rail routes as well as sources of power, oil and gas. Southern California's cities are surrounded by mountains, making access through narrow passes like the San Gorgonio essential. Experts have also expressed grave concerns about the Cajon Pass, where Interstate 15 and key electric and fuel lines run. Other problem spots are the Tejon Pass, through which Interstate 5 passes, and the Palmdale area, through which the California Aqueduct crosses. One of the most dire scenarios geologists have studied is a quake that begins at the Salton Sea. Such a quake would be particularly dangerous because the fault's shape points shaking energy toward Los Angeles. Sitting near the southern end of the San Andreas fault, the Salton Sea area has been home to hundreds and hundreds of earthquakes and as we hear in the 2nd video below, experts are now warning the California megaquake could start in that region. As the Press Enterprise reported back in October of 2016, a newly discovered fault in the Salton Sea region may change the way scientists look at the southern San Andreas fault and the growing potential for a major earthquake centered in that region. As their story reports, the Salton Trough fault runs parallel to the San Andreas and "future research is to try to understand how this fault might interact with San Andreas in depth and time.” In the two recent SQAlerts republished below we hear from a 1st responder who recently had high level meetings for possible devastating earthquakes in the California region. We have only republished partial excerpts from them and invite you to click the links below to visit Steve Quayle's website to read the alerts in their entirety. Warning of the potential of martial law and outright chaos, we once again see why its so important to prepare for devastating possibilities such as this, even if we don't live within the areas where this particular disaster is expected to happen. As we hear in the final video below, the 'big one' IS going to happen, it's just a matter of time. PART ONE - THE BIG EQ ON THE WEST COAST IS COMING - HERES WHAT INSIDER WANTS YOU TO KNOW: THEY ARE TRAINING FOR THIS NOW! Steve, I want to discuss the coming "big one" or 9.0 to 10.0 earthquake that is supposed to happen in California and across the west coast. The government response would be complicated for this but it would all be run by FEMA. We were told recently during a meeting in DC that an estimated 3 to 10 million people will die during and after the earthquake. Martial law will be established after the government condemns the affected areas as disaster zones. Let's say, hypothetically, that the disaster areas are the "A" zone and the first relief site from FEMA, or the government, is the "B" zone. Now this is going to get really deep and dark but bare with me. Between the “A zone” and “B zone”, there are not enough hotels to house 3 million displaced persons let alone 10 million. It would take the government at least a week to get the proper beginning of housing operations, relief housing for those displaced persons. Some would call these places a FEMA camp. I would state that it may take a week to get the logistics in place and the second week to make an effort to actually process and house people. By process I mean gathering basic personal information, known medical needs, medical assessment of persons, possible forced immunization and a background check through NCIC for warrants and if they are known criminals or gang members with a FBI number, they will be detained and arrested. PART 2 - COMING DEVASTATION ON THE WEST COAST - DUE TO MASSIVE EQ AND VOLCANO ACTIVITY - REC'VD YESTERDAY To my knowledge, there is still not enough large areas to properly store this amount of persons. There are only so many houses, auditoriums, churches, stadiums and other large facilities within the areas of the affected. Many people will be taken in by those who have the room and others will just find a place to be. Some will go back to Mexico and some will travel to other states, if the highways and interstates are open still though I doubt they will be open for long. I would expect most commercial traffic to be shut down and rerouted. Thousands of vehicles will be on the roads at one time for days, many will run out of gas and many conflicts will happen between the “A” zone and “B” zone that law enforcement will not be able to prevent or respond to. Major telephone interruptions would also be taking place during this time, not to mention mass power outages. Hospitals will turn into morgues and hasty hospitals set up by the state and federal government will be overburdened by the first day. Meanwhile, the disaster zones are quarantined off and all highways and interstates are locked down with Vehicle Check Points (VCP) manned by the military and law enforcement. I can only imagine the hell I'll be walking through after this Earthquake. I for see fractures of road that are shifted 10 feet into the air and non passable by our vehicles. There will probably be a lot of helicopter insertions and extractions. The military bases along the west coast, if not affected, will be mobilized to help bring aid and security. The gangs and terrorist that are left in the affected areas are now taking advantage of the situation and rampaging through the neighborhoods. This is where I'll be, fighting against the madness of the situation and trying to bring medical aid to whomever is left. This is what we're getting ready for. There will be a fight for LA and San Diego. Surrounding areas will be teeming with crime and there will still be thousands of people who need to be extracted.
http://allnewspipeline.com/California_Megaquake_Ahead_Yellowstone_Ancient_Helium_Theory.pp
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ALERT: Bottled Water Recalled Due To Signs of Mold
July 5, 2017
‘Comforts Water With Fluoride’ has been recalled by the Kroger chain grocery store. The company says the product could show signs of mold. This recall includes gallons of the water with the UPC code 004126037597. The recall iss classified as a Class II—-Class II recalls mean consumption of the product could result in a ‘temporary or reversible health problem,’ according to the FDA. “The product may show signs of mold, according to the recall report,” a Kroger spokesman said. “Upon notification, we immediately removed all potentially affected items from store shelves and initiated our customer recall notification system.” Kroger said affected customers should return the product to Kroger for a full refund.
http://breaking911.com/alert-bottled-water-recalled-due-signs-mold-know/
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Freedom Is Not Necessarily The Absence Of Tyranny
Thursday, 06 July 2017 02:23 Brandon Smith
Is it true that freedom is an overly idealized concept? Perhaps, but it is one of the few concepts worthy of idealization. It is so worthy, that it is worth dying for. Since the dawn of recorded history human beings have fought and sacrificed to attain freedom. It is an inherent psychological construct. It is a principle that is rooted not only in the mind of man, but his spirit or soul. Scientists in the realm of the mind have struggled for generations to understand where it comes from — others have sought to dismiss it as a fanciful notion or societal construct. Nihilists claim it doesn't really exist, while other people center their entire lives on the proliferation of it. The concept of freedom, love it or hate it, is central to all cultures and all civilizations. The most common dismissal of the idea of freedom that I have seen is the argument that none of us is really free because "tyranny exists". Tyranny is a constant, therefore, in the view of the nihilists, freedom cannot exist. I believe this dim way of thinking stems from a misconception of what freedom is and where it comes from. Freedom, first and foremost, begins in the mind, or the heart; whatever you are inclined to put more stock in. To think critically or to imagine wildly is indeed to be free. Tyranny, by extension, rises from the mire and muck in the physical world around us and ends in the mind and the heart. If one is free of mind, then one is never truly enslaved. I have heard so many times the ignorant accusation that freedom requires action before consequence. That is to say, if you have suffered the consequences of a tyrannical system, then you have already failed to prevent your own enslavement. This is not how freedom functions. It has never worked this way. There is no such thing as a world without the consequences of tyranny. Tyrants are everywhere, always. There are little tyrants in our everyday lives, and big tyrants that pull strings from behind the curtains and from the darker places. There are people reading this article right now that think they are liberty-minded, but act like tyrants towards those around them. There are people who think they are slaves when one simple choice or action could easily make them free. There are people who see private property as tyranny and seek to supplant it....with an even greater tyranny of entitlement and socialism. And, there are people who think freedom means freedom for them, but not for others. Each tyrant takes time to understand and remove from our lives. Some we simply need to walk away from; others need to be destroyed. The point is, we are forever dealing with tyranny, and many of us are forever working to topple it. As long as we are able to pursue that goal, we are still free. The true slaves are those that have given up completely out of laziness or fear. Tyranny is always present, after all; why take a bath today when you are just going to end up soiled again tomorrow? The idea that one can do nothing in the face of the machine is an old idea proven wrong time and time again, yet, it is also a very easy and comfortable lie to live in. Struggle is difficult. Sacrifice is foreboding and ugly. There are a million-and-one excuses and rationalizations as to why it is better to "accept fate" or circumstances. There is always another excuse that can be used to paper over cowardice. Tyrants can, in fact, win and keep winning for the length of an epoch, exactly because of the logical fallacy that they cannot be resisted or be beaten. It is the self-fulfilling prophecy of nihilism that makes tyranny possible. Without it, tyrants inevitably fail and fall. The great monster of our time that must be slayed is the monster of organized conspiracy. Past generations have confronted and defeated appendages of this monster, but they never beheaded it, and this is why our particular brand of tyranny persists. It is not enough for us to fight the tentacles of the beast anymore — it is the job of the freedom fighters of our era to stab at the brains of the wretched thing. I am of course speaking of the banking cabal, the cult of financiers and elites that make up the globalist hierarchy. They pervade the halls of numerous institutions and think tanks, from the Federal Reserve and the Council on Foreign Relations to the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements. They sit in positions of great political influence and hold council (and some would say considerable sway) over world leaders. They write "theoretical" policies which are quickly adopted by governments and made into law. They are primary stockholders and owners of our mainstream media. Their slithering fingers are wrapped around academia and many scientific communities. They insinuate themselves into every foundation of thought, because thought is what they most wish to control. They prefer to divide and conquer, to pit one group against another, or to give their ideological enemies enough rope to hang themselves with. If they can't rule the psyche of a society or succeed in 4th generation warfare, they will fall back to the old standard of brute force. In fact, they might just do that anyway, because what tyrant doesn't love instilling abject terror every once in a while? And yet, these "elites" stand on a razor's edge. Despite all their supposed power, despite all their wealth, despite the vast spiderwebs they weave, all of it can be turned to ash in an instant and they know it. Empires like this rely on anonymity, and they are anonymous no longer. The cabal is out in the open; they have to be. To shift the world into true globalism and true centralization requires actions which can be masked from some people but not all people. They believe the intricate digital networks they have funded will buy them total information awareness, but these same networks also provide us with the tools to understand who they are and what they want. This double-edged sword of full spectrum data creates a Catch-22 timeline. The longer the globalists wait to implement the one world system they desire, the more time we have to educate millions of people. The faster they implement their one-world system, the more likely they are to make a mistake. Time is running out. Time is working against them. Time is the master here, and the globalists are nothing but paper boats on a tidal wave. This organized conspiracy increases its odds of success through psychological manipulation. There will come a time, perhaps sooner rather than later, when banking elites and their political allies can no longer stand outside the game unscathed. Risk is coming. So, they must encourage as much self-defeat in the minds of freedom champions as possible. They will conjure crisis and catastrophe, they will conjure puppet enemy after puppet enemy, they will exploit useful idiots with collectivist views as cannon fodder, they will engineer conflicts between East and West. They will try to grind us down and break the legs of our resolve. However, as long as there are people who know who the globalists are that are willing to hunt them down, the globalists cannot win. For what they desperately want is to stand out in the sun with criminal impunity, and without fear. They want to be untouchable. They want to be gods. Real gods do not suffer consequences, and these people will suffer consequences. The nihilists will cry, "When?! How?! Never!" But this is the nature of freedom. Freedom is in the fighting; winning is transitory. Tyranny can be subtle and it can be blunt, freedom is the same way. If you think because there is no shooting going on yet that a war is not happening, then you do not understand the nature of warfare. Yes, it is possible that the fall of one globalist cabal might give rise to another, and another. But we are free to be there and to fight again. As long as we fight, we prevail. When we abandon the fight completely, that is when true slavery begins. Today, we fight using information versus propaganda, and we must be adept at this. We also must be adept at other forms of combat as the conflict escalates. There will never be total absence of tyranny. The naysayers against the principle of freedom are delusional, or maybe they know such a standard is unattainable and this will make them forever "right." When will the fight begin? It already has. It has been going on since time immemorial and we are merely here to continue it. This might seem like a task for Sisyphus – an endless circular nightmare. I look at it another way: We are a changing of the guard. We have inherited a responsibility beyond all responsibilities. In this age, we are the freedom fighters, and if we fail now then we pass an even more difficult horror on to some other generation down the line. In my view this is unacceptable. The opportunity to end one longstanding tyranny is now. We must counter using information as long as is needed, and we must wake up as many people as possible, so when the time comes to storm the castle, the shared sacrifice is that much easier to bear. If you have taken up this fight in one form or another never let anyone tell you you are not free. Your ability to think and to act is concrete proof otherwise.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3226-freedom-is-not-necessarily-the-absence-of-tyranny
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Lt. Gen. McInerney: U.S. must be prepared to use nukes against North Korea
Says, in worst-case scenario, Americans can't rely on missile defense for protection
Published: 21 hours ago
The successful North Korean test of an intercontinental ballistic missile proves the U.S. must be ready to do whatever it takes – even ensuring it’s prepared to use nuclear weapons – to prevent Kim Jong-un from launching a nuclear attack on America or its allies in the region, according to retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney. McInerney spent 35 years in uniform upon graduation from the United States Military Academy. He rose to vice commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe and served as vice chief of staff, the number three position in the Air Force. He told WND and Radio America North Korea’s successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, on Monday raises the stakes in this standoff to a whole new level. “He is a man who is unstable enough that if he ever got a nuclear ICBM that could reach the United States, we must fully respect that and understand it. It is unacceptable to us as Americans that we could have North Korea being able to put U.S. cities at risk,” McInerney said. He is advocating a multi-pronged approach to confronting North Korea that he hopes won’t require military force. However, he said the current posture is untenable and Americans cannot rely on existing missile-defense technology to protect them. “We are at risk,” McInerney said. “That’s all I can say. We are at risk.” McInerney urged the Trump administration to start with an aggressive diplomatic and economic campaign to force Kim Jong-un into line. “Number one, increase the diplomatic pressure on China and Russia by the global community, starting this Friday during President Trump’s visit to Germany,” McInerney advised. “Next, we’ve got to increase the economic sanctions on China and Russia and other countries that are doing business with North Korea, and I mean very tough sanctions.” Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. He also wants to see the creation of a NATO-like organization in the Pacific, whereby the U.S. could partner with the likes of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the Philippines in putting pressure on Pyongyang. The general said North Korea’s increased belligerence is due in part to President Obama’s lack of action with respect to missile defense, sanctions and tough diplomacy. “Clearly, the Obama administration was not interested in pursuing an aggressive missile-defense capability, as he was not interested in getting the North Koreans to slow their program down,” he said. “So we have not had much help in this dangerous area for the last eight years.” McInerney is confident that aggressive sanctions can succeed against North Korea and China, which helped to facilitate Monday’s ICBM launch. But he said leadership also requires a significant buildup in the event peaceful efforts fail. He foresees the need for a multi-faceted buildup. “First, we’ve got to build up the forces in [the western Pacific] to include more air power, to include our latest aircraft – the F-22s, F-35s, B-2 stealth aircraft,” said McInerney, who also wants to see accelerated production of massive munitions like the Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB, and the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, and cruise missiles. “We need to build up the Marine amphibious forces in the western Pacific out around Okinawa. We need to build up some of the ground forces,” he added, noting that South Korea’s competent ground troops would minimize the need for U.S. troops on the peninsula. McInerney is also pleading with South Korea to allow the implementation of the THAAD missile defense program to proceed. Currently, the South Korean government is holding up the effort while waiting for an environmental review. “And we’ve got to build up our Naval forces to include at least two carriers,” he added. “I believe we need three, as well as both missile defense forces … as well as cruise missile capabilities.” Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND’s Email News Alerts! But he went a step further in urging the military to be prepared for the nuclear option, including the staging of personnel in Japan and South Korea and readying nuke-carrying bombers in Guam. He also urged the U.S. to allow allies in the region of have access to nukes. McInerney said the U.S. knows exactly where all the critical military sites are in North Korea, and just one B-2 bomber run with conventional weapons could have a devastating impact. “One B-2 can drop 80 500-pound bombs with GPS guidance and take out 80 of those artillery sites right away,” he explained. “A MOAB could knock out 50 artillery sites at once perhaps.” Again, McInerney believes military action can be avoided, but he said being ready for a fight is prudent. “They need to know we mean business and, if we have to, we will use the full conventional and nuclear retaliatory capabilities of the United States against this threat,” he said.
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The battle for the Hearts and Minds of America has begun amid constant chaos, daily scandals, allegations and false claims, lies and fake stories
Posted By: Ted July 6, 2017
The battle for the Hearts and Minds of America has begun amid constant chaos, daily scandals, allegations and false claims, lies, fake stories… As the world continues to say, more and more every day; Is the America, who everyone once admired and envied, really that stupid?!?! We, the People of the United States Of America are truly living in a state Intellectual Dysfunction. William Gaddis once said: “Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of Ignorance”. Cultivating the uneducated, poorly educated and undereducated is not new in Authoritarian regimes…it’s called “Indoctrination” of the masses!…and the younger the better! Those people willing to eradicate the Confederacy from America’s consciousness seem to forget many things. They forget that Jefferson Davis, although an advocate for slavery, was a hero of the Mexican-American War, a former U.S. Senator and Secretary of War for the United States. They forget that many Confederate Veterans fought with distinction in the Spanish-American War and they are American Veterans, who received pensions and benefits by an act of Congress. As Senator Gerald Allen of Alabama recently noted: “… history itself … it may be good, bad, or ugly — you can’t whitewash it … When you start removing monuments and statues … in a sense you lose history.” By and large, most Southerners really do wish to simply preserve the history of these Confederate heroes and their Southern heritage. They have long set aside their racial prejudice, on the whole, even if it was a struggle getting there. However, America could destroy every Confederate monument and that would still not satisfy the Left, especially the Black Caucus and some black and Hispanic communities across America. They would continue this cultural cleansing aimed at white society. Behind their remorseless drive against white culture is an egalitarian extremism rooted in hate and envy. Democrat Rep. Reginald of Arizona fumes over “six [Confederate] monuments … using tax payer dollars to actually prop up … terrorism of its day”. He has yet to denounce the radicals and the Leftist terrorism that is surging and becoming increasingly more violent. Last month, hundreds of illegal aliens tried to ban U.S. citizens from a city council meeting in Cudahy, CA. Shouts of “white supremacists back to Europe” were fired across the halls and outside. In an August 2013 New Black Panther Broadcast, Samir Shabbaz said, “You’re going to have to kill some of these babies, just born three seconds ago … go into the God damn nursery … and just kill everything white in sight …”. His hate-filled rant called for bombing white churches and “[burning] up some cracker white supremacy”, if blacks wanted to be free. In January 2017, a Black Lives Matter activist in Seattle, a preschool teacher, calling for reparations and the confiscation of white property, said, “We need to start killing people … F**k white supremacy, f**k the U.S. empire”. And then on Flag Day, we were horrified to witness a Bernie Sanders Leftist gun down Representative Steve Scalise (R) and Matt Mitka, both in critical condition at this writing, along with Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner. I wonder if these Leftist and Democrats have forgotten that free black men owned slaves prior to the Civil War too? Some free black men owned family members to protect them, but there were plenty like William Ellison, one of South Carolina’s largest land owners, who were in the slave breeding business for profit. Ellison even sold one of his own daughters into slavery. There were approximately 488,000 free black men in America — ten percent of the black population — according to federal census reports from June 1st 1860, and of these free black men, there were approximately 262,000 living in the South, with 10,700 or so living in New Orleans. And, according to Duke University Professor John Franklin, over three thousand free black men in New Orleans owned slaves, or about twenty-eight percent of freed blacks in New Orleans. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Fox News on May 8th 2017: “I am a firm believer in ‘keep your history before you’ … Confederate heroes should be viewed in the context of their time instead of through the prism of modern values. Where does this end? Are we now expected to dynamite half of Mount Rushmore out of existence and topple the Washington Monument? Are we expected to rename Washington, D.C and other cities across America like Jefferson City, Missouri? The Left and the Democratic Party would tell us that “Yes, we expect you to do deconstruct America”. The dead stones of the Confederate monuments honoring noble men on the wrong side of history are cut from the virtues of their day and harmless, even if some say they symbolize the evil done by the real monsters from the Confederate and Jim Crow eras. Those monsters are a long time dead, long passed. The monsters of the regressive Democratic Party, those Communists, Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther Party and LARAZA are here today, in the here and now, with us. Some of these Leftists and Democrats are just as evil, if not more so, as the most evil slave traders in American history. They claim to be fighting against “white supremacy” and the racism it perpetrated, but in return, they offer black and brown supremacy, intolerance, racism and hate directed at white people in general. They embrace an anti-American ideology that leads to the abuses and slavery that they claim to despise — the “re-education camps” and the gulags — as they attempt to foist their fractured fairy tales upon all America. They are the very monsters they claim to fight. The Long Road to Freedom is being deconstructed. The Road to Civil War is being paved.
http://www.survivalonline101.com/battle-for-the-hearts-and-minds-of-america/
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North Korea hails 'ICBM test' success
4 July 2017
North Korea says it has successfully tested its first "intercontinental ballistic missile" (ICBM). A state television announcement said the missile, which landed in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, could hit targets anywhere in the world. But the US and Russia said the missile had a medium range and presented no threat to either country. North Korea has increased the frequency of its missile tests, in defiance of a ban by the UN Security Council. China and Russia called on Pyongyang to freeze its missile and nuclear activities. The announcement on North Korea state television said the Hwasong-14 missile test was overseen by leader Kim Jong-un. It said the projectile had reached an altitude of 2,802km (1,731 miles) and flew 933km for 39 minutes before hitting a target in the sea. Have North Korea's missile tests paid off? What can the outside world do? How advanced is North Korea's nuclear programme? North Korea, it said, was now "a full-fledged nuclear power that has been possessed of the most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket capable of hitting any part of the world". It would enable the country to "put an end to the US nuclear war threat and blackmail" and defend the Korean peninsula, it said. While Pyongyang appears to have made progress, experts believe North Korea does not have the capability to accurately hit a target with an ICBM, or miniaturise a nuclear warhead that can fit onto such a missile. Other nuclear powers have also cast doubt on North Korea's assessment, with Russia saying the missile only reached an altitude of 535km and flew about 510km. What is an ICBM? A long-range missile usually designed to carry a nuclear warhead The minimum range is 5,500km (3,400 miles), although most fly about 10,000km or more Pyongyang has previously displayed two types of ICBMs: the KN-08, with a range of 11,500km, and the KN-14, with a range of 10,000km, but before 4 July had not claimed to have flight tested an ICBM. It is not clear what differentiates the Hwasong-14 How far could this missile travel? The big question is what range it has, says the BBC's Steven Evans in Seoul. Could it hit the United States? David Wright, a physicist with the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists, says that if the reports are correct, this missile could "reach a maximum range of roughly 6,700km on a standard trajectory". That range would allow it to reach Alaska, but not the large islands of Hawaii or the other 48 US states, he says. It is not just a missile that North Korea would need, our correspondent adds. It must also have the ability to protect a warhead as it re-enters the atmosphere, and it is not clear if North Korea can do that. What does this test tell us? By defence expert Melissa Hanham Once again North Korea has defied the odds and thumbed its nose at the world in a single missile launch. With the test of the Hwasong-14, it has shown that it can likely reach intercontinental ballistic missile ranges including putting Alaska at risk. Kim Jong-un has long expressed his desire for such a test, and to have it on the 4 July holiday in the US is just the icing on his very large cake. Despite this technical achievement, however, it is likely many outside North Korea will continue to be sceptical of North Korea's missile. They will ask for proof of working guidance, re-entry vehicle, and even a nuclear warhead. From a technical perspective, though, their engines have demonstrated ICBM ranges, and this would be the first of several paths North Korea has to an ICBM with even greater range. North Korea's missile programme Are neighbours and nuclear powers concerned? South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has called on the UN Security Council to take steps against North Korea. Japan described "repeated provocations like this are absolutely unacceptable" and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would "unite strongly" with the US and South Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang. Russia and China said the launch was "unacceptable". Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow, where he held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders urged Pyongyang to suspend all its tests. They also asked the US and South Korea to not hold joint military exercises. US President Donald Trump also responded swiftly on Tuesday. On his Twitter account he made apparent reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying: "Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?" "Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!" President Trump has repeatedly called on China, Pyongyang's closest economic ally, to pressure North Korea to end its nuclear and missile programmes. On the prospect of North Korea being able to strike the US, he tweeted in January: "It won't happen". However experts say it might - within five years or less. Beijing called for "restraint" following the latest test on Tuesday. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China was opposed to North Korea going against clear UN Security Council resolutions on its missile launches. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK "stood alongside the US and our allies to confront the threat North Korea poses to international security".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40491138
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3 maps that explain North Korea's strategy
George Friedman, Mauldin Economics Jul. 3, 2017, 8:03 PM
To understand North Korean strategy today, we must first understand the implications of its geography. Korea is a peninsula jutting southward from Manchuria surrounded by the Yellow and Japan seas. It shares an 880-mile-wide border with China and has a 30-mile frontier with Russia. Korea's northeastern border is about 70 miles from Vladivostok, Russia's major eastern port. The southeast corner juts to within 100 miles of Japan to its south, and the peninsula's southwest shore angles westward only about 300 miles from Shanghai. Editor's note: This article was originally written in 2016. The Korean Peninsula, therefore, poses a potential threat to three major powers—not because of what any government on the Korean Peninsula might do, but simply because of its geographical position. Korea could threaten Japan's access to the East China Sea and the Pacific from the Sea of Japan. Korea can also potentially interfere with China's access to the Yellow Sea and potentially to Shanghai. Japan and China have invaded the Korean Peninsula on several occasions. Its geographical position and size relative to Japan and China made these incursions inevitable. For that reason, it has been invaded by both China and Japan at various points throughout history — and later by the Soviet Union and the US. The motivation behind the invasions has not been so much to capture the wealth of Korea, which was minimal, as it has been the fact that the country can provide strategic springboards or blocks to major powers. Korea was a critical piece in any Chinese or Japanese strategy. The end of World War II did not reduce Korea's importance. It simply eliminated one player, Japan, and introduced a new one, the United States. The American presence in Korea was not actually new, though. The defeat of Japan in World War II ended Japanese hegemony over Korea. The Yalta Conference created a four-power joint government in Korea, but that coalition failed, as did a similar joint government in Berlin. As in Berlin, Korea was divided — with Soviet troops and their Korean supporters occupying the land north of the 38th parallel and the Americans and their Korean supporters occupying the south. The US did not see South Korea as a critical strategic asset, but the Soviets and the Chinese saw an opportunity. The Soviets had suffered a defeat in Berlin when their blockade failed because of the American airlift. They also saw Korea as a threat to Vladivostok should the US regain interest. The Chinese were similarly concerned about a later shift in American interest and wanted to expel the Americans from the peninsula. Again, it was Korean geography that mattered. The North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950 took the US by surprise: US intelligence had failed to detect North Korea's act of aggression on the ground. President Harry Truman faced a critical decision. Technically, Korea was not critical to US national security. But Truman calculated that Korea's strategic position would protect Japan, and defending South Korea would make clear that the US would resist open aggression. Truman's decision, made in a weekend, created modern northeast Asia by making the US the guarantor of South Korean national security. War, however, was extremely difficult to wage on the Korean Peninsula. One of the main reasons was the terrain of the Korean Peninsula. It is narrow — about 200 miles wide at its narrowest — and about 500 miles long. It is also covered with very rugged hills. A relatively small force, using the rugged terrain cleverly, can hold off a larger force, retreating slowly and inflicting casualties on the attacker, who has to come out from under cover. During temporary positions of surprise or imbalance, it is possible to drive the defender back. But the Korean War showed that, while it is possible to drive the enemy back, it is not possible to simply wipe it out. Another reason is the strategic reality that no major regional power can afford to allow the peninsula to fall completely into the hands of a hostile power. This set of dynamics created the current situation in Korea. The peninsula is divided into two states — one with the full support of the US, the other at the moment in a much more complex relationship with China, its traditional patron. South Korea has emerged as one of the major industrial powers in the world. One reason for its economic success is the American grand strategy of maintaining a long-term commitment to defend South Korea. But a strategic relationship with the US carries with it both benefits and risks. The major risk is war. The major benefit is that the US tilts the table in favor of the client state. North Korea's relationship with China and Russia has not resulted in similar benefits. The map above displays light visible from space at night. South Korea is ablaze, China less so, but with intense areas. North Korea, on the other hand, is virtually without light, or to be more precise, without enough clustered lighting to be seen from space. Both South Korea and North Korea were devastated by the Korean War. But while South Korea has transformed into a modern industrial power, North Korea appears to be preindustrial — or so it appears, based on nighttime lighting. How did this disjuncture occur? The Chinese and the Russians had fewer resources to invest in North Korea than the US had to invest in the South. But the complete answer must be somewhat more complex. Even on their own, the North Koreans should have been able to generate greater economic growth than they have. And certainly, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Chinese could have aided North Korea more fully had they wished to do so. The rest of the answer has to do with the nature of the North Korean regime. The first strategy of any state is its preservation. North Korea was faced with a major US force and an increasingly powerful South Korean force. The logical thing would have been for the Chinese and Soviets to create an equivalent force. They chose not to. The Chinese and Russians did not want a powerful North Korea because it could turn against them. They wanted a buffer state between themselves and American forces in the south. Therefore, the Russians and the Chinese together created a paradox in North Korea. Both the Soviets and Chinese understood that simply being communist was no longer sufficient grounds for an alliance. The Soviets and the Chinese had become enemies in spite of a shared ideology. Neither wanted the other to use North Korea as a tool against it. We should add that South Korea and the US themselves were not eager to see the North Korean regime fall. South Korea did not want to bear the expense and risks involved in reintegration. The US was content with the status quo in the Korean Peninsula, as its primary interest there was minimal conflict. And out of this paradoxical strategy emerged the contemporary North Korean state. As the Soviet Union fell, China moved toward a more liberal economy, and North Korea was placed in a difficult position. Its primary strategies of regime survival and blocking both the Americans and the South Koreans remained intact. But reliance on its communist partners became more difficult and complex. One partner was no longer communist, and the other was increasingly unpredictable. North Korea could not emulate China and still guarantee regime survival, and the forces that had transformed its partners might be lurking in North Korea as well. As a result, North Korea was forced to lock in its policy of intense hostility to the South and to ramp up already extreme measures to preserve the regime, defending it from both external and internal forces — even forces within the ruling family. Its strategy became one of bluffing. A game of bluff requires utter discipline and no dissension. The North Koreans sought to frighten the Americans and South Koreans by pretending to be irrational and on a hair trigger. The leadership sought to convince the North Korean public that there was no external threat it could not crush because of its enormous strength. What appeared to the world as entirely irrational behavior was, given North Korea’s strategic needs, quite rational. North Korea had a massive army but not a good one. Its weapons and tactics were generations out of date. It had one advantage — geography. Seoul (the South Korean capital), now a modern metropolis, lay within artillery range of North Korea. The north massed its forces on the border and threatened that in the event of a conflict (which it insisted it would trigger if provoked), it would shell the massive metropolitan area and move its tanks south to occupy the city. By the numbers this was possible, but the North Korean military on the move would be extremely vulnerable to airpower. Still, sheer proximity meant an irrational move could do significant damage. North Korea also needed a more credible threat than its massed force begging for a carpet bombing. This need engendered its nuclear program. The program enhanced the consequences of irrational action. It was an obvious bluff, since resorting to a nuclear attack would guarantee the annihilation of the regime — and possibly the nation. Rationally speaking, North Korea couldn't possibly launch a nuclear strike. Therefore, it was critical for North Korea to appear irrational. Only apparent irrationality, meticulously managed, could convince the Americans, the South Koreans, the Japanese, the Russians, and the Chinese that North Korea was utterly dangerous. But the regime's apparent irrationality had to be calibrated in such a way that North Korea's dangerousness was never so credible or imminent that someone would preemptively attack it. It had to preserve the regime and paralyze its opponents without forcing military action by its adversaries. North Korea had two enormous advantages in this strategy. First, no one really cared enough to act. The South Koreans didn't want to incur the cost that Germany bore when it integrated the postcommunist east. The US was not eager for the instability that would be created by a North Korean collapse, nor were the Japanese or the Russians. And the Chinese were using their apparent ability to soothe the irrational North Koreans to extract concessions on other issues from the Americans. Everyone was content with the North Koreans as they were. Second, the North Korean regime worked. Instead of fragmenting and morphing as other communist regimes had done, the North Korean regime became locked into a model that was extremely effective in its unique strategic situation. There is a permanence to the current North Korean situation that many underestimate. South Korea has far more important matters, such as its own massive economy, to worry about. North Korea must avoid a preemptive strike on its nuclear facilities, since its conventional military options would be unsustainable. The major partners understand North Korea well enough to endure its assertions of power and aggression without panicking. The regime appears resilient and in control. The result is a formula for stalemate — a stalemate of the indifferent. But the cost of this stalemate is the blackness of the North Korean night. The cost of maintaining the regime is a dramatic lack of economic development. What wealth that exists is diverted to maintaining the bluff, which in turn requires a delicate internal balance that demands not only massive repression but also, above all, isolation. Contact with the rest of the world would be destabilizing, and so North Korea must limit that contact, resulting in cultural as well as physical darkness. And the night will not pass quickly. The dark night is what makes North Korea possible. It allows the bluff to go on and with it the regime. As ever, for the rest of the world Korea — now North Korea — is a place used strategically to block the ambitions of others. Few want anything from it other than for it to continue to buffer greater powers. And even if fulfilling this purpose requires North Korean leadership to occasionally seem frightening by appearing irrational, those who watch North Korea know that its frightening aspect is tightly controlled by a calculating regime. Subscribe to This Week in Geopolitics
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Trump: U.S. ‘would be delighted’ to help Charlie Gard
By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times - Monday, July 3, 2017
President Trump is coming to the aid of a terminally ill infant whom British courts and doctors are trying to remove from life support against the wishes of the parents. In a tweet Monday, the president said America “would be delighted” to extend a helping hand to Charlie Gard. “If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so,” the president posted. Helen Aguirre Ferre, director of media affairs at the White House, said Mr. Trump is “trying to be as helpful as possible” to the Gard family “during this heartbreaking situation.” “Although the President himself has not spoken to the family, he does not want to pressure them in any way, members of the administration have spoken to the family in calls facilitated by the British government,” Ms. Ferre said. The infant’s parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, lost their final appeal for permission to move Charlie to the U.S. for an experimental treatment for which the family has the money, thanks to a crowdfund campaign. On June 27, the European Court of Human Rights refused to strike down a lower-court ruling that said it was in the 11-month-old’s “best interests” to “die with dignity,” siding with Charlie’s doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Charlie suffers from mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes brain damage and progressive muscle weakness. He is unable to see or hear. He cannot breathe or move without assistance. His parents have raised more than $1.7 million to pay for the trial therapy. But courts have blocked the family from pursuing that choice, saying Charlie may be exposed to pain and suffering, and the prospect of success is unlikely. The couple released a video Thursday saying their doctors had also denied their last wish to take their son home with them to die. “Our parental rights have been stripped away,” Mr. Gard said in a video. “We can’t even take our own son home to die.” Doctors initially said they would turn off Charlie’s life support Friday, but later said they would continue to keep him alive so his family can spend time with him. Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie has been treated since October, said it was acting in the infant’s best interests, to die. “When parents do not agree about a child’s future treatment, it is standard legal process to ask the courts to make a decision,” the hospital said in a statement. Mr. Trump is not the only world leader to weigh in on Charlie’s case, which has inspired protests outside of Buckingham Palace and prayer vigils in churches across Europe. The Vatican released a statement Sunday saying Pope Francis was praying that the parents’ “desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end will be respected.” In an apparent reference to Charlie’s case, the pontiff also tweeted Friday calling the defense of life “a duty of love that God entrusts to all.” The pope’s stance appeared to go against the one adopted by his bioethics advisory panel. In a statement Thursday, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, cautioned against “aggressive medical procedures that are disproportionate to any expected results or excessively burdensome to the patient or the family.” Mariella Enoc, president of the Vatican-run Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome, has also offered to take Charlie as a patient, even though the case is “hopeless and that, apparently, there are no effective treatments.” “We are close to the parents in prayer and, if this is their wish, we are willing to accept their child to be with us, for as long as there is the will to live,” Ms. Enoc said, reported the National Catholic Register.
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5.8 magnitude earthquake rattles Helena area
Lee Montana Newspapers Jul 6, 2017 Updated 10 min ago
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake that hit western Montana early Thursday morning was felt from Missoula to Billings and some surrounding states. The epicenter of the 12:30 a.m. quake was about 6 miles south of Lincoln, originating from a depth of nearly 3 miles underground, according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS recorded at least nine more tremors in the same area within an hour of the initial quake, and they ranged in magnitude from 4.9 to 3.1. The initial earthquake was strong enough to knock items off of walls and shelves in Helena and Missoula. Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton said Lincoln lost electricity as a result of the quake, but the power has since been restored. A gas leak was reported in Helena, according to the National Weather Service. The 911 dispatch center in Helena has asked that people stop calling 911 to report the earthquake unless they have an actual emergency. Lisa Large, a bartender at the Wheel Inn Tavern in Lincoln, said the power went out and bottles flew off the shelves when the earthquake hit. Other than that, she said, there wasn’t any major damage there. She was in a fairly jovial mood when called by a Missoulian reporter near closing time at 1:50 a.m. “It slopped all the grease outta the fryer,” she said. “The kitchen’s a mess right now. The lights have been out and they just came back on. Hopefully we don’t get any more aftershocks.” Dutton said the fire chief in Lincoln was sending people out to check for damage, but they have not found any yet. Missoula Police Department Corporal Mick McCarthy said the department has had calls from people asking what was going on with the earthquake and some medical calls, but no power outages reported or gas leaks. "No property damage reported yet, but it's still early," McCarthy said. Dave Eplin from Deer Lodge called The Montana Standard shortly after 12:30 a.m. asking for confirmation of an earthquake. “I was lying in bed with my wife reading and all of a sudden the whole house shook,” he said. “At first I thought it was the wind, but it wasn’t the wind. I’ve checked to see if my pilot lights were still on and they are.” Twitter lit up around Montana seconds after the quake, with people weighing in from Bozeman to Kalispell to Glacier National Park to Billings and elsewhere in Montana. "Did the entire state of Montana just have an earthquake?" tweeted Brandon Furr. Sean Ryan of Butte tweeted, "Now that everyone in Montana is awake from that earthquake ... you guys want to play Monopoly or something?" Glacier National Park account tweeted, "Western Montana just had a decent-sized earthquake. Good shake here at Park HQ in West Glacier #geology." Minor earthquakes are fairly common, although Thursday's moderate quake was the strongest felt in western Montana in several years. The last one to exceed 5.0 magnitude was reported 12 years ago near Dillon, according to the USGS. Most of those incidents had epicenters farther south, many centering in the famously active Yellowstone National Park. Mike Stickney, seismologist at the Earthquake Studies Office, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology on the Montana Tech campus in Butte, said the quake was probably the strongest in Montana since October 1964. The location, he said, is not surprising. “It’s right along the axis of the intermountain seismic belt.” He said the quake occurred on a strike/slip fault, a vertical fault where one side moves horizontally against the other, similar to the kind of movement experienced along the San Andreas Fault in California. He said he does not believe the quake is seismically tied to the recent “swarm” of smaller earthquakes in the Yellowstone National Park area. “I don’t see any direct relationship between these two sequences,” he said. “This is a pretty sizeable earthquake. It would certainly have the potential to do structural damage near the epicenter, but we’ve had no reports indicating damage yet.” The USGS reports the Lincoln quake was one of 20 within the last week and 236 within the last month. Within an hour of the Lincoln quake, more than 5,000 people had reported feeling the shake, filling out surveys the scientists use to document reach and strength. Most people across the region reported category III or IV movement, which typically includes brief shaking that rattled some items without knocking them from shelves. Some reports from Helena and Bonner were initially classified as category 5, which can include some shifted furniture or light damage. A handful of reports from Lincoln and the immediate area were initially classified as category VII, which can include structural damage to buildings, though none has been confirmed. The Montana Department of Transportation has maintenance and engineering crews out inspecting infrastructure and bridges in the Lincoln, Helena and Missoula areas, public information officer Lori Ryan said Friday. The crews have found no damage and none has been reported to the department, Ryan said. NorthWestern Energy said late Friday morning that they had no reports of damage. Spokesman Butch Larcombe said in the Lincoln area about 1,350 homes lost power right when the earthquake hit. Crews went out to a substation and closed a breaker to restore power after about 45 minutes. The substation was not damaged. NorthWestern did some investigation of their natural gas system in the Helena area and found no damage. A few people called the utility to report the smell of natural gas, but crews didn’t find any leaks. Larcombe encouraged people to check out their properties to for damage.
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Poland: EU Will Not ‘Impose a Social Catastrophe’ with Migrant Quotas
by Jack Montgomery3 Jul 2017
The chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) delivered a message of defiance to the European Union at his party’s annual conference. Jarosław Kaczyński, a former prime minister and twin brother to former president Lech Kaczyński, was speaking in the small town of Przysucha. “No one will impose a social catastrophe on us just because we are receiving EU funds,” the pugnacious 68-year-old declared. “All of you know that I mean the immigrants that are flooding into Europe and [the EU’s] compulsory relocation [scheme].” The bloc has been attempting to impose migrant quotas on its member-states, despite strong resistance in Central Europe, in order to alleviate pressure on Italy and Greece. Kaczyński, in common with many other conservative politicians in Central Europe, believes the burden of dealing with the migrant crisis should fall on those countries which encouraged the influx, such as Germany, rather than those who opposed it. “We didn’t exploit the countries where the refugees are arriving from, we didn’t use their labour force and finally, we aren’t calling them to Europe,” he explained. “As I said in 2015 on refugees, we are ready to take part in the EU programme for refugees; we just don’t want to have problems to which we didn’t contribute. We have a full moral right to say ‘No’.” He added, “There is no reason for us to radically lower our living standards and the quality of life in Poland” to meet the EU’s demands. French president Emmanuel Macron, who was hostile to Poland even before his election, has accused the Visegrád group of countries resisting the quotas of “betrayal“, accusing them of them of taking all of the benefits of EU membership without wanting to bear the ‘costs’. “Europe isn’t a supermarket. Europe is a common destiny,” he told the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. “The countries in Europe that don’t respect the rules should have to face the political consequences.” But Kaczyński has hit back at the former Rothschild banker and Socialist Party economy minister, pointing out that businesses in Western European countries “also benefit” from EU funding, with “[Western European] enterprises located in Poland transferring tens of billions of złotys every year without paying any taxes”. He added that it was “important to remind … our critics in the West that Poland was the first country that had to stand up to [Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union],” and suffered “gigantic damage from which it has not recovered” as a result. Poles should, therefore, feel no guilt about receiving “compensation” from other EU members, Kaczyński believes.
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Vatican police raid drug-fueled gay orgy at top priest's apartment
BY Megan Cerullo NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 5, 2017, 12:32 PM
Vatican police raided a drug-fueled gay sex party at a top priest’s apartment near the city, according to an Italian newspaper report. The apartment’s occupant, who was not named by police, serves as a secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, a personal adviser to Pope Francis. The apartment belongs to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith — the branch that reviews appeals from clergy found guilty of sexual abuse of minors, according to Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, which first published the explosive report. Police raided the apartment in June after neighbors complained of unusual behavior among frequent nighttime visitors. Police arrested the priest and hospitalized him to detox him from the drugs he had ingested, according to the newspaper. He was taken in for questioning, presumably on drugs charges, as gay sex is legal in Vatican City. He’s currently in retreat at a convent in Italy, according to the report. Coccopalmerio’s aide was reportedly under consideration for promotion to bishop. His advancement in the church now seems less likely following the incident and two previous alleged drug overdoses, according to an International Business Times report. This is the latest scandal to rock the Vatican. Cardinal George Pell was recently charged with child sex abuse and will return to Australia to stand trial.
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Cultural Alzheimer’s In American Churches
Jun 29, 2017 Read More Articles by Dave Daubenmire
Alzheimer’s is the scourge of The Greatest Generation. My wife and I both lost our mother’s to this insidious disease. As many of you have experienced it is devastating to watch a parent fade away into oblivion even as their heart continues to beat. As part of the Baby Boom generation I have fond memories of all of my grandparents. To the best of my recollection they all died with their minds still intact. I do remember that there was an “old folks home” in the town where my grandparents lived, but I never knew of anyone who ever had to go there and live. Our grandparents got old but it was unusual for their mind to die before their body did. Today “nursing homes” are popping up all across town as more and more of my friends find their parents slowly losing their way. During the last 10 years of my mother-in-law’s life she was nothing more than a shell. It was a tremendous burden on my wife. For what it is worth, I think it has to do with what we are eating…or what our food has been saturated with. Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) certainly has something to do with it. Any time you tamper with nature the results will not be good. In my research for this article I came across the 10 Early Signs of Alzheimers. Short term memory loss. Problems solving simple problems Difficulty completing daily tasks. Confusion with time and location. Difficulty with sight and spatial which effects motor skills. Loss of communication skills, especially conversational. Miss placing items around the house. Loss of judgment and safety issues. Withdrawal from normal social activities. Changes in mood and personality “Wow,” I said to my wife the other day. “That sounds like what has happened to America. This nation is a shell of what it used to be. Especially the church. It is as if we have forgotten who we are. Could it be that America is suffering from Cultural Alzheimer’s?” As many of you know, my wife and I have a ministry that focuses on the culture. Although we have a great concern for the lost we are constantly amazed by how little the average Baby Boomer cares about what is going on around him/her. It reminds us of our mother’s in the latter years of their lives. They were oblivious to their surroundings and the only thing we could do was to make sure that they were, comfortable, well fed, and taken care of. Alzheimer’s steals the soul. Before you get your underwear in a bun, ask yourself if it could be possible that the lack of concern by the average church goer could be caused by the GMO’s that they are being fed from America’s pulpits. Christians are certainly suffering from short term memory loss. It wasn’t all that long ago that we considered it our job to point out what was right and what was wrong. Today, we seem to have no memory of “normal.” We let our nurse (the government) determine what the proper course of action for our lives will be. We certainly have lost the ability to solve problems. In fact, the church no longer seems to be able to offer solutions for drug abuse, sexual miscreants, or unplanned pregnancies. The Cultural Alzheimer’s causes folks to allow their pockets to be picked, without complaint, to pay for problems that a simple lesson in Biblical morality could eliminate. I could run down the entire list of symptoms and show exactly how the same disease that stole the mind of our mothers is now stealing our nation from us. The Church has become nothing but a shell of her old self…filled with confusion and the inability to properly react to outside stimuli. America seems to have lost her way because older Americans seem to have lost theirs as well. The older I get the more feisty I become and the less I care about what others think of me. That is the natural tendency of getting old. My own mother got grouchy in her later years…a complete change in personality. My wife’s mother got happier. She was very stoic and guarded in her middle age but as she got older she became more light hearted and pleasant. The less both of them remembered about the past, and the less they cared about the present, the easier they were to manipulate. America’s churches are rapidly turning into nursing homes for senior saints. Just as Michele and I experienced with our own mothers, when Alzheimer’s settles in the less you care about what is going on around you. The phrase “you are what you eat” has never been truer than it is today. While our nursing homes are filling up with those who’s minds have been stolen by what they have consumed, our churches are filling up with those who couldn’t care less about what other’s consume. Cultural Alzheimer’s has crept into the American Church and we have forgotten who we are. It is just a shell of what it once was. America is suffering because the salt has lost the savor. Why should we be surprised? Most Christians have forgotten that we were called to be salt. The average Christian feels comfortable and well fed. Our churches filled with padded pews are becoming nothing more than nursing homes for those with Cultural Alzheimer’s. E-Mail Daubenmire: ptsalt@gmail.com
https://newswithviews.com/cultural-alzheimers-in-american-churches/
:: 6-29-17 National Geographic :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Hints of Skull Cult Found at World's Oldest Temple
Carved human skull fragments from a Stone Age archaeological site hint at a surprisingly complex culture.
By Shaena Montanari PUBLISHED June 28, 2017
Around 10,000 years ago, the already striking presence of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey could have been even more impressive—as human skulls might have dangled in what is considered the world's oldest temple. According to new research published in Science Advances, three Neolithic skull fragments discovered by archaeologists at Göbekli Tepe show evidence of a unique type of post-mortem skull modification at the site. The deep, purposeful linear grooves are a unique form of skull alteration never before seen anywhere in the world in any context, says Julia Gresky, lead author on the study and an anthropologist at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. Detailed analysis with a special microscope shows the grooves were deliberately made with a flint tool. One of the fragments even has a hole drilled in it, resembling skull modifications made by the Naga people of India who used the hole to hang the skull on a string. The marks may only appear on a few fragments of bone that date between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago, but archaeologists believe that this find is extremely significant and means that this society, like many others in this part of the world at the time, was a “skull cult” that venerated the human skull after death. SKULL AND BONES “Skull cults are not uncommon in Anatolia,” says Gresky. She explains that archaeological remains from other sites in the region indicate people would commonly bury their dead, then exhume them, remove the skulls, and display them creatively. Other archaeologists have even found that Neolithic people would remodel the faces of the dead with plaster. (See the face behind the 9,500-year-old plastered Jericho Skull.) Göbekli Tepe held special significance to the Neolithic people who lived nearby. “This was not a settlement area, but mostly monumental structures,” the anthropologist explains. The site's massive T-shaped stone pillars and prominent position on top of a hill with sweeping vistas suggests the hunter-gathers who lived here also had a somewhat complex culture and practiced rituals. FRIENDS OR FOES? “This is an interesting skull modification that hasn’t been documented in this part of the world or this time period,” says bioarchaeologist Matthew Velasco at Cornell University, who was not involved in the study. But this find does raise additional questions about who the skulls belong to and why they were treated this way. “There is a range of skull modification behaviors, [from] veneration of ancestors to violation of enemies,” Velasco explains, and this distinction can only be investigated at Göbekli Tepe if additional discoveries are made. Besides the cut-mark and drill-hole evidence, Gresky says other clues at the site show this culture placed a special significance on skulls. “We find depictions like a headless person on a pillar, or human heads made of stone. The site iconography fits with special emphasis on the skull.” At Göbekli Tepe, there are no burial sites but rather just pits of human bones mixed in with animal bones and flint tools, meaning additional context is needed to better understand the site. “We are still in the beginning of working to understand the anthropology of the site," says Gresky. "[H]opefully we will find some more bones and skull fragments. Then we can get a clearer picture of how these people lived.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/skulls-cult-turkey-archaeology-neolithic-gobekli/
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Top Canadian Court Permits Worldwide Internet Censorship
by Electronic Frontier Foundation • Jun 28, 2017
By Aaron Mackey and Corynne McSherry and Vera Ranieri, Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A country has the right to prevent the world’s Internet users from accessing information, Canada’s highest court ruled on Wednesday. In a decision that has troubling implications for free expression online, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a company’s effort to force Google to de-list entire domains and websites from its search index, effectively making them invisible to everyone using Google’s search engine The case, Google v. Equustek, began when British Columbia-based Equustek Solutions accused Morgan Jack and others, known as the Datalink defendants, of selling counterfeit Equustek routers online. It claimed California-based Google facilitated access to the defendants’ sites. The defendants never appeared in court to challenge the claim, allowing default judgment against them, which meant Equustek effectively won without the court ever considering whether the claim was valid. Although Google was not named in the lawsuit, it voluntarily took down specific URLs that directed users to the defendants’ products and ads under the local (Canadian) Google.ca domains. But Equustek wanted more, and the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that Google had to delete the entire domain from its search results, including from all other domains such Google.com and Google.go.uk. The British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld the decision, and the Supreme Court of Canada decision followed the analysis of those courts. EFF intervened in the case, explaining [.pdf] that such an injunction ran directly contrary to both the U.S. Constitution and statutory speech protections. Issuing an order that would cut off access to information for U.S. users would set a dangerous precedent for online speech. In essence, it would expand the power of any court in the world to edit the entire Internet, whether or not the targeted material or site is lawful in another country. That, we warned, is likely to result in a race to the bottom, as well-resourced individuals engage in international forum-shopping to impose the one country’s restrictive laws regarding free expression on the rest of the world. The Supreme Court of Canada ignored those concerns. It ruled that because Google was subject to the jurisdiction of Canadian courts by virtue of its operations in Canada, courts in Canada had the authority to order Google to delete search results worldwide. The court further held that there was no inconvenience to Google in removing search results, and Google had not shown the injunction would offend any rights abroad. Perhaps even worse, the court ruled that before Google can modify the order, it has to prove that the injunction violates the laws of another nation thus shifting the burdent of proof from the plaintiff to a non-party. An innocent third party to a lawsuit shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden or proving whether an injunction violates the laws of another country. Although companies like Google may be able to afford such costs, many others will not, meaning many overbroad and unlawful orders may go unchallenged. Instead, once the issue has been raised at all, it should be the job of the party seeking the benefit of an order, such as Equustek, to establish that there is no such conflict. Moreover, numerous intervenors, including EFF, provided ample evidence of that conflicts in this case. Beyond the flaws of the ruling itself, the court’s decision will likely embolden other countries to try to enforce their own speech-restricting laws on the Internet, to the detriment of all users. As others have pointed out, it’s not difficult to see repressive regimes such as China or Iran use the ruling to order Google to de-index sites they object to, creating a worldwide heckler’s veto. The ruling largely sidesteps the question of whether such a global order would violate foreign law or intrude on Internet users’ free speech rights. Instead, the court focused on whether or not Google, as a private actor, could legally choose to take down speech and whether that would violate foreign law. This framing results in Google being ordered to remove speech under Canadian law even if no court in the United States could issue a similar order. The Equustek decision is part of a troubling trend around the world of courts and other governmental bodies ordering that content be removed from the entirety of the Internet, not just in that country’s locale. On the same day the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision issued, a court in Europe heard arguments as to whether to expand the right-to-be-forgotten worldwide. EFF was represented at the Supreme Court of Canada and the British Columbia Court of Appeal by David Wotherspoon of MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman and Daniel Byma of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin. By Aaron Mackey and Corynne McSherry and Vera Ranieri, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Even after the malware epidemic WannaCry in May and the hoopla it caused, companies are still not prepared. Including US companies! Read… These Large Companies, Still Using Unpatched or Bootleg Windows, Got Hit by Petya Ransomware Attack
http://wolfstreet.com/2017/06/28/top-canadian-court-permits-worldwide-internet-censorship/
:: 6-29-17 Activist Post :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
TSA Wants to Know What Books You’re Reading Before Allowing You to Board Planes
By Derrick Broze
The federal government will soon begin searching through travelers’ books at the airport as airlines test out fingerprint scans. Next time you choose to take a flight in the United States, you will not only be given the option of a free walk through the full body scanner or a complimentary rub down courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration. Your next flight might include a search of your laptop, books, and possibly a fingerprint scan. Since the launch of the Trump administration travelers have been subject to increasingly invasive measures in the form of laptop searches and discrimination against those traveling from majority Muslim countries. Now the TSA is testing out new measures that require passengers to remove books and paper goods from their carry-on luggage. According to new reports from The Wall Street Journal and Sacramento Bee, the TSA had already begun to roll out these new invasive policies. “While I expect going through airline security to be time-consuming and mildly annoying, my attitude changed recently as I prepared to board a flight out of Sacramento International Airport in the days after Memorial Day weekend,” the Sacramento Bee wrote. “As I stood in line, Transportation Security Administration officials announced at SMF that everyone was to take books, magazines and food out of their bags and put them into a separate bin for inspection. That was it. A line was crossed for me.” As the Bee notes, reading material is extremely personal and revealing about a person. If individuals know that their reading habits – whether they relate to philosophy, politics, sexuality, or religion – will be scrutinized they may began a process of self-censorship. It also presents the question, what type of reading material could be questionable or even, banned? At this point the TSA is claiming that bombs could be hidden within books and are not focusing their efforts on content specifically. However, this is likely the beginning of an incremental strategy to remove as much freedom as possible for travelers. As the Sac Bee wrote, “We need to resist the creep of authoritarianism. During the Cold War, spying on neighbors was common in the Soviet Bloc. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, people reported others for listening to Western Classical Music.” The American Civil Liberties Union noted that there have already been multiple cases of passengers singled out for their First Amendment-protected expressions. “For example, in 2010 the ACLU sued on behalf of a man who was abusively interrogated, handcuffed, and detained for nearly five hours because he was carrying a set of Arabic-language flash cards and a book critical of U.S. foreign policy,” the ACLU writes. We also know that the DHS database known as the “Automated Targeting System,” which tracks information on international travelers, has included notations in travelers’ permanent files about controversial books in their possession.” In a recent interview with Fox News, John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security, seemed to confirm the goal of implementing the strategy on a nationwide scale. Kelly was asked whether or not the new policy of unpacking carry on luggage and separating food and electronics into separate bins will indeed go nationwide. “Yes, I mean, the reason we’ve done, TSA, of course, works for me,” Kelly stated. He then blamed the need for these programs on travelers who are “trying to avoid the $25 or $50 or whatever it is to check a bag” by stuffing their bags too full and TSA monitors can not see what’s inside. When pushed further about the program going nationwide, Kelly states, “We might, and likely will.” These plans were confirmed once again on Wednesday, as Secretary Kelly announced plans for new strategies to be implemented by the TSA. “We cannot play international whack-a-mole with each new threat,” Kelly said. “Instead, we must put in place new measures across the board to keep the traveling public safe and make it harder for terrorists to succeed.” Although DHS officials declined to comment on specifics, ABC News reports that passengers may notice more swabbing of passengers’ hands and luggage to test for explosives. It is highly likely that the agencies book policy will be a part of these new strategies. Another change making its way to your local airport includes the implementation of biometrics. A writer with Yahoo Finance discusses the new policies on display during a recent demonstration at Washington’s National Airport. “Instead of handing your boarding pass and ID to a Transportation Security Administration agent, you could soon simply place two fingerprints on a scanner to be recognized and ushered through security — and then you could repeat the process to board the plane,” Yahoo writes. These changes are part of an initiative started by Delta Air Lines. Delta has started the practice at Delta’s SkyClub lounge at National airport. Sandy Gordon, Delta’s vice president of airport operations, says the airline aims to have the strategy added to the check-in experience. Yahoo notes that the process saves minimal to no time since the process is still a part of the routine admittance policies for boarding a flight. Sandy Gordon said Delta is working with the TSA to get full approval for the program. Wire Tapped America - Free Copy Ships Today (Ad) Yahoo’s writer said they also had to scan their driver’s license and enter Social Security number to participate in the fingerprint scan. The fingerprint and iris scans will be stored with the private company Clear. The company is promising not to sell the information to third parties, but Jeramie Scott, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Domestic Surveillance Project, says that Clear’s privacy policy doesn’t require it to delete your data if you cancel your membership. This is a test. This an important moment in time where passengers and travelers will have to decide if they are willing to put up with anything for the right to travel. The DHS has already begun implementing biometric entry and exit requirements for international travelers arriving and leaving the United States. This is part of the larger strategy of dividing Americans over illegitimate fears of terrorism and foreigners so they willingly give up what little civil liberties they have left.
http://www.activistpost.com/2017/06/new-invasive-measures-are-coming-to-your-local-airport.html
:: 6-28-17 The Drive :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
China's Type 055 Super Destroyer Is A Reality Check For The US And Its Allies
This is one impressive ship that underlines China's changing weapons development capabilities and its emerging greater naval strategy in the region and beyond.
By Tyler RogowayJune 28, 2017
China's launched its first Type 055 destroyer today—the most advanced surface combatant Beijing has ever designed and fielded. Pictures of the visually striking ship whipped around the internet, with many people being surprised that China was producing such an impressive warship. The truth is, the Type 055 is the J-20 stealth fighter/interceptor of the high-seas, and it not only is a showcase of China's rapidly evolving surface warfare and weapons development capabilities, but also a sign of what Beijing's overall maritime strategy will be in the not so distant future. When it comes to the Chinese Navy, the Type 055 is very roughly analogous to something between the American Ticonderoga class cruiser a Zumwalt class destroyer, in that it has similar capabilities and size to the Ticonderoga class, but it also packs new technologies that will impact the future of Chinese surface combatant design like the Zumwalt class does. The ship's stealthy exterior and its enclosed sensor mast are situated in between the latest Arleigh Burke class destroyers and the Zumwalt class developmentally speaking. The Type 055 could just as easily be classified as a cruiser than as a destroyer. It's 590 feet long and displaces between 10,000 and 12,000 tons. That is 81 feet longer and up to nearly 2,500 tons greater than America's latest Arleigh Burke class destroyers, making it closer in size to the US Navy's Ticonderoga class cruisers than anything else. It also packs a Ticonderoga class's magazine size, with 128 vertical launch cells available. The Arleigh Burke class has 96. These cells will be stuffed with land attack (YJ-18), and anti-ship missiles (YJ-12), as well as anti-submarine rockets (CY series). Yet, just like America's Ticonderoga class cruisers, area air defense and slinging surface-to-air missiles will likely be this ship's overwhelming mission set and it's specially outfitted with a high-end sensor package that will exceed in this role. This new ship relies on a dual-band radar system similar in concept to the one that was supposed to be deployed on the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class and that is currently equipping the USS Gerald R. Ford. Two sets of active phased array radars, one being the larger S-band arrays on the vessel's super structure and the other being the smaller set of X-band arrays in the ship's enclosed sensor mast, equip the ship. The S-Band system is used for long range search and track, while the much more sensitive X-band system is used for tracking smaller, stealthier and high-speed objects with greater fidelity at lesser ranges. There are cross-over in capabilities between the two sensor arrays, which also adds to redundancy. No other ship in China's inventory possesses such a high-end radar system. The ship is likely to be primarily armed with a sea-going version of the HQ-9 long-range surface-to-air missile, as well as the HQ-16 medium-range SAM, and possibly quad-packed DK-10As. The DK-10A is based on the PL-12 air-to-air missile, and would act as a intermediate-range air defense missile roughly similar to the U.S. Navy's RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM). As time goes on, these ships will likely field other air defense missiles, like weapons capable of swatting down endoatmospheric hypersonic vehicles or China's own mid-course ballistic missile defense interceptors. These more exotic missiles could make good use of the ship's dual-band radar, advanced combat system, and plentiful VLS farm. The ship's anti-submarine warfare capabilities will also surpass the capacity of other Chinese warships, including space for two helicopters (eventually likely ASW variants of the Z-18) in its rear hangar and an expanded flight deck size. The ship will also likely use towed and variable depth sonar for hunting submarines, and will have its own torpedoes and rocket assisted torpedoes to prosecute marauding underwater threats. A H/PJ-38 130mm main gun and a H/PJ-11 30mm close-in weapon system (CIWS) round out the ship's major armaments. It will also likely receive China's "FL-3000N" version of the RIM-116 rolling-airframe missile system mounted in a turreted canister on the rear of the ship's superstructure. This combined with the 30mm CIWS will give the big surface combatant a strong close-in defensive capability against sea-skimming missiles, low-flying aircraft, and small boats. These ships are rumored to be equipped with integrated electric powerplants, whereby the ship's turbines provide electricity to drive electric motors that then turn the ship's screws—a major advancement in Chinese warship design if confirmed. They also feature the latest in electronic warfare capabilities and the most advanced mission systems deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) to date. Regardless of the Type 055's multi-mission capabilities, these ships are being built to be the preeminent escort for the Chinese carrier battle group, acting in a similar role as the Ticonderoga class cruiser does today. This will include being the command and control hub for the battle group's anti-air warfare operations. In this role the Type 055 will fulfill something of a missing link within the People's Liberation Army Navy's order of battle, with the Type 052D destroyer being the most capable surface combatant before it—but one that is far more limited in capability and weapons capacity than the Type 055. With the PLAN slated to field a fleet of at least four aircraft carriers in the coming decade, the reason for building four of these ships at this time is clear. There will be at least one for each carrier battle group, and when the carriers are not sailing, these ships will be able to show the flag by themselves far from home, and bringing high-end multi-mission and command and control capabilities to smaller PLAN task forces. It is also likely that another four Type 055s will be built at some time following the initial batch, as China's aircraft carrier fleet expands. In the end, China's new Type 055 destroyers are another indication of the amazing strides the country has made in their attempt to reach some sort of parity in multiple domains of warfare with the U.S. and especially its regional allies. That's not to say these ships and their weapons are as capable as their American counterparts, because in many ways they are not. Even China's shipbuilding capabilities are rumored to be lacking, especially in terms of quality, when compared to their American counterparts. The level of integration between their ship's sensors and weapons, the reliability of their missiles—especially when countermeasures are present—and their missile's overall performance abilities remain a question mark as well. But that's not really the point. The point is that China is preparing for a future of major naval power projection, with this vessel class sailing closely alongside their aircraft carriers—two of which are built. Together they are the most visible centerpieces of a much more aggressive and farther reaching naval strategy. This may not leave the US Navy shaking in its boots, but when it comes to regional powers such as India and Japan, that is a different story. These ships and the carriers they will support will likely end up having a persistent presence in the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait, Indian Ocean, and East China Sea—all places where tensions are high and territorial issues are top of mind. The Type 055 is also another signal that China can no longer be viewed as a potential adversary living in a perpetual "catch-up mode" technologically speaking. The Chinese are increasingly doing things their own way and even tacking big independent technological risks, such as incorporating a dual-band radar into a picket ship before the US does. So the Chinese military, and the industry that supports it, still be copycats when it comes to defense concepts, but increasingly less so in terms of discreet hardware and integrated weapons systems themselves. As time goes on, this change will leave the US and its allies reacting to Chinese military developments more than in the past. And China's weapons developments, which were largely based on questionable facsimiles of US or Russian systems in the past, are now becoming far less predictable and as a result are more concerning. Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com
:: 6-22-17 All News Pipeline :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Before You Pack Your Bags To Get Out Of Dodge, You Better Read This...... Yellowstone, The Truth
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine June 22, 2017
While the last week has been full of hysteria over earthquake swarms at Yellowstone National Park, ANP was waiting for word from those on the ground, those the closest to what would be affected areas before addressing it. Steve Quayle issued an alert on June 22, 2017 about this very topic. Quayle lives in Montana and keeps a close eye on the situation at Yellowstone, making frequent fly-overs capturing images, as well as having connected sources that regularly observe Yellowstone to provide current news and updates. In regards to Yellowstone Steve writes "SQ; I WAS IN PERU, AT A HOTEL WITH INTERNET SERVICE ,WHEN THIS FALSE CONCERN CAME IN AND THE "-YELLOWSTONE PARK IS GOING TO BLOW CROWD" HYSTERIA HIT THE INTERNET-I IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED ONE OF MY MOST WELL CONNECTED SOURCES , WHO HAPPENED TO HAVE BEEN IN YELLOWSTONE PARK HOURS BEFORE I CONTACTED HIM--TOTAL B.S." He continues: "I PHOTOGRAPHED THE ENTIRE GEO -THERMAL AREA WITH A GYRO STABILIZED EXTREMELY SHARP LENSED, RENTED 500,000.00 "SHOT OVER CAMERA" FOR 2 DAYS-AND NOTICED NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, THEREFORE AFTER 40 PLUS YEARS OF TERRESTRIAL AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OVER YELLOWSTONE PARK THE 600 MILLION YEAR ERUPTION IS THE LEAST OF YOUR CONCERNS-PREPARE FOR FOOD DISAPPEARANCE ,CIVILIAN UNREST AND EXTENDED PERIODS AND LACK AND AVAILABILITY OF EVERYTHING." Throughout the article below, we will be showing some of those exclusive aerial photos taken over Yellowstone sent to us by Steve Quayle. The other portion of the SQ Alert is the one I would like to focus on because this is something we at ANP have noticed quite often. Some YouTube channels re-publish old interviews, without mentioning in the details that the interviews were taken years earlier and they do this every single time any news of seismic activity, or earthquake swarms occur at Yellowstone. From the SQ Alert - Headline regarding his alert "Michio Kaku - Yellowstone Will Devastate America; THIS INTERVIEW WAS RECYCLED FROM 2011, NOT CURRENT, AND RE-DATED WHICH WAS MADE TO SEEM CURRENT NON EVENT, AND FALSE CONCERN OVER RECENT YELLOWSTONE EARTHQUAKE HYSTERICS." A quick search shows that point to be spot on, as shown in the screen shot below: Carefully note the dates these were published, all of which referencing the same interview. A look through YouTube for this interview shows many more since 2011, every few months, most of which not noting that the interview was first published in 2011. Within the alert Steve states "THOSE OF YOU WHO TAKE OLD INTERVIEWS, SUCH AS THE 6 YEAR OLD, INTERVIEW WITH MICHIO KAKU, AND REDATE WITH NO DATES ON WHEN THIS INTERVIEW WAS TAKEN, ARE "TRUTH BANDITS" AND DIS -INGENUOUS AT BEST." All News PipeLine uses videos frequently, to either prove an assertion by showing a news clip, or to show what others are saying about a particular topic, so we can say from personal experience that there are dozens upon dozens of people that will regurgitate old interviews and pretend they are new, and sometimes it can take hours to hunt down the originating source to discover it was an old video, just republished to pretend it is new. YELLOWSTONE HYSTERIA PATTERN Around this time every year, we note the same pattern emerge, a story about Yellowstone earthquake swarms or seismic activity, followed by blaring headlines saying an eruption is imminent. In 2016, the fevered pitch hits about April, with headlines like "Yellowstone volcano on brink of eruption? Video shows surface," dated April 2016. Also "Could a super-volcano under Yellowstone National Park erupt soon?," in the same month. In June 2016 we saw "Earthquake shakes things up in West Yellowstone." Another in June "California Fault Lines and the Area Around Yellowstone Are Shaking." In 2014, a search along the same date range showed the Yellowstone hysteria was about Buffalo/Bison stampeding out of the park, predicting" earthquakes and an eruption, yet the video that started that bit of madness was taken a month before it went viral after being republished with the original poster having noted in the his video description that the video shows a group of bison running deeper into the park. Sure enough, look to the Google search screenshot above, and right on cue, someone republished the 2011 Kaku interview, which inflamed that hysteria. Starting to see a pattern here ladies and gentlemen? Every time Yellowstone hits the news, someone re-uploads that same video from 2011 and doesn't note it is an old interview, websites and writers see the date and try to inform readers without knowing it is a nearly six year old interview. In April 2016, Stefan Stanford addressed this very issue of the Yellowstone "tool of mass distraction" where Quayle highlighted specific things for people to watch for concerning Yellowstone, one of which being "Magma would most likely break through the ground at Norris Geyser Basin or Mammoth Hot Springs prior to any major explosion." The recent images taken by Steve Quayle, show both those areas: The note with the image above states that Steve monitors these with intense scrutiny as its closest to the volcanic vent in the lake just a couple miles from this. Below is the full update added to Stefan's April 2016 article from Steve Quayle, about what to look for if you are worried about Yellowstone, and they still apply: SQ-THINGS I WOULD RECOMMEND PEOPLE WATCH CONCERNING YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK-NUMBER ONE 1.) IN THE PAST THERE HAVE BEEN ALASKAN EQ’S THAT HAVE INITIATED SYMPATHETIC SEISMIC EVENTS IN YELLOWSTONE PARK, MICRO TREMORS ARE NOT THE ISSUE., NUMBER 2.) MAGMA WOULD MOST LIKELY BREAK THROUGH THE GROUND AT NORRIS GEYSER BASIN OR MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS PRIOR TO ANY MAJOR EXPLOSION-3.)WEST THUMB GEYSER BASIN WITH LAKE SIDE STEAM AND GEYSER VENTS, AND LONG DORMANT GEYSERS ONCE AGAIN BECOMING ACTIVE ALL AT ONCE 4.) MASSIVE ICE MELT OVER MAIN VOLCANIC VENT IN YELLOWSTONE LAKE FURIOUSLY MELTING ICE OVER ITS LOCATION.5.) IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN THE HIGHER TEMPERATURE THERMOPHILE BACTERIA COLORS INDICATING MUCH HOTTER WATER.6.) ACTIVITY OF LONG PERIOD EPISODIC QUAKES IN THE VICINITY OF IDAHO WYOMING AND THE QUAKE LAKE AREA OF MONTANA7.) HYDROGEN SULFIDE LEVELS RISING EXPONENTIALLY 8.) MASS ANIMAL MOVEMENT BEYOND SEASONAL MIGRATION OF BISON, ELK, WOLVES ETC.9.) CERTAIN AREAS OF THE PARK BEING CLOSED RANDOMLY, BEYOND THEIR NORMAL ANNOUNCED CLOSURES AND OPENINGS.10.)CHINESE SCIENTISTS AND MILITARY WOULD BE PRESENT AS THEY OWN ALL THE NATIONAL PARKS AS COLLATERAL FOR THEM LOANING MONEY TO U.S! NONE OF THIS IS CURRENTLY GOING ON -SO LEARN TO THINK ,OBSERVE AND ACT BASED ON FACTS NOT INTERNET HYPE..... Via The Montana Standard: According to Mike Stickney, seismologist for the Earthquake Studies Office, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology on the Montana Tech campus in Butte "earthquake swarms in Yellowstone are nothing new." He also highlights "what’s also not new," which "is the response from media outlets, which he said can sometimes sensationalize earthquake swarms with depictions of doom and gloom." "Yes, Yellowstone is a super volcano," said Stickney. "But the chances of it exploding are extremely remote. It’s an extremely rare occurrence. There’s a lot of activity that happens at Yellowstone that does not portend to a big eruption." There was a time those Yellowstone headlines used to freak me out as well, until I started seeing the pattern, so now, I look to those in the area, those that have been observing it for decades, and those that use data and analysis rather than seeing the word "Yellowstone" and screaming "It's Gonna Blow!" BOTTOM LINE Above are number of recommendations for Yellowstone National Park watchers to look out for, but what I look for is people like Steve, that are close enough to be affected in a major way to say "hey, something is wrong, we are hightailing it," for those on the ground at Yellowstone to start packing to get out of Dodge, for Montana Seismologists to say "this is not normal," and for a huge SQ Alert saying "LEAVE NOW." Until then, it is a bunch of hype. Sure, one day Yellowstone may blow, but right now, we have increased tensions with Korea, China, Russia. Illinois is so broke op-ed writers are recommending dissolving the whole state and handing pieces of it over to surrounding states because Illinios is the "Venezuala of the mid-west." We have the MSM pumping out fake news on a weekly basis in a war against our President. Militant leftists getting more violent by the day and shooting at GOP congress members. Free speech under attack.....etc. Yellowstone, right now, doesn't even make the top ten of things to worry about. Below is a very interesting commentary from a retired research analyst. He is not the best speaker, he curses a little bit, but uses actual data from official reports to prove his major assertion stated in his details: "The swarms are nothing new. You should not report a warning with no research." In just the first five minutes he uses the reports to show comparisons, such as in 2017 from January to March there were 164 earthquakes in the Yellowstone region, yet according to the same official reports in 2015 there were 307 in the same time frame, and in 2014 there were 745 in the same time frame.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Yellowstone_Hysteria_Fevered_Pitch_Again.php
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Twin M6.0 earthquakes hit off Kermadec, New Zealand within 12 hours – Ghost quakes rattle NZ North Island
By Strange Sounds - Jun 29, 2017
‘Ghost’ quakes hit central North Island after 2 M6.0 earthquakes hit Kermadec within 12 hours.
A 4.7 magnitude and a 5.4 magnitude quakes registered near Taupo turned out to be a seismic wave from the Kermadec Islands. For a fleeting few minutes, it appeared the East Coast of New Zealand had been rocked by a cluster of earthquakes. The GeoNet website recorded a 5.4 magnitude quake at 7.04pm, some 120km north of Te Araroa, wich was followed two minutes later by a 4.7 magnitude quake striking 55km south-east of Taupo. The first quake was reportedly 6km deep and was felt as far away as Auckland and Wellington.Finally, another 3.3 magnitude quake hit 5km deep near Te Kaha at 7.22pm. But the so-called quakes were quickly deleted from the site and GeoNet tweeted that a 6.0 earthquake in the Kermadecs had caused “ghost quakes”.
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Thursday, 29 June 2017 Posted by Gary Walton at 8:58 am
Locusts on the rise: Another swarm of locusts of Biblical scale the third this year destroying everything in their Path in Russia
Another swarm of locusts of Biblical scale, the third this year is destroying all crops grass and bushes in it's path in southern Russia. A swarm of locusts descended on southern Russian region of Dagestan, infesting at least 100,000 acres on Tuesday, prompting authorities to declare an emergency and take various measures to tackle the situation, including spraying pesticides from tractors and airplanes. The locusts are devouring all grass, bush and trees, and threatening local agriculture and cattle breeding as animals get no place to graze. Earlier in May, a state of emergency was declared in Greece battling a plague of locusts on a Biblical scale and in February, 80 percent of Bolivia's food crop came in danger by a massive plague of locusts that was decimating crops in the country's agricultural heartland.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/06/locusts-on-rise-another-swarm-of.html
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Turkey returns fire on Kurdish YPG in northern Syria
#SyriaWar
Turkey was angered by a US decision last month to arm the YPG as part of the battle to retake Raqqa from IS
Wednesday 28 June 2017 00:10 UTC Last update: Wednesday 28 June 2017 8:43 UTC
Turkish forces retaliated with artillery fire overnight and destroyed Kurdish YPG militia targets after YPG fighters opened fire on Turkey-backed forces in northern Syria, the Turkish military said on Wednesday. The United States supports the YPG in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, despite repeated protests from Nato ally Turkey, which sees the Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists and fears their advance will inflame a Kurdish insurgency at home. The Turkish army said that YPG machine-gun fire on Tuesday evening targeted Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army elements in the Maranaz area south of the town of Azaz in northern Syria. "Fire support vehicles in the region were used to retaliate in kind against the harassing fire and the identified targets were destroyed/neutralised," the military statement said. The boom of artillery fire could be heard from the nearby Turkish border town of Kilis, broadcaster Haberturk said. Turkey's Ihlas news agency had reported earlier that the YPG fighters launched intensive gunfire with heavy machine guns around 9.30pm (1830 GMT) on Tuesday evening from the Afrin region in northwest Syria. It was not clear whether there were any casualties in the exchange of fire. Turkey was angered by a US decision last month to arm the YPG as part of the battle for Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. Ankara considers the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is outlawed in Turkey and is also considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union. The PKK has carried out an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and more than 40,000 people, most of them Kurds, have died in the fighting. Faced with turmoil across its southern border, Turkey last year sent troops into Syria to support Free Syrian Army rebels fighting both Islamic State and Kurdish forces who control a large part of Syria's northern border region. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey would not flinch from taking tougher action against the YPG in Syria if Turkey believed it needed to.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-returns-fire-kurdish-ypg-syrias-afrin-report-1804221572
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Russia promises 'proportionate' response to U.S. strike in Syria
Russian Foreign Minister says his country will respond in proportion if the U.S. takes military action to prevent Syria chemical attack.
Ben Ariel, 29/06/17 05:38
Russia will respond "in proportion" if the United States takes military action to prevent a possible chemical attack by Syrian government forces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. "We will react with dignity, in proportion to the real situation that may take place,” the Russian Foreign Minister said, speaking at a news conference with his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel. Lavrov said he hoped that the United States was not preparing to use its intelligence assessments about the Syrian government's intentions as a pretext to mount a "provocation" in Syria. "I expect that our partners in the region - American, European - will also have an open and comprehensible approach, aimed at de-escalation through normalization of the humanitarian situation," he was quoted by Reuters as having said. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday that U.S. intelligence agencies have evidence suggesting the Syrian government is preparing for a large-scale chemical attack, similar to the strike near the city of Idlib in April which left dozens dead and hundreds more with serious injuries. “If… Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price,” said Spicer. On Tuesday the Pentagon said it detected “active preparations” by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to the White House statement. Russia is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and has been assisting him in his battle against rebels trying to oust him. Last week, Lavrov spoke with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to prevent "provocations" against Syrian government forces. The phone call between the two took place after the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) downed a Syrian army aircraft in southern Raqa, in what the U.S. Central Command said was "in collective self-defense of Coalition-partnered forces."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231745
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It Begins: WalMart Warns Truckers It Will No Longer Work With Them If They Move Goods For Amazon
by Tyler Durden Jun 29, 2017 5:21 AM
The cold war between America's two largest retailers just turned hot.
In a note this morning from Deutsche Bank's freight and logistics analyst Amit Mehrotra, he notes that the "WMT vs. AMZN battle is heating up" and points to a report by DV Velocity, according to which a well respected transportation industry consultant told attendees of a logistics conference that Walmart (WMT) is telling trucking companies that it will no longer do business with them if they continue moving goods for Amazon (AMZN). This follows similar reports citing WMT’s “request” for its tech partners to stop using Amazon Web Services. The news, while suggestive perhaps of Walmart's growing desperation in its war with the retail juggernaut that is Amazon, has dramatic implications not only for the future of retail (and associated prices) but for one of the most important US industries: trucking, and the number of people it employs. According to Deutsche, these developments, "are likely to have significant implications for U.S. transportation companies, in our view, as Amazon and Walmart remain two of the largest users of truckload capacity. For reference Walmart represents about 14% of SWFT’s operating revenues and traditional retail accounts for about half of WERN's total sales (WMT around 4%)." And, as CNBC reported last week, WalMart warned some tech companies that if they want Wal-Mart's business, they can't run applications on Amazon's cloud platform, Amazon Web Services, some tech companies told The Wall Street Journal. Wal-Mart uses some tech vendors' cloud apps that run on AWS, Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Toporek told the Journal, though he declined to say which apps or how many. But Toporek did acknowledge instances where Wal-Mart is pushing for AWS alternatives, the Journal reported Wednesday. Wal-Mart spokesman Toporek told CNBC in an email: "Our vendors have the choice of using any cloud provider that meets their needs and their customers' needs. It shouldn't be a big surprise that there are cases in which we'd prefer our most sensitive data isn't sitting on a competitor's platform." Wal-Mart doesn't appear to be alone in this push to leave AWS, either. Other large retailers are reportedly requesting that service providers move away from AWS, the Journal said, citing technology vendors that work with retailers. Adding to the many growing conflicts of interest, . The battle between Wal-Mart and Amazon is only heatAmazon has confirmed a number of retailers it competes with use AWS, for example GameStoping up, after Amazon announced plans last week to acquire brick-and-mortar grocery retailer Whole Foods. With Amazon stepping into Wal-Mart's turf in grocery, Wal-Mart has been trying to beef up its e-commerce presence. In light of AMZN's recent expansion with the purchase of WFM, one can see why WMT is starting to take it much more seriously. Perhaps Amazon's latest push (and WMT's lobbying effort) may explain why Trump decided to finally reignite his long-simmering war with AMZN CEO Jeff Bezos, when this morning he tweeted “The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!”
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Political Insider Spills The Beans: The Secret Dealings Of Robert Muller and “Powerful” Unmasked…
Posted by Lisa Haven | Jun 28, 2017 |
By Lisa Haven
Clinton Insider, Larry Nichols—the man who exposed numerous Clinton scandals including Monica Lewinsky, Whitewater, and others—shares some of the most critical, crucial, and concise information about recently promoted Robert Muller and how we are in the middle of all out war election wise. This information will not only blow your mind wide open, but it will reveal the truth of what’s happening right in front of our eyes. Please, PLEASE don’t miss this VITAL report… Larry’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5FudYqVtftwFLlz0bfTwg/videos GET Larry Nichols Book: https://28yearstonowhere.com/ Donate To Larry via PayPal: NicholsLive@aol.com
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NATO Secretary General Warns Future Cyber Attacks Could Spark A War
Mac Slavo June 28th, 2017 SHTFplan.com
It used to be that malware was known as a minor annoyance at best, and at worse could turn your computer into an expensive brick. But these days malware is capable of rapidly spreading across the globe, infecting water and power systems, government and corporate computer networks, banks, and even stock exchanges. In short, cyber attacks have reached a new level of sophistication that can cause real, lasting damage to society. They’re capable of shattering economies and shutting down utilities. And by extension, cyber attacks can kill people. That may seem far fetched for now. The WannaCry malware that spread around the world last month, as well as yesterday’s Petya cyber attack, have infected hundreds of thousands of computers, and cost governments and private companies millions of dollars. That’s inconvenient, but hardly lethal. However, the potential damage that cyber attacks can inflict can’t be ignored. Whether we like it or not, malware has advanced to a point where it is capable of wreaking havoc on society. Which is why governments are now beginning to treat cyber attacks like military threats. And because their status has been elevated in the eyes of governments around the world, that means that cyber attacks could one day be responsible for starting wars. The recent Petya cyber attack for instance, has been widely blamed on the Russian government (though it should be noted that it takes advantage of an exploit developed by the NSA.). It has led NATO to announce that in the future, cyber attacks could trigger the alliance’s mutual defense clause, which states that if one nation is attacked by a foreign aggressor, every member of NATO must strike back. Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary general, said alliance members agreed last year that a cyber attack could trigger Article 5 of the north Atlantic treaty in the same way as a conventional military assault and promised more help to Ukraine to bolster its own cyber defences. “The attack in May and this week just underlines the importance of strengthening our cyber defences and that is what we are doing,” Mr Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday… …Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance had also defined cyber defence as a Nato domain on a par with land, air, and sea operations, and would see similar planning and funding as a result. On Tuesday Michael Fallon, the British defence secretary, said the UK would consider retaliating with military means against a cyber attack by another state, reflecting rising concern about the militarization of cyber space the havoc such attacks can cause. These people are basically threatening to start World War Three if the Russian government ever delivers a cyber attack that cripples a NATO nation. Cyber attacks have officially opened a whole new can of worms on the global stage. That’s because these kinds of attacks are elusive. It can be difficult or even impossible to figure out who’s responsible when malware is spreading across the planet. So now it’s possible that one nation could destroy another and never face any repercussions. Or one government could deploy malware on its own citizens, and blame it on another government that they wish to go to war with. Or terrorists could spark a war between rival nations. All they would have to do is deploy multiple cyber attacks to both nations, and wait for them to blame each other. And just like that, the world has become a far more dangerous place.
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Swedish meatheads: Returning ISIS fighters given 'protected identities’
Swedish Culture and Democracy Minister suggests Swedes who left to fight for ISIS should be welcomed back, helped to integrate into society.
Mordechai Sones, 28/06/17 14:57
Hundreds of Swedish residents who went to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have now returned to Europe and the Swedish government has given several of them “protected identities” to keep locals from finding out who they are, reported Breitbart. The vast majority of the returning jihadist fighters keep a very low profile upon returning to Sweden as many have committed terrorist offences while in the Middle East. 27-year-old Walad Ali Yousef is one returnee that the government has given a special status protecting his identity, normally given to people under serious threat, Swedish Expressen reports. The magazine claims to have tracked 150 such ISIS terrorists who have quietly returned to Sweden. Yousef, originally from the heavily migrant-populated city of Malmo, spoke to the newspaper complaining he had difficulty finding a job. “I am looking for many jobs but can not get one because my pictures are out there,” he said. Yousef joined the Islamic State in 2014, travelling to the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria. Formerly a small-time criminal, Yousef sent pictures of himself in Syria posing with Kalashnikov rifles to encourage his friends in Sweden to join the terror group. 39-year-old Bherlin Dequilla Gildo, also from Malmo, is now back in Sweden living under an entirely new identity. In 2012 he posted images of himself posing with dead bodies who he called “Assad’s dogs”, and participated directly in killings of Syrian regime soldiers. The remaining 100 or so Swedes still in the Middle East fighting for the Islamic state are assumed to be the most radical. Some fear that as Kurdish troops push further into Raqqa, those Swedes will attempt to return home. Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke has suggested that Swedes who left to fight for radical Islamist groups in the Middle East should be welcomed back and helped to integrate into society. Ms. Kuhnke made the comments Sunday evening on the television program Agenda which is transmitted by the Swedish state broadcaster SVT, Breitbart reported. The program focused on the fact that some 300 Islamic radicals from Sweden had gone to the Middle East to fight for groups like Islamic State and around half of them had returned to Sweden. “They need to be channeled back into our democratic society,” Kuhnke said. The minister added she and the government had no idea how many of the returnees were still radicalised versus how many left because they had become disillusioned with Islamist beliefs. Terror expert Magnus Ranstorp said, “the really dangerous ones have not come back yet,” and added, “The vast majority may not do anything, but they are still a danger to the authorities and it must be managed. It is important for the police to be able to prioritise this area so that they do not become dangerous to society.” While several of those returning are free, many others like Sultan Al-Amin, 31, and Hassan Al-Mandlawi, 33, have been sentenced to life in prison for their crimes committed in the city of Aleppo. Swedish authorities have been heavily criticized for welcoming Islamic State fighters returning from the Middle East and claiming to be able to integrate them back into Swedish society. Pamela Geller comments, "This is the very definition of civilizational suicide. These ISIS fighters are part of a group that has vowed to destroy Europe. They should never have been allowed back, and if they had to be, then they should have been immediately jailed. Instead, they’re protected. Madness." The Swedish attitude toward returning jihadists is seen as cowardly by many, as several municipalities have gone above and beyond to cater to returning fighters. In the medieval city of Lund, the government is considering a range of measures including debt forgiveness, driving lessons, and free housing in the name of integrating returning extremists. Last week, another damning report showed the Swedish government had still been paying many Islamists through the generous Swedish welfare system whilst they were fighting in Iraq and Syria, reported Breitbart.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231707
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Before You Pack Your Bags To Get Out Of Dodge, You Better Read This...... Yellowstone, The Truth
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine June 22, 2017
While the last week has been full of hysteria over earthquake swarms at Yellowstone National Park, ANP was waiting for word from those on the ground, those the closest to what would be affected areas before addressing it. Steve Quayle issued an alert on June 22, 2017 about this very topic. Quayle lives in Montana and keeps a close eye on the situation at Yellowstone, making frequent fly-overs capturing images, as well as having connected sources that regularly observe Yellowstone to provide current news and updates. In regards to Yellowstone Steve writes "SQ; I WAS IN PERU, AT A HOTEL WITH INTERNET SERVICE ,WHEN THIS FALSE CONCERN CAME IN AND THE "-YELLOWSTONE PARK IS GOING TO BLOW CROWD" HYSTERIA HIT THE INTERNET-I IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED ONE OF MY MOST WELL CONNECTED SOURCES , WHO HAPPENED TO HAVE BEEN IN YELLOWSTONE PARK HOURS BEFORE I CONTACTED HIM--TOTAL B.S." He continues: "I PHOTOGRAPHED THE ENTIRE GEO -THERMAL AREA WITH A GYRO STABILIZED EXTREMELY SHARP LENSED, RENTED 500,000.00 "SHOT OVER CAMERA" FOR 2 DAYS-AND NOTICED NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, THEREFORE AFTER 40 PLUS YEARS OF TERRESTRIAL AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OVER YELLOWSTONE PARK THE 600 MILLION YEAR ERUPTION IS THE LEAST OF YOUR CONCERNS-PREPARE FOR FOOD DISAPPEARANCE ,CIVILIAN UNREST AND EXTENDED PERIODS AND LACK AND AVAILABILITY OF EVERYTHING." Throughout the article below, we will be showing some of those exclusive aerial photos taken over Yellowstone sent to us by Steve Quayle. The other portion of the SQ Alert is the one I would like to focus on because this is something we at ANP have noticed quite often. Some YouTube channels re-publish old interviews, without mentioning in the details that the interviews were taken years earlier and they do this every single time any news of seismic activity, or earthquake swarms occur at Yellowstone. From the SQ Alert - Headline regarding his alert "Michio Kaku - Yellowstone Will Devastate America; THIS INTERVIEW WAS RECYCLED FROM 2011, NOT CURRENT, AND RE-DATED WHICH WAS MADE TO SEEM CURRENT NON EVENT, AND FALSE CONCERN OVER RECENT YELLOWSTONE EARTHQUAKE HYSTERICS." A quick search shows that point to be spot on, as shown in the screen shot below: Carefully note the dates these were published, all of which referencing the same interview. A look through YouTube for this interview shows many more since 2011, every few months, most of which not noting that the interview was first published in 2011. Within the alert Steve states "THOSE OF YOU WHO TAKE OLD INTERVIEWS, SUCH AS THE 6 YEAR OLD, INTERVIEW WITH MICHIO KAKU, AND REDATE WITH NO DATES ON WHEN THIS INTERVIEW WAS TAKEN, ARE "TRUTH BANDITS" AND DIS -INGENUOUS AT BEST." All News PipeLine uses videos frequently, to either prove an assertion by showing a news clip, or to show what others are saying about a particular topic, so we can say from personal experience that there are dozens upon dozens of people that will regurgitate old interviews and pretend they are new, and sometimes it can take hours to hunt down the originating source to discover it was an old video, just republished to pretend it is new. YELLOWSTONE HYSTERIA PATTERN Around this time every year, we note the same pattern emerge, a story about Yellowstone earthquake swarms or seismic activity, followed by blaring headlines saying an eruption is imminent. In 2016, the fevered pitch hits about April, with headlines like "Yellowstone volcano on brink of eruption? Video shows surface," dated April 2016. Also "Could a super-volcano under Yellowstone National Park erupt soon?," in the same month. In June 2016 we saw "Earthquake shakes things up in West Yellowstone." Another in June "California Fault Lines and the Area Around Yellowstone Are Shaking." In 2014, a search along the same date range showed the Yellowstone hysteria was about Buffalo/Bison stampeding out of the park, predicting" earthquakes and an eruption, yet the video that started that bit of madness was taken a month before it went viral after being republished with the original poster having noted in the his video description that the video shows a group of bison running deeper into the park. Sure enough, look to the Google search screenshot above, and right on cue, someone republished the 2011 Kaku interview, which inflamed that hysteria. Starting to see a pattern here ladies and gentlemen? Every time Yellowstone hits the news, someone re-uploads that same video from 2011 and doesn't note it is an old interview, websites and writers see the date and try to inform readers without knowing it is a nearly six year old interview. In April 2016, Stefan Stanford addressed this very issue of the Yellowstone "tool of mass distraction" where Quayle highlighted specific things for people to watch for concerning Yellowstone, one of which being "Magma would most likely break through the ground at Norris Geyser Basin or Mammoth Hot Springs prior to any major explosion." The recent images taken by Steve Quayle, show both those areas: The note with the image above states that Steve monitors these with intense scrutiny as its closest to the volcanic vent in the lake just a couple miles from this. Below is the full update added to Stefan's April 2016 article from Steve Quayle, about what to look for if you are worried about Yellowstone, and they still apply: SQ-THINGS I WOULD RECOMMEND PEOPLE WATCH CONCERNING YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK-NUMBER ONE 1.) IN THE PAST THERE HAVE BEEN ALASKAN EQ’S THAT HAVE INITIATED SYMPATHETIC SEISMIC EVENTS IN YELLOWSTONE PARK, MICRO TREMORS ARE NOT THE ISSUE., NUMBER 2.) MAGMA WOULD MOST LIKELY BREAK THROUGH THE GROUND AT NORRIS GEYSER BASIN OR MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS PRIOR TO ANY MAJOR EXPLOSION-3.)WEST THUMB GEYSER BASIN WITH LAKE SIDE STEAM AND GEYSER VENTS, AND LONG DORMANT GEYSERS ONCE AGAIN BECOMING ACTIVE ALL AT ONCE 4.) MASSIVE ICE MELT OVER MAIN VOLCANIC VENT IN YELLOWSTONE LAKE FURIOUSLY MELTING ICE OVER ITS LOCATION.5.) IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN THE HIGHER TEMPERATURE THERMOPHILE BACTERIA COLORS INDICATING MUCH HOTTER WATER.6.) ACTIVITY OF LONG PERIOD EPISODIC QUAKES IN THE VICINITY OF IDAHO WYOMING AND THE QUAKE LAKE AREA OF MONTANA7.) HYDROGEN SULFIDE LEVELS RISING EXPONENTIALLY 8.) MASS ANIMAL MOVEMENT BEYOND SEASONAL MIGRATION OF BISON, ELK,WOLVES ETC.9.) CERTAIN AREAS OF THE PARK BEING CLOSED RANDOMLY,BEYOND THEIR NORMAL ANNOUNCED CLOSURES AND OPENINGS.10.)CHINESE SCIENTISTS AND MILITARY WOULD BE PRESENT AS THEY OWN ALL THE NATIONAL PARKS AS COLLATERAL FOR THEM LOANING MONEY TO U.S! NONE OF THIS IS CURRENTLY GOING ON -SO LEARN TO THINK ,OBSERVE AND ACT BASED ON FACTS NOT INTERNET HYPE..... Via The Montana Standard: According to Mike Stickney, seismologist for the Earthquake Studies Office, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology on the Montana Tech campus in Butte "earthquake swarms in Yellowstone are nothing new." He also highlights "what’s also not new," which "is the response from media outlets, which he said can sometimes sensationalize earthquake swarms with depictions of doom and gloom." "Yes, Yellowstone is a super volcano," said Stickney. "But the chances of it exploding are extremely remote. It’s an extremely rare occurrence. There’s a lot of activity that happens at Yellowstone that does not portend to a big eruption." There was a time those Yellowstone headlines used to freak me out as well, until I started seeing the pattern, so now, I look to those in the area, those that have been observing it for decades, and those that use data and analysis rather than seeing the word "Yellowstone" and screaming "It's Gonna Blow!" BOTTOM LINE Above are number of recommendations for Yellowstone National Park watchers to look out for, but what I look for is people like Steve, that are close enough to be affected in a major way to say "hey, something is wrong, we are hightailing it," for those on the ground at Yellowstone to start packing to get out of Dodge, for Montana Seismologists to say "this is not normal," and for a huge SQ Alert saying "LEAVE NOW." Until then, it is a bunch of hype. Sure, one day Yellowstone may blow, but right now, we have increased tensions with Korea, China, Russia. Illinois is so broke op-ed writers are recommending dissolving the whole state and handing pieces of it over to surrounding states because Illinios is the "Venezuala of the mid-west." We have the MSM pumping out fake news on a weekly basis in a war against our President. Militant leftists getting more violent by the day and shooting at GOP congress members. Free speech under attack.....etc. Yellowstone, right now, doesn't even make the top ten of things to worry about. Below is a very interesting commentary from a retired research analyst. He is not the best speaker, he curses a little bit, but uses actual data from official reports to prove his major assertion stated in his details: "The swarms are nothing new. You should not report a warning with no research." In just the first five minutes he uses the reports to show comparisons, such as in 2017 from January to March there were 164 earthquakes in the Yellowstone region, yet according to the same official reports in 2015 there were 307 in the same time frame, and in 2014 there were 745 in the same time frame.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Yellowstone_Hysteria_Fevered_Pitch_Again.php
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Twin M6.0 earthquakes hit off Kermadec, New Zealand within 12 hours – Ghost quakes rattle NZ North Island
By Strange Sounds - Jun 29, 2017
‘Ghost’ quakes hit central North Island after 2 M6.0 earthquakes hit Kermadec within 12 hours.
A 4.7 magnitude and a 5.4 magnitude quakes registered near Taupo turned out to be a seismic wave from the Kermadec Islands. For a fleeting few minutes, it appeared the East Coast of New Zealand had been rocked by a cluster of earthquakes. The GeoNet website recorded a 5.4 magnitude quake at 7.04pm, some 120km north of Te Araroa, wich was followed two minutes later by a 4.7 magnitude quake striking 55km south-east of Taupo. The first quake was reportedly 6km deep and was felt as far away as Auckland and Wellington. Finally, another 3.3 magnitude quake hit 5km deep near Te Kaha at 7.22pm. But the so-called quakes were quickly deleted from the site and GeoNet tweeted that a 6.0 earthquake in the Kermadecs had caused “ghost quakes”.
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Thursday, 29 June 2017 Posted by Gary Walton at 8:58 am
Locusts on the rise: Another swarm of locusts of Biblical scale the third this year destroying everything in their Path in Russia
Another swarm of locusts of Biblical scale, the third this year is destroying all crops grass and bushes in it's path in southern Russia. A swarm of locusts descended on southern Russian region of Dagestan, infesting at least 100,000 acres on Tuesday, prompting authorities to declare an emergency and take various measures to tackle the situation, including spraying pesticides from tractors and airplanes. The locusts are devouring all grass, bush and trees, and threatening local agriculture and cattle breeding as animals get no place to graze. Earlier in May, a state of emergency was declared in Greece battling a plague of locusts on a Biblical scale and in February, 80 percent of Bolivia's food crop came in danger by a massive plague of locusts that was decimating crops in the country's agricultural heartland.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/06/locusts-on-rise-another-swarm-of.html
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Turkey returns fire on Kurdish YPG in northern Syria
#SyriaWar
Turkey was angered by a US decision last month to arm the YPG as part of the battle to retake Raqqa from IS
Wednesday 28 June 2017 00:10 UTC Last update: Wednesday 28 June 2017 8:43 UTC
Turkish forces retaliated with artillery fire overnight and destroyed Kurdish YPG militia targets after YPG fighters opened fire on Turkey-backed forces in northern Syria, the Turkish military said on Wednesday. The United States supports the YPG in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, despite repeated protests from Nato ally Turkey, which sees the Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists and fears their advance will inflame a Kurdish insurgency at home. The Turkish army said that YPG machine-gun fire on Tuesday evening targeted Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army elements in the Maranaz area south of the town of Azaz in northern Syria. "Fire support vehicles in the region were used to retaliate in kind against the harassing fire and the identified targets were destroyed/neutralised," the military statement said. The boom of artillery fire could be heard from the nearby Turkish border town of Kilis, broadcaster Haberturk said. Turkey's Ihlas news agency had reported earlier that the YPG fighters launched intensive gunfire with heavy machine guns around 9.30pm (1830 GMT) on Tuesday evening from the Afrin region in northwest Syria. It was not clear whether there were any casualties in the exchange of fire. Turkey was angered by a US decision last month to arm the YPG as part of the battle for Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. Ankara considers the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is outlawed in Turkey and is also considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union. The PKK has carried out an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and more than 40,000 people, most of them Kurds, have died in the fighting. Faced with turmoil across its southern border, Turkey last year sent troops into Syria to support Free Syrian Army rebels fighting both Islamic State and Kurdish forces who control a large part of Syria's northern border region. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey would not flinch from taking tougher action against the YPG in Syria if Turkey believed it needed to.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-returns-fire-kurdish-ypg-syrias-afrin-report-1804221572
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Russia promises 'proportionate' response to U.S. strike in Syria
Russian Foreign Minister says his country will respond in proportion if the U.S. takes military action to prevent Syria chemical attack.
Ben Ariel, 29/06/17 05:38
Russia will respond "in proportion" if the United States takes military action to prevent a possible chemical attack by Syrian government forces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. "We will react with dignity, in proportion to the real situation that may take place,” the Russian Foreign Minister said, speaking at a news conference with his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel. Lavrov said he hoped that the United States was not preparing to use its intelligence assessments about the Syrian government's intentions as a pretext to mount a "provocation" in Syria. "I expect that our partners in the region - American, European - will also have an open and comprehensible approach, aimed at de-escalation through normalization of the humanitarian situation," he was quoted by Reuters as having said. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday that U.S. intelligence agencies have evidence suggesting the Syrian government is preparing for a large-scale chemical attack, similar to the strike near the city of Idlib in April which left dozens dead and hundreds more with serious injuries. “If… Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price,” said Spicer. On Tuesday the Pentagon said it detected “active preparations” by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to the White House statement. Russia is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and has been assisting him in his battle against rebels trying to oust him. Last week, Lavrov spoke with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to prevent "provocations" against Syrian government forces. The phone call between the two took place after the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) downed a Syrian army aircraft in southern Raqa, in what the U.S. Central Command said was "in collective self-defense of Coalition-partnered forces."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231745
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It Begins: WalMart Warns Truckers It Will No Longer Work With Them If They Move Goods For Amazon
by Tyler Durden Jun 29, 2017 5:21 AM
The cold war between America's two largest retailers just turned hot.
In a note this morning from Deutsche Bank's freight and logistics analyst Amit Mehrotra, he notes that the "WMT vs. AMZN battle is heating up" and points to a report by DV Velocity, according to which a well respected transportation industry consultant told attendees of a logistics conference that Walmart (WMT) is telling trucking companies that it will no longer do business with them if they continue moving goods for Amazon (AMZN). This follows similar reports citing WMT’s “request” for its tech partners to stop using Amazon Web Services. The news, while suggestive perhaps of Walmart's growing desperation in its war with the retail juggernaut that is Amazon, has dramatic implications not only for the future of retail (and associated prices) but for one of the most important US industries: trucking, and the number of people it employs. According to Deutsche, these developments, "are likely to have significant implications for U.S. transportation companies, in our view, as Amazon and Walmart remain two of the largest users of truckload capacity. For reference Walmart represents about 14% of SWFT’s operating revenues and traditional retail accounts for about half of WERN's total sales (WMT around 4%)." And, as CNBC reported last week, WalMart warned some tech companies that if they want Wal-Mart's business, they can't run applications on Amazon's cloud platform, Amazon Web Services, some tech companies told The Wall Street Journal. Wal-Mart uses some tech vendors' cloud apps that run on AWS, Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Toporek told the Journal, though he declined to say which apps or how many. But Toporek did acknowledge instances where Wal-Mart is pushing for AWS alternatives, the Journal reported Wednesday. Wal-Mart spokesman Toporek told CNBC in an email: "Our vendors have the choice of using any cloud provider that meets their needs and their customers' needs. It shouldn't be a big surprise that there are cases in which we'd prefer our most sensitive data isn't sitting on a competitor's platform." Wal-Mart doesn't appear to be alone in this push to leave AWS, either. Other large retailers are reportedly requesting that service providers move away from AWS, the Journal said, citing technology vendors that work with retailers. Adding to the many growing conflicts of interest, Amazon has confirmed a number of retailers it competes with use AWS, for example GameStop. The battle between Wal-Mart and Amazon is only heating up, after Amazon announced plans last week to acquire brick-and-mortar grocery retailer Whole Foods. With Amazon stepping into Wal-Mart's turf in grocery, Wal-Mart has been trying to beef up its e-commerce presence. In light of AMZN's recent expansion with the purchase of WFM, one can see why WMT is starting to take it much more seriously. Perhaps Amazon's latest push (and WMT's lobbying effort) may explain why Trump decided to finally reignite his long-simmering war with AMZN CEO Jeff Bezos, when this morning he tweeted “The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!”
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Why Teach The Second Coming?
By Hal Lindsey
Through the years I’ve heard a lot of excuses from pastors and teachers who don’t want to address the Second Coming of Christ. Many of them say it’s just too difficult to understand. Recently, I heard about a layman who was upset with God over the whole matter. He asked, “Why can’t it be simple?” Some of the greatest minds in history have taken on the subject of Christ’s return, and found it overwhelming. Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most brilliant men who ever lived, spent more time studying the book of Daniel than he did pondering the laws of gravity. So, yes, it can be complicated. The deeper you dig, the more treasure you will find. That’s the way it is with all of God’s revelation to humanity. The great themes of the Bible are simple enough for a small child to understand, and complex enough to keep the finest theologians working for centuries to mine their mysteries. But isn’t that good? Don’t you want the things of God to be challenging, exciting, and fulfilling — to the mentally challenged, as well as to the most brilliant among us? Proverbs 25:2 says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.” (NASB) The Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, was famous as a deep thinker and a brilliant scholar. On his one trip to America, a student asked him if it would be possible to summarize his life’s study into a single sentence. He answered in the words of a children’s song. “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Barth wrote many books and gave countless lectures. He is an example of the fact that the finest scholars find no end to the beauties and intricacies of God’s message to humanity. But that message can also be summarized in the lyrics to a child’s song. A mentally disabled person can grasp the key to it all — “Jesus loves me… the Bible tells me so.” Can the study of end-times prophecy be summarized as succinctly? Yes, it can. We can find that summation in the words of Jesus from John 14:3 — “I will come again.” Anyone can understand that. And what a glorious thing to know! None of the Bible makes sense without it. The Old Testament told of a coming Messiah. He would suffer and die for our sins (Isaiah 53). And He would rule and reign over the entire earth. We saw the first part come true at His first coming. But to fulfill it all, He must come again. Jesus must return because a multitude of prophecies from the Old and New Testaments still await fulfillment. He must come again because justice demands it. And He must return because our world is spiraling out of control, and humanity cannot survive without His direct intervention. Jesus made His Second Coming a central part of His message. He repeated it again and again. In Matthew 24:3, the disciples asked Him, “When will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” Jesus then spent the rest of that chapter and all the next one talking about His Second Coming. In Mark 13:26, Jesus said, “They will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.” In Luke 21:27, He said, “They will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” Jesus said to “watch” for His return. In Matthew 24:42, He said, “Be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.” That means we need to know the signs of His coming. We need to study, and see how scripture lays out God’s end-times program. We need to know the promises He has made — including His promises to Abraham. We know He will keep His word. He will fulfill every bit of it. And that means, He will come again! All we can say is, Praise the LORD.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-6-23-2017/
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American Pravda: CNN Part 1, Russia narrative is all about “ratings”
by Nicholas Evangelista June 27, 2017
CNN Producer: “Our ratings are incredible right now,” President Trump “good for business”
John Bonifield Says Russia Narrative “Mostly bullshit right now”
“Get back to Russia,” Says CEO Jeff Zucker
President Trump is Right About Witch Hunt, “No real proof”
Comes in Wake of CNN’s Russia-Gate Retraction & New Rules on Russia Coverage
(New York) Project Veritas has released a video of CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN’s Russia narrative. “I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now,” Bonifield says. “Like, we don’t have any giant proof.” He confirms that the driving factor at CNN is ratings: “It’s a business, people are like the media has an ethical phssssss…All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable. This is a business.” According to the CNN Producer, business is booming. “Trump is good for business right now,” he concluded. Bonifield further goes on to explain that the instructions come straight from the top, citing the CEO, Jeff Zucker: “Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN (Jeff Zucker) said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with that, let’s get back to Russia.” Bonifield also acknowledged: “I haven’t seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime.” He continues: “I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.” “To report not on facts, but instead on narratives that yield high ratings, is exactly the definition of fake news,” said James O’Keefe. “We said we are going after the media, and there is a lot more to come.”
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O'Keefe video shows CNN's Van Jones calling Russia story a ‘nothingburger’
By Joe Concha - 06/28/17 01:58 PM EDT
Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe of Project Veritas released Wednesday another secretly recorded tape of a CNN employee, this time featuring political commentator and host Van Jones saying the network’s heavy coverage of possible collusion between Trump administration officials and Russia during the 2016 presidential election “is just a big nothingburger." “The Russia thing is just a big nothingburger. There’s nothing there you can do," Jones says to a person who introduces himself on the street as someone who had met Jones "in Palm Springs" a few years ago. Jones appears to recognize the person he is speaking to, but does not seem to know he is being taped. "Van Jones" quickly began trending on Twitter after O'Keefe released the video through his personal Twitter account; the video was also released by the official Project Veritas account. The 32-year-old O'Keefe founded Project Veritas in 2010 and has produced a number of controversial undercover videos. He has at times been criticized for releasing content that was selectively edited to portray people in a negative light. O’Keefe has also donned costumes in past videos as part of undercover projects to get people to talk on camera. In 2010, he was sentenced to three years of probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from entering then-Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office on false pretenses. On Monday night, Project Veritas released a video of a medical producer at CNN saying that while he believes the Trump-Russia narrative is “bullshit,” CEO Jeff Zucker has instructed his employees to focus on it to help boost the network’s ratings. “CNN stands by our medical producer John Bonifield,” CNN said in a statement about the first video. “Diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong, we welcome it and embrace it.” CNN has extensively covered investigations and stories around Trump associates possibly colluding with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign.
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Fewer think news media is biased, survey finds
Mike Snider , USA TODAY Published 7:03 a.m. ET June 29, 2017 | Updated 1 hour ago
More than half of Americans think the U.S. media reports news with a bias. The good news? The press gets a better grade today than in recent years, according to a new survey. The 20th annual State of the First Amendment survey, out Thursday from The First Amendment Center at the Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C., found 57% of Americans who participated in the survey said that the news media reports with bias. Even at a time when the Trump Administration is clashing with the mainstream media, this response is better than in 2016 when 77% of Americans said the media was biased. A similar response was found in 2015, when 76% answered that way. Respondents thought more favorably of the press in 2013 and 2014, when 54% and 59% said they thought the media was biased. President Trump has a new nickname for the Washington Post: #AmazonWashingtonPost Perhaps fueling the lack of trust in the media is the vacuum in which many people get their news. More than half (53%) of the 1,009 adults, surveyed in May 2017, said they preferred to get news from outlets aligned with their political views. The center's executive director Lata Nott called that finding "both obvious and disheartening" and "one of the factors that keeps us so divided," in an essay accompanying the report. On the bias question, conservatives were more likely to say the media was biased (73%), than moderates (56%) and liberals (38%) were. Across all political leanings, survey respondents agreed the media should act as a watchdog of government. But liberals were more inclined to think so (89%), compared to moderates (63%) and conservatives (58%). The survey also asked about "fake news" and found that only about 27% said that it should be protected by the First Amendment. (In case you forgot, the First Amendment ensures freedom of religion, speech, the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”) With much fake news being spread over social media, about one-third (34%) said they had less trust in information on social media. More than half (51%) said their trust level in news on social media was unchanged, while about 9% said their trust increased. When it comes to those who leak information -- and publish it -- conservatives were more likely than liberals to say leakers should be prosecuted (64% vs. 42%). On whether journalists should be able to publish information obtained illegally, conservatives were more likely to say no (76% vs. 56%, for liberals). With access to public briefings a hot topic, too, the survey found that most respondents (72%) did not think elected officials should be able to determine which media outlets could attend them. Those who identified as Republicans were less likely (61%) to agree officials should do so, compared to Democrats (76%). Overall, about one-fifth of Americans (23%) think the First Amendment goes too far. "Even in a time of great political turmoil, we’re generally supportive of the First Amendment’s protections," Nott said. For more information about the First Amendment Center and its survey, check out its website.
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etc. They are saying it can’t come here because it has never come here and yet destruction covers the face of the earth, the face of the earth. You can see the things that are going on, you can watch as the blood flows in the streets of many countries. You can see as they prepare to go to war to fight a war they cannot win or that will bring more disaster even to this country and yet they push to do the very things they desire and want to do. They want everything, but want to do nothing in return, oh what a time, what an hour. Etc.
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What spooked the USS Donald Cook so much in the Black Sea?
Voltaire Network | 8 November 2014
The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor missiles but only an electronic warfare device. On 10 April 2014, the USS Donald Cook entered the waters of the Black Sea and on 12 April a Russian Su-24 tactical bomber flew over the vessel triggering an incident that, according to several media reports, completely demoralized its crew, so much so that the Pentagon issued a protest [1]. The USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is a 4th generation guided missile destroyer whose key weapons are Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and capable of carrying nuclear explosives. This ship carries 56 Tomahawk missiles in standard mode, and 96 missiles in attack mode. The US destroyer is equipped with the most recent Aegis Combat System. It is an integrated naval weapons systems which can link together the missile defense systems of all vessels embedded within the same network, so as to ensure the detection, tracking and destruction of hundreds of targets at the same time. In addition, the USS Donald Cook is equipped with 4 large radars, whose power is comparable to that of several stations. For protection, it carries more than fifty anti-aircraft missiles of various types. Meanwhile, the Russian Su-24 that buzzed the USS Donald Cook carried neither bombs nor missiles but only a basket mounted under the fuselage, which, according to the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta [2], contained a Russian electronic warfare device called Khibiny. As the Russian jet approached the US vessel, the electronic device disabled all radars, control circuits, systems, information transmission, etc. on board the US destroyer. In other words, the all-powerful Aegis system, now hooked up - or about to be - with the defense systems installed on NATO’s most modern ships was shut down, as turning off the TV set with the remote control. The Russian Su-24 then simulated a missile attack against the USS Donald Cook, which was left literally deaf and blind. As if carrying out a training exercise, the Russian aircraft - unarmed - repeated the same maneuver 12 times before flying away. After that, the 4th generation destroyer immediately set sail towards a port in Romania. Since that incident, which the Atlanticist media have carefully covered up despite the widespread reactions sparked among defense industry experts, no US ship has ever approached Russian territorial waters again. According to some specialized media, 27 sailors from the USS Donald Cook requested to be relieved from active service. Vladimir Balybine - director of the research center on electronic warfare and the evaluation of so-called "visibility reduction" techniques attached to the Russian Air Force Academy - made the following comment: etc
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html
:: 6-23-17 The Washington Free Beacon :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Freighter Was On Autopilot When It Hit U.S. Destroyer
USS Fitzgerald did not detect container ship
BY: Bill Gertz June 23, 2017 5:00 am
The deadly collision between a U.S. destroyer and a container ship June 17 took place while the freighter was on autopilot, according to Navy officials. The Philippines-flagged cargo ship ACX Crystal was under control of a computerized navigation system that was steering and guiding the container vessel, according to officials familiar with preliminary results of an ongoing Navy investigation. Investigators so far found no evidence the collision was deliberate. Nevertheless, an accident during computerized navigation raises the possibility the container ship's computer system could have been hacked and the ship deliberately steered into the USS Fitzgerald, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. A more likely explanation is that collision was the result of an autopilot malfunction, or the autopilot's warning signals, used to notify the ship's operators, were missed. The destroyer was severely damaged when the protruding undersea bow of the cargo ship struck Fitzgerald on the right side. Seven sailors died as a result and the captain and two others were injured. It was the Navy's worst accident at sea. The two ships hit about 64 miles off the coast of Japan. The collision occurred at around 1:30 a.m. local time but was not reported by the freighter's crew until around 2:25 a.m. Investigators believe the time lag was the result of the crew not realizing they had hit another ship. Commercial ship autopilot systems normally require someone to input manually the course for the ship travel. The computer program then steers the ship by controlling the steering gear to turn the rudder. The system also can be synchronized with an electronic chart system to allow the program to follow courses of a voyage plan. Tracking data broadcast from the Crystal as part of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) shows the ship changed course by 90 degrees to the right and slightly reduced its speed between around 1:32 a.m. and 1:34 a.m. After that time, the data shows the ship turned to the left and resumed a northeastern coarse along its original track line. Private naval analyst Steffan Watkins said the course data indicates the ship was running on autopilot. "The ACX Crystal powered out of the deviation it performed at 1:30, which was likely the impact with the USS Fitzgerald, pushing it off course while trying to free itself from being hung on the bow below the waterline," Watkins told the Free Beacon. The ship then continued to sail on for another 15 minutes, increasing speed before eventually reducing speed and turning around. "This shows the autopilot was engaged because nobody would power out of an accident with another ship and keep sailing back on course. It’s unthinkable," he added. Watkins said the fact that the merchant ship hit something and did not radio the coast guard for almost 30 minutes also indicates no one was on the bridge at the time of the collision. By 2:00 a.m., the freighter had turned around and headed back to the earlier position, according to the tracking data. The officials said the Crystal eventually came upon the stricken Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald's AIS data was not available so its track was not reported publicly. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson traveled to Japan to oversee the transfer of the fallen sailors. "There are multiple U.S. and Japanese investigations underway to determine the facts of the collision," Richardson said in a statement. "Our goal is to learn all we can to prevent future accidents from occurring. This process will unfold as quickly as possible, but it's important to get this right." According to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, initial reports on the incident indicate no crew member was manning the controls in the pilot house of the Crystal when it hit the Fitzgerald. After impact, the freighter's was not immediately aware that it had collided with anything and continued sailing. The ship's crew then realized it had been in a collision and sailed back to try to determine what had happened. Transport safety authorities and coast guard investigators in Japan on Thursday announced the data recorder from the Crystal had been secured, the Associated Press reported. The freighter is currently docked in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo. The Navy and Coast Guard are investigating the incident. The Fitzgerald is currently at its home port of Yokosuka naval base. The investigation is expected to be completed in several months. For the Navy, investigators are trying to determine why the ship's radar and other sensors did not detect the Crystal in time to take steps to avoid the collision. The Fitzgerald is equipped with the AN/SPS-64 advanced military navigation radar, and also uses a commercial radar system to enhance the shipping traffic picture of ships in its vicinity. Navy ships operate radar systems to detect approaching ships or submarines. Lookouts posted on the bridge are responsible for detecting ships that pose a risk of collision. Additionally, all commercial ships over 300 tons are required under international rules to operate AIS location data. AIS information from Crystal should have been monitored by sailors on the bridge of the Fitzgerald. The sailors aboard the 505-foot-long Fitzgerald waged what officials said was a heroic battle about the ship to seal off flooding after the collision. "We were struck by the stories of heroism and sacrifice—by both the sailors on board and their families back home—as they fought the damage to their ship and brought her back to Yokosuka," Richardson said. The ship was not in danger of sinking but was listing to one side and was able to remain under its own power. The bodies of the seven dead sailors were found in sealed off areas of the ship on Sunday after it reached port. Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet told reporters the Fitzgerald suffered extensive flooding and damage caused by a large puncture below the waterline on the starboard side underneath the pilot house. The ship's commander, Cmdr. Bryce Benson was airlifted by Japanese coast guard helicopter. Two other injured sailors also were evacuated. All appear to have injuries that are not life threatening. The officials said Benson was in his stateroom at the time of the collision. The Fitzgerald was commissioned in 1995 and has a crew of some 300 crew members. It has a top speed of 30 knots and is armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, SM-1 anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles, as well as machine guns and torpedoes. The Crystal was built in South Korea, is 730 feet long and capable of carrying up to 2,858 shipping containers. The Crystal is classified as a mid-size container ship part of the Asia Container Express or ACX, an Asian container shipping trade subsidiary of NYK Line, a global shipping division of Japan's Mitsubishi.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/freighter-autopilot-hit-us-destroyer/
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Cities across the country are using street lights equipped with microphones and surveillance cameras to spy on everyone
According to an article in the Mercury News, the City of San Jose, California is letting anyCOMM install 300-1,000 street lights equipped with surveillance cameras and microphones on their streets. "The council ultimately voted 7-4 to allow anyCOMM, a tech company with offices in El Dorado Hills, Gold River and San Jose, to install “nodes” which could have video and audio recording capabilities on 300 to 1,000 streetlights. The “pilot program” — as proposed by Mayor Sam Liccardo — would run for a year and only in pre-agreed upon areas." The article goes on to say, that Siemens and anyCOMM will be paid over $34 million to install LED surveillance street lights across the city. "Siemens proposed converting the remaining streetlamps to be funded through a loan that’s paid off by energy savings and a usage fee anyCOMM pays the city for using the poles. Then anyCOMM would install its new technology, the nodes which include WiFi, smart controllers to dim the lights, cameras and audio sensors, to each pole." Four months ago, I warned everyone that smart street lights and smart cities were being run by a CIA signature school in New Mexico. "On November 10th, 2016, CIA Director James O. Brennan met with ten NSSP scholars following his announcement that UNM is to be designated the first IC-CAE Signature School." Albuquerque Business First said, "the program will deepen cooperation between the CIA and UNM..." Earlier this year, Reuters revealed that GE, Intel and AT&T were working together to install spying street lights. "General Electric will put cameras, microphones and sensors on 3,200 street lights in San Diego this year, marking the first large-scale use of "smart city" tools GE says can help monitor traffic and pinpoint crime." Los Angeles claims street lights are only listening to traffic Sadly, the story of spying streetlights is being played out across the country and no one seems to be noticing. Two years ago the city of Los Angles quietly installed street lights equipped with microphones, to allegedly listen to traffic. "With help from Philips, some light poles in the City of Angels have been equipped with microphones capable of monitoring the ambient sound in select parts of the city as a way to effectively “listen” to the traffic and obtain “a very articulated and diverse reading of the urban soundscape,” according to Dietmar Offenhuber, assistant professor at Northeastern University." And in the same year, Jacksonville, Florida installed 50 GE street lights equipped with video cameras. Since 2015, mall developer Simon Property Group, General Electric, Cisco; and LED lighting maker Acuity Brands have been working with Sensity Systems to develop street lights that spy on the public and monitor traffic, wink, wink. The New York Times (NYT) revealed that LED street lights do more than just monitor traffic. "Depending on the installed or connected sensors, they can detect a range of factors and activities, including motion, congestion, pollutants, gunshots or, increasingly, a particular shopper in or around a store." The NYT article said, LED street lights can even spot "suspicious behavior". Which means they're spying on everyone. (To find out more about each companies spying LED street lights, click here, here & here.) Last year, I warned everyone that spying street lights would be coming to a city near you and it appears I was right. Street lights identify individual wireless Bluetooth signals According to Michael Robertson, police are using Bluetooth detectors to identify an individual Bluetooth signals. "By combining a license plate or a phone number with a Bluetooth serial number, it’s possible to track citizens via their phone" Mr. Robertson said. Wireless Bluetooth detectors are everywhere... “The whole country is doing this,” Paul Misticawi, vice president of public sector sales for traffic data software company. As is often the case twhen it comes to spying on the public, DHS's fingerprints are all over it. Intellistreets admits DHS is behind spying street lights Last year, DHS the TSA and the NJ Transit installed DriveCam LTYX's cameras equipped with microphones to secretly spy on commuters conversations. “The video and audio captured … is utilized by the New Jersey Transit Police Department and is an indispensable investigatory tool for them,” said NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith. (To find out more click here.) It's time to face the facts. Federal/corporate spying has never been about our safety. Smart lighting and smart cities are about government spying on an unimaginable scale. As you can see, smart lighting is really about corporate profits at the expense of our privacy. Posted 5 days ago by mapi
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2017/06/cites-across-country-are-using-street.html
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Obama Secretly Set A War With Russia Into Action Before He Left Office
Mac Slavo June 25th, 2017 SHTFplan.com
Barack Obama was either very secretively cunning, or someone in his administration was. Before there was an investigation into “Russian hacking,” which we’ve seen no shred of proof even happened, the former president ordered a retaliation against our Cold War foe, which could lead to war. Before the tears of the saddened liberals dried after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president, Obama was at it with his “pen and phone,” determined to destroy any chance Trump had at being a success. Obama, who was upset that Hillary Clinton would watch Donald Trump inaugurated as president, decided to shift blame to Russia. He authorized a covert cyber operation to deploy “implants” in Russian networks that could be triggered remotely in retaliation to any future cyber aggression by Moscow, The Washington Post reported Friday. Since we have yet to see any evidence that Russian hacked the election, and admission from intelligence officials confirmed that no votes were changed because of the fabricated “meddling” story, Obama’s ticking time bomb of cyberwarfare could blow up in our faces. After demanding the NSA infect Russian networks with the implants, he also made said implants difficult to remove. Should the Russian government attempt to undo the actions of the emotional temper tantrum by Obama, they will be extremely discomforted. The implants, developed by the NSA, are designed to hit Russian networks deemed “important to the adversary and that would cause them pain and discomfort if they were disrupted,” a former U.S. official told The Washington Post. Note the use of the word “adversary,” almost as if Obama’s goal was to begin a war with Russia. And to make matters worse, “U.S. intelligence agencies do not need further approval from (President) Trump, and officials said that he would have to issue a countermanding order to stop it,” the Post reported. “The officials said that they have seen no indication that Trump has done so.” These implants could be “activated” if Russia interferes with another election, which is code for: should Trump win re-election in 2020. They could also be used if Russia takes action against the United States, although there is no reason to suspect that they would. Vladimir Putin does not see the US as an enemy, so it appears that Obama is simply attempting to incite a war with the former Soviet Union. It’s not really a secret that Obama and Putin didn’t like each other. Putin is coming out of this looking like the bigger man. He’s taken the evidenceless blame on his country with a grain of salt. Democrats and their warmongering leader, Obama, seem to insist on poking the Russian bear. Putin has so far, downplayed the retaliations against him, and his attitude regarding the media hysteria, which is leading to an another war, is actually cool and calm compared to those in our own government. Actions taken by Barack Obama during his term could result in a war with Russia, in which the left with blame on Donald Trump.
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JAPAN ON NUKE ALERT Japan issues warning over North Korea nuclear missile strike with residents told to seek shelter or lie on ground in terrifying TV broadcast
In the event of a missile attack - the Japanese government will inform members of the public though speakers across the country
By Hannah Crouch and Patrick Knox 26th June 2017, 7:23 pm Updated: 26th June 2017, 7:32 pm
RESIDENTS in Japan have been told to seek shelter or lie on the ground in the event of North Korea missile strike in a terrifying new nationwide television broadcast. The half a minute announcement also states people should stay away from windows and protect their heads if they are inside a building should a missile be fired in the direction of Japan from North Korea. A new television broadcast has informed Japanese residents what they should do in the event of a missile attack The broadcast also confirmed, in the event of a missile attack, the Japanese government will inform members of the public though speakers across the country, the Daily Telegraph has reported. Between now and July, 43 television stations across Japan will broadcast the announcement while 70 Japanese newspapers will publish written instructions. The announcement following an increase in tensions after North Korea conducted another missile test. Kim Jong-un was pictured grinning following the test while another photo showed a huge crowd of soldiers cheering next to the surface-to-air missile launcher. The missiles are the fourth new system the hermit state has tested this year. Japan is the only country to have suffered nuclear war after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the last days of World War 2. This killed 250,000 with many more dying of cancer because of radiation. Japanese residents appear to be growing more worried about the increasing risk of a missile attack and in April it was reported that sales of nuclear bomb shelters had surged in Japan. A small Japanese company that specialises in building nuclear shelters has revealed its orders have gone through the roof as terrified civilians prepare for the worst. Oribe Seiki Seisakusho, based in Kobe, western Japan, has received eight orders in April alone –compared with six orders during the whole of a typical year. The business has also sold out its stock of 50 Swiss-made air purifiers, which are said to keep out radiation and poisonous gas, and is trying to get more, according to company director Nobuko Oribe. A downloadable doomsday pamphlet is now available on the island nation’s civil defence website advising what to do should nuclear war break out. Called “Protecting Ourselves against Armed Attacks and Terrorism,” it outlines emergency measures in the event North Korean missiles are fired at the country. It bears similarities to the creepy Protect and Survive documents issued in Britain and Northern Ireland during the early 1980s following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Like the UK’s booklet it give top-tips on how to avoid being fried and radiated. It urges people to take shelter indoors behind thick walls to avoid blast injuries but also radiation. Underground shopping malls would be an ideal place to take cover, it urges.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3885014/japan-north-korea-nuclear-missile-strike-warning-tv-broadcast/
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Polio Vaccine Has Caused Polio Outbreak, W.H.O. Says
June 25, 2017 Sean Adl-Tabatabai
The World Health Organization has admitted that a recent deadly outbreak of Polio in Syria is down to the Polio vaccine itself. Despite the fact that at least 17 children in eastern Syria have been paralyzed from the recent outbreak of Polio, W.H.O. officials are attempting to get into Syria and vaccinate yet more children. Nytimes.com reports: It is the second outbreak of the crippling disease to hit Syria since the war began, and largely reflected the inability of health workers to immunize all children caught in conflict zones where access is difficult and sanitation is poor. The polio virus, once thought to verge on eradication, is one of the most contagious diseases in inadequately protected areas. One confirmed case of paralysis is considered an outbreak, as doctors assume it means up to 200 other people may have been exposed to the virus. Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the World Health Organization in Geneva, said there was an urgent need to vaccinate more than 400,000 children under the age of 5 in the Deir al-Zour area, where the outbreak was first confirmed in an announcement made by the organization on June 8. He described the outbreak as “very serious.” Sixteen of the paralyzed children were from Mayadin, south of Deir al-Zour, and one was from farther north in Raqqa, the Syrian redoubt of the Islamic State extremist group. The entire region has been upended by fighting. All of the children developed the paralysis between March 3 and May 23, Mr. Jasarevic said. Unlike Syria’s first polio outbreak in 2013, caused by a wild strain that paralyzed 36 children before it was brought under control, the new outbreak derived from the polio vaccine itself, Mr. Jasarevic said. The vaccine, a weakened form of the polio virus that triggers the immune system’s response, is secreted in the waste of vaccinated children, and over time can mutate into an infectious strain that may afflict the unvaccinated. The risks are especially high in areas where not all children have received the vaccine and where the mutated virus can spread from contaminated sewage or water. “These vaccine-derived outbreaks really are a marker of poor vaccination and poor sanitation in the community,” said Dr. Homer Venters, director of programs at Physicians for Human Rights, an international aid group based in New York that supports humanitarian work in war zones, including Syria and Yemen. Along with a recent measles outbreak near Damascus, the Syrian capital, and a cholera scourge raging in war-torn Yemen, Dr. Venters said, the new polio outbreak “is another indication that public health systems have been decimated by these conflicts.” As of late March and April, Mr. Jasarevic said, there had been some vaccinations in parts of the Deir al-Zour area, “but security remained an issue and that’s why many children were not vaccinated.” He also said it was unclear whether the afflicted child in Raqqa meant that the virus was circulating there or whether the child had traveled to Raqqa and then developed the case.
http://yournewswire.com/polio-vaccine-outbreak-syria-who/
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Massive wildfire raging in Utah, 1 500 people evacuated
Posted by TW on June 26, 2017
A massive wildfire is raging in southern Utah, forcing authorities to issue evacuation orders for at least 1 500 people. Since it started on June 17, the fire has rapidly spread to more than 17 000 hectares (42 000 acres), destroying on its way more than a dozen homes. This is currently the largest wildfire burning in the United States. Estimated containment day is July 15, 2017. The fire started around midday Saturday, June 17, and grew very quickly through dense timber on lands administered by Brian Head Town, Iron County, in cooperation with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands. Named Brian Head Fire, it has since burned on to lands managed by Dixie National Forest and Color Country District Bureau of Land Management. As of 20:00 MDT, Sunday, June 25 (02:00 UTC, Monday, June 26), the Brian Head Fire has consumed 17 320 hectares (42 800 acres) of land and is only 10% contained. It has so far destroyed 26 structures, including 13 residences and 8 outbuildings, and forced more than 1 500 people to evacuate. More than 1 100 firefighters have been deployed, along with 41 engines, 29 crews and nearly a dozen helicopters. A Red Flag Warning is in effect for southwest Utah through 22:00 MDT, June 26, conditions are ideal for wildland fire combustion, and rapid spread. Southwest winds 16 - 40 km/h (10 - 25 mph) with gusts to 56 km/h (35 mph) are expected today, especially over ridges and around the western slopes of the Tushar Mountains and Pahvant Range. Combined with low humidity (10 - 15%), these winds will cause critical fire weather conditions today. In addition, isolated thunderstorms may also increase the threat for new starts and locally gusty and erratic winds. With the winds forecast to come from the southwest again Monday afternoon, fire managers are anticipating spread down Horse Valley. To counter this spread, a dozer constructed indirect fireline, away from the current fire perimeter, across the valley. On Monday, crews will continue to secure the southern perimeter of the fire to slow its progression toward Mammoth Creek. They will also be scouting out ahead of the fire to the north and south to be prepared if the fire activity picks up and moves the fire in those directions. A Type 1 Incident Management Team will assume control of the eastern half of the fire, while the Type 2 Team will remain in Parowan. The following communities remain evacuated per local law enforcement: Panguitch Lake, Horse Valley, Beaver Dam, Castle Valley, Blue Springs, Rainbow Meadows, Mammoth Creek, Dry Lakes, Second Left Hand Canyon, and the town of Brian Head. Evacuees can contact the Red Cross for shelter information. If you live in an area affected by wildland fires, officials recommend familiarizing yourself with the Ready, Set, Go Program. Highway 143 is closed from the cemetery in Parowan to milepost 50 outside of Panguitch while the Mammoth Creek Road is closed at the junction with Highway 143. Additionally, the north side gate of 143/148 is closed and the Dixie National Forest has expanded its area closure. The fire is producing heavy smoke which is currently heading to the east and southeast. All people in a smoky area (except firefighters or emergency personnel) should avoid strenuous work or exercise outdoors. They should avoid driving whenever possible. If driving is necessary, people should run the air conditioner on the “recycle” or re-circulate mode to avoid drawing smoky air into the car. Population affected by the smoke should be aware that the effects of smoke range from eye and respiratory tract irritation to more serious disorders, including reduced lung function, bronchitis, exacerbation of asthma and heart failure, and premature death. Studies have found that short-term exposures (i.e., days to weeks) to fine particles, a major component of smoke, are linked with increased premature mortality and aggravation of preexisting respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Children, pregnant women, and elderly are also especially vulnerable to smoke exposure. Fine particles are respiratory irritants, and exposures to high concentrations can cause a persistent cough, phlegm, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. Exposures to fine particles can also affect healthy people, causing respiratory symptoms, transient reductions in lung function, and pulmonary inflammation. Particulate matter may also affect the body’s physiological mechanisms that remove inhaled foreign materials from the lungs, such as pollen and bacteria. Although the official cause of the fire is still under investigation, Gov. Gary Herbert stated last week that experts determined a weed torch sparked the fire.
https://watchers.news/2017/06/26/brian-head-fire-utah-june-2017/
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McDonalds Is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks: Here Is Its Math
by Tyler Durden Jun 23, 2017 11:45 PM
The stock market is luvin' McDonalds stock, which has continued its recent relentless rise to all time highs, up 26% YTD, oblivious to the carnage among the broader restaurant and fast-food sector. There is a reason for Wall Street's euphoria: the same one we discussed in January in "Dear Bernie, Meet the "Big Mac ATM" That Will Replace All Of Your $15 Per Hour Fast Food Workers." In a report released this week by Cowen's Andrew Charles, the analyst calculates the jump in sales as a result of the company's new Experience of the Future strategy which anticipates that digital ordering kiosks (shown above) will replace cashiers in at least 2,500 restaurants by the end of 2017 and another 3,000 over 2018. Cowen also cited plans for the restaurant chain to roll out mobile ordering across 14,000 U.S. locations by the end of 2017 (we did not show that particular math, but the logic was similarly compelling). Here is a snapshot of the math that Cowen, likely in conjunction with management, used to come up with the cost-savings as McDonalds increasingly lays off more and more minimum wage workers and replaces them with "Big Mac ATMs" MCD is cultivating a digital platform through mobile ordering and Experience of the Future (EOTF), an in-store technological overhaul most conspicuous through kiosk ordering and table delivery. Our analysis suggests efforts should bear fruit in 2018 with a combined 130 bps contribution to U.S. comps. We believe mobile ordering better supplements the drive-thru business where 70%+ of U.S. sales are transacted. In our view, MCD's differentiation lies in the operational enhancements of mobile ordering that includes curbside pick-up of orders in order to not disrupt the drive-thru. Below we show Cowen's full math laying out why the restaurant chain's client-facing fast food workers are now obsolete: We are most excited for mobile ordering, Experience of the Future and the launch of fresh beef to help drive U.S. same store sales in 2018. We provide analysis for the latter three, which cumulatively we expect to contribute roughly 150 bps to U.S. same store sales in 2018, respectively. This gives us confidence to raise our 2018 U.S. same store sales forecast from 2% to 3%, in excess of Consensus Metrix’s 2.5%. Experience of the Future Features Lower ROI Than Mobile Order, But Offers Greater Potential Longer Term We are constructive on the use of guest facing technology for the restaurant industry. MCD’s longer-term U.S. story revolves around Experience of the Future (EOTF), a holistic operational and technological overhaul to the store base. MCD’s March 2017 investor meeting centered around the initiative with interactive displays. Perhaps the most conspicuous piece of Experience of the Future lies in digital kiosk ordering, which have seen success in International Lead Markets. Additionally, food ordered via the kiosk is delivered to the customer’s table. We believe EOTF better enhances the instore experience, which represents roughly 30% of domestic sales compared to mobile ordering, which allows customers to avoid leaving their cars. Our ROI math suggests EOTF leads to a 9% cash/cash return in Year 1 in the 55% of domestic stores that do not require a store remodel, and 5% in the 45% of stores that require a remodel, which is a predecessor to implementing EOTF. Our math is premised on total costs of $150,000 for the Experience of the Future enhancement, and $700,000 of all-in costs when including EOTF as well as a store remodel. MCD has offered to pay 55% of the cost for Experience of the Future, in excess of the 40% the company contributed to the store remodel initiative beginning in 2010, for restaurants that commit to the program by the end of 2017. McDonald’s targets a high-teens return on incrementally invested capital (ROIIC, or McSpeak for evaluating ROI), improving to the mid-20% range beginning in 2019. We believe EOTF’s ROI is captured over time as the sales lift does not dissolve as in the case of a traditional restaurant remodel. Rather, the lift should sustain as we expect consumers to increasingly embrace technological change. This is evidenced across concepts, such as Panera’s experience with 2.0, as well as McDonald’s own experience in Canada, where kiosks saw 12-13% sales mix in Year 1 and 27% in Year 2. We also note kiosk ordering will also likely lead to labor savings over time which should help boost ROIIC, but is unlikely for the foreseeable future. We are most excited for mobile ordering, Experience of the Future and the launch of fresh beef to help drive U.S. same store sales in 2018. We provide analysis for the latter three, which cumulatively we expect to contribute roughly 150 bps to U.S. same store sales in 2018, respectively. This gives us confidence to raise our 2018 U.S. same store sales forecast from 2% to 3%, in excess of Consensus Metrix’s 2.5%. Experience of the Future Features Lower ROI Than Mobile Order, But Offers Greater Potential Longer Term We are constructive on the use of guest facing technology for the restaurant industry. MCD’s longer-term U.S. story revolves around Experience of the Future (EOTF), a holistic operational and technological overhaul to the store base. MCD’s March 2017 investor meeting centered around the initiative with interactive displays. Perhaps the most conspicuous piece of Experience of the Future lies in digital kiosk ordering, which have seen success in International Lead Markets. Additionally, food ordered via the kiosk is delivered to the customer’s table. We believe EOTF better enhances the instore experience, which represents roughly 30% of domestic sales compared to mobile ordering, which allows customers to avoid leaving their cars. Our ROI math suggests EOTF leads to a 9% cash/cash return in Year 1 in the 55% of domestic stores that do not require a store remodel, and 5% in the 45% of stores that require a remodel, which is a predecessor to implementing EOTF. Our math is premised on total costs of $150,000 for the Experience of the Future enhancement, and $700,000 of all-in costs when including EOTF as well as a store remodel. MCD has offered to pay 55% of the cost for Experience of the Future, in excess of the 40% the company contributed to the store remodel initiative beginning in 2010, for restaurants that commit to the program by the end of 2017. McDonald’s targets a high-teens return on incrementally invested capital (ROIIC, or McSpeak for evaluating ROI), improving to the mid-20% range beginning in 2019. We believe EOTF’s ROI is captured over time as the sales lift does not dissolve as in the case of a traditional restaurant remodel. Rather, the lift should sustain as we expect consumers to increasingly embrace technological change. This is evidenced across concepts, such as Panera’s experience with 2.0, as well as McDonald’s own experience in Canada, where kiosks saw 12-13% sales mix in Year 1 and 27% in Year 2. We also note kiosk ordering will also likely lead to labor savings over time which should help boost ROIIC, but is unlikely for the foreseeable future. In 2017, MCD expects to end the year with EOTF offered in 2,500 domestic locations from 500 at 2016-end. MCD targets the majority of domestic locations to feature EOTF by 2020, but has not given intermediary targets. The amount of stores adding EOTF depends on franchise reception to the initiative but we see positive indicators given our checks as well as the company’s disclosure that 90% of franchisees approved of the initiative after taking the same interactive tour that was given at the March 2017 investor day. We estimate 3,000 locations to add EOTF in 2018, which should lead to a 70 bps contribution to U.S. same store sales assuming an even cadence of restaurants adding the initiative over the course of the year. Further we assume the mix of stores adding EOTF in 2018 reflects the mix of overall stores needed to add EOTF, or 55% of stores that already have a remodel while 45% require a store remodel. McDonald’s has previously announced plans to remodel 650 restaurants in 2017, which we expect will also add EOTF.
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'Enemy Of The State': CNN Publishes Fake News Story, Retracts, Deletes, Disables All Links - This Goes Beyond A Mistake, It Is A Systematic Attack Against America
June 25, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
In what CNN employees are calling a "massive, massive f*ck up" according to BuzzFeed, CNN published a hit piece on President Trump and his associates, falsely claiming they were under Senate and Treasury investigation, citing one unnamed source. After Breitbart exposed the hit piece as "very fake news," and one of the victims of CNN's journalistic malpractice, Anthony Scaramucci, immediately assembled a legal, public relations, and rapid response team, CNN was forced to retract the entire piece. The fall-out since Friday when they retracted the piece with a note that it "did not meet CNN's editorial standards," (stop laughing!) and that they had disabled all links to the fake news article, while issuing a public apology to Mr. Scaramucci, has been brutal, as other outlets have slammed them for 1) Publishing the article without verifying the information contained with in and 2) Deleting the story without explanation, which BuzzFeed's Jon Passantino and Jim Dalrymple, called a "serious lapse in journalistic ethics." THE FALL OUT CONTINUES Recent reports are now surfacing that the "one source" was a staffer for Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was reportedly "egged on" by a Senator Kamila Harris staffer, basically using the CNN "investigator" and writer Tom Franks as a useless fool in order to create fake news buzz against president Trump and his associates. But now reports are surfacing that CNN’s sole source for the hit piece seems to have been a staffer for Warren who was apparently "egged on" by staff for Harris. Harris is a freshman Democrat Senator who has aligned herself with the Warren-led “resist” movement, using congressional hearings to increase her profile nationally by arguing with Trump administration officials. While Warren’s team is not responding, Harris’s office denies the reports. Reports also state that CNN's president Jeff Zucker is supposedly personally involved in the internal investigation into the fake news scandal now engulfing CNN. The writer Tom Franks, waited two days after publishing the hit piece that has now been retracted to issue a single tweet stating "For the sake of transparency, I am posting an editor's note from CNN concerning a story I posted on Thursday --," with a link to the CNN editors note about the retraction. He offered no personal apology to his readers, nor an explanation as to his lack of confirmation, or even basic research regarding his original piece, which can still be found on Google cache, despite the story being deleted, retracted and disappearing from the CNN website. As is clearly evidenced by the reactions to Franks' tweet, the fall out over CNN publishing, then retracting and apologizing for the false report, is ongoing and brutal as comments range from calling #CNN an "enemy of the state," to demands for his resignation and/or firing. Other reactions to that Franks' tweet including people asking "For the sake of transparency would you like to explain how/why you printed lies in the first place?," some accusing them having no integrity and no morals, with still others calling CNN the "keystone cops of corp media." Those are just the tip of the iceberg to the public's reaction to this latest in a long line of CNN screw ups. See all the responses at Twitter. EDITORIAL STANDARDS? The problem for CNN is that this isn't just one story that has been proven untrue, nor just one writer that got something wrong. Anyone that writes about current events makes mistakes, offers updates correcting any mistakes, issues an apology, and everyone moves on. CNN's problem is speaking about "editorial standards" when this is the second time in one month they have used unnamed sources and the entire story, headline and basis for the story has legitimately been "fake news." The first 'fake news" story CNN put out was in early June, where right before former director James Comey was scheduled to testify to congress, CNN ran with a story that cited "sources" without naming them, claiming in their headline and story that Comey would "refute Trump" in his assertion that Comey had previously informed him three separate times that he was not personally under investigation. Comey's prepared statement was issued shortly after, where he confirmed Trump's assertion, even detailing the three dates he told President Trump he was not under investigation. Via The Hill: The CNN report said Comey was expected to dispute President Trump's claims that Comey said he was not under investigation on multiple occasions. The report, titled "Comey expected to refute Trump," was based on unnamed sources and said Comey's conversations with the president "were much more nuanced," and that Trump drew the wrong conclusion. The story was compiled by four CNN journalists, including Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper and Brian Rokus. Borger reiterated the report's claims in an appearance on CNN on Tuesday. "Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he’s asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be," said Borger, the network's chief political analyst. "He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so." After Comey's prepared statement was released CNN changed their headline from "Comey expected to Refute Trump," to "Comey unlikely to judge on obstruction," and offered the following "CORRECTION AND UPDATE: This article was published before Comey released his prepared opening statement. The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published." In that case, rather than retracting and deleting their entire story, they simply went back, after the damage had been done, and changed the headline and rewrote the article, but the URL still accurately captures the "false narrative" they were originally pushing as it shows "http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/comey-testimony-refute-trump-russian-investigation/"
The point here is it is not just Tom Franks, nor whoever was supposed to edit or check his work, but now we have five different CNN "reporters", Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper, Brian Rokusand Franks, that have published two separate "fake news" stories in just a single month, using unnamed sources. Related: Here Are Five Fake Stories CNN Pushed They are not alone and that same congressional testimony indicated that the New York Times had also published an article that was "not true," and that other publications had reported "many dead wrong" articles in regards to Russia, all using anonymous sources. Hence the DOJ statement that sent the media into a tailspin last week, where Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein warned the general public to "exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous 'officials'." Rosenstein went on to say "Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations." BOTTOM LINE This is not a case of "editorial standards" or simply a mistake on the part of CNN or other MSM outlets, this is a systematic attack against America, on the part of journalists within the MSM, where truth doesn't matter as long as their viral story of the day undermines the President of the United States and the nation he leads. The MSM has not just become the "opposition party" as 54 percent of Americans believe, nor just the "fake news" that President Trump has called them....they have quite literally become "enemies of the state."
http://allnewspipeline.com/CNN_Enemy_Of_The_State.php
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AMI Smart Meters Are The Number One Health Hazard; Next Is Cell Phones, Per Medical Research Science
By Catherine J. Frompovich
Utility companies—electric, natural gas and water—have retrofitted AMI Smart Meters, which are devastating human health. Here is a video, which describes and details what’s going on from AMI Smart Meters. Pregnant women must hear the reasons why they should not sleep in a bedroom that has non-thermal radiation waves from smart meters penetrating it. Smart meters use a 905 Megahertz frequency that apparently is dumbing down those who are exposed to them. Regular Dect phones base stations produce strong radiation fields. Energies were measured up to six hundred times more than the set standards! EMF trauma to blood cells (rouleaux formation) is verified in this video. Some people are so disturbed by AMI Smart Meter microwave radiation, they actually have become homeless because they could not live in their homes. Video Presenters Magda Havas, PhD, on blood cell “rouleaux” / “cell phones never tested for safety, and if cell phones were a drug, they would be illegal” Dr. Stephen Sinatra, MD, on electric pollution Jeromy Johnson, a TEDx Berkeley seminar / learn about the “thimble cell tower” / Infertility / DNA damage / Fiber optics is the safer and more secure way to go for technology / Create a safe place to sleep; turn off all technology at night Baby Safe Project / wireless radiation impacts fetuses / Babysafeproject.org Hugh S. Taylor, MD, Obstetrician describes the animal cell phone model study on fetal mice evaluated as adult mice, which proved “dose response” / the Precautionary Principle Dr Devra Davis, PhD. Book: “Disconnect” available on Amazon.com Dr Maya Shetreat-Kline, MD, Pediatric neurologist / Right to be made aware; Precautionary Principle Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD. / Doctor is certified in “building biology.” / “Smart Meters are the worst invention” / body voltage / fetal genomes are tweaked negatively by cell phones and ambient man-made electromagnetic fields / Graham Stetzer filters / CFL light bulbs give off high frequency radiation / Smart Meters are surveillance devices, which utilities sell the data collected to others for advertising purposes; another revenue stream for them. / SMs are 600-fold above EPA set standards / Electrosensitivity versus electric allergy / “German method” of dealing with AMI SMs / Fiber optics versus microwave energies / Antenna function of the human body Here’s a ComEd (an Exelon Company) less than 3 minute infomercial about how to register your smart meter connected devices in order to be hooked up to your AMI Smart Meter. Here’s a hint about buying new appliances, especially if you don’t want to purchase those which contain a transmitter to connect with an AMI Smart Meter. Check the back of the appliance to see if this address is on the back: 3MAC2 . The above information truly is something I encourage readers to save; it’s that important!
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Did John Podesta Try To Oust Rep Scalise Over Sex Trafficking?
By Liz Crokin - June 26, 2017
John Podesta and a group of Democrats called for Rep. Steve Scalise to resign shortly after he began his efforts to combat human trafficking as the Majority Whip of the House. On Jan. 8, 2015, John Podesta received an e-mail from Democrat-run group House Majority PAC campaigning for Scalise to resign, according to an e-mail by Wikileaks. The subject of the e-mail was “add your name: tell Scalise to resign” and called for Scalise to step down as GOP Majority Whip. The e-mail stated that their reason behind the petition to remove Scalise was due to the fact that he had spoken at a rally sponsored by David Duke 13 years earlier. “In 2002 GOP Majority Whip Steve Scalise spoke at a rally sponsored by former KKK leader, David Duke,” the e-mail stated. “It’s time for Scalise to step down as GOP Majority Whip.” The signature-drive by Podesta and other Democrats calling for Scalise to resign began at the same time Scalise started working on legislation as the Majority Whip in the House to end human trafficking. Scalise and other Republicans had been working on several bills that took aim at human trafficking. On Jan. 27, 12 of those bills passed in the Republican-controlled House. Scalise gave a press conference at the Capitol about those bills on the same day they were passed. Ironically, the House Majority PAC & Podesta petitioned for Scalise to resign via e-mail the same day in January of 2015 that the Senate introduced a bill to end sex trafficking titled the Combat Human Trafficking Act authored by Senators Rob Portman and Dianne Feinstein, according to Time. On May 19, 2015, the House gave final congressional approval to legislation to expand law enforcement efforts and help victims of human trafficking. “One of the great American values we share is our strong belief in the inherent worth of each and every human life,” Scalise said at the time. “Human trafficking is a direct assault against that core value, and it affects millions of victims who need our help — including right here in America. Congress must continue to do everything in our power to combat this scourge and provide protections, and ultimately justice to the victims of human trafficking.” As previously reported by The Hagmann Report, Scalise was working on new human trafficking legislation when James Hodgkinson allegedly shot him as he practiced baseball in Alexandria, Virginia on June 13. Scalise had recently posted a video on his YouTube channel and on his Twitter feed discussing bills passed in the House to target child predators and to provide protection for human trafficking victims. “The sad truth is that human trafficking is a real problem plaguing each and every community in the United States,” Scalise said. “This week the House took strong action to stand up for the victims of human trafficking, passing tough bills to provide them protection and to target child predators.” In 2011, Andrew Breitbart famously linked Podesta to underage sex trafficking in a tweet: “How prog-guru John Podesta isn’t househould name as world class underage sex slave op cover upperer defending unspeakable dregs escapes me.” Members of the House Intelligence Committee are set to interview Podesta this week into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Liz Crokin is an award winning investigative journalist, author of Malice and regular contributor to the Hagmann and Hagmann Report. If you are able, please support Liz Crokin’s ongoing fight against child trafficking with prayer and by clicking here.
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etc For I have told them those that live along the seashores should move away, but yet they listen not to me, they go their own way. You shall see many, many, many terrible things yet coming, for it is that time, you are in the last days, it is recorded in my word. etc
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Are These the Last Days?
Pat Robertson
The Bible says that in the last days many scoffers will say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation" (2 Peter 3:4). On my birthday, when I was 54 years old, the producer of The 700 Club television program gave me a front page of the NEW YORK TIMES for the day I was born in 1930. The similarity between those days and these days is striking. There are the same kinds of trouble in the world, the same kinds of international tension, and the same kinds of money problems. So these days are not far different from those days. Yet, by now, we have seen the occurrences of some very significant events that convince me that these are the last days. First of all, the nation of Israel was reborn in 1948. That nation will complete a generation of forty years in 1988. Second, the Jews now control all of Jerusalem and have since 1967. That is very significant as I have noted in previous answers. Third, we have the ability, with nuclear weapons, to obliterate all life, or to kill, as Revelation puts it, at least one third of all people in a single war (see Revelation 9:18). Another thing that we have today is an incredible explosion of knowledge (see Daniel 12:4). Our knowledge doubles every six years. We have unlocked the atom and the secrets of the gene. We have come close to the heart of life itself, and in the process we have grown callous toward our fellow men and toward the Creator of life. We are expanding our knowledge in many areas which could benefit all people by making their lives healthier and easier. But this same knowledge has dreadful potential for misuse. Those who work in the field of genetic engineering, for instance, are not too far from being able to clone human beings by taking parts out of embryos in order to create some kind of master race. Other scientists are working to create computers that appear to reason like men. These could open up vistas of great blessing, but they could also bring about horrors if placed in the hands of the wrong people. Add to this the ability of computers to monitor the behavior of populations and to control all of the world's money. These developments are fulfilling biblical prophecies. This tells me that we are getting very close to the time when God is going to say that the human race has gone far enough. He may be ready to step in to terminate this phase of human activity and to start another one. That is why I firmly expect to be alive when Jesus Christ comes back to earth.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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11:30AM EDT 6/22/2017 Reuters
A major earthquake struck off the coast of Guatemala on Thursday, damaging buildings and downing trees as well as causing powerful tremors in neighboring El Salvador. There were no reports of casualties. The quake, measured at a magnitude of 6.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck 38 kilometers (24 miles) southwest of Puerto San Jose at a depth of 46.8 kilometers. A deeper earthquake of similar magnitude struck the interior of Guatemala last week, killing at least two people and damaging buildings. "We have checked 13 out of the 22 departments, and we don't have any victims, just light damage to structures in two places: Antigua, Guatemala, and Totonicapan," said Ileana Recinos, a spokeswoman at Guatemala's Conred national emergency service. Edwin de Leon, a spokesman for fire services in Guatemala, told local radio the quake had damaged houses, bringing down some roofs, but also said no casualties had been reported. El Salvador's emergency services said it had no initial reports of casualties, and the government said on Twitter no tsunami alert had been issued as the result of the quake. Luis Felipe Puente, the head of Mexico's civil protection authority, told Reuters the quake was felt in the state of Chiapas on the Guatemalan border, but said there were no initial reports of damage. A spokesman for emergency services in Honduras said the quake was felt in the west of the country, but that there were no reports of damage.
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For truly you are seeing the end time signs that I have spoken to you about, and if you were studying, you would clearly see them being fulfilled etc.
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5 Reasons the End Times are Upon Us Now Are you ready?
By Megan Bailey
It may come as a surprise to some, but many contemporary theologians and pastors believe that they are observing numerous signs in our culture that mirror the prophetic contents of the Bible. People actually believe the end of the world is happening now? It’s true. Christians everywhere are starting to agree, siting sweeping moral decay, biblical disconnectedness, and ongoing violence in the Middle East as just a few of the markers. These prophecies were written thousands of years ago in the Old and New Testaments, so how can we be sure the end times are approaching? Jesus told of his future second coming, but also stated that no one would know the day of His return. While Christians don’t know when, Jesus did reveal to the disciples some of the signs of the second coming. As tensions around the world have increased, the belief that the prophecies in the Bible are talking about modern day is increasingly common. Here’s why. Chaos in the Middle East In recent years, the situation in the Middle East region has been catching the eyes of many Biblical scholars. There seems to be an endless stream of tension between Israel and the surrounding countries without any end in sight. Instead, the strain only intensifies. Whether it is the ongoing struggle between the Palestinians and Israel or the growing threat of the Islamic State, there is a prophecy in the Bible that it supports. The Middle East conflicts are directly felt in the United States. No matter what else happens in the world, the Middle East seems to remain the ongoing focal point of world conflict. The good news is that the Bible also foretells of a time when world peace will ultimately reign the earth, however that is only after a period of intense war and suffering. The Islamic State The Middle East has other problems with the Islamic State’s bloodthirsty quest for power continues to rage on. Looking at their murderous events, some Bible experts will point out that the battles described in scripture are slated to take place in the Middle East. Experts are suspecting the possibility that the groundwork is currently being set for the fulfillment of the “Gog” and “Magog” battles that are referenced in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation. Westerners have been shocked by the increasing Muslim extremism that is usually connect to ISIS. While most Muslims are not terrorists, there is the small majority of radicals that are causing the major problems in the Middle East. Continuing instability in this area is a fact, and the power that ISIS is gaining worries those who think the end times are coming. Israel’s Reemergence Another modern day event that peaks the interest of Bible experts is the 1948 reemergence of Israel, after a Jewish state was noticeably absent from the map for more than 19,000 years. Futurists, who see the majority of Bible prophecies as being currently unfulfilled, believe that the Old and New Testament scriptures predicted that the state of Israel would develop once again. In Ezekiel 36:24, it states “for I will take you out of the nations; I will father you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.” Futurists believe that this verse is clearly referencing the future restoration of Israel, unlike anything that unfolded prior to the end of the Holocaust and World War II. Modern-day Israel is seen as a “super sign” of the end of days. Shifts in Morality It’s no secret that American culture is changing at an alarming rate. Traditional understanding of marriage, transformation, family values, and the like are being replaced with more progressive views. This progression has some citizens worried that the enemy is gaining too much control around us. The Bible states that “most people’s love will grow cold” (Matthew 24:12). The lawlessness of our culture is increasing and in turn creating a hostile atmosphere. As our culture has secularized and paganized, Christianity, the Church, and Christians have come under increasing attack as “intolerant bigots.” Jesus and Paul prophesied that the destruction of society is a sign that the end times are near. Spread of the Gospel Another supporting argument is that the Christian gospel continues to be spread in even the most remote and hard-to-reach geographic places throughout the world. This matters to Christians because Christ, after His resurrection, gave the disciples a direct command in Matthew 28:19 to “go and make disciples of all nations.” Jesus also mentioned preaching of the scripture throughout the world earlier in the Book of Matthew as a sign of the end times. “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come,” Christ said in Matthew 24:14. This may throw some off, as we are excited to share the Word of God, but it can actually be a sign of something more. Clear Evidence Whether or not you believe these signs there are many Christians who see these events as a sign of the end times. We can now better understand how certain viewpoints are formed and stand next to our fellow Christians during this time. Do you think the end times are on us now?
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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom
and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..
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Supreme Court will hear religious liberty challenge to gay weddings
Richard Wolf , USA TODAY Published 9:40 a.m. ET June 26, 2017 | Updated 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to reopen the national debate over same-sex marriage. The court will hear a challenge from a Colorado baker who had lost lower court battles over his refusal to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. Like a New Mexico photographer three years ago, the baker cited his religious beliefs. The justices -- who upheld same-sex marriage nationwide in a landmark 2015 ruling -- apparently decided that despite state laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation, the merchants' obligation to same-sex couples was not necessarily baked in the cake. Colorado and New Mexico are among 21 states with such laws. As a result, Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, previously has lost in his effort to claim that the First Amendment protects his freedom of expression. Twenty-nine states have no such laws, so gays and lesbians freed to marry by the Supreme Court in 2015 still can face discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. A Kentucky appeals court recently upheld a printer's right to refuse to print shirts promoting a gay pride festival, reasoning that his actions did not discriminate against any individuals because of their sexual orientation. Phillips, like Washington State florist Barronelle Stutzman and others across the country, has argued that his religious objections are paramount. Rather than bake for same-sex weddings, he stopped making wedding cakes altogether, at a substantial revenue loss. The key to the outcome of similar cases appears to hinge on whether states have laws barring discrimination against gays and lesbians, or whether they have laws protecting religious liberty. Colorado falls on one side of the ledger, Kentucky on the other. Read more:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Supreme Court may be converting on religion
Religious liberty vs. civil rights: A balancing act
The Supreme Court has sided with religious believers before, most recently by allowing an exception to the Affordable Care Act's requirement that most businesses offer health insurance coverage for contraceptives that some equate with abortion. Phillips' legal battle began several years ago, when Charlie Craig and David Mullins came in to order a cake for their wedding reception. While the wedding was held in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage had been legal since 2004, the celebration was planned for back home in Colorado. Phillips, a born-again Christian, refused to bake the cake. Craig and Mullins filed a civil rights complaint and won, first before an administrative court judge, then before the state Civil Rights Commission, and finally before the Colorado Court of Appeals. The state Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The U.S. Supreme Court passed up its first chance to hear a similar case in 2014 — eight years after Elaine Huguenin and her husband, Jonathan, told a lesbian couple that their Albuquerque photo studio only worked "traditional weddings." The Huguenins' petition to the Supreme Court was based on their freedom of speech and expression, which they interpreted as the right to decide what messages their photography conveys.
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Neighbors say they never suspected Georgia man was holding a Ballantyne teen prisoner
By Mark Price msprice@charlotteobserver.com
The Ballantyne teen that went missing a year ago from her parents home was being held prisoner by a Georgia man in what is described as a quiet middle class neighborhood, authorities say. Michael Ren Wysolovski, 31, of Duluth in Gwinnett County, Georgia, is charged in the case, and 17-year-old Hailey Burns is now home and well, according to the FBI. Family members said Burns has Asperger Syndrome. Neighbors in Duluth are telling news outlets there that they never imagined Wysolovski had a teen hidden in his well kept two-story home on Seneca Trail. "Well, first of all, it’s heartbreaking,” neighbor Kerry Fetter told WSB-TV in Atlanta. “It was very shocking to know that in our neighborhood. It’s just not right.” Fetter said she saw Wysolovski only once since living in the Duluth neighborhood. Another neighbor told the station he saw the teen unloading groceries, and Burns waved back to say hello. He said he had no clue she was being held captive. “I thought nobody was living there actually because everything was closed up, the drapes, the blinds," the neighbor told WSB, not identifying himself. TV station Fox 5 in Atlanta reports Wysolovski bought the home in Duluth on April 14, 2017, and that some people imagined he and the teen kept to themselves because they were “just a quiet couple.” “It makes me sick to my stomach, actually that someone could do that," Jennifer Elmore told Fox 5. She lives next door to the home. “This is Duluth. I mean, nothing bad—you never hear about anything bad happening, but I guess things can happen anywhere and it's – I don't know – it's surreal. I don't really know how to feel about it, except I'm glad that she's safe now," neighbor Jennifer Cabrera told Fox 5. The FBI was offering a $15,000 for information leading to Burns’ whereabouts, and media outlets are reporting the tipster came from an unlikely place: Romania. The girl’s mother, Shaunna Burns, told media outlets that her daughter met a Romanian woman online and told her she was missing. The teen sent the stranger a picture from the window, her mother told Charlotte TV station WSOC. Burns’ parents said the tipster reached out to them and within five hours, investigators had found her, WSOC reported. “After a night of sleuthing and driving to Georgia our sweet baby is coming home with us,” Shaunna Burns posted on Facebook. “We found my starlight and after a brief hospital stay she will return to her home. It is a blessing from God. Please pray for our family as we work to help Hailey feel how much she has been missed. Thank you to all that have stood with us through this difficult time.” A Special Agent in Charlotte received information that Hailey Burns may be at a home in the Atlanta area, reported the FBI on Sunday. FBI Charlotte and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department will continue their investigation into Hailey’s disappearance and will be working closely with FBI Atlanta and the Gwinnett County Police Department. Michael Ren Wysolovski was charged with false imprisonment, sodomy/aggravated sodomy, interference with custody and cruelty to children involving first-degree deprivation, reports the Observer’s news partner WBTV. WSOC reports he went before a judge Monday and was given a court-appointed attorney. A bond was not set for Wysolovski, reported the station. In 2016, Burns' father said she left a diary behind that detailed a plan to run away with a 32-year-old man she met online, reported WBTV. “He gradually wormed his way into her good graces, he coerced her into listening to him and not following our directions and the next thing I knew my daughter wasn’t communicating with me,” her father told the station.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article158195569.html#storylink=cpy
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Sunday Edition: US infrastructure is falling apart —Exclusive Footage
It’s no secret that America’s infrastructure is in dire need of repairs. Earlier this year, America received her infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ and received a repulsive D+. The ASCE guesstimates the US would need to spend $4.5 trillion by 2025 on infrastructure. Here’s the breakdown of the report card:
Aviation: D Bridges: C+ Dams: D Drinking Water: D Energy: D+ Hazardous Waste: D+ Inland Waterways: D Levees: D Parks and Recreation: D+ Ports: C+ Rail: B Roads: D Schools: D Solid Waste: C+ Transit: D- Wastewater: D+
With that being said, I’ve spent the entire weekend inspecting America’s infrastructure at the Port of Baltimore. At some locations, I was given special access to a behind the scenes view of America’s crumbling infrastructure that the public is not allowed to see. The reasons you’re left out of the know is because it destroys the mainstream narrative that everything is awesome. Even Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group says, “the US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure”. In the Sunday Edition, Alastair Williamson is on site at a marine terminal in the Port of Baltimore. He provides an interesting view of America’s deteriorating infrastructure blended with the current shape of the US economy.
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Tim Cook, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos Praise Trump Admin After White House Tech Meeting
by Charlie Spiering19 Jun 2017
Some of the top CEO’s of technology companies in America met with Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, praising him for hosting an afternoon summit on important tech issues. “I’m absolutely convinced that during your administration there is going to be a huge explosion of new opportunities because of the platforms that are getting built in our industry,” Schmidt said to Trump after the meeting, as over a dozen CEOs went around the table to make comments after the meeting. Schmidt said that the combination of entrepreneurs, skilled workers, and immigration would provide “huge” growth in the American economy. “It’s going to happen soon during your leadership,” he predicted. Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was pleased that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump were bringing technology companies together in the Trump administration to help streamline government. “The U.S. should have the most modern government in the world, and today it doesn’t,” he said, predicting that the tech innovations made in the Trump administration would pay back immensely in the future. Cook also offered advice to Trump, suggesting that the federal government needs to be more focused on the people, which was not how it currently operated. “The government should be focused on its citizens, and the services of the government should be measured on how pleased the citizens are with receiving its services,” he said. Cook also told Trump that computer coding should be “a requirement” for public schools. “We have a huge deficit in the skills that we need today, vs. the skills that are there,” he said. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also praised Trump’s administration for forming the tech innovation council, telling Trump that his team could be the “innovation administration.” He advised Trump to use more commercial technologies in government to save taxpayers money. “I think you guys are already headed that way,” he said, adding that he wanted to see more worker re-training and tech skill development. He also urged more awareness of artificial intelligence. “I think it would be impossible to overstate this, is that the United States needs to — in every way at every level — be working on machine learning and artificial intelligence,” he said. “That can be used in every part of government to improve the services that government provides to citizens.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also thanked Trump for the opportunity and said he hoped that Trump would continue both government spending on technology and “enlightened immigration” policies that would allow them to stay competitive. Over a dozen tech CEOs attended the meeting and appeared optimistic about what was possible during this administration. Trump appeared open to working with them on issues they cared about, including immigration. “[W]e’re working very diligently with everybody, including Congress, on immigration so that you can get the people you want in your companies,” he said. Peter Thiel — the most high profile venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, who endorsed Trump — praised the president for highlighting the importance of technology. “I think that the tech industry is an industry that is doing well in America and we need to sort of make it do even better,” he said, calling for ongoing government and regulatory support. “I think your administration is off to a terrific start in doing these things.” After Akamai CEO Tom Leighton talked about his company’s effort to secure government websites, Trump quipped back, “The DNC could have used you.” “It’s an important job and as you can imagine, there’s a lot of folks out there doing a lot of bad things,” he replied. A full list of the tech CEOs who attended below:
Ajay Banga, CEO of MasterCard
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
Zachary Bookman, CEO of OpenGov
Safra Catz, Co-Chief Executive of Oracle
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel
Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai
Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP
Steven Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe
Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet
Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture
Peter Thiel, Founders Fund
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DNA Replication Has Been Filmed For The First Time, And It's Not What We Expected
"It undermines a great deal of what's in the textbooks."
BEC CREW 19 JUN 2017
Here's proof of how far we've come in science - in a world-first, researchers have recorded up-close footage of a single DNA molecule replicating itself, and it's raising questions about how we assumed the process played out. The real-time footage has revealed that this fundamental part of life incorporates an unexpected amount of 'randomness', and it could force a major rethink into how genetic replication occurs without mutations. "It's a real paradigm shift, and undermines a great deal of what's in the textbooks," says one of the team, Stephen Kowalczykowski from the University of California, Davis. "It's a different way of thinking about replication that raises new questions." The DNA double helix consists of two intertwining strands of genetic material made up of four different bases - guanine, thymine, cytosine, and adenine (G, T, C and A). Replication occurs when an enzyme called helicase unwinds and unzips the double helix into two single strands. A second enzyme called primase attaches a 'primer' to each of these unravelled strands, and a third enzyme called DNA polymerase attaches at this primer, and adds additional bases to form a whole new double helix. You can watch that process in the new footage below: The fact that double helices are formed from two stands running in opposite directions means that one of these strands is known as the 'leading strand', which winds around first, and the other is the 'lagging strand', which follows the leader. The new genetic material that's attached to each one during the replication process is an exact match to what was on its original partner. So as the leading strand detaches, the enzymes add bases that are identical to those on the original lagging stand, and as the lagging strand detaches, we get material that's identical to the original leading strand. Scientists have long assumed that the DNA polymerases on the leading and lagging strands somehow coordinate with each other throughout the replication process, so that one does not get ahead of the other during the unravelling process and cause mutations. But this new footage reveals that there's no coordination at play here at all - somehow, each strand acts independently of the other, and still results in a perfect match each time. The team extracted single DNA molecules from E. coli bacteria, and observed them on a glass slide. They then applied a dye that would stick to a completed double helix, but not a single strand, which means they could follow the progress of one double helix as it formed two new double helices. While bacterial DNA and human DNA are different, they both use the same replication process, so the footage can reveal a lot about what goes on in our own bodies. The team found that on average, the speed at which the two strands replicated was about equal, but throughout the process, there were surprising stops and starts as they acted like two separate entities on their own timelines. Sometimes the lagging strand stopped synthesising, but the leading strand continued to grow. Other times, one strand could start replicating at 10 times its regular speed - and for seemingly no reason. "We've shown that there is no coordination between the strands. They are completely autonomous," Kowalczykowski says. The researchers also found that because of this lack of coordination, the DNA double helix has had to incorporate a 'dead man's switch', which would kick in and stop the helicase from unzipping any further so that the polymerase can catch up. The question now is that if these two strands "function independently" as this footage suggests, how does the unravelling double helix know how to keep things on track and minimise mutations by hitting the brakes or speeding up at the right time? Hopefully that's something more real-time footage like this can help scientists figure out. And it's also an important reminder that while we humans love to assume that nature has a 'plan' or a system, in reality, it's often a whole lot messier. The research has been published in Cell.
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etc. Rioting, looting, stealing and rape will be the common news for America. More people than ever before will buy guns and defense weapons. Welfare will crash with no money to pay the bills. The new type money system shall come into being. Those holding gold and silver to be safe will throw it in the streets, as it will be of no value. This will set the stage for the anti-christ and his system. But my people shall not suffer, as I will take them safely through, etc.
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Execution by Firing Squad: The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
By John W. Whitehead June 19, 2017
“It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting a civilian counts as gun violence. Every time an officer uses a gun against an innocent or an unarmed person contributes to the culture of gun violence in this country.”—Journalist Celisa Calacal Legally owning a gun in America could get you killed by a government agent. While it still technically remains legal to own a firearm in America, possessing one can now get you pulled over, searched, arrested, subjected to all manner of surveillance, treated as a suspect without ever having committed a crime, shot at and killed. This same rule does not apply to government agents, however, who are armed to the hilt and rarely given more than a slap on the wrists for using their weapons to shoot and kill American citizens. According to the Washington Post, “1 in 13 people killed by guns are killed by police.” Just recently, for example, a Minnesota jury acquitted a police officer who shot and killed 32-year-old Philando Castile, a school cafeteria supervisor, during a routine traffic stop merely because Castile disclosed that he had a gun in his possession, for which he had a lawful conceal-and-carry permit. That’s all it took for police to shoot Castile four times as he was reaching for his license and registration. Castile’s girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter witnessed the entire exchange. Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that Florida police will not be held accountable for banging on the wrong door at 1:30 am, failing to identify themselves as police, and then repeatedly shooting and killing the innocent homeowner who answered the door while holding a gun in self-defense. Although 26-year-old Andrew Scott had committed no crime and never fired a single bullet or lifted his firearm against police, he was gunned down by police who were investigating a speeding incident by engaging in a middle-of-the-night “knock and talk” in Scott’s apartment complex. As attorney David French writes for the National Review, “Shooting an innocent man in his own home because he grabs a gun when an unidentified person pounds on his door or barges through it isn’t just an ‘unreasonable search or seizure.’ It’s a direct violation of his clearly established right to keep and bear arms.” Continuing its own disturbing trend of siding with police in cases of excessive use of force, a unanimous United States Supreme Court recently acquitted police who recklessly fired 15 times into a backyard shack in which a homeless couple—Angel and Jennifer Mendez—was sheltering. Angel Mendez suffered numerous gunshot wounds, one of which required the amputation of his right leg below the knee, and his wife Jennifer was shot in the back. Incredibly, the Court ruled that the Los Angeles County police officers’ use of force against the homeless couple was justified as a defensive action, because Angel was allegedly seen holding a BB gun that he used for shooting rats. In yet another case, a Texas homeowner was subjected to a no-knock, SWAT-team style forceful entry and raid based solely on the suspicion that there were legally-owned firearms in his household. Making matters worse, police panicked and opened fire through a solid wood door on the homeowner, who had already gone to bed. In Maryland, a Florida man traveling through the state with his wife and kids was stopped by a police officer and interrogated about the whereabouts of his registered handgun. Despite the man’s insistence that the handgun had been left at home, the officer spent nearly two hours searching through the couple’s car, patting them down along with their children, and having them sit in the back of a patrol car. No weapon was found. In Philadelphia, a 25-year-old man was confronted by police, verbally threatened and arrested for carrying a gun in public, which is legal within the city. When Mark Fiorino attempted to explain his rights under the law to police, police ordered him to get on his knees or else “I am gonna shoot ya.” Fiorino was later released without charges. What these cases add up to is a new paradigm in which legally owning a gun turns you into a target for government sharp-shooters. Ironically, while America continues to debate who or what is responsible for gun violence—the guns, the gun owners, or our violent culture—little has been said about the fact that the greatest perpetrator of violence in American society and around the world is the U.S. government. Government violence is the missing link in the gun control debate. Violence has become the government’s calling card, starting at the top and trickling down, from the more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out every year on unsuspecting Americans by heavily armed, black-garbed commandos and the increasingly rapid militarization of local police forces across the country to the drone killings used to target insurgents. The government even exports violence worldwide, with one of this country’s most profitable exports being weapons. Thus, any serious discussion about minimizing the violence in our society needs to address the manner in which the government and its cohorts (the police, the various government agencies that are now armed to the hilt, the military, the defense contractors, etc.) use violence as a means to an end, whether domestically or in matters of foreign policy. You want to reduce gun violence? Start with the government. Except that the government has no intention of scaling back on its weapons. To the contrary, the government’s efforts to militarize and weaponize its own agencies and employees is reaching epic proportions, with federal agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration placing orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow point bullets. Talk about a double standard. The government’s arsenal of weapons makes the average American’s handgun look like a Tinker Toy. Under the auspices of a military “recycling” program, which allows local police agencies to acquire military-grade weaponry and equipment, more than $4.2 billion worth of equipment has been transferred from the Defense Department to domestic police agencies since 1990. Included among these “gifts” are tank-like, 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, tactical gear, and assault rifles. Ironically, while gun critics continue to clamor for bans on military-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and armor-piercing bullets, expanded background checks, and tougher gun-trafficking laws, the U.S. military boasts all of these and more, including some weapons the rest of the world doesn’t have. Included in the government’s arsenal are armed, surveillance Reaper drones capable of reading a license plate from over two miles away; an AA12 Atchisson Assault Shotgun that can shoot five 12-gauge shells per second and “can fire up to 9,000 rounds without being cleaned or jamming”; an ADAPTIV invisibility cloak that can make a tank disappear or seemingly reshape it to look like a car; a PHASR rifle capable of blinding and disorienting anyone caught in its sights; a Taser shockwave that can electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button; an XM2010 enhanced sniper rifle with built-in sound and flash suppressors that can hit a man-sized target nine out of ten times from over a third of a mile away; and an XM25 “Punisher” grenade launcher that can be programmed to accurately shoot grenades at a target up to 500 meters away. In the hands of government agents, whether they are members of the military, law enforcement or some other government agency, these weapons have become accepted instruments of tyranny, routine parts of America’s day-to-day life, a byproduct of the rapid militarization of law enforcement over the past several decades. This lopsided, top-heavy, authoritarian state of affairs is not the balance of power the founders intended for “we the people.” The Second Amendment, in conjunction with the multitude of prohibitions on government overreach enshrined in the Bill of Rights, was supposed to serve as a clear shackle on the government’s powers. As 20th century libertarian Edmund A. Opitz observed in 1964, “No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words ‘no’ and ‘not’ employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.” To founders such as Thomas Jefferson, who viewed the government as a powerful entity that must be bound “down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution,” the right to bear arms was no different from any other right enshrined in the Constitution: it was intended to stand as a bulwark against a police state. Without any one of those freedoms, we are that much more vulnerable to the vagaries of out-of-control policemen, benevolent dictators, genuflecting politicians, and overly ambitious bureaucrats. Writing for Counterpunch, journalist Kevin Carson suggests that prohibiting Americans from owning weapons would be as dangerously ineffective as Prohibition and the War on the Drugs: “[W]hat strict gun laws will do is take the level of police statism, lawlessness and general social pathology up a notch in the same way Prohibition and the Drug War have done. I’d expect a War on Guns to expand the volume of organized crime, and to empower criminal gangs fighting over control over the black market, in exactly the same way Prohibition did in the 1920s and strict drug laws have done since the 1980s. I’d expect it to lead to further erosion of Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure, further militarization of local police via SWAT teams, and further expansion of the squalid empire of civil forfeiture, perjured jailhouse snitch testimony, entrapment, planted evidence, and plea deal blackmail.” This is exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution feared: that laws and law enforcers would be used as tools by a despotic government to wage war against the citizenry. This phenomenon is what philosopher Abraham Kaplan referred to as the law of the instrument, which essentially says that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. As I explain in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we the citizenry have become the nails to be hammered by the government’s battalion of laws and law enforcers (its police officers, technicians, bureaucrats, spies, snitches, inspectors, accountants, etc.), and we’re supposed to take the beatings without complaint or reproach. Now don’t get me wrong. I do not sanction violence, nor do I believe that violence should ever be the answer to our problems. As John Lennon warned, “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.” Still there’s something to be said for George Orwell’s view that “that rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” The Second Amendment serves as a check on the political power of the ruling authorities. It represents an implicit warning against governmental encroachments on one’s freedoms, the warning shot over the bow to discourage any unlawful violations of our persons or property. Certainly, dictators in past regimes have understood this principle only too well. As Adolf Hitler noted, “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.” It should come as no surprise, then, that starting in December 1935, Jews in Germany were prevented from obtaining shooting licenses, because authorities believed that to allow them to do so would “endanger the German population.” In late 1938, special orders were delivered barring Jews from owning firearms, with the punishment for arms possession being 20 years in a concentration camp.
The rest, as they say, is history. Yet it is a history that we should be wary of repeating. WC: 2042
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Greenland tsunami "not normal" 4 dead and 39 homes swept to sea as a very rare earthquake rocks the west coast
Sunday, 18 June 2017
Four people are missing after a tsunami hit Greenland's west coast, police have said. The surge of water is also reported to have swept away 11 homes in the village of Nuugaatsiaq. Police chief Bjorn Tegner Bay said he was unable to confirm whether there had been fatalities, according to KNR, Greenland's broadcasting corporation. The authorities believe a magnitude four earthquake caused the tsunami. According to the police chief, it struck off Uummannaq, a small island well above the Arctic Circle. Meteorologist Trine Dahl Jensen told Danish news agency Ritzau that for such an earthquake to hit Greenland was "not normal", as she warned of the risk of aftershocks. Emergency services were initially called at 22:15 local time (00:15 GMT) to reports of major flooding in the village, the Greenland Police's Facebook page said. There were also reports of waves striking two other villages. A helicopter flying over the area reported "big waves" spotted about 24 miles off the coast. A total of 39 people have been evacuated from Nuugaatsiaq. A number of injuries have been reported. http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/06/greenland-tsunami-not-normal-4-dead-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FiLosF+
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Clintons, Haiti, Human Trafficking and Psych Warfare on Sexuality
June 15, 2017 by Cathy O'Brien
Have you considered the correlation between the Clinton Foundation, World Vision, and CIA/Jesuit Black Ops in Haiti? Or is that simply semantics for more of the same crimes against humanity perpetrated under the illusion of charity to fund a global domination agenda? My experiences carrying out Black Ops in Haiti under MK Ultra mind control gave me deep insight into the plight of this traumatized nation. Haiti was being used as a testing ground for trauma-based mind control, multi-generational genetic alteration, infestation of AIDs, human trafficking, and an epicenter for CIA cocaine and heroin drug ops. I know from personal experience on a White House/Pentagon level that mind control is used to enforce actions contrary to innate human nature. Mind control’s sliding scale extends to Psychological Warfare, which is a missing piece of the puzzle that brings the Big Picture into focus as to what in the world is really going on with Haiti. Several years ago when I learned of Rep Maxine Waters’ deep Haitian political connections, I turned over vast amounts of detailed testimony to her with renewed hopes and expectations of exposing CIA drug ops and helping the plight of the Haitians. This was not to be the case any more than was Maxine Waters’ handling of Gary Webb’s testimony that inspired the CIA to investigate and clear themselves of drug ops despite over 500,000 documents proving otherwise. This raises questions that demand answers. Bill Clinton’s infamous Mena cocaine operations that I’d been exposed to since the late 1970’s extended internationally to include Haiti and expanded into related criminal activity such as human trafficking. Bill and Hillary’s complicity in crimes against humanity are rooted deeply with absolute power corrupting absolutely. The Clintons are no strangers to charities being used as cover for their criminal operations. Charities like World Vision and various Christian “missions” collecting money under the guise of helping Haitians instead notoriously lined pockets while funding black ops. Churches including the Lord’s Chapel in Brentwood, Tennessee and Hendersonville, Tennessee’s Mormon church are among those “missions” I had experience to know merged with CIA cocaine ops. Like many others, these cult churches sent their mind controlled followers out on “missions” to Haiti as cover for muling cocaine for the CIA. When a Lord’s Chapel mind controlled “missionary” was busted for cocaine he was not aware was in his suitcases, the church let him take the fall akin to Roger Clinton’s case. Prison ministries commenced thereafter, making the church appear compassionate the same way Bill Clinton’s pardon of Roger made it appear he cared. Same game for public appearance, and charities were providing the perfect cover. During my tenure under MK Ultra mind control carrying out White House/Pentagon level black ops for Shadow Government globalists like the Clintons in the 1980’s, AIDs was deliberately introduced into Haiti through World Vision vaccines. Hillary Clinton’s perverse sexual abuse of me (detailed in TRANCE) was predicated on her understanding that I was immune from AIDs as necessary for working Haitian black ops. With Bill Clinton’s cocaine operations well entrenched in Haiti, and Hillary’s accepted knowledge of World Vision’s AIDs operations, questions must be raised as to how this interfaces with the Clinton Foundation’s Haitian operations. Charities have been used for decades to perpetuate CIA/Jesuit black ops since it is known that anyone emotionally donating to charities does not want to face the reality that their well intentioned monies were only used against humanity. Such anticipated natural human reactions are a powerful component of Psychological Warfare. The Psych Warfare impact of AIDs genocide reverberates today, changing the very nature of human sexuality as anticipated. With AIDs impacting heterosexual procreation and pedophilia being sanctioned by Shadow Government globalists in order to heighten suggestibility and confuse gender, human sexuality is in crisis. Understanding why is key to reclaiming our freedom to evolve as a society unhindered by mind control’s agenda. Psych Warfare’s hold on sexuality was deliberately introduced into Global Ed/Common Core. While Bill Clinton claimed the office of President, “Gay Celebration” month was forced into the school system. Transgender bathrooms would have become the norm under Hillary had this plan not been derailed this past election. Why confuse sexuality and inhibit procreation? Why genetically ‘cleanse’ through AIDs? It was my experience under mind control to have overheard much discussion regarding genetic engineering and cloning to replace natural procreation in order to accelerate intellect to keep up with AI (artificial intelligence). It was also my experience that Bush Sr. adhered to Hitler/Himler research that sexually abusing a child would heighten their suggestibility and intelligence in accordance with creating the perfect race. This formula was used on his own son for Presidential placement to ensure the 100 year plan for global domination was ushered in. I was present during his discussion on this with close friend Bill Clinton at the Swiss Villa compound as detailed in TRANCE and ACCESS DENIED. My young, programmed daughter Kelly and I were being perversely used for covert filming/blackmail purposes at this Swiss Villa event. When Bill Clinton stopped Bush’s intent to covertly film him with my daughter, he further stated sexually abusing his child was not necessary when genetics were already in place to perpetuate the New World Order agenda. Regardless, both Bush and Clinton adhered to means of overriding innate free thought soul expression in favor of robotic compliance to their global agenda. Clinton’s denial of incest with Chelsea combined with stopping sex with my daughter, albeit for the cameras, formed my perception that pedophilia was not his personal perversion at that time. Given the reality of the Clintons’ involvement in drug ops and human trafficking, my formed perception is certainly not conclusive. Perpe-traitor’s perversions notoriously extended past bi-sexual to “tri-sexual” -meaning they would ‘try’ anything including children. Additionally, my daughter’s memory and subsequent testimony as to her personal exposure to the Clintons on this and other occasions was deliberately disrupted while she was a political prisoner in custody at Vanderbilt. Reverberations of Psych Warfare that began in Haiti under the guise of charities has permeated our society on many levels for decades, even to the point of altering human sexuality. As more and more truth comes to light in view of Hillary’s defeat, understand that roots of corruption run deep. We-the-people may have plucked the rosebud from the bush this past election, yet we still need to uproot the whole PLANt in order to render the thorns ineffective. Remember that the proverbial road to Hades is paved with good intentions. Rather than contribute to shady charities or rely on governments to act on our behalf, begin personally reaching out to give a hand up to those in need. Dare to care. And Dare to prosecute the Clintons for their complicity in crimes against humanity that have disrupted free thought and altered human evolution. Move beyond their diversionary blame game obstructions and Lock Clinton’s up!!!
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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Red Alert: Senators Grassley and Feinstein’s Plot to Take Everything You Own-This Is a Real Threat
By Dave Hodges
The Central Banks of Europe are ruining the bank depositor’s wealth in Europe with their insistence on finance based on debt expansion. Traditional currencies have given way to two practices (1) hording cash in anticipation of a fiat currency meltdown, and, (2) the mainstream public’s adoption of cryptocurrencies as a hedge against traditions fiat currency failure. Consider the following from Zerohedge: “Negative interest rates in Europe and fiat demonetization in developing countries are still driving demand for Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies. Although Bitcoin was initially ridiculed as money for computer nerds and a conduit for illegal activity, investors are beginning to see the potential for this technology to be an integral part of wealth management from the perspective of portfolio diversification.” The same thing is happening inside the United States with the insistence on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates when there is no justification to do so. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are outpacing traditional currencies as a means of investment. However, the Federal Reserve has help on the way. Released Clinton emails reveal that NATO killed Gadaffi because he was installing a gold back currency for Libya. Subsequently, the terrorism of the Central Banks knows no bounds. Consider the following from Global Research: “Hillary’s emails truly are the gifts that keep on giving. While France led the proponents of the UN Security Council Resolution that would create a no-fly zone in Libya, it claimed that its primary concern was the protection of Libyan civilians (considering the current state of affairs alone, one must rethink the authenticity of this concern). As many “conspiracy theorists” will claim, one of the real reasons to go to Libya was Gaddafi’s planned gold dinar.” Death is the fate for those who would defy the edicts of Central Bankers. The United States Part In the Financial Scam Stealing From the World Sen. Grassley and friends (eg Feinstein) has introduced a bill which will make it illegal to store cash and cryptocurrencies without reporting the event(s) to you local bank!
S.1241 – Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017115th Congress (2017-2018) | Get alerts
BILL Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (Introduced 05/25/2017)
Committees: Senate – Judiciary
Latest Action: 05/25/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
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Passed Senate Passed House To President Became Law Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Whitehouse) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary……” In the act, Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017. a citizen cannot possess cash or cryptocurrencies without reporting, in writing, to their local bank. Also included in the list of prohibited list is includes prepaid mobile phones, electronic currencies and even retail gift vouchers. Failure to comply does not only result in a stiff fine and 10 years in prison, it also involves the confiscation of all of your personal assets under Civilian Asset Forfeiture. In other words, if you store cash of engage in the business of cryptocurrencies, you are being labeled as a terrorist. Here is a breakdown of this heinous bill. Why Would the Government Engage in Such An Action? As the public is running from fiat currencies because of the inevitability of their failure and subsequent loss of personal wealth, the government seeks make the Federal Reserve reign supreme and trap you inside their corrupt and failed system. There is, however, another more sinister motive. When the system is deliberately collapsed as is now happening, the elite want no financial survivors. I have written on several occasions that your 401K, retirements and pensions will be gone. The only source of wealth left is stored cash, cryptocurrencies and gold. The elite will soon be going after your gold just as Franklin Roosevelt did during the 1930’s when it became illegal to possess gold. Does this make sense, now, as to why the elite are buying up as much gold as possible? Make no mistake about it, there will be no financial survivors from the middle class after the collapse. The Central Banks will own all real estate, precious metals and other hard assets. Grassley and Feinstein know that the economy will one day crash. Subsequently, they want no survivors. These rogue Senators are preparing to take everything you own! What is the solution to this economic tyranny? Contact your Representative and your Senator and threaten their re-election. They do not want the light of day on this. Have you seen this in the MSM? Of course not! So, let’s put this bill under our floodlights. The next is nonviolent civil disobedience. Store your wealth covertly and intelligently, but do not submit to this tyranny. Let everyone you know in Iowa about their Senator (Grassley’s) betrayal of the middle class and let the voters take care of business. There is no doubt that this plot is designed to destroy the middle class. We are at war!
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'The Most Gruesome Symptoms' Of The Breakdown Of Society Now Manifesting Are A Huge Warning To Americans
- More And More Evidence Emerges 'An Event' That Changes Everything May Happen Soon
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In this new story over at Zero Hedge they report that the summer of liberal hatred has arrived in America, exemplified most recently by the cowardly shooting at a Republican baseball practice in Virginia, shots fired at President Trump supporters in Indiana, and 'antifa activists' edging ever closer to becoming Islamic terrorists themselves by rallying FOR sharia law during anti-sharia law protests this past weekend. As the ZH story also points out, during one antifa rally, there were reports of masked, black clad antifa members holding high powered rifles and as their story claims, as if this wasn’t enough to convince you that the US is on the cusp of a hot civil war, Wednesday morning’s events, in which a former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer attacked an early morning GOP baseball practice, is all of the confirmation that we need. And while the ever-more-insane left thinks it's perfectly ok to simulate the murder of our sitting president in a despicable 'play', we see that play is simply an extension of the desires of the mainstream media, Hollywood and the 'deep state' who seek to bring down President Trump and complete their destruction of America any way they possibly can. Back on June 14th we warned you in a story on ANP that a civil war 'going hot' in America is the very last thing that America needs and exactly what the globalists (who've long been working to 'take down' America) want to implement martial law and acquire total control. As the ZH story also points out, attacks such as the cowardly shooting in Virginia had been forewarned of by those who've been paying attention to events unfolding every day in America.: This attack came as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the constant death threats and assassination references made in the media and by celebrities over the last few months since the election. As the Russian collusion narrative falls apart and the spectre of impeachment becomes more unlikely with each day, this last ditch attempt to seize the power back from the hands of the people is to destabilize the United States by fomenting civil unrest, and if necessary a second civil war. Commentators have noticed an eerie similarity between the Democrat-led anti-Trump movement and other George Soros ‘color revolutions’ around the world. This wouldn’t be the first time such color revolutions have been implemented in the United States: Black Lives Matter and the Occupy Movement both were funded by Soros front groups. What’s different this time is that Soros and the Deep State seem to be playing for keeps. Their goal of electing Hillary Clinton and securing the US as the final lynchpin for globalist control was thwarted by the election of President Trump. Their movement is mortally wounded, but has kicked into survival mode and will stop at nothing to continue its stranglehold on us politically, socially, and economically. The events of this past week have proved this, and I’m just wondering if this will be the week that historians look back upon as the week when the American Cultural Cold War shifted gears and became the Second American Civil War. In this new story from former Green Beret Jeremiah Johnson over at SHTFPlan he warns us we've been getting more and more evidence that massive government preparations and stockpiling point to one thing: “An Event Is Going To Happen”. With former presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan recently warning the 'deep state' is planning a coup against Trump and the possibility of civil war breaking out here in America is very real, it's easy to understand why so many people are so concerned, especially considering what we're watching in the financial world in general and the world around us. On ANP, we've long warned that what is happening now in Venezuela should be looked at as a dire warning to America and in this new Zero Hedge story they report a lynching epidemic has broken out in the failed socialist nation. With the 'public safety infrastructure' of Venezuela failing to the point of no return, citizens have taken justice into their own hands and as we see in their story and the 1st video below, the results have been absolutely disastrous. Proving to the world "it is not just the country's economy and political system that are sick, but society itself", experts warn that such an epidemic of lynchings that is happening now in Venezuela is one of the most gruesome symptoms of how far the once jewel of socialism in the southern hemisphere has fallen. They're also another 'sign of the times' we're now living in and as we've said before, "there but for the Amazing Grace of God go we". The OVCS says some 60 people were recorded as killed in lynchings in the first five months of this year alone. Last year there were 126 such killings -- a surge from the 20 reported in the previous year, coinciding with the worsening of political tensions and economic chaos. "Their aim is to kill the person before the police arrive," says Marco Ponce, coordinator of the Venezuelan Social Conflict Observatory (OVCS). "In lynchings, citizens let out their anger in the face of a state that is not defending their right to justice," says Ponce. "They think they are dispensing justice, and they do so with anger, so they go as far as killing the person." Residents blame the breakdown in social order that’s resulted from Venezuela’s worsening economic crisis. In the capital Caracas, the army and police are focused on brutally suppressing the street protests that have become a daily occurrence in recent months. Meanwhile, the dire financial straits of the country’s residents, who are struggling with inflation rates as high as 10,000%, have caused crime to skyrocket. In this new story from Michael Snyder over at the Economic Collapse Blog he reports that 2017 is setting up to be the worst retail apocalypse in US history with over 300 retailers already filing for bankruptcy. According to Brandon Smith over at Alt Market: “We Are Already In The Midst Of An Economic Collapse, The Data Points Show An Economy In Severe Deterioration, Not Recovery”. With retail stores traditionally the primary engine driving the US economy, Smith tells us why this isn't going to turn out very well if we continue along the same path that we're now moving upon: 102 million working age Americans do not currently have a job. This includes the 95 million Americans not counted by the Bureau of Labor because they assume these people have been unemployed so long they “do not want to work”. Thousands of retail outlet stores, the primary engine of the American economy, are set to close in 2017. Sweeping bankruptcies and downsizing are ravaging the retail sector, and internet retailers are not taking up the slack despite highly publicized growth. In 2016, online retail sales only accounted for 8.1% of all retail sales. These are only a few of the MANY data points that paint a very ugly picture for the US economy. The rest of the world is just as tenuous if not worse. The question is not “when” we will enter collapse; we are already in the midst of an economic collapse. The real question is, when will the uneducated and the biased finally notice? I suspect the only thing that will shock them out of their stupor will be a swift stock market drop, since this is the only factor they seem to pay attention to. This will happen soon enough. In the meantime, anyone who discusses legitimate data and warns of the dangers to come is a “doom and gloomer”. Mark my words, one day this label will be considered a badge of honor. As the people of Venezuela have found out, when there is no food to feed the mouths of starving children, there is no 'peace' nor can there be as millions go hungry with no end to their hunger in sight. As we've previously warned on ANP, food has long been used as a weapon to control the people and what is happening now in Venezuela right now is a perfect example of why we as 'preppers' prepare. While Johnson's story over at SHTFPlan reports the signs we've been watching of government stockpiling and preparation indicates a future event, he also points out that the only thing now missing is 'the crisis'. Yet we can see that possible 'crisis' approaching on multiple different fronts now with the only remaining detail being the 'exact' event. With 'deep state propaganda spewers' the Washington Post claiming a Russian cyber attack that takes down our electrical grid may be on the way, we've warned of a possible massive 'false flag event' ahead, one that could quickly lead to the end of life in America as we know it. And while some still claim that nothing is going to happen and that stories such as this warning of the need to prepare for future disaster are 'fear mongering', we should all be paying to what the government and 'insiders' are doing to get a better feel for what's REALLY going on in the world. From Johnson's story: In the United States, we have seen a great deal of stockpiling by the government agencies and the administration under Obama. Secret warehouses in undisclosed locations have been filled with medical supplies stockpiled across the country in the event of a catastrophe. Cheyenne Mountain as a fallback command and control center has been reopened once again. Extensive networks of tunnels and bunkers have been constructed in, around, and leading to Denver, Colorado with secret deliveries night and day for more than eight years. Billions of rounds of ammunition have been ordered and purchased by the DHS and all of the other alphabet agencies, including the U.S. Postal Service (which does have a role to play in COG and post-war “reconstruction”). Emergency drills, to include catastrophic plague and nuclear war/terrorism have been gamed extensively over the past several years. All of these things…the stockpiling of food and supplies, and the preparations for some massive event point to one thing: an event is (eventually) going to happen. We have the “flash points” around the world, in North Korea, in Syria, in Ukraine, and with the second Cold War that is forming between the U.S. and Russia. Those flash points are artificially created. We have some that are artificially created that can be blamed upon nature, such as the Ebola Virus and the looming disaster of Fukushima. War is the easiest way to bring it all about, plain and simple. Vladimir Putin just recently announced that a nuclear war between Russia and the United States would leave the world destroyed with no winners. Not so: The governments and their elites of politics and business win in the end. Are we about to witness in America a 'game changing' event that changes everything that we know? As we hear in the 2nd video below from Christopher Greene of AMTV, the first shots in the next civil war may have already been fired and events are still seemingly being manipulated to bring about economic travesty in the months ahead. In the final video below, Owen Shroyer from Infowars gives us all the evidence we need to see that the left is responsible for political violence in America, joining the mainstream media in stoking the fires of violence and hatred in this country. And knowing that the long term goal of the globalists has been to bring about the destruction of America by design, while they continue to do everything in their power to destabilize our nation while working to take down President Trump, tells us that 'the event' Johnson is warning of is getting closer by the day. The wise will take notice and prepare. The governments of the world have to keep their citizenry under control until they execute the plan that eliminates the majority of the populations. War is truly the only way to do it in one fell swoop that leaves no one accountable at the end. We’re going to see a “reset” and the most likely thing to accomplish this is war. Historically it is the vehicle for which governments beleaguered by their citizens have been able to bypass controls in the open to subvert democratic processes and inculcate martial law and eventually totalitarian control. We’re halfway through the year, and the situation in the world and domestically has not improved: it has worsened. Many people have documented and filmed FEMA camps and preparations for martial law, the DUMB (Deep Underground Military Bases) projects and tunnel works filmed and reported on by Jesse Ventura and halted by the government, and the systematic grafting of procedures to be followed after an apocalyptic war or event. Such procedures include garnering of all human and natural resources under executive order (President Trump didn’t repeal that one yet, now, did he?), the pervasive surveillance system, and the negation of Posse Comitatus and the control of the United States domestically in the event of a war or collapse of the government. All that is lacking is the crisis. No government truly allows a crisis to go to waste, and all of the crises are contrived or crafted beforehand to allow them to occur. War has always accomplished the resets of all countries and empires in ages past, and this era will be no different, no matter who is at the helm of the ship: especially when the course is purposefully charted right for the rocks. In closing, while tempers are high and emotions are raw across the country, many of us seem to have forgotten how incredibly fortunate that we are to be living in America, despite our nation's many flaws. With food quite literally available to us at our desire, always running water, a well-functioning electrical system and the Amazing Grace of God, we should be thankful rather than hateful and resentful. And with Venezuela giving us a very real look at what happens when societies break down, we hope that Americans choose to work together with one another, despite our differences, to ensure for our own families and future generations that 'we as a people' don't go walking down that same road to ruin that the people of Venezuela are now on.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Evidence_An_Event_Is_Going_To_Happen.php
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'We will not hesitate to defend ourselves': US military refuses to be cowed after Russia threatens to target every coalition plane or drone it finds west of the River Euphrates in Syria
The US has said its troops will defend themselves from Russian attack in Syria
That came after Russia said it would target US aircraft west of the Euphrates
Moscow was furious after the US shot down Russia-backed Syrian military plane
That happened Sunday, after the Syrian plane dropped bombs near US allies
Captain Jeff Davis said US and coalition air operations would continue in Syria
Russia claimed to have cut off a flight co-ordination line with the US
Davis said as far as he was concerned, communication continues with Moscow
By James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com and Darren Boyle for MailOnline Published: 08:33 EDT, 19 June 2017 | Updated: 15:30 EDT, 19 June 2017
The US has warned Russia that it will not back down after Moscow threatened to target American and coalition planes and drones in western Syria. That came after the US shot down a Russia-allied Syrian fighter bomber on Sunday afternoon; the plane had dropped bombs near US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). 'We do not seek conflict with any party in Syria other than ISIS, but we will not hesitate to defend ourselves or our partners if threatened,' Captain Jeff Davis told Fox News. Moscow had said it would target any and all planes and drones flying west of the River Euphrates. It also said a communication line between the countries that was intended to help co-ordinate flights to avoid mid-air collisions had also been shut down. But speaking at a press conference on Monday, Davis said the countries were still speaking to each other about their operations. 'I'm confident that we are still communicating between our operations center and the Russia federation operations center,' he said. 'And I'm also confident that our forces have the capability to take care of themselves.' Department of Defense spokesperson Major Adrian JT Rankine-Galloway promised that coalition aircraft would not be cowed by Russia's threats. He said they would continue conducting 'operations throughout Syria, targeting ISIS forces and providing air support for Coalition partner forces on the ground.' 'As a result of recent encounters involving pro-Syrian Regime and Russian forces, we have taken prudent measures to re-position aircraft over Syria so as to continue targeting ISIS forces while ensuring the safety of our aircrew given known threats in the battlespace,' he said. The area west of the Euphrates - as well as much of the country - is covered by Russia's 'Growler' anti-aircraft defense system, which has a range of 250 miles and can hit targets up to an altitude of 90,000 feet. The system has been deployed on the Latakia Airbase on the Syrian coast; Russia has been providing air cover for Assad's troops since 2015. The tensions developed after a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Air Force SU-22 on Sunday afternoon. The SU-22 had dropped bombs near SDF troops and ignored warnings and a 'show of force' prior to being shot down, the Pentagon said. Earlier Monday the Russian defense ministry had condemned the US for shooting down the Syrian plane. 'The shooting down of a Syrian Air Force jet in Syria's airspace is a cynical violation of Syria’s sovereignty,' it said. 'The US' repeated combat operations under the guise of "combating terrorism" against the legitimate armed forces of a UN member-country are a flagrant violation of international law and an actual military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic.' The ministry said it views the incident as Washington's 'deliberate failure to make good on its commitments' under the de-confliction deal. Russia claimed that the US did not use a private communication line between the countries prior to shooting down the bomber, and that the line had been shut down. Davies' comments on Monday mean it is now not clear whether the line is truly cut - and if so how long the shut-down will last. The channel has been shut down before - including in April, when President Trump ordered the bombing of a Syrian air base in response to the use of chemical weapons by President Bashar Al-Assad. If Russia has withdrawn from the line altogether the chances of conflict in the air increase dramatically. The Pentagon admitted it shot down the Syrian jet after it ignored a show of force and a warning against attacking US-supported ground troops near Ja'Din, south of Tabqa on Sunday afternoon. The Syrian jet had dropped bombs near members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a US-allied group of Turkish and Kurdish forces working with the US. Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, on Monday condemned the US for shooting down the SU-22, describing it as an act of aggression. 'This strike has to be seen as a continuation of America's line to disregard the norms of international law,' Ryabkov told journalists in Moscow, according to the TASS state news agency. 'What is this if not an act of aggression?' Pro-Assad forces attacked the SDF at around 4:30 pm, local time, injuring several soldiers and forcing them to leave Ja'Din, the Pentagon says. The attack prompted the SDF to call the Russian army to stop firing and 'de-escalate' the shooting. It also said it would defend itself from Syrian planes if needed. 'Following the Pro-Syrian forces attack, the coalition contacted its Russian counterparts by telephone via an established "de-confliction line" to de-escalate the situation and stop the firing,' said a statement from US-led coalition fighting ISIS, Operation Inherent Resolve. 'At 6:43 p.m., a Syrian regime SU-22 dropped bombs near SDF fighters south of Tabqah and, in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of coalition partnered forces, was immediately shot down by a US F/A-18E Super Hornet.' The Syrian government issued a statement after its military plane was shot down, accusing the United States army of supporting terrorism. 'This flagrant violation shows there is no doubt of the fact that the American stance supports terrorism,' the regime said in its statement. 'It exposes the devious intentions of America in running terrorism and investing in it in order to pursue its Zionist-American project in the region.' The pilot manning the aircraft flying was hit, according to the Syrian army, but his condition is unknown. The United States Army reiterated in its statement that its sole purpose was to defeat ISIS and not to fight with the regime. The statement said: 'The coalition does not seek to fight Syrian regime, Russian, or pro-regime forces partnered with them, but will not hesitate to defend coalition or partner forces from any threat. 'The Coalition presence in Syria addresses the imminent threat ISIS in Syria poses globally. 'The demonstrated hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces toward coalition and partner forces in Syria conducting legitimate counter-ISIS operations will not be tolerated.' Both sides have been competing over who will reclaim Raqqa, the ISIS capital. The SDF announced just two weeks ago that it was launching its campaign to capture the town, and only a week later, the Syrian regime also said it was beginning its offense. The US-led coalition as well as the pro-Assad regime have had shoot outs and launched airstrikes against each other in recent weeks. Russian foreign minister Sergey V Lavrov initially appeared to be unaware of the government's decision when speaking in Beijing on Monday. He said that he hoped the US and all other countries involved in the Syrian conflict would 'coordinate their actions,' the New York Times reported. 'We urge everyone to avoid acting unilaterally, to respect the sovereignty of Syria,' he said.
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Pastor Warns World Rushing Full Speed Ahead Into War And 'Apocalyptic Chaos' - THIS Is How The Globalists Can Kill Off 270 Million Americans And Billions Around The World
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die June 19, 2017
In this new story just published over at the Express they report Russia has promised to target US-backed troops in Syria after the US downed a Syrian warplane, just the latest evidence we're getting that World War 3 and potential nuclear annihilation for hundreds of millions of Americans and billions of people around the world may still be on the table. While some experts are warning a global conflict that leads to the Apocalypse may be closer now than ever before, according to others, the rise of ISIS and the many recent earthquakes are foreshadowing the coming destruction of our planet. AN 'ARMY of angelic creatures' will SOON be sent to Earth to destroy the world as we know it, according to a global religious group followed by nearly 20 million people. With the Democrats still pushing the Russia-boogeyman theme as far as they can push it, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov just described the shooting as a 'dangerous escalation' and as we hear from Pastor Paul Begley in the final video below, the world now appears to be rushing full speed ahead into war and 'apocalyptic chaos'. With Russia now vowing to shoot down any aircraft West of the Euphrates River as we hear in the first video below, are we marching towards Armageddon or is all of this just 'theater'? While we are not here to judge the most revent event as its clear that no one but those involved know all of the facts, the US described the event as 'self-defense' while Russia's Ryabkov described it as 'an act of aggression' and as a 'support for the terrorists'. Yet, as most Americans now know, the US under Barack Obama armed the 'terrorists' to the teeth in Syria, terrorists who are now killing Americans and people around the world. As Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard stated in her STOP ARMING TERRORISTS bill: “For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant groups working directly with and often under the command of terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. Rather than spending trillions of dollars on regime change wars in the Middle East, we should be focused on defeating terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, and using our resources to invest in rebuilding our communities here at home,” said Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. “The fact that American taxpayer dollars are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups we should be focused on defeating should alarm every Member of Congress and every American. We call on our colleagues and the Administration to join us in passing this legislation.”
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Gulf Coast prepares for flooding rains, strong winds, rip currents and high surf
Posted by TW on June 20, 2017
The National Hurricane Center (NHS) is tracking a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico which is expected to reach the US Gulf Coast late Wednesday or Wednesday night (local time), June 21, 2017, bringing between 101 to 203 mm (4 to 8 inches) of rain, with isolated maximum amounts of 254 mm (10 inches). This dangerous system is expected to further strengthen during the next day or two, and a subtropical or tropical cyclone is likely to form before it reaches the coast of Louisiana. Tropical Storm Warnings and Watches are in effect. The system is expected to bring widespread heavy rain and flooding, gusty winds, rip currents, high surf as well as some coastal flooding. At 09:00 UTC (04:00 CDT) on June 20, the center of 'Potential Tropical Cyclone Three' was located about 490 km (305 miles) SSW of the mouth of the Mississippi River and 555 km (345 miles) SSE of Morgan City, Louisiana. Its maximum sustained winds were 65 km/h (40 mph). The system is moving northwest at a speed of 13 km/h (8 mph) and this general motion is expected to continue through Wednesday, with a turn toward the north expected Wednesday night or Thursday, June 22. Its estimated minimum central pressure was 1 000 hPa. Upper-level winds are expected to be marginally conducive for some additional development during the next 24 - 48 hours which means a subtropical or tropical cyclone is likely to form during that time (80%). On the current forecast track, this system is expected to be near the Louisiana coast late Wednesday or Wednesday, night. The disturbance is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 101 to 203 mm (4 to 8 inches) with isolated maximum amounts of 254 mm (10 inches) over southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle through Thursday morning. Rainfall amounts of 51 - 101 mm (2 to 4 inches) with isolated maximum amounts of 152 mm (6 inches) can be expected farther west across southwest Louisiana into southeast Texas through Thursday morning. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Cameron, Louisiana to Intracoastal City. Tropical storm conditions are expected to first reach this area by Tuesday afternoon (local time). A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for West of Cameron to High Island. Tropical storm conditions are expected to reach this area on Wednesday. Inundations of 30 cm - 90 cm (1 to 3 feet) are possible along the coast in the Tropical Storm Warning area. A tornado or two is possible this afternoon and tonight from south-central Louisiana to the western Florida Panhandle. Interests elsewhere along the US Gulf Coast from the central Texas coast to the western Florida Panhandle should monitor the progress of this system, NHC said. Update 18:50 UTC, June 20Potential Tropical Cyclone Three has acquired a well-defined center today and at 18:00 UTC it officially became Cindy, the third named tropical cyclone of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Heavy rain produced by this system is spreading across much of the central Gulf Coast. Cindy is expected to approach the coast of southwest Louisiana late Wednesday or Wednesday night (local time), June 21, and move inland over western Louisiana and eastern Texas on Thursday, June 22, 2017.
https://watchers.news/2017/06/20/potential-tropical-cyclone-three-gulf-coast/
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Too hot to fly: Record setting heatwave to crush Las Vegas and Phoenix with temperatures reaching 120F as flights are grounded and people are warned of major health issues
Weather forecast calls for a high of 120 degrees on Tuesday in Phoenix, as Las Vegas will reach 117 degrees
American Airlines has already canceled 38 flights for Tuesday out of the Sky Harbor International Airport
Extreme heat creates changes in the air density that make it harder for airplanes to take off as pilots will have to use more thrust
Airlines respond to extreme temperatures by imposing weight restrictions like carrying less cargo and fuel
The airlines will work with aircraft manufacturers and air traffic controllers to make the decision on whether to delay or cancel flights in extreme heat conditions
On June 26, 1990, an all-time record of 122 degrees was set in the city and some airlines stopped taking off and landing for part of the day at Sky Harbor
Health officials are also warning people to stay hydrated and indoors during the heatwave
Last year, Maricopa County had 130 heat-related deaths in 2016 - the highest number in more than a decade
By Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com and Associated Press Published: 10:21 EDT, 19 June 2017 | Updated: 08:16 EDT, 20 June 2017
The record setting heatwave is expected to crush southwestern cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix as it could cause major health issues with temperatures so hot that people are being warned flights could be grounded. American Airlines has already grounded 38 flights at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix for Tuesday, and they are warning passengers that more may be cancelled as the temperature is expected to soar to 120 degrees. The airline is letting Phoenix passengers scheduled to fly during the peak heat Monday through Wednesday to change their flights without a fee. The forecast calls for a high of 118 degrees on Monday and 120 degrees on Tuesday in Phoenix. Las Vegas is expected to reach 117 degrees, but airport officials told DailyMail.com they have not been made aware of any cancellations due to the weather as of Monday afternoon. The heat will have the biggest impact on smaller regional jets flying out of Phoenix. Extreme heat creates changes in the air density that make it harder for airplanes to take off. Airlines respond by imposing weight restrictions, such as carrying less cargo and fuel. American Airlines pilot Shane Coffey also said that the extreme heat causes some pilots to have to use more thrust or impose weight restrictions such as flying with less cargo. Air density on a 90-degree day in Denver at more than 5,000 feet elevation is similar to a 120-degree day in Phoenix at 1,100 feet above sea level, he said. David R. Harwell, a spokesman for the City of Phoenix Aviation Department, told DailyMail.com that the runways at the airport are able to accommodate planes taking off in hot weather. However, Harwell said it's ultimately up to the airline on whether flights will be grounded due to hot temperatures outside. A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines, which has a hub in Phoenix, told DailyMail.com that they don't have any cancellations as of Monday related to the heat in the city. The airliner does not charge change fees to customers who would like to alter their travel schedule. The maximum operating temperature for each aircraft type is based on manufacturer data: Airbus - 127 degrees, Boeing - 126 degrees and Bombardier CRJ regional aircraft - 118 degrees, according to a statement from American Airlines obtained by DailyMail.com. 'The heat is expected to impact some of our regional flights, operated by Mesa Airlines and SkyWest Airlines, especially on Tuesday, June 20,' the statement reads. 'American Eagle (our regional flights), operated by Mesa and SkyWest, operate the CRJ aircraft to/from PHX. On average, American Eagle has 90 departures and 90 arrivals daily.' Due to the extreme heat, American Airlines has canceled 20 regional flights for Tuesday due to the CRJ aircraft's maximum operating temperature being at 118 degrees. Harwell said that the Sky Harbor airport is 'well prepared for Arizona summers'. Airport employees are being asked to take frequent breaks and to stay hydrated. They've also taken extra measures to provide air-conditioned trailers on the airfield where maintenance works can take breaks and also pump air conditioning into underground manholes for airfield electrical workers. The punishing heat wave that includes a forecast of 120 degrees in Phoenix is a temperature not seen in the desert city in more than 20 years. On June 26, 1990, an all-time record of 122 degrees was set in the city. On that day some airlines stopped taking off and landing for part of the day at Sky Harbor. Harwell said that back then they did not have airliner performance charts for a temperature that high. Plus, the runway at Sky Harbor at the time was made from asphalt, which started to become soft and melt. But since then, most of the airlines that serve Sky Harbor have updated their airliner performance charts with new data that goes up to the 122 degree-plus range. In addition, the runway is now made of concrete instead of asphalt. The airlines will work with aircraft manufacturers and air traffic controllers to make the decision on whether to delay or ground flights in extreme heat conditions.
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Hillary Clinton Told FBI’s Robert Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 “Secret Tarmac Meeting”
Written by: Michael DePinto Published on: June 20, 2017 For all the talk about Trump colluding with the Russians, something that has now been thoroughly discredited, many have forgotten that Russian collusion has indeed been going on. Only it’s been done by the Clintons. And a new WikiLeaks cable shows that in addition to the ‘Uranium One’ deal that resulted in Russian control of 20% of our uranium and millions flowing to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton in her capacity as Secretary of State, has also conducted similar under the table deals, and guess who else was involved? That’s right; special counsel Robert Mueller. You can’t even make this stuff up! In the following video, Today’s Yellow Snow (formerly Right Wing News) looks at the details of the leaked cable, which involved Clinton’s secret directive to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller to discreetly return confiscated highly enriched uranium to the Russians. The uranium had been confiscated in a nuclear smuggling sting operation in Georgia. Interestingly, the handover between Mueller and the Russians happened on an airport tarmac; does this sound familiar to anyone? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated the transfer a highly enriched uranium (HEU) previously confiscated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) during a 2006 “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices,” a newly leaked classified cable shows. So-called “background” information was provided in the cable which gave vague details on a 2006 nuclear smuggling sting operation in which the U.S. government took possession of some HEU previously owned by the Russians. It proposed that FBI Director Robert Mueller be the one that personally conduct the transfer a 10-gram sample of HEU to Russian law enforcement sources during a secret “plane-side” meeting on a “tarmac” in the early fall of 2009. “We require that the transfer of this material be conducted at the airport, on the tarmac near by the plane, upon arrival of the Director’s aircraft.” The FBI Director was originally scheduled to ‘return’ a sample from the DOE stockpile to the Russians in April but the trip was postponed until September 21. Paragraph number 6 of the leaked cable confirms Dir. Mueller’s Sept. 21 flight to Moscow. “(S/Rel Russia) Action request: Embassy Moscow is requested to alert at the highest appropriate level the Russian Federation that FBI Director Mueller plans to deliver the HEU sample once he arrives to Moscow on September 21. Post is requested to convey information in paragraph 5 with regard to chain of custody, and to request details on Russian Federation’s plan for picking up the material. Embassy is also requested to reconfirm the April 16 understanding from the FSB verbally that we will have no problem with the Russian Ministry of Aviation concerning Mueller’s September 21 flight clearance.” But possibly even more shocking is the fact that the State Department wanted the transfer of the HEU to take place on an “airport tarmac” which is rather reminiscent of the infamous Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton meeting which occurred on a Phoenix, Arizona, tarmac back in June of 2016. Past dealings with the Russians were also mentioned in the cable, signifying that previous deals have taken place.
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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.
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White House: US wants to 'de-escalate' Syria situation as Russia warns it will treat jets as targets
By Luis Martinez Katherine Faulders Jun 19, 2017, 7:36 PM ET
Asked to respond to the shootdown of a Syrian fighter jet over Syria, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the United States will protect its interests in Syria and will "do what we can" to keep open lines of communication with Russia and Syria. "And so we've gotta do what we can to work with partners and we're going to continue to keep an open line of communication with the Russians," Spicer said at an off-camera press briefing Monday. Spicer added that the U.S. wants to de-escalate the situation in Syria "but will always preserve the right of self-defense." "The escalation of hostilities among all of the factions that are operating there doesn't help anybody," said Spicer. "And so making sure that people understand while we want to de-escalate the situation there, that we have to understand that we will always preserve the right of self-defense." The Russian Defense Ministry earlier blasted the U.S.'s action as a "massive violation of international law" and said it will begin treating U.S.-led coalition jets flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria as targets. The ministry's comments Monday came after a U.S. Navy fighter jet on Sunday shot down a Syrian fighter jet that dropped bombs on rebel forces fighting ISIS in Syria. It was the first time the U.S. has engaged in air-to-air combat in Syria, signaling an escalation of the conflict. It is is also the first time an American aircraft has shot down any other country's plane in air-to-air combat since 1999, when a U.S. Air Force F-16 shot down a Serbian Mig-29 during the Kosovo air campaign. Russia, which is backing the Syrian regime in the civil war, slammed the U.S. action as a violation of Syria's sovereignty. "Repeated combat actions by U.S. aviation under the cover of counterterrorism against lawful armed forces of a country that is a member of the U.N. are a massive violation of international law and de facto a military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic," the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry warned that any U.S.-led coalition aircraft flying west of the Euphrates "will be tracked by the Russian ground and air anti-aircraft defense systems as air targets in the areas where Russian aviation is on combat missions in the Syrian sky." The Syrian jet was downed in an area southwest of the Euphrates River. The U.S.-led coalition conducts missions west of the Euphrates River near Manbij and Al Bab, two towns retaken from ISIS by U.S.-backed rebel forces. Later the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS announced that while it would continue striking at ISIS in Syria, it was re-positioning its aircraft in light of the heightened tensions in the wake of the Syrian jet's shootdown. "As a result of recent encounters involving pro-Syrian regime and Russian forces, we have taken prudent measures to re-position aircraft over Syria so as to continue targeting ISIS forces while ensuring the safety of our aircrew given known threats in the battlespace," said Lt. Colonel Damien Pickart, a spokesman for U.S. Air Forces Central Command. The coalition said in a statement released Sunday after the shootdown that its focus is on fighting ISIS, not the Syrian regime or Russian forces, but that it will not hesitate to defend coalition or partner forces coming under attack. The downing occurred over the town of Ja'Din, south of Tabqa, which was recently retaken from ISIS by the Syrian Democratic Forces, an umbrella group of Syrian Kurdish and Arab rebel forces supported by the U.S. in the fight against ISIS. The SDF came under attack from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces around 4:30 p.m. local time. A number of SDF fighters were wounded in the assault, and the SDF soon left Ja'Din. Navy F/A-18s from the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush, operating in the eastern Mediterranean, conducted a show of force overhead by firing warning shots at the pro-regime forces that turned back their advance toward the town. "Following the pro-Syrian forces' attack, the coalition contacted its Russian counterparts by telephone via an established deconfliction line to de-escalate the situation and stop the firing," said a statement from Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS. "At 6:43 p.m., a Syrian regime SU-22 dropped bombs near SDF fighters south of Tabqah and, in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of coalition partnered forces, was immediately shot down by a U.S. F/A-18E Super Hornet," the statement continued. The Syrian pilot is believed to have ejected from the aircraft, according to a U.S. official. But the Russian Defense Ministry contradicted the coalition's claim that the air-safety hotline was used and noted that there were Russian aircraft in the area when the Syrian plane was shot down. The ministry said it would stop its participation in the deconfliction line, much as it did after U.S. cruise missile strikes in Syria in April. But at the time, U.S. and Russian forces continued to use the hotline despite Russia's announcement. Ja'Din is approximately 2 kilometers north of an established deconfliction area. The U.S.-led coalition in its statement stressed its goals in Syria and said it will defend its partnered forces. "The coalition does not seek to fight Syrian regime, Russian or pro-regime forces partnered with them but will not hesitate to defend coalition or partner forces from any threat," it said. "The demonstrated hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces toward coalition and partner forces in Syria conducting legitimate counter-ISIS operations will not be tolerated." The downing of the Syrian jet is the latest escalation between the U.S.-led coalition and pro-regime forces in the country. Over the last four weeks, the U.S. has conducted three airstrikes on pro-regime forces backed by Iran that have moved into a de-confliction zone around the town of Tanf in southwestern Syria, where there is a coalition training base for local forces fighting ISIS.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-shoots-syrian-fighter-jet-syria/story?id=48119895
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etc.. Hear my voice and know what hour this is. It is the hour just before the first three and a half years of the seven years. Do not fear the Islamic revolution, nor the Russian warhead, for I plan to break their power, for they have blasphemed my name and made little of my son Jesus and have established their own god and deliverer. Fear not the false prophet or the anti-christ nor his army. Fear not the anarchy and the terrorism and the monetary collapse. etc..
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London mosque attack suspect identified as U.K. authorities move to ease tensions
By Danica Kirka And Paisley DoddsThe Associated Press Mon., June 19, 2017
At least nine people were injured after a man plowed his van into a crowd of worshippers outside a mosque on Monday. One man died at the scene, although he was receiving first aid at the time and it wasn’t clear if he died as a result of the attack or from something else. LONDON—British authorities and Islamic leaders moved swiftly to ease concerns in the Muslim community after a man plowed a large van into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring at least nine people. British media named the suspect as Darren Osborne, 47-year-old father of four who was living in Cardiff, Wales. British Security Minister Ben Wallace said authorities were aware of rising far-right activity but the suspect was not known to them prior to the attack. Police are treating the incident as a terror attack. One man died at the scene, although he had been receiving first aid at the time and it wasn’t clear if he died as a result of the attack or from something else. The chaos outside the Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park follows three Islamist-inspired attacks over the past three months that have triggered a surge in hate crimes around Britain. The Metropolitan Police Service, already stretched by its investigations of the earlier attacks and a highrise apartment fire that is believed to have killed 79 people, immediately announced it was putting extra patrols on the streets to protect the public. Police will assess the security of mosques and provide any additional resources needed ahead of celebrations marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Prime Minister Theresa May announced. “This was an attack on Muslims near their place of worship,” she said in a televised address. “And like all terrorism, in whatever form, it shares the same fundamental goal. It seeks to drive us apart — and to break the precious bonds of solidarity and citizenship that we share in this country. We will not let this happen.” The attack occurred about 12:20 a.m. when a speeding van swerved into worshippers who were giving first aid to a man outside the mosque. That man later died. Police said the attacker who drove the van has been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism, including murder and attempted murder. A mob surrounded him and witnesses said the crowd began attacking him. A local imam, Mohammed Mahmoud, said he organized a group of people and shielded the man until police could take him away. “By God’s grace, we were able to protect him from harm,” he said. Toufik Kacimi, chief executive of the Muslim Welfare House, told Sky News the attack clearly targeted Muslims leaving evening prayers during Ramadan. “We have a witness saying that the guy who did what he did, the driver of the van, said ‘I did my bit,’ which means he’s not mentally ill,” Kacimi said. “This person was conscious. He did what he did deliberately to hit and kill as many Muslims as possible, so he is a terrorist.” But Kacimi said there was no need for the community to panic, because police and government officials have been “very, very supportive.” “At this stage, we are calling for calm,” he said. Mayor Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor, urged residents to focus on their shared values and to stand together during an unprecedented period in the capital’s history. The attack Monday hits a community already feeling targeted in the fallout from the London Bridge killings and other attacks blamed on Islamic extremists. British security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with official policy, said hate crimes directed at Muslims have increased nearly five-fold in the wake of several attacks in Britain. “While this appears to be an attack on a particular community, like the terrible attacks in Manchester, Westminster and London Bridge, it is also an assault on all our shared values of tolerance, freedom and respect,” Khan said. Vowing “zero tolerance” for hate crimes, Khan declared “we will not allow these terrorists to succeed ... we will stay a strong city.” The attack laid bare the frustrations of Muslims who feel they’ve been unfairly equated with the extremists who carry out atrocities in the name of Islam. Ali Habib, a 23-year-old student, said residents are angry that the mosque attack hasn’t been portrayed in the same light as other attacks across Britain. “There has been an outpouring of sympathy for all for the recent terror attacks but hardly a whisper on this attack,” he said. “People are both scared and angry. Parents are scared to send their children to evening prayers. I don’t think people understand how much these attacks affect all of us.” May attempted to counter that feeling in her speech, declaring that police arrived at the scene within one minute, and that it was classified as a possible terror attack in eight minutes. The prime minister, who has been criticized for failing to show compassion to victims, travelled to the attack site within hours, and met with community and faith leaders. Standing outside her Downing Street office, May sought to convey that Britain and London would not fold in the face of the unprecedented series of horrific events. “Diverse, welcoming, vibrant, compassionate, confident and determined never to give in to hate. These are the values that define this city, “she said. “These are the values that define this country. These are the values that this government will uphold. These are the values that will prevail.’ The attack occurred outside the Muslim Welfare House, a small mosque with about 200 congregants. Nearby, evening prayer services had just concluded at the larger Finsbury Park Mosque, which had been associated with extremist ideology for several years after the 9-11 attacks in the United States. After those attacks, the mosque was shut down and reorganized and has not been associated with radical views for more than a decade. The mosque’s current leaders say they support inter-faith dialogue and want to serve the nearby community in north London, which is located near Emirates Stadium, home of the Arsenal soccer club. Britain’s terror alert level is at “severe,” meaning security officials believe an attack is highly likely, and a series of extremist attacks have struck across the country in the last few months. On June 3, Islamic extremists used a vehicle and then knives to kill eight people and wound dozens of others on London Bridge and in the popular Borough Market area. Police shot and killed the three Islamic extremists who carried out the attack. In March, a man plowed a rented SUV into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four people before stabbing a police officer to death outside Parliament. He was also killed by police. To the north, Manchester was hit by a deadly attack May 22 when a suicide bomber killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert.
:: 6-19-17 Local France :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Champs-Elysées: Armed man crashes car into police van in 'attempted attack'
19 June 2017 18:41 CEST+02:00
Police in Paris are advising the public to stay away from the Champs-Elysées on Monday afternoon after an armed man crashed his car that contained a gas canister into a police van. The driver died according to the Interior Minister, who described the incident as an "attempted terror attack". French police launched a major security operation on the famous Champs-Elysées avenue in the west of Paris on Monday after what was believed to be the latest terror attack targeting police in the French capital. It has been reported that the suspected attacker was subject to an "S" file, meaning that authorities were at some point monitoring him for potential links to extremism. Members of the public were told to avoid the area after a driver crashed his Renault Megane into a van carrying gendarmes (French military police) at around 15:40. The driver's vehicle (seen in the picture below) then exploded into flames. Police say there was a gas canister inside the car. "Security forces have been targeted in France once again," France's new Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said, calling the incident an "attempted attack". The weapons and explosives found in the vehicle "could potentially blow this car up," he added. Police sources have told French media they believe the act was deliberate and anti-terrorist police have been called in to take charge of the investigation. There were no casualties reported and no police officer or member of the public was injured. However Pierre-Henry Brandet a spokesman for Interior Ministry said the driver, who was pulled from his car by police, appeared to have died, but it could not be confirmed officially due to the ongoing security operation. "A bomb disposal operation is under way to ensure the vehicle poses no further danger," spokesman Brandet said at the scene. Police sources had previously said the driver was "unconscious on the ground". Police sources told AFP he was armed with a Kalashnikov, hand guns and gas bottles. According to BFM TV sources the driver was a 33-year-old, known to intelligence services. He was what's known as "fiche S" in French, meaning he was considered a threat to security. By 5pm the situation on the Champs-Elysées was "under control", according to the police. AFP Images posted on social media showed a huge police presence around the area that is normally packed with tourists and shoppers. A huge area around the lower end of Champs-Elysées avenue was cordoned off by police. One witness, a journalist with French daily Liberation who was travelling down the Champs-Elysées on his scooter said he saw a car that appeared to have blocked the police van. AFP "The gendarmes jumped out of their vehicles and then I saw an explosion in the passenger seat," said Eric Favereau. "The gendarmes rushed to their truck to take out tools and break the windows of the car," he said. "They manage to open the car, which was on fire. They pulled out a man and they pull him to the ground while others used fire extinguishers," the witness added. Police have closed two of the metro stations on the Champs-Elysees, a major tourist draw in the French capital. France has been on high alert for terrorism after a string of deadly attacks in recent years, many of which have targeted police officers and soldiers. In April a jihadist shot dead a police officer on the Champs-Elysées and seriously injured two others just days before the first round of the presidential elections. A note praising the Islamic State group was found next to the body of the gunman, Karim Cheurfi, in that incident. Police later found other weapons in Cheurfi's car including a shotgun and knives. Monday's Champs-Elysées attack is just the latest that has taken place in one of the French capital's most iconic tourist spots. Earlier this month, an Algerian student launched a hammer attack on a policeman outside the Notre Dame Cathedral. And in February this year a man tried to attack soldiers with machetes. In 2015 terror attacks in the capital left almost 150 dead, including the devastating attack on the Bataclan music hall. Paris authorities made efforts to step up security at tourist spots in the capital. A project is underway to install a bullet proof glass wall around the base of the Eiffel Tower.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170619/breaking-police
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
:: 6-19-17 Breitbart :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt to Mideast to Advance Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
by Deborah Danan19 Jun 2017
TEL AVIV – Senior White House advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East this week in order to advance a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, according to a White House official. Together with Middle East special envoy Jason Greenblatt, Kushner is slated to arrive in Israel on Wednesday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two will then travel to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. “It is important to remember that forging a historic peace agreement will take time and to the extent that there is progress, there are likely to be many visits by both Mr. Kushner and Mr. Greenblatt, sometimes together and sometimes separately, to the region and possibly many trips by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to Washington, D.C. or other locations as they pursue substantive talks,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Excited to be traveling back to Israel and the Pal. Territories to continue the discussion about the possibility of peace,” Greenblatt, who arrived in Israel on Monday, tweeted on Sunday night. According to the official, ongoing dialogue has been occurring behind-the-scenes since Trump left the region last month. “President Trump has made it clear that working towards achieving a lasting peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians is a top priority for him. He strongly believes that peace is possible,” the official said. The visit to Israel will be Kushner’s second in the past two months. Kushner and his wife Ivanka joined Trump in Israel on the president’s first state visit abroad in May.
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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom
and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction
:: 6-15-17 The Common Sense Show :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
The UN Is Normalizing Pedophilia: The Deep State Is Free to Prey Upon Your Children
By Dave Hodges
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is sanctioning a sexual revolution that will culminate in the legalization and whole-hearted support of transgenderism but will also support the legalization of pedophilia. As the Deep State is further exposed for their role in Pedogate, we can expect more counterattacks such as the legalization of pedophilia. From The New American: “The United Nations “Human Rights Council,” which counts some of the world’s most ruthless dictatorships as members, sparked global outrage last week by voting to appoint a UN czar to oversee the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism around the world. …According to the UN’s propaganda service, the discredited UN “Human Rights Council” debated the measure for almost four hours on June 30 before adopting the scheme in a contentious vote. Just 23 member governments and regimes voted in favor of creating the new czar, while 18 voted against and six abstained. The measure was pushed forward by a tight-knit network of communist and socialist governments in Latin America with close ties to Marxist terrorist groups, Western globalists, Moscow, and Beijing. A number of European governments and other members of the “LGBT Core Group,” which includes Obama and the EU, also played a key role in pushing the scheme from outside the UN “human rights” outfit.“For the first time, work on this issue [normalizing homosexuality and transgenderism] will be effectively institutionalized at the Human Rights Council,” the UN said….” …”celebrated as a “great step forward for human rights in the United States.” “The measures he advocated here — including new laws to protect people from discrimination — are the same measures that, today, we advocate to governments everywhere.” Ironically, the praise for the child rapist came even as the UN’s “peace” armies were facing global outrage for systematically raping and sexually exploiting children around the world. Years ago, I wrote about the fact that NAMBLA was advocating for the legalization of pedophilia. Care to guess who their largest contributor is? Look at the following: The following is an example of how academics talk about pedophilia. Soon, the practice, much like transgenders terrorizing girls in female restrooms has become the norm. “Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,” said the presentation. “At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children … Normal males are aroused by children.” Some yellowing tract from the Seventies or early Eighties, era of abusive celebrities and the infamous PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange? No. Anonymous commenters on some underground website? No again. The statement that paedophilia is “natural and normal” was made not three decades ago but last July. It was made not in private but as one of the central claims of an academic presentation delivered, at the invitation of the organisers, to many of the key experts in the field at a conference held by the University of Cambridge. Other presentations included “Liberating the paedophile: a discursive analysis,” and “Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia.” Hebephilia is the sexual preference for children in early puberty, typically 11 to 14-year-olds. The most heinous organization in America is Nambla. Nambla is short for the North American Man-Boy Association and their identifying banner statement is “sex before 8 or it is too late”. We are on our way in the country to allowing and even encouraging sex with children. The last taboo is being eliminated. It is now tolerated that creatures with an XY chromosome structure can now enter little girls restrooms, under the guise of being a transgender and terrorize these girls George Soros style. Your children are about to become part of a world that they are not equipped to live in. How long will it be until employees who have sex with children is protected as well when we look at the transgender issue in bathrooms. No, this is not hyperbole, it is a legitimate concern. The North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) begins to figure prominently into this picture. In the past, one of their trademark phrases was “sex before eight, or it’s too late”. This is an obvious attempt to remove the last perverted prohibition from our legal code as well as our societal safeguards to protect our children. Words cannot describe how sick and perverted these people truly are. And before you think that this could never become a reality, please consider that globalist, George Soros, gives money to NAMBLA. If that is not concerning enough for you please realize that Kevin Jennings, an Obama Department of Education official, and a close friend of Hillary Clinton has involvement with this group as well. “Could the last taboo be permanently removed? You mean I no longer have to hide the fact that I am a pedophile? Bootstrapping gender neutral and homosexual protection issues to pedophilia is already happening. The New York Times is on record saying the pedophilia is not a crime. The ACLU is actively defending Nambla and pedophile advocates.
:: 6-15-17 Spuknit :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
US Tries to Restrict China's Silicon Valley Investments '20 Years Too Late'
10:45 15.06.2017(updated 13:22 15.06.2017)
The US is trying to limit Chinese investment in high tech enterprises in a doomed effort to stop China from catching up to its level of development, experts told Sputnik China. US officials are considering restrictions on Chinese investment in Silicon Valley because of concerns that Beijing could use technology developed in the US to get the edge in the military and intelligence fields. According to an unreleased Pentagon report, China's interest in areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which have increasingly attracted Chinese capital in recent years, are of particular concern in Washington. The US government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has been circumvented by China, via transactions such as joint ventures, minority stakes and early-stage investments in start-ups, the report says. Intelligence expert Andrei Masalovich told Sputnik China that China's increased cyber capabilities have been decades in the making, and the US is doing too little, too late to stem this development. "The Americans have woken up, albeit too late. They needed to recognize 20 years ago that China was aiming for world domination," Masalovich said. Key areas of advancement in IT include artificial neural networks, which carry out information processing in ways akin to a living brain, and computer algorithms capable of machine learning. "These solutions work well in the military sphere. First of all, this allows the automatic determination of targets, automatic targeting. If that is done well, there is only more step to take before the sniper's rifle can pull the trigger itself. A human only needs to give the order." "Today there are already rifles which are using a Linux operating system. The rifle chooses the target itself and asks a human whether to pull the trigger." "The Americans understand that the winner today is the person who takes the final half-step towards almost fully automated weapons. This applies not only to tactical weapons but to weapons of mass destruction and any type of combat management or situation control. China is now completing a whole range of tasks in this area and is probably going to claim the title of new leader, not just one of several world players," Masalovich said. Chen Fengying of the Chinese Institute of Modern International Relations told Sputnik China that US officials' stated concerns about national security conceals real anxiety about competition from China in the IT sphere, particularly with respect to artificial intelligence. "I believe that the US's biggest concern is that it may fall behind China in the new round of global competition in IT, especially in the field of artificial intelligence. The so-called problem of US national security is just a kind of pretext. Today, there is very strong global competition in the information technology sphere, the new industrial revolution has already started." "The US fears that China is going to overtake them so they are using the problem of national security as a pretext to limit Chinese investments in Silicon Valley. In reality, China's cooperation with Silicon Valley companies is already developing comprehensively and American partners are also aggressively entering the Chinese market. Of course, American players have a very significant motivation – a state with a nascent market in the field of intellectual property, technology. A lot of effort is being made in other spheres of high science and technology to catch up with those who are ahead. This situation puts the US, as a developed country, under intense pressure." Alexander Lomanov of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Far Eastern Institute told Sputnik that there is another explanation for the US attempt to stem China's advances in the IT sphere. "There is another explanation – this [the US restrictions] is the pretense of great activity in a situation where it is practically impossible to take real counter-measures." "China, of course, is interested in foreign technology and US technology is also interesting for them. But China is also investing a lot of resources in its own technology; it is paying serious attention to the development of an innovation economy. In any case, I think that in 10-15 years the development gap won't be an issue for China, it will have the basic technology and the ability to develop it independently." "Of course, the Americans don't want the Chinese to be developed technologically. But today there is a global society and apart from America there are a lot of centers of technological development. In particular, cutting-edge technology is also being developed in Israel; China could also enter into some kind of partnership there," Lomanov said.
https://sputniknews.com/science/201706151054649630-china-us-tech-investment-ban/
:: 6-15-17 The Watchers :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Powerful eruption of Sheveluch volcano sends ash to 12 km (39 360 feet) a.s.l.
Posted by TW on June 15, 2017
A major eruption started at Russia's Sheveluch volcano at 16:20 UTC on June 14, 2017. KVERT reports a plume of ash reached a height of 12 km (39 360 feet) above sea level and warned explosions up to 15 km (49 200 feet) could occur at any time. The Aviation Color Code was raised from Orange to Red. At 19:00 UTC, vast ash cloud (140 x 60 km / 87 x 37 miles) from the eruption was observed about 64 km (40 miles) to the southwest and 76 km (47 miles) to the northwest from the volcano, KVERT said at 19:32 UTC. By 20:20 UTC, ash cloud grew to 196 x 223 km (122 x 138 miles). Front of ash cloud with a large content of ash particles (67 x 54 km / 41 x 33 miles) was observed about 96 km (59 miles) north-northwest of the volcano, but the other front of ash cloud was 118 km (73 miles) southwest of the volcano. By 22:30 UTC, ash cloud grew to 422 x 155 km (262 x 96 miles / 36 000 km2 / 13 900 mi2). Ash cloud with a large content of ash particles (84 x 55 km / 52 x 34 miles) was observed 131 km (81 miles) to the north-northeast. A general front of the largest ash cloud was observed 225 km (140 miles) to the northeast, and the other about 194 km (120 miles) to the southwest. By 06:00 UTC, the front of first ash plume was about 640 km (398 miles) to the ENE of the volcano, while the front of the second ash plume was about 294 km (182 miles) SW. At 06:56 UTC on June 14, KVERT said that explosive-extrusive eruption of the volcano continues and warned that ash explosions up to 10 - 15 km (32 800 - 49 200 feet) above sea could occur at any time. Ongoing activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft. A major eruption started at Russia's Sheveluch volcano at 16:20 UTC on June 14, 2017. KVERT reports a plume of ash reached a height of 12 km (39 360 feet) above sea level and warned explosions up to 15 km (49 200 feet) could occur at any time. The Aviation Color Code was raised from Orange to Red. At 19:00 UTC, vast ash cloud (140 x 60 km / 87 x 37 miles) from the eruption was observed about 64 km (40 miles) to the southwest and 76 km (47 miles) to the northwest from the volcano, KVERT said at 19:32 UTC. By 20:20 UTC, ash cloud grew to 196 x 223 km (122 x 138 miles). Front of ash cloud with a large content of ash particles (67 x 54 km / 41 x 33 miles) was observed about 96 km (59 miles) north-northwest of the volcano, but the other front of ash cloud was 118 km (73 miles) southwest of the volcano. Ash cloud generated by eruption of Sheveluch volcano on June 14, 2017 Ash cloud at 20:40 UTC on June 14, 2017. A large content of ash particles is noted in red color. Credit: KVERT, IVS FEB RAS By 22:30 UTC, ash cloud grew to 422 x 155 km (262 x 96 miles / 36 000 km2 / 13 900 mi2). Ash cloud with a large content of ash particles (84 x 55 km / 52 x 34 miles) was observed 131 km (81 miles) to the north-northeast. A general front of the largest ash cloud was observed 225 km (140 miles) to the northeast, and the other about 194 km (120 miles) to the southwest. By 06:00 UTC, the front of first ash plume was about 640 km (398 miles) to the ENE of the volcano, while the front of the second ash plume was about 294 km (182 miles) SW. Sheveluch erupting at 16:29 UTC on June 14, 2017 Sheveluch erupting at 16:29 UTC on June 14, 2017. Credit: KB GS RAS Ash plume produced by Sheveluch eruption on June 14, 2017 Huge ash plume above Sheveluch volcano around 23:30 UTC on June 14, 2017. Credit: Voznikov A.V. At 06:56 UTC on June 14, KVERT said that explosive-extrusive eruption of the volcano continues and warned that ash explosions up to 10 - 15 km (32 800 - 49 200 feet) above sea could occur at any time. Ongoing activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft. Animation courtesy JMA/Himawari-8, CIRA Taking into account the wind direction of ash plume, the city of Klyuchi, located at a distance of 50 km (31 miles) S of the volcano, is expected to be most exposed to dangerous ashfall, EMERCOM said. "The population was notified by the stationary loudspeakers and were given advice on how to behave during the ashfall," it said, adding that the community has a sufficient number of respirators. Residents of the districts of Ust-Kamchatsky, located about 85 km (53 miles) SSE of the volcano, and Milkovsky, about 240 km (150 miles) S, were recommended not to go out if they notice ashfall. Furthermore, the General Directorate of EMERCOM of Russia for Kamchatka region warned the population that inhalation of ash is dangerous and can cause allergic reactions: If you notice ashfall, close the doors and windows. If the ash enters the home, family members should wear respirators, gauze bandages or breathe trough a towel. Cover computers, stereo, and other equipment with plastic wrap or thick cloth and do not use them during ashfall. If you were outside during ashfall, do not bring the clothes in the house. After the ashfall, wear a dust mask and goggles before cleaning the house from the ashes; clean roof gutters and other places in which ash may have accumulated. Geological summary The high, isolated massif of Sheveluch volcano (also spelled Shiveluch) rises above the lowlands NNE of the Kliuchevskaya volcano group. The 1 300 km3 (311.9 mi3) volcano is one of Kamchatka's largest and most active volcanic structures. The summit of roughly 65 000-year-old Stary Shiveluch is truncated by a broad 9-km-wide late-Pleistocene (5.6 miles) caldera breached to the south. Many lava domes dot its outer flanks. The Molodoy Shiveluch lava-dome complex was constructed during the Holocene within the large horseshoe-shaped caldera; Holocene lava dome extrusion also took place on the flanks of Stary Shiveluch. At least 60 large eruptions have occurred during the Holocene, making it the most vigorous andesitic volcano of the Kuril-Kamchatka arc. Widespread tephra layers from these eruptions have provided valuable time markers for dating volcanic events in Kamchatka. Frequent collapses of dome complexes, most recently in 1964, have produced debris avalanches whose deposits cover much of the floor of the breached caldera. (GVP)
https://watchers.news/2017/06/15/sheveluch-eruption-june-14-2017/
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Health insurance companies now pushing EUTHANASIA to avoid paying disease treatment coverage costs to doctors and hospitals
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by: Tracey Watson
(Natural News) While involuntary euthanasia – the act of ending someone’s life without their consent to spare them pain and suffering – is illegal in the United States, assisted suicide – or voluntary euthanasia – is legal in six U.S. states. In Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana, doctors may prescribe lethal doses of certain drugs to patients who have made the choice to die, rather than endure further suffering or add to the suffering of their families. Euthanasia is already a hotly debated subject, and it has become even more controversial since it became evident that health insurance companies are using it as a way to avoid properly caring for terminally ill patients. Dr. Brian Callister, an internal medicine specialist from Nevada, and cancer survivor J.J. Hanson, a 36-year-old former Marine, have teamed up to highlight this issue and to discourage other states from legalizing euthanasia. Dr. Callister claims that he has seen several of his patients denied medical treatment, and instead being offered suicide pills because they are less expensive. He believes that in some cases, the treatments that were denied could have been life-saving for his patients. [RELATED: For more stories like this see Twisted.news] Hanson, who is president of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund (PRAF), was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor called glioblastoma back in 2014, and was given less than a year to live. He says that in the immediate aftermath of his diagnosis he was depressed and considered euthanasia, and believes that if it had been legal in the state of New York, where he lived at the time, he would no longer be around to tell his tale. Having made the decision to live, however, he has beaten the odds, and after several surgeries, clinical trials and other treatments, has already lived for two years longer than doctors said he would. Hanson’s experience is in stark contrast to that of Brittany Maynard, who chose to end her life at the age of 29, under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, after she, too, received a glioblastoma diagnosis. Hanson and Callister believe that insurance companies with their eye on the bottom line may pressure patients into taking the assisted suicide route simply to save money, rather than being willing to pay for medical treatments that might provide a real chance for these patients to survive. “This takes away the idea of hope and for patients to go forward,” said Hanson. “Once someone decides to do this, there is no follow up. If I had decided to do it, there would be no follow up. You are on your own, there’s no prevention of someone jumping right into it.” One example of a woman who was pressured in this way is Stephanie Packer, a young mother of four, whom Dr. Callister claims was denied chemotherapy and instead offered an assisted suicide drug which costs $1.20. Packer had no desire to die, and wanted to fight to survive and see her children grow up. These laws are also dangerous because they open the door to involuntary euthanasia. It is now much easier for a healthcare provider to claim that they were asked to provide life-ending drugs, when in fact they might not have been asked to do so. This dangerous trend has already gained steam in Belgium, according to a study published in 2015 in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The author of the study, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, a professor of philosophy and ethics at the U.K.’s Hull University, discovered that lethal drugs were being used to “shorten life and without explicit request” by patients. Cohen-Almagor found that the practice usually involved patients who were either comatose or suffering from dementia, or “because discussion would have been harmful to the patient’s best interest.” Imagine a world where health insurance companies get to decide what’s “in the patient’s best interest.” Now try to picture them not considering money when they make that decision.
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U.S. moves long-range rocket launchers into southern Syria, intelligence sources say
The U.S. military has moved a new truck-mounted, long-range rocket launcher from Jordan to a U.S. base in Tanf, Syria, near the Iraqi and Jordanian borders, stepping up its presence in the area, two regional intelligence sources said on Wednesday. They said the (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems - HIMARS - had moved into the desert garrison, which has seen a buildup in recent weeks as tensions escalate after the U.S.-led coalition struck Iranian-backed forces to prevent them advancing toward the Tanf base. "They have arrived now in Tanf and they are a significant boost to the U.S. military presence there," one senior intelligence source said, without elaborating. The HIMARS had already been deployed in northern Syria with U.S.-backed forces battling Islamic State militants, he added. Washington deployed the HIMARS on the Turkish border to strike at Islamic State outposts. They were used several times from the Jordanian border to hit militants who had a foothold in the southeastern desert. Under heavy pressure, the militants have mostly retreated from the desert in the last three months. Now U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are competing with the Syrian army and Iranian-backed militias as they all try to recapture territory from Islamic State. Tanf is near a Syria-Iraq border crossing on the main Baghdad-Damascus highway. The rebels took it from Islamic State last year, partly to stop Iran from using it to send arms to the Syrian government. The rebels also want to use it to take more territory along the border and to push toward Deir al-Zor, a large city on the Euphrates where the government has an enclave surrounded by Islamic State fighters. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi, editing by Larry King; editing by Mark Heinrich)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKBN1952C7?il=0
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Microsoft AI sets Ms. Pac-Man record in latest blow to human superiority
on June 15, 2017
Anybody wanna see a Ms. Pac-Man kill screen? Okay, so the game doesn’t have a kill screen, but thanks to Microsoft we’re able to see what happens when someone, in this case something, scores one million points. Zero is what happens, as in the game flips over to a nil score. While the end result may be anti-climactic, the fact that 35 years after the game’s release we finally have advanced technology enough to score one million points in Ms. Pac-Man is actually pretty cool. Games may not be the most impressive way of demonstrating it, but this is another example of how teaching machines to learn can help us to break boundaries. Today it’s Ms. Pac-Man; tomorrow computers might be figuring out how to gobble up cancer cells in people instead of ghosts in machines. As artificial intelligence continues to develop we may eventually see an end to the comparisons between the feats of man and the feats of machine; which are one in the same, really. For now, however, anyone keeping score knows it isn’t looking good for team human. Deep Blue beat us at chess, the robots have taken our money in poker, and our future overlords now own the top spot on Ms. Pac-Man. Take that meat-bags.
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Congressman: ‘By the Grace of God, One of the Folks Here Had a Weapon to Fire Back’
By Dan Andros June 14, 2017
Congressman Mike Bishop recounted this morning the harrowing events that unfolded while GOP members of Congress were practicing for a charity softball game early Wednesday morning. During a radio interview with WWJ radio, Bishop revealed that one of the coaches had their 11-year-old son at the practice, making the situation even more precarious. He described how most of them were sitting near the backstop area, so when the gunman, 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, began shooting they were essentially trapped. Hodgkinson has died, the President confirmed. Hodgkinson’s Facebook page revealed he was a Bernie Sanders supporter, and even a volunteer. Sanders addressed this matter this morning: Since Congressman Scalise, who was shot in the hip, is Congressional leadership, there were Capitol Police on the premises. It was their heroic actions that provided everyone else the brief cover they needed to run and find a more favorable position. An incredible account, via MRCtv: Rep. Mike Bishop: “Well, good morning. I am sorry that the noise around me and the chaos that I am sure you hear behind me, but who play in a charity baseball game, and every morning we come and practice at a field out here in Virginia. “As we were standing here this morning, a gunman walked up to the fence line and just began to shoot. I was standing at home plate and he was in the third base line. He had a rifle that was clearly meant for the job of taking people out, multiple casualties, and he had several rounds of magazines that he kept unloading and reloading it. Firing it. “The only reason—the only reason—why any of us walked out of this thing: By the grace of God, one of the folks here had a weapon to fire back and give us a moment to find cover. Because we were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit. Every single one of us. Question by WWJ reporter: Oh, my gosh. That must have been so frightening for you. What are you feeling now? Bishop: “Well, I’m just shocked. I’m okay. I’m fortunate. I’ve scrapes—and, you know, it’s going to take awhile to recover from this. But my biggest concern is: Some of my close friends and our staff–two of our staff were hit. Steve Scalise, who is our chief whip, was hit on second base. I watched him get hit and I couldn’t do anything to help him. We tried to get him off as fast as we could but this guy was relentless with his fire. And one of our staffers got hit in the chest and I pray for him. I just don’t know what the outcome is going to be. But this is a tragic situation and frankly, it’s changed everything as I know it forever. Question: Is the gunman dead? Bishop: “He was behind this utility building, and I, they neutralized him, hit him once. Took him down. He was coming around the corner, Roberta, he was coming around the fence line. And he was looking for all of us, who had found cover in different spots. But if we didn’t have return fire right there, he would have come up to each one of us and shot us point blank. That is what would have happened. Question: Who was the one who returned fire and you said he was hit as well? Bishop: Yes. At least one of–Since our chief deputy was here, he has armed security with him, and fortunately, they reacted immediately. Came out onto the field in harm’s way to try to fire back. But they are firing back with their handguns against a rifle that was meant from a distance, where he was. And all they can do is return fire and at least make sure he at least stops for a second that gives us a chance to run. Question: Oh, my gosh. Did he say anything before he started shooting? Bishop: Not a thing. He stood there silently. None of us saw him walk up. You know, every once in awhile–you know its early in the morning so usually nobody else is up–but every once in awhile someone is walking a dog, or just kind of walking … One of our coaches had his son, his 11-year-old son. I have an 11-year-old son, too, who is supposed to be here. And I am just, I can’t even tell you. I don’t know. Fortunately, everybody’s okay. But it’s just traumatic. Question: Congressman Mike Bishop, we are speaking too, And I am sorry for the staff that you mentioned that was hit. And we understand that a congressman was hit, too. Do you know who that was? Bishop: Yeah, it was Steve Scalise, our chief whip, our third in command. He was standing on second base. I was looking right at him. I couldn’t get to him. I don’t know–We were helpless to try … He was a sitting duck. Question: How many others were hit? Do you know? Bishop: The nearest as I can figure there were four. Somebody just told me it may be more, but I don’t know. I saw two staff, and I saw at least one detail, and one member of Congress.
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Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real and God is not 'a magician with a magic wand'
Francis goes against Benedict XVI’s apparent support for 'intelligent design' - but does hail his predecessor’s 'great contribution to theology'
Adam Withnall@adamwithnall Tuesday 28 October 2014 09:43 GMT
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared. Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design that some argue were encouraged by his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Francis explained that both scientific theories were not incompatible with the existence of a creator – arguing instead that they “require it”. “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said. “The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.
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“Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.” The Catholic Church has long had a reputation for being anti-science – most famously when Galileo faced the inquisition and was forced to retract his “heretic” theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. But Pope Francis’s comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was “more than a hypothesis” and “effectively proven fact”. Yet more recently, Benedict XVI and his close advisors have apparently endorsed the idea that intelligent design underpins evolution – the idea that natural selection on its own is insufficient to explain the complexity of the world. In 2005, his close associate Cardinal Schoenborn wrote an article saying “evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense – an unguided, unplanned process – is not”. Giovanni Bignami, a professor and president of Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics, told the Italian news agency Adnkronos: “The pope’s statement is significant. We are the direct descendents from the Big Bang that created the universe. Evolution came from creation.” Giulio Giorello, professor of the philosophy of science at Milan’s University degli Studi, told reporters that he believed Francis was “trying to reduce the emotion of dispute or presumed disputes” with science. Despite the huge gulf in theological stance between his tenure and that of his predecessor, Francis praised Benedict XVI as he unveiled a bronze bust of him at the academy's headquarters in the Vatican Gardens. “No one could ever say of him that study and science made him and his love for God and his neighbour wither,” Francis said, according to a translation by the Catholic News Service. “On the contrary, knowledge, wisdom and prayer enlarged his heart and his spirit. Let us thank God for the gift that he gave the church and the world with the existence and the pontificate of Pope Benedict.”
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GOP Lawmakers Want To Carry Guns After Shooting
Kerry Picket Reporter 11:53 PM 06/14/2017
WASHINGTON — Texas Republican Rep. Roger Williams, a player on his party’s congressional baseball team, agreed with his colleagues that he would have felt more comfortable if he had been armed during Wednesday morning’s shooting. Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Bishop, another ball player at the field, said earlier Wednesday that he and his colleagues were “sitting ducks” on the field. Williams agreed. “Well, it took the second shot for me to understand what was happening here,” Williams told The Daily Caller at a press conference late Wednesday afternoon. “Everybody we were sitting ducks. I mean we had no we had nothing to fight back with but bats if it got to that. We were sitting ducks. I think he was not able to get on the field because the gate was locked on the other side. If you gotten on the field it could have been a bad situation. But he was not able to do that. But we were sitting ducks.” When asked if he thinks members should be able to carry firearms in the Capitol and other currently restricted places, he replied: “Remember two things. Well, first of all, I’m for the Second Amendment — a big Second Amendment guy, and I’m from Texas. So yes, I would have felt lot more comfortable if we were able to do that.” Another member of the conference’s baseball team who was on the field during the incident concurred. “I think we need to look at some kind of reciprocity for members here,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk told The Daily Caller earlier in the day. Loudermilk, according to team manager Texas Rep. Joe Barton, helped administer first aid to Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot by the gunman.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/14/gop-lawmakers-want-to-carry-guns-after-shooting/
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'Hate-Provoking U.S. Media' Guilty Of Inciting Shooting of Congressional Republicans In Virginia While Liberals Celebrate The Attempted Massacre
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine June 14, 2017
We awoke this morning to the news that gunman opened fire on Congressional Republicans practicing baseball for their scheduled Thursday annual charity baseball game, with reports stating that anywhere from 50 to 100 shots were fired, with multiple people injured, including two Capitol Hill police officers and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, of Louisiana. Via Grabien on the shooter: The shooter, identified as James T. Hodgkinson, appears to be a Bernie Sanders fan. His Facebook page reads, "Democratic Socialism in Three Words: 'We the People.'" One of his most recent posts says, "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." [sic] "I want Bernie to Win the White House." he wrote Aug. 12th, 2016. "Bernie is a Progressive, while Hillary is Republican Lite. ... Bernie is the Only Candidate in Decades that Really Cares about the Working Class." Related: James T. Hodgkinson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know According to preliminary reports, no one was killed in the attack (other than the shooter), due to the presence of Scalise's security that fired back, giving others a chance to find some cover during the 10 minute chaotic ordeal, as described by Michigan Rep. Mike Bishop, who told WWJ News Radio 950 " The only reason why any of us walked out of this thing, by the grace of God, one of the folks here had a weapon to fire back and give us a moment to find cover. We were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit — every single one of us,” said Bishop. “He was coming around the fence line and he was looking for all of us who had found cover in different spots. But if we didn’t have return fire right there, he would have come up to each one of us and shot us point-blank." Before opening fire the gunman approached Rep Jeff Duncan and asked "Are those Republicans or Democrats out there practicing?" 'HATE-PROVOKING U.S. MEDIA ISN'T INNOCENT' While we will provide links as well as statements via interviews with those that were in attendance, saying they were "sitting ducks," we are seeing much discussion across the Internet on the fact that the gunman specifically targeted Republican congressional members, and why. Make no mistake, the gunman is responsible for his actions, but over the last two years we have noted the consistent and deliberate actions on the part of the liberals and the establishment media to incite violence, encourage sick minds into rioting and violent actions and now into a mass shooting, and we have to ask when they will start to take responsibility for their overly partisan rhetoric, with headlines like "The House Passed A Health Care Bill That Will Kill People," or "The GOP plan for Obamacare could kill more people each year than gun homicides," or "Bernie Sanders, Democrats: Republican Health Care Bill Will Kill People," or "Republicans Are Waging A 'Coordinated Attack' On Women's Health." The message is clear and deliberate on the part of the liberal media, the GOP wants you dead, they don't care, etc.................. Liberals over on social media are actually celebrating the fact that a crazed gunman opened fire on Republican congressional members and shot Majority Whip Scalise, via Grabian News: Newsflash for good ole Leon there, as to his top claim about the gunman being a 2nd Amendment supporter. Had he been one, he would have been trained with his weapon, because safety, training and responsibility, are a large part of pro-gun support, and Mr. Trotsky, we are trained to hit what we aim for, so it is very doubtful that "middle aged white man" was a traditional Second Amendment supporter, since he was shooting for approximately 10 minutes, fired anywhere between 50 and 100 times, and managed injure only a handful and kill no one. You can see much more of the same type of reaction on the part of liberals at Grabien. Related: Congress baseball gunman was a Trump-hating Bernie supporter MEDIA DECLARES WAR ON GOP, TRUMP, TRUMP SUPPORTERS AND NOW THEIR PUPPETS ARE ATTACKING We have often spoken about how the MSM has targeted Trump supporters, police, conservatives and Republicans, where their biased reporting and "fake news," has incited riots and mass violence. Who can forget the members of the CNN panel, holding their hands up in the air promoting the now-debunked lie of "hands up, don't shoot," which had police across the country targeted by their crazed audience? Who can also forget all those attacks against those "deplorable" Trump supporters after the media characterized them all as racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-immigrant, Mexican hating, Islamophobic, sexist and a whole host of other lies the MSM, Democrats and liberals were so fond of calling us. Who can forget how the MSM, including NBC News, USA Today, CNN, CBS, the Los Angeles Times, deliberately mislabeled Milo Yiannopolous, a gay man that publicly dates black men, a white supremacist and a racist, then were forced to issue corrections, that never reached the same amount of people, yet look at the chaos their "fake news" incited in places like Berkeley: The examples go on and on and on, but just the few examples above are all results of media lies. BOTTOM LINE I will reiterate my assertion that the gunman that opened fire on Republican congressional members is 100 percent responsible for his own actions, not the gun that did not fire itself, and not anyone or anything else. But the media is responsible for inciting these sick minds with their outright fake news and lies, their overly partisan "reporting" where they target Trump, his supporters, and conservatives across the nation. When will they take responsibility for their "hate-provoking" coverage of news that they are supposed be objectively reporting? When will they be held accountable for the almost-daily lies that are inciting crazy people?
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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Can a Divided America Survive?
Victor Davis Hanson|Posted: Jun 15, 2017 12:00 AM
The United States is currently the world's oldest democracy. But America is no more immune from collapse than were some of history's most stable and impressive consensual governments. Fifth-century Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Florence and Venice, and many of the elected governments of early 20th-century Western European states eventually destroyed themselves, went bankrupt or were overrun by invaders. The United States is dividing as rarely before. Half the country, mostly liberal America, is concentrated in 146 of the nation's more than 3,000 counties -- in an area that collectively represents less than 10 percent of the U.S. land mass. The other half, the conservative Red states of the interior of America, is geographically, culturally, economically, politically and socially at odds with Blue-state America, which resides mostly on the two coasts. The two Americas watch different news. They read very different books, listen to different music and watch different television shows. Increasingly, they now live lives according to two widely different traditions. Barack Obama was elected president after compiling the most left-wing voting record in the U.S. Senate. His antidote, Donald Trump, was elected largely on the premise that traditional Republicans were hardly conservative. Red America and Blue America are spiraling into divisions approaching those of 1860, or of the nihilistic hippie/straight divide of 1968. Currently, some 27 percent of all Californians were not born in the United States. More than 40 million foreign-born immigrants currently reside in the U.S. -- the highest number in the nation's history. Yet widely unchecked immigration comes at a time when the country has lost confidence in its prior successful adherence to melting-pot assimilation and integration. The ultimate result is a fragmenting of society into tribal cliques that vie for power, careers and influence on the basis of ethnic solidarity rather than shared Americanness. History is not very kind to multicultural chaos -- as opposed to a multiracial society united by a single national culture. The fates of Rwanda, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia should remind us of our present disastrous trajectory. Either the United States will return to a shared single language and allegiance to a common and singular culture, or it will eventually descend into clannish violence. Does the unique American idea of federalism still work, with state rights and laws subordinate to federal law? We fought a Civil War that cost more than 600,000 lives in part to uphold the idea that individual states could not override the federal government. Yet sanctuary cities declare that they can freely nullify federal immigration law. The California Senate passed a bill earlier this month that would prohibit the state from contracting with any firms that work on the federal government's wall at the border with Mexico. States such as California vow that they will ignore Washington and work directly with foreign nations to promote their own policies on global warming. Read carefully what some prominent Californians are saying about the federal government: It is not much different from what influential Confederate South Carolinians boasted about in 1860 on the eve of secession. The national debt has almost doubled over the last eight years and at nearly $20 trillion is unsustainable. Entitlement spending rose even as new taxes increased. The have-nots claim the haves make far too much money; the haves retort that they pay most of the income taxes while nearly half the country pays nothing. Most Americans agree that the present levels of borrowing and spending cannot continue. But many believe that the tough medicine to cure the disease of chronic annual deficits and mounting debt is unacceptable. America's infrastructure and military are vastly underfunded, even though some voters want more subsidies for themselves and apparently others to pay for them. America's once-preeminent colleges and universities are fatally compromised. Universities charge far too much, resist reform, expect exemption from accountability, and assume their students must take on huge amounts of debt. Yet campuses can't guarantee that their graduates are competently educated or that they will find jobs. Illiberal attempts to end free speech, to sanction racial and gender segregation, and to attack rather than argue with opponents are disguised by euphemisms such as "safe spaces," "trigger warnings" and various -isms and -ologies. Behind the guise of campus activism and non-negotiable demands is the reality that too many students simply are unprepared to do their assigned work and seek exemption through protests in lieu of hard studying. America barely survived the Civil War of 1861-65, the Great Depression of 1929-39, and the rioting and protests of the 1960s. But today's growing divides are additionally supercharged by instant internet and social media communications, 24/7 cable news, partisan media and the denigration of America's past traditions. All Americans need to take a deep breath, step back and rein in their anger -- and find more ways to connect rather than divide themselves. They should assume their opponents are not all sinners, and that their supporters are not all saints. Things are bad now. But our own history suggests that if we are not careful, they can get even worse.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2017/06/15/can-a-divided-america-survive-n2341079
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America’s at the Doorstep of Civil War- Mike Adams and Dave Hodges
I recently interviewed Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about the condition of our country. Regarding the shooting, today, outside of DC, Mike’s words are prophetic. We began the discussion with a notation of the most likely false flag events which will befall America. We discussed will America have false flag events in our future? Because the Deep State is being exposed on a number of fronts, in particular, the child-sex-trafficking issue, false flag events are needed as a distraction away from the serial criminality of the Deep State. America has been stocked with left-wing subversives who will stop at nothing to divide our country. Many of these operatives are brainwashed by the Soros message to the young, “you deserve something for nothing” message which appeals to the snow-flake generation. Every radical subversive group is being aligned against traditional American values. Advocation of violence and the use of violence is being the mantra of the left. The result is that America is headed for a civil war. We will see UN Peacekeepers on our soil, resources will be disrupted and violence will spread until America is engulfed in a full-fledged civil war. The following interview captures the elements that are present on today’s America that will turn the country against itself. This is a riveting interview that should go viral.
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Racism from the Left Is Pushing America Towards Civil War
America has entered a critical part of her history. We are undoubtedly facing a second civil war. We are living in a country where the liberal media is encouraging more attacks upon conservative politicians like what we recently witnessed at the Congressional baseball practice. Media outlets such as the Huffington Post and the New York Times are actually encouraging violence against White Conservative Christians. If you are not a member of crazy left, you are now a target every time you leave your house and your odds of being victimized if you are conservative have increased, and will continue to increase exponentially. The following paragraphs provide a small sample of the claims made in the previous paragraph. The Huffington Post Represents the Leftist Ideal of Violence to Promote Social and Political Change Huffington Post contributor, Jason Fuller, recently wrote that impeachment was not enough to “drain the swamp.” Further, Fuller stated that President Trump must face “the ultimate punishment”, meaning he should be executed. Fuller should be in prison for threatening the life of the President which is a felony. In addition, the Huffington Post should be shut down for encouraging violence against President Trump. In addition to Fuller’s thuggery, consider the following tweet from Huffington’s Post writer, Jesse Benn. Jesse Benn should also be in jail and this, also, should be another nail in the coffin of this rogue publication. It is clear that Benn is calling for organized acts of violence against politicians, presumably, the President. It is very clear that the leftist mainstream media is directing its radical members to carry out organized and armed attacks upon conservative White Christians (CWC). And if these CWC;s are Republican conservative politicians, all the better. Where is the FBI? Obviously, there are too many Deep State employees at the FBI to launch any meaningful investigation. However, these inappropriate attitudes, on the part of the left do not exist in isolation. And of course, if there is violence against conservatives, the New York Times is not far behind with their ridiculous conspiracy theory the Sarah Palin incited the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords by Jared Loughner in 2011 in Tucson, Az. This is the left’s obvious response to the fact that it has been revealed that the would be assassin of dozens of Republican congressmen, was a Bernie Sanders volunteer. Yesterday, I watched an interview with Golden State basketball star, Stephen Curry told reporters that he doesn’t plan to visit the White House, if the Warriors are invited after winning the NBA Championship earlier this week. Curry went on to say that “Somebody asked me about it a couple months ago, a hypothetical, if a championship were to happen, what would I do,” Curry said. “I answered I wouldn’t go. I still feel that way today.” Sports Illustrated reporter Richard Deitsch tweeted the following: Follow Richard Deitsch ✔@richarddeitsch There is zero chance this @warriors team is going to the White House. If I’m wrong, I’ll own it. https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports/status/874451645610037249 … 9:20 PM – 12 Jun 2017 Excuse me, I do not intend any disrespect to Black people, but I fail to see what the issue is with Donald Trump. Where is his overt racism? If you can show me legitimate examples, I will be happy to join you in your outrage. I have long been a proponent of civil rights for all, but I fail to see the objection to Trump. Would Curry go visit Valerie Jarrett, who was found guilty of being a slumlord with her disgusting housing practices leveled against her residents at the Garden Grove Apartments? Well Curry did visit her and the President and it did not seem to matter to Curry that Jarrett’s abused tenants were all Black people. She was dismissed as the assistant communications director by the City of Chicago for this revelation. What about that Stephen Curry? That certainly did not keep you from visiting her boss, President Obama, when you won your first title now did it? You see, Curry is like so many Blacks in this country in which they hate Trump because someone told them that was the thing to do. So please enlighten me, what am I missing here? However, this same group seems to forget about the fact that politicians like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders show up every four years and promise Blacks the sky, the sun and the moon and then they are never heard from again for another four years when the next election rolls around. And what has been the net result? Black people, as a group, are poorer than ever. There was a recent time when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency. What changed for Blacks? Absolutely nothing, things have only gotten worse. Stephen Curry is a great basketball talent, but he epitomizes the term “dumb jock” when it comes to his social and political awareness. But he does represent, all too well, the racial divide that has been artificially created by people like George Soros who is desperately trying to protect the Deep State from the prying eyes of the conservative side of the country. Conclusion The racial division is not the only reason that we are on the precipice of a civil war, but it is a major reason why. People of color have been encouraged to hate whites and conservative politicians. But I would ask them, how have the Democrats helped you? I think it is likely that if we are to have a long, hot summer of violence in American, race will be the primary motivator. And it is a shame, because it does not have to be this way.
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Suicide Epidemic
By Hal Lindsey
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more people died last year from suicide than from auto crashes. We most associate killing oneself with the young, but it strikes across the lines of age, race, and culture. It affects society in unexpected ways. Foreign Policy magazine ran an article with the headline, “America's Suicide Epidemic Is a National Security Crisis.” But it’s not just an American phenomenon. According to the World Health Organization, global suicide rates have risen more than 60% in the last 45 years. Almost a million people a year are known to succeed at taking their own lives. But that number is almost certainly low because of the extreme stigma in many cultures against suicide. People in those places kill themselves in ways that look accidental, or the family covers up afterward. The epidemic took on a new dimension when we learned about an 8-year-old boy who apparently took his own life in Cincinnati. In a case of extremely violent school bullying, the boy had been beaten unconscious. The school called his mom. She went to pick him up, and both school officials and the boy told her that he had “fainted.” He seemed okay, so she took him home. When he began vomiting later, she took him to the hospital. Doctors there concluded that he had a stomach virus, and they sent him home. At this point, neither the doctors nor the mother knew that the child had been beaten and lay unconscious on a school floor for more than seven minutes. He stayed home from school the next day, returned to school the day after that, then came home and hung himself with a necktie. By all accounts, he was a bright and happy boy. His attacker had been picking on other children, and this boy approached him, apparently trying to settle things by shaking hands. That’s when the vicious assault began. No one knows exactly what was going on in this little fellow’s head. But a link between the bullying and the apparent suicide seems obvious. If you wonder how it is that bullying can seem cool to anyone, just look at the popular comedians and their jokes at the expense of White House spokesman Sean Spicer. What funnymen are doing to Spicer goes far beyond traditional political humor. They are on a crusade of personal destruction. Like the bullies in school, they seem unable to recognize that this is a human being with a family and with feelings. Our society has become cruel and coarse. Fun seems only fun if it comes at the expense of another person’s dignity or humanity. There seem to be no limits on viciousness. Consequently, a deep despair has settled over America and much of the world. Kindness and empathy have been largely lost in public discourse, and too often lost in private. Among children aged ten or less, suicide is extremely rare. The numbers go up dramatically for ages 11 through 14. Statistics make another upward turn during high school years. According to the CDC, 20% of high school students will seriously consider suicide this year. 15% of those will make a plan, and 8.6% will make a serious attempt. People who closely watch this sort of thing report a surge in just the last few months. Many of them blame the Netflix TV series, “13 Reasons Why.” The show depicts suicide affecting survivors exactly as suicidal youngsters hope. After the suicide, everyone is sorry and everyone expresses love for the lost young person. The people who weren’t nice to the girl in life, regret their mistakes after she’s gone. In other words, it romanticizes suicide. The program makes suicide seem like a kind of revenge, or a good way to teach others the ultimate lesson. Making things worse, young people who are prone to suicide have a difficult time recognizing the finality of the act — that they won’t be around to enjoy all the attention and remorse. In a column for The Guardian, Zoe Williams wrote, “If there was a list of ways not to portray suicide, this would tick every box.” She says, “‘13 Reasons Why’… is a revenge fantasy, so it portrays suicide as an act that will achieve something. It’s aimed at a young audience, who are particularly susceptible to contagion, and particularly likely to experience suicidal thoughts. It normalizes and legitimizes the act. It goes into too much and too graphic detail about the suicide itself — which is expressly against Ofcom (the U.K.’s Office of Communications) guidelines because, however horrible it is to watch, this can still be read as a how-to.” According to mental health advocate and media commentator, Mark Henick, “13 Reasons Why… provides a cognitive pathway, a roadmap of sorts, that tricks the minds of those at risk for suicide into believing the lies that their mental illnesses tell them.” But this is not just an epidemic among the young. In the U.S., 20 veterans per day die by suicide. That statistic is often recounted in the media as an indictment of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But most of the veterans killing themselves are over the age of 50, and they weren’t anywhere near Iraq or Afghanistan. Experts give a variety of reasons for this new epidemic, but it really comes down to something quite old — hopelessness. Back in 1976, I wrote a book called The Terminal Generation. It said, “Man can live about 40 days without food, 3 days without water, about 8 minutes without air… but only about a second without hope.” The best answer to despair is not platitudes, vague spirituality, or even science. It is hope. Real hope with real answers. And that’s what we have in the Person of Jesus — real answers for this generation. Real hope. “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” — Romans 15:13
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-18-2017/
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WashPost: Deceased Gunman Was 'Living out of Gym Bag' in Alexandria
Purported photo of James T. Hodgkinson, alleged Virginia shooter.
Wednesday, 14 Jun 2017 02:00 PM
James T. Hodgkinson, 66, identified by law enforcement officials as the deceased gunman who opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a Virginia baseball field, was "living out of his gym bag" in Alexandria, The Washington Post reported. Further, Hodgkinson who was shot and mortally wounded by police during the rampage, had been at the YMCA early Wednesday before he went to the ballfield where he allegedly carried out the attack, the Post reported. "He was a very friendly person. But what I did notice about this gentleman is he'd open up his gym bag and in it, he had everything he owned. He was living out of the gym bag. That, and he sat in the Y’s lobby for hours and hours," former Alexandria mayor Bill Euille told the Post. According to his social media, Hodgkinson was an avid supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders and a hater of President Donald Trump. ABC News reported Hodgkinson's wife said he had been living in Alexandria for the past two months, but was expected to return to Belleville, Illinois, in the coming days. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, was shot in the hip, but is stable and recovering after surgery, according to his staff. Four others — including two Capitol Hill police officers — also were wounded in the shooting. NBC News reported there was "political or domestic motivation" behind Hodgkinson's attack, not international terrorism. However, the FBI is investigating it as a "deliberate attack," CNN reported. To wit, Reps. Ron DeSantis and Jeff Duncan said as they were leaving the baseball practice early, they were approached by a man who asked if those were Democrats or Republicans practicing on the field. Hodgkinson's purported Facebook page, which has since been removed, featured a picture of Sen. Sanders. In March, Hodgkinson posted that "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." Another post, from 2015, was aimed at Scalise, according to the Post. "Here’s a Republican that should Lose His Job, but they Gave Him a Raise," Hodgkinson purportedly wrote, including a political cartoon that portrayed Scalise speaking to a group of people clad in Ku Klux Klan hoods, the Post reported. Sanders on Wednesday denounced the attack. "I am sickened by this despicable act," Sanders said in a statement. "Let me be as clear as I can be. Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms." Sanders confirmed reports that Hodgkinson had worked on his campaign as a volunteer. The Post also reported Hodgkinson owned a home inspection business, but his license expired in late 2016 and was not renewed. According to the Post, Hodgkinson was charged in April 2006 with battery and aiding damage to a motor vehicle but those charges were later dismissed. An Illinois local newspaper, the Belleville News-Democrat, posted a photo of Hodgkinson protesting outside a local post office in 2012, holding a sign saying "Tax the Rich." He has a record of arrests on relatively minor charges, including failing to obtain electrical permits, driving under the influence and resisting a police officer, according to the paper. A reporter for the paper has been camped out at Hodgkinson's home, sending updates via Twitter.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Gunman-Deceased-Identified-Illinois/2017/06/14/id/796007/
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Miracle as a baby dropped from the tenth floor of blazing tower block is CAUGHT by a man who ran forward from crowds underneath to grab it into his arms
The blaze engulfed the 27-storey Grenfell Tower on Latimer Road in White City on Wednesday morning
Horrifying pictures emerged on social media showing massive flames licking up the side of the block
Desperate residents trapped high in the enormous residential tower block were heard 'screaming' for help
Police were evacuating panicked residents and two people are already being treated for smoke inhalation
An emergency telephone number has been set up for those caught up in the horrific blaze - 0800 0691 233
Were you involved in the rescue or do you know who was? Contact harvey.day@mailonline.co.uk or 0203 6153873
By Gareth Davies For Mailonline Published: 06:40 EDT, 14 June 2017 | Updated: 15:17 EDT, 14 June 2017
A baby was dropped from the tenth floor of a blazing tower block and was caught by a man who ran forward from crowds underneath to grab it into his arms. The miracle rescue occurred as Grenfell Tower was engulfed by flames in a fire thought to have been caused by a fridge exploding which has claimed the lives of at least 12 people. Samira Lamrani said she saw a woman try to save a baby by dropping it from a window 'on the ninth or 10th floor' to waiting members of the public below. She said: 'People were starting to appear at the windows, frantically banging and screaming. 'The windows were slightly ajar, a woman was gesturing that she was about to throw her baby and if somebody could catch her baby. 'Somebody did, a gentleman ran forward and managed to grab the baby.' She added: 'I could see people from all angles, banging and screaming for help. 'Us members of the public were reassuring them, telling them we've done what we can and that we've phoned 999, but obviously the look on their face was death. 'My daughter's friend said she observed an adult who made some sort of homemade parachute and tried to lower himself out of the window. 'The more I looked up, floor upon floor. Endless numbers of people. 'Mainly the kids, because obviously their voices, with their high pitched voices - that will remain with me for a long time. 'I could hear them screaming for their lives.' Another resident, called Zara, said she saw a woman throw her son, who was about five years old, from a fifth or sixth floor window to escape the blaze. She told LBC: 'One woman actually threw her son out of the window. I think he's OK. 'I think he might have just had some broken bones and bruises. 'I left my phone at home so I went back to grab it and, by the time I got back, the road was completely blocked off, the fire had dramatically spread. 'It was like a scene from a Hollywood movie.' Asked about which floor the boy was thrown from, she said she thought it was the fifth or even the sixth. 'There was another woman screaming 'my baby, my baby, I need to get out, I need to save my baby'. 'But we were just looking up. 'We couldn't do anything. 'There was nothing we could do.' Another caller, Linda, told the station how she watched huge chunks of polystyrene type material falling from the building. 'It was everywhere, it was like snow,' she said. 'There were larger sheets and small pieces. 'It was coming down everywhere.' The trapped, some of whom are still inside, were heard begging for their lives while waving white towels, torches and mobile phones to attract the attention of the 200 firefighters who started storming the building within six minutes of the 999 call. One White City resident called Tamara told the BBC: 'There were people just throwing their kids out saying “Save my children". Within another 15 minutes the whole thing was up in flames and there were still people at their windows shouting "Help me". You could see the fire going into their houses and engulfing the last room that they were in.’ Those who managed to flee said it was 'like hell on earth' inside and compared the disaster to the 9/11 attack - and also revealed there was no working fire alarm, sprinklers failed and the only staircase out was blocked. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has also demanded to know why Grenfell residents were told to 'stay put' in their flats for up to an hour in the event of a fire. Dany Cotton, Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said there had been 'a number of fatalities' and structural engineers are checking the stability of the building, which appears to have warped. London Ambulance Service said 50 people are in hospital and paramedics are treating many more walking wounded for smoke inhalation and minor burns. Grenfell's own community action group called for the tower to be pulled down four years ago over 'appalling' fire safety in the building and said today their repeated warnings to landlord Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) fell on 'deaf ears'. KCTMO completed a £10million refurbishment last year and the new cladding encasing the block originally built in 1974 'went up like a match', one resident has said.
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2 Cases Threaten to Shut Down Public Prayer. Why the Supreme Court May Need to Act.
Ken Klukowski / @kenklukowski / June 14, 2017
Two federal appeals courts are considering whether elected leaders throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions must abandon the 200-year-old practice of opening local meetings with an invocation. Both cases could end up before the Supreme Court by Christmas time. In one case, a self-described pagan sued the board of commissioners of Jackson County, Michigan, arguing that its tradition of beginning monthly board meetings with an invocation violates the Constitution’s Establishment Clause, the First Amendment provision disallowing government from establishing an official religion. In 1983, the Supreme Court in Marsh v. Chambers examined Nebraska’s practice of employing a salaried Christian chaplain who offered the Legislature’s invocations for 16 years, and held that “legislative prayers” at policymaking-body meetings are constitutional. Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media. But this can't be done alone. Find out more The court noted that the first Congress wrote the Establishment Clause in the same week it passed laws to create a House chaplain and Senate chaplain, whose public duties included offering invocations every day that Congress is in session. Over the next three decades, some lower courts and academics speculated that Marsh might be a one-off exception to normal Establishment Clause rules. Some argued that invocations must be generic, and therefore mentioning Jesus Christ or making other sectarian references would be unconstitutional. In 2014, the Supreme Court addressed this confusion by taking another case concerning a New York town where the invocations are offered by local volunteer clergy—all of whom were Christian. In Town of Greece v. Galloway, the court held that these invocations, too, are constitutional, even if all the prayer-givers happen to be Christian and include sectarian content from a single faith. But litigation persisted, now focusing on the identity of the prayer-givers. Plaintiffs argued that invocations given by government officials are unconstitutionally coercive because they might imply that lawmakers will use their official powers against those who refuse to participate in the invocations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected that argument when a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 for the government in Lund v. Rowan County, North Carolina. However, the Richmond-based appeals court reheard the case in March in a rare en banc proceeding in which all 15 judges participated. It is very possible the en banc court will invalidate Rowan County’s invocations in the next few weeks. The opposite situation is currently unfolding in Michigan in the case of Bormuth v. County of Jackson. There, a Clinton-appointed district judge upheld the county’s practice of allowing each of its nine commissioners to rotate having an opportunity to deliver an invocation, each according to his or her personal faith. Because all nine commissioners are Christian, the plaintiff argues that the resulting Christian invocations violate the Establishment Clause. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit reversed the lower court’s ruling in a divided 2-1 decision, ruling that such practices are unconstitutional. But on June 14, attorneys with First Liberty Institute will present arguments as all 15 judges of the Cincinnati-based appeals court rehear that case en banc. It is very possible that by late this year, a “circuit split” situation could occur between en banc appeals courts. If that happens, one or both of these cases will become prime candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear in 2018 as a major religious liberty case. Legislator-led invocations fall within a broad historical tradition going back to the founding of the republic. The Town of Greece decision made clear that the Establishment Clause must be interpreted consistently with what the framers of the Constitution understood to be establishing religion. Because these invocations do not establish an official religion, as “establishment” has been historically understood, and because the invocations do not require or coerce anyone to participate, they are perfectly constitutional. If the Supreme Court means to enforce its decision in Town of Greece that centuries-old prayer traditions do not violate the Establishment Clause, then these cases may be at the forefront of a fundamental restoration of religious liberty in America.
http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/14/2-cases-threaten-shut-public-prayer-supreme-court-may-need-act/
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4 killed, including gunman, in shooting at UPS facility in San Francisco
By Vic Lee Wednesday, June 14, 2017 09:03PM
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco police have completed a search of the Potrero Hill UPS facility where a shooting Wednesday morning took the lives of four people, including the apparent gunman. VIDEOS: ABC7 News team coverage of UPS shooting in SF Five UPS employees were shot in the 8:55 a.m. incident at 320 San Bruno Ave. before the shooter, whose identity has not been officially released, shot himself in the head with an assault pistol in front of arriving police officers, according to Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin. "This person took their life because the officers confronted him," Chaplin said. "None of our officers fired." Police said the gun was one of two weapons found at the scene. UPS officials earlier Wednesday described the incident as involving "six employees" and previous reports indicated the gunman was wearing a UPS uniform. However, Chaplin Wednesday afternoon said investigators had not confirmed that the gunman was a UPS employee. Three of those shot died of their injuries, while two others are being treated at the hospital. In addition to the shooting victims, Chaplin said five others suffered various injuries, most of them occurring during the rush to escape. The incident triggered a shelter-in-place order for residents in the area and shut down surrounding streets for much of the day while police evacuated the facility and conducted a search for any additional survivors or victims. Chaplin said one person was found in the building during the search and escorted out. Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting and do not know if the employees who were shot were specifically targeted, Chaplin said. They have interviewed all witnesses and are currently interviewing victim's families in a search for clues. "We're going to have to go back and reconstruct not just the last 24 hours, but if there was something that happened in the weeks and months prior," Chaplin said. UPS spokesman Steve Gaut said about 350 employees work at the facility at 320 San Bruno Ave., which operates as a package sorting hub and delivery center. Gaut said, "The company is saddened and deeply concerned about affected employees, family members and the community we share." Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a statement about the shooting, saying she "was heartbroken to learn that yet another senseless act of gun violence has marred our wonderful city." Feinstein, who served as San Francisco's mayor after the assassinations of then-Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk at City Hall in 1978, said Wednesday's shooting led her to recall yet another mass workplace shooting in San Francisco, the one at 101 California St. in 1993 in which eight people died. "Violence is never the answer, but the continuing scourge of gun violence is particularly disheartening," she said. "As we learn more details of this shooting, I'm hopeful that we can take away lessons to help prevent these acts from occurring in the future. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee also issued a statement, offering "condolences and thoughts for the individuals and families affected by the senseless act of violence." "We all know the familiar faces of our local UPS drivers and delivery persons," Lee said. "Today's tragedy will be felt in every community served by these committed employees." San Francisco police union President Martin Halloran noted that police and fire personnel had participated in an "active shooter scenario" training just last week, and were able to respond within minutes Wednesday.
http://abc7news.com/news/multiple-people-shot-in-san-francisco-at-ups-facility/2098106/
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Radioactive plutonium particles were airborne at Hanford: Alpha contamination confirmed
By Strange Sounds - Jun 10, 2017
Investigators have confirmed Alpha contamination measured in spots at Hanford. That means radioactive plutonium particles were airborne. Contamination has now spread to outside of a demo zone at the Hanford Site in Washington State. Radioactive Plutonium Particles Were Airborne at Hanford, K5 Investigators have confirmed Alpha contamination measured in spots at Hanford. That means radioactive plutonium particles were airborn Officials at Hanford say the ‘low-level’ contamination has been detected on sidewalks, a vehicle gate and also an area where workers keep their protective breathing equipment. Following video by DahBOO7: This is a heads up for anyone down wind of this site. The air monitors did go off and they have released workers from the facility.
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Fukushima Apocalypse: Here’s How You Are Being Poisoned The Radiation And Subsequent problems Are Not Just in Japan But Now Also America.
The Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011, resulted in massive radioactive contamination of the Japanese mainland, as well as brought to the forefront the dangers of worldwide nuclear radiation. Five years later, after-effects of the catastrophic event continue to plague the world, making it the greatest environmental disaster of all time. Fukushima nuclear plant has been pouring 300 tones of radioactive water every day, since the accident happened 6 years ago!!!!!! Life is already disapearing on the seas, and soon, our bodies will also be polluted with radiation, that will cause us countless cancers and diseases. Life on Earth is being threteaned, and surely, many of us, will have early deaths as a consequence of this radiation. Wake up! We came across a good article thoroughly examining the unbelievable radiation exposure in Fukushima from their nuclear power plant disaster back in 2011. The below article comes from Lew Rockwell’s website, truly a good read to comprehend just how severe the radiation and subsequent problems are not just in Japan but now also America. Highest Fukushima Radioactivity since 2011 is Producing ‘Unimaginable’ Consequences As the six anniversary of perhaps the world’s worst nuclear disaster in history (now rivaling Chernobyl) approaches next month, the worst radioactive conditions seen at the Fukushima nuclear power plant since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triple core meltdown are now dangerously spewing a record setting 530 sieverts an hour inside the reactor 2 containment vessel. To help put the enormity of this problem into perspective, the previous record was only 73 sieverts per hour. Exposure to just 10 sieverts can kill a human within weeks and levels at just . 1 sievert significantly increase the risk of cancer. At the same time that peak radiation levels at Fukushima are observed, US states are also now being hit with extremely high readings, even containing significant amounts of plutonium in recent months. Radioactive plutonium isotopes are known to be among the most deadly poisons on earth. Fukushima experts can only describe this week’s deteriorating situation at the Daiichi nuclear power plant as “unimaginable.” That said, today’s limited technology to decommission the global killer that’s already destroyed much of the northern Pacific Ocean habitat will take another four decades to complete. At that rate, we all could be radioactively fried. Significantly high levels of cesium-137 will reach every corner of the Pacific Ocean within three years. With six straight years of ongoing nonstop fuel leakage, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) still can’t determine the condition nor location of the fuel seepage. In the meantime, leaking melted fuel penetrating the bottom of the vessel reactor has burned a one square meter hole into the metal grating that’s now ready to collapse. Holes in other sections were also found. Photo images reveal below the reactor containment wall dark lumpy matter believed to be the melted uranium fuel rods. Specially made, remote controlled robots designed to probe and assess underwater conditions around the reactors rapidly crumble and shut down due to the high toxic radioactive levels. Yet TEPCO is planning to insert another robot directly inside the reactor itself to examine conditions inside the containment vessel. If the water around it is so radioactive it destroys the robot, good luck on getting a reading of contamination inside the vessel. The blind are leading the blind as never before have humans dealt with the enormity of this kind of problem. For six long years, authorities have been clueless on how to stop the meltdown leakage and radioactive poisoning from spreading further, eventually to all corners of the earth. Literally, hundreds if not thousands of tons of radioactive water have been leaking out daily into the Pacific Ocean (an estimated 400 from one account). And pretty much throughout the near six years, both TEPCO and the Japanese government have consistently lied to cover up the severity of the damage and danger to human health. Because they’ve never encountered a disaster of this sheer magnitude ever before, doctors also have no idea how to accurately measure and assess the health hazards that the soaring levels of radioactivity currently pose for the thousands of workers at the plant much less the severe threat to the nearby local populations. But does this colossal, uncontrollable crisis stop greedy nuclear power companies and nations from continuing to build more disasters waiting to happen in our already very iffy future? Not a bit. America currently fuels 19% of our nation’s electricity needs from nuclear-powered energy and wants to significantly raise that share. Construction of four more power plants are due for completion by 2021, adding to the 100 that are already operational with 24 more application proposals filed since 2007 slated for future construction. Accepting the unfathomably enormous, untold, virtually irreversible environmental damage to life on this planet that grows more devastating by the day at Fukushima now for the last half dozen years, it’s downright criminal to even think of building yet more nuclear power facilities anywhere on this already toxic saturated planet. Yet nuke advocates are constantly publishing new studies with one as recently as last month claiming nuclear power is safer than ever. And it’s that kind of disinformation propaganda that provides the impetus for countries like the US as the world’s largest nuclear energy producer to blindly continue its nuclear commitment. And our current president is as much an aficionado as the Bush-Cheney duo on both nukes for energy as well as war proposing a nuclear arms race over and above the $1 trillion already committed to nuclear upgrade. Trump’s also committed to extracting every last drop of oil and gas from this over drilled and parched earth. After all, Trump the anti-globalist candidate must keep the tradition alive. Once in the White House, every American puppet president follows the globalist edict to continue raping and pillaging our earth. READ MORE : Michio KaKu Fukushima The end of Humanity A bogus excuse commonly used to justify the “nuclear renaissance” in recent years is the so-called manmade greenhouse gases falsely linked to global warming and climate change that make nuclear development especially environmentally friendlier, so say two MIT authors touting their 2009 paper “The Growth of Nuclear Power: Drivers and Constraints,” published two years before the Fukushima debacle, which of course totally obliterates their already flaky argument. The paper goes on to promote the massive expansion plans for nuclear development in China, India, South Korea, Japan and Russia (again Fukushima and Chernobyl offer powerful sobering counterpoints). Even in post-Fukushima 2013, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) projected a high-end expectation of near doubled worldwide growth at a rate of 94% in the coming years up to 2030. Thus, despite this unfixable, ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima, numerous countries are still willing to recklessly plunge our world into yet more irreparable, perhaps to extinction level harm of gargantuan proportion that we destructive human have no solution to even begin handling. It’s both insane and suicidal! As if we haven’t done enough to kill off life on this planet, let’s take a brief look at the undeniable empirical damage. Despite the fortunate fate that winds blew 80% of the radioactivity in the first few days following the March 2011 meltdown due east out further into the Pacific, the winds then changed blowing plumes of toxic nuclear particles both northwest to Japan and south to Tokyo. In the immediate aftermath, all life forms in the Fukushima area underwent harmful exposure to gamma rays beaming up from the ground as well as breathing into the lungs and ingested through the food chain. But don’t think for a minute that North America being thousands of miles away wasn’t affected. Within just days after the accident independent scientist, Dr. Leuren Moret determined that the entire US Pacific Coast and western Canada inland all the way to the Midwest reached as high of radiation levels as Japan. And ever since March 2011 people in the northern hemisphere have been continually exposed and bombarded with large dangerous doses of radiation. Again, because of the massive conspiratorial cover-up by the Japanese government in criminal collusion with the IAEA and WHO as well as the US government, the truth of how sick and how many victims have actually died from Fukushima is murky at best and virtually impossible to definitively ascertain. On top of that, on behalf of the globalists, Japanese Prime Minister Abe ensured that a secrecy law was passed to further squelch the truth from the public. But despite the criminality of the international cabal government, here’s what we do know. Three times the amount of gasses like xenon, argon, and krypton were released at Fukushima than at Chernobyl, inhaled and absorbed in the fatty tissues of the body, typically causing lung cancer as well as cancer in various other organs. But as far as the total radiation amount released into the ocean, one study estimated that up to 100 times more escaped at Fukushima than Chernobyl although an estimated equal amount of cesium came out of Fukushima as Chernobyl. But due to the higher population density in Japan, even with roughly similar morbidity and mortality rates, the human damage of Fukushima in the coming decades stands to be much higher. In the earliest reports released to the public, thyroid cancer has been detected in 75 children after the Fukushima accident but written off due to the 2-3 year incubation period. Within two years after the 2011 meltdown, a spike in damaged thyroids amongst 40% of the Fukushima children was diagnosed from iodine-131 exposure. Despite waste management technology attempting to filter out isotopes from the contaminated water around the reactors prior to eventual release into the ocean, tritium cannot be eliminated and remains radioactive for 120 years. And tritium is known to cause brain tumors, congenital malformations, and numerous other cancers. Fish in the nearby ocean waters have measured 12,400 Bc/K radioactive levels when the Japanese limit in food is only 100 Bc/K. Even freshwater fish in nearby rivers carry 2657 Bc/K. TEPCO had lied about strontium-90 levels, recently admitting that nearby well water contains five times the earlier reported amounts – 5 million Bc/liter. There’s conjecture that this critical information may have been purposely withheld in order to secure Tokyo as the 2020 site for the summer Olympic Games. Moreover, unbeknownst to the public, radioactive wastes are being quietly moved about to different locations all over Japan for incineration. And the ashes are being dumped in Tokyo Bay where the Olympic athletes will be swimming. BBC reported that radiation levels around Fukushima are 18 times higher than previously covered. In the meantime, the ground and water around the reactor complex is so unstable, sitting in liquefied mud on a fault line no less, that its extreme vulnerability to another magnitude 7 or higher earthquake would release enough toxic radioactivity (at least 10 times the Chernobyl cesium level) to permanently pollute all of Japan and much of the northern hemisphere – certain to kill off millions of humans. Rupture of the many radioactive water tanks would also result. On November 22, 2016, a 7.4 earthquake struck northeastern Japan which well may have contributed to the current unstable situation of more leakage and record level radiation. The health of plant workers – some having been formerly homeless recruited by Yakuza organized crime – is not closely monitored. They’re being treated as sacrificial expendables and guinea pigs, as is the entire Japanese population. 13% of Japan’s mainland containing 10 million of its citizens is hopelessly contaminated for thousands of years. As the most vulnerable segment of the population at 10 to 20 times more sensitive, Japanese children at an alarming rate are becoming obese as a result of being kept indoors, forced to remain artificially inactive. Moreover, the Japanese people are eating contaminated food. But as of 2014 contaminated rice mixed in with other rice has been deemed acceptable for export and human consumption all over the world. A March 2014 US FDA update gave the green light to eating food products from Japan, claiming non-harmful levels of radiation. Of course, little do authorities advertise that since Fukushima, they’ve been conveniently upping the levels of what’s considered unhealthy to maintain globalized business as usual. For instance, before the nuclear accident, the limit danger was set at 1 mS per year but now it’s 20, the equivalent to 1000 chest X-rays a year. The nuclear worker limit is now 50 mS. Meanwhile, Japanese insects and birds are largely deformed and sterile with their generational mutations acting as canaries in the coal mine to demonstrate what humans are now facing. The bottom line is Fukushima remains an apocalyptic time bomb, a nightmare just waiting sooner than later to happen to the rest of us on the planet. Marine and wildlife are dying by the millions. Polar bears, seals, and walruses have severe fur loss and open sores with inordinately high death rates. This week alone a record high number of dead whales are washing up along the Hawaiian shores as well as other islands in Pacific Asia. So has the sockeye salmon population. Pacific fish are bleeding from their gills, bellies, and eyeballs. Virtually every sample of tested Bluefin tuna are now carrying toxic levels of radiation. For the last couple years, the West Coast has been struck by waves of highly radioactive debris. The Japan nuclear disaster has turned the California beaches into a near dead zone, devoid of the teeming marine life present just a few years earlier. With the ongoing constant leakage at Fukushima, the Pacific waters will be doubling in radioactivity over the next 5 to 10 years. Radionuclides began arriving at the western shores in early 2014. Recently measured cesium-137 levels are now off the charts in plankton from Hawaii to the West Coast. Likewise, it’s been discovered that fish sold from Japan also contain these same dangerously high cesium levels. Rates of 91-100% of marine life are toxically contaminated in samples of halibut, sardines, tuna, eel, anchovies, carp, shark, monkfish and seaweed. Over the last four decades, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish have on average plummeted by half. And with massive daily animal die-offs of all kinds the global norm, we’re already well into the earth’s six mass life extinction. Because the commercial fishing industry continues harvesting sea life from contaminated waters and millions if not billions of humans continue consuming fish and seafood as a regular food staple, countless numbers of people are and will be dying from increasing cancer rates and other terminal diseases. “This is an apocalyptic event. This is something that could contaminate the entire Pacific Ocean. It is extremely serious. The reality is that Tokyo Electric does not know what is happening and does not know how to control what is going on. Our entire planet is at risk here.” “Iodine-131 can be ingested into the thyroid, where it emits beta particles (electrons) that damage tissue. A plague of damaged thyroids has already been reported among as many as 40% of the children in the Fukushima area. That percentage can only go higher. In developing youngsters, it can stunt both physical and mental growth. Among adults it causes a very wide range of ancillary ailments, including cancer.” “…The worst case scenario could play out in death to billions of people. A true apocalypse… A weather event, power outage, earthquake, tsunami, cooling system failure, or explosion and fire in any way, shape, or form, at any location on the Fukushima site, could cascade into an event of that magnitude as well.” There is still time for you to prepare, but you have to start learning how to make your own survival foods as soon as humanly possible. The best way to do it is to get the inside scoop on how to do it right. Fortunately, there is a way to get twenty years worth of The Lost Ways. This new food storage system is called The Lost Ways. You do not need a lot of expensive equipment to store foods for a crisis using the methods taught here. Even better, The Lost Ways pays for itself quickly as you begin to put away garden produce or even meats that you buy on sale. For most folks it's simply the biggest bargain of their lives. You can finally become self-sufficient and any extra money saved in food expense goes right back to your pocket. Frankly, at the end of the day, The Lost Ways actually makes you money! What's more, the videos take you by the hand, step by step, through the entire process of "putting away" almost any food you can think of. It's very much like having a food storage professional right there with you every step of the way.
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Are These Cities 'Marked For Destruction' When God's 'Cataclysmic Judgement' Is Carried Out Upon America?
- Interactive Map Shows America's 'Most Sinful Cities' By MT Taylor - All News Pipeline
Listen to the prophets: Hurry and get out of the cities—those that are marked for destruction! Yes, God has revealed his special plan for America’s sinful cities that celebrate immorality and laugh at righteousness. He has alerted his prophets to set the trumpets to their mouths, announcing that judgment on rebellious cities is coming and a date has been set aside for their downfall. Those who are sounding the alarm include prayer walker Henry Gruver, who delivered a message of warning on Steve Quayle’s site recently, sharing a vision he had years ago of the wicked rushing into sinful cities. “God will draw the wicked into cities marked for destruction,” Henry warned. “By his Spirit he will draw them into massive conferences and conventions. He told me, ‘I will draw them as I drew the animals into the ark.’ “As they are in the cities, God will send destruction. But he will provide places of refuge for the righteous; they will be spared by God’s divine intervention.” In this case, God’s intervention sounds like something from the pages of a science fiction novel, for even as Gruver watched a vision of cruise missiles firing on American cities from the sea, God’s people were safe in domed cities. Giant plexiglass domes—the modern-day equivalent of medieval walled cities--shielded them from fire, volcanic ash, and nuclear destruction. God said that this devastation would happen in the latter days and directed his people to read Psalm 37 for confirmation. The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; He is their stronghold in time of trouble. The Lord helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in him. In his books and sermons, the late David Wilkerson consistently warned about cataclysmic judgment on America, pointing out that today we have examples of cities such as Shiloh, Rome, London, Carthage and Ninevah. “Yet these sinned less than our great American cities,” he pointed out. “There is not a doubt in my mind—New York City, Wall Street and the United States are living on borrowed time. God may move in judgment any day now.” As decency laws have collapsed across the nation, our cities have been in a steady moral decline. Like Wilkerson, many Americans were shocked when national leaders fell off their pedestals in the 1990s and the city of Washington D.C. became a byword for corruption and blatant immorality. Today the political climate there has become synonymous with a quagmire to the point that cleaning D.C. of corruption is referred to as “draining the swamp.” We have examples of other American sinful cities in our headlines every day. In fact, some citizens congratulate themselves for their city’s notoriety, exploiting the image of loose living without consequences to attract a profitable tourist trade. Could people really be proud to have sin at the center of their city? It seems to be the case in Las Vegas, which has reached the number one place on most lists of America’s sinful cities. In fact, with its menu of gambling, vice and debauchery, Vegas has earned for itself the nickname of “Sin City,” a place to escape any overbearing notions of morality. As one proud citizen told it, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” Interactive map from Wallet Hub seen below. Scroll over and left click for cities and 'sin' rankings. But what about other sinful cities? Does America have enough candidates to make up a list naming the nation’s top 10 or even 25 sinful cities? The answer is yes, according to sites like WalletHub, and Faithwire, institutions that score cities on the amount of vice and corruption. Another scoring option used by some graders is based on the seven deadly sins, traditionally considered to be pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Vegas has the distinction of top ranking on most lists. Following, in constantly changing order, are cities like New Orleans, Tampa, Milwaukee, Atlantic City, Reno, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, Miami, and Pittsburgh. Even Orlando, the nation’s family destination, has made it on some lists. So where does all the vice come from? How did a nation founded on God’s Word and Christian principles end up with its cities steeped in sin and ungodliness? Wilkerson credits the nation’s downfall on a “spirit of iniquity” that has caused a fast downhill slide of morality. Another answer is straight from the Bible. In Matthew 11, when Jesus is sending out his disciples to preach about the kingdom of heaven, he instructs them on how to deal with those towns whose people are hardened and won’t listen. And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Matthew 10: 14,15 A Bible Gateway commentary on Matthew 10 notes, “Sometimes entire cities or nations withhold God’s truth from their children, perpetuating a hardness against God for generations. In such cases, judgment may be God’s primary means of gaining the people’s attention.” So we go back to Henry Gruver’s message warning people to repent and come out from the sinful cities. With forecasts of apocalyptic judgment in the form of nuclear attacks, floods, famine, erupting volcanoes and walls of fire, can it be any wonder his prophets are crying out? In a posting on Jouko Piho’s prophetic site, Texas pastor Sister Katy shared a vision she received on awakening one morning in 2010. Three times she heard in her spirit God’s directive: “Call my people out of the cities.” The Lord told her to warn his people to leave the doomed cities and find shelter in the wilderness, in remote and forgotten places far away from the city where the coming destruction wouldn’t reach them. “Tell them to build houses with thick walls that are earthquake and fireproof,” he instructed. “I want My people to survive and inherit the earth.”
http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Cities_Of_Destruction.php
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Navy SEAL Confirms: Thousands of Elite Pedophiles Arrested – Media Blackout
By Solovey Razboynik - May 2, 201
As the blanket mainstream media blackout of Elite pedophile rings continues, a US Navy SEAL has gone on record to confirm thousands of high-ranking child abusers have been arrested, despite press silence on the busts. Retired SEAL, Craig Sawyer, has vowed to tackle the pedophilia networks in Washington D.C. head on and says that Trump's promise to take down Pedogate is being fulfilled - it's just being covered up. Sawyer has been working with high-level federal law enforcers and intelli... etc. and the news story continues.
http://stoplies.org/navy-seal-confirms-thousands-elite-pedophiles-arrested-media-blackout/
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Alaskan volcano spews plumes of ash into the Bering Sea in breathtaking new image captured by NASA satellite
Bogoslof volcano keeps erupting and its latest activity was snapped by Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8
Captured sediment plume extending to the northwest, creating a striking green-blue hue to the Bering Sea
A small puff of smoke can also be seen bellowing out of the volcano's opening in the image from space
By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com Published: 18:28 EDT, 9 June 2017 | Updated: 19:37 EDT, 9 June 2017
Alaska’s Bogoslof Island may sit in a remote part of the world, but its latest activity could not hide from satellites in space. NASA Earth Observatory has captured the eruption in a stunning image that shows a sediment plume extended to the northwest – creating a striking green-blue hue to the Bering Sea. Snapped by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, the photo highlights the activity that occurred on June 5 and a small puff of steam that was rising from the volcano. Since Bogoslof Volcano sprang back to life with a series of explosions starting in December 2016, scientists have been keeping watch from afar via satellite and seismologic data. The Alaskan volcano may be remote—halfway down the Aleutian Island chain—but it still poses a hazard to aircraft. Researchers had announced on May 28th that a ‘major volcanic eruption is imminent, underway, or suspected, with hazardous activity both on the ground and in the air,” according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO). And in the same day, the volcano exploded – shooting ash at least 35,000 feet into the air. Two more eruptions followed days later – June 5th being the second. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a small puff of steam rising from the volcano and a sediment plume extended to the northwest, imparting a striking green-blue hue to the Bering Sea. Scientists have kept a close eye on Bogoslof volcano, as it keeps erupting, and has demolished much of its Aleutian island home with a string of huge explosions. Earlier this year, scientists took a unique look at how the eruptions had changed the layout of the remote island. Satellite images taken 19 years apart revealed a massive crater created by the volcano that has taken out about a third of the island's landmass. The volcano sits about 850 miles southwest of Anchorage, a remote location making observation difficult. On December 23, observers on a Coast Guard vessel reported spotting ash, lightning, and 'ejection of incandescent lava,' scientists at the Observatory said in a report. There have been more than 10 eruptions since mid-December, observatory geophysicist Dave Schneider said. Prior to that, the last reported eruption was in 1992, when an eruption lasting 19 days sent a cloud rising to 3 km above Bogoslof Island, which was identified on satellite imagery. The massive explosions have demolished much of Bogoslof's island home, US Geological Survey observations show. The island has also added roughly 187,007 square feet of new land, thanks to huge amounts of lava and ash pouring from the active stratovolcano. Chris Waythomas, a geologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, noted how the landscape has changed in a pair of satellite photos taken nearly 19 years apart. Ash has built up, causing more mass at the northern tip of the island, while the underwater volcano has also created a huge crater that has taken out a third of the island's landmass. Mr Waythomas told CBS News: 'It might help us with the understanding of the ash plumes that have been generated. 'They're all happening in a submarine environment, so seawater plays a big role in driving this eruption. 'So magma, seawater interaction is a big part of the eruptive process.' The island is home to a large population of fur seals, who may have been impacted by the relentless eruptions. Vulcanologists plan to visit the area this year with US Fish and Wildlife Service biologists to see the impact to the seals and other wildlife.
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US Air Force grounds an entire squadron of F-35 fighter jets after pilots were 'deprived of oxygen' in the cockpit
Training flights of F-35 warplanes were halted at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona
Five incidents were reported in which pilots complained of lack of oxygen
Air Force says the incidents occurred from May 2 until Thursday
F-35A Lightning II aircraft is manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp
By Reuters Published: 15:14 EDT, 9 June 2017 | Updated: 03:22 EDT, 10 June 2017
The stealthy F-35 fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin Corp were temporarily grounded at a US Air Force base in Arizona on Friday because of irregularities in pilots' oxygen supplies, an Air Force spokesman said. Training flights were scheduled to resume on Monday after a day of safety briefings at the base on Friday, a base spokeswoman said. Lockheed Martin plans to demonstrate the advanced jet at the Paris Air Show this month. At Luke Air Force Base northwest of Phoenix, Arizona, the 56th Fighter Wing canceled local flying operations for its F-35A Lightning II aircraft due to five incidents in which pilots experienced symptoms resembling hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, according to the Air Force spokesman, Captain Mark Graff at the Pentagon. The Air Force said the incidents occurred from May 2 to Thursday, and that in each case the aircraft's backup oxygen system worked as designed and the jets were able to land safely. The base typically has 25 training flights each weekday, the base spokeswoman said. The Pentagon said that it was conducting a comprehensive review of the facts and circumstances surrounding physiological episodes along with industry experts. A Lockheed representative said the company would help the Air Force address the issue. The F-35 business accounted for about 37 per cent of Lockheed's total revenue during the last fiscal quarter, which ended on March 30. During the quarter, Lockheed's revenue from its aeronautics business increased 8 per cent to $4.11billion, led by higher sales of the F-35. Lockheed and its main partners, Northrop Grumman Corp, United Technologies Corp's Pratt & Whitney and BAE Systems Plc have been developing and building F-35s for the US military and 10 allies. More than 220 operational F-35s have been built and delivered worldwide, and they have collectively flown more than 95,000 flight hours.
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Incredible photos show the moment a Russian jet intercepted US aircraft during a live training operation over the Baltic Sea
A US Air Force B-52H, part of a formation of US aircraft, was intercepted by a Russian jet on Friday, according to the US Defense Department
Photos from the department show the Russian Su-27 Flanker flying closely to the American planes before peeling off
The US aircraft are part of ongoing BALTOPS exercises, an annual live training operation between several NATO Allies
By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 21:49 EDT, 9 June 2017 | Updated: 13:52 EDT, 10 June 2017
The US Defense Department has released dramatic photos of a Russian aircraft intercepting American bombers over the Baltic Sea. The photos show a Russian Su-27 Flanker intercept a formation of US Air Force aircraft, including a US Air Force B-52H, 2nd Bomb Wing, during BALTOPS exercises on Friday. Most intercepts are considered 'safe and professional,' according to Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis. The annual live training operation, between several NATO Allies and Partner Nations, is used to practice air and maritime integration and maintain stability in the Baltic Sea region. BALTOPS is set to continue until June 16. Earlier this week on Tuesday, the Kremlin claimed it had intercepted a US bomber that was flying near the border of Russian airspace. Moscow's defense ministry announced the incident on Tuesday morning, saying one of its SU-27 jets was dispatched to an area over the Baltic Sea. The defense ministry said an aircraft was detected flying along the border, prompting the intercept. Russia Today claims the SU-27 was sent out shortly after 7am GMT - or 3am on the east coast of the US. The ministry went on to claim that the Russian jet identified the plane as a US B-52 strategic bomber and escorted it until it flew further away from the border. Similar incidents have happened close to Russian airspace in the past. In September, a Russian fighter jet flew within 10 feet of a Navy surveillance aircraft. At the time, American officials called it an unsafe intercept over the Black Sea.
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BREAKING: Syrian Army Has Reached the Iraqi Border, Cutting off the Americans at al-Tanf -- Russian MoD
A major move to cut off the US in southern Syria from taking more territory
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The Syrian Army has reached the Iraqi border, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. While we don't have a lot of details yet, here's what we can say: this is a brilliant move if true. Not exactly a checkmate yet, but definitely a check on US ambitions in southern Syria. In essence, as Americans were busy bombing small Syrian groups entering their declared exclusion zone via the main road, a separate Syrian force staged a lightning-quick advance through roadless desert, well to the east of the "deconfliction" zone enveloping the Americans. If the US forces are not cut off from ISIS they no longer have an excuse to continue occupying this part of Syria. (Or will they insist they get to leapfrog over the Syrian army?) Russians are saying it will be them and the Syrians -- rather than the Americans -- who will be advancing along the Iraqi border towards al-Bukamal (the major border crossing in the Euphrates valley coveted by the Pentagon): Russian officers also accused the US of hindering the Syrian war effort against ISIS, by blocking its military from opening a new front against the group: “The coalition air forces and the strongholds of the forces of New Syrian Army have blocked the way of the government forces, tasked with defeating IS groups.” “This is a violation of the sovereign right of Syria to protect it borders." There is a video of the Russian briefing, but so far not yet translated (except for an incomplete summary at RT). UPDATE -- Apparently in sync with the Syrian army move south, Iraqi forces likewise advanced against ISIS from their side and met on the border. Thus Syria has not just reached the formal Iraqi border, but actually re-established an actual link to Iraq: UPDATE #2: We now have the video of the briefing at Russian MoD with English subs. The most relevant part starts at 15:27 into the clip:
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Russia tests cruise missile defense systems
Military & Defense June 09, 11:50 UTC+3
The defense system has passed all the required trials
MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. Russia’s Radio-Electronic Technologies Group (KRET), part of the state hi-tech corporation Rostec, has developed and tested onboard defense systems for cruise missiles of various modifications, Adviser to the KRET first deputy CEO Vladimir Mikheyev told TASS on Friday. "We have prepared a set of equipment for mounting it on cruise missiles of various modifications. Moreover, missiles can have any type of a warhead but all of them will be equipped with onboard defense systems," he said. This defense system has passed all the required trials today, he added. The onboard defense system comprises integrated technical means designed to determine and classify the threat of destruction of the protected object and also to neutralize this threat.
More: http://tass.com/defense/950687
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EPIC RANT!! What You WON'T Hear About JAMES COMEY From the Mainstream Media
Sheila Zilinsky Published on Jun 9, 2017
06/09/17 Sheila Zilinsky breaks down all things COMEY and the Senate Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DfaTFAMVI&sns=em
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The Deep State’s Top 5 False Flag Options Designed to Destroy the US
The Deep State needs a game-changer. This means they need a false flag, or a series of false flags in order to take over and impose martial law for our “safety”. After much deliberation, I developed a rank-ordered list of the five mostly likely false flag events. False Flag Scenarios There are many candidates, therefore, I have chosen what I feel are the most likely. Man-made “natural disaster. At one time, I would not have listed this as number one, but with the advent of the Oroville Dam crisis, this is my choice as number one. When, not if, the Oroville Dam goes, 2.5 million people are at immediate risk. Also, the number two rice producing area in the world would be gone as would the number one winter vegetable crop. This is a trigger for a famine, not just in the US, but across the planet. Additionally, 25% of all retail comes out of California. If the Oroville Dam gives way, the transportation pathways out of California, would be underwater. The American economy would collapse within a few days. There is one more stunning development according to Paul Preston. On Sunday night, Paul will be on The Common Sense Show to describe the well-placed tactical nukes that are under the dam. This is the number one choice for a false flag event that will initially bring the country to its knees. Chemical and/or Biological. Nearly 4.5 years ago, I had a very good friend who was in FEMA who early-retired along with several FEMA and DHS colleagues and they had been secretly forming their own getaway facility in lieu of what was coming. My friend told me that if the shadow government, now called the . In October of 2012, he told me that America wDeep State, could not make the country the way that they wanted it to be, they would likely launch a chemical/biologic attackas ready for a populist movement and this could trigger the attack. This was more than 3 years before Donald Trump’s announcement he was running for President. Finally, he felt that a 90% mortality goal would be be the goal. I first reported these facts on the CSS in December of 2012. Cyber attack attack upon the Grid. In a total grid down scenario, the Naval War College has stated that their studies predict a 90% mortality rate within the first two years. The initial cause of death would be starvation and local armed conflicts. In major cities, disease would become a primary threat as well. However, the biggest killer would quickly become water-borne illnesses that would be present because finding uncontaminated water would be challenging because the water filtration systems are electrically powered. Please note that most of these false flag scenarios have projected mortality rates of 90%. When we read the depopulation desires of the elite (eg Ted Turner), this matches the desired 90% depopulation rate. A cyber attack upon the grid is more preferable to the elite than an EMP attack because it achieves the same, but the recovery rate would be much faster after the collapse of the country, along with the high depopulation rate would be achieved. Cyber attack upon the banks and the Stock Market. If number three happens, it is likely that number four will happen simultaneously. A grid down scenario and and a similar attack upon the financial structure of the country would result in a total collapse of the country. Both state and federal governments would fail. The country would devolve into a series of war lords waging regional wars for control over resources. Those who control food and water would win, at least temporarily. This scenario would make America vulnerable to takeover by UN Peacekeeper and we would become an occupied land. The death rate is hard to calculate in this scenario but I believe it would approach 90%. Presidential assassination of illegitimate coup which would remove Donald Trump from office. Parallel to this possibility is the fact that several Soros-based organizations are promoting as much chaos in America as possible. We just entered into a planned set of protests, in the next 30 days, in which major protests are planned across in America in as many as 140 cities. A coup, or assassination against Trump could trigger unrest that would spread like a wildfire because of Soros pre-revolutionary work. Conclusion Please note that a nuclear false flag and/or an EMP attack did not make the top five because they would make the country uninhabitable. There is too much wealth available to the elite to totally destroy the country when removing the government and the majority of the people can be achieved without destroying infrastructure. There is one inescapable conclusion, America has been targeted for extinction with a very dramatic loss of life. The CIA front group, Deagel is projecting these cataclysmic changes will occur by 2024. I think it is will be much sooner given the vulnerability of the Deep State, they are like a wounded animal and they will soon lash out if they are unable to escape the extreme exposure that they are currently going through. In the next part of this series, I will discuss preparation for these scenarios. Many “fools” have stopped prepping. These people are increasing their chances that they will be victims. The purpose of the next part in this series is to increase the odds of individual survival.
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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.
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This Is How Close We Came To Nuclear Annihilation - Explosive Interviews Between Vladimir Putin And Oliver Stone Prove Americans Made The Right Decision In 2016
- From 'Dead Hand' To 'A Russian Warning', Americans Made A Bold Move Towards Survival In 2016
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die June 10, 2017
While Megyn Kelly recently got ripped to shreds for her NBC debut interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin that 'failed to impress', with film director Oliver Stone and others claiming "Megyn Kelly didn't know her stuff", a new upcoming series of interviews between Stone and Putin promises to be much more hard-hitting if recent indications are correct. Stone recently met with Putin for 19 hours of conversations over a period of several months stretched out over 2 years and as the NY Post reports, the four-part series of "The Putin Interviews" premieres on Monday night on Showtime and promises to be quite a bit more eye-opening than Kelly's 'dud'. While Putin recently claimed he didn't care if you or I or anyone else thought that he was rude to Kelly during their interview, several clips that have already been released from the Oliver Stone interview prove to us that we'll be getting much more truth from Stone and Putin than we ever got from Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or the msm, this at a time when millions of Americans are 'awakening' to the lies we've been told for many, many years now. In this story we'll take a look at the 7 new video clips featuring interviews between Stone and Putin that have already been released upon the Showtime YouTube channel as well as the final video below, for those who are able to 'stomach it', the pitiful interview between Putin and Megyn Kelly.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Oliver_Stone_And_The_Putin_Interviews.php
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Human farmers obsolete? Drones and driverless tractors now being used to harvest crops autonomously
Tuesday, June 06, 2017 by: Bridgette Wilcox
(Natural News) We may soon be living in a world where farms are run by robots, as new farming technology threatens to phase out human involvement in farming processes. Agricultural engineers from the Harper Adams University in Shropshire, England, are exploring new ways of farming crops, aiming to be able to grow and harvest a field of cereal crop without humans setting foot on the farmland. The researchers have already created a driverless tractor that can be steered remotely, the DailyMail.co.uk reported. The tractor will be able to drill, seed, and spray the land, after which an automated combine harvester will harvest the field. At the same time, drones will be used to monitor crops — eliminating the need for farmers to go into the field and examine the produce themselves. The farming process is already underway, and drilling of barley seeds has already been completed. At the moment, researchers are waiting for the seed to grow, with drones being used to monitor the progress and quality of crops. The crop is set to be harvested in August and September. “We’re hoping to string everything together to create one whole system, which will allow us to farm our hectare of cereal crop from establishment to harvest, without having to go into the field,” said Kit Franklin, who is part of the research team. “This is the first time in the world that this has been done but pushing boundaries is what engineering research is about.” According to the report, the research team believes that their study will change the way farming is done, and will give farmers more free time. However, there are questions as to the long-term effects this could have, not only on the quality of the yield, but on the lives of farmers. Franklin said he believes that automating the farming process will not put farmers out of jobs; saying that they will just be working out of the farm land as fleet managers and agricultural analysts who will man the farming robots and monitor the crops remotely. Despite Franklin’s reassurance, robots are still likely to have a detrimental effect when it comes to farming. Advocates for farm workers have pointed out that aside from the loss of jobs, automated farming could lead to the use of more pesticides, and compromise the safety of the food supply. “The fundamental question for consumers is who, and now, what do you want picking your food; a machine or a human, who with the proper training can take significant steps to ensure a safer, higher quality product,” Erik Nicholson, National Vice President of The United Farm Workers of America said in a report on BusinessInsider.com. In particular, robots don’t do well when it comes to the harvesting of fresh fruit, falling short in their inability to select ripe produce. According to the report, machines are unable to recognize produce from leaves and branches, and are blind to color and feel — which are crucial when it comes to fruit-picking. They also cannot match the dexterity and speed of human farm workers. This just goes to show that despite being functional in many ways, robots still cannot match the human touch — the necessity of which is all too underrated when it comes to farming.
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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Homeless man busted for breaking into Midtown church, threatening to kill all Christians
BY Shayna Jacobs Rocco Parascandola
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, June 1, 2017, 12:34 AM
A homeless man shouting “Allahu akbar” busted a Midtown church’s door with a wrench and threatened to return and shoot all Christians, police sources said Wednesday. The drama began when Noel Droni asked a 37-year-old homeless man outside the interdenominational Times Square Church, on W. 51st St., if he was a Christian on Monday, cops said. When the man told Droni he was Christian, Droni allegedly pulled a red wrench from his backpack and smashed the church’s glass door. He yelled “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” and then vowed violence, police said. “I am going to blow up the church and come back and kill any Christians,” he said, according to court papers. When police arrived and arrested Droni, he refused to answer questions, authorities said. He was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime and is being held on $1,000 bail. Droni’s lawyer, Russell Novack, said he is “confident in a satisfactory outcome.” “Other than that, I can’t discuss the facts of the case,” he added. The church did not respond to a request for comment.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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If you have been watching and reading and looking with your spiritual eyes, you have truly seen many great changes, not for the good, but many great changes. The confession of your Commander in Chief will bring those things that you desire not. For you cannot continually say that we are in war, and not reap what you are sowing. etc..
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Wake up those who slumber and sleep, wake up you leaders who think they can avenge the world. For my servant prophesied and said, I saw four angels of death rise up out of the river of Euphrates and a third of mankind was killed. Oh ye who are so foolish and know not my word and go about to conquer the whole earth and bring about man’s peace and man’s unity. Know ye not that your plans are the plans of the antichrist and self-destruction? My word says I saw Babylon fall in one day. Who is he with the sheepish grin, whose mouth is filled with pride and listens to no man? Yet man follows after him and listens to his lies. He leads his people into war, war that turns on him and on his people with great vengeance. etc..
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etc.. Cry aloud and warn those whose hearts are so foolish they shall throw stones at the sleeping dog who is a giant in disguise. Who is that one that dareth wake up Babylon from her long sleep? For only the Lord shall defeat her, for man cannot. I say to you, oh foolish man, when you cry out, let your idols deliver you. Yes, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. They have all turned to their own ways and seek the false shepherds who do not even know me or my voice. The watchmen of Israel are blind, they are all without knowledge, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot even bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Wake up and come out of your sins and seek my face. Wake up, for sudden destruction lies at your door. The foolish one has awaken the sleeping giant and now her lovers from the north shall join her, can come down upon you and your friend shall not be there to help you, for she is the spiritual Babylon and nations are weeping over her sudden destruction. Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, nor his ears dull with deafness that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and me. Your god and your sins have hidden my face from you, so that I will not hear you. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity to others and your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. Once they were a cup of gold in my hand to do good and spread the gospel, but they have turned to their own wisdom and knowledge and followed the ways of the antichrist and refuse to turn back to me. Their false churches follow them, and yet my prophets have warned them over and over and over and they listen not. etc..
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Let your voices be heard, for man knoweth not the things that they are about to do, nor have they seen the mothers weeping nor the fathers weeping. They have not seen the tears that have been shed because of their foolishness, because of what they have done, even though it is prophesied in my word, it does not mean that you have to be the one to do it. Truly, it is the time, saith your Father God, yea, and I see your heart and know that you are going to do it, regardless what I say unto you. And I know you look at my word and I know you read my word and I know you say to others, it is very hard, why are they so hard on me? That is because you will not listen to my voice, nor hear my voice, nor do the things that I tell you. For you think that you can do it all in yourself, you are so proud, so proud, so arrogant that you see not the handwriting on the wall and you know not what you are doing. Wake up, I say, wake up, wake up, read the handwriting on the wall, read it. For it shall come to pass, for I, your Father God, have spoken this and I have called you to come back into the fold, I have called you to walk according to my word, to walk according to my promise. Now hear my voice, hear my voice. For it shall lay upon your shoulders the things that you decide to do. It shall lay upon your shoulders and the guilt shall fall to you. etc..
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etc.. Pray for your children, pray for your children, for many will go to war now and many lives will be lost. And many great disasters that will come, will be because of the war, etc..
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Oh, hear me those who make ready for war to please your father and prove yourself. You have forgotten the Lord your maker who stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, now you shall come to the place where you shall fear every day because of the fury of the oppressors. Two kinds of calamities have befallen you, who feels sorry and compensates you, there are desolation and destruction on the land and in your city and in Babylon next to you, there are famine and sword. I will allow you to be in the hands of the tormentors and oppressors not many days hence. I will expose your pretended righteousness and your doings. When you cry out let your collection of idols deliver you. etc.. I say unto the foolish leaders of the land along with Babylon, behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save nor his ears dull with deafness that it cannot hear. Your iniquities have made a separation between you and me and your god and you sins have hid my face from you so that I will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, you tongue mutters wickedness, the way of peace you know not and there is no justice or righteousness in your goings. You have made your goings crooked paths, therefore, are justice and righteousness far from you. You are in your own ways rebelling and denying me and turning away and following the god of you father. Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness, unrightness and right standing with me standeth a far off. I will protect my people even against you and your army, but you I will not help, thus saith the Lord God Almighty. etc..
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Beware of the lies that your leaders speak, for they are programmed by the antichrist and do not know it. Oh, that they would ask me or walk according to my word, but they do their own thing and walk in darkness because of it. They read the prophetic word and mock, disbelieve and refuse to listen. Yet daily the things that I am speaking to my churches is coming to pass before the eyes of the world. Oh, how foolish this is, yet the Israelites did not listen to my prophets either, then when they found themselves in disastrous life taking places, they would cry out to me for help. Many died because they did not walk according to my plan but went their own way. They could have walked in victory, etc..
Please take note the dates (2002) that these prophecies were posted on this prophetic website and are still in the previous predictions files for you to read in context. The next year (2003) the war was declared over. These prophecies were very unpopular at the time they were given but now we are in (2008) so you be the judge. - The Scribe -
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etc.. They are not aware of the lateness of the hour, they are not aware of the things that are going on throughout the world, they haven’t even noticed as man has removed leadership from many countries only to get a far worse leader than the one they got rid of, because they thought, they thought that they were doing right and yet they were not doing right. And when I speak up they don’t want to listen to me, they want to listen to the world and what the world has to say. etc
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Woman suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraqi market attack claimed by IS
#IraqatWar
In late May, IS attacks in Baghdad killed at least 35 civilians A woman detonated her explosive belt in a market east of the Shia holy city of Kerbala on Friday, killing at least 30 and wounding 35, Iraqi security sources said. Islamic State claimed the attack in the town of Musayab, in a statement on its Amaq news agency, without identifying the attacker. A security officer said the assailant was a woman who hid the bomb under the customary full-body veil. The attack comes as Islamic State is about to lose Mosul, the de-facto capital of the hardline Sunni Muslim group in Iraq, to a US-backed Iraqi offensive launched in October. The group is also on the backfoot in neighbouring Syria, retreating in the face of a US-backed Kurdish-led coalition attacking its capital there, Raqqa. Iranian-backed paramilitaries are taking part in the campaign fighting Islamic State in Iraq, attacking the group in the border region near Syria. Attacks in late May, also claimed by IS, killed at least 35 civilians in Baghdad. The militant group had vowed to increase attacks during the holy month of Ramadan.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/suicide-bomber-kills-11-market-south-baghdad-officials-570044841
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Sheriff: Be Armed, Be Mentally Prepared, Make Terrorists Defend Their Lives for a Change
by AWR Hawkins9 Jun 20172,395
Florida’s Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey is urging law-abiding Americans to arm up, get familiar with their firearm, and be ready to make terrorists worry about defending their own lives, for a change. Ivey made these comments in a video he posted to Facebook in reaction to the horrendous attacks on unarmed, law-abiding Londoners. Looking at terror attacks around the world, Ivey observed: Terrorists and active shooters are using every weapon available to target citizens. Guns, knives, trucks, hammers, and even explosives have all become the weapon of choice for murderers who only have one goal–killing innocent and law-abiding citizens. It seems that almost everyday we hear of another attack taking place at a concert, tourist destination, church, business, or anywhere else in the world where they can strike fear in the hearts of citizens. He urged Americans to take their safety seriously and to determine to be “the first line of defense” against a terror attack. He stressed, “Let me be perfectly clear, doing nothing or just hoping it won’t happen to you is not going to save your life.” Ivey mentioned that officials in other parts of the world are teaching citizens that the best thing they can do is “run, hide, tell,” and he rejects that paradigm, citing the fact that “this is war” and you win a war by fighting — not by running. He points out that “terrorists and active shooters know that our citizens have been coached to run and hide, and then patiently await help.” He said attackers “count on” Americans to respond this way, then added, “What they don’t count on is being attacked themselves.” Ivey says it is time to be prepared to counterattack; to be armed and ready to make the terrorists fight to defend their own lives for a change, should they strike. Ivey said: No matter who you are or what your position is on guns, there is no denying the fact that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun–or a knife–is an armed and well-prepared citizen or law enforcement officer. There is no doubt that as soon as 911 is called law enforcement is on the way, however, until they arrive it is up to you and those with you to neutralize or eliminate the threat.
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Declining Christianity
by Hal Lindsey
The Pew Research Center released the results of a poll last week showing a dramatic drop in the number of people who claim to be Christians in America. Over a period of only seven years, the number went down eight percentage points — from 79% to 71%. Meanwhile, the number of those who claim to be atheists, agnostics, or “nothing in particular” went up from 16% to 23%. Headlines across the nation ballyhooed the news. But closer examination shows that it’s hardly a victory for the forces of secularization. National Review’s David Paul Kuhn put the poll in perspective. “The share of Americans who identify as Christian has been declining for years,” he wrote. “The share of religious Americans has not. For about 75 years, despite periodic fluctuations, the Gallup Poll has found that approximately four in 10 Americans say they attend religious services at least once a week. Religious Americans made up the same share of the presidential electorate in 2012 as they did twelve years earlier, 42 percent.” The eight percentage point drop that Pew found comes primarily from people who weren’t serious about faith in the first place. They didn’t attend regular services, and religious faith wasn’t a big deal in their lives. Also, the old line, extremely liberal denominations continue their decline. The percentage of Americans who identify themselves as “evangelical” and/or “born again” has remained constant for a long time. That’s good news and bad. It means we’re keeping up with population growth, but not making much headway. So, it may not seem like a big deal that a few seculars stopped calling themselves Christian. But there are some disturbing factors for America. While some of the nation’s founding fathers and mothers were full-on followers of Jesus, others weren’t. What you find on close examination, though, is that in almost every case, non-believing leaders from that era in U.S. history expressed a world view that was essentially Biblical. They respected Christians and the Bible, and even if they didn’t embrace all of the Bible’s teachings, they saw it as a source of moral guidance. Secularism has fallen a long way since then. Today, the animosity of the anti-Christian, anti-Bible crowd takes your breath away. To get a glimpse of their vitriol, read the comments section on internet articles that deal with these issues. It’s all too easy to imagine some of these people cheering for the lions as they rip Christians to pieces. What would happen if Christian-haters came to be the majority, or even close to it? That’s not just a hypothetical question. We can look at history to get an idea. The French Revolution was not only a revolt against the monarchy, but against the Catholic Church. They outlawed Christianity. They stole Notre-Dame Cathedral and turned it into a “Temple of Reason.” Accounts written at the time tell of debauchery going on there that was anything but reasonable. After that, the magnificent structure was turned into a wine warehouse. It wasn’t used again as a house of worship for several decades. Similar things happened to churches all over the country during those years. In the 20th century, scores of communist countries took the ultimate step toward secularization and became officially atheist. The results were similar to those in revolutionary France. It turns out that atheism is not a tolerant or benevolent belief system. They killed, tortured, persecuted, and repressed Christians in all sorts of ways. To be fair, governments pushing religion have also been disastrous at various times in history. But American history shows a remarkable balance — tolerance and even good will for believers and unbelievers alike. Now, even though a remarkably high 71% of the nation’s adults claim to be Christians, the faith of Christ is viewed in negative ways by the media and academia. The word “Christian” began as a pejorative when it was first used at Antioch in the early days of the faith. Today the word is regaining its old taint. Without a new Great Awakening, the percentage of self-identified Christians will continue to go down. But my biggest concern is about the real Christians. There are enough of us that if we refused to watch certain kinds of television programs, most of those shows would disappear. But we rarely even complain. Christians make many of the same secular lifestyle choices as their atheist, agnostic, and “nothing in particular” neighbors. Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” [Matthew 5:14 NASB] I’ll be talking more about this poll and the implications of it on The Hal Lindsey Report that will be airing this weekend on TBN, Daystar, Word, and other outlets. Check your local listings for exact times and channels.
http://www.hallindsey.com/hlr-5-20-2015/
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History, Precedent and Comey Statement Show that Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice
by Alan M. Dershowitz June 8, 2017 at 9:15 am
The statement may provide political ammunition to Trump opponents, but unless they are willing to stretch James Comey's words and take Trump's out of context, and unless they are prepared to abandon important constitutional principles and civil liberties that protect us all, they should not be searching for ways to expand already elastic criminal statutes and shrink enduring constitutional safeguards in a dangerous and futile effort to criminalize political disagreements. The first casualty of partisan efforts to "get" a political opponent — whether Republicans going after Clinton or Democrats going after Trump — is often civil liberties. All Americans who care about the Constitution and civil liberties must join together to protest efforts to expand existing criminal law to get political opponents. Today it is Trump. Yesterday it was Clinton. Tomorrow it could be you. In 1992, then-President George H.W. Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five other individuals who had been indicted or convicted in connection with the Iran-Contra arms deal. The special prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, was furious, accusing Bush of stifling his ongoing investigation and suggesting that he may have done it to prevent Weinberger or the others from pointing the finger of blame at Bush himself. The New York Times also reported that the investigation might have pointed to Bush himself. This is what Walsh said: "The Iran-contra cover-up, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed with the pardon of Caspar Weinberger. We will make a full report on our findings to Congress and the public describing the details and extent of this cover-up." Yet President Bush was neither charged with obstruction of justice nor impeached. Nor have other presidents who interfered with ongoing investigations or prosecutions been charged with obstruction. It is true that among the impeachment charges levelled against President Nixon was one for obstructing justice, but Nixon committed the independent crime of instructing his aides to lie to the FBI, which is a violation of section 1001 of the federal criminal code. It is against the background of this history and precedent that the statement of former FBI Director James must be considered. Comey himself acknowledged that, "throughout history, some presidents have decided that because 'problems' come from Justice, they should try to hold the Department close. But blurring those boundaries ultimately makes the problems worse by undermining public trust in the institutions and their work." Comey has also acknowledged that the president had the constitutional authority to fire him for any or no cause. President Donald Trump also had the constitutional authority to order Comey to end the investigation of Flynn. He could have pardoned Flynn, as Bush pardoned Weinberger, thus ending the Flynn investigation, as Bush ended the Iran-Contra investigation. What Trump could not do is what Nixon did: direct his aides to lie to the FBI, or commit other independent crimes. There is no evidence that Trump did that. With these factors in mind, let's turn to the Comey statement. Former FBI Director James Comey's written statement, which was released in advance of his Thursday testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, does not provide evidence that President Trump committed obstruction of justice or any other crime. Indeed it strongly suggests that even under the broadest reasonable definition of obstruction, no such crime was committed. The crucial conversation occurred in the Oval Office on February 14 between the President and the then director. According to Comey's contemporaneous memo, the president expressed his opinion that General Flynn "is a good guy." Comey replied: "He is a good guy." The President said the following: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this thing go." Comey understood that to be a reference only to the Flynn investigation and not "the broader investigation into Russia or possible links to the campaign." Comey had already told the President that "we were not investigating him personally." Comey understood "the President to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December." Comey did not say he would "let this go," and indeed he did not grant the president's request to do so. Nor did Comey report this conversation to the attorney general or any other prosecutor. He was troubled by what he regarded as a breach of recent traditions of FBI independence from the White House, though he recognized that "throughout history, some presidents have decided that because 'problems' come from the Department of Justice, they should try to hold the Department close." That is an understatement. Throughout American history -- from Adams to Jefferson to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Kennedy to Obama -- presidents have directed (not merely requested) the Justice Department to investigate, prosecute (or not prosecute) specific individuals or categories of individuals. It is only recently that the tradition of an independent Justice Department and FBI has emerged. But traditions, even salutary ones, cannot form the basis of a criminal charge. It would be far better if our constitution provided for prosecutors who were not part of the executive branch, which is under the direction of the president. In Great Britain, Israel and other democracies that respect the rule of law, the Director of Public Prosecution or the Attorney General are law enforcement officials who, by law, are independent of the Prime Minister. But our constitution makes the Attorney General both the chief prosecutor and the chief political adviser to the president on matters of justice and law enforcement. The president can, as a matter of constitutional law, direct the Attorney General, and his subordinate, the Director of the FBI, tell them what to do, whom to prosecute and whom not to prosecute. Indeed, the president has the constitutional authority to stop the investigation of any person by simply pardoning that person. Assume, for argument's sake, that the President had said the following to Comey: "You are no longer authorized to investigate Flynn because I have decided to pardon him." Would that exercise of the president's constitutional power to pardon constitute a criminal obstruction of justice? Of course not. Presidents do that all the time. The first President Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger, his Secretary of Defense, in the middle of an investigation that could have incriminated Bush. That was not an obstruction and neither would a pardon of Flynn have been a crime. A president cannot be charged with a crime for properly exercising his constitutional authority For the same reason, President Trump cannot be charged with obstruction for firing Comey, as he had the constitutional authority to do. The Comey statement suggests that one reason the President fired him was because of his refusal or failure to publicly announce that the FBI was not investigating Trump personally. Trump "repeatedly" told Comey to "get that fact out," and he did not. If that is true, it is certainly not an obstruction of justice. Nor is it an obstruction of justice to ask for loyalty from the director of the FBI, who responded "you will get that ('honest loyalty') from me." Comey understood that he and the President may have understood that vague phrase — "honest loyalty" — differently. But no reasonable interpretation of those ambiguous words would give rise to a crime. Many Trump opponents were hoping that the Comey statement would provide smoking guns. It has not. Instead it has weakened an already weak case for obstruction of justice. The statement may provide political ammunition to Trump opponents, but unless they are willing to stretch Comey's words and take Trump's out of context, and unless they are prepared to abandon important constitutional principles and civil liberties that protect us all, they should not be searching for ways to expand already elastic criminal statutes and shrink enduring constitutional safeguards in a dangerous and futile effort to criminalize political disagreements. The first casualty of partisan efforts to "get" a political opponent — whether Republicans going after Clinton or Democrats going after Trump — is often civil liberties. All Americans who care about the Constitution and civil liberties must join together to protest efforts to expand existing criminal law to get political opponents. Today it is Trump. Yesterday it was Clinton. Tomorrow it could be you.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10497/trump-comey-obstruction-justice
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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NFL Star Ben Watson: Bernie Sanders 'UnAmerican' for Questioning Trump Nominee's Evangelical Beliefs
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter Jun 9, 2017 | 2:24 PM
Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson and evangelical religious leaders from both sides of the political aisle have spoken out against Sen. Bernie Sanders' questioning of White House Deputy Budget Director nominee Russell Vought's evangelical beliefs on salvation. On Wednesday, the senator from Vermont and a self-described democratic socialist, hammered Vought during his confirmation hearing and began the exchange by citing a letter of concern from the Arab American Institute. Sanders grilled Vought about an op-ed that he wrote for the Resurgent in 2016 defending the theology of his evangelical alma mater Wheaton College during the media firestorm that ensued after it suspended a professor who argued that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Sanders criticized Vought on his belief that Muslims and other non-Christians stand condemned if they don't follow Christ. "You think your statement that you put into that publication, they do not know God because they rejected Jesus Christ, His Son, and they stand condemned, do you think that's respectful of other religions?" Sanders asked. After Vought responded that he wrote that post on his Christian beliefs that are consistent with his college's statement of faith, Sanders called Vought's statement "indefensible," "hateful" and "Islamophobic." Sanders added: "I would simply say, Mr. Chairman, that this nominee is really not someone who this country is supposed to be about." The exchange between Sanders and Vought caught the eye of Watson, a veteran NFL player and devout Christian who is not afraid to speak out publicly on social issues facing the country. "With all the talk about what's unAmerican, a U.S. senator attempting to disqualify a nominee because of his faith is exhibit A," Watson wrote in a Facebook post Thursday night. Watson is not the only prominent Christian figure to take to Facebook to voice their disapproval of Sanders' comments at Wednesday's hearing. "Is Bernie Sanders right? NO. Is he wrong? YES. Is Russell Vought politically correct? NO. Is he right? YES!" leading evangelist Franklin Graham wrote on his Facebook page. "Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.' End of discussion." Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, called Sanders' comments "breathtakingly audacious and shockingly ignorant" of the U.S. Constitution and Christian teachings. "Even if one were to excuse Senator Sanders for not realizing that all Christians of every age have insisted that faith in Jesus Christ is the only pathway to salvation, it is inconceivable that Sanders would cite religious beliefs as disqualifying an individual for public office in defiance of the Constitution," Moore said in a statement shared by the ERLC press office. "No religious test shall ever be required of those seeking public office. While no one expects Sanders to be a theologian, we should expect far more from an elected official who has taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution." Atlanta Pastor Maina Mwaura, a Democrat who no longer identifies as a member of the party, told The Christian Post on Friday that he was "disappointed" by Sanders' remarks. "I think this is one of those cases where Democrats wonder why they have such a hard time with evangelicals," Mwaura said. "Part of the problem is that they are not speaking our language and then they give evangelical Christians fuel and ammunition to provide the mistrust that evangelicals have toward them. I look at what he did a couple of days ago. Honestly, he fueled that fire." Mwaura, who has served at a number of churches across the U.S. and most recently served as missions pastor at West Ridge Church in Dallas, Georgia, asserted that this is not the first time a Democrat has fueled evangelical distrust of the Democratic Party. "If this was one of the first times, I would [likely] give them a pass. But here we are again because it happened a month or so ago with DNC Chair [Tom] Perez with his whole issue about abortion," Mwaura said. "The deal is they keep going further left and if they keep doing this, they are not going to win any election anytime soon when it comes to mainstream evangelical voters. One of the reasons why we lost in November is because of some of these comments."
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Hezbollah Operatives Scouted Targets in NY, Panama: Feds
By Jonathan Dienst and Joe Valiquette
Two men with ties to Hezbollah conducted “pre-operational surveillance” on possible targets for attack in New York, as well as U.S. and Israeli embassies in Panama, federal prosecutors said Thursday. No specific plot was underway but the men were allegedly scouting the targets to assess their vulnerabilities, including LaGuardia Airport and FBI headquarters in New York. The two men allegedly received weapons and bomb-making training in Lebanon. Ali Kourani, of the Bronx, was arrested last week on the terror-related charges. Samer El Debek was arrested in Livonia, Michigan, and sent to New York last week for trial. Kourani attended Hezbollah-sponsored weapons training program starting at age 16, and lied on his immigration application, stating he had no ties to any foreign terrorist organization, the FBI said. He became a naturalized citizen in 2009. Prosecutors said Kourani was an active member of the Islamic Jihad Organization – a branch associated with Hezbollah and had traveled to China Guangzhou where Hizballah in the past had been known to obtain bomb making materials for the group. They said he also sought to buy weapons in the U.S. to send to the group. El Debek allegedly joined Hezbollah in 2008 and traveled to Lebanon for training on numerous occasions, officials said. Investigators said he undertook bomb-making training while there. Officials said in 2009 he traveled to Thailand on his U.S. passport to help clean up explosive residue left behind in a safehouse used by members of a Hezbollah backed terror cell. Alleged Mob Group Indicted Over 10,000 Pounds of Chocolate In 2011, he allegedly went to Panama to photograph the American and Israeli embassies security measures. In 2012, he went back to scout vulnerabilities of the Panama Canal, officials said. A search of Debek’s computer turned up over 250 searches for sites like “Hezbollah martyrs” and “martyrs of Islamic resistence.” Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim called the terrorism charges “serious,” adding Debek and Kourani "received military-style training, including in the use of weapons like rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machine guns for use in the support of the group’s terrorist mission." Kim said Kourani specifically "conducted surveillance of potential targets in America, including military and law enforcement facilities in New York City.” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said the men were involved in “pre-operational surveillance” in New York. Hezbollah is a Shia organization in Lebanon founded in the 1980s after Israel’s invasion there. With support from Iran, the group has been involved in numerous terrorist attacks – some which killed Americans. Latest Terror Attacks Put Spotlight Back on ISIS At the request of law enforcement, NBC New York did not report news of the investigation last week because officials cited ongoing security concerns connected to the case. Documents associated with the case were made public Wednesday. Debek’s family did not answer requests for comment at the Michigan home. Attempts to reach Kourani’s attorney Peggy Cross-Goldenberg and Debek’s attorney Robert Soloway were not immediately successful. Prosecutors said both men have already appeared in court and are being held without bail.
Published at 2:38 PM EDT on Jun 8, 2017 | Updated at 1:40 AM EDT on Jun 9, 2017
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Puerto Rico goes to the polls for statehood
By Rafael Bernal - 06/07/17 06:00 AM EDT
Puerto Rico’s government is banking on a push for statehood to solve the structural issues that led to its financial crisis. Puerto Ricans will vote Sunday to decide the territory’s status. If statehood wins, as expected, the island will enact what’s known as the Tennessee Plan, an avenue to accession by which U.S. territories send a congressional delegation to demand to be seated in Washington. Puerto Rico will send two senators and five representatives, chosen by Gov. Ricardo Rosselló (D), later this year, once the plan is put into action. Statehood remains a long shot as many Republicans are wary of adding a 51st state that could add two Democratic senators and seven Democratic electors to the Electoral College. Others, noting the examples of Alaska and Hawaii, both added to the union in 1959, say it can be difficult to predict how territories will vote as states. “Those are the same people that 60 years ago said that Hawaii was going to be a super Republican state and Alaska was going to be super Democratic, and that’s why we brought them in together,” said José Fuentes Agostini, the head of Puerto Rican Republicans in the states. The Puerto Rican Republican Party is adamantly pro-statehood. And the national Republican Party has supported statehood since the 1940s, most clearly in its 2016 platform. “We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state,” the platform stated. “Once the 2012 local vote for statehood is ratified, Congress should approve an enabling act with terms for Puerto Rico’s future admission as the 51st state of the Union.” President Trump, who angered Puerto Ricans by decrying a potential “bailout” of their financial system on the campaign trail and as president, also indicated openness to the idea. As a candidate, he said, “The will of the Puerto Rican people in any status referendum should be considered as Congress follows through on any desired change in status for Puerto Rico, including statehood.” Puerto Rican voters in the states have predominantly voted for Democrats, translating to broad party support for statehood. Many also argue that Puerto Rico’s status as a territory is intrinsically linked to its economic challenges. “Status is a major part of the problem Puerto Rico faces all the time. In my opinion, the main problem,” said Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.), who was born on the island. Statehood supporters argue that territorial status has held back the island’s economy by creating a legal structure where Congress can pick and choose how national laws — most notably tax laws — apply to Puerto Rico. “The thought that is given to national policy is not applied to Puerto Rico, and then people try to come up with special deals, usually because they’re trying to save a few dollars,” said Jeffrey Farrow, a territorial expert and former White House aide. “Those special deals almost never work and almost always exacerbate the problem.” Still, the plan faces legal challenges and opposition on the island — despite the fact that Puerto Ricans in 2012 voted by a wide margin to become a state. Then-Gov. Alejandro García Padilla (D), a member of the anti-statehood Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), opposed statehood. His party and the small pro-independence party have vowed to boycott Sunday’s vote. Following the 2012 plebiscite, opponents of statehood argued that participation had not been high enough to reflect the true will of the people. Rosselló and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón (R) belong to the Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) within Puerto Rico. It is promoting participation in the vote. Statehood opponents are counting on the boycott to lower turnout. They say that unless 50 percent of the total voter roll approves statehood, it will not be a credible vote. According to a poll by San Juan-based newspaper El Nuevo Dia released last week, 72 percent of registered voters plan to vote, and 20 percent have already decided to boycott the election. Opposition parties say a boycott is justified because the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not approved the final ballot. Rosselló initially submitted a ballot that did not allow voters to vote to continue the status quo, only giving the option of voting for independence or statehood. Justice required Rosselló to include the status quo in a revised ballot, which he did, but the DOJ said it would not have enough time to review the revised ballot before the plebiscite. The ballot has also won attention from Congress. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) spoke out against it, arguing it “unfairly stacks the deck in favor of statehood.” He penned a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions objecting to the ballot’s title, “Plebiscite for the Immediate Decolonization of Puerto Rico.” Wicker said that Puerto Rico has not been a colony since its annexation from Spain in 1898. Proponents of statehood insist that territorial status for 3.5 million citizens amounts to colonialism. In Washington last month, Rosselló called for an end to “500 years of colonial status” and “100 years of U.S. citizenship without full rights.” Despite opposition in San Juan and Washington, Puerto Rico’s top officials will follow through with the plan of sending a delegation to Congress, under a law signed by Rosselló on Monday, assuming statehood wins out. Whether that delegation will be received is unclear. Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) office did not return a request for comment.
http://thehill.com/latino/336667-puerto-rico-goes-to-the-polls-for-statehood
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NSA Leaker Hates Trump, Backed Bernie Sanders
Reality Winner, the 25-year-old federal contractor charged with leaking top secret information to the media, has a long social media trail of liberal political posts and is a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Winner also hates President Donald Trump, once posting that the president is a "piece of s***" over his moves to stop protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. Her social media posts have included #notmypresident as well as calls to #resist over Trump's environmental policies as well as DAPL. Winner also is a former Air Force linguist who speaks Middle East languages Pashto, Farsi and Dari, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told The Guardian. "I never thought this would be something she would do," Winner-Davis told The Guardian. "I mean, she has expressed to me that she is not a fan of Trump – but she's not someone who would go and riot or picket." Still, . The Justice Department did not say what she was accused of leaking, nor did it identify her Facebook and Twitter feeds are loaded with political rants against Trump, ranging from criticism of his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and to his environmental agenda. Winner had been an employee of federal contractor Pluribus International since February and had a top-secret clearancethe media outlet that received the information, but the DOJ announcement of the charges came within an hour of The Intercept posting a story about leaked documents on Russian hacking attempts in the 2016 presidential election. The date of the document in the DOJ release also matched the one in the Intercept story: May 5, 2017. "I don't know what the hacking thing all means," Winner's mother told The Guardian. "Has it made a difference in the election? Who knows." Winner faces a possible 10-year prison sentence if convicted. According to The Daily Caller, Winner is a supporter of Sanders, I-Vt., who describes himself as a "democratic socialist." He failed in his attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton, but amassed a loyal group of supporters. Winner also backed liberal causes such as the Women's March and backed the Muslim civil rights group, the Islamic Society of North America, the Caller reported.
NSA Leaker Hates Trump, Backed Bernie Sanders
(Reality Winner/Facebook) By Greg Richter | Tuesday, 06 Jun 2017 10:00 AM
Reality Winner, the 25-year-old federal contractor charged with leaking top secret information to the media, has a long social media trail of liberal political posts and is a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Winner also hates President Donald Trump, once posting that the president is a "piece of s***" over his moves to stop protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. Her social media posts have included #notmypresident as well as calls to #resist over Trump's environmental policies as well as DAPL. Winner also is a former Air Force linguist who speaks Middle East languages Pashto, Farsi and Dari, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told The Guardian. "I never thought this would be something she would do," Winner-Davis told The Guardian. "I mean, she has expressed to me that she is not a fan of Trump – but she's not someone who would go and riot or picket." Still, her Facebook and Twitter feeds are loaded with political rants against Trump, ranging from criticism of his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and to his environmental agenda. Winner had been an employee of federal contractor Pluribus International since February and had a top-secret clearance. The Justice Department did not say what she was accused of leaking, nor did it identify the media outlet that received the information, but the DOJ announcement of the charges came within an hour of The Intercept posting a story about leaked documents on Russian hacking attempts in the 2016 presidential election. The date of the document in the DOJ release also matched the one in the Intercept story: May 5, 2017. "I don't know what the hacking thing all means," Winner's monther told The Guardian. "Has it made a difference in the election? Who knows." Winner faces a possible 10-year prison sentence if convicted. According to The Daily Caller, Winner is a supporter of Sanders, I-Vt., who describes himself as a "democratic socialist." He failed in his attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton, but amassed a loyal group of supporters. Winner also backed liberal causes such as the Women's March and backed the Muslim civil rights group, the Islamic Society of North America, the Caller reported. Winner's mother told The Daily Beast her daughter did not discuss the case with her when she spoke by phone Sunday night, instead only asking her mother to help her find homes for her pets. "She's a beautiful girl," Winner-Davis told The Guardian. "Everyone who meets her loves her, and she's kind."
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Reality-Winner-leaker-classified-resist/2017/06/05/id/794314/
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Germany: Surge in Stabbings and Knife Crimes
by Soeren Kern June 6, 2017 at 5:00 am
Not only are knife-related crimes surging, but the perpetrators and victims of such crimes are increasingly younger and increasingly female. Germany's knife-crime problem is being exacerbated by its lenient judicial system, in which offenders receive relatively light sentences, even for serious crimes. In many instances, individuals who are arrested for knife-related crimes are released after questioning from police. This practice allows criminal suspects to continue committing crimes with virtual impunity. More than 1,600 knife-related crimes were reported in Germany during just the first five months of 2017 — an average of 300 such crimes each month, or ten a day. A Syrian migrant was stabbed to death in northern Germany by another Syrian because he was eating ice cream during Ramadan. The murder — which occurred in broad daylight in a busy pedestrian shopping area in Oldenburg and caused great consternation among local citizens — is not just the latest example of Sharia law being enforced on German streets. The crime also highlighted the growing epidemic of knife violence in Germany. Knives, axes and machetes have become weapons of choice for criminals in Germany, which has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe. Knives are not only being used to carry out jihadist attacks, but increasingly to commit homicides, robberies, home invasions, sexual assaults, honor killings and many other kinds of violent crime. Reliable statistics on knife violence in Germany do not exist. A search of German police blotters, however, shows that during the past ten years the number of knife-related crimes in Germany has increased by more than 1,200%. Around 4,000 such crimes were reported to police in 2016, up from just 300 in 2007. It is also impossible to determine how many of these knife crimes involved migrants. Increased censorship by the police and the media, aimed at stemming anti-immigration sentiments, makes the public incapable of knowing the names and national origins of many perpetrators or victims. The surge in knife-related violence in Germany does, however, coincide with Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow in some two million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The number of reported knife crimes in Germany jumped by 600% during the past four years — from about 550 in 2013 to nearly 4,000 in 2016. Police reports show that both migrants and non-migrants are responsible for the increase in knife crimes in Germany. Merkel's open-door migration policies appear to have set in motion a self-reinforcing cycle of violence in which more and more people are carrying knives in public — including for self-defense. Her policies appear to be leading to more and more stabbings, especially when alcohol is involved. Not only are knife-related crimes surging, but the perpetrators and victims of such crimes are increasingly younger and increasingly female: In Bochum, a 19-year-old woman stabbed two boys, aged 12 and 13 years. Police said the three had been arguing when the woman pulled out a knife. The boys ran away and tried to hide in a parking garage, but the woman pursued and attacked them. In Soest, a 16-year-old boy stabbed a 17-year-old classmate seven times in the chest in a dispute over a girl. The victim was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries to his heart. The assailant was released after a psychiatrist persuaded prosecutors that he could not be held responsible for his actions because he acted in the "heat of passion" (im Affekt). In Essen, two boys, aged 11 and 13, pulled a knife on a 20-year-old woman in an effort to rob her of her cellphone. She resisted and called police, who detained the attackers. In Wuppertal, a "southern looking man" (südländisches Erscheinungsbild) stabbed a 13-year-old boy after he looked at his attacker supposedly "the wrong way." In Kirchdorf, a "southerner" (südländische Erscheinung) pulled a knife on a 12-year-old girl. In Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde, a group of teenagers drew a knife on a 17-year-old girl after she "provoked" them. In Berlin-Neukölln, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed during an altercation with a 32-year-old man. In Neumünster, a 15-year-old stabbed a 19-year-old after two groups of teenagers got into an altercation. In Gevelsberg, a "dark-skinned" man (dunkelhäutig) stabbed a 14-year-old girl near the central train station as she was walking home. Some knife attacks appear to have political or religious motives: In Hanover, a 16-year-old German-Moroccan girl stabbed a police officer in the neck with a kitchen knife. Police said the incident, which occurred at the central train station, was the first jihadist attack in Germany inspired by the Islamic State. "The perpetrator did not display any emotion," a police spokesperson said. "Her only concern was for her headscarf. She was concerned that her headscarf be put back on properly after she was arrested. Whether the police officer survived, she did not care." In Prien am Chiemsee, an Afghan man stabbed to death an Afghan woman who had converted to Christianity. The attacker ambushed the woman as she was exiting a grocery store with her two children. In Munich, a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" and "infidels must die" stabbed one person to death and slashed three others in an attack at a train station. In Würzburg, on a train, an Afghan asylum seeker shouting "Allahu Akbar" attacked five people with an axe. In Oberhausen, a man shouting "Allahu Akhbar" stabbed a 66-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man who were picnicking. Knife attacks are also common during brawls involving feuding ethnic groups: In Gelsenkirchen, gangs of Syrian and Lebanese youths got into a mass knife fight in the city center. Police said that the level of violence was "brutal." In Mülheim, around 80 members of two rival Lebanese clans got into a knife fight in the center of the city. It took hundreds of police, armed with machine guns, dogs and helicopters, more than three hours to restore order. In Hanover, members of two rival Kurdish clans got into a knife fight in front of the central train station. In Mainz-Gonsenheim, several people were stabbed during a mass brawl between Syrians and Iranians. In Dortmund, an immense brawl ensued after a member of one ethnic group pulled a knife on someone from another ethnic group. In Neumünster, a 15-year-old stabbed a 19-year-old after two groups of teenagers from feuding ethnic groups got into an altercation. In Gütersloh, two men were stabbed and seriously wounded during a fight between two feuding ethnic groups. In Leipzig, an Iraqi man was stabbed and seriously injured during a massive brawl in front of a Kebab restaurant. When police tried to intervene, the mob attacked them with bottles and stones In Hamm-Herringen, two men were stabbed and seriously wounded during a fight between two feuding ethnic groups. Other knife attacks are seemingly random: In Hamburg, a 16-year-old boy and his 15-year-old girlfriend were walking along the banks of the Alster, a lake in the heart of the city, when a stranger ambushed them from behind and plunged a knife into his back. The attacker then pushed the girl into the water and walked away. The girl survived but the boy died. The suspect, a "southern-looking" (südländischer Erscheinung) man in his early twenties, remains at large. Police say the victims were not robbed and there is no evident motive for the crime: they said that the suspect appears to have randomly stabbed the boy just because he felt like it. In Bremen, a 29-year-old man was randomly stabbed and seriously wounded at the Waterfront shopping center. The entire facility was closed after the attack. In Dessau-Roßlau, two Syrian asylum seekers randomly stabbed two German female passersby in a pedestrian zone in broad daylight. In Düsseldorf, a man brandishing a machete randomly stabbed an 80-year-old man in the Kalkum district. He remains at large. In Wrohm, an Eritrean migrant randomly stabbed a 51-year-old woman. Knife-related incidents are also becoming increasingly common on public transport hubs: In Hamburg-Billstedt, two brothers were stabbed during a robbery at the Legienstraße subway station. In Frankfurt, two "presumably East Europeans" (mutmaßlich Osteuropäer) wielding knives attacked commuters at the "Bonames Mitte" subway station. In Dortmund-Bochum, two feuding ethnic groups got into a knife fight on the S-1 line. In Dresden, a man carrying a 20-centimer (8-inch) knife was arrested at the central train station. In Schönefeld, a man randomly pulled a knife on a traveler at the airport. It remains unclear how the perpetrator passed the knife through airport security. In Baden-Baden, a man wielding a knife threatened passengers on a train. Knives appear to be the weapon of choice in so-called honor killings: In Kiel, a German-Turkish man stabbed to death his estranged Turkish wife in front of a daycare center. In Bocholt, a Lebanese man stabbed to death his Moroccan wife, the mother of his three children, because he thought she wanted to divorce him. In Scheeßel, an Iraqi man stabbed to death his wife. Police described the murder as an honor killing. In Ahaus, a Nigerian asylum seeker stabbed to death a Hindu woman after she seemingly offended his honor by rejecting his romantic advances. The woman was employed at the asylum shelter where her attacker lived. In Hanover-Mühlenberg, a Serbian man stabbed his ex-girlfriend after she ended their relationship and had begun seeing someone else. In Berlin, a 32-year-old Bosnian man stabbed to death his former girlfriend after she ended their abusive relationship. In Hanau, a Syrian refugee stabbed to death his 30-year-old sister, who was 23 weeks pregnant and was accused of having brought shame to her family. Her unborn child also died in the attack. In Freiburg, a Syrian asylum seeker stabbed his wife, a Kurdish Christian who had moved out of the couple's apartment, but had returned to collect some personal belongings. In Köln-Buchheim, an Iraqi man stabbed to death his 19-year-old daughter because he did not approve of her boyfriend. The man may never face justice; he is believed to have fled to Iraq. In Bonn, a Palestinian brandishing a "Rambo knife" and shouting "Allahu Akbar" tried to behead a doctor. The attacker's 19-year-old son had complained about the doctor's treatment for a fractured leg. The man, holding the doctor down on the floor, said: "Apologize to my son. Go down on your knees and kiss his hand." Germany's knife-crime problem is being exacerbated by its lenient judicial system, in which offenders receive relatively light sentences, even for serious crimes. In many instances, individuals who are arrested for knife-related crimes are released after questioning from police. This practice allows criminal suspects to continue committing crimes with virtual impunity. In Berlin, for example, a migrant who stabbed and seriously injured another migrant after he refused to give him alcohol and drugs was released and financially compensated because no witnesses to the crime could be found. Also in the German capital, investigators discovered that Anis Amri, the 24-year-old suspect in the December 2016 Berlin terrorist attack in which 12 people died, had been involved in a knife-fight in the city's Neukölln district in July 2016, but police failed to arrest him. Had Amri been deported, as he should have been, the Berlin attack possibly could have been prevented. According to Arnold Plickert, the deputy national chairman of the GdP police union, much of the knife-violence in Germany can be attributed to certain segments of society that live according to their own rules, not those of the German state. In an interview with knife-blog.com, a German forum for knife enthusiasts, he said: "We are monitoring a specific target group, which mainly consists of young males who are armed in everyday life and basically are dedicated to armed confrontation. We see this particularly in large Arab families, Lebanese clans, for whom knives are standard gear. Knives are also basic equipment for career criminals and members of youth gangs." Plickert also noted changes in German society, including a growing disrespect for police and rescue workers: "From my point of view, I can say that the inhibition threshold to the use of violence has significantly decreased." Meanwhile, more than 1,600 knife-related crimes were reported in Germany during just the first five months of 2017 — an average of 300 such crimes each month, or ten a day. Notable knife-related incidents during the month of May include: In Freiburg, a Turkish man stabbed another Turk sitting in the passenger seat of a car stopped at a traffic light. In Karlsruhe, a Somali asylum seeker stabbed another Somali asylum seeker. Police said the attack was an act of revenge: the stabbing victim had recently stabbed the stabber. In Aachen, a North African man pulled a knife on a security guard at a grocery store after he was caught shoplifting. In Schwerin, a Syrian man pulled a knife on another Syrian man in a dispute over a 15-year-old girl who is not Syrian. In Gelsenkirchen, a 20-year-old pulled a knife on a 46-year-old man during a traffic incident. In Bad Oldesloe, four teenagers pulled a knife and robbed a 61-year-old man. In Wiesbaden, a "southern-looking" man pulled a knife and tried to rob a man at a sports complex. In Hofheim, a man with an "Eastern European accent" pulled a knife and tried to rob a store. In Peine, an asylum seeker from Sudan stabbed and seriously wounded an asylum seeker from the Ivory Coast. In Kassel, a Syrian migrant stabbed a Turkish man during a dispute over money. In Bad Reichenhall, a man stabbed another man in the neck during an altercation at a bar. In Bühl, a man stabbed several people at a public swimming pool. In Wiesbaden, a man was stabbed and seriously wounded during an altercation at a city park. In Augsburg, two men were stabbed by a random attacker at a grill fest. In Hamburg, an unknown assailant stabbed a migrant from Guinea-Bissau. In Rheine, two men speaking German with a French accent pulled a knife on a woman and robbed her. In Berlin, a man stabbed and seriously wounded his former girlfriend and her new partner during an altercation at a restaurant in Waidmannslust. In Duisburg, a man pulled a knife on a cashier at a supermarket. In Salzgitter, a man stabbed another man in a restaurant. In Freiburg, an Eastern European-looking man (osteuropäisch) stabbed a 15-year-old boy during an altercation at a restaurant. In Danndorf, three men were stabbed during an altercation over drugs. In Mölln, a man stabbed a co-worker in the back. In Michelstadt, a man stabbed another man during an altercation. In Essen, a man pulled a knife on his wife at the central train station. In Karlsruhe, a man was stabbed by his girlfriend's former boyfriend. In Cologne-Ostheim, a 16-year-old student pulled a knife on his classmates and teacher. In Neuenburg, two men were stabbed during an altercation at a restaurant. In Kassel, a man was stabbed in the neck during an altercation at a café. In Dortmund, a man was robbed at knifepoint at the central bus station. In Cottbus, members of Syrian gang stabbed five Germans. In Lich, a man was stabbed during an altercation. In Kassel, a man was randomly stabbed by a man with a "southern appearance" (südländisches Äußeres). In Preetz, a man pulled a knife on shoppers at a supermarket. In Dortmund, two men were stabbed during an altercation in the city center. In Frankfurt-Schwanheim, a man wielding a knife robbed a local post office. In Pforzheim, a 53-year-old Tajik man stabbed to death his 50-year-old wife at her place of employment, a Christian daycare center. It remains unclear if the woman was a convert to Christianity. In Wardenburg, an Iraqi man stabbed to death his wife, the mother of his five children, while she was asleep in her bed. In Tübingen, a man was stabbed and seriously injured at the central train station during an altercation. In Hamburg-St. Georg, two men were stabbed and seriously injured near the train station. In Berlin-Wedding, two brothers were stabbed during an altercation with another man at a Kebab restaurant. In Kreuztal, a 53-year-old man was stabbed and seriously wounded during an altercation at his home. In Lübeck, a 21-year-old man was stabbed and seriously injured during an altercation between two groups near the central bus station. In Diez, a woman stabbed a man in the back. In Ründeroth, a 17-year-old was stabbed and seriously wounded at a local festival. In Neuendettelsau, an Ethiopian asylum seeker stabbed his girlfriend in the stomach at a restaurant after she allegedly "provoked" him. The woman, five months pregnant, survived but the unborn baby died.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10488/germany-stabbings
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Russia says North Korea's nukes are a 'direct threat'
Published June 04, 2017 Fox News
A top Russian official said Sunday at a security conference in Singapore that North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are a “direct threat to Russia.” Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin told defense ministers and experts from 39 countries that Pyongyang’s missile defense system “has a real function.” “That is why it is alarming. And it is direct threat to Russia. We are convinced that it will increase the tensions of the region. That is our principle position," he said. Once considered a strong ally, Russia has backed fresh sanctions against North Korea. In early June, Russia’s deputy U.N. Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov reaffirmed this commitment, “the choice here has to be made in favor of using diplomatic tools to the maximum extent possible.” U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, speaking at the same conference, said that North Korea presented a "clear and present danger." The United States pushed tough new sanctions against Pyongyang Friday at the U.N. Security Council but they were ultimately blocked by China. The Security Council voted unanimously to add 15 individuals and four entities linked to North Korea’s nuclear missile programs to a U.N. sanctions blacklist.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/04/russia-says-north-koreas-nukes-are-direct-threat.html
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THE "REAL" SOLUTION TO JIHADIST KNIFE ATTACKS
Sunday, June 04, 2017
So this last weekend - mid Ramadan (but the UK authorities are adamant that has nothing to do with it) - yet another series of well coordinated attacks in London. The timing was on cue, and the technology was primitive, yet the effect was successful. The weapons were simple: Aggression, Motor Vehicles, and Knives. Unless the nanny-state wishes to now castrate the aggression out of all males, prohibit all sharp instruments in an Okinawan-like decree, and force everyone to use public transportation, the ability of the state to prevent the next one is ridiculously impossible as long as the culture that advocates such things is allowed to roam free in the west. That last bit is out of the hands of normal people like us, yet we are the ones that will stand at the front line of the effects of the political decisions made by those in charge. And we will either stand as ready sacrifices to the death cult, or as combatants. Britain seems to have already chosen out of their self-imposed helplessness. Soon the west, and Europe in particular, will either find its warrior heart and embrace the old ways, or it will be bent over the table and given its fate. In this article, which I am certain will upset the "martial arts" guys, I will discuss the reality of facing a jihadist with a knife bent of "stabbing anyone they see". I will discuss "The Jihadist Vehicle Attacks" later. So here we go - 1). Forget the fantasy of empty hand defenses: Do not think for one minute that your secret Jujitsu or Kung Fu methods will guarantee you winning against a dedicated, motivated, young and fit jihadist armed with a big knife intent on killing you. Add to that his expectation of dying that day...add to that his accomplices, also armed with knives, and you get a clearer picture. And winning does not mean 7 out of 10 in the drills at the dojo...it means we want a solid chance at a 100% success rate because anything less means that you die. Your chances may be better if you have devoted your entire life to nothing but full contact martial arts training (and if your adversaries are unskilled)...but otherwise...unarmed against the knife is a very foolish match to go into. 2). Instead of going Jackie Chan, use a weapon: Yes, I know...it may mean violating the rules. As I have said...and it is almost a cliche now...we live in a time of war and we must make adjustments to the reality and accept that the authorities cannot prevent these events from taking place. So if you live in a free state, carry a firearm with you - EVERYWHERE. Ignore the sign if there is one saying you cannot. If you live in a not so free state, carry a firearm with you anyway and always obey the speed limit. If you live in a country intentionally bereft of any warrior culture, see item three. 3). Always be armed no matter the rules: "But Gabe...we live in (insert oppressed socialist state or nation here) and we can't even buy a picture of a gun here". A modern, educated man with a set of nuts in his bag will always figure out a way to be armed. No guns? OK, get your own knife. Knife versus knife is a far better proposition than unarmed versus knife is it not? My God, at the very least get a big fat stick that you can claim is a cane and that you can crush skulls with. It really is not that difficult if there is courage, and a will, and a defiant heart that denies the state's right to control your destiny. "But Gabe, the rules say I cannot have guns, knives, sticks, anything that could possibly be used as a weapon and they are about to pass laws banning ill will". When you cannot live in safety, and in obedience to the established law, a learned man will happily become a scofflaw. If you disagree with that, I really have nothing for you. Sorry...good luck. 4). Learn to be violent: This is why I am not impressed with the majority of martial arts training. Too much sport. Too much esoteric spiritual stuff. Not enough violence. We need more "martial", and less "art" - as it were. I expect that today, the Monday after the London Bridge attack, the martial arts schools in the UK (and USA) will be filled with eager soccer moms and football dads (cricket-moms and rugby-dads?) looking for the easy solution to this problem. And they will be taught esoteric stuff intended for the "perfection of character", or stuff developed for winning a match somewhere. What they need is to be taught to physically destroy their opponent, crushing windpipes, smashing skulls, breaking bones. The "real karate" that so few schools even understand much less teach. But again, see item 1. I have trained in hand to hand stuff since I was ten years old and I would prefer to not face against a knife empty handed. 5). Learn preemption: It is 2017. Are we already forgetting that there is a true social-religious-political culture living in the west...in truth invited by the west, that seeks to supplant western culture by force and attrition with its own culture? If you see a couple of strong young men, that look like they just got off the boat from Afghanistan moving aggressively toward you with knives in their hands - do we really need to have a time out to explain what their intentions are for you? This is the time to draw and shoot each one of them to the ground, not running or hiding. 6). Keep alert: All the weapons and willingness to violence will not help you in the least if you are asleep at the bar. The first part of all this is staying alert. Sit where you can see the exit, have your back covered or have an equally alert associate watching it. Look around constantly and know who is moving and what is happening. Don't want to live like that you say? Well, western nations, you should have thought about that before you invited the death cult into your country, or voted for fools that did so. You live in a time of war and you will either deny it and hope you are not selected by the next jihadist, or you accept reality and prepare to meet him. That is all. There are no secret techniques to defend against the knife by physically frail and empty handed males. It takes violence and weapons. And in that order.
http://blog.suarezinternational.com/2017/06/the-real-solution-to-terrorist-knife-attacks.html
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Fighting Systems Of Oppression: UCLA Will Now Pay Students To Be “Social Justice Advocates”
Mac Slavo June 5th, 2017
As the warped social justice ideology has proliferating on college campuses, “bias response teams” have also multiplied. Though they were unheard of several years ago, they now exist on over two hundred college campuses. They consist of students and administrators who basically act as “speech police.” They narc on students (and encourage students to narc on each other) who are guilty of speech that isn’t sensitive or politically correct. Recently, UCLA has decided to form a bias response team consisting of 8-10 students, who the school will actually be paying to bully classmates who are guilty of thought crimes. James Allsup, a college student and reporter for TruthRevolt.com, breaks down the insanity and idiocy of this decision. When it comes to colleges spending money on dumb stuff, UCLA is setting the bar pretty high. Last week it was reported that UCLA would begin employing a fleet of students to serve as on campus social justice warriors. While actually their job title is “social justice advocates” they’ll certainly need the strength of warriors to take on all this job is asking of them. The job of these social justice advocates will be to educate fellow students about “systems of oppression.” Nothing says “I’m oppressed” like attending a school that costs anywhere from 28,000 and 51,000 dollars a year to attend, and getting on average 9,000 dollars a year from the school to do so. What exactly will these social justice advocates be fighting against? Which heads of the privileged hydra will these warriors be attempting to cut down? As reported by Campus Reform, the social justice advocates program seeks students who want to help their classmates “navigate a world that operates on whiteness, patriarchy, and heteronormativity as the primary ideologies.” These forces; whiteness, the patriarchy and heteronormativity, are being described as “systems of oppression.” Then, after identifying white people, straight people, and men as the enemy, they say that their goal is to make UCLA a “more equitable space for everyone.” Unless of course you’re a white straight man, in which case you are literally a Nazi. Those standards it turns out, are quite ironic according to Allsup. That’s because only 26% of students at UCLA are white, 56% are women, and being a school based in California, UCLA is already very friendly to students who aren’t “heteronormative.” In other words, while UCLA is working to pass on this myth that minorities are oppressed by white, straight males, their wealthy and prestigious school is actually chock full of students aren’t white, straight, or male. So who exactly is being oppressed at this school? And these policies shine a light on the real problem with political correctness on college campuses. It would be easy to place all of the blame on the students for the culture of Marxism and political correctness that has risen on college campuses. But according to Allsup, it’s the administrators on these campuses who have largely enabled the far-left to take over our schools. But to be honest, I can’t completely blame these students. College kids, especially those at left-leaning institutions like Evergreen, are always going to be acting up and making demands. It’s the job of the university administrators to be the adults in this situation. So while I do place some blame on the students, and yes on their parents, I also blame the universities. I blame the bias reporting systems, and the type of administrator who would sign off on paid social justice activists. They’re the ones who hold the real power on these campuses, and by cracking down on free speech, creating a legitimately hostile environment towards white students, male students, or students with any right-wing political beliefs, they’re using their power to embolden, encourage, and help radicalize far-left. Is it any wonder then, that our college campuses have become hives of radical leftists?
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Russian President Putin: ”Have You All Lost Your Senses Over There?”
Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked conspiracy theories linking President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and his own government, asking NBC News’ Megyn Kelly whether Americans had “all lost your senses over there.” In the interview, marking the inaugural episode of NBC News’ Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly, Putin faced a barrage of questions covering every aspect of the various allegations that Democrats and the media have made. He dismissed any notion that he had a close relationship with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and mocked the idea that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had nefarious dealings through the Russian ambassador: For me, this is just amazing. You created a sensation out of nothing. And out of this sensation, you turned it into a weapon of war against the current president. Well, this is, you know, you’re just, you people are so creative over there. Good job. Your lives must be boring. Later, the mockery became more intense: Kelly: There have been questions in America about Donald Trump’s finances. He hasn’t released his tax returns. There have been questions about this secret Russian dossier, which he says is fake, but which purports to have blackmail information in it generated by the Russians. There have been questions about the communications between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. All of which has Americans asking, “Do you have something damaging on our president?” Putin: Well, this is just another load of nonsense. Where would we get this information from? Why, did we have some special relationship with him? We didn’t have any relationship at all. There was a time when he used to come to Moscow. But you know, I never met with him. We have a lot of Americans who visit us. Right now, I think we have representatives from a hundred American companies that have come to Russia. Do you think we’re gathering compromising information on all of them right now or something? Are you all, have you all lost your senses over there? Word of the day: Prepare! And do it the old fashion way, like our fore-fathers did it and succeed long before us, because what lies ahead of us will require all the help we can get. Watch this video and learn the 3 skills that ensured our ancestors survival in hard times of famine and war. During the premiere of NBC News’ “Sunday Night” with Megyn Kelly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has not seen “any direct proof” of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election. Trending article: Urban Survival Skills Are About Knowing What To Expect When SHTF Happens In A City, What Skills You Need, And What To Do In The First 24 Hours And Beyond. “I haven’t seen even once any direct proof of Russian interference in the presidential election in the United States,” Putin told Kelly through a translator. He added later, “Presidents come and go, and even the parties and power change, but the main political direction does not change. That’s why, in the grand scheme of things, we don’t care who is the head of the United States. We know more or less what is going to happen. And so in this regard, even if we wanted to, it wouldn’t make sense for us to interfere.” Putin also argued that the United States “actively interferes” with other countries’ elections. “I will tell you something that you probably already know,” he said. “I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but the United States, everywhere, all over the world, actively interferes with electoral campaigns in other countries. Put your finger anywhere on a map of the world, and everywhere you will hear complaints that American officials are interfering in internal electoral processes.” On “FOX & Friends Weekend,” Daniel Bongino said Democrats who are pushing the theory that President Donald J. Trump colluded with Russia are “embarrassing the country.”
http://concerneduspatriots.com/russian-president-putin-lost-senses/
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Catholic cathedral welcomes ‘Pink Saturday’ gay pride gathering with bishop’s blessing
June 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The southern Dutch town of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch for short) has been chosen to host the Netherlands’ “Pink Saturday” on June 24. The capital of the historically Catholic province of North-Brabant will welcome LGBT persons from all over the country and beyond with a first-ever event: an ecumenical prayer service for participants to be held in the Catholic cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in the presence of Bishop Gerard de Korte. The Roman Catholic bishop recently confirmed that he will give a blessing at the end of the ceremony. Gay rights groups are overjoyed. The local radio, Omroep Brabant, tweeted “Hallelujah” when the news was made public. “Roze Zaterdag” is the Dutch version of Gay Pride, including a parade with provocative and outré dress and attitudes. Nowadays, cultural, musical and other events officially organized by the host city are thrown in, usually a full week before the day of celebration. It got its name from the protest marchers that were held during Holy Week in 1979 in Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands, against the “anti-homosexual” teachings of Bishop Johannes Gijsen, who was at the time one of the few non-progressive bishops in the country. “Pink Saturday” was chosen as a counterpoint to the Catholics’ White Thursday and Good Friday. At the time, Bishop Gijsen of Roermond said that practicing homosexuals could not be considered as “full members” of the Church because they could not receive the sacraments while choosing that lifestyle. Given these beginnings, the Den Bosch “Pink Saturday” will have a bitter taste of revenge, and will certainly appear to be a disavowal of what Bishop Gijsen said in the 1970s. From the start, the Dutch “Pink Saturday” was a place to push for gay rights. In progressive Netherlands, lesbians, gays, bi- and transsexuals have little left to ask for in 2017, and the event has become more festive, although there are still many gay-rights organizations present and information stands are part of the affair. The official day always opens with an ecumenical service, but up to now this had never taken place in a Catholic church, let alone a cathedral. It was, perhaps, the last place left to conquer. The choice of the cathedral of Den Bosch – the fruit of two years of talks with the local clergy and other denominations that are taking part – is a symbolic one. The last time homosexuals made themselves heard in the beautiful, flamboyant Gothic building was during a Sunday Mass in February 2010 when the then-parish priest in the village of Reusel refused to give Holy Communion to an openly homosexual “Carnival Prince.” At the time, the cathedral’s parish priest, Geertjan van Rossum, made a public statement reminding the faithful that only people who observe the Ten Commandments are admitted to Holy Communion: “Proper living out of sexuality is part of that,” he said, triggering the angry departure of the gay activists. It is the same Geertjan van Rossum who negotiated the “Pink Saturday” event in the cathedral. He will personally welcome the participants and take the lead role, surrounded by Protestant pastors and “pastoresses,” including an openly gay minister who will all speak during the ceremony. In an interview published on the “Pink Saturday” website, Father van Rossum announced that the bishop himself would take part. “Ours is a hospitable town where all citizens should be able to live with dignity and we should not make each other’s lives sour, and that is why personally, but also in the name of our Catholic parish, we want to support this initiative,” Father van Rossum said. “We want to have a nice town for all its inhabitants and all its guests. As a Christian and as a believer, I also know there are Christians and believers who belong to the LGBT community and who also want to be involved with the community of the faithful. So as a priest, together with the cathedral parish, we also want to be involved with Pink Saturday, and also with the ecumenical celebration.” Father van Rossum admits he had some “hesitation” about holding the prayer in the “Sint Jan” that has been at the center of Catholic life in Den Bosch since the Middle Ages, also as a Marian pilgrimage site where a miraculous statue of Our Lady is still venerated today. But in the end, the large Gothic vessel seemed to him the most appropriate for the reception of many participants expected to join the ceremony. Bishop de Korte has shown his acceptance of the LGBT community. His spokesman, Joos Goes, told Gay.nl that the bishop wants the Catholic Church to be an “open and hospitable institution.” “The teaching of the Church does not change,” Goes added. But he immediately relativized this reminder, saying: “We understand that people can feel shut out and be disappointed with the Church, but we think that everyone should find a spot within the community of believers. Subjects such as sexual orientation collide with the teaching of the Church, but in practice it’s often not much of a deal. Today, there are already homosexuals who are joyful members of a parish.” Bishop de Korte is known for his opposition to traditionally-minded Cardinal Wim Eijk of Utrecht, who has called homosexuality “mutual masturbation.” When De Korte took possession of his see in 2016, he abundantly quoted Pope Francis, calling for a Church that is prepared to be “dirty,” and for “bridges, not walls.” The Dutch press is already comparing his “openness” with Pope Francis’ style. “Pink Saturday” will also have events in the small town of Oss next to Den Bosch. Its parish priest, Father Cor Mennen, well known as a conservative Catholic blogger, published a critical post reminding the faithful of the teaching of the Church as exposed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. “This moral standpoint is clear. It does not mean that the Church rejects the homosexual faithful. They can be members of the Church and take part in Church life. The Church does ask her faithful to be prepared in an upright manner to live according to her morals, which come straight from the Bible and natural moral law,” he wrote. But, he added, “It is against Catholic belief, and therefore not pastoral, morally to approve of homosexual acts or to do as if it were a normal variant of human sexuality.” This is exactly what “most homosexual organizations” are after, he says – which explains their demand for a celebration in the “Sint Jan” cathedral. “They want to conquer the last bulwark that is holding fast to the scriptural disapproval of homosexual activity and of all acts that go against natural moral law,” he explained. He goes on to say that friendliness cannot justify a celebration that not only appears to condone the homosexual lifestyle but scandalizes “normal Catholics who want to remain true to the Church’s teaching, not least those homosexuals who make the effort of living chastely in accordance with it.” He concluded: “It is certainly no coincidence that on June 24th, the Church celebrates the day of the birth of Saint John the Baptist. John was beheaded by King Herod because he reproached him his immoral behavior – Herod was living with his brother’s wife. He who stands up for God’s laws seldom reaps applause.”
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Five reasons why Israel should care about the Qatar crisis
By Seth J. Frantzman June 5, 2017 16:05
Israel's image in the region likely can improve amid the current developments.
1. It hurts Hamas Qatar has supported Hamas over the last decade and hosted former Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Doha for the last five years. In 2012, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani visited Gaza and pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for the strip. Qatar therefore provided Hamas with not only a home in Doha but financial support and diplomatic succor. The new pressure on Qatar has encouraged it to expel Hamas members and will reduce its support for the group. This may also isolate Turkey’s relations with Hamas. Qataris are now focused on which airlines will still fly to the country tomorrow; spending money on the Gaza Strip and hosting Hamas may seem like a liability they don’t need now. Hamas will find itself with even fewer allies, which could give Israel leverage to encourage the group to change its ways. More likely, Hamas may lash out against Israel to show its relevance. 2. It brings Israel closer to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Gulf Israel has shared interests with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states in opposing Iran. Because Qatar has supported Hamas, the new crisis encourages those states that oppose Qatar to see Israel as a partner against Hamas and Iran. This relationship has already been quietly growing in recent years, but the crisis with Qatar allows writers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf to speak out more strongly against Hamas. Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya has even showcased interviews with Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot. The background of the current crisis was a feeling that US President Donald Trump’s speech to “drive out” terrorism gave a blank check to local states to act. Under Barack Obama, Israel sometimes felt isolated, especially as the US pursued the Iran deal. Now Israel feels that the Americans are back in the region and will stand by their allies. 4. It delegitimizes terrorism The regimes that have broken relations with Qatar pay lip service to fighting terrorism and instability. Israel prefers a stable region without terrorist groups undermining neighboring states. However, there is ISIS in Sinai, Hamas in Gaza, jihadists near the Golan and Hezbollah in the Golan and in Lebanon. In that sense, Israel knows that any greater instability can be a threat. So long as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other states work in concert, the winds of stability will blow in Israel’s direction as well. The saying “all ships rise with the tide” is apt. All stable countries in the region will rise if extremist groups are reduced. 5. It bolsters Israel’s hand in general and Israel’s government in particular Israel benefits when it is not the center of attention and certainly when it is not under pressure. This is a boon for the government. This is because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long spoken about working toward quietly cultivating regional relationships beyond Egypt and Jordan that stretch to the Gulf. He has spoken about the Iranian threat for two decades. If the Arab states are more concerned with Iran and Qatar than they are with the Palestinians, that takes pressure off of Israel at a time when Palestinians are trying to remind the region that they are facing 50 years of living under Israel’s military rule. Over the years, Israel has gone from being seen as the center of the region’s problems to today, when the Palestinian issue is dwarfed by larger conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya – and now – in the Gulf. That plays into Netanyahu’s narrative and takes the wind out of any sails that hoped the passage of 50 years since 1967 would have some sort of jarring affect. This will have some blowback because voices in the region will accuse the Gulf states and Saudis of working “for Israel.” Syria and Iran already accuse them of working with Israel. But these voices already oppose to Israel, which means its image in the region can likely improve amidst the current crisis.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Five-reasons-why-Israel-should-care-about-the-Qatar-crisis-494891
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Paris police shoot man who attacked officer outside Notre Dame Cathedral
Suspect shot and injured by police after trying to attack officer with hammer outside cathedral in French capital
Kim Willsher in Paris Tuesday 6 June 2017 11.20 EDT First published on Tuesday 6 June 2017 10.50 EDT
French police have shot a man who attacked an officer with a hammer outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The assailant, later found to be also armed with kitchen knives, was brought down as he threatened passersby outside one of the French capital’s busiest tourist attractions on Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds of people took refuge in the cathedral and nearby cafes as more than 100 police officers rushed to the scene. The French interior minister, Gérard Collomb, said the attacker, whose ID suggests he is an Algerian student, was carrying “rudimentary weapons” and shouted “this is for Syria” as he hit the 22-year-old police officer. The minister visited the prefecture of police, 50 metres from the scene of the attack, to talk to officers involved in the incident. He said the man approached a police patrol from behind at about 4.20pm on Tuesday, took a hammer out of his backpack and hit one of the officers in the head. “His colleague reacted with sang-froid and fired to ensure the attacked officer was not further injured,” Collomb said. “I understand the police officer was only slightly injured but it could have been much worse if their colleague had not reacted so quickly. The attacker was injured and we are waiting for the prognostic. “Once again the police and forces of security, in our country like other countries in Europe, are victims of an attack in the name of a criminal ideology. We see here we have passed from a sophisticated terrorism to one where the most ordinary tools can be used. “The attacker is thought to be an Algerian student, carrying a card that we have to verify authenticity that’s all we know right now.” Collomb said the government was considering renewing the state of emergency, in place since the bombings and shootings in Paris in November 2015 that left 130 dead. “The fight against terrorism is a priority for the president of the republic,” he said, adding that a defence meeting would be held at the Élysée Palace on Wednesday morning. The attack came just three days after three knife-wielding men drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people at restaurants and bars near Borough Market, leaving seven people dead. The Notre Dame incident was the latest in a series of attacks on French police and soldiers. One officer was shot dead by a gunman on the Champs Élysées in April. In February, an Egyptian man caused panic near the Louvre when he ran at soldiers with a machete. A month later, a suspected Islamist terrorist wrestled a soldier to the ground and grabbed their gun as they patrolled Orly airport, before being shot dead. In January 2015, a day after the attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters, a police officer was killed by a gunman who later took hostages in a Jewish supermarket, killing four. In June 2016, a French police officer and his wife, who worked for the interior ministry, were murdered in their home in front of their toddler son in an attack claimed by Islamic State. French anti-terrorist investigators have opened an inquiry into Tuesday’s attack.
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Supernatural Miracles Combating Suicides in the Most Unlikely Place
12:00PM EDT 6/5/2017 Jessilyn Justice
Tumors vanished. Marriages restored. Souls healed.
Revival is breaking out as hearts unite with God as He restores what everyone thought was lost. More than 2000 soldiers have graduated from the program, and not a single person has committed suicide, a rampant epidemic stealing the lives of 20 of their peers every single day. "Faith impacts everything we do," says Evan Owens, executive director of REBOOT Combat Recovery. "As Christians, we are all called to be a bridge, be a people who lay down their lives so other people can cross. We're not experts, but what we can do is say, 'God, I'm here and I lay down my life to help my fellow man.' That's our role, to lay down our lives again and again." Owens' wife, Jenny, founded the program in 2011 to serve and heal combat veterans and their families after the trauma of war. The more than 2000 graduates experienced more than mental health treatment; they've been supernaturally healed of soul wounds often suppressed by the violent reality of nonstop war. Together, the Owenses battle spiritual warfare and follow prophecy to serve their fellow man. In one prophetic word, a preacher called on Owens from the pulpit. "He talked about the gifts in our lives that we had put on shelves, that it was time for us to step out in leading others in faith, to take them off the shelf to lead people. He said it involves [us] traveling and helping hurting people in small communities across country." Now, REBOOT meets mostly in churches with church members as the support staff. REBOOT provides the materials and local believers volunteer to walk with the veterans through a 12-week process. The entire program fulfills a prophetic vision one young lady gave Evan a few months after REBOOT's birth. "She approached me, and there was this lion thing she was talking through," Evan says. "She said it was an opportunity to do something, but there would be a season of frustration before it. I thought it sounded a little hocus-pocus, that we needed to verify because it was so generic. Then, low and behold, crazy stuff started happening that wasn't biased, and I couldn't have made this up! This is pretty wild ... We were given specific access to open doors that no one said was possible. We were told that with the open doors, we should sprint through it, and more doors would open." Revivals broke out. Small groups soon ballooned to more than 50 as people came in off the street and saw the raw power of God. Men and women who had lost the ability to walk had their steps restored; someone with speech atrophy found words again. But the most impressive miracles were those in the heart. "You could visually see their countenance change, like very tangible change," Evan says of watching spouses and families forgive one another. One woman attended the group with her ex-husband as he battled post-traumatic stress disorder. Through the program, the couple fell in love again, God restored their marriage and they said their vows once more while wearing REBOOT T-shirts. God is moving, Evan says, and He's using His people to bring about restoration. In 2014, the latest year available, more than 7,400 veterans took their own lives, accounting for 18 percent of all suicides in America. Veterans make up less than 9 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Military Times. "The war we fight is not against flesh and blood. For many service members, the war doesn't end when they come home. The battle continues against an unseen enemy who is attacking their mind and spirit. And in too many cases, the enemy is winning," the REBOOT website says. But with God, through the church community, Satan is losing ground. "It's really, really wild," Evans says.
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It Is Treason, Not Espionage! 'It Is Time For A Clean Sweep' As Arrest Of Leaker Shows Systematic National Security Failures
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
The Trump administration has made it abundantly clear that they would be targeting those with top secret security clearance that have been feeding the MSM with classified materials and on Monday, June 5, 2017, a federal government contractor in Georgia was officially charged with "removing and mailing classified materials to a news outlet." WHEN OLD NEWS IS TREATED LIKE A BOMBSHELL 'NEW" REPORT Reality Leigh Winner, formerly Sarah Winner, is a contractor that was employed by a contractor Pluribus International Corporation, holding Top Secret clearance, she accessed information, printed it out, then mailed it to the website The Intercept. While we will get into more of what has been uncovered about Reality Winner later in the article, first we will deal with the "bombshell" news being treated as if it were new, when in reality, was reported on back in October 2016. Via The Intercept: RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept. The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light. While the document provides a rare window into the NSA’s understanding of the mechanics of Russian hacking, it does not show the underlying 'raw' intelligence on which the analysis is based. A U.S. intelligence officer who declined to be identified cautioned against drawing too big a conclusion from the document because a single analysis is not necessarily definitive. No argument that obtaining the actual documents was a scoop for The Intercept, but the news that "Russia" tried to hack the election was reported by CNN and others back in October, yet when clicking the old article about the issue, we see "updated June 5, 2017," with no mention in the article that it was originally published in October 2016, as shown clearly in the URL itself, which reads "http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/politics/florida-election-hack/index.html ." So basically CNN, who was recently caught staging news, decided it would be a good idea to change the date on an old article, republish it as new and act like it is breaking news. Yeah, that is going to help their "credibility" issues. NOT. While liberals and Democrats across the Internet are acting like this is a "AHA! moment, Cybersecurity reporter for left-leaning Politico, who is definitely not a Trump fan if his Twitter feed is anything to go by, has done a good job of highlighting "the intrusion into VR Systems is the same hack first reported by CNN in October," as well as adding additional messages to explain how this isn't exactly breaking news, nor a smoking gun for liberals to claim the "election was hacked," by stating "NOTE that Russia couldn't change votes simply by hacking VR Systems or local election officials' personal computers." (Source) While the prevailing "official" narrative from the MSM and the Intel community has relentlessly worked to place full blame on Russia, it is only fair to note that when the Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA hacking tools were exposed, part of them proved ""With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from. UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers, password collection, webcam capture, data destruction, persistence, privilege escalation, stealth, anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques." (Via Zero Hedge) In other words, our intelligence community can lay false footprints in order to blame anyone they want to officially blame. This was also highlighted in the recent Megyn Kelly interview with Russia President Vladimir Putin when he told Kelly that specialists could make attacks appear as if they came from her own children. Putin went on to point out the problem isn't Russia it is American politics. At one point during the interview Putin also likens the "blame Russia for everything" mindset with anti-Semites, saying "It reminds me of anti-Semitism. A dumb man who can't do anything would blame the Jews for everything." The point here is that Americans have been lied to by the MSM and our own intelligence communities about so much and so often, we truly may never know if Russia did indeed attempt to hack our elections or if our intel agencies framed him. While we may never know who was ultimately behind the attempted hacks, Putin's point that what the information revealed were the actions of the DNC and the Clinton campaign, and no one rigged the Democratic primary except the DNC and the Clinton campaign, and no one wrote the emails that Wikileaks released except members of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Point for Putin for reminding people of those inconvenient facts. According to the Department of Justice website on June 5, 2017, "A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e)." Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home on Saturday, June 3, 2017. The six-page criminal complaint affidavit can be found here. US criminal code Winner is being accused of violating, is from the Title 18, Chapter 37 Espionage and Censorship, where 793(e) states : "(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it.... Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both." This arrest comes just days after the New York Post reported that the Justice Department has gotten a warrant from the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, (FISA) to conduct electronic surveillance on a group of journalists who’ve been the recipient of leaked information, but the journalists themselves are not the targets, those leaking classified information to the MSM are the ones in the crosshairs. While the woman just charged does not fall into that category, it does highlight the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies learned absolutley nothing from Edward Snowden, as they still do not have the protective measures in place to prevent outside contractors from obtaining classified information, and distributing it to journalists. LEAKER IS ANTI-TRUMP, ANTI-WHITE, BLM SUPPORTING, BERNIE RESISTANCE MEMBER While we are now seeing the Trump administration aggressively going after leakers, a series of very disturbing facts are already being uncovered about the woman charged, Reality Winner, which brings up the question of what type of vetting do companies that contract for the government perform on their employees, especially those handed out clearance to view Top Secret information. According to the DOJ statement on the arrest, Winner had been employed by Pluribus International Corporation since on or about February 13, 2017. A look at some of her social media accounts, by this person employed as a contractor and given access to Top Secret classified information, including her Twitter account under her former name Sara Winners, shows her suggesting to Kayne West that he make T-Shirts saying "being white is terrorism," responding to a tweet by President Trump saying "@realDonaldTrump the most dangerous entry to this country was the orange fascist we let into the white house," offering support to the Iranian foreign minister telling him "If our Tangerine in Chief declares war, we stand with you!," and tweeting supportive messages to Black Lives Matter. See more of her anti-American, anti-white rhetoric at Ralph Retort, who asks the question how" did this person have Top Secret security clearance?" (Warning Ralph Retort used much more colorful language in asking that question.) Also, it seems she was highly critical of President Trump's travel ban, as she highlighted an article and she used the hashtag "TrumpIsAC*nt. That was a small portion of her public Twitter comments, she also has been quoted from Facebook for going off on a "white privilege" rant back in November 2016. The Blaze reports that Winner is also a left-wing activist with ties to Muslim groups, supportive of the Woman's March aka the "Vulgar Vagina March, on inauguration weekend, and the Daily Caller reports that she is part of the so-called "Resistance" and an avid Bernie Sanders supporter. Her Facebook page shows that even as a government contractor, with Top Secret clearance, she was publicly calling the president a "piece of sh*t." Which brings us right back to the question of how on earth did this woman obtain Top Secret clearance??? Her digital footprint spans from before the election until after Trump was inaugurated, so the company that employed her could have easily seen who they were hiring before employing her, and just as easily could have uncovered the snake in their midst from her social presence after they employed her. BOTTOM LINE This goes beyond just the leaking of information to the MSM as this latest arrest shows a systematic failure to properly vet companies that contract out to the government, the employees of those companies, as well as the incompetence in her being allowed to print out classified and/or Top Secret information, then manage to get it out of her work place. I understand President Trump inherited a system that was already in place, but this arrest, the leaking of Top Secret information by a contractor, even after the whole Snowden affair, proves without a doubt that the whole system needs an over-haul, from dumping the deep state actors and Obama holdovers from the intelligence communities, to investigating the procedures and type of vetting employees recieve at any and all contractors that have access to classified information. Furthermore, the leakers should not just be charged under the Esionage Act, but as recent polling shows, 53 percent of all Likely U.S. Voters still consider the leaking of classified information to the media to be an act of treason, and that is what they should be charged with. Winner's intent was not to provide "new" knowledge, as her social media presence shows her intent was to harm the administration in any way she could because she hated Trump, which isn't "whistleblowing" where there are proper channels to provide Congress with information, this is outright treason and the charges against Winner should reflect that. It is time for a clean sweep.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Espionage_First_Leaker_Arrested.php
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Breaking: A Hillary Conviction Is Being Offered Up In Deal Between Deep State and Trump
By Dave Hodges
They say that little things come in small packages. This will be one of the most concise and condensed articles that I have ever written. However, it may prove to be one of the most important I have written, since I broke the Benghazi mutiny story almost 5 years ago. Please note the caption in the picture above. Obviously, Hillary did not become President. However, she is going to jail for her actions in pursuit of the office. Hillary Clinton Is Being Offered Up As a Sacrifice by the Deep State I was told by very reliable inside sources that Jeff Sessions was closing in on the alleged pedophilia allegations against John Podesta and Hillary Clinton and this was going to prove doable because Anthony Weiner and possibly Huma Abedin were going to turn State’s evidence. Weiner is taking his chances in jail (27 months). However, Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, is closing in, with the foreign support of President Duterte and Vladimir Putin on child-sex-trafficking emanating out of the United States’ elite Deep State. Yesterday, even Putin said the Deep State assassinated John Kennedy. And with each passing day, and with each child-sex-trafficking arrest, the Deep State risks more exposure to both their existence as a shadow government and their true nature. The light of day is something that Deep State will not permit, so a deal is being made which will be revealed in the final paragraphs of this article. The Sources Since the election of Donald Trump, I have been receiving information from an FBI employee (nonspecific) and two State Department employees. One of the State Department employees and the FBI employee must remain anonymous. One State Department employee, Monika Wesolowski and she can provide confirmation to the some of the ancillary revelations in this article. Clinton Will Be Offered Up On a Platter Yesterday, I read no less than six articles in which DNC officials want Hillary to just go away. The fact that these stories were released on the same day is not a coincidence. this is part of the deal that has been made between Donald Trump and members of the Deep State. This is the primary reason why former FBI director, James Comey, was fired when he was. His loyalty to Clinton was a threat to this arrangement. Here are the links to a few of these stories emanating from the DNC and the media who are distancing themselves from Hillary.
Remember? Hillary was not supposed to be ill. Where did this come from? Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Bill Clinton, and James Comey’s brother (runs finances for the Clinton Foundation) are under FBI investigation as I write these words. The tips to Jeff Sessions were provided by sources close to Clinton, presumably, Deep State operatives. Hillary will very likely go to jail, or at minimum receive a suspended sentence and pay a big fine. I have been told that the Clinton Foundation will cease to exist in its present form. Some may remember that I broke the story, from my same sources, that Podesta had been caught converting Clinton Foundation assets to gold, art, etc., and then hiding these assets. I stated at the time, that Hillary knows that RICO will soon come knocking and that total asset forfeiture will occur. Podesta is trying to stay one step ahead. Clinton Will Not Go Down for Child Trafficking, Drug Dealing, Money Laundering or Gun Running The Deep State is feeling the heat because the most prominent members of the Independent Media have been relentless in their pursuit of these activities, especially child-sex-trafficking. I was told by my sources that the Deep State, even with the support of the media, cannot contain these revelations. They do not want a sleeping public to be aroused by a story that would dwarf Watergate. To the best of my knowledge, this has not hit the mainstream media, yet, but it will very soon. Hillary is being investigated by the FBI for “pay for play” and misusing her authority as the Secretary of State to get Lois Lerner, IRS director at the time, to prosecute an African national government official who is living inside the United States if this African official does not help stop the investigation into a government official from Bangladesh who participated in pay for play with regard to the Clinton Foundation. There is a second African nation that is subject to this investigation, as well, for the same reasons. I have agreed to not release the identity of the second nation because it is too close to one of my sources. Please note that Hillary will be going down for “pay for play” and not drug dealing, gun running nor child-sex-trafficking. She will also be charged with malfeasance of office with regard to the IRS issue. In exchange, Trump gets to purge much of the Deep State that is embedded in the FBI and the State Department. All three sources, including Weslowski have told me that their supervisors have cleaned out their desks. Many are taking retirement. In Monika Wesolowski’s case, her supervisor and her supervisors two levels up are all leaving. Monika said that her office is almost empty. The purge is already beginning. Conclusion This story is a work in progress and there will be updates. I chose to publish what I know at this point because I wanted to get out in front the mainstream media spin that will undoubtedly be coming in order deceive the public. I asked the question, “Does this mean that Trump is backing off of child-sex-trafficking?” Nobody is certain. Please note that the allegations that will be coming Hillary’s way will have nothing to do with the big three criminal activities of the Deep State. One final note, Wasserman-Schultz, according to my FBI source, better have lots of body guards because in trying to distance herself from the related Seth Rich murder, she is bringing the same kind of attention that the Deep State is trying so hard to avoid. I will be offering counterpoints to the MSM as this story about pay for play begins to break in the MSM. I am also producing a video which validates the claim that Hillary has been “ditched” by DNC leadership. Finally, we now know why Hillary was not prosecuted by Trump for the emails when he took office. Please note that the allegations that will be coming Hillary’s way will have nothing to do with the big three criminal activities of the Deep State. One final note, Wasserman-Schultz, according to my FBI source, better have lots of body guards because in trying to distance herself from the related Seth Rich murder, she is bringing the same kind of attention that the Deep State is trying so hard to avoid. I will be offering counterpoints to the MSM as this story about pay for play begins to break in the MSM. I am also producing a video which validates the claim that Hillary has been “ditched” by DNC leadership. Finally, we now know why Hillary was not prosecuted by Trump for the emails when he took office.
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I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
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Gay Progressive ‘Christians’ Are Destroying Christianity
By Nate Brown - 06/05/2017
The Christian identity, a relationship with Jesus Christ, requires that one forsake himself, and take up his cross, and follow Him. However, gay progressive Christians are instead, placing themselves before God. Crystal Cheatham, who had grown up attending and singing at a Seventh-day Adventist church, was about to graduate from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan when she was warned that she couldn’t be gay and Christian. However, instead of listening to both the Word of God and her Church elders she defied the authority of Scripture and proceeded to pull other believers down the very same path; “When I came out, I was told by ministers so far above me that I couldn’t be an out lesbian and also be on the stage as a leader, and it crushed me. It crushed me so hard,” she said. “I felt like I was at an impasse at the road in my life and I had to decide between this love for my God and my personal identity.” At that impasse, according to scripture, Christians are to deny themselves and follow Jesus Christ. However, some progressive Christians are not recognizing the authority that is the eternal Word of God, and therein lies the problem. Now an activist and writer, Cheatham has set out to create a digital space for LGBTQ people to explore their own spiritual practice without having to surrender any part of their identity. She is leading the effort to create Our Bible, an app set to release this fall that plans to offer at least 20 Bibles and more than 300 devotional readings, meditation exercises, articles and podcasts for LGBTQ Christians and others who feel marginalized by mainstream Christianity. According to the 2014 Religious Landscape Study by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 35,000 people who identified as LGB and found that 48 percent of them identified as Christian, with the largest portions of that group identifying as Protestant (29 percent) and Catholic (17 percent). As a Christian, we are to die to our own self and ego, to take up the Cross and give our entire being to following the one and only, the great I Am. To act like we come before Christ is a great sin, spiritual change must take place; if not, then God says what will happen in Revelation 3:16 – “Therefore because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, it will come to pass, that I shall spew thee out of my mouth.” The spiritual change in reference is derived from both Repentance and the gift of the Holy Spirit, but there is a deeper problem that persists; Christians are not taking the Word of God literally, and therein lies another problem. Because some Christians forsake the authority of the Word of God, they are not recognizing or even experiencing His Word, rather they are pushing the outward appearance, and good works without having a changed heart. Fewer than one in four Americans now believe that the Word of God, the Bible, is the literal Word of God. That number is similar to the 26% who view it as “a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.” The disbelief is record breaking according to the Gallup-polls four-decade trend that biblical literalism has not surpassed biblical skepticism. Even further, about half of Americans — a proportion largely unchanged over the years — fall in the middle, saying the Bible is the inspired word of God but that not all of it should be taken literally. The Gallup poll showcases that only 24% of Americans believe that the Bible is the literal Word of God. To believe that the Bible is not the literal Word of God, gives man power over the Word to manipulate it, derive false meanings, and in some cases act like the Bible is a book of mythological tales. Mans interpretation of scripture is the heart of the confusion on so many topics that are made clear in the Bible, one of those Biblical truths that gets increasingly bent is gender. In Christianity, there are two genders, a man, and a woman, lest we forget that, we have forgotten He who created the world, in Christianity, according to the Word of God there is only one way people can be married; one man and one woman. Nothing more and nothing less, any alteration to that is blasphemy as it adds to Scripture and destroys the authority of the Word. Prayer is needed to combat the confusion society tries to place over the hearts and emotions of everyone, as well as the ideological confusion of gender in culture. In Christianity, there are two genders, a man, and a woman, lest we forget that, we have forgotten He who created the world, in Christianity, according to the Word of God there is only one way people can be married; one man and one woman. Nothing more and nothing less, any alteration to that is blasphemy as it adds to Scripture and destroys the authority of the Word. Prayer is needed to combat the confusion society tries to place over the hearts and emotions of everyone, as well as the ideological confusion of gender in culture.
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The US Needs to Consider N. Korea’s Secret Weapons Before Attacking
By Dave Hodges
An attack upon North Korea is imminent. As I noted this past weekend, all the pieces are in place. But perhaps, we might want to be a little less aggressive with North Korea because it could be possible we are grossly underestimating the power of a country that has no industry other than to build devastating weapons. Why should we reconsider attacking North Korea? Let’s take a look at World War II history for the answer to that question. A Lesson From World War II After the conclusion of World War II, the Japanese were discovered to have developed several secret weapons that the Americans were not aware of and the only reason that these weapons were not employed was because of the dropping of two atomic bombs. Here are a couple of examples of these devastating weapons. Unit 731 and the Use of Bioweapons “From 1937 until the end of the war, the Japanese experimented with various biological weapons, including the toxic defoliation bacilli bomb (a precursor to Agent Orange) and the flea bomb used to spread bubonic plague. The Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious Unit 731 — a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit — performed tests on human subjects with Bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, and other diseases. Japanese soldiers used these bombs to to launch biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells, and other areas. According to Sheldon H. Harris, a historian at California State University in Northridge, more than 200,000 Chinese were killed in germ warfare field experiments. His work also shows that plague-infected animals were released toward the close of the war, which caused “outbreaks of the plague that killed at least 30,000 people in the Harbin area from 1946 through 1948.” Some Japanese scholars contest these figures, but they’re probably accurate. An unidentified victim of Unit 731. (Image: China-Underground via Government of Japan) And as noted by historian Antony Beevor, the Japanese also planned to these weapons against American soldiers in the Pacific theater, along with delivering disease-carrying balloon bombs to the United States. They even had a plan in the summer of 1945 to use kamikaze pilots to dump plague-infected fleas over San Diego.” This is only one of several secret weapons possessed by the Japanese that would have brought holy terror to the United States. And the existence of these weapons were unknown to the US. The North Korean Threat Readers might be wondering why I am bringing up World War II history. The lesson from history is straightforward and simple. An adversary can possess unknown but lethal weapons. North Korea is such a nation and China and Russia have been their benefactors in the development of one such super weapon, an EMP. Sophisticated computer hackers, like the ones from North Korea, now have the ability to generate such an effect on our power grid by simultaneously hacking into our power grid and, in effect, generating a localized EMP attack. The effect would be almost as devastating in terms of the effects of such an attack on local utilities, especially for the providers of our power and water entities. Some insider sources have concluded that there is a significant danger to America from North Korean hackers far beyond the disruption of our movies and corporate accounts that they have hacked. I have learned that sophisticated computer hackers, like the ones from North Korea, have the ability to generate an EMP effect on our power grid by simultaneously hacking into our power grid and, in effect, generating a localized EMP attack. The effect would be almost as devastating in terms of the effects of such an attack on local utilities, especially for the providers of our power and water entities. One has to remember that North Korea is a proxy state of China. And China is preparing for war against the US in the South China Sea. North Korea may be firing the first shots of WW III It is coming, it is just a matter of time. Congress Investigates, Talks and Delivers Nothing Periodically, a d0-nothing congressional committee pretends to take a look at the threat to the US posed by both an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by a nuclear weapon and a naturally occurring geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs). Every time Congress convenes such a worthless committee, nothing productive happens. Congressional Ineptitude As late as May 4, 2017, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources took held a meeting and took testimony from witnesses whose testimony ranged from frightening the committee and reassuring the members of Congress. Even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified and clearly stated that an EMP attack “one of the three great threats to our survival,” on par with cyberwarfare and nuclear weapons. “Here we are gambling our civilization,” Gingrich stated. Gingrich’s statements paralleled the former director of the SDI, Henry Cooper, is calling for an Aegis antiballistic missile system in the Gulf of Mexico to address the threat of an EMP weapon carried aboard an orbiting satellite. Interestingly, and according to several sources of whom I have consulted with, North Korea has two such satellites that meet over Kansas several times per day. Take a look at the following graph about how far the effects of a high altitude nuclear explosions would extend. Please note the date of the report emanating from Congress. This map is 20 years old and we still have not done a thing about mitigating the problem. And it is not just a terrorist attack that we have to worry about. A GMD is a naturally occurring event which can be caused by a simple solar storm, such as a flare or coronal mass ejection. An EMP weapon can be created by detonating a nuclear weapon miles above Earth’s surface. The effects upon our grid of a GMD and an EMP are identical. A D0-Nothing Worthless Congress We have seen at least two notable GMD events in American history. In 1989, Quebec had a very close call as a GMD, caused by a coronal mass ejection temporarily took down the Quebec’s grid for nine hours. Quebecc was lucky. In 1859, a much bigger solar storm known as the Carrington event, destroyed telegraph lines across the US. If this event happened today, it would mark the end of our country as we know it. In 2012 NASA detected a solar storm that, had it occurred a week earlier, might have triggered a Carrington-type of event. In other words, our Congress is aware of these events, has flirted with disaster and as usual, has done nothing productive. In 2004 a congressional commission reported that a single EMP unleashed high above the Midwest, would destroy the nation’s economy and eventually kill 90% of the population. In 2008 the same commission wrote in its report that Russia, China, and North Korea were working to develop EMP weapons. And still Congress did absolutely nothing. Conclusion How devastating would an EMP attack be? Is there anything the US can prepare to counter? There are provable and correct answers to these questions and they will be covered in the next installment of this series. In the meantime, it might behoove President Trump to delay any aggressive military action against North Korea.
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DAILY MAIL; MORE STRANGE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR--Moo-dunnit? Mystery as a herd of 12 cows jumps to its death off of a 50-metre Swiss cliff
Moo-dunnit? Mystery as a herd of 12 cows jumps to its death off of a 50-metre Swiss cliff
Thirteen cows jumped or fell off a cliff in Valais, Switzerland on Wednesday
Twelve of the cows died in the fall, while the 13th survived the 50metre drop
In total, the cows were believed to be worth around 20,000 francs (£16,000)
The couple who own the land said the cows may have been chased by a predator
Four yaks, who were also on the land, did not suffer any injuries from predators
By Kelly Mclaughlin For Mailonline Published: 08:16 EDT, 5 June 2017 | Updated: 08:29 EDT, 5 June 2017
Farmers in Switzerland have been left baffled after a herd of cows jumped to its death off of a 50metre-high cliff last week. The 13 Herens cows broke through their pen and through several lines of security around their pasture before running toward a cliff and either falling or throwing themselves off of the 50metre drop near Levron in Valais on Wednesday. Twelve of the cows died in the fall, while the 13th survived. The surviving cow, which likely landed on the others at the bottom of the cliff, was injured and taken to an animal hospital in Bern. In total, the cows were believed to be worth around 20,000 francs (£16,000).
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The president keeps a solemn promise to put America first
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 1, 2017
Uncle Sugar doesn’t live here any more, and he didn’t leave a forwarding address. This is the message, spoken loud and clear by Donald Trump Thursday in the White House Rose Garden, and it’s just now getting through to the easy riders out there. “As of today,” he said, “the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country. We’re getting out but we’ll start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair. And if we can, that’s great. And if we can’t, that’s fine.” This was exactly what the 196 signers needed to hear, and the president told them without heat, bombast or blather. Just the facts, ma’am, and that means Madame Merkel. Before all the news from Washington was in, Madame Merkel, with France and Italy tagging along in the lady’s considerable wake, said in haughty voice that the Paris accord “will not be renegotiated.” So the lady says, subject to invoking the feminine privilege of changing her mind. The president thus makes good on one of his most important campaign promises, mocking the holy writ of global warming, or “climate change” as it’s called now because the globe refuses to warm as promised and all the dead polar bears are still not dead and the ocean that was supposed to have inundated the financial district of lower Manhattan by now, has still not obeyed Al Gore. The president sounds like the reasonable one now. “In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris accord for an entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States.” He identified several sectors of the American economy that would lose jobs and paychecks if the United States stays in the accord — 2.7 million jobs by 2025. Fair is fair, after all, even for Uncle Sugar. This puts a large dent in Barack Obama’s legacy, about which he can’t stop talking. He was first in line to cavil Thursday, presumably caviling from his walled mansion behind a moat of security a quarter of a mile long, where he leads what he imagines the U.S. Government in more or less permanent exile, or at least until he gets bored with exile and goes home, like presidents before him, and comes to term with the fact that his day is done. “The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created,” he said, trying to remember how to affect a presidential tone. “I believe the United States of America should be at the front of the pack. But even in the absence of American leadership, even as this administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future, I’m confident that our states, cities and businesses will step up and do even more to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet we’ve got.” This was a stunning exercise in disrespect for the one president we currently have, and for the office as well. Pittsburgh and Peoria with a foreign policy. Who knew? But several cities with Democratic administrations have vowed to remain in the Paris accord, as if they could. Several tycoons of finance and industry seem to regard their companies as sovereign, too, and were quick to take the president to task. It seems not to have occurred to these cities and tycoons that if they want to clean up their act and eliminate pollution, nobody, least of all Donald Trump, will stop them. Mr. Trump’s critics are eager now to play holier than thou — even the pope, who had said earlier that if Mr. Trump withdrew from Paris the Vatican would take it as “a slap in the face.” Leonardo DiCaprio was disappointed, too, because he had earlier urged Mr. Trump to “make the moral position.” Moral tutelage from the Vatican and Hollywood on the very same day. Religiosity reigns, if only for the day. But back where it counts, the president’s decision won praise from Republicans in Congress. “I applaud President Trump and his administration for dealing with yet another blow to the Obama administration’s assault on domestic energy production and jobs,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment, observed that “the Paris climate agreement set unworkable targets that put America at a competitive disadvantage.” Whatever new agreement Mr. Trump can make will be a treaty, and must, as the Constitution makes clear, be ratified by the Senate. Barack Obama, the famous professor of constitutional law, wouldn’t do that because he knew that the Paris agreement would never have made it through the Senate. Climate does change sometimes. Thursday was a sunny day in Washington.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/1/america-first-policy-kept-by-trump/
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UAE cuts ties with Qatar, accuses it of destabilising region
Monday, 5 June 2017 | MYT 11:34 AM
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates cut ties with Qatar on Monday, state news agency WAM reported, accusing its Gulf Arab neighbour of supporting extremism and undermining regional stability. The Emirates cut ties and gave diplomats 48 hours to leave the country, citing their "support, funding and embrace of terrorist, extremist and sectarian organisations", WAM said. (Reporting by William Maclean; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Israel working hard to realize the dreams of its gas industry
Ferry Biedermann; special to CNBC.com 10 Hours Ago
Israel's energy sector is going through momentous changes due the development of its large offshore natural gas reserve. Last week, Greek oil and gas company Energean introduced a new element of competition into the country's domestic gas market by signing contracts for its two Israeli fields, and earlier this year the country started exporting gas to neighboring Jordan, albeit in initially small quantities. There are high hopes that Israel's substantial proven reserves, as well as the likelihood of future finds, will change not only the economy but also the geopolitical situation in the region, with Israel potentially becoming an exporter also to Egypt, Turkey and even to Europe. Yet, a combination of that same geopolitical situation, low natural gas prices, the lack of an export infrastructure and regulatory issues may temper such dreams, say experts. Exports are crucial to attracting major international players to Israel's gas exploration and production sector, says Roee Zass of Tel Aviv-based TASC, which has extensive experience consulting in the Israeli energy sector. "The Ministry of Energy has understood that exports are crucial and is trying to assist but infrastructure and geopolitics is something that takes years and there are lots of obstacles on the way," says Zass. The real measure on Israel's gas potential may come next month, when it becomes clear what companies are bidding for on a tender for oil and gas exploration in 24 additional blocks that are generally thought to hold significant possibilities. Yet, the deadline had to be postponed from April, indicating tepid interest from major international players. Israel went within the space of 10 years from a country that hardly even consumed gas to a major producer that's eyeing significant export opportunities. The country's first offshore gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, Yam Thetis, came online in 2004, followed by the much larger Tamar field in 2013. Both are majority owned by a partnership between Israel's Delek and the U.S. firm Noble Energy and almost exclusively supply the domestic market. The real game changer, making Israel potentially a natural gas player, was the discovery of Leviathan in 2010. It is estimated to hold at least some 500 billion cubic meters (BCM) of gas and is expected initially to be able to produce 12 BCM annually starting in 2019. Noble Energy decided to go ahead with development of Leviathan earlier this year after a protracted political and regulatory wrangle in Israel over competition and prices was settled in 2016, and after a major export contract was signed with Jordan.
Albatross | Getty Images Israel's energy sector is going through momentous changes due the development of its large offshore natural gas reserve. Last week, Greek oil and gas company Energean introduced a new element of competition into the country's domestic gas market by signing contracts for its two Israeli fields, and earlier this year the country started exporting gas to neighboring Jordan, albeit in initially small quantities. There are high hopes that Israel's substantial proven reserves, as well as the likelihood of future finds, will change not only the economy but also the geopolitical situation in the region, with Israel potentially becoming an exporter also to Egypt, Turkey and even to Europe. Yet, a combination of that same geopolitical situation, low natural gas prices, the lack of an export infrastructure and regulatory issues may temper such dreams, say experts. Exports are crucial to attracting major international players to Israel's gas exploration and production sector, says Roee Zass of Tel Aviv-based TASC, which has extensive experience consulting in the Israeli energy sector. "The Ministry of Energy has understood that exports are crucial and is trying to assist but infrastructure and geopolitics is something that takes years and there are lots of obstacles on the way," says Zass. The real measure on Israel's gas potential may come next month, when it becomes clear what companies are bidding for on a tender for oil and gas exploration in 24 additional blocks that are generally thought to hold significant possibilities. Yet, the deadline had to be postponed from April, indicating tepid interest from major international players.
Trump: Israel a symbol of the message of hope
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 | 7:33 AM ET | 03:09
Israel went within the space of 10 years from a country that hardly even consumed gas to a major producer that's eyeing significant export opportunities. The country's first offshore gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, Yam Thetis, came online in 2004, followed by the much larger Tamar field in 2013. Both are majority owned by a partnership between Israel's Delek and the U.S. firm Noble Energy and almost exclusively supply the domestic market. The real game changer, making Israel potentially a natural gas player, was the discovery of Leviathan in 2010. It is estimated to hold at least some 500 billion cubic meters (BCM) of gas and is expected initially to be able to produce 12 BCM annually starting in 2019. Noble Energy decided to go ahead with development of Leviathan earlier this year after a protracted political and regulatory wrangle in Israel over competition and prices was settled in 2016, and after a major export contract was signed with Jordan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem March 5, 2017. Abir Sultan | Pool | Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem March 5, 2017. Under Israel's natural gas framework regulation Noble and its partners in 2016 sold two smaller fields, Karish and Tanin, to Energean for a reported $148 million plus royalties in a move meant to bring increased competition to the domestic Israeli gas market. Zass calls Energean's deal to supply gas to private Israel power plants a major moment, introducing a third supplier to the market, but cautions to "hold the Champagne." The Greek company still needs to make its final investment decision by the end of the year. The deal it signed offers better terms than the ones Noble and Delek give its customers but the gas fields' smaller size and the long-term contracts already in place in the Israeli energy market will still limit competition. Without significant export opportunities, major international players are unlikely to become involved in the Israeli energy exploration and production sector, is the consensus among analysts. Arie Reich, an expert in trade law and competition at Israel's Bar-Ilan University says that the drawn-out regulatory wrangle combined with other risk factors has hurt chances of that happening. "After what happened with the gas saga I think foreign investors will be wary of coming," he says, extrapolating it to other sectors of the economy. Reich argues for more bilateral investment treaties to reassure investors. "Especially now when we have these huge investments that are required in the energy sector, which are the biggest investments ever in Israeli history," he added. In a sign that domestic opinion on how to deal with the gas bonanza is not quite settled yet, the Energy ministry in May launched a $2 million, one year, PR campaign to persuade the public of the "supreme importance to link the Israeli economy to natural gas." The ministry also signed an agreement earlier this year with Cyprus, Greece and Italy to explore a gas pipeline for exports to Europe. But the ambitious 2,200 kilometer project, crossing depths of up to 3 kilometers in the Mediterranean, is in a very initial stage. Amid current low European gas prices and political risk in both Israel and Cyprus, many question whether it is viable. International ratings agencies are upbeat about the effect of gas on Israel's economy, but Kristin Lindow, senior vice president at Moody's Investor Services, says the contribution of gas to GDP (gross domestic product) growth, "is not substantial anymore." "At first when Tamar came on there was an extra boost to GDP and there has not been an additional boost relative to the rate of growth of other sectors of the economy since then. But the construction of Leviathan will certainly contribute to growth and so will the export," she said. The country's "A+" or "A1" credit rating is only expected to be revised upward if plans to set up a sovereign wealth fund with the gas proceeds are realized and it starts building up. "What we look at when we make positive adjustments for sovereign wealth funds is the extent to which a sovereign wealth fund can cover the country's external debt," says Lindow. While Israel's external debt is relatively small, the build-up can take time, depending on exports and what portion of revenues end up being invested in the fund. It is now expected to begin operating around 2020. But, says Zass, even if exports don't materialize to the hoped-for degree, "if you count domestic sales and exports to the Jordanian market, Israeli government revenues can become very high in the following years. I think the opportunity to start a governmental fund for the next decades or the next generations is still viable."
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/05/israel-working-hard-to-realize-the-dreams-of-its-gas-industry.html
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Rev 6:8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (NKJ) (disease & famine)
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EXCLUSIVE: One man is killed and more than 40 are treated for rabies after an outbreak of VAMPIRE BAT attacks in Brazil
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Edivalson Francisco Souza, 46, died after stepping on bat, which bit his foot
He was milking a cow on a farm in Paramirim, in Bahia, north-east Brazil
His death is the first recorded case of human rabies in the country since 2004
Flurry of attacks by vampire bats have been reported in capital city of Salvador
Disease control teams now culling them by catching and applying venom paste
By Janet Tappin Coelho In Brazil For Mailonline Published: 02:01 EDT, 30 May 2017 | Updated: 06:06 EDT, 30 May 2017
A man has died and more than 40 people are being treated for possible rabies exposure in north-east Brazil, following an alarming spate of attacks by vampire bats, it has been reported. The death is the first recorded case of human rabies in Brazil since 2004. The outbreak is the largest wave of attacks ever registered in the region and is being attributed to a disturbing rise in the bat population nesting close to humans. Last Saturday, disease control teams from Bahia state health authority (SESAB) were out in force culling vampire bats by catching them and applying a venom paste to their bodies, in a bid to control the rising numbers. According to SESAB, Edivalson Francisco Souza, the 46-year-old who died, was milking a cow on a farm in Paramirim when he accidentally stepped on a rabies-carrying bat, which bit his foot. The farmer dismissed the incident, washed the wound but failed to see a doctor. Three weeks later, after being hospitalised for seven days suffering from headaches, nausea, severe anxiety and shortness of breath, Edivalson remembered the incident. He tested positive for rabies but it was too late for doctors to administer the vaccine and he passed away shortly afterwards in March this year. SESAB immediately issued a public health alert, warning of the risks of contracting rabies and ways to stay vigilant. Within days of the fatality, residents living in the capital city, Salvador, some 400 miles from Paramirim, reported a flurry of attacks by the blood-thirsty creatures that appear to have added human blood to their menu. Over the last three months, dozens of frightened locals have told of being terrorised by the flying mammals at night. Many have woken up to the distressing sight of their bed sheets soaked with blood after the animals sunk their fangs into their toes, heels and elbows. One of the victims, Matheus Andrade, who lives in the historic centre of the city said: 'I was bitten three times, twice on my toes and once on my heel, in two successive nights around the middle of May. 'I didn't realize until the second time that I had been attacked by a bat. At first I thought I had somehow cut my toe during the night. 'I normally sleep with the windows and doors open and the bats flew in. I never felt any pain at all on both the nights I was bitten. But in my dreams, I did feel as if something had hooked itself onto my toe. 'When I woke up in the morning, I found the bed was wet. It had been raining overnight and I thought water had dripped in. But it was my blood. It was such a shock. 'The wound was tiny but deep, the blood was dark and thick and the area wouldn't stop bleeding even when I tried washing it off.' The 22-year-old refrigerator engineer was not the only member of his family to suffer the terrifying ordeal. His mother, Rose Fernandes, 54, said: 'I was bitten on my toe too while I slept. I didn't feel anything. My husband woke me up and showed me the dirty sheet. 'We thought I had cut myself without knowing. But as soon as Matheus told me the same thing had happened to him, we realised it had to be a bat because of the fang-like puncture marks in our toes. 'It has never happened before and it was very frightening. Now we shut up all the windows and doors at night even though it's hot. 'And it's a good thing we did because the other night I woke up in the early hours of the morning at 1:30 because I heard something banging up against the window. 'The bat that had bitten me before seemed to have come back for more and was trying to get in. It kept hitting against the glass. It even flew away at some distance and came hurtling back even harder slamming up against the window,' recalled the teaching assistant, shuddering at the memory. Both mother and son went to the Couto Maia Hospital and have been prescribed 30 days of anti-rabies and tetanus vaccines, which must be taken until the middle of June. According to veterinarian Aroldo Carneiro, it's common for people to confuse bat bites with a simple cut. Vampire bats, or the common bat, are small nocturnal creatures with a wingspan of about eight inches. They only live in the Americas and feed solely on blood, puncturing the skin of their prey with sharp incisors. Carneiro, who heads the rabies surveillance unit, explained: 'The bite does not cause intense pain because in bat saliva there are analgesic and anticoagulant substances, the latter prevents the quick healing of the wound.' He stressed that bat attacks on humans are rare in Salvador but cited destruction of the nocturnal mammals' natural habitat and large numbers of abandoned properties in the city centre as factors contributing to the outbreak. He said: 'We have detected shifts in bat behaviour and a worrying increase in the population in the area. We believe this is due to deforestation and the destruction of caves, which forces the bats to migrate to the cities. 'The city centre does not have the normal source of food for hematophagous beings (who feed on blood) such as horses and cattle. The vampire bats must find an alternative to live so they bite dogs and cats, and when these aren't available they turn to humans. 'In addition, there are many buildings in the historical centre of Salvador which are abandoned and have openings that give access to the wild animals. The empty places provide shelter and nesting sites and this has allowed the numbers to grow.' To combat the wave of attacks, a task force of disease control agents have been visiting homes in the terrorised neighbourhoods advising residents on how to protect themselves at night - by keeping windows and doors shut, putting up mesh screens, plugging cracks in the roof that can serve as an entrance for the animals, illuminating dark areas in the house and not leaving fruit out overnight. The teams have been vaccinating cats and dogs. Last year, 91,000 dogs and 32,000 cats were immunised, and agents have been re-emphasising to residents that rabies is almost always fatal unless victims receive early preventative treatment. Recent surveillance action resulted in the capture of 16 bats and lab tests identified the presence of the rabies virus in a couple of those caught. Carneiro said: 'Our disease surveillance teams have been out over the weekend controlling the numbers by trapping them and putting a venom paste on their bodies. This poison is passed on when they make contact with other bats. 'They must be culled because there are too many in the area, living too close to residents.' Professor Valdirene Meira da Cunha, 42, believes a bat mistook her home for a cave because after feasting on her big toe, it took refuge on her wall. She said: 'I turned on the light and I couldn't believe it. The bed was covered with my blood. I don't know what made me look up, but when I did I saw the bat hanging on the wall above my head. 'It was like a scene out of a horror movie, it was absolutely terrifying and my scream woke everyone up.' Pensioner Ubaldina dos Santos, 85, said she has not been able to sleep since the outbreak in the area. 'We're trying not to panic,' she said anxiously. 'But the houses we live in are old, with crevices and cracks where the bats can enter. 'Everyone is living in fear of waking up and finding a vampire bat drinking their blood like Dracula,' she added.
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Should Russia's new Armata T-14 tanks worry Nato?
By Jonathan Marcus Defence and diplomatic correspondent
30 May 2017 From the section Europe
Active protection systems (APS) are being built into Russia's new Armata T-14 tank, posing a problem for a whole generation of anti-armour weapons, not least the US-supplied Javelin guided missile, used by the Norwegian Army. The warning comes from Brig Ben Barry of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He says this is a problem that most Nato countries have barely begun to grapple with. APS threatens to make existing anti-tank weapons far less effective, and there is little real discussion of this among many Western militaries, he says. Some countries are conducting research and trials to equip their own tanks with APS. "But they seem to miss the uncomfortable implications for their own anti-armour capabilities," he says. Norway is one of the first Nato countries to grasp this nettle. Its latest defence procurement plan envisages spending 200-350m kroner (£18.5-32.5m; $24-42m) on replacing its Javelin missiles, "to maintain the capacity to fight against heavy armoured vehicles". "There is a need for [an] anti-tank missile," it says, "that can penetrate APS systems". APS is the latest twist in the age-old battle between offence and defence in military technology. At different periods one side has held the advantage over the other. The armoured knight once ruled supreme, but the widespread use of firearms put paid to the armour-clad nobility's dominance. Since World War Two the tank, like the knight of old, has reigned supreme on the battlefield. It is of course vulnerable to the main guns of other tanks. If you have a heavy enough shell and a gun firing at high-enough velocity you can punch through even the best armour. But tanks are also vulnerable to other weapons systems, and that is what APS is designed to deal with. Since World War Two a whole category of lighter, man-portable anti-tank weapons has been devised. Since they have to be carried by the infantry they depend not upon velocity and mass to get through the tank's armour, but on a chemical reaction. These warheads impact on the external armour and a metal core forms into a molten jet that pierces through. Tank designers have tried to counter this in all sorts of ways, with reactive panels that explode outwards when hit; or by providing additional layers of spaced armour, to detonate the incoming round away from the tank itself. APS takes a whole new approach. It is essentially an anti-missile system for tanks, with radars capable of tracking the incoming anti-tank missile, and projectiles that are launched to disrupt or destroy it. Israel is among the leaders in this field and its Merkava tanks used it with some success during the last upsurge of fighting in Gaza. The Israeli Trophy system is being evaluated by the Americans. Britain too is looking at such systems and the Dutch have recently decided to equip their infantry combat vehicles with another Israeli-developed system. The fitting of APS to armoured vehicles is intended to counter a variety of weapons, ranging from the ubiquitous Russian/Chinese RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) to much more sophisticated guided anti-tank weapons like the Russian Kornet. But Brig Barry at the IISS is pointing out that Russia's APS technology raises questions about many of Nato's anti-tank defences too. Norway is taking action - and he believes other Nato countries will have to do the same.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40083641
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Germany: Wave of Muslim Honor Killings
by Soeren Kern May 30, 2017 at 5:00 am
The court heard how Amer K. stabbed the mother of his three children in the chest and neck more than twenty times with a large kitchen knife, because he thought she wanted to divorce him. "Then he takes the knife and plunges it into her chest, [penetrating] the pericardium and heart muscle. A second stab opens the left abdominal cavity. Nurettin B. then pulls out the ax. With the blunt side he hits her head, cracking her skull. Then he grabs the rope. On one end he ties a gibbet knot around her neck, then he ties the other end to the trailer hitch on [his car]... He races through the streets at 80 km/h [until] the rope breaks." — State Prosecutor Ann-Kristin Fröhlich, reconstructing the husband's actions. In Ahaus, a 27-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker stabbed to death a 22-year-old woman after she seemingly offended his honor by rejecting his romantic advances. The trial of a Kurdish man who tied one of his three wives to the back of a car and dragged her through the streets of a town in Lower Saxony has drawn attention to an outbreak of Muslim honor violence in Germany. Honor violence — ranging from emotional abuse to physical and sexual violence to murder — is usually carried out by male family members against female family members who are perceived to have brought shame upon a family or clan. Offenses include refusing to agree to an arranged marriage, entering into a relationship with a non-Muslim or someone not approved by the family, refusing to stay in an abusive marriage or living an excessively Western lifestyle. In practice, however, the lines between crimes of honor and crimes of passion are often blurred and any challenge to male authority can elicit retribution, which is sometimes staggeringly brutal. On May 22, a court in Hanover heard how a 39-year-old Turkish-born Kurd named Nurettin B. attempted to murder his second wife, Kader K., 28, after she asked him to provide financial support for their two-year-old son. State Prosecutor Ann-Kristin Fröhlich reconstructed Nurettin B.'s actions: "At around 6PM on November 20, 2016, Nurettin B. got into his car in Hamelin to meet Kader K. The trunk contained a knife, an ax and a rope. Sitting on the back seat of the car was their two-year-old son, who had spent the weekend with him. On the street, the former couple got into an argument and he begins hitting her. Then he takes the knife and plunges it into her chest. The 12.4 centimeter long blade penetrates the pericardium and heart muscle. A second stab opens the left abdominal cavity. Nurettin B. then pulls out the ax. With the blunt side he hits her head and upper body, cracking her skull. "Then he grabs the rope. On one end he ties a gibbet knot around her neck, then he ties the other end to the trailer hitch on the back of his black VW Passat. Nurettin B. steps on the gas. He races through the streets at 80 km/h (50 mph). After 208 meters (680 feet) the rope breaks. Kader K. is hurled against the curb. Nurettin B. drives to the police station to turn himself in. The child is still sitting in the back seat." Presiding Judge Wolfgang Rosenbusch asked Kader K., who was comatose for weeks, to tell her side of the story. She said "the horror" began immediately after their Islamic sharia wedding (the marriage is not valid according to German law) in March 2013, when Nurettin B. prohibited her from having any contact with friends and family. She was allowed to leave the house only for grocery shopping and medical visits. She was not allowed to have a mobile phone. Rosenbusch asked: "Does he have a problem with women?" Kader K. replied: "He believes women are slaves; they must keep silent." Nurettin B. has confessed to the crime but insists it was not premeditated. He has been charged with attempted murder and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. On May 9, a court in Kiel sentenced 35-year-old Turkish man to two-and-a-half years in prison for shooting his estranged wife in both knees and permanently laming her, in the hope that she would be unattractive to other men. The court heard how the man took his wife to the back of a local mosque after Friday prayers, accused her of offending his honor and shot her, saying: "Now you can no longer walk. You will stay at home." In court, however, the woman, possibly under pressure from her family or the mosque, told the court that they couple had reconciled and would attend marriage counselling. Some observers surmised that the dispute may have been resolved in a sharia court. In any event, the German court allowed the man to return home with his wife and it remains unclear if and when he will serve his sentence. In Münster, a court sentenced a 36-year-old Lebanese man named Amer K. to 12 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death. The court heard how Amer K. stabbed 26-year-old Fatima S., the mother of his three children, in the chest and neck more than twenty times with a large kitchen knife because he thought she wanted to divorce him. Meanwhile, a court in Hanau sentenced a 22-year-old Syrian refugee to twelve years in prison for stabbing to death his 30-year-old sister, Ramia A., with a kitchen knife. She was 23 weeks pregnant and was accused of having brought shame to her family. Her unborn child also died in the attack. The true scale of Germany's honor crime problem is unknown: many such crimes go unreported and reliable statistics do not exist. Empirical evidence indicates that honor violence — primarily but not exclusively the product of Muslim culture and Islamic law, sharia — has metastasized since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed in some two million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In March 2011, the Max Planck Institute published a landmark study on honor killings. The study analyzed all such crimes known to have occurred in Germany between 1996 and 2005. The report found that there were two honor killings in 1998 and 12 in 2004. By 2016, however, the number had jumped to more than 60, an increase of 400%, according to the website Ehrenmord. The actual number of honor crimes presumably is much higher. Increased censorship by the police and the media, aimed at stemming anti-immigration sentiments, makes it impossible to know the names and national origins of many victims or perpetrators, or the true circumstances surrounding many murders, which often appear to be honor killings but are downplayed as "domestic disputes" (Familienangelegenheiten). 2017 is nevertheless on track to be a record year for honor violence in Germany; in the first five months of this year, there have been at least 30 honor killings, including the following: May 18. In Berlin, a 32-year-old Bosnian, Edin A., murdered his former girlfriend, a 35-year-old German woman named Michelle E., after she ended their abusive relationship. He also abducted and tortured her 12-year-old son, who was forced to watch his mother's murder. Neighbors said they had repeatedly alerted the police about Edin A.'s violent behavior, but the police did nothing. May 17. In Pforzheim, a 53-year-old Tajik man stabbed to death his 50-year-old wife at her place of employment, a Christian daycare center. It remains unclear if the woman was a convert to Christianity. May 17. In Wardenburg, a 37-year-old Iraqi man stabbed to death his 37-year-old wife while she was asleep in her bed. The couple's five children, between the ages of four and 15, were at home at the time of the murder and are now living with relatives. May 8. In Neuendettelsau, a 24-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker, Mohammed G., stabbed his 22-year-old girlfriend in the stomach at a restaurant after she allegedly "provoked" him. The woman was five months pregnant; the unborn baby died in the attack. May 4. In Freiburg, a 33-year-old Syrian asylum seeker stabbed his 24-year-old wife, a Kurdish Christian who had moved out of the couple's apartment, but had returned to collect some personal belongings. The couple's three children — aged six, three and ten months — are now in protective custody. April 29. In Prien am Chiemsee, a 29-year-old Afghan man stabbed to death a 38-year-old Afghan woman, Farima S., who had converted to Christianity. The attacker ambushed the woman as she was exiting a grocery store with her two children. April 23. In Syke, a 32-year-old Iraqi man, Murad B., strangled his 32-year-old wife, Mehe K., in front of the couple's three children, ages one, two and nine. April 23. In Dresden, a 29-year-old Pakistani refugee, Shahajan Butt, murdered his girlfriend, a 41-year-old Vietnamese woman named Thu T. Police say the man, who arrived in Germany in December 2015, became enraged after he noticed that the woman had not posted any photos of him on her Facebook page, and suspected that she may have had another boyfriend. April 16. In Mainz-Finthen, a 39-year-old Egyptian asylum seeker stabbed to death his 32-year-old wife. Police said the couple had been arguing at the time of the attack. Their two children are being held in protective custody. April 5. In Leipzig, a 34-year-old Syrian man stabbed his 28-year-old wife because she wanted a divorce. The couple's two children witnessed the attack; they are being held in protective custody. March 31. In Gütersloh, a 43-year-old Syrian man burned his 18-year-old daughter with a cigarette and threatened to kill her. When the police intervened, the father refused to allow his daughter to leave the house. After police succeeded in bringing the girl to safety, the father and son attacked the police, who used pepper-spray to fend them off. The girl is being held in protective custody. March 15. In Kiel, a 40-year-old German-Turkish man stabbed to death his 34-year-old Turkish wife in front of a daycare center. Neighbors said the couple, who were separated, had quarreled about moving their three children to Turkey. March 4. In Duisburg, a 30-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, Mahmood Mahrusseh, stabbed his 32-year-old ex-girlfriend. The woman survived; her attacker remains at large. March 3. In Mönchengladbach, a 32-year-old asylum seeker, Ahmed Salim, murdered a 47-year-old German woman, Nicole M., apparently after she ended a relationship with him. The man, who also uses the alias Jamal Amilia, was arrested in Spain. In his asylum application, he had written that he was from Israel. In another asylum application filed in another country, he had written that he was from Morocco. He is believed to be from Iraq. March 2. In Scheeßel, a 42-year-old Iraqi man stabbed to death his 52-year-old wife, also from Iraq. Police described the murder as an honor killing. The couple's children are now in protective custody. February 25. In Euskirchen, a 32-year-old German-Turkish man stabbed to death his former girlfriend, a 32-year-old German woman who had begun dating someone else. February 17. In Offenbach, a 32-year-old Turkish man, Volkan T., shot to death his former girlfriend, a 40-year-old woman, Silvia B. The man said he was angry that the woman, who had two children, had ended her relationship with him. February 15. In Bielefeld, a 51-year-old Iraqi man tried to murder his 51-year-old wife by attacking her with a hammer while she was attending a German class at a local language academy. The man was apparently angry that his wife was mixing with other language students. February 10. In Ahaus, a 27-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker stabbed to death a 22-year-old woman after she seemingly offended his honor by rejecting his romantic advances. The woman, a Hindu, was employed at the same asylum shelter where her attacker lived. He was arrested in Basel, Switzerland. February 7. In Hanover-Mühlenberg, a 21-year-old Serbian man stabbed his ex-girlfriend after she ended their relationship and had begun dating someone else. February 1. In Hamburg, a 26-year-old Afghan man stabbed his estranged 28-year-old wife during an argument; she survived the attack. January 15. In Bremen-Vegesack, a 39-year-old Turkish man murdered his 40-year-old Syrian wife, who was nine months pregnant, because she wanted to divorce him. The unborn baby also died during the attack. January 5. In Waldshut-Tiengen, a 47-year-old Turkish man stabbed his estranged wife as she was walking with a friend. When she tried to run away, he pursued her and plunged a knife in her back. January 4. In Köln-Buchheim, a 44-year-old Iraqi man murdered his 19-year-old daughter because he did not approve of her boyfriend. Two days later, he called police. "I killed my daughter," he said. The man may never face justice; he is believed to have fled to Iraq.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10441/germany-muslim-honor-killings
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Trump and Leaks: The president must take aggressive steps to stop a grave national security threat
by FRED FLEITZ May 30, 2017
President Trump spoke out angrily Thursday against leaks of classified information to the press - including leaks of confidential information the U.K. government had shared with American intelligence agencies on the Manchester terrorist attack. These leaks "pose a grave threat to our national security," he said, and pledged to identify and prosecute those responsible. The president has it exactly right. He is facing an unprecedented campaign by career government employees to sabotage his presidency with a flood of leaks to the press of classified and confidential information. These leaks are damaging U.S. national security and constitute criminal behavior. They must be stopped. Some of the leaks have been of highly classified U.S. intelligence reports, including "demasked" NSA reporting concerning former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn. Others were of President Trump's confidential conversations with foreign leaders. Concerning the false allegation that President Trump "leaked" classified information to Russian officials when he met with them in the Oval Office, bear in mind that the president has ultimate classification authority - he can disclose intelligence as he sees fit to advance his foreign policy. As I discussed in an earlier Fox News Opinion article, the real scandal in that instance was that current and former intelligence and policy officials disclosed to the Washington Post sensitive details about the intelligence Trump allegedly discussed with Russian officials - details that were so highly classified the Post chose not to publish them. This was the real crime. The persons who illegally disclosed this information to the Post must be prosecuted. Just as serious are the constant leaks concerning investigations of Trump officials. There's no question in my mind that former FBI Director James Comey arranged to have his notes leaked to the press to hurt President Trump and influence the congressional investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election. It also appears that anti-Trump government employees with the Justice Department and the FBI are systematically leaking a story a day to help CNN and MSNBC promote their false narratives that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. These leaks are especially serious since Justice and law enforcement careerists are violating the due process rights of Trump officials by disclosing (and probably misrepresenting) confidential information from official investigations to smear them. Since the "evidence" of wrongdoing by Trump officials appears too thin to produce any charges, these officials are instead using leaks to try and convict Trump officials in the press. It is urgent that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Special Counsel Robert Mueller stop these leaks which are an affront to the American system of justice. The Trump administration also must take decisive action to halt leaks of classified national security information. The most effective way to do this is to fill vacant confirmable and non-confirmable positions in policy and intelligence agencies as quickly as possible. This should include a housecleaning in the NSC, State, DOD, CIA, DIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies to replace career government employees named to sensitive positions by the Obama administration. In some cases, these career officials are actually former Obama political appointees who converted to the career civil service, a practice known as "burrowing in." Although civil service laws and regulations make it virtually impossible to fire career government employees, the Trump administration can reassign these officials. If this is not possible, job descriptions can be changed so anti-Trump careerists suspected of leaking no longer work on sensitive matters. Their security clearances can also be stripped. Other immediate steps must be taken to address recent leaks of classified and confidential information. Read-outs of the president's meetings and conversations must be better protected. Investigations that include polygraphs should be conducted to find those who were behind recent leaks. And the NSC needs to bring in experienced personnel to help safeguard confidential information concerning the president's policy deliberations. Trump officials will never completely stop leaks to the press. They need to recognize that leaks are always worse during Republican presidencies because the career work force tilts to the left. That said, this recent flood of leaks is an unprecedented effort by government careerists to put U.S. national security at risk to undermine an elected president. This cannot be allowed to continue.
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THE COLLAPSE OF FRANCE — Paul Craig Roberts May 29, 2017
The brainwashed and insouciant French electorate has voted to abolish the French nation. In five years France will exist only as a geographical location, a province in “Europe,” itself a province in global capitalism. The French had a last chance to save their nation, but they could not do it because the French have been convinced that to be French is to be fascist and racist. Therefore, the French electorate defeated Marine Le Pen, the leader of the only political party that stands for France. After five years under Macron, nothing will be left of France. Macron, the choice of Washington and the international bankers, represents, in the words of Diana Johnstone, “the trans-Atlantic elite totally committed to ‘globalization,’ using whatever is left of the power of national governments to weaken them still further, turning over decision-making to ‘the markets’—that is, to international capital managed by the major banks and financial institutions, notably those located in the United States, such as Goldman-Sachs.” Read Johnstone’s assessment here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-power-to-the-banks-the-winners-take-all-regime-of-emmanuel-macron/5591208 Macron defines himself as a “diversityite,” declaring that “there is no such thing as French culture.” Macron’s Minister of Armies and Defense declares that she “does not feel French.” Macron follows the Russophobic line of the American neoconservatives, and rode to his inauguration in a military vehicle. It is unclear why Putin went to France to meet today with Macron, who is totally in Washington’s pocket. Perhaps the Russian government believes that the terror attacks in France are real and hopes to finally convince one Western government to join Russia in “the war against terrorists.” Or perhaps Putin wanted to see if Macron has any awareness of the conflict with Russia toward which Washington is pushing Europe. Perhaps Macron’s invitation to Putin was Washington’s suggestion, the purpose of which is to keep Putin ever hopeful of Western cooperation while Washington finalizes its attack plan. Only two countries stand in the way of Washington’s world hegemony: Russia and China. Of the two obstacles, Russia is perceived as the largest constraint on US unilateralism. Europe is dependent on Russian energy, and Russia’s nuclear weapons systems are highly advanced. The fact that Russia’s national sovereignty depends so much on Putin’s leadership makes Russia the most vulnerable to Washington’s intrigue. Putin can be removed by assassination. But China’s leadership cannot, because it is collective. There is democracy within the ruling Chinese political party. Washington’s focus on China is to discredit the ruling party by using US financed organizations within China for this purpose. Washington is driving the world into a major conflict. The Russian and Chinese governments must know by now that they are targeted. As their hopes for diplomacy continue to be rebuffed by Washington and Europe, they will reach the conclusion that their only choice is surrender or war.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/05/29/collapse-france-paul-craig-roberts/
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In Antarctica, Scientists Are Lured to a Frozen Desert
Photographs and Text by JONATHAN CORUM May 29, 2017
Welcome to the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the largest ice-free region in Antarctica and one of the driest places on the planet. Most of the continent is covered in thick ice, but this place is a striking exception. Sheltering mountains and dry winds from the continent preserve a frigid desert that defies all expectations. It is not barren: Scientists have spent decades studying the extreme environment and the microscopic life that survives there. The Dry Valleys may well be our closest equivalent to a Martian landscape. Four journalists from The New York Times visited the Dry Valleys in December — summer in the Southern Hemisphere. We also made virtual-reality film based on that flight, along with three other films about the changing continent. Here’s some of what we learned. Ice from the East Antarctic ice sheet cascades into the Upper Wright Valley, forming a smooth glacier three miles wide and five miles long. The surrounding mountains are high enough to keep the rest of the valley ice-free. Wind shapes the valley in different ways. Windblown grit carves exposed rocks on the valley rim into curved and hollowed forms. And dry winds from East Antarctica pour down the glacier and through the length of the valley, stripping away moisture and any snow that might fall. Little water means little erosion. Footprints in parts of this valley can last longer than a human lifetime. In some places, there are tire tracks left by scientists in the 1970s. The walls of the Upper Wright Valley are banded with light and dark rock — far more significant than they might seem. The pale bands are ancient Antarctic bedrock. But the dark bands appeared during the breakup of Gondwana, a supercontinent that formed around 600 million years and split apart around 180 million years ago. The breakup yielded the continents we know today as South America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia, among others. Similar rock formations on other continents in the Southern Hemisphere helped strengthen early theories of continental drift. The Friis Hills are the remnants of an ancient landscape. Twenty million years ago, this land was wet bog, buzzing with insects and dotted with Southern beech trees. A shift in climate covered the area with glaciers, and water hasn’t flowed here in 14 million years. The lack of moisture has helped preserve a record of the more temperate past, and researchers digging in the dry ground have found freeze-dried twigs and moss just below the surface. A Pond and Lake That Hint at Life on Other Planets Don Juan Pond Jonathan Corum / The New York Times Nestled in the Wright Valley is a pond of ankle-deep water, still liquid despite the freezing temperatures. Don Juan Pond is thought to be the saltiest body of water in the world, many times saltier than the Dead Sea. Scientists have found microbes around the pond, but the water itself may not support life. The last pools of liquid water on a dying Mars might have once looked something like this. Lake Vanda is an ice-covered lake fed by the Onyx River, the longest surface river in Antarctica, which only flows in summer. The lake holds an isolated ecosystem of microbial mats and spires. Rovers on Mars are searching for traces of similar microbial structures in ancient Martian lake beds.
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New Video Game To Depict Christianity As Incubator For Extremism, Threat To Civilization
May 30, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
There’s a lot to analyze in the image, which you can view in full below. It features seven characters arrayed around a table à la Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, with the central Christ figure wearing yellow-tinted hunting glasses and sitting in front of an open book […] Of course, there’s one other person we haven’t talked about: the shirtless man sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his hands tied behind his back and the word “SINNER” written on, or carved into, his skin. That brings us back to the religious elements of this artwork, which suggest that these individuals adhere to a perversion of Christianity. Next to the book, in front of the Jesus figure, you can see the elements of the Eucharist: a goblet of wine and a piece of bread. An American flag is draped over the table, except with the stars representing the 50 states replaced by a unique cross. The eight-pointed symbol resembles the Iron Cross, which was last used as a military decoration in Nazi Germany under the direction of Adolf Hitler himself. (READ MORE) Far Cry 5 will tell the story of a militant Christian cult, if a piece of artwork released today by publisher Ubisoft is any indication. There’s a lot to analyze in the image, which you can view in full below. It features seven characters arrayed around a table à la Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, with the central Christ figure wearing yellow-tinted hunting glasses and sitting in front of an open book. Five other bearded men and one woman — as well as a disembodied pair of hands — surround him. The table and ground beneath it are littered with weapons and ammunition, such as a tactical shotgun, a compound bow, assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Outfitted in flannel shirts with accessories like dog tags and lethal weapons, the men look like they’re part of a hillbilly militia. One of them has a wolf, or perhaps a dog breed that just looks like a wolf, leashed on a chain. The woman provides a contrast, with flowers in her hair and one in her hand. Of course, there’s one other person we haven’t talked about: the shirtless man sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his hands tied behind his back and the word “SINNER” written on, or carved into, his skin. That brings us back to the religious elements of this artwork, which suggest that these individuals adhere to a perversion of Christianity. Next to the book, in front of the Jesus figure, you can see the elements of the Eucharist: a goblet of wine and a piece of bread. An American flag is draped over the table, except with the stars representing the 50 states replaced by a unique cross. The eight-pointed symbol resembles the Iron Cross, which became associated with the Nazis during World War II but has since been revived as a German military decoration. The cross in Far Cry 5 appears on a flag, in white on a blue background, that these cultists fly above the American flag — a no-no, according to flag etiquette — on the grounds of a church. The same flag hangs from the church’s steeple, just like in the live-action teaser trailer that Ubisoft posted earlier this week to introduce Far Cry 5’s setting: the fictional Hope County, Montana. There’s also some interesting stuff going on in the background. Two small airplanes — one with pontoons and another one hot on its tail, firing machine guns at it — are flying over a burning wooden building. Behind the church, you can see what appears to be a small town with a water tower, and there’s an antenna tower — perhaps for radio or cellular telephone signals — outside the town near a farm. And the majestic Rocky Mountains rise above the whole scene. Of course, we should note that we have no idea whether these people are friends or antagonists in Far Cry 5’s story, although it’s hard to believe a big-budget, mass-market AAA video game would cast the player’s lot with menacing characters like these. Far Cry 5 is set for release sometime before April 2018. Ubisoft will post a proper announcement trailer at 9 a.m. ET this Friday, May 26. Correction: The German armed forces currently award military decorations that bear the Iron Cross, following a 2008 petition by German citizens to bring back the symbol in a form disassociated from its Nazi heritage. In addition, one of the weapons on the ground is a compound bow, not a crossbow. We’ve edited the article to reflect this.
https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/24/15685504/far-cry-5-art-religious-christian-cult
:: 5-25-17 The Rutherford Institute :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
VICTORY: Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of the NSA's Mass Internet Surveillance Program
May 25, 2017
RICHMOND, Va. — Ruling that the existence of the government’s mass internet surveillance program would violate the First and Fourth Amendments, a federal appeals court has given the green light to a lawsuit challenging the government’s domestic and international spying program. The lawsuit—brought by a coalition of educational, legal, human rights and media organizations, including The Rutherford Institute, the ACLU, the Wikipedia Foundation, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers—was dismissed by a federal district court in Maryland, which ruled that the groups do not have standing to sue the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Department of Justice and their directors. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the lower court’s ruling in part, reinstating the lawsuit with Wikimedia as a party. A dissenting opinion filed in the case argued that all the plaintiffs have standing and should be allowed to proceed as parties to the lawsuit. “On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “Revelations about the NSA’s spying programs only scrape the surface in revealing the lengths to which government agencies and their corporate allies will go to conduct mass surveillance on Americans’ communications and transactions. Senator Ron Wyden was right when he warned, ‘If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we are all going to live to regret it.’” The lawsuit brought by The Rutherford Institute, the ACLU, Wikipedia, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and other educational, legal, human rights and media organizations arises from efforts by the U.S. government since the 9/11 terrorist attacks to increase the surveillance and monitoring of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. Although Congress had previously authorized the issuance of orders for electronic surveillance of foreign agents for intelligence purposes under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in October 2001, President George W. Bush secretly authorized warrantless interception of emails and telephone calls involving persons within the United States if NSA personnel had a “reasonable basis” to believe one party was connected with al Qaeda. When a judge refused to authorize the continuation of this program, the Bush administration obtained amendments to FISA in 2008 authorizing the acquisition without individualized suspicion of the international communications of U.S. citizens that are with or are about foreigners who the NSA chooses to target. In carrying out this broad authority under the 2008 law, the NSA has engaged in so-called “Upstream surveillance,” which according to the complaint “involves the NSA’s seizing and searching the internet communications of U.S. citizens and residents en mass as those communications travel across the internet ‘backbone’ in the United States—the network of high-capacity cables, switches and routers that facilitates both domestic and international communications via the internet.”
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‘White Supremacist’ Portland Stabber Was A Bernie Supporter, Threatened to Kill Trump Supporters
This case furthered the media's fake narrative evil white people are constantly killing minorities everywhere for kicks
Information Liberation - May 29, 2017
The “white supremacist” who stabbed three people in Portland is actually a Bernie Sanders supporter who hated Donald Trump and threatened to murder his supporters. While the top result for murderer Jeremy Christian is an article from Portland Mercury which paints him as a Donald Trump supporting white supremacist, his Facebook posts are all over the place and show he supported Bernie Sanders.
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Arch of Ba’al, With Shadowy Ties to New World Order, May Be Messiah’s End-of-Days Gateway: Rabbi
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 29, 2017 , 11:30 am
“For he built again the high places which Chizkiyahu his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal.” II Kings 21:3 (The Israel Bible™)
A pagan arch erected in Italy one month before the meeting of the world’s most powerful leaders in the same country may be the portal whose opening could usher in the age of the Messiah – or a sinister World Order, a prominent rabbi has claimed. The rabbi believes that the two events – the unveiling last month of a replica of the Palmyra Arch, a symbol of paganism and idol worship, and the recent G7 summit, representing the coming together of world powers – are deeply and troublingly connected. “This arch brings together all the necessary elements for the New World Order,” explained Rabbi Daniel Assur, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, to Breaking Israel News. “If you look at where this arch has appeared, it is clearly a pattern moving towards a specific goal: Messiah. The question is, whose Messiah will it be?” The structure is a reproduction of a Roman victory arch built in Palmyra, Syria at the end of the second century CE. Originally it stood in front of a Roman temple where pagans worshiped the Mesopotamian god, Bel, also known as Ba’al, in a form of idol worship that figures prominently in the Bible. The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015, but one year later, the Institute for Digital Archaeology used 3-D printing technology to reproduce a 20-foot full-scale replica. The reproduction, which has traveled around the world to grace a number of events – each related to a concentration of global world power – was erected in Florence, Italy, one month ago as part of the first-ever Cultural Summit of the G7. This meeting was a prelude to the annual summit that brings together the leaders of the world’s seven major advanced economies. The seven entities, representing more than 64 percent of the net global wealth, came together last Friday in Taormina, Italy. Rabbi Assur explained that this connection to Ba’al was essential to the New World Order, and was therefore necessary to elements in the G7 seeking world domination. “The New World Order is not a secular, atheist movement,” explained Rabbi Assur. “They combine worship of Ba’al with worship of the Egyptian god, Isis, and also the true name of God. They need to bring together all of these elements.” Rabbi Assur added that changes within Christianity, specifically Catholicism, are part of the battle against the New World Order. This was one of his motives for participating in the Sanhedrin’s trial against Pope Francis in 2015. “The culture of paganic Rome is taking over Christianity,” he argued. “Christianity must be taken back from Roman culture, which is paganism.” The arch, originally reconstructed for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Heritage week in England, also relates to the New World Order’s designs on the Holy Temple and the name of the Jewish God, the rabbi said. “UNESCO, as part of the New World Order, has to usurp the true name of God,” Rabbi Assur explained. “It is towards this end that UNESCO is working towards changing the name and history of the Temple Mount, in order to control the original name of the Jewish God. That is why they made the most absurd claims about the holy places in Israel, but the power of the New World Order is real, so they were successful, despite their obvious lies.” Rabbi Assur said that the arch’s role in bringing the Messiah was explicitly described in the Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin (78a). The disciples of Rabbi Yossi the son of Kisma questioned him, asking when the son of David (the Messiah) will appear. And he answered: I am afraid you will request from me a sign as well. And they assured him that they would not. He then said to them: When this gate will fall, be rebuilt and fall again, be rebuilt again and fall again. And before it will be rebuilt for the third time the Messiah will appear. Revered Jewish scholar Rashi, a medieval rabbi who authored a canonical commentary on the Torah, wrote that the arch mentioned by Rabbi Yossi was “a Roman arch in a Roman city”. Rabbi Assur explained that when the Talmud describes the gate falling, it is not referring to an intentional act of deconstruction, but to the powers of evil triumphing over those who serve the true God, symbolized by the Arch of Palmyra. “There is no question that the arch is the portal for a new world that the Talmud is speaking about. If the New World Order succeeds, then they will rule, God forbid,” Rabbi Assur said. “But if the Moshiach ben David (Messiah from the House of David) comes through the portal, he will rule over them, over the New World Order.” The first modern reappearance of the Arch of Palmyra was in London’s Trafalgar Square in April 2016, when it was rected for(UNESCO) World Heritage Week. The unveiling coincided with the beginning of a 13-day period known in the occult as “the Blood Sacrifice to the Beast”, the most important holiday for those who worship the god Ba’al, celebrated with child sacrifice and bisexual orgies. In February, the arch was assembled again as the centerpiece for the World Government Summit in Dubai, an international meeting of global leaders to discuss policy.
Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/88858/rabbi-warns-pagan-arch-end-days-gateway-will-walk/#CZOcsDt6bhXg2JsS.99
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The Lost Secrets of Memorial Day
Scribe note: see video
http://www.thelostsecretsofmemorialday.com/
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Another Memorial Day
Monday, May 29, 2017
Yesterday I joined the officially-estimated 50,000 people attending the Memorial Day "Celebration at the Station" in Kansas City. The weather was perfect, the music wonderful, and the post-celebration fireworks spectacular. The crowd's mood was respectfully celebratory save for a somber moment when photos of several young area men killed in action since 2001 were displayed on two large HiDef screens. I watched with growing fury as the pageant's official spokesman made the standard obligatory references to the "heroic sacrifices of these brave men who died defending our freedom". That these men were brave goes without saying and I'm certain that at the beginning of their service they truly believed they were defending our freedom. At one time I believed it too. The bitter truth is that every American soldier killed in action since 2001 died as a direct result of Washington's Official Lies and everyone in Official Washington and its enabling national media establishment knows it. This morning, Senator John McCain called Russia a "bigger threat to global security" than ISIS and called Russia' s President Vladimir Putin a "thug and a murderer", echoing the meme that demonstrates just how thoroughly the Washington Establishment has absorbed and is now applying lessons learned from the tyrannical regimes with dreams of Empire that preceded it. “The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”. – Josef Stalin, Dictator of the Soviet Union “Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Goring, Nazi Gestapo Founder Since September 11, 2001, Washington has bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan. It has overthrown the democratically elected President of the Ukraine in 2014 and its agents initiated the completely illegal effort to overthrow Syria's President Assad. Assad's was the only government in the region protecting Christians and other religious minorities from Sunni fanatics. "Republican" Senator John McCain and "Democrat" Hillary Clinton's Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland orchestratred and directed the Ukrainian coup d'etat and McCain and Clinton were heavily involved in standing up, arming, and supporting the so-called "Syrian Free Army", a rag-tag gang of Sunni thugs and former al Qaeda members responsible for the violence occuring in Syria today. In that time, be it noted, Russia has attacked and invaded no one, Washington's self-serving and false characterizations of events in Crimea not withstanding. Senator John McCain is the poster boy for the nation and freedom destroying cancer of Washington-sponsored aggression. He is the very embodiment of evil with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children on his hands, including the blood of thousands of American soldiers. For Criminal McCain to call anyone else "a thug and a murderer" is a crime against truth and reason, an odious projection of his own faults. He and his fellow war criminals are busily about, preparing for their next wars. For them, it is a "target rich" environment. The occupation of Russia is the ultimate goal.
FJB
http://gatetoliberty.blogspot.com/2017/05/another-memorial-day.html
:: 5-26-17 Hal Lindsey :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Trump vs Terror
By Hal Lindsey
On May 22nd at 10:30 PM local time, an ISIS suicide bomber targeted a Manchester concert audience of mostly teen and pre-teen girls. A few hours later, two unlikely men stood together on a stage in the ancient city of Bethlehem. President Donald Trump of the United States and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas each gave a brief statement before taking questions from the press. “We would like to reassert our willingness,” Abbas said to Trump, “to continue to work with you as partners in fighting terrorism in our region and in the world.” It was the kind of thing Abbas has said to western audiences many times before, and especially to U.S. presidents. But in the past, no president ever publicly called him on it while standing next to him. Quietly, diplomatically — Trump did. Abbas claims to be America’s partner, fighting terrorism in the region. But his government rewards terrorism, terrorists, and the families of terrorists with money and honor. A Palestinian in the region can give financial security to his family by committing a terrorist act. The Abbas government will give his family what they call a “salary” while he remains in prison. That “salary” will be at least as much as the average Palestinian annual wage, and can be four times the average. U.S. taxpayers help fund such “salaries.” If the terrorist dies as a suicide bomber, Abbas and his comrades will not just give money to the family, they will name a town square (perhaps more than one) in the terrorist’s honor. In other words, if the Manchester attack had been perpetrated by Palestinians against Jews, Abbas would have praised the attack, honored the attacker, and given a salary to his family. Abbas does not fight terrorism. He rewards it. He has made “terrorist” a respectable occupation, and the quickest route to fame and glory among his people. He is an enabler and encourager of terrorism. When it was Trump’s turn to speak, he went back to the theme of his speech to Muslim leaders in Riyadh a couple of days earlier. “The terrorists and extremists, and those who give them aid and comfort, must be driven out from our society forever.” The phrase, “those who give them aid and comfort,” seemed to be a direct reference to the Palestinian policy of honoring and supporting terrorists and their families. Later, Trump said something that left no doubt about his concerns regarding the Abbas government. He said, “Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded.” In a Jerusalem Post editorial, Adam Rasgon wrote, “The only problem with Trump’s request is that Abbas almost certainly cannot fulfill it as prisoners and ‘martyrs’ loom large in Palestinian society and the PA president’s popularity is declining.” He’s right. Abbas is too weak to stop paying terrorists’ families. If he did it, his countrymen would rise up in arms against him. That weakness is a problem because any peace agreement would require strong leadership on both sides. The Palestinian leader’s fragility makes a U.S.-brokered peace nearly impossible. Abbas is now in the 15th year of a 5-year term. That makes his leadership completely illegitimate. And the Palestinians know it. 64% now say he should resign. President Trump has been characteristically optimistic about the possibilities of peace. A few weeks ago, when he met Abbas at the White House, the President spoke of brokering a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. “It is something that I think is frankly, maybe, not as difficult as people have thought over the years.” We will see. Real and lasting peace among nations will not arrive on earth until the return of Jesus. But that doesn’t mean we should stop working for peace. We will not be able to achieve ultimate peace, but we should follow the teaching of Jesus and be peacemakers where and when we can. In Matthew 5:9, the Lord said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” He knew our limitations. He knew that humans working for peace would not end all war. But when we work out even a season of peace, it alleviates massive levels of suffering. Avoiding another intifada means saving hundreds or even thousands of lives on both sides. So, we should be peacemakers. But we should do so with humility. Some of the peace efforts of past Presidents have done great harm to both Israelis and Palestinians. They pushed Israel to do more than was fair, right, or safe. They inadvertently encouraged Palestinians to take a tough line. Some previous administrations gave Palestinians the false notion that they would gain more by waiting Israel out, than by honestly seeking peaceful coexistence. In Psalms 122:6, King David wrote, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” We should work for peace here and now. But we should also remember that, ultimately, to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” means to pray for the return of Jesus.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-26-2017/
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Palestinians: Abbas Immediately Breaks Promises to Trump
by Bassam Tawil May 29, 2017 at 4:00 am
Less than 24 hours after the Abbas-Trump meeting in Bethlehem, in which Abbas promised Trump and his representative, Jason Greenblatt, to cease all forms of incitement against Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) government in Ramallah resumed its vicious rhetorical attacks on Israel. The Palestinian denial of Jewish ties and history to the land also continues full blast, despite Abbas's pledge to Trump that Palestinians are not in conflict with Jews or Judaism. Hard on the heels of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's assurances to US President Donald Trump that he is raising Palestinians on a "culture of peace," he continues to glorify terrorists who have Jewish blood on their hands. Abbas, who met with Trump in Bethlehem on May 23, told reporters that he was committed to working with the new US administration to achieve a "historic peace deal with Israel." Abbas also announced his readiness to become a "partner in the war on terrorism in our region and the world." He claimed that he and his Palestinian Authority have been promoting "tolerance and coexistence, and spreading a culture of peace and renouncing violence." Abbas's sweet talk, however, did not last long. Just hours after Trump left the region, Abbas and his PA returned to their anti-Israel incitement. This stands in blinding contrast to what Abbas told Trump and his Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, with whom Abbas met 48 hours after his get-together with Trump in Bethlehem. At a meeting of Fatah leaders in Ramallah on May 25, Abbas described Palestinian prisoners held by Israel as "heroes." His remarks came in response to the hunger strike of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom are serving lengthy terms for murdering or wounding hundreds of Israelis. The hunger strike, which began on April 17, is led by Marwan Barghouti, a senior official with Abbas's Fatah faction who is serving five life terms in prison for his role in a spate of terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada (2000-2005). Referring to the convicted terrorists as "our heroes," Abbas lashed out at the Israeli government for its refusal to surrender to the demands of the hunger strikers. "We will stand with them and support them," Abbas said, referring to the convicted terrorists. "We will emerge triumphant and we won't allow [Israel] to defeat or humiliate the prisoners." Abbas's powerful message flies in the face of his promise to Trump and his representative, Jason Greenblatt, to cease all forms of incitement against Israel. By describing the convicted terrorists as "heroes," Abbas is in fact sending a message to all Palestinians that murdering Jews is a noble and heroic act. Such rhetoric prompts Palestinians to launch terror attacks against Israelis. It is a clear call by Abbas for Palestinians to follow in the footsteps of terrorists and murderers. Is this Abbas's way of promoting a "culture of peace" among his people? Is this his version of encouraging Palestinians to renounce violence? Less than 24 hours after the Abbas-Trump meeting in Bethlehem, in which he promised Trump and envoy Jason Greenblatt to cease all forms of incitement against Israel, the PA government in Ramallah resumed its vicious rhetorical attacks on Israel. The attacks came in response to celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation and unification of Jerusalem. They also came in response to routine and peaceful visits by Jews to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In a statement issued by the Palestinian Authority on May 24 that is reminiscent of a medieval blood libel against Jews, Israel was accused of perpetrating "black crimes" against Jerusalem and Palestinians and of defiling Islamic holy sites in the city. It described the Jews visiting the Temple Mount as "extremist settlers" and falsely claimed that they were deliberately targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque (on the Temple Mount). In fact, Jewish visitors never enter the mosque. It is precisely this kind of rhetoric that drives Palestinians to launch knife and car-ramming attacks against Israelis. For the past year and a half, Abbas and his PA officials and institutions have been waging a poisonous campaign of incitement surrounding peaceful, permitted Jewish visits to the Temple Mount. The incitement has resulted in a wave of terror attacks against Israelis. How does this fit in with promoting peace? Abbas's prime minister, Rami Hamdallah, both before and after the meeting with Trump, has also joined the chorus of glorifying convicted terrorists. In a statement on May 25, Hamdallah, who is often referred to by Westerners as a moderate and pragmatist, stated: "We salute the legendary steadfastness displayed by the knights of freedom, our heroic prisoners." Like his boss, Abbas, Hamdallah also strongly condemned the Israeli government for failing to comply with the hunger strikers' demands, which include increased family visitations, allowing inmates to have a photograph with their families every three months, installing more TV channels and air conditioning in their cells, and increased access to university studies. Hamdallah and Abbas are sending precisely the same message to the Palestinians: if you murder a Jew, you earn the title of "knight of freedom." In other words, Hamdallah, too, is urging Palestinians to engage in acts of violence against Israelis. One wonders exactly how Abbas and his officials will explain these statements to Trump and the U.S. Administration. Experience has shown that the glorification of terrorism and jihad (holy war) only serves to encourage more Palestinians to take to the streets and stab or run over with their cars the first Jew they see. The Palestinian denial of Jewish ties and history to the land also continues full blast, despite Abbas's pledge to Trump that Palestinians are not in conflict with Jews or Judaism. Hours after Trump left the region, Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, issued a statement that pointedly ignored any Jewish links to the land. "East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the eternal capital of the State of Palestine," Abu Rudaineh announced. Note his deliberate omission of any reference to Jewish holy sites in the city. This is neither a slip of the tongue nor a poorly-worded statement on the part of Abbas's spokesman. Rather, it is an intentional denial of Jewish rights to Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, which Palestinians refer to as an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and claim has no significance to Jews. This has always been part of the Palestinian strategy -- to deny Jewish rights and to delegitimize Israel. Like his boss, Abbas, however, Abu Rudaineh seems to have a good sense of humor. He has called on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to "stop his daily incitement against Palestinians and their leaders." And what is the content of Netanyahu's "incitement"? His statement that a united Jerusalem will remain the undivided capital of Israel. In the view of Abbas's spokesperson, such a statement is clear "incitement" -- not the glorification of terrorists, not the incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric and not the continued denial of Jewish history and rights. President Trump's visit to Israel proved to be yet another opportunity for Abbas and his Palestinian Authority to practice once again their skills of deceit and deception. In English, everything sounds great. In Arabic, however, the messages sent by Abbas to his people take on the unmistakable ring of hate. Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10433/abbas-trump-promises
:: 5-29-17 The Washington Times :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Trump marks first Memorial Day as president with ceremony at Arlington
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Monday, May 29, 2017
President Trump marked his first Memorial Day as commander in chief Monday, placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and paying his respects at the grave of the son of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly. The audience at the cemetery’s amphitheater gave sustained applause and cheers to an appreciative Mr. Trump in his first public appearance since returning from his first foreign trip. The president paid tribute to America’s fallen service members as “angels sent to us by God.” “To every Gold Star family, God is with you, and your loved ones are with him,” Mr. Trump said. “They died in wars so that we could live in peace. Every time you see the sun rise over this blessed land, please know your brave sons and daughters pushed away the night and delivered for us all that great and glorious dawn.” He paid special tribute to three Gold Star families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan, including Mr. Kelly, whose Marine son Robert was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. “They all share one title — and that is the title of ‘hero.’ Their legacy will endure forever,” Mr. Trump said. The president also cited Spec. Christopher Horton, killed in a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan in 2011, and Maj. Andrew Byers, a member of the Green Berets who died in He paid special tribute to three Gold Star families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan, including Mr. Kelly, whose Marine son Robert was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. “They all share one title — and that is the title of ‘hero.’ Their legacy will endure forever,” Mr. Trump said. The president also cited Spec. Christopher Horton, killed in a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan in 2011, and Maj. Andrew Byers, a member of the Green Berets who died in battle against the Taliban in 2016. The president said Maj. Byers was killed braving gunfire to save fellow soldiers, and he told the soldier’s parents, “We stand in awe of your son and his courageous sacrifice.” Mr. Trump is facing a decision soon whether to approve the Pentagon’s recommendation to send another 5,000 troops to Afghanistan. The current U.S. force of about 9,000 is assisting Afghan security forces and waging counterterrorism operations. President Barack Obama initially had planned to withdraw all U.S. troops by early this year, but decided against the move as the Taliban and other Islamist militias have made gains. The president also praised the heroism of troops deployed on counterterrorism missions. “Today a new generation of American patriots are fighting to win the battle against terrorism, risking their lives to protect our citizens from an enemy that uses the murder of innocents to wage war on humanity itself,” he said. After his speech, Mr. Trump stopped his motorcade at Section 60 in the cemetery, which holds the graves of 890 soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. There he met with families of the fallen and carried a bouquet of flowers to the grave of 2nd Lt. Robert Kelly. The president and Vice President Mike Pence stood with the Kelly family at the grave for several moments, chatting in reverence while onlookers remained silent. As the president departed the grave site, some families broke into applause. Among those in attendance were Defense Secretary James Mattis, Mr. Pence and former Sens. Bob and Elizabeth Dole. Mr. Dole, a veteran of World War II, will turn 94 in a few weeks. Mr. Mattis, a retired Marine general like Mr. Kelly, told Gold Star families that the “fighting spirit” of their loved ones persists. “Passed down through the ranks, their spirit echoes in those who serve today, in the air, on land and at sea,” Mr. Mattis said. “To the families of the fallen, both here and at home, no words will ease your pain. But I beg you, let it have meaning. Unite your sorrow to their awesome purpose.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/29/donald-trump-marks-first-memorial-day-president-ce/
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Car Bombs Kill 27 In Central Baghdad, Officials Say
Last Updated: May 30, 2017 09:38 GMT
Two car bombs have killed at least 27 people in Baghdad and wounded more than 100 others, officials say. The Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed responsibility for a blast that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more just after midnight at a popular ice-cream parlor in the Iraqi capital's commercial Karrada district. Women and children were among the victims. In a second attack, a car bomb exploded near one of the capital's main bridges in the morning, killing 11 people and wounding scores, the officials said. IS issued a statement claiming responsibility for the first attack, identifying the bomber as an Iraqi who blew up an explosives-rigged vehicle targeting Shi'ite Muslims. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the second attack. The blasts come just a few days into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which Iraqis often stay out late shopping or socializing after breaking their daily fast. IS considers members of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority to be heretics and frequently carries out attacks against them. Karrada was hit by a massive truck bomb in July 2016 that killed at least 324 people, the deadliest attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that drove Saddam Hussein from power in 2003.
Based on reporting by Reuters, AP, AFP, and dpa
https://www.rferl.org/a/iraq-baghdad-car-bomb-ramadan/28518207.html
:: 5-29-17 Chrmisma :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
President Trump's Most Important Message to NATO Wasn't About Money
7:00AM EDT 5/29/2017 George Rasley/Conservative HQ Editor
Claiming that President Trump "chastised" America's NATO allies for not spending more on defense, the establishment media has emphasized what is perhaps the least important aspect of the President's recent speech in Brussels. While it is true that President Trump made the point that, "Over the last eight years, the United States spent more on defense than all other NATO countries combined." And: "We should recognize that with these chronic underpayments and growing threats, even 2 percent of GDP is insufficient to close the gaps in modernizing, readiness, and the size of forces. We have to make up for the many years lost. Two percent is the bare minimum for confronting today's very real and very vicious threats. If NATO countries made their full and complete contributions, then NATO would be even stronger than it is today, especially from the threat of terrorism." The most important part of his speech was not the part where he played bill collector for America's hard-pressed taxpayers. It was where he delivered the same message to the European leaders that he delivered a few days before in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to the leaders of Muslim majority nations: "The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration ..." President Trump's point to the leaders of NATO countries, particularly German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, was that their immigration policies facilitated jihad through terrorism. The president's point making the connection between Muslim immigration and terrorism could not have been lost on Macron, Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May, all of whom bear some responsibility for the terrorist attacks in their countries because they have failed to aggressively defend their borders from jihadi invaders posing as refugees and immigrants. However, terrorism isn't the only, or even the most effective, weapon Islamists have deployed to undermine America and American values; the export of Sharia through cultural jihad and the doctrine of hijra—invasion through immigration—have been much more effective rendering many parts of France, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom into "no go zones" for the police and especially Western women. The message "The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration ..." is no different than the message President Trump delivered to the Muslim heads of state, where he pointedly told them they must drive jihadis out of their countries and religious institutions. And President Trump made another interesting point that has not been covered by the establishment media: The leaders of the Middle East have agreed at this unprecedented meeting to stop funding the radical ideology that leads to this horrible terrorism all over the globe. This promise, if it is acted upon by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and other Muslim majority countries that are known to have funded or encouraged jihad, really is an unprecedented development. As we pointed out in our article about President Trump's meetings and remarks in Saudi Arabia, for too long the Saudis have been allowed to be both arsonist and fireman—spending billions to build mosques and fund preachers who promote Sharia-supremacy and then claiming to be opposed to Islamist terrorism. In our analysis of President Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia we said there was one key point that was missing from the president's public remarks that we hope he made behind the closed doors of his meetings with the Saudis and other leaders of Muslim-majority countries: We know you are behind, support, and fund Salafism and the ideology of cultural jihad preached in the Quran and we will no longer turn a blind eye to what you are doing. From the president's remarks to the NATO heads of state it appears that, in his private meetings in Saudi Arabia he not only made that point, but he also got a commitment for it to stop. Will the Saudis really stop exporting Salafism? We have our doubts, however, President Trump appears to have received a paradigm-shifting commitment from the Saudis and perhaps other Muslim-majority nations to stop exporting jihad, now it is up to the Europeans to do their part by joining Trump in making sure the NATO of the future includes a greater focus on terrorism and immigration. George Rasley is editor of Richard Vigueirie's ConservtiveHQ.
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Egyptian Children Refuse to Renounce Christian Faith, Killed by Muslims
News: World News by Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • May 28, 2017
Pope Francis is calling them martyrs
Among the victims of ISIS' recent attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt were a number of children, killed for refusing to renounce the Faith. Friday, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a bus of Christian pilgrims heading towards St. Samuel Monastery in Minya province south of Cairo. French media is now reporting that the ISIS militants asked each passenger to renounce his Christian faith, and when they refused, they were gunned down. According to Agence France Presse, survivors of the attack recount, "The masked men ordered the Christians going to the monastery to step out of the bus and abjure their faith." "They asked them to renounce their Christian faith, one by one, but all of them refused," said Fr. Rashed, the priest accompanying the pilgrims. "Then the armed men coldly killed them by shooting them in the head." Pope Francis is calling them martyrs. "May the Lord welcome these courageous witnesses, these martyrs, in his peace and convert the hearts of the violent ones," he said Sunday from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square. The day before, the Holy Father prayed for the victims and said there are more Christian martyrs today than in the times of the Early Church.
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After School Satanist Club Wages War on the Bible Belt of America and They’re Coming For The Children
By Nate Brown - 05/23/2017
The satanic temple is coming for the Bible Belt, and they’re gunning for the children. Through an organization called the After School Satan Club, the satanic temple is attempting to sway the minds of the youth into satanism. Children are vital to the continuation of the Christian faith, and as if cultural, ideological subversion wasn’t bad enough for them, Satan wants to place pressure on their minds after school. Several locations around America have fallen victim to weak local governance and in turn, have started to see the satanic organization spread into the minds of the youth. However, now the satanic temple is coming after the Bible Belt; A new religious program led by Satanists is pushing to expand into the Bible Belt this Fall. It’s called the After School Satan Club and instead of worship, it teaches activism. Instead of God, it teaches evolution, rationalism and free inquiry. But residents in Shreveport call it evil. Arturo Alderete said, “I think kids at that age shouldn’t be involved with that kind of stuff you know. It doesn’t sound too good to me.” Stacy McDonald agreed calling the after school program, “terrible.” Jaqeline Jackson added, “Some kids will take it too far and do different things that is not nice to other people.” KTBS-3 checked with school districts in Caddo, Bossier and Texarkana, Texas. District spokesperson’s confirm no application has been made with its respective school districts. But do confirm after school satan club’s won’t be banned. A huge concern for parents, who are watching the program gain traction. “Well we should learn about Satan, but we should learn about the truth. The fact is he’s a liar and he can’t tell the truth and he’s all out for killing, stealing, and distruction. There’s nothing good about anything he does and he’s not any good for anybody unless they want to be like him.” said Kelly McCabe. – Read More We, at the Christian Truther have been tracking the satanic organizations movements for the last couple of years, to the best of our ability, and the exponential growth is rather alarming, see the trend here.
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With Warnings Of 'Much Worse To Come', Are Our Enemies Preparing To Use 'Food As A Weapon' Against America?
The 'Vicious Cycle' Lives On As Cowardly Warnings Of 'It Has Only Just Begun' Ring Out
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die May 23, 2017
On the very same day the horrific and cowardly terrorist attack upon Manchester Arena in England took place, the story over at the Independent that the Drudge Report linked to on Monday reported ISIS terrorists have been testing chemical weapons upon human guinea pigs in what experts believe is a plot to contaminate Western food supplies. Experimenting with formulas that quickly dissolve in liquid with which they can poison food with, we quite literally see food being used as a weapon as the sickening story reports, the terrorists have used these poisons to kill their 'human guinea pigs' already. Claiming to have found 'the ideal, lethal poison', this Newsweek story reports ISIS is creating an 'elite chemical weapons cell' in the area near the border of Iraq and Syria with one expert claiming we're witnessing a throw back to the 1940's Nazi Germany. Chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told The Times: "This is a horrifying throwback to the Nazis who would test nerve agents on live humans. During the Second World War, the Nazis conducted thousands of deadly experiments with mustard gas on prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin.” In this new story from Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit he reports that back in November, ISIS released a video with explicit instructions on how to make a home made bomb. The surreal screenshot from that video seen below is probably a far cry from what most Americans think of when they imagine ISIS creating bombs. And with recent warnings from their members that 'Manchester was only the beginning' and 'what comes next will be even worse', we can only imagine the carnage that one deranged extremist in the right career field could do to a restaurant full of diners or a grocery store full of food should they be given the right opportunity. According to this new story from Mac Slavo over at SHTFPlan, all of these recent stories from the MSM on ISIS poisoning our food supply should be looked at with alarm, especially now considering the attack of Monday night and the total meltdown mode the 'deep state', the DNC and MSM are in over the Seth Rich story. We've long been concerned that prior to allowing themselves to go down, 'the elite' will bring down a whole lot of people with them. Anybody else paying attention to what the 'Russian boogeyman' is distracting 'the masses' from? From Slavo: These stories support a new narrative being pushed by the media and our government. They’ve been saying the same thing for several weeks now: As the Islamic State crumbles, ISIS is morphing back into an underground organization that will focus less on holding territory, and more on conducting insidious terror attacks in the West. When you examine these stories together, and consider the fact that our government has been secretly helping ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria for years, we have to ask ourselves a very important question. Is the mainstream media priming the public for a major chemical weapons attack on the West; an attack that our government may be complicit in? Because it sure looks like they’re telling us to expect a chemical attack in the near future. ISIS is clearly a creation of the deep state, who are also desperately trying to co-opt President Trump’s administration. They want him to drag our country into yet another major war in the Middle East. And if their ISIS puppets pull off this kind of attack, they might just convince him to follow the warpath that they have laid out for him. In this new story from the Daily Caller they report that ISIS recently called upon their followers to 'hunt their prey' in the UK soon before the concert bombing. Earlier in May, ISIS magazine implored their followers to 'lure and kill unsuspecting people with false advertisements for jobs and apartments', quite literally putting millions of totally unsuspecting people in possible harms way. Just imagine responding to an advertisement for a job or an apartment and being met by a machete wielding psychopath screaming 'allahu akbar' instead. Giving us another reason to be very careful about strangers who we're meeting with even if it appears to be for a legitimate reason, such threats by terrorists have a way of reminding us to be vigilant at all times. There are unfortunately a lot of very bad people out there who want to do us harm simply for our religious beliefs or because we don't think like they do or because they've bought into the devil's ways. As this story over at the Daily Mail reports, ISIS followers celebrated the cowardly bombing that took far too many lives, showing us once again that 'free humanity' is dealing with the worst of the worst - those who celebrate the taking of the lives of the innocent. And as this new story from Slavo over at SHTFPlan reports, this despicable bombing could have possibly been stopped with alleged warnings posted to Twitter hours before the bombing that 'an incident' would occur. Slavo's story also reminds us why we here in America and those living in the UK and elsewhere in the 'free world' need to remain vigilant - a massive 'trojan horse' invasion has been allowed to occur in the West. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility, saying that a soldier of their Kaliphate was directly involved: “With Allah’s grace and support, a soldier of the Khilafah managed to place explosive devices in the midst of the gatherings of the Crusaders in the British city of Manchester, in revenge for Allah’s religion, in an endeavor to terrorize the mushrikin, and in response to their transgressions against the land of the Muslims. The explosive devices were detonated in the shameless concert arena, resulting in 30 Crusaders being killed and 70 others being wounded. And what comes next will be more severe on the worshipers of the Cross and their allies, by Allah’s permission. And all praises due to Allah, Lord of the creation.” Now, just hours after the incident, it has been revealed by numerous mainstream reports that a member of the Islamic State made a threat approximately four hours before the explosion that killed at least 22 people. According to Express UK and Huffington Post, a user by the name of ‘owys663’ (now suspended) posted a Tweet in which he specifically identified Manchester as a terror target utilizing hashtags. That the Islamic State has claimed responsibility and that it is possible that the now suspended Islamic State twitter account posted this tweet ahead of time indicates significant coordination and planning. With 3,500 Islamic terrorists reportedly living in the United Kingdom, and with Islamic State actively working to develop chemical weapons of mass destruction, it appears that this is, indeed, just the beginning. While the first video below takes a look at the alleged new threats by ISIS upon the Western food supply, Britain's Nigel Farage joins Fox News Tucker Carlson in the 2nd video in which he claims the cowardly bombing on Monday night which was directly targeting England's youth marks a new low in all forms of terrorism. With ISIS now saying the brutal murders Monday will be "followed up by vehicle attacks in your streets", we see the 'trojan horse invasion' of America that President Trump spoke of as a candidate a warning to us all in 2017. As President Donald Trump recently stated during his speech on terrorism to Islamic nations, “the deadliest toll has been extracted from the innocent people of Arab and Muslim nations.” The optimism of the region, he said, was “held at bay by bloodshed and terror.” And he added: “There can be no co-existence with this violence.” Once again, we see the worst of the worst attacking the innocent. President Trump's words are proven in this brand new story out of the Philippines as Islamic extremists, backed by ISIS, take partial control over the town of Marawi, leading to countless deaths, power outages, complete chaos and a war zone where no one was expecting there to be one. Once again, the innocent people of Marawi are being terrorized by those holding extremist and evil beliefs. While Philippines president Duterte has been forced to impose martial law on the entire southern region for at least 60 days as heard in the final video below, with the 'trojan horse invasion' of America that was allowed to take place over the past 8 years, imagine an American city such as Detroit under the same kind of seige by those who hate America and are already here within. According to this new story over at Reuters, countries all over the world will be increasing security at major cultural and sports events following the Manchester bombing with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security specifically warning that Americans may also experience more security at public events. The vicious cycle lives on.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Will_ISIS_Terrorize_Our_Food.php
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WATCH: Here's a Montage of Democrats Confirming They Have ZERO Evidence Trump Colluded with Russia
posted by Hannity.com Staff - 3 days ago
As the liberal left continues its desperate witch-hunt against Donald Trump and his presidency, let’s not forget that it was democratic leaders THEMSELVES that confirmed there wasn’t a single-shred of evidence connecting the Trump campaign to Russia. Alt-left activists and lawmakers have been calling for the President’s impeachment since his inauguration last January. Their main reason: collusion. The only problem is that not a single member of Congress has seen anything implicating the Trump team worked with Russia, and they know it. “We did not include any evidence in our report –and I say our that’s NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office, the director of national intelligence- that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians, there was no evidence of that included in our report,” said the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “Have you see anything in either intelligence briefings, anything, to back up any of the accusations that you’ve made?” a reporter asked Maxine Waters. “No we have not,” she responded. "There's an awful lot of smoke there, let's put it that way," said Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. "People that might have said they were involved, to what extent they were involved, to what extent the president might have known about these people or whatever, there is nothing there from that standpoint that we have seen directly linking our president to any of that." Watch democratic leaders CONFIRM they have ZERO evidence above.
http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/watch-heres-a-montage-of-democrats-15852024/
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Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives
A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.
Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the Ancestry.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. According to these legal contracts, you still own your DNA, but so does Ancestry.com. The family history website Ancestry.com is selling a new DNA testing service called AncestryDNA. But the DNA and genetic data that Ancestry.com collects may be used against “you or a genetic relative.” According to its privacy policies, Ancestry.com takes ownership of your DNA forever. Your ownership of your DNA, on the other hand, is limited in years. It seems obvious that customers agree to this arrangement, since all of them must “click here to agree” to these terms. But, how many people really read those contacts before clicking to agree? And how many relatives of Ancestry.com customers are also reading? There are three significant provisions in the AncestryDNA Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to consider on behalf of yourself and your genetic relatives: (1) the perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide license to use your DNA; (2) the warning that DNA information may be used against “you or a genetic relative”; (3) your waiver of legal rights. 1. Perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to use your DNA AncestryDNA, a service of Ancestry.com, owns the “World’s Largest Consumer DNA Database” that contains the DNA of more than 3 million people. The AncestryDNA service promises to, “uncover your ethnic mix, discover distant relatives, and find new details about your unique family history with a simple DNA test.” For the price of $99 dollars and a small saliva sample, AncestryDNA customers get an analysis of their genetic ethnicity and a list of potential relatives identified by genetic matching. Ancestry.com, on the other hand, gets free ownership of your genetic information forever. Technically, Ancestry.com will own your DNA even after you’re dead. Specifically, by submitting DNA to AncestryDNA, you agree to “grant AncestryDNA and the Ancestry Group Companies a perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide, transferable license to use your DNA, and any DNA you submit for any person from whom you obtained legal authorization as described in this Agreement, and to use, host, sublicense and distribute the resulting analysis to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered.” Basically, Ancestry.com gets to use or distribute your DNA for any research or commercial purpose it decides and doesn’t have to pay you, or your heirs, a dime. Furthermore, Ancestry.com takes this royalty-free license in perpetuity (for all time) and can distribute the results of your DNA tests anywhere in the world and with any technology that exists, or will ever be invented. With this single contractual provision, customers are granting Ancestry.com the broadest possible rights to own and exploit their genetic information. The AncestryDNA terms also requires customers to confirm that, “You understand that by providing any DNA to us, you acquire no rights in any research or commercial products that may be developed by AncestryDNA that may relate to or otherwise embody your DNA.” Essentially, you still own your DNA, but so does Ancestry.com. And, you can commercialize your own DNA for money, but Ancestry.com is also allowed to monetize your DNA for millions of dollars and doesn’t have to compensate you. Although AncestryDNA customers provide voluntary consent to have their DNA used in commercial research projects, customers are free to withdraw consent, with a few exceptions. First, “data cannot be withdrawn from research already in progress or completed, or from published results and findings.” In those cases, Ancestry.com has access to data about you indefinitely. Secondly, if a customer withdraws their consent, Ancestry.com will take 30 days to cease using their data for research. Finally, withdrawing consent, “will not result in destruction of your DNA Sample or deletion of your Data from AncestryDNA products and services, unless you direct us otherwise.” Customers must jump through additional hoops if they want their DNA sample destroyed or their data deleted from AncestryDNA products and services. The Ancestry.com policy does not specify what “additional steps” are required. U.S. customers must contact Ancestry.com customer service at 1–800–958–9124 to find out. (Customers outside the United States must call separate customer service numbers.) 2. Warning that DNA information may be used against “you or a genetic relative” The Ancestry.com DNA testing service promises to analyze approximately 700,000 genetic markers. According to Ancestry.com, the service, “combines advanced DNA science with the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections.” The results of an AncestryDNA analysis include information about “ethnicity across 26 regions/ethnicities and identifies potential relatives through DNA matching to others who have taken the AncestryDNA test.” AncestryDNA claims to use the “latest autosomal testing technology” to produce genetic identity reports and can combine the test results with “the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections.” In addition, AncestryDNA offers a genetic code profiling and matching service, advertising that “AncestryDNA can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of DNA matches.” This raises a thorny issue that Ancestry.com has not resolved: your exact DNA profile is unique to you, but a substantial portion of your DNA is identical to your relatives. Thus, Ancestry.com is able to take DNA from its customers and also their relatives. Even if you’ve never used Ancestry.com, but one of your genetic relatives has, the company may already own identifiable portions of your DNA. The personal “Genetic Data” collected by Ancestry.com includes “information derived from processing your DNA Sample through genomic, molecular, and computational analyses using various technologies, such as genotyping and whole or partial genome sequencing. Genetic Data is broader than just the results delivered to you when you use the AncestryDNA test and includes a range of DNA markers such as those associated with your health or other conditions.” In short, Ancestry.com holds genetic data that reveals your health and other conditions. Genetic diseases are disorders caused by abnormalities in a person’s DNA and are divided into three categories: single-gene disorders, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and Huntington’s disease, result from the mutation of the protein of a single gene; chromosome abnormalities, such as Down Syndrome, are caused by disorders of the whole chromosome; and multifactorial disorders, including breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, develop from mutations in multiple genes, often coupled with environmental causes. Genomics play a role in nine out of the top ten leading causes of death in the U.S., including cancer, heart disease, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, influenza and pneumonia, septicemia, and kidney disease. Buried in the “Informed Consent” section, which is incorporated into the Terms of Service, Ancestry.com warns customers, “it is possible that information about you or a genetic relative could be revealed, such as that you or a relative are carriers of a particular disease. That information could be used by insurers to deny you insurance coverage, by law enforcement agencies to identify you or your relatives, and in some places, the data could be used by employers to deny employment.” This is a massive red flag. The data “you or a genetic relative” give to AncestryDNA could be used against “you or a genetic relative” by employers, insurers, and law enforcement. For example, a young woman named Theresa Morelli applied for individual disability insurance, consented to release of her medical records through the Medical Information Bureau (a credit reporting agency for medical history), and was approved for coverage. One month later, Morelli’s coverage was cancelled and premiums refunded when the insurer learned her father had Huntington’s disease, a genetic illness. Startlingly, the Medical Information Bureau (MIB) used Morelli’s broad consent to query her father’s physician, a doctor with whom she had no prior patient relationship. More importantly, the applicant herself wasn’t diagnosed with Huntington’s carrier status, but she suffered exclusion on the basis of a genetic predisposition in her family. Under a 1995 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, the MIB and its members are required to comply with consumer protections of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Much like financial credit reports, all consumers are entitled to a free annual copy of their “medical report” file from the Medical Information Bureau (MIB). If the consumer discovers an error in her MIB medical credit report file, she must mail a letter to the MIB to begin the dispute process. Federal laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), contain protections that prohibit health insurers from requiring, using, and analyzing genetic information in health care coverage decisions. However, both laws contain glaring exceptions that allow for genetic discrimination in certain industries. Notably, no federal laws regulate the use of genetic information, genetic testing, and genetic discrimination for life insurance companies, long-term care insurers, and employers. An Ancestry.com DNA test is the impetus of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Sergeant Cleon Brown, a white police officer in Hastings, Michigan against his employer, the Hastings Police Department, and several city employees. Curious about his own family history, Brown purchased an AncestryDNA genetic test and analysis report. The results surprised him Ancestry.com said his DNA was 18 percent sub-Saharan African. Brown “proudly told his colleagues at the police department” about his African ancestry. But not long after that, “his elation turned into misery.” According to Sergeant Brown’s complaint, his colleagues at the police department, “started whispering ‘Black Lives Matter’ while pumping their fists as they walked” past Brown. The complaint also alleges that the former mayor of Hastings participated in the racist teasing, by telling Brown a joke containing racist slurs. “I just never thought it would be in Hastings, saying, like, racist comments to me,” Brown said to the New York Times. In his lawsuit, Brown, a military veteran who has worked in law enforcement for 20 years, is seeking $500,000 in damages. The Ancestry.com Terms of Service also warns that genetic information in its possession can be used by state or federal law enforcement agencies “to identify you or your relatives.” With the rise of forensic evidence in criminal investigations, DNA is often considered incontrovertible evidence. To propel the use of DNA evidence in criminal investigations and prosecutions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operates the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database. The CODIS DNA database, created and maintained by the FBI, consists of the following three levels of information: local DNA Index Systems (LDIS) where DNA profiles originate; state DNA Index Systems (SDIS) which allows for laboratories within states to share information; and the National DNA Index System (NDIS) which allows states to compare DNA information with one another. According to reports, the FBI’s CODIS software connects disparate databases including, arrestees, missing persons, convicted offenders, and forensic samples collected from crime scenes. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, federal law enforcement, the Army Laboratory, and Puerto Rico participate in national sharing of DNA profiles through the CODIS system. However, the FBI DNA database is not infallible. In 2015, the FBI said it discovered flawed data after it commissioned a study to retest DNA samples. In a bulletin sent to crime labs across the United States, the FBI surmised that DNA data errors were probably due to “clerical mistakes in transcriptions of the genotypes and to limitations of the old technology and software.” The FBI suspects that errors in DNA may go back as far as 1999. 3. Waiver of legal rights Are “you or a genetic relative” a customer of AncestryDNA? If so, Ancestry.com now has control over the DNA of “you or a genetic relative.” Should the warnings from Ancestry.com come to pass, and DNA information about “you or a genetic relative” is used against “you or a genetic relative” by any employer, insurer, or law enforcement, then “you or a genetic relative” have very limited legal rights. In its sales contract, Ancestry.com takes no responsibility. By consenting to the AncestryDNA Terms and Conditions, “you or a genetic relative” agree to hold the company harmless for any damages that AncestryDNA may cause unintentionally or purposefully. If “you or a genetic relative” are “dissatisfied with any portion of the Websites or the Services, or with any clause of these terms, as your sole and exclusive remedy you may discontinue using the Websites and the Services.” The only option for unhappy customers is to stop using AncestryDNA. In the event you or your genetic information cause harm, you agree to “defend, indemnify and hold harmless AncestryDNA, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees).” And customers beware, “you may be liable to others as well as to us if your account is used in violation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.” That means you could end up owing money to Ancestry.com, its attorneys, and others. The final indignity for Ancestry.com customers is that they must waive fundamental legal rights by agreeing to mandatory binding arbitration. With the exception of intellectual property rights disputes and certain small claims, Ancestry.com customers must pursue their disputes through arbitration, rather than court. In arbitration, the established legal rules of discovery, evidence, and trial by jury do not exist. Finally, if many AncestryDNA customers want to join together to file a lawsuit against Ancestry.com, they are prohibited. But in fairness, Ancestry.com similarly prohibits itself from joining with a bunch of others to file a class action lawsuit against you. By agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, “you and AncestryDNA agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative action.” These arbitration provisions survive even if you cancel your AncestryDNA account. However, for good measure, Ancestry.com notes that, “this arbitration agreement does not preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state, or local agencies. Such agencies can, if the law allows, seek relief against us on your behalf.” 4. Conclusion To use the AncestryDNA service, customers must consent to the Ancestry.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. These are binding legal contracts between the customer and Ancestry.com. The most egregious of these terms gives Ancestry.com a free license to exploit your DNA for the rest of time. Customers must understand that turning over their DNA means a loss of complete ownership and control. Ancestry.com customers should also know they’re giving up the genetic privacy of themselves and their relatives. Before purchasing, individuals are advised to fully read and consider the Ancestry.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you become a customer, Ancestry.com owns your DNA for life and longer. Joel Winston, Esq. is a New York-based attorney specializing in consumer protection law and commercial litigation. He also provides data privacy and regulatory compliance counsel to technology entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures. Joel is a former deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey and previously served the Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustee, in Manhattan.
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Gorka: President Trump Understands ‘We’ve Got to Destroy the Ideology of Jihadism If We’re Going to Win’
by John Hayward22 May 2017
Deputy Assistant to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka, formerly National Security editor for Breitbart News, was a guest on Breitbart News Sunday with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam. Gorka said one of the most important points to stress about President Trump’s trip to the Middle East is that it’s not an “apology tour,” as his predecessor President Obama’s tour of the Middle East has been derisively described. In particular, he said President Trump’s address to the leaders of Muslim nations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday was “completely different” from President Obama’s famous (or infamous) speech in Cairo in 2009. “You actually had the Muslim Brotherhood sitting in the front row, let’s remember that, at the beginning of apology tour,” Gorka said of Obama’s speech. Kassam noted President Trump used the words “terror” and “terrorism” 31 times in his speech, versus Gorka’s count of “zero” mentions by President Obama. “He did talk about Iran. He did talk about the threat of Shia terrorism,” Gorka said of Trump’s remarks. “But he was also explicit — he was talking to a room full of Sunni Arab leaders, and he said that ‘you must drive the terrorists out of your places of worship, out of your community.’” “I think it’s not a fair summation to say that it was of one side, with regard to who the terrorists are,” he said. “The bottom line is, everybody who’s been suffering — in the intelligence community, law enforcement, the military — with years and years of censorship, of political correctness, must be celebrating tonight. Because what else did he say? Unequivocally, this is a battle between good and evil,” Gorka said. He was enthusiastic that a “stake has been put through the heart” of “postmodern relativism” and “the secular interpretation of ‘Jobs for Jihadis,’” a reference to the Obama administration’s notorious contention that a good jobs program for terrorist recruits would help to defeat the Islamic State. Kassam expressed skepticism that tougher rhetoric, or measures such as a much-touted effort to cut off terrorist financing, would be game-changers. “The proof will be in what actually happens afterward,” Gorka promised. “I’ve always said the issue of terrorism financing is not a panacea. The terrorists need money to do what they do, but at the end of the day, look at the attack in Nice. You can rent a truck, steal a truck, and kill almost a hundred people. It’s part of the solution, but not the solution alone.” “With regards to counter-message, we need to have governments involved,” he continued. “We must have countries like Saudi Arabia that are home to Mecca and Medina, and Egypt which has the Al-Azhar, which is the most important theological institution in the Sunni world — they must be part of the solution.” “But I will say that it’s often non-governmental counter-messaging that is more effective,” he added. “It’s good to have this stuff, just to have this commitment, but there are already thousands of Muslims who are on our side, risking their lives every day on their blogs, in the media, pushing back on the jihadis. Those individuals must be supported as well, because at the end of the day it’s not a kinetic challenge. It’s not just about killing terrorists. Like Ronald Reagan, Maggie, St. John Paul II, we’ve got to destroy the ideology of jihadism if we’re going to win.” Kassam noted that many Americans are uncomfortable with the United States relying on Saudi Arabia, home to many of the 9/11 attackers, as a partner in the struggle against terrorism. “There are trends, there were historic events, individuals that were linked to Saudi Arabia,” Gorka acknowledged. “But to say the whole government, the whole administration is culpable — no, it was al-Qaeda.” “Let’s not take the culpability, let’s not take the responsibility away from the individuals that did that act,” he urged. “Al-Qaeda wasn’t a product of the Saudi regime. Al-Qaeda was created by a Jordanian individual called Abdullah Azzam, when he built something called the Arab Services Bureau in the 1980s to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and hired an individual called Osama bin Laden to be his Number Two.” “Let’s be factual about where the threat comes from. State sponsorship of terrorism is still a problem. Look at the reception the president was given by the Saudi authorities. It’s clear that there are new winds blowing out of Riyadh as we speak,” he said. Gorka would not take it upon himself to say whether President Trump misspoke, or made a calculated decision to alter the speech, when he spoke of “Islamic terrorism” instead of “Islamist terrorism,” as the transcript stipulated. “I will allow the president to speak for himself. He knows very well what he’s saying, when he’s saying it,” Gorka said. “I think the important thing that he said is, ‘We are going to defeat the terrorists and send their wicked ideology into oblivion.’ Let’s take those words to the bank.” Looking forward to the rest of President Trump’s trip, Gorka’s advice was: “Hold on to your hats, because this trip is going to be an incredible success.” “Next it’s going to be Israel, then the Vatican, then the meeting of the advanced nations and NATO. You ain’t seen nothing yet, Raheem,” he promised.
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etc. But it is a very, very dark hour, a very wicked hour, a very evil hour with much going on every day, every moment of the day. You see it not maybe here in the sense that others are seeing it around the world. But I say unto you, open your spiritual eyes, open your spiritual eyes, see, see, see what is taking place. etc..
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3,000 jihadis on the streets of Britain: Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of radicalised men and women in their teens
More than 3,000 jihadis are in the UK, stretching the country’s security services
Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of suspects
Some 850 Britons are thought to have gone abroad to fight for the Islamic State
Up to 30 officers required to provide 24-hour monitoring of just one suspect
By Ian Drury Home Affairs Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 19:13 EDT, 23 May 2017 | Updated: 22:00 EDT, 23 May 2017
More than 3,000 jihadis are in the UK – stretching the country’s security services to breaking point. Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of suspects, mainly radicalised men and women in their teens and early 20s. About 850 Britons are thought to have gone abroad to fight with so-called Islamic State as they took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. But with the terror group being pushed out, extremists with British passports are fleeing back to the UK where authorities fear they may unleash a new wave of attacks. Although more than 100 have been killed, around half have returned home with battle experience and training in the use of explosives and firearms. The security services have also foiled at least 13 planned attacks in the past four years, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer, Acting Deputy Met Commissioner Mark Rowley, has revealed. The figures lay bare the scale of the terror threat facing the country from extremists. The flood of new jihadists is stretching the UK’s security services to breaking point, with up to 30 officers required to provide 24-hour monitoring of just one suspect. Restricted resources mean MI5 can watch around 50 terror suspects around the clock. As well as sophisticated plots to bomb transport hubs and shopping centres, jihadists in the UK are being groomed – often online – to carry out ‘lone wolf’ attacks using knives and vehicles. A chilling report also revealed that the wives and children of Islamic State fighters in Syria could be brainwashed into carrying out attacks after returning to Britain. Europol, the EU’s police intelligence agency, said many posed a grave danger because they had been radicalised and desensitised to extreme violence. In 2016-17, there were 380 terrorism-related arrests in the UK, compared to 307 in the previous 12 months – a rise of nearly 25 per cent. Anti-terror police stepped up arrests after Muslim convert Khalid Masood killed four pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in March before stabbing a police officer to death. Meanwhile, in the past three years there were 386 terror-related convictions, according to figures from Scotland Yard. Donald Trump led international condemnation of the Manchester atrocity by branding bomber Salman Abedi an ‘evil loser’. President Trump told Theresa May in a phone call that the US stood in solidarity with Britain following the massacre which killed at least 22 people. He offered Mrs May assistance in the investigation and they agreed the targeting of children at a concert was ‘particularly wanton and depraved’, the White House said. The call came shortly after Mr Trump denounced those responsible for the atrocity as ‘evil losers’ and said the ‘wicked ideology’ should be ‘completely obliterated’. Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron called Mrs May to offer his condolences and expressed his ‘horror and shock’ at the attack. German Chancellor Angela Merkel assured Britain that ‘Germany stands at your side’. Vladimir Putin also offered to boost anti-terror co-operation with the UK after the ‘inhuman’ attack at the concert. Former US president Barack Obama said: ‘Our hearts go out to those killed and wounded in Manchester. Americans will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of the UK.’ Only seven extremists have been placed under anti-terror orders watered down at the behest of the LibDems despite there being at least 3,000 fanatics at large in Britain. The so-called T-Pims - Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures - are the toughest tool the security services have to restrict the activities of terror plotters and sympathisers. They replaced the more restrictive Control Orders which were axed in 2011 at the bidding of then Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg following a row over human rights. T-Pims are supposed to ensure that the police and MI5 can protect the public from UK-based fanatics who cannot yet be prosecuted or deported by placing curbs on their movements and activities. Restrictions can relate to overseas travel and place of residence, and limits can be imposed on the possession and use of electronic communication devices. Suspects can also be required to live in a property up to 200 miles away from their home. But a statement slipped out to Parliament in December revealed that, as of the end of November, only seven T-Pims were in force. By contrast, in the months after the Paris attacks in 2015, almost 400 people were placed under house arrest in France by the authorities there. British courts have been accused of weakening T-Pims by chiselling away their conditions and making it very difficult for the security services to secure them. This has meant that they have become reluctant to seek them, fearing that they would be squandering thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on legal fees for little gain. Chris Phillips, the ex-head of the national counter terrorism and security office, said he did not believe the current regime of T-Pims was working. He said: ‘The number of people subjected to T-Pims is far too low given the number of extremists concerned. Last year Keith Vaz, then Labour chairman of the Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee, suggested Prime Minister Theresa May looked at bolstering the T-Pims ‘given that she had been under pressure from her Liberal Democrat colleagues in the Coalition government to abandon control orders.’ And in 2014, Lord Carlile, a LibDem peer who was the independent reviewer of terror legislation for 10 years, said control orders had been abandoned for ‘political reasons’. He added: ‘The evidence is clear that the absence of anything like control orders… is harming the ability of the authorities to restrict the activities of people that they identify as threats.’ Britain is currently facing a heightened terror threat. In March, IS sympathiser Khalid Masood, 52, murdered five and injured more than 50 in a vehicle-and-knife rampage outside Parliament. The fanatic was shot dead during the attack. The UK’s terror threat level is currently ‘severe’ - the second highest level - amid warnings that a jihadist atrocity is ‘highly likely’. Security chiefs have warned that hundreds of young Britons who joined Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria have returned home, while others have brainwashed ‘lone wolf’ Muslims to carry out attacks. Control orders were introduced by Labour to deal with dangerous extremists who not be hauled before the courts but after 2010 they came under fire from the Lib Dems who said they were unfair because the suspects had not been found guilty of a crime. Under these suspects faced 16-hour curfews, an electronic tags, bans from meeting named individuals and using mobile phones and the internet, and could be forced to relocate to other parts of the country - ensuring they were not in touch with any jihadist allies. They were replaced by T-Pims with a reduced curfew requirement of ten hours and suspects were no longer restricted on where they could live. Terror suspects placed on control orders and T-Pims could also be required to surrender their passports so they could not travel outside Britain In an extraordinary security fiasco in February 2014, controls on seven of the most dangerous terror suspects in Britain – including two fanatics linked to the liquid bomb airline plot – were lifted and never renewed. It meant they were free to walk the UK’s streets under a cloak of state-sanctioned anonymity. Control orders were themselves a replacement for measures introduced in the wake of the September 11 attacks which allowed foreign national terror suspects to be detained indefinitely without trial. The measures were declared incompatible with human rights by Law Lords in 2004. No histrionics from Theresa - just controlled, civilised outrage: QUENTIN LETTS on the PM’s most powerful Downing Street statement A nearby clock tower had just tolled 11am when a plainly affected Theresa May stepped out of No 10 to make a statement about the killings. Normally the mood in Downing Street before a Prime Ministerial appearance crackles with chatter. Yesterday the mood of the Press corps was subdued. The shiny black door swung open and photographers’ shutters click-click-clicked. There was no other sound. No helicopter droned overhead, as sometimes happens. No crowd of protesters jeered slogans at the distant gates. And there were no lensmen’s exhortations of ‘over here, Theresa’, when they try to get her to look their way. Not yesterday. Just silence. She was in black trouser suit, black, flat shoes, respectful jewellery, tidy hair. The narrow legs of that trouser suit accentuated her slim-shouldered frame, more vulnerable than you might expect. As she came out of the doorway I was struck by how fragile and lonely she looked. Although on show, she retained a contemplative, sombre air. In some ways it was the expression of a churchgoer returning to her place after communion. Of course, she is the least lonely person in the country, constantly surrounded by aides and bodyguards and general to-do. Yet terrorism makes an island of the person at the top. She was the one who had to make the decisions and find words to reassure the nation. How to describe the indescribable? There was a pause as she braced herself for the off. Then: ‘I have just chaired a meeting of the Government’s emergency committee where we discussed the details of and the response to the appalling events in Manchester last night.’ And she was launched on a long, powerful statement in which she averred that ‘the spirit of Manchester and the spirit of Britain’ would prevail. It was a spirit that ‘through years of conflict and terrorism has never been broken’ and never would be, she said. Her cadence turning Churchillian, she conceded ‘there will be difficult days ahead’ but the terrorists would not win. Mancunian and British solidarity would prove insuperable. The one chink in its armour, perhaps, came when she mentioned the children who had died, and the voice momentarily wobbled. May speeches are not always memorable. She can sometimes sound prosaic, the larynx doing that warbly, headmistressy thing. Not yesterday. She had not had any sleep and her timbre had sunk a note or two. Her weariness, stark lipstick contrasting with her pale skin, lent her grit. Though physically weary, she was tough inside. Downing Street makes a theatrical setting. The building’s facade is as flat as any stage back-wall and the bluey greyness of the old brickwork was lifted by sunshine. Two fine British bobbies stood on duty, out of TV shot but either side of No 10. Suited detectives guarded the Jaguar waiting to whisk her north. A few Foreign Office staff stood behind a large, wrought-iron gate directly opposite Mrs May, watching her, rapt. One of them was a woman in Muslim head-dress. Attempts to divide our society would not succeed, said Mrs May. She cited the ‘countless acts of kindness’ that had been seen in Manchester after the attack. The images we hold in our minds should not be those of the senseless slaughter but of the ordinary men and woman who put concerns about their own safety to one side and rushed to help.’ Donald Trump, in his own, direct and welcome way, may have mocked the terrorists as ‘losers’ but vicar’s daughter Mrs May was finding her own way of asserting our values. There was nothing boastful or histrionic in her remarks. She voiced a controlled, civilised outrage at this assault on Manchester’s defenceless children and their families. Our Prime Minister – and yes, that is very much what she sounded yesterday – is not a woman given easily to emotion. In the past some have accused her of being robotic. Not yesterday, they wouldn’t have done. Not yesterday. She was poised, sympathetic, sturdy. She spoke her piece well. JAMES HARKIN: How Ariana Grande and her revealing stage outfits are a symbol of everything Islamists hate Now that it seems likely the atrocity in Manchester was carried out by a freelance 'soldier' allied to Islamic State, there's good reason to think neither the venue nor the performer were chosen at random. Why would anyone target a concert by the American singer Ariana Grande? The grim answer may lie in the fact that with her revealing stage outfits, her stockings, pink bunny ears and unabashed sexual confidence, 23-year-old Miss Grande is a symbol of everything Islamists hate. According to the purist, medieval interpretation of the Koran favoured by Islamic State, almost everything about Western music, and the Western lifestyle that goes with it, is haram, or forbidden — and so merits a death sentence. Indeed, one claim of responsibility for Monday's attack stated: 'The explosive devices were detonated in the shameless concert arena.' Those unfortunate enough to live in Islamic State's caliphate have experience of this doctrine. Three years ago, the then fledgling Islamic State issued a statement that read: 'Songs and music are forbidden in Islam, as they prevent one from the remembrance of God and the Koran, and are a temptation and corruption of the heart.' The directive went on to cite Koranic verses and Islamic teaching. One young Syrian I met when I was reporting in the region, who lived in the group's de facto capital of Raqqa, told me dolefully his best friend was thrown in jail for wearing a Metallica T-shirt celebrating the U.S. rock band. At the many checkpoints through which Syrians had to pass on their way out of Islamic State territory (back when they were allowed to leave), the militants paid as much attention to the length of men's beards and contents of their mobile phones as to their politics. Guards, many of them no more than boys, diligently searched mobile phones for any minor infractions of their religious laws: and that included music that 'insulted' Allah. In their sliding scale of punishments, I was told, a single pop song was rewarded by between 30 and 40 lashes with a whip or stick. In another incident in 2015, a group of musicians was reportedly sentenced to 90 lashes each for the 'crime' of playing an electronic keyboard. Like medieval inquisitors, converts to the Islamic State see Satan (shaytan) and supernatural beings (jinns) everywhere and in anything. In Syria and Iraq, their feared religious police (the hisbah) pay particular attention to teenage heavy metal music fans, which they consider the devil's work. Women are treated as inherently suspicious, and are forced to cover up and wear the face veil when outside and never to leave home without a chaperone. Thus the sight of Ariana Grande and her risque stage outfits would be anathema to the fanatics. In territory controlled by Islamic State, everything from pop music to musical instruments are banned as totems of godless Western decadence. That's why a group of masked Isis fighters were photographed two years ago in Libya — the country from which the Manchester suspect's family hail — burning a saxophone and drums. Even before Islamic State moved to create its state in the ruins of Syria and Iraq, there were signs this extremist sensibility was taking root among disgruntled young Muslims in our inner cities. In 2004, British police secretly recorded a cell of young Islamists discussing a possible attack on a London nightclub, on the basis that no one could 'turn round and say 'Oh, they were innocent', those slags dancing around'. Likewise, a car bomb parked outside Tiger Tiger nightclub in London's Piccadilly in 2007 seems to have been designed to coincide with a 'ladies' night' at the venue, in which the perpetrators might have hoped to kill and maim scantily clad young women drinking alcohol. The vehicle was packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, and would have caused 'carnage', police said, if the bomb had not failed to detonate. (One great irony is that many of these young Islamists have a past of drug-dealing, debauchery and petty crime. Indeed, given all their injunctions against Western music, it's striking how many of those who travelled to the Islamic State from Britain — such as Londoner Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, once photographed in Syria holding a severed head — were failed rap musicians.) Now, as Islamic State territory in the Middle East is whittled away, its propaganda is urging supporters to strike back against 'disbelievers' by seeking out more music venues and nightclubs. So it was that an Islamic State gunman attacked a nightclub in Istanbul in the early hours of New Year's Day this year, killing 39 of that city's wealthy young set. Islamic State also directed the appalling massacre of 89 people at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November 2015. On that night, a gig by the U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal was targeted with automatic rifles, grenades and suicide bombs as the jihadis made a blood-soaked statement against Western music and the lifestyle that goes with it. These Islamist puritans believe our Western way of life is on the verge of collapse and see their job as sending it to hell as quickly as possible. Their war is not so much with our governments as with the values we all live by, which is why they are prepared to slaughter innocent little girls clutching pink balloons on a night out with their mothers at a pop concert. James Harkin is director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism and a reporter on Syria and the rise of Islamic State.
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The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe
Posted on May 23, 2017 by Ray Starmann
We are 24 hours into another horrific terrorist attack committed by the insane, murdering disciples of Allah. Last night, in Manchester, England, a suicide bomber, identified as Salman Abedi detonated a massive bomb filled with nails. The explosion killed 22 and wounded 59 and the numbers are still rising. Those killed and wounded were young girls and teenagers who were attending an Ariana Grande concert. Right now, parents are still searching for their children who unaccounted for. That’s right. The target was young girls. Those who target children are out to commit genocide. This attack is just another in a long litany of ISIS and Islamic terrorist operations in Western Europe that includes: April 7, 2017 A man driving a hijacked beer truck struck pedestrians at a Stockholm department store, killing 4 people. March 22, 2017 A man drives his rented SUV into pedestrians at London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four people. The attacker then stabbed a police officer to death. Dec. 19, 2016 A hijacked truck plows through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12. July 14, 2016 A truck driver targets Bastille Day revelers in Nice, killing 86. March 22, 2016 Suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway kill 32 and injure hundreds. The perpetrators have been closely linked to the group that carried out earlier attacks in Paris. Nov. 13, 2015 Islamic State-linked extremists attack the Bataclan concert hall and other sites across Paris, killing 130 people. A key suspect in the attack, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is arrested in Brussels on March 18, 2016. Feb. 14, 2015 A gunman kills Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard and wounds three police officers in Copenhagen. A day later the gunman, Omar El-Hussein, attacks a synagogue, killing a Jewish guard and wounding two police officers before being shot dead. Jan. 7-9, 2015 A gun assault on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and an attack on a kosher grocery store kills 17 people. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. May 24, 2014 Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an intruder with a Kalashnikov. The accused is a former French fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria. May 22, 2013 Two al-Qaida-inspired extremists run down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death. March 2012 A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France. July 22, 2011 Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb in Oslo then launches a shooting massacre on a youth camp on Norway’s Utoya island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers. Nov. 2, 2011 The offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris are firebombed after the satirical magazine runs a cover featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. No one is injured. March 2, 2011 Islamic extremist Arid Uka shoots dead two U.S. airmen and injures two others at Frankfurt airport after apparently being inspired by a fake internet video purporting to show American atrocities in Afghanistan. July 7, 2005 52 commuters are killed in London when four al Qaida-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three subway trains and a bus. March 11, 2004 Bombs on four Madrid commuter trains in the morning rush hour kill 191 people. Within hours after the Manchester attack, ISIS took responsibility for the monstrous episode. Of course they did. They also threw in a threat of more truck ramming attacks as well. Of course they did. They know they are dealing with worms that don’t have one millionth of the intestinal fortitude and desire for battle that their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers had. The men of Western Europe are nothing more than emasculated twerps who have been devoured by the Nanny State and its odious values of feminism, socialism and cultural Marxism. The men of Western Europe are nothing more than socially castrated candyasses who are letting a Stone Age group of murderers and cutthroats rape, maim and kill their women while they dance on eggshells, afraid that they will say something Islamophobic. Where have you gone Winston Churchill? A continent turns its lonely eyes to you. The lights are going out in Europe now for the very reason that the leaders of Europe are aiding and abetting the murder of their own citizens and the very end of their nation states, their culture and their way of life. The lights are going out in Europe because the leaders of Western Europe have opened the doors to unlimited, unvetted Islamic immigration, giving millions of young, male Middle Eastern thugs an invitation to rape, pillage and plunder while receiving welfare benefits paid for by the gullible European taxpayer. The vipers are on the loose in Europe and there is nothing to stop them. Last night, BBC anchor Katy Kay said that the British should just accept terrorism as a normal part of life now. Yes, Britons, just accept your deaths. Breathe deeply and let the lethal injection take effect. Good God… Kay is just another mainstream media voice for the global elite who are overseeing the collapse of a continent. Anyone with the guts to voice their opinion is instantly chastised as a Nazi and an Islamophobe, who can’t accept change in society and who must instantly bow down to beautiful tolerance and diversity. Multiculturalism is wonderful. Islam is our friend. Hijabs are cool. Christianity is evil. In Britain and Germany, federal and state police forces troll social media sites, looking for dissidents who aren’t marching in line with EU policies. In fact, the Manchester Police were spending a good deal of their time hunting down those brave souls who would dare to tell their fellow citizens to stand up and fight against Islam. Daily Mail UK reporter Katie Hopkins was told by the Manchester Police that her Tweets demanding that British men take action were under investigation. That is how the police and security services of Europe respond to Islamic terror, they seek out and destroy their own citizens who wish to fight this evil. This is the new reality in Europe. This is the stuff of revolutions. And, what has the response been by Prime Minister Theresa May? Today, she parroted the same platitudes that the world has heard for the last five years. ‘We are outraged.’ ‘This is evil.’ ‘Britons shall be resolved.’ Not exactly the Iron Lady is she? The message to the UK is clear: knuckle under, put your head in the sand and wait for Achmed or Mohammed to cut your throat. Celebrate diversity Britain. Isn’t it wonderful? Theresa May will do nothing. Oh, sure there will be a couple arrests, a raid and a elevated security level, but there will be no strategic campaign to eradicate this filth from the face of the earth. By next week, it will be back to business as usual; letting Islam run over Western Europe like a speed bump on their way to a global caliphate. Right now, ISIS is no doubt laughing. They kill young English girls and how does England respond? They hold a worthless peace vigil in downtown Manchester. Today, they were holding hands and singing Kumbaya when they should be crying havoc and letting slip the dogs of war. If Western Europe has any chance of surviving this nightmare, the governments and the citizens must start fighting back. The very survival of Britain and Western Europe is hanging in the balance. The time for tolerance and political correctness is over. In his first speech as Prime Minister May 19, 1940, known forever as the Be Ye Men of Valour speech, Churchill rallied the British people while the Nazis were eyeing the white cliffs of Dover from France. Here are some highlights from the speech: Our task is not only to win the battle – but to win the war. After this battle in France abates its force, there will come the battle for our Island — for all that Britain is, and all the Britain means. That will be the struggle. In that supreme emergency we shall not hesitate to take every step, even the most drastic, to call forth from our people the last ounce and the last inch of effort of which they are capable. The interests of property, the hours of labor, are nothing compared with the struggle of life and honor, for right and freedom, to which we have vowed ourselves. I have received from the Chiefs of the French Republic, and in particular form its indomitable Prime Minister, M. Reynaud, the most sacred pledges that whatever happens they will fight to the end, be it bitter or be it glorious. Nay, if we fight to the end, it can only be glorious. Having received His Majesty’s commission, I have formed an Administration of men and women of every Party and of almost every point of view. We have differed and quarreled in the past; but now one bond unites us all — to wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame, whatever the cost and the agony may be. this is one of the most awe-striking periods in the long history of France and Britain. It is also beyond doubt the most sublime. Side by side, unaided except by their kith and kin in the great Dominions and by the wide empires which rest beneath their shield – side by side, the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue not only Europe but mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them – behind us- behind the Armies and Fleets of Britain and France – gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians – upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall. Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be. The British and their continental cousins have a choice, FIGHT AND DESTROY THIS MONSTROUS EVIL OR DIE. Right now, it appears that more people in Europe would rather die than fight. That’s why the lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
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etc. But it is a very, very dark hour, a very wicked hour, a very evil hour with much going on every day, every moment of the day. You see it not maybe here in the sense that others are seeing it around the world. But I say unto you, open your spiritual eyes, open your spiritual eyes, see, see, see what is taking place. etc..
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BREAKING: Wikileaks Emails Ties The Podesta Brothers To The Doctor Who Oversaw Seth Rich Before He Died
Posted on May 24, 2017 by Richard Saunders
Seth Rich died after he was shot multiple times on the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW which is three blocks east of Howard University Hospital and six minutes away from MedStar Washington Hospital Center. The Washington D.C. police report says Seth Rich survived the initial shootings and died later at the hospital. There have been no reports on which hospital he was taken to, but common sense indicates it would have had to been Medstar Washington Hospital Center. Howard University Hospital is closer and has an emergency room, but not for trauma surgery so Seth Rich had to have been taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center. The lead director of the Gold Surgery team at MedStar Washington Hospital Center is Jack Sava, MD. Jack Sava is in a relationship with Lisa Kountoupes. Multiple Wikileaks emails show Kountoupes and Sava connections with the Podesta brothers. How or why exactly did Rich pass away at the hospital? Kountoupes and Sava are on the guest list in this Podesta email https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14833#searchresult . Check out the Excel spreadsheet (download). More connections from i-love_america: The attachment of this email shows Lisa Koutoupes co-hosting at the fundraiser with the Podesta bros. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26634 . Lisa Kountoupes happens to be “Named to the Hill’s Top Lobbyists 2016: Hired Guns Source on Koutoupes named top lobbyist—http://kdindc.com
Guess what?? She also lobbied for the Clintons!!! More info on Kountoupes work in DC. SHE WORKED FOR DEPT OF ENERGY http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Lisa-Kountoupes/1558739629 She has URANIUM ONE CONNECTIONS!!!! Here is their Uranium One L2-Disclosure form https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=E1BF4232-5036-458A-9392-E6C7CD97E388&filingTypeID=51
https://nei.org/CorporateSite/media/filefolder/Conferences/NFSF/PartsList.pdf
Here is lobbying record http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000035177&year=2012
“Kountoupes Consulting has been hired by Uranium One Inc. to lobby on “issues related to uranium mining and the uranium market.” http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-contracts/197357-bottom-line- .
ALSO SHE IS A CLINTON ADMIN VET!!!!! Source here!!!!!! http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/top-lobbyists/302777-top-lobbyists-2016-hired-guns
MASSIVE AMOUNT OF INFO ON THE LOBBYING FIRM http://lobbying-firms.insidegov.com/l/39300/Kountoupes-Denham-LLC .
Lisa Kountoupes visited Obama White House 29 times. last visit is May 31st, for appointment with Jaime Kreager made on May 26th at 6:53PM https://archive.is/XpHaZ .
John Podesta was there the 26th https://archive.is/FdtD7 .
*Last leaked email was May 25th**
Is it just a coincidence that Seth Rich survived the shooting, but mysteriously died at the hospital where a Podesta/DNC ally is in charge of the trauma surgery unit?
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The Republic Has Fallen: The Deep State’s Plot to Take Over America Has Succeeded
By John W. Whitehead May 23, 2017
“You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country…why in the name of God don’t you have any faith in the system of government you’re so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.”—Seven Days in May (1964) No doubt about it. The coup d’etat has been successful. The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state a.k.a. the military industrial complex—has taken over. The American system of representative government has been overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic corporate state bent on total control and global domination through the imposition of martial law here at home and by fomenting wars abroad. When in doubt, follow the money trail. It always points the way. Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought—lock, stock and barrel—and made to dance to the tune of the Deep State. Even Dwight D. Eisenhower, the retired five-star Army general -turned-president who warned against the disastrous rise of misplaced power by the military industrial complex was complicit in contributing to the build-up of the military’s role in dictating national and international policy. Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump has paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic. Just recently, for instance, Trump—boasting about the “purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment because nobody makes it like the United States—agreed to sell Saudi Arabia more than $110 billion in military weapons and “tanks and helicopters for border security, ships for coastal security, intelligence-gathering aircraft, a missile-defense radar system, and cybersecurity tools.” Meanwhile, Trump—purportedly in an effort to balance the budget in 10 years—wants to slash government funding for programs for the poor, ranging from health care and food stamps to student loans and disability payments. The military doesn’t have to worry about tightening its belt, however. No, the military’s budget—with its trillion dollar wars, its $125 billion in administrative waste, and its contractor-driven price gouging that hits the American taxpayer where it hurts the most—will continue to grow, thanks to Trump. This is how you keep the Deep State in power. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, the military will get more militaristic, America’s endless wars will get more endless, and the prospect of peace will grow ever dimmer. As for the terrorists, they will keep on being played for pawns as long as Saudi Arabia remains their breeding ground and America remains the source of their weapons, training and know-how (15 of the 19 terrorists—including Osama bin Laden—who carried out the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia). Follow the money. It always points the way. As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America, “evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history.” Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw: …a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion... This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer Rod Serling warned against in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May, which put the military in charge of a coup that would institute martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security. On the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is saved in a matter of hours. In the real world, however, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past half century. We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward trajectory now, and things are moving fast. The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by the military industrial complex. That’s a done deal. The “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has perished. It will not be revived or restored without a true revolution of values and a people’s rebellion the likes of which we may not see for a very long time. America is a profitable business interest for a very select few, and war—wars waged abroad against shadowy enemies and wars waged at home against the American people—has become the Deep State’s primary means of income. If America has been at war more than we’ve been at peace over the past half century, it’s because the country is in the clutches of a greedy military empire with a gargantuan, profit-driven appetite for war. Indeed, the U.S. has been involved in an average of at least one significant military action per year, “ranging from significant fighting in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan to lesser incursions in such far-flung countries as Kuwait, Bosnia, Pakistan, Libya, Grenada, Haiti and Panama… That total does not count more limited U.S. actions, such as drone strikes.” War is big business. In order to maintain a profit margin when there are no more wars to be fought abroad, one would either have to find new enemies abroad or focus on fighting a war at home, against the American people, and that’s exactly what we’re dealing with today. Wars waged abroad to the tune of trillions of dollars since 9/11. Military equipment sold to foreign enemies. Local police transformed into a standing army in the American homeland through millions of dollars’ worth of grants to local police agencies for military weapons, vehicles, training and assistance. The public acclimated to the sights and sounds of martial law through urban training exercises wherein military troops rappel from Black Hawk helicopters in cities across the country, from Miami and Chicago to Minneapolis, to domestic military training drills timed and formulated to coincide with or portend actual crises. The citizenry taught to fear and distrust each other and to welcome the metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications. Had the government tried to ram such a state of affairs down our throats suddenly, it might have had a rebellion on its hands. Instead, the American people have been given the boiling frog treatment, immersed in water that slowly is heated up—degree by degree—so that they’ve fail to notice that they’re being trapped and cooked and killed. “We the people” are in hot water now. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the Constitution doesn’t stand a chance against a federalized, globalized standing army protected by legislative, judicial and executive branches that are all on the same side, no matter what political views they subscribe to: suffice it to say, they are not on our side or the side of freedom. From Clinton to Bush, then Obama and now Trump, it’s as if we’ve been caught in a time loop, forced to re-live the same thing over and over again: the same assaults on our freedoms, the same disregard for the rule of law, the same subservience to the Deep State, and the same corrupt, self-serving government that exists only to amass power, enrich its shareholders and ensure its continued domination. The republic has fallen to fascism with a smile. As Bertram Gross wrote in what may have been his most prescient warning: In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote a popular novel in which a racist, anti-Semitic, flag-waving, army-backed demagogue wins the 1936 presidential election and proceeds to establish an Americanized version of Nazi Germany. The title, It Can't Happen Here, was a tongue-in-cheek warning that it might. But the "it" Lewis referred to is unlikely to happen again any place... Anyone looking for black shirts, mass parties, or men on horseback will miss the telltale clues of creeping fascism. In any First World country of advanced capitalism, the new fascism will be colored by national and cultural heritage, ethnic and religious composition, formal political structure, and geopolitical environment... In America, it would be supermodern and multi-ethnic-as American as Madison Avenue, executive luncheons, credit cards, and apple pie. It would be fascism with a smile. As a warning against its cosmetic facade, subtle manipulation, and velvet gloves, I call it friendly fascism. What scares me most is its subtle appeal. I am worried by those who fail to remember-or have never learned -that Big Business-Big Government partnerships, backed up by other elements, were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese empire builders. I am worried by those who quibble about labels… I am upset with those who prefer to remain spectators until it may be too late… I am appalled by those who stiffly maintain that nothing can be done until things get worse or the system has been changed. I am afraid of inaction. I am afraid of those who will heed no warnings and who wait for some revelation, research, or technology to offer a perfect solution. I am afraid of those who do not see that some of the best in America has been the product of promises and that the promises of the past are not enough for the future. I am dismayed by those who will not hope, who will not commit themselves to something larger than themselves, of those who are afraid of true democracy or even its pursuit. Elections will not save us. Learn the treacherous lessons of 2008 and 2016: presidential elections have made a mockery of our constitutional system of government, suggesting that our votes can make a difference when, in fact, they merely serve to maintain the status quo. Don’t delay. Start now—in your own communities, in your schools, at your city council meetings, in newspaper editorials, at protests—by pushing back against laws that are unjust, police departments that overreach, politicians that don’t listen to their constituents, and a system of government that grows more tyrannical by the day. If you wait until 2020 to rescue our republic from the clutches of the Deep State, it will be too late. WC: 1908
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Insiders Warn 'Lives Are At Stake' From Deep State Intel Community Leakers & They 'Need To Be Tracked Down'
- Congressional Testimony Today Also Proves MSM Still Publishing Fake News
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While watching and listening to congressional testimony during the House of Representatives hearing into the Russia Probe can be overwhelmingly boring, as politicians want to spend more time droning on before actually getting to any pertinent questions of the witnesses, some noteworthy information does eventually come out. Such as the NYT "story" last week claiming President Trump attempted to pressure former FBI Director James Comey into dropping his investigation into Michael Flynn, according to a memo the NYT hadn't seen and wasn't in possession of, and according to "unnamed sources, which was rebutted by Comey himself before his firing, and the newly released Washington Post story, again using "anonymous," sources, claiming that "Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence," is all bogus... FAKE NEWS, according to Former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan testified today and we have some clips relating to national security and the dangerous leaks via members of the intelligence community, with the full two-hour segment at the bottom of the article for those interested, where Brennan asserts that no one in the intelligence community has shared any concerns that "the president was attempting to enlist the help of people within the intelligence community to drop the Flynn investigation." Schiff then asked "Are you aware of any efforts the president has made to enlist the help of the intelligence community to push back on a narrative involving the collusion issue," a question which comes directly from the newly released Washington Post fake news story, Brennan responds with "I am unaware of it." Below you can hear Comey himself saying that an administration technically can halt an FBI investigation but it is not something he has witnessed in his experience, "because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something without an appropriate purpose. " He continued on to state "Often times they give us opinions that we don't see a case there so you ought to stop investing resources in it, but I'm talking about a situation where we're told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. It's not happened in my experience." Which means if Comey now asserts something different, he will either have lied to Congress above, or he is lying now after he was fired. The next clip has Representative Trey Gowdy questioning Brennan on intelligence community leaks to the MSM, and what it means, where Brennan states unequivocally that those in the intelligence community that are leaking classified information to the media are "violating their oath to protect classified information. In the next clip Brennan states in no uncertain terms that those leaks to the press are "appalling" and the leakers "need to be tracked down." Last but not least, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says that the "leaks have become a very significant, played a very significant negative role relative to our national security. The release of information not only undermines confidence in our allies, but our ability to maintain secure information that we share with them. It jeopardizes sources and methods that are invaluable to our ability to find out what's going on and what those threats are. Lives are at stake in many instances and leaks jeopardize those lives." Before getting to the bottom line, it is worth reiterating that "Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information" concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes, is a criminal offence under 18 U.S. Code § 798, which "Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both." BOTTOM LINE We are dealing with two separate aspects of the continuous reports from the establishment mainstream media, where some of the reports, using "anonymous" or "unnamed" sources have turned out to be completely fake and bogus news, then we have names being revealed, such as Michael Flynn, that were leaked to the press by deep state intelligence community members, in violation of not only oaths to protect the information but against the law. The first aspect is the intelligence community leakers and the fact that they are breaking the law in revealing classified information, to which we just heard above are jeopardizing national security and lives. It would behoove the Trump administration to inform the public what actions are being taken to aggressively track them down and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. The second aspect is the media who 1) Is either making up their so-called "sources" on the articles that have been proven to be totally false, or; 2) Are being fed bogus information by deep state intelligence community leakers, and then rushing to print it in order to sabotage the President, in some cases without ever seeing the evidence to confirm its existence. What responsibility does the media have when they know that one of their sources is breaking US law, then they themselves are printing that classified information? As late as March 2017, the question of whether reporters themselves can be prosecuted for knowing publishing classified information, was discussed in Congress, when Gowdy asked Former FBI Director Comey "Is there an exception in the law for reporters who want to break a story?" Comey responded "Well, that's a harder question, as to whether a reporter incurs criminal liability by publishing classified information, and one probably beyond my ken. I'm not as good a lawyer as Mr. Schiff said I used to be." Gowdy then asked "Well, I don't know about that, but the statute does use the word publish, doesn't it?" Comey answered "It does, but that's a question I know the Department of Justice has struggled with through administration after administration." The question now becomes do the first amendment protections for "freedom of press" include the right to jeopardize national security and lives, as DNI Coats states that the leaks of classified information are doing?
http://allnewspipeline.com/Surprise_Media_Lied.php
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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The Trump Collapse Scapegoat Narrative Has Now Been Launched
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 02:37 Brandon Smith
Last week was a rather crazy one for the news feeds, with cyber attacks and “Comey memos” and a host of other wild mayhem, it may have been difficult for many people to keep track of it all. That said, there was one event that I think went partly under the radar, and I think it is an important signal for anyone concerned with the ongoing process of economic collapse in the U.S. Generally, the American public holds very little vigilance when it comes to economics. They are distinctly unaware of fundamental indicators such as commodities demand, energy usage, manufacturing, imports, exports and international shipping, etc. What they do take note of, and what the mainstream news will tell them about in 30 second blurbs, is the state of unemployment and whether stock markets were down for the day or up for the day. These two “indicators” are the extent of the average person’s exposure to fiscal health. This is why the Federal Reserve and the establishment have been meticulous over the past several years in their efforts to keep employment statistics highly manipulated to the positive side and why they have been injecting untold trillions into stocks around the world through various measures including no cost overnight loans. However, over the past couple of years something has changed. As I warned they would do in 2015 in my article The Real Reasons Why The Fed Will Hike Interest Rates, central banks including the Fed have been backing off of stimulus measures and they have now begun a series of interest rate hikes. Look at it this way — imagine the economy has a terminal disease and the only thing keeping it alive is a highly addictive drug called “free money.” It’s a rather terrible life, barely worth living, but the economy still has a faint pulse as long as the drug is administered. Now, what would happen if the Fed suddenly cuts off the drug supply? Well, the economy will die in a very frantic and horrible way. Low interest rates and Federal Reserve loans represent the purest form of the free money drug, even more so than the bailouts and QE. And now, those interest rates are rising, and the drug is being taken away. These marginal rate hikes might not seem like much — .25 basis points here and .25 basis points there. And they are not much, unless you are a corporation borrowing billions of dollars at a time so that you can stave off your exposure to quadrillions in derivatives debt and so that you can purchase massive shares in your own stock to keep its value artificially elevated. Cycling this borrowed cash and paying the Fed back is rather easy for such corporations as long as the loans are essentially free. But when they have to start paying interest on that cash, even at a low rate, the costs add up at lightning speed. ANY interest rate hikes in this environment make borrowing from the Fed untenable for corporations seeking to prop up their stocks and the stock market at large. In my estimation, based on previous Fed measures such as the removal of QE from the system in 2014, it takes around six to eight months for the effects of policy shifts by the Fed to become visible on the main street economy and in equities. I believe we are about to see the effects of interest rate hikes on our system within the next couple of months. I put very little value in stock markets as an indicator of anything. In reality, stocks are a fraudulent circus based on perceived value and perceived demand rather than true value and demand. In most cases, stocks crash in the FINAL phase of an economic collapse, not in the beginning phase. If you decide to start preparing for a crisis after a stock market decline then you are probably too late. I am revisiting this topic here because I want to remind people that the full and tantamount blame for any economic crisis (and the final phase market crash) in the near future is placed on the Federal Reserve and international banks. All future shocks to the financial system were made possible because the establishment and the Fed have gutted our economy, stuffed it with the fluff of fiat stimulus and left it to lumber aimlessly since 2009. Now, because of the Fed’s efforts, stocks have been rising for quite some time with only a few moments of obstruction, due again, to their policy shifts. These efforts have conjured a 20,000 point Dow Jones, but nothing else positive for the economy. The one constant, though, has always been low interest rates. With interest rates increasing, I would point out that market behavior has changed. The meteoric rise has stalled. In the past few months stocks have barely budged 1 percent either up or down per week. Except for last week when something strange happened; markets suddenly dropped nearly 400 points in a single day. Why? Well, that is a subject up for debate, but the majority of mainstream news outlets will tell you that it was all Donald Trump’s fault. I have been warning since long before the election that Trump’s presidency would be the perfect vehicle for central banks and international financiers to divert blame for the economic crisis that would inevitably explode once the Fed moved firmly into interest rate hikes. Every indication since my initial prediction shows that this is the case. The media was building the foundation of the narrative from the moment Trump won the election. Bloomberg was quick to publish its rather hilariously skewed propaganda on the matter, asserting that Trump was lucky to inherit an economy in ascendance and recovery because of the fiscal ingenuity of Barack Obama. This is of course utter nonsense. Obama and the Fed have created a zombie economy rotting from the inside out, nothing more. But, as Bloomberg noted rightly, any downturn within the system will indeed be blamed on the Trump administration. Fortune Magazine, adding to the narrative, outlined the view that the initial stock rally surrounding Trump’s election win was merely setting the stage for a surprise market crash. I continue to go one further than the mainstream media and say that the Trump administration is a giant cement shoe designed (deliberately) to drag conservatives and conservative principles down into the abyss as we are blamed by association for the financial calamity that will occur on Trump’s watch. Last week’s sudden market bloodletting is important in this regard; 400 points down is hardly a flesh wound to a 20,000 point Dow, but the media’s reaction to it was very revealing on what the future has in store. Multiple news outlets responded by immediately connecting the drop to Trump and the absurdity surrounding the “Comey memo” — a memo which no one in the public has seen proof of. The claim is that this level of turmoil around Trump might lead to impeachment and that the threat of impeachment would kill the stock market bounce which the media also claims was driven by Trump’s promises of corporate tax cuts. It's a lie built on another lie. It is interesting to me that the mainstream media never said the market drop was caused by “Comey’s turmoil,” or by “The Washington Post and The New York Times’ turmoil.” No, they called it “Trump’s trumoil.” Last week’s stock dive was, in my opinion, the official launch of the Trump collapse narrative. The establishment was beta testing it for months, but now, the program has gone live. Every single stock decline from now on, as well as the ultimate economic crash, which will become visible to the public in short order, will be blamed on Donald Trump and conservatives by extension. As I said, he is the perfect scapegoat. I have been very critical of Donald Trump recently, and it is my view, according to the evidence and his swift retraction of nearly every promise he made to the voters during his campaign, that Trump is controlled opposition. But, I would never lay the blame for our fiscal decline at his feet. Trump does not have the power to create that kind of disaster; only the global banks have that power. I’ll say it again — the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates into a major financial downturn. This will be the trigger for the next phase of collapse, not any drama surrounding Donald Trump. Everything else, from Comey to North Korea, is distraction. The Fed has done this before. In fact, the Fed has a habit of raising interest rates at the onset of economic instability or right in the middle of a downturn, as it did in 1928-1929 triggering the Great Depression, and in 1931, adding fuel to the fire of financial catastrophe. These particular catalyzing policy actions are partly what Ben Bernanke was referring to on Nov. 8, 2002, in a speech given at "A Conference to Honor Milton Friedman, the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, On the Occasion of his 90th Birthday.” “In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn. Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” Ben Bernanke finished his astonishingly honest assessment with a lie. They are indeed doing it again… but this time they have made sure they have a president and an entire political ideal to blame it on.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3197-the-trump-collapse-scapegoat-narrative-has-now-been-launched
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The Hopeless World of '13 Reasons': Toxic Culture, Toxic Consequences
John Stonestreet, Gina Dalfonzo
Ten years ago, Jay Asher, a novelist specializing in Young Adult fiction, saw his novel about a high school student who commits suicide become what the New York Times called “a stealthy hit with surprising staying power.” The book eventually reached the top of the Times’ paperback best-seller list. And ten years later, that novel, “Thirteen Reasons Why,” was turned into a Netflix series and is a cultural phenomenon. If you’re a parent, chances are you’ve heard about the series. If you’re a parent in a place like Colorado Springs, where literally dozens of teenagers have committed suicide in recent years, you’re probably asking yourself whether the show will only make a bad situation worse. I’m not certain about the answer to that question. What I am certain about is that it most certainly won’t help. As my colleague Gina Dalfonzo wrote in her superb article at BreakPoint.org, while the creators thought that they were striking a blow against teen suicide, “the limited and flawed worldview they brought to it meant that they were deeply, dangerously wrong.” “13 Reasons Why” is set two weeks after a high school student named Hannah commits suicide. As Gina writes, “While her fellow students are still creating memorials and taking selfies in front of her locker, a bombshell drops on her friend Clay Jensen . . . A shoebox full of cassette recordings that Hannah created before her death is left with him—recordings addressed to 13 different people whom she says gave her reasons to kill herself.” Told in a combination of “flashbacks and present-day stories,” Hannah’s tale is set in a depiction of the high school experience that, in Gina’s words, “makes ‘Lord of the Flies’ look like ‘Gilligan’s Island.’ Drugs and alcohol flow freely, bullying and sexual assault are facts of life, an innocent photograph or a few whispers can wreck a reputation, and the person who’s your best friend today could turn on you tomorrow.” It’s an experience that leaves the viewer wondering “how anyone could survive.” The answer seems to be “you can’t, unless you’re a sociopath.” Where does this leave non-sociopaths? Certainly not with hope. As Gina points out, nothing presented onscreen gives any reason to believe that the “poisonous atmosphere” can, much less will, get better. Against this backdrop, Hannah’s carefully-orchestrated suicide-plus-audio-revenge seems like a viable option. In fact, and this is the key flaw of the series, she seems to wield a power in death that she never did in life. Except, of course, she doesn’t. In real life, the kind of sociopaths and jerks who tormented her in life aren’t going to be too put out by an audio-cassette from the beyond. It’s cutting off your nose to spite your face times infinity. The only person tormented is the one Hannah admired, Clay. And he’s left “haunted by the thought that Hannah died because he was ‘afraid to love her,’” an idea that owes more to the movies than to real-life. In any case, as Gina points out, neither Clay nor his classmates have any “concept of the kind of love that actually does save.” As Gina correctly concludes, “Troubled kids need and deserve better.” The National Association of School Psychologists agrees, having issued the following statement: “We do not recommend that vulnerable youth, especially those who have any degree of suicidal ideation, watch this series. Its powerful storytelling may lead impressionable viewers to romanticize the choices made by the characters and/or develop revenge fantasies.” Parents, we need to understand the impact that shows like this can have on our teens. And ultimately, we need to show our children what love really means—and where our hope in life truly lies. BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry that seeks to build and resource a movement of Christians committed to living and defending Christian worldview in all areas of life. Begun by Chuck Colson in 1991 as a daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print. Today BreakPoint commentaries, co-hosted by Eric Metaxas and John Stonestreet, air daily on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Feel free to contact us at BreakPoint.org where you can read and search answers to common questions. John Stonestreet, the host of The Point, a daily national radio program, provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a biblical worldview. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview.
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Intelligence Leaks and Our Hypocritical Press
By Susan Stamper Brown , CP Guest Contributor
May 23, 2017 | 12:12 PM
A Harvard study published May 18 reveals what thoughtful Americans already knew: Extreme anti-Trump bias runs rampant in corporate media. The study found that CNN, CBS, and NBC produced more than 90 percent negative coverage during Trump's first 100 days, followed by the New York Times at 87 percent, and the Washington Post, 83 percent. Only Fox News offered close to balanced coverage with 52 percent negative coverage. That explains why the week was filled with over-the-top reporting about President Trump sharing sensitive intelligence with Russian officials visiting the White House. Reportedly, the disclosure included information that ISIS has developed a way to mask bombs inside laptop computers that can slip undetected through airport screening. The overdramatic hype about Trump doing what every president before him has done to share information with an ally to prevent a terror attack is a head-scratcher to those who recall the events of September 11, 2001 as a bad thing. We are aware of these details thanks to an agenda-driven media lacking discretion and leakers lacking a conscience. Who in their right mind would leak to the public information that burns intelligence sources? It's obvious there is no longer an ethical code by which most of the press abides. Those whispering secrets to the wind do so for a reason. Given the unprecedented volume of leaks and the Obama administration's lack of integrity, someone should re-sweep the White House for bugs. If it is "treasonous" for the president to share information to protect lives with an ally behind White House closed doors, then what shall we call it when a blabbermouth leaks this sensitive information to media organizations, which in turn proverbially broadcasts it with a bullhorn? This is not about the First Amendment; we're talking about discretion. It's also about intent. If anonymous sources are not authorized to speak publicly about intelligence matters but share them with the media, we should focus on prosecuting both the leaker and culpable media. t the very least, fed-up Americans should cancel subscriptions to the Washington Post and New York Times and stop watching news channels that care more about destroying the president than they do about protecting American lives. Sure, Trump's methods might be questionable, but what's not in dispute is his pure-hearted desire to keep Americans safe. The same media in full throttle to destroy Donald Trump performed journalistic backflips to protect the proverbial WikiLeaks of all presidential administrations, the Obama administration, which sprung so many leaks even Flex Seal wouldn't help. Leaks such as the time the Obama administration put a proverbial target on Navy SEAL Team 6 operators' backs when it leaked key operational details about the Osama bin Laden raid, blabbing about SEAL Team 6's participation. To this day, family members blame the Obama administration for what they believe was retaliation when the Taliban later downed a helicopter in Afghanistan which killed 30 soldiers, including 15 SEAL Team 6 members. In 2012, Obama leaked sensitive details about an "underwear-bombing" plot and the mission was forced to a standstill because of that leak, which former House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers suggested was utilized to generate positive press and boost Obama's reelection chances. The media also snoozed as the pantsuit queen they pre-crowned as president was caught transporting classified emails on an illegal server hidden in a bathroom. It was "nothing to see here" even when evidence unfolded about a complex scheme to conceal or destroy emails and burn or hide potentially damning daily calendar entries. Every administration has intelligence leaks. The current leaks are due to a convoluted effort intended to hurt President Trump, while Obama's leaks were about making him look good. What they have in common is the press involvement which ends up potentially endangering human life.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/intelligence-leaks-and-our-hypocritical-press-184557/#RicCviIzSSmQ8Bc2.99
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I'm Sick of News Anchors Telling Us Not to Rush to Judgment on Terror Attacks
1:00PM EDT 5/23/2017 Todd Starnes
The photos and the video and the sounds have become all too familiar. A flash of light—a massive explosion—horrified screams of the dying and wounded. his time in Manchester, England—at a concert filled with young teenagers and their parents. That was supposed to be a night of music and dancing and childhood frivolity—ended in carnage. Horrific, horrific injuries. Terrible," President Trump said. "Dozens of innocent people, beautiful young children savagely murdered in this heinous attack upon humanity." an untold number of children and their parents were massacred by Islamic radicals—killed in the name of the religion of peace. In response—there have been candlelight vigils and calls for peace and understanding—but the Muslim jihadists do not want peace. They want death. he Islamic radicals will not stop until they have killed every last one of us—Christians, Jews, gay, straight. The time has come to eliminate this evil from the face of the planet. The time has come for nations around the world to stop appeasing the Islamists. We must drive out the terrorists and extremists from our midst, obliterate this evil ideology and protect and defend our citizens and people of the world," the president said. "All civilized nations must be united in this effort." And we must do our part in the United States. We must secure our borders, we must investigate those who come here from the birthplace of this radical ideology and we must do whatever is necessary to prevent American blood from being shed on American soil. et, there are still apologists for the radical Islamists—from Hollywood to the halls of Congress. They seem to think we can win over the hearts and minds of the jihadists with bouquets of flowers and gentle hugs. That sort of philosophy is not only foolish but it's downright dangerous. How many more times do we have to listen to breathless news anchors lecturing us about not rushing to judgment? The Presbyterians and the Lutherans are not the ones strapping on backpacks filled with nails and blowing themselves up. The Methodists and Baptists aren't beheading people. The Catholics are not flying jetliners into buildings. So spare us the politically correct garbage. How many more children must die at the hands of radical Muslims—slain in the name of the religion of peace? How many more citizens of the world must be sacrificed to satisfy the bloodlust of these brutal savages? How many more times, America? How many more times? Todd Starnes is host of "Fox News & Commentary," heard on hundreds of radio stations. Sign up for his American Dispatch newsletter, be sure to join his Facebook page and follow him on Twitter. His latest book is The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again.
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Manchester attack: Three more arrests in bomber investigation
Three more men have been arrested as police continue to investigate whether Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi acted alone. Abedi's 23-year-old brother has also been arrested. Abedi killed 22 and injured 64 when he blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night. An off-duty policewoman is among the dead, the BBC understands. The UK terror threat level is now up to its highest level of "critical". This means more attacks may be imminent. Military personnel are being deployed to protect key sites. The Palace of Westminster has been closed to the public following police advice, and will not re-open until further notice, its website said. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "[Monday's attack] was more sophisticated than some of the attacks we've seen before, and it seems likely - possible - that he wasn't doing this on his own." BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said that the bomber is thought to have been a "mule", using a device built by someone else. An off-duty police officer - who has not yet been named - was also among those killed, the BBC understands. Her husband is believed to be critically ill and their two children were also injured. Of the 64 injured, 20 are in a critical condition, and some have lost limbs. Twelve of them are known to be children. Several people are still missing, including Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19. Eilidh's friend, Laura MacIntyre, 15, who was also reported as missing, was later identified as one of the seriously injured in a Manchester hospital. The police believe they have now identified all those killed and informed their families. They will formally name the victims after post-mortem examinations, a process likely to take four or five days. A hotline has been set up for people concerned about loved ones - 0800 096 0095. Prime Minister Theresa May said soldiers are being placed at Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, embassies and the Palace of Westminster to support armed police in protecting the public. Military personnel may also be seen at other events over the coming weeks, such as concerts, Mrs May said, working under the command of police officers. She said she did not want people to feel "unduly alarmed" but said it was a "proportionate and sensible response". Mrs Rudd said 984 troops had been deployed in the first instance. Up to 3,800 are available. She said she "absolutely" expected the raising of the threat level to critical to be temporary, adding that the bomber had been known "up to a point" by the intelligence services. The highest threat level, which is decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - a group of experts from the police, government departments and agencies - has only been reached twice before. The first time the threat level was raised to critical was in 2006 during a major operation to stop a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs. The following year, security chiefs raised it once more as they hunted for the men who had tried to bomb a London nightclub and attacked Glasgow Airport. The Metropolitan Police says it has increased its presence across London. Meanwhile, Chelsea Football Club have cancelled their Premier League victory parade, due to take place in London on Sunday, so as not to divert police resources. In Northern Ireland, extra police officers have also been deployed at key sites and on transport networks. The next steps for police and MI5 UK 'irritated' by US leaks about bomber Who was the attacker? Salman Abedi is understood to be a 22-year-old born in Manchester to parents of Libyan descent, and a former University of Salford student. He attended Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester between 2009-11. Hamid El-Sayed, who worked for the UN on tackling radicalisation and who now works at the University of Manchester, said Abedi had a "really bad relationship" with his family and his parents had tried but failed to keep him on the "right path". "Eventually he was doing very bad at his university, at his education, and he didn't complete, and they tried to take him back to Libya several times. He had difficulties adjusting to European lifestyle," he added. Abedi blew himself up in Manchester Arena's foyer shortly after 22:30 BST on Monday Fans were beginning to leave a concert by US singer Ariana Grande Witnesses at the arena described seeing metal nuts and bolts among the debris of Monday's bomb, and spoke about the fear and confusion that gripped concert-goers The arena bombing is the worst attack in the UK since the 7 July bombings in 2005, in which 52 people were killed by four suicide bombers So-called Islamic State has said - via IS channels on the messaging app Telegram - it was behind the attack, but this has not been verified A former classmate of Abedi's told the BBC that he was a "very jokey lad" but also "very short tempered" and would get angry at "the littlest thing". The man, who did not want to be identified, said Abedi was "away at random times throughout the year" but he did not know if he was abroad or playing truant because he hung around "the wrong crowd and was very, very gullible". "You could tell him anything and he would pretty much fall for it." He said that, before leaving the school in 2011, Abedi became "more and more religious" and that this might explain why he cut ties with former classmates. Apart from the three arrests in south Manchester on Wednesday, Abedi's older brother Ismael was arrested in Chorlton, south Manchester, on Tuesday in connection with the attack. On Wednesday afternoon, police raided a block of flats near Manchester Piccadilly station in the city centre, requiring them to briefly close the railway line. Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who is the national counter-terrorism policing lead, said the investigation was "fast-moving and making good progress". "However, a critical line of inquiry is whether the dead terrorist was acting alone or part of a group," he said. "We still have critical lines of inquiry they're chasing down which has led to a level of uncertainty." Anyone with information about the attack can call the anti-terror hotline on 0800 789321.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40023488
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The Trump budget is just telling the truth—and you can’t handle the truth!
Trump's budget begins to tell the hard truths to the American people. It's a "taxpayer first" plan, which is what any sustainable budget needs to be. More harsh truths are needed, but this is a good start.
Jake Novak | @jakejakeny 23 Hours Ago
America finally has something it's needed for decades: A budget that starts to tell the truth. And some people don't seem to be able to handle the truth. But they need to start. The truth is coming in the form of the White House budget that calls for major cuts to entitlement programs that are not sustainable, taxes that punish productivity and growth, and the fundamental understanding that politicians cannot be trusted to spend our money. That is, it at least begins to deliver the truth. Let's start with what it gets right in the reality department. The screaming headlines are all about that truth right now as every major news outlet has chosen to focus on the cuts the Trump budget makes to food stamps, Medicaid, student loans, and agencies like the EPA and the Department of Education. Do any of those articles or the angry members of Congress quoted in them include anything about how these spending programs are unsustainable as they are now anyway? Do they include any arguments about how the overstretched "safety net" of welfare programs provides aid to too many people who aren't actually poor, thus reducing the amount of funds available for the truly needy? Do they include any of the arguments that so many federal agencies like the EPA and the Education Department aren't truly needed in their current sizes? How about some information on how student loan guarantees from Washington are a major source of tuition inflation? Don't be ridiculous. "The unicorns aren't coming, and it's time for our elected leaders to stop pretending only the politically easy-to-cut programs should go." But the Trump budget does just that by simply calling for those cuts because "ridiculous" is really the best word to describe anyone who thinks continuing to promise the American people unicorns like the massive increases to the budgets of all the above-mentioned programs aren't going to crowd out spending for almost anything else. The truth can be harsh, but ultimately it's kinder than having our presidents and members of Congress continue to lie to us. The unicorns aren't coming, and it's time for our elected leaders to stop pretending only the politically easy-to-cut programs should go. It's time to stop throwing the word "poor" around like it's nothing. The fact is, way too much of the so-called "safety net" has been stretched to people who are not poor by most definitions and are thus siphoning vital funding away from those who are truly at the economic bottom. Specifically, this problem has manifested itself with the massive expansions in the number of people on food stamps and taking federal disability payments that has not subsided even with the economic recovery coming out of the Great Recession. This says nothing of the significant fraud in these systems that such a bloated enrollment makes inevitable. 10 percent of Medicaid payments were found to have been improper in 2016 alone, according to the Government Accountability Office. That's $36 billion, for those of you counting at home. The massive expansions of just about all of the programs the Trump plan seeks to cut have led to a growing number of unemployed people in America who are just getting by on various forms and levels of government assistance. This puts an undue level of new strain on the people who actually are working and paying payroll and other taxes to prop up the rest of the country. Yes, Mitt Romney was roundly pilloried when he complained that 47 percent of the people would never vote for him because they pay no federal taxes. But what part of what Romney said was factually wrong? What part of what he said wasn't indicative of an unsustainable political and economic reality? The Trump budget at least starts to tell us the truth about what benefits can survive even in the short-term future. And there's another harsh but crucial reality in the Trump budget — it knows where the money comes from. Taxpayers. Somehow, prioritizing the people who actually provide us the money to spend in Washington has been portrayed as selfish or mean. Now, let's get to what the Trump budget gets wrong. In short, it still isn't "harsh" enough. So far, we have no details of any reforms to the three biggest problems in our budget: Medicare, Social Security, and Defense. No real anti-deficit and pro-taxpayer moves can be made permanent until all three of those programs are reformed and essentially cut. It's not surprising the White House plan doesn't make the hard choices on that three-headed fiscal monster considering it would make the current political firestorm over his other cuts look like a small campfire. The political class and the news media remains convinced that the public will never accept even the slightest cuts or even any significant changes to those programs, but that's just plain wrong. 41 percent of Americans don't believe that Social Security will even exist when they retire, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Are we supposed to believe that they won't stand for changes to a program they don't expect to be around for much longer? Politicians simply don't want to bother to make those tough choices and they're hiding behind the voters to avoid them. But first things first. You have to start telling the truth somewhere, and the Trump budget does the most truth telling since at least the cut-heavy Reagan budget in 1981 that helped launch a major economic expansion. Our debt is about $20 trillion, and the number of unfunded liabilities coming due in the future have some experts pegging our real debt at more like $200 trillion. There's not enough taxpayer money in the universe to cover those costs. With these harsh truths in mind, we have to remember that a budget that doesn't make the harsh cuts Trump's does simply isn't realistic. Oh, and there's no such thing as unicorns either. Commentary by Jake Novak, CNBC.com senior columnist. Follow him on Twitter @jakejakeny. or more insight from CNBC contributors, follow @CNBCopinion on Twitter.
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The All Seeing Eye of Destruction: Google Creates ‘Image-Recognition AI’ For Your Smartphone
By Nate Brown - 05/18/2017
In 2016, Alphabet Inc. Patented ‘Google Lens,’ a computerized contact lens that gets embedded into the eye which can record and take pictures. In 2017, Alphabet Inc. brings about the first phase of ‘Google Lens’ in the form of an ‘image-recognition AI’ for your smartphone. The conglomerate corporation Alphabet the parent company to Google and YouTube has taken the first steps to bring about full-blown integrated image-recognition technology that places artificial intelligence in the hands of the user. Previously such technology has been available but not to this degree. Image-Recognition technology uses what is called computer vision, think of a robot that can see you, a store front, a price tag, your personal data, and recognize what is in-front of the camera. Google is selling the technology as; “With Google Lens, your smartphone camera won’t just see what you see, but will also understand what you see to help you take action.” In other words, Google is using its users to teach their computer scripts to recognize and remember what “they see.” Such can be very dangerous technology, especially when companies like Nvidia are using similar technology to relay the captured information to government officials. Embedded into the smartphone as an app, is not where this technology stops, rather Google is most likely going to take this a step further, and shortly Google will be actively placing this technology into the eyes of their users – literally. In May 2016 Google patented what is also called ‘Google Lens, ’ and it is a computerized contact lens that is embedded into the eye and cannot just be taken off. The idea is being sold to the public as ‘for medical purposes,’ as we similarly see with other technology that has come from the conglomerate technology giant. Google is not the only tech giant aiming to bridge the biological and technological gap, other companies such as Samsung and Sony are building a cyborg contact lens which can record, track, and transmit everything seen with the eyeball as well. Artificial intelligence will be used to govern the lives of the citizenry, all while the public is sold on the idea that the technology produced is a necessity when in reality mankind is building its own prison cells.
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ALERT: Officials warn of more collapses at US nuclear site — “High spikes” in radiation levels recorded — Expert: Plutonium could go airborne — Major concern over radioactive releases — Gov’t delays revealing data to public (VIDEOS)
Published: May 18th, 2017 at 6:56 am ET By ENENews
KING 5 transcript, May 14, 2017 (emphasis added): Hanford official: Tunnel could collapse again — Less than a week after a tunnel collapse at Hanford’s PUREX site, Senator Cantwell visited the nuclear site Saturday, concerned about the recent collapse and the possibility of more. “There is still a potential that we could have an additional collapse of that tunnel,” said Doug Shoop, manager at the Department of Energy Richland Operations Office… “What we will be doing, weather permitting, will be putting a very large cover over the top of that tunnel number one,” said Shoop. That cover meant to keep radioactive particles in the dirt from flying into the air in the event of another collapse. KOMO, May 13, 2017: DOE spokesman Doug Shoop said they’re still at risk of another failure as the 360-foot long concrete and wood structure has not been shored up. To mitigate the risk of a radioactive release in the event of a second collapse, workers will place a heavy, industrial tarp over the entire length of the tunnel… KEPR, May 13, 2017: IMMEDIATE CONCERNS… “Now there is still the potential that we could have an additional collapse,” said Doug Shoop, site manager for the Department of Energy Richland Operations… Nuclear Waste Program Manager Alex Smith said the Department of Ecology[ said the] most immediate concern, of course, is the potential the wooden tunnel could collapse again… If a larger part of the tunnel were to collapse, she said they worry about a radiological release… With high winds in the area, Smith said radioactive dust can travel easily, that’s why they used extra precaution when dealing with the emergency on Tuesday. Shoop [said] they want to avoid airborne release of radioactive dust because the materials are difficult to contain and can be harmful to humans… “But what we do know for sure is that the material is very radioactive,” he said… Shoop said all the monitoring data that the DOE, contractors and the Department of Health conducted on the site, following the collapse, will be available to the public within the next week… Alex Smith, Washington Dept. of Ecology: “The integrity of the structure is compromised… Radioactive dirt and dust could be released… it is a high concern.” KNDO transcript, May 14, 2017: “There are still major concerns circling the tunnel collapse.” KING 5 transcript, May 10, 2017: “A danger still exists after that tunnel collapsed yesterday. It was really a statewide emergency… If the wind were to pick-up and the hole is still not filled in, that’s when the wind could come down, stir things up, and spread radioactive particles into the air… The bad news is the wind is about to pick up. We’ve got this low pressure system out in the Pacific… Once it traverses east of the Cascades we’re going to see that wind… You’re going to see wind speeds surpassing the 30 mph mark.” Nuclear Hotseat, May 10, 2017: (at 11:15 in) Robert Alvarez, former senior policy adviser at US Dept. of Energy: “It’s possible that radiation might have escaped into the open environment because of this collapse… This stuff could re-suspend — it probably has plutonium in it.” — (at 16:30 in) Julie Wert, Radiation Watch: “I pulled the [EPA RadNet data] for Hanford and it’s showing high spikes… That indicates that there’s some releases going on.” Tri-City Herald, May 13, 2017: Hanford radiological control technicians who questioned some unusual radiation readings are being credited with discovering the breach… When some readings were much higher than expected, they began checking for the cause…
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Days of Noah and The Demonic Wars – The Battle For The Minds of The World
By Ray Gano - May 16, 2017
The demonic wars are taking place right now and like it or not, the enemy is winning. How is he doing that? By winning the minds of the world. Christianity is under attack in a big way. “The Italian religious research group CENSUR (The Center for Studies on New Religions) has named Christians the most persecuted religious group in the world after calculating that one person of a Christian faith was murdered every six minutes in 2016.” (1) We have been witnessing a war on Christianity for the last 20+ years and body count is growing exponentially. Most of the deaths taking place are against Christians in the Middle East and in Northern Africa where Islam is prevalent and in most cases ruling those areas and countries. Like it or not, what is happening here in America is nothing compared to those brothers and sisters who are dying for the faith in those countries. But what is happening here in America is a literal battle for the minds of the world to demean, negate, demoralize and make Christianity totally ill relevant. What we are seeing take place in America is an increase in hostility and incredible intolerance towards Christians, our values, our beliefs, our way of life, our God and His Son Jesus Christ. Basically, if you are a Christian, people do not want to know or deal with it. The world says, “You keep your religious intolerance in the closet where it belongs and out of the public’s eye.” Folks, this is a tactic that is totally satanically driven. The enemy believes that the more it can take Christianity out of the public’s eye and make it ill relevant, the better their positions become at being the dominate ideal. This is the same tactic that Hitler used against the Jews in Nazi Germany, and like it or not, Hitler was then allowed to kill over 11 million people, 6 million of them were Jews. I am sighting this because we are beginning to see a rise of hatred against Christians and those of us on the right along with anyone who holds to our conservative ideas are being targeted. “a Huffington Post article that showed “how to really turn up the heat on elected officials” went viral. The author, Michaelangelo Signorile, called on protesters to harass Republicans at dinner, when they’re out shopping and even at home. Societal norms for the basic levels of decency one should afford political opponents, Signorile argued, no longer apply to liberals. “It’s time to move beyond polite protests within specified boundaries. It’s time to escalate the expression of our outrage and our anger in a massive way.” (2) We are seeing an attack on Christian businesses where atheist or LGBT groups are specifically targeting small business for the sole reason to put them out of business via a law suit. The basic mentality is that “If you don’t want to serve the public, don’t open a business saying you will serve the public.” We are witnessing a militaristic secularization of the Untied States and just because President Trump is in office is not stopping these people who are hell bent on destroying the Christian way of life. Again, at the very core of this militaristic secularization is the demonic and their control of the many people who are involved in this idea that Christianity needs to be squashed like a bug for the good of society. And that is where they are winning the minds of the world. The world is starting to agree with these demonic ideas and backing theses monstrous thugs who see that it is their right to what ever they want to us all in the name of their very skewed ideas. What we need to realize is that we are fighting with demons both in the spiritual and in the physical. The physical are demons who are possessing people and controlling them to do as much damage and harm as possible. These are free will humans who are working for the enemy and gladly doing so. This is why it is important that we recognize this and understand how to spot those who are in league with demons. This week I have produced a video which talks about how you can recognize someone who is demon possessed. You can watch this video here — https://youtu.be/atdFBGNm4OE Folks, this battle is real and this is why we need to be prepared mentally physically and spiritually. Like it or not, many of us Christians are not ready for the fight and that is where the enemy has the better of us. We need to get organized and we need to be preparing so that no matter what happens, we are able to still stand in the gap and continue to fight the good fight. In later articles, I will be talking about this more. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
http://raygano.com/days-of-noah-and-the-demonic-wars-the-battle-for-the-minds-of-the-world/
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Impressive flash floods engulf Taif – Huge dust storm changes day into night in Hail, Saudi Arabia
By Strange Sounds - May 18, 2017
Weather in Saudi Arabia is going crazy again.
While an impressive flash floods engulf Taif, a huge dust storm changing day into night swallowed up Hail, Saudi Arabia on May 17, 2017.
At almost the exat same time, about 900 km away in Hail, Saudi Arabia, a giant dust storm engulfed the region changing day into night. Impressive images below:
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etc. Keep your eyes upon me, watch and listen, even as volcanoes begin to erupt, landslides and avalanches, flooding overseas, soon to America. But keep your eyes on the things that I have told you and realize that my church shall go through this time in great victory.
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Decades after catastrophic 1980 eruption, Mount St. Helens is 'recharging'
By Blair Shiff May 18, 2017, 5:06 AM ET
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, after two months of increasing volcanic activity. Since its most recent eruption in 2008, there has been a swarm of earthquakes, which are thought to be a result of the magmatic system's "recharging," according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Similar seismic swarms were detected during recharging periods before a small eruption in 2004 and through a period of volcanic activity that ended in 2008. In March through May of this year, swarms of deep earthquakes, not even felt on the surface, have been detected. Seismic swarms do not directly indicate that an eruption is imminent, because volcanic forecasting is difficult, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The 1980 eruption is widely considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history. It killed 57 people and destroyed hundreds of homes, 57 bridges and some 200 miles of roads, in addition to leveling tens of thousands of acres of forest. The eruption sent an ash cloud more than 12 miles into the atmosphere in just 10 minutes. Fine ash reached the Northeast two days later and circled the earth within 15 days, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The volcano had been dormant for more than 100 years until seismic activity started to increase in March 1980. A series of earthquakes caused cracks in the snow and ice at the top of the mountain. On March 27, 1980, ash began to spray from the mountain's peak. What happened next caught many scientists by surprise. At 8:32 a.m. on the day of the big eruption, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook the area, and the mountain's summit and much of its northern flank collapsed, sending a huge explosion out from the north side instead of a typical eruption from the top. Some 3.2 billion tons of ash spewed into the surrounding area, according to the United States Geological Survey. Streets and buildings were covered, and the eruption caused an estimated $1 billion in damage. Over the nearly four decades since the cataclysmic eruption, the USGS has noticed signs of recovery near Mount St. Helens. These signs of regrowth are positive, but there are also signs of increased seismic activity under the mountain. "Mount St. Helens is at normal background levels of activity," Liz Westby, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey–Cascades Volcano Observatory, told ABC News. "But a bit out of the ordinary are several small magnitude earthquake swarms in March to May 2016, November 2016 and April 16 to May 5, 2017. During the April 16 to May 5, 2017, swarm, we detected well over 100 earthquakes, all below a magnitude 1.3." Those quakes originated between sea level and 3 miles below sea level and were too small for people to feel on the surface, even if they had been directly above them, she said. Even though there has been a swarm of earthquakes, Westby said, that doesn't necessarily mean that an eruption of Mount St. Helens is coming soon. Volcanic forecasts can be tricky. "There are several reasons why it is very unlikely that this swarm is a precursor to imminent eruptive activity at Mount St. Helens. It is similar to ones in the past that did not lead to surface activity. It consists of very small earthquakes occurring at relatively low rates. There are no other geophysical indicators (like surface deformation, tilting, increased volcanic gas emissions) of unrest," she told ABC News. Westby said these swarms are extremely interesting and helpful to scientists, since each geophysical signal gives them a better understanding of how a volcano functions. "This is why we maintain a close watch over these giants, so we can detect the earliest signs of reawakening," she said. The agency sends out weekly updates on seismic activity around the volcano. Mount St. Helens' last eruption in 2008 was insignificant compared with the devastating eruption in 1980.
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U.S. Household Debts Hit Record High in First Quarter--Update
By Ben Leubsdorf Published May 17, 2017
The total debt held by American households reached a record high in early 2017, exceeding its 2008 peak after years of retrenchment in the face of financial crisis, recession and modest economic growth. The milestone, announced Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was a long time coming. Americans reduced their debts during and after the 2007-09 recession to an unusual extent: a 12% decline from the peak in the third quarter of 2008 to the trough in the second quarter of 2013. New York Fed researchers, looking at data back to the end of World War II, described the drop as "an aberration from what had been a 63-year upward trend reflecting the depth, duration and aftermath of the Great Recession." In the first quarter, total debt was up 14.1% from that low point as steady job gains, falling unemployment and continued economic growth boosted households' income and willingness to borrow. The New York Fed report said total household debt rose by $149 billion in the first three months of 2017 compared with the prior quarter, or 1.2%, to a total of $12.725 trillion. "Almost nine years later, household debt has finally exceeded its 2008 peak, but the debt and its borrowers look quite different today," New York Fed economist Donghoon Lee said. He added, "This record debt level is neither a reason to celebrate nor a cause for alarm." The pace of new lending slowed from the strong fourth quarter. Mortgage balances rose 1.7% last quarter from the final three months of 2016, while home-equity lines of credit were down 3.6% in the first quarter. Automotive loans rose 0.9% and student loans climbed 2.6%. Credit-card debt fell 1.9%, and other types of debt were down 2.7% from the fourth quarter. The data weren't adjusted for inflation, and household debt remains below past levels in relation to the size of the overall U.S. economy. In the first quarter, total debt was 66.9% of nominal gross domestic product versus 85.4% of GDP in the third quarter of 2008. Balance sheets look different now, with less housing-related debt and more student and auto loans. As of the first quarter, 67.8% of total household debt was in the form of mortgages; in the third quarter of 2008, mortgages were 73.3% of total debt. Student loans rose from 4.8% to 10.6% of total indebtedness, and auto loans went from 6.4% to 9.2%. Mortgage lending to subprime borrowers has dwindled since the housing crisis in favor of loans to consumers considered more likely to repay. In the first quarter, borrowers with credit scores under 620 accounted for 3.6% of mortgage originations, compared with 15.2% a decade earlier. Borrowers with credit scores of 760 or higher were 60.9% of originations last quarter, versus 23.9% in the first quarter of 2007. Auto loans have remained relatively available to subprime borrowers, helping fuel the record vehicle sales of recent years as interest rates have been low. Some 19.6% of auto-loan originations last quarter went to borrowers with credit scores below 620, down from 29.6% a decade earlier. The median credit score for auto-loan originations in the first quarter was 706, compared with 764 for mortgage originations. Some 4.8% of outstanding debt was delinquent at the end of the first quarter, little changed from late 2016, with 3.4% at least 90 days late, known as seriously delinquent. Seriously delinquent rates have climbed recently for credit-card debt, 7.5% in the first quarter, and auto loans, 3.8% last quarter, and remained high -- 11% last quarter -- for student loans, according to Wednesday's report. Write to Ben Leubsdorf at ben.leubsdorf@wsj.com The total debt held by American households reached a record high in early 2017, exceeding its 2008 peak after years of retrenchment in the face of financial crisis, recession and modest economic growth. Much has changed over the past eight and a half years. The economy is larger, lending standards are tighter and less debt is delinquent. Mortgages remain the largest form of household borrowing but have become a smaller share of total debt as consumers take on more automotive and student loans. "The debt and its borrowers look quite different today," New York Fed economist Donghoon Lee said. He added: "This record debt level is neither a reason to celebrate nor a cause for alarm." The total-debt milestone, announced Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was a long time coming. Americans reduced their debts during and after the 2007-09 recession to an unusual extent: a 12% decline from the peak in the third quarter of 2008 to the trough in the second quarter of 2013. New York Fed researchers, looking at data back to the end of World War II, described the drop as "an aberration from what had been a 63-year upward trend reflecting the depth, duration and aftermath of the Great Recession." In the first quarter, total debt was up about 14% from that low point as steady job gains, falling unemployment and continued economic growth boosted households' income and willingness to borrow. The New York Fed report said total household debt rose by $149 billion in the first three months of 2017 compared with the prior quarter to a total of $12.725 trillion. The pace of new lending slowed from the strong fourth quarter. Mortgage balances rose from the final three months of 2016, while home-equity lines of credit were down. Automotive loans rose, as did student loans, but credit-card debt fell along with other types of debt. The data weren't adjusted for inflation, and household debt remains below past levels in relation to the size of the overall U.S. economy. In the first quarter, total debt was about 67% of nominal gross domestic product versus roughly 85% of GDP in the third quarter of 2008. Balance sheets look different now, with less housing-related debt and more student and auto loans. As of the first quarter, about 68% of total household debt was in the form of mortgages; in the third quarter of 2008, mortgages were roughly 73% of total debt. Student loans rose from about 5% to around 11% of total indebtedness, and auto loans went from roughly 6% to about 9%. Mortgage lending to subprime borrowers has dwindled since the housing crisis in favor of loans to consumers considered more likely to repay. In the first quarter, borrowers with credit scores under 620 accounted for less than 4% of mortgage originations, compared with more than 15% a decade earlier. Borrowers with credit scores of 760 or higher had about 61% of originations last quarter, versus about 24% in the first quarter of 2007. Auto loans have remained relatively available to subprime borrowers, helping fuel the record vehicle sales of recent years as interest rates have been low. About a fifth of auto-loan originations last quarter went to borrowers with credit scores below 620, down from roughly 30% a decade earlier. Still, standards have tightened. The median credit score for auto-loan originations in the first quarter was 706, compared with 764 for mortgage originations. In the first quarter of 2007, the median scores were 678 for auto loans and 712 for mortgages. Less than 5% of outstanding debt was delinquent at the end of the first quarter, little changed from late 2016, with 3.4% at least 90 days late, known as seriously delinquent. The overall seriously delinquent rate remains well below levels seen in the recession's immediate aftermath, though delinquencies have climbed recently for credit-card debt and auto loans and remain high for student loans, according to Wednesday's report. Write to Ben Leubsdorf at ben.leubsdorf@wsj.com
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Will There be a Civil War If Trump Is Impeached?
By Dave Hodges
Never before have we seen such a collection of mainstream media outlets to conspire to take a sitting President out of office. The Washington Post (a proven front for the CIA), ABC News, CNN (another CIA controlled operation) and the New York Times have presented a uniform front of falsfied evidence against Donald Trump with absolutedly no concrete evidence that Trump has violated the law and should be impeached and criminally convicted and sentenced. If Trump is impeached will there be a civil war. Allegations and Evidence Against Trump Trump is accused of conspiring with the Russians to fix the results of the election. He is also accused of leaking intelligence information to the Russians. Further, it is alleged that Trump obstructed justice. The evidence for these crimes is absolutely nonexistent. There has not been one shred of evidence to support any of these allegations. The closest that the Deep State has come to producing evidence is the word of one man immediately after being fired by Trump and I am referring to James Comey. Comey allegedly wrote down conent related to conversations he had with Trump in which Trump “obstructed justice” by telling Comey to stop investigating Flynn. If this were true, Comey would have been required to report this to the Department of Justice, IMMEDIATELY! Comey, by not reporting the allegation, either obstructed justice or is lying. There is no other evidence to support these allegations. As I said in yesterday’s article, the clear intent is to keep Trump and Putin divided because of their expressed common desire to eliminate child-sex-trafficking from the landscape of government and Deep State politics. Rules for Thee but Not for Me While the people of this country live under the mantra of repeating a big enough lie, often enough, the people will come to believe it, the MSM outlets have totally ignored the heinous and serial criminality of Hillary Clinton: Illegally brokered arms deals with 16 nations with terrorist ties and laundered the gifts into the Clinton Foundation through HSBC Bank while James Comey was on the bank’s board of directors. Illegally sold 25% of the nation’s uranium to Russia while husband Bill received overpriced speaking engagements in Russia. This is called treason. By the way, the New York Times first reported these allegations involving Uranium One as the front company. Illegally laundered her ill-gotten Clinton Foundation gains into her presidential campaign. The Clinton Foundation stole $2 billion dollars in Hatian relief money. Stored national security emails on her private server and attempted to cover it up. There’s your obstruction of justice violation along with Comey’s facilitation of this crime. There are a host of other serious crimes that have gone unpunished. But justice is selective in America, today, because there is an agenda to destroy the American dream. Why? Because in the New World Order, under the direction of the banksters, everyone is in debt so that they can be controlled. Impeachment and the Total Loss of Civil Liberties Because we are playing in a game with no rules, it is important to know that Trump will be impeached solely based on the strength of fabricated evidence and in most cases, no evidence at all. In today’s Deep State America, perception is reality. Opinion rules over fact, Intimidation rules over the free expression of ideas. We have officially entered the Nazi Germany period of the Enabling Act. Soon, your guns will be confiscated. The 1st Amendment and the Internet will soon become strangers. George Soros controls the modern day Brown Shirts. The fate that befell Seth Rich will become standard and with a completely controlled media, there will be nobody to identify and speak against the abuses of the ruling party. Donald Trump is the stop gap for this movement. With his removal, there is a clear road for the total subjugation of America. Will There Be a Revolution In America? The answer to the question is no, an emphatic no. Donald Trump’s campaign should have been enough to wake Americans up. There was no more of a salient issue as the Free Trade Agreements. These agreements remove American sovereignty. They destroy the employment market at home. They have done move to lower the standard of living that any other single factor. However, most Americans don’t know a free trade agreement from a free agent in football. America has become one of the most dumbed down countries in the world. A full two-thirds of Americans cannot find N. Korea on a map. We are buried in our entertainments. We are distracted to dumbness. Many Americans make the mentally retarded look informed by comparison. In short, we are being led to the slaughter with smiles on our faces! It is game over except for one possible factor. Can’t Anything Be Done? Won’t the people get tired of the abuse and when Trump is impeached and thrown out of office, won’t the people revolt? The short answer is no. The event will be theater for 3/4ths of the country, and nothing more. There is, however, one issue that could awaken a sleeping giant. It is not the loss of guns, Internet, First Amendment and the loss of jobs and ultimately the foreiture of our country’s sovereignty. The only thing that even the most ignorant will hold dear is the overall welfare of their children. America may not know what Internet freedom means, but they understand what sexual abuse of a child is all about. On this point, most species will defend their offspring to the death. This fact, alone, tells us where we in the Independent Media should focus our efforts. Quite simply, Pedogate and the Deep State connection to it must be hammered home day after day. Trump must be portrayed by us as a defender of Children. If he won’t say it, we need to say it for him. And what if we are successful in rousing our citizens to action based on the crimes committed against children? We will have a civil war and many will die. What will happen if we do nothing and the globalist agenda goes forward. Soon, 90% of you will not be around to see how this is going to end. America, you have a choice. You can distract yourself until death. Or you can risk death by defending what is precious. And to my colleagues in the Independent Media, I feel I have identified the anti-sleeping pill that America has taken and it is to fully expose child-sex trafficking. Tick, tick, tick, time is very short.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/05/18/will-there-be-a-civil-war-if-trump-is-impeached/
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Dems: “Give us Trump’s head or we’ll bury you and your county!”
By Sher Zieve —— Bio and Archives May 18, 2017
If they weren’t so belligerent, nasty, petulant and dangerous to our country and humanity, one might—almost—be slightly inclined to have pity on the, now, increasingly desperate Democrats. Unfortunately, however, these Marxist Democrats exhibit all of these negative connotations…with increasing and even great regularity. The leftist US media have been working with—if not providing the instructions as to how to accomplish their goals—the Marxist Democrats and RINOs for well over a decade in order to take over the country for themselves and the globalist elites. Perverse and craven (these parasitic types have never had a courageous bone in their bodies), the media—along with the US indoctrination system formerly known as the “public school” system—in all of their many guises have diligently worked to transform the thinking of Americans. Now, that transformation begins as soon as toddlers can sit up to watch television. Ruling over us all from-cradle-to-grave is all the would-be demi-human globalist masters are demanding. And, like Islamic ISIS (not to be confused with the Roman goddess who was never known to behead humans), the US Islamo-Marxist Democrats are becoming more deranged and depraved with each passing day. Goals of the Islamo-Marxist Revolution in America The goals of those who wish us to see them as “downtrodden,” “put upon” and “demeaned” because members of the US electorate were “stupid” in that they voted for now President Donald J. Trump are demanding that same president of the United States be removed (after just shy of four months in office) because they hate him. If we-the-people refuse to comply, these same unprincipled politicos have told us they will forge ahead with their unceasing shouts and Dem Congress members (and a few RINOs…notably John McCain) will continue their refusals to engage in their jobs and will, instead, buck up their undereducated and paid ‘troops’ to continue their rioting, burning and pillaging against anyone who opposes their dark vision for mankind’s future. They will continue to harass us all until we remove President Trump from office. Make no mistake. Those who oppose individual freedom being replaced with the collective enslavement of group-think and actions are not pro-humanity. Those who want to control the human population via abortion and, likely, soon the regulation of the number of children allowed per family are not pro-human. Those who organize, spawn, foment and encourage violent attacks against any and all of their fellow citizens who disagree with their menacing and deviant ways are definitely not pro-humanity. The attacks against Constitutionalists are increasing almost exponentially each day. Conservative Constitutionalist (invited) speakers are being threatened by the Left with assaults at Universities nationwide and the Universities (recently and most notably University of California Berkeley) are now telling the anti-Communist speakers that they will have no police protection if they come. The leaders of these “bastions of higher learning” are telling the campus police forces to stand down if conservatives are attacked! Conservative Read stated that at UCB “according to YAF attorney prosecuting the case, the administrators instructed the police not to interfere in any anti-Coulter demonstrations no matter how violent, unless they endangered life. Of course this is nonsense because it’s pretty much impossible to know if life is endangered until someone is seriously hurt or killed. Obviously to be effective the police need to be prepared for the worst case scenario. “To give the police official cover for refusing to serve or protect as is their solemn duty, Chancellor Dirks issued a baldly disingenuous statement that gives the “heckler’s veto” the university’s stamp of approval.” President Trump is under one assault after another. Thus far, all of the news stories purporting that his ‘misdeeds’ rise to the level of impeachment have been discredited and proved to be malicious fake news mockup out of whole cloth by a progressively more virulent leftist attack-media. Note: Thus far, there have been no misdeeds proved to even successfully identify .We’re beginning to look more and more like Peronist Argentina. The supposed “Russian-connection” between President Trump and Putin has been investigated since—at least—July 2016…long before Trump was elected. Nothing has, to date, been found. The Democrats are throwing every attempt to create a Trump scandal they can find, in order to keep the president from doing his job for we-the-people. The Left’s latest attempt is the assertion by the Left’s ever-faithful fake-news source The New York Times that purports President Trump obstructed justice by telling Comey to stop the investigation of Michael Flynn. The NYT says there is a memo on it. Said memo has yet to be produced. Hmmm. Former FBI Director Comey knows full well that under 18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony he was required to immediately report any suspected obstruction of justice. He did not. In fact, up until a day or so ago, he never even mentioned it. And, on 3 May 2017 Comey appeared before a Senate committee and said in answer to a committee member’s question that the Trump Administration “doesn’t obstruct investigations.” There is no “there…there” in any of these patently fabricated-by-the-Left fake stories against President Trump. Folks, all of this treacherous—and increasingly perilous for us all—fake news mischief is meant to bring down the US Republic so that the non-elected Marxist Dems can rule over us…again. Now, we even have a special counsel appointed. Bad move. This could go on forever and end any hope of Trump continuing to bring about his policies and programs, in order to actually make America great again. That’s the Democrat plan. The Left has even finally and negatively impacted the stock market with all of its lies and subterfuge. This must stop. We have entered a time period that could quite possibly end our country. And, the danger to us is coming from within the Democrat Party aided and abetted by the testosterone-free RINOs. It’s time to expunge the Left’s attempts to end our country. Elect no more Democrats….no more RINOs. We must take our country back, stand behind our not-guilty-of-anything-except-winning-the-presidency President Trump and vote out all Democrats possible. Their malicious stranglehold on us all must be broken. “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”—James 4:7 Young America’s Foundation Sues Berkeley for Squelching Free Speech: The FBI Has Been Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties Since July: 18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony: FBI Director James Comey Testified Under Oath May 3rd That The Trump Administration Doesn’t Obstruct Investigations: Sher Zieve -- Bio and Archives | Click to view 13 Comments Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows. Sher can be reached at sherzieve@bajabb.com
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RED ALERT: Attempted political coup now taking place in D.C. with effort to impeach Trump for fabricated “obstruction of justice”
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 by: Mike Adams
(Natural News) This is a high priority alert. The Washington Post, now exposed as a CIA propaganda front, and the New York Times (a fiction-pimping anti-American rag owned by a Mexican national) have tag-teamed their way to their desired finish line: The impeachment and indictment of President Donald J. Trump. This has been accomplished through the publishing of a seemingly endless stream of utterly fabricated fake news stories, nearly all of which are based on “anonymous sources” that are probably little more than schizophrenic voices in the heads of the reporters writing the “news” in the first place. The aim has been to accuse President Trump of every imaginable crime, from “leaking intel to the Russians” to “obstruction of justice.” Keep in mind that these same discredited media outlets gave Obama a pass when he laundered $1.7 billion in cash and delivered it to Iran on a military cargo plane. They are the same fake news media that looked the other way when Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in a private meeting to pressure Lynch to back off any potential criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s long list of crimes. They are the same anti-American media that said nothing when Hillary Clinton cheated during the presidential debates by receiving the debate questions in advance from CNN. (She also pre-sold her anticipated presidency by collecting tens of millions of dollars in “donations” and “speaking fees” from foreign interests.) They are the same media that stood silent when former President Obama weaponized the IRS to suppress the speech of conservative non-profits. Similarly, nobody in the media seems to be alarmed at all that Obama abused the state surveillance apparatus to spy on his political opponents such as Rand Paul. These are all serious crimes, serious abuses of power and treasonous acts carried out by Obama, a Democrat. Yet the left-wing media remains silent on every one of them. What’s obvious from all this is that, according to the left-wing media, Democrats can do no wrong and all their crimes are whitewashed by default (even the obvious murder of Seth Rich). Yet Republicans are instantly guilty of the worst crimes imaginable, even when they’ve done nothing wrong at all. REAL crimes committed by Democrats are deliberately overlooked, in other words, while FAKE accusations against Republicans are hyped up until they’re made to look legitimate and damning, to the point where Democrats are all madly hyperventilating and claiming to be “triggered” by nearly everything. It is against this background of wild disinformation, media lies and conspiratorial plotting that President Trump is now facing the most serious challenge of his administration: An aggressive attempt to remove him from office through impeachment and indictment over entirely fabricated, baseless accusations that are lacking any real facts. Congressman Al Green just called for Trump’s impeachment on the House floor Right on cue, Texas congressman Al Green (a Democrat from Houston, no surprise) just called for Donald Trump’s impeachment. As Zero Hedge reports: For now it is unclear what Congressman Al Green’s reasoning is… apart from anonymously-sourced evidence-free reports from a clearly biased mainstream media perpetuating a narrative designed to ‘resist’. Apparently the argument is that Trump “obstructed justice”, although we hope Mr. Green has some evidence to back up his accusations. Indeed, nearly every media accusation against Trump has been based on nothing but innuendo, misleading headlines, fake “anonymous sources” (a Washington Post favorite) or outright misrepresentations of hard facts. The New York Times and Washington Post have deliberately published fake news, then whipped it all into a “media circle jerk” frenzy where the same false stories are repeated across the ‘net, all hyped up by Facebook’s selective oppression of liberty-oriented news so that left-wing media lies are more easily shared. Google then tweaks its search engine algorithms to censor truth media while giving extra rankings to the lies of the left-wing media, making sure that all searches on political topics return mainstream media propaganda results rather than independent media stories that are actually far more truthful. The fix is in, in other words, and it’s a coordinated network involving the media, tech giants, deep state intelligence organizations and of course late night television which drives all the false narratives into the brains of young, gullible hipsters. The goal of all this is the overthrow of the Republic and the final crushing of all voices of liberty As should be obvious by now, the Democrats seek to run a totalitarian, fascist police state that they control. It will be called a “tolerant” society, of course, where anyone who disagrees with any left-wing narrative is censored off the ‘net, labeled a threat to humanity and imprisoned or executed. The Boston Herald is already calling for mass executions of people who disagree with California’s SB 277 vaccine mandate which allows the state government to force mass injections of toxic substances into human babies. Netflix has now memory-holed videos that teach the science of genetics, making sure that nobody remembers how gender is determined by XX or XY chromosomes, not a “momentary feeling” of a gender-confused individual. Google eliminated the entire NaturalNews.com website from its index for a six-day period, attempting to memory hole 140,000+ independent news articles, and Facebook is now blocking nearly all sharing of independent media in order to make sure that only the fake news narratives of the delusional Left can be shared on its twisted social media platform (which serves as little more than a front for the NSA to collect intelligence on the citizenry). The real goal in all this — which is also being pursued by the evil globalist Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and owner of the fake news Washington Post — is the overthrow of the Republic. This will be followed, of course, by a massive false flag school shooting, a call for the complete disarmament of the U.S. citizenry, and a final rollout of the totalitarian police state run by Leftists. All liberty-oriented websites will be de-indexed from Google, banned from Facebook sharing, blocked by email ISPs and possibly even shut down at the domain level through government seizures of domain names. All voices of liberty will be silenced, and only obedient conformity will be tolerated in the name of “tolerance.” We are right now on the very precipice of this unfolding before our very eyes in the days ahead. An effort is under way to impeach President Trump or declare him mentally unfit. Rumors are swirling that his own cabinet is prepared to say he suffers from Alzheimer’s or dementia and is therefore “unfit for command” and must be replaced. An actual political coup is forming up at this very moment, and the anti-American forces within the media and the bureaucracy are planning to move swiftly to out-pace public awareness or dissent against the coup that’s taking place. Why a coup against Trump will likely set off a civil war and a catastrophic market collapse I plan to discuss this is more detail in a subsequent article, but according to my analysis, a coup against President Trump is likely to be the catalyst for the outbreak of civil war as well as a catastrophic market crash. In that civil war, I predict a strong possibility that the headquarters of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other tech gatekeepers will be overrun by pro-America forces in order to halt their collusion with fascist left-wing traitors who are trying to overthrow the Republic. We should expect to see similar strategic occupation efforts targeting the Washington Post and the New York Times, which is where all the anti-American propaganda originates, run by nefarious globalists who despise liberty and Trump. I would not be surprised at all to see all the major media centers of America seized and forced to stop running their anti-American, anti-liberty, fascist propaganda that has deliberately sought to overthrow the duly elected President of these United States. On the streets, the mass protests will of course spill out across every U.S. city, where brainwashed, delusional left-wing activists will carry out mass violence against innocent white people, looting white neighborhoods and torching white-owned businesses. This mass violence will be uncontrolled and unstoppable by local police, who will be vastly outnumbered. At some point, watch for local citizens who own firearms to start shooting back in their own defense, and from there it all escalates into open warfare on the streets of America. (Hint: Gun owners who can accurately shoot rifles will out-range the left-wing criminals who only know how to use handguns.) If you are not yet prepared for the outbreak of mass violence across America, your time is running short. You will obviously need a means of self-defense, and you will need plenty of organic survival food, a non-electric water filter, emergency first aid items and emergency communications gear. If you don’t yet own a firearm for your protection, find recommended choices for self-defense at Guns.news and Gear.news. You will need plenty of hollow point ammo, which you can find at MidwayUSA.com or AmmoToGo.com. My personal recommendation is to acquire a Glock 19 as your starting pistol, and get a POF-USA.com rifle if it’s legal to own one in your area. (If it’s not legal to own a rifle, you are living in the wrong state. Time to move…) Prepare to defend your property, your community and perhaps even your country. It really is coming down to an outbreak of civil war across America, and the insane, fascist Left will stop at nothing to stomp out all voices of liberty and install their own totalitarian system of government under which no dissent is allowed at all. Leftism is fascism, remember. If you do not agree with all their insane, delusional narratives about climate change, transgenderism, government spending or socialized health care, then you will be silenced and punished. The book burnings have literally begun; the Left’s calls for the mass killings of the voices of liberty are on the rise, and the Left has become a mindless mass of dangerous zombies who are mentally ill (and extremely violent). This will obviously not end peacefully. PRIORITY: How to stay informed as the attempted coup and civil war unfolds STOP using Google as your search engine. Start using GoodGopher.com instead. STOP using Google News to find out what’s happening. Use Censored.news instead. STOP using Facebook, period. Use GAB.ai instead. STOP buying from Amazon.com. Every purchase funds the same owner as the Washington Post, which is a traitorous, fake news propaganda front that’s actively trying to overthrow the Republic. NEVER believe what you get from NPR, NYT, CNN, WashPost or other anti-American, left-wing media outlets. They are all deliberately fabricating fake news that’s intended to overthrow the Republic and crush all voices of liberty and reason, Each day, go directly to NaturalNews.com, NewsTarget.com, Trump.news or other websites to find out what’s happening. Natural News is now updated every morning and evening, so check it at least twice a day. Subscribe to our email newsletter to receive email alerts. 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Pat Buchanan: It Isn’t Watergate Yet, But How Long Can This Sustain?
Alex Pfeiffer Reporter 10:28 PM 05/17/2017
Pat Buchanan says the nonstop uproar following Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey is not comparable to Watergate, but he does wonder if the Trump presidency can function with this level of drama. Buchanan was a central figure in the Richard Nixon administration and just released “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made And Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” He spoke to The Daily Caller Wednesday about the Trump presidency and other topics. You wrote on Monday that the firing of Comey is nothing like Watergate. Do you still think these comparisons are overblown in light of Tuesday’s New York Times report that Trump asked Comey to stop investigating Michael Flynn? I do. We haven’t got a single crime yet or a single indictment yet. By the time of the Saturday Night Massacre — in the middle of the Watergate scandal which lasted 18 months — you had people convicted and imprisoned, you had others who were on trial or facing indictment, you had others who had lawyered up and whose names had been dropped, you had congressional hearings, you had universal cries in the House for impeachment, and the White House was clearly deep in a crisis. To compare the situation then with the situation now is absurd. I will say there is a valid comparison between the blood-in-the-water atmosphere of this city now and the blood-in-the-water atmosphere of 1973/1974 after March ’73. There’s another difference, and that’s the media. You had The Washington Post, CBS and the networks. You had a morning newspaper and an evening newspaper and three networks. Now you’ve got a new headline, a new revelation every day at least. Sometimes twice a day. It seems like a great deal more activity going on, but I think in terms of the situation, they’re not comparable. This is not comparable to ’73. Will this distract him from his policy plans? What’s the effect this will have on his presidency? There’s no question that the agenda has been put on the back-burner. At least for the cable networks and the newspapers with all these conflicts. There’s no question that the agenda has suffered. I think the president has been hurt to a degree if his approval rating is around 38 or 40 percent. The Republican Party is sort of mute right now on Capitol Hill. This has been a dramatic four months. The question is, is can we sustain this kind of intensity for 44 more months? You don’t think so? [Laughing] I went through Watergate all 18 months and we’re only four months in. It’s fairly advanced in those terms. In terms of the division and the clamors and the rodomontade if you will. Ann Coulter recently told me that she hasn’t been too pleased with the opening months of the administration. Do you agree? I knew when Trump got in, he’s going to have to fight for his agenda every day. A part of the Republican Party disagrees with it and a part of the Republican Party will also seek to sabotage and stop it. It’s going to be a long slog. I accept that. Indispensable to the agenda is the president himself. It doesn’t depend as much on the people around him as long as he stays true to his goals and on trade it looks like he really is trying to do that. I’ve got my own ideas on what he ought to do. I think you’re going to need a tariff and then use all the revenues from the tariff to cut taxes on American corporations. I think he’s trying to do something there. He’s clearly working on something on the borders. He retains his reluctance to get involved in a major war in the Middle East. A new war which would consume his presidency. The people we’ve been battling with all these years they didn’t say, “Well it’s all over we’re going home.” As soon as the election was over, the same old interests began to advance the same old agendas without much opposition. Does the GOP eventually get around to embracing Trumpism completely? Trump was a good salesman for these ideas, and these ideas had real currency with the American people. I think the Republican Party will be brought around to these ideas because their previous ideas were unsustainable. Open borders, and refusing to protect the borders, and amnesties like Bush and McCain wanted was going to be a disaster for the country and the party. You keep up the same trade policies with China running $400 billion trade surpluses and you won’t have a manufacturing plant left in the country. And you get involved in a couple more wars over there, the American people will rise up against the Republican Party and throw them out the way they did in 2006 and 2008. It’s not the persuasiveness of tactics that got these issues elevated in the hearts and minds of millions. It’s what happened. We tried the wars, we tried the free trade globalism, and we tried the open borders and people don’t like the results. And they’re not going to like it better if we go back to the same approach. You’ve written much about your worries about how demographic changes will negatively affect the nation. What do you think is the political effect that will come from this? We are currently seeing the rise of the alt right, left-wing violence… If you see more of the cause, you will see more of the effect. How dumb can these people be. Take a look at what’s happening in Europe. You have secessionist movements in more than half a dozen countries. You’ve got nationalism across Europe, you’ve got ethno-nationalism, you’ve got pro-Russian governments rising, autocracy is more attractive to people. People got to take a look. This isn’t because a couple of guys have been preaching something for a few years. We’ve been predicting it. It’s the events that matter. They decide things. When we ran with these issues in the 90s, you had tremendous support, but the thing people said was what we’re doing right now isn’t that bad so let’s stick with this. If you don’t address the causes you will get the same results, and I don’t understand people who don’t realize that. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Gowdy Exposes Comey Cover-Up Of Clinton/Lynch 'Tarmac' Meeting As U.S. Media Becomes A Global Laughingstock With 'Fake News' Stories
May 17, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While the mainstream media just hit 'peak meltdown," in their attempts to smear President Trump, with "anonymous" claims they cannot back up with evidence or named sources, self-written memos called "leaks," and publishing outright "fake news" almost daily, the U.S. media has not only been turned into a global laughing stock, but the unintended consequences of their war on the Trump administration just exposed one of the biggest lies that came out of the Obama administration and the corruption that went all the way to the top of the intelligence community. THE MSM CLAIMS WITH NO EVIDENCE We'' start with the claim by the NYT once again by unnamed sources, and the response by the Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr. The huge "claim" of the day by the New York Times is that someone read them a partial part of an alleged memo, supposedly written by former FBI Director James Comey, claiming that President Trump asked Comey to end the Flynn investigation. PBS NewsHour's Lisa Desjardins spoke with Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr, who says that he and ranking member Mark Warner, spoke with Comey multiple times, including the day before his firing and he "never mentioned" President Trump's supposed request to back away from the Michael Flynn investigation. Burr also makes it clear that it is not President Trump's burden to disprove the NYT's article, it is the NYT burden to prove their assertion by obtaining the alleged memo. Yesterday the big claim and viral screeching by the MSM was a Washington Post story that President Trump shared classified information with the Russians during a meeting at the White House, once again the MSM using "anonymous" sources within the intelligence community, while U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, who was present at the meeting in question, called the report false. (More on that here) In response to that claim, Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the U.S. mainstream media was causing "political schizophrenia," in the U.S., stating "It's hard to imagine what else these people who generate such nonsense and rubbish can dream up next. What surprises me is that they are shaking up the domestic political situation using anti-Russian slogans. Either they don't understand the damage they're doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything, in which case they are dangerous and corrupt." Putin also offered to send over a transcript of the meeting, proving the media allegations false, according to Reuters. Reuters also highlights Putin's sarcasm as he told reporters "I'll be forced to issue him (Lavrov) with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us. Not with me, nor with representatives of Russia's intelligence services. It was very bad of him." The sarcasm is clear there, but it is the video of his comments and the laughter from the audience and Lavrov himself, that shows exactly how much of a laughing stock the U.S. media has become globally. MSM REOPENS A CAN OF WORMS - OBAMA ADMIN/CLINTON CORRUPTION EXPOSED & COMEY COVER UP In researching the latest MSM claim and the reactions from congressional members that are part of the separate investigations occurring in Congress, I ran across an interview with Representative Trey Gowdy, a member of the House oversight committee, where he says he wants to see the actual memo, if it exists, in its entirety, and to speak with Comey, as part of the investigative process, because with all due respect, he says "There is a reason newspaper articles are not admissible in any courtroom in the United States." The shocker came towards the end of the interview though, while discussing Comey himself, to which Gowdy asserts he has had many disagreements with, including his determination to not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton in the private email server scandal and her negligence in handling classified information on said server. Previously Gowdy had taken issue with Comey's claim that while Clinton mishandled classified data, she should not be charged because she showed no "intent," with Gowdy asserting that "intent" was not the standard to charge Clinton criminally, because had intent been found, that would rise to the level of treason and Congress deliberately made sure that "intent" was not needed to be found in order to secure charges in a case like that. (Watch that assertion here) The reason I highlight that specifically is because it is part of the bigger picture, where Gowdy has often ripped into Comey for his handling of the FBI investigation and conclusions, because in the video below, he defends Comey's decision to take the decision out of the DOJ's hands, in the now-infamous July 5, 2016 speech by Comey where he explained the illegal actions taken by Hillary Clinton, but then stated no charges would be filed. Make no mistake, Godwy insists he still disagrees with the decision to file no charges against Clinton, but he agrees with the decision to usurp the DOJ's authority in making the determination not to prosecute Clinton..... and his reasons why will blow your mind. THE TARMAC MEETING BETWEEN BILL CLINTON AND FORMER AG LORETTA LYNCH In the midst of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton, it was huge news that Bill Clinton met with Obama's AG Loretta Lynch on a tarmac, before the decision as to whether to charge Clinton had been announced. At the time, Loretta Lynch claimed the meeting was "purely social," saying they talked about grandchildren and golf, and immediately made it clear that due to the optics of the meeting with Clinton on the tarmac, she would accept whatever recommendations FBI investigators and career prosecutors make about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, without recusing herself. Well, according to Gowdy in the interview below, there was much more to that "tarmac meeting" than what Lynch admitted to, so much more that it is "classified" information. Gowdy says he has seen that information and that Comey knew of it, and that was the reason he had to usurp the protocol where the DOJ is the final decision makers as to whether to prosecute Hillary Clinton. The portion of the aforementioned discussions starts at approximately the 5:30 minute mark below, when Martha MacCallum asks Gowdy "I want to go back a little further in the Jim Comey story. You put out a statement when he was fired, saying that he had a very tough job and access to the facts that perhaps the rest of us did not, is the way that you put it. A lot of people have said his performance on July 5th when he came out and said 'you know we have all this evidence, extreme carelessness on the part of Hillary Clinton and yet we are not going to prosecute her.' Was that news conference enough, in and of itself, to let him go do you think.?" Gowdy responds "No, and I think when history knows the full fact pattern that led director Comey to have that July news conference, I mean, I think what your viewers know is the meeting on the tarmac, between the spouse of a suspect, or the target of an investigation, and the Attorney General. What your viewers don't know Martha, and what Jim Comey frankly can't tell them because it's classified, and I can't tell them because it is classified, there were a lot of other reasons that Jim Comey decided to take that decision upon himself, and I think history, and I have had plenty of differences with Jim Comey, I want to be really clear about that, lots of them, but I think history is going to much kinder to Jim Comey and that July press conference, than the Democrats were when he had it. I think he had access information that because he is a stand up guy, and he's not going to disseminate classified information, although God knows everybody else is, he is not going to do it even if it casts him in a negative light. So all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac. Jim Comey had access to additional information, that I am convinced left him with no other choice than to make the decision he made in July." MacCullum then tries to nail him down on exactly what he means, asking him "So, you are saying he had no choice, that there was pressure on him to not prosecute Hillary Clinton, is that what you are suggesting." That is where we get to the can of worms that the MSM has managed to reopen, where Gowdy states straight out "No, no. I think he had access to information and he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation, and the integrity of the process, and I probably just ought to leave it right there. I am not talking about pressure, I don't think the guy, I don't think the guy feels pressure. I think he wanted the public to have confidence in the investigation and the outcome, even though I disagreed with the outcome, he wanted you to have confidence in the process. He had access to information that your viewers don't have, and they may not ever have, because it is classified, but trust me when I tell you this Martha, I know what it was, and I have been a critic of Jim Comey in the past, but he made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself, and history will be a hell of a lot kinder to him that the Democrats were at the time. MacCullum states "I only take away from that that you are suggesting that there were more entanglements between the Clintons and perhaps the Justice Department than everyone understands." Gowdy ends by saying "You're very perceptive."
Listen to the discussion, then we will go over the ramifications of what Gowdy just exposed to the public. May 17, 2017 Gowdy Exposes Comey Cover-Up Of Clinton/Lynch 'Tarmac' Meeting As U.S. Media Becomes A Global Laughingstock With 'Fake News' Stories
FAKE-NEWS-090-01.jpg By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While the mainstream media just hit 'peak meltdown," in their attempts to smear President Trump, with "anonymous" claims they cannot back up with evidence or named sources, self-written memos called "leaks," and publishing outright "fake news" almost daily, the U.S. media has not only been turned into a global laughing stock, but the unintended consequences of their war on the Trump administration just exposed one of the biggest lies that came out of the Obama administration and the corruption that went all the way to the top of the intelligence community. THE MSM CLAIMS WITH NO EVIDENCE We'' start with the claim by the NYT once again by unnamed sources, and the response by the Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr. The huge "claim" of the day by the New York Times is that someone read them a partial part of an alleged memo, supposedly written by former FBI Director James Comey, claiming that President Trump asked Comey to end the Flynn investigation. PBS NewsHour's Lisa Desjardins spoke with Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr, who says that he and ranking member Mark Warner, spoke with Comey multiple times, including the day before his firing and he "never mentioned" President Trump's supposed request to back away from the Michael Flynn investigation. Burr also makes it clear that it is not President Trump's burden to disprove the NYT's article, it is the NYT burden to prove their assertion by obtaining the alleged memo. Yesterday the big claim and viral screeching by the MSM was a Washington Post story that President Trump shared classified information with the Russians during a meeting at the White House, once again the MSM using "anonymous" sources within the intelligence community, while U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, who was present at the meeting in question, called the report false. (More on that here) In response to that claim, Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the U.S. mainstream media was causing "political schizophrenia," in the U.S., stating "It's hard to imagine what else these people who generate such nonsense and rubbish can dream up next. What surprises me is that they are shaking up the domestic political situation using anti-Russian slogans. Either they don't understand the damage they're doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything, in which case they are dangerous and corrupt." Putin also offered to send over a transcript of the meeting, proving the media allegations false, according to Reuters. Reuters also highlights Putin's sarcasm as he told reporters "I'll be forced to issue him (Lavrov) with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us. Not with me, nor with representatives of Russia's intelligence services. It was very bad of him." The sarcasm is clear there, but it is the video of his comments and the laughter from the audience and Lavrov himself, that shows exactly how much of a laughing stock the U.S. media has become globally. MSM REOPENS A CAN OF WORMS - OBAMA ADMIN/CLINTON CORRUPTION EXPOSED & COMEY COVER UP In researching the latest MSM claim and the reactions from congressional members that are part of the separate investigations occurring in Congress, I ran across an interview with Representative Trey Gowdy, a member of the House oversight committee, where he says he wants to see the actual memo, if it exists, in its entirety, and to speak with Comey, as part of the investigative process, because with all due respect, he says "There is a reason newspaper articles are not admissible in any courtroom in the United States." The shocker came towards the end of the interview though, while discussing Comey himself, to which Gowdy asserts he has had many disagreements with, including his determination to not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton in the private email server scandal and her negligence in handling classified information on said server. Previously Gowdy had taken issue with Comey's claim that while Clinton mishandled classified data, she should not be charged because she showed no "intent," with Gowdy asserting that "intent" was not the standard to charge Clinton criminally, because had intent been found, that would rise to the level of treason and Congress deliberately made sure that "intent" was not needed to be found in order to secure charges in a case like that. (Watch that assertion here) The reason I highlight that specifically is because it is part of the bigger picture, where Gowdy has often ripped into Comey for his handling of the FBI investigation and conclusions, because in the video below, he defends Comey's decision to take the decision out of the DOJ's hands, in the now-infamous July 5, 2016 speech by Comey where he explained the illegal actions taken by Hillary Clinton, but then stated no charges would be filed. Make no mistake, Godwy insists he still disagrees with the decision to file no charges against Clinton, but he agrees with the decision to usurp the DOJ's authority in making the determination not to prosecute Clinton..... and his reasons why will blow your mind. LynchClintonTarmacmeet1.png THE TARMAC MEETING BETWEEN BILL CLINTON AND FORMER AG LORETTA LYNCH In the midst of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton, it was huge news that Bill Clinton met with Obama's AG Loretta Lynch on a tarmac, before the decision as to whether to charge Clinton had been announced. At the time, Loretta Lynch claimed the meeting was "purely social," saying they talked about grandchildren and golf, and immediately made it clear that due to the optics of the meeting with Clinton on the tarmac, she would accept whatever recommendations FBI investigators and career prosecutors make about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, without recusing herself. Well, according to Gowdy in the interview below, there was much more to that "tarmac meeting" than what Lynch admitted to, so much more that it is "classified" information. Gowdy says he has seen that information and that Comey knew of it, and that was the reason he had to usurp the protocol where the DOJ is the final decision makers as to whether to prosecute Hillary Clinton. The portion of the aforementioned discussions starts at approximately the 5:30 minute mark below, when Martha MacCallum asks Gowdy "I want to go back a little further in the Jim Comey story. You put out a statement when he was fired, saying that he had a very tough job and access to the facts that perhaps the rest of us did not, is the way that you put it. A lot of people have said his performance on July 5th when he came out and said 'you know we have all this evidence, extreme carelessness on the part of Hillary Clinton and yet we are not going to prosecute her.' Was that news conference enough, in and of itself, to let him go do you think.?" Gowdy responds "No, and I think when history knows the full fact pattern that led director Comey to have that July news conference, I mean, I think what your viewers know is the meeting on the tarmac, between the spouse of a suspect, or the target of an investigation, and the Attorney General. What your viewers don't know Martha, and what Jim Comey frankly can't tell them because it's classified, and I can't tell them because it is classified, there were a lot of other reasons that Jim Comey decided to take that decision upon himself, and I think history, and I have had plenty of differences with Jim Comey, I want to be really clear about that, lots of them, but I think history is going to much kinder to Jim Comey and that July press conference, than the Democrats were when he had it. I think he had access information that because he is a stand up guy, and he's not going to disseminate classified information, although God knows everybody else is, he is not going to do it even if it casts him in a negative light. So all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac. Jim Comey had access to additional information, that I am convinced left him with no other choice than to make the decision he made in July." MacCullum then tries to nail him down on exactly what he means, asking him "So, you are saying he had no choice, that there was pressure on him to not prosecute Hillary Clinton, is that what you are suggesting." That is where we get to the can of worms that the MSM has managed to reopen, where Gowdy states straight out "No, no. I think he had access to information and he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation, and the integrity of the process, and I probably just ought to leave it right there. I am not talking about pressure, I don't think the guy, I don't think the guy feels pressure. I think he wanted the public to have confidence in the investigation and the outcome, even though I disagreed with the outcome, he wanted you to have confidence in the process. He had access to information that your viewers don't have, and they may not ever have, because it is classified, but trust me when I tell you this Martha, I know what it was, and I have been a critic of Jim Comey in the past, but he made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself, and history will be a hell of a lot kinder to him that the Democrats were at the time. MacCullum states "I only take away from that that you are suggesting that there were more entanglements between the Clintons and perhaps the Justice Department than everyone understands." Gowdy ends by saying "You're very perceptive." Listen to the discussion, then we will go over the ramifications of what Gowdy just exposed to the public. ANALYSIS & QUESTIONS Not one of the MSM hit jobs on Trump has brought up that long ago controversial meeting between Bill Clinton, the spouse of a woman that was the target of a massive FBI investigation, and whether you agree with Gowdy whether or not Comey is a stand up guy or not, the fact that he brought that "tarmac" meeting up in his analysis of the reasons written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as justification to fire Comey, where he wrote that Comey was "wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution." It is very interesting that as part of that letter, Rosenstein also wrote "The Director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed attorney General Loretta Lynch had a conflict." Gowdy has just admitted, on television, that not only did Comey believe Lynch had a conflict, but that the nature of the conflict included "classified" information. What exactly is "classified" about discussing "grandchildren and golf," which is what Lynch claimed her and Bill Clinton discussed at the time? This also brings up the question as to whether Rosenstein, or the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has been given access to the "classified" information about the meeting between Lynch and Clinton. Did Comey, or any member of the FBI, hide said information from the Trump administration? If not, wouldn't Rosenstein's letter have reflected that by using different wording, and if so, what was Comey and the FBI covering up about that "tarmac meeting?" Take this a step further. If Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General for the Obama administration, was discussing classified information with Bill Clinton, who at the time held no administrative position within the government, is that not itself a criminal act? We now know that whatever they discussed has been listed as classified, because Gowdy just exposed it. Wasn't it the FBI's job to hold Lynch accountable and could they, given that the FBI is listed as a Department of Justice agency, making Lynch officially Comey's boss? BOTTOM LINE Given the fact that Comey had a long history of ending cases in a favorable manner to the Clintons, going back to 2004, as well as the Comey/Clinton Foundation connections, the FBI should now be initiating a new investigation into Hillary Clinton, starting from scratch, as well as an in-depth investigation into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, specifically detailing the "tarmac meeting" between Bill Clinton and Lynch. It is this writer's sincere hope that President Trump be made aware of Gowdy's interview, the "classified" information pertaining to the Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting, as well as the fact that the previous administration, with the help of the FBI, covered up the nature of the discussion between Clinton and Lynch. Representative Gowdy just told them exactly where to look. It is time to stop ignoring the real stories, the real scandals, using named sources like Gowdy in this interview, in favor of the fake news stories being pushed by the MSM using unnamed and anonymous sources that provide no evidence of their assertions.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Media_Laughingstock_Comey_Cover_Up_Lynch.php
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Israeli ambassador:'full confidence in US intelligence'
Iyar 20, 5777 , 16/05/17
Israel's ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, referred to the report Tuesday that the source of the classified information which President Trump revealed to the Russian foreign minister was Israel. "Israel has full confidence in our intelligence relationship with the US and we expect to deepen that relationship in the coming years under President Trump," said Dermer.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/387890
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Trump should not trust words of Israel's enemies
CAL THOMAS Tribune Content Agency May 10, 2017
President Donald Trump is about to score a religious trifecta, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome, the “home” of three monotheistic religions. The president has said he wants to make the ultimate deal and achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. While the goal is similar to a high school kid attempting to hit a curveball from an all-star pitcher, the scenario cannot end well for Israel. How do I know this? One has only to look at history. There has never – never – been a time when an American president has sought to lessen tensions in the region that Israel has not been smeared as the main impediment and required to “do more” to make peace happen. Israel is not an impediment to peace. Her enemies are. Here’s the danger for Trump. The Koran allows Muslims to lie to “nonbelievers” in pursuit of Islam’s goal of an earthly kingdom ruled by their religion. An example occurred last week when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met at the White House with Trump. Abbas said, “Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children and grandchildren, in a culture of peace.” That is a flat-out lie, as even a cursory Google search or visit to the Palestinian Media Watch website proves. Trump correctly saw the problem in a campaign speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: “In Palestinian textbooks and mosques, you’ve got a culture of hatred that has been fomenting there for years. And if we want to achieve peace, they’ve got to go out and they’ve got to start this educational process. They have to end education of hatred.” Which country promotes the most extreme form of Islam in children’s textbooks, mosques and their media? It is Saudi Arabia. If a person, or nation, believes they have a mandate from their “god” to lie to achieve their goals, how likely is it that even a president is not regarded as an “infidel” whose desire for peace can be used to damage Israel’s best interests? As Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick correctly noted last week: “Israel is the most immediate casualty of Trump’s decision to embrace Abbas and the PLO, because the PLO is Israel’s enemy. Abbas is an anti-Semite. His doctoral dissertation, which he later published as a book, is a Holocaust denying screed. “Abbas engages in anti-Semitic incitement on a daily basis, both directly and indirectly. It was Abbas who called for his people to kill Jews claiming that we pollute Judaism’s most sacred site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with our ‘filthy feet.’ The Palestinian media and school system which he controls with an iron fist both regularly portray Jews as evil monsters, deserving of physical annihilation.” This is not the attitude of one with whom a president or prime minister of Israel can make peace. A virus of hatred toward Israel and Jews is epidemic throughout the region. One is as likely to change the minds of such people as persuade a serious Christian to deny the resurrection of Jesus, or an Orthodox Jew to accept Him as Messiah. The difference is that Christians and Jews do not have world domination as their goal and violence as their method. Trump should re-read his AIPAC speech, because he was right to say what he said then. Abbas lied to the president during his visit. Trump can expect more lies on his trip to Saudi Arabia, whose leaders may promise all sorts of things and tell the president what he wants to hear, but won’t mean it. The proof is in their interpretation of their religion. As always, the West must pay less attention to what the enemies of Israel say and more attention to what they do. – Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Netanyahu denies privately urging Trump not to move embassy to Jerusalem
Fox News reporter tweets ‘everyone’ in DC says PM told president not to do it; PM’s office calls report a ‘lie,’ releases minutes from White House talks
By Alexander Fulbright May 15, 2017, 9:23 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently denied a Fox News reporter’s claim that he told President Donald Trump not to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a post on his Twitter account on Monday, Fox News correspondent Conor Powell wrote that “everyone” he has spoken to familiar with the deliberations on moving the embassy has confirmed that Netanyahu told Trump not to go through with the move. “Everyone I’ve spoken to in DC that has been briefed on #Jerusalem embassy move says #Netanyahu told #Trump not to move embassy at this time,” he tweeted. Netanyahu’s office firmly denied the report, flatly calling it a “lie,” and, in a highly unusual move, released what it said were partial minutes of Netanyahu’s conversations with Trump at the White House in February to disprove the claim. “The embassy — the PM supports moving it,” wrote then-national security adviser Yaakov Nagel, following Netanyahu and Trump’s meeting in the Oval Office, according to the PMO. “The PM was asked about the embassy and explained [that moving it] would not lead to bloodshed in the region, as some were trying to intimidate [President Trump] into believing,” Nagel wrote after the two leaders met over lunch. The PMO also released a portion of a summary from a conversation in January between Israel’s Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer and then US national security adviser designate Michael Flynn prior to Trump’s inauguration. “[Dermer] explained why moving the embassy would help advance peace and not the opposite. “This would send the message that we are in Jerusalem to stay. Moving the embassy would force the other side to contend with the lie they’ve constructed — that Israel has no connection to Jerusalem — and will cause them to understand that Israel will be here forever with Jerusalem as its capital.” Powell’s tweet on Monday came after Netanyahu again publicly reiterated his support on Sunday for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, rejecting sniping from the Israeli right that he does not privately enthuse about the idea, and saying it would help advance peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. “Israel’s position has been stated many times to the US government and to the world,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem will not only not harm the peace process, it will advance it by correcting a historical wrong and by shattering the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel.” Netanyahu’s remarks came in response to comments by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Trump is currently assessing whether moving the US embassy to Jerusalem would help or hurt prospects for clinching an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. “The president is being very careful to understand how such a decision would impact a peace process,” Tillerson said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He said Trump’s decision would be informed by feedback from all sides, “most certainly” including “whether Israel views it as helpful to a peace initiative or perhaps a distraction.” Since taking office, Trump has backed away from his campaign pledge to move the embassy in a gesture to Israel, saying he’s still studying the issue. But Tillerson linked Trump’s deliberations directly to his aspirations for brokering Mideast peace. Jerusalem’s status is one of the most emotionally charged issues in the conflict, with both sides laying claims. Israel captured East Jerusalem — claimed by Palestinians for the capital of a future independent state — from Jordan in the 1967 war and annexed it, a move not internationally recognized. The Palestinians argue that moving the embassy would prejudge one of the most sensitive issues in the conflict, undermining America’s status as an effective mediator. US presidents of both parties have repeatedly waived a US law requiring the embassy be moved to Jerusalem. The most recent waiver — signed by former president Barack Obama — expires on June 1. Trump is seen as increasingly likely to sign a six-month renewal of the waiver before it expires, as he continues deliberating. On Monday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said that while he believes the US embassy should be moved to Jerusalem, the issue should not be turned into a public spat with Washington, in apparent rebuke of political leaders from both sides of the aisle who have echoed Netanyahu in urging that the US embassy be brought to the capital as a way of cementing Israeli sovereignty over the city. Times of Israel staff and AP contributed to this report.
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Single mum in China raises disabled son to become Harvard law student
He was born disabled, and doctors told his parents he was "not worth saving". But thanks to his mother's unflinching support, Chinese man Ding Ding, who has cerebral palsy, defied the odds by gaining admission into Harvard University nearly 30 years later. Mr Ding, 29, attributes much of his success to his mother Zou Hongyan, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Monday (May 15). In 1988, he nearly suffocated during a birth complication, which left him with cerebral palsy. Doctors in Hubei province, China, told Ms Zou that her child was "not worth saving", saying that he would grow up either disabled or with low intelligence. To Ms Zou's dismay, her husband sided with the doctors. "Let's not have this child. He will be a burden to us all our lives," he said. Ms Zou insisted on saving their baby, and soon the couple divorced. To support her son, Ms Zou took up a full-time position at a college in Wuhan, and also worked part-time as a protocol trainer and insurance salesman. In her free time, she took Ding to rehabilitation sessions, regardless of the weather. She taught herself how to massage his stiff muscles, and would also play educational games with him. To some, Ms Zou might have seemed like a harsh parent. She insisted on teaching him how to use chopsticks during mealtimes, even though he found this extremely difficult at first, so he would not have to always explain his disability to others when he had meals with them. "I didn't want him to be ashamed about his physical disability," she said. "Because he is less skilled than others in many areas, my expectations of him are higher, so as to get him to work harder." Mr Ding graduated with a degree in environmental science from Peking University's school of engineering in 2011. That same year, he enrolled in a second degree programme at the university's international law school. In 2016, after working for two years, Mr Ding was accepted into Harvard Law School. "I never dared to dream of applying to Harvard. It was my mother who never stopped encouraging me to give it a try. Whenever I had any doubts, she would guide me forward," Xinhua quoted Mr Ding as saying. Mr Ding, who describes his mother as his "spiritual mentor", said that although Harvard has awarded him a scholarship covering 75 per cent of his school fees, the remaining sum was no small burden for his mother. "At 29, I am still dependent on my mother. I hope I will soon become more successful and self-reliant, so she can have a better life," he said.
:: 5-17-17 The Washington Free Beacon :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Sheriff David Clarke Says He’s Joining DHS
Clarke: 'I'm both honored and humbled to be appointed to this position'
BY: Natalie Johnson May 17, 2017 3:26 pm
The Trump administration tapped Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke to serve as assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for partnership and engagement. Clarke, a tough-talking, conservative firebrand recognized by his penchant for cowboy hats, announced the appointment during an interview with a local Wisconsin radio station Wednesday afternoon. "I'm both honored and humbled to be a appointed to this position by [DHS Sec. John Kelly], working for the Trump administration in this position," Clarke told WISN Milwaukee. Clarke, a Trump loyalist who served as a surrogate during the campaign, was one of three black speakers who endorsed President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention. He is a vocal proponent of gun rights with close ties to the National Rifle Association. His name has been floated as a possible replacement to former FBI Director James Comey, but the announcement Wednesday scraps those rumors. Clarke's brazenness and tendency to fire-off provocative, off-hand comments have contributed to his rise as one of Wisconsin's most controversial political figures. The law-and-order sheriff has frequently told Black Lives Matters protesters to "stop trying to fix the police, fix the ghetto" and referred to Ferguson demonstrators as "vultures on a roadside carcass." Clarke is also facing scrutiny for the death of a mentally ill inmate who died of dehydration at the Milwaukee County Jail after being refused water for seven days. No criminal charges have been filed, but the case is under review by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office. The 38-year-old man was one of four people, including the newborn of an inmate, who died last year at the jail overseen by Clarke. The sheriff will replace the current acting assistant secretary John Barsa. CNN's Jim Acosta tweeted following publication of this story that DHS said, "No such announcement with regard to the Office of Public Engagement has been made."
http://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-administration-taps-sheriff-david-clarke-dhs-role/
:: 5-17-17 Daily Sabah :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Putin offers transcript of Trump-Lavrov meeting to prove US president didn't pass secrets
Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump had not divulged any secrets during a meeting in Washington with Russian officials and offered to prove it by supplying Congress with a transcript. But a leading U.S. Republican politician said he would have little faith in any notes Putin might supply. Two U.S. officials said on Monday Trump had disclosed classified information about a planned Islamic State operation to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov when they met last week, plunging the White House into a fresh controversy just four months into Trump's tenure. Trump, whose administration has been dogged by allegations that Russia helped him win the White House and that he and his allies are too cozy with Moscow, has defended his decision to discuss intelligence with the Russians after media reports of the meeting alarmed some U.S. and foreign politicians. President Putin deployed his trademark sarcasm on Wednesday to make clear he thought the accusation that Trump had divulged secrets absurd. "I spoke to him (Lavrov) today," a smiling Putin told a news conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. "I'll be forced to issue him (Lavrov) with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us. Not with me, nor with representatives of Russia's intelligence services. It was very bad of him." Putin, who still hopes Moscow can repair battered ties with the United States despite a deepening political scandal in the United States related to Trump's purported Russia ties, said Moscow had rated Lavrov's meeting with Trump highly. If the Trump administration deemed it appropriate, Putin said Russia could hand over a transcript of Trump's meeting with Lavrov to U.S. lawmakers to reassure them that no secrets were revealed. A Kremlin aide, Yuri Ushakov, later told reporters that Moscow had a written record of the conversation, not an audio recording.
:: 5-8-17 Hal Lindsey :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
The Trojan's New Horses
By Hal Lindsey
Is an American computer virus responsible for the many failed North Korean missile tests? In March, the New York Times reported, “Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds.” North Korea’s missile program started with a surprising level of success. But in the last three years, whether caused by U.S. computer sabotage or not, they have had a stunning number of test launch failures. The experts say that North Korean scientists learn from every failure. While that’s usually true, it may not be in this case. The scientists may already know the problem. It could be that their impetuous young “Supreme Leader,” Kim Jung-un, is pressing too hard, not giving them the time needed to do the job. If that’s the case, the question is not whether the scientists are learning the lesson, but is he? Kim might also be sabotaging himself in another way. He has a reputation for impromptu executions and imprisonments. He may be depleting the talent pool he needs in order to get his missiles working. President Obama’s 2014 order for sabotaging missile tests involves techniques that are considered “left of launch.” That means they start before the missiles leave the ground, or shortly after take-off. While bolstering missile defense systems in Alaska and California, President George W. Bush also used a “left of launch” approach in dealing with North Korea. He ordered that the supply chain of missile parts be sabotaged, so that the end product would be full of defects. Supply lines for rockets go back years. For instance, two minor mistakes caused Apollo 13’s near catastrophe in 1970. Both mistakes happened years before the actual space flight. In other words, the recent test launch failures in North Korea might be attributable to presidential orders from Obama, Bush, or both. In the recent test failures, the North Koreans were trying to do something relatively simple. It’s still rocket science, but launching a weapon from the Korean Peninsula to the Sea of Japan should be fairly routine. Many of North Korea’s scientists once worked for the Soviet Union — a nation that put the first man in space, and had a long history of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Employing such knowledgeable people led to unprecedented success in the early stages of the North Korean program. Usually, missile technology testing shows improvement over time. But for the North, it’s been a downhill slide, especially for the last few years. On the surface, this may seem heartening to Americans. But look a little deeper. Despite billions in defense spending, the United States is vulnerable to the same sort of mischief wreaking havoc in North Korea. No one has the cash to compete with the United States military budget, but writing computer viruses and trojan horses doesn’t take much cash. It takes talent and desire. Computer scientists, software engineers, and hackers are cheap compared to aircraft carriers, cruise missiles, and high end military aircraft. Yet all of those big-ticket hardware items are vulnerable to computer scientists, software engineers, and hackers. A twenty-year-old with a knack for it, could conceivably disable a fleet. We live in a new era of warfare. The muscle of heavy artillery still has its place, but the computer code necessary for command and control of that artillery had better be bulletproof. The problem is, no one can ever know for certain that it is actually secure until it is successfully used. These facts should rip away the illusion that American military might makes it invulnerable to attack. The U.S. today is as invulnerable as the Titanic was unsinkable. But that’s really always been true. Psalms 33:12 says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” (NASB) It was speaking primarily of Israel during the reign of King David, but the truth contained in those words applies to all peoples of all times — including the United States today. Psalms 127:1 says, “Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.” (NASB) At any given moment, thousands of young men and women around the world stand watch for the United States of America. Many of them are a long way from home, doing jobs with far too little thanks. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate each one. Yet, according to this scripture and others, if America does not turn to God, our warriors’ heroic efforts will wind up being for nothing. These are the days to humble ourselves and pray. These are not the days for bragging celebrations, but for humility before the God who created all things.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-8-2017/
:: 5-15-17 The Sun :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
VLAD GOES BALLISTIC Vladimir Putin demands the West ‘stop intimidating North Korea’ despite crackpot Kim Jong-un launching a missile that landed just 60 miles off Russia
Vlad said: 'We must stop intimidating North Korea and find a peaceful solution to this problem'
By Danny Collins 15th May 2017, 12:25 pm Updated: 15th May 2017, 1:40 pm
VLADIMIR Putin waded into the North Korea crisis this morning and told Donald Trump: ‘Stop bullying Kim. ’Russia’s ironman leader warned the “intimidation” of Kim Jong-un’s regime must end. Kim Jong-un has observed a number of missile tests in recent months He said: "We must stop intimidating North Korea and find a peaceful solution to this problem." But Vlad also had words of warning for the wannabe nuclear state - telling Kim he must not build his nuclear arsenal. One test landed within 60 miles of Russia's Far Eastern coast on Saturday night. At a meeting on his state visit to China, Putin added: "We are categorically against the expansion of the club of nuclear powers. "We consider [the missile test] counter-productive, harmful and dangerous." Despot Kim is trying to fit a nuclear warhead to one of his ballistic missiles - the largest of which it is feared could hit the US. Following the latest test, a White House statement said: "With the missile impacting so close to Russian soil – in fact, closer to Russia than to Japan – the President cannot imagine that Russia is pleased. “North Korea has been a flagrant menace for far too long. South Korea and Japan have been watching this situation closely with us. Donald Trump's White House team issued a statement saying Russia "would not be pleased" about Kim's latest test “The United States maintains our ironclad commitment to stand with our allies in the face of the serious threat posed by North Korea. “Let this latest provocation serve as a call for all nations to implement far stronger sanctions against North Korea.” Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently in Beijing for a two-day ‘Belt and Road’ conference hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Officials in Japan and South Korea were quick to slam the test. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe branded the missile “totally unacceptable” and a “grave threat” to Tokyo. He said: "We strongly protest against North Korea."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3564950/vladimir-putin-russia-north-korea-intimidation/
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North Korea 'would hold talks' with Trump administration
13 May 2017 From the section Asia
North Korea has said it will hold talks with the US "if the conditions were right", South Korean media reports. A senior North Korean diplomat said dialogue with the Trump administration was possible following a meeting with ex-US government officials in Norway. Earlier this month US President Donald Trump said he would be "honoured" to meet Kim Jong-un. The comments follow months of rising tensions over North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programme. Choe Son-hui, an official in the North Korean foreign ministry responsible for North American affairs, told reporters in Beijing that bilateral talks between Pyongyang and Washington would be considered. The BBC's Korea correspondent Stephen Evans says North Korea would probably have to agree to at least discuss relinquishing or limiting its nuclear weapons for the US to participate. Ms Choe, who has been involved in nuclear negotiations in the past, made the comments during a stop-over on her return to Pyongyang following a meeting in Oslo. North Korea's missile programme Could Trump's foreign policy work? Mr Trump has previously said that he would like to solve the North Korea crisis diplomatically, but that a "major, major conflict" is possible. The country has engaged in several military shows of strength in recent weeks including missile tests. The US has responded by sending warships to the region to install a controversial anti-missile system in South Korea.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39906459
:: 5-15-17 Zero Hedge :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Putin Jabs NSA For Letting The Ransomware "Genies Out Of The Bottle"
by Tyler Durden May 15, 2017 8:32 AM
Following the worldwide "Wanna Cry" cyber attack that was launched last Friday and quickly spread to thousands of computers, Vladimir Putin took a jab at the NSA for authoring tools that "may harm their own authors and creators" should the "genies be let out of the bottle." Per The Hill: "We are fully aware that the genies, in particular, those created by secret services, may harm their own authors and creators, should they be let out of the bottle." “Microsoft’s management has made it clear that the virus originated from US intelligence services." For those who haven't followed the story closely, the outbreak of the virus, dubbed WannaCry, began last Friday. According to cybersecurity experts, and subsequently confirmed by Microsoft, the WannaCry virus is based on an NSA-developed tool that was leaked to the public by a group called Shadow Brokers. The virus, which is ravaging computer networks worldwide, encrypts user files and demands a ransom in cryptocurrency Bitcoin to release them. Here is an animated map from the NYT showing how quickly the virus spread: Microsoft, which has criticized the American spy agencies for their alleged role in creating the situation, released a patch for its no longer supported Windows XP operating system to prevent computers still running it from being infected. The tech company patched a vulnerability in its newer supported software last month after the leak was made public, but operating systems that were not updated are still vulnerable. Meanwhile, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, blasted "the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments" which then get leaked into the public domain as equivalent to the "U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen." “We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world,” Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith wrote in a blog post this afternoon. “This attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem.” "Repeatedly, exploits in the hands of governments have leaked into the public domain and caused widespread damage" Smith wrote, adding that an "an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen. And this most recent attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cybersecurity threats in the world today – nation-state action and organized criminal action." And while the U.S. continues to implode over whether Hillary Clinton lost an election over "Russian hacking", Putin gets to sit back an watch the show as the "U.S. hacking" tools, which are far more detrimental than an email phishing scheme which apparently duped John Podesta, are put on public display for all to see.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-15/putin-jabs-nsa-letting-ransomware-genies-out-bottle
:: 5-12-17 The Daily Caller :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Merkel: Germany Won’t Step Up Fight Against ISIS Even If NATO Does
Saagar Enjeti Reporter 12:17 PM 05/12/2017
German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not plan on increasing the country’s commitment to the fight against the Islamic State even if NATO increases its commitment to the fight, she declared Thursday. Merkel appeared with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who has indicated he is amenable to President Donald Trump’s insistence that the alliance increase its commitment to the U.S. led anti-ISIS effort. Trump pushed Stoltenberg to “adapt to the challenges of the future” during his April 12 visit. “This includes upgrading NATO to focus on today’s most pressing security and all of its challenges, including migration and terrorism,” he continued. NATO is reportedly considering establishing an office solely dedicated to counter-terrorism. NATO officials, however, are reluctant to commit to the post without agreement from allies that counter-terrorism should be a priority. They are also seeking extra funding for training initiatives. “I want to state very clearly, that even if such a decision is made, it will not mean that any military activity that Germany currently carries out, for instance, AWACS surveillance, will be expanded or something like that,” Merkel emphatically declared. Germany only contributed approximately 150 troops to the anti-ISIS mission to train, advise, and assist forces according to an August 2016 Congressional Research Service report. Trump also pressed Merkel to increase Germany’s contribution to NATO, saying in March he “reiterated to Chancellor Merkel our strong support for NATO, as well as the need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense.” Merkel also indicated she would not join the U.S. or NATO in increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan. Both the U.S. and NATO are considering a proposal to increase the number of troops by nearly 13,000 to train, advise, and assist the Afghan National Security Forces in the fight against the Taliban. Merkel drew a similar line in the sand demurring on sending more German troops to Afghanistan, saying, “I don’t think we’re first in line to expand our capacities there. It’s more important to ensure that … stability is guaranteed in the north.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/12/merkel-germany-wont-step-up-fight-against-isis-even-if-nato-does/
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Is Italy's SUPERVOLCANO about to blow? Experts warn that Campi Flegrei is at a 'critical stage' in the build up to a devastating eruption
Campi Flegrei is a supervolcano located outside the western suburbs of Naples
Its last devastating eruption was in 1538, following a century of unrest
The volcano has been restless again since 1950, with regular earthquakes
There is now a build up in energy in the crust similar to the 1538 eruption
If it does erupt, experts believe it would affect 360,000 people living across the caldera and Naples' population of nearly one million
By Shivali Best For Mailonline Published: 05:45 EDT, 15 May 2017 | Updated: 06:27 EDT, 15 May 2017
While the Campi Flegrei volcano hasn't erupted since 1538, experts have warned that it could be building up to another devastating eruption. By studying patterns of unrest over the last 500 years, the researchers have predicted that we are reaching a 'critical stage' where further unrest will lead to an eruption. They hope their findings will urge local authorities to prepare for an eruption, which they say would affect the 360,000 people living across the caldera and Naples' population of nearly one million. If the volcano was to erupt, it could cause havoc for those trying to fly in the area. Dr Christopher Kilburn, who led the study, told MailOnline: 'An eruption might disrupt air traffic, if only for precautionary measures and the immediate effect would be in Campi Flegrei and Naples.' Experts from UCL and the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples have been studying the patterns of unrest since Campi Flegrei's last eruption 500 years ago. The volcano has been restless for 67 years, with two-year periods of unrest in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s causing small, local earthquakes and ground uplift. Similar unrest occurred over 500 years ago, when it took a century to build up to an eruption in 1538. Using a new model, the researchers investigated whether Campi Flegrei may again be preparing to erupt. They found that the unrest since the 1950s has been causing a build-up of energy in the crust and making the volcano more vulnerable to eruption. Until now, scientists had thought that the energy needed to stretch the crust was lost after each period of unrest. Dr Kilburn said: 'By studying how the ground is cracking and moving at Campi Flegrei, we think it may be approaching a critical stage where further unrest will increase the possibility of an eruption, and it's imperative that the authorities are prepared for this. 'We don't know when or if this long-term unrest will lead to an eruption, but Campi Flegrei is following a trend we've seen when testing our model on other volcanoes, including Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, El Hierro in the Canary Islands, and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the Caribbean. 'We are getting closer to forecasting eruptions at volcanoes that have been quiet for generations by using detailed physical models to understand how the preceding unrest develops.' The episodes of unrest are caused by the movement of magma around three kilometres below the volcano. An eruption becomes more likely when the ground has been stretched to its breaking point. This is because the molten rock can escape to the surface when the ground splits apart. But it is difficult to pinpoint when an eruption will occur, because even if the ground breaks, it is possible for the magma to stall before reaching the surface. Although it hasn't erupted, unrest at the volcano has alredy caused severe social disturbanced in Campi Flegrei. Together, the three episodes of uplift have pushed the port of Pozzuoli more than three metres out of the sea. Dr Stefano Calino, who also worked on the study, said: 'The unrest in 1970 and 1983 caused tens of thousands of people to be evacuated from Pozzuoli itself.' Campi Flegrei covers more than 100 square kilometres (38.6 square miles) outside the western suburbs of Naples. The researchers predict that an eruption today would affect the 360,000 people living across the caldera and Naples' population of nearly one million. Professor Giuseppe De Natale, who also worked on the study, said: 'Most damage in previous crises was caused by the seismic shaking of buildings. 'Our findings show that we must be ready for a greater amount of local seismicity during another uplift and that we must adapt our preparations for another emergency, whether or not it leads to an eruption.' HISTORY OF CAMPI FLEGREI The Phlegraean Fields, or Campi Flegrei, volcano system has had a colourful history. The Romans thought an area called Solfatara - where gas is emitted from the ground - was the home of Vulcan, the god of fire. Meanwhile, one of the craters in the system, Lake Avernus, was referred to as the entrance to Hades in ancient mythology. Additionally, Campi Flegrei has long been a site of geological interest. In Charles Lyell's 1830 Principles of Geology, he identified the burrows of marine fossils at the top of the Macellum of Pozzuoli, an ancient Roman market building, concluding that the ground around Naples rises and falls over geological time. Two eruptions have occurred at the site, one in 1158 at Solfatara and the other in 1538 that formed the Monte Nuovo cinder cone. But more recently the ground around Naples has shown signs that the supervolcano may be preparing to erupt again. In 1969-72 and 1982-84 the Earth's crust in the area around Pozzuoli rose by 11 feet in just a few months. This phenomenon is called bradisism - a slow movement of the earth's surface, as opposed to fast movement due to an earthquake.
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:: 5-15-17 Health Nut News :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Brazilian builds water-powered motorbike, gets 310 miles out of 1 liter of water
By Erin Elizabeth - May 15, 2017
Brazilian engineer, Ricardo Azevedo, has developed a hydrogen-powered engine that has an external car battery and runs on water. Dubbed the “T Power H20,” it works by splitting H2O into hydrogen and oxygen and using the hydrogen as fuel; the resulting combustion moves the vehicle. RELATED ARTICLES: The Solar Powered Cooker that Stores the Sun’s Energy for Fuel-Free Grilling Every Night Germany Produced So Much Green Energy, It Had to Pay People to Use It Solar Seawater Distiller Turns Salt Water into Drinking Water Using Only Sunlight In the following video, the inventor shows how even polluted water can make the bike move. Azevedo explains, “the advantage of this motorcycle, which works with the hydrogen that comes from the water, is that the result that comes out of the exhaust is water vapor. This is different from gasoline, which [produces] carbon monoxide.” Spread the word. The best way to keep the idea alive is to spread it to as many people as possible.
http://www.healthnutnews.com/brazilian-builds-water-powered-motorbike-gets-310-miles-1-liter-water/
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Why ARE parked BMWs spontaneously catching fire across the country? Owners demand answers as dozens of the luxury German cars burst into flames while the engines were OFF
New report finds more than 40 cases of US BMWs catching fire in past five years
In each case, the cars were parked and not under recall by the German carmaker
Various models between one and 15 years old implicated in the ABC News report
Similar issue reported in other countries, sparking investigation in South Korea
BMW denies 'any pattern related to quality or component failure' in fires
Luxury car company blames improper maintenance and even 'rodents' for fires
By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com Published: 14:44 EDT, 11 May 2017 | Updated: 17:19 EDT, 11 May 2017
Concern over the safety of BMW cars is mounting in the wake of a new report that found dozens of examples of mysterious fires breaking out in vehicles that had been parked for as long as several days. More than 40 parked BMWs that are not under an open recall have caught fire in the US over the past five years, with similar incidents in Sweden, China, India, and South Korea, the ABC News report from Thursday found. The inexplicable fires range across several models, years, and generations of the iconic luxury brand's vehicles, which can range in price to over $100,000. BMW is denying that they've found 'any pattern related to quality or component failure' and says that out of the 4.9million vehicles it has on US roads, fire incidents are exceedingly rare. After a spate of BMW fires in South Korea, a government investigation found a possible fuel leak, leading to a 1,700-car recall, but it is unknown if the American fires are related to that issue. The dramatic, sudden fires in parked cars have left dozens of drivers bereft of their prized luxury vehicles, and at least one man homeless when a car fire in his garage burned his home down. In December of 2015, Bill Macko was in his Olney, Maryland when his wife parked their 2008 BMW X5, which originally retailed for $46,200, in the garage after a short drive, Macko, a lifelong BMW enthusiast who had purchased seven of the high-end cars over the years, told ABC that he walked into the garage to investigate a strange smell, and heard a 'snap, crackle, pop' as he entered. The car burst into flames, and Macko and his wife ran out of the house and watched as firefighters battled the inferno, which ultimately engulfed and gutted their home. Sixteen months later, he and his wife are still staying with relatives, unsure when they will be able to return to their rebuilt home. In another case, in New York's Westchester County, the owner of a 2003 BMW told fire crews it had been sitting parked for three or four days before bursting into flames. 'Which we thought was a little peculiar,' Mamaroneck Fire Chief Tracey Schmaling told WABC. In October of 2016, Tar Zaide had just parked his 2011 BMW 328 in an Oshwa, Canada parking lot on his way to visit a client when it began smoking and then burst into flames. 'My son saved by seconds,' wrote the person who posted a video of the fire on YouTube. 'Cannot believe what we were seeing.' In Brookhaven, Georgia, after an unexpected snowfall in January 2014, one motorist left his BMW E36 M3 on the impassable road overnight. Before he returned the next day, the car was engulfed in flames, the Associated Press reported. Across the Atlantic, John Minkhe of Sweden got a rude surprise in April 2014. 'An explosive fire started in our BMW X5 a few minutes after my wife and two kids switched off the engine and left the car,' he explained in a post on YouTube. The car was 'totally flashed over' within 10 minutes, Minkhe wrote. 'My family has had BMW since beginning of 2000s, we thought we invested in quality and safety according to the premium brand BMW considered to be - unfortunately we were wrong,' he added. FIRE SCANDAL LATEST US-MARKET WOE FOR GERMAN CARMAKERS The spate of mysterious fires in BMW vehicles is only the latest trouble for a German car manufacturer in the US market. Volkswagon is still recovering from the 2015 'Dieselgate' emissions testing scandal, in which it was found the German company had used vehicle software to intentionally trick emissions tests. The company was sentenced in a criminal trial in April, has agreed to spend up to $25 billion in the US to address claims from owners, environmental regulators, states and dealers, and has offered to buy back about 500,000 polluting US vehicles. Mercedes, another German carmaker, announced on Tuesday that it would not seek to sell 2017 year diesel vehicles in the US due to increased regulatory scrutiny in the wake of Dieselgate. Tar Zaide had just left his 2011 BMW 328 for a few minutes when it burst into flames Tar Zaide had just left his 2011 BMW 328 for a few minutes when it burst into flames Before he returned the next day, the car was engulfed in flames, the Associated Press reported. Across the Atlantic, John Minkhe of Sweden got a rude surprise in April 2014. 'An explosive fire started in our BMW X5 a few minutes after my wife and two kids switched off the engine and left the car,' he explained in a post on YouTube. The car was 'totally flashed over' within 10 minutes, Minkhe wrote. 'My family has had BMW since beginning of 2000s, we thought we invested in quality and safety according to the premium brand BMW considered to be - unfortunately we were wrong,' he added. John Minkhe of Sweden said his BMW X5 burst into flames a few minutes after his wife and children switched off the engine and got out of the car John Minkhe of Sweden said his BMW X5 burst into flames a few minutes after his wife and children switched off the engine and got out of the car FIRE SCANDAL LATEST US-MARKET WOE FOR GERMAN CARMAKERS The spate of mysterious fires in BMW vehicles is only the latest trouble for a German car manufacturer in the US market. Volkswagon is still recovering from the 2015 'Dieselgate' emissions testing scandal, in which it was found the German company had used vehicle software to intentionally trick emissions tests. The company was sentenced in a criminal trial in April, has agreed to spend up to $25 billion in the US to address claims from owners, environmental regulators, states and dealers, and has offered to buy back about 500,000 polluting US vehicles. Mercedes, another German carmaker, announced on Tuesday that it would not seek to sell 2017 year diesel vehicles in the US due to increased regulatory scrutiny in the wake of Dieselgate. BMW denies that there is any quality issue causing the fires not already covered by recalls. Like other automakers, BMW has issued fire-related recalls in the past. 'In cases that we have inspected and are able to determine root cause, we have not seen any pattern related to quality or component failure,' the company said in a Wednesday statement. 'Vehicle fires can result from a wide variety of external reasons unrelated to product defect.' The company also told ABC News that fires could be the result of any number of factors the manufacturer can't control, including improper maintenance by unauthorized mechanics, aftermarket modifications, rodent nesting and even arson. New Jersey attorney Joseph Santoli, who has sued BMW in the past, said several BMW owners about their cars catching fire. 'I have heard from owners that when they confront BMW about their incident, they’re told that this is the first time that BMW has ever heard of it,' Santoli told ABC News. 'I think some of it is an example of BMW burying their heads in the sand,' the attorney said. In a statement, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration encouraged motorists to report any safety issues, 'including strange and unexplainable incidents involving their vehicles', through the agency's website. FULL STATEMENT OF BMW NORTH AMERICA ON REPORTED FIRES With approximately 4.9 million BMW vehicles on U.S. roads, fire incidents involving BMWs are very rare. BMW takes every incident very seriously and has a dedicated team prepared to work with BMW owners, insurance companies and authorities to investigate any vehicle fire incident that is brought to our attention. We have investigated and in some cases inspected the vehicle identified by ABC News. These vehicles span an age range of 1-15 years, accumulated mileage of up to 232,250 miles and multiple generations and model types. In cases that we have inspected and are able to determine root cause, we have not seen any pattern related to quality or component failure. Vehicle fires can result from a wide variety of external reasons unrelated to product defect. In addition, ABC News indicated that they had some examples in other countries, but we are unable to comment on any incidents outside of the US. May 10, 2017
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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.
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The Trojan's New Horses
By Hal Lindsey
Is an American computer virus responsible for the many failed North Korean missile tests? In March, the New York Times reported, “Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds.” North Korea’s missile program started with a surprising level of success. But in the last three years, whether caused by U.S. computer sabotage or not, they have had a stunning number of test launch failures. The experts say that North Korean scientists learn from every failure. While that’s usually true, it may not be in this case. The scientists may already know the problem. It could be that their impetuous young “Supreme Leader,” Kim Jung-un, is pressing too hard, not giving them the time needed to do the job. If that’s the case, the question is not whether the scientists are learning the lesson, but is he? Kim might also be sabotaging himself in another way. He has a reputation for impromptu executions and imprisonments. He may be depleting the talent pool he needs in order to get his missiles working. President Obama’s 2014 order for sabotaging missile tests involves techniques that are considered “left of launch.” That means they start before the missiles leave the ground, or shortly after take-off. While bolstering missile defense systems in Alaska and California, President George W. Bush also used a “left of launch” approach in dealing with North Korea. He ordered that the supply chain of missile parts be sabotaged, so that the end product would be full of defects. Supply lines for rockets go back years. For instance, two minor mistakes caused Apollo 13’s near catastrophe in 1970. Both mistakes happened years before the actual space flight. In other words, the recent test launch failures in North Korea might be attributable to presidential orders from Obama, Bush, or both. In the recent test failures, the North Koreans were trying to do something relatively simple. It’s still rocket science, but launching a weapon from the Korean Peninsula to the Sea of Japan should be fairly routine. Many of North Korea’s scientists once worked for the Soviet Union — a nation that put the first man in space, and had a long history of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Employing such knowledgeable people led to unprecedented success in the early stages of the North Korean program. Usually, missile technology testing shows improvement over time. But for the North, it’s been a downhill slide, especially for the last few years. On the surface, this may seem heartening to Americans. But look a little deeper. Despite billions in defense spending, the United States is vulnerable to the same sort of mischief wreaking havoc in North Korea. No one has the cash to compete with the United States military budget, but writing computer viruses and trojan horses doesn’t take much cash. It takes talent and desire. Computer scientists, software engineers, and hackers are cheap compared to aircraft carriers, cruise missiles, and high end military aircraft. Yet all of those big-ticket hardware items are vulnerable to computer scientists, software engineers, and hackers. A twenty-year-old with a knack for it, could conceivably disable a fleet. We live in a new era of warfare. The muscle of heavy artillery still has its place, but the computer code necessary for command and control of that artillery had better be bulletproof. The problem is, no one can ever know for certain that it is actually secure until it is successfully used. These facts should rip away the illusion that American military might makes it invulnerable to attack. The U.S. today is as invulnerable as the Titanic was unsinkable. But that’s really always been true. Psalms 33:12 says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” (NASB) It was speaking primarily of Israel during the reign of King David, but the truth contained in those words applies to all peoples of all times — including the United States today. Psalms 127:1 says, “Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.” (NASB) At any given moment, thousands of young men and women around the world stand watch for the United States of America. Many of them are a long way from home, doing jobs with far too little thanks. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate each one. Yet, according to this scripture and others, if America does not turn to God, our warriors’ heroic efforts will wind up being for nothing. These are the days to humble ourselves and pray. These are not the days for bragging celebrations, but for humility before the God who created all things.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-8-2017/
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North Korea learned how to test nukes from the U.S.
By Keegan Hamilton on May 10, 2017
North Korea tests its nuclear bombs in a valley beneath a cluster of mountain peaks about 370 miles northeast of Pyongyang. And at least three times over the past month, teams of soldiers at the heavily secured compound have been spotted playing volleyball. The games, captured by commercial satellites passing high above, have generated headlines around the world — and more than a few “Top Gun” jokes. But the workers at the remote testing site have been busy with far more than just leisure activities. Satellite imagery of the site, which is named after the nearby village of Punggye-ri, has revealed signs of fresh tunneling, new equipment, and other activities known to have preceded North Korea’s five former nuclear tests, two of which occurred last year. President Donald Trump says he wants the tests stopped, but the Kim Jong Un regime appears to have no intention of letting up. And Jeffrey Lewis, who leads East Asia research at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, says there’s evidence that North Korea “will probably conduct one or two nuclear tests every year for the foreseeable future.” “They’ve started economizing and building basically underground test centers where they can do many, many tests,” Lewis said. “And that suggests something distressing about their aspirations. They’re in this for the long haul.” That forecast is based in part on the discovery that North Korea likely copied the design of its nuclear testing site from the United States. Lewis is one of a handful of open-source sleuths who use satellite imagery, seismological data, propaganda photos, and other publicly available information to study North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction. Last year, when mapping the precise locations of North Korea’s previous underground nuclear tests, he and his colleagues noticed something peculiar: The layout of the tunnels almost perfectly matches the configuration at the Nevada National Security Site, where the U.S. conducted many of its own nuclear tests. “I would be shocked if this was a coincidence,” Lewis said. “The U.S. has done more than a thousand nuclear tests, and very many of those were underground. That data is freely available. And my suspicion is the North Koreans make good use of that data.” The government has indeed declassified info about America’s old nuke tests; there are even books on Amazon that describe how the underground tunnels were designed and spaced to keep nuclear blasts safely contained. In North Korea, each test creates a small earthquake, and there are standard formulas to calculate the distance between underground explosions using seismic readings. Lewis and his team created interactive 3D maps of Punggye-ri’s tunnels [see below] and overlayed them with the U.S. setup in Nevada. “It turns out you could almost perfectly just drop it right on top,” he said. Kim Jong Un’s father began building the Punggye-ri site in the early 2000s, razing several small villages in the process. The site originally had just one tunnel, but now, Lewis says, it’s “basically a base camp surrounded by big mountains with three tunnels going into different mountains.” The test site is one of the most closely watched pieces of real estate in North Korea, with intelligence agencies and open-source researchers scrutinizing satellite photography on a near-daily basis for clues about the likelihood of another test. Some of the most influential observations come from 38 North, a website affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. When experts Joe Bermudez and Jack Liu wrote in April that the site appeared to be “primed and ready” for another test ahead of a major North Korean holiday, news outlets around the world, including VICE News, picked up the story, which turned out to be a false alarm. Bermudez, who is based in the Denver area, says crying wolf is “one of our biggest concerns.” He maintains that it appears “everything has been done should they want to conduct another test,” but it’s basically impossible to predict when that will happen. “That decision is in one person’s hands and one person’s alone: Kim Jong Un,” Bermudez said. “He has to sign a special order for the test to be conducted. He could wake up this morning and say ‘Go.’ He could wake up this morning and say ‘No, let’s wait until the U.S. tones down its rhetoric and the U.S. aircraft carrier leaves the area, and once they leave, we’ll pop the nuke.’” Bermudez used to work for the government in some capacity — he’s cagey about his exact role — and has studied North Korean defense and intelligence affairs for more than three decades. He was the one who noticed the recent volleyball matches. The sport, he pointed out, is popular across North Korea and not unprecedented at the testing site, with games observed there as far back as 2006, shortly after the first underground blast. In a Skype chat, Bermudez shared his computer screen with VICE News and spent 45 minutes using two high-resolution satellite photos to explain the layout of the testing site and point out some oddities that can be observed from space. For instance, there are several greenhouses inside the compound because workers are expected to grow some of their own food. “They’ve actually started planting for spring,” Bermudez said. He can’t see into the greenhouses, but he uses software that manipulates the image to highlight vegetation. After a few clicks, the opaque image of the greenhouse is full of little pink spots. “What we’re probably seeing in this pinkish shade is the beginning of seedlings that are being grown under the plastic,” he explained. Bermudez also noted a row of bright white dots near the volleyball courts he suspects are propaganda placards. He says there appears to be a fresh coat of paint on them, a sign that a test could come soon. “Before a major event or a visit by a senior official, they’ll have what we call a beautification program, and this is part of it,” he said. Other indications include the presence of machines that pump water out of the testing tunnels, and the accumulation of equipment piled up under tarps and canopies. The North Koreans know they’re being watched from space and frequently try to hide their work and confuse outside observers. Bermudez wrote that a recent day of bustling activity at the site — including plenty of volleyball — was likely a “deception and propaganda effort” to fuel curiosity and concern about the likelihood of another nuke test. If that was the true intent, it worked like a charm. After the frenzy of media coverage generated by Bermudez’s 38 North posts in April, Trump weighed in, saying he would “not be happy” if Kim orders another nuke test and wouldn’t rule out taking military action in response. Lewis doesn’t like predicting when the next test will occur. But based on his research, it appears North Korea has enough space underneath the mountains to dig more tunnels and conduct many more nuclear tests. So far, the explosions have been relatively small; the largest was estimated to be roughly the same size as the one generated by the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima — though Lewis suspects the depth of the blast may have concealed its true size. Based on the designs North Korea borrowed from the U.S., Lewis says it appears the regime has the capacity to detonate a weapon about 10 or 20 times more powerful than what they’ve done thus far. “It’s pretty clear,” Lewis said, “that they plan to do a lot of nuclear tests.” Ravi Somaiya and Amel Guettatfi contributed reporting.
https://news.vice.com/story/north-korea-learned-how-to-test-nukes-from-the-u-s
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Trump signs long-delayed executive order on cybersecurity
Posted 19 hours ago by Kate Conger (@kateconger)
President Trump signed a executive order today commanding a review of the United States’ cybersecurity capabilities. Trump was initially set to sign the order shortly after his inauguration in January and held a press conference on the issue, but ultimately delayed the signing. The version of the order signed today bears some similarity to the earlier draft, but does contain some notable changes. For instance, the order puts responsibility for cybersecurity risk on the heads of federal agencies. Agencies are required to follow the standards established by the National Institute for Standards and Technology in assessing their risk, and submit reports on their risks within 90 days. A report on cybersecurity concerns regarding critical infrastructure is due within six months. Earlier drafts of the order did not include the FBI in the critical infrastructure review, and observers questioned why the agency had been omitted. In the final version of the order, the FBI is included in this review. The executive order places greater responsibility for federal cybersecurity with the military, a move rejected by the Obama administration. “Civil society organizations in the United States have fought hard against the militarization of the domestic internet,” Access Now’s U.S. policy manager and global policy manager Amie Stepanovich said, noting that the shift could lead to increased surveillance. “Any role of the Department of Defense in cybersecurity should be explicitly and firmly limited.” The order calls for a review of the threat posed by botnets, which target websites with automatically-generated spam traffic. The Mirai botnet was responsible for significant internet outages last year. But Access Now says the order should also address the government’s process for vulnerability disclosure and its response to data breaches. While Trump’s executive order calls for workforce development that will fill government with competent cybersecurity workers, the president’s hiring freeze has hindered other federal programs that encourage cybersecurity students to take government jobs after graduating college. In a press briefing, White House homeland security advisor Tom Bossert said that the order built on recommendations made by the Obama administration and downplayed Russia’s role as a cybersecurity adversary. “A lot of progress was made in the last administration, but not nearly enough,” Bossert said. He later distanced the signing of the order from ongoing concerns about Russia’s involvement in political hacking campaigns. “”The Russians are not our only adversary on the internet,” he said, according to Reuters.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/trump-signs-long-delayed-executive-order-on-cybersecurity/
Scribe note: God by the power of his Holy Spirit keeps saying "get into my word study my word" could this be why?
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Research Reveals Only 17 Percent of American Christians Have Christian Worldview
Amanda Casanova | Religion Today Contributing Writer | Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Research from the Barna group shows that Christians in the U.S. are “absorbing” non-biblical worldviews. The study, conducted with Summit Ministries, found that only 17 percent of Christians had a “biblical worldview.” Instead, the study found “strong agreement with ideas unique to non-biblical worldviews among practicing Christians.” The study showed that four in 10 practicing Christians were sympathetic to some Muslim teachings, 61 percent agreed with New Spirituality ideas, 54 percent could agree with postmodernist views, 36 percent agreed with some Marxist ideas and 29 percent believed some secularist ideas. In one question asked in the study, about three in 10 practicing Christians said they strongly agree that “all people pray to the same god or spirit, no matter what name they use for that spiritual being.” Younger people were more than eight times as likely to accept these “non-biblical” worldviews than older people. According to the study, men were more open to the ideas than women. “The challenge with competing worldviews is that there are fragments of similarities to some Christian teachings, and some may recognize and latch on to these ideas, not realizing they are distortions of biblical truths,” said Brooke Hempell, senior vice president of research. “The call for the Church, and its teachers and thinkers, is to help Christians dissect popular beliefs before allowing them to settle in their own ideology.”
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The Hushed Chronic Disease and Disability Epidemic That Promises to Bankrupt America
By Erin Elizabeth - May 9, 2017
By Barbara Loe Fisher
Revolution for Truth Rally March 31, 2017 Washington, D.C.
We are gathered in our nation’s Capitol representing many thousands of Americans and their families, who cannot be here today because they are sick or caring for someone who is sick. We are here for families and physicians living in fear they will be discriminated against and punished if they speak honestly in their communities about what they know to be true. We have come to defend freedom of thought, speech and conscience, the inalienable natural rights that unite us, regardless of where we live, the color of our skin, the faith that sustains us, or the philosophies that define us. We are calling on government to do its job and protect the people’s health — instead of protecting profit-making industries doing business with government and manipulating information released by the mainstream media. We are advocating for the right to know the truth about the safety of the food we eat, the water we drink, the drugs doctors prescribe and the vaccines Americans are forced to get to attend school, receive medical care and hold a job. And we are here to witness the suffering of our children, who have no voice and have no choice except the one that we, their mothers and fathers, give to them. Why Are American Children Sicker Than Ever Before? We want government officials to explain to us why our country — which spends the most on health care and has one of the highest child vaccination rates in the world — is crippled by a chronic disease and disability epidemic that costs more than $2 trillion a year and has created the sickest child and young adult population in America’s history: 1 child in 6 learning disabled 1 in 9 with asthma 1 in 10 diagnosed with a mental disorder 1 in 13 severely allergic to food 1 in 20 epileptic 1 in 50 developing autism 1 in 400 with diabetes Millions more are struggling with other kinds of brain and immune system damage marked by chronic inflammation in the body. There is no price tag high enough to put on the costs that will bankrupt our nation as these children grow up as many face a lifetime of health care and housing needs. What kinds of jobs will they hold? Where are they going to live? What happens when their parents die? We will not be silent as the biological integrity of another generation of children is destroyed in this bitter harvest that can only continue if we allow it to continue. Learning Disabilities Have Exploded in Tandem With Increased Vaccinations I say this as a mother who witnessed my healthy, bright 2-and-a-half-year-old child suffer a convulsion, collapse shock and brain inflammation within hours of his fourth DPT shot in 1980, that left him with multiple learning disabilities and 12 years confined to a special education classroom in the public school system. My son did not die and he was not severely brain damaged like so many children for whom the risks of vaccination turn out to be 100 percent. But he was part of the tidal wave of learning disabled children emerging in the 1980s, growing larger in the 1990s, and exploding in the first decade of the 21st century at precisely the same time that the federal child vaccine schedule tripled from 23 doses of seven vaccines in 1980 to 70 doses of 16 vaccines during the next 30 years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now directs doctors to give pregnant women vaccines that were never licensed for use during pregnancy. Then, on the first day of birth and continuing throughout childhood, doctors are told to give children six dozen doses of vaccines that contain genetically engineered viruses and bacteria, plus ingredients like mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol, gluteraldehyde, proteins, synthetic particles, antibiotics and human, animal and insect DNA and RNA. Where is the good science that demonstrates children are healthier when repeatedly given vaccines that artificially hyper-stimulate inflammatory immune responses 50 times before age 6? Just how sick do highly vaccinated children in America have to get before government health officials re-evaluate the assumption that more and more vaccination equals better health? Show Us the Science and Give Us a Choice Where is the credible scientific evidence that it is safe to give children amphetamines and anti-depressants with side effects that include suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, or that children are healthier when they drink water full of fluoride and have teeth filled with mercury amalgams, and when they eat genetically engineered and processed foods laced with pesticides, chemicals, hormones and antibiotics? And why is government joining with the chemical industry to block the labeling of GMO food so that Americans do not have the right to know, and freedom to choose, what they eat and feed their children? Why was the 21st Century Cures Act created by Congress and signed into law last year so FDA licensing and informed consent standards could be lowered even further? Now the skids have been greased for the pharmaceutical industry — the biggest lobby on Capitol Hill — to experiment on people without their consent, and to fast-track drugs and vaccines to market even more quickly, without proving they are safe and effective first. And why did Congress create a federal vaccine injury system administrative alternative to a lawsuit in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 — but took no action when the Departments of Health and Justice systematically gutted that law and turned it into a cruel joke? Today, the majority of vaccine injured children are denied compensation so government officials do not have to admit just how many children are being brain damaged and dying after vaccination in America. In 2011, Congress never said a word when Big Pharma used that law to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to effectively ban ALL vaccine injury lawsuits in America by declaring that FDA licensed vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.” The $3.6 billion in federal vaccine injury compensation that have been awarded to more than 5,000 vaccine victims since 1988 don’t begin to pay for the damage done; not when two out of three claims are denied. And certainly not when drug companies have no incentive to make vaccines less harmful because all Americans are legally required to purchase and use their liability-free vaccine products. Every promise that Congress made to parents in 1986 was a lie. And 30 years is long enough for parents to wait for that failed experiment in tort reform to work. The Liability Shield Protecting Big Pharma Must Come Down No industry should ever be allowed to escape accountability in a civil court of law in front of a jury of our peers when profit-making products injure and kill people. In 1962, American environmentalist Rachel Carson warned that the alliance between industry and government was poisoning the Earth and human health. She said: “If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.”51 Twenty years later, parents of vaccine injured children in the Washington D.C. area founded the educational charity known today as the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and launched the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in America, while the environmental, safe food and holistic health movements in the 1980s were also being powered by ordinary people demanding the people’s right to know and freedom to take control of their health. These grassroots movements have been united by one truth: Government has betrayed the public trust by forging business partnerships with the chemical and pharmaceutical industries that put profits, not people, first. And now, in the 21st century, at a time when most people know somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated and was never healthy again, the public-private partnership between industry and government is moving to strip citizens of the human right to informed consent to medical risk-taking. Laws are being passed that eliminate the right for Americans to exercise freedom of thought, conscience and religious belief so they can be blackmailed into using vaccines with unacceptable risks that are also failing to work as advertised. Albert Einstein, who risked arrest in Germany in the 1930s when he spoke out against censorship and persecution of minorities, said, “Never do anything against conscience even if the State demands it.” There is no liberty more fundamentally a natural, inalienable right than the freedom to follow our conscience when choosing what we are willing to risk our life or our child’s life for. We Are All Equal, But Not Identical While we are all born equal, with equal rights under the law, we are not born all the same. Each one of us has different genes and a unique microbiome influenced by epigenetics that affects how we respond to the environments we live in. We do not all respond the same way to infectious diseases — or to pharmaceutical products like vaccines — and doctors cannot predict which of us will be harmed. This means that vaccine risks are not being borne equally by everyone in society, and forced vaccination is a de facto selection of the vaccine vulnerable for sacrifice. Why should the lives of those vulnerable to vaccine complications be valued any less than those vulnerable to complications of infections? And why should people not be free to choose to stay healthy in ways that pose far fewer risks? These are legitimate scientific and ethical questions that should not be ridiculed. Yet government, medical organizations and members of the mainstream media are demonizing a growing number of people who wonder why they either have a child, or know a child, who was born healthy and then suddenly regressed physically, mentally and emotionally and joined the ranks of the walking wounded. The people do not understand why government refuses to fund or conduct methodologically sound scientific studies to find out why the bodies of so many highly-vaccinated children and adults are on fire, riddled with chronic inflammation that is common to most brain and immune system dysfunction doctors diagnose as: ADHD Epilepsy Allergies Autism Inflammatory bowel thyroid and metabolic disease Rheumatoid arthritis Obesity Cancer Schizophrenia Depression Restricting Health Freedom Is the Real Public Health Emergency It was not always this way in America. I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s and remember when every child got measles, mumps and chickenpox before age 10, but there were no special education classrooms in public schools to house legions of learning disabled, autistic and emotionally disturbed children. I remember when it was the rare child who could not learn and half of the students were not carrying EpiPens and asthma inhalers in their pockets, and there was no need to store student supplies of Ritalin and Prozac in the school nurse’s office. I remember when we ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch without being afraid it would kill one of our classmates. The biggest public health emergency in America is not a few measles cases at Disneyland in a population of 320 million people, ,where less than 1 percent of children are unvaccinated and 95 percent of them have gotten two measles shots, five pertussis shots, plus dozens of doses of other vaccines. The real public health emergency in America is the one that is being covered up by government agencies working overtime with industry and mainstream media to distract, deceive, stonewall and restrict the freedom of Americans to take control of their health. Adhering to Precautionary Principle Is Not Child Abuse The reaction by vaccine developers and others promoting “no exceptions” forced vaccination laws is to label parents disagreeing with them as “selfish” and to suggest they are “child abusers.” Or to insist, like pediatrician Paul Offit, that vaccine injuries and deaths are a myth and that children can safely receive 10,000 vaccines at once. Or, like pediatrician Peter Hotez, to call on the U.S. government and the G20 to wage war on American parents defending exemptions in vaccine laws. Hotez calls for parents disagreeing with him to be “snuffed out” — which means “to extinguish, to suppress, to crush; to kill.” So, when Congress appropriates $1 trillion a year to the Department of Health, government officials employed by the CDC, NIH and FDA do not use that taxpayer money to fund quality research to identify children at high risk for vaccine injury, or to compare the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children to find out why parents consistently report that unvaccinated children are healthier and get higher grades in school than vaccinated children. They do not use that money to find out why infectious microbes are evolving into more virulent and vaccine resistant forms, or to find out how many children are developing genetic mutations after vaccination that damages their DNA. Instead, public health officials hide their heads in the sand and collaborate with industry to create hundreds of new experimental vaccines that will be fast-tracked to licensure and forced on you and everyone you know — no exceptions and no questions asked. They create government operated electronic medical records tracking systems; they pit citizen against citizen by publicly posting the vaccination rates of schools on the CDC’s website, and they go into churches and legislatures to lobby for all Americans to adhere to “cradle to grave” vaccine schedules. State Mandated Russian Roulette Today, if you live in California or another state that has eliminated conscientious and religious belief vaccine exemptions and you refuse a government endorsed vaccine, you cannot get a school education, medical care or be employed as a child or health care worker unless you can find a doctor to write a medical exemption that 99.99 percent of Americans do not qualify for under CDC guidelines. And tomorrow? If Americans do not get off their knees and stop worshipping doctors promoting junk science, tomorrow you will not be able to get on a bus, train or plane; enter a store or sports arena; obtain a driver’s license, file your taxes or function in society unless you can prove you have gotten every vaccine that industry creates and doctors implementing government policy order you to get. And if you or your child get vaccinated, suffer brain inflammation and never recover your health, you can be sure that it will either be dismissed as a coincidence, or you will be labeled genetically defective with the claim you would have become brain damaged even if no vaccines had been given. It is already being done and it is so easy to do, when nobody making, selling, licensing, giving and voting to mandate vaccines has any accountability in a civil court of law. And the ones who know deep in the core of their being that their children are in danger are the mothers, who carry their babies inside them for nine months and give birth, and are endowed with a primal instinct that gives them the courage to protect their babies from harm until they are able to survive on their own. That biological imperative is hard-wired into our DNA because it is what protects the survival of every species on this earth. And yet, mothers, who know their children best, are being bullied, ridiculed and punished if they use their intellect and listen to their gut instincts and refuse to violate their conscience when caring for their children. It is time to reject the cruel pseudo-ethic of utilitarianism propping up mandatory vaccination laws that justify child sacrifice by reducing what is moral to a mathematical equation. When the state considers one of us to be expendable, then we are all considered expendable. And if the state can tag, track down and force individuals to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the state can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow. We can only throw off the chemical chains making us sick if we act to instill truth, integrity and compassion in government and defend freedom of thought, speech, conscience and informed consent to medical risk-taking. There is no greater calling for Americans in the 21st century than to defend those cultural values and human rights that protect against tyranny. We will not be silent. We will not go away. We are the daughters and sons of liberty, and our mission continues: No forced vaccination. Not in America. *Article originally appeared at Mercola.
http://www.healthnutnews.com/hushed-chronic-disease-disability-epidemic-promises-bankrupt-america/
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Superbugs may be More Widespread than Previously Thought
by Mike Barrett, Natural Society:
The potentially deadly, drug-resistant “superbug,” carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), is more widespread in U.S. hospitals than previously thought, an earlier-released study has found. [1]Researchers looked for cases of infections caused by CRE in a sample of 4 U.S. hospitals – 3 in the Boston area and 1 in California – and identified numerous varieties of the bacterium. [2] Each year, CRE bacteria sicken about 9,300 people and claim the lives of 600 people in the United States, according to the CDC. Those numbers are climbing. CRE bacteria, in particular, have been called “nightmare bacteria” by CDC Director Tom Frieden because they often continue to thrive even in the face of “last-resort” antibiotics – drugs reserved for the toughest infections. [1] Read: It’s Here – Bacteria Resistant to ALL Antibiotics Shows up in the U.S. In the study, the researchers also found that CRE has a plethora of genetic traits that make it resistant to antibiotics, and these traits can be easily transferred between the many CRE species. The study documented the identical gene in different species. William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study, says that “the extent to which this has happened is really quite surprising,” He added that the team “found 2 cases of high-level resistance we could not explain.” He compared it to dark matter: “We know it’s there because we can see its effects, but what’s actually making it happen at the moment is unknown. If I were to criticize my own work, I would say it is a shame that we weren’t able to get more hospitals and more samples from elsewhere within the health care systems.” Read More @ NaturalSociety.com
http://sgtreport.com/2017/05/superbugs-may-be-more-widespread-than-previously-thought/
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Mexico is world’s second deadliest country after Syria
Newsweek 10 May 2017 at 09:15 ET May 10, 2017
Sofia Lotto Persio Posted with permission from Newsweek Republish Reprint
Mexico’s drug war has created the second deadliest conflict area in the world after only Syria, according to a global survey. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) reported that the six-year war in Syria is the world’s deadliest conflict zone for the fifth consecutive year, causing an estimated 50,000 casualties in 2016. The Armed Conflict Survey 2017, the IISS annual summary of conflicts and casualties worldwide published on Tuesday, found that the war on drugs plaguing Central America has received ”scant attention.” In Mexico, 23,000 people died in the fight against drug cartels in 2016. In other, smaller Central American countries battling cartels, including El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, another 16,000 have been killed. “The death toll in Mexico’s conflict surpasses those for Afghanistan and Somalia. This is all the more surprising, considering that the conflict deaths are nearly all attributable to small arms. Mexico is a conflict marked by the absence of artillery, tanks or combat aviation,” John Chipman, IISS chief executive and director-general, said in the statement. Just 10 conflicts accounted for more than 80 percent of the fatalities worldwide, according to the report. In order, the countries affected are: Syria, Mexico, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Turkey, South Sudan and Nigeria. The rate of homicides in Mexico fell between 2011-14, but it began increasing again in 2015, to the point that it has decreased the life expectancy for men in the country by three years. According to IISS researcher Antonio Sampaio, the arrests and killings of top leaders in major cartels like the Los Zetas, infamous for their brutality and mass decapitations, contributed to the dip in violence. But new groups have emerged, adopting similarly brutal strategies for territorial expansion and control. One of these is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which grew from a small, local criminal group in 2013 to rivalling Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel in terms of resources and territory. “The cartel is pursuing a sustained strategy of hyper-violent criminality, designed to scare local people, deter rivals (including the state) from attempting territorial grabs and maximise the incentives for businesses to pay extortion taxes,” Sampaio noted in an article on IISS’ website. Sampaio added that the government of Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto has been largely ineffective in fighting the cartels, while the country’s “institutional weakness and pervasive corruption” increases the criminals’ influence. Nieto has proposed the abolishment of municipal police agencies and placing officers directly under central government control, something Sampaio said could be a step in the right direction. However, the proposal has yet to become law and remains stalled in Congress.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/mexico-is-worlds-second-deadliest-country-after-syria/
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New fear of explosions in Fukushima — Nuclear waste threatens to “spontaneously combust” — Millions of tons of radioactive material could be released — Nuclear Expert: Japanese government is “terrified” (AUDIO)
Published: May 9th, 2017 at 12:17 pm ET By ENENews
Nuclear Information and Resource Service tele-briefing, Apr 4, 2017 (emphasis added): Question (at 1:03:45 in): Hi, I’m Norma Field calling from Chicago… I’ve seen that those huge plastic garbage bags that hold the waste from so-called decontamination in some places now have little chimneys attached to them. I’m imagining that since this is often organic waste that’s been baking under the sun, there are gases that have to be releases. Now, how effective are those bags at containing radionuclides if they have to be off-gassed in that way? Thank you. Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer: You’re very observant. I noticed that when I was over there, too. I’ll let our other listeners know – when you think of these large fields of bags, they have organic matter in them. They have leaves and grass clippings and tree limbs and on and on, that as they decay, they give off methane gas, which of course is flammable. And the Japanese are terrified that they’ll get a fire – essentially spontaneous combustion in the center of these large piles, that could re-volitalize a million bags of radioactive waste again. So they have pipes sticking out of the piles at predetermined locations in an attempt to allow the radioactive and non-radioactive gasses – the explosive gasses, to leak out. I just keep thinking that sooner or later a lightning strike is going to cause one of these dumps of perhaps a million bags of radioactive contaminants to go up in fire again… What the Japanese are doing – and I witnessed this, we have some pictures up on the site about this – is they’re taking the bags with the least contamination – and they’re still contaminated – and burning them in incinerators that they’re building. No one is getting good data on what’s coming out those stacks, but I believe that the cesium is being released right up the stack again… I probably went on way too long a rant for that question, but my hat’s off to you for understanding that these piles of bags not only are radioactive but they’re potentially flammable. etc.
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"Serious Situation" After Tunnel Collapse At WA Nuclear Facility; Evacuation Ordered, No-Fly Zone In Place
by Tyler Durden May 9, 2017 11:38 PM
Update 5: The Spokane Spokesman-Review reports that Gov. Jay Inslee was notified about the tunnel breach by the Energy Department and the White House on Tuesday morning. Inslee called the event “a serious situation.” “Federal, state and local officials are coordinating closely on the response,” Inslee said, said, with the state Ecology Department in close communication with the Energy Department. There were no plans for Inslee, who is making several previously planned stops in Skamania County on Tuesday, to go to Hanford, his staff said. Energy Secretary Rick Perry had been briefed, federal officials said, adding that “everyone has been accounted for and there is no initial indication of any worker exposure or an airborne radiological release.” U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., released a statement as well: “Worker safety must be our number one priority, and we need to understand whether there has been any environmental contamination resulting from the subsidence at these tunnels. My thoughts are with the first responders who are working to assess the situation on the ground, monitor any environmental impacts and design next steps for securing the area.” Update 4: Washington Emergency Management has released a map showing the distances from the incident to various neighborhoods... non-essential employees in 200 East Area have been released. Swing shift north of the WYE Barricade is cancelled. Update 2: An aerial survey midmorning Tuesday showed an opening about 20 feet by 20 feet into the tunnel, which had been covered with about eight feet of soil. As Tri-CityHerald.com reports , the breach could expose the highly radioactive material disposed of in the tunnel to the atmosphere. No airborne radiation had been detected as of about 10:30 a.m. Radiological surveys were continuing. Instructions for people to shelter in place were expanded from central Hanford to all of Hanford, including LIGO and the reactor areas along the Columbia River, after the aerial survey. No one is being allowed to enter the site beyond the security barricades. Earlier in the morning workers near Purex had noticed a 4-foot-by-4-foot depression that was 2 to 4 feet deep over the tunnel. Workers in Purex were evacuated when the depression was noticed. About 3,000 workers in central Hanford initially were told to take shelter indoors, including about 1,000 workers at the vitrification plant construction site. Ventilation systems at the vit plant have been turned off as part of the emergency procedure and equipment that could generate heat have powered down. The DOE announced that secretary Perry is aware of the incident and that there is no initial indication of any worker exposure or an airborne radiological release. Meanwhile, Private pilots in the area have been told to avoid flying over Hanford. The Hanford Patrol is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to put a formal air restriction in place until the FAA can confirm there is no danger. Update 1: A robot is being used to sample the contaminated air and soil in the area around the collapse... etc. etc. etc. The Hanford site represents two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup. The government spends $2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup — one-third of its entire budget for nuclear cleanup nationally. The cleanup is expected to last decades. However, as Krugman would say, the government was not spending nearly enough, and after a major documented leak in 2013, over the weekend, thousands of gallons of radioactive waste are estimated to have leaked from the Site once again, triggering an alarm and causing one former worker to label it as "catastrophic." As AP reported, the expanded leak was first detected after an alarm went off at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on Sunday, and on Monday workers were preparing to pump the waste out of the troubled area. They were also trying to determine why the leak became worse. It’s unclear exactly how much waste spilled out, but estimates place the amount at somewhere between 3,000 and 3,500 gallons, according to the Tri-City Herald. The problem occurred at the double-wall storage tank AY-102, which has the capacity to hold one million gallons of the deadly waste, and which has been leaking since 2011. At the time, the leak was "extremely small", and the waste would dry up almost right after spilling out between the inner and outer walls, leaving a salt-like substance behind. However, over time the small leak got bigger. In March, the US Department of Energy began pumping what was left in the storage tank, which originally held some 800,000 gallons of waste. However, after leak detector alarms sounded early Sunday morning, crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between the tank's inner and outer walls. They discovered 8.4 inches of radioactive and chemically toxic waste has seeped into the annulus. Pumping work on the tank has been halted as officials reevaluate the situation and figure out how to get to the leaked radioactive waste. It’s possible that the leak was made worse when the pumping began, but that has not been confirmed. Taking a page right out of the TEPCO playbook, the U.S. Department of Energy released a statement Monday calling the leak an "anticipated" outcome of an ongoing effort to empty the tank in question. The Washington state Department of Ecology said, "There is no indication of waste leaking into the environment or risk to the public at this time." But one former tank farm worker said the leak should be considered a major problem. "This is catastrophic. This is probably the biggest event to ever happen in tank farm history. The double shell tanks were supposed to be the saviors of all saviors (to hold waste safely from people and the environment),” said former Hanford worker Mike Geffre. He should know: Geffre is the worker who first discovered that the tank, known as AY-102, was failing in 2011. In a 2013 series, “Hanford’s Dirty Secrets," the KING 5 Investigators exposed that the government contractor in charge of the tanks, Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), ignored Geffre’s findings for nearly a year. The company finally admitted the problem in 2012. Another problem: tank AY-102 is just one of 28 double-shell tanks at Hanford (there are 177 underground tanks total) holding nuclear byproducts from nearly four decades of plutonium production on the Hanford Nuclear Site, located near Richland. Initially the plutonium was used to fuel the bombed dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II. The new leak poses problems on several fronts. The outer shell of AY-102 does not have the exhaust or filtration system needed to keep the dangerous gases created by the waste in check. Workers have been ordered to wear full respiratory safety gear in the area, but the risk remains. And unlike Fukushima where cleanup crews are aware of the danger, in Hanford virtually nobody is aware of the dangers of the radioactive seepage. "The hazards to workers just went up by a factor of 10,” said Geffre. The breakdown calls into question the viability of three other double-shell tanks at Hanford that have the exact design of AY-102. It is not clear how many of them may have comparable "extremely small" leaks which have gotten bigger, and even if there was it is likely that the DOD would not reveal them. "The primary tanks weren't designed to stage waste like this for so many years,” said a current worker. “There’s always the question, ‘Are the outer shells compromised’”? Oh, and let's not forget that the accumulation of waste in the outer shell also means "the deadliest substance on earth is that much closer to the ground surrounding the tank. And currently there is no viable plan in place to take care of it." Or, as Ben Bernanke would say, the Plutonium is contained. "It makes me sad that they didn’t believe me that there was a problem in 2011,” said Geffre. “I wish they would have listened to me and reacted faster. Maybe none of this would be happening now. It’s an example of a culture at Hanford of 'We don’t have problems here. We’re doing just fine.’ Which is a total lie,” said Geffre. Dear Mike, if you think that is bad, you should see what they say about the "markets"...
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6.8-magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu: USGS
AFP | May 9, 2017, 08.39 PM IST
SYDNEY: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at a depth of 178 kilometres (110 miles) and about 58 kilometres northeast of the town of Port-Olry. Vanuatu is part of the "Ring of Fire," a zone of tectonic activity around the Pacific frequently subject to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Last year, the island nation was rocked by a series of quakes, including some that prompted tsunami warnings.
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Freak Hailstorm Blankets Denver Metro Area (Videos and Pictures)
By Strange Sounds - May 9, 2017
A furious hailstorm engulfed the Denver Metro Area on May 8, 2017 filling the streets with hail the size of golf ball within minutes. Watch the moment it hits: Now look at the amount of hail that fell during thi storm in Evans. Cars are unable to move: Hundreds of cars have been damaged: Now, here a few pictures of this crazy weather phenomenon: Tennis ball to baseball size hail fell in Lakewood, CO. Huge hail fell on Auraria Campus on May 8, 2017.
http://strangesounds.org/2017/05/denver-hailstorm-videos-pictures.html
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Shark attacks on the rise along the California coast
By Carter Evans CBS News May 6, 2017, 7:30 PM
Shark attacks are on the rise along the California coast. "Beach access to the water is closed today because we had a girl get bit by a shark," said one park official. Beachgoers were greeted by scary warning after 35-year-old Leeanne Ericson was attacked in knee-deep water north of San Diego last week. They're "itchy": Why California shark sightings are on the rise Shark sightings cause southern Calif. beaches to close "It was a large wound," said her surgeon, Dr. Gail Tominaga. Tominaga said Ericson likely survived because of quick action on the beach. "That was crucial because they were able to put a big dressing on and a partial tourniquet on to help the bleeding, you know, decrease the bleeding," Tominaga said. Marine biologist Dave Bader of the Aquarium of the Pacific said that in his experience, a shark is never intentionally going after a person. "We know what great white sharks like to eat and especially as juveniles, we know they like to eat small fish," Bader says. "Nothing on you looks like a small fish." But there have been an increasing number of shark sightings in southern California, including one breaching near surfers ealier this week. Most of them are young great whites, some six feet long and just a year old, according to marine biologist Chris Lowe. "I attribute a lot of that to better conservation, we protected white sharks 20 years ago in California, their food source has come back, and in many ways, our coastal oceans are getting healthier," Lowe says. But frequent shark sightings are causing fear. "It was beyond the most terrifying experience of my entire life," says Sophia Raab, 18, who believes she may have been bitten last Wednesday while surfing back to shore north of Los Angeles. "I looked down and my leg was opened in half," she said. "And I just began screaming bloody murder." Doctors told her it was a shark bite, but from the look of the wound, shark experts say she was more likely cut by a surfboard fin. Marine biologists say the fear generated from these incidents is a reminder that even with crowded beaches in southern California, what lurks beyond the shoreline is mostly unknown. "It is wild. There is wild life there and certainly we have to respect that," Bader says. Doctors say Ericson has already had two surgeries and will need at least two more. It's not clear when she'll be out of the hospital, but doctors do think she will be able to use her leg again.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shark-attacks-are-on-the-rise-along-the-calif-coast/
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Return of the Ancient Gods: The Resurgence of Paganism
7 May, 2017 - 18:57 Caleb Strom
Over the past two centuries, Europe has become increasingly secular. Scholars in fact no longer talk of the Christian West when they speak of Modern Europe and North America, but of the Secular West. There is however evidence of a spiritual revival stirring on the continent where God is supposedly dead. For example, France and Eastern Europe appear to be in the midst of a Christian revival as the Catholic church seems to be re-emerging as a cultural and political force in France and some eastern European countries, particularly Hungary and Croatia. This is also true of the native Protestant churches in those countries. The Eastern Orthodox Churches are enjoying the same resurgence in countries like Russia and Georgia. Christianity is however not the only spiritual tradition experiencing a revival on the home soil of the Western, Slavic, and Byzantine civilizations. Even older traditions pre-dating the appearance of the Jewish carpenter turned Messiah are beginning to re-emerge. Since the 19th century, there has been an increasing interest in ancient pre-Christian European religions such as ancient Greek, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic paganism. This stems from an increasing interest in spirituality in Europe, specifically a spirituality in touch with European heritage and ethnic roots in a similar manner to indigenous religions of Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians. Ancient and Modern Combine Among modern Pagans, there are two approaches to reviving pagan practices. One is eclecticism or syncretism, in which elements of historical ethnic religions such as the ancient Norse religion are combined with modern movements such as Wicca, Theosophy or other New Age philosophies. This is largely based on romantic views of these ancient religions which emerged in the 19th century which may or may not be historically accurate. Reconstructing the Past The other approach is polytheistic reconstructionism which is an attempt to make an historically accurate reconstruction of these ancient religions based on historical sources, archaeological data, and perhaps ethnographic comparison. Reconstructionists avoid embellishing ancient pagan religions with modern movements and ideologies. Germanic Paganism One of the largest movements currently which can be either syncretic or reconstructionist is the revival of Germanic Paganism or “Heathenry.” Modern Germanic Pagans or Heathens, as they prefer to call themselves, worship the old Germanic gods, especially Thor and Odin as well as Germanic nature spirits such as Elves and Trolls. Germanic Heathens appear to have three different approaches to proselytizing and practicing their religion. Some Heathens emphasize simply the worship of the Germanic gods and believe that anyone regardless of their national, ethnic, or racial background can worship the Gods. These are the universalists. There are other Heathens, however, who believe that Germanic cultural and spiritual values also need to be adopted in order to be true worshipers of the Germanic gods. Most of the latter group of Heathens also believe that worship of the Germanic gods is not limited to any particular ethnic or racial background simply that those individuals interested in worshiping them should learn something about and agree with some aspects of the culture from which they originated. Germanic Paganism is after all technically an ethnic religion. There are some Heathens however who call themselves Folkists or Folkish Heathens who believe that only those who are of White Northern European descent have any right to worship the Gods. These are the ones that tend to promote White supremacism and other explicitly racist agendas. Other Heathens, as a result, try to distance themselves from the Folkists, even those who would otherwise agree that Heathens who worship the Germanic gods should adopt Germanic values. Slavic Paganism Slavic Paganism or Heathenry is also enjoying a resurgence in Eastern Europe in countries with large Slavic populations. A movement known as Rodnovery or “Native Faith” is made up of communities which claim to continue the ancient Slavic religion which was mostly replaced by Eastern Orthodox Christianity. This movement is especially strong in Poland despite the nation’s dominant Catholic identity. Many Rodnovery are self-described reconstructionists but others claim direct continuity with the ancient traditions claiming that their families continued the old religion in secret or in cloaked form alongside Christianity. Revival of the Greek Gods In Greece, a couple of organizations have emerged promoting a revival of the ancient Greek religion under the name “Hellenism.” The Hellenists also call themselves Dodekatheists or believers in twelve gods, namely the Olympian deities. Religious practices in Hellenism include public worship at temples or in outdoor open spaces of the major Greek gods, Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, Hera, Athena, Ares, Aphrodite, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hestia, Dionysus, Hades and Poseidon among others. There is also a large household worship component centered on domestic Greek deities such as Hestia, goddess of the hearth. Most Hellenists are politically inactive but some of them desire to create a national and ethnic identity for Greece not rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy. Some Hellenists have been vocally hostile towards the Greek Orthodox Church but many simply want to practice their religion amicably alongside Greek Christians. The Return of Celtic Paganism In addition to the revival of Greek, Germanic, and Slavic forms of paganism, there is also an attempt to revive Celtic paganism. There are both reconstructionist Modern Celtic Pagans and syncretic Modern Celtic Pagans who also incorporate Wicca and other traditions into their religion. Modern Celtic Pagans use the Lunar calendar of the ancient Celts and celebrate the solstices and equinoxes as well as the cross-quarter days, days that are half-way between one of the solstices and one of the equinoxes, as religious festivals. These festivals include the well-known festivals of Samhain and Imbolc. There does not appear to have been any attempt to connect Contemporary Celtic Paganism to a political agenda or nationalist movement unlike the other forms of Contemporary Paganism. The Past Meets the Future Religions tend to shape civilizations. When Europe became Christian and the Middle East and North Africa became Muslim, two different civilizations were formed which were quite different because of the religious traditions on which they were based. Europe most likely won’t become pagan again, but it is interesting to think of what sort of civilization would be birthed from the revival of one of these ancient religious traditions. What would a modern Pagan Greece look like culturally and politically, for example? One thing is for certain, it would go in a rather different direction than either a Christian or Secularist Greece.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/return-ancient-gods-resurgence-paganism-008033
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Firestorm brewing as scientists work to create synthetic human DNA
The Human Genome Project (HGP) took 13 years and $3 billion to complete.
Scientists planning to synthesize human DNA think it is as little as 5 years away.
They are seeking $100 million, and believe it will in total cost less than HGP.
Their aim is to get the cost of making a DNA base pair down to one cent.
Alex Ossola, special to CNBC.com Tuesday, 2 May 2017 | 8:35 AM ET
Last May a seemingly commonplace meeting kicked off a firestorm of controversy. More than 100 experts in genetics and bioengineering convened at Harvard Medical School for a meeting that was closed to the public — attendees were asked not to contact news media or to post about the meeting on social media. The same group is getting back together in New York City next week. To the meeting organizers, last year's secretive measures were, counterintuitively, to make sure as many people heard about the project as possible. They were submitting a paper about the project to a scientific journal and were discouraged from sharing the information publicly before it was published. But there's another reason why this group of scientists, while encouraging debate and public involvement, would be wary of attracting too much attention. Their project is an effort to synthesize DNA, including human DNA. Researchers will start with simpler organisms, such as microbes and plants, but hope to ultimately create strands of human genetic code. One of the group's organizers, Jef Boeke, director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU School of Medicine, told CNBC that incorporating synthesized DNA into mammalian (or even human) cells could happen in four to five years. This project follows in the footsteps of the Human Genome Project (HGP), the 13-year, $2.7 billion project that enabled scientists to first decode the human genome. "HGP allowed us to read the genome, but we still don't completely understand it," said Nancy Kelley, the coordinator of the new effort, dubbed GP-write. High school biology covers the basic building blocks for DNA, called nucleotides — adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Humans' 3 billion pairs provide the blueprints for how to build our cells. The intention of GP-write is to provide a better fundamental understanding of how these pieces work together. Using synthesized genomes has both pragmatic and theoretical implications — it could lead to lower cost and higher quality of DNA synthesis, discoveries about DNA assembly in cells and the ability to test many DNA variations. "If you do that, you gain a much deeper understanding of how a complicated apparatus goes," Boeke said. Boeke likens the genome to a bicycle — you can only fully understand something once you take it apart and put it back together. "Really, a synthetic genome is an engine for learning new information." More from Modern Medicine: Medical breakthroughs are way behind for the hard of hearing In the land of Vikings, an ambitious effort to find a cancer cure New guidelines for prostate cancer screening Boeke is particularly excited about what he calls an "ultrasafe cell line." Certain types of mammalian cells intended to produce certain types of large molecule drugs, called biologics. "[Cell lines] have been cultured in dishes in labs for decades. But you can't engineer the genomes — the tools for doing that are quite crude, relatively speaking," Boeke said. Sometimes these cells get infected with a virus, and it completely shuts down drug production. A synthetic cell that lacked unnecessary genetic material could, evidence suggests, be virus-resistant, consistently producing useful drugs to treat disease. The results of GP-write could also lead to stem cell therapy that doesn't run the risk of infecting the patient with another disease, which appears to be what happened to one patient who received stem cell treatment in Mexico. Or they could create a line of microorganisms that could help humans generate some of their own amino acids — nutrients we usually get from food. These outcomes, of course, won't happen overnight. Boeke, who has spent years synthesizing yeast DNA, knows there will be plenty of technical hurdles. "Getting big pieces of DNA efficiently into mammalian cells, engineering them rapidly, these will be major challenges," he said. Scientists will also have to do that without breaking the bank. Right now, Kelley estimates that it costs 10 cents to synthesize every base pair, the bonded molecules that make up the double helix of DNA (start-up GenScript advertises even higher prices, at 23 cents for "economy"). Considering that humans have 3 billion base pairs. "If we can get that [cost] down to one cent per base pair, it would really make a difference," Kelley said. Since last May's meeting, Kelley, Boeke and their collaborators have published an article in Science about the project, as well as a white paper outlining its timeline. Close to 200 researchers and collaborators around the world have expressed interest in participating, Kelley says, ranging from institutional researchers to corporate scientists. Preliminary experiments are already underway, and the project organizers are discussing the project with companies as well as federal and state agencies that might help them reach their goal of raising $100 million this year. They estimate GP-write should cost less, in total, than the $3 billion Human Genome Project, though they have not provided more specific cost projections. It might not be so bad if these advances took some time. After news broke of the May meeting, some criticized the way the rollout was handled. "Given that human genome synthesis is a technology that can completely redefine the core of what now joins all of humanity together as a species, we argue that discussions of making such capacities real ... should not take place without open and advance consideration of whether it is morally right to proceed," read one op-ed, published in Cosmos. Boeke says a public and scientific discussion is exactly what the GP-write organizers intend to have. "I think articulation of our plan not to start right off synthesizing a full human genome tomorrow was helpful. We have a four- to five-year period where there can be plenty of time for debate about the wisdom of that, whether resources should be put in that direction or in another. Whenever it's human, everyone has an opinion and wants their voice to be heard. We want to hear what people have to say," Boeke said. Up to 250 people are expected at the New York Genome Center meeting , which will include discuss of applications, ethics and logistics behind the GP-write project. — By Alex Ossola, special to CNBC.com
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War and Empire: the American Way of Life
07.05.2017 Paul ATWOOD
A few months ago I received a message from a professor at the Khomeini Institute for Education and Research in Tehran, Iran, informing me that my 2010 book “War and Empire: The American Way of Life” (London, Pluto Press) had been translated into Farsi. He requested that I write an Introduction for Iranian readers. What follows is that Introduction. Two years ago the Xinhua Peoples’ Press in Beijing, China also published a translation in Mandarin. In the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s 1991 attempt to annex Kuwait the U.S. deliberately destroyed much of Iraq’s water and sewer infrastructure. The Pentagon even admitted on its website that these acts would lead to mass outbreaks of disease. These were certifiable war crimes under international law. After Saddam’s defeat the U.S. also imposed widespread sanctions on his regime that included preventing necessary medicines from reaching Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens perished as a result. In an infamous interview in 1996 Madeleine Albright, then the Secretary of State, was asked to justify the deaths of 500,000 children. She defended these atrocities by saying “I think this is a very hard choice but we think the price is worth it.” Twenty-one years have elapsed since Albright uttered her rationalization of this vicious barbarity and it has been virtually “disappeared” from the collective memory of Americans. But it is far from being the only one. Today much the same is being visited upon the children of Mosul, Syria and Yemen. Fifty thousand more marines are slated for deployment to Afghanistan and the new Defense Secretary’s bellicose rhetoric threatens Iran. When I undertook to write this book I could not imagine that it would ever be translated into Farsi or Mandarin Chinese. Over the course of my teaching career I had become increasingly concerned about the vacancy of knowledge about their nation’s past on the part of my students and by extension many millions of my fellow American citizens. This condition of ignorance is the effect of the incomplete and, too often, dishonest orthodoxy in required school texts and by the distortion of the real past by popular culture, Hollywood films and corporate controlled network television, especially the purported “news.” George Orwell was correct. “Who controls the present controls the past.” What the majority of Americans are conditioned to think they know about their past (and that of many other peoples) is myth, and too often, sheer illusion. Misdirection and manipulation about proclaimed threats from abroad since 1945 has led directly into wars and unjust armed interventions and coups in many other nations. The results are always tragic on a colossal scale. None of this is accidental or new. Since the end of World War II the U.S. ruling elites have set forth an agenda claimed to foster what they call a “liberal world order” in which democracy and human rights for all are the declared goals. But little about real U.S. actions in the world supports these claims. Washington has overthrown elected governments and waged catastrophic war upon helpless civilians in many nations since 1945. The public is told that national security and “vital interests” are at stake and the corporate controlled media ensure that key realities are omitted, or distorted. It is no secret that today much of the human species is living in existential crisis-whether from war, economic exploitation or dire effects of climate change- and the profound ignorance about how the past shapes the present is a major factor in our failure to fashion a more peaceful and beneficial future. This volume is simply an attempt to illuminate much of the hidden history of the United States in the hope that more citizens in the United States will realize that we cannot continue on this destructive path and must find a way to cooperate with other nations instead of seeking to dominate them or outcompete them in a self-defeating contest for diminishing resources. Many American officials pay lip service to international cooperation but they really mean collaboration with the overarching American agenda. The words of those who have formulated the grand strategy for American global dominance since the U.S. emerged as the most militarily dominant nation after WWII must be taken seriously but desires for global dominance were evident long before. Consider the oft-quoted language of George F. Kennan, the U.S. State Department’s architect of the Cold War with the Soviet Union immediately after World War II. In a top secret document circulated only to other key officials he took notice of the fact that the American population was (in 1948) only 6.3% of the world’s but that the U.S. effectively controlled about 50% of the world’s resources. The object of U.S. policy, he declared, should be to maintain that disparity and employ “straight power tactics” to enforce this global inequality, while avoiding all rhetoric about commitment to human rights, raising other peoples’ living standards, democratization and the like. Kennan’s vision, coupled with the U.S. creation of the World Bank and International Monetary fund, anticipated a globalized economy under firm control by American and allied European banks and industries, and backed by American firepower. Much closer in time to the present is the comprehensive plan for complete American dominance of the planet projected in brutally frank and exacting detail by former national security chief Zbigniev Brzezinsky in his book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geo-strategic Imperatives. Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Asia would dominate two of the three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination…About 75 percent of the world’s people live in Eurasia and most of the world’s wealth is there as well…Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world’s energy resources. Upon assuming the presidency of the U.S. in 2001 George W. Bush filled his administration with so called Neo-Conservatives, members of the Project for a New American Century, who, with their allies in the Pentagon, called for nothing less than “full spectrum dominance” of planet Earth. Exploiting the hysteria mounted in the U.S. after the events of September 11, 2001 Bush II then proceeded to call for all-out war against what he termed the “axis of evil.” General Wesley Clark, a 2004 Democratic Party candidate for president, later revealed that the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Administration had secret plans all along to overthrow the governments of Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia and Sudan, and “finish off” Iran. All that was needed was a “new Pearl Harbor” and the events of September 11, 2001 provided that pretext, launching a state of permanent war primarily against the Muslim world. Citizens of the U.S., like myself, who have long studied these matters and have opposed our nation’s imperial policies know that what these men, and many others like them, have proposed is exactly what they accused Nazi Germany and Communist Russia of attempting. Of course, proponents of what the first Bush deemed the “New World Order” in 1991 allege that this American imperium will constitute a radical departure from past empires and will instead usher in and guarantee a new age of democracy and human rights for all humanity. They assert this even as their bombs and those of their allies shatter the lives literally of millions in the Islamic world. The U.S. began its history as a colony of the early British Empire and an outpost of nascent capitalism though this essential fact is de-emphasized in standard accounts in favor of the claim that the primary incentive for the colonial project was “freedom of religion.” The earliest British colonies in North America, Virginia and Massachusetts, were established as joint-stock companies, precursors of the modern corporation, to return profits to the mother country from resources of fish, game, furs, lumber and later, tobacco, cotton and the industries that followed. Acquisition of these valued assets required the conquest, displacement or extermination of the native populations already living here. The name, Massachusetts, for example, the state where I live, is all that remains of the people who once inhabited the area of what is now Boston. Later, the profits derived from forcible acquisition of the land, and the slave labor to cultivate it underwrote the industrial revolution and this catapulted the United States into position as the richest nation on earth and soon the militarily most powerful. Only a century after breaking away from British rule the United States itself leapt upon the stage of empire to compete with other Europeans for dominance in the world, taking the former Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam by force, and annexing Hawaii. Brooks Adams, the descendant of two presidents, exulted that “this war is the first gun in the battle for ownership of the world.” In the Senate Albert Beveridge proclaimed that “The power that rules the Pacific rules the world.” U.S. entry into both World Wars and all subsequent armed interventions is almost always mystified and characterized as a defense of democracy and human rights. In no case was American national security remotely threatened if by that we mean the vulnerability to invasion and military defeat. Since the end of World War II the United States has waged numerous full scale wars and many smaller conflicts in the name of national security and claims of principle and high ideals. Americans are unremittingly habituated to believe Madeleine Albright’s all-encompassing contention that the United States is “the indispensable nation.” The end result of our actions has been many millions dead, maimed, reduced to penury, and desolated with grief. Americans are encouraged to see ourselves as humanitarians yet the widespread denial of our collective responsibility for the raw misery for those on the receiving end of our military firepower is nothing less than indefensible. Until WWII the U.S. was perceived, if not exactly as a benevolent friend of Muslim peoples, at least it was not yet seen as one more imperial power set upon exploiting the greater Middle East. This positive estimation changed virtually the moment that war ended and the regional shift toward virulent anti-Americanism originated in Iran. During World War II Iran had been co-occupied by Soviet, British and American troops. The Allies violated Iran’s declared neutrality because they thought that the country’s ruler, Reza Shah, was too friendly with Nazi Germany and they wished to use Iranian territory to transship supplies from the Persian Gulf to the USSR. The British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now British Petroleum) had virtually monopolized production and profits from the industry and the Allies also wanted to prevent the country’s oil reserves from potential access by Germany. The three nations had agreed to withdraw from Iran within six months after the war’s end. In March of 1946 Soviet troops had still not withdrawn and Washington claimed that this was evidence of Stalin’s desire to expand communism and threaten the entire region. The reality was that the Soviet Union had suffered immense damage from the war and needed energy supplies to rebuild. Russians wanted some guarantee from Iran that they could purchase a certain quota of Iranian oil for this purpose and sought to gain an oil concession in the Azerbaijani region of Iran, which bordered the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. Washington and the Iranian government feared that the Soviets might act to annex the territory when Iranian Azerbaijanis declared a separate republic. President Truman later claimed that he threatened the USSR with American military intervention. The U.S. State Department advised the Iranian prime minister, Ahmad Qavam, to negotiate and when Iran accepted the oil concession the Red Army withdrew. However, the Iranian parliament, the Majlis, later disavowed the agreement. These actions undertaken by Washington constituted the first direct American intervention in the Middle East as well as the first skirmish of the post-WWII Cold War. Anti-Soviet rhetoric claimed that the Soviet Union was bent on “world conquest” and pointed to the occupation of Eastern Europe by the Red Army. Omitted was all mention of the fact that as Nazi Germany had marched through the nations of Eastern Europe it had subjected their governments and made them allies. Then many waged war themselves against the USSR. Thus, the Red Army was occupying those nations for the same reason the United States and Britain were occupying Germany, Austria and Italy. American elites had plans for the reconstruction of Europe that would reintegrate the entire region into a revived capitalist order under American authority and communist Russia’s occupation of Eastern Europe was seen to obstruct those goals. No consideration was given to the very real security concerns that the Soviets had, especially about their eastern borders from whence twice in the early 20th Century they had been invaded. In fact, Russian non-actions at the time, not only with respect to Iran, indicated exactly the opposite of what Washington wanted the world to believe. The Red Army could easily have re-entered Iranian territory after the Majlis reneged on the oil concession and there was nothing, short of the atomic bomb that could have dislodged them. But it did not. Within a few years Soviet troops also withdrew from Austria and Manchuria quite in contradiction to the American assertion that they were intent on global conquest. There was no evidence whatever of Soviet designs to expand beyond what it declared to be its security zone in Eastern Europe. The U.S. had committed itself to an adversarial relationship with its former ally, in the absence of which the Nazis would never have been defeated, and it had initiated its long-term intervention into the internal affairs of Iran and many other nations, which, of course, continue to this day. When the Shah was overthrown in 1979 few Americans had any sense of why this occurred, especially because most journalists supinely omitted any reportage of crimes committed by the “king of kings” against the Iranian people. The public had been conditioned to believe for decades that Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi was a benevolent sovereign, beloved by his people, a staunch ally of the United States, and a pillar of stability in the region. Most had no sense that the Shah was installed by the Central Intelligence Agency when it conspired with other Iranians to topple the elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 because he had the temerity to insist that the oil resources of his nation were the birthright of the Iranian people rather than the property of western oil companies. The public had no understanding of how brutal the Shah’s dictatorship was in fact and no comprehension of the role Washington had played in enabling his feared secret police, the SAVAK, to terrorize all Iranians who objected to his policies. To the extent that the general public took any notice at all of Iran they accepted the claim that the Shah was America’s “policeman in the Gulf,” aiding the United States in its efforts to “contain” the threat of the Soviet Union. The real menace to the interests of American corporate elites emanated from the upsurge in nationalism among all peoples around the globe who had been victims of western colonialism. World War II effectively finished Europe’s empires and nations from Indonesia, Vietnam, India, to Kenya, Congo, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile and many others were rising in the post-war period to obtain independence, and who, like Iran in the early 1950s, sought to nationalize their resources. From the perspective of the would-be American overlords this was their cardinal sin. Such appropriations of national reserves like Vietnam’s independence movement, Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal, Mossadegh’s actions, or Qassim’s appropriations of oil in Iraq in 1956, if successfully carried out and allowed to stand, would have thwarted the grand strategy of the U.S. to exert American corporate control over such assets, markets and cheaper foreign labor and the immense profits that would acrue to American industrial and banking giants. Since communist ideology also promoted national independence for western colonies intense government and media propaganda convinced the American citizenry that resistance to the American agenda and global turmoil was all the work of the Soviet devil. Even before WWII ended key members of the ruling elite sought preventive measures against a return to depression and mass unemployment. Sixteen million veterans were returning to civilian life. Would they face renewed unemployment and soup kitchens as so many had in the Great Depression of the 1930s? The director of war production, who had formerly been chief executive officer of the General Electric Company, a giant in what President Dwight Eisenhower would later designate the “Military-Industrial Complex,” argued that the U.S. needed a “permanent war economy.” Many of the massive corporations that now dominate the American political economy either grew exponentially during WWII or got their start as a result of government contracts financed by new taxation and borrowing. Only such massive government intervention put citizens back to work or in the military regiments. Given the nature of capitalism few among elite decision makers in the postwar could imagine restructuring such production to meet purely domestic purposes primarily because there was less profit to be made. War or the manufactured threat of war is the lifeblood of the military corporations and their financiers. Thus the ally that had been indispensable in the defeat of Nazism overnight became the new menace to American national security, despite the fact that the USSR had suffered upwards of 30 million deaths and its principal cities lay in ruins. From that moment on the “Cold War” became the ideological organizing touchstone of American society. Even then many citizens resisted the new precepts. Henry Wallace, who had been vice president under Roosevelt, led the popular movement for cooperation between the two post-war giants but he was reviled by the high priests of political orthodoxy as a “fellow traveler” of the communists, as were any who dissented from the new agenda. Inside the inner sanctum of the new “National Security State” a top secret document, NSC-68, specified a comprehensive blueprint to militarize American society, called for a tripling of taxation to expand the military budget and achieve nuclear supremacy by creating the hydrogen bomb. Even so the populace resisted until in the words of Secretary of State Dean Acheson “Thank God Korea came along.” Though Acheson himself had declared that Korea was outside of America’s “defensive perimeter,” warhawks in Washington and on Wall Street declared that the civil war between Korean factions on the other side of the planet imperiled the “free world.” What actually was at risk was the new militarized superstate, and the tax guaranteed profits to the corporations embedded in the war economy. The war that followed left 3 million Koreans and 37,000 US soldiers dead, threatened China with nuclear destruction, leading the Chinese to deploy their own nukes in short order. To cite only some cases, from 1947 to the present the United States has intervened politically or violently in Iran, China, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Vietnam, Guatemala, Indonesia, Congo, Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Laos, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and most recently has intruded brutally in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria. Though internal domestic opposition to American interventions and wars has always surfaced the majority of the public historically succumbs to the incessant propaganda projected by U.S. governments of either party and their corporate allies and the media that military action is necessary for reasons of national security or to protect favored allies. Recently “humanitarian intervention” has surfaced as justification for American deployments in Muslim countries. The doctrine’s principal exponent, former UN ambassador Samantha Power, was instrumental in toppling the Libyan regime of Muammar Qaddafi, with catastrophic results for innumerable civilians. Along with her boss Hillary Clinton, and National Security adviser Susan Rice, these “gentle” women also encouraged the Obama administration to support and arm the rebellion against the Assad regime in Syria leading to today’s incessantly violent chaos, uncountable deaths, the outflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees and the destabilization of numerous nations from Africa to Europe. In 1991 the pretext of the communist menace disappeared with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That brief window of peaceful cooperation closed rapidly and Russia was soon demonized again as the principal menace to “liberal order.” The Trump Administration won election in great part because it promised a more cooperative relationship with Russia, one of the only ray’s of light in that dismal campaign. But what is now termed the American “deep state” is fostering a renewed condition of militarized tension with that nation. Trump also promised millions that he would renew the American economy and bring back jobs for millions who feel betrayed and impoverished by the flight of investment capital overseas in search of cheaper labor and the robotization of such industries that remain. “America First” is Trump’s watchword. Yet he has turned management of the U.S. economy over to the very bankers who orchestrated the swindles that led to the near collapse of the world economy in 2008. As I write these words Trump has launched missiles at a Syrian airfield, employed the U.S.’s deadliest weapon short of nukes in Afghanistan, bombed Yemen, and sent troops to Somalia. His Secretary of Defense, former General James Mattis, affectionately called “mad dog” by his troops, threatens Iran, falsely accusing it of violations of the recently signed agreement on nuclear proliferation. Trump is recklessly threatening North Korea, potentially creating an extreme risk of a nuclear event that would certainly also engage China. He has called for an increase in military spending that by itself is almost larger than the entire military budget of any other country. Despite promises of prosperity for all the taxes to fund all this will fall on the shoulders of the broad American middle class and generations to come, not on the giant corporations that are all but tax exempt- as it appears Trump himself has been for decades. Rather than sanely reducing the risk of war as he promised his presidency looks increasingly worrying. As his foreign policies take shape they are indistinguishable from those of his Democratic Party opponents and the global dominance doctrines of Bush’s neo-conservatives. Are They all fated to fail and unless derailed ensure yet more widespread war and suffering.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/05/07/war-and-empire-american-way-life.html
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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Scientists are Attempting to ‘Prove’ that ‘Religious’ People are Crazy – Study
By Nate Brown - 05/08/2017
According to a study done by the researchers at Northwestern University, damage in a particular part of the brain is linked to an increase in religious fundamentalism. In particular, lesions in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduced cognitive flexibility – the ability to challenge our beliefs based on new evidence. The research was conducted by Jordan Grafman, who utilized data gathered from Vietnam War veterans as part of the Vietnam Head Injury Study. The study is being used to claim further that religious beliefs are centered in the prefrontal cortex. “The variation in the nature of religious beliefs are governed by specific brain areas in the anterior parts of the human brain and those brain areas are among the most recently evolved areas of the human brain,” said Grafman. How free these areas are from disease, in particular, the part known as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, may determine a person’s mental openness – necessary to appreciate the “diversity of religious thought.” The scientists are claiming, that ‘they are not stating religious people overall are mentally inflexible, or that belief is caused by brain damage.’ However, when one compares ‘brain damage’ to an increase in religion, then that typically means that scientists such as Jordan are trying to label those who hold religious beliefs as mentally unstable. Abstract Beliefs profoundly affect people’s lives, but their cognitive and neural pathways are poorly understood. Although previous research has identified the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) as critical to representing religious beliefs, the means by which vmPFC enables religious belief is uncertain. We hypothesized that the vmPFC represents diverse religious beliefs and that a vmPFC lesion would be associated with religious fundamentalism, or the narrowing of religious beliefs. To test this prediction, we assessed religious adherence with a widely-used religious fundamentalism scale in a large sample of 119 patients with penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI). If the vmPFC is crucial to modulating diverse personal religious beliefs, we predicted that pTBI patients with lesions to the vmPFC would exhibit greater fundamentalism, and that this would be modulated by cognitive flexibility and trait openness. Instead, we found that participants with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) lesions have fundamentalist beliefs similar to patients with vmPFC lesions and that the effect of a dlPFC lesion on fundamentalism was significantly mediated by decreased cognitive flexibility and openness. These findings indicate that cognitive flexibility and openness are necessary for flexible and adaptive religious commitment, and that such diversity of religious thought is dependent on dlPFC functionality. — See The Study To sum up the study, the scientists are claiming that if you are not religiously flexible, then there could be some damage done to your ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Bad news Jordan, we all weren’t dropped on our heads as a baby. The real question is, who funded the study? Scientists are literally attempting to label all Christians as nuts while pushing the agenda of ‘religious experiences,’ this is an attack on the Church at large, and if you are not rooted in FAITH, then science and whatever other spiritual wind blows your way will sway you. The Christian religion has been around far longer than modern day science, and it’s a guarantee that not all of the people rooted in Christianity had brain damage. The scientists concluded the study and stated further testing needed to be done. “We need to understand how distinct religious beliefs are from moral, legal, political, and economic beliefs in their representations in the brain, the nature of conversion from one belief system to another, the difference between belief and agency, and the nature of the depth of knowledge that individuals use to access and report their beliefs,” Grafman added. If science can understand it, politics can further control it. Labeling Christians as nuts can further bring about controls placed upon people of faith. Is this how the New World Order will ‘cleanse’ the Earth of Christianity?
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Wire: Catholic Church To Approve Euthanasia? Human Brain Waves Will Teach Robots To Shoot
By @truther2127 - 05/07/2017
Welcome to the Christian Truther Wire, you can listen to this broadcast by either listening to the embedded podcast above – or you can watch along on YouTube. To gain access to all of the reports used in today’s broadcast, please see here. In tonight’s Wire; we are covering the Brothers of Charity, a Catholic Church, and how they are attempting to approve euthanasia for patients, including those under psychiatric care, at their health centers. Also, we are covering North Korea’s latest threats against the United States, and how now Kim Jung Un wants to ‘blow up’ the White House. For tonight’s specials reports welcome to the world where your dreams aren’t even safe anymore, and the terminator comes alive. Don’t miss tonight’s Wire.
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Morning brief: Obama offers urgent plea to Congress on health care
Published May 08, 2017 Fox News
OBAMA WEIGHS IN ON HEALTH CARE DEBATE WITH CALL TO CONGRESS
Speaking at the John F. Kennedy President Library and Museum in Boston Sunday night, former President Obama urged Congress to show political courage in the debate over the new health care law, which was passed in the House last week. “I hope they understand that courage means not simply doing what is politically expedient, but doing what they believe deep in their hearts is right,” Obama said. He was receiving the Profile In Courage Award from members of the Kennedy family. etc.
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An Analysis of the Coup Against Trump (Part 2)
By Dave Hodges
In part one, I provided stunning reversal from Candidate Trump to President Trump with regard to the major initiatives that he is carrying out. However, I am not of the opinion that Trump’s campaign was based on lies and deception. I went back and watched about 15 hours of tape, especially during the primary campaign. Trump was NOT being phony. I reviewed the progression of his candidacy. The man took amazing abuse, but it was not scripted. The abuse was often spontaneous. And the miracle that became his election had little to do with Trump’s skills, but I believed I was reviewing the unveiling of a supernatural power (i.e. the hand of God) being thrust upon the nation, particularly among the enemies of God and ultimately the American people. Where Did Things Go Wrong? In Part One, I have quoted the book of Ezekiel in that in the end days, the evil of the leaders would be revealed. Have come to believe that because of our nation’s increasing hedonism and pervasive evil, God was only willing to go so far with this nation, as I believe we are a nation under judgment. In short, God used Donald Trump, as Steve Quayle puts it, to expose the satanic evil prevalent in our leaders. The Trump campaign accomplished that end. We learned of Hillary’s extracurricular activities along with Cruz, Rubio and the core of the Democratic party. George Soros was exposed as a primary player in our election. In fact, if one wants to look at election tampering, we need not look at the Russians, we only need to look at Soros with his voting machines and formation of terrorist groups designed to defeat Trump and subvert the will of the people. In the following short video, I discuss how Trump, despite being compromised, was planning to go after the power of the banks. It should also be mentioned that Trump, through Attorney General Jeff Sessoins was continuing to pursue the very sensitive area of child-sex-trafficking. In case nobody has been keeping score, Trump’s people have prosecuted hundreds for this heinous crime and they are working their way up the food chain. Trump must be stopped because the final destination of these actions is not accetable to the globalists for very obvious reasons. It is clear that God is stopping at the revelation of sins aspect. The regime change is up to us once the people are awakened to the depravity of the leadership. Evil Attempts to Extinguish the Truth Through Soros’ ally, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Trump has quite obviously lost control of the foreign policy element of the Executive Branch. However, Trump has managed to retain some power. I have learned that as late as last week, Trump had planned to initiate something similar to Glass-Steagall which would prevent the banks from benefiting from things like the credit swap derivatives, which have destroyed our economy. This was a declaration of war against Wall Street. I have learned from two insider sources, that Trump was making a move on the first layer of the Deep State at the State Department and the FBI. These two actions have led to the formation of a battle plan from the Deep State leftists, all of which are designed to remove Donald Trump from power. Deep State Options to Remove Donald J. Trump As President A clear picture is beginning to emerge as the Deep State has settled into a progressive three-tiered approach to removing President Trump from office. The initial plan was to compile the false Russian allegations from places like the New York Times and the Washington Post and impeach Trump under some provision, such as trading with the Trading with the Enemies Act. By the way, this was the act that Prescott Bush violated during WW II as continued to trade with the Nazis. Prescott Bush was the father of George H.W. Bush. It has been widely reported that certain key members of Congress have been secretly meeting and planning to take Trump out of office under the disability clause of the 25th Their primary target has been the perceived mental illnesses of the President, most of which could be considered to be Paranoid Personality Disorder. This “data gathering” is designed to influence the Cabinet as they would be the ones responsible for casting the vote to remove the President from office. The assassination card is the third and final stop in this progressive approach to remove the President. The Progression of this Three-Pronged Strategy The Russian allegations strategy against Trump has failed. They failed when he bombed Syria, despite the fact that the chemical attack was clearly a false flag attack designed to implicate Assad. Perhaps, this is why Trump agreed to such an attack because it eliminated the first tier of the attacks against him. The second tier of the strategy has been seriously compromised because Trump has stopped engaging critics such as actress, Meryl Streep. Trump has also become less controversial on Twitter and has cut way back on his tweets. However, it is clear to many that Trump has lost control of the military and all major foreign policy decisions. Therefore, in this sense, Trump has already been the victim of a coup, but the totality of the coup is still a work in progress. Trump is resilient as we see that Trump’s continual dealing to keep jobs in America, the intention of implementing something like Glass-Steagall and intention to begin to rid the government of some Deep State elements, shows that he still has a lot of fight left within him. The globalists have failed to crush his spirit and it is time to move on to the next phase of the pyramid of power designed to remove Trump from office. The third tier of this strategy is assassination. And one can bet that if the President is assassinated, fake medical reasons will not likely be the cause. As with the case of John Kennedy, his execution was public and served as a warning to future Presidents as to what can happen to you when you go against the NWO’s agenda for the office of the President. Paul Craig Roberts, as I pointed out below in this video, has publicly stated that Trump will now be made an example of. What Can the People Do? The people must come to realize that the globalists would love nothing more than for you and your countrymen to take to the streets. It is there that the new American populist movement would be crushed in its tracks. A guerilla strategy is needed and one that is based on spiritual solutions, not earthly, knee-jerk reactions. The people must also realize that when Trump is removed from power, that there must be a major false flag event to bring the people under control. It is in this spirit that there will be a Part Three to this series which will discuss solutions and the possible identification of the false flag event.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/05/08/an-analysis-of-the-coup-against-trump-part-2/
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Time for a US Ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, but Why?
By Elliot Friedland Sunday, May 7, 2017
A lot of people in the United States are talking about banning the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the world’s largest Islamist organizations. The movement has many detractors and supporters, and it can be difficult to know what’s really going on. So who is the Muslim Brotherhood? What do its members really believe and why might they be a big enough threat to ban? And, how does that impact me? What is the Muslim Brotherhood? The Muslim Brotherhood is an international movement originally founded in Egypt with branches all over the world, including in the United States. Although it is not a single monolithic movement, the disparate factions share the same foundational ideology. The group does not represent all or even most Muslims (despite claiming to) and is fundamentally a political rather than a religious movement. What does the Muslim Brotherhood Believe? The British Government review of the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in 2015 found: “The founder and first Supreme Guide (spiritual leader), Hassan al Banna, called for the religious reformation of individual Muslims, the progressive moral purification of Muslim societies and their eventual political unification in a Caliphate under sharia law.” According to the founding bylaws of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group aims to liberate Islamic countries from foreign rule, an understandable goal in 1928 when the group was founded and when Britain was ruling Egypt. However it does not stop there, the group’s official aim is to unite all Muslim countries, re-establish a caliphate and to implement sharia as a system of government. The prime beliefs of the Brotherhood are firstly that it sees no distinction between religion and state – only Islam as the sole legitimate system. The second is a strong attachment to the ideals of social justice and the elimination of poverty and corruption, which it uses to recruit, primarily among its core support base, the lower middle class. Its purported attachment to fighting economic injustice should not lead observers to think that the group is benign. Such economic programs do not detract from the group’s totalitarian nature. What about Jihad? Although it has officially renounced violence since the 1970s, this purported renunciation is false. Founder Hassan al-Banna also wrote extensively on the importance of jihad and the “Art of Death.” This focus preached that death in the cause of jihad is a virtue and only by replacing love of life with love of death can the Muslim Brotherhood be triumphant. Another Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, authored the seminal Islamist text Milestones while in prison in 1964. The text is seen as foundational in the genealogy of the Islamist movement, and influenced such terrorist luminaries as Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Osama bin Laden’s mentor, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11. The book created the modern political concept of jahilliya. In traditional Islamic discourse, jahilliya refers to the “age of ignorance” that mythically prevailed in Arabia before the arrival of Mohammed and the formation of Islam. Qutb updated the concept to mean that any government which does not implement sharia as a system of government exists in a state of jahilliya. Such governments are illegitimate and need overthrowing – violently if necessary. How Does This Impact Me? The Muslim Brotherhood’s plan ultimately involves the entire world, including the United States. Muslim Brotherhood ideology is spread in conferences, in printed materials and by affiliated groups around the world. In particular in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the Islamic Circle of North America have been linked to the international Muslim Brotherhood movement. If the Muslim Brotherhood is allowed to, it will create an Islamic caliphate and implement a system of sharia governance, including the brutal hudud punishments such as stoning adulterers to death and cutting the hands off thieves. For more information about the Muslim Brotherhood and its global vision, see Clarion Project’s Special Report: The Muslim Brotherhood.
https://clarionproject.org/a-us-ban-on-the-muslim-brotherhood-but-why/
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BREAKING: M6.6 Earthquake Strikes off Alaska Volcano! Tsunami Warning Buoys “Broken”
An ocean data buoy is alerting to an “event” in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the west coast of Oregon. This is where a magnitude 9 earthquake hit in 1700. According to the data buoy, the water column height (depth) fell sharply within minutes off the coast of Oregon, signaling the land beneath the ocean has suddenly “sunk.” Here are the graphs showing what the ocean data buoy recorded: As of 0231:30, the initial water column height is 2738.80 Meters deep (8985.56 feet). Two minutes and thirty seconds later, that same water column height had dropped to 2738.66 Meters deep (8985.10 feet). Where did the four inches of water disappear to? Answer: The earth sunk; and continued to sink for the next several HOURS. As you can see from the second chart above, from 0230 GMT to 0600 GMT, the ocean continued to sink to 2737.7 meters deep (8981.95 feet). The buoy is too far away from shore to be affected by high/low tide, so where did the four feet of ocean water disappear to? READ MORE: Are You Ready ? End Of The World Begin ! The Elite Are In A Panic-ELITE Underground Bunkers This means a Tectonic Plate in the Ocean named the “Juan de Fuca Plate” has made a sudden, eastward movement and slipped beneath another Tectonic Plate named the “North American Plate.” This type of event is usually followed by a massive upward movement of the North American Plate causing a very severe earthquake. Here’s a map of the relevant Tectonic Plates: In the year 1700, a similar movement of plates is believed to have been the cause of a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which devastated the west coast of north America, and generated an ocean Tsunami that washed inland upwards of ten MILES! FOUR MEAGER FEET OF WATER? Lest you think that four feet of ocean depth is nothing to be concerned about, be reminded that the entire column of water . . . all 8985 feet of it . . . is what dropped four feet. And it did so over an area several miles wide! When the tectonic plate snaps back upward, it can launch that entire 8985 foot column of water upward and toward the shore! Learn how planning ahead can help you protect your family, your home and your belongings in a dangerous time-Video Below As the continental shelf rises toward the shore (the ocean gets more shallow) that 8985 foot column of water starts accumulating upon itself as it moves toward shore, becoming one massive wave, perhaps 45-50 feet tall, that hits the shore for twenty minutes! Now do you see why this is a big deal? If such a thing were to happen today, hundreds-of-thousands of people would be killed as a fifteen meter (45 foot) wall of water came ashore well inland passing Interstate 5 and destroying everything its path from the beach to Interstate 5. Here is a map of I-5, everything to the left of it (to the west) would be wiped out: Mount Hood Volcano Can Be Triggered to Erupt This type of Tectonic Movement has a direct effect upon the volcanos in the Cascadia Volcanic Chain, in particular, Mount Hood. When the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate goes beneath the North American plate, it begins to get crushed. The heat from the friction of the two massive plates rubbing together, melts the Juan de Fuca plate into Magma (lava). Directly next to the Cascadia Subduction Zone is the Mount Hood Volcano. Here’s a graphic to show you the relevant details: All along the Cascadia Subduction Zone are volcanoes. Most of them are inactive, but some are quite active. Here is a map of the volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains Range, so you have an understanding of the pressure relief valves (volcanoes) created over millions of years by these two tectonic plates scraping together. Mount Hood is to the right (east of) Portland, Oregon . . . There is a magma tunnel leading directly from the Cascadia Subduction Zone straight up into Mount Hood! As the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is being crushed (right now) it is melting into magma (lava). Whether or not there is enough magma to cause Mount Hood to erupt is unknown. There has merely been an “event” in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This is a very rare occurrence with serious implications. It is worthy of very close monitoring by persons in the potentially-affected areas. This event is a potential warning of a POSSIBLE pending large earthquake on the west coast. There could also be an eruption at Mount Hood. Folks in Washington, Oregon and northern California as well as in Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, should make certain they are prepared to take emergency action in the event a major quake does strike. READ MORE: RED ALERT:MEGA-EARTHQUAKE MADRID-Americas Risk New Madrid Fault Lines Quake Divide the US Full Historic Background and Detailed Explanation – Scary Stuff Most people in the United States know just one fault line by name: the San Andreas, which runs nearly the length of California and is perpetually rumored to be on the verge of unleashing “the big one.” That rumor is misleading, no matter what the San Andreas ever does. Every fault line has an upper limit to its potency, determined by its length and width, and by how far it can slip. For the San Andreas, one of the most extensively studied and best understood fault lines in the world, that upper limit is roughly an 8.2—a powerful earthquake, but, because the Richter scale is logarithmic, only six per cent as strong as the 2011 event in Japan. Just north of the San Andreas, however, lies another fault line. Known as the Cascadia subduction zone, it runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, beginning near Cape Mendocino, California, continuing along Oregon and Washington, and terminating around Vancouver Island, Canada. The “Cascadia” part of its name comes from the Cascade Range, a chain of volcanic mountains that follow the same course a hundred or so miles inland. The “subduction zone” part refers to a region of the planet where one tectonic plate is sliding underneath (subducting) another. Tectonic plates are those slabs of mantle and crust that, in their epochs-long drift, rearrange the earth’s continents and oceans. Most of the time, their movement is slow, harmless, and all but undetectable. Occasionally, at the borders where they meet, it is not. Take your hands and hold them palms down, middle fingertips touching. Your right hand represents the North American tectonic plate, which bears on its back, among other things, our entire continent, from One World Trade Center to the Space Needle, in Seattle. Your left hand represents an oceanic plate called Juan de Fuca, ninety thousand square miles in size. The place where they meet is the Cascadia subduction zone. Now slide your left hand under your right one. That is what the Juan de Fuca plate is doing: slipping steadily beneath North America. When you try it, your right hand will slide up your left arm, as if you were pushing up your sleeve. That is what North America is not doing. It is stuck, wedged tight against the surface of the other plate. Without moving your hands, curl your right knuckles up, so that they point toward the ceiling. Under pressure from Juan de Fuca, the stuck edge of North America is bulging upward and compressing eastward, at the rate of, respectively, three to four millimeters and thirty to forty millimeters a year. It can do so for quite some time, because, as continent stuff goes, it is young, made of rock that is still relatively elastic. (Rocks, like us, get stiffer as they age.) But it cannot do so indefinitely. There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring. If, on that occasion, only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives way—your first two fingers, say—the magnitude of the resulting quake will be somewhere between 8.0 and 8.6.That’s the big one. If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one. Flick your right fingers outward, forcefully, so that your hand flattens back down again. When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west—losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries. Some of that shift will take place beneath the ocean, displacing a colossal quantity of seawater. (Watch what your fingertips do when you flatten your hand.) The water will surge upward into a huge hill, then promptly collapse. One side will rush west, toward Japan. The other side will rush east, in a seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins. By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” Why are so many of the super wealthy suddenly preparing bug out locations? When the elite of the world start preparing for doomsday, that is a very troubling sign. And right now the elite appear to be quietly preparing for disaster like never before. Want to Be on Survivalist? The 3 Pioneer Survival Lessons We Should All Learn! Here’s your chance. Watch this free video. In the Pacific Northwest, the area of impact will cover some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people. When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America. Roughly three thousand people died in San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake. Almost two thousand died in Hurricane Katrina. Almost three hundred died in Hurricane Sandy. FEMA projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million displaced people, and food and water for another two and a half million. “This is one time that I’m hoping all the science is wrong, and it won’t happen for another thousand years,” Murphy says. In fact, the science is robust, and one of the chief scientists behind it is Chris Goldfinger. Thanks to work done by him and his colleagues, we now know that the odds of the big Cascadia earthquake happening in the next fifty years are roughly one in three. The odds of the very big one are roughly one in ten. Even those numbers do not fully reflect the danger—or, more to the point, how unprepared the Pacific Northwest is to face it. The truly worrisome figures in this story are these: Thirty years ago, no one knew that the Cascadia subduction zone had ever produced a major earthquake. Forty-five years ago, no one even knew it existed. In May of 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, together with their Corps of Discovery, set off from St. Louis on America’s first official cross-country expedition. Eighteen months later, they reached the Pacific Ocean and made camp near the present-day town of Astoria, Oregon. The United States was, at the time, twenty-nine years old. Canada was not yet a country. The continent’s far expanses were so unknown to its white explorers that Thomas Jefferson, who commissioned the journey, thought that the men would come across woolly mammoths. Native Americans had lived in the Northwest for millennia, but they had no written language, and the many things to which the arriving Europeans subjected them did not include seismological inquiries. The newcomers took the land they encountered at face value, and at face value it was a find: vast, cheap, temperate, fertile, and, to all appearances, remarkably benign. A century and a half elapsed before anyone had any inkling that the Pacific Northwest was not a quiet place but a place in a long period of quiet. It took another fifty years to uncover and interpret the region’s seismic history. Geology, as even geologists will tell you, is not normally the sexiest of disciplines; it hunkers down with earthly stuff while the glory accrues to the human and the cosmic—to genetics, neuroscience, physics. But, sooner or later, every field has its field day, and the discovery of the Cascadia subduction zone stands as one of the greatest scientific detective stories of our time. The first clue came from geography. Almost all of the world’s most powerful earthquakes occur in the Ring of Fire, the volcanically and seismically volatile swath of the Pacific that runs from New Zealand up through Indonesia and Japan, across the ocean to Alaska, and down the west coast of the Americas to Chile. Japan, 2011, magnitude 9.0; Indonesia, 2004, magnitude 9.1; Alaska, 1964, magnitude 9.2; Chile, 1960, magnitude 9.5—not until the late nineteen-sixties, with the rise of the theory of plate tectonics, could geologists explain this pattern. The Ring of Fire, it turns out, is really a ring of subduction zones. Nearly all the earthquakes in the region are caused by continental plates getting stuck on oceanic plates—as North America is stuck on Juan de Fuca—and then getting abruptly unstuck. And nearly all the volcanoes are caused by the oceanic plates sliding deep beneath the continental ones, eventually reaching temperatures and pressures so extreme that they melt the rock above them. The first sign that the Cascadia earthquake has begun will be a compressional wave, radiating outward from the fault line. Compressional waves are fast-moving, high-frequency waves, audible to dogs and certain other animals but experienced by humans only as a sudden jolt. They are not very harmful, but they are potentially very useful, since they travel fast enough to be detected by sensors thirty to ninety seconds ahead of other seismic waves. That is enough time for earthquake early-warning systems, such as those in use throughout Japan, to automatically perform a variety of lifesaving functions: shutting down railways and power plants, opening elevators and firehouse doors, alerting hospitals to halt surgeries, and triggering alarms so that the general public can take cover. The Pacific Northwest has no early-warning system. READ MORE: RED ALERT: US West Coast Earthquake IMMINENT as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges-A Super volcano Waking Up In The USA When the Cascadia earthquake begins, there will be, instead, a cacophony of barking dogs and a long, suspended, what-was-that moment before the surface waves arrive. Surface waves are slower, lower-frequency waves that move the ground both up and down and side to side: the shaking, starting in earnest. Soon after that shaking begins, the electrical grid will fail, likely everywhere west of the Cascades and possibly well beyond. If it happens at night, the ensuing catastrophe will unfold in darkness. In theory, those who are at home when it hits should be safest; it is easy and relatively inexpensive to seismically safeguard a private dwelling. But, lulled into nonchalance by their seemingly benign environment, most people in the Pacific Northwest have not done so. That nonchalance will shatter instantly. So will everything made of glass. Anything indoors and unsecured will lurch across the floor or come crashing down: bookshelves, lamps, computers, cannisters of flour in the pantry. Refrigerators will walk out of kitchens, unplugging themselves and toppling over. Water heaters will fall and smash interior gas lines. Houses that are not bolted to their foundations will slide off—or, rather, they will stay put, obeying inertia, while the foundations, together with the rest of the Northwest, jolt westward. Unmoored on the undulating ground, the homes will begin to collapse. Across the region, other, larger structures will also start to fail. Until 1974, the state of Oregon had no seismic code, and few places in the Pacific Northwest had one appropriate to a magnitude-9.0 earthquake until 1994. The vast majority of buildings in the region were constructed before then. Ian Madin, who directs the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), estimates that seventy-five per cent of all structures in the state are not designed to withstand a major Cascadia quake. FEMA calculates that, across the region, something on the order of a million buildings—more than three thousand of them schools—will collapse or be compromised in the earthquake. So will half of all highway bridges, fifteen of the seventeen bridges spanning Portland’s two rivers, and two-thirds of railways and airports; also, one-third of all fire stations, half of all police stations, and two-thirds of all hospitals. READ MORE: FEMA Camps Being Set Up For Survivors- Elite Are Running To Underground Bunkers [VIDEO] Among natural disasters, tsunamis may be the closest to being completely unsurvivable. The only likely way to outlive one is not to be there when it happens: to steer clear of the vulnerable area in the first place, or get yourself to high ground as fast as possible. For the seventy-one thousand people who live in Cascadia’s inundation zone, that will mean evacuating in the narrow window after one disaster ends and before another begins. They will be notified to do so only by the earthquake itself—“a vibrate-alert system,” Kevin Cupples, the city planner for the town of Seaside, Oregon, jokes—and they are urged to leave on foot, since the earthquake will render roads impassable. Depending on location, they will have between ten and thirty minutes to get out. That time line does not allow for finding a flashlight, tending to an earthquake injury, hesitating amid the ruins of a home, searching for loved ones, or being a Good Samaritan. “When that tsunami is coming, you run,” Jay Wilson, the chair of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC), says. *Recommendations by the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection offer the following tips that all residents take three simple preparedness steps: Get a kit, make a plan, and stay informed”.*Watch This FREE Video The time to save people from a tsunami is before it happens, but the region has not yet taken serious steps toward doing so. Hotels and businesses are not required to post evacuation routes or to provide employees with evacuation training. In Oregon, it has been illegal since 1995 to build hospitals, schools, firehouses, and police stations in the inundation zone, but those which are already in it can stay, and any other new construction is permissible: energy facilities, hotels, retirement homes. In those cases, builders are required only to consult with DOGAMIabout evacuation plans. “So you come in and sit down,” Ian Madin says. “And I say, ‘That’s a stupid idea.’ And you say, ‘Thanks. Now we’ve consulted.’ ” These lax safety policies guarantee that many people inside the inundation zone will not get out. Twenty-two per cent of Oregon’s coastal population is sixty-five or older. Twenty-nine per cent of the state’s population is disabled, and that figure rises in many coastal counties. “We can’t save them,” Kevin Cupples says. “I’m not going to sugarcoat it and say, ‘Oh, yeah, we’ll go around and check on the elderly.’ No. We won’t.” Nor will anyone save the tourists. Washington State Park properties within the inundation zone see an average of seventeen thousand and twenty-nine guests a day. Madin estimates that up to a hundred and fifty thousand people visit Oregon’s beaches on summer weekends. “Most of them won’t have a clue as to how to evacuate,” he says. “And the beaches are the hardest place to evacuate from.” Those who cannot get out of the inundation zone under their own power will quickly be overtaken by a greater one. A grown man is knocked over by ankle-deep water moving at 6.7 miles an hour. The tsunami will be moving more than twice that fast when it arrives. Its height will vary with the contours of the coast, from twenty feet to more than a hundred feet. It will not look like a Hokusai-style wave, rising up from the surface of the sea and breaking from above. It will look like the whole ocean, elevated, overtaking land. Nor will it be made only of water—not once it reaches the shore. It will be a five-story deluge of pickup trucks and doorframes and cinder blocks and fishing boats and utility poles and everything else that once constituted the coastal towns of the Pacific Northwest. Wineglasses, antique vases, Humpty Dumpty, hip bones, hearts: what breaks quickly generally mends slowly, if at all. OSSPAC estimates that in the I-5 corridor it will take between one and three months after the earthquake to restore electricity, a month to a year to restore drinking water and sewer service, six months to a year to restore major highways, and eighteen months to restore health-care facilities. On the coast, those numbers go up. Whoever chooses or has no choice but to stay there will spend three to six months without electricity, one to three years without drinking water and sewage systems, and three or more years without hospitals. Those estimates do not apply to the tsunami-inundation zone, which will remain all but uninhabitable for years. How much all this will cost is anyone’s guess; FEMA puts every number on its relief-and-recovery plan except a price. But whatever the ultimate figure—and even though U.S. taxpayers will cover seventy-five to a hundred per cent of the damage, as happens in declared disasters—the economy of the Pacific Northwest will collapse. Crippled by a lack of basic services, businesses will fail or move away. Many residents will flee as well. OSSPAC predicts a mass-displacement event and a long-term population downturn. Chris Goldfinger didn’t want to be there when it happened. But, by many metrics, it will be as bad or worse to be there afterward. There you have it. This is serious stuff. What took place today in the Cascadia Subduction Zone must be paid attention to. Your life may literally depend on it. We also know that the U.S. government and large corporations are so concerned about the potential for a major New Madrid earthquake that they have held major exercises that simulate one. Scientists tell us that it is just a matter of time until another superquake hits the region, and personally I am one of the millions of Americans that believe that we will eventually see a New Madrid earthquake that will divide the United States in half. That is one of the reasons why I included a New Madrid earthquake in my novel. But others are skeptical. They point out that we have not seen a truly devastating earthquake in that region for more than 200 years. So why be concerned about one now? The real question that you have to ask yourself is: would you be prepared? The second most important question is: are you prepared right now to survive such a catastrophe? The 3 Pioneer Survival Lessons We Should All Learn! Here’s your chance. Let’s take a look at this video and find out! Are You Ready America ? End of The World Begin From Japan? And Next Australia, Canada, UK… For more information, updates and useful links, please visit our website : http://www.newsprepper.com
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Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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ISIS Tells Muslims 'Stay Away From Christian Gatherings', Warns of New Massacres
05-05-2017 George Thomas CBNNews.com
The terror group known as Islamic State or ISIS is warning Egyptian Muslims to avoid going to places where Christian meet. "We are warning you to stay away from Christian gatherings," an unnamed ISIS leader said. He also told Muslims to avoid "gatherings of the army and the police, and the areas that have political government facilities." The warning, which appeared on a jihadi messaging platform, also suggested that the terror group is planning to launch more attacks on so-called "legitimate targets" such as churches and Christian businesses. In recent weeks, ISIS has focused on Egypt's northern Sinai region, targeting religious minorities and putting more pressure on the country's security forces. Scores of Christian families fled El-Arish in the Sinai in early March after ISIS jihadists shot and killed at least 7 Christians. Then earlier this week, the group announced it was deploying ISIS 'morality police' to enforce strict Islamic sharia law in the Sinai region. Despite Egypt's efforts to crackdown on the extremist group, ISIS is still mounting deadly attacks. On Palm Sunday, ISIS terrorists attacked two churches, killing 45 people. In an attempt to stoke sectarian tensions, ISIS released a chilling video in February warning that Egyptian Christians were their "favorite prey," and told followers that they were under Allah's orders "to kill every infidel." Following the church attacks, Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered a three-month state of emergency, giving his government broad powers to fight the Islamist insurgency.
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North Korea claims it has an 'invincible army' as it warns of a strike that will turn into a 'sea of fire and destroy bluffing US imperialists'
Comments were made in an article on Friday in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper
Paper is media outlet for the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Committee is led by Kim Jong-Un and the article was critical of President Trump
Paper said North Korean army was waiting for orders to wage 'final sacred war'
By Gareth Davies For Mailonline Published: 03:51 EDT, 8 May 2017 | Updated: 08:15 EDT, 8 May 2017
North Korea has claimed it has an invincible army and has warned it is waiting for an order to wage what it calls a final sacred war. The strike, the state says, will turn into a sea of fire and destroy what it described as bluffing US imperialists. The comments were made in Friday's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which is the official media outlet for the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, led by Kim Jong-Un. The article, translated by KNCA Watch, told its North Korean readers the country's army was an 'invincible army equipped with powerful strike means and ever-victorious tactics. It held a special mention for Donald Trump's administration, saying, 'the US imperialists are trying hard to attain its purpose through military threat and blackmail while brandishing all sorts of strategic and tactical weapons of demonstrative and threatening nature'. 'But it is nothing but a bluffing of the mentally weak and a last-ditch effort of those with miserable end at hand,' it added. 'The army of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), full of the spirit of annihilating the enemies, is waiting for an order to wage a final sacred war, with their guns leveled at the detestable targets. 'Our strike will all at once turn into sea of fire, completely destroying enemies and winning a final victory.' The article insisted the words were not empty threats, and called the DPRK's stance on defence was an 'everlasting treasure'. North Korea maintains that it must develop nuclear weapons because of the 'hostile' policy of the United States, which retains 28,500 troops in South Korea and holds bi-annual military drills the North considers rehearsals for invasion. Tensions have spiked as President Donald Trump deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to waters off the Korean Peninsula. Last week, North Korean Defense Minister General Pak Yong Sik said his country was ready to use pre-emptive strikes to defend against 'US imperialists,' warning nuclear war could break out because of the 'frantic war drills'. Kim's Korea has provoked the periodic military clashes that break out with South Korea, and has ramped up its nuclear programme recently with a number of missile tests. In March 2010, a North Korean torpedo allegedly sank a South Korean naval vessel, killing 46 sailors. Months later, North Korea fired artillery at a South Korean island, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians. South Korea returned fire, but it's unclear if North Korea suffered casualties. North Korea is the only country to have conducted a nuclear explosion in the 21st century and it has accelerated weapons testing as aid-for-disarmament negotiations have stalled. Between 1994 and 2008, it carried out 16 ballistic missile tests and one nuclear test. Since 2009, 72 missile tests and four nuclear tests. Even China, which fought on its side in the Korean War, opposes the testing, which violates UN Security Council resolutions. Experts say North Korea may already be able to hit South Korea or Japan with a nuclear weapon, and within years could have the capability to target the American mainland. The words were penned just days before North Korea said it has detained another American citizen for suspicion of acts against the state. It was confirmed by the state on Sunday, and made him the fourth US citizen to be held by the isolated country amid diplomatic tensions. Kim Hak Song, who was detained on May 6, worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the North's KCNA news agency said. A third U.S. citizen, Kim Sang Dok, was detained in late April for hostile acts, according to the North's official media.
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Schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram freed
AFP | 2017-05-08 06:56:07.0
Eighty-two of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria in 2014 arrived in Abuja yesterday to meet President Muhammadu Buhari after a prisoner swap deal secured their release. Presidency spokesman Femi Adesina said the schoolgirls from Chibok, in Borno state, were met at the capital's airport by Buhari's chief of staff Abba Kyari. Military and civilian militia sources in the town of Banki, on the border with Cameroon, said the girls had left for Borno state capital Maiduguri on board six military helicopters. Boko Haram kidnap 22 girls, women in northeast Nigeria "One of the girls was carrying a baby with her, a boy of less than two years," said the source on condition of anonymity. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which said it "facilitated the safe return" of the girls as a "neutral intermediary", tweeted photographs of a line of girls boarding a military helicopter. The presidency announced late on Saturday that months of talks with the jihadists had "yielded results" about six months after 21 other Chibok girls were freed with the help of international mediators. "Today 82 more Chibok girls were released," it said. "After lengthy negotiations, our security agencies have taken back these girls, in exchange for some Boko Haram suspects held by the authorities." Nigerian women displaced by Boko Haram hold protest No details were given about how many suspects were released or their identities. Shehu Sani, a Nigerian senator who has been involved in previous negotiations, said the talks lasted for "three to four months". The government would now look to secure the release of the remaining hostages, he said. Boko Haram fighters stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on the evening of April 14 2014 and kidnapped 276 teenaged girls. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the hours that followed but the remaining 219 were held by the group. Boko Haram's Abubaker Shekau claimed in a video that they had converted to Islam. The girls have become a symbol of the Nigerian conflict. Last month parents and supporters marked the three-year anniversary of the abduction, describing the situation as an unending "nightmare".
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2017/05/08/Schoolgirls-kidnapped-by-Boko-Haram-freed
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Ticks spreading rare virus much worse than Lyme Disease
Updated on May 7, 2017 at 5:47 PM Posted on May 7, 2017 at 4:03 PM
By Thomas Erik Bascome tbascome@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As the warm weather approaches, experts are advising nature-goers to be wary of a rare virus -- which could be far more devastating than Lyme Disease -- being spread by ticks. Powassan (POW) virus, a rare and more deadly pathogen than the bacterium that produce Lyme Disease, is also spread through deer ticks, according to the Centers or Disease Contol (CDC)> In November 2016, a 5-month old from Connecticut was diagnosed with POW after being bitten by a tick that was likely carried in off a relative's clothing. The virus can cause inflammation of the brain, leading to death in 10 percent of cases and permanent disability in 50 percent of cases, according to Today.com. Seventy-five cases of POW have been reported to the CDC over the past 10 years. Today.com's reports that because POW has recently spread to deer ticks -- a variety of ticks more likely to bite humans -- there is a chance we could see a wide-spread outbreak in coming years. Of the 75 reported cases, 16 have taken place in New York, tied for the second most of any state. According to the CDC, signs and symptoms of infection can include fever, headache, vomiting, weakness, confusion, seizures and memory loss. They also advise that long-term neurological problems may occur. You can reduce your risk of being infected with POW by using tick repellents, wearing long sleeves and pants, avoiding bushy and wooded areas and doing thorough tick checks after spending time outdoors, according to the CDC website.
http://www.silive.com/news/2017/05/ticks_spreading_rare_virus_muc.html
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'This is a riot': 9 officers injured as rowdy crowd tears through Downtown Olympia
by KOMO Staff
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- May Day festivities turned violent in Olympia as a group of 75 protesters clashed with police, throwing rocks and bottles, and breaking windows. Olympia police said nine of its officers were injured by thrown rocks and nine people have been arrested. "This is a riot," Olympia police tweeted as the melee escalated just before 7:30 p.m. A group wearing masks first lit fireworks and smoke devices at 4th and Jefferson around 7 p.m.. The confrontation escalated into protesters throwing rocks, bottles, using slings to shoot rocks at officers and pepper spraying officers, according to police. Nine officers were hit in the head by projectiles, according to Olympia Police Chief Ronnie Roberts, but none were seriously injured, thanks to their helmets. "Once they initiated an assault on our officers, we made the order to disperse the crowd," said Olympia Police Chief Ronnie Roberts. Officers then used pepper balls, blast balls and flash grenades to disperse the crowd, Roberts said. Police warned news crews, restaurant patrons and those walking in the area were being targeted by the rioters. As the protesters moved to 4th and Capital, they began breaking windows, then splitting into smaller groups. "We followed the protest down through town and they started beating out windows and then started running, and some of the cops started shooting pellets at them," said Shelby Albert. "Then, once more windows got broken out, (the police) followed them and they (the protesters) all dispersed and some tried to run an hide. That's when all the cops decided to catch them down here." Just after 8 p.m., Olympia Police said events had settled for a few moments. "We have arrested several," Olympia Police tweeted. In all, at least five businesses were damaged by the vandals. Video from Air 4 showed broken windows at an Olympia bank while video from the ground showed shattered windows at a Starbucks and a local Goodwill store. "Just a very crying shame that they took out all their frustration on those businesses. They didn't deserve that," Albert said. "Those poor businesses, they (the demonstrators) have no reason to do it. These are people's pride and joy. They value what they see. There's no reason for them to take all these problem and damage to these streets of Olympia when it's not even theirs." The nine people arrested have been booked into the Thurston County Jail. Roberts said they were found to have slingshots, rocks and pipes. Olympia Police also tweeted out a photo of some of the weapons confiscated during the riot: "As a taxpayer, it infuriates me that these misfits will pull this garbage and get away with it," said Tim Weible. "They broke out huge, big windows in the banks, on either side of Starbucks, it was just unbelievable." Olympia police said they will have officers patrol downtown and surrounding neighborhoods through out the night.
http://komonews.com/news/local/rowdy-crowd-slinging-rocks-at-police-officers-in-olympia
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Worse Than Ebola: U.S. Not Preparing for the Next Bio-Threat
by Maggie Fox
The U.S. government is slacking off on preparing for the next big pandemic or biological terrorism attack and is not only endangering its citizens but also missing out on a great opportunity to score political points, experts said Monday. Protecting the United States from the next pandemic of killer flu, or from a bioterrorist strike, is something Republicans and Democrats can easily agree on, a top congressional appropriator told a biodefense panel. "This is actually an area where it has been pretty easy to bring Republicans and Democrats together on," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees biomedical research. Yet the money hasn't been there, and no one person or agency is in charge of making sure the United States is ready for the next outbreak of Ebola or Zika or the next anthrax attack, Cole and other experts said at a meeting of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. Related: The Biothreat Is Real and We're Not Ready "We need some things around here to work on together. There's plenty of things to fight about," Cole said. "Let's get back in the habit of doing the right thing." For at least two decades, infectious disease experts have been urging the U.S. government to do more to keep the country prepared for outbreaks of diseases such as a new strain of flu, Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. They've also noted that other countries have prepared biological weapons such as smallpox and anthrax and have used chemical weapons — such as Syria's use of sarin gas against its own citizens. Cole pointed to a "great wave of interest" after the 2001 anthrax attacks, and the federal government was spending about $6 billion a year on various scattered biodefense projects, according to a 2015 report from the blue ribbon panel. "But by the time we got to the Ebola response, those investments had been frittered away," said Ron Klain, former President Barack Obama's "Ebola czar." Congress approved about $5 billion to fight Ebola in 2014. Related: Obama Seeks $6 Billion for Ebola Fight Influenza specialists have said repeatedly that the chance of a new flu pandemic is 100 percent. Flu mutates constantly, and a major new strain emerges about every 20 years. The last one was H1N1 "swine" flu in 2009, which was fairly mild, but worse epidemics are probable. "When the bad day comes, it will be horrific," Cole said. The United States needs to be ready ahead of time, with stockpiles of drugs, vaccines and equipment, plans for deploying them and someone with the authority to make fast decisions, Cole and other experts said. The 2017 budget agreement worked out early Monday by Congress would provide just $57 million specifically to prepare for a new pandemic of influenza. "You can't create it the day you need it," Cole said. Andrew Weber, a former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense, agreed. "We just can't wait until the day after an attack," said Weber, who is now at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The quick response to the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic shows how fast things can move, while the extremely slow and acrimonious response to the Zika outbreak shows just how badly wrong the process can go. "We are becoming complacent again," Weber said. "We had the Ebola wakeup call, and I am afraid we are falling asleep again." Cole said Monday's agreement to boost biomedical spending in the 2017 budget shows it's possible to get conservatives and liberals to agree. "It is not a divisive issue," he said. "In the case of the president, it would be really good politics, because it would be unexpected." President Donald Trump could win "bipartisan acclaim" if he made biodefense a cause, Cole said. "I am not arguing that we should do this from a political perspective. I am arguing it is good politics to do this," he added. "This would be a good time for an administration to seize the opportunity, in my view." Cole also made the case for a public health emergency fund — something Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Thomas Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and others have long argued for. Klain called such a fund "essential." "The need to go to Congress to get funding can needlessly slow the response," Klain said. "We need to have a policy directorate in place," he added. "We don't need a Zika czar, and I should be the last 'disease czar' appointed to the executive branch." The Ebola epidemic happened in part because the World Health Organization responded slowly and in part because no government, including that of the United States, helped the three hard-hit countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia build up health care systems, Klain and others argued. And that one wasn't so bad, because the vast majority of the 28,000 infections and 11,000 deaths were right there in those three countries, Klain said. Ebola did not spread easily from person to person, and people in the hardest-hit areas didn't travel much outside the region. Related: Gaps Found in U.S. Biothreat Protections Imagine that happening with a virus that spreads more easily, in a country "that sends thousands of travelers around the world every day, in a country where outside help is less welcome," Klain said. "The scenario we are facing in the future is a much more dangerous and threatening scenario than the Ebola scenario," he added. "We as a country and the world have a long way to go to be ready for a truly seriously threat." Because it's so obvious, it may be hard to do, Cole said. "The more sensible the suggestion, the less likely it is to happen in Washington, D.C.," he said to laughter.
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Roger Stone: Resignation of Justice Kennedy Imminent – Exclusive From White House
Sources: Trump to soon make SC pick, Napolitano on secret list!
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - May 1, 2017
President Trump has been informed of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s impending resignation, meaning that the president will soon make his second pick for the Supreme Court, according to White House sources speaking with Trump insider Roger Stone. This development, exclusive to Infowars, is the first confirmation of the 80-year-old’s retirement, which the mainstream media has speculated for the past hour. U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman, who was on Trump’s short list when he selected Neil Gorsuch for the vacancy left by the late Antonin Scalia, is said to be the front-runner for the opening seat. That said, the president will consider other candidates as well – including perhaps Judge Andrew Napolitano, a surprise candidate who’s long been a favorite of Trump’s. Kennedy, a Reagan appointee described as a conservative centrist, holds a controlling vote on the court and has often decided cases by his one vote. Trump indicated this weekend that he heard rumors about Kennedy’s retirement. “I’ve heard the same rumors that a lot of people have heard,” the president told media. “And I have a lot of respect for that gentleman, a lot.” Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on April 7 after a lengthy confirmation battle.
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It Is Becoming Illegal To Be Homeless In America
by Tyler Durden May 1, 2017 7:20 PM
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Should we make homelessness against the law and simply throw all homeless people into prison so that we don’t have to deal with them? Incredibly, this is actually starting to happen in dozens of major cities all across the United States. It may be difficult to believe, but in many large urban areas today, if you are found guilty of “public camping” you can be taken directly to jail. In some cities, activities such as “blocking a walkway” or creating any sort of “temporary structure for human habitation” are also considered to be serious crimes. And there are some communities that have even made it illegal to feed the homeless without an official permit. Unfortunately, as the U.S. economy continues to slow down the number of homeless people will continue to grow, and so this is a crisis that is only going to grow in size and scope. Of course the goal of many of these laws is to get the homeless to go somewhere else. But as these laws start to multiply all across the nation, pretty soon there won’t be too many places left where it is actually legal to be homeless. One city that is being highly criticized for passing extremely draconian laws is Houston. In that city it is actually illegal for the homeless to use any sort of material to shield themselves from the wind, the rain and the cold… Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is taking a similar approach—his anti-encampment ordinance makes it illegal to use “fabric, metal, cardboard, or other materials as a tent or temporary structure for human habitation.” This ensures that the Houstonian homeless are vulnerable not just to the elements, but also to the constant threat of the police. Officials cite one of the most common justifications for crackdowns on the homeless: neighborhood safety (a more socially acceptable way of talking about the not-in-my-backyard mentality). With all of the other problems that we are facing as a nation, it stuns me that there are politicians that would spend their time dreaming up such sick and twisted laws. According to one news report, the homeless in Houston are now officially banned from doing all of the following things… 1. They can’t block a sidewalk, stand in a roadway median or block a building doorway. (AKA they can’t panhandle). 2. They also can’t do any of these things — blocking walkways — under state law that already existed. 3. They can’t sleep in tents, boxes or any other makeshift shelter on public property. 4. They also can’t have heating devices. 5. They can’t carry around belongings that take up space more than three feet long, three feet wide, three feet tall. 6. People can’t spontaneously feed more than five homeless people without a permit. If I was a homeless person in Houston, I would definitely be looking to get out of there. But where are they going to go? Things are almost as bad in Dallas. In fact, it is being reported that the police in Dallas “issued over 11,000 citations for sleeping in public from January 2012 to November 2015.” When you break that number down, it comes to 323 citations per month. Of course some people have tried to challenge these types of laws in court, but most of the challenges have been unsuccessful. For example, just check out what recently happened in Denver… Three people who were contesting Denver’s urban-camping ban were found guilty on Wednesday, April 5, at the Lindsey-Flanigan courthouse. The defendants — Jerry Burton, Randy Russell and Terese Howard — were determined to have unlawfully camped on November 28, 2016, and to have interfered with police operations at one location. All three were sentenced with court-ordered probation for one year and between twenty and forty hours of community service. The case challenged Denver’s unauthorized-camping ordinance, which has been divisive ever since Denver City Council approved it in 2012. Since the courts are generally upholding these laws, this has just emboldened more communities to adopt anti-homelessness ordinances. According to one report, dozens of major cities have now passed such laws… City-wide bans on public camping (PDF) have increased by 69 percent throughout the United States. What used to be seen as an annoyance is now prohibited, forcing fines or jail time on those who certainly can’t afford it. The only nationwide nonprofit devoted to studying this, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, has been tracking these changes since 2006. Their findings? There are a scary number of laws passed that ironically make it costly to be homeless. For example, in 33 of the 100 U.S. cities they studied, it’s illegal to publicly camp. In 18, it’s illegal to sleep in public. Panhandling is illegal in 27 cities. In 39 cities, it’s illegal to live in vehicles. As I have warned repeatedly, we are seeing hearts grow cold all around us. Instead of doing everything that they can to try to help those in need, communities are trying to make them go some place else, and those that try to feed and help the homeless are being harshly penalized. Sadly, all of this comes at a time when homelessness is on the rise all over America. In a previous article I pointed out that in New York City the number of homeless people recently hit a brand new all-time high, and things have gotten so bad in Los Angeles that the L.A. City Council has formally requested that Governor Jerry Brown declare a state of emergency. We tend to think of the homeless as bearded old men with drinking problems, but the truth is that many of the homeless are children. In fact, the number of homeless children in the United States has risen by about 60 percent since the end of the last recession. If this is how we are going to treat some of the most vulnerable members of our society while things are still relatively stable, how are we going to be treating one another when the economy completely collapses?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-01/it-becoming-illegal-be-homeless-america
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Watch: “Anti-Fascist” Militia Training Video Shows Leftists Are Preparing For Armed Confrontation
Mac Slavo May 2nd, 2017 SHTFplan.com
Following the Berkeley protests last month, where numerous Anti-Fa(scist) activists complained of getting a beatdown after they attempted to intimidate peacefully assembling Trump supporters, we learned that the left-leaning organizations are taking their organization efforts to the next level. Among other things, they have called for more combat training, better equipment, and even guns in an effort to scare those who disagree with their message of forced tolerance, equal rights and inclusion. Today, we get a better look at what that means, with somewhat hilarious results. The Conservative Tribune explains: Poorly-regulated militias, it seems, are good for only one thing: laughs. In case you missed our previous reportage on the Phoenix John Brown Gun Club, it’s a “militia” made up of Arizona liberals who conspicuously rediscovered the Second Amendment right about the time that Donald Trump had become the clear front-runner for the Republican nomination. This militia, in case you hadn’t noticed, is named after abolitionist John Brown. For those of you who have gone through Common Core American history and are unfamiliar with the name, he was an insurrectionist who was hanged after an armed rebellion against the Democrat-backed slave owners of the antebellum South. Say what you will about his methods, he was a man of conviction and bravery. These idiots, meanwhile, are nothing more than cowardly defenders of the modern incarnation of the party Brown died fighting. They back an ideology that has no respect for gun rights, but they’re willing to compromise that in order to intimidate Americans into giving up their freedom of speech and assembly. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that individuals with such negligible convictions and morals also have such negligible skill at handling a firearm. These dress-up militia members couldn’t hit the side of a Chick-fil-A from 20 feet, though I fear that may not be for lack of trying. Full report: Lib Militia Releases “Range Day” Footage… And It’s a Complete Joke As noted near the end of the video, the Phoenix John Brown Gun Club is: Working to stem the tide of reactionary recruitment within white working class communities, fight white supremacy, and build community defense. Curiously and all of a sudden, the left supports the Second Amendment. With lyrics like “we’re getting organized… you fascists are bound to lose” playing in the background, it doesn’t take that much of a stretch of the imagination to realize that what these people are training for is armed conflict. Just last week a family friendly Rose Parade was cancelled in Portland, Oregon after AntiFa groups threatened to violently attack parade goers, including children who would have attended. Make no mistake: These people want war. They want blood. And anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their special brand of crazy will be a target.
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‘Mating’ Robots Take a Fast-Forward Leap in Digital Darwinism – Seeker
Posted: April 5, 2017 at 4:51 pm
We might as well just give up control over the planet right now. In recently published research, scientists detail a set of experiments in which robots real, physical machines improved themselves through a kind of digital Darwinism. The bots, each drawing from a collective gene pool, competed with one another over multiple generations, gradually swapping genetic material in a process akin to sexual reproduction. The research article appeared in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. While this kind of evolutionary robotics research has been around a while, the new study presents an important step forward in assessing the evolutionary dynamics of physically embodied robots and it suggests that we’re mashing the fast-forward button on the impending robotic revolution. Researchers from Vassar College set up an experiment in which 10 small-wheeled robots all of them a model of the Ana BBot, manufactured by Johuco Ltd. were issued the same task: to gather beams of light while avoiding certain obstacles. Each bot was also issued its own set of genes a specific pattern of wires connected to pins on a circuit board. After each robot completed its tasks, pairs of individual bots were sorted into five ranks by order of fitness. From there, a randomized mating algorithm was used to determine which parental genomes would be combined to produce the next generation of robots. In this case, the genomes consisted of binary code that allowed for different possible wiring of the bot’s hardware setup. The emerging phenotype the physical expression of the gene was modified in each generation by altering their wiring in accordance with the new genetic information. The process was repeated until 10 generations of robots had been created and ranked by fitness. RELATED: Killer Machines and Sex Robots: Unraveling the Ethics of AI The researchers threw in another twist as well, based on a particular aspect of evolutionary theory. In living organisms, genomes are affected by development as well as evolution. In this context, development refers to events during a single lifetime that lead to epigenetic changes. This interplay between evolution and development is sometimes referred to as evo-devo, and it represents a discrete field of study in evolutionary developmental biology. It gets complicated, but the upshot is that the Vassar experiment was the first to introduce developmental variations in an experiment with physical robots, according to the researchers. The core idea was to study how genetic (evolutionary) and epigenetic (developmental) factors interact in robotic evolution. Similar studies have been applied in the field of artificial intelligence and neural networks, but the Vassar team was interested in the potential future of physically embodied robots. “For roboticists, the evo-devo challenge is to create physically embodied systems that incorporate the three scales of time and the processes inherent in each: behavior, development, and evolution, wrote project leads Jake Brawer and Aaron Hill, who authored the report with four other colleagues. Because of the complexity of building and evolving physical robots, this is a daunting challenge in the quest for the ‘evolution of things.’ As an initial step toward this goal, in this paper we create a physically embodied system that allows us to examine systematically how developmental and evolutionary processes interact. RELATED: Stopping Killer Robots at the Source (Code) It turns out that the experiment didn’t reveal anything particularly dramatic. The robots didnt evolve better light-capturing or object-avoidance skills. But the experiment did reveal the importance of tracking the developmental factor in evolutionary robotics. “It is important to note that our goal was not to show adaptive evolution per se, but rather to test the hypothesis that epigenetic factors can alter the evolutionary dynamics of a population of physically embodied robots, wrote Brawer and Hill. Notably, all the bots had lost mobility entirely by the end of the experiment, since the mating algorithm allowed low-fitness individuals to remain in the gene pool and reproduce. So maybe theres still hope for us after all.
WATCH: Heart Cells Are Bringing Robots to Life
https://www.prometheism.net/mating-robots-take-a-fast-forward-leap-in-digital-darwinism-seeker/
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Replacement Network for Fox Being Formed
By Dave Hodges
Mediate is reporting that a consortium of forces are seriously exploring the possiblity of puting together a conservative news network to take the place of FOX who is in the process of becoming CNN 2.0. Click on link below
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/05/01/replacement-network-for-fox-being-formed/
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Nuclear bombers spotted over North Korea as US prepares for WW3
US bombers have reportedly practiced for a nuclear strike on North Korea as World War 3 looms.
By David Trayner / Published 2nd May 2017
Rockwell B1-B Lancer strategic bombers – the main US aircraft designed to drop nukes – have been spotted over the Korean Peninsula. North Korea says the warplanes buzzed its territory yesterday. The Lancers teamed up with American’s nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and nuclear sub USS Michigan, state media said. The Hermit Kingdom warned it was ready to strike the US with a “precious sword of nuclear weapons” unless it stopped the provocations. The Lancers – which are capable of carrying up to 24 nukes – flew from its base on the US Pacific island of Guam to join the aircraft carrier strike group and F-35 stealth fighter jets. North Korean state propaganda organ KCNA said: "The B-1Bs from Guam sneakily flew over sky above the East Sea and joined cooperative operations with strategic striking means – including the aircraft carrier and nuclear-powered The US forces took part in military drills with allies South Korea and Japan around the Korean Peninsula – to prepare for the possible outbreak of war with the North. The two-month long exercises were scheduled to have finished on Sunday, so it is unclear why the strategic bombers would head towards North Korea. South Korea has confirmed two Rockwell B1-B Lancers flew over the Korean peninsula on Monday. The aircraft were taking part in a joint military exercise with the South Korean air force, the defence ministry said. Defence ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun said the deployment was part of efforts to deter provocation by North Korea and respond to threats posed by the North's nuclear and missile programmes. The KCNA report continued: “Holding a precious sword of nuclear weapons, we are closely watching military movements of the enemy with full preparations for combats.” Kim Jong-un’s military has threatened to "sink" the Carl Vinson "with a single strike" if needed. As the tensions continued, Donald Trump offered Kim an olive branch. The president said he would be “honoured” to meet Kim.
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Fukushima a “ticking time bomb” — Fires now “raging” near nuclear plant — Blaze doubles in size; “Smoke rising from wide areas” — Concern over fallout of highly radioactive material; Officials closely watching radiation levels (VIDEO)
Published: May 1st, 2017 at 2:28 pm ET By ENENews
NHK World, May 1, 2017 (emphasis added): Wildfire continues in Fukushima — A wildfire has been raging for more than 2 days near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant… The area is part of a zone designated as “no-entry” due to high radiation levels… Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures and the Self-Defense Forces are using helicopters to fight the blaze. They are also looking at the possibility of using ground crews. Footage from an NHK helicopter on Monday morning showed smoke rising from wide areas and fires burning in several locations… Mainichi, May 1, 2017: Wildfire rages in highly radioactive Fukushima mountain forest — A fire broke out in a mountain forest near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant on the evening of April 29, consuming an area approximately 20 hectares in size, according to prefectural authorities… As the fire continued to spread, however, helicopters from the GSDF, Fukushima Prefecture and other parties on May 1 resumed fire extinguishing operations from around 5 a.m. … As of May 1, there were no major changes to radiation levels in the heart of Namie and other areas near the fire scene, according to the Ministry of the Environment. “We will continue to closely watch changes in radiation doses in the surrounding areas,” said a ministry official. Common Dreams, May 1, 2017: Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima ‘No-Go Zone’; Contaminated forests such as those outside fallout sites like Fukushima and Chernobyl ‘are ticking time bombs’ — A wildfire broke out in the highly radioactive “no-go zone” near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant over the weekend, reviving concerns over potential airborne radiation… Local officials were forced to call in the Japanese military… In a blog post last year, Anton Beneslavsky, a member of Greenpeace Russia’s firefighting group who has been deployed to fight blazes in nuclear Chernobyl, outlined the specific dangers of wildfires in contaminated areas. “During a fire, radionuclides like caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium rise into the air and travel with the wind,” Beneslavsky wrote. “This is a health concern because when these unstable atoms are inhaled, people become internally exposed to radiation.” Contaminated forests such as those outside fallout sites like Fukushima and Chernobyl “are ticking time bombs,” scientist and former regional government official Ludmila Komogortseva told Beneslavsky. “Woods and peat accumulate radiation,” she explained “and every moment, every grass burning, every dropped cigarette or camp fire can spark a new disaster.”
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Brain-rotting toxin killing huge numbers of marine animals on California coast — Die-offs skyrocket over past week — Expert: “It’s worst year we’ve ever seen” — Mass deaths of sea lions, dolphins, birds — Officials warn outbreak is spreading (VIDEOS)
Published: May 2nd, 2017 at 8:05 am ET By ENENews
KKFX FOX 11 transcript, Apr 22, 2017: A local rescue group is getting flooded with calls about sick or dead sea lions showing up on Santa Barbara beaches… Sick and confused, dozens of sea lions are appearing on Santa Barbara beaches with signs of brain damage. Samuel Dover, Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute: “Normally we see injured animals about 1 or 2 here or there… Last Friday we got over 100 calls per day about sea lions in distress.” KSBY, Apr 26, 2017: Marine mammals statewide becoming infected with brain-rotting toxin — A high number of marine mammals in California are falling victim to a brain-rotting toxin… In Santa Barbara County, rescue centers are reporting hundreds of cases. With this outbreak potentially spreading, the Marine Mammal Center in Morro Bay is stocking up on medicine… scientists will be keeping a close eye on what’s happening with these mammals to monitor how else it will affect the marine food chain. Ventura County Star, Apr 20, 2017: “Friday, we started getting inundated. The floodgates opened,” said [Dover]… Authorities say unusually high numbers of stranded or dead marine mammals and birds have shown up in spots throughout the Southern California coast in recent weeks. Federal and state agencies are working to document the scope of affected wildlife and mortalities… tests are underway to determine the cause of illness and death… they become sick, suffer from seizures and brain damage… The CIMWI hotline started getting about 100 calls on Friday and pretty much every day since, Dover said… [D]olphins have been impacted… Domoic acid poisoning is something he sees year after year, but not to the degree that’s happening right now. “This is the worst year we have ever seen,” Dover said. Beachgoers also have reported large numbers of dead and dying birds… Dover asked that those calling also understand that the agencies have been inundated. Ventura County Reporter, Apr 26, 2017: Since the beginning of April, beachgoers have reported numerous sightings of discombobulated sea lions and sickly birds… “It has been pretty intense,” said [California State University, Channel Islands, Assistant Professor of Biology Allison Alvarado,] “It was like thousands of birds were being found”… Though domoic acid poisoning is suspected, the exact cause is not as yet determined… [R]eports of unusual numbers of dead or sick animals along the coast stretch from as far north as Goleta and as far south as Malibu… Santa Barbara Independent, Apr 25, 2017: Since the beginning of April, Julia Parker has seen 216 sick pelagic birds come into the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. There were only four in February, and three in March… Many more have been found dead on nearby beaches. Pelagic birds live their lives on the ocean. “They only beach themselves if there’s something wrong: if… they’re emaciated and starving,” explained Parker, the network’s Director of Animal Affairs. A large number of the birds found in April displayed neurological symptoms… It’s not just birds… on April 21, “we started getting inundated with calls — 100 calls per day” reporting sea lions stranded on the beaches, said Sam Dover, a veterinarian who runs [Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute]… In the last two weeks, they’ve also seen six beached dolphins, all dead or dying… It’s likely that animal populations further north could be affected in the coming weeks… AOL, Apr 23, 2017: Most years, conservationists might see one death from the illness.
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Frozen imported cubed tuna sold on Oahu recalled due to hepatitis A
By Strange Sounds - May 3, 2017
Tropic Fish Hawai‘i announced they identified and voluntarily recalled a shipment of frozen imported cubed tuna from Indonesia from distribution due to testing positive with the Hepatitis A virus. The recalled product was distributed to the following restaurants and retailers, which are all located on O‘ahu, between April 27 and May 1: ABC Stores #38 (205 Lewers Street) Aloha Sushi Nimitz G.P. Hawaiian Food Catering Maili Sunset Bar & Grill Shima’s Market Times Aiea Times Kailua Times Kaneohe Times Kunia Times Liliha Times Mililani Times Waipahu Here another video with a full interview of Department of Health food safety chief Peter Oshiro: According to Youtube videos, another Hepatitis A outbreak was reported in Hawaii about 9 months ago. Related to the same fish?
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New Russian Super Weapons That Are Causing The World To Take Notice
Russia has been dominating the news headlines of late, and for all the wrong reasons. But did you know that they have been drastically increasing their military spending over the past decade? It’s true. While current and previous U.S. administrations have eschewed the Russian threat as being less dangerous than it is, we are seeing something seriously noteworthy take place in Vladimir Putin’s nation. Led by a new generation of “super weapons,” Russia is beginning to turn heads all over the world. Here are some of the technological marvels we’re talking about. Sukhoi aircraft have an impressive history in Russia. The newest model, the T-50, is currently in joint development with India. The T-50 is expertly equipped to sustain supersonic flight, better than any Russian plane built in years past. Its range at supersonic speeds is 930 miles. At subsonic speeds, it can go 2,175 miles. It’s quite an aerobatic plane. Its life-support system can sustain 9G maneuvers for a period of up to 30 seconds. Meanwhile, a pilot ejection is possible from an altitude of 60,000 feet. http://www.historyinorbit.com/russias-new-generation-of-super-weapons-is-stunning/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=NICK_historyinorbit.com-Desktop-US-RussiaBK&utm_term=disqus-
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Children Are Vanishing At An Alarming Rate In This Small Town - PedoGate In America
May 1, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While hundreds of teens have gone missing in the St, Louis area of Missouri since 2000, dozens of them just since the beginning of 2017, and in the small community of Berkeley, MO, children are disappearing at an alarming rate, it is critical to understand that human trafficking across the U.S. rose 35.7 percent in 2016 from the previous year, according to the data compiled by the National Human Trafficking Hotline. In February 2017, President Trump vowed to fight the "epidemic" of human trafficking in the U.S., and detailed reports published around the same time show that in the first month of his presidency, over 1,500 sex trafficking and pedophiles had already been arrested. THE NUMBERS IN BERKELEY, MO ARE STAGGERING Before we get into the heartbreaking nationwide data, a recent local report from Fox2 Now St. Louis, highlights the astounding number of teens, male and female, that have gone missing in St. Louis and surrounding areas, and one small community where the data shows that in 2017, those numbers have increased exponentially. While the report does a good job compiling a list of the missing from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which shows there are 364 active missing juvenile cases, the Fox2 report presents the numbers without context or comparisons, which shows the staggering scope, and the 2017 increase. For example, the report states that 33 teens have gone missing in Berkeley, MO, since 2000, but in delving below the numbers, tracking the dates and comparing the population of Berkeley in comparison with the amount of missing teens in St. Louis, MO, where the estimated population is over 30 times the amount than Berkeley, the bigger picture emerges. As of 2015, official estimates for St. Louis population is listed at approximately 315,685, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri. The list at the Fox2 News website is divided into "Missing St. Louis Area Female Teens" and "Missing St. Louis Male Teens," and shows a total of 76 missing from St. Louis alone since 2000. 47 females and 29 males. (Note, while the site categorized them as "teens" a very small numbers of the names listed are in their 20s and 30s.) In contrast, the small town of Berkeley, MO, as of the 2010 census (the latest one available) showed a population of 8,978, and has nearly half as many teens missing in the same time frame. 76 missing - St. Louis, population 315,685 33 missing - Berkeley, population 8,978. It gets worse. If those numbers and the comparisons aren't disturbing enough, a look at the dates show the disappearances are increasing. From 2000 to 2016, a total of 33 teens, males and females have gone missing in Berkeley, but 7 of them have occurred in 2017. For the whole year of 2016, there were four. Via Fox2 News: State Senator Maria Chapelle-Nadal has been one of the few politicians trying to get the public's attention about it. She recently posted on Facebook asking parents to make sure their kids "have a tracking device on their phones. Instruct them to keep it on when they leave the house. This is serious. Over 20 girls have gone missing in a very small local zone." Chapelle-Nadal told me in person, "There are people zeroing in on our young girls -- and men as well -- because they want to capture them and make them part of the sex trade." Note- According to Unity Alert's Facebook page, out of the 361 juveniles actively missing from the whole state of Missouri, only 34 photos are available on file. (Less that ten percent) Out of the 554 adults actively missing from the state of Missouri, only 158 photos are available on file. Below the short video news report about "The Missing" in the St. Louis area, we are going to discuss the bigger picture of PedoGate in America. PEDOGATE IN AMERICA While the focus on Missouri and the small community of Berkeley, MO, helps to personalize the issue, for lack of a better term, human trafficking has been reported in all 50 U.S. States, and Washington, DC. Many missing teens are treated as runaway cases, and many of them are, but according to almost every site and expert that focuses on human trafficking, runaways and homeless youths are one of the most vulnerable targets for human traffickers, to be used as sex and/or labor slaves. Key Facts from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, show that according to the FBI, in 2016 there were 465,676 NCIC entries for missing children. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children assisted law enforcement in 20,500 cases of missing children, 90 percent of which were categorized as endangered runaways. Of the more than 18,500 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2016, one in six were likely victims of child sex trafficking. (Source) As ANP has reported previously, approximately 75-80% of human trafficking is for sex and 80 percent of those sold into sexual slavery are under 24, and some are as young as six years old. 80% of trafficking victims are female and over 50% of human trafficking victims are children. Because of the hidden nature of the crime it is almost impossible to obtain completely accurate numbers, but the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking estimates the number of children in the U.S. who are trafficked "is by far in excess of 100,000." Some claim that number could be as high as 300,000. Recent reports assert human trafficking is the third largest criminal enterprise in the world, behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking, with previous reports indicating that as of 2014, human trafficking and forced labor generates over $150 billion annually. The Missing here in America are not the only victims in this large criminal enterprise, as it is estimated that 50,000 women and girls are brought into the United States each year, mainly for prostitution. Perhaps the most horrifying part of it all is that any one of us may have seen a victim and a human trafficker as they often hide in plain sight. From the sleaziest, rent-by-the-hour hotels to those considered 5 star, massage parlors and nail salons are often fronts for illegal human traffickers, airports are used to transport victims regularly, and major sporting events, such as the Super Bowl, is reported to be the "single largest incident of human trafficking in the U.S." HOW TO SPOT A VICTIM AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE While we give kudos to president Trump for wanting to combat this "epidemic," law enforcement often depends on tips from Americans, since quite often the victims themselves have no ability to notify authorities, so it is important to recognize the red flags and telltale signs of a victim as well as the behavior of the trafficker. National Human Trafficking Hotline offers a numbers of signs that should be considered red flags: Common Work and Living Conditions: Is not free to leave or come and go as he/she wishes Is in the commercial sex industry and has a pimp / manager Is unpaid, paid very little, or paid only through tips Works excessively long and/or unusual hours Is not allowed breaks or suffers under unusual restrictions at work Owes a large debt and is unable to pay it off Was recruited through false promises concerning the nature and conditions of his/her work High security measures exist in the work and/or living locations (e.g. opaque windows, boarded up windows, bars on windows, barbed wire, security cameras, etc.) Poor Mental Health or Abnormal Behavior: Is fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive, tense, or nervous/paranoid Exhibits unusually fearful or anxious behavior after bringing up law enforcement Avoids eye contact Poor Physical Health: Lacks medical care and/or is denied medical services by employer Appears malnourished or shows signs of repeated exposure to harmful chemicals Shows signs of physical and/or sexual abuse, physical restraint, confinement, or torture Lack of Control: Has few or no personal possessions Is not in control of his/her own money, no financial records, or bank account Is not in control of his/her own identification documents (ID or passport) Is not allowed or able to speak for themselves (a third party may insist on being present and/or translating) Other: Claims of just visiting and inability to clarify where he/she is staying/address Lack of knowledge of whereabouts and/or of what city he/she is in Loss of sense of time Has numerous inconsistencies in his/her story If you see any of these red flags, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 for specialized victim services referrals or to report the situation. BOTTOM LINE The statistics are horrifying, but by being aware and alert and looking for the signs, we can make a difference, as evidenced by an Alaska Flight attendant who was highlighted in reports in February for actions she took six years prior, when she saved a teen aged girl from a sex trafficker. She noticed a girl about 14 or 15 with a well dressed older man, noted the girls demeanor and the man's behavior, where the girl wouldn't make eye contact and the man wouldn't let the girl speak when asked a question, so she arranged to get the girl to go to the bathroom where she had left a note. The girl responded to the note saying she needed help. Fedrick immediately reported the man to the pilot who then alerted police.. By the time the flight touched down in San Francisco, cops were waiting at the terminal. It was then revealed the girl was the victim of human trafficking and Fedrick had just saved her life. While the topic of human trafficking is abhorrent, ignoring it is inhuman. Learn the signs, be aware and alert and by doing so, you may be able to save a child's life.
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China demands halt to US missile shield in South Korea
By Afp Published: 05:27 EDT, 2 May 2017 | Updated: 07:02 EDT, 2 May 2017
China demanded on Tuesday an immediate halt to a controversial US missile shield hours after Washington announced that the defence system was now operational in South Korea. Washington and Seoul agreed to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery deployment in July in the wake of a string of North Korean missile tests. But its deployment has infuriated China, which fears it will weaken its own ballistic missile capabilities and says it upsets the regional security balance. "We oppose the deployment of the THAAD system in (South Korea) and urge relevant sides to immediately stop the deployment. We will firmly take necessary measures to uphold our interests," foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press briefing. While Beijing lashed out at the shield's deployment, the foreign ministry expressed support for US President Donald Trump's surprise comments that he would be "honored" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un under the right conditions. "If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him I would, absolutely. I would be honored to do it," Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg. Asked about Trump's remarks, Geng said that China "has always believed that dialogue and consultation... is the only realistic and viable way to achieve denuclearisation." "We also said many times that the US and DPRK... should make political decisions at an early date, take action and show good faith so that we can create a better atmosphere for resuming the peace talks and settling the issue," he added. - Economic backlash - Earlier, US Forces Korea said THAAD is "operational and has the ability to intercept North Korean missiles and defend the Republic." A US defence official told AFP, however, that the system has only "reached initial intercept capability". This initial capability will be augmented later this year as additional hardware and components arrive to complete the system, officials said. The THAAD system, which is being installed on a former golf course in the southern county of Seongju, is designed to intercept and destroy short- and medium-range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight. Beijing has imposed a host of measures seen as economic retaliation against the South for the THAAD deployment, including a ban on tour groups. Retail conglomerate Lotte, which previously owned the golf course, has also been targeted, with 85 of its 99 stores in China shut down, while South Korea's biggest automaker Hyundai Motor has said its Chinese sales have fallen sharply. The THAAD deployment comes as tension soars on the Korean peninsula following a series of missile launches by the North and warnings from the administration of US President Donald Trump that military action is an "option on the table." - Who should pay? - Further complicating matters, Trump stunned Seoul last week when he suggested South Korea should pay for the $1 billion THAAD system. "I informed South Korea it would be appropriate if they paid. It's a billion-dollar system," Trump was quoted as saying in a published report. "It's phenomenal, shoots missiles right out of the sky." Seoul retorted that under the Status of Forces Agreement that governs the US military presence in the country, the South would provide the THAAD site and infrastructure while the US would pay to deploy and operate it. Thomas Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, noted that South Korea's sole THAAD battery does not quite have the range to cover the entire country. But he called it an important first step. "This is not about a having a perfect shield, this is about buying time and thereby contributing to the overall credibility of deterrence," Karako told AFP. "South Korea with THAAD helps communicate to the North that today is not a good day to attack. It doesn't mean that they could not do a lot of damage -- they would -- but it strengthens the overall posture."
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‘We Lost the Western Kansas Wheat Crop This Weekend’
By Chuck Abbott 5/1/2017
Blizzard conditions and heavy snow swept western Kansas, including 14 to 20 inches in Colby in the northwestern quadrant of the No. 1 winter wheat state in the nation, said the Weather Channel. “We lost the western Kansas wheat crop this weekend. Just terrible,” tweeted Justin Gilpin, chief executive of the grower-funded Kansas Wheat Commission. The snow and freezing weather struck a winter wheat crop that was developing faster than usual, thanks to a mild winter. As a result, the crop was more vulnerable to spring snowfalls and frost. “Generally, temps below 32°F. for a minimum of about two hours will cause damage to the crop,” says the Kansas Wheat Commission. “Freeze injury during heading and flowering stages can cause severe yield consequences.” A quarter of the wheat crop was headed as of April 23, compared with the five-year average of 17%. “Most of @KansasWheat country shut down and no power. Devastating conditions,” Gilpin tweeted on Sunday afternoon. Some comments on Twitter were more hopeful: “Don’t give up yet,” said one, and, “Much-needed moisture but wheat will be flat on the ground when the snow melts.” Kansas grew 1 of every 5 bushels of U.S. wheat last year, 467 million of the 2.31 billion bushels nationwide. Its farmers specialize in winter wheat, which is planted in the fall, goes dormant during the winter, and sprouts again in the spring. Winter wheat accounts for two thirds, or more, of the U.S. crop each year. Nearly 90 crop scouts, an amalgam of grain traders, government officials, reporters, millers and a few growers, are to begin a three-day tour of the Kansas winter wheat crop today. “We will adjust on the fly if needed. Too many people flying in from around the world to postpone,” said Dave Green of the Wheat Quality Council, which sponsors the tour. The annual crop tour examines crop conditions, including frost and disease damage, to estimate the likely harvest. Its route begins in Manhattan in eastern Kansas, heads west to Colby, south to Wichita, and then returns to Manhattan. The USDA will make its first estimate of the winter wheat crop on May 10. At its annual Ag Outlook in late February, the department projected wheat production would fall 20% this year because of low market prices and a sharp reduction in wheat sowings. Growers told USDA in March that they would plant the smallest amount of wheat land, 46.1 million acres, since records began in 1919. The National Weather Service said Winter Storm Ursa was moving from eastern Colorado across the central and northern Plains toward the Great Lakes. From eastern Colorado through western Kansas into central Nebraska, “accumulations of at least 6 inches are expected with some locales tallying up a foot or more of snowfall.”
http://www.agriculture.com/news/crops/we-lost-the-western-kansas-wheat-crop-this-weekend
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Beef Prices Soar After Blizzard Clobbers Midwest
by Jeff Wilson and Jen Skerritt May 2, 2017, 2:05 PM EDT May 3, 2017, 12:01 AM EDT
Kansas animal losses may reach thousands, livestock group says
More than half of U.S. feedlots hit; animal weights decline
Cattle futures extended a surge to a record and wholesale beef jumped to a 13-month high after a weekend blizzard hammered the Midwest, and a Kansas livestock group estimated the snowstorm may have killed thousands of animals, signaling tightening meat supplies. More than half of U.S. feedlots are located in the region hit by the massive storm that dumped more than 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow, blanketing an area from the Texas Panhandle to Nebraska, said Lee Reeve, principal at Reeve Cattle Co. in Garden City, Kansas, and president-elect of the Kansas Livestock Association. Losses were the highest among younger animals and a feedlot with 80,000 head of cattle north of Garden City lost more than 1,000 animals, he said in a telephone interview. “The storm came on so fast, and it was the heaviest snow I’ve ever seen,” said Reeve, who lost about 40 animals from his 43,000-head operation. Cash cattle prices had seen big gains even before the storm, surging 40 percent since the middle of October as domestic and global beef demand rose. President Donald Trump declared success last month in gaining greater access to China for U.S. beefs suppliers following meetings with President Xi Jinping, and Brazil’s beef exports may trail previous expectations after a probe into tainted meat last month led to temporary import bans by several countries. On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Tuesday, cattle futures for June delivery rose 2.4 percent to close at $1.2705 a pound after climbing by the limit of 3 cents, the highest ever for the contract that debuted in February 2016. Aggregate trading more than doubled compared with the 100-day average for this time, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The price jumped 12 percent in April. Feeder-cattle futures for August settlement rose 1.2 percent to close at $1.556 a pound after jumping by the limit of 4.5 cents to a contract record of $1.5825. At midday, wholesale beef rose 1.1 percent to $2.2877 a pound, the highest since March 21, 2016, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed. The price has climbed 25 percent since mid-October. Locate Strays Many cattle strayed and some died in the western third of Kansas, where as much as 14 inches of snow fell and winds gusted up to 60 miles per hour, according to the state’s livestock group. It didn’t provide exact figures. Road closures and power outages hampered efforts to keep cattle fed and confined, and some owners are still working to locate stray animals. Kansas had the third most cattle on feed as of April 1, USDA data showed. Texas and Nebraska tied for first. Heavier cattle lost as much as 40 pounds (18 kilograms), and animals are gaining weight again as the snow melts, Reeve said. Warm, dry weather forecast into next week will prevent feed yards from becoming muddy, halting the potential for more weight loss, he said. Damage to grain from the weekend storm is still being assessed and early estimates suggest wheat losses may exceed 50 million bushels after snow and high winds slammed into four U.S. states, including Kansas, the top grower. On the Chicago Board of Trade, hard red winter wheat futures for July delivery rose 0.4 percent to close at $4.6775 a bushel after earlier touching the highest intraday price for the contract since March 10. On Monday, the price surged a record 6.5 percent.
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Extreme weather: Major flooding and tornadoes claim at least 20 lives, USA
Posted by TW on May 02, 2017 in categories Featured articles, Floods, Severe storms, Tornadoes
At least 20 people have died and three are still missing as severe weather hit the US Midwest and South over the weekend. Flooding rain, strong winds and tornadoes were reported in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee. The front, described as "powerhouse of an upper level system," moved northeast and turned its eyes to the Middle Atlantic and Northeast on Monday, May 1. This, however, is not the end of severe weather in the region as another in a series of low pressure systems is expected to bring a new round of heavy rainfall and potential flooding to many of the same areas that were impacted over the weekend. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said there were 769 preliminary reports of severe weather from Saturday to Monday as of 03:00 UTC today. The reports include 30 reports of tornadoes from Texas to Illinois and Mississippi on Saturday and Sunday. The region also saw around 1 million lightning strikes. At least 6 tornadoes, one of which has a preliminary intensity of EF-4 (Eustace to West Canton), struck Texas killing at least 4 people and injuring 56. Six people, including a fire chief who was struck by a vehicle while working during a storm, died in Arkansas after up to 280 mm (11 inches) of rain flooded the state. Two children are still missing in Arkansas after being swept away by floodwaters. At least four people died in Missouri and Mississippi, and one in Tennessee. Watch this video: In Oklahoma, more than 80 000 people were left without power as winds up to 100 km/h (62 mph) swept through the state on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, knocking down trees and power lines. More than 40 000 people were without power in the metro area early Saturday. Oklahoma Governor declared a state of emergency on Saturday for all 77 counties. etc Watch this video: A devastating weekend of weather. Video courtesy The Weather Channel Texas tornadoes, April 29, 2017 In Oklahoma, more than 80 000 people were left without power as winds up to 100 km/h (62 mph) swept through the state on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, knocking down trees and power lines. More than 40 000 people were without power in the metro area early Saturday. Oklahoma Governor declared a state of emergency on Saturday for all 77 counties. Video courtesy: KDR Media In Mississippi, a possible tornado struck Durant Sunday morning, downing trees and power lines. State Emergency Management Agency reported a death in Holmes County. Another possible tornado damaged a home and downed trees north of Utica. In Prentiss, a man was struck by lightning but his condition is still unknown. Missouri was hit particularly hard by severe weather as some parts of the state recorded 300 mm (1 foot) of rain. Major flooding left three people dead, forced more than 100 evacuations, and 135 rescues across the state over the weekend. Governor Eric Greitens declared a state of emergency for all of southern Missouri. More than 350 roads were closed, including a stretch of Interstate 44 near Rolla. More than 100 highways were also shut in neighboring Arkansas. The Mississippi River was above flood stage at many points and the Cape Girardeau point of the river is expected to crest within about 15 cm (5.9 inches) of its all-time record 14.9 m (48.9 feet). Flood warnings are in effect across much of the state. On the tail end of the system, a late season snowstorm dropped up to 50 cm (19.7 inches) of snow in western Kansas, along with winds up to 90 km/h (60 mph). The National Guard said it was called at least 40 times to rescue stranded drivers in the state. At least 20 people have died and three are still missing as severe weather hit the US Midwest and South over the weekend. Flooding rain, strong winds and tornadoes were reported in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee. The front, described as "powerhouse of an upper level system," moved northeast and turned its eyes to the Middle Atlantic and Northeast on Monday, May 1. This, however, is not the end of severe weather in the region as another in a series of low pressure systems is expected to bring a new round of heavy rainfall and potential flooding to many of the same areas that were impacted over the weekend. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said there were 769 preliminary reports of severe weather from Saturday to Monday as of 03:00 UTC today. The reports include 30 reports of tornadoes from Texas to Illinois and Mississippi on Saturday and Sunday. The region also saw around 1 million lightning strikes. At least 6 tornadoes, one of which has a preliminary intensity of EF-4 (Eustace to West Canton), struck Texas killing at least 4 people and injuring 56. Six people, including a fire chief who was struck by a vehicle while working during a storm, died in Arkansas after up to 280 mm (11 inches) of rain flooded the state. Two children are still missing in Arkansas after being swept away by floodwaters. At least four people died in Missouri and Mississippi, and one in Tennessee. Watch this video: A devastating weekend of weather. Video courtesy The Weather Channel Texas tornadoes, April 29, 2017 In Oklahoma, more than 80 000 people were left without power as winds up to 100 km/h (62 mph) swept through the state on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, knocking down trees and power lines. More than 40 000 people were without power in the metro area early Saturday. Oklahoma Governor declared a state of emergency on Saturday for all 77 counties. Video courtesy: KDR Media In Mississippi, a possible tornado struck Durant Sunday morning, downing trees and power lines. State Emergency Management Agency reported a death in Holmes County. Another possible tornado damaged a home and downed trees north of Utica. In Prentiss, a man was struck by lightning but his condition is still unknown. Missouri was hit particularly hard by severe weather as some parts of the state recorded 300 mm (1 foot) of rain. Major flooding left three people dead, forced more than 100 evacuations, and 135 rescues across the state over the weekend. Governor Eric Greitens declared a state of emergency for all of southern Missouri. More than 350 roads were closed, including a stretch of Interstate 44 near Rolla. More than 100 highways were also shut in neighboring Arkansas. The Mississippi River was above flood stage at many points and the Cape Girardeau point of the river is expected to crest within about 15 cm (5.9 inches) of its all-time record 14.9 m (48.9 feet). Flood warnings are in effect across much of the state. On the tail end of the system, a late season snowstorm dropped up to 50 cm (19.7 inches) of snow in western Kansas, along with winds up to 90 km/h (60 mph). The National Guard said it was called at least 40 times to rescue stranded drivers in the state. Credit: NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP/VIIRS "After flooding smashed records that had stood for over 100 years, more heavy rain is headed toward the Ozarks and mid-Mississippi Valley, bringing a threat of renewed flash flooding and adding to already swollen rivers and reservoirs," weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman said. So far, nine flooding records have been broken and several more are expected in the coming days, Erdman said. Forecast Another in a series of low pressure systems is expected to bring a new round of heavy rainfall and potential flooding for many of the same areas that were impacted over the weekend. Additional flooding of rivers, creeks, streams and low-lying areas may be possible. A frontal system that has moved off much of the East Coast will continue to bring showers and a few thunderstorms to portions of New England today, before moving offshore tonight, NWS WPC said in their Short Range Public Discussion released 07:15 UTC (03:15 EDT) today. Locally heavy rain will be possible, especially this morning before the cold front passes through the region. Farther west, scattered showers are expected today across much of the Great Lakes as an upper-level trough passes overhead. An upper-level trough crossing the northern Rockies early this morning is forecast to move into the central US later today. As this occurs, an area of low pressure is expected to develop along a surface frontal boundary across the southern plains later today. The developing low pressure system is forecast to move east toward the lower Mississippi valley on Wednesday, and into the Ohio valley by Thursday morning. Numerous showers and thunderstorms are expected in association with the system, starting across portions of the southern and central plains late today into tonight, and spreading east into the Mississippi and Ohio valleys on Wednesday. These showers and storms are expected to bring additional heavy rainfall to areas where the ground is still saturated from recent heavy rains. Thus, flash flooding will be possible for some areas. Severe thunderstorms are also possible on Wednesday across portions of the western and central Gulf Coast.
https://watchers.news/2017/05/02/extreme-weather-usa-may-2017/
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Another cluster of aftershocks as more than hundred rattle Skagway Alaska after the two major quakes yesterday
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 Sent in by Sophie
A cluster of 136 aftershocks mag 2.5 or higher in the Saint Elias Mountains have been recorded since a magnitude 6.3 and a magnitude 6.2 struck Skagway Alaska yesterday. There are no active volcanoes in the area. It is the second massive cluster this week after a cluster of around 100 mid to large quakes in a 50km square area struck off the coast of Valparaiso Chile, see map below. After the massive mag 7.1 quake which has since been downgraded by USGS to a mag 6.9. A cluster of 88 mid to high strength aftershocks struck, including two mag 5.9’s, a mag 5.7, with a further 15 mag 5 or higher. The area has now calmed and the aftershocks have stopped The cluster of quakes in Alaska and the ones off the coast of Chile are reminiscent of the build up to the massive mag 9.1 quake hit Honshu, Japan in 2011, killing more than 18,000 people and causing the Fukushima disaster, see map below.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/05/another-cluster-of-aftershocks-as-more.html
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Today's Biggest Earthquakes Earthquakes over 3.0 M within the last 24 hours
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32 minutes ago 3.3 magnitude, 26 km depth
Enetai, Washington, United States
about 2 hours ago 5.3 magnitude, 35 km depth
South Sandwich Islands
about 4 hours ago 3.4 magnitude, 3 km depth
Aguanga, California, United States
about 6 hours ago 3.0 magnitude, 0 km depth
Southeastern Alaska
about 7 hours ago 5.1 magnitude, 48 km depth
Camaná, Arequipa, Peru
about 9 hours ago 3.8 magnitude, 9 km depth
Haines, Alaska, United States
about 9 hours ago 3.0 magnitude, 0 km depth
Southeastern Alaska
about 11 hours ago 3.0 magnitude, 15 km depth
Fraccionamiento del Valle, Baja California, Mexico
about 11 hours ago 5.2 magnitude, 10 km depth
Kumukh, Dagestan, Russia
about 12 hours ago 3.3 magnitude, 6 km depth
Rangely, Colorado, United States
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about 12 hours ago 3.5 magnitude, 0 km depth
Southeastern Alaska
about 12 hours ago 3.8 magnitude, 8 km depth
Haines, Alaska, United States
about 14 hours ago 4.8 magnitude, 10 km depth
Karakenja, Tajikistan
about 15 hours ago 5.0 magnitude, 122 km depth
South Sandwich Islands
about 15 hours ago 4.8 magnitude, 10 km depth
Olonkinbyen, Jan Mayen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
about 15 hours ago 5.9 magnitude, 10 km depth
Karakenja, Tajikistan
about 15 hours ago 4.8 magnitude, 10 km depth
Karakenja, Tajikistan
about 15 hours ago 4.6 magnitude, 194 km depth
Sola, Torba, Vanuatu
about 17 hours ago 3.2 magnitude, 9 km depth
Haines, Alaska, United States
about 18 hours ago 3.1 magnitude, 0 km depth
Southeastern Alaska
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about 20 hours ago 3.0 magnitude, 4 km depth
Haines, Alaska, United States
about 21 hours ago 4.0 magnitude, 10 km depth
Fry, South Aegean, Greece
about 22 hours ago 3.0 magnitude, 2 km depth
Southeastern Alaska
about 23 hours ago 5.1 magnitude, 10 km depth
Torbat-e Jām, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
about 24 hours ago 4.6 magnitude, 17 km depth
Boyolangu, East Java, Indonesia
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Israel Concludes Memorial Day, Ushering in 69th Independence Day Celebrations
In first, torch for diaspora lit by 'Trump rabbi' Heir and Birthright cofounder Steinhardt | Netanyahu: Israel has survived and thrived | Theme is Jerusalem as 'eternal capital' of Israel | Knesset speaker: Without unity, we won't be able to keep Jerusalem united
Haaretz May 01, 2017 8:44 PM
Israel concluded its Memorial Day ceremonies Monday evening, ushering in its 69th Independence Day celebrations. The theme for this year's Independence Day ceremony is "Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the State of Israel and the Jewish People," and is due to begin at 8 P.M. at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery. This year, two American citizens, Rabbi Marvin Hier and Michael Steinhardt, took part in the ceremony on behalf of the Jewish diaspora. Speaking in English, the two praised Jewish educators. The lighting of a torch on behalf of the Jewish diaspora is a new addition to the annual ceremony which marks the end of Israel's Memorial Day and the beginning of Independence Day. Speaking at the start of the ceremony, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said "this year we are all Jerusalemites." Addressing societal issues in Israel, he said that "without unity – our people will fall apart. We won't be able to keep Jerusalem united if we don't keep the people of Israel united. "There was much tension and redundant hatred in the past year. Instead of talking with each other – we shouted. With all this hatred, we have forgotten to love." He was then joined by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to light the first of the ceremonial torches. In a prerecorded message, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Independence Day “was a moment of triumph for our people. We had been scattered around the world for millennia. And then we returned to our ancient homeland, to build a safe haven, where we could live, and thrive. “Now, many doubted that this tiny State of Israel would survive. We were surrounded by hostile enemies, who attacked us again and again. So perhaps, for some, this skepticism was warranted. But survive we did. Much more than that. We thrived,” he said. Israel's President Ruben Rivlin in his Independence day broadcast said that the "Zionist dream had succeeded more than we could have ever hoped." He recounted how people took to the streets to dance in celebration when David Ben Gurion declared the nation's independence 69 years ago, to celebrate being "a free people in our land, in Jerusalem." "Israel today is a strong democracy, a shrine of freedom of expression and a hub of innovation," he said. On the eve of the 69th anniversary of Israel’s establishment, the country’s population is 8.68 million – more than 10 times what it was when the state was founded, in 1948. Torch lighting ceremony Two American citizens took part in Israel's Independence Day official torch lighting on behalf of the Jewish diaspora. The lighting of a torch on behalf of the Jewish diaspora is a new addition to the annual ceremony. Rabbi Marvin Hier, who took part in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration, and Michael Steinhardt, one of the founders of Taglit-Birthright were selected to light one of the ceremony's twelve torches earlier this month by Israel's Culture and Sports Minister, Miri Regev. Steinhardt, speaking in English at the ceremony, stood to light the flame and said it was, "In honor of the partnership among Jews all over the world in the fulfillment of our historic mission," as well as dedicating it to Jewish educators around the world whom he called "emissaries in the most important and noble of all pursuits." Hier dedicated the lighting of the torch to the "honor of the generations that in spite of all their suffering, never stopped dreaming of Jerusalem," and all those "who lead the global struggle for human dignity." Alongside Steinhardt and Heir, 12 Israelis were also named, two of which are soldiers. Opening the list is Uri Mammalian, one of Israel's most famous former soccer plays. Also on the list is Prof. Ahmed Eid, the head of the Department of General Surgery at Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus. Born in an Israeli Arab village in the Galilee, he studied in Jerusalem and has lived and worked there since. Also on the list is Amnon Shashua, the founder of driverless-technology company Mobileye, which was recently sold to Intel for a record $15.3 billion, also made the prestigious list. Dina Simta, a 19-year-old member of the Bnei Menashe Jews of northern India, and a student at Jerusalem's School for the Blind, will also light a torch. Chana Henkin, who founded a number of religious schools for women after immigrating to Israel from the U.S., also appears on the list. Her son was killed in a terror attack alongside his wife. Yehoram Gaon, one of Israel's most recognizable singers and actors, will also participate. Gaon is a scion of a prestigious Jerusalem family which has been living in the city for generations. Yaki (Yaakov) Hetz, who fought in the battle for Ammunition Hill, one of Israel's most famous Six Day War battles, will light a torch in honor of IDF veterans and bereaved families.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.786738
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Israel celebrates its 69th Independence Day
Tuesday, May 02, 2017 - 01:00
Israel on Tuesday (May 2) celebrates its 69th Independence Day anniversary with a ceremony at the President's Office. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
View Transcript ROUGH CUT. NO REPORTER NARRATION. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin attended a ceremony at the President's Office to celebrate the 69th anniversary of Independence Day in Jerusalem on Tuesday (May 2). A number of musicians performed during the celebration which was attended by numerous Israeli officials. Israelis gathered in parks around the city to watch a show by air force jets that flew over the Knesset.
http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/05/02/israel-celebrates-its-69th-independence?videoId=371594703
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WATCH: The Arabs Celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)
By Aussie Dave - May 3, 2017
The haters will find this video extremely inconvenient. The rest of you will love it. Note: To enable English subtitles, ensure captions are enabled (the CC button near the bottom right of video)
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North Korea threatens Israel with 'merciless, thousand-fold punishment'
Monday, May 01, 2017 | Israel Today Staff
North Korea is determined to beat President Trump and the US, and that means beating America's allies, too. At the top of that list for the North Koreans are two countries: Japan and Israel. Japan is obvious. Israel, less so. But observers will remember that when Israel destroyed Syria's nascent nuclear program, it was quickly discovered that North Korea had provided the know-how and hardware to the defiant Arab dictatorship. It is also known that North Korea is in league with some of the Middle East's more unsavory players, all of which want to see Israeli annihilated. As such, few Israelis tears would be shed if Trump followed through on his threats to end the North Korean regime. And Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said as much in a radio interview last week. The North Korean government responded with a stern warning for Israel: "The reckless remarks of the Israeli defense minister are sordid and wicked behavior and grave challenge to the DPRK." The statement went on to threaten Israel and any other nation that damages the "dignity" of the North Korean leadership with "merciless, thousand-fold punishment."
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Multiple Israeli air strikes on Iranian ammunition supply depot near Damascus International Airport
April 27, 20175:18pm
MULTIPLE Israeli air strikes have struck in Syria’s capital. The airstrikes hit an ammunition depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus International Airport, a regional intelligence source told Reuters. Commercial and military cargo planes from Tehran, Iran’s capital, regularly supplied weapons to the Hezbollah that were then stored in the depot. Tehran, a major regional ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, regularly sends weapons by air, the source who requested anonymity said, without giving further details. The arms are then used by an array of Iranian backed militias, led by Hezbollah, which have thousands of fighters engaged in some of the toughest fronts against Syrian rebels, the source claimed. Israel’s Intelligence Minsiter Israel Katz on radio said that the air strikes were “compatible with Israel’s policy.” The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, says the explosion in the early hours of Thursday was heard across the capital, jolting residents awake. Activist-operated Diary of a Mortar, which reports from Damascus, said that the explosion was followed by flames rising above the area, indicating the strikes had been successful. A pro-government site Damascus Now said the explosion was near the city’s Seventh Bridge, which leads to the airport road. Citing local sources, Al-Masdar News said there were five air strikes in the vicinity of the airport. Pro-Hezbollah TV said the blast near fuel tanks and warehouses adjacent to the airport were probably caused by an Israeli air strike. Syria is in the sixth year of a bloody civil war pitting the government of President Assad and his allies against opposition forces that has left more than 400,000 people dead. The explosion comes a day after France said that the chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month “bears the signature” Assad’s government and shows it was responsible. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France came to this conclusion after comparing samples from a 2013 sarin attack in Syria that matched the new ones. The findings came in a six-page report published Wednesday. Russia, a close ally of Assad, denounced the report, saying the samples and the fact the nerve agent was used are not enough to prove who was behind it. The United States has also blamed Assad’s government for the April 4 attack. The Trump administration ordered the cruise missile attack on the air base and issued sanctions on 271 people linked to the Syrian agency said to be responsible for producing non-conventional weapons. Syria has strongly denied the accusations.
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M3.7 and M3.1 Earthquakes Hit Right Below Mauna Loa Volcano, Earth Largest Volcano
By Strange Sounds - Apr 28, 2017
On 2017-04-26 a M3.7 earthquake hit below Mauna Loa at a depth of 3.1 km. On 2017-04-27 a M3.1 hit at a depth of 3.7 km. Both of these quakes hit below the upper southwest rift zone. The most recent eruption of the largest volcano in the world took place between March 24 – April 15, 1984. As described by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO): Mauna Loa Volcano is not erupting. but rates of deformation and seismicity remain above long-term background levels. During the past week, small-magnitude earthquakes were recorded primarily beneath the upper southwest rift zone of the volcano, at depths up to 5 km (3 mi), and the east flank at depths of 5-13 km (3-8 miles). A magnitude 3.7 earthquake occurred in the upper southwest rift zone on April 26. Followed by a M3.1 earthquake on April 27. GPS measurements continue to show deformation related to inflation of a magma reservoir beneath the summit and upper Southwest Rift Zone. No significant changes in volcanic gas emissions were measured. Facts about Mauna Loa Rising gradually to more than 4 km above sea level, Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on our planet. Its long submarine flanks descend to the sea floor an additional 5 km, and the sea floor in turn is depressed by Mauna Loa’s great mass another 8 km. Remember the volcanic eruptio of 1984: This makes the volcano’s summit about 17 km (56,000 ft) above its base! The enormous volcano covers half of the Island of Hawai`i and by itself amounts to about 85 percent of all the other Hawaiian Islands combined. Mauna Loa is among Earth’s most active volcanoes, having erupted 33 times since its first well-documented historical eruption in 1843. Its most recent eruption was in 1984. Mauna Loa is certain to erupt again. Hawaiian Meaning The Hawaiian name “Mauna Loa” means “Long Mountain.” This name is apt, for the subaerial part of Mauna Loa extends for about 120 km from the southern tip of the island to the summit caldera and then east-northeast to the coastline near Hilo.
http://strangesounds.org/2017/04/m3-7-earthquake-mauna-loa-volcano-hawaii-earth-largest-volcano.html
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April 27, 2017
With No Compelling Reason Climate Engineers Will Block the Sun in 2018 3
Geoengineering, Global Warming
Climate Engineering Scientist Explains How to Create Global Warming by Over-seeding Cirrus Clouds. (Source) Submitted by Dylan Jones 4/25/2017
Gabriel’s Trumpet – Part 1 – Bluebeard’s door “The false trumpet concealing madness will cause Byzantium to change its laws” Michele de Nostradame At the time of this writing, preparations are being made for the first official geoengineering experiment in 2018, over Arizona, to disperse reflective materials into the upper atmosphere by means of a balloon, with the approval of high-level members of the Trump administration. “While geoengineering received little favour under Obama, high-level officials within the Trump administration have been long-time advocates for planetary-scale manipulation of Earth systems.” Trump presidency ‘opens door’ to planet-hacking geoengineer experiments These people behind the arch-clown have been advocates of climate manipulation for a very long time, perhaps longer than they would care to admit. Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state, was the CEO of Exxonmobil during the period that the corporation’s scientists were leading developers of geo-engineering technologies. This is the same Exxonmobil, founded by the Rockefellers and a major arm of Big Oil, that had known about climate change and the role of fossil fuels in bringing it about, as far back as 1970 whilst funding the denial of such a role until at least 2007. ExxonMobil under investigation over claims it lied about climate change risks Now, Harvard engineer and architect of the project, David Keith, is at great pains to point out that this is the most tentative of interventions: “The amount of material we would release is tiny compared to everyday activities. For example, if we tested sulphates, we would put less material into the stratosphere than a typical commercial aircraft does in one minute of flight. Our material of choice for the first flight? Frozen water. Later flights might include tiny amounts of calcium carbonate or indeed sulphates.” – Continue PDF
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'Mass Death Events' In Pacific Ocean Hit Highest Level Of Food Chain And Our Ocean's Greatest Predator
- As 'Frantic Preparation For Doom' Hits All-Time High Among 'The Unprepared'
April 27, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In this April 24th story from ENENews we get additional confirmation of what we've been warning about on ANP for several years now, the mass die-off happening in the Pacific Ocean has reached the highest levels of the food chain with a massive shark die-off now ongoing off of the West Coast. Reporting in their story that over a hundred dead sharks have been discovered in the waters surrounding northern California this year alone, we also continue to get the same 'answers' why this is happening, proving many mainstream scientists have no idea about 'cause and effect'. Claiming “it’s just not clear why all the marine life is washing up like this" with reports coming in every day, the mass deaths throughout the Pacific Ocean and along the West coast that have been painstakingly documented by the End Times Watch Blog for 6 years now since Fukushima should prove otherwise. While many other so-called 'experts' over the past several years have also claimed they have no idea why such mass deaths are happening in our Pacific Ocean and along the West Coast, the stories from California read like a Hollywood disaster movie unfolding before our eyes: California Department of Fish and Wildlife: The carcass of a young great white shark was recovered on April 8 near Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz… It died of multiple organ failure, with major lesions in the brain, liver and heart… Unidentified microorganisms were observed in the fluid surrounding the brain and heart. Additional testing is underway to attempt to identify these pathogenic organisms. CBS San Francisco: Marine Biologist Giancarlo Thomae said a necropsy found an infection had damaged the shark’s brain and other organs. “The species of the bacteria that contributed to the shark’s death is unknown at this time… However, the brain did have many lesions. In additional to that the shark’s heart and liver also showed damage, so we can conclude that the immune system of the shark was also compromised.”… Die-offs of leopard sharks and other types have occurred in the San Francisco Bay in the last two year. And while many will claim what's happening to sea creatures off of the coast of California and throughout the Pacific Ocean will never effect them, the fact that photographs such as the one seen at the top of this story have been repeated time and again over the past 6+ years should prove to us otherwise. With 'mass death events' first striking the smaller ocean creatures and one-celled life, then bigger ones such as tuna and moving on up the food chain until it has reached the greatest predator in the ocean, that alone should tell us something horrifying is ongoing whether or not the experts can agree upon the reason we've been witnessing 'mass death events' for 6 years now and running. The ENENews story also reports that not only one particular species of shark is being hit by these mass die off's and as anyone who's been paying attention knows, radiation doesn't care whom or what it kills.: KXTV: Washed up Great White Shark died of organ failure… Biologists believe the shark died of multiple organ failure, with major lesions in the brain, liver and heart. Unknown microorganisms were also found and additional testing is being done. NBC Bay Area: A pathogen that eventually caused brain lesions is the reason why a shark became stranded on a Santa Cruz beach and later died last weekend. Animal experts say the pathogen is unlike any kind of bacteria that has been seen in sharks before. KSBW transcript: “They say it could be the same infection that’s killing mako sharks this year… but the question remains, why is the infection making its way through different shark species?” — Sean Van Sommeran, Pelagic Shark Research Foundation executive director: “Let’s see if we can exactly identify what appears to be a new type of brain infection — first of its kind, documented in a white shark like that.” While Japan's former Prime Minister has accused the current PM of Japan of lying about the true condition of what's now happening because of Fukushima, these excerpts from the TRTWorld video report on Fukushima seen in the 1st video below at least prove to us that somebody is reporting what they're seeing, and it's not pretty. At 2:30 in – Dana Lewis, senior correspondent: As far away as the American Pacific coast there have been radiation levels found in fish, and radiation plumes have been tracked from Japan that have been detected on the shores of Oregon and in tuna caught nearby… Japan’s former prime minister has accused current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of lying about the situation being under control… At 7:00 in – Mark Whitby, engineer: I think the world does need help… At 9:45 in – Dr. David Lowry, nuclear policy consultant: We’ve heard about the leakage of water in the Pacific and why that might worry Americans on the West Coast of the United States, but the radioactive contamination of the area around is very damaging. And while what's now happening to the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima may not be the reason the 'elite' are preparing for doom like never before, James Wesley Rawles of the Survival Blog joins Paul Joseph Watson in the 2nd video below and breaks down for us why such frantic preparation is now taking place among some. Claiming that during the Obama administration, the 'right' prepared 'en masse' but it's now the left doing so fearing a 'Trumpocalypse', Rawles tells us that many of them are absolutely frantic and desperate in their preparation, never having seen the need to do so before, and are now 'playing catch up'. As those paying attention know, Fukushima radiation and 'mass death events' in the Pacific Ocean are great reasons for us to prepare since the human race has long been tied to the oceans and planet around us and we are certainly not immune from what our planet suffers from. As we hear from our videographer in the final video below, the 'mass animal death events' in the first 4 months of the year 2017 alone have been staggering. Yet we shouldn't be surprised as has been foretold, we were warned of these days long ago. Hosea 4:1-3 ...'Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.' Revelation 11:18 ...'And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.'
http://allnewspipeline.com/Frantic_Preparation_At_All_Time_High.php
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Cryogenically frozen brains will be 'woken up' and transplanted in donor bodies within three years, claims surgeon
By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 27 April 2017 • 11:46am
People who have had their brains cryogenically frozen could be 'woken up' within three years, a pioneering Italian surgeon has claimed. Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants. If the procedures are successful, he believes that frozen brains could be thawed and inserted into a donor body. Hundreds of people who are dying or paralysed have had their bodies or brains cryogenically preserved in the hope that medical science will be able to bring them back to life and cure their conditions. Although many experts are skeptical that huge organs like the brain can be thawed without damage, Prof Canavero said he believes the first frozen head could soon be resurrected. Speaking to the German magazine Ooom, he said he planned to awaken patients frozen by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation which is based in Arizona. "We will try to bring the first of the company's patients back to life, not in 100 years. As soon as the first human head transplant has taken place, i.e. no later than 2018, we will be able to attempt to reawaken the first frozen head," said Prof Canavero. "We are currently planning the world's first brain transplant, and I consider it realistic that we will be ready in three years at the latest. "A brain transplant has many advantages. First, there is barely any immune reaction, which means the problem of rejection does not exist. "The brain is, in a manner of speaking, a neutral organ. If you transplant a head with vessels, nerves, tendons and muscles, rejection can pose a massive problem. This is not the case with the brain." However Prof Canavero admitted that there could be physical and psychological problems which come with putting a brain in an entirely different body. "What many be problematic, is that no aspect of your original external body remains the same. Your head is no longer there; your brain is transplanted into an entirely different skull. "It creates a new situation that will certainly not be easy." However British scientists are skeptical about whether frozen organs as complex as the brain could ever be fully restored. When the High Court last year ruled that teenage girl could be cryogenically preserved, experts said the chances of revival were "infinitesimal". Clive Coen, Professor of Neuroscience at King’s College London, said: “The advocates of cryogenics are unable to cite any study in which a whole mammalian brain, let alone a whole mammalian body, has been resuscitated after storage in liquid nitrogen. “Even if reviving that body were possible - it isn't - all the complicated organs would have been wrecked from the start, and warming them up again would wreck them further. “Irreversible damage is caused during the process of taking the mammalian brain into sub-zero temperatures. The wishful thinking engendered by cryogenics companies is irresponsible." Prof Canavero is working with a Chinese team of doctors led by Dr Xiaoping Ren, of Harbin Medical Centre who helped perform the first successful hand transplantation in the US. The technology to carry out the world's first head transplant is expected to be in place by the end of the year, and then the team will then need to find a suitable donor body. Although Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov, who suffers spinal muscular atrophy, had volunteered to become the first head transplant patient, the team have since said the first trial is likely to be carried out on someone who is Chinese, because the chance of a Chinese donor body will be higher. Prof Canavero said a 'high number' of people had volunteered for the transplant. Last year, the team announced they had successfully carried out a head transplant on a monkey, and released images from the procedure. Prof Canavero said if the human head transplant works, it could have fundamental implications for human consciousness and even religion. "In a few months we will sever a body from a head in an umprecedented medical procedure. In this phase, there is no life activity, not in the brain, not anywhere else in the body. "If we bring this patient back to life we will receive the first real account of what actually happens after death. The head transplant gives us the first insight into whether there is an afterlife, a heaven, a hearafter. "If we are able to prove that our brain does not create consciousness, religions will be swept away forever. They will no longer be necessary, as humans no longer need to be afraid of death. We no longer need a Catholic Church, no Judaisim, and no Islam because religions in general will be obsolete. "It will be a turning point in human history." The exclusive interview can be read in full in Saturday's edition of Ooom.
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Thousands damaged by shingles vaccine are trying to sue Merck
Thursday, April 27, 2017 by: Frances Bloomfield
(Natural News) What was supposed to be a cure for shingles has brought on worse complications. Thousands have attempted to file lawsuits against American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. for problems associated with their product Zostavax. In an interview with TROFire.com, Troy Bouk, Associate Attorney at the Levin Papantonio law firm, stated that the side effects of the shingles vaccine included meningitis, encephalitis, stroke, palsy, and many others. According to Bouk, these side effects are all features of shingles—and with the vaccine created from a live strain of the virus, it’s no wonder that Zostavax has caused people to experience these conditions. Zostavax was approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Bouk said. The group has since recommended that only people 60 and above should take the vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on the other hand, approved Zostavax for people 50 and above, states TheFreeThoughtProject.com. The CDC has warned that people within the 50 to 59 age group may lose the alleged protection benefits of the vaccine by the time the reach 60, however. “Let’s say you’re 55 years old. It may stay in your system till you’re 60, but you actually are at the greatest risk of getting shingles when you’re in your 60s. That’s why the CDC recommends that you really don’t get it until you’re in your 60s, because that’s probably when you’re going to need it the most,” Bouk said. On the efficacy of the vaccine, the CDC has stated that it only reduced the risk of shingles by a mere 51 percent, making its true potency uncertain. This unpredictability is the reason why attorney Marc J. Bern of Marc J. Bern & Partners LLP has “thousands of complaints” that have yet to be filed in Philadelphia, Penn. In a statement to FiercePharma.com, Bern has said that the injuries run “the gamut from contracting shingles as a result of the vaccine all the way to serious personal injuries such as blindness in one eye, individuals who have serious paralysis in their extremities, brain damage, all the way to death.” In an additional comment, Bern stated that he thought “Merck has failed terribly … to warn about the very serious side effects and the failure of the vaccine to do what they claim it does.” (Related: Shingles vaccine made with pig gelatin, MSG and residual components of human DNA from an aborted fetus. Why?) Bern has said that his firm has been examining the drug “for quite some time”, and that the litigation has “merits.” The attorney has also expressed his belief that the cases should be grouped together for mass tort status. Another attorney, Michael Katz, agrees with Bern. In response, a spokesperson for Merck has stated that “Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of our medicines and vaccines.” If that’s the case, then why are thousands of people experiencing ailments associated with the disease the vaccine is supposed to cure? Because it’s made from the same virus, that’s why. Is it wonder why Zostavax is causing more harm than good? News and other media concerning vaccines and drug companies can be read over at Vaccines.news and BigPharmaNews.com.
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Retired Green Beret Warns: “We’re At The Threshold Of War…The Choice Is Not Up To Us Anymore”
By silveristhenew | Published April 27, 2017
As reported Monday, April 25 on almost all mainstream and alternate news sites, Britain’s Defense Minister Michael Fallon has openly declared that his country will carry out a preemptive nuclear strike even if not attacked, as such: “In the most extreme circumstances we have made it very clear that you can’t rule out the use of nuclear weapons as a first strike.” Michael Fallon, BBC Today, 4-25-17 This is very serious and no longer simply rhetorical, as the Russians responded to the effect that the UK could be wiped off the face of the globe if they were to provoke the wrong party. The U.S. now has a submarine in position in South Korea that is carrying Tomahawks armed with nuclear warheads and the American Naval armada continues to sail toward the region. The North Koreans have been conducting artillery drills, as South Korea and Japan are preparing their citizens for war to break out. The United States just test-launched an ICBM from California that splashed into the South Pacific. In the U.S., President Trump has convened a meeting in the White House for all 100 U.S. senators as reported yesterday throughout the alternative media. The mainstream media (MSM) is being notoriously silent about the whole matter, although it is plain to see the focal point of the meeting is North Korea, as announced by the White House. Deflection has been rendered partially by the MSM by the endless barrage regarding the 9th Circuit Court trying to sabotage the Executive Order signed by the President to withhold federal funding from “sanctuary” cities trying to circumvent federal law and procedure with the illegal aliens. The “First 100 Days” of the Trump Administration is the new catch-phrase the MSM is focusing upon, much as they did with the “47 million on food stamps” phrase that virtually stayed the same for more than 3 years. Underreporting and obfuscation (if not outright lies) are the MSM’s way of keeping the public in the dark nationally and globally. In the meantime, the Russians are beginning to redeploy ground troops to Syria. It appears that the U.S. is going to be pushed into a war in one theater or another by the progressives masquerading as conservatives. This brings to mind the ratiocination for the initiation of hostilities in either theater. For North Korea, it is simple: The North Koreans are one of the three nations not involved in the global banking cartel. In addition, a war will increase U.S. hegemony in the area regardless of what happens to South Korea or Japan in the aftermath. Regarding Syria, the Obama administration started a proxy/indirect war with Russia over Syria, with Russia backing Bashar al-Assad and the United States its own “created boogeyman” of ISIS/ISIL. Obama did not take Russia on directly, and Russia out-maneuvered him by suggesting he fight against his own creation…which he did…and then the Russians bombed the daylights out of them. Russia then declared the bombing campaign to be over and did a “drawdown,” while still leaving enough of a force to deter Obama, who fizzled out in pusillanimous splendor. Syria is still on the table, though, because we don’t have that pipeline running out of Qatar through Northwestern Syria to cut off Gazprom and the Russians from supplying Europe with natural gas. In addition, the House of Saud wants Assad out of Syria, and in addition to this, the U.S. needs to take Syria if it wants (and it does want) to invade Iran. The Russians bombing ISIS/ISIL prevented any more oil from being stolen from Northwest Syria and trucked across the border, where it was sold to Erdogan and his brother. The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and their paid-for congressmen and senators (such as McCain, Graham, Ryan, ad infinitum) are the ones who stand to benefit, either in stocks held or in kickbacks to either advance or snafu legislation or policy (depending on which benefits the firms). They did it with Ukraine, as well, but the threat of directly confronting Russia was as good as an orchiotomy for Obama, and we have a stalemate between the U.S.-created Kiev government of Poroshenko and the separatists of the Eastern Ukrainian provinces. The powers that be are intent on having a war, regardless of the consequences and effects on noncombatants. A war would also be a way to prop up the administration’s flagging ratings. Domestically we have not emerged from the “soft” police state and liberal “legislative” powers of the Courts to remake Constitutional law and circumvent Congress and the President through selective interpretation of anything and everything: These things are the true “legacy” of Obama. Now, where from there? We are at the threshold of another major war that could erupt in any of these areas. The choice is not up to us anymore, and it is surely being decided upon at this very moment.
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World Leaders Warn of Korean Crisis; ‘Major, Major Conflict’ could break out, Situation has Seriously Deteriorated’
By Nate Brown - 04/28/2017
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have both warned of the potential crisis that could unfold on the Korean peninsula. Donald Trump warns of a ‘major, major conflict,’ and Putin claims that the situation has ‘Seriously Deteriorated.’ During the 1950’s a Korean war did break out, and it claimed more than two million civilians and more than 33,000 US troops. On that note, a war on the Korean peninsula could end up being quite catastrophic, given that now, North Korea also has nuclear weapons. A crisis with North Korea could involve other countries as well such as China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and several other Asian nations. Russia, for example, has made deals with N.Korea that included in 2014 wiping away 90% of North Korean debt so that a pipeline could run through the nation to South Korea. Putin has warned that the situation has severely deteriorated, and requested that all sides try and work it out. “We call on all states involved in the region’s affairs to refrain from military rhetoric and seek peaceful, constructive dialogue.” China, on the other hand, is an ally of North Korea and has current deals for resources with hermit state. However, Donald Trump is not backing down and has said that a “major conflict” was possible with North Korea though he would prefer to solve the standoff over the country’s nuclear and missile programs through diplomacy. Diplomatically, the US has offered direct talks with the regime, but Rex Tillerson stated that North Korea had better prepare to hand over all of its nuclear weapons. Donald Trump’s latest warning comes after US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris spoke to congressional leaders and stated that the situation with North Korea was the worst he had seen. It was an assessment echoed by the president. But that still hasn’t stopped Kim’s rhetoric, just recently the hermit state released yet another propaganda video, this time; the White House was in the cross hairs. The situation with North Korea is still ripe for conflict, but at least for now, cooler heads have thus prevailed, and only time will tell if the West and North Korea can avail to peace diplomatically, otherwise given enough time, and enough strain the two will be at war.
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The future of war? US marines test robots with machine guns and 'HyperSubs' to storm beaches
US marines are testing 50 autonomous weapons at Camp Pendleton, California
Army of drones and weaponised robots could one day be used to storm beaches
Team is also testing 'HyperSub' speedboat that can transform into a submarine
Using robots on the front line could protect the lives of soliders, US Navy said
By Daisy Dunne For Mailonline Published: 04:50 EDT, 28 April 2017 | Updated: 12:36 EDT, 28 April 2017
The US Marines could one day use amphibious tanks and robots with machine guns to storm beaches. Researchers are quietly testing around 50 weaponised robots at the Navy's Camp Pendleton base in California. Using high-tech drones and weaponised robots on the front line could help protect the lives of soldiers, the US Navy said. Among the new weapons are robots armed with machine guns that can storm beaches as a first line of assault. The Navy is also testing speedboats that can transform into stealthy submarines to hide from threats. The futuristic machinery has been undergoing tests for the last two weeks at the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise base at Camp Pendleton. Tests are trying to work out if the robots can go from Naval ships to shore lines. Marine officer have also been putting the machines through their paces in a range of realistic military scenarios. Using robots as the first line of attack during beach invasions could 'save lives', according to the US Marines. Another weapon attracting attention is The Fathom (pictured), a speedboat that can transform into a submarine Another weapon attracting attention is The Fathom (pictured), a speedboat that can transform into a submarine SPEEDBOAT SUBMARINE HYBRID Another weapon attracting attention is The Fathom, a speedboat that can transform into a submarine. The hybrid uses two 480-hp Yanmar 6LY3-ETP diesel engines to cruise along at 38mph (61 km/h). The vehicle can dive repeatedly to evade detection and was built withstand sudden pressure changes. On demand, it has 30,000 pounds (13,600kg) of lift. The hybrid vehicle could be used for surveillance and scouting. 'The unmanned ground vehicle and the operated weapons extend that capability [saving human life] out to 2,000 metres so we can be in a protective position seeing what's going on in the battlefield and be engaging with the enemy,' a US Marine official told Fox News. He added the robots could be used 'to extend human capability in a hazardous environment'. Weapons being tested include amphibious tanks, airbourne drones and weaponised ground bots. The Navy are pinning their hopes on a ground machine armed with a machine gun, known as the Multi-Utility Tactical Transport (MUTT) robot. These machines can drive themselves during beach invasions and use tracks rather than wheels to navigate sea, sand and slopes. There are two wheeled variants, the 8x8 and the 6x6, and the robots can be armed with a range of different weapons weighing up to 600 pounds (272kg). As well as leading on the front line, the robots can fight alongside soldiers during invasions. Another weapon attracting attention is The Fathom, a 'HyperSub' speedboat that can transform into a submarine. The hybrid uses two 480-hp Yanmar 6LY3-ETP diesel engines to cruise along at 38mph (61 km/h). The vehicle can dive repeatedly to evade detection and was built withstand sudden pressure changes. On demand, it has 30,000 pounds (13,600kg) of lift. The hybrid vehicle could be used for surveillance and scouting.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Multiple Israeli air strikes on Iranian ammunition supply depot near Damascus International Airport
April 27, 20175:18pm
MULTIPLE Israeli air strikes have struck in Syria’s capital.
The airstrikes hit an ammunition depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus International Airport, a regional intelligence source told Reuters. Commercial and military cargo planes from Tehran, Iran’s capital, regularly supplied weapons to the Hezbollah that were then stored in the depot. Tehran, a major regional ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, regularly sends weapons by air, the source who requested anonymity said, without giving further details. The arms are then used by an array of Iranian backed militias, led by Hezbollah, which have thousands of fighters engaged in some of the toughest fronts against Syrian rebels, the source claimed. Israel’s Intelligence Minsiter Israel Katz on radio said that the air strikes were “compatible with Israel’s policy.” The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, says the explosion in the early hours of Thursday was heard across the capital, jolting residents awake. Activist-operated Diary of a Mortar, which reports from Damascus, said that the explosion was followed by flames rising above the area, indicating the strikes had been successful. A pro-government site Damascus Now said the explosion was near the city’s Seventh Bridge, which leads to the airport road. Citing local sources, Al-Masdar News said there were five air strikes in the vicinity of the airport. Pro-Hezbollah TV said the blast near fuel tanks and warehouses adjacent to the airport were probably caused by an Israeli air strike. Syria is in the sixth year of a bloody civil war pitting the government of President Assad and his allies against opposition forces that has left more than 400,000 people dead. The explosion comes a day after France said that the chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month “bears the signature” Assad’s government and shows it was responsible. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France came to this conclusion after comparing samples from a 2013 sarin attack in Syria that matched the new ones. The findings came in a six-page report published Wednesday. Russia, a close ally of Assad, denounced the report, saying the samples and the fact the nerve agent was used are not enough to prove who was behind it. The United States has also blamed Assad’s government for the April 4 attack. The Trump administration ordered the cruise missile attack on the air base and issued sanctions on 271 people linked to the Syrian agency said to be responsible for producing non-conventional weapons. Syria has strongly denied the accusations.
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Israel Destroyed Dozens of Hezbollah-bound Missiles in Last Syria Raid, Officer Says
The Israeli military sought to prevent the weapons from reaching Hezbollah, and Israel has acted in Syria ‘not once’ in similar situations, the officer added
Gili Cohen Apr 26, 2017 4:46 PM
Update (27/04/2017): Arab media report another Israel Air Force strike in Syrian capital The Israel Air Force destroyed around 100 Syrian missiles in its attack last month on weapons in Syria − many of which were due to be delivered to Hezbollah, a senior Israeli officer said Tuesday. The officer, however, did not give details on the kind of missiles that were destroyed. The episode marked a rare admission that Israel had taken military action in Syria, and the officer said the Israel Defense Forces had acted “not once” in similar situations. Last month’s attack triggered an immediate retaliation by the Assad regime, which fired SA-5 surface-to-air missiles at the Israeli planes, marking a stark change in Syrian policy. None of the Israeli jets were damaged. The Israelis’ Arrow missile defense system, meanwhile, shot down one of the Syrian missiles north of Jerusalem, marking the system’s first operational use. According to the officer, while the Syrian regime knew that its outdated missiles would not hit the Israeli planes, the very firing at the jets reflected the regime’s confidence to act and changed security outlook − which the officer said stemmed from the support of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Meanwhile, the officer said the situation in North Korea could have an effect on Israel’s security. He said a confrontation between Washington and Pyongyang would divert American attention from events in the Middle East and decrease American influence in the region.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.785674
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Ex-defense minister says IS ‘apologized’ to Israel for November clash
Moshe Ya’alon’s office refuses to elaborate after alluding to contact with terror group
By Judah Ari Gross April 24, 2017, 11:40 pm
Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon on Saturday said the Islamic State terrorist group in the Syrian Golan Heights “apologized” for attacking an Israeli unit. “There was one case recently where Daesh opened fire and apologized,” Ya’alon said, using the terror group’s Arabic nickname. This was an apparent reference to a clash that took place near the Syrian border last November, in which IDF troops exchanged fire with members of the Islamic State affiliate. After a brief gun battle, the Israeli military attacked the terrorist group with airstrikes and tank fire, killing four of them. Israel and much of the Western world considers the Islamic State affiliate in the Syrian Golan Heights, known as the Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, to be a terrorist group. Communication with them is technically illegal under Israeli law, constituting contact with an enemy agent. Ya’alon was speaking at an event in the northern city of Afula. He was interviewed on stage by Eli Levi, a Channel 10 news correspondent. His comment about the Islamic State’s apology was made as part of a broader point about Israel’s policy for Syria, which is largely non-interventionist. Ya’alon was explaining that Israel carries out strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces in retaliation when spillover fire hits the Israeli Golan Heights. Ya’alon’s officer refused to elaborate on how exactly the Islamic State expressed its apology to Israel after the attack. The IDF also declined to comment. Syrian officials have accused Israel of directly aiding the Islamic State and other rebel groups, a claim Jerusalem vociferously denies.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-defense-minister-says-is-apologized-to-israel-for-november-clash/
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Trump Vows to Confront Anti-Semitism, Hatred
Ken Bredemeie Last Updated: April 25, 2017 8:46 PM
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to confront anti-Semitism and hatred as he commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. “We will stamp out prejudice, we will condemn hatred, we will bear witness and we will act,” Trump said. “As president of the United States, I will always stand with the Jewish people and I will always stand with our great friend and partner, the state of Israel.” He said, “Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this horrible evil and we'll never be silent. We just won't. We will never, ever, ever be silent in the face of evil again.” He called Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler's annihilation of 6 million Jews in World War II “history's darkest hour,” and condemned those who deny the Holocaust. WATCH: Trump on confronting anti-semitism “Denying the Holocaust is only one of many forms of dangerous anti-Semitism that continues all around the world,” he said. “We've seen anti-Semitism on university campuses, in the public square and in threats against Jewish citizens. Even worse, it's been on display in the most sinister manner when terrorists attack Jewish communities or when aggressors threaten Israel with total and complete destruction. This is my pledge to you we will confront anti-Semitism.” “That is why we are here today,” Trump told the audience, “to remember and to bear witness. To make sure that humanity never ever forgets.” In his speech, Trump did not identify the “aggressors” threatening to destroy Israel or the Holocaust deniers whom he called an “accomplice” to the genocide. But that did not bother David Menashri, an Israeli professor of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University. “I’m glad that the president did not mention any specific 'address' (in terms of who is being an aggressor toward Israel or accomplice to the Holocaust) and that he left it to people to think about what he had in mind and to whom he was referring,” Menashri told VOA's Persian Service in an interview. Menashri said there are many sources of Holocaust denial in the international arena. “Holocaust denial is a European phenomenon that also infiltrated the Middle East, with Holocaust denial conferences having been held in Iran and in other places,” he said. “But if you are looking for a connection to the Middle East (in Trump's speech), one remark that may relate only to Iran is his reference to those who call for total and complete destruction of Israel, there is only one state (that does so), and this is Iran.” Trump's pledge to “confront” anti-Semitism also could take several forms, according to Menashri. “There are many ways to confront people without starting a war over these issues,” he said. “You can sit and speak with people in different places and have them listen to and look at the material and evidence (of the Holocaust), because denying the Holocaust is basically like paving the way for another Holocaust, and this is something that the free world would not be able to tolerate.” WATCH: Trump vows to stand behind Jewish people, Israel Trump's speech commemorating the carnage of seven decades ago comes after some American Jewish groups and other critics of the president denounced two White House comments related to the Holocaust in the first three months of his White House tenure. In January, shortly after taking office, he issued a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day honoring “the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust” without mentioning the Jews who accounted for the majority of those victims. Earlier this month, White House spokesman Sean Spicer issued an apology after using a press briefing to say “someone who was as despicable as Hitler … didn't even sink to using chemical weapons.” Spicer made the remark as he compared the Nazi leader with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom the Trump administration accused of carrying out a sarin gas attack on Syrian civilians on April 4. Hitler did not use chemical weapons on the battlefield, but he did use gas chambers to exterminate Jews, disabled people and others. Michael Lipin of VOA's Persian Service contributed to this report.
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-holocaust-remembrance-day-/3824782.html
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Trump Cabinet Members Praying, Studying the Bible Together
04-24-2017 CBN News
Members of President Donald Trump's cabinet are gathering for prayer weekly. Vice President Mike Pence and eight cabinet secretaries sponsor the sessions, which occur weekly in Washington. It's led by the founder of Capitol Ministries, Ralph Drollinger, who started working on arranging the Bible study during the Trump team's transition to the White House. Sponsors include Vice President Pence; Secretaries Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Sonny Perdue, Rick Perry, Tom Price and Jeff Sessions; EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. These are some of the most influential people in the U.S. government gathering weekly to grow themselves spiritually. "In terms of a country's health and direction, when its leaders are seeking God, the nation is in a position to be blessed by God in ways that are 'far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think,'" Drollinger tells Beltway Buzz referring to Ephesians 3:20. Capitol Ministries also hosts weekly Bible studies in the House and Senate. The ministry has started Bible studies in a number of state capitols and is currently working on expanding into international capitols. "This has been a wonderful time of prayer and fellowship as I am presently teaching through the Sermon on the Mount, as well has handing out my weekly written Bible study as a homework assignment on a particular topic," Drollinger continued. Leaders of the Bible study say President Donald Trump is always welcome to join them. Prayer has been an evident part of this administration with pastors often praying over Trump throughout the campaign.
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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Turkey launches airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in anti-PKK campaign
Strikes on Syria seem to hit their targets but those in Iraq kill members of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces, an ally of Turkey. Turkey has said it killed around 70 militants in the Iraqi town of Sinjar and in northern Syria, as it stepped up its campaign against groups linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). While the airstrikes on Syria appeared to hit their intended targets, those in Iraq instead killed at least six members of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces. This appears to have been an accident, as the Iraqi Kurdish forces are usually an ally of Turkey's. The Kurds criticised the raids but blamed them on the PKK, saying: "These problems and tensions are all because of the PKK's presence." The Iraqi government condemned the strikes as a "violation of international law and of Iraqi sovereignty". Iraqi government spokesman Saad al Hadithi said they considered the raid, which happened on Tuesday, as "negatively affecting the efforts of Iraq and the international community in the war against terrorism". Turkey currently has difficult relations with Baghdad and it has called on Iraq to do more to deal with the PKK, which has bases and fighters in northern Iraq. The PKK is also seen as a rival of the dominant Kurdish faction in Iraq, which is more popular with Turkey. Mr Hadithi, however, said: "The solution to the problem of the presence on Iraqi territory of PKK members must be co-ordinated with the Iraqi government." But the Turkish raids show the fine balance between fighting Islamic State and increasing tension between Turkey and its NATO ally the US. The strikes near the city of Al-Malikiyah in Syria hit YPG (Kurdish People's Protection Units) territory, including a media centre, killing 20 YPG fighters and injuring 18, according to YPG spokesman Redur Khalil. A YPG commander urged the coalition to act to prevent further Turkish attacks, saying: "It's unthinkable that we are fighting on a front as important as Raqa while Turkish planes bomb us in the back." Turkey has bombed the YPG in northern Syria for months, calling it a terrorist group because of its ties to the PKK. The YPG is a major part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the group fighting IS in Syria.
http://news.sky.com/story/turkey-launches-airstrikes-in-iraq-and-syria-in-anti-pkk-campaign-10850805
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Forget Korea, WW III to Begin In Syria
By Dave Hodges
Sometimes, when is looking for trouble on the right, they get sucker punched from the left. The world is focused on Korea. However, the real action is taking place in Syria. The Russians have quietly escalated the conflict and Turkey and Israel have responded in kind. Russia Ready to Insert Combat Troops Into Syria Temporarily, while the world is focused on Korea, we see slight of hand in Syria. The Russians, not to be upstaged by the new military and foreign policy alliance between China and the U.S., has managed to advance their own agenda. The Russians have also announced that they are prepared militarize Syria with RUSSIAN troops. Further they have announced that they are continuing to beef up Syria’s air defenses in an obvious anticipation of U.S. air attacks against the Assad regime. Many will interpret this escalation by Russia as a line-in-the-sand move which pushes the world that much closer to World War III. Russia Is Winning the Moral High Ground Even while Russia announces plans to futher escalate the conflict in Syria through the intended introduction of Russian ground troops, the Russians have still managed to maintain the moral high ground. Former President Eisenhower warned the American people about what would happen if the American people did not stop the advancement of the military industrial complex and its control over our government. These consequences have never been more in evidence than they are with the present state of affairs between Russia and the United States. Russia is calling for a true and independent investigation into the chemical weapons attack in Syria. At the behest of the neocons, Trump jumped to an unqualfied position and unilaterally attacked Syria. On the surface, who appears to be pursuing the reasonable course of action here? This lessens the possibility that international pressure can be brought on Russia to change course in Syria. The Russians have also expressed a desire for a peaceful resolution to the multiple crises in places like Yemen and the Middle East. On the other hand, the American government wants to continue to pursue a reckless policy of endless wars of occupation and undeserved resource allocations which are then transferred into private party hands on Wall Street. If there is a better definition of US fascism, I have not seen it. History shows, that I am no fan of Putin. However, there is no question that the corrupt relationship between US foreign policy and Wall Street profits, have once again taken center stage in Syria and the Russians are taking full advantage while, at the same time, advancing their cause of militarizing Syria. Checkmate Russia! Turkey and Israel Escalating War Preparations With the announcement that Russia plans to escalate tensions in Syria with a military buildup of their own, it is clear that Turkey and Israel have just responded. It was announced on Monday that Turkey is sending F-35’s to Israel. This move places Syria and Iran under considerably more danger and this clearly marks an escalation in preparations being made for World War III in the Middle East. Can there be any question that war in Syria is imminent? Could there be a more ominous post than the following one from the Jerusalem Post with regard to the arriving F-35’s? “Once the jets arrive in Israel, they will not leave except for combat missions.” Trump to Hold Emergency Closed Door Meeting with the Entire Senate About NK Crisis Although World War III may begin in Syria, can there be any question that the conflict would quickly spread to Korea. According to Reuters, President Trump and his officials will hold an extremely unusual and rare briefing on Wednesday, April 26, at the White House. The invited guests are all 100 Senators. The topic is the highly volatile situation involving North Korea. the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea. The meeting will be chaired by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is according to a White House spokesman Sean Spicer, who released a statement to this effect on April 24, 2017. The briefing will be closed and the Senators, as well as Trump administration officials are bound by national security protocols because of the sensitivity of the data to be released. The question remains, with regard to this briefing, is this an advisory meeting, a policy shift notification meeting, or is this a planned announcement about imminent action? Given the importance of the material to be covered, it is important to potentially note as to whether, or not, this will be the meeting that will lead to conflict in Korea? Or will the events in Korea remain secondary to events in Syria? I find it interesting that Trump chose to involve the Senate and leave out the House. Regardless of the motives at work, this is a very ominous development Conclusion If the coming war goes nuclear, there is only a limited amount of preparation that one can take. However, there are things that can be done. In the upcoming days, the CSS is going to put some much needed attention on what the average American should be focusing on as the world races toward the insanity of WW III. Your children picked a very difficult time to be born.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/04/25/forget-korea-ww-iii-to-begin-in-syria/
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Washington D.C. To Hold Massive "Coordinated Terror Attack" Drill This Wednesday
by Tyler Durden Apr 25, 2017 5:17 AM
April 26th is shaping up to be a busy day. As we reported on Friday, that's when Operation Gotham Shield, an exercise involving FEMA, Homeland Security and a myriad of law enforcement and military agencies and which simulates a nuclear bomb blast over Manhattan, is set to conclude. Then, as we learned earlier, April 26 is also when the entire Senate will be briefed by Donald Trump and his four top defense and military officials on the situation in North Korea at the White House, an event which Reuters dubbed as "unusual." April 26 is also when the USS Carl Vinson is expected to finally arrive off the coast of the Korean Penninsula. Now, in a statement from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the regional association reports that "law enforcement officials and other first responders will participate in a full-scale exercise on April 26 designed to prepare for the possibility of a complex coordinated terror attack in the National Capital Region." The statement adds that emergency managers who work together at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) planned the exercise to help protect residents by preparing for an attack involving multiple target locations and teams of perpetrators. The exercise will be conducted across a widespread geographical area. According to the release, the regional exercise will be staged at six sites in the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia, and will involve hundreds of police, fire, and emergency medical service personnel and volunteer actors. The locations include neighborhoods in the northeast and southeast quadrants of the District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, and Arlington and Fairfax Counties. Residents in those neighborhoods will be notified ahead of time to expect the exercise. According to Scott Boggs, Managing Director of Homeland Security and Public Safety at COG, “Law enforcement officials practice and exercise their skills on their own regularly because that’s the best way to ensure we are always ready to respond quickly and professionally. On April 26, we’ll go one step further and stage a very realistic emergency event involving multiple sites and actors posing as the casualties. However, there is no reason for residents to be alarmed because the exercise will occur in a controlled environment.” The is scheduled to take place near or at George Mason University, and last from 8;30am until 4:30pm. The statement also advises that the only media availability will be in a one hour block before the exercise, from 7:30am - 8:30am on April 26. Full statement below (link). Full-scale exercise focused on preparing for complex terror attacks to include National Capital Region first responders, emergency managers Law enforcement officials and other first responders will participate in a full-scale exercise on April 26 designed to prepare for the possibility of a complex coordinated terror attack in the National Capital Region. Emergency managers who work together at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) planned the exercise to help protect residents by preparing for an attack involving multiple target locations and teams of perpetrators. The regional exercise will be staged at six sites in the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia, and will involve hundreds of police, fire, and emergency medical service personnel and volunteer actors. The locations include neighborhoods in the northeast and southeast quadrants of the District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, and Arlington and Fairfax Counties. Residents in those neighborhoods will be notified ahead of time to expect the exercise. “Law enforcement officials practice and exercise their skills on their own regularly because that’s the best way to ensure we are always ready to respond quickly and professionally,” said Scott Boggs, Managing Director of Homeland Security and Public Safety at COG. “On April 26, we’ll go one step further and stage a very realistic emergency event involving multiple sites and actors posing as the casualties. However, there is no reason for residents to be alarmed because the exercise will occur in a controlled environment.” MEDIA AVAILABILITY PRIOR TO EXERCISE ONLY (see details below) WHEN: Wednesday April 26, 7:30 – 8:30 A.M. WHERE: Maryland National Capital Park Police Headquarters, 8100 Corporate Drive, Hyattsville, MD 20785 Contact: Jeanne Saddler Phone: (202) 962-3250 Email: jsaddler@mwcog.org
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Gotham Shield Commences – What Happens Now?
By Nate Brown - 04/25/2017
Intriguing timing surrounding a new Military drill in the United States called Operation Gotham Shield has sparked concerns and brought back the infamous ‘False Flag Watch.’ Military exercises are common within the United States and abroad, and most of the time the drills pass by, and nothing happens. However, modern history has proven that sometimes these drills are not just drills but actual events, called false flags. False flags are not a conspiracy theory, regardless of what mainstream media wants to tell you. So what is a false flag? The contemporary term false flag describes covert operations that are designed to deceive in such a way that activities appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them. Historically, the term “false flag” has its origins in naval warfare where the use of a flag other than the belligerent’s true battle flag before (but not while) engaging the enemy has long been accepted as a permissible ruse de guerre; by contrast, flying a false flag while engaging the enemy constitutes perfidy. Operations carried out during peace-time by civilian organizations, as well as covert government agencies, can (by extension) also be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organization behind an operation. Why would the US government want to commit such a thing? It’s all about “the agenda.” But, isn’t propaganda illegal in the United States? No, propaganda was made legal under the NDAA – National Defense Authorization Act. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) Sec. 501. (a) The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication. (b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, upon request and reimbursement of the reasonable costs incurred in fulfilling such a request, make available, in the United States, motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad. According to Michael Hastings: “The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.” Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) (H.R. 5736), advocate that it is time to liberate the authority of the US government to broadcast American produced foreign propaganda in the U.S. The amendment, which was hidden within the NDAA, has remained relatively unnoticed. However, it empowers the State Department and Pentagon to utilize all forms of media against the American public for the sake of coercing US citizens to believe whatever version of the truth the US government wants them to believe. The event: a false flag – creates the narrative. The propaganda: the media takes the narrative (false flag) and uses it on the American people to further the agenda. See how it works? The US government creates the narrative and then pushes the agenda through the mainstream media. Operation Gotham Shield – why the fuss? A nuke drill over Manhattan, a terror drill at the Capitol, and much more will be going on for several days during the event called ‘Gotham Shield.’ Below is the pdf of the actual drill and its connections to Northern Lights 2016, a former military drill. Oddly enough several crises are apparently coming to a head all around the same time of the infamous drill. To name a couple, North Korea, a potential government shutdown, and the Syrian attack no one is talking about. While there is concern that a false flag could erupt from the large-scale drill in several city capitols, please keep in mind this is just a military training. According to NJ.com; Hudson County, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, FEMA and other entities will conduct a response drill to a nuclear explosion in the New York/New Jersey area, authorities said today. The aim of the exercise, dubbed Gotham Shield, is “to expand the ability at local and national levels to coordinate an effect a large-scale response and recovery to an event like this,” FEMA spokeswoman Lauren Lefebvre said this morning. Lefebvre said that, in general, Gotham Shield will not involve the actual deployment of emergency response equipment and personnel. It is to be a “notional” exercise in which emergency responders respond theoretically to an unfolding nuclear event scenario in which all levels of government are in communication and playing a role. The drill is not a response to the recent tensions between the United States and North Korea, or any international incident, since it has been in the planning stages for a year, Lefebvre said. Gotham Shield is to begin tomorrow and run through the week. It is believed that “ground zero” for the theoretical nuclear explosion is West New York. Why the concern? Because of 9/11. On the day of 9/11, there were also large-scale drills throughout New York, and it just so happened that, that day the Twin Towers came down. However, the drill in New York and New Jersey is not a singular event; rather there are several other exercises and various events taking place that week throughout the country. On April 26th, 2017 a terror drill will be conducted at the Capitol, the entire US Senate will be briefed by Donald Trump and his four top defense and military officials on the situation in North Korea at the White House. Also on Wednesday, the USS Carl Vinson is finally going to arrive off the coast of the Korean Peninsula. Now, also on April 26th, 2017; The USA will be testing an ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile. An operational test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled for Wednesday, April. 26, between 12:01 a.m. to 6:01 a.m. from North Vandenberg Air Force Base. The purpose of the ICBM test launch program is to validate and verify the effectiveness, readiness, and accuracy of the weapon system, according to Air Force Global Strike Command. Col. John Moss, 30th Space Wing commander, is the launch decision authority. “Team V is once again ready to work with Air Force Global Strike Command to successfully launch another Minuteman III missile,” said Moss. “These Minuteman launches are essential to verify the status of our national nuclear force and to demonstrate our national nuclear capabilities. We are proud of our long history in partnering with the men and women of the 576th Flight Test Squadron to execute these missions for the nation.” The 576th Flight Test Squadron will be responsible for installed tracking, telemetry, and command destruct systems on the missile. In addition to the amount of events mentioned on Wednesday so far, the US House of Representatives has a Midnight Meeting, about disaster loans on Wednesday. etc
https://christiantruther.com/government/drills/gotham-shield-commences-what-happens-now/
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etc there are wars that are ready to take place right now and their outcome is not going to be like man is trying to tell you, but it shall be just as my word has said. So if you read my word and study my word you will understand etc
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For man who counsels not with me has little understanding, for they know not the deep things of my word they know not the deep things of what I am about to do. They have no understanding only their worldly wisdom that they have reaped, oh how foolish how foolish. etc
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For have not I shown you and spoken to you about the things that were to take place, did I not tell you about April already? So you should not be surprised when you begin to see things unfold, for you are only just beginning to see the things that shall very soon come. For it is that time and it is that hour, the clock cannot be stopped, the clock cannot be turned back, man has made their own minds up, they have made decisions and have not counseled with me, your Father God, therefore I cannot hold things back any longer. etc
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US Missile Defense Allows Covert Nuclear Strike Against Russia - General Staff
17:38 26.04.2017(updated 18:03 26.04.2017)
US missile defense creates an opportunity for a covert nuclear missile strike against Russia, first deputy chief of the General Staff's Main Operational Department, Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir said on Wednesday. "The presence of US missile defense bases in Europe, missile defense vessels in seas and oceans close to Russia creates a powerful covert strike component for conducting a sudden nuclear missile strike against the Russian Federation," he said. The results of computer simulation confirm that the US missile defense is directed against Russia and China, Poznikhir said. "Russian representatives have often appealed to the US side, drawing their attention to the danger the global missile defense system poses to the strategic balance of forces in the world. But facts are ignored. The US claims its missile defense system is not directed against Russia and China. But… the results of computer simulation testify to the contrary," he said. The Lt. Gen. said that other countries are forced to take measures in response
https://sputniknews.com/military/201704261053029094-us-missile-defense-nuclear-strike-russia/
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Officials Advise Citizens What to Do if North Korea Nukes Japan
23:40 25.04.2017(updated 02:54 26.04.2017)
Japan has warned its citizens that, in the case of a North Korean nuclear attack, they may have as few as four minutes to rush to safety. Tokyo admitted that their warning system would likely detect a missile launch no more than 10 minutes in advance, and possibly not even as quickly as that. "A missile may not be detected as soon as it leaves the launch pad … and that could take several minutes. Depending on the case, the warnings and alarms might only sound four or five minutes before a missile arrives," said Hirofumi Yoshimura, mayor of Osaka, Japan's second-largest metropolitan area. The grim reminder came out of a meeting of the nation's top disaster and crisis officials in Tokyo, where the federal government urged the prefectures to raise the awareness and preparedness of their constituents. Japan's J-Alert system is meant to warn local governments of an imminent missile attack via satellite, telephone and cyberspace mediums. From there, local governments will warn the citizenry via emergency broadcasts on TV and radio, cell phone alerts and outdoor loudspeaker announcements. The government's advice is fairly typical: those outside should proceed to a strong concrete building or underground in a calm, orderly fashion. Those already inside should stay low to the floor, take cover under tables and stay away from windows. Students are advised to hide under their desks. Since February 2017, North Korea has performed four missile tests. Three landed in the Sea of Japan, while the fourth exploded almost immediately after takeoff. In August 2016, a North Korean missile landed in the ocean about 150 miles from the city of Oga in Akita Prefecture. Oga residents, in cooperation with the federal and prefectural government, conducted an evacuation drill in case of a North Korean missile launch. Some of the officials who attended the Tokyo meeting suggested the passing of a new law to create a nationwide system of drills similar to the one Oga performed. While "duck and cover" would do little for those engulfed by a nuclear fireball, it could protect the citizenry outside the explosion's radius from other dangers such as broken glass and other shrapnel, intense heat, thermal burns and eye damage. Japan knows this better than most. During the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese citizens often rushed to the windows when they saw the bright flash of light, increasing the human toll of the attack. Sales of bomb shelters and air purifiers have skyrocketed in Japan in recent months.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201704251052997596-japan-warns-north-korean-attack/
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Chinese Media: North Korea Will "Cross the Point Of No Return" with Sixth Nuclear Test
Ryan Pickrell April 25, 2017
North Korea is nearing the “point of no return” as the reclusive regime prepares for a possible sixth nuclear test, Chinese media reports. “The game of chicken between Washington and Pyongyang has come to a breaking point,” the Global Times, a nationalist Chinese newspaper managed by the state-run People’s Daily, writes. “If North Korea carries out a sixth nuclear test as expected, it is more likely than ever that the situation will cross the point of no return.” “All stakeholders will bear the consequences, with Pyongyang sure to suffer the greatest losses,” the outlet warns. (This first appeared on The Daily Caller Foundation's website here.) The Global Times, while sometimes used to test reactions to potential foreign policies, does not necessarily represent the views of the state, but the warnings appear consistent with Beijing’s recent actions. Chinese media has issued several warnings to Pyongyang lately in an attempt to prevent a nuclear test and a crisis on the Korean peninsula. “The North Korea nuclear issue is like a puzzle filled with bombs,” the paper explains, “Once the U.S. [launches] surgical strikes against North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities, the Pyongyang regime will be forced to make a life-or-death decision.” The Global Times argues there is no future for the North Korean regime if it continues on its present course. China is caught between a rock and a hard place, between Washington and Pyongyang. "Washington hopes that Beijing can contain Pyongyang from conducting its nuclear activities, as if such an effort is as easy as saying abracadabra,” Chinese media accurately notes. “North Korea, on the other hand, hopes China will pile more pressure on the US and South Korea to stop their threats of war. Beijing cannot possibly satisfy both sides.” President Donald Trump has said that he is eager to see China rein in North Korea, but he has also stated that the U.S. will take matters into its own hands if China does not come through. “If you see [Kim Jong Un] attack a military base, if you see some sort of intercontinental ballistic missile, then obviously we’re going” to respond with force, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Monday on NBC’s “Today Show.” Replying to questions of how the U.S. might respond if North Korea tested a nuclear weapon or an ICBM, Haley said, “I think then the president steps in and decides what’s going to happen.” The Trump administration has been working with allies and partners, including China, to rein in North Korea. At the same time, the U.S. has been moving strategic assets — nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers — into the region. The administration has repeatedly stated that while it hopes to resolve this issue peacefully, all options are on the table. North Korea’s weapons program is advancing at an accelerated pace. The North has tested two new ballistic missiles — the KN-15 mid-range missile and the KN-17 anti-ship ballistic missile — this year. North Korea has also tested high-thrust rocket engines for a potential ICBM, which Pyongyang claimed it was close to testing in January. Additionally, regular activity around the Punggye-ri nuclear test site has the observers concerned that the North may soon conduct a sixth nuclear weapons test. Defense experts estimate that the North is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks, reports the New York Times. Experimenting with higher explosive yields, improved warheads, and missiles with greater ranges, the North is steadily raising the threat to its neighbors and, eventually, the U.S. “The most immediate challenge is the situation on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong Un’s regime has thrown its full weight behind its quest for nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. And unfortunately, the regime is making real progress,” GOP Arizona Sen. John McCain explained Tuesday at a hearing on U.S. policy and strategy in the Asia Pacific. “A North Korean missile with a nuclear payload capable of striking an American city is no longer a distant hypothetical, but an imminent danger—one that poses a real and rising risk of conflict.” The situation on the peninsula is rapidly escalating. Trump calls North Korea a “real threat to the world” and an “urgent security challenge.” The administration is determined to resolve the crisis on the peninsula, one way or another, and a sixth nuclear test might push the president to call for a solution through the use of military force. It is unclear if the either side will, as the Global Times puts it, “roll the dice in this crazy gamble.”
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Kim Jong-un conducts 'LARGEST firing drill EVER' in war preparation - South Korea confirms
NORTH Korea has carried out its largest firing drill today to mark the 85th anniversary of the country's military, Seoul has confirmed.
By Charlie Bayliss PUBLISHED: 04:38, Tue, Apr 25, 2017 | UPDATED: 11:49, Tue, Apr 25, 2017
Military forces conducted the latest sabre-rattling drill in the eastern port city of Wonsan. Despot warmonger Kim Jong-un is believed to have taken part in the event. South Korea confirmed this morning the worrying live-fire drill had taken place. Pyongyang has marked important anniversaries with tests of its weapons. Huge crowds have gathered in Pyongyang for the public holiday as senior officials have gathered to deliver speeches. Tanks and 4x4s with turrets and missiles attached to the vehicles have been deployed in a carefully choreographed display of military might. It comes as the US, China and Japan have held talks in the past few days as Donald Trump weighs up whether to take military action against North Korea. North Korea has carried out five nuclear tests and a raft of missile tests. Donald Trump has proposed tougher sanctions against North Korea in a bid to economically strangle the communist state into submission and give up on its nuclear ambitions.
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Trump sends Cruise missile-carrying nuclear submarine to South Korean port as he warns Kim Jong Un 'is a problem that needs to be finally solved'
The USS Michigan arrived on Monday ahead of a possible Tuesday nuke trial
Tuesday is the 85th anniversary of the start of the North's Korean People's Army
The US, Japan and South Korea are meeting in Tokyo to discuss North Korea
Trump has also invited the entire Senate to the White House on Wednesday
And the UN Security Council on North Korea will also meet on Friday
Japan and China are to meet too; China is an unhappy ally of the hermit state
North Korea has refused to stop its nuclear tests and is threatening more trials
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group is also heading to the peninsula
By Reuters and Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 21:49 EDT, 24 April 2017 | Updated: 09:37 EDT, 25 April 2017
A nuclear-powered US submarine arrived in a South Korean port on Tuesday in a show of force amid concerns that North Korea may attempt another missile launch or nuclear test on Tuesday. The port call in Busan by the USS Michigan came as an American aircraft carrier strike group continued steaming towards Korean waters. And as tensions in the area continued to rise, the top nuclear envoys from South Korea, Japan, and the US met in Tokyo to discuss North Korea's refusal to give up its nuclear program. On Monday, US President Donald Trump called for tougher new UN sanctions on Pyongyang, saying the North was a global threat and 'a problem that we have to finally solve'. The USS Michigan's armament comprises four torpedo tubes and 154 BGM-109 Tomahawks. It was modified to remove its nuclear armaments in the mid-2000s. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshide Suga, told a media briefing that China's nuclear envoy, Wu Dawei, would also hold talks with Japanese Foreign Ministry officials on Tuesday. A ministry source said Wu was likely to meet his Japanese nuclear counterpart on Wednesday. Matching the flurry of activity in North Asia, the State Department in Washington said on Monday US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would chair a special ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council on North Korea on Friday. Tillerson, along with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Joint Chiefs chairman General Joseph Dunford, would also hold a rare briefing for the entire US Senate on North Korea on Wednesday, Senate aides said. 'The status quo in North Korea is also unacceptable,' Trump told a meeting with the 15 UN Security Council ambassadors, including China and Russia, at the White House. 'The council must be prepared to impose additional and stronger sanctions on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs.' South Korean and US officials have feared for some time that a sixth North Korean nuclear test could be imminent. Speculation has grown that such a test, or another long-range missile launch, could coincide with the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the North's Korean People's Army on Tuesday. The official China Daily said on Tuesday it was time for Pyongyang and Washington to take a step back from harsh rhetoric and heed the voices of reason calling for a peaceful resolution. 'Judging from their recent words and deeds, policymakers in Pyongyang have seriously misread the UN sanctions, which are aimed at its nuclear/missile provocations, not its system or leadership,' the newspaper said in an editorial. 'They are at once perilously overestimating their own strength and underestimating the hazards they are brewing for themselves,' it said. In a phone conversation with Trump on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all sides to exercise restraint. Two Japanese destroyers conducted exercises on Monday with the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group that is headed for waters off the Korean peninsula, sent by Trump as a warning to the North. The South Korean military is also planning to conduct joint drills with the carrier group. As those drills continued, the USS Michigan arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday, the US Navy said. The nuclear-powered submarine is built to carry and launch ballistic missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles. As well as his military show of force, Trump has also sought to pressure China to do more to rein in its nuclear-armed neighbor. China, North Korea's sole major ally, has in turn been angered by Pyongyang's belligerence, as well as its nuclear and missile programs. Regardless, North Korea has carried out nuclear and missile tests in defiance of successive rounds of United Nations sanctions. Angered by the approach of the carrier group, which could arrive within days, North Korea said the deployment of the USS Carl Vinson was 'an extremely dangerous act by those who plan a nuclear war to invade'. 'The United States should not run amok and should consider carefully any catastrophic consequence from its foolish military provocative act,' Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, said in a commentary.
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US preparing to 'EVACUATE 230,000 Americans from South Korea'
DONALD Trump has demanded the evacuation of US citizens from South Korea as part of a drill named Courageous Channel, military sources have revealed.
By Thomas Hunt PUBLISHED: 01:40, Mon, Apr 24, 2017 | UPDATED: 15:53, Mon, Apr 24, 2017
The operation, set to take place in June, will prepare for the safe exit of around 230,000 Americans in the case of conflict. If the Pyongyang was to attack, tens of thousands of American civilians, including military dependents residing in and around the capital city of Seoul, could very well be caught in the crossfire. A major dilemma for the US is how to keep these Americans safe and evacuate them in the event of hostilities. Seoul is just 35 miles from the border, well within range of more than 12,000 North Korean artillery guns that they have already positioned to strike from dug-in and well-camouflaged positions. According to reports, the reclusive state would activate sleeper agents in the South to direct missile and artillery fire. It is estimated that the North has the capability to fire, using rocket-assisted projectiles, 500,000 rounds of both mortar ammunition and chemical weapons on Seoul in just the first hour of war. Mr Trump ordered the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group to sail to waters off the Korean peninsula in response to rising tension over the North's nuclear and missile tests. But Kim Jong-un's hermit state remained defiant with the nation’s ruling Workers' Party newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, saying: “Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a US nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike.” The last Courageous Channel was held just after the North’s fifth nuclear test in September and was very realistic with participants flown outside of the peninsula. The issue regarding the reclusive north isn’t likely to fade from prominence anytime soon. In fact, analysts are already speculating another missile or even nuclear test could be in the works for tomorrow, which marks the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army. North Korea said on Friday the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula was “extremely perilous” because of “madcap American nuclear war manoeuvres aimed at trampling on our sovereignty and right to survival”.
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US Senators to Get Rare Briefing at White House on North Korea Threat
Last Updated: April 24, 2017 4:53 PM Steve Herman
WHITE HOUSE — All 100 U.S. senators have been invited to the White House on Wednesday for a classified briefing that will primarily concern North Korea, the administration announced Monday. The briefing will be conducted by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe Dunford. While lawmakers often receive classified briefings on Capitol Hill, it is rare for them to take place at the White House and for the entire Senate to be involved in one event. During a White House lunch with ambassadors of United Nations Security Council member states on Monday, the U.S. president called unacceptable the "status quo in North Korea." Trump said the Security Council must be prepared to impose additional and stronger sanctions on North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. "North Korea is a big world problem, and it's a problem we have to finally solve," the president added. "People have put blindfolds on for decades, and now it's time to solve the problem." Trump, Abe The comments came after Trump made his latest round of separate telephone calls to the leaders of Japan, China and Germany to discuss concerns about North Korea. His most recent call was made just before meeting the ambassadors on Monday morning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the "urgent security challenge" posed by North Korea, according to the White House. A 30-minute call (Sunday evening U.S. time/Monday morning in Asia) between Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meant to increase pressure on Pyongyang not to engage in further provocative actions, but was not prompted by any significant change in the situation, according to officials in Tokyo. "We agreed to strongly demand North Korea, which is repeating its provocation, show restraint," Abe told reporters in Tokyo. "We will maintain close contact with the United States, maintain a high level of vigilance and firmly respond." Abe also said he and Trump agreed that a larger role in dealing with Pyongyang should be played by China. Trump, Xi Trump subsequently spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping about North Korea. The Chinese president said he hopes all sides avoid doing anything to worsen the tense situation on the Korean peninsula, according to the Xinhua news agency. Trump, in the phone call with Xi, "criticized North Korea's continued belligerence and emphasized Pyongyang's actions are destabilizing the Korean Peninsula," according to a White House readout issued Monday. "The two leaders reaffirmed the urgency of the threat posed by North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, and committed to strengthen coordination in achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." North Korea's continued development of ballistic missiles and its underground nuclear tests — there have been five — are "to put it mildly, a game changer," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Monday. "And it's one of the reasons why you've seen administration officials talking so candidly about our concerns and about the fact that the time for strategic patience and that policy is over." Trump and U.S. officials have repeatedly said all options remain "on the table" to deal with further North Korean provocations. North Korea threats The conversations involving the president about North Korea took place as a U.S. Navy strike force, led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, is approaching the Sea of Japan, off the east coast of the Korean peninsula. The strike force on Monday was wrapping up a "routine" joint drill "to provide combined maritime response" with components of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force in the Philippines Sea "as it continued its northern transit," U.S. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters at the Pentagon. Officials in Seoul announced earlier Monday the Vinson is also scheduled to hold a joint training exercise with South Korean naval ships. "Consultations are under way in connection with the exercise," Ministry of National Defense spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told reporters. He provided no additional details. The approach of the American naval carrier strike group has not gone unnoticed in Pyongyang. "Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," read a Sunday commentary in the Rodong Sinmun, the Workers' Party newspaper. Such threats are common from the reclusive state. North Korea on Tuesday celebrates the anniversary of the founding of its military, a key holiday in the country. There are concerns Pyongyang, in conjunction with the anniversary, will demonstrate a show of force by possibly firing more ballistic missiles or conducting its sixth nuclear test. Trump has said that Xi is applying pressure on North Korea to not engage in further provocations. It is speculated by analysts in Washington and Beijing that China is threatening to cut crude oil supplies to its impoverished neighbor should it conduct another nuclear test. U.S. citizen detained Meanwhile, a third U.S. citizen was detained Friday by North Korean authorities as he was about to leave the country. Toner at the State Department told reporters he was not aware of any diplomatic access to the American. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) confirmed the detention of Kim Sang-duk, who had been teaching accounting at the privately-funded school started by evangelical Christians. "We cannot comment on anything that Mr. Kim may be alleged to have done that is not related to his teaching work on the PUST campus," the university said in a statement Sunday. At least two other U.S. citizens are known to be held in North Korea. The U.S. State Department said it is working with Swedish diplomats on the case. The United States and North Korea have never had diplomatic ties. Sweden's embassy in Pyongyang represents the interests of American citizens in the country. North Korea has a pattern of detaining and sentencing American visitors to prison in order to get high-profile visitors to go there to obtain their release.
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-senators-to-receive-rare-briefing-on-north-korea/3823632.html
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Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your
young men shall see visions: (KJV)
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days,
saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see
visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: (KJV)
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NEW!!! (RED HOT) Henry Gruver Russia to Nuke the USA PART 1
Steve Quayle Published on Dec 19, 2016
The Official Steve Quayle Youtube Channel
DECEMBER 10TH 2016 STEVE QUAYLE INTERVIEWED HENRY GRUVER. ITS ONLY DOOM PORN IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO BE AFRAID OF- BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfwnC3Ccz2M&feature=youtu.be
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Henry Gruver: Russia to Nuke the USA - part 2
Published on Dec 27, 2016
Steve Quayle interviews Henry Gruver at GenSix Studios concerning Henry's open vision of a nuclear strike by Russia on the east and west coasts of the United States. This is part 2 of that conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNH__46_Gk
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Map Shows Which US Cities Might Be Targeted First In Nuclear Strikes Upon America - What Should This Map Tell Us?
'A Strange Game, The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play'
April 19, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The new story over at the Daily Mail today reports North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un smiled and waved as a cheering crowd watched a simulation of a US city being wiped out by a North Korean nuclear attack. You can see that video as the final video below. Just the latest provocation proving the 'mad dictator' is out of his mind, and more than willing to sacrifice the lives of the North Korean people, one North Korean defector recently stated Kim will stop at nothing to nuke the US as a 'last stand'. With the world on the edge of a nuclear war that could begin at any time according to the North Korean foreign minister in this story from The Sun that the Drudge Report linked to on Monday morning, we take a look within this ANP story at this recent story from JD Heyes over at Natural News called "If Nuclear War Breaks Out, Which US Cities Would Be Targeted First?" and all of the latest news from around the world that shows us we may be closer to nuclear war now than at any time since the Cold War. While most military experts believe that a war with North Korea would be 'won' by the US, those same experts warn that North Korea could do an incredible amount of damage to the US and as the Natural News story reports, striking American cities would have a multiplying effect. According to China, perhaps even more correctly, in such a war, nobody would win. For cities that were spared, residents would no doubt panic, leading to widespread chaos and even more death and destruction. Smaller cities of 1 million, 500,000, even 100,000 people would quickly degenerate into mayhem as the national government fought mostly to save itself – though a strike on Washington, D.C., would most assuredly take out the bulk of the federal government. Even a single nuclear strike could cause widespread pandemonium in American cities that were not targeted. While we've been ever so fortunate here in America to have long avoided an all-out war upon US soil, NKorea has also recently warned that "If the USA is planning a military strike against us, we will react with a preemptive nuclear strike!" as also heard in the 1st video below. Also claiming that they'll be conducting more missile tests on a 'weekly, monthly and yearly basis', North Korea's Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol warned that an "all-out war" would result if the US took military action. While many believe that North Korea's missiles couldn't strike most of the US if launched from Kim's 'hermit kingdom', this new story from Zero Hedge claims the potential range of North Korea's current weapons, particularly the KN-14 and KN-08 missiles, would put most of the US and the world within range as seen in the next graphic below And as we reported on ANP back on April 14th, North Korea's traditional nuclear weapons may not even be the biggest problem and threat that America faces. Warning that NKorea still has at least '3 aces in the hole', while a North Korean nuclear strike upon the US would be beyond devastating, an EMP attack launched upon our country could quite literally 'take down all of America at once'. And as we've been warned, such a devastating attack would only need one strike to be successful while NKorea 'taking out' 17 different cities would require at least 17 successful attacks. Yet we come back to the Natural News story's warning: Even a SINGLE nuclear strike could cause widespread pandemonium in US cities all across the country. While US cities make up less than 4% of the country's land mass, they are home to 62.7% of the total US population according to this March 4th, 2015 US Census Bureau story. If the 'snowflakes' in America are troubled now by the lack of 'safe spaces', war upon US soil could instantly lead to NO 'safe spaces' unless you're headed 'underground', and even most UG bunkers wouldn't be completely 'fail safe' should war upon US soil lead to a forthcoming 'invasion of America' such as that warned of by Pastor Henry Gruver. Below videos, we take a look at a new SQAlert which asks if Gruver's prophecy is now coming true with an alleged warning that the nation of Mexico may be allowing North Korea to use its ports and bays for an attack upon America in exchange for parts of the Southwest being returned to Mexico should NKorea pull off a miracle and win a war against the US. While we're unable at this time to confirm that this warning is true, it's been reported time and again that Mexico is seeking 'reconquista', the 'reconquest' of the parts of America that were once Mexico. As we've previously reported on ANP, Gruver had a vision of the invasion of America and its total destruction by the hands of the Russians and the Chinese. For those who may have missed it, the third and fourth videos below are Gruver's interviews with Steve Quayle in which they discuss his open vision of a nuclear strike by Russia on the East and West coast's of the United States in a two-part interview. In the 2nd video below from David Knight at Infowars he takes a look at what's now happening between the US and North Korea, asking how we've suddenly found ourselves on the brink of thermonuclear war, a war that could begin by accident and spin completely out of control, even before most people knew it had begun. And just as the 1983 movie classic WarGames warned, "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" And if it were in our power to do so, we would love to set up a nice chess match between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, live-streamed for the entire world to see, a matchup that would surely make winners of us all.
http://allnewspipeline.com/US_Nuclear_Target_Map_If_War_Breaks_Out_Spells_Trouble.php
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The US Government Has Been Preparing For The ‘End of the World’ Since The 1930’s – CIA Docs Reveal
By @truther2127 - 04/19/2017
(MARC AMBINDER) — Among the greatest foreign-policy dilemmas faced by former President Jimmy Carter is one that has never been publicly aired but is gaining new relevance. It concerns nuclear war, and how the U.S. government would survive it. Carter’s decisions remain classified, but documents newly declassified by the CIA, along with the archives at several presidential libraries, provide a new window into the White House’s preparations for an imminent apocalypse. Today, such an apocalypse could be triggered by any number of nuclear-armed states, including North Korea and Pakistan. During Carter’s presidency, such anxieties were focused squarely on the Soviet Union. It was during that period that military planners in both the Soviet Union and United States began to grapple with what until then had been an unthinkable heresy: abandoning the Mutually Assured Destruction catechism that had governed global order since the 1950s and preparing for surviving an all-out nuclear war. Carter and his White House were interested in more specific questions. If the presidency could survive after a nuclear war, what exactly would it do afterward? How could the surviving commander in chief be identified? Who would identify him? How would he fulfill the three main functions of the presidency: to be the chief executive of the government, the head of state, and the commander in chief of its armed forces? Carter’s answers came in the form of Presidential Directive 58, which was issued in the final months of his presidency; Ronald Reagan amended those plans with his own presidential directive in 1983. Their contents inform the continuity of government plans that remain in effect for the Trump administration. They have been the object of a multibillion-dollar pastiche of programs and a magnet for conspiracy theorists around the world.
https://christiantruther.com/podcast/us-government-preparing-end-world-since-1930s-cia-docs-reveal/
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SHOCK: Drug overdose deaths now kill more Americans every year than the entire Vietnam War… after Democrats refused to protect the border from drug cartels
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by: Mike Adams
(Natural News) For the last eight years, Democrats allowed drug smugglers and drug cartels to run rampant across the U.S. border, hoping to invite in a sufficient number of illegal aliens to make sure a Democrat could win the presidential election (through illegal voting, of course). The America-hating Democrats lost the election, but the social cost of their “open borders” lunacy will be felt for years to come. (See also The Left’s Descent to Fascism for more background on the deeper cost to society of the Left’s embrace of fascism and treason.) One of the most devastating costs of the Democrats’ open borders policy is the widespread trafficking of illicit drugs across the U.S. border, effectively flooding the heartland with dangerous chemical substances that destroy lives. Those chemicals are now killing more Americans every year than the entire Vietnam War. According to an analysis report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, overdose deaths from illicit drugs have reached war-like levels of annual deaths: 47,055 drug overdose deaths in 2014 (61% involving opioids) 52,404 drug overdose deaths in 2015 (63% involving opioids) (Data were not yet available for 2016.) The drugs cited for causing the overdose deaths are many of the same drugs brought into the United States by Mexican drug cartels, using smuggling routes that were left largely undefended by the Obama administration, which sought to leave America’s borders wide open for political purposes: natural/semisynthetic opioids methadone heroin synthetic opioids “A multifaceted, collaborative public health and law enforcement approach is urgently needed” to stem the growing epidemic, urges the CDC report, yet Democrats have systematically opposed any substantial support of police, Border Patrol or any law enforcement body that would substantially reduce the inflow of these addictive, dangerous substances into the United States. (Related: Find more news about drug addiction at Addiction.news.) In other words, just to keep winning elections, the Democrats have allowed a deadly drug war to be waged on the American people by drug cartels that largely originate from South of the border. Just to get Hillary Clinton elected, the Democrats subjected America to Vietnam War levels of carnage, suffering and death. That’s how much the Democrats despise America (and are willing to do anything to attain political power). Big Pharma’s chemical rampage of opioid deaths across America “The ongoing epidemic of opioid deaths requires intense attention and action,” warns the CDC report, which also points out the role of Big Pharma and the overprescription of addictive opioids. Yet the Obama administration did absolutely nothing to reel in the domineering power of the “legal” drug cartels in America: the pharmaceutical industry. While Americans are dying by the tens of thousands, Big Pharma is reaping a windfall of profits from addictive opioids. Follow the saga of opioids at OPIOIDS.news. For eight years under Obama, the Democrats sold out America to both the pharmaceutical giants and the Mexican drug cartels, and now we’re paying a devastating price across society. The loss of productive lives, the addiction treatment costs and the law enforcement burden are all adding enormous economic burdens to cities and states that are already drowning in debt. At the same time, treasonous, lunatic Leftists declared their cities to be “sanctuary cities” to actually harbor violent criminals and drug dealers, further adding to the scourge of drug deaths now devastating Americans across the country. (Question: When will President Trump arrest the mayors who openly violate immigration law and harbor violent criminals under the treasonous scheme of “sanctuary?”) President Trump, Jeff Sessions and DHS Secretary John Kelly are now left to clean up the enormous mess created by Obama and lawless Democrats The upshot of all this is that this enormous problem with drug deaths has been dumped in President Trump’s lap. Fortunately for us, DHS Secretary John Kelly appears to be taking this problem seriously. In prepared remarks delivered at George Washington University, Kelly rips into the enormity of the drug smuggling / drug cartels fiasco left behind by Obama, promising to finally allow law enforcement to take aim at the flow of these illicit street drugs that are killing tens of thousands. “[T]he damage TCOs [Transnational Criminal Organizations] do is not only violence and potential terror. It is also vast tonnages of marijuana and hard drugs—cocaine, heroin, counterfeit opiates, fentanyl, and meth amphetamines—they smuggle across our borders to feed both the recreational and addictive U.S. drug demand,” Kelly said. His remarks continue: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Coast Guard all bear witness to the massive quantity of drugs TCOs are bringing to our homeland every day—with devastating consequences. In 2015, which is the most recent data we have, there were 52,404 [1] deaths in the United States caused by a drug overdose. It’s the highest number of drug-related deaths our country has ever seen. It’s more deaths than the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1995 [2]. In a single year, we’ve lost nearly as many Americans to drug overdose as we lost in battle in World War I [3]. Almost as many as was lost in 12 years in Vietnam. And that’s just overdose deaths. That number—as high as it is—says nothing about the long-term health damage to our citizens who survive, to say nothing about the human misery, the families ripped apart, and the extremes of crime and violence inherent in the illegal-drug enterprise. We still need to educate the Trump administration about the remarkable benefits of non-psychoactive hemp extracts (CBD) Frustratingly, Kelly goes on to denounce marijuana as a “gateway drug” without making a distinction between non-psychoactive CBD products vs. high-THC (psychoactive) marijuana, saying, “DHS personnel will continue to investigate marijuana’s illegal pathways along the network into the U.S., its distribution within the homeland, and will arrest those involved in the drug trade according to federal law.” Nevertheless, it’s refreshing to finally see someone at DHS who is actively seeking to thwart drug cartels and drug smuggling into the United States. It may take far more than eight years under President Trump, however, to finally get a grip on this massive problem that’s been allowed to fester under Obama and the Democrats. While much of the so-called “War on Drugs” is a total sham and a complete waste of money, filling our prisons with non-violent marijuana users, the problem of heroin smuggling and hard drugs from Mexican drug cartels is a very serious and costly problem that must be urgently dealt with. We must also, of course, deal with Big Pharma’s opioid epidemic and the mass over-prescribing of such dangerous drugs by corrupt doctors who are routinely bribed by drug companies across America. Watch my mini-documentary on the drug war’s “fake science” problem in this shocking video:
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85% of All Food in U.S. Now Contaminated: Toxic Pesticides Also Found in Drinking Water
Toxic Pesticides Found in Drinking Water — and Other Pesticide-Related News
by Dr. Mercola
Modern agricultural practices have led to ever-increasing amounts of chemicals being used on our food, and whether we’re talking about pesticides, herbicides or fungicides, most have deleterious effects on health. According to the latest report on pesticide residues in food by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a mere 15 percent of all the food samples tested in 2015 were free from pesticide residues. In 2014, over 41 percent of samples had no detectable pesticide residues on them. [1] That just goes to show how quickly our food is being poisoned. At that trajectory, we may eventually find out none of the non-organic food sold in 2016 or 2017 was pesticide-free. Recent news has highlighted a number of problems associated with this out-of-control use of agricultural chemicals, starting with atrazine. Atrazine, the “Forgotten” Toxin Atrazine, the second most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. after glyphosate, has been linked to many disturbing health effects. Despite that, it has not received nearly the same public attention glyphosate has. A recent KCET story [2] with focus on atrazine notes its effects are in many cases actually worse than glyphosate. If it wasn’t for Roundup, atrazine would probably be the most controversial herbicide on the planet,” Chris Clarke writes. “It’s the pesticide most commonly found as a runoff contaminant in rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands. It can travel hundreds of miles on airborne dust from the farm fields where it’s applied in order to contaminate those wetlands, and can persist for decades once it gets there. It’s been linked to reproductive abnormalities in frogs, hormonal changes in alligators, and serious harm to other wildlife populations. And it can even promote fungal diseases in the soil by killing off beneficial fungi while leaving the pathogens. Atrazine Is a Potent Health Hazard Atrazine is the most common water contaminant in the U.S., where it was initially approved for use in 1958. It’s been banned in Europe since 2005, and groundwater contamination was, in fact, one of the determining factors behind this decision. An estimated 70 million pounds of atrazine are applied to agricultural fields in the U.S. each year, the vast majority of it being used on corn. [3] Independent research [4] shows atrazine causes hermaphroditism in frogs (turning males into egg-laying females) by inducing an enzyme called aromatase, which causes overproduction of estrogen. For this reason, atrazine is also suspected of contributing to breast cancer. Research has also shown atrazine: Blocks testosterone production Is a potent endocrine disruptor Chemically castrates wildlife and causes sexual reproductive problems in a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, fish and amphibians Induces miscarriage in laboratory rodents Reduces immune function in animals Studies looking at human cells and tissues suggest the chemical likely poses similar threats to human health. For example, one study linked atrazine exposure in utero to impaired sexual development in young boys, causing genital deformations, including microphallus (micropenis). The evidence [5,6] also suggests atrazine exposure may contribute to a number of different cancers, specifically breast cancer, ovarian cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, hairy-cell leukemia and thyroid cancer. Elevated concentrations of atrazine in drinking water have also been associated with birth defects in the human population, including abdominal defects, gastroschisis (in which the baby’s intestines stick outside of the baby’s body) and others. Bee-Killing Pesticides Contaminate Drinking Water Neonicotinoids, pesticides linked to bee die-offs around the world, are another water contaminant Americans have to contend with. Water testing by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2015 showed neonicotinoids are present in more than half of all streams tested. Similar findings were recently made in Switzerland by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. [7] There, watercourses were found to be contaminated with 128 different agricultural chemicals: 61 herbicides, 45 fungicides and 22 insecticides. All streams and brooks tested failed to meet Swiss water quality standards. Thresholds for acute toxicity to aquatic life were also exceeded. Now, a team of investigators at the USGS and the University of Iowa report [8] finding three different neonicotinoids — clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam — in all samples of treated drinking water. [9,10] Water treatment facilities simply are not equipped to filter out most pesticides. The water samples were collected from taps in Iowa City and on the University’s campus. Measured in parts per trillion, neonicotinoids were found at concentrations ranging from 0.24 to 57.3 nanograms per liter. While the concentrations were quite low, there’s really no telling what the health effects might be, especially when you consider all the other chemical contaminants found in most tap water. Research has shown that even non-toxic ingredients can have toxic effects when combined. By acting on various pathways, organ systems, cells, and tissues, the cumulative effects of non-carcinogenic chemicals can act in concert to synergistically produce carcinogenic activity. As noted by lead author Dr. William Goodson: [11] [W]hat we’re realizing … [is] that there’s reason to think that it doesn’t take one chemical to take it all the way from normal to cancer. One chemical can take it part way, another chemical will take it another portion of the way, and maybe a second, third or fourth chemical will take it all the way. Carbon Filters Can Significantly Reduce Pesticide Contaminants In theory, water treatment will render your tap water safe to drink. But there are several limitations to the process that leave most tap water questionable at best. Many chemicals simply cannot be filtered out. Pesticides, drugs, radioactive particles and fluoride are all common water contaminants that are very difficult to effectively remove. As a general rule, activated carbon filters are the best, although they cannot remove fluoride. For that, you need either a reverse osmosis system, a deionizer or an activated alumina filter, each of which can remove about 90 percent of the fluoride. [12] The USGS/University of Iowa team investigated the effectiveness of different filtration systems in eliminating neonicotinoid pesticides, and activated carbon filtration was a clear winner, removing 100 percent of clothianidin, 94 percent of imidacloprid and 85 percent of thiamethoxam. EPA Chief Rejects Science and Chooses Not to Ban Chlorpyrifos Chlorpyrifos is the most commonly used organophosphate insecticide. Household use was banned in 2000, and even scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have pushed for a complete ban, as the dangers posed by this insecticide are well-documented. For example, living within 1 mile of chlorpyrifos-treated fields increases a woman’s risk of having an autistic child by 300 percent. [13,14] A petition to ban chlorpyrifos was filed over a decade ago. Scott Pruitt, head of the EPA, recently issued an order denying the petition. [15] As noted by NPR: [16] That’s despite the agency’s earlier conclusion, reached during the Obama administration, that this pesticide could pose risks to consumers. It’s a signal that toxic chemicals will face less restrictive regulation by the Trump administration. In its decision, the EPA didn’t exactly repudiate its earlier scientific findings. But the agency did say that there’s still a lot of scientific uncertainty about the risks of chlorpyrifos, and it said that because of that uncertainty, the court had no right to set a firm deadline for a decision. A federal court had ordered the EPA to decide by midnight on Friday [March 24] whether to ban chlorpyrifos … Patti Goldman, from the environmental group Earth[j]ustice, calls the decision “unconscionable,” and says that her group will fight it in court. Will EPA Do the Right Thing and Ban Atrazine? Considering the evidence showing other EPA officials have taken an active role in protecting chemical giants like Monsanto against rulings that would impact their bottom line, Pruitt’s actions does raise suspicions. The EPA is also in the process of reassessing atrazine, and it remains to be seen whether the agency will finally take a firm stand against this pernicious toxin, or let it slide like chlorpyrifos and glyphosate. On June 6, 2016, the EPA released its most recent risk assessment for atrazine, [17] which concluded the chemical may cause reproductive harm to mammals, fish and birds, with the level of concern surpassed nearly 200-fold using real-world scenarios for mammals. For fish and birds, atrazine exceeded the level of concern by 62- and 22-fold, respectively. The risk assessment is expected to be finalized sometime this year. Not surprisingly, the pesticide and agriculture industries are up in arms over it. According to the Iowa Corn Growers Association, should the EPA’s report be finalized as written, it would lead to such severe label restrictions that it would “effectively ban the product from most uses” [18] — which is exactly what the public health needs. The question is whether the EPA will again fold to industry pressure to keep a toxic profit-maker on the market. EPA Official Prevented Glyphosate Safety Review and USDA Drops Glyphosate Testing of Food One EPA official accused of colluding with Monsanto to prevent the truth about Roundup from seeing the light of day is Jess Rowland, former associate director of the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, Health Effects Division. Email correspondence shows Rowland even stopped a glyphosate investigation by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on Monsanto’s behalf. Rowland was part of the EPA team that declared glyphosate is unlikely to be a human carcinogen, a finding that runs contrary to the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s determination. Curiously (if you believe in coincidences), the USDA has suddenly dropped its plan to test food for residues of glyphosate, after spending most of 2016 coordinating with the EPA and the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) to start testing corn syrup on April 1. As noted by The Huffington Post: [19] Documents show that at least since January 2016 into January of this year, the glyphosate testing plan was moving forward. But when asked about the plan this week, a USDA spokesman said no glyphosate residue testing would be done at all by USDA this year … Glyphosate Linked to Pregnancy Problems Now, researchers looking at glyphosate’s impact on pregnant women add more fuel to the fire, concluding glyphosate levels in women’s bodies correlate with poor birth outcomes. [20] It seems quite clear that avoiding testing food for glyphosate is putting human health at grave risk. The team presented its preliminary findings at the Children’s Environmental Health Network Conference in Washington D.C. on April 6. In all, 91 percent of the 69 pregnant women tested had glyphosate in their urine, and higher levels were associated with significantly shorter pregnancies and lower birth weights — risk factors that set children up for health and neurodevelopmental problems. Dr. Paul Winchester, medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at the Franciscan St. Francis Health system and lead author of the study said: This is a huge issue. This is the first U.S. study to demonstrate glyphosate is present in pregnant women. Everyone should be concerned about this … Is this level of exposure safe or not? We’ve been told it is, but exposures haven’t been measured. It’s mind-boggling. Female Farmers Use Fewer Pesticides Speaking of women, in related news, researchers have found that when female farmers are in charge of pesticide application, fewer pesticides are used. [21] An estimated 38 percent of farm managers in Cambodia and Laos are women, and under their watch, 42 percent fewer pesticides are used. Other statistics revealed in the study included a 251 percent jump in pesticide use when farmers sought advice from pesticide sellers, and a 45 percent drop when advice was sought from friends and neighbors. Meanwhile, education about pesticide hazards was not associated with a decrease in use. In fact, while 82 percent of Cambodian farmers admitted being worried about cancer risks, they continued using the chemicals anyway. On the other hand, knowledge about the use of beneficial insects did result in the use of fewer pesticides. How to Protect Yourself From Toxic Pesticides According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 75 percent of the U.S. population has detectable levels of pesticides in their urine, and unless you’re a farmer, your diet is one of the most significant routes of exposure, along with your drinking water. [22]Eating organic is one of the best ways to lower your overall pesticide burden. The largest study [23] of its kind found that people who “often or always” ate organic food had 65 percent lower levels of pesticide residues compared to those who ate the least amount of organic produce. Organic produce also had, on average, 180 times lower pesticide content than conventional produce. [24] Keep in mind it’s possible to find produce that is not certified organic that may still have a lower pesticide burden than typical conventional produce. If you can’t find organic produce, look for a local farmer who has eliminated pesticide use (or uses a minimal amount of such chemicals). Filtering your drinking water is also important. As mentioned, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide in U.S. water supplies, and certain areas may also have neonicotinoid contamination. To remove pesticides, look for a filter certified by NSF International to meet American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard 53 for volatile organic compounds reduction. This will ensure the filter is capable of significantly reducing atrazine and other pesticides. [25] Most activated carbon filters will meet this requirement and get the job done. Unfortunately, if your water is fluoridated, you’ll need yet another type of filtration to get the fluoride out. For that you need either a reverse osmosis system, a deionizer or activated alumina filter. Lastly, if you know you have been exposed to pesticides, eating fermented foods and/or using a low-EMF infrared sauna can be helpful, especially if combined with an optimal supplemental detox regimen including binders to catch the toxins that are mobilized from the fats. The lactic acid bacteria formed during the fermentation of kimchi has been shown to help your body break down pesticides. In addition, there is some evidence that the antioxidant lycopene, found in watermelon, tomatoes, red bell peppers and more, may protect against some of atrazine’s toxic effects. [26] Read the full article at Mercola.com.
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A deadly salamander disease just got a lot scarier
By Erik StokstadApr. 19, 2017 , 1:00 PM
Europe's largest and best known salamander species, the fire salamander, is falling victim to a deadly fungus, and new research is making scientists more pessimistic about its future. A 2-year study of a population in Belgium, now entirely wiped out, has revealed that these amphibians can't develop immunity to the fungus, as was hoped. To make matters worse, it turns out the fungus creates a hardy spore that can survive in water for months and also stick to birds' feet, offering a way for it to spread rapidly across the continent. Two other kinds of amphibians, both resistant to the disease, also act as carriers for the highly infectious spores. "This is terrible news," says geneticist Matthew Fisher of Imperial College London, who studies the fungus but was not involved in the new research. "This isn't a problem that's going to go away. It's a problem that's going to get worse." The pathogen, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), is a chytrid fungus, a type that lives in damp or wet environments and typically consumes dead organic matter. Bsal infects and eats the skin of salamanders, causing lesions, apathy, loss of appetite, and eventually death. Over the past few decades, a related fungus, B. dendrobatidis (Bd), has struck hard at amphibian populations around the world, particularly in the Americas, Australia, Spain, and Portugal. More than 200 species of frogs and toads are thought to have gone extinct, including many kinds of Costa Rica's striking stream-breeding toads. Bsal was identified in a nature reserve in the Netherlands in 2013 after fire salamanders started dying with ulcers and sores similar to those caused by Bd. Fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) grow up to 35 centimeters long, can live more than 40 years, and hunt insects and other small prey in forest streams. Their bright yellow spots warn predators of poison around their head and back. In the Dutch nature reserve, the population plummeted 99.9%. The fungus is thought to have arrived in Europe via salamanders or newts imported from Asia for the pet trade. Bsal has since been found in Belgium and Germany in both fire salamanders and alpine newts. As soon as Bsal was spotted in Belgium in April 2014, veterinarian An Martel of Ghent University in Merelbeke, Belgium, and her colleagues began visiting every month to track the population. About 90% of the fire salamanders died within 6 months, and after 2 years all were gone. The fieldwork revealed that adult animals were more likely to get infected, which makes sense because they are in closer contact with each other—through fighting for mating and breeding, for example—than are juveniles. But the death of these adults means that the population likely won't recover. There was no immune response detected in any of the sick animals in the lab, suggesting that it will be impossible to develop a vaccine, the team reports today in Nature. "We really wanted to find solutions to mitigate disease, to save the salamanders, but everything turned out bad," Martel says. The team had also hoped that the fungus would become less virulent—as often occurs when a pathogen reaches a new host that lacks any immunity—but that hasn't happened: Fungal spores taken from the last fire salamanders in the Belgian forest, when dripped onto the backs of healthy salamanders in the lab, were just as lethal as those collected early in the outbreak. "When they come in contact with a single spore, they will die." This is a very important piece of work, and it's terrifying. … If [this] gets loose in the United States, it's going to be bad. Joe Mendelson, Zoo Atlanta The paper has more bad news. Researchers knew that Bsal makes spores with a tiny tail called a flagellum, which propels them toward amphibians. If spores dry out, they die. Otherwise, they typically survive for a few days before being eaten by protozoa. But Martel's group discovered that Bsal makes a second type of spore that looks much hardier and is rarely eaten by protozoa. "This will make it almost impossible to eradicate the fungus from the environment," says Martel, who adds that the spores can survive in pond water for more than 2 months. Another experiment showed that soil remained infectious for 48 hours after it was walked on by a sick salamander. In a separate lab test, the spores adhered to goose feet, suggesting they could hitchhike long distances on birds. The group also showed that two species that share the same habitat as the fire salamander are likely carriers of the disease. Midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans) could be infected with the fungus and shed spores for a few weeks, but they didn't get sick. A high dose of the fungus killed alpine newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris), but low doses made them infectious for months without killing them. As has happened with Bd in the Americas, Bsal will lurk in these reservoirs of disease even after local populations of fire salamanders vanish. Any fire salamanders that arrive from elsewhere will likely get infected by newts or toads. According to results from previous infection trials, most salamander species in Europe are likely just as vulnerable to Bsal. The fire salamander has a range that extends across Europe, and the fear is that the fungus will reach endangered salamanders. With small populations, these species could more easily be driven extinct, Fisher says. "The assumption is that they are all at risk," he says, and the findings in the new paper "have really upped their risk status." Martel and European colleagues recently started monitoring for Bsal in seven countries. It is possible to cure amphibians in the lab. For animals that can take the heat, like fire salamanders, 10 days at 25°C will kill the fungus. Other species can be cured with a combination of two drugs. But there is no practical solution for animals in the wild, especially when their habitat is contaminated with fungal spores. Herpetologist Jaime Bosch of the National Museum of Natural History in Madrid had a rare success in eliminating a chytrid fungus from the wild. A few years ago, he and colleagues got rid of Bd on the Spanish island of Mallorca by temporarily removing some 2000 tadpoles of the Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) and disinfecting their ponds with powerful chemicals. But this success would be hard to replicate in less isolated locations, he says. "Right now, we are very far away from having any solution." The only hope in the meantime, Bosch and others say, is to slow the spread of the disease by ending the importation of amphibians. The United States, a hot spot of amphibian diversity, has already taken steps in that direction. Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the import of 201 species of salamanders on the grounds that they might introduce the fungus. Joe Mendelson, a herpetologist at Zoo Atlanta, says the new research suggests the list should be expanded to include other carriers such as the toad and newt studied in the new paper. "This is a very important piece of work, and it's terrifying," he says. "If Bsal gets loose in the United States," he says, "it's going to be bad."
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/deadly-salamander-disease-just-got-lot-scarier
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Remember Jerusalem
Hal Lindsey
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. — Psalms 137:1 NASB
The word “Zion” was first used for the ancient stronghold built on one of Jerusalem’s hills, but came to mean the city itself. To remember Zion, then, is to remember Jerusalem and all the promises God made concerning her. That attachment in memory, even by Jews who would never in their lives see the city, became a crucial part of maintaining a Jewish identity in all the foreign lands to which they would be dispersed through the centuries. Jerusalem and her memory became for the Jews a symbol of God’s literal promises to the literal bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The prophet Daniel would the model for Israeli prosperity and devotion during the diaspora. Daniel remembered Jerusalem at each time of prayer. He made sure that his home in Babylon had windows facing Jerusalem. He would open those windows, and pray in that direction three times a day. Now he certainly didn’t do that because he thought God could hear him better if he prayed toward Jerusalem. He did it as a reminder that his people would return there someday. God made that promise, and would keep His word. Trusting God’s faithfulness, Daniel remained faithful even under threat of death. In verses 5 and 6 of Psalm 137, we read the pledge that became central to the thinking of Jews around the globe for 2500 years. “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.” One of the great miracles of history is that God kept His people distinct from the societies they entered. They became productive members of those societies, but were not assimilated. A big part of that miracle comes from their attitude toward Jerusalem and the promises of God it represents. For hundreds of years, Jews have ended their Passover Seder with the phrase, “Next year in Jerusalem.” Even Jews living in Jerusalem end the Seder with these words. For them, Jerusalem is not only a real place on the earth, but it also means “The City of Peace.” So, they’re saying, “Next year in the literal city,” but it also carries the thoughts, “Next year in peace and in the fulfilled promises of God.” Jesus came to Jerusalem at the climax of His life and ministry. He showed both His frustration and love for the city and its people when He said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.” (Matthew 23:37 NASB) They rejected Jesus just as Daniel and the other prophets predicted. God used that very rejection for our salvation. Romans 11:11 says, “By their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles.” But that did not negate God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others. Those promises began to be fulfilled in the 19th century when Jews started returning to the land in large numbers. They were returning to the place deeded to them by God Himself — the Promised Land. That led to the rebirth of Israel as a nation in 1948. They would regain control of Jerusalem in 1967. According to scripture, their return to the land portends another return — the return of Jesus. Peace is coming to Jerusalem — peace to “The City of Peace.” God keeps His promises. JERUSALEM gives proof through the ages. Even Israelites who have little faith have a supernatural love for the City of Jerusalem that they don’t fully understand. I was not born as a Jew, but as soon as I received Jesus Christ as Lord and savior - I too received that supernatural love for Jerusalem. It is going to be the eternal dwelling place God will dwell in with us in the center of the universe. How could anything be greater?
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-4-17-2017/
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It’s About the Temple Mount
By Hal Lindsey
After a brief lull, the so-called “stabbing intifada” in Israel came roaring back this week. Israel has an array of sophisticated security precautions in place. They even deployed the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) in Jerusalem. But security forces always have limitations. Pundits usually tell us that the answer to violence is to eliminate guns from the equation. But even if the Israelis could do that, they still couldn’t get rid of knives, cars, Molotov cocktails, rocks, bombs, or bare hands. The centerpiece of this uprising is the knife, something you can’t outlaw. Knives are among the most basic humans tools, and they’re everywhere. Jesus taught that murder is not just an action, but an attitude of the heart (Matthew 5:21-22). Police can scan faces, set up metal detectors, use radiation detection equipment, bomb-sniffing dogs, and create heavily guarded checkpoints, but killers will still get into populated areas. The murder is not in their guns, but in their hearts. They will find rocks. They will drive cars into pedestrians. They will find and use knives. Against all reason, Palestinians keep on initiating attacks that result in more security checkpoints, more walls, and more scrutiny. It’s like “suicide by cop.” They keep coming at the Israelis until they get shot. Their continued attacks destroy their freedoms and opportunities for financial prosperity. How can it be worth giving up all that just to kill unknown Jews as they walk down a street? Social scientists usually attribute the current wave of violence to economics, most often a lack of jobs. Yet, as Joseph Farah asks in a World Net Daily column this week, “If conditions for Arabs are so bad in Israel, why is the Arab population exploding?” He points out that “In 1949, the Arab population of Israel was about 160,000. Today, it is over 1.2 million.” Rank and file Arabs have more freedom and greater opportunity in Israel than anywhere else in the region. That’s why their numbers have grown so dramatically. Their arbitrary violence against Jews winds up hurting everyone, but especially the Palestinians themselves. So why do they stay on the offensive? The root problem is not economic, but religious. Muslims hate Jews as a matter of religious obligation. Secular Europe cannot fathom this fact, and even Americans find it difficult to grasp. Large numbers of Palestinians are willing to let their children die as suicide bombers. It’s not that they don’t love their children. They do. But Islam comes first. The Temple Mount stands as ground zero for the current unrest. If that sounds familiar it’s because it has happened many times before. Those 35 acres of ground intensify emotions on both sides like nothing else. Jews would at least like to pray there — an idea that is anathema to the Muslims. That small plot of land has inspired so much fear and rage among Muslims that in October, U.S. News and World Report ran an editorial by Ben Caspit calling on Israel to completely close the Temple Mount to Jews. Caspit wrote, “Israel has no intention of taking control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque or changing the status quo involving the Temple Mount. The Palestinians, however, are more attentive to conspiracy theories based on statements by the messianic Israeli right. The thing is, the messianics stand at a great distance from the government, and anyone who relates to their words as a scenario soon to unfold is simply manipulating facts. None of this is important at the moment, however, because the Palestinians are convinced that Israel plans on usurping Al-Aqsa.” The Muslim hysteria about Jews rebuilding the Temple may not be as farfetched as Caspit claims. A poll taken in 2010 showed that 49% of Israelis want to see the Temple rebuilt. Only 23% said it shouldn’t happen. The rest were undecided. Whether they believe it’s possible or not, Palestinian leaders use fear of a rebuilt Jewish Temple to stir up their constituents to the point of violence. Even proposals to rebuild the temple without harming the mosques draws a frenzy of rage from the Muslims. No matter what Israel the promises, they fully expect the Jews to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It’s interesting that so many Palestinians are convinced that there will be another Jewish Temple on the site. Few of them know it, but they’re agreeing with the Bible. It says that before the mid-point of the seven-year period known as Daniel’s 70th Week, the temple will be rebuilt and sacrifices will be offered again. Daniel 11:31 says that forces from the Antichrist “will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.” [NASB] To “do away with the regular sacrifice,” and to “set up the abomination of desolation” requires that the temple be rebuilt. In the meantime, to understand the Temple Mount hysteria among Muslims, we need to understand the spiritual dimensions of the problem. This is not just a real estate dispute. It is about principalities and powers. Satan will stir anyone he can, as much as he can, in an attempt to keep the holy place in a state of desecration. But he cannot stop God’s plan. The mighty can never defeat the Almighty. Unbelieving religious Jews will rebuild the false temple and offer false animal sacrifices during the first part of the Tribulation. (Daniel 11:31) Then the “man of lawlessness”, the Antichrist, will desecrate that false temple of God by taking his seat in the Holy of Holies, displaying himself as being God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NASB) That event will start the last half of the Tribulation. That will start 3½ years of the greatest horrors yet known to mankind. It will end with the visible Coming of THE ALMIGHTY, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will rule for 1000 years of peace. Then is the last Judgment of all unbelievers of all Ages. He will then establish forever the New Heaven and Earth. (I have just tried to synthesize hundreds of pages in a few words. Have mercy on me for brevity. Hal Lindsey)
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-11-12-2015/
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etc.. Throughout the world right now peace is fastly disappearing, wars are rising up, trouble on the right hand, trouble on the left hand, etc..
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Jesus Is Coming Soon!
by Hal Lindsey
For more than fifty years, I have lived in the urgent expectation of Jesus’ return. Fifty years is a long time. Do I regret it? Was I wrong? No and no! In Luke 12:37, Jesus said, “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching.” (NKJV) As followers of Christ, we are to live in a state of watchfulness. A thousand years ago, there were Christians living in expectation of His coming. They were not foolish to do so. They were obedient. Titus 2:13 directs us to be “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.” (NKJV) Those Christians from previous generations who lived in expectancy of Christ’s return tended also to be those who lived closest to Him. They were the ones most interested in His word, in sharing the Gospel, helping the poor, and caring for the sick. If you’re always on the lookout for Christ’s return, someone will inevitably remind you that no one knows the day nor the hour. But they’re missing the point. It’s precisely because we do not know the day nor hour of His return that we are to be watchful. In Matthew 24:42, Jesus said, “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.” (NKJV) For two thousand years, people have been watching. That sounds like a long time, but remember this. God gave the first promise of His first coming to Adam and Eve. It took thousands of years, but God kept His word and Jesus came. By human standards, the Lord may sometimes seem slow. But He has a reason for that. 2 Peter 3:9-10 says, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come.” (NKJV) When skeptics complain about God allowing evil and pain in the world, remember that “the Lord is not slack.” He will one day stop all the child molesters, terrorists, and other criminals. And He will hold them to account. But He won’t just stop the evil you don’t like. He will stop all evil. He will hold everyone to account. Why does he wait? Because He “is longsuffering toward us.” He’s “not willing that any should perish.” He wants everyone to “come to repentance” — turn to Him and be saved. For now, love and concern compel Him to wait. But He will not wait forever. Earlier in the same chapter, Peter wrote, “Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.’” (2 Peter 3:3-4 NKJV) I’m convinced that these are the last days, and can assure you that scoffers have come. “I’ve been hearing this all my life!” … “You’ve been saying this for fifty years!” Yes, and I will keep on saying it because it’s still true. There are no signs yet to be fulfilled before the rapture. But signs of the Second Coming are everywhere. Since the rapture comes before the Second Coming, the rapture has to be exceedingly close! The big thing that makes our time different from any other is the existence of Israel as a nation, and the Jews having control of Jerusalem. But there are other things unique to our time, as well. For instance, before now the world did not have the technology needed for the Antichrist to control commerce as completely as the Bible foretells. There’s another sign unique to today. Jesus is coming soon . . . because He must! In dozens of areas, human civilization is hurtling headlong toward destruction. Look at just one — machines with artificial intelligence. Scientists like Stephen Hawking warn of such machines taking over the world, destroying the human race in the process. Far out? Even longtime proponents of artificial intelligence have now joined in the warnings. Air Force General Paul Selva, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the U.S. Defense Department, recently warned about “autonomous weapons systems” similar to the title character in the movie, “The Terminator” — and just as dangerous. General Selva sees weapons that are not under direct human control as a menace to mankind. And, like self-driving cars, they’re just around the corner. Then there’s nuclear proliferation. Some people take comfort from the fact that no nuclear weapons have been used in combat since 1945. But that’s like taking comfort from the fact that you’ve been playing Russian roulette for an hour and no shots have been fired. Just keep playing, and the odds will catch up to you. During the Cold War, Carl Sagan, wrote, “The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” Except now, a madman in Korea also holds a match. The nation of Iran, run by religious fanatics who see it as their job to create an apocalypse, also have, or will soon have, a match in their hands. Next door neighbor enemies, India and Pakistan, both have nukes. Russia has more than anybody, and no one knows if their leader is crazy or not. But don’t be afraid. Things are shaping up as God said they would. Just be sure you have invited Jesus to save you. Receive the pardon purchased for you when He died on the cross. He will instantly give you a new heart with new desires. Ask Him to empower you with His Holy Spirit. Then remember to thank Him for all these things. In His power, you will begin to live a life that will draw others to Him as well.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-9-7-2016/
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Defector: If Tensions With US Worsen, North Korea Will Start Kidnapping Americans
Leah Barkoukis Posted: Apr 18, 2017 1:00 PM
A North Korean defector said Kim Jong Un plans to kidnap Americans if tensions with the U.S. continue to escalate. Ung-gil Lee told the Daily Mail that if the U.S. attacks the rogue nation, a special forces group armed with deadly nerve agents will be deployed into South Korea to kidnap tourists, businessmen, and diplomats. “The best case [for his old unit] would be to round them up and take them north, but if not they will take the foreigners hostage in South Korea. “But they will all be killed, come what may – this goes hand in hand with assassination,” Lee, who served in one of these units for six years, told the Daily Mail. Lee, a former corporal in the 11th Storm Corps, says his former comrades have been trained to carry out Islamic State-style terror attacks. The 37-year-old, who now works as a financial adviser in Seoul after defecting from the repressive regime in 2006, warns that if attacked, Kim Jong Un will respond very differently from Syria’s President Bashar Assad: ‘He is going to fight back and use all retaliatory measures. Unless Trump thinks he can get rid of him, he must not carry out an attack.’ Lee was recruited to join North Korea’s infamous special forces aged 17. Following one year of brainwashing ‘re-education’, he spent five years training as a communications officer. . North Korea has a long history of kidnappThe nation is thought to have 200,000 men and women in the world’s biggest special forces, with 140,000 in infantry groups and 60,000 in Lee’s 11th Storm Corps. They are renowned for extreme training that includes boxing fights before dinner every night, punching trees and swimming in freezing seas. Elite units are trained to infiltrate South Korea by air, sea and through a network of tunnels built by forced labourersing people for a number of reasons. In 2002, Kim Jong Il admitted that his special forces got “carried away by a reckless quest for glory” in their kidnapping of 12 people from Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. “It was regretful and I want to frankly apologize,” the late leader told then-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. According to Human Rights Watch, North Korean agents have also kidnapped people from South Korea as well as “China, Thailand, Europe, and the Middle East.” While there have been no confirmed cases of U.S. citizens being kidnapped by North Korea, two Americans—Otto Warmbier and Kim Dong Chul—are currently being detained in the country, with allegations that a third—David Sneddon—may be as well.
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Crisis Looms in Gaza as Hamas Struggles to Deal With Energy Crisis
Cries for aid as Hamas, Palestinian Authority trade blame over high taxes, unpaid bills, as Strip’s power plant runs out of fuel
Jack Khoury Apr 19, 2017 2:30 PM
The Gaza Strip’s severe power shortage will grow even worse unless its generating plant receives new fuel supplies, the Gaza Electricity Authority warned on Tuesday. Since Sunday, the power plant has been operating at minimal capacity, with the result that Gazans have power only for five or six hours a day, rather than the usual eight. Gaza’s Health Ministry warned on Tuesday that the power shortage could create health problems and urged the international community to step in. It said the lack of steady power to hospitals, coupled with a shortage of fuel to operate emergency generators, could cause the hospitals to collapse. Moreover, it added, the hospitals are already treating only urgent cases, endangering the health of patients who must wait for treatment. The Electricity Authority said it can’t afford to buy fuel from Israel because of the high taxes imposed by the Palestinian Authority. Operating the plant at 50 percent capacity – which has been the norm for the past 10 years – costs about 50 million shekels ($14 million) a month, it explained in a statement. But without the tax, the cost would drop to about 20 million shekels a month, enabling the utility to buy more fuel, it said. Hamas accuses the PA of deliberately prolonging the crisis, and of imposing the taxes to begin with, in an attempt to put pressure on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip that will weaken support for the territory’s Hamas government. The PA counters that Gaza residents and municipalities owe it about four billion shekels, of which 400 million shekels is owed by the municipalities alone.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/1.784147
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CBS/AP April 19, 2017, 7:47 PM
Russia blocks U.N. statement condemning North Korea despite Chinese support
Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vladimir Safronkov confers with an aide during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council concerning the situation in Syria, at U.N. headquarters, April 7, 2017, in New York City.
Drew Angerer, Getty Images Last Updated Apr 20, 2017 9:50 AM EDT
UNITED NATIONS -- Russia objected to a Security Council statement proposed by the U.S. on Wednesday that would have condemned North Korea’s missile tests, despite China’s support of the measure, CBS News’ Pamela Falk reports. A Security Council diplomat familiar with the negotiations confirmed that the draft press statement was approved by China, the North’s closest ally, as well as the other permanent members of the Security Council. Russia was the lone dissenter. Tensions with North Korea still simmering despite diplomacy talk “Russia is slowing this down, and it is not clear why,” the diplomat told CBS News. “The U.S. wanted to get the message out.” Falk reports that the Russian Mission to the U.N. responded to the delay late Wednesday, conceding that they wanted language from earlier statements included. “When we requested to restore the agreed language that was of political importance and expressed commitment to continue to work on the draft with the penholder, the U.S. delegation without providing any explanations cancelled the work on the draft claiming that is was Russia who had ‘blocked’ the statement,” a Russian diplomat told CBS News. The statement includes a Security Council demand that “the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conduct no further tests.” It also states that North Korea’s “illegal ballistic missile activities are contributing to its development of nuclear weapons.” China has been slow to support statements condemning North Korea in the past, but signed off on the message Wednesday. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley circulated the missive in her role as president of the Security Council for the month of April. Diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that Russia objected because a sentence in the draft expressing the council’s commitment “to a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution to the situation” dropped the words “through dialogue” that had been in previous statements. Earlier in the day on Wednesday, Haley told reporters, “It is important that North Korea know we are not trying to pick a fight, so don’t try to give us one.” “We have said it as clearly as we can possibly say it: The ball is in their court. They shouldn’t try and play it,” she said. Asked by CBS News if she considers ballistic missile tests to be a provocation, she said the U.S. evaluates North Korean action based on whether the country “violates Security Council resolutions, so they definitely have done that.” North Korea will definitely be in the U.N. spotlight on April 28 when U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson presides at a Security Council meeting where U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will brief members on the North’s nuclear program. The U.S. has invited foreign ministers from the 14 other council nations and many are expected to attend. Vice President Mike Pence visited South Korea over the weekend in a show of support for the U.S. ally. The U.S. carrier group that includes the USS Carl Vinson is scheduled to arrive off the Korean coast by the end of April, CBS News’ David Martin reports.
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Peter KORZUN | 14.04.2017 | WORLD
Libya Enters New Phase of Armed Conflict
Alarm bells are ringing. The world has another armed conflict on its map. East Libyan forces led by General Khalifa Haftar are about to take control of the Tamanhent air base near the city of Sabha, which is located on the frontline between rival forces based in eastern and western Libya. The leadership of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in the capital, Tripoli, has ordered its forces to counter the attack. According to Libyan media outlets, heavy fighting is taking place in the area. With the two leading competitors at war, the Libyan conflict has entered a new phase – a problem for the international community to face. Several members of the House of Representatives (HoR) based in Tobruk have called for an immediate no-fly zone in southern Libya. It means the UN Security Council will have to tackle the issue soon against the background of its failure to agree on a draft resolution on Syria. Libya has been mired in a conflict between two competing governments since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 after a NATO-led intervention. Political power has been split between two rival governments in Tripoli and Tobruk since 2014, with other actors also scrambling for power, including armed formations, tribes and city-states. The continuing quarrels between the two governments are thwarting diplomatic attempts at unification. In March, 2015, the HoR appointed General Haftar commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA). The military leader has been part of the Libyan political scene for about half a century. Around 1990 he went into exile to the United States after a failed attempt to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi. In the 1970s, Haftar received military training in the Soviet Union. The general speaks Russian. After the start of the uprising against Gaddafi in 2011, Haftar returned to Libya where he became a key commander of the makeshift rebel force in the east. The GNA is largely aligned with Misrata, the most militarily powerful city in western Libya. The borders are open and nothing stands in the way of outside interference. For instance, all of a sudden the Misrata forces happened to be in possession of aircraft striking Barak Al-Shati airbase in southern Libya. The planes could not have fallen from the sky but they could have been delivered by Persian Gulf states, for instance Saudi Arabia, with the approval from Washington. Libya is a problem to hit mainstream media headlines soon. The country is too important to ignore. The situation when everyone is fighting each other cannot last long. Russia and the US will have to add this issue to their security agenda. Moscow has already been asked by Libya's military leader Khalifa Haftar to intervene. It also enjoys good working relations with the HoR. The Libyan parliament’s delegation visited Moscow. No wonder, it is Russia – not the US, France or any other Western state – the Libyan military leader has asked for help. Libyans remember well the NATO intervention of 2011 and don’t trust the West, especially in view of its failure to achieve any positive results in Syria. Russia’s operation in that country has changed the political landscape and strengthened Moscow’s standing among the region’s powers. It’s important that, unlike the US, Russia enjoys a good relationship with Egypt and good working relations with the UAE – the countries that back General Haftar. The United States and its NATO allies have already been militarily involved in Libya with their special operation forces and drones operating in the country. As the Libyan war has entered into a new phase, it’s important to make precise what the US position is. According to the Guardian, Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to Donald Trump, has pushed a plan to partition Libya, and once drew a picture of how the country could be divided into three areas on a napkin at a meeting with a senior European diplomat. Gorka is said to be competing for the White House post of presidential special envoy to Libya, a position that is yet to be formally announced. The plan to partition the country into three sections is based on the old Ottoman provinces of Cyrenaica in the east, Tripolitania in the northwest, and Fezzan in the southwest. The US has tried it before. Kosovo is an example. Iraq has become a divided nation as a result of US invasion in 2003. The Iraqi Kurdistan government has recently announced it would hold a referendum on independence this year. The United States played a decisive role in partitioning Sudan in 2011. Now the world has to tackle the problem of South Sudan plunged in internal conflicts, hunger and poverty. The lessons of history should be learnt. The international community cannot leave the country alone but this time there should be a concerted international effort undertaken upon a UN Security Council’s resolution. With the war going on it’s hard to imagine the country will have a united government to ask for outside help and make it legitimate. But any international operation approved by the UN is unthinkable without Russia. The need to normalize the situation in Libya rather unites than divides Russia and the West. But any idea of dividing the country is unacceptable. The Middle East has seen enough of divisions. Libya, Syria, Yemen and other nations should remain sovereign undivided states.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/04/14/libya-enters-new-phase-armed-conflict.html
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Merkel Admits ‘There Is No Doubt’ Some Migrants Pose A Security Threat
Jacob Bojesson Foreign Correspondent 7:54 AM 04/13/2017
Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged Thursday “there is no doubt” some refugees in Germany pose a security threat to the country. Merkel called on German states to adopt a common security and anti-terror framework in an interview with the Funke media group. She admitted that some migrants who entered Germany over the past two years have raised security concerns for authorities. “There is no doubt that among so many people who have sought shelter in our country, there were also people who have become the focus of security authorities,” Merkel said. “We owe it to the innocent refugees to pursue those who choose to abuse our will to help.” The chancellor said Germany “was already a target for Islamist terrorism before refugees arrived” when asked whether her open-door policy brought extremists to the country. “We know that we are threatened like many other countries, and do everything in our power to ensure freedom for the citizens – even in close coordination between the federal government and the federal states,” Merkel said. Merkel is in a tight race with Social Democrat Martin Schulz in her bid to secure a fourth term as chancellor in September’s general election.
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Why Christians Are Being Slaughtered in Egypt
04/14/2017 by Raymond Ibrahim
On April 9—Palm Sunday, which starts the holy week of Easter—two Christian churches were bombed during mass in Egypt, leaving at least 50 worshippers dead and nearly 130 injured and/or mutilated (graphic images/video of aftermath here). Less than four months earlier, around Christmas, another Christian church was bombed in Egypt, leaving 27 worshippers—mostly women and children—dead and wounding nearly 70. On New Year’s Day, 2011, yet another Egyptian church was bombed, leaving 23 worshippers dead. In 2013, almost 70 Christian churches in Egypt were attacked, many burned to the ground, by Muslim Brotherhood supports. Then there are the many “lesser” attacks on Egyptian churches—botched bombing attempts, hate-filled graffiti, and “angry mob” uprisings—that are so “everyday” as to receive virtually no media coverage in the West. One need only listen to the words and teachings of some of Egypt’s Muslim preachers to understand why Egypt’s Christians—who are increasingly being slaughtered—and their churches are constantly under attack. Take Dr. Ahmed al-Naqib, for instance. He has studied at the best Islamic madrassas, including Al Azhar, authored numerous books on doctrine, received awards and decorations for his academic achievements, and regularly appears on television. In one video he appears discussing an earlier Muslim mob attack on a church in Egypt, which the media and government always denounce as fitna, an Arabic word that means temptation or discord and which Islam commands Muslims to oppose. Citing revered Islamic texts including the Koran, Dr. Naqib explained that the open display of shirk—the greatest sin in Islam, associating someone else with God, which the Koran accuses Christians of doing via the Trinity—“is the worst form of fitna, worse than murder and bloodshed.” In other words, and as he went on to make perfectly clear in the remainder of the video, fitna (or discord) is not when Muslims attack Christian churches—far from it—but rather when Christians are allowed to flaunt their shirk (or “blasphemies”) in churches near Muslims. Fighting that—even to the point of “murder and bloodshed”—is preferable. Then there’s Dr. Yasser Burhami, the face of Egypt’s Salafi movement, who is as well credentialed and prolific as Naqib: he’s on record saying that, although a Muslim man is permitted to marry Christian or Jewish women, he must make sure he still hates them in his heart—and always shows that he hates them—because they are infidels; otherwise he risks compromising his Islam. As for churches, Burhami once issued a fatwa forbidding Muslim taxi and bus drivers from transporting Christian priests to their churches, and act which he said is “more forbidden than taking someone to a liquor bar.” But it’s not just “radical” or Salafi sheikhs who make such hateful pronouncements. Even so-called “moderate” Islamic institutions, such as Al Azhar’s Dar al-Ifta, issued a fatwa in August 2009 likening the building of a church to “a nightclub, a gambling casino, or building a barn for rearing pigs, cats or dogs.” Such analogies are not original to the Salafis or Dar al-Ifta but rather trace back to some of Islam’s most revered doctrinaires, including Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim, whose books are sold and used everywhere in Egypt, including schools. They taught that “building churches is worse than building bars and brothels, for those [churches] symbolize infidelity, whereas these [bars and brothels] represent immorality.” Hence why after the fatal December 11, 2016 church bombing that left 27 dead, “everyday” Muslims wrote things like “God bless the person who did this blessed act” on social media. One average looking Muslim woman appears in the streets of Egypt jubilantly celebrating the massacre (video with English subtitles). She triumphantly yells “Allahu Akbar!” and says that “our beloved prophet Muhammad is paying you infidels [Christians] back… for rejecting tawhid, which must be proclaimed in every corner of Egypt!” Americans may remember that Muslims around the world also celebrated the terror strikes of September 11. Then, the assumption was “we must’ve done something to make Muslims hate us so much.” But if powerful America is capable of provoking Muslims with its foreign policies, what did Egypt’s already downtrodden and ostracized Christian minority do to make Muslims celebrate the news that a church was bombed and Christians blown to pieces? One can go on and on with examples of Muslim clerics and institutions inciting—with absolute impunity—against Christians and their churches in Egypt. Many secular and/or moderate Egyptians agree. For instance, back in 2014, Muslim Brotherhood supporters mauled and murdered a woman after her cross identified her as a Christian. Soon thereafter, an Egyptian op-ed titled “Find the True Killer of Mary” argued that: Those who killed the young and vulnerable Mary Sameh George, for hanging a cross in her car, are not criminals, but rather wretches who follow those who legalized for them murder, lynching, dismemberment, and the stripping bare of young Christian girls—without ever saying [the word] “kill.” [Islamic cleric] Yassir Burhami and his colleagues who announce their hate for Christians throughout satellite channels and in mosques—claiming that hatred of Christians is synonymous with love for God—they are the true killers who need to be tried and prosecuted. One can say the same thing about last Palm Sunday’s church bombings that claimed 50 lives. Although the Islamic State was quick to claim the terror attacks, it’s really not relevant to the story. “ISIS”—like al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Hamas, Taliban, Wahabbi Saudi, and the Muslims who persecute Christians in 40 of the 50 worst nations around the world—is a symptom, not the source of the hate. In short, until such time comes that the Egyptian government removes the “radical” sheikhs and their teachings from the mosques, schools, television stations and all other positions of influence, Muslims will continue to be radicalized, churches will continue to be bombed, and Christians will continue to be killed.
http://raymondibrahim.com/2017/04/14/christians-slaughtered-egypt/
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Japan Prepares For North Korea "Emergency"
by Tyler Durden Apr 14, 2017 5:50 PM
Judging by the precautionary actions of North Korea's neighbors, the next 48 hours on the Korean peninsula could see substantial volatility, because at the same time as China's largest carrier was said to suspend flights to Pyongyang, the Japanese government has asked the U.S. to provide advance consultation if it is about to launch military action against North Korea, and "has ramped up preparations for emergency situations" according to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, including the potential evacuation of some 57,000 Japanese citizens currently in South Korea. According to the Japanese publication, PM Shinzo Abe stressed that the region is becoming increasingly tense. “[U.S. President Donald Trump] has stated that all options are on the table. It’s a fact tensions are rising,” he said at the Prime Minister’s Office after receiving a written proposal calling for tougher sanctions on North Korea from the Liberal Democratic Party’s Eriko Yamatani, chief of the headquarters for the abduction issue. He added that "if an unexpected situation occurs, we’ll ask the United States to cooperate in rescuing the abduction victims." The Japanese government, like its South Korean peer, has asked for advance consultation regarding any U.S. military action against North Korea during a series of meetings between Japanese and U.S. officials. The U.S. side is said to have responded positively to the request. This is because Japan would need to take appropriate precautions given that, as an ally of Washington, it could be a target for retaliation should the U.S. military attack North Korea, although in order to preserve the "element of surprise" it would not be at all surprising if Trump proceeded to launching a strike unannounced. As the infographic below shows, the Japanese government is contemplating five potential emergency responses should a military clash break out between the US and North Korea: Logistical support by Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the event of a local conflict Use of force by the SDF in the event of a full scale war Protection of Japanese citizens in South Korea Preparation for armed attacks against Japan Civil protection and response to evacuees There are three main threats Japan would face if Trump launches an attack: in addition to a potential ballistic missile retaliation; the mass evacuation of thousands of Japanese citizens, and what would likely be a massive refugee onslaught by North Koreans. Furthermore, recall that under its post-war constitution, Japan is not allowed to have offensive military forces. Its Article 9 declares "the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes." That may complicate logistics should war indeed break out in North Korea. As the Japan Times notes, a North Korean attack on Japan would involve ballistic missiles. The Japanese government has been bolstering defensive measures against ballistic missiles, including making permanent in August 2016 an order to the Self-Defense Forces to intercept and destroy incoming missiles. There is also the concern of an imminent evacuation: A difficult issue that would emerge in a contingency on the Korean Peninsula is the rescue and protection of an estimated 57,000 Japanese, including tourists, in South Korea. The government started compiling an evacuation plan in the 1990s and has updated and changed it several times. The government plans to convene a meeting of the four ministers who form the National Security Council to review the strategy for dealing with this issue at an early date. Security legislation that came into force in March 2016 newly allows the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to take steps to protect, rescue and transport Japanese overseas. The Japanese government plans to use government-chartered aircraft and SDF transport vessels for such evacuations, which would be conducted in cooperation with the U.S. military. A potential complication here is that the governments of Japan and South Korea don't really have the best diplomatic relations, a tension that goes as far back as treatment of Koreans by the Japanese during World War II. “South Korea’s allergy toward the SDF is still strong, so there has not been much progress regarding concrete talks between the Japanese and South Korean governments,” a senior Defense Ministry official told The Yomiuri Shimbun. The Japanese government must also figure out how to cope with the huge number of refugees expected to descend on Japan from the Korean Peninsula. They would need to be temporarily accommodated, but it also is possible that North Korean agents would slip into Japan with the intention of striking nuclear power plants, heavily populated areas and other targets. As the Shimbun adds, implementing immigration control procedures for those refugees would not be easy. So in case airstrikes do begin, will Japan get involved on the offensive, in breach of its constitution, and a development that would in turn put both China and Russia on edge? While in theory, the SDF is supposed to jointly respond with U.S. forces according to how a contingency on the Korean Peninsula would develop, however in practice a Japanese response would likely be limited: senior Defense Ministry official emphasized the difference made by the security legislation, which permit the limited exercise of the right of collective self-defense: “There has been progress regarding Japan-U.S. coordination for role sharing.” The most realistic SDF activity would be logistics support for the U.S. military. The SDF is permitted to supply ammunition to U.S. forces and refuel ready-to-fly fighter jets, among other measures, in situations that do not constitute an armed attack but are recognized as having an important influence on Japan’s security and safety. Still, as Shimbun notes, "in a situation that could result in Japan sustaining damage equal in seriousness to a direct attack, the government would recognize that the nation’s survival is under threat and permit the use of force by the SDF. Using the right of collective self-defense, it would become possible for the SDF to defend U.S. ships by counterattacking enemies that attacked them, based on the SDF mobilization order. The SDF could also conduct other operations, including minesweeping in the open sea to remove mines laid by North Korea. Under such a situation, the government would simultaneously recognize that Japan is at imminent risk of coming under attack while likely starting preparations based on the Civil Protection Law, such as evacuating residents. Ideally all of the above contingency scenarios never have to be implemented, and the threat of a US attack on North Korea remains just that, eventaully resulting in de-escalation instead of potentially unleashing another regional conflict and what some would saw "world war" in addition to the similar development in the middle-east. Unfortunately, considering how long the neo-con warhawks had been "caged" and prevented from profiting from an all out war, we doubt this optimistic scenario deserves much merit.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-14/japan-prepares-north-korea-emergency
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If War Breaks Out, These Are North Korea's 'Aces In The Hole' - This Is Why Kim Jong Un And North Korea Pose A 'Nightmare Scenario' To America And The World
April 14, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
Saturday April 15th is the 'Day of the Sun' in North Korea. The 105th anniversary since the birth of the founder of NKorea Kim II Sung, the 'Day of the Sun' has traditionally seen the North testing new weapons and this April 15th may be no different with current leader Kim Jong Un allegedly planning something huge that day. The new story from Pravda is called "North Korea: Nuclear War To Start On The Day Of The Sun" within which they report upon comments recently made by a North Korean Foreign Ministry official: "We will take most severe countermeasures against the provocateurs to defend ourselves with the might of our weapons." According to Yevgeny Kim, an expert with the Center for Korean Studies at the Institute of the Far East, "I do not think that the Americans are crazy enough to attack North Korea, given the situation that has developed so far. The Northerners can answer. This is not Syria! They will certainly attack US ships and army bases. They have their own missiles for the purpose." It's clear that what's happening now in North Korea is much different from Syria. Having already tested several nuclear weapons, NKorea poses an 'existential threat' to America while Syria did not. In this new story from the Daily Mail they report that according to a new poll, the majority of Americans feel 'uneasy' about President Trump's ability to handle 'the North Korean problem'. In fact within the story, Trump himself makes clear that NKorea, an issue that has bedeviled policy makers for decades, is "not as simple as people would think". As Yevgeny Kim mentioned, Kim Jong Un and North Korea will answer any attacks upon them. And while Trump's recent visit with China's President Xi seems to have cemented China's cooperation with Trump and the US to 'deal with the North Korean problem', NKorea has several 'aces in the hole' that we may not be able to account for until it's too late. As Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has reported, all North Korea needs is ONE successful attack upon America and Kim could bring down our entire nation. If the two North Korean satellites allegedly capable of carrying miniaturized nuclear weapons capable of launching an EMP attack against America aren't enough, Kim's other aces in the hole are a large number of NKorean submarines that are apparently capable of 'disappearing without a trace' and 'sleeper agents of North Korean terror' already spread throughout the world, just waiting for the word to 'go live' so they can deliver biological terror. As we reported nearly two years ago on ANP back in August of 2015, 50 North Korean subs 'went off radar', spooking South Korea and Japan, with several of them unable to be located for several days. According to one national security expert, "We didn't know where they were at the time. One would hope that we would keep very close tabs on those that could launch the submarine-launched ballistic missiles [SLBMs]. All of that is very worrisome because that may very well have a nuclear weapon someday." Well that 'someday' has flown the coop as we all know that North Korea has nuclear weapons now. Might they be capable of launching nuclear weapons from their subs? While 'China flaunts their mighty missiles' on state TV, another clear message to North Korea along with the recent 'MOAB' mother-of-all-bombs that Trump recently had dropped on ISIS in Afghanistan, this April 10th story from the Daily Mail asked "Is There A Russian Or Chinese Submarine Off The Coast Of California" after unusual Naval Aircraft patrol searches sparked fears that something very strange was going on off of the West coast. This new story from The Express asked if Kim is planning a secret nuclear attack using a 'secret submarine', once again bringing up the danger posed by 50 submarines that simply 'disappeared' back in 2015. Expert Joseph Bermudez, from website 38 North, said that although the secretive state's intentions are unclear, the images suggest that North Korea is now capable of deploying missiles larger than a KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile which was tested in August. It is believed that dictator Kim Jong-un’s nuclear submarine system is inspired by the Golf-class submarines used by the Soviet Union before the fall of the Iron Curtain. According to this November 2014 story from RT, such subs are capable of carrying missiles armed with nuclear warheads. In the first video below we hear a new warning about North Korea's 'hidden submarine threat'. Another NKorean 'ace in the hole' is outlined by Michael Snyder who asks in this new story over at End Of The American Dream, where will Americans go if NKorean agents of terror release biological agents in US cities? While North Korea is half the world away, Snyder's story reports agents of Kim's regime could still bring America to a total standstill in no time at all. As we reported on ANP on April 12th, the NKorean regime recently sent out a series of coded messages to their spies around the world. Were those messages received by NKorean agents in America and if so, how would a few spies here in the US be able to shut America down? While the 2nd video below outlines NKorea's biological weapons threats, the scenario outlined by Snyder is chilling: In the aftermath of a massive U.S. military strike on North Korea’s nuclear facilities, North Korean agents that have been embedded inside the United States for years quickly start going to work. In Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, small containers that had been covertly smuggled into the U.S. are opened and dropped on the ground in the middle of large groups of people. At first nothing seems to happen, but pretty rapidly those that have been exposed start developing puffy white sores and blisters on their skin. When this hits the news, panic begins to spread as people realize that this appears to be a coordinated attack. Before too long, others that have been exposed to a different bioweapon start bleeding profusely from their eyes, ears, mouths and noses. People drop dead by the thousands, and a national health crisis is declared. Economic activity comes to a complete halt as everyone becomes deathly afraid of leaving their own homes. Hospitals and other medical facilities are completely overwhelmed because they can only treat a small fraction of those that are dying. Because these weaponized diseases were designed to spread like wildfire, pretty soon nearly every community in America is affected. The federal government attempts to intervene, but it is powerless to stop the spread of these pandemics. Thousands of dead bodies lie rotting in the streets of our major cities because there aren’t enough people willing to take the risk of burying them. And because virtually everyone is camping out at home, essential public services start to break down very rapidly and our society descends into a state of utter chaos. As we have reported time and again on ANP, possibly the greatest danger that North Korea poses to America is its ability to deliver an electromagnetic pulse attack upon our nation, an attack that experts have warned will nearly instantly send America back to the dark ages and could easily lead to the deaths of 90% of Americans or more. Nearly instantly wiping out the electricity for all America at once, experts warn one North Korean EMP would do more long-term damage to this nation than 10 nuclear bombs being detonated in large cities across our nation. Leaving an America without any power, no banking system, no public utilities, no public transportation system, and no electronic communications, we're happy to report that finally, the Pentagon is preparing to protect America from such a devastating attack after 8 years of Obama administration inactivity on America's achilles heal. Yet, will it be too late? The Washington Examiner story reports the new defense mechanisms being developed by the Pentagon to protect our electric grid from a cyber attack or EMP won't be ready until the year 2020. According to this new Daily Caller story, Texas's power grid is completely vulnerable to an EMP from North Korea as well and such an attack could lead to total devastation. Reporting that the biggest obstacle to hardening our electrical grid has long been political and not technological, we see why hardening the grid by 2020 may be way too late. “The electric power grid is vulnerable to what legitimate experts classify as high impact threats,” state Sen. Bob Hall, a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 83, said while introducing the bill before the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce on Wednesday — the same day Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said relations between the U.S. and Russia are “at a low point.” An EMP attack, Hall said, would be the “most debilitating to critical infrastructure because it has the ability to disrupt, disable and irreparably destroy electronics over a wide geographic area.” “For some, the threat posed by an EMP can be hard to conceptualize,” Hall added. “However, this threat is not science fiction and its consequences cannot be overstated.” “Electricity is the third most important thing to sustaining life. The only two things more important to sustaining life are air and water,” added Hall, a former Air Force officer and engineer. “This bill would provide our state with a golden opportunity to ensure that when the lights go out in the rest of the country, they stay on in Texas.” In the final video below, Prepper Recon is joined by Brad Harris from Full Spectrum Survival to talk about the EMP threat the Kim Jong Un and North Korea pose to America with solid action steps we should be taking to prepare for such a grave possibility that we dutifully pray never arrives upon American shores.
http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Day_Of_The_Sun_NKorea.php
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BREAKING: China’s National Airline Just Suspended All Flights to North Korea
By LN Buzz Team Apr 14, 2017
What North Korea and China know (or believe they know) appears to have them all a bit spooked. North Korea has started an evacuation of Pyongyang, for example, and now China’s national airlines is suspending all flights to North Korea. More via Reuters: China’s national airline, Air China, suspended flights from Beijing to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, from late on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. It did not say why the flights, which operate on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, were being suspended. CCTV did not give a source for its news report published on its website and Air China could not immediately be reached for comment after business hours. The last flight between the two cities took place on Friday, with the return flight to Beijing arriving in the early evening, the broadcaster said. Senior U.S. intelligence officials are saying that if North Korea triggers a nuke test or full launch, the U.S. military will immediately act. Officials are reporting that two U.S. destroyers carrying tomahawk missiles are in the region and heavy bombers are at the ready in Guam. Last week the Pentagon announced that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group was being sent to the region. This would suggest that both China and North Korean officials might believe a nuke test or strike is on the horizon. This considering it’s the only act U.S. officials are saying will provoke immediate and harsh military response. If there was no realistic threat of nuclear weapons being tested or launched by North Korea, one can assume China would not take the action it currently appears to be taking.
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Where Will You Go?, NK Nuke Test, WW3 Imminent?, NK EMP Satellites Over US: The Diamond Report
Published on Apr 14, 2017
Where Will You Go?, NK Nuke Test, WW3 Imminent?, NK EMP Satellites Over US, LePen's Campaign HQ Attacked + Legal Action, Alex Jones: Impeach Trump, MOAB Footage, Cassini, Apple To Test Self-Crashing Cars, Christians Cancel Easter Celebrations Over ISIS, Cernovich Loves Being Attacked By MSM, NK Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq0skoQRsQk&feature=youtu.be
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I Feel Sick, Because The U.S. Is On The Verge Of Making An Extremely Costly Mistake
By Michael Snyder, on April 14th, 2017
All day long I have just felt sick. Right at this moment, we are closer to war with North Korea than we have been at any point since the Korean War ended in 1953. If Donald Trump decides to launch a military strike against North Korea’s nuclear facilities, the consequences could be absolutely catastrophic. The North Koreans have already promised to launch nukes at South Korea and at U.S. military bases in the region in return, and they also have vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that they could use as well. To get an idea of the chaos that just a handful of North Korean agents armed with biological weapons could unleash inside the United States, just see this article. A military strike on North Korea could be the spark that sets off a global war in which millions of people die, and so we need to do all that we can to prevent this from happening. My hope is that if people make enough noise that Trump will back down and decide not to attack. Earlier today, I was sent the following piece of intel. I was told that I could share it with all of my readers as long as I kept the name of the individual that sent it to me out of it. According to this source, it certainly looks as though an attack is being prepared… An O-5 silver maple leaf Air Force puke says the bomb buses in Guam are maximum loaded, fully fueled and reserves are topped off. Reserves are only topped off just before the buses go airborne. Kunsan has everything pointed north and ALL gates are closed…no traffic in or out. 7 air wings have been moved into the area and an augmented Carl Vinson CVN-70 (not alone) (per CMC x 2 and an O-5) has also moved into the area. m An O-5 barker and an O-6 Marine says all Easter leave has been cancelled with ALL loaded up, geared up and warming up in several theaters. Castle is locked and loaded. Seoul is moving essential government and military personnel, as is true for U.S. Command Components and Personnel located at Yongsan, further south to Daegu. AND…Red Cloud is ready to go on the war path with nobody sleeping in the wigwams, all the arrows have been taken from the box. For those that don’t know, “Kunsan” refers to a U.S. Air Force base that is located at Gunsan Airport on the west coast of the Korean peninsula. But just because these preparations are being made does not mean that a strike will actually happen. In fact, there are some signs that indicate that we will not see a U.S. attack over the next several days. For one thing, Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to be in South Korea on Sunday and Monday. So it would seem that it would be quite unlikely that anything would happen during that time. In addition, Fox News is reporting that the Trump administration has come to the conclusion that military force should not be used against North Korea… But a U.S. military official, who requested anonymity to discuss planning, said the U.S. doesn’t intend to use military force against North Korea in response to either a nuclear test or a missile launch. The official said plans could change in the unlikely event a North Korean missile targets South Korea, Japan or U.S. territory. But of course things seem to shift hour to hour with the Trump administration. On Thursday, NBC News was reporting that the U.S. military was poised “to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea” if it looked like the North Koreans were about to conduct a nuclear weapons test… The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. North Korea has warned that a “big event” is near, and U.S. officials say signs point to a nuclear test that could come as early as this weekend. So I don’t know what is going to happen. But without a doubt we are very close to war with North Korea at this moment, and I am going to join with millions of others to do whatever we can to prevent that from happening. A war with North Korea would be far different from the wars that the U.S. military has been fighting in the Middle East. An ideology known as “Juche” is essentially the national religion of North Korea. In Juche, the people are put at the center of everything, and “the leader” is considered to be at the center of the people. In other words, “the leader” is almost put at the level of a deity. It is a very sick and twisted philosophy, but here in the western world we need to understand that when we openly talk about killing Kim Jong-Un on television and on the Internet, we are essentially threatening to kill their “god”. And the reason that is a problem is because Kim Jong-Un is surrounded by throngs of brainwashed supporters that will carry out any order that he gives them. Here in the western world, we consider it to be highly immoral to use chemical and biological weapons against innocent civilian populations, but the North Koreans do not share those moral values. The North Koreans consider the United States to be the great force for evil in the world, and if they feel like their way of life is being threatened by the U.S. they will not hesitate to use those sorts of weapons. And of course they are constantly threatening to use nuclear weapons against us. Just today I saw a report that talked about how the North Koreans are threatening to unleash “nuclear thunderbolts”, and in another report the North Koreans were quoted as saying they would “ruthlessly ravage” the United States if they are attacked… North Korea upped its warmongering with Donald Trump today in a series of menacing boasts threatening to ‘ravage’ US troops amid fears the two countries are heading for war. The secretive state vowed to ‘pulverize’ US bases and South Korean capital Seoul if it was threatened by the US military, which is carrying out drills on the Korean peninsula. A US aircraft carrier group is steaming towards the region. It claimed it would ‘ruthlessly ravage’ the US if Washington attacked. North Korea is one of the most wicked nations on the entire planet, and I would certainly greatly rejoice if their government were to fall. But I don’t see any way that a military strike on North Korea would be successful. If the North Koreans were able to fire even a single nuclear or chemical warhead at a major city such as Seoul or Tokyo it would be the worst foreign policy disaster in the history of the United States. The North Koreans would certainly be blamed, but the Trump administration would also be blamed for conducting such a reckless attack in the first place. Our relationships with our allies in the region would be permanently destroyed, and this would benefit China greatly. Without using nukes in an overwhelming first strike (which would be unthinkable), I don’t believe that there is any possible way that we could take out all of North Korea’s nukes before they had a chance to at least fire some of them off. And if North Korea did nuke Seoul or Tokyo or any U.S. military bases in the region, we would almost be forced to respond with nukes of our own, and that would have to be followed up by a massive ground invasion to topple the regime. So if Donald Trump is reading this, for the good of humanity I would like to strongly urge him not to conduct a military strike on North Korea at this time. The risk is just way too great, and if things go wrong we could easily be looking at a scenario in which millions of people end up dead.
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Kim shows off the weapons he believes will 'annihilate' the West: North Korean dictator declares he can take on Trump in nuclear war as he surprises experts by revealing new 'game-changing' missiles
Kim saluted thousands of soldiers at Kim Il-sung Square during the Day of the Sun celebrations
A top official vowed at the parade to 'beat down enemies with the power of nuclear justice'
Choe Ryong Hae also said the country would 'instantly counter with an annihilating strike' if the US attacked
US officials feared Kim Jong-un would mark the national holiday by launching sixth nuclear weapons test
A worrying number of weapons were on display, including prototypes of intercontinental ballistic missiles
Large crowds cheered as sword-wielding soldiers marched in a perfectly choreographed display
The country's goal is to put a nuclear warhead on an ICBM capable of reaching the continental United States
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles were also on show for the first time, indicating advancing technology
The regime has accused Trump of provoking armed conflict and issued multiple warnings of retaliation
By Dailymail.com Reporter and Dave Burke For Mailonline Published: 21:58 EDT, 14 April 2017 | Updated: 13:53 EDT, 15 April 2017
North Korea unveiled 'game-changer' ballistic missiles during a display of the country's military might as Kim Jong-Un warned of an 'annihilating strike' if the US attacks. The intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), which Pyongyang claim could travel thousands of miles, increased concerns that the secretive state is preparing for a possible attack on Washington after they were paraded during the country's Day of the Sun celebrations. A gleeful Kim, wearing a Western-style suit at Kim Il-sung Square, saluted formations of soldiers who yelled out 'long live' to celebrate the 105th anniversary of his grandfather's birth. The two new kinds of ICBM were enclosed in canister launchers mounted on the back of transporter erector launcher trucks as they were paraded in front of crowds during today's festivities. Pyongyang has yet to formally announce it has an operational ICBM but experts believe they the new rockets could be liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missiles, or an early prototype. Submarine-launched ballistic missiles were also among the military hardware on show for the first time, indicating an improving technological capability that could help it evade anti-missile systems. Kim has accused President Donald Trump of provoking his nation towards armed conflict with a series of increasingly aggressive moves, including sending the USS Carl Vinson to the Korean peninsula. One of Kim's top officials, Choe Ryong Hae, today vowed North Korea would 'beat down enemies with the power of nuclear justice'. He told the packed-out square: 'If the United States wages reckless provocation against us, our revolutionary power will instantly counter with annihilating strike, and we will respond to full-out war with full-out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike warfare.' A total of 56 missiles of 10 different types were displayed, culminating in enormous rockets on articulated trailers and on 16-wheeler vehicles. Single-engine propeller-powered planes flew in a 105 formation overhead. However, Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the US-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, said that Pyongyang's parade did not mean that a missile attack was imminent. She said: 'North Korea has a habit of showing off new concepts in parades before they ever test or launch them. It is still early days for these missile designs.' If the Korean missiles actually work they could have a similar range to a DF-41 Chinese missile, which can fly 9,000 miles, and could hit the continental US. But it's very unlikely that North Korea has that technology at this stage. Chad O'Carroll, managing director of specialist service at NK News, said the long-range missiles would be 'a big game-changer once it is deployed in service'. However, he added there would be a long testing schedule ahead before a trial launch of the missile itself. Liquid-fuel missiles also 'take hours to fuel up and if there is intelligence that they were doing that it would be quite easy to stop it before it was launched'. In his annual New Year's address, Kim said North Korea's preparations for an ICBM launch had 'reached the final stage'. Recent satellite imagery suggests the country could conduct another underground nuclear test at any time. Solid fuel ICBMs are a 'much more difficult threat to prevent', O'Carroll said, adding that risk was still 'many many years' away. Also on show for the first time was the North's submarine launch ballistic missiles (SLBM). Tensions have been mounting in recent weeks, and North Korea has issued several warnings threatening to 'pulverize' US troops and retaliate in response to any military action. Kim Dong-yub, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the canisters and trucks suggested that the North was developing technology to 'cold launch' ICBMs, ejecting them from the canisters before they ignite. This would allow North Korea to prevent its limited number of ICBM-capable launcher trucks from being damaged during launches and also make the missiles harder to detect after they're fired, he said. Cold launches would also allow the missiles to be fired from silos. Kim said that the North is also likely developing solid-fuel ICBMs, and that some of the rockets paraded inside canisters on Saturday might be prototypes. Unlike previous parades attended by Kim, there did not appear to be a senior Chinese official in attendance at today's celebrations. China is North Korea's lone major ally, but has spoken out against its missile and nuclear tests and has supported UN sanctions. China yesterday again called for talks to defuse the escalation in tensions. Some detachments carried assault rifles or rocket-propelled grenades, others were equipped with night-vision goggles and daubed in face paint. One troupe was made up of sword-wielding women. The nuclear-armed North is under United Nations sanctions over its weapons programmes, and has ambitions to build a rocket capable of delivering a warhead to the US mainland - something Trump has vowed 'won't happen'. Tensions between the US and North Korea have been mounting in recent weeks, and yesterday Pyongyang issued a series of menacing threats to 'ravage' US troops and 'go to war if they choose'. China warned the region could go to war 'at any moment'. US President Donald Trump is monitoring the emerging crisis from his Mar-a-Lago resort this weekend without the company of his top advisers. North Korean state television showed Kim, wearing a black suit and white shirt, stepping out of a black limousine. He saluted his honor guard before walking down a red carpet to a podium and clapped with senior government officials to address the massive crowd taking part in the parade. Goose-stepping soldiers and marching bands filled the square as tanks, multiple launch rocket systems and other weapons waited to parade. Kim, a 30-something leader who took power in late 2011, emphasizes nuclear weapons as the foundation of his national defense strategy. The country under his watch has been aggressively pursuing a goal of putting a nuclear warhead on an ICBM capable of reaching the continental United States. 'DAY OF THE SUN': CEREMONY THAT ENFORCES CULT STATUS OF THE KIM PARTY RULING NORTH KOREA Hundreds of thousands of jubilant North Koreans today lined the streets of capital Pyongyang hoping to get a glimpse of despot leader Kim Jong-un. The country held its annual Day of the Sun celebration, an annual holiday to mark the birthday of the nation's founder - and Kim's grandfather - Kim Il Sung. Crowds waved flags and flowers in a colourful display of patriotism captured on camera in front of the world's media - a rare public display by leaders in the secretive state. Kim did not address the rally himself on Saturday, instead waving and smiling as ecstatic crowds - men in suits, women in traditional hanbok dresses - filed past him behind the military display. 'Long live!' they chanted, some in tears. Such pageantry reinforces the cult of personality around the Kim family, three of whom have ruled North Korea with a vice-like grip. When foreign journalists visit North Korea, their movements are closely managed and they are usually restricted to Pyongyang. Conversations with people are monitored by government 'minders', who also provide translations into English. Near the birthplace of Kim Il Sung, a pilgrimage spot for North Koreans, commuters yesterday moved briskly on and off the subway, young women holding umbrellas walked by, clasping arms, while two children in blue school uniforms shuffled down the street holding a flower basket almost their own size. 'If the enemies want to wage war with our leaders, we have nothing to fear because we will win,' said Jon Myon Sop, who works at a bus station. 'I know about how tensions are rising on the Korean Peninsula and how the U.S. and its puppet countries have brought their military assets to the region.' Cho Hyon Ran, a tour guide at the site, said: 'We don't want war but we are not afraid of war because we have strong power, our country is the strongest one in the world now. 'You can see all people are laughing, all people are singing, all people are celebrating the Sun's day,' she said in English. 'We are not afraid of anything.' North Korea's state news agency said the Trump administration's 'serious military hysteria' had reached a 'dangerous phase which can no longer be overlooked'. The United States has warned that a policy of 'strategic patience' with North Korea is over. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence travels to South Korea on Sunday on a long-planned 10-day trip to Asia. China, North Korea's sole major ally and neighbor which nevertheless opposes its weapons program, on Friday again called for talks to defuse the crisis. 'We call on all parties to refrain from provoking and threatening each other, whether in words or actions, and not let the situation get to an irreversible and unmanageable stage,' Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing. North Korea on Friday denounced the United States for bringing 'huge nuclear strategic assets' to the region as the USS Carl Vinson strike group with a flag-ship nuclear-powered aircraft carrier steamed closer, and said it stood ready to strike back. 'The Trump administration, which made a surprise guided cruise-missile strike on Syria on April 6, has entered the path of open threat and blackmail,' KCNA quoted the military as saying in a statement. 'The army and people of the DPRK will as ever courageously counter those who encroach upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and will always mercilessly ravage all provocative options of the U.S. with Korean-style toughest counteraction.' CHINA CALLS ON RUSSIA TO HELP EASE TENSION China is seeking Russia's help to cool surging tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, the country's foreign minister has told his Moscow counterpart, after Beijing warned of possible conflict over North Korea. China - the North's sole major ally and economic lifeline - yesterday warned that war over North Korea could break out 'at any moment'. In a call with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi said the common goal of the two nations was to 'bring all the parties back to the negotiating table', according to a statement on China's Foreign Ministry website. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday warned that war could break out 'at any moment' amid heightened tensions over North Korea 'China is ready to coordinate closely with Russia to help cool down as quickly as possible the situation on the peninsula and encourage the parties concerned to resume dialogue,' Wang told Lavrov, referring to the stalled six-party talks on the North's nuclear programme that includes Russia, China and the United States. 'Preventing war and chaos on the peninsula meets common interests,' he added. Beijing has long opposed dramatic action against the North, fearing the regime's collapse would send a flood of refugees across its borders and leave the US military on its doorstep. Trump insists that China must exert more leverage on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions or suffer the consequences. North Korea launched a missile test last Tuesday, and satellite images taken earlier this week showed continued activity at the Punggye-ri Nuclear site. The US deployed USS Carl Vinson to the region in response, and Trump tweeted about the 'menace' of North Korea while military exercises were conducted in South Korea. The US and North Korea traded increasingly bitter words this week, and another warning of retaliation came on Saturday from the regime's KCNA news agency. 'All the brigandish provocative moves of the U.S. in the political, economic and military fields pursuant to its hostile policy toward the DPRK will thoroughly be foiled through the toughest counteraction of the army and people of the DPRK,' KCNA said, citing a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army. DPRK stands for the official name of North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 'Our toughest counteraction against the U.S. and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive.' US TANKS CARRY OUT EXERCISES CLOSE TO NORTH KOREAN BORDER AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS US tanks were today pictured close to the border with North Korea as they continue to carry out military exercises will allies in South Korea. Pyongyang has repeatedly objected to the US presence on the Korean peninsula, and yesterday vowed to 'pulverize' US bases and South Korean capital Seoul if it was threatened by the US military. Pictures taken today show US forces taking part in joint exercises in Paju, alongside South Korean troops. North Korea has accused the US of acting aggressively in the Korean peninsula at a time of heightened tensions A statement issued yesterday by the Korean People's Army boasted that US military bases in the South 'as well as the headquarters of evils such as the (South Korean presidential) Blue House would be pulverized within a few minutes'. North Korean vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol yesterday blamed Trump and the US for rising tensions. Han cited US-South Korean wargames, the deployment of a US aircraft carrier to the peninsula last weekend, as well as Trump's recent tweets on Tuesday that the North is 'looking for trouble'. American troops have been taking part in training drills today alongside South Korean forces close to the border with North Korea The statements were criticised by South Korea's Foreign Ministry, which said Han's remarks revealed the 'true colours of North Korea's government that is bellicose and a breaker of regulations'. It said North Korea will face strong punishment it will find hard to withstand if it makes a significant provocation, such as another nuclear test or an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. China immediately responded, saying anyone provoking conflict will 'pay the price'. China's foreign minister Wang Yi said today there would be 'no winner' in any war, as tensions mount with the US. The secretive state also vowed to 'pulverize' US bases and South Korean capital Seoul if it was threatened by the US military. The rhetoric comes after North Korea warned that Trump's 'troublemaking' and 'aggressive' tweets have pushed the world to the brink of thermo-nuclear war. Pyongyang's Vice Minister Han Song Ryol accused Trump of building up a 'vicious cycle' of tensions and warned the US against provoking North Korea militarily. He added the country would continue developing its nuclear program and conduct its next nuclear test whenever its leaders see fit. In the past week Trump has shown his willingness to launch military strikes, with US missiles deployed in Syria and Afghanistan. The U.S. military also dropped the 'Mother of All Bombs' on an ISIS tunnel network in Afghanistan About 200 foreign journalists were allowed in North Korea for Saturday's parade. But they are closely managed by government 'minders', and saw nothing out of the ordinary in Pyongyang on Friday despite the talk of war. Near the birthplace of Kim Il Sung, a pilgrimage spot for North Koreans, commuters moved briskly on and off the subway on Friday. 'If the enemies want to wage war with our leaders, we have nothing to fear because we will win,' said Jon Myon Sop, who works at a bus station. 'I know about how tensions are rising on the Korean Peninsula and how the U.S. and its puppet countries have brought their military assets to the region.' Cho Hyon Ran, a tour guide at the site, said: 'We don't want war but we are not afraid of war because we have strong power, our country is the strongest one in the world now. 'You can see all people are laughing, all people are singing, all people are celebrating the Sun's day,' she said in English. 'We are not afraid of anything.' Special forces raid, missile strike, cyber warfare, or MORE negotiations: Trump's choices for dealing with Kim Jung-Un -but experts say there are no good options Donald Trump has said that 'all options are on the table' when it comes to North Korea - but what exactly does that mean? The President has a vast range of possible ways of dealing with the secretive Communist nation ranging from cyber warfare to a missile strike - and even a nuclear attack of his own. DailyMail.com spoke to three military experts to describe what each of those options means - and the pitfalls of each. They described the President as having 'no good options' with North Korea and said that it will require impressive statecraft to deal with Pyongyang. Our experts were: J.D. Williams, a Senior Defense Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation Harry Krejsa, a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security working in the Asia-Pacific Security Program Jeff McCausland, a professor at Dickinson College, retired Army colonel, former dean of the Army War College and a CBS consultant. THE GENERAL PICTURE McCausland: Hope is not a method and we've been hoping since Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan that this problem would solve itself, that one day the people of North Korea wake up and decide this wasn't working any more. That hasn't happened and it seems less likely it will happen. We seem to have this foregone belief we can work with the Chinese, that was the strategy of strategic patience. They have their own interests...Somebody once described North as the land of bad choices. When you deal with a problem like North Korea which has gone on for the last three or four administrations there are no good choices. Krejsa: The Trump administration has made a rhetorical effort to say that they are considering military action but that was never off the table. Military action has always been a back burner because the options on that side are very bad. Seoul, which is home to 20 per cent of the entire population of South Korea, is within conventional artillery range of North Korea and there are thought to be a tremendous number of North Korean military units within range of Seoul. Seoul would be very much at risk for large scale civilian casualties and military casualties….All the options we have are bad and the options we have are not effective. We need really creative statecraft on the part of the United States and its allies and I worry we don't necessarily have all the human capital in place to pursue that. MORE NEGOTIATIONS McCausland: Broadly you only really have three options. One, you accept the fact North Korea is a nuclear power and you decide you're going to live with it. That's what we did in Pakistan and India and Israel. Two, you can negotiate with North Korea or around North Korea. They would like it to be a bilateral negotiation because it enhances their positions but that's impossible for the US to do because of our close ties to the Japanese and the South Koreans. You can negotiate around the North Koreans and I think that's what the President will try to do, negotiate more directly with the Chinese and put pressure on Kim Jong-un so he does change his path...A deal with North Korea would be a complete revolutionary change from 60 years of American foreign policy. The solution is the Iranian deal on steroids. It's (the Iran deal) an ugly baby it's a far more attractive baby than doing nothing, it's more attractive than the alternatives' MORE SANCTIONS Krejsa: A lot of the focus has been put towards secondary sanctions which I think are the next frontier - sanctions on companies which do business with the North Korean government but skirt restrictions. The tricky thing about them is that they would go after the sources of currency and goods and luxury items that still make their way into North Korea but fall into Chinese companies and cause problems with the Chinese relationship. CYBER WARFARE Williams: Theoretically it would be about getting access to systems that could disable or disrupt something in the operational chain of the North Korean military or specifically missile activity. Theoretically it's a very elegant way to achieve an effect without what the military likes to call kinetic operations, or firing guns and dropping bombs. If you have that in your kit bag it's something you would want to consider using. But there are likely uncertainties about the effectiveness of that. Once you use them, you only get one shot because you reveal the capability and the adversary initiates protection measures. McCausland: Using Cyber to go after the North Korean nuclear capability would be not unlike the effort against Iran using the Stuxnet virus. That being said going after North Korea is frankly more difficult simply because you're talking about a country that's hermetically sealed. It doesn't have the connections to the global information systems, the Internet etcetera like a country like Iran. The portals where you can get into their systems are far more complicated. Secondarily any effort to try to do that through a human capability where you get a human inside their system who physically infects their computers is also very very difficult to do basic on how hermetically sealed this place is. THE NAVAL TASK FORCE President Trump has dispatched Nimitz-class Carl Vinson with three cruisers and destroyers to the Korean Peninsula as show of force. Williams: Sending a carrier strike group into anybody's neighborhood has long been an important signal, politically both to adversaries and to your friends. Secondly the group was not sent as a rapid surge sort of deployment, it was already in the Pacific. It was scheduled to do something else and they've been turned around to hang out off North Korea. It's a different thing to move a carrier around when it's forward deployed than one or more ships being sent from the West coast. There's a magnitude of what the signal is sent here. From a military perspective the carrier group gives you offensive and defensive options. On defense the ships have missile defense capability. If you're concerned there might be a missile attack or a missile test that might go astray and you want to protect Japan or South Korea, having that capability gives you some options. On the offensive you have striking power. You can attack land targets with manned aircraft and cruise missiles. Depending on what political circumstances are, all those things, you have some more options with the carrier strike group. A MISSILE STRIKE ON NORTH KOREA McCausland: You're talking about a pretty massive strike far beyond what we saw in Syria with 59 cruise missiles. The simple reason is you want a very high probability with a single strike you have been pretty successful in taking them down. Obviously you have to convince the South Koreans and the Japanese you can do this in a fashion that the possibility of them retaliating against Seoul or Tokyo or some other major target has been removed or dramatically reduced. The problem is that if our intelligence about Iraq was such we thought they had nuclear weapons and they didn't...as one North Korea expert put it to me, we know far more about black holes than what goes on in North Korea. If you think we have absolute assurance that we know everywhere that they have stored medium range missiles with conventional warheads, let alone nuclear warheads, that's still somewhat problematical. Any type of decapitating strike would have to address multiple locations, many (missiles) stored inside a mountain and being able to assure the Japanese and South Koreans of the high probability of success and realising even a limited response (from North Korea) could still do massive damage to those two countries. Williams: It's going to make it a much more difficult problem if you have to hit multiple targets in the same time frame. It's going to be much more difficult than hitting an airfield where a chemical weapons attack came from like in Syria. There's probabilities of success which has to be weighed at the political level about how to use force and the potential reaction. The size of the campaign would depend on how many nuclear weapons the North Koreans have and how concentrated they are. If you have nuclear weapons you're probably not going to disperse them widely. You probably want to maintain control of them. That makes the problem a little easier, you would expect some concentration of the nuclear arsenal but at the same time North Korea will have an awareness of the threat and they will do some dispersals. The difference in trying to do a campaign to eliminate somebody's nuclear capability is your margin of error is zero. If you don't get them all you have a big problem. Krejsa: The issue is if they make the decision to go down this path the downsides are going to be tremendous. I'm sure there's discussion as to what red lines could prompt military action but I don't think we're anywhere near that right now just because any sort of pre-preemptive attack would bring tremendous downsides. North Korea increasingly sees its nuclear weapons as totally central to their regime's legitimacy and the continued survival of their regime. Any effort to take that away by force would probably be seen as an act of war and an attempt at regime change. OTHER ASSETS IN THE REGION Williams: What the US can do with assets out of bases and Japan is subject to some constraints and the agreements with the host nation. You don't have to worry about those things on an aircraft carrier. If the South Korean government and Japanese felt the threat was directed against them they would cooperate on a collaborative response. If it wasn't they would probably some political hesitation and rightly so. SPECIAL FORCES / ASSASSINATION Krejsa: In recent years we've turned to Special Forces as a catch all that can have a light footprint and a narrow mission and get it done quickly and with great skill, but those kind of things are probably not practical for North Korea. North Korea is an intelligence black hole. Not many people believe we have great human intelligence inside North Korea and we don't have enough understanding of how things work and where everything is to be able to do have any sort of convincing potential for success. Williams: Special Operations are very good for doing very precise types of military action on 'point targets', as they are called, like if you have something that you want to do to a particular place on the ground and for whatever reason you don't want to use a weapon like an air strike. The more recent uses have been to recover hostages, you've seen examples of that in Syria and Yemen. The second reason would be if you want to get intelligence out of a site like the recent raid in Yemen. Against that are risks; getting access, the possibility of something going wrong, the potential for casualties with manned aircraft. Your risk calculation goes up significantly. Operations of this nature require very very good and precise intelligence. The choice to use it in a situation like this would be evaluated at the very highest levels of government. My view would be: if there was very very good intelligence and part of it was that there was very strong potential for an imminent use of nuclear weapon those two things could tip the calculus to make a President strongly consider the use of Special Operations. But short of that or a decision to embark upon a campaign involving a series of military actions, I think that's on the very low end of the probability scale. A LARGER ATTACK BY THE US McCausland: We're talking about military capabilities far beyond one task force. I would hesitate to say, long range strike aircrafts such as B-52s. You're looking for shock and awe, you're talking large numbers carrier based aircraft, large numbers of long range aircraft coming from the United States, large numbers of cruise missiles, perhaps strategic strikes using conventional warheads. Williams: If North Korea has the low end of the number of weapons you end up with a relatively small number of things you're trying to get rid of. If you have good intelligence it might not be that big of a strike. It really depends on your judgments and assessments of what you have to take care of. NUCLEAR WEAPONS McCausland: I think it's very unlikely if not impossible to believe that the United States would use a nuclear weapon preemptively. I think that would be way off the scales. ….AND CAN AMERICA DEFEND ITSELF IN THE EVENT OF A STRIKE BY NORTH KOREA? Assuming that North Korea can fire a nuclear missile that can reach the US - though experts say it may be 5-10 years from doing this - it would reach mainland America in around 30 minutes, The missile would likely be a Taepo Dong which is thought to have a range of between 6,200 and 8,000 miles, enough to hit the US East coast. But despite having the most powerful military in the world, America may not be able to defend itself against an attack from the Communist nation. The Pentagon has spent $40 billion on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system (GMD) which is designed to stop a nuclear warhead in space. Each GMD interceptor is 60ft tall and has a 150lbs 'kill vehicle' at its tip. During a nuclear attack the interceptors would be fired out of underground silos in Alaska and California and would travel through the air at four miles per second. They would destroy the nuclear missile by crashing into it, though there are no explosives on board the interceptors. However it is not clear if the system would work and tests have yet to be successful despite decades of similar programs and at least $84 billion being spent on missile defense over the past decade. The Government Accountability Office said in 2015 that the GMD system 'has not demonstrated through flight testing that it can defend the US homeland against the current missile defense threat', which includes North Korea. Williams: Ballistic missile defense is a very difficult problem, probably one of the most difficult problems that we have now. Our defense community is saying that we have some capability and it's being designed and optimized to deal with the kind of threat you would get from a North Korean style attack. It's still a hard problem, there's been some success and failures. Krejsa: Missile defense has improved a lot since the Star Wars era but it is no sure thing. Our capabilities are pretty good under ideal conditions but wartime is not ideal conditions. It's extremely unlikely we would be able to use military force to prevent a nuclear strike from happening.
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
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BRAVE: Chinese Christians Still Attend Underground Churches Despite Risk of Persecution
Posted March 13, 2017
It’s no secret the Chinese government isn’t all that fond of Christianity. They’ve taken aggressive steps to “contain” growth, including rezoning and demolishing churches. One woman, the wife of a pastor, defiantly stood in front of a bulldozer that was about to demolish their church. It plowed over her and they buried her alive. The risks are huge, but faithful believers are not backing down – but they are being more discreet. Last year new reports surfaced that approximately a 100 million people throughout China have started to worship in “underground churches” over traditional ones. A well known and open secret among Chinese Christians. But organizations like China Aid a persecution watchdog in the eastern country, explain that in 2015, that was a risky idea. Noting that there was “more than a 150 percent” increase in the number of “abuses” against Christian followers in over a decade that year. A recent editorial piece written by Colin Clark, an international pastor based in China unpacked some of the complexities and long unanswered questions people have about practicing Christianity in China in 2017. Clark opened with a disclaimer explaining that his perception is arguably “not definitive and one-sided” because he is writing it based on his personal experience. Also pointing to the fact that the legal rights and government regulations in China are very fluid and sometimes “China is one thing” and “at other places and times it’s the opposite.” But according to his post on Christianity in China today for The Gospel Coalition, the culture in 2017 is much different than what it was perceived or what was going on even last year. “The official stance of the Communist Party is atheistic, but that’s not forced on all Chinese citizens or expatriates. Protestant Christianity is one of five approved religions alongside Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, and modified Catholicism (I say “modified” since the Chinese Catholic Church is forced to operate independent of Rome).” So are the wildly reported stories claiming that the brutality against Christians are real? Clark explains that, under the current government combined with the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), “the Protestant church leader in the country actually has the final word and reserves the right to censor and control their churches to the extent they deem necessary and appropriate.” Many citizens attend underground churches that meet in off-hour bars, storefronts, rented homes and apartments so they can speak freely. But in doing this, these churches are acting illegally which is why they are called “underground”. Under current Chinese law, all religious institutions must register. If they do not, the Chinese government has the right to persecute them once they are located. Consequently, many Christians have decided to meet outside the TSPM structure so they share the gospel the way they choose. But the government does not want that, so they have extended invitations for the churches to register. But still very few have come forward. The term “underground” is all relative. In China, even if a church leader decides not to register, the government still knows about it. So why don’t they just do it? Well if they do, they will have to learn how to deal with many policies that they currently don’t have to follow like having services at church buildings so they can be monitored and be willing to submit sermons to government officials to be reviewed and approved before their weekly service, Clark said.
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etc.. The clock is ticking, the midnight hour is already striking, the horses have been riding and yet many see not the things I have told them. They understand not what my word has said, etc..
Rev 6:4
4 And another horse appeared, a red
one. Its rider was given a mighty sword and the authority to
remove peace from the earth. And there was war and
slaughter everywhere. (NLT)
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Russia, Iran and Syria issue warning to US
Countries warn of ‘grave consequences’ if Washington carries out further missile strikes against Assad regime
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV April 15, 2017, 4:00 am
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States Friday against launching new strikes on Syria and called for an international investigation of the chemical weapons attack there that killed nearly 90 people. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts in Moscow, denounced the US missile strikes on Syria as a “flagrant violation” of international law. Additional such actions would entail “grave consequences not only for regional but global security,” Lavrov said. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said the meeting sent a “strong message” to Washington. Iran’s Mohammad Javad Zarif emphasized that the participants agreed that unilateral actions by the US were unacceptable. The US accuses the Syrian government of deliberately launching the deadly chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4. Russia has alleged that the victims were killed by toxic agents from a rebel chemical arsenal hit by Syrian war planes. Moscow has warned against putting the blame on Damascus until an independent inquiry is conducted and vetoed a proposed UN resolution on the attack, saying it failed to mention the need to inspect the affected area. Lavrov on Friday expressed skepticism about a preliminary investigation conducted by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog. He alleged that its experts failed to visit the site and said it was unclear to Russia where evidence was taken and how it was In Russia’s view, the probe conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should be widened to include experts from many nations, he said. “If our US colleagues and some European nations believe that their version is right, they have no reason to fear the creation of such an independent group,” Lavrov added. “The investigation into this high-profile incident must be transparent and leave no doubt that someone is trying to hide something.” Lavrov said the US strike on the Syrian base has undermined peace efforts in Syria and reflected Washington’s focus on ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. “Such attempts won’t succeed,” he said. The three ministers also discussed the beefing up of US forces on Jordan’s border with Syria, Moallem said. He added that Russia, Iran and Syria have “common procedures against any aggression,” but wouldn’t offer specifics. Lavrov said Moscow has asked Washington about the purpose of the buildup and received assurances that the US troops were deployed there to cut supply lines between the Islamic State group factions in Syria and Iraq. “We will keep monitoring the issue, since the only possible reason for using military force on the territory of Syria is to fight terrorism,” Lavrov said. Russia has staunchly backed Assad’s government throughout Syria’s six-year civil war. It has conducted an air campaign in Syria since September 2015, saving Assad’s government from imminent collapse and helping to reverse the Syrian military’s fortunes.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-iran-and-syria-issue-warning-to-us/
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Could this ballistic missile one day nuke the west coast of America? Kim Jong-un unveils huge new weapon at 'Day of the Sun' parade
North Korea unveiled new prototypes of intercontinental ballistic missiles
The missiles, which have not yet been flight tested, could one day reach the US
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles were also on display for first time
Arsenal suggests the country has been plowing ahead with its goal of putting a nuclear warhead on an ICBM that can reach the continental US
Kim Jong Un kicked off the parade on Saturday commemorating the 105th anniversary of his late grandfather's birthday, also known as the Day of the Sun
By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 01:56 EDT, 15 April 2017 | Updated: 13:39 EDT, 15 April 2017
North Korea unveiled what appeared to be new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) at its Day of the Sun parade, amid increasing fears its trying to develop a model that could hit the United States. North Korea showed two new kinds of ICBM enclosed in canister launchers mounted on the back of transporter erector launcher trucks, or TELs. The larger missile was similar in appearance to the Chinese DF-41, which can fly 9,000 miles. If the Korean missiles actually work, and have a similar range to the Chinese missile, they could hit the continental US. But it's very unlikely that North Korea has that technology at this stage. Also on show for the first time was the North's submarine launch ballistic missiles (SLBM). Kim Jong Un kicked off the parade commemorating the 105th anniversary of his late grandfather's birthday and rolled out a military arsenal that also included submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM), which also made their debut on Saturday. Tensions have been mounting in recent weeks, and North Korea has issued several warnings threatening to 'pulverize' US troops and retaliate in response to any military action. The new prototypes suggests Pyongyang is working towards a 'new concept' of ICBM, said Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the U.S.-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California. 'However, North Korea has a habit of showing off new concepts in parades before they ever test or launch them,' Hanham said. 'It is still early days for these missile designs'. Kim Dong-yub, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the canisters and trucks suggested that the North was developing technology to 'cold launch' ICBMs, ejecting them from the canisters before they ignite. This would allow North Korea to prevent its limited number of ICBM-capable launcher trucks from being damaged during launches and also make the missiles harder to detect after they're fired, he said. Cold launches would also allow the missiles to be fired from silos. Kim said that the North is also likely developing solid-fuel ICBMs, and that some of the rockets paraded inside canisters on Saturday might be prototypes. North Korean state television also showed what appeared to be several KN-08 and KN-14 ICBMs. Kim, who took power in late 2011, emphasizes nuclear weapons as the foundation of his national defense strategy. And the arsenal showcased on Saturday suggest the country has been plowing ahead with its goal of putting a nuclear warhead on an ICBM that can strike the US, although the North has yet to flight test them. In his annual New Year's address, Kim said that North Korea's preparations for an ICBM launch have 'reached the final stage.' And U.S. satellite imagery suggests the country could also conduct another underground nuclear test at any time. North Korea conducted two such tests last year alone, which analysts say would have taken the country a step forward in gaining the knowledge to make nuclear weapons small enough to fit on long-range missiles. The North also launched a long-range rocket last year that put a satellite into orbit, which Washington, Seoul and others saw as a banned test of missile technology. On Saturday, North Korea also displayed SLBMs for the first time ever, after the missile was successfully tested in 2016. They have a range of over 600 miles. SLBMs could help North Korea evade an anti-missile system and serve as a backup if its land-based arsenals are destroyed. Displaying more than one of the SLBM missiles indicates North Korea is progressing with its plan to base a missile on a submarine, which are hard to detect, said Joshua Pollack, editor of the Washington-based Nonproliferation Review. 'It suggests a commitment to this program,' said Pollack. 'Multiple SLBMs seems like a declaration of intent to advance the program'. Other military hardware at the parade included tanks, multiple rocket launchers and artillery guns, as well as a solid-fuel missile designed to be fired from submarines. North Korea also possesses a powerful midrange missile, which outside analysts call 'Musudan'. It can potentially reach U.S. air bases in Guam. Choe Ryong Hae, a close aide to Kim, addressed the packed square and reiterated a warning to the United States. 'If the United States wages reckless provocation against us, our revolutionary power will instantly counter with annihilating strike, and we will respond to full-out war with full-out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike warfare,' he said. North Korea on Friday denounced the US for bringing 'huge nuclear strategic assets' to the region as the USS Carl Vinson strike group with a flag-ship nuclear-powered aircraft carrier steamed closer to the peninsula. A U.S. Navy attack on a Syrian airfield this month raised questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for reclusive North Korea, which has conducted several missile and nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. and unilateral sanctions, regularly threatening to destroy the United States.
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SPOTTED: Putin 'moves military forces' to North Korean border as world prepares for WAR
VIDEO has been released allegedly showing a mass military mobilisation in Vladivostok, Russia, just eight miles from the border with North Korea, as the world edges towards war.
By Oli Smith PUBLISHED: 00:00, Sun, Apr 16, 2017 | UPDATED: 02:15, Sun, Apr 16, 2017
Russia has reportedly moved military vehicles towards the city, which is within striking distance of North Korea. The dramatic move, unconfirmed by the Russian government, was spotted by residents in the border city and posted on social media. This comes as North Korea warned that they are prepared for all-out war with the US, while China pleads for the two powers to back down from escalation. Since the emergence of the Vladivostok footage, fears have grown that North Korea could become the trigger for a conflict involving the US, China and Russia. Both China and Russia consider North Korea as a necessary buffer state, which they need to keep stable for their own national security. According to the reports, a military convoy of eight surface-to-air missiles, part of Russian Air Defence, were on the move. The S400 anti-aircraft missiles were moved to Vladivostok, where Vladimir Putin already has a major navy base. North Korea has warned the US not to take provocative action, after holding a military parade that showed off new intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Officials from the despotic regime have said that the country will "hit back with nuclear attacks" if necessary. There is mounting speculation that current leader Kim Jong-un will soon order a new nuclear test. This comes after a US aircraft carrier group continues to move towards the region. President Donald Trump has already pledged to remove the threat from the Korean peninsula. China has pleaded for the US and North Korean to back down from the war-footing. On Friday, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned that "conflict could break out at any moment". He said: “We call on all parties to refrain from provoking and threatening each other and not to let the situation get to an irreversible and unmanageable stage." Air China, owned by the Chinese government, decided to end its service between Beijing and Pyongyang, amid fears of an escalation.
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etc. the
whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North
Korea has declared war on the United States of America.
The whole country can tell you an invasion is
coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless monetary system is
ready to start, the banks will have no money, the mark of the beast will be
here. But I am trying to protect
you by placing one that can protect you, but even if that is not so and cannot
be, I will still protect you and take you through this
time safely. etc
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Vision of New York City Bombed by 10 Russian Nuclear Missiles
John W. Johnston
Around 1986 God took me up into the heavens and I found myself flying like superman through the air. I was in the clouds and the cover was so thick that I could not see my hands in front of my face. I couldn’t understand why I was flying through the air. As I dropped in altitude and started to get below the clouds, I began looking to my left and to my right. As I was looking, I saw five nuclear missiles, long range intercontinental ballistic missiles to my right and to my left. A total of ten missiles! Each one carried multiple warheads with the red Communist star on the fuselage of the missiles. The five pointed red star is the universal representative symbol for Communism. The star that I saw on the missiles looked like the second red star below. At the time of this vision Russia had a red star on their flag which is the first picture below. I feel in my spirit that these will be Russian missiles. As I looked down to the ground I saw Staten Island, Manhattan Island and New York City. I could not believe that these missiles were getting ready to hit New York with such a magnitude. They were coming right down onto the state of New York. The next thing I knew, I was standing down on the ground looking at all of the devastation. All the buildings were totally annihilated. The big skyscrapers had fallen over as though a domino effect had happened when they were blown up. When they started falling, these skyscrapers fell one against another knocking each other down. There were dead bodies lying everywhere. Tens of thousands were dead and the air smelled of rotting, burning flesh. Not only did the air smell foul but as I looked everything was dark even though it was midday. I could not believe my eyes! I then sensed time had passed, weeks and months. God then let me see little children taking instruments like butter knives and scraping the corpses of the people that had died. The children were looking for food by scraping the flesh off the people’s bodies only to cause their own death later of radiation poisoning. The devastation was beyond anything of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The death and the disease that broke out after was beyond imagination. I could not believe what I was seeing. I was overwhelmed and sickened by the devastation. I asked God why He showed me this? He said He is going to judge the United States and He’s going to judge it hard. He said that the enemies of the United States are going to attack. After having this life-like vision of what is coming, it was quickened to me later that Chicago and a lot of other big cities are also going to take a hit. From what I’m receiving right now, this is going to be worse than anything this nation could ever imagine. The American people will not believe what is happening to them. God is going to execute His judgment on this nation and He is going to pay America back double for the sins that have reached into Heaven. Read Revelation 18 Click here to watch my videos about the Chinese invasion of the west coast! Foreign Armies WILL Invade and Occupy America – The Enemies of America Will Bomb Our Churches and Synagogues During the same time as the vision about the state of Florida in July of 1995, God gave me a vision of a massive army coming down on America. He said, “John, I am going to allow the enemies of the United States to judge America. When America’s enemies come they will have no mercy on the men, women and children. I saw troop movement and they appeared to be Communist Chinese and Russian troops coming into the United States. As they came in, America was no match. I saw churches and synagogues were being leveled by heavy artillery. As the churches were being blown up I saw Jews and Christians being herded up and shot like cattle in front of their churches and homes. I saw the troops killing children and infants with their bayonets. I saw the American people tormented beyond imagination. The troops were void of emotions. Their objective is to take the nation and take it hands down. All able bodied working people will be forced into slave labor. Some will be taken to other countries and some left here. The soldier’s main objective was to kill all Jews and Christians. As I am seeing all this horror I asked, “Lord, what is happening?” He said, “Because of the wickedness of the United States of America I am allowing her enemies to invade her lands.” God ended the vision. The enemies of America are supernaturally being drawn together. When they come, they are going to catch the nation completely by surprise. Great is going to be her destruction and torment. This judgment is coming soon! The American people, Christians and non-Christians do not believe that God has fiery indignation that will be poured out. The great day of darkness is quickly coming upon the whole world, the day of God’s wrath and judgment. Jeremiah 50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. Read Jeremiah 50 and 51 The Bear is Ready to Pounce November 20, 1998 I was praying in my Pastors office one afternoon at about 4:30 P.M. when suddenly the whole wall turned into a vision. I saw a black forest that had an opening into the forest with what looked like a wide beaten animal path. It looked as though animals had been traveling on it for years. I found myself standing in a large meadow outside the forest. I began to hear cracking sounds like very large trees being pushed over one by one with great strength. Suddenly, a large Kodiak grizzly bear came growling and pouncing out of the path to the edge of the meadow where I could see him. He was very angry and stood there growling and pouncing on his front paws in a threatening manner. A large circus chain was around his neck with a 6 inch, red and amber medallion that had a gold hammer, sickle and star engraved in the upper left hand corner. I asked God what this meant. He said, “Russia is getting ready to make a strategic move in the world.” At the time President Boris Yeltsin was in the hospital and very ill. That same day a Russian Democratic reformer by the name of Galina Starovoytova was assassinated at her home. Galina was murdered because she was nominated to run against the hard line communist party in the case of Yeltsin death. During this time, I felt God quicken to me that in the beginning of 1999 the fireworks for the world would really start to manifest. God Sent Prophets to Warn the Jews prior to WW II and They Did Not Listen! In the early 1930’s God asked three Jewish men, Leo Braeck, Eli Wiesal and Martin Burber to warn the Jewish people of the fire under their feet and to go to Palestine to escape what was coming. God instructed the men to warn them that they were getting ready to be destroyed by the Nazi’s. The reaction of the Jews was disbelief. They thought they had the best of everything in food, housing, business and lifestyle and they refused to give it up. Many replied, “Why should we listen to you prophets telling us we are going to be destroyed when there are no signs in the air? You three Prophets go to Palestine, we are staying!” The Jews of Germany and Europe did not listen to the three prophets that God sent to warn them. Because they did not listen they became victims of one man who tried to destroy the entire Jewish population. Pastors and Shepherds, listen to what the Prophets are saying! The day and hour of the Prophet has come. The Prophets are speaking with great power and with signs and wonders such as has never been seen before in the history of the Christian Church. Shepherds listen to the Prophets and heed their warnings!
https://unitedstatesprophecy.com/russia-will-attack-and-invade-america/
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Chinese Components Found in North Korean Rockets Despite Sanctions
Published on Apr. 15, 2017
China seems to be having second thoughts about indulging the deranged Kim regime in North Korea for so long, but it will not be easy for Beijing to downplay the amount of assistance it has given Pyongyang’s nuclear missile program over the years. On the one hand, China’s ban on North Korean coal seems like a serious blow to the North Korean economy, and China appears to be serious about maintaining the ban. It is unclear whether China would be willing to use the other high-powered economic weapon in its arsenal and ban exports of Chinese oil to North Korea, effectively devastating their economy (and possibly triggering one of China’s worst fears, a flood of North Korean refugees). On Friday, mixed with its customary threats to unleash “nuclear thunderbolts” against the United States, North Korea sneered through one of its “think tanks” that “somebody” was cooperating with the U.S. in a “naive and foolish” attempt to collapse the North Korean system. The very same type of satellite launch vehicle China helped North Korea build is just about good enough to put an EMP weapon over the United States or Europe, with potentially catastrophic results. Source: www.breitbart.com
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Russia, Iran warn US against new Syria attacks
A week since the US launched airstrikes in Syria, Iranian, Syrian and Russian foreign ministers have met in Moscow. All three countries strongly warned the United States against launching new strikes. Hosting three-way talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem (pictured above, left), and Iranian counterpart Mohammed Dschawad Sarif (pictured above, right) in Moscow on Friday, Russian Foreign Minsiter Sergey Lavrov denounced last week's US attack on Syria and warned that any further such action would entail "grave consequences not only for regional but global security." Read: US skips out on Afghanistan conference in Moscow Lavrov also told al-Moualem that Russia and the US have a shared understanding that such strikes would not be repeated. The Interfax news agency reported that the Russian diplomat revealed this had been "concluded" during Wednesday's visit of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Moscow. US 'did not rule out any future action' In Washington, however, the US State Department said Tillerson did not eliminate the possibility of the US maybe undertaking future strikes. "The secretary explained there were no subsequent targets after the missile strike, but he did not rule out any future action," State Department acting spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. "He stressed that Russia is in a position to use its influence over the Assad regime to ensure it is never again necessary for the US to act," Toner said. US blames Assad regime The US launched Tomahawk missiles at Syria's Shayrat air base near Homs last Friday, in response toa chemical attack in the northwestern Idlibprovince. Washington has blamed Assad's government for the deadly attack which killed more than 80 people. Damascus, however, has staunchly denied the accusation. The Syria crisis is also set to be the focus of further talks planned for Saturday between Lavrov and Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani.
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-iran-warn-us-against-new-syria-attacks/a-38425379
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Iran is trying to provoke a Russia-US hot war in Syria
In Syria, an ancient game is being played - with people, countries and strategic goals as pawns.
Mark Langfan, 13/04/17 14:25
When you boil Syria down to its principal players, there are only three: Russia, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. With Assad’s chemical attack, people have been misdirected from the reality by blaming the powerless Assad. But Assad doesn’t mvoe without direct Iranian permission. So, the real question is why did Iran launch a chemical weapons attack? The answer is simple: Iran desperately needs Russia and the United States to get into a hot war in Syria so as to enable Iran to pick up the shattered pieces. In contrast, the United States and Russia desperately need each other to defeat Iran’s waxing neo-Safavidic Empire from stretching from Iran to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. In order to see why Iran is attempting to foment a Russia/US battle, one has to boil the Syrian theater into the child’s hand-against-hand game of ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS-shoot. When one child flashes PAPER against the other child’s ROCK, the “paper” envelops and beats the rock. When one child flashes PAPER against the other child’s SCISSORS, the scissors cuts and beats the paper. When one child flashes SCISSORS against the other child’s ROCK the rock smashes and beats the scissors. Russia is the “rock,” Iran is the “paper,” and the United States is the “scissors.” Iran’s strategy is to envelope Syria like a piece of paper, topologically combining Iran’s Iraqi “paper,” along with Iran’s Hezbollah/Lebanon “paper” to form a patchwork-quilt Shiite Empire spanning from Iran/Persia through Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea. As an example of this, Iran just announced it was to build a trans-Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon railroad. Russia is the "rock" trying to bash the Sunni opposition to pieces in order to carve-out its eastern Mediterranean naval outpost and military enclave. The United States, through Sec of Def Mattis, under the strategic cover of defeating ISIS in Eastern Syria is the "scissors" against Iran’s “paper” Shiite Empire. The United States with its indigenous allies is trying to efficiently occupy eastern Syria from the Kurds in the north to Jordan in the south. By topologically “cutting” off Iran’s patchwork piece of paper, Iraq, from Iran’s patchwork piece of paper, Syria, the United States is attempting to defeat Iran’s waxing paper Shiite Imanate. Before Iran’s chemical attack in the name of Assad, the western Syrian rock strategy of Russia, and the eastern scissors strategy of the United States were avoiding each other, complementing each other, and together quietly weakening the whole Syrian paper envelopment strategy of Iran. This was great for Russia and the US, but bad for Iran. Iran saw the United States’ cutting its patchwork-quilt in two in eastern Syria as an existential threat to the grand strategic arc of its contiguous Mesopotamian/Levantian/Mediterranean swatch of Empire. Therefore, Iran had to do something to instigate a hot war between the United States and Russia. And presto, Iran bombs civilians with Sarin using Assad’s planes, Assad takes the fall, and Russia and the United States are escalating against each other. Russia and the United States urgently need each other to thwart Iran’s scheme to control the Middle East. It is in both Russia’s and United States’ worst strategic interests to allow Iran to become the colossus of the Middle East. Syria is big enough for Russia and the United States to find a modus vivendi and live with each other, allowing each to achieve strategic goals. Russia and the United States have a mutually exact goal i- both aim to defeat the ISIS Sunni Caliphate and the Iranian Shiite Imanate. To defeat both Islamic radical terror threats requires Russia and the United States to work together, and not fight each other. In the current war against both Sunni and Shiite radical Islamic terror, the United States and Russia are critically necessary for one another as allies, not inimical enemies.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20391
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John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. (KJV)
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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Egyptian Coptic Christians Cancel Their Easter Celebrations
After the vicious Palm Sunday attacks last week, let us pray for the persecuted faithful in this solemn and soon-to-be-joyous season
by Leah Jessen | Updated 14 Apr 2017 at 8:01 AM
Our religious freedom allows us to celebrate Easter this year — but we should remember those around the world who are persecuted for practicing their faith. Nearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016, according to a report from the Center for Studies on New Religions. “As many as 600 million were prevented from practicing their faith through intimidation, forced conversions, bodily harm, or even death,” Fox News noted. Those numbers are so astounding they can barely be comprehended. This past Palm Sunday, bombings at churches in Egypt left the faithful everywhere highly aware of the existence of Christian persecution. Now, Egyptian Christians have canceled their Easter services and celebrations for this weekend after attacks from the Islamic State claimed the lives of over 40 people at two Coptic churches. Choosing instead to use the time as a period of mourning, the Minya Coptic Orthodox Diocese will limit Easter activities to prayers "without any festive manifestations," according to reports. Related: Christian Teacher Banned from Wearing Cross Necklace in Germany Most of the Christians in Egypt are Orthodox Coptic. The Coptics, as in Catholicism, have a pope that heads their church. The pope remained unharmed in the attacks. Police arrested 28 people "for their possible ties to the planning and financing of Sunday's attacks," Breitbart News reported. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency following the bombings. Related: ISIS Targets the Faithful During Palm Sunday Mass "The attacks constituted one of the deadliest days of violence against Christians in Egypt in decades and presented a challenge to the authority of the country's leader," a report in The New York Times noted. Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected ISIS extremists as they planned more attacks on Christians, the British publication The Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
https://www.lifezette.com/faithzette/egyptian-coptic-christians-cancel-their-easter-celebrations/
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EXCLUSIVE – Source: Nine Hamas Members Arrested for Attempting to Join Islamic State
by Ali Waked 12 Apr 2017
TEL AVIV — Hamas in recent days arrested nine of its militants who were trying to cross into the Egyptian Sinai with their weapons, apparently to join Waliyat Sinai, the Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt, according to an informed Hamas official. The alleged defectors were arrested outside a tunnel connecting the Palestinian side of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, with the Egyptian districts of the city, the source said. The militants were carrying Ak-47 rifles and RPJ shells, he added. According to a preliminary investigation conducted by the Hamas military wing’s intelligence corps, the detainees confessed to trying to join the Islamic State, stating that their move was driven by ideology, the official revealed. The detainees sought to join a string of dozens of other former Hamas militants who recently reportedly joined the ranks of IS. Meanwhile, a top pro-Hamas news site reported on Monday that a prime suspect in the assassination of top Hamas terrorist of Mazen Faqha on March 24. The report said that the first stage in the investigation was completed, and its results will be compiled into a report and submitted to Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar.
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This mechanic fixes anyone's car for free
Sheeka Sanahori , USA TODAY 11:37 a.m. ET April 12, 2017
POWDER SPRINGS, GA - One mechanic has figured out a way to eliminate much of the stress that comes with automobile repairs: do all the labor for free. David McCoy has been leading his Car Care team for 15 years. The retired air force mechanic has helped single mothers, and cancer patients, but he'll help anyone who says they need it. He says his criteria is, “Do you need it? If so, you qualify.” McCoy says the free repairs are especially important in his community, a suburb of metro-Atlanta, because it doesn't offer public transportation. Forty volunteers do the repairs twice a month. In 2016, he and his team donated $68,000 worth of labor and car parts. McEachern Memorial United Methodist Church gives donations to keep Car Care running.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/humankind/2017/04/12/mechanic-fixes-anyones-car-free/100365208/
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Detroit doctor first to be charged under federal law against female genital mutilation
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 13, 2017
A Detroit emergency room physician was charged in federal court Thursday with performing female genital mutilations on two girls in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the U.S., and authorities suspect she may have been engaging in the practice for years. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala is accused of performing mutilation procedures this year on at least two girls in a medical clinic in Livonia, Michigan. According to court documents, investigators believe she may have been involved in carrying out other procedures as far back as 2005. The case is believed to be the first in which prosecutors have charged someone with performing female genital mutilation, which involves the removal of all or part of the genitals, under a 1996 federal statute banning the practice in the U.S. “Female genital mutilation constitutes a particularly brutal form of violence against women and girls. It is also a serious federal felony in the United States,” said Daniel Lemisch, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, where the charges were filed. “The practice has no place in modern society, and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law,” he said. Female genital mutilation is practiced most commonly in the Middle East and Africa, especially in majority Muslim countries. Its practitioners generally believe it to be religiously mandated, but scholars and theologians hotly dispute that argument. The practice is rare in many other majority Muslim societies. The criminal complaint filed in court makes no mention of Dr. Nagarwala’s religion or ethnic background, stating only that she as well as the families of the two girls were members of a community that is known to conduct female genital mutilations as part of its religious and cultural practice. Dr. Nagarwala was listed as an emergency room physician who speaks both English and Gujarati — a language used in western India — on the website of the Henry Ford Health System, where she worked. The Detroit Free Press reported that Dr. Nagarwala appeared in federal court Thursday afternoon wearing a white headscarf, glasses and a long white dress with multicolored embroidery. She was ordered held in detention pending the results of a bond hearing Monday. The paper reported that two male family members were in the courtroom but declined to comment to reporters, as did Dr. Nagarwala’s defense attorney. According to a criminal complaint filed in court, FBI agents were tipped off from unidentified sources that Dr. Nagarwala was performing female genital mutilation procedures. Agents said they interviewed two 7-year-old girls who told them that they traveled together from Minnesota with their families to see the doctor at a medical clinic. One of the girls told investigators that the visit had been billed as a special girls’ trip, and the other said her parents instructed her not to tell anyone about the procedure. The girls described the procedures to investigators, and subsequent examinations showed evidence that their genitalia had been cut. A parent of one of the victims told investigators that they had taken the girl to the doctor for a “cleansing” of extra skin, the court documents state. A Michigan branch of child protective services subsequently conducted interviews of other girls in the area, and the children indicated that they had undergone similar procedures by Dr. Nagarwala, the affidavit states. A Henry Ford spokesman told The Detroit News that the doctor was put on administrative leave. “The alleged criminal activity did not occur at any Henry Ford facility,” health system spokesman David Olejarz told the paper. “We would never support or condone anything related to this practice.” The court documents do not identify the medical clinic where the procedures took place and state only that the doctor was not employed at that clinic. A study last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that 513,000 women and girls in the U.S. had undergone or were at risk of being subjected to female genital mutilation. Some cultures believe the painful procedures will initiate girls into adulthood or ensure their virginity or fidelity, according to Equality Now, a human rights organization. The World Health Organization recognizes female genital mutilation as a human rights violation. The U.S. outlawed the practice in 1996, but prosecutors said this case is believed to be the first in which federal charges have been brought under that law. In 2006, Georgia prosecutors obtained a conviction for aggravated battery and cruelty to children against a father who used a pair of scissors to remove his daughter’s clitoris. The father, Khalid Adem, was an Ethiopian immigrant who spent 10 years in prison and was deported from the U.S. this year.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/13/detroit-doctor-accused-female-genital-mutilation/
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Officials: Melted fuel still leaking out of Fukushima reactor — Likely escaping from opening at bottom of containment vessel — Gov’t experts want to give up sending in robots to search for molten cores — “Disaster the likes of which has never been known”
Published: April 11th, 2017 at 9:27 am ET By Enenews Staff
Mainichi, Mar 28, 2017 (emphasis added): [TEPCO] failed to locate melted nuclear fuel inside the No. 1 reactor at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant… [T]he latest survey on the No. 1 reactor also failed to obtain data necessary to extract melted fuel, such as where the fuel is located. Therefore, the utility is compelled to consider fetching melted fuel in the absence of sufficient data… [T]he robot explored an area around the opening for workers at the bottom of the container vessel… It is believed that most of the melted fuel at the No. 1 reactor has spread across the contaminated water accumulating at the bottom of its container vessel. TEPCO believes that melted fuel is likely leaking from the opening. Asahi Shimbun, Mar 24, 2017: Some Nuclear Regulation Authority members are skeptical of continuing to send robots into reactors in the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant… These regulators are increasingly calling for a new survey methodology after recent investigations utilizing robots controlled remotely generated few findings and were quickly terminated… The lower part of the reactor’s containment vessel is submerged in water where deposits of fuel debris are believed to reside below the surface after melting through… TEPCO and the government… have yet to collect information on the location, amount and condition of the melted fuel… [T]he surveys centering around the robots so far have failed to produce meaningful results. Asia Times, Mar 10, 2017: The robots are part of an unprecedented task, challenging engineers to come up with technology that doesn’t exist to deal with a nuclear disaster the likes of which has never been known.
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U.S. Gold Bullion Exports To Hong Kong Surge, 82% Of Total Shipments
Posted by SRSrocco in News, Precious Metals on April 10, 2017
U.S. gold bullion exports to Asia started off with a bang in 2017, as the majority of the total shipped in January went to Hong Kong. Not only did the U.S. export most of its gold bullion to Hong Kong, it was the highest monthly amount in quite some time. Looking back at the data for the past two years, Hong Kong’s highest monthly amount of gold bullion imported from the United States was less than half of what was shipped in January. According to the USGS, the U.S. exported 31.6 metric tons (mt) of gold bullion to Hong Kong, 82% of the total 38.1 mt shipped in January: The four other countries that received the remaining lion’s share was, China (2 mt), India (1.6 mt), Singapore (1 mt) and Switzerland (1 mt). If we assume that most of the gold bullion exported to Hong Kong made its way into China, then if we add the other 2 mt that China received, the total gold bullion shipped to China was more like 33.6 mt. Either way, the overwhelming majority of U.S. gold bullion exports in January went to Asian countries and India (35.2 mt). Switzerland only received 1 mt of gold bullion from the United States. However, Switzerland also received 14.3 mt of gold dore bars and precipitates from the U.S.. The majority of this amount likely came from domestic U.S. gold producers. Regardless, to see Hong Kong receive 82% of the United States finished gold bullion bars in January, is quite impressive to say the least. If we convert that from metric tons, it comes out to be a little more than a million oz. This is a great deal of gold because the United States domestic gold miners only produced 18.7 mt of gold (601,000 oz). Furthermore, the U.S. total gold imports in January (bullion, dore bar & precipitates) were 18.9 mt. Thus, total domestic mine supply plus imports equaled 37.6 mt. The U.S exported 84% of their total gold mine and import supply to Hong Kong. If we include the total amount of gold that the U.S. exported in January of 55.4 mt (bullion, dore bars & precipitates), the U.S. exported nearly 18 mt more gold than they produced and imported. Of course, the majority of U.S. gold continues to head EAST. This is a bad sign as the Federal Reserve and U.S. Govt continue to prop the domestic economy and financial system with Debt and Derivatives. Sure, China is also added a lot of debt, but they are also acquiring one hell of a lot of gold. When the overdue financial crash happens, and the dust settles, China and Russia will be holding onto a lot of physical gold while the WEST will be holding onto a lot of worthless paper. I tried to do research on why Hong Kong imported so much gold from the U.S. in January, but nothing really stuck out. It wasn’t due to lower prices as the gold price actually increased from $1,160 to $1,220 in January. So, the Chinese were not taking advantage of lower prices. It will be interesting to see how much more gold flows to the EAST this year as the U.S. economy and financial system begin to disintegrate. While the Dow Jones Index could continue to move higher on more HYPE and HOT AIR, its valuations are extremely over valued… so is the S & P 500. Please stay tuned for U.S. gold export updates as the USGS releases them.
https://srsroccoreport.com/u-s-gold-bullion-exports-to-hong-kong-surge-82-of-total-shipments/
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Live-Streamed Spectacular Solar Eruption (WATCH)
April 11, 2017
A solar eruption on Sept. 26, 2014, seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory affecting the ionosphere in all of Earth's northern latitudes. If erupted solar material reaches Earth, it can deplete the electrons in the upper atmosphere in some locations while adding electrons in others, disrupting communications either way. New research on solar storms finds that they not only can cause regions of excessive electrical charge in the upper atmosphere above Earth's poles, they also can do the exact opposite: cause regions that are nearly depleted of electrically charged particles. The finding adds to our knowledge of how solar storms affect Earth and could possibly lead to improved radio communication and navigation systems for the Arctic. A team of researchers from Denmark, the United States and Canada made the discovery while studying a solar storm that reached Earth on Feb. 19, 2014. The storms effects on Greenland were documented by a network of global navigation satellite system, or GNSS, stations as well as geomagnetic observatories and other resources. Attila Komjathy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, developed software to process the GNSS data and helped with the data processing. The results were published in the journal Radio Science. Solar storms often include an eruption on the sun called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. This is a vast cloud of electrically charged particles hurled into space that disturbs the interplanetary magnetic field in our solar system. When these particles and the magnetic disturbances encounter Earth's magnetic field, they interact in a series of complex physical processes, and trigger perturbations in the Earth's magnetic field. Those perturbations are called geomagnetic storms. The interactions may cause unstable patches of excess electrons in the ionosphere, an atmospheric region starting about 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth's surface that already contains ions and electrons. The 2014 geomagnetic storm was a result of two powerful Earth-directed CMEs. The storm initially produced patches of extra electrons in the ionosphere over northern Greenland, as usual. But just south of these patches, the scientists were surprised to find broad areas extending 300 to 600 miles (500 to 1,000 kilometers) where the electrons were "almost vacuumed out," in the words of Per Hoeg of the National Space Research Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby. These areas remained depleted of electrons for several days. The electrons in the ionosphere normally reflect radio waves back to ground level, enabling long-distance radio communications. Both electron depletion and electron increases in this layer can possibly cause radio communications to fail, reduce the accuracy of GPS systems, damage satellites and harm electrical grids. "We don't know exactly what causes the depletion," Komjathy said. "One possible explanation is that electrons are recombining with positively charged ions until there are no excess electrons. There could also be redistribution—electrons being displaced and pushed away from the region, not only horizontally but vertically." The paper is titled "Multiinstrument observations of a geomagnetic storm and its effects on the Arctic ionosphere: A case study of the 19 February 2014 storm." Lead author Tibor Durgonics is a doctoral student at the Technical University of Denmark. Richard Langley (University of New Brunswick, Canada) provided data sets and interpretation. The Daily Galaxy via Jet Propulsion Laboratory Image credit top of page: Wikipedia Commons
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US weather disasters 2017: Double than average and costing USA record-breaking $5 billions already
By Strange Sounds - Apr 11, 2017
The U.S. has endured a destructive start to 2017 from the multiple severe weather outbreaks since January. There have been 5,372 preliminary reports of severe weather across the United States in 2017 through April 8. This is more than than double the average of 2,274 for the same period of time during the past 10 years (2007-2016). In that decade, only 2008 had about the same number of severe weather reports by this point in the year with 5,242. The animation below shows how the occurrences of wind damage, large hail and tornadoes have piled up month-by-month this year. Portions of the South have been hit the hardest, but the Midwest has also seen a high concentration of severe weather reports. Seventy-one of 100 days have featured one or more reports of severe weather from Jan. 1-April 10. Monday marked the 26th consecutive day with at least one severe thunderstorm report logged in the U.S. Seven states have yet to see a report of severe weather in 2017: Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont. Severe thunderstorms are largely responsible for the record number of U.S. billion-dollar weather-related disasters in the first three months of 2017. Three separate severe weather outbreaks have caused damage of a billion dollars or more, NOAA says. This year has also been unusual in how far north severe weather, including tornadoes, has occurred for so early in the year: Massachusetts was hit by two EF1 tornadoes Feb. 25, one near Conway and another near Goshen. No other February tornadoes are known to have struck the state during that month in the historical record. Just over a week later, Minnesota experienced a similar rare early-season event when severe thunderstorms spawned three EF1 tornadoes March 6. Those were the earliest known twisters for a calendar year in the state by nearly two weeks.
http://strangesounds.org/2017/04/weather-disaster-usa-record-cost-billion-dollars.html
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East Coast gets early warning of quakes as Oregon and Washington switch on 'ShakeAlert' system already used in California
Could give people up to a minute of warning before strong shaking begins
Pilot projects being used to test the system ahead of public trials
By Associated Press Published: 15:55 EDT, 10 April 2017 | Updated: 11:46 EDT, 11 April 2017
An early warning system for earthquakes has been expanded to Oregon and Washington, joining California in testing a prototype that could give people seconds or up to a minute of warning before strong shaking begins. The system isn't ready to issue public quake warnings yet, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which has been working with university partners to develop the ShakeAlert system. But this version allows early adopters in Oregon and Washington to begin using the early signals to figure out what they need to do in the event of an earthquake. Such pilot projects are helping to make the system more reliable and pave the way for broader use. Officials with USGS, the University of Washington and others held a news conference Monday in Seattle to announce the system's roll out across the U.S. West Coast. California has been testing the production prototype since early 2016. Even a few seconds of advanced notice can help people to duck and cover or cities to slow trains, stop elevators or take other protective measures, agency officials say. In Washington state, a Seattle area firm RH2 Engineering has signed on as a pilot user to test the system to prevent water tank spills, The Seattle Times reported. The firm develops municipal water and sewage plants and hopes to use the system to be able to close valves in the event of an earthquake. 'The advantage of earthquake early warning is that it gives us forewarning that the shaking will occur, and we can be sure the valve is fully closed by the time the shaking starts,' the firm's Dan Ervin told the newspaper. The company is working on software and hardware to process the warning signals and automatically close valves. HOW IT WORKS ShakeAlert uses underground seismometers across the West Coast that measure the waves of energy coming from the ground. The data is sent to a computer to determine whether an earthquake is about to occur and if so, its location. It then sends out a warning to systems such as TV sets, mobile phones and home security networks to warn the public of how much time they have before shaking takes place. Several seconds is enough time to protect lives, shut down industrial processes and halt transportation before the shaking begins.
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From Vesuvius to Krakatoa, researchers reveal the world's five deadliest volcanoes
Expert reveals five of the deadliest volcanoes around the world
Includes Vesuvius, Italy, Changbaishan, China and Popocatepetl, Mexico
Also, Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Krakatoa, Indonesia
By Matthew Blackett With The Conversation Published: 17:50 EDT, 10 April 2017 | Updated: 18:01 EDT, 10 April 2017
An eruption of Mount Etna recently caught out some BBC journalists who were filming there. The footage was extraordinary and highlighted the hazards volcanoes pose to humans and society. Since 1600, 278,880 people have been killed by volcanic activity, with many of these deaths attributed to secondary hazards associated with the main eruption. Starvation killed 92,000 following the 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia, for example, and a volcanic tsunami killed 36,000 following the 1883 Krakatoa eruption. Since the 1980s, deaths related to volcanic eruptions have been rather limited, but this is not entirely a result of increased preparedness or investment in hazard management – it is significantly a matter of chance. Research shows that volcanic activity has shown no let up since the turn of the 21st century – it just hasn't been around population centres. Indeed, there remain a number of volcanoes poised to blow which pose a major threat to life and livelihood. DEADLY VOLCANOES Vesuvius, Italy Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo Popocatepetl, Mexico Krakatoa, Indonesia Changbaishan, China Vesuvius, Italy Known for its 79AD eruption, which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, Vesuvius is still a significant hazard given that it overshadows the city of Naples and its surrounds, which are home to over 3m people. It is also known for a particularly intense form of eruption. Plinian (after Pliny the Younger who was the first to describe the 79AD event) eruptions are characterised by the ejection of a vast column of gas and ash which extends into the stratosphere, far higher than commercial airliners fly. Were such an eruption to occur at Vesuvius today, it is likely that much of the population would already have been evacuated as a precursory swarm of earthquakes would likely herald its imminent approach. THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII, AS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE Ancient roman Bodies Italy Pompeii Volcanic. Victims in the remains of Pompeii, destroyed in AD79 +7 Ancient roman Bodies Italy Pompeii Volcanic. Victims in the remains of Pompeii, destroyed in AD79 An administrator and poet called Pliny the younger watched the disaster unfold from a distance. Letters describing what he saw were found in the 16th century. His writing suggests that the eruption caught the residents of Pompeii unawares. He said that a column of smoke 'like an umbrella pine' rose from the volcano and made the towns around it as black as night. People ran for their lives with torches, screaming and some wept as rain of ash and pumice fell for several hours. While the eruption lasted for around 24 hours, the first pyroclastic surges began at midnight, causing the volcano's column to collapse. An avalanche of hot ash, rock and poisonous gas rushed down the side of the volcano at 124mph (199kph), burying victims and remnants of everyday life. Hundreds of refugees sheltering in the vaulted arcades at the seaside in Herculaneum, clutching their jewellery and money, were killed instantly. As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate how many people died, the event was said to be 'exceptional' and the number of deaths is thought to exceed 10,000. But those who remained would initially be showered with huge pumice rocks too large to be kept aloft by the column of gas. Then, as the volcano began to run out of energy, the column itself would collapse, causing smaller particles of rock (from fine ash to small boulders) to fall from the sky and back to Earth at high velocity. Asphyxiating clouds of gas and pulverised rock – pyroclastic density currents – would then flood down the slopes of the volcano, annihilating anything in their path. Such gas-ash features have been known to travel tens of kilometres and at terrifying speeds, potentially turning modern Naples into a new Pompeii. Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo This central African volcano has erupted several times over the last few decades and while its eruptions aren't particularly explosive, it produces a particularly runny – and dangerous – form of lava. Once effused, this lava can rapidly move down the flanks of the volcano and inundate areas with little or no warning. In 2002 (pictured), the lava lake at Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo summit was breached, resulting in streams of lava hurtling towards the nearby city of Goma at 60km/h, engulfing parts of it to a depth of two metres In 2002, the lava lake at the volcano's summit was breached, resulting in streams of lava hurtling towards the nearby city of Goma at 60km/h, engulfing parts of it to a depth of two metres. Fortunately, warnings had been issued as the volcano's unrest has made it the focus of intense research – and over 300,000 people were evacuated in time. Should such an event occur again, we have to hope that the authorities are equally prepared, but this is a politically unstable area and it remains seriously vulnerable. Popocatepetl, Mexico 'Popo', as the locals call it, is just 70km south-west of the one of the largest cities in the world: Mexico City, home to 20m people. Popo is regularly active and its most recent bout of activity in 2016 sent a plume of ash to an altitude of five kilometres. In recent times, and indeed throughout much of its history, eruptive events at Popo have consisted of similarly isolated ash plumes. But these plumes coat the mountain in a thick blanket of ash which, when mixed with water, can form a dense muddy mixture which has the potential to flow for many kilometres and at relatively high speeds. Such phenomena, known as 'lahars', can be extremely deadly, as exemplified by the Nevado del Ruiz disaster of 1985 when around 26,000 people were killed in the town of Armero, Colombia, by a lahar with a volcanic source that was 60km away. 'Popo', as the locals call it, is just 70km south-west of the one of the largest cities in the world: Mexico City, home to 20m people. Popo is regularly active and its most recent bout of activity in 2016 sent a plume of ash to an altitude of five kilometres (pictured is an eruption in 2013) The Nevado del Ruiz tragedy was the direct result of volcanic activity melting ice at the volcano's summit, but a large volume of rainfall or snowmelt could feasibly generate a similar lahar on Popo. This could flow down-slope towards nearby settlements with little or no warning. Krakatoa, Indonesia Otherwise named Krakatau, Krakatoa's name is infamous; 36,000 people were killed by the tsunami triggered by its 1886 eruption, which released more energy than 13,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The eruption destroyed the volcanic island completely, but within 50 years, a new island had appeared in its place. The new island is named Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa) and since the 1920s, it has been growing in episodic phases, reaching about 300 metres in height today. But these plumes coat the mountain in a thick blanket of ash which, when mixed with water, can form a dense muddy mixture which has the potential to flow for many kilometres and at relatively high speeds. Such phenomena, known as 'lahars', can be extremely deadly, as exemplified by the Nevado del Ruiz disaster of 1985 when around 26,000 people were killed in the town of Armero, Colombia, by a lahar with a volcanic source that was 60km away 'Popo', as the locals call it, is just 70km south-west of the one of the largest cities in the world: Mexico City, home to 20m people. Popo is regularly active and its most recent bout of activity in 2016 sent a plume of ash to an altitude of five kilometres (pictured is an eruption in 2013) +7 'Popo', as the locals call it, is just 70km south-west of the one of the largest cities in the world: Mexico City, home to 20m people. Popo is regularly active and its most recent bout of activity in 2016 sent a plume of ash to an altitude of five kilometres (pictured is an eruption in 2013) The Nevado del Ruiz tragedy was the direct result of volcanic activity melting ice at the volcano's summit, but a large volume of rainfall or snowmelt could feasibly generate a similar lahar on Popo. This could flow down-slope towards nearby settlements with little or no warning. Krakatoa, Indonesia Otherwise named Krakatau, Krakatoa's name is infamous; 36,000 people were killed by the tsunami triggered by its 1886 eruption, which released more energy than 13,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The eruption destroyed the volcanic island completely, but within 50 years, a new island had appeared in its place. The new island is named Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa) and since the 1920s, it has been growing in episodic phases, reaching about 300 metres in height today. Otherwise named Krakatau, Krakatoa's name is infamous; 36,000 people were killed by the tsunami triggered by its 1886 eruption, which released more energy than 13,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs (pictured is an eruption in 2003) +7 Otherwise named Krakatau, Krakatoa's name is infamous; 36,000 people were killed by the tsunami triggered by its 1886 eruption, which released more energy than 13,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs (pictured is an eruption in 2003) KRAKATU'S DEADLY BLOW Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more. It has been Almost 134 years since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over. With an explosive force 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa killed more than 36,000 people and radically altered global weather and temperatures for years afterwards. The eruption was so violent and catastrophic that no active volcano in modern times has come close to rivalling it, not even the spectacular eruption of Mount St Helens in the U.S. in 1980 New and significant activity commenced in 2007 and since this time, further episodes of activity were noted at the volcano, most recently in March 2017. No one knows for sure whether or not the spectacular growth of Anak Krakatau means it may one day repeat the catastrophe its 'father' unleashed, but its location between Indonesia's two most populated islands, Java and Sumatra, means it poses a grave threat to life. Changbaishan, China Few have heard of this volcano in a remote part of Asia – and its last eruption was in 1903. However, its history tells a rather scarier story. In around 969AD, the volcano produced one of the largest eruptions of the last 10,000 years, releasing three times more material than Krakatoa did in 1886. In around 969AD, Changbaishan, China produced one of the largest eruptions of the last 10,000 years, releasing three times more material than Krakatoa did in 1886. One of the chief hazards is posed by the massive crater lake (pictured) at its peak One of the chief hazards is posed by the massive crater lake at its peak (with a volume of about nine cubic kilometres). If breached, this lake could generate lahars that would pose a significant threat to the 100,000 people that live in the vicinity. In the early 2000s, scientists began monitoring the hitherto under-monitored volcano, and determined that its activity was increasing, that its magma chamber dormancy was coming to an end, and that it could pose a hazard in the following decades. Further complicating things is the fact that Changbaishan straddles the border of China and North Korea. Given such a geo-politically sensitive location, the effects of any volcanic activity here would likely be very hard to manage. Matthew Blackett, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards, Coventry University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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Vladimir Putin says US is preparing to bomb Syrian capital and will blame devastation on Bashar-al Assad's forces
The Russian leader made the astonishing claim during a press conference with the Italian President Sergio Mattarella
By Anthony BondStephen Jones 14:01, 11 APR 2017Updated23:13, 11 APR 2017
Vladimir Putin has sensationally claimed that the US is preparing airstrikes on the Syrian capital - and will pin the blame on Bashar-al Assad's forces. The Russian leader made the astonishing claim - that the US is planning to FAKE chemicals weapons attacks - during a joint press conference with the Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/vladimir-putin-says-preparing-bomb-10201886?service=responsive
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Russia Sends More Warships Toward Syria Following U.S. Tomahawk Strikes
By: Sam LaGrone April 10, 2017 3:38 PM • Updated: April 10, 2017 4:12 PM
A Russian Navy surface action group is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean departing shortly after a U.S. Tomahawk missile strike on a Syrian airfield, a U.S. defense official told USNI News on Monday. Two Steregushchiy-class corvettes, an ocean tug and a fleet oiler departed from the naval base in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on Saturday bound for the Eastern Mediterranean and likely Syria, the official told USNI News. The ships from the Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet are set to arrive in the next several days off the coast of Syria. The Russian SAG will join the guided missile frigate Admiral Grigorovich that sortied from the Black Sea on Friday after a nine-day resupply period. Steregushchiy-class corvettes are among the more modern Russian ships – constructed in the early 2000s — with some versions of the ship capable of fielding the Russian Kalibir NK long range land attack cruise missiles. The Russians have used the weapon – with similar ranges of U.S. Tomahawks – as part of combined Russian and al-Assad loyal forces campaign against rebels in Aleppo fired from Admiral Grigorovich. The 2,200-ton guided missile corvettes are, “designed for operations in adjacent maritime zones, fighting enemy surface ships and submarines, as well as to provide naval gunfire support for amphibious landings,” according to a U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence report. The both the SAG and Admiral Grigorovich left their homeports shortly after U.S. guided missile destroyers USS Ross (DDG-71) and USS Porter (DDG-78) launched 59 Tomahawk missiles targeting the al-Shayrat airfield, the alleged base from which Syrian Su-22s conducted an April 4 chemical weapon strike against civilians Khan Sheikhoun. The U.S. determined the strike was conducted by forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. “The assessment of the Department of Defense is that the strike resulted in the damage or destruction of fuel and ammunition sites, air defense capabilities, and 20 percent of Syria’s operational aircraft,” read a Monday statement from U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis. ”The Syrian government has lost the ability to refuel or rearm aircraft at Shayrat airfield and at this point, use of the runway is of idle military interest. The Syrian government would be ill-advised ever again to use chemical weapons.” Porter and Ross are part of the U.S. Navy’s four-ship forward deployed destroyer force based in Rota, Spain. While the ships are primarily focused on regional ballistic missile defense, they have also been employed for presence operations in the U.S European Command and U.S. Africa Command. Having the forward deployed assets already in the Mediterranean accelerated the U.S. response to the April 4 attack, Pentagon officials told USNI News last week. “These platforms provide an option for the leadership for a measured and deliberate strike. That’s their value,” Capt. Paul Stader – former commander of USS Hue City (CG-66) and Ross — told USNI News on Friday. “[Tomahawks] are very short notice and are capable of executing within a very tight timeline. They’ve evolved over the years that we’ve had them in the inventory and they’re a very capable option for leadership if we want them.”
https://news.usni.org/2017/04/10/russia-sends-warships-toward-syria-following-u-s-tomahawk-strikes
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Putin Responds: Syria Strikes "Cripple US-Russia Relations"; Deploys Missile Warship To Syria
by Tyler Durden Apr 7, 2017 8:12 AM
Responding to Trump's unexpected military attack on Syria in which 59 cruise missiles were launched (of which only 23 allegedly hit their target), Russian President Vladimir Putin "regards the strikes as aggression against a sovereign nation,” his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, noting that the president believes the strikes were carried out “in violation of international law, and also under an invented pretext.” The Kremlin spokesman insisted that “the Syrian army doesn’t have chemical weapons,” saying this had been “observed and confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a special UN unit.” The Russian president said he sees the US missile strikes as an attempt to distract attention from civilian casualties in Iraq, Peskov added. “This step deals significant damage to US-Russian ties, which are already in a deplorable state,” Peskov said and added that the US has been ignoring the use of chemical weapons by terrorists and this is dramatically aggravating the situation, in Putin’s opinion. “The main thing, Putin believes, is that this move [by the U.S.] doesn’t draw us nearer to the end goal in the fight with international terrorism and on the contrary, deals a serious setback to the creation of an international coalition in the fight with it,” Peskov said. Other Russians took the opportunity to opine as well, led by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov who said the US missile attack on a Syrian airbase is an act of aggression under a far-fetched pretext and is reminiscent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Quoted by Tass, the top Russian diplomat said "It is an act of aggression under a completely far-fetched pretext. This is reminiscent of the situation in 2003, when the US and the UK, along with some of their allies, invaded Iraq without the consent of the UN Security Council and in violation of international law." "When speaking about the military intervention in Iraq many years after it happened, Tony Blair (who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007) acknowledged that they had misled everybody," Lavrov emphasized. "Now they did not even bother to provide any facts referring only to photos," he noted. "They indulged in speculations on children’s photos, on evidence provided by various non-governmental organizations, including the so-called White Helmets, which staged various 'incidents' to instigate action against the Syrian government." Moscow will demand truth of Idlib events, Lavrov stressed. "It is regrettable that all these causes do more harm to the already damaged relations between Russia and the United States. Hope remains that these provocations will not entail irreversible effects," Lavrov said. Russian lawmakers also took to the microphone on Friday, warning that the U.S. airstrikes in Syria could lead to an escalation of conflict in the Middle East and dash any plans for a U.S.-Russian coalition against terrorism. “It’s a new round of escalation in the Middle East. These ill-judged, irresponsible actions don’t contribute to global security, security in the Middle East,” Andrei Krasov, the first deputy head of the defense committee in the Russian lower house of parliament, told state news agency RIA. “Other military conflicts, an expansion of military conflicts, are entirely possible,” he added. Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev said the airstrikes meant the possibility of a broad antiterror coalition in Syria “bites the dust before it was even born.” He said the aim of the U.S. strike was to “rubber stamp” responsibility on Mr. Assad’s for the chemical attack in Idlib province on Tuesday. “‘The walls of Trump’ are multiplying. And everything started so well. It’s a real shame,” said a post on the Facebook page of Mr. Kosachev, head of the international relations committee in Russia’s upper house of Parliament. Another lawmaker, Mikhail Emelyanov, warned against the risk of clashes between Russian and U.S. forces. “The U.S. is being dragged into the war in Syria in the full knowledge that Russia is supporting Syria and our troops are there, which means it’s fraught with direct clashes between Russia and the U.S. and the consequences could be the most serious, even armed clashes and exchanges of strikes,” Mr. Emelyanov told Interfax news agency. In immediate response, Moscow suspended its memorandum of understanding on flight safety in Syria with the US following the missile strike, calling the attack “a demonstration of force.” The Russian military has supported the Syrian government’s version of the events in Idlib, saying that Damascus attacked an arms depot where chemical weapons had been stockpiled by Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front militants. “Without bothering to investigate anything, the US went forward with a demonstration of force, a military confrontation with a country that is fighting international terrorism,” the Foreign Ministry’s statement reads. “Obviously, the cruise missile attack was prepared beforehand. Any expert can tell that the decision to strike was made in Washington before the events in Idlib, which were used as a pretext for a demonstration,” the statement reads The Memorandum on air safety was signed in October 2015, after Russia came to Syria to fight international terrorism at the invitation of the country’s government. The document of understanding was designed to prevent possible mishaps between the Russian and US Air Forces operating independently in the region. Russia’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the attack as an example of the “reckless attitude” that has only worsened “existing world issues” and created a “threat to international security.” Additionally, according to Tass, in response to the strikes, the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich armed with Kalibr cruise missiles will be deployed to the Tartus naval base in Syria. The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s frigate The Admiral Grigorovich, currently on a routine voyage, will enter the Mediterranean later on Friday, a military-diplomatic source in Moscow told TASS, adding that the ship would make a stop at the logistics base in Syria’s port of Tartus. "The Russian ship armed with cruise missiles Kalibr will visit the logistics base in Tartus, Syria," the source said.
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Pieczenik Explodes: Issues Warning To Trump, Mattis AND McMaster About Going To War In Syria
by The_Real_Fly Apr 10, 2017 11:34 PM
America's foremost expert in international affairs, having served under 5 Presidents, instrumental in the Camp David accords, in addition to playing a key role in regime changes around the globe for decades, Dr. Steve Pieczenik exploded with rage on the Alex Jones show yesterday -- warning Trump and his team that war crimes would follow if they pursued a neocon agenda of war in Syria, which the American people do not want. "This is a warning to our generals, Mcmaster, and others, who think they can do a regime change in Syria. Number one, that will not be possible, not with the military, not with all the forces you have and not with the quality of the soldiers you have, the generals. Any notion of a regime change through force is both absurd or criminal. The issue of Syria and Assad have no national security interests to us at all. This will be an incredible dereliction of duty if we go to war in Syria." He then warned Mcmaster and Mattis directly, saying that he will "come forth, and be tried for criminal activity, as will Mathis." "There is no reason to put our men and women in harm's way for oil pipelines, or whatever nonsense that is military industrial complex thinks we need to do to get in the middle east. We have no interest in the middle east." "There is no cause for war." "Again, we're going through the nonsense of the neocons." Dr. Pieczenik made his first public appearance in more than 30 years during the Presidential elections, saying in no uncertain terms that he represented a faction of the American intelligence community that would not allow Hillary Clinton to become the next President. Moreover, he claimed to be part of an organization that released the Podesta emails to Wikileaks. Interestingly, the mainstream media continues to ignore the good Doctor -- in spite of the fact that is resume is anything but conspiratorial. He is the real deal. At one point in the interview, he got so heated that Jones had to cut him off when he threatened legal action against the President. "If this goes any step further, this is a warning to our generals, to our President, and anyone involved. Once again, we will react quite vociferously and strongly. This is grounds for all types of legal action against the President." He further elaborated on the situation in Syria as a war that is unwinnable, describing how the Assad family was firmly entrenched and could not be displaced by American forces, who have 'no idea what they're doing.' "The people I know in the military are increasing their force structures to the degree that there is no strategy whatsoever. If you have no strategy, and regime change isn't a strategy, do not go to war." "The President needs to understand, if he goes to war, that's his problem and we will have a major blowback, domestically. Our military is not prepared for this type of war. Our generals have no idea what they're doing." A confused Jones, obviously caught off guard by the acrimonious tone of Dr. Pieczenik, asked what had changed from Friday to cause him to issues these warnings. Pieczenik described, from a psyops point of view, the things he learned over the weekend that caused him to worry. "But once I hear, and I understand there are more forces placed there over the weekend, there was artillery placed in there. And in fact, they are creating in the White House, what we call a dichotomy or two messages." "You have a purposeful confusion." "Do not go to war in Syria."
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North Korea warns of nuclear strike if provoked; Trump 'armada' steams on
Tue Apr 11, 2017 | 10:35pm EDT By Sue-Lin Wong and David Brunnstrom | PYONGYANG/WASHINGTON
North Korean state media warned on Tuesday of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of American aggression, as a U.S. Navy strike group steamed toward the western Pacific - a force U.S. President Donald Trump described as an "armada". Trump, who has urged China to do more to rein in its impoverished ally and neighbor, said in a tweet that North Korea was "looking for trouble" and the United States would "solve the problem" with or without Beijing's help. Tension has escalated sharply on the Korean peninsula amid concerns that reclusive North Korea may soon conduct a sixth nuclear test and after Washington said at the weekend it was diverting the aircraft carrier strike group Carl Vinson toward the Korean peninsula in a show of force. "We are sending an armada. Very powerful," Trump told Fox Business Network. "We have submarines. Very powerful. Far more powerful than the aircraft carrier. That I can tell you.” Referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trump said: “He is doing the wrong thing.” Asked if he thought Kim was mentally fit, Trump replied: “I don’t know. I don’t know him.” North Korea said earlier it was prepared to respond to any U.S. aggression. "Our revolutionary strong army is keenly watching every move by enemy elements with our nuclear sight focused on the U.S. invasionary bases not only in South Korea and the Pacific operation theater but also in the U.S. mainland," its official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said. In spite of the military rhetoric, U.S. officials have previously stressed that stronger sanctions are the most likely U.S. course to press North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. At the same time, Washington has said all options - including military ones - are on the table and that a U.S. strike last week against Syria should serve as a warning to Pyongyang. The strike group heading toward Korea includes the nuclear-powered flagship aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, two destroyers and a cruiser. Such a strike group is generally accompanied by submarines, although the Pentagon does not normally publicize this. "PRUDENT" MOVE U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the deployment was not tied to a specific event but a matter of prudence. "She is just on her way up there because that is where we thought it was most prudent to have her at this time," he said at a Pentagon news conference. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump had put North Korea "clearly on notice" that he would not tolerate certain actions but dismissed Pyongyang's nuclear attack threat. "I think there is no evidence that North Korea has that capability at this time," he said. "Threatening something that you don't have the capability of isn't really a threat." North Korea remains technically at war with the United States and its ally South Korea after the 1950-1953 Korean conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. It regularly threatens to destroy both countries. However, North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests, two of them last year, and is working to develop nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States, presenting Trump with perhaps his most pressing security headache. South Korea's acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, warned of "greater provocations" by North Korea, including a possible nuclear test, given a meeting of the country's Supreme People's Assembly and upcoming national anniversaries. He ordered the military to intensify monitoring and ensure close communication with Washington. North Korea convened a Supreme People's Assembly session on Tuesday, one of twice-yearly sessions attended by leader Kim Jong-un, and reported a successful national budget execution and personnel appointments, the official KCNA news agency said. The agency made no mention of North Korea's nuclear weapons program or being under threat from the United States. Saturday is the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, North Korea's founding father and grandfather of the current ruler. A military parade is expected in Pyongyang to mark the day and North Korea often marks important anniversaries with tests of its nuclear or missile capabilities. Men and women in colorful outfits were singing and dancing on the streets of Pyongyang, illuminated by better lighting than seen in previous years, apparently practicing for the parade. TRUMP PRESSES CHINA Trump said a trade deal between China and the United States would be "far better for them if they solved the North Korea problem". "If China decides to help, that would be great," he tweeted. "If not, we will solve the problem without them!" Trump pressed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to do more on North Korea at a meeting in Florida last week. China's U.N. ambassador, Liu Jieyi, called the Korean situation "tense" and repeated China's call for a return to dialogue with North Korea. “We believe that it is highly important to move toward denuclearization, to maintain peace and stability, and it’s time that different sides sit down to talk about achieving these objectives,” he told Reuters. Asked about Trump linking a trade deal to China’s help with North Korea: “We need to look at the situation on the Korean Peninsula as something that we should work together on.” South Korean officials sought to quell social media talk of an impending crisis, and Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-kyun urged people "not to get blinded by exaggerated assessment about the security situation". North Korea's foreign ministry said the approach of the U.S. Navy strike group showed Washington's "reckless moves for invading had reached a serious phase". "We will take the toughest counteraction against the provocateurs in order to defend ourselves by powerful force of arms and keep to the road chosen by ourselves," an unidentified ministry spokesman said. U.S. officials said at the weekend the carrier group would take more than a week to reach waters near the Korean peninsula. A statement from U.S. forces in South Korea on Tuesday said General Vincent Brooks, commander of United States Forces Korea, would not attend a Congressional hearing expected this month because of the "security situation on the Korean Peninsula." The statement said the step was not unprecedented. Russia's Foreign Ministry, ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, said it was concerned about many aspects of U.S. foreign policy, particularly North Korea. "We are really worried about what Washington has in mind for North Korea after it hinted at the possibility of a unilateral military scenario," the ministry said in a statement. China and South Korea agreed on Monday to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea if it carried out nuclear or long-range missile tests, a senior official in Seoul said. On Tuesday, a fleet of North Korean cargo ships headed home, mostly fully laden, after China ordered its trading companies to return coal, sources with direct knowledge of the trade said. China banned all imports of North Korean coal, the country's most important export, on Feb. 26, but Washington has questioned how well the sanction was being implemented. (Additional reporting by Ju-min Park and Jack Kim in Seoul, Idrees Ali, David Brunnstrom, Ayesha Rascoe and Eric Beech in Washington, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Andrew Osborn in Moscow; Editing by Tom Heneghan and James Dalgleish)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-idUSKBN17D0A4
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USA and North Korea Could Soon Go To War, Possibly Nuclear War; Trump Advisers Prepare For ‘Show of Force’
By @truther2127 - 04/10/2017
The United States of America could soon be taking North Korea to war. Kim Jung-Un, the tyrant from N. Korea, has pushed too many buttons and warranted a response from the Trump administration. The USA deployed a Navy strike group to the region and Kim’s regime is lashing out at the move by the US calling it ‘reckless moves for invading.’ Only time will tell how it plays out, below are the links used in the report above.
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China's nuke envoy embarks on S. Korea trip to discuss N. Korea issue
2017/04/10 13:40
SEOUL, April 10 (Yonhap) -- China's top nuclear envoy arrived in Seoul on Monday to discuss the growing threats from North Korea's missile and nuclear capabilities. Wu Dawei landed at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, for a four- or five-day trip. Upon arrival, he didn't respond to reporters asking for comments, only saying, "Thank you." He is scheduled to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart Kim Hong-kyun in the afternoon followed by a meeting over dinner. They last met in Beijing in December. The Seoul meeting is also expected to provide a chance for the Seoul government to listen to China's take on the outcome of the recent summit talks between the United States and China, the decision by Seoul and Washington to deploy a Terminal High Attitude Area Defense system in South Korea and concerns over North Korea's possible additional provocations, among other things. Tensions are running high amid speculation that the North might carry out an additional nuclear test or a long-range missile launch this month, which experts say is filled with big events for Pyongyang to celebrate. During his stay, Wu also plans to meet major presidential candidates or their campaign officials to exchange views on key diplomatic issues concerning the two countries ahead of the May 9 election. kokobj@yna.co.kr
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/04/10/0200000000AEN20170410006500315.html
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Not Prepared: Will Most Americans Be Absolutely Blindsided By Multiple Wars And A Simultaneous Economic Collapse?
Posted on April 11, 2017 Written by Michael Snyder
According to CBS News, an astounding three-fourths of all Americans have to “scramble to cover their living costs” each month. In other words, most of the country is either living paycheck to paycheck or very close to it. But instead of tightening their belts and trying to put something away for the very hard times that are coming, most Americans are completely and utterly unprepared for what is ahead because the people that they trust on television keep telling them that everything is going to be okay. Unfortunately, everything is not going to be “okay”, and when things start falling apart all around us there is going to be a lot of anger directed toward those that have been lulling everyone into a false sense of security. One of the reasons why I am sounding the alarm so loudly is so that people will not be blindsided by the things that are about to happen to this country. As you will see below, we are on the precipice of two major wars, conditions are ripe for a devastating economic collapse, and if you were to throw in a major natural disaster or two you would have a recipe for the kind of “perfect storm” that many have been warning about. Earlier today I focused on our looming economic problems, and in this article I want to address the potential for more military conflict in the very near future. When Donald Trump hit Syria with 59 cruise missiles, millions of Americans greatly celebrated, but much of the rest of the world was deeply alarmed. The Trump administration has said that more strikes are possible, but Russia and Iran are both pledging that “we will respond with force” if any more attacks are conducted… RUSSIA and Iran have said they will respond to further American military actions following the air strike in Syria last week. In a joint statement, the command centre for the two countries and allied groups said “we will respond to any aggression”. The statement read: “What America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well.” Do you understand what that means? If Trump fires off any more cruise missiles at Syria, we will essentially be in a state of war with both Russia and Iran. Previously, Russia had warned that our two nations were “one step from war” because of Trump’s actions, but the Trump administration is showing no signs of backing down. In fact, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley says that regime change in Syria is now a top priority… The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who has done a remarkable job of continuing the diplomatic tone set by her predecessor Samantha Power, said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” which will air in full on Sunday, that regime change in Syria as one of the Trump administration’s top priorities in Syria. Her statement was a complete U-turn from what she said just over a week ago, when she told a group of reporters that the US was “no longer focused on getting Assad out.” Some members of the administration are apparently even advocating a full-blown invasion of Syria. For example, it is being reported that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has come up with a plan to send 150,000 U.S. ground troops into the country… As NSA, McMaster’s job is to synthesize intellience reports from all other agencies. President Trump is being given an inaccurate picture of the situation in Syria, as McMaster is seeking to involve the U.S. in a full scale war in Syria. The McMaster-Petraeus plan calls for 150,000 American ground troops in Syria. Many special operations veterans including General Joseph Votel have raised serious concerns about McMaster’s plans for Syria. I don’t know if I have the words to describe how incredibly foolish that would be. Do we really want to fight an extremely bloody ground war with the combined forces of Russia, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah? There is very little good that could come out of a war in Syria even in the most rosy scenarios possible, but if things go bad they could go really, really bad. Meanwhile, NBC News is reporting that President Trump is considering various military options for North Korea, and one of those options includes “killing dictator Kim Jong-Un”… The National Security Council has presented President Donald Trump with options to respond to North Korea’s nuclear program — including putting American nukes in South Korea or killing dictator Kim Jong-un, multiple top-ranking intelligence and military officials told NBC News. After seeing what happened in Syria and hearing these threats openly discussed in the U.S. media, what do you think Kim Jong-Un is thinking at this point? One member of Congress is warning that “millions can die” if a military strike against North Korea goes badly. Once U.S. missiles begin flying, North Korea can start firing off their nukes and their vast arsenal of chemical warheads almost instantly. Could you imagine what would happen if large numbers of deadly nerve gas warheads started exploding in downtown Seoul, downtown Tokyo and at U.S. military bases in Japan? The carnage would be off the charts, and this is a scenario that we want to avoid at all costs. Unfortunately, it seems like we are coming closer to a conflict with North Korea with each passing day. In fact, today we learned that an aircraft carrier strike group headed by the USS Carl Vinson is sailing in the direction of North Korea right now… Amid rising tensions with North Korea, an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson were heading toward the Korean peninsula. The aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships had been scheduled to leave from Singapore for port visits to Australia on Saturday, but Adm. Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command, ordered the strike group to head north toward Korean waters instead. So what happens if the U.S. starts fighting two major wars simultaneously, the biggest debt bubble in the history of the planet starts bursting, and the U.S. stock market crashes by 50 percent as some analysts are projecting? Some Americans still have memories of living through the Great Depression and World War II, but most of us have been living in a bubble of peace and prosperity for so long that we don’t think that anything could ever come along and threaten our way of life. And since the election of Donald Trump, interest in “prepping” has dropped to the lowest level that I have ever seen. Most people have been lulled into a false sense of security, while the truth is that we have entered perhaps the most dangerous period of time in modern American history. So you all can do whatever you want, but me and my house are going to get prepared for the tremendous storm that is about to hit this nation. Those that are wise will do the same, but unfortunately most Americans are going to get absolutely blindsided by what is coming because they have been trusting the wrong voices. There is still time for you to prepare, but you have to start learning how to make your own survival foods as soon as humanly possible. The best way to do it is to get the inside scoop on how to do it right. Fortunately, there is a way to get twenty years worth of The Lost Ways. This new food storage system is called The Lost Ways. You do not need a lot of expensive equipment to store foods for a crisis using the methods taught here. Even better, The Lost Ways pays for itself quickly as you begin to put away garden produce or even meats that you buy on sale. For most folks it’s simply the biggest bargain of their lives. You can finally become self-sufficient and any extra money saved in food expense goes right back to your pocket. Frankly, at the end of the day, The Lost Ways actually makes you money! What’s more, the videos take you by the hand, step by step, through the entire process of “putting away” almost any food you can think of. It’s very much like having a food storage professional right there with you every step of the way.
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World of Trouble
By Hal Lindsey
The U.S. attack on Syria's al-Shayrat airfield may turn out to be one of the most important moves by an American President in this century. To see its importance, we should start by looking a long way from Syria — at Pyongyang, North Korea. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea operates as a vast prison camp where every citizen-inmate is confined and monitored. They are born with a life-sentence to hard labor. Like all prisons, it is not self-sustaining, and must be subsidized by someone else — in this case, the People's Republic of China. By economically and militarily propping up North Korea, communist China makes itself the enabler of North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Those programs put the whole world at risk — not just because of North Korea’s belligerence, but because they sell both weapons and weapons technology to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Iran nuclear deal of 2015 ensures that country’s development of nuclear weapons. But just as important as the bombs, are the means to deliver them. North Korean ballistic missile technology undergirds Iran’s ongoing missile program. China enables North Korea which in turn enables Iran, and threatens the peace of the world. Iran is a nation of Shiite Muslims, and the world’s number one terrorist state. Sunni and Shiite Muslims are in a centuries-long, pitched battle for dominance in the Middle East. In 2011, it looked like the Iranians might lose a key ally in their struggle. That year, the United States and others encouraged so-called “moderate Muslim rebels” to take down the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Probably without fully realizing it, the U.S. was encouraging a religious civil war. Assad is part of the Alawite branch of Islam. According to Reuters, “Sunni Muslims make up 74 percent of Syria’s 22 million population, Alawites 12 percent, Christians 10 percent and Druze 3 percent.” In the religious civil war, Assad’s Alawite faith put him at a distinct disadvantage. But because Alawites revere the “Twelver school of Shia Islam,” Shia Iran sees him as an ally. So, when things turned against Assad early in the civil war, Iran stepped in to prop up him and his government. On the other side, Sunnis also funneled money and fighters into Syria on behalf of the rebels. With all factions being sustained by outside forces, and no clear winner on the battlefield, the cruel war drags on with no end in sight. And finding a good guy in this fight is like finding a mountain in Florida. If there ever were moderate rebels, they have long since disappeared. The ferocity of the war, along with its unending nature, has produced a humanitarian disaster. According to Mercy Corps, “Syria’s civil war has created the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Half the country’s pre-war population — more than 11 million people — have been killed or forced to flee their homes.” We’re talking about 470,000 dead Syrians and two million injured. Many fled into Europe, hastening a fundamental change in European society. In 2012, then-U.S. President Barrack Obama, announced to the world that if the Assad regime in Syria used, or even looked like it might use, chemical weapons against the rebels, it would cross a “red line” forcing the U.S. to take action. In 2013, Assad used such weapons. Obama acted like he might use military force, then backed off. Instead, he welcomed Vladimir Putin to Syria. The Russians promised to supervise the removal of “every single bit” of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. The U.S. readily agreed, but warned Syria that “the threat of force is real” and could still happen if they did not comply with the removal of all such weapons. Some chemical weapons were removed from Syria, but not all. They proved this by using those weapons several more times in the intervening years. Some of the attacks may have come from rebels who stole pieces of the Syrian stockpile, but others clearly came from Assad’s army. The bigger issue was Russia’s new position as a leader in the search for peace in the Middle East. In 2015, Iran convinced Russia to further step into the situation by putting troops on the ground in Syria on behalf of Assad. For students of prophecy, it was an amazing moment. Magog and Persia of Ezekiel 38 had joined forces in a nation along Israel’s northern border. In Assad’s recent chemical attack, the U.S. military monitored the planes carrying the weapons from the time they left the al-Shayrat airfield until they returned. This time, there’s no doubt. It was Assad’s men carrying out the chemical raid against civilian targets, including small children. The U.S. responded with a cruise missile attack on a single Syrian airbase. Such an attack does not stop Assad, or even cause him lasting harm. The immediate purpose was as a warning against the use of chemical weapons, or any other form of WMD, anywhere in the world. But there is another, deeper message — not just to Syria, but also to the Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran. The United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. Passivity in the face of danger only increases that danger, and is no longer America’s policy. It is this switch from passive to active that makes this a significant move at a key moment in history. The attack on the Syrian base took place during a summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China. The message seems obvious. If you do nothing about your renegade friends in North Korea, we will take care of the problem ourselves. Of course, none of this is without risk. The world staggers like a drunk on the edge of a cliff. We need divine intervention and wisdom. Strikingly, in announcing the U.S. attack, Donald Trump acknowledged that point. He said, “We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world.”That’s a prayer to which we can all say, “Amen.”
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-4-10-2017/
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North Korea calls U.S. aircraft carrier dispatch 'outrageous,' warns of counteraction
By Eric Talmadge Associated Press
North Korea is vowing tough counteraction to any military moves that might follow the U.S. move to send the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its battle group to waters off the Korean Peninsula. The statement from Pyongyang comes as tensions on the divided peninsula are high because of U.S.-South Korea wargames now underway and recent ballistic missile launches by the North. Pyongyang sees the annual maneuvers as a dress rehearsal for invasion, while the North's missile launches violate U.N. resolutions. "We will hold the U.S. wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its outrageous actions," a spokesman for its Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by the state-run Korean Central News Agency late Monday. The statement comes just after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian air base in retaliation for a chemical weapon attack carry a message for any nation operating outside of international norms. He didn't specify North Korea, but the context was clear enough. "If you violate international agreements, if you fail to live up to commitments, if you become a threat to others, at some point a response is likely to be undertaken," Tillerson told ABC's "This Week." The North has long claimed the U.S. is preparing some kind of assault against it and justifies its nuclear weapons as defensive in nature. "This goes to prove that the U.S. reckless moves for invading the DPRK have reached a serious phase of its scenario," the North's statement said. "If the U.S. dares opt for a military action, crying out for 'preemptive attack' and 'removal of the headquarters,' the DPRK is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the U.S." North Korea's formal name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. U.S. Navy ships are a common presence in the Korean region and are in part a show of force. On Saturday night, the Pentagon said a Navy carrier strike group was moving toward the western Pacific Ocean to provide more of a physical presence in the region. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, described the decision to send the carrier group as "prudent."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-us-north-korea-tensions-20170410-story.html
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After Syrian Gassing, Trump Must Expose the Iran Deal
By Roger L Simon April 9, 2017
Among the more disturbing questions emerging from the renewed use of gas by Bashar Assad is whether Barack Obama and his loyal minions (Kerry, Rhodes, Rice, etc.) actually knew the Syrian leader still had chemical weapons, even though they trumpeted the opposite to the American public on numerous occasions. Either they lied or were so extraordinarily credulous they believed -- apparently without verification -- the Syrians had truly rid themselves of those WMDs, in which case Obama -- not Trump -- was Vladimir Putin's personal "useful idiot." (It may even be time to take a second look at the contention of some that Saddam transferred his chemical weapons to Syria way back when, which would be a surprise vindication of Bush 43.) Whatever the case, it's "heavy water" under the bridge at this point, but should alert us even more to the absolute necessity of revealing everything known about the also Obama-instigated Iran Deal, all its myriad hidden codicils and clauses that remain mysterious to the citizens of this country in whose name they were allegedly signed. That agreement too could be the product of useful idiocy, a sucker punch from the mullahs. The devil, in this case, is very much in the details, few of which we know, except that the Iranians refused to give a baseline development level for their nuclear weapons program in this first place. In a sense, that made everything else moot. Nevertheless, Iran has been the beneficiary of this deal to the tune of billions of dollars, some evidently in cash, much of which has been and is being spent in Syria, if not directly on chemical weapons, on a war that no less than the former chief rabbi of Israel, himself a Holocaust survivor, has called another Holocaust. Iran is also using the money to finance Hezbollah in that war, simultaneously arming those terrorist thugs with tons of modern weapons, including long range missiles, even while the mullahs use Hezbollah's guerrillas as cannon fodder to spare Iran's own quasi-terrorist Revolutionary Guard. The Islamic Republic's obvious goal is to control both Syria and Iraq by proxies. A victorious Assad would be Iran's boy as much as Russia's, possibly more. The Trump administration should expose this deal in its entirety to public view now. If that means Iran pulls out of the agreement -- as they have warned -- so be it. The transparency is worth whatever minimal insurance against a nuclear-armed Iran might be inherent in these evanescent documents. After seeing just how much insurance against chemical weapons was inherent in Obama's deal with Putin over the crossing of our then-president's "red line," one could be skeptical that there is any at all. Indeed, what little we know of the Iran Deal leads one to believe that it would be simple for the mullahs to be as busy as ever on their nuclear program. That they are allied with North Korea makes this all the more likely.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2017/04/09/after-syrian-gassing-trump-must-expose-iran-deal/
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Lawmakers to Trump: Cancel Obama-backed Boeing sales to Iran
By Joel Gehrke (@Joelmentum) • 4/10/17 5:06 PM
President Trump should cancel airplane sales to Iranian airlines that facilitate terrorism, a pair of Republican lawmakers urged Monday. "Iran's commercial airlines have American blood on their hands," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., wrote in a letter to Trump. A government decision to block the aircraft sales would provoke an uproar at home and abroad. It would cost Boeing, which has inked a pair of deals to sell 110 to Iran-based airlines, about $20 billion. It could deter American and European businesses from investing in Iran, which the regime's leaders have argued amounts to violation of the nuclear agreement that former President Barack Obama's team negotiated. "The possibility that U.S.-manufactured aircraft could be used as tools of terror is absolutely unacceptable and should not be condoned by the U.S. government," Rubio and Roskam wrote. "The United States should revoke authorizations and re-impose sanctions on Iranian airlines found guilty of such support, and should bar U.S. companies from selling aircraft to Iran until the Iranian regime ceases using commercial airliners for illicit military purposes." The Obama administration granted a license authorizing Boeing to strike the deals last fall, following Iranian complaints that they were not receiving the expected economic benefit of the sanctions relief provided by the nuclear pact. "We are going to do what we can to meet our commitments as long as Iran continues to meet their nuclear-related commitments," then-State Department spokesman John Kirby said. The Obama administration did far too much to help Iran, Republican lawmakers maintained, and they responded with legislation that would bar U.S. banks from financing the deal. "Why should U.S. banks and their customers be implicated in Iranian atrocities?" Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said in November. Democrats countered that attempts to undermine the Boeing sales would 'unravel' the nuclear agreement. "I'm going to bet that under the Trump administration, Republicans will not be so eager to move legislation to unravel this agreement because, like the rest of us, they do not know how Mr. Trump will govern and because they know there is no other reasonable approach to curbing Iran's nuclear ambition short of military intervention," Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said at the time. Trump has sent mixed messages on the Iran deal, by turns denouncing it and complaining that Iran wouldn't spend the money received through the nuclear deal with U.S. companies. "I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said during his confirmation hearings in January. "When America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies." Roskam and Rubio should have at least one ally in the Trump adminstration, in the former of current CIA director Mike Pompeo. "It is not your role to act as agents of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce," then-Congressman Pompeo wrote to the Obama administration in protest of the airplane sales last year. "America's security depends on you acknowledging that this agreement has not changed Iran's behavior in any material way."
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Wisconsin Keeps Close Eye on Churches, Places of Worship
By Felix N. Codilla III , Christian Post Contributor Apr 10, 2017 | 7:48 AM
A place of worship in Wisconsin called off its Sunday service after a fugitive was reportedly seen on church premises. The suspect is identified as Joseph Jakubowski who stole from a gun store and threatened an unspecified attack that triggered a multiagency manhunt on him. On the night of April 4, the 31-year-old suspect broke into the Armageddon Supplies gun shop in Janesville and carted away 16 firearms consisting of at least two assault rifles and several handguns. He also torched his car which was parked near the burglarized store. Police later released a video showing Jakubowski mailing a package to the White House. The video was recorded by the suspect's friend who didn't realize the gravity of the situation until after the arms store burglary three hours after. He regretted recording the video, News 3 Madison reported. The mailed package contained a 161-page manifesto featuring anti-government rants and "personal angst against anything other than natural law or rule." Rock County Sheriff Robert Spoden said, "Basically, he's angry at all government officials... Whether it's the president or local officials or whether it's law enforcement, he basically has a dislike for anyone that has authority or governmental power." On April 6, elders of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Sun Prairie reported a suspicious man matching Jakubowski's description who went to them and asked questions about church services and practices, including inquiries about turning people away. This prompted the church to cancel its worship services that Sunday. Although no threat was made on a religious group, authorities advised the cancellation of church services as a precaution considering Jakubowski's manifesto expressed "anti-religious views." The Janesville Police Department and Rock County Sheriff's Office beefed up patrols near churches. "We always want to hinge on the side of safety," police spokesman Joseph Hack said. "If we didn't and something did happen, it would be a bad look toward our department as well as the church." Bethlehem Lutheran had no surveillance camera installed but it was determined on Sunday afternoon that the person who inquired wasn't Jakubowski.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/wisconsin-keeps-close-eye-on-churches-places-of-worship-179940/#8YX9iAditSYaeTMF.99
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Russia warns of ‘real war’ ahead of G7 meeting on Syria
April 11, 201712:23am Victoria Crawnews.com.au@Victoria_Craw
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has pledged to defend “innocents” around the world ahead of a critical meeting in Russia later this week. Speaking in Italy before a meeting of G7 Ministers that is expected to lead to an ultimatum for Russian President Putin over his support for Syrian President Assad, Mr Tillerson visited the site of a Nazi massacre at Sant’Anna di Stazzema. “We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world,” he said. “This place will serve as an inspiration to us all.” Monday’s meeting of G7 nations is expected to lead to a directive pledging fresh sanctions against Russia if it fails to cut ties with President Assad. It follows US air strikes against the Syrian government in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed 72 people including 11 children last week. The deadly attack came after Russia had pledged to rid Syria of chemical weapons and Mr Tillerson was scathing in his criticism of Russia over that failure. “Either Russia has been complicit or Russia has simply been incompetent in its ability to deliver on its end of that agreement,” he said. The harsh comments set the scene for a potential showdown between Mr Tillerson and his Russian counterparts. The new Secretary of State will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday in the shadow of the Syrian conflict and an FBI investigation over Russia. The Kremlin has denied a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the cards despite the history between the pair. Mr Putin once awarded Mr Tillerson with the Russian Order of Friendship and the former oil executive faces harsh scrutiny over their dealings. Over the weekend, Russia warned of a “real war” in tweets asking followers whether they trusted US President Trump and UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to command. It also asked followers what the “probable outcomes” of the G7 meeting might be, including “conventional war”, a “war of clowns” of a “mix of the above”.
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The Vast, Secretive Face Database That Could Instantly ID You In A Crowd
Amid questions of accuracy and legality, the FBI and police can search images for millions of Americans’ faces, potentially in real time.
By Alex Pasternack03.30.17 | 6:00 am
If you’ve been to the DMV to have your driver’s license photo taken, there’s a good chance your face is in a little-known group of databases that functions like a digital police lineup. Except, in this case, you needn’t even be suspected of a crime, and soon the searching could take place virtually anywhere, anytime. It’s just one example of the exploding use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement, and it’s raising major concerns among U.S. lawmakers and privacy advocates. “I’m frankly appalled,” Representative Paul Mitchell, a Republican from Michigan, told Kimberly Del Greco, the FBI’s deputy assistant director of criminal justice, during a House oversight committee hearing last week. “I wasn’t informed when my driver’s license was renewed my photograph was going to be in a repository that could be searched by law enforcement across the country.” Watch the exchange between Rep. Mitchell, the FBI’s Kimberly Del Greco, and Alvaro Bedoya of Georgetown’s Law Center Mitchell’s face and those of more than 125 million Americans—more than half of the country’s adult population—are thought to be stored in a vast network of databases used by local and federal law enforcement to scan photos and videos of individuals. Many of these faces, which can be searched without reasonable suspicion, belong to people who have never been charged with a crime and have no idea they are being searched. Yet there are few guidelines or legal rulings that govern exactly how face recognition, like a number of other new technologies, should be used by police. In a report last May on the FBI’s system, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the FBI had “not fully adhered to privacy laws and policies and had not taken sufficient action to help ensure accuracy of its face recognition technology.” In response to the report, which urged the FBI to conduct regular audits of the system, “the Department of Justice and the FBI disagreed with three recommendations and had taken some actions to address the remainder, but had not fully implemented them,” the GAO said. “No federal law controls this technology, no court decision limits it,” said Alvaro Bedoya, executive director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology, and the coauthor of “The Perpetual Lineup,” a report on the FBI and state face recognition databases. “This technology is not under control.” While a few attempts to set limits are inching slowly through state legislatures, the technology is racing ahead. Advancements in machine vision and artificial intelligence are widening the scope of the lineup too: Via body-worn police cameras, which are rapidly proliferating, face searches could happen up-close, at street level and in real-time—anticipating a future in which anonymity in certain public places could disappear. It’s this pairing of technologies in particular—the ability to scan and identify faces on the street—that is the “most concerning” from a privacy and First Amendment perspective, said Jason Chaffetz, Republican representative from Utah and chairman of the House Oversight committee. A 2014 Justice Dept. report also highlighted the combination, warning that using body cameras with “facial recognition systems and other new technologies like live feed and auto recording . . . may pose serious risks to public privacy.” In the legal vacuum surrounding their use, agencies exploring these technologies should “proceed very cautiously,” the report said. “Imagine the world where the cops are going down the street and they’ve got Google Glass on and their body cameras are recognizing people,” says Barry Friedman, the director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law. “And it’s not just recognizing them, but they’re getting their security scores at the same time, and people are getting colored based on how dangerous the algorithms think they are. That’s one scary world.” Already law enforcement is pairing real-time face recognition software with footage from surveillance cameras, and police officers around the country are using face recognition apps on mobile phones to more quickly identify suspects they stop on the street. In New York, it emerged this week that police are beginning to acquire face recognition technology to scan the faces of all drivers commuting between the five boroughs. Questions Over Legality And Accuracy Of immediate concern to Congress was the legality of the FBI’s system. With the FBI’s Del Greco in the hot seat, a number of committee members asked why the agency hadn’t published a privacy report of its face recognition system until 2015, years after it first deployed the technology in public, in 2010. Had anyone at the FBI been reprimanded for the delay? Rep. Mitchell asked. “I have no knowledge,” Del Greco said. “There are days ignorance is bliss,” he fired back. Del Greco said the FBI had advised its privacy attorney internally throughout the roll-out of the system. “We don’t believe you,” Chaffetz said, “and you’re supposed to make it public.” He also alleged that the FBI “went out of its way” to exempt its facial recognition database from the Privacy Act. “So here’s the problem,” said Chaffetz. “You’re required by law to put out a privacy statement and you didn’t and now we’re supposed to trust you with hundreds of millions of people’s faces.” Del Greco defended the agency’s use of what she referred to as “face services,” saying it had “enhanced the ability to solve crime,” emphasized that privacy was of utmost importance at the FBI, and said that the system was not used to positively identify suspects, but to generate “investigative leads.” In one recent positive outcome for the technology, Charles Hollin, an alleged child molester, was caught after spending 18 years as a fugitive, thanks to a database that contained his passport photo. Currently, 18 U.S. states let the FBI use face-recognition technology to compare suspected criminals to their driver’s license or other ID photos. These, in addition to criminal and civil mug shots, and photos from the U.S. State Department’s passport and visa records, are part of a set of databases used by the FBI and police across the country. Over the past decade and a half, 29 states have allowed police agencies and the FBI to search their repositories of drivers’ faces during investigations. “I have zero confidence in the FBI and the [Justice Department], frankly, to keep this in check,” Rep. Stephen Lynch, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said. After the hearing, Bedoya, a former chief counsel for Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, noted that the discussion had inspired a rare moment of bipartisan agreement. “The opposition to the use of driver’s licenses was remarkably strong and remarkably uniform across party lines,” he said. “In my five years as a Senate staffer, I never saw anything like it on a similar privacy issue.” In some ways, the FBI’s approach to face recognition resembles how police traditionally try to match fingerprints at a crime scene to those of criminals. In this case, however, the “prints” include the faces of millions of innocent people, often collected and scanned without their knowledge, according to the analysis by Bedoya and his colleagues. It estimated that around 80% of the faces searchable by the FBI belong to individuals who have never been charged with a crime. In under half a decade, they found, the FBI searched drivers’ faces more than 36,000 times, without warrants, audits, or regular accuracy tests. In Florida, police are encouraged to use face recognition “whenever practical.” (Individually, dozens of states also use face recognition to crack down on fraudsters applying for duplicate driver’s licenses, for instance.) To access the FBI’s networked databases of faces, an authorized, participating police agency need only show that its search is for “law enforcement purposes,” said Del Greco of the FBI. Those criteria are determined by individual states, she noted. Imagine going to the DMV to renew your license, Bedoya wrote in a recent op-ed in the Washington Post. “What if you—and most other teens in the United States—were then asked to submit your fingerprints for criminal investigations by the FBI or state police?” In scope, he argues, the face-matching system resembles the National Security Agency’s call-records program, which logged the metadata of all Americans’ phone calls. “This has never happened before—not with DNA or fingerprints, which are kept in smaller national networks made up mostly of known or suspected criminals. Yet law-enforcement face-recognition systems have received a fraction of the NSA’s oversight.” The possibility of misidentification and false positives is also worrisome, especially because the FBI has not been keeping track of such failures. “It doesn’t know how often the system incorrectly identifies the wrong subject,” explained the GAO’s Diana Maurer. “Innocent people could bear the burden of being falsely accused, including the implication of having federal investigators turn up at their home or business.” More worrisome, research shows that facial recognition appears to disproportionately impact minority communities. A report that was co-written by the FBI in 2012 found that the technology exhibited a higher number of failure rates with darker faces, a function of the kinds of data that humans input as they train the algorithms. “If you are black, you are more likely to be subjected to this technology, and the technology is more likely to be wrong,” said Elijah Cummings, a congressman for Maryland. “That’s one hell of a combination. Just let that sink in.” The FBI, like other law enforcement agencies, has argued that the algorithms are race-blind, and reiterates that face searches are only used as “investigatory” leads. “This response is very troubling,” Cummings noted. “Rather than conducting testing that would show whether or not these concerns have merit, the FBI chooses to ignore growing evidence that the technology has a disproportionate impact on African Americans.” Friedman notes that racial concerns aren’t exclusive to face recognition. “A lot of these technologies, just because of how they’re deployed, come with racialized aspects. If you’re using license plate readers in more heavily policed neighborhoods, you’re picking up more data in those neighborhoods. That’s something we need to be very aware of and thoughtful about.” Related Story: Police Body Cameras Will Do More Than Just Record You CHILLING EFFECTS A plethora of private companies already have your face in all of its biometric glory, provided it’s ever been uploaded to the servers of firms like Apple, Google, and Facebook. As these companies pile millions into AI research—in part, to better find you and objects in photos—a number of startups are also racing to automatically analyze the world’s video. One startup, Kairos, aims to let Hollywood and ad agencies study audiences’ emotional responses and help theme park visitors more easily find and purchase photos of themselves. Another, Matroid, launched this week by researchers at Stanford, focuses on analyzing television appearances and scanning surveillance video. “Google can give you pictures of cats, but not cat with grandpa or cat with grandpa and Christmas tree or with your son,” Pete Sonsini, a general partner at New Enterprise Associates, which is funding Matroid to an unspecified tune, told Bloomberg. “It’s really powerful for any human to be able to create a detector that can identify any image or set of images or face from their dataset.” Banks are using biometric technology to provide better personal verification, eventually allowing people to pay with their face. Airlines are imagining using biometrics to let passengers board an airline without a paper ticket. At a conference this week in Orlando, NEC, the Japanese company whose facial recognition algorithms are considered the most accurate by the Dept. of Homeland Security, released new features for its software suite which include a “virtual receptionist” and a system by which “age/gender recognition can trigger tailored advertisements/greetings and can trigger notifications to sales personnel for immediate follow-up and interaction,” said a press release. Another app, installed on a hotel’s cameras, would notify hotel receptionist and concierge services when a VIP or high value customer arrives at any of the building’s entrances. “This will allow them to receive them in person, greet them by their name, and provide them a better service. Also this can be used to identify any staff that were terminated when they enter the property and take appropriate action.” At Beijing’s Temple of Heaven Park, meanwhile, biometrics are already being used to ration toilet paper, CNN reported last week: “The facial recognition program keeps the dispenser from offering another round to the same person; if you need more, you reportedly need to sit tight—literally—for nine minutes.” Still, the most profitable applications for biometrics lie in the fast-growing law enforcement and public safety sector. Industry executives and police experts say that the next stage of the technology—automatically scanning public places for faces and objects in real time—could help more quickly find armed and dangerous or missing persons, identify critical moments amid torrents of body and dash cam footage, or even perhaps identify biased policing. In many communities, automatic license plate readers—brick-sized cameras mounted on the back of patrol cars—already do something similar with cars, archiving and cross-referencing every license plate they pass in real time to check for outstanding warrants or traffic violations. These are also the most worrisome applications, privacy advocates say, given the general secrecy that surrounds them, the few restrictions on their use, and the ability to track individuals. Pairing face-matching algorithms with body cameras, said Bedoya, “will redefine the nature of public spaces.” Even the mere prospect of the technology could have a chilling effect on people’s First Amendment rights, privacy advocates warn. In some cities, police are restricted from filming at protests and demonstrations—unless a crime is thought to be in progress—for this reason. Other police departments, however, have routinely filmed protesters: In New York, for instance, the NYPD sent video teams to record Occupy and Black Lives Matter protests hundreds of times, and apparently without proper authorization, agency documents released this week show. “Will you attend a protest if you know the government can secretly scan your face and identify you—as police in Baltimore did during the Freddie Gray protests?” Bedoya writes. “Do you have the right to walk down your street without having your face scanned? If you don’t, will you lead your life in the same way? Will you go to a psychiatrist? A marriage counselor? An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting?” Rep. Chaffetz appeared to support one controversial application of face recognition: using it to find undocumented immigrants. The Dept. of Homeland Security stores the faces of every visitor in its own database, and is determined to better track those who overstay their visas; in 2015, the agency estimated 500,000 overstays. “I think it is absolutely a concern that face recognition would be used to facilitate deportations,” Rachel Levinson-Waldman, senior counsel to the Brennan Center’s National Security Program at New York University School of Law, told The Intercept‘s Ava Kofman. “We’re seeing how this administration is ramping up these deportation efforts. They’re looking much more widely.” Generally, however, Chaffetz urged firmer limits. The technology “can also be used by bad actors to harass or stalk individuals,” he said. “It can be used in a way that chills free speech and free association by targeting people attending certain political meetings, protests, churches, or other types of places in the public.” “And then having a system, with a network of cameras, where you go out in public, that too can be collected. And then used in the wrong hands, nefarious hands… it does scare me. Are you aware of any other country that does this? Anybody on this panel? Anybody else doing this?” Neither Del Greco nor other members of the panel responded. Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, noted that “we don’t yet appear to be at point where face recognition is being used broadly to monitor the public.” But, she said, “it is important to place meaningful checks on government use of face recognition now before we reach a point of no return.” Real-time face recognition is coming to law enforcement; the question is how the technology itself will be policed, and what role the public will have in dictating its use. “If we’re going there, then we better be going there together,” said Friedman, of the Policing Project. “Did we all discuss this and agree to this?” To improve the use of face recognition, Bedoya and other privacy advocates urge well-defined limits. The FBI should only access mugshot databases with reasonable suspicion of a crime, and, if it’s a forensic use—a face recognition scan on surveillance footage, for instance, as opposed to a police officer photographing a person he has stopped—the technology should only be used in cases of felonies. For databases containing drivers license photos, Bedoya says law enforcement should have express consent from state legislatures, and only search those databases when they have probable cause to implicate the subject for a serious offense, like the kind required for a wiretap. The FBI should also regularly scrub its databases to remove innocent people, be more transparent about how it uses the technology, and, as the GAO recommended, conduct audits to ensure the software meets privacy and accuracy requirements. Policing veterans have also expressed discomfort with the use of the technology. In December, a guide to body cameras published by the Constitution Project, a nonpartisan think tank, and co-authored by a handful of retired police officials, warned that the privacy risks of video “tagging” technologies were “immense” because they “have the potential to end anonymity, catalog every person at a sensitive location or event, and even facilitate pervasive location tracking of an individual over a prolonged period of time.” In an interview about the future of body cameras, Bill Schrier, the former chief information officer at the Seattle Police Department and a 30-year veteran of government technology, told me that “most reasonable people don’t want potentially dangerous felons or sex offenders walking around in public and would, I think, support such use” of real-time face recognizing body cameras in those cases. But used to catch people wanted for “misdemeanors such as unpaid traffic tickets or pot smoking,” real-time face recognition could be dangerous. That, he said, could “seriously undermine faith in government, and start us down the road to a police state.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/3069264/congress-fbi-face-recognition-real-time-street-lineup
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These 10 companies control everything you buy
Kate Taylor, Business Insider Tuesday 4 April 2017 17:03 BST
Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world. These companies — Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mondelez — each employ thousands and make billions of dollars in revenue every year. In an effort to push these companies to make positive changes — and for customers to realize who controls the brands they're buying — Oxfam created a mind-boggling infographic that shows how interconnected consumer brands really are. Here's a further breakdown of the companies that own the brands and products we use every day: Kellogg's (Getty) 2016 revenue: $13 billion Forget Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes — Kellogg's also owns noncereal brands including Eggo, Pringles, and Cheez-It. Associated British Foods 2016 revenue: $16.8 billion This British company owns brands such as Dorset Cereals and Twinings tea, as well as the retailer Primark. General Mills 2016 revenue: $16.6 billion General Mills is best known for cereals like Cheerios and Chex, but it also owns brands like Yoplait, Hamburger Helper, Haagen-Dazs, and Betty Crocker. Danone 2016 revenue: $23.7 billion Best known for yogurts like Activa, Yocrunch, and Oikos, Danone also sells medical nutrition products and bottled water. Mondelez 2016 revenue: $25.9 billion This snack-centric company's brands include Oreo, Trident gum, and Sour Patch Kids. Mars 2016 revenue: $35 billion Mars is best known for its chocolate brands, such as M&M, but it also owns Uncle Ben's rice, Starburst, and Orbit gum. Coca-Cola 2016 revenue: $41.9 billion Coca-Cola is moving beyond soda, with beverage brands including Dasani, Fuze, and Honest Tea. Unilever 2016 revenue: $48.3 billion Unilever's diverse list of brands includes Axe body spray, Lipton tea, Magnum ice cream, and Hellmann's mayonnaise. PepsiCo (Getty) 2016 revenue: $62.8 billion In addition to Pepsi and other sodas, PepsiCo also owns brands such as Quaker Oatmeal, Cheetos, and Tropicana. Nestlé 2016 revenue: $90.2 billion Brands you may not have known that Nestlé owns include Gerber baby food, Perrier, DiGiorno, and Hot Pockets — plus, of course, candy brands including Butterfinger and KitKat.
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Neonic pesticides detected in US drinking water for the first time
By Strange Sounds - Apr 6, 2017
You really think you drink clean water in the US? Small traces of the world’s most widely used insecticides have been detected in US tap water for the first time.
Samples taken by scientists in the US state of Iowa showed that levels of neonicotinoid chemicals remained constant despite treatment. After chemicals from fracking, scientists have identified neonic insecticides in US drinking water. Scientists say they cannot draw any conclusions relating to human health but argue that further study is needed. Rapid uptake of neonicotinoids The use of neonicotinoids has increased rapidly since their introduction in the early 1990s. These systemic chemicals were seen as an advance because they are usually applied as a seed coating and are lethal to insects but not to other species. In the US, sales of seeds pre-treated with neonics tripled from 2004 to 2014. Environmental impacts of neonicotinoids However concerns over their environmental impacts have also grown and they have been consistently associated with causing harm to bees. So great has the worry been, that there has been a moratorium on their use on flowering crops in the European Union since 2013. A study in 2015 from the US Geological Survey (USGS) found that neonics were widespread in water samples collected from 48 different rivers and streams in the US. New study on drinking water This new study from the USGS and the University of Iowa, looked at tap water that was treated in two different filtration systems. Samples from the University of Iowa treatment plant barely removed any of the three main neonic chemicals, clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. Water taken from the Iowa city treatment facility removed 100%, 94% and 85% respectively, of these substances. “These are very low levels, these are nanograms per litre which means parts per trillion, a very low concentration. But at the same time there are concerns about what those low levels might do from an exposure standpoint.” said Prof Gregory LeFevre, one of the authors from the University of Iowa. In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates contaminants in water but as of now, neonics are not considered a threat. One of the issues of concern is not the direct exposure of humans to neonics in water, but how the insecticides might be transformed by the filtration process into other substances that pose a greater threat. How to get rid of neonics? The study presents evidence that the presence of neonics in drinking water can be essentially negated if activated carbon filtration systems are used, which is relatively economical compared to other technologies that are energy expensive. Given the scale of research looking at the impacts of neonics on bees and other creatures, it is important that further studies are carried out on drinking water to work out the levels of exposure around the world.
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Upgrading humans into GODS will be the next 'billion dollar industry' expert claims
Expert said today's humans will become obsolete within the next 60 years
Humans will transform themselves into 'gods' with technology upgrades
But because the technology will be expensive, not everyone will be able to do so
Will cause a divide with old racists idiologies, but the differences are engineered
By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com and Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com Published: 19:03 EDT, 3 April 2017 | Updated: 19:05 EDT, 3 April 2017
The next billion dollar industry will not be a service or product – it will be upgrading humans, an expert has revealed. It has been suggested that humans will have access to technology that will allow them to 'upgrade themselves into gods'. Bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari has also warned that because not everyone will be able to experience the upgrade, due to costs, there will be a divide that could spark ‘old racist ideologies’ - but this time, differences will be ‘engineered and manufactured’. ‘The greatest industry of the 21st century will probably be to upgrade human beings,’ Harari, who explores bleak future of humanity and ‘the rise of the useless class’ in his novel Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, told Jeremy Olshan with MarketWatch. Humans have been running on the same hardware and software for some 200,000 years, leaving us to be the ultimate project - and that is where Harari's prediction comes into play. ‘When we think about the future we generally think about a world in which people who are identical to us in every important way enjoy better technology: laser guns, intelligent robots, and spaceships that travel at the speed of light,’ Harari shared on his website. ‘Yet the revolutionary potential of future technologies is to change Homo sapiens itself, including our bodies and our minds, and not merely our vehicles and weapons.’ ‘The most amazing thing about the future won’t be the spaceships, but the beings flying them.’ THE RICH WILL BECOME 'GOD-LIKE CYBORGS,' HISTORIAN PREDICTS Last year Harari argued that the world will experience a radical shift in the next 200 years. Using biotechnology and genetic engineering, Professor Harari claimed the wealthy will transform into a new type of divine, immortal human with complete power over life and death. He argued that the rich are set to become God-like cyborgs in what could be the 'biggest evolution in biology' since life emerged. During a recent speech at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales, Professor Harari said, 'We are programmed to be dissatisfied,' The Telegraph reported. 'Even when humans gain pleasure and achievements it is not enough. They want more and more. 'I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering of by the creation of cyborgs, part organic part non-organic. The technology to do this, however, will be restricted to the very wealthy, claims Professor Harari. Up until now, he says society has been held together by inventing 'fictions', such as religion, money and the idea of fundamental human rights. As long as humans believed they relied more and more on these gods they were controllable, he said 'But what we see in the last few centuries is humans becoming more powerful and they no longer need the crutches of the Gods.' ‘Humans are going to upgrade themselves into gods.' ‘That is, humans will acquire abilities that in the past were considered divine, such as eternal youth, mind reading, and the ability to engineer life.’ And although these ideas may sound far fetched or something from a science fiction film, tech giants of the world are already working towards making it a reality. Google has a division that focuses solely ‘overcoming death’, Harari noted. But, just because an upgrade boom is predicted, it doesn't mean everyone will experience it. Just as advancing from a flip phone to an iPhone was costly, so will becoming a more advanced being. The improvements are believed to ‘lead to greater income inequality than ever before,’ Harari said. And the economic inequality could actually be deemed biological inequality. The divide may also bring back old world racists ideologists, but instead of it being because of biological reasons, it will be for things that have been engineered or manufactured. Harari also believes that the advances beings will have less things to do during the day, as a majority of the tasks will be done by robots and artificial intelligence – leaving them to play computer games and spend their lives immersed in virtual reality. In addition to human beings upgrading, Harari also foresees a world where humankind may become 'eternally useless' due to the increasing capabilities of AI. The historian and lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem likens the fate of humans to that of the doomed protagonist in the fable of the boy who cried wolf, according to The Guardian. While humans have long predicted that machines will take over much of our society, many such forecasts have not yet come true. But in the end, like the wolf, Harari says AI will finally come to achieve what many have feared. The resulting shift could leave humans both jobless and aimless, The Guardian explains. ‘As the self-made gods of planet earth, which projects should we undertake, and how will we protect this fragile planet and humankind itself from our own destructive powers?’ Homo Deus questions. These ‘destructive powers’ have already begun to take hold, according to Harari. AI have begun to outperform humans in many areas, and there’s no guarantee we will be able to keep up as this continues. ‘Children alive today will face the consequences,’ Harari told The Guardian. ‘Most of what people learn in school or in college will probably be irrelevant by the time they are 40 or 50. ‘If they want to continue to have a job, and to understand the world, and be relevant to what is happening, people will have to reinvent themselves again and again and faster and faster.’ As humans become functionally ‘useless’ in comparison, we may no longer have value in the eyes of political and economic systems. This could in turn result in humans losing their sense of purpose. In a post-work world, human emotions may be controlled by drugs and virtual reality rather than real-life experiences, The Guardian explains. To prevent this dreary outcome, the author suggests humans take the issue very seriously. Rather than leaving the fate of AI solely to the discussions of scientists, Harari tells The Guardian it should become a part of the political agenda as well, to broaden the vision of what could happen and help to ‘decide the future course of humankind.’
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The robot sex experiment that let machines EVOLVE by passing 'genetic material' across several generations
Robots in the study were given two task: light gathering and obstacle avoidance
Randomized mating algorithm allowed them to swap material from ‘gene pool’
The researchers also took developmental factors into account for the first time
By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com Published: 16:46 EDT, 5 April 2017 | Updated: 17:18 EDT, 5 April 2017
A series of experiments has pitted robots against each other in different tasks to assess their evolving fitness across 10 generations, as they swapped genetic material in a process similar to mating. The study shows for the first time that developmental factors play a role in the evolution of physically embodied robots just as they do in biological systems, according to the researchers. The work taps into Darwinian evolutionary principles, and marks an important step forward in understanding how the interplay between evolution and development contributes to these systems. In the study, researchers from Vassar College expanded on efforts in evolutionary robots to include epigenetic factors for the first time. This addresses the events in an organism’s lifetime that influence epigenetic changes. The robots in the study were given two tasks: light gathering and obstacle avoidance. And, the researchers used a randomized mating algorithm to allow them to swap genetic material from the collective ‘gene pool.’ These genes were made up of binary code, which allowed for different possible wirings of the robots’ hardware. As the robots ‘reproduced’ across 10 generations, the physical expression of the genome changed by altering their wiring according to the new genetic setup. The researchers measured the robots’ fitness by their performance, and compared this with simulations. While evolutionary robotics has been around for some time, the researchers say this is the first time epigenetic factors have been considered. ‘For roboticists, the evo-devo [evolution and development] challenge is to create physically embodied systems that incorporate the three scales of time and the processes inherent in each: behaviour, development, and evolution,’ said Jake Brawer and Aaron Hill. ‘Because of the complexity of building and evolving physical robots, this is a daunting challenge in the quest for the “evolution of things.” ‘As an initial step toward this goal, in this paper we create a physically embodied system that allows us to examine systematically how developmental and evolutionary processes interact.’ The setup allowed even low-fitness robots to remain in the gene pool and reproduce, and the experiment continued until all lost mobility. While the robots didn’t necessarily evolve greater light capturing skills, the researchers found that the population with an epigenetic factor did evolve differently than those which did not take development into account. ‘It is important to note that our goal was not to show adaptive evolution per se but rather to test the hypothesis that epigenetic factors can alter the evolutionary dynamics of a population of physically embodied robots,’ the researchers said. ‘The results do indeed suggest demonstrate the broad importance of including Eos in investigations of evolvability. ‘To our knowledge, our work represents the first physically embodied epigenetic factors to be used in the evolution of physically embodied robots.’ THE ROBOTS THAT 'PROCREATE' In the Robot Baby Project at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, scientists have developed a way for robots to have 'sex' and pass on their DNA to offspring. Robots are put into an arena where they live, work, and reproduce. The researchers motivate them to move toward a red light, where they can communicate and even mate. Once they've evaluated each other and decide to reproduce, the robots send their genomes through the Wi-Fi network. A sexual reproduction mechanism then creates the genome for the offspring, randomly combining the features from the parents, including software (the brain) and hardware. The code is then sent to a 3D printer to create the new parts. Through this process, the researchers say robots can autonomously 'develop their bodies through evolution,' making for successive generations that have more advanced physical and behavioural capabilities.
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The Great Inception Part 11: The Mystery of Inanna, Patron Goddess of Nimrod
April 4, 2017 by Derek Gilbert
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the eleventh part in a new online series based on a SPECIAL SKYWATCH TV INVESTIGATIVE REPORT airing now on network television and our ROKU and YouTube channels. This series and the programs center on two groundbreaking books (to be released April 7) — Reversing Hermon by Dr. Michael S. Heiser and The Great Inception by SkyWatch TV host Derek P. Gilbert. These reports and entries unveil what most in the modern Church have never heard regarding how the story of the sin of the Watchers in 1 Enoch was central to the mission of Jesus, the messiah, as well as Biblical facts hidden behind the stories of the old gods, the Titans, and the role they played AND WILL PLAY in the lead up to Armageddon, imperative supra-classified details altogether forgotten by modern religious institutions. Nimrod was second generation after the flood. His father was Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah. In Sumerian history, the second king of Uruk after the flood was named Enmerkar, son of Mesh-ki-ang-gasher. Enmerkar is also a compound word. The prefix en means “lord” and the suffix kar is Sumerian for “hunter”. So Enmerkar was Enmer the Hunter. Sound familiar? Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” Genesis 10:8-9 (ESV), emphasis added The Hebrews, doing what they loved to do with language, transformed Enmer—the consonants N-M-R (remember, no vowels in ancient Hebrew)—into Nimrod, which makes it sound like marad, the Hebrew word for “rebel”. Now, get this: An epic poem from about 2000 B.C. called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta preserves the basic details of the Tower of Babel story. We don’t know exactly where Aratta was, but guesses range from northern Iran to Armenia. (Which would be interesting. Not only is Armenia located near the center of an ancient kingdom called Urartu, which may be a cognate for Aratta, it’s where Noah landed his boat—the mountains of Ararat. So it’s possible Nimrod/Enmerkar was trying to intimidate the people—his cousins, basically—who settled near where his great-grandfather landed the ark. But we just don’t know.) Wherever it was, Enmerkar muscled this neighboring kingdom to compel them to send building materials for a couple of projects near and dear to his heart. Some background: The poem refers to Enmerkar’s capital city Uruk as the “great mountain”. This is intriguing, since Uruk, like most of Sumer, sits in an alluvial plain where there are precisely no mountains whatsoever. Uruk was home to two of the chief gods of the Sumerian pantheon, Anu, the sky god, and Inanna, his granddaughter, the goddess of war and sex. (And by sex, we mean the carnal, extramarital kind.) While Anu was pretty much retired (like the later Canaanite god El), having handed over his duties as head of the pantheon to Enlil, Inanna played a very active role in Sumerian society. For example, scholars have translated ritual texts for innkeepers to pray to Innana, asking her to guarantee that their bordellos turn a profit. Apparently, part of the problem between Enmerkar and the king of Aratta, whose name, we learn from a separate epic, was Ensuhkeshdanna, was a dispute over who was Inanna’s favorite. One of the building projects Enmerkar wanted to tackle was a magnificent temple to Inanna, the E-ana (“House of Heaven”). He wanted Aratta to supply the raw materials. Apparently, this wasn’t only because there isn’t much in the way of timber, jewels, or precious metal in the plains of Sumer, but because Enmerkar wanted the lord of Aratta to submit and acknowledge that he was Inanna’s chosen one. And so Enmerkar prayed to Inanna: “My sister, let Aratta fashion gold and silver skillfully on my behalf for Unug (Uruk). Let them cut the flawless lapis lazuli from the blocks, let them …… the translucence of the flawless lapis lazuli ……. …… build a holy mountain in Unug. Let Aratta build a temple brought down from heaven — your place of worship, the Shrine E-ana; let Aratta skillfully fashion the interior of the holy jipar, your abode; may I, the radiant youth, may I be embraced there by you. Let Aratta submit beneath the yoke for Unug on my behalf.”[i] Notice that Inanna’s temple was, like Uruk, compared to a holy mountain. And given the type of goddess Inanna was, the embrace Enmerkar wanted was more than just—ahem—a figure of speech. To be honest, some of the messages between Enmerkar and Ensuhkeshdanna about Inanna were the kind of locker room talk that got Donald Trump into trouble during the 2016 presidential campaign. But I digress. Well… no. Let’s continue with the digression for a minute. We should stop for a brief look at Inanna’s role in human history. The goddess has been known by many names through the ages: Inanna in Sumer, Ishtar in Babylon, Astarte in Canaan, Atargatis in Syria, Aphrodite in Greece, and Venus across the Roman world. Let’s just say the image we were taught of Aphrodite/Venus in high school mythology class was way off. Since we’d like to keep this a family-friendly book, we won’t dig too deeply into the history and characteristics of Inanna. Scholars don’t completely agree on the details, anyway. But it’s safe to say Inanna wasn’t a girl you’d bring home to meet your mother. In fact, she wasn’t always a girl, period. You see, while Inanna was definitely the goddess with the mostest when it came to sex appeal, she was also androgynous. She was sometimes shown with masculine features like a beard. On one tablet (although from much later, in the first millennium B.C., almost three thousand years after Nimrod), Inanna says, “When I sit in the alehouse, I am a woman, and I am an exuberant young man.”[ii] Her cult followers included eunuchs and transvestites, and she was apparently the first in history to make a practice of sex reassignment: She [changes] the right side (male) into the left side (female), She [changes] the left side into the right side, She [turns] a man into a woman, She [turns] a woman into a man She ador[ns] a man as a woman, She ador[ns] a woman as a man.[iii] It’s wonderfully ironic. The 21st century progressive ideal of gender fluidity was personified more than five thousand years ago by the Sumerian goddess Inanna, a woman who craved sex and fighting as much (or more) than men, taking on all comers in love and war, and better than men at both. Her personality is celebrated by modern scholars as complex and courageous, transcending traditional gender roles, turning Inanna into an icon of independent man/woman/other-hood. There is an ongoing debate among scholars as to whether the priesthood of Inanna was involved in ritual sex. The concept of divine marriage was common in ancient Mesopotamia, but generally the participants were a god and his consort. It appears that the rituals were intended to please the god so he’d be receptive to the requests from a city or kingdom under his protection. However, as a harimtu, which might mean “temple prostitute” or may simply refer to a single woman, Inanna herself participated in the rite with a king. And since she was the dominant partner in the ritual coupling, gender roles might not have been as clearly defined as we would assume. From a Christian perspective, however, Inanna isn’t complex at all. She’s a bad Hollywood screenwriter’s idea of a 15-year-old boy’s fantasy woman. Inanna is selfish, ruled by her passions, and destructive when she doesn’t get her way. The Sumerian hero Gilgamesh, who ruled Uruk two generations after Enmerkar, is remembered partly for rejecting Inanna. As he pointed out in the story, every one of the men in her life suffered horrible consequences—for example, Dumuzi the Shepherd, who ruled as a king in Bad-Tibara, the second city in Sumer to exercise kingship after Eridu. In the myth, even though Inanna married Dumuzi, she was happy to throw him under the bus when demons tried to drag her younger son, Lulal (Bad-Tibara’s patron god), down to the netherworld. At Inanna’s urging, the demons spared Lulal and took Dumuzi instead. Dumuzi’s sister pleaded for him, so Inanna agreed to allow her to take his place for half the year, thus making Dumuzi the first of many “dying and rising gods” in the ancient Near East. More than two thousand years later, one of the abominations God showed the prophet Ezekiel was women at the entrance of the north gate of the Temple weeping for Dumuzi, called Tammuz in the Bible. Well, for his impudence at daring to remind Inanna about the fate of Dumuzi, and the other poor shlubs who’d succumbed to the charms of the wild goddess, she flew up to heaven in a rage and demanded that her father, the sky god Anu, unleash the Bull of Heaven on Gilgamesh. That didn’t go well for the Bull of Heaven, but sadly for Gilgamesh, his best friend Enkidu was killed by the gods as punishment for spoiling Inanna’s revenge. We shared all of that with you to make a point: This is the deity Enmerkar/Nimrod wanted to make the patron goddess of his city, Uruk! (Replacing her father Anu, ironically.) Could it be that veneration of the violent, sex-crazed, gender-bending Inanna was responsible for Yahweh’s decision to stop Nimrod’s artificial holy mountain? Well… no. Probably not. Inanna has enjoyed a very long run near the top of the Most Popular Deities list. And why not? Selling humans on the concept of sex as worship is easy. Looking at the values of our modern society, it’s no stretch to say that Inanna is the spirit of the age. Gender fluidity is the flavor of the month among progressives in the West. The values of Inanna—immediate gratification and sex with whoever, whenever—are considered more open-minded, tolerant, and loving than the virtues of chastity, fidelity, and faithfulness introduced by Yahweh long after Inanna was first worshiped as the Queen of Heaven. Ironically, this means that so-called progressive ideas about gender and sexual morality are actually regressive! The enlightened think they’re cutting edge, breaking new ground and smashing old paradigms, when in fact they’re just setting the calendar back to more than a thousand years before Abraham. If Yahweh had genuinely intervened to put a stop to the cult of Inanna, she would be long forgotten, like Enki. And Miley Cyrus would be a freak, not a culture hero. No, the transgression of Nimrod was much more serious. Besides building a fabulous temple for the goddess of prostitutes, he also wanted to expand and upgrade the home of the god Enki, the abzu—the abyss. For more on that story, see Part 4 of this series, Babel, the Abyss, and the Gate of the Gods.
http://skywatchtv.com/2017/04/04/great-inception-part-11-mystery-inanna-patron-goddess-nimrod/
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False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack Pushes WWlll, While Global Geoengineering Omnicide Continues
April 5, 2017 Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org
The US government and the western power structure as a whole is completely out of control. Though there is no denying the corruption and criminality that is rampant in other countries like China and Russia, the most dangerous desperate behavior being displayed by a global power center is that of the US / NATO / Trump administration, and the military industrial complex they all stand for. The US / NATO military industrial complex wants total global hegemonic power and will stop at nothing in the attempt to achieve it. The latest desired excuse to ramp up US / NATO military aggression in the Middle East has now been conveniently provided, but what really happened? And why? Do Americans even remember the earlier false flag chemical weapons attack that was staged in Syria, just as the UN weapons inspectors arrived in Syria? Does any rational person believe the Syrians would invite the UN inspectors to their country (after giving up all their chemical weapons willingly) and then launch a chemical weapons attack (with chemical weapons they did not even have) just in time for the UN inspectors to witness it? Really? The 7 minute video below is very important and informative report of the latest chemical weapons attack false flag launched by western powers that are desperate to trigger global conflict. What does Google show when you search "Trump / Syria chemical weapons attack"? The Google search results show only the criminally corrupt mainstream media official military industrial complex narrative. That is what the criminal corporate media are paid to do. Some of the "official narrative" headlines from Google are below. Trump says 'heinous' chemical weapons strike in Syria 'cannot be tolerated' Blaming Assad, Trump says Syria attack 'cannot be tolerated' Trump blames Assad and Obama for chemical attack in Syria The 2 minute video below is yet another glaring example of power structure controlled corporate media pumping out the scripted false narrative of the military industrial complex. This CNN carefully crafted propaganda report is shockingly transparent in regard to its attempt to create public support for continued US military intervention / aggression. The US mainstream media is a criminal collaborator and contributor to the totally tyrannical and completely out of control military industrial complex. Their lies also include deceptions of total omission. What else is happening in Syria (and all over the world) that mainstream media has never said a word about? An incomprehensibly massive and unimaginably destructive global climate engineering/weather warfare assault that must also be considered biological warfare due to the highly toxic fallout from these programs. Chemical weapons false flag attacks are not the only toxic activity being carried out in Syria by those in power. The photo below of the skies over Hama, Syria, was taken on the same day as the false flag chemical attack, April 4th, 2017. The next group of startling photos were also recently taken in the skies over Syria. Available evidence clearly indicates that the US / NATO military industrial complex pushing for WWlll. Due to accelerating biosphere implosion and waning global resources, it seems the power structure feels that creating global conflict and chaos is their last available option. In the meantime, every single human being on the planet (and the entire web of life) is being subjected to the highly toxic fallout from ongoing illegal global climate engineering / intervention programs (which must also be considered a form of biological / chemical warfare). All of us are facing what must be considered a fight for life. Whether or not we accept this or believe it is irrelevant, the front-line facts speak for themselves. All of us are desperately needed in the fight for the greater good. Investigate, participate, make your voice heard. DW
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The Battle Of The Ages Has Begun - The Nature Of This War Is Supernaturally Evil - What Will The Righteous Do?
Shadow Government Ramping Up Efforts To Get Trump Into WW3
April 6, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
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With America possibly closing in upon a nuclear war with Russia that could lead to the deaths of hundreds of millions of Americans (leaving up to or more than 90% of the US population dead within a year after the war began), based upon what many people strongly believe was some kind of a 'false flag' event in Syria, there's never been an important time than now for the American people to speak up loudly and clearly and draw our own line in the sand. As we're now witnessing in the mainstream media's continually pushing of blame upon Syrian President Assad for the 'gas attack' in Syria without knowing all of the facts, the very same swamp that President Trump has pledged to drain has come back with a vengeance. And if Trump is now getting his 'intelligence' from the same 'swamp scum' who fed lies to Barack Obama, Americans and America are now in more danger than ever. While it's still too early to make the call on Syria, with Republican Congressman Thomas Massie disputing the facts of what happened there to CNN, joining former Congressman Ron Paul and the entire independent media as the massive voice of reason, will President Trump be drained by the swamp, abandon his base and betray the American people or is he still playing 4D chess on Syria, leaving the swamp scum, the MSM and independent media swaying in the wind? The final video below takes a look at what's happening now with the neocons 'wagging the dog' in Syria. We can see by recent events in Syria that there has never been a more important time than now for the American people to step up to the plate and help Trump defeat the shadow government Obama left to complete the destruction of America that endlessly seeks out death, destruction and war. As former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman recently stated, Christians need to come up with our own plans to counter the subversion of Barack and Michelle Obama and the 'shadow government' they've left. ANP recently reached out to Steve Quayle and he shared with us his own ideas on how we can do that, stressing that what we're now witnessing is nothing less than a spiritual battle against the forces of darkness. You can read Quayle's entire note to us on how we can help President Trump (and America) below videos. Although he's set up his fortress just miles away from the White House, the 'saboteur at large' has been nowhere near there recently. As AOL reported March 30th, former president Barack Obama is 'laying low on an island, writing his book', as far away from the unfolding insanity in Washington DC as he can get. Marlon Brando's 'island hideaway' of Tetiaroa, a privately owned island tucked away in the South Pacific purchased by Brando for around $200,000 back in the 1960's, will be one home to Obama as he cashes in on 8 years of destroying America with a handsome $60 million dollar book deal he and Michelle Obama procured from Penguin Random House recently for two books. It's not lost on some that Obama has chosen to stay as far away from DC and the US as he can considering all of the turmoil and chaos that is unfolding in the US, largely because of him and his decisions during 8 years in office, and specifically over the 2015/2016 election season. From nearly doubling America's national debt from the $10.626 trillion it was when he took over in 2009 to the massive $19.947 trillion debt he left President Trump and America with the day Trump took office, we see the enormity of the mountain Trump and America face ahead. And with 'Deep State-Gate' now exploding with Judge Andrew Napolitano claiming that Susan Rice and 'whomever else' may have been responsible for the 'unmasking' may be looking at felonies as heard in the 1st video below, we look at this recent story from Live Trading News claiming Obama is now holing up on an Island without an extradition treaty as another sign of the direction this world-class political drama may soon take. From their story: The leader of the seditious anti-Trump Administration “Deep State”, former US President Barack Hussein Obama is now HQ’d on the French Polynesian Island of Tetiaroa where there is no extradition treaty with the US. Some people believe that reasoned that he engaged in foul play in the Y 2012 election because he was “so unpopular” and “people despise his administration.” There have been rumors this month and now claims that Mr. Hussein Obama’s vacation to French Polynesia is his attempt to flee justice and imminent arrest: “This is why Obama is hiding in French Polynesia. He is a fugitive. He is hiding from arrest. I believe he knows he’s going to be arrested.” The speculation is that former President Obama may end up living aboard a yacht in International Waters in order to avoid extradition for sedition and perhaps treason to the US over what he called “the biggest scandal in the history of this nation” and possibly “the biggest scandal in the history of the world.” When we take into account that America now has a huge number of possible 'enemies within', people placed into positions of importance during Obama's 8 years, and people who are now working against the Trump administration behind the scene, we see why America and our ideals of freedom are still in such danger to this day. In the 2nd video below, Matt Drudge warns on the traitors within this government. As we reported on ANP time and again leading up to the 2016 election, even the very idea of 'America' was at stake with Hillary promising open borders and a continuation of Barack Obama's 8 years. Many Americans had begun to believe that our Republic wouldn't survive 4 years of another Clinton in the highest office of the land. The new story from WND is called "Urgent Warning For Christians To Help Trump Beat Obama's Shadow Government" within which former US Representative Michelle Bachmann urges Christians to come up with our own plans to counter the subversion of Barack and Michelle Obama and the 'shadow government' they've left. From the majority of the mainstream media, who sold away their souls while selling Americans lies disguised as 'truth', to those in Washington DC, Langley, Virginia and elsewhere across America now working against President Trump and America, we see why it's never been more important for the American people to step up, for seeing the direction we've long been heading, we may never get another chance. You can reach the White House at 202-456-1111 to express your support for President Trump or your outrage about what's now happening in Syria. The message of wisdom and warning seen below comes to us from Steve Quayle.: The nature of this war is supernaturally evil - the pedophiles, perverts, traitors and treason is being controlled by Satan and his fallen angels, whom this world's leaders are in blood covenant with. Christians must seek personal repentance, turn from our wicked ways and wage spiritual warfare against the prince of darkness and his shadow government and their "willing dupes". Never forget that the MSM and their lies fulfill the same role as all the other false witnesses and their lies in history. Note the absence of the name of Jesus and the call to repentance nationwide, that is lacking in all the dialogue, about how to fix this country. It is by our looking to men in the Republican party as our deliverers that we will lose, without a supernatural move of God, like in the Book of Acts! We are going to be decimated as a country and as the people of God, as Christians worldwide are already being trodden under foot of men and slaughtered at the hands of world haters under the hand of their demonic rulers. It was by the initiative of the early Christians who turned the world upside down, through their profession of faith and the power of the Holy Spirit with miraculous signs and wonders following, that the world was transformed. President Trump is God's prosecuting attorney, but God is the Ultimate King and Judge and judges nations in history and individuals in eternity. All the greatest kingdowms in history have passed away when they gave into the same lusts, powers, and perversions that we are now embracing and presenting to the world. We are truly under the pervious entity and its rulership under the 'Obama-nation' have become an object of scorn and contempt to the nations and their populations around the world. As the foundations of this once great nation are already destroyed, what will the righteous do?
http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Battle_Of_The_Ages.php
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Open Your Eyes: Social Democracy is Collapsing
Jeffrey A. Tucker Wednesday, April 05, 2017
A sign of strange times: 1984 by George Orwell has become a bestseller yet again. Here is a book distinguished for its dark view of the state, together with a genuine despair about what to do about it. Strangely, this view is held today by the Right, the Left, and even people who don’t think of themselves as loyal to either way. The whole fiasco happening in D.C. seems insoluble, and the inevitable is already taking place today as it did under the presidents who preceded Trump: the realization that the new guy in town is not going to solve the problem. Now arrives the genuine crisis of social democracy. True, it’s been building for decades but with the rise of extremist parties in Europe, and the first signs of entrenched and sometimes violent political confrontations in the United States, the reality is ever more part of our lives. The times cry out for some new chapter in public life, and a complete rethinking of the relationship between the individual and the state and between society and its governing institutions. Origins of the Problem At a speech for college students, I asked the question: who here knows the term social democracy? Two hands of more than one hundred went up. That’s sad. The short answer is that social democracy is what we have now and what everyone loves to hate. It’s not constitutionalism, not liberalism, not socialism in full, and not conservatism. It’s unlimited rule by self-proclaimed elites who think they know better than the rest of us how to manage our lives. By way of background, at the end of the Second World War, the intellectual and political elites in the United States rallied around the idea that ideology was dead. The classic statement summing up this view in book form came in 1960: The End of Ideology by Daniel Bell. A self-described "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture,” he said that all wild-eyed visions of politics had come to an end. They would all be replaced by a system of rule by experts that everyone will love forever. To be sure, the ultimate end-of-ideology system is freedom itself. Genuine liberalism (which probably shouldn’t be classified as an ideology at all) doesn’t require universal agreement on some system of public administration. It tolerates vast differences of opinion on religion, culture, behavioral norms, traditions, and personal ethics. It permits every form of speech, writing, association, and movement. Commerce, producing and trading toward living better lives, becomes the lifeblood. It only asks that people – including the state – not violate basic human rights. But that is not the end of ideology that Bell and his generation tried to manufacture. What they wanted was what is today called the managerial state. Objective and scientific experts would be given power and authority to build and oversee large-scale state projects. These projects would touch on every area of life. They would build a cradle-to-grave welfare state, a regulatory apparatus to make all products and services perfect, labor law to create the perfect balance of capital and labor, huge infrastructure programs to inspire the public (highways! space! dams!), finetune macroeconomic life with Keynesian witchdoctors in charge, a foreign-policy regime that knew no limits of its power, and a central bank as the lender of last resort. What Bell and that generation proposed wasn’t really the end of ideology. It was a codification of an ideology called social democracy. It wasn’t socialism, communism, or fascism as such. It was a gigantically invasive state, administered by elite bureaucrats, blessed by intellectuals, and given the cover of agreement by the universal right of the vote. Surely nothing can truly be oppressive if it is takes place within the framework of democracy. A Brief Peace The whole thing turned out to be a pipe dream. Only a few years after the book appeared, ideology came roaring back with a vengeance, mostly in reaction to the ossification of public life, the draft for the Vietnam war, and the gradual diminution of economic prospects of the middle class. The student movement rose up, and gained momentum in response to the violent attempts to suppress it. Technology gave rise to new forms of freedom that were inconsistent with the static and officious structure of public administration. Political consensus fell apart, and the presidency itself – supposed to be sacrosanct in the postwar period – was dealt a mighty blow with the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Government no longer held the high ground. All that seemed to hold the old post-war social-democratic consensus together was the Cold War itself. Surely we should put aside our differences so long as our country faces an existential threat of Soviet communism. And that perception put off the unleashing of mass discontent until later. In a shocking and completely unexpected turn, the Cold War ended in 1989, and thus began a new attempt to impose a post-ideological age, if only to preserve what the elites had worked to hard to build. This attempt also had its book-form definitive statement: The End of History by Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama wrote, “What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” It was Bell 2.0 and it didn’t last long either. Over the last 25 years, every institution of social democracy has been discredited, on both the Right and the Left, even as the middle class began to face a grim economic reality: progress in one generation was no longer a reliable part of the American dream. The last time a government program really seemed to work well was the moon landing. After that, government just became a symbol of the worst unbearable and unworkable burden. Heavily ideological protest movements began to spring up in all corners of American public life: the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Bernie, Trump, and whatever comes next. The Core Problem Every public intellectual today frets about the fracturing of American civic life. They wring their hands and wonder what has gone wrong. Actually, the answer is more simple than it might first appear. Every institution within this framework – which grew more bloated and imperious over time – turned out to be untenable in one or another sense. The experts didn’t know what they were doing after all, and this realization is shared widely among the people who were supposed to be made so content by their creation. Every program fell into one of three categories of failure. Financially unsustainable. Many forms of welfare only worked because they leveraged the present against the future. The problem with that model is that the future eventually arrives. Think of Social Security. It worked so long as the few in older groups could pillage the numerous in younger groups. Eventually the demographics flipped so that the many were on the receiving end and the few were on the paying end. Now young people know that they will be paying their whole lives for what will amount to a terrible return on investment. It was the same with Medicare, Medicaid, and other forms of fake “insurance” instituted by government. The welfare state generally took a bad turn, becoming a way of life rather than a temporary help. Subsidy programs like housing and student loans create unsustainable bubbles that burst and cause fear and panic. Terminally Inefficient. All forms of government intervention presume a frozen world without change, and work to glue down institutions in a certain mode of operation. Public schools today operate as they did in the 1950s, despite the spectacular appearance of a new global information system that has otherwise transformed how we seek and acquire information. Antitrust regulations deal with industrial organization from years ago even as the market is moving forward; by the time the government announces its opinion, it hardly matters anymore. And you can make the same criticism of a huge number of programs: labor law, communications regulations, drug approvals and medical regulations, and so on. The costs grow and grow, while the service and results are ever worse. Morally unconscionable. The bailouts after the 2008 financial crisis were indefensible to average people of all parties. How can you justify using all the powers of the federal government to feed billions and trillions overall to well-connected elites who were the very perpetrators of the crisis? Capitalism is supposed to be about profits and losses, not private profits and socialized losses. The sheer injustice of it boggles the mind, but this only scratches the surface. How can you pillage average Americans of 40% of their income while blowing the money on programs that are either terminally inefficient, financially unsustainable, or just plain wrong? How can a government expect to administer a comprehensive spying program that violates any expectation of privacy on the part of citizens? Then there is the problem of wars lasting decades and leaving only destruction and terror guerilla armies in their wake. All of this can remain true without creating a revolutionary situation. What actually creates the tipping point in which social democracy morphs into something else? What displaces one failed paradigm with another? The answer lies with an even a deeper problem with social democracy. You can discern it from this comment by F.A. Hayek in 1939. “Government by agreement is only possible provided that we do not require the government to act in fields other than those in which we can obtain true agreement." Agreement No More Exactly. All public institutions that are politically stable – even if they are inefficient, offer low quality, or skirt the demands of basic morality – must at the minimum presume certain levels of homogeneity of opinion (at least) in the subject population; that is to say, they presume a certain minimum level of public agreement to elicit consent. You might be able to cobble this together in small countries with homogeneous populations, but it becomes far less viable in large countries with diverse populations. Opinion diversity and big government create politically unstable institutions because majority populations begin to conflict with minority populations over the proper functions of government. Under this system, some group is always feeling used. Some group is always feeling put upon and exploited by the other. And this creates huge and growing tensions in the top two ideals of social democracy: government control and broadly available public services. We created a vast machinery of public institutions that presumed the presence of agreement that the elites thought they could create in the 1950s but which has long since vanished. Now we live in a political environment divided between friends and foes, and these are increasingly defined along lines of class, race, religion, gender identity, and language. In other words, if the goal of social democracy was to bring about a state of public contentedness and confidence that the elites would take care of everything, the result has been the exact opposite. More people are discontented than ever. F.A. Hayek warned us in 1944: when agreement breaks down in the face of unviable public services, strongmen come to the rescue. Indeed, I’ve previous argued that the smugness of today’s social democrats is entirely unwarranted. Trump won for a reason: the old order is not likely coming back. Now the social democrats face a choice: jettison their multicultural ideals and keep their beloved unitary state, or keep their liberal ideals and jettison their attachment to rule by an administrative elite. Something has to give. And it is. Dark and dangerous political movements are festering all over the Western world, built from strange ideological impulses and aspiring to new forms of command and control. Whatever comes of them, it will have little to do with the once-vaunted post-war consensus, and even less to do with liberty. Presidential advisor Steve Bannon is a dark figure – straight out of Orwell – but he is smart enough to see what the Left does not see. He claims to want to use the Trump years to “deconstruct the administrative state.” Notice that he doesn’t say dismantle much less abolish; he wants to use it for different purposes, to build a new national collective under a more powerful executive. The institutions built by the paternalistic, urbane, and deeply smug social democrats are being captured by interests and values with which they profoundly disagree. They had better get used to it. This is just the beginning. The partisans of the old order can fight a hopeless battle for restoration. Or they can join the classical liberals in rallying around the only real solution to the crisis of our time: freedom itself. These are the ideological battle lines of the future, not Left vs. Right but freedom vs. all forms of government control.
https://fee.org/articles/open-your-eyes-social-democracy-is-collapsing/
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America Is Falling From Within
Apr 06, 2017 Read More Articles by Dave Daubenmire
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. America is in moral freefall. The open and blatant lying from the halls of our once great experiment in self-government has exposed a crumbling foundation of a city that once illuminated the world. The light is flickering and darkness hovers over the land. The flood of secularism and its shaky foundation has left our nation groping in the darkness. We have traded wise men for the foolish men and great will be our fall. America has fallen from within. We have done it to ourselves. The Founders of this nation, flawed though they were, understood the importance of shared values. All nations are built upon a common set of moral values and for just over 200 years this nation’s foundation was the rock of Christianity. Despite what the anti-moralists may try to convince you, America was formed upon the principle that liberty was the birthright of every citizen but that liberty was anchored to a set of immutable principles. It was those unchanging precepts that secured “the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” But somewhere along the way a soft coup was executed and the rug was pulled out from under our feet and we have been dealing with shifting sand ever since. America was great, a wise man told us, because America was good. But with the removal of the Bible as the cornerstone of our Republic the time-tested values of God’s Holy Commandments were sandblasted off of the walls of our institutions and replaced with the sinking sand of secularism. God’s laws are immutable. The laws of secularism are constantly shifting. Today, our nation is governed, not by immutable laws written in stone, but by emotion driven values driven by “feelings”. As emotions change, the laws change. Soon the rains descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. The secular kings and their secular horses could not put the nation back together again. Secularism is a fraud. It leaves the foundations upon which the nation was built open to the ebbs and flows of the whims of men. Emotionalism is a terrible base upon which to build. A moral earthquake has left the foundations in ruins. We have left nothing upon which the next generation can build. The secularists have mimicked God. They have tricked us into accepting counterfeit commandments that were designed to create a secularist utopia. They have successfully replaced the six thou-shall-nots of God with their more modern version of morality based not on the immutable laws of God but upon the ever-changing flood of human emotions. Thou shall not kill, steal, lie, sleep around, covet, nor dishonor your parents have been jettisoned from the American psyche replaced by the emotion driven sand box of tolerance, diversity, sexual anarchy, if it feels good do it, all beliefs are equal, and who am I to judge silly putty. An ever changing society requires a never changing standard in order to survive. Secularism secures nothing except the temporary. No long term culture was ever built upon a constantly-changing foundation. America is no longer great because they have changed the meaning of good. We have been here before. “In those days there was no king in Israel but everyone did that which was right in his owns eyes.” Secularism is doomed to failure. A moral system built upon the ever changing whims and emotions of the individual citizen cannot stand against the onslaught of evil designed to destroy the foundations of a nation. Godless emotions are sure to succumb to the evil hearts of men unrestrained by the laws of God. Secularism is to a nation what a windmill is to nature. Rather than giving direction to the storm it swings whichever way the wind blows. What would this nation look like today if we had remained anchored to the ROCK of AGES? . If we had held our ground when the winds blew we would not be dealing with most of the social issues we have today. Every problem America faces today is a direct result of our moral capitulation in the face of a storm of immorality. Secularism cannot save us. Everyone doing what is right in his own eyes will not work when the people are blind to a shared belief of right and wrong. In America today, the blind are truly leading the blind. Is it any wonder that we have ended up in a ditch?
https://newswithviews.com/america-is-falling-from-within/
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Explosive device disarmed in St. Petersburg apartment building – city official
Published time: 6 Apr, 2017 08:11 Edited time: 6 Apr, 2017 10:09
A residential building in St. Petersburg was evacuated after an explosive device was found in one of the apartments, a city official said, adding that the device was later defused and police had made several arrests. “An explosive device has been located and disarmed,” Konstantin Serov, head of the administration of the district where the device was located, told TASS. Earlier Russian media reported that a nine-story residential building in St. Petersburg had been evacuated after a suspicious object was found in one of the apartments. All residents of the building were brought to safety and sheltered in a nearby kindergarten, TASS added. Investigators are still working in the building, Serov added. According to Serov, the owners of the apartment were absent when the searches were conducted. The men who were found there will be investigated by police, he added. “At about 6am I heard a loud noise on the stairs… Then I saw police taking people out of the apartment next door. Then at about 8 o’clock our building was evacuated,” a local witness told Interfax. When asked for comment by Ruptly, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said it could not confirm that the discovered object was indeed an explosive device. It did confirm that operatives are working at the scene. Several people have been detained after an explosive device was found in the building, RIA Novosti reported, citing Serov. “The danger has past. The device has been defused, the bad guys [sic] have been detained. Investigations are being conducted on the site,” Serov told Interfax, adding that residents can now return to their apartments. St. Petersburg was shaken by a fatal explosion on Monday when an improvised bomb went off in subway train carriage between Tekhnologichesky Institut and Sennaya Ploshchad stations. Another bomb disguised as a fire extinguisher was defused by a bomb squad at Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. The suspect was later identified as the 22-year old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a Russian citizen of Kyrgyz origin. Russia’s State Investigative Committee is treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
https://www.rt.com/news/383664-st-petersburg-house-bomb/
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Tennessee Considers Bill to Declare God as Source of Liberty
Tennessee lawmakers are considering legislation to amend the state constitution to say that God is the source of liberties for the state's citizens.
April 5, 2017, at 1:34 p.m.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers are considering legislation to amend the state constitution to say that God is the source of liberties for the state's citizens. The House Civil Justice Subcommittee voted Wednesday to advance the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Micah Van Huss of Jonesborough. The bill failed in the same subcommittee last month. But the panel agreed to a motion to reconsider it. The proposed addition to the Tennessee Constitution would read: "We recognize that our liberties do not come from governments, but from almighty God." Amending the Tennessee constitution is a lengthy process. Proposed changes must pass by a majority during one two-year General Assembly, and then pass by at least two-thirds in the next, and then be approved by voters in a gubernatorial election year.
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Episode 23 - Interview with Steve Quayle: Fukushima Radiation Everywhere, and Dark Forces Undermining Our Institutions
From: Remnant Radio Network
A MUST LISTEN if you're concerned about the REAL FORCES BEHIND our NATION'S demise!!!
Chris and Ross Interview Steve Quayle of http://www.stevequayle.com , nationally known radio host, photographer and author of a numerous books. For the past seven years, Quayle has prophetically articulated the need for Americans to be aware of bioterrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Steve continues to shout from the rooftops about the coming massive loss of life due to lack of civil defense ... See More
https://www.spreaker.com/user/ontheobjective/episode-23-steve-quayle
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“Most catastrophic fisheries collapse in history” expected along West Coast — Official: “This is a nightmare, I have never in my life dreamed that it could get this bad” — Threat of “coast-wide fishing failure” (VIDEO)
Published: March 30th, 2017 at 12:43 pm ET By ENENews
Yurok Tribe Press Release, Mar 24, 2017 (emphasis added): The Yurok Tribe is bracing for the far-reaching economic, cultural, and social challenges created by what is expected to be the most catastrophic fisheries collapse in the Klamath River’s history. The number of fall Chinook salmon predicted to return… is the lowest on record… This unprecedented fisheries crash will have real consequences for the Yurok people… “This is a nightmare. I have never in my life dreamed that it could get this bad,” said Thomas P. O’Rourke Sr., Chairman of the Yurok Tribe… The bleak 2017 forecast is linked to a three-punch combination, comprised of two straight years of extremely elevated juvenile fish disease levels, diminished river conditions and poor ocean health… “We are in crisis mode… [this is] the most terrible fisheries disaster in the Tribe’s history,” said Chairman O’Rourke. KRCR News, Mar 24, 2017: The Yurok Tribe announced Friday that they are preparing for what they are calling, “The most catastrophic fisheries collapse in the Klamath River’s history.“ Yurok officials said that the amount Chinook salmon predicted to return to the river in 2017 is… the lowest number on record. KRCR News transcript excerpt, Mar 24, 2017: “The Yurok Tribe is announcing a major disaster. They’ve been bracing for what they are expecting to be one of the most catastrophic fisheries collapse in the history of the Klamath River. The number of fall Chinook salmon predicted to return to the river this year is the lowest on record, that’s according to the tribe.” Anderson Valley Advertiser, Mar 22, 2017: Salmon Runs Crash… With record low runs forecasted, the commercial and recreational ocean Chinook salmon fishing seasons in the Klamath Management Zone (KMZ) from Southern Oregon to north of Shelter Cove will be closed this season… Ocean salmon abundance is expected to be so low this year that the Pacific Fishery Management Council… is considering a statewide closure of the commercial Chinook salmon season… A PFMC press release… stated that “drought, disease, poor ocean conditions and other issues” are expected to reduce Klamath River Chinook salmon returns to a record low level… [Mike Burner, the PFMC’s deputy director said] “we are in unprecedented territory.” The Record, Mar 21, 2017: Scientists believe the numbers of adult chinook salmon in the ocean this year are so low that recreational and commercial fishing seasons up and down the California coast will be drastically reduced… Oregon Public Broadcasting, Mar 13, 2017: The West Coast is on track for a meager and potentially disastrous salmon season… [Butch Smith, who chairs an advisory panel that helps the Pacific Fishery Management Council set salmon seasons] this year may end up being considered a coast-wide fishing failure.
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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The War Against Christians is Accelerating on All Fronts – Steve Quayle & Pastor David Lankford Provide Critical Status Report & Guidance Tonight on The Hagmann Report 8-10:00 PM ET
By Douglas J. Hagmann - March 31, 2017
Christians have been in the crosshairs of a demonic enemy since Jesus Christ walked the earth. Recently, something has changed. The landscape of the battlefield has been altered, and the war has intensified across the earth, and continues to accelerate and intensify with each headline and every passing hour. The battle against Christians is raging, from the overt beheadings by Muslim terrorists to the more covert asymmetrical warfare in the West. Despite this increasing intensity and acceleration, it seems that more Christians have become disturbingly silent and even accommodating to an enemy determined to eradicate anyone who professes the name of Jesus as the only true Savior of mankind. There are many Christians who seem to be anemic, naïve, or perhaps deliberately dismissive of the increasingly fierce assault on true believers. True Christians have not been mandated to passivity. We do not have that luxury despite knowing how the war ends and that as true believers of Jesus Christ, we will walk with Him in victory. However, that does not mean we can be passive in this war – the greatest war in the history of the earth. However, we cannot be effective in this battle without the proper instruction and equipment. We must be prepared for the many deceptions that we will encounter, and be properly equipped for battle. We must stand in the power of the blood of Jesus Christ and choose deliverance over deception. While we obviously receive our instructions from the Holy Bible in this epic battle, it is also pragmatic to look to field commanders for status reports and for “fine tuning” that is often necessary to be more effective. It’s part of Christian fellowship that we seek but find lacking in today’s churches, pastors and pulpits. Steve Quayle and Pastor Lankford team up again to provide Christians with a current “SitRep,” or an overview of battle conditions, and applicable instructions on being an effective soldier in this war for our very salvation. We read in Ephesians 6:10-18 (KJV) that we must put on the whole armor of God to be able to discern the deception ahead of us, and to help others do the same. During this broadcast, we will discuss the practical application of being righteously victorious in battle by understanding the tasks before us. Steve Quayle and Pastor Lankford will provide a necessary battle assessment and informative, instructional and inspirational update as we prepare to face our demonic opponent in the physical, while understanding that the battle exists against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:10-18 (KJV): 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; TO WATCH/LISTEN LIVE (8-10:00 PM ET), CLICK HERE.
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Christians Urged to Pull Children From Public Schools
Written by Alex Newman Thursday, 23 March 2017
The warning was clear: Christian parents should pull their children out of public schools, now, to protect them from spiritual damage, extreme indoctrination, and other serious problems. Pastors and churches should work to encourage that “exodus,” helping and encouraging families to put their kids in homeschools or private Christian schools as quickly as possible. The alternative will be the continued decline of the church in America and an acceleration of the nation's decline. That was the explosive message of an evangelical ministry leader speaking as a guest this week on one of America's top Christian radio programs. Dr. James Dobson, one of the nation's most influential Christian leaders and a former public-school teacher, hosted the discussion on his national radio program focusing on the spiritual danger of allowing children to sit in secular or even anti-God public schools for over a dozen formative years. Dobson's guest on his nationally syndicated show Family Talk, heard on hundreds of stations across America, was Lt. Col. E. Ray Moore, a retired military chaplain, a homeschooling pioneer, and the nation's leading advocate of a mass exodus of Christian children from the government schools. The explosive interview could have far-reaching ramifications, forcing millions of Christian parents and thousands of pastors across America to re-consider their choices. In the two-part interview, which aired Monday and Tuesday across the nation and is available online, Moore said churches and Christian families must launch a fresh effort to “really grow Christian schooling and homeschooling in the evangelical and conservative church community.” First of all, he said, there is a “scriptural pattern” that underpins his argument. “The Bible is clear: Scripture assigns the education of children to the family with assistance from the church — and not government,” said Moore, who leads Frontline Ministries and is the director of the Exodus Mandate Project to get children out of government schools. “So we actually do not believe in state-sponsored education in any fashion.” Citing various Bible verses, Moore said parents are commanded to raise their children up in the “culture” of the Lord. Homeschooling and Christian schools help fulfill that, he explained, adding that public schools today are overtly hostile to Christianity and the Bible. Especially in the early years of child development, homeschooling is an excellent choice, with Christian schools available later for those who feel they can't do it themselves. For one, it creates a strong solidarity in the family, Moore said, adding that many homeschooling families are able to avoid the “teenage rebellion” stage altogether. “These kids that are homeschooled, and their peers in Christian schools, are a different breed, it's a different culture,” he continued. Dr. Dobson agreed, saying the sentiment was “absolutely true,” and that young children are especially vulnerable to lifelong effects from being bullied or teased in their early years. “Today, public schools don't offer much in the way of values education, and if they do, it's often wrong,” said Dobson, who was described as “the nation's most influential evangelical leader” by The New York Times. “Particularly today, so much of what goes on in public schools is really harmful.” When Moore and Dobson were children, public schools still began the day with prayer and the Bible. “It was very, very different than it is today,” Dobson added. When asked by Dobson about his concerns, Moore let loose. “We got a reprieve in the last election, so I think it's time for Christians to take a look at resetting the agenda for the church in the area of K-12 Christian schooling and homeschooling,” said Moore, the author of the book Let My Children Go and an executive producer for the popular Christian film on government schools entitled IndoctriNation. “We have four years to do something better and different. I think it's time for pastors and churches and Christian leaders to really look at the Exodus Mandate option, which is our ministry, to pull out and start up private Christian schools and homeschools, that's what we're advocating.” Dr. Dobson asked Moore what damage the “indoctrination” the children are being subjected to in public schools — “they've been propagandized and given a philosophy that in many cases is contrary to scripture and what we believe” — has done to America's children. Citing resources put together by the Nehemiah Institute, Moore explained that if only millennials (18 to 34 years old) had voted, the GOP would have won only five states. “Trump would have gotten 23 electoral votes, and Hillary 504,” Moore said. “What it shows is that about 80 percent of the millennials, are pretty left and progressive, they're part of the Occupy crowd, that type of a voter. We're losing the next generation.” Perhaps even more alarming, the public schools are also responsible for the decline in morality and the church. “We believe you can make a case with data that the main reason the culture and the next generation are turning away from traditional values, from the Gospel, from Christianity, is primarily because of the indoctrination of the public-school system,” said Moore, adding that some 80 percent of evangelicals today have their children in government school. “So we're losing about 70 to 80 percent of the Christian children, they're abandoning the church and the Christian faith in their early adult years. And people will ask why this is happening. Well, you put them in a public school, you didn't give them a Christian education.” Moore, whose latest film, Escaping Common Core, goes through many of those arguments, said Christian churches need to be “fully committed to K-12 Christian schooling and homeschooling as a normal way of life among our people.” “If we do that, we can save our children, and maybe save our culture as well,” he said. After serving in Christian ministry for more than four decades, though, Moore said “it grieves me to have to say this, so I'll be as delicate as I can, but a lot of our very good conservative pastors are not doing their job on starting up Christian schools or encouraging K-12 Christian schooling.” He said many pastors have told him they are scared of taking a stand because so many in their flocks have their children in government schools. “So we're in an awkward moment in history where the pastors may think, if I speak up and really push this hard, I might lose my job,” Moore said. “They do think that. But if they don't, we lose our country and we lose our children.” While some have criticized his firm stance, Moore said that the criticism is actually declining. “The culture is changing in our direction, rapidly,” he said, suggesting Christian parents and leaders are increasingly realizing the threat posed by anti-God government schools. “They see it, they see what's happening in their own children.” Speaking to pastors in particular, Moore said they need to stand up. “Parents are going to have to give an account for their children, but pastors are going to have to give an account for their flock,” Moore said. “They have a charge to shepherd the flock, and part of that is providing Christian education for the children. I'm not talking about Sunday school, I'm talking about Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday school. Now, it's not going to be easy, but they've got to do it. And I think that a lot of pastors, if they don't step up, they could lose reward.... In pastoral work, we have to warn the flock, we have to teach, admonish, and this is an area that must be dealt with.” Moore also said he did not know of any “serious Christian leaders” who were still trusting their children to government schools. Across America, he said, Christians are increasingly realizing that the public-school system is a danger to their children, and are responding accordingly. And that is very good news, not just for the children, but for the whole country. In short, an exodus from the government schools, led by pastors and churches, could help save the children, the churches, the culture, and the country all in one, Moore argued. At the end of the first segment, Moore thanked Dobson for all he has done to raise awareness over the years. If more prominent Christian leaders such as Dobson would stand up, Moore said, the effect would be tremendous. Dobson seemed pleased, too. “It's nice having somebody else to beat this drum besides myself,” said Dr. Dobson, who founded both Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, two of the most important and influential pro-family ministries in America. “I've said it for many, many years, and I don't regret a moment of it.” In the second half of the interview, which was broadcast on March 21, Dobson asked whether removing Christian children from public schools would deprive other children there of a Christian influence. Moore said he was glad the question came up. “That's called the salt and light argument, and it's the number one objection I get from people who don't support what I'm doing,” Moore explained, acknowledging Jesus' commands to the faithful to be salt and light. “But it doesn't apply to little children at the K-12 level in the public schools ... a little six, seven or eight year old is not ready for a hostile environment.” In fact, since that argument was made so often, Moore decided to produce a pamphlet addressing that exact subject. “We're putting them in harm's way in pagan and godless public schools,” he explained. “And I think, frankly, even though it's a valid text, it's probably the most misused and abused text in the Bible.... It's probably an excuse more than anything else, for not doing what scripture teaches on education. There is no wiggle room in the Bible on how we should educate our children.” In summary, children need to be brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord, he said. And they are not getting that in government schools — in fact, they are getting the opposite — when, as Dobson argued, parents' number one job is to ensure that their children follow Christ. The consequences of the government school system are massive. Dobson and Moore discussed Abraham Lincoln's reputed comments on the fact that the philosophy in the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. After that, Moore pointed to President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education, which stated in its landmark 1983 A Nation at Risk report that the government school system was so bad, it threatened the future of Americans as a nation and a people. “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,” the report stated. And since then, the situation has only gotten much, much worse, Moore and Dobson agreed. “We're losing our children because of the extreme indoctrination going on,” Moore continued. “We have LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] teachings now in the schools, evolution — you can't teach intelligent design or creation — they're doing a revisionist form of American history, they're not even learning basic, rudimentary education anymore in a lot of our public schools.” He also attacked Common Core, the controversial national “education” standards foisted on states by the Obama administration, as part of a “radical progressive agenda” that has even started creeping into some Christian schools. Dobson, who was a public-school teacher at one time, explained how his journey into this field began in graduate school while at the University of Southern California, where he studied child development. “The big fad at that time ... was that early childhood development was necessary,” he said. “The experts at that time, in my field, were all convinced that children should be ushered into formal education — usually in state-sponsored education — and to do it at younger and younger ages, to get them into formal education as early as three years or even younger. Everyone seemed to believe that, and there were many federal grants at that time to get kids into formal classrooms, much of it at the public school level.” Multiple forces converged to push the idea — it created lots of jobs for teachers, it coincided with and facilitated the push to get as many mothers as possible into the work force, and of course the federal government drove much of the support. Dobson ended up believing in the idea. But on a speaking tour, somebody gave him a copy of Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education, a book by the late homeschooling pioneer Raymond Moore — no relation to the Moore on this week's programs despite having the same name — and encouraged him to read it. “It was the first time I ever heard this notion that you would benefit children more by holding them out of public education than getting them into the early classroom situation,” Dobson said, adding that Moore had been in the same USC program as him. “It contradicted what I had been taught.” Dobson was so intrigued that he contacted the late Moore and invited the expert to his radio studio for a discussion. “It was like putting a match to gasoline,” he said. “I got it. I saw it. I knew he was right.” The conversation then went on to homeschooling all those decades ago. “That was a new concept to me,” Dobson explained. “My wife Shirley and I would have homeschooled if we had known about it. But nobody was talking about that at that time. That was a brand new idea for my listening audience, too. And frankly, I didn't know how many of them were out there.... The sky fell on me. You can't believe the number of calls and letters that came. They weren't mad at me, they were saying, tell me more, tell me more. And that was the beginning of the modern homeschool movement, and I supported it every year from that time on.” One person who heard those early broadcasts in 1981 was the Moore on this week's radio program who, by mere coincidence, shares a very similar name with the late Raymond Moore. The two Moores actually worked together after that. “I'm so happy to have this opportunity, Dr. Dobson, because I never have thanked you for that broadcast,” Moore told Dobson early on in this week's two-part interview. “So I'm thanking you today, and I know you're aware of the pivotal role it played in homeschooling. We think homeschooling started to grow exponentially after that, it just took off.” Moore told Dobson that he was already homeschooling at the time of those broadcasts in 1981, having started in 1977. “I'm guessing that at that time there may have been several hundred families homeschooling nationally. It was rare, and those who did really kept it quiet. It was under threat,” said Moore, whose own four children were homeschooled until at least middle school before attending private Christian schools. “We were comfortable that we were doing the Lord's will on it with our son, he was young at the time.... But even those of us doing God's will — and we believe we have scriptural, biblical basis for it — we still need to be affirmed, we need Godly people and respected Christian leaders to say you're doing the right thing, keep it up.” Both Moore and Dobson noted that even Jesus was homeschooled until he was 12-years old. And Moore said it was clearly the right choice, noting that his children, now in their 30s and 40s, are “still walking with the Lord,” have “good marriages,” and are “very successful.” The same is true as a general rule, both agreed, saying that homeschooled children and children from Christian schools were more respectful, better educated, and more. The data that does exist seems to confirm that, with homeschoolers on average doing far better on every relevant metric than their government-schooled peers. In a statement to The New American, Moore said his interview with Dr. Dobson was “a big moment for Exodus Mandate.” “After 50 years of service Dr. Dobson still holds the ´good housekeeping seal´ for the family,” he noted, saying he was glad to be able to expose the “educational malpractice called Common Core” and promote his latest movie on the subject, Escaping Common Core, Setting our Children Free. “K-12 Christian education and home schooling is one method to assure survival of traditional values and the natural family.” The interview will certainly have a major impact. On the show, Dobson mentioned that he had heard Moore speak at the enormously influential Council for National Policy (CNP), a low-profile gathering of top conservative and Christian leaders sought out by GOP presidential candidates on down. “You did a great job, and it was on that basis that I asked if you could be with us here on the broadcast,” Dobson said of Moore's CNP speech to many of America's most influential political and religious voices. Moore said the sentiment among top leaders was quickly changing as people realize the danger of government schools. Plus, with Common Core and other developments, many parents are also realizing that something is very wrong. Indeed, public schools have been getting more and more brazenly anti-Christian in recent years. And the indoctrination — both political and religious — has become progressively more extreme, to the point where it is now becoming obvious to anyone who cares to look. However, it still remains to be seen whether enough American children will be able to receive a good enough education to sustain the churches, the values, and the liberties that made America great. Alex Newman is co-author of Crimes of the Educators, and a correspondent for The New American, covering economics, education, politics, and more. Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU. He can be reached at: anewman@thenewamerican.com
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Amazing aerial footage shows firefighters battle raging inferno which collapsed part of Interstate 85 in Atlanta
First responders said a portion of Interstate 85 collapsed Thursday due to a massive fire under the bridge
Authorities said there were no immediate reports of casualties in the incident and it's unclear how fire started
Aerial video showed smoke billowing from highway as firefighters extinguished blaze alongside the road
Georgia Department of Transportation said they are looking over collapse, but it's still too hot to be inspected
By Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com and Reuters Published: 21:50 EDT, 30 March 2017 | Updated: 10:41 EDT, 31 March 2017
A massive fire collapsed a portion of the Interstate 85 highway in Atlanta on Thursday. The city's first responders said part of the highway collapsed due to the fire that broke out under the bridge. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the incident but Atlanta Fire and Rescue said on Twitter that all lanes were blocked and that residents should avoid the area. Video from the fire department posted on their Instagram page showed firefighters battling the massive blaze. '*Major Emergency* Heavy Fire showing under Interstate 85 in Buckhead. 2nd alarm requested. Atlanta Fire on scene,' the department wrote in the video's caption. It was not immediately clear what was burning under the bridge or how the fire started. Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Sgt Cortez Stafford said no cars were on the overpass when it fell. 'Our guys got here quickly and shut down the interstate and said, 'No one else is driving over this bridge,' he said. Firefighters noticed chunks of concrete falling from the bridge and got out of the way just minutes before it collapsed, Stafford said. Aerial video showed thick black smoke billowing into the sky above the freeway as a line of cars stood halted on either side. The aerial video showed more firefighters extinguishing the fire on one side of the highway. A photo posted on the Twitter feed of local WSB-TV showed what appeared to be barrels and coils under the bridge. The fire broke out in an industrial area near route 400. Witnesses told WSB-TV that Atlanta state troopers were telling cars to turn around on the bridge minutes before it collapsed because they were concerned about its integrity. By Thursday evening the fire department had the blaze under control. Atlanta's public transit system, MARTA, will provide extended service through the weekend. Firefighters said the fire burned for more than an hour under I-85 northbound near Piedmont Road, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The interstate - a major artery for the US South that runs through the heart of Atlanta - was closed indefinitely. 'This is about as serious a transportation crisis as we can imagine,' Mayor Kasim Reed said. The Georgia Department of Transportation said inspectors are looking over the collapse, but the scene is still too hot for them to inspect and there is no timeline on a fix. The state's top transportation official said there's no way to tell when the highway, which carries 250,000 cars per day, can be safely reopened to traffic in either direction. 'We will have to continue to evaluate the situation and adjust as we do,' Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said. 'This incident - make no bones about it - will have a tremendous impact on travel.' The interstate is a major thoroughfare for traffic heading north and south through Atlanta. The bridge collapse effectively 'puts a cork in the bottle,' Georgia State Patrol Commissioner Mark McDonough said. Capt Mark Perry of the Georgia State Patrol told the Journal-Constitution that the agency doesn't know what started the fire beneath the bridge but that terrorism is not suspected. Gov Nathan Deal told reporters that some PVC plastic materials in a vehicle may have caught fire. 'I do not know why they did or what the source of their transport was,' Deal said. 'But those are questions that will hopefully be answered at least by tomorrow morning.' Deal said inspectors were at the scene and they've contacted the original company that built the bridge to come in and assess the extent of the damage. 'We're trying to determine everything we can about how quickly can we repair it and get it back in service,' Deal said. 'I can assure you we will do everything to expedite the repair and replacement of that section of the bridge.'
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Obama Administration Brainwashed Americans About Moscow’s Influence on U.S. Elections: Russian Foreign Minister
By Graham Lanktree On 3/30/17 at 2:40 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Americans have been brainwashed to believe his country influenced the 2016 election and that President Donald Trump is ready to reset U.S.-Russia relations. In an interview with the National Interest published Wednesday (but which took place on March 24), Lavrov said he hasn’t “seen a single fact” to substantiate “groundless accusations” from the CIA, NSA, and FBI early this year that Russia worked to sway the election in favor of the Republican candidate through hacks of political emails and a misinformation campaign. The Obama administration, he maintained, made it all up and “decided that the American people should be brainwashed without any facts.” Every day Americans are being bombarded “with very simple phrases like ‘Russia is aggressor in Ukraine,’ ‘annexation of Crimea” and so on and so forth,” Lavrov said. The ongoing investigations at the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies, and in the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, are part of a “Russophobic” political campaign, Lavrov said. Read more: FBI Director James Comey tried to reveal Russian tampering months before election This anti-Russia campaign took over the Democratic Party, he added, “to raise support among the American people” by “playing on their feelings that no one shall meddle with American affairs. Lavrov’s comments were published as the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s Republican Chairman Senator Richard Burr and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA.), the Intelligence Committee's ranking member, said that " upward of 1,000 paid internet trolls " bombarded U.S. states with anti-Clinton news during the 2016 campaign. "This is one of the biggest investigations the Hill has seen in my time here," Burr, who was first elected to Congress in 1995, said on Wednesday. Warner said that campaigns of “fake news” on social media targeted key swing states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Early Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin called any accusations that Russia interfered in the election "lies" used for "domestic American politics." On March 15 the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. They targeted American and Russian cybersecurity, military and diplomatic personnel, the DOJ said, and then used the emails to hijack specific users’ other accounts, such as Google. This wasn’t linked to their current investigation of Russia’s influence on the election, officials said. However, it offers a view into Russia’s methods and capabilities after American intelligence agencies found links between Russian intelligence and hackers that infiltrated Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails in 2016. Trump has been a vocal supporter of Putin, praising him throughout the 2016 election and afterward, calling him “very smart” for not responding to a new raft of sanctions Obama introduced against Russia in January for their alleged election interference. Before the release of the US intelligence agencies report, Trump dismissed claims of Russian influence on the election as a “witch hunt.” Although no clear example of wrongdoing has been established, American authorities have since found at least four of Trump’s campaign officials and associates to have had contacts with Russian government representatives despite their original claims to the contrary. President Barack Obama and the EU placed economic sanctions on Russia after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Yet Lavrov said that when Putin and Trump spoke soon after the election that they addressed “what could be done to bring the bilateral relations to normalcy.” Normal relations, Lavrov said, is “not to try to impose some of your ideas on others.” The Obama administration, he said, had a “superiority complex” and “were obsessed with their exceptionality, with their leadership.” President Trump, he said, “holds the same position as we do in Moscow, as President Putin does, that we don’t want to meddle in other people’s matters.” Lavrov said that Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is also someone he can do business with. The two held meetings on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bonn, Germany, in mid-February. “From the point of view of personal relationship, we feel quite comfortable,” he said. Tillerson will make a trip to Moscow in April while Trump meets with the members of NATO. Lavrov said that he and Tillerson will “discuss the preparation for the presidential meeting which should take place when both countries, both leaders feel comfortable.” A member of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm has suggested that they meet in the fall after establishing a relationship with traditional American allies. Kissinger has been advising Trump and it a long-time advisor to Putin. “I don't believe that we are having another Cold War” like some in the West have suggested, Lavrov said. “Ideologically, we’re not different, we’re not apart. Yes, there are nuances in how the countries in the West and Russia and its neighbors are run. But all in all the basis is democracy, which is elections, basically, and organizing the system, the way you respect the opposition and it’s also market economy.” At least eight critics and political opponents of Putin have died violently in attacks by masked gunmen, poison, or other means in the past decade. The day before Lavrov’s interview on March 23, Putin critic and former Russian MP, Denis Voronenkov, was shot dead by a gunman in Kiev, Ukraine. He was a vocal critic of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and gave testimony about it to Ukrainian authorities. “He told me he was receiving threats from the FSB,” Russia’s domestic security service, another former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev told The Guardian. “To be honest,” said Ponomarev, who also fled Russia, “I had thought he was being a bit paranoid.” When Fox News host Bill O’Reilly asked Trump about all the killings that are linked to Putin in an interview in February, he said: “There are a lot of killers. Do you think our country is so innocent?"
http://www.newsweek.com/americans-brainwashed-russia-influence-2016-election-lavrov-576824
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Russia hired 1,000 people to create anti-Clinton 'fake news' in key US states during election, Trump-Russia hearings leader reveals
Senate Intelligence Committee's Mark Warner claims the Kremlin targeted pivotal swing states
Rachel Roberts Thursday 30 March 2017 17:40 BST
The Kremlin paid an army of more than 1,000 people to create fake anti-Hillary Clinton news stories targeting key swing states, the leading Democrat on the committee looking into alleged Russian interference in the US election has said. Senator Mark Warner, the Democrat ranking member, and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Republican Senator Richard Burr, appeared together at a press conference to give an update on the investigation ahead of the first witnesses appearing today. Mr Warner said: “We know about the hacking, and selective leaks, but what really concerns me as a former tech guy is at least some reports – and we’ve got to get to the bottom of this – that there were upwards of a thousand internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia, in effect taking over a series of computers which are then called botnets, that can then generate news down to specific areas. “It’s been reported to me, and we’ve got to find this out, whether they were able to affect specific areas in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, where you would not have been receiving off of whoever your vendor might have been, Trump versus Clinton, during the waning days of the election, but instead, ‘Clinton is sick’, or ‘Clinton is taking money from whoever for some source’ … fake news. “An outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hi-jack the most critical democratic process, the election of a President, and in that process, decided to favour one candidate over another.” The key states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania which Mr Warner named all fell narrowly - and unexpectedly - to Donald Trump. The Senate Committee will examine whether the Trump campaign co-ordinated with the Russians to hire the army of trolls. Mr Warner and Mr Burr were keen to stress they were unified in the investigation, in spite of reported in-fighting along political lines. Mr Burr said he did not want to “take snapshots” of where the investigation stood but hinted the committee had spoken to Ret Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, Mr Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence who stepped down from his post after ties to foreign governments were revealed. A parallel investigation is running in the lower House of Representatives, but this has been marred by calls for chairman Devin Nunes to step down following allegations he is co-operating with the White House. A CBS poll revealed half of Americans now believe the Russians interfered with the election to help Mr Trump, while 10 per cent believe there was Russian interference but that it was not specifically designed to benefit the tycoon. Speaker of the House, Republican Paul Ryan, said the US had a responsibility to the rest of the world to get to the bottom of the alleged Russian interference. “They’re doing it to other countries right now," he said. "We all knew this before the election, we all knew Russia was trying to meddle with our election, and we already know right now they’re trying to do it with other countries.” Seven staffers are probing Mr Trump’s alleged links to Russia and said his son-in-law Jared Kushner had agreed to be interviewed by the Senate committee, although it is not known if he will appear under oath or on camera. Journalist Adam Chen, now a staff writer at the New Yorker but a freelancer when he investigated alleged interference in the US election , claimed in a podcast with Longform that a large number of Russian trolls were now churning out support for Mr Trump “I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I don't know what's going on, but they're all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff," he said. A total of 20 individuals have been asked to appear before the committee members for private interviews, but no names apart from Mr Kushner’s were confirmed during the press conference.
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Comey Wanted To Reveal Russian Interference During The 2016 Election, Obama White House Stopped Him
Matt Vespa Posted: Mar 30, 2017 1:00 PM
Former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) owes FBI Director James Comey an apology. In fact, the entire Democratic Party, their allies, and other progressives owe the man an apology. Weeks after Donald Trump’s upset win over Hillary Clinton, the respected leader of the FBI was dragged through the mud, accused of being a partisan agent who sunk Clinton’s presidential hopes. For Reid, it was all Comey’s fault, telling CNN "I'll say singlehandedly, had he not written that letter a week or so before the election, she would have won and we would have picked up two more Senate seats.” Comey had issued a letter to Congress saying that the bureau would be reviewing new emails found on the laptop of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s top aide, which were discovered in a separate probe by the FBI. Her husband, Anthony Weiner, shared that laptop and the FBI was investigating him over allegations that he had inappropriate sexual interactions with a minor. It turned out nothing new was discovered, but Democrats railed about the timing of the disclosure. Either way, Comey was sunk. In either outcome, he was going to look like a partisan hack. Release them now and Democrats will go after him. Release this development after the election; Republicans would go ballistic, accusing him of sitting on new evidence relating to Clinton’s email usage. Yet, Newsweek is saying that Comey wanted to write an op-ed about the Russian interference into the 2016 election, but the Obama administration vetoed it. If he had been given the green light, Comey’s op-ed would have been published in the summer of 2016: Well before the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence accused the Russian government of tampering with the U.S. election in an October 7 statement, Comey pitched the idea of writing an op-ed about the Russian campaign during a meeting in the White House Situation Room in June or July. “He had a draft of it or an outline. He held up a piece of paper in a meeting and said, ‘I want to go forward. What do people think of this?’” says a source with knowledge of the meeting, which included Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and the national security adviser Susan Rice. But many in the room didn’t like the idea, and White House officials thought the announcement should be a coordinated message backed by multiple agencies, the source says. “An op-ed doesn’t have the same stature. It comes from one person.” The op-ed would not have mentioned whether the FBI was investigating Donald Trump’s campaign workers or others close to him for links to the Russians’ interference in the election, a second source with knowledge of the request tells Newsweek. Comey would likely have tried to publish the op-ed in The New York Times, and it would have included much of the same information as the bombshell declassified intelligence report released January 6, which said Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to influence the presidential election, the source says. Russia did have a concerted interference campaign that included the use of state-funded media and social media trolls, but this is far from the hack allegations that have sent the Left on the neo-McCarthyite warpath. If this election was truly hacked, then Russia would have had to mess with the vote totals. That did not happen. It also circles back to the Axios story, which noted how the Clinton team was actually more infuriated with Obama than Russia or James Comey for being too cautious about releasing information about possible Russian interference. Maybe the Obama White House thought that the electorate wouldn’t back Trump; that the coalition that put Obama over the top in 2008 and 2012 would side with her. Everything would be fine. Nope. Trump won and so began the mad dash to spread as much intelligence the Obama White House knew about the Russians throughout government before Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Were the guns loaded, but Obama didn’t fire because he believed so much, like most on the Left, that Trump would never be elected president? Some could argue he wasn’t serious about Clinton, but Obama did take unprecedented steps in terms of campaigning for her that suggests otherwise. He’s a smart man. Clinton as his successor would be best, even if he didn’t agree with her on everything. We’ll never know what would have happened if Comey had been allowed to pen that op-ed, but it's safe to say that the election probably would’ve been slightly closer.
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Israel okays first new settlement in decades to replace Amona
Top ministers unanimously approve settlement near Shiloh for evacuees from razed outpost; White House indicates move was outside purview of talks on limiting West Bank construction, but expects building to be reined in
By Raphael Ahren and Times of Israel staff March 30, 2017, 11:02 pm
Senior lawmakers voted unanimously Thursday to establish a new West Bank settlement for families evicted from the razed Amona outpost, the first new Jewish town in the territory since the 1993 Oslo Accords, amid intense negotiations with the US over settlement building. The new community will be located near the settlements of Shiloh and Eli, north of Ramallah, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. The PMO also announced the approval of tenders for some 2,000 new settlement homes — housing units whose planned construction was first announced in January. The security cabinet, which voted for the Amona replacement, was also informed that some 900 dunams (about 222 acres) of territory in the West Bank would be registered as state land. The approval of the new Amona settlement, which still must be okayed by the full cabinet, comes after months of uncertainty over whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be able to keep his promise to replace the outpost, razed last month after the High Court of Justice ruled it had been built illegally on private Palestinian land. A White House official said after the announcement that talks between Jerusalem and the US on limiting settlement construction were ongoing, and hinted that Israel had agreed to some sort of slowdown that takes US President Donald Trump’s “concerns into consideration.” The official indicated the Amona decision may have remained outside those discussions. “With regards to the new settlement for Amona residents, we would note that the Israeli prime minister made a commitment to the Amona settlers prior to President Trump laying out his expectations, and has consistently indicated that he intended to move forward with this plan,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The settlement would be the first new legal one in some 25 years. While Israel stopped establishing new settlements in the early 1990s, outposts set up since then have been given retroactive approval, and existing settlements have expanded their footprints, sometimes being neighborhoods of existing settlements in name only. Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to fulfill his promise to establish the new West Bank location for Amona evacuees, including earlier Thursday ahead of the vote. Former Amona residents welcomed the decision, saying they expected the government to immediately implement it, “so that by the upcoming summer we will enter the homes” built in the new community. The residents thanked the cabinet members and Netanyahu “who in the face of the pressure, fulfilled his commitment to establish a new community in Judea and Samaria.” Channel 2 reported Thursday that Netanyahu had made clear to the Trump administration that this promise to establish the new community was personal and that he intended to see it through. Trump had asked Netanyahu at a joint press conference last month for Israel to “hold back” on West Bank settlement construction. Several efforts since then to formulate a coordinated Israeli-US position on settlements have not yielded an agreement. The White House official said the administration expected Israel to heed Trump, saying that while it did not view settlements as an obstacle to peace, “further unrestrained settlement activity does not help advance peace.” “Going forward and as we move into more detailed discussions regarding the possibilities for advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace, the Israeli government has made clear that Israel’s intent is to adopt a policy regarding settlement activity that takes President Trump’s concerns into consideration,” the official said. Netanyahu was expected to update ministers during the security cabinet meeting on ongoing talks with the White House about limiting settlement building. He also told minister that that some 2,000 housing units of just over 6,000 announced in January and February in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were approved. On Thursday, the Israel Land Authority issued tenders for 1,992 units: 698 for Alfei Menashe, 630 in Beit Arye, 612 in Beitar Illit and 54 for Karnei Shomron. Since Trump’s inauguration in January, Israel has okayed over 6,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank, some of them outside settlement blocs Israel hopes to keep in a future peace deal with the Palestinians. Netanyahu also informed ministers that some 900 dunams in the West Bank had been claimed as state land. The land in question includes an area near the West Bank settlement of Eli, land near the outpost of Givat Haroeh, once slated for demolition, and the unauthorized outpost of Adei Ad. The land would likely be used for settlement construction.
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The Dollar Dump Begins: “China, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia Have All Become Big Sellers”
Mac Slavo March 27th, 2017 SHTFplan.com
As global financial markets teeter on the edge of collapse, a report published this morning suggests that the run up in the U.S. dollar may be over. As of today, some 80% of post-Trump election gains have been wiped out and as noted in the special video report from Future Money Trends below, it appears that things are only going to get worse: China sold more U.S. Treasuries last year than any country has ever sold in a single year… $188 billion worth… Japan is also making an exit, selling nearly $30 billion since election day… Belgium, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia have all become big sellers too… Official national debt is $20 Trillion… the real debt has been calculated to be $200 Trillion… what’s not included in the official numbers is social security, Medicaid and Medicare obligations… Think about it… every penny spent on the military, welfare programs, foreign aid and even your Congressman’s paycheck… it’s all borrowed money… As explained in the video report, our creditors know this and they are in the process of dumping their holdings before the whole system collapses in on itself. While President Trump may have the best intentions, Future Money Trends warns that the debt ceiling debate is just getting started, and chances are that neither Republicans or Democrats will make it easy on the new administration. In fact, it’s quite possible that, as we highlighted previously, the Deep State will make their move to overthrow Trump in June, because on June 1st the United States will literally run out of money unless the debt ceiling is raised. While Congress would normally just take a vote and push the limit higher, the current political environment is such that the debt ceiling itself could be used to attack the Trump administration and potentially even crash the U.S. economy. The U.S. is borrowing money to pay for it all… the largest debtor in history is flat broke… Without borrowing it won’t even be able to pay for social security recipients or the interest on our debt… the same debt and creditors who have been selling Treasuries… Democrats will see this as the perfect political opportunity to do permanent damage to the Trump Presidency… and frankly, so will establishment Republicans who hate him, along with many of the Tea Party representatives who were elected to stop the reckless spending in D.C. The debt ceiling will be a vote that no one wants to give, but has to happen…. otherwise the United States… the holder of the world’s reserve currency… will experience a real national default. This year is anything but normal with President Trump at the helm, so the debt ceiling may well be used to crush his administration. With our creditors dumping dollars at an unprecedented rate, coupled with the possibility of Deep State operatives and politicians using the debt ceiling as a financial weapon of mass destruction, one could certainly see the potential for serious problems going forward. Moreover, and perhaps the most important takeaway from the video above, even if a debt ceiling vote does take place, it is clear to our creditors that there is no paying back any of the money we’ve borrowed, which may explain the mass exodus out of U.S. Treasuries over the last several months.
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Trump handed Merkel $374B NATO bill during talks -- report
Published March 27, 2017 FoxNews.com
President Trump handed a bill to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for about $400 billion -- money he claims Germany owes NATO -- during their White House meeting earlier this month, according to a British newspaper. Trump has been outspoken about NATO countries not meeting their pledge to spend at last 2 percent of GDP on defense. He raised the issue publicly in the joint press conference he held with Merkel on March 17. “I reiterated to Chancellor Merkel my strong support for NATO, as well as the need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense,” Trump said at the joint press conference. “Many nations owe vast sums of money from past years, and it is very unfair to the United States. These nations must pay what they owe.” But The Times of London reported Sunday that Trump had gone a step further and told officials to calculate how much German defense spending had fallen short of the target since 2002 -- when former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder committed to higher defense spending. The bill was then handed to Merkel during their private meeting, The Times reported, to the tune of more than 300 billion U.K. pounds – about $374 billion. Trump's colorful move was described as “outrageous” by a German minister. “The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocations,” the minister told The Times. The White House denied the report to Business Insider, with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer saying: “No, this is not true.” The Times reported that Trump had his staff prepare similar bills for other NATO members not meeting the 2 percent targets. If true, the hardball tactic may have had some effect, with Merkel reaffirming at the press conference her nation’s intention to keep the 2 percent commitment. “NATO is of prime importance for us, and it was not without very good reason that we said during our summit meeting in Wales that also Germany needs to increase expenditure. We committed to this 2-percent goal until 2024,” she said. “Last year we increased our defense spending by 8 percent, and we’re going to work together again and again on this.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/27/trump-handed-merkel-374b-nato-bill-during-talks.html
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Klayman Calls On Americans To Demand A Thorough Investigation Of Surveillance On Trump
Published on Mar 22, 2017
See Klayman letter to Chairman Nunez at http://www.freedomwatchusa.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7-HI2xlns&feature=youtu.be
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Jeff Sessions Defending America’s Right to Exist
By Dave Hodges
AMERICA NEEDS IMMIGRATION. MOST IMMIGRANTS DO NOT POSE AN EXISTING THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES. America’s native birthrate is 1.8. The US needs a birthrate of 2.1 in order to maintain social programs such as Medicate, Medicaid and Social Security. However, our totally open borders approach is suicidal with regard to national defense and defense against terrorism. We also are seeing subverstive groups particpating in movements which threaten the solidarity and order of the United States (La Raza, the cartels and their terrorist allies). These groups are guilty of treason and sedition. Immigration needs to be orderly and screen and deny entry for those who pose a threat to our country and its citizens. I offer no apology in this regard. Attorney General Sessions Jeff Sessions has announced that so-called sanctuary cities will now be denied federal funds as a consequence for breaking our nation’s immigration laws. It is time to establish a rule of law towards our immigration process. The left cares nothing about the safety of our citizens. They care nothing about the re-entry into the country of convicted felons who have harmed our citizens. They care nothing about the preservation of our country. Sessions just swung the pendulum back in the other direction. The dangerous immigration road America has been on has been foretold, with regard to consequences, over a centruty ago in a work called the Chesterton Prophecies. The Chesterton Prophecies In the book, Chesterton Prophecies, the book maintains that England lost far more than its preeminent position as the world’s sole super power. Chesterton postulated that England had lost its national soul through the unintended integration of its culture with more “barbaric cultures” that it had previously conquered. The protagonist in the book, Dalroy, proclaimed that great nations have frequently followed a similar pattern of progressive and complete self-destruction: The great nation declares victory over the barbarians. The great nation begins to enjoy the fruits of cheap labor by employing the barbarians that it had conquered. The barbarians become so enmeshed into the great nation, that an alliance with barbarians is formed (e.g., de facto amnesty including members of criminal organizations). Assimilation is followed with the barbarians becoming a privileged class. Thus, the great nation is conquered. Near the end of the book, almost every virtuous cultural tradition, of the great nation, comes under sharp criticism, while every cultural tradition emanating from the barbarians’ place of origin became praiseworthy. Certainly the relationship between the United States and various countries south of our border; parallels Chesterton’s stunningly accurate prophecies by describing what has happened to present day America. Consider the following parallels which strikingly correspond to Dalroy’s view of how empires crumble: The United States fulfills its “Manifest Destiny” mandate by provoking and winning a war with Mexico in order to gain a southern railroad route to California. The great nation was victorious. Dalroy’s first principle is fulfilled. The economies of the two countries bifurcate and the United States begins to enjoy the fruits of its imperialistic labors. The conquered people provides nearly 160 years of cheap labor which helps to fuel the economic growth of the United States. Guest workers and illegal immigrants trickle into the United States. Despite the comparatively low wages, more immigrants come north to experience the bountiful leftovers of their former conquerors. This trend continues to the point in which the original trickle of guest workers and illegal immigrants becomes a raging tsunami of humanity most of whom are seeking to experience the American dream at the expense of their former conquerors. The great nation employed those that it had conquered. Dalroy’s second principle is fulfilled. Average American citizens begin to note the loss of economic standing, culture and traditions. “Special privilege” programs, such as Totalization, deportation instead of criminal prosecution for organized criminal activities, free medical and free education, serve to fully integrate the former illegal aliens into the mainstream of American society. To frame the desired paradigm shift, legal terms such as “illegal alien” become likened to racial epitaphs uttered during the worst days of the old “Jim Crow” laws. The ”politically correct police” (i.e., the corporate media) label all Americans who desire to secure their borders, in this age of terrorism, as racists and xenophobic. The alliance has been formed. Dalroy’s third principle has been fulfilled. Illegal immigrant subgroups (e.g., Reconquista de Atzalan, MECHA, CALEXIT) begin to proclaim that the takeover of America is moving forward and if the present occupants of this country do not like it; then these “Euros” can “go back to Europe .” (In this scenario, it’s not certain where American citizens whose historical roots lie in Africa, the Middle East, South America, Mexico, Panama, Canada, Asia, the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean, and most of all, Native Americans, are supposed to return to). At what point do we admit that the great nation of America has been conquered and is in the process of being successfully occupied? Ultimately, how many people from third world countries can inhabit the United States until we are considered to be a third world country? Conclusion A nation without borders, is no longer a nation. It is high time that our government stands up and defends its right to exist. Thank God for Jeff Sessions. Now we can implement immigration practices that protect Americans as well as the Americans that rightfully occupy this country. One just has to wonder how many riots will the left sponsor because we are now enforcing our immigration policies as written.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/03/28/jeff-sessions-defending-americas-right-to-exist/
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Another DHS “Exercise” Planned: The Risk of Terrorism Drills Becoming Reality
By The Daily Bell Staff - March 27, 2017
If government had the citizens best interests at heart, we wouldn’t have to worry when they planned an exercise for our safety. In fact, it would be a good thing, if we could trust the government, that they were training so hard to keep us safe in the event of an emergency. But the government does not care about the citizens and is not interested in keeping us safe. You cannot trust the government, and that is why it is always a bit terrifying to find out they have a Homeland Security exercise planned. Even more concerning is that the security exercises increasing target “home grown terrorists” and “right wing extremists.” For instance, a bill passed the House of Representatives last Friday “To require an exercise related to terrorist and foreign fighter travel,” which would involve multiple agencies training for different scenarios. One scenario involves preventing a hypothetical American traveling to a foreign country to pledge their support to the terrorists. The second scenario outlined, which according to the bill must be included in the training exercise, targets “terrorist infiltration into the United States, including United States citizens.” If the authorization for the exercise passes the Senate, we will be monitoring the available details of where and when it will implemented, because actual terrorist attacks and mass shootings have tended to align with the government’s training operations. Past Exercises Turned Real Consider the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the very real and undisputed facts about the similarities to a planned Department of Homeland Security exercise planned for Boston two months after the attack. Without even delving into the conspiracy theories, there are quite a few eyebrow-raising similarities to what had been planned in the exercise, and what actually happened the day of the attack. “Operation Urban Shield” would involve multiple federal and state law enforcement agencies training for a scenario in which “Free America Citizens,” a made up home-grown terror organization, would leave backpacks around the city of Boston. Officials from a dozen agencies had been meeting for months to plan the scenario. They behaved much like movie producers, recruiting students from Northeastern University and the Boston Police Academy to play the parts of terrorists and witnesses. And what about students from UMASS Dartmouth? This sounds like something out of a movie. A student is recruited to take part in a security exercise, and ends up being blamed for an actual attack. The planned exercise has eerie similarities to the police investigation that led to the capture of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose images were caught on video cameras and who were captured after a car chase and shoot-out with police. In the training scenario, investigators participating in Urban Shield would have to track down footage of the bombers caught by street surveillance cameras and the phones of “witnesses.” They would have to call on intelligence analysts to figure out which terrorist cell might be threatening the city. In the scenario, the terrorists would flee police in stolen cars they would dump in cities outside Boston, which would compel detectives from different jurisdictions to cooperate and share intelligence. One major clue would have been the body of one of the terrorists found near a stolen car, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There were also false leads to keep investigators guessing, the official said. And of course that is basically what happened in the sketchy events of hunting down the terrorist duo. There was video of the older brother apparently being arrested before he somehow ended up dead, with apparent police bullet holes in his mangled body which was also supposedly run over by his younger brother while escaping. Of course the younger brother would be apprehended after illegal unconstitutional searches in Watertown Massachusetts. Watertown was basically shut down by martial law in order to search for the suspect. People in the town were forced from their homes at gun point, before their houses were raided and searched. This was done without warrants, or probable cause, because a dangerous criminal was loose in the area. Sandy Hook is another scenario in which there was an apparent federal exercise planned. Unfortunately the events surrounding the Sandy Hook Massacre are so convoluted that it is nearly impossible to wade through what happened and what didn’t. Again, there are a number of things we know are sketchy, like the timeline of events, the strange behavior of people involved, and certain videos and 911 recordings which contradict the official story. However one tactic of information control is to saturate the market of information. The true story of what happened is certainly out there in bits and pieces, but 100 other fake scenarios have been published alongside the real events which obscure any possibility of the average internet user being able to distinguish fact from fiction. Conclusion The only hope to stop the next “terrorist attack” which conspicuously aligns with a planned safety drill is to shine the light on these events before they happen. It isn’t a perfect solution, but the nefarious agents of the state do tend to scatter like cockroaches when they are identified. If we can call significant attention to their actions it might just prevent the government from doing something terrible in order to justify their agenda for control.
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The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who's in Power
March 28, 2017 by Charles Hugh Smith
No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises. Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation of smouldering social/economic ills, those who see Trump and his supporters as the cause of those ills, and those who see Trump as both manifestation and cause of those ills. I think this misses the point, which is the overlapping crises unfolding in this decade-- diminishing returns on skyrocketing debts, the demographics of an aging populace, the erosion of the social contract and the profound disunity of political elites--will continue expanding and feeding on each other regardless of who is in power. Historical analysis seems to swing between the "Big Man/Woman" narrative that views individuals as the drivers of history, and the "Big Forces/it's all economics" narrative that sees individual leaders as secondary to the broad sweep of forces beyond the control of any individual or group. So while the mainstream views President Lincoln as the linchpin of the Civil War--his election triggered the southern secession--from the "Big Forces/it's all economics" view, Lincoln was no more than the match that lit a conflict that was made inevitable by forces larger than the 1860 election. The tension between these two narratives is valuable, as history cannot be entirely reduced to individual decisions or broad forces (weather, resource depletion, financial crisis, geopolitical upheaval, demographics, plague, etc.). The dynamic interplay between the two shapes history. Individuals do matter--but they cannot offset structural crises for long. Which brings us to Trump. The status quo is falling apart for profoundly structural reasons: promises made when growth was robust, debt was modest, energy was cheap and abundant and the work force was far more numerous than those dependent on the central state's "pay as you go" pension and welfare programs-- these promises made in yesteryear can no longer be kept, regardless of who's in power. We cannot get blood out of a turnip, and those who claim we can are only exacerbating the coming crises with their fantasies and denials. I've been addressing these slow-moving, inevitable crises for the past 10 years. Despite the illusion of tepid "growth" and the maintenance of the status quo, beneath the surface everything is becoming much more fragile and increasingly brittle. Even Timothy Geithner concedes this in his recent Foreign Affairs article on how to deal with the next global financial crisis. The central banks and states have expended all their ammunition-- lowering interest rates, creating money out of thin air to bolster systemic liquidity, buying bonds and other assets to prop up shaky markets, and borrowing immense sums to prop up government spending-- and there is little left for the next crisis. Why I Have to Agree with Tim Geithner on This (March 8, 2017) And this sober view--that some additional central bank trickery can save the system in the next financial crisis--assumes things that are unlikely to be true: what if energy is no longer cheap and abundant? What if global weather isn't conducive to grain surpluses? What if central banks buying stocks no longer props up the market? What if debt finally reaches levels that cannot be sustained? Could Hillary, or some other leader, forestall these deeply structural crises? The short answer is no. The only thing a leader can actually do is lower expectations so the erosion of promises that cannot be kept will be accepted as inevitable, and bolster hope while demanding sacrifices of all those who have benefited from the status quo. If we look back on great leaders who dealt with one crisis after another, we find they didn't actually make the crises disappear; they only managed them on the margins, and spoke to the need to make sacrifices for a better future. If we set aside the rose-colored glasses, we find that Franklin Roosevelt didn't actually "lead the nation out of Depression." The nation was still deeply entrenched in the Depression in 1940, after 8 years of FDR's leadership. It took World War II and federal borrowing and spending on an unimaginable scale to extricate the U.S. from the grip of bad debt the powers that be refused to write off and the resulting stagnation. Which brings us again to Trump. Since no one can actually resolve these overlapping crises, a focus on the individual leader's actions is a distraction. Yes, an individual can manage the margins of crisis more or less effectively. But overlapping mutually reinforcing crises are not a war, with a victorious and a vanquished side. As Peter Turchin and other writers I have quoted and discussed for many years have detailed, these structural trends play out regardless of policy tweaks or grand pronouncements. Leaders who manage to ease the decline or temporarily reverse it are considered successes; those who exacerbate the decline are considered failures. Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform. No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises. No one can reverse the diminishing returns on financialization, debt, centralization, financial fakery, rentier state-cartel parasitism, or reverse the decline in paid work, the erosion of well-being and health and rising inequality. There is no way to actually forestall the reckoning as the forces of demographics, financial predation, Imperial over-reach, soaring debts, political disunity, technology disruption and the failings of state-cartel centralization grind up the status quo.
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar17/overlapping-crises3-17.html
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Los Angeles School District Reduces Funding To School, Reason: ‘Too Many Whites’
March 27, 2017 / World Events and the Bible /
Outrage has grown at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, as the school faces layoffs and increased class sizes due to a law limiting funds for schools with a higher white student body. The Los Angeles Unified School District provides more funding for schools where the white population is below 30 percent. In a letter to parents, the district noted the highly regarded middle school had been above the percentage for the past couple years. Source: NoHo school budget cuts due to high white student percentage sparks outrage | abc7.com
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Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever
Can billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech research succeed in making death optional?
By Tad Friend A Reporter at Large April 3, 2017 Issue
On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear’s living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the secrets of longevity. When the symposium’s first speaker asked how many people there wanted to live to two hundred, if they could remain healthy, almost every hand went up. Understandably, then, the Moroccan phyllo chicken puffs weren’t going fast. The venture capitalists were keeping slim to maintain their imposing vitality, the scientists were keeping slim because they’d read—and in some cases done—the research on caloric restriction, and the Hollywood stars were keeping slim because of course. When Liz Blackburn, who won a Nobel Prize for her work in genetics, took questions, Goldie Hawn, regal on a comfy sofa, purred, “I have a question about the mitochondria. I’ve been told about a molecule called glutathione that helps the health of the cell?” Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant that protects cells and their mitochondria, which provide energy; some in Hollywood call it “the God molecule.” But taken in excess it can muffle a number of bodily repair mechanisms, leading to liver and kidney problems or even the rapid and potentially fatal sloughing of your skin. Blackburn gently suggested that a varied, healthy diet was best, and that no single molecule was the answer to the puzzle of aging. Yet the premise of the evening was that answers, and maybe even an encompassing solution, were just around the corner. The party was the kickoff event for the National Academy of Medicine’s Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity, which will award at least twenty-five million dollars for breakthroughs in the field. Victor Dzau, the academy’s president, stood to acknowledge several of the scientists in the room. He praised their work with enzymes that help regulate aging; with teasing out genes that control life span in various dog breeds; and with a technique by which an old mouse is surgically connected to a young mouse, shares its blood, and within weeks becomes younger. Joon Yun, a doctor who runs a health-care hedge fund, announced that he and his wife had given the first two million dollars toward funding the challenge. “I have the idea that aging is plastic, that it’s encoded,” he said. “If something is encoded, you can crack the code.” To growing applause, he went on, “If you can crack the code, you can hack the code!” It’s a big ask: more than a hundred and fifty thousand people die every day, the majority of aging-related diseases. Yet Yun believes, he told me, that if we hack the code correctly, “thermodynamically, there should be no reason we can’t defer entropy indefinitely. We can end aging forever.” Nicole Shanahan, the founder of a patent-management business, announced that her company would oversee longevity-related patents that Yun had pledged to the cause. “I’m here with my darling, Sergey,” she said, referring to her boyfriend, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. “And he called me yesterday and said, ‘I’m reading this book, “Homo Deus,” and it says on page twenty-eight that I’m going to die.’ I said, ‘It says you, personally?’ He said, ‘Yes!’ ” (In the book, the author, Yuval Noah Harari, discusses Google’s anti-aging research, and writes that the company “probably won’t solve death in time to make Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin immortal.”) Brin, sitting a few feet away, gave the crowd a briskly ambiguous nod: Yes, I was singled out for death; no, I’m not actually planning to die. After Moby put in a plug for being vegan, Dzau called on Martine Rothblatt, the founder of a biotech firm called United Therapeutics, which intends to grow new organs from people’s DNA. “Clearly, it is possible, through technology, to make death optional,” Rothblatt said. (She has already commissioned a backup version of her wife, Bina—a “mindclone” robot named Bina48.) Aging has long lacked the kind of vocal constituency that raised awareness of H.I.V. and breast cancer; as a species, we stink at mobilizing against a deferred collective calamity (see: climate change). The old wax fatalistic, and the young don’t really believe they’ll grow old. But Rothblatt suggested that the evening marked an inflection point. Turning to Dzau, she declared, “It’s enormously gratifying to have the epitome of the establishment, the head of the National Academy of Medicine, say, ‘We, too, choose to make death optional!’ ” The gathering blazed with the conviction that such events can spark: the belief that those inside the room can determine the fate of all those outside the room. In the back, Andy Conrad picked up a mike to challenge the emphasis on extending maximum life span, which is currently around a hundred and fifteen. Conrad is the C.E.O. of Verily, a life-sciences firm owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Like most of the scientists in the room, he aims simply to help people enjoy a few more “quality-adjusted life years.” He asked, “Isn’t longevity a misnomer? Isn’t it ‘living longer well’? Or ‘healthspan’?” The biologists nodded with relief. Norman Lear, still vigorous at ninety-four, closed the night by saying, “Seven years ago, I wrote a pilot script for a TV show called ‘Guess Who Died?,’ about people at a retirement community. I just learned today that it’s on its way to being made.” The audience demographics were catching up to him: by 2020, for the first time, there will be more people on Earth over the age of sixty-five than under the age of five. Lear continued, “So what I wish to offer you is, we have a stage now to get some of the things you’ve said tonight out to a national audience.” More applause: the message would spread! But which message? Death is optional? Or death will just have to wait? For decades, the solution to aging has seemed merely decades away. In the early nineties, research on C. elegans, a tiny nematode worm that resembles a fleck of lint, showed that a single gene mutation extended its life, and that another mutation blocked that extension. The idea that age could be manipulated by twiddling a few control knobs ignited a research boom, and soon various clinical indignities had increased the worm’s life span by a factor of ten and those of lab mice by a factor of two. The scientific consensus transformed. Age went from being a final stage (a Time cover from 1958: “Growing Old Usefully”) and a social issue (Time, 1970: “Growing Old in America: The Unwanted Generation”) to something avoidable (1996: “Forever Young”) or at least vastly deferrable (2015: “This Baby Could Live to Be 142 Years Old”). Death would no longer be a metaphysical problem, merely a technical one. The celebration was premature. Gordon Lithgow, a leading C. elegans researcher, told me, “At the beginning, we thought it would be simple—a clock!—but we’ve now found about five hundred and fifty genes in the worm that modulate life span. And I suspect that half of the twenty thousand genes in the worm’s genome are somehow involved.” That’s for a worm with only nine hundred and fifty-nine cells. The code book is far more complex for animals that excite our envy: the bee larva fed copiously on royal jelly that changes into an ageless queen; the Greenland shark that lives five hundred years and doesn’t get cancer; even the humble quahog clam, the kind used for chowder, which holds the record at five hundred and seven. For us, aging is the creeping and then catastrophic dysfunction of everything, all at once. Our mitochondria sputter, our endocrine system sags, our DNA snaps. Our sight and hearing and strength diminish, our arteries clog, our brains fog, and we falter, seize, and fail. Every research breakthrough, every announcement of a master key that we can turn to reverse all that, has been followed by setbacks and confusion. A few years ago, there was great excitement about telomeres, Liz Blackburn’s specialty—DNA buffers that protect the ends of chromosomes just as plastic tips protect the ends of shoelaces. As we age, our telomeres become shorter, and, when these shields go, cells stop dividing. (As Blackburn said, “It puts cells into a terribly alarmed state!”) If we could extend the telomeres, the thinking went, we might reverse aging. But it turns out that animals with long telomeres, such as lab mice, don’t necessarily have long lives—and that telomerase, the enzyme that promotes telomere growth, is also activated in the vast majority of cancer cells. The more we know about the body, the more we realize how little we know. Still, researchers plunge ahead. Understanding isn’t a precondition for successful intervention, they point out; we had no real grasp of virology or immunology when we began vaccinating people against smallpox. In the murk of scientific inquiry, every researcher looks to a ruling metaphor for guidance. Aubrey de Grey likes to compare the body to a car: a mechanic can fix an engine without necessarily understanding the physics of combustion, and assiduously restored antique cars run just fine. De Grey is the chief science officer of Silicon Valley’s SENS Research Foundation, which stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence—a fancy way of saying “Planning Your Comprehensive Tune-up.” An Englishman who began his career with a decade of work in A.I., he speaks with rapid fluidity, often while stroking his Rasputin-length beard. De Grey has proposed that if we fix seven types of physical damage we will be on the path to living for more than a thousand years (assuming we can avoid getting hit by a bus or an asteroid). When I met him at the SENS office, in Mountain View, he told me, “Gerontologists have been led massively astray by looking for a root cause to aging, when it’s actually that everything falls apart at the same time, because all our systems are interrelated. So we have to divide and conquer.” We just need to restore tissue suppleness, replace cells that have stopped dividing and remove those that have grown toxic, avert the consequences of DNA mutations, and mop up the gunky by-products of all of the above. If we can disarm these killers, de Grey suggests, we should gain thirty years of healthy life, and during that period we’ll make enough further advances that we’ll begin growing biologically younger. We’ll achieve “longevity escape velocity.” De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style. He told me, “I can drink as much as I like and it has no effect. I don’t even need to exercise, I’m so well optimized.” Until recently, he maintained two girlfriends and a wife. Now, he said, “I’m engaged, and my polyamorous days are behind me.” But the main reason is his prophetic air of certainty. His 2007 book, “Ending Aging,” is replete with both exacting research into the obstacles to living longer and proposed solutions so ambitious that they resemble science fiction. De Grey’s fix for mitochondrial mutation, for instance, is to smuggle backup copies of DNA from the mitochondria into the vault of the nucleus, which evolution annoyingly failed to do—probably because the proteins needed in the mitochondria would ball up during their journey through the watery cell body. His fix for that, moving the DNA one way and the proteins that it produces another, amounts to a kind of subcellular hokey pokey. A number of scientists praise de Grey for anatomizing the primary threats, yet they see troubleshooting all seven pathways through such schemes—and you have to troubleshoot them all for his plan to work—as a foredoomed labor. Matt Kaeberlein, a biogerontologist at the University of Washington, said, “It’s like saying, ‘All we have to do to travel to another solar system is these seven things: first, accelerate your rocket to three-quarters of the speed of light . . . ’ ” The great majority of longevity scientists are healthspanners, not immortalists. They want to give us a healthier life followed by “compressed morbidity”—a quick and painless death. These scientists focus on the time line: since 1900, the human life span has increased by thirty years—and so, as a consequence, have cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and dementia. Aging is the leading precondition for so many diseases that “aging” and “disease” are essentially metonyms. Accidents and violence are the leading causes of death up to age forty-four, then cancer rises to the top, and then, at sixty-five, heart disease. Healthspanners want to understand the etiologies of cancer and heart disease and then block them. Why do we almost never get those diseases at age two? How can we extend that protection to a hundred and two? But if we cured cancer we would add only 3.3 years to an average life; solving heart disease gets us an extra four. If we eliminated all disease, the average life span might extend into the nineties. To live longer, we’d have to slow aging itself. Even if we do that, the healthspanners believe, we’re not going to live forever—nor should we. They worry about the rapid drain on natural resources and on Social Security; the potential for a Stalin or a Mugabe to stay in power for centuries; the loss of new ideas from the young; and profound lifelong boredom. Amy Wagers, a researcher at Harvard, told me, “Part of the meaning of life is that we die.” The Greeks warned about the danger of grasping for godlike powers. It didn’t work out well for Asclepius or Achilles, and it worked out even worse for Tithonus, whose lover, Eos, begged Zeus to grant him eternal life but forgot to request eternal youth as well. Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release. When I met Ned David, I thought that he was about thirty. He had an unlined face and thick auburn hair, he walked rapidly with his hands stuffed into his jeans pockets, and he wore red Converse high-tops. David is forty-nine. He is a biochemist and a co-founder of a Silicon Valley startup called Unity Biotechnology. Unity targets senescent cells—cells that, as they age, start producing a colorless, odorless, noxious goo called SASP, which Unity’s researchers call “the zombie toxin,” because it makes other cells senescent and spreads chronic inflammation throughout the body. In mice, Unity’s treatments delay cancer, prevent cardiac hypertrophy, and increase median life span by thirty-five per cent. “We think our drugs vaporize a third of human diseases in the developed world,” David told me. David isn’t taking any of Unity’s drugs, which won’t be on the market for at least seven years. His youthfulness derives from existing therapies: he takes metformin—a diabetes drug that has made elderly diabetics live longer than a healthy control group—and Retin-A, for his skin. He also swims a lot, having quit running because of spinal osteoarthritis. “I am often accused, here, of picking the things we work on based on the problems of aging I have,” David said. “But because of our drugs I predict that I will run again!” A systemic approach to aging, which would ideally result in your general practitioner prescribing you a “God pill,” is philosophically attractive but financially infeasible. Pharma and biotech companies make money only if they treat a disease, and, because aging affects everything, the F.D.A. doesn’t recognize it as an “indication” susceptible to treatment (or to insurance-company reimbursement). So Unity is taking aim at glaucoma, macular degeneration, and arthritis; the fridge in its lab is stocked with human eyeballs and knee cartilage. This is the customary serial-specialist approach to aging, which tackles it symptom by symptom: let’s restore those eyes, then send you down the street for a 3-D-printed kidney. Last fall, Unity raised a hundred and sixteen million dollars from such investors as Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, billionaires eager to stretch our lives, or at least their own, to a span that Thiel has pinpointed as “forever.” In a field rife with charlatans, Ned David’s Dorian Gray affect has factored into his fund-raising. “One class of investor, like Fidelity, finds my youthful appearance alarming,” he said. “Another class—the Silicon Valley type, a Peter Thiel—finds anyone who looks over forty alarming.” Traditionally, it has been the graying tycoons of technology who funded aging research, hoping to disrupt the three-act structure of the Silicon Valley journey: life hacker, rock climber, cadaver. Now aging has cachet in the startup world. Arram Sabeti, the thirty-year-old founder of a tech company called ZeroCater, told me, “The proposition that we can live forever is obvious. It doesn’t violate the laws of physics, so we will achieve it.” Sabeti spends his leisure time reading all-cause-mortality metastudies, and is an investor in the Longevity Fund, a venture fund recently launched by Laura Deming. Deming, who is twenty-two, terms the longevity market a “two-hundred-billion-dollar-plus” opportunity, but she told me that “it’s really impossible to say how big it could be, because if you cured aging you’d change medicine entirely. ”Unsurprisingly, it was Google that transformed the Valley’s view of aging. Surprisingly, perhaps, it was the company’s Bill Maris who was in the vanguard. As the founder and C.E.O. of Google Ventures, Maris led successful investments in companies such as Nest and Uber; he was amiable, admired, and financially secure—not an obvious modern-day alchemist. However, he told me, “My thoughts can turn to dark things when I’m alone.” His father died of a brain tumor in 2001, when Maris was twenty-six. “I majored in neuroscience, I’ve worked in hospitals, but until my father died I did not understand the finality of ‘Gone, never to be seen again,’ ” he said. Maris, who is forty-two, is a longtime vegetarian who works out on an elliptical machine for an hour every day. He comforts himself with the knowledge that the scientist who performed a 3-D scan of his brain praised his robust corpus callosum, the bundle of nerve fibers that connects the hemispheres. (Maris displays gleaming polymer models of his and his wife’s brains under glass bells in his office.) But such precautions and advantages were temporary, personal stopgaps. How could he fix the problem permanently, and for everyone? He decided to build a company that would solve death. He discussed the idea with Ray Kurzweil, the futurist who popularized the concept of the Singularity—the idea that humans will merge with A.I. and transcend our biological limitations—and Kurzweil was enthusiastic. Maris also discussed it with Andy Conrad, the geneticist who runs Alphabet’s Verily, and Conrad was thoughtfully discouraging. The first problem was the long study time in humans: it’s hard to run a clinical trial on subjects who take eighty years to die. (A related issue is that we have no accepted model for how to measure biological age, which often differs significantly from chronological age. Seventy probably isn’t the new fifty for, say, Ozzy Osbourne.) The second problem was the immense difficulty of determining whether any seeming cause of aging was actually causal, or merely a correlative of some other, stealthier process. “Andy did throw a lot of cold water on the idea,” Maris said. “But there were no issues of fact. He didn’t say, ‘Aging isn’t a genetic disease,’ or ‘Google will never fund this.’ ” In 2011, Maris pitched his proposed company to John Doerr, a prominent venture capitalist who is on Alphabet’s board. “Imagine you found a lamp on the beach, and a genie came out and granted you a wish,” Maris said. “If you were clever, your first wish would be for unlimited wishes.” As Doerr nodded, Maris continued, “Let’s say you’re going to live, at most, another thirty years.” Doerr had just turned sixty. “If each day is a wish, that’s only between one and ten thousand wishes. I don’t know about you, but I want to add more—I want to add wishes faster than they’re taken away.” Doerr, confronted with the limits to his life span, was galvanized. When Maris pitched Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, who has a gene variant that predisposes him to Parkinson’s disease, loved the idea, and Larry Page declared, “We should do it here!” In 2013, Google launched Calico, short for the California Life Company, with a billion dollars in funding. “Calico added a tremendous amount of validation to aging research,” George Vlasuk, the head of a biotech startup called Navitor, told me. “They have money, brainpower, and time.” But Calico has proved to be extremely secretive. All that’s known is that it’s tracking a thousand mice from birth to death to try to determine “biomarkers” of aging—biochemical substances whose levels predict morbidity; that it has a colony of naked mole rats, which live for thirty years and are amazingly ugly; and that it has invested in drugs that may prove helpful with diabetes and Alzheimer’s. (The company declined to comment.) A number of longevity scientists confess to disappointment with Calico’s direction. Nir Barzilai, a geneticist who is a leader in the aging field, told me, “The truth is, we don’t know what they’re doing, but whatever it is doesn’t really seem to be attacking the problem.” Another scientist who’s familiar with Calico’s workings said that it’s pursuing its mission judiciously, but that the company began, fatally, as a vanity project. The scientist said, “This is as self-serving as the Medici building a Renaissance chapel in Italy, but with a little extra Silicon Valley narcissism thrown in. It’s based on the frustration of many successful rich people that life is too short: ‘We have all this money, but we only get to live a normal life span.’ ” Maris, who has retired from Google Ventures, strongly disagreed with that view. “This is not about Silicon Valley billionaires living forever off the blood of young people,” he said. “It’s about a ‘Star Trek’ future where no one dies of preventable diseases, where life is fair.” If Silicon Valley billionaires end up being sustained by young blood, they will satisfy an ancient yearning. In 1615, a German doctor suggested that “the hot and spirituous blood of a young man will pour into the old one as if it were from a fountain of youth.” In 1924, the physician and Bolshevik Alexander Bogdanov began young-blood transfusions, and a fellow-revolutionary wrote that he “seems to have become seven, no, ten years younger.” Then Bogdanov injected himself with blood from a student who had both malaria and tuberculosis, and died. Parabiosis, the surgical linkage of circulatory systems, has had a mostly grisly history in humans—when it was tried as a desperate measure on terminal cancer patients, in 1951, a two-year-old boy lost part of his foot to gangrene—and in rodents, which resisted being conjoined. A 1956 study warned, “If two rats are not adjusted to each other, one will chew the head of the other until it is destroyed.” We kept trying. In 2005, a Stanford lab, run by a stem-cell biologist and neurologist named Tom Rando, announced that heterochronic parabiosis, or an exchange of blood between older and younger mice, rejuvenated the livers and muscles of the older ones. Vampires everywhere felt validated. Last fall, on “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert warned teen-agers that President Trump would replace Obamacare with mandatory parabiosis: “He’s going to stick a straw in you like a Capri Sun. ”Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists also had their straws poised. Rando said, “I’ve had a lot of meetings with young billionaires in Silicon Valley, and they all, to varying degrees, want to know when the secrets are coming out, both so they can get in on the next big thing and so they can personally take advantage of them. I say, ‘This is not an app. If you come at biology from a tech point of view, you’re going to be disappointed, because the pace is much slower.’ ” In recent years, the parabiosis field has grown quarrelsome. Is the rejuvenative key the presence of young-blood proteins, or the absence of something like SASP? Could it be a cellular by-product from one mouse, or the effect of borrowing a younger mouse’s liver? In 2014, the Harvard scientist Amy Wagers concluded that young-blood factors, particularly a protein called GDF11, gave older mice a stronger grip and renewed their brains. Most of her colleagues questioned her results, and the drug company Novartis promptly did a study that suggested the exact opposite: you should blockade GDF11. Wagers told me, “Different groups have reported that amounts of GDF11 go up, go down, or stay the same with age.” With a bleak laugh, she added, “Clearly, one group is right.” After Rando’s colleague Tony Wyss-Coray showed that young blood can foster new neurons in the hippocampus region of the brains of old mice, a company called Alkahest spun out from his work. Alkahest has begun to sift the more than ten thousand proteins in plasma, in hopes that the right protein cocktail can cure Alzheimer’s—a process that is expected to continue for more than a quarter century. When I visited Alkahest recently, Joe McCracken, the vice-president of business development, cued up side-by-side videos of genetically identical, equally aged mice. They were about to run a Barnes maze: a disk dotted with black circles, one of which was a hole—a laboratory version of a burrow in which to escape a diving hawk. During previous runs, they’d been trained to remember the hole’s location. McCracken, who was with two colleagues, explained that the first mouse had been treated only with a placebo of inert saline. We watched it nose here and there, uncertainly, before finally stumbling upon the hole. It took a minute and twenty seconds. The men clapped, releasing their anxiety. “It’s me in the parking lot, looking for my car,” Sam Jackson, the company’s chief medical officer, said. Then McCracken played the video of a mouse that had been tuned up with plasma from eighteen-year-old human beings. That mouse darted purposefully toward one sector of the maze, found the hole, and scooted into it in eighteen seconds. The execs grinned and shook their heads: youth. Every longevity experimenter has talismanic photos or videos of two mice: one timid and shuffling, with patchy fur; the other sleek and vital, thrumming with the miracle elixir. But can mice be our proxy? Empathy beguiles us into believing so. When you read that mice made to run on a treadmill were given “a five-minute warmup period and a five-minute cooldown period,” you think, Very sensible. Yet mice don’t have heart attacks, and their muscles start wasting suddenly, rather than gradually, as ours do. Mice also don’t get Alzheimer’s disease, so scientists mimic it by breeding mice with genes taken from humans. But, since we get Alzheimer’s only when we’re old, testing treatments in young mice often proves misleading. It doesn’t help that labs use radiation to cause artificial aging, or that lab mice live much longer than wild mice. Tony Wyss-Coray told me, “People say, ‘The young mouse finds the hole—O.K., we’re good, give me the treatment!’ And I say, ‘We don’t know if it’s safe, we don’t know if mice are the same as humans—you have to wait.’ ” We’ve cured cancer in lab mice dozens of times, and made them live twice as long, yet none of those results have transferred upstream. “So many times, the mice have failed us,” the geneticist Nir Barzilai lamented. The reigning view among longevity scientists is that aging is a product not of evolutionary intent but of evolutionary neglect: we are designed to live long enough to pass on our genes, and what happens afterward doesn’t much matter. As the geroscientist Richard A. Miller wrote, “Mice that devote their energies to eating and breeding will do better than those that spend valuable capital on eye repair and anticancer surveillance.” We mature more slowly than mice and live much longer, because we, like whales and naked mole rats, are at much less risk of being eaten in our first year. Yet from the age of thirty or forty on, after we’ve spawned, we’re living on time that evolution regards as pointless. Eric Verdin, the C.E.O. of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, the leading nonprofit in the field, noted that “if you just kept aging at the rate you age between twenty and thirty, you’d live to a thousand. At thirty, everything starts to change.” From that point, our risk of mortality doubles every seven years. We’re like salmon, only we die in slow motion. The battle between healthspanners and immortalists is essentially a contest between the power of evolution as ordained by nature and the potential power of evolution as directed by man. The healthspanners see us as subject to linear progress: animal studies take the time that they take; life sciences move at the speed of life. Noting that median life expectancy has been increasing in developed nations by about two and a half years a decade, Verdin told me, “If we can keep that pace up for the next two hundred years, and increase our life spans by forty years, that would be incredible.” The immortalists have a different view of both our history and our potential. They see centuries of wild theorizing (that aging could be reversed by heating the body, or by breathing the same air as young virgins) swiftly replaced by computer-designed drugs and gene therapies. Bill Maris said, “Health technology, which for five thousand years was symptomatic and episodic—‘Here are some leeches!’—is becoming an information technology, where we can read and edit our own genomes.” Many immortalists view aging not as a biological process but as a physical one: entropy demolishing a machine. And, if it’s a machine, couldn’t it be like a computer? Progress in computers, or anyway in semiconductors, has been subject to Moore’s Law, the exponential flywheel that has doubled capacity every two years. In linear progress, after thirty iterations you’ve advanced thirty steps; in exponential progress, you’ve advanced 1.07 billion steps. Our progress in mapping the human genome looked like it was linear—and then was revealed, once the doublings grew significant, as exponential. A number of startups are trying to harness exponential curves. BioAge has been using machine learning and crunching genomics data to search for biomarkers that predict mortality. Kristen Fortney, the company’s thirty-four-year-old C.E.O., told me that she had also begun testing computationally designed drugs to find an unexpected substance that would powerfully affect those markers. She’s about to seek her next round of venture financing, and she’s optimistic: “Biotech is something a lot of V.C.s don’t understand, but machine learning and big data are things they do understand.” Aging doesn’t seem to be a program so much as a set of rules about how we fail. Yet the conviction that it must be a program is hard to dislodge from Silicon Valley’s algorithmic minds. If it is, then reversing aging would be a mere matter of locating and troubleshooting a recursive loop of code. After all, researchers at Columbia University announced in March that they’d stored an entire computer operating system (as well as a fifty-dollar Amazon gift card) on a strand of DNA. If DNA is just a big Dropbox for all the back-office paperwork that sustains life, how hard can it be to bug-fix? And the news story continues click on the link below.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever
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March 27 2017 Rachel Browne
'Survivors have waited too long': 4000 institutions named in sex abuse royal commission
Thousands of institutions have been implicated in allegations of child sexual abuse, according to new data released by a royal commission. As the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse commences its final public hearing, chairman Justice Peter McClellan has urged child protection reform and proper redress for victims. The $500 million inquiry is Australia's longest royal commission, starting in 2013 and due to finish with a final report to the federal government in December. In his opening remarks to the hearing, Justice McClellan said governments and institutions needed to focus on redress and regulatory changes, "designed to ensure that so far as possible no child is abused in an institutional context in the future". "Survivors have waited too long for an effective response to their suffering and the future protection of Australian children must be given the highest priority," he said. Justice McClellan and five commissioners have heard the testimony of more than 6500 child sexual abuse survivors in private sessions, with another 2000 people still awaiting a meeting. More than 1200 witnesses have appeared at the commission in 400 days of public hearings. Data gleaned largely from private sessions found there were more than 4000 institutions where alleged abuse of children occurred. Religious institutions were most frequently named, with 60 per cent of survivors in private sessions reporting child abuse in a religious organisation. Just over one-third of survivors reported abuse in a government-managed institution. "It is remarkable that failures have occurred in so many institutions," Justice McClellan said. "It is now apparent that many of the characteristics of failure within institutions are common." An analysis of alleged perpetrators found members of the clergy were most commonly identified by those attending private sessions, followed by teachers and residential care workers. The majority of alleged perpetrators were adult males, accounting for 94 per cent of reported abusers. Counsel assisting the commission Gail Furness SC told the inquiry the statistics are likely to represent a fraction of child sexual abuse survivors. "It is very likely that there are very many people who have been sexually abused in institutional contexts in Australia as children who have not attended a private session," she said. The commission heard 64 per cent of people who attended a private session were male. Almost half reported they were abused when aged between 10 and 14 years, while 28 per cent were aged between five and nine years when the abuse allegedly occurred. "When a child is sexually abused, the effects can be devastating," Ms Furness said. "For some, the impacts of the abuse, and an institution's response to it, last for their whole lives." The impact of abuse is widespread, the inquiry heard. "Child sexual abuse affects the whole community," Ms Furness said. "The effects ripple outwards, adversely affecting victims' parents, siblings, partners, carers and children." The hearing into the nature, cause and impact of abuse continues.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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READY TO BLOW Flight chaos threat for Brits as experts fear four of Iceland’s volcanoes are set to erupt just like Eyjafjallajökull that grounded jets in 2010
Seven years ago it blew sending choking clouds of ash into the atmosphere grounding 100,000 flights
By Jon Lockett 27th March 2017, 8:14 pm
FOUR mighty volcanoes in Iceland including the one which caused air travel chaos across Europe in 2010 could erupt ‘at any moment’ say experts. Seven years ago the massive Eyjafjallajökull blew sending choking clouds of ash into the atmosphere across the continent. The dust clouds grounded 100,000 flights costing Europe’s economy an estimated £4 billion. Now experts have told the Daily Star Online that four of the country’s biggest volcanos are showing signs they have ‘woken up’. It’s claimed Katla, Hekla, Bárðarbunga and Grímsvötn are on the brink of blowing their tops. Hazel Rymer, Professor of Environmental Volcanology at Open University fears fiery Hekla poses the biggest danger of bringing Europe to a standstill. “When Hekla erupts, it’s effects are usually felt very severely by the local people,” she said. “It can have an impact internationally just as the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull did in 2010.We are on our guard.” Hekla, which stands at 1,488 metres high, last erupted in 2000 and is long overdue a new blast. And Pall Einarsso, a geophysicist at the university of Iceland, says its internal pressure is already higher than the last two times it blew. He says Europe could see Hekla erupt at any moment. “This could certainly do terrible things, even though most eruptions are small and rather harmless,” he said. “This could be spectacular.” Katla last erupted in 1919 but research indicates it is now ready to blow. Bárðarbunga is the most active and last erupted in 2014 releasing two cubic kilometres of lava. Volcanologist David Pyle, of Oxford University, says a repeat of the ash cloud chaos is most likely to be caused by Hekla or Katla. “The Eyjafjalljokull eruption in Iceland in 2010 wasn’t a very big eruption, but it produced a lot of fine ash, over several weeks,” he said. "The same thing could happen again - with the right combination of eruption size (not too big, not too small), and weather systems.” Europe could, however, escape a repeat of the air travel disruption if the eruption is high enough. “It is likely that future explosive eruptions from Icelandic volcanoes like Katla or Hekla will inject volcanic ash high enough in the atmosphere for it to get caught up in the polar vortex, and blown across Scandinavia, Greenland and the Arctic Ocean,” he said.
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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.
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Declassified Report Proved How Close The US Was To Nuclear War - Have We Learned From The Past? NKorean War Threats No Laughing Matter
March 27, 2017 - Story submitted to All News Pipeline by Ambassador R. James Woolsey and Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
The United States must not dismiss Kim Jong-un’s threats as mere bluster In 2015 the Intelligence Community declassified The 1983 Soviet “War Scare” — the definitive report by the president’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on how and why the USSR nearly launched a preemptive nuclear strike during the NATO theater nuclear exercise ABLE ARCHER-83, held in November 1983. For months prior to ABLE ARCHER-83, Moscow warned vociferously that deploying U.S. missiles to European NATO would result in World War III. Washington dismissed Soviet threats as “bluster” to frighten NATO into non-deployment of these first theater nuclear missiles with range to reach Moscow. After all, Soviet SS-20 missiles posed a far greater threat to NATO. And ABLE ARCHER-83 was routine. The only thing new was the exercise would include the new nuclear missiles. We did not know it then, but subsequent analysis proved Moscow misconstrued ABLE ARCHER-83 as cover for a surprise nuclear attack. The USSR prepared a surprise of their own — a preemptive nuclear strike, which they very nearly launched, and almost certainly would have done so if the exercise continued another 24 hours. Many analysts regard the 1983 Soviet war scare as more dangerous than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Now the U.S. and South Korea are conducting a routine military exercise FOAL EAGLE-17 mobilizing thousands of troops. For the first time, the U.S. has deployed THAAD missile defenses to protect South Korea from North Korean nuclear strikes. B-52 nuclear bombers will be flown into South Korea. The focus of the war game is preemptive warfare to prevent North Korea from launching nuclear missiles, including by U.S. nuclear first strikes against North Korean forces and leadership. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is threatening preemptive nuclear war. Pyongyang wrongly declares, as it does every year during routine U.S.-South Korean military exercises, that these are no war games, but this time a real impending U.S. surprise attack. North Korea fired four missiles which splashed down close to Japan, a rehearsal for nuclear strikes against U.S. bases according to Pyongyang. Many dismiss Kim Jong-un’s nuclear threats as mere “bluster.” This is a profoundly dangerous underestimate. Kim Jong-un is a sociopath who inherited absolute power from his father and grandfather. Like them, Kim is mentally and spiritually absolutely corrupted. Kim is so suspicious of his own followers that he is purging his political and military elites, inventing sadistically ingenious ways of killing even close relatives. Kim Jong-un is essentially Caligula in the third generation, armed with nuclear weapons. His paranoid personality is exactly the type to start a nuclear war. Failure to understand the dangerously dysfunctional mind of the North Korean dictator is leading analysts to misread the character of the nuclear threat from North Korea. For example, Western analysts wrongly assume North Korea must follow a testing regime similar to that for U.S. missiles, where there will be numerous flight tests to perfect the missile before operational deployment. But North Korea sees itself in a long nuclear crisis with the United States, always on the verge of nuclear war, necessitating that missiles get rushed out the door based on component testing and maybe some minimal flight testing. Pyongyang is in a panic, like Moscow during World War II rushing not properly tested tanks to the front from the factory floor — except Pyongyang’s panic is over nuclear war. Pyongyang’s nuclear war scare mentality explains why North Korea deployed 30 Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) for nine years based only on component testing, without flight testing. Some Western analysts thought the Musudan was a fake missile — until it was successfully flight-tested last year. Pyongyang’s panic explains why North Korea has deployed the KN-08 and KN-14 mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) without flight testing. Pyongyang’s panic explains why we should be a lot more worried about their KMS-3 and KMS-4 satellites orbiting over the U.S. If nuclear-armed, these satellites could make an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that would blackout North America and kill millions. Surprise EMP attack by satellite is such an unconventional gambit it is still not on the mental radar screens of most analysts — exactly as Pyongyang hopes. What is to be done? President Trump should harden the national electric grid against EMP and cyberattack, starting by appointing new commissioners to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission who care more about national security than essentially representing the electric utilities. Redeploy Aegis guided missile cruisers to plug holes in the National Missile Defense, especially in the southern Gulf coastal states — Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. Modernize the U.S. nuclear deterrent, including development of EMP and cyber weapons capable of neutralizing nuclear missile threats preemptively. Launch a new Manhattan Project to resurrect President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and deploy space-based missile defenses to make preemptive warfare unnecessary. Story originally published here. Ambassador R. James Woolsey was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is chief of staff of the congressional EMP Commission and served in the House Armed Services Committee and the CIA. His books on Amazon can be found here.
http://allnewspipeline.com/NKorean_War_Scare_No_Laughing_Matter.php
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KIM IN THE CROSSHAIRS Japan to ‘bomb North Korea’ in missile strike before crazed despot Kim Jong-un can ‘destroy’ the country in nuclear attack
The maniacal tyrant has angered the entire region with recent missile tests
By Corey Charlton 28th March 2017, 9:06 am Updated: 28th March 2017, 3:07 pm
JAPANESE lawmakers are calling for new laws to allow Tokyo to launch pre-emptive strikes against an increasingly aggressive Kim Jong-un. The maniacal tyrant has angered the entire region with recent missile tests as he seeks to develop his nuclear warheads. Hiroshi Imazu, the head of Japan's ruling party, told The Washington Post: "Japan can't just wait until its destroyed. "It's legally possible for Japan to strike an enemy base that's launching a missile at us, but we don't have the equipment or capability." Discussions surrounding the law change were supported by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and defence minister Gen Nakatani. Nakatani told the paper: "I believe that we should consider having the capacity to strike." Japan's current constitution, created in the wake of the Second World War, means it is illegal for the country to launch an attack - it can only go to war in self-defence. But a group of influential politicians are lobbying for the law change that would allow them to take the front foot against North Korea. Last week Japan also began staging mass evacuation drills as tensions in the region heated up. Just hours ago it was reported Kim Jong-un was preparing another nuke test to commemorate his dead grandad's birthday. There has been increased activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea leading experts to believe the country’s next nuclear test is imminent, according to the Yonhap news agency. Kim Jong-un recently threatened to reduce the US “to ashes” as tensions with North Korea continue to increase. And just last week, a propaganda video mocked up his troop's destroying a US aircraft carrier and downing a bomber jet.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3195081/north-korea-nuclear-bomb-japan-fears/
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etc. It is not the books that man writes, it is the word,
the living word, the logos, the rhema, stay in my word, walk in my word,
function in my word and you shall see what the EU is about ready to do, you
shall understand what Russia is planning and purposing now, you shall
even see China who is the last army that moves down into that valley after my
church is gone. You will understand these things, for it is very clear in my
word exactly what I shall do and you will not say, well, it must be fifteen
years off, you will not say it must be ten years off, you will not say it must
be five years off, for you shall see the signs clearly and
you shall understand the hour, you shall understand the time and you will know.
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Claim: Russia Has Created A Devastating Zircon Hypersonic Missile That Will Rip Right Through U.S. Warships: “Unstoppable… Unbeatable… Undefendable”
Mac Slavo March 27th, 2017 SHTFplan.com
As President Trump ratchets up the U.S. military in his latest budget proposal, his counterpart, Russian President Vladimir Putin, has reportedly created a hypersonic missile with such devastating implications for the U.S. Navy, that it is being called “unstoppable.” Russia claims to have created a devastating hypersonic missile that travels five times faster than the speed of sound and could rip through navy warship defences because it’s too fast to stop. The Kremlin’s Zircon missile has been called “unstoppable”, “unbeatable” and “undefendable” with a 4,600mph speed that only one defence system in the world can destroy – that system is owned by Russia. The missile employs revolutionary scramjet technology to reach its hypersonic speeds whereby propulsion is created by forcing air from the atmosphere into its combustor where it mixes with on-board fuel – rather than carry both fuel and oxidizer like traditional rockets. This makes it lighter, and therefore much faster. The US Navy warns it could be fitted to Russia’s nuclear-powered Kirkov warship, where it would have a range of up to 500 miles. In comparison, the Royal Navy’s Sea Ceptor missile, which is designed to destroy incoming missiles can only travel 15 miles and hit top speeds of 2,300mph. Full report: International Business Time
Reports indicate that no counter measures for the Zircon missile exist. If true, then the majority of the U.S. Naval fleet has just been rendered obsolete.
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No age discrimination: Muslim ‘migrants’ rape elderly German women, 90 and 79
Posted on March 23, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 28 Comments
In Europe, no female of whatever age is safe from Muslim “migrants”:
Young girls are advised to wear magic tattoos to protect themselves from being molested in public swimming pools.
Young women are advised to wear sneakers so they can outrun ‘refugees’.
The physically handicapped are not safe (see “Wheelchair-bound woman raped by refugees at Sweden asylum center“).
Kind-hearted women who help “migrants” by working in asylum centers get molested.
Even really old women are not safe from being raped.
Here are two examples: (1) On July 24, 2016, a 40-year-old “refugee from Eritrea” — code words for a North African Muslim “migrant” — raped a 79-year-old woman when she was visiting her sister’s grave in Ibbenbueren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A witness called the police after hearing the woman crying for help at around 6 a.m. The victim was given medical treatment and released from hospital after two days. The unnamed suspect, who has been in Germany since 2013 and was living in a hostel for asylum seekers, was charged with rape and put in police custody. If found guilty, he could face 15 years in prison. (Source: Daily Mail) (2) On October 2, 2016 in Düsseldorf, a 19-year-0ld “Moroccan migrant” raped a 90-year-old woman in daylight. The woman had just left a church in the city center when her assailant pushed her into a narrow alley between two pubs, where he demanded money and then raped her. The woman was treated for injuries in a hospital and released the next day. The suspect was arrested a few weeks later, when DNA found at the crime scene matched the DNA taken from the “migrant” after he had been arrested for theft in May 2016. (Source: UK Express) On March 16, 2017, trial began in Düsseldorf for the 19-year-old suspect. According to the prosecution, the 90-year-old victim had just lit a candle in the St. Lambertus Church when the young man confronted her and shouted “money, money!” But when the woman did not have any money with her, the 19-year-old dragged her into the courtyard where he pulled down her leggings and raped her, before strangling her and pulling at her hair. Then he went through her handbag, stealing her house key and writing down her address. Thankfully, there is no evidence that he later broke into her home. The “Moroccan migrant” is facing up to 15 years in prison if found guilty of rape, bodily harm and theft. (Source: The Local) A leaked internal “Casablanca Report” from Düsseldorf says there is a “child sex crisis in swimming pools”. Referring to the report, chief of the German police union Rainer Wendt said that Düsseldorf, like other German cities, has “around 2,244 North African migrant criminals”. Wendt said these migrant criminals are “laughing” at the German justice system as they are often allowed to go free after committing crimes: “They despise our country and laugh at our justice. If there is no pre-trial detention made, no imprisonment is imposed, and no deportations carried out. The police make multiple arrests and the perpetrators get away with it.” (Source: Breitbart) The situation is so bad in Europe that 80% of Swedish police reportedly want to quit, while police have lost control of no-go zones in Germany and in the city of Marseilles, France, where “excessive violence, riots, and rapes has made it the most dangerous city in Europe.” Marseilles has a 30-40% Muslim population. Boys are not safe either from being sexually assaulted by Muslim “migrants” (see “Iraqi migrant rapes a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna and tells police it was a ‘sexual emergency’“). Nor are store mannequins and goats.
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have come up with a solution to slow wifi. Use a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays. The capacity is not only huge (more than 40Gbit/s per ray) but also there is no need to share since every device gets its own ray of light. This was the subject for which TU/e researcher Joanne Oh received her PhD degree with the ‘cum laude’ distinction last week. The system conceived in Eindhoven is simple and, in principle, cheap to set up. The wireless data comes from a few central ‘light antennas’, for instance mounted on the ceiling, which are able to very precisely direct the rays of light supplied by an optical fiber. Since there are no moving parts, it is maintenance-free and needs no power: the antennas contain a pair of gratings that radiate light rays of different wavelengths at different angles (‘passive diffraction gratings’). Changing the light wavelengths also changes the direction of the ray of light. Since a safe infrared wavelength is used that does not reach the vulnerable retina in your eye, this technique is harmless. No interference If you walk around as a user and your smartphone or tablet moves out of the light antenna’s line of sight, then another light antenna takes over. The network tracks the precise location of every wireless device using its radio signal transmitted in the return direction. It is a simple matter to add devices: they are assigned different wavelengths by the same light antenna and so do not have to share capacity. Moreover, there is no longer any interference from a neighboring wi-fi network. Data capacity of light rays Current wi-fi uses radio signals with a frequency of 2.5 or 5 gigahertz. The system conceived at TU Eindhoven uses infrared light with wavelengths of 1500 nanometers and higher; this light has frequencies that are thousands of times higher, some 200 terahertz. which makes the data capacity of the light rays much larger. Joanne Oh even managed a speed of 42.8 Gbit/s over a distance of 2.5 meters. For comparison, the average connection speed in the Netherlands is two thousand times less (17.6 Mbit/s). Even if you have the very best wi-fi system available, you won’t get more than 300 Mbit/s in total, which is some hundred times less than the speed per ray of light achieved by the Eindhoven study. The Eindhoven system has so far used the light rays only to download; uploads are still done using radio signals since in most applications much less capacity is needed for uploading. Five years The work of doctoral student Oh is part of the wider BROWSE project headed up by professor of broadband communication technology Ton Koonen, and with funding from the European Research Council. Joanne Oh focused predominantly on the technology of data transmission via directable infrared light rays. Other PhDs are still working on the technology that tracks the location of all the wireless devices as well as on the essential central fiber-optic network connecting the light antennas. Koonen expects it will still be five years or more before the new technology will be in our stores. He thinks that the first devices to be connected to this new kind of wireless network will be high data consumers like video monitors, laptops or tablets. Many devices at the same time Koonen’s group is not the only one working on ‘indoor optical wireless networks’. A few other universities and research institutes around the world are also studying whether data can be transmitted via a room’s LED lighting. However, the drawback here is that the bandwidth is not high and that the connected devices still have to share. A few other groups are investigating network concepts in which infrared light rays are directed using movable mirrors. The disadvantage here is that this requires active control of the mirrors and therefore energy, and each mirror is only capable of handling one ray of light at a time. The grating used by Koonen and Oh can cope with many rays of light and, therefore, devices at the same time. The work of Oh and Koonen comes under the auspices of the TU/e Institute for Photonic Integration, one of the world’s leading research institutes for ‘photonics’, the use of light (photons) rather than electricity (electrons) to transmit data.
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/wi-fi-on-rays-of-infrared-light-100.html
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Stunning new ESA animation reveals the Earth's magnetic 'cocoon' in unprecedented detail
Animation reveals a detailed look at Earth's ‘lithospheric magnetic field’
The layer makes up 6 percent of the magnetic field, and is hard to see from space
ESA's Swarm satellites collected data for three years for high resolution view
By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com Published: 14:58 EDT, 22 March 2017 | Updated: 15:06 EDT, 22 March 2017
The European Space Agency has released the highest resolution map yet of Earth’s elusive ‘lithospheric magnetic field,’ a weak layer in the massive ‘cocoon’ around our planet. The agency’s Swarm satellites have mapped the magnetic signals of this layer in unprecedented detail, revealing new insight to Earth’s magnetic history. A stunning new animation created after three years of data collection now shows the finer details of this small section, which arises from the electrical currents in space and the magnetized rocks of our planet’s upper lithosphere. While much of Earth’s magnetic field is generated by deep movement of molten iron in the outer core, at depths of more than 3000 kilometers (1865 miles), a much weaker layer making up just 6 percent comes from the crust and upper mantle. While it’s hard to spot from space, the Swarm satellites have allowed scientists to map the lithospheric magnetic field in stunning detail. This reveals more precise variations than previous reconstructions, as a result of geological structures in Earth’s crust. ‘By combining Swarm measurements with historical data from the German CHAMP satellite, and using a new modelling technique, it was possible to extract the tiny magnetic signals of crustal magnetization,’ said Nils Olsen from the Technical University of Denmark. The researchers found one such anomaly in Central African Republic, around the city of Bangui. Here, the magnetic field is far sharper and stronger – but, why it is this way remains a mystery. Some suspect it may have been created by a meteorite impact more than 540 million years ago. Earth’s magnetic field is always changing, according to the ESA, as magnetic north ‘wanders.’ And, its polarity flips every few hundred years. The magnetic field allows scientists to see a ‘snapshot’ of past event in the crust, as new material is generated through volcanic activity, with iron-rich minerals pointing magnetic north. Our planet's magnetic field is believed to be generated deep down in the Earth's core. Nobody has ever journeyed to the centre of the Earth, but by studying shockwaves from earthquakes, physicists have been able to work out its likely structure. At the heart of the Earth is a solid inner core, two thirds of the size of the moon, made mainly of iron. At 5,700°C, this iron is as hot as the Sun's surface, but the crushing pressure caused by gravity prevents it from becoming liquid. Surrounding this is the outer core there is a 1,242 mile (2,000 km) thick layer of iron, nickel, and small quantities of other metals. The metal here is fluid, because of the lower pressure than the inner core. Differences in temperature, pressure and composition in the outer core cause convection currents in the molten metal as cool, dense matter sinks and warm matter rises. The 'Coriolis' force, caused by the Earth's spin, also causes swirling whirlpools. This flow of liquid iron generates electric currents, which in turn create magnetic fields. Charged metals passing through these fields go on to create electric currents of their own, and so the cycle continues. This self-sustaining loop is known as the geodynamo. The spiralling caused by the Coriolis force means the separate magnetic fields are roughly aligned in the same direction, their combined effect adding up to produce one vast magnetic field engulfing the planet. This activity typically takes place along the sea floor, and as the magnetic poles periodically flip, the solidified magma creates ‘stripes’ that reveal the magnetic history. The researchers found one such anomaly in Central African Republic, around the city of Bangui. Here, the magnetic field is far sharper and stronger – but, why it is this way remains a mystery. Some suspect it may have been created by a meteorite impact more than 540 million years ago. Earth’s magnetic field is always changing, according to the ESA, as magnetic north ‘wanders.’ The researchers found one such anomaly in Central African Republic, around the city of Bangui (pictured). Here, the magnetic field is far sharper and stronger ¿ but, why it is this way remains a mystery The researchers found one such anomaly in Central African Republic, around the city of Bangui (pictured). Here, the magnetic field is far sharper and stronger – but, why it is this way remains a mystery The formation of new crust typically takes place through volcanic activity along the sea floor, and as the magnetic poles periodically flip, the solidified magma creates ¿stripes¿ that reveal the magnetic history The formation of new crust typically takes place through volcanic activity along the sea floor, and as the magnetic poles periodically flip, the solidified magma creates ‘stripes’ that reveal the magnetic history And, its polarity flips every few hundred years. The magnetic field allows scientists to see a ‘snapshot’ of past event in the crust, as new material is generated through volcanic activity, with iron-rich minerals pointing magnetic north. HOW DOES A LIQUID IRON CORE CREATE A MAGNETIC FIELD? Our planet's magnetic field is believed to be generated deep down in the Earth's core. Nobody has ever journeyed to the centre of the Earth, but by studying shockwaves from earthquakes, physicists have been able to work out its likely structure. At the heart of the Earth is a solid inner core, two thirds of the size of the moon, made mainly of iron. At 5,700°C, this iron is as hot as the Sun's surface, but the crushing pressure caused by gravity prevents it from becoming liquid. Surrounding this is the outer core there is a 1,242 mile (2,000 km) thick layer of iron, nickel, and small quantities of other metals. The metal here is fluid, because of the lower pressure than the inner core. Differences in temperature, pressure and composition in the outer core cause convection currents in the molten metal as cool, dense matter sinks and warm matter rises. The 'Coriolis' force, caused by the Earth's spin, also causes swirling whirlpools. This flow of liquid iron generates electric currents, which in turn create magnetic fields. Charged metals passing through these fields go on to create electric currents of their own, and so the cycle continues. This self-sustaining loop is known as the geodynamo. The spiralling caused by the Coriolis force means the separate magnetic fields are roughly aligned in the same direction, their combined effect adding up to produce one vast magnetic field engulfing the planet. This activity typically takes place along the sea floor, and as the magnetic poles periodically flip, the solidified magma creates ‘stripes’ that reveal the magnetic history. ‘Understanding the crust of our home planet is no easy feat,’ said ESA Swarm mission manager, Rune Floberghagen. ‘We can’t simply drill through it to measure its structure, composition, and history. ‘Measurements from space have great value as they offer a sharp global view on the magnetic structure of our planet’s rigid outer shell.’ The new map now stands as a global view of the magnetic stripes, helping scientists to better understand magnetic and tectonic activity. ‘These magnetic stripes are evidence of pole reversals and analyzing the magnetic imprints of the ocean floor allows the reconstruction of past core field changes,’ said Dhananjay Ravat from the University of Kentucky. ‘They also help to investigate tectonic plate motions.’
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China threatens American B-1 bomber flying off South Korea: Stand off as Beijing claims US aircraft violated its 'defense zone'
China has accused the US plane of operating in its airspace without permission
Pliots of a Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber were forced to respond to controllers
Chinese Air Traffic officials radioed the bomber flying 70 miles from Jeju Island
The US bomber was in the controversial Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone
American and Japanese officials do not recognize the airspace China claism
By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 01:54 EDT, 23 March 2017 | Updated: 14:53 EDT, 23 March 2017
Chinese military officials have accused US bombers of flying too close to the country and operating in its airspace during a mission off South Korea. Pilots of the US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber were forced to respond to Chinese air traffic controllers during a flight about 70 nautical miles southwest of South Korea's Jeju Island. American officials told CNN the pilots told the Chinese controllers they were conducting 'routine operations in international airspace and did not deviate from their flight path'. The network revealed the tense moment was the result of the bombers had actually entered the Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone - a controversial area of sky over the East China Sea. The airspace also covers islands claimed by Japan, and it is not officially recognized by the US. 'Pacific Air Forces ... did not recognize the Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone when it was announced in November of 2013, and does not recognize it today,' US Pacific Air Forces spokesman Major Phil Ventura told CNN. 'The ADIZ has not changed our operations.' Chinese authorities demand airplanes flying over or through the airspace must first notify officials. US Air Force sources said B-1 bomber was carrying out training operations with Japanese and South Korean jets in recent days. On March 21, the American bomber was seen flying in formation with Japan Air Self Defense Force F-15s.
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Are Untested Combination Vaccines Killing Our Children?
By Christina England
It appears that the pharmaceutical industry is trying to cram as many vaccines as humanly possible into one syringe and advertise these combination vaccines as safe and effective. In reality, however, a growing number of medical professionals are concerned that administering too many vaccinations to an infant at one time increases their chance of suffering an adverse reaction. This is especially the case for combination vaccinations, and it appears that the fears of medical professionals are justified, because, over the years, history has painted a very disturbing picture. History Proves that Combination Vaccines are Unsafe In October 2000, the 6-in-1 vaccination Hexavac was first licensed for use in Europe. The vaccine manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur was formulated as a combination vaccination that combined the diphtheria vaccine, tetanus vaccine, acellular pertussis vaccine, recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen vaccine, inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine and Haemophilus influenza vaccine in one syringe. Just five years later, however, the vaccination was withdrawn from use by the European Medicines Agency for “commercial reasons.” However, Dr. Klaus Hartmann believes that the vaccine was withdrawn for very different reasons. In a 2015 documentary, titled We Don’t Vaccinate – Myth and Reality of the Vaccination Campaigns, he explained his reasons why. Dr. Hartmann worked for the licensing authority at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute and was in charge of vaccine safety. He was not opposed to vaccination; however, he was concerned about the aluminum adjuvants contained in vaccines and was especially concerned about the 6-in-1 vaccination Hexavac because he had noticed a massive increase in the number of children suffering adverse reactions. He stated that: Here we had another problem with Hexavac. A pathologist had autopsied a child who had died two days previously, after getting the Hexavac vaccine. He found that the child had a massively swollen brain, something that he had never come across before in his career as a pathologist. Several other cases were mentioned; it was not just this one child. This observation had raised Dr. Hartmann’s concerns, because, at the time, the vaccine had been licensed as safe in Europe. He explained that experts had discussed the vaccine in depth during meetings and they had decided that it was not wise to connect the vaccine to the deaths of these babies because politically, it was not considered, “a smart thing to do, to damage the public’s trust in vaccinations.” Consequently, Dr. Hartmann resigned from his post, and a year later, the Focus magazine stated that the mortality rate among the vaccinated babies in the first 48 hours after a vaccination with Hexavac was 2.5 times higher than the average mortality in this age group. A year later, Hexavac was taken off the market and disappeared forever. Within a few months, a study titled the Token study was published, which, according to Austrian investigative journalist Bert Ehgartner, was a scandal and in a class all of its own. He explained that: Naturally people became very disquieted simply because the probability of death following a vaccination had been shown to triple, so there they sat in conference rooms, asking themselves how they could handle the situation. Fortunately, they had good advisors because these idiots at the Robert Koch Institute had their study financed completely by the vaccine manufacturers, which is why when all this happened they had to immediately notify their sponsors industry, for the more they wanted to have experts available for dealing with the public relations aspect of the vaccinations, they of course are employed by the vaccine manufacturers themselves. He continued: The publication of the study results was delayed for two years, as the pharma industry had to hold numerous meetings and lectures to address the issue. Finally, they announced that everything was OK, that absolutely nothing unethical had happened, they simply reshuffled data and redefined parameters, they simply used statistics to make the link between the vaccinations and the casualties disappear. Confirming the information that had been relayed by Dr. Hartmann, Rolf Kron, M.D., explained that the more comprehensive English version of the Token study mentioned that hundreds of deaths had occurred after the vaccination. He stated that: When looking through the data bank of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, you will find very few deaths and suspected cases, listed. At the same time constant mention of the fact that it is still unclear whether these cases are really vaccine related. If now for example, there is no increase in the number of deaths between the fourth and the seventh day after vaccination, then only this is mentioned in the medical papers. When however, we take a look at the days before and after this period to find out what the mortality rate is, we suddenly see an enormous increase. In the shorter German version, it is only stated that the vaccines are safe and that multiple vaccines pose no significant risk of an increase in the infant mortality rate. For more information on this vaccine, read: European Medicines Agency – Hexavac, and European Medicines Agency – Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use European Public Assessment Report (EPAR) Another Lethal 6-in-1 Vaccine is Unleashed In 2011, news leaked about another dangerous 6-in-1 vaccination, which had also been licensed as safe and effective. Reports revealed that a confidential GlaxoSmithKline document had been leaked to the press, which exposed the fact that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants had died after they had received the 6-in-1 vaccination, Infanrix Hexa. According to the Initiative Citoyenne website, a 1,271-page document had revealed that GlaxoSmithKline had received a total of 1,742 reports of adverse reactions between October 23, 2009, and October 22, 2011, including 503 serious adverse reactions and 36 deaths. Initiative Citoyenne stated: It’s not that 14 deaths were recorded by GSK between October 2009 and end in October 2011 as we had originally calculated but 36 (14 from 2010 to 2011 and 22 from 2009 to 2010). In addition to these 36 deaths at least 37 other deaths (sudden death mainly), bringing the total to at least 73 deaths since the launch of the vaccine in 2000, and again, this concerns only the death by sudden death, no further recovery of under-reporting. Using the figure of 36 deaths over a two-year period, the figures averaged 1.5 deaths per month, which I am sure most will agree is extremely high. It should also be noted that only 1 to 10% of adverse reactions to vaccines are actually reported. Therefore, in reality, the problem could potentially be far more serious and the actual number of fatalities could have been much higher. The Deadly Chemical Cocktail The charts revealed that many of the infants who had passed away had died within the first few days of receiving the vaccine. A total of three infants were reported to have died within hours of receiving the vaccine. This was hardly surprising, given the vaccination’s ingredients, which were listed on the GSK Infanrix Hexa product information leaflet. Sadly, it is not only the 6-in-1 vaccinations that are believed to be killing our children, because according to reports, multiple deaths are also occurring after the 5-in-1 vaccinations. Reports from India Towards the end of 2016, a flood of reports from India revealed that 237 children had died after being vaccinated with pentavalent (5-in-1) vaccinations. In November 2016, the website SundayGuardianLive published an article titled 237 deaths by pentavalent vaccine and still counting. The author, pediatrician Jacob Puliyel, revealed that after submitting a Freedom of Information report, they were shocked to learn that: Under Right to Information we know that up to August 2016 there have been 237 deaths reported to the government here within 72 hours of vaccination with pentavalent. We examined deaths in states which were giving DPT and pentavalent vaccine concurrently. As expected, the true figures were never revealed to the public and any link to the vaccination went from being probable to “unlikely” extremely quickly. He wrote: There were three deaths following the use of pentavalent vaccine in Sri Lanka. The Government of Sri Lanka suspended the use of the vaccine. WHO experts investigated the deaths. They found there was a clear temporal association of the deaths to the vaccine (WHO terminology, meaning the deaths followed soon after vaccination) and there was no alternate explanation for the deaths. According to the standard protocol in investigation of vaccine deaths these deaths would have to be declared as ‘probably’ caused by Pentavalent vaccine. The experts balked at the prospect of giving such a report. No country would use this vaccine after that. Instead they wrote in their report that they were deleting ‘probable’ and ‘possible’ from the standard classification. The report maintained that although it was probably related to the vaccine, they were reporting it as “unlikely” to be related to vaccination. The full report was not published online, only the conclusion was made public. He continued: The full report was presented to the Delhi High Court in a vaccine case. Once this devious methodology employed by the WHO experts was known, it was exposed by the British Medical Journal. Following the exposé, the WHO set up a 40-member committee called the CIOMS/WHO committee. 19 of the 40 were representatives of vaccine manufacturers with conflicts of interest. They developed a new algorithm for investigating adverse events after immunization, which decreed that any reaction seen first in Phase 4 trial must be ignored. However, it appears that their lies eventually caught up with the World Health Organization (WHO), because the pentavac SD, the main pentavalent vaccination that was licensed for use in India, was manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. According to their website, the Serum Institute of India stated that: Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. is now the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally (more than 1.3 billion doses) which includes Polio vaccine as well as Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hib, BCG, r -Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccines. It is estimated that about 65% of the children in the world receive at least one vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute. Vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute are accredited by the World Health Organization, Geneva and are being used in around 140 countries across the globe in their national immunization programs, saving millions of lives throughout the world. Interestingly and crucially, however, the Serum Institute of India is not only accredited by the World Health Organization, but they also have an affiliation with the Gates Foundation, UNICEF and GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation). On their website, GAVI stated that: The GAVI Alliance provides vaccines to children in poor countries. It is a true alliance, including donors like Canada and the countries that receive vaccines, as well as organisations such as UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the private sector. Speaking on the pentavalent vaccination, GAVI stated that: Geneva, 30 July 2014 – The five-in-one pentavalent vaccine is being used in all GAVI Alliance-supported countries – now the race is on to increase coverage of the vaccine which protects children against five life-threatening diseases. Pentavalent, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) as well as hepatitis B (hepB) and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), was first introduced with GAVI support in Kenya in 2001. South Sudan became the 73rd and final GAVI-supported country to introduce the vaccine on the 16th of July 2014. However, it appears GAVI has more than a casual relationship with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Careful research shows that they were the organization that actually set up GAVI Alliance in 1999. The Serum Institute of India stated: Nearly two million children in the worlds poorest countries die from preventable diseases every year because they do not have access to life-saving vaccines. The GAVI was established in 2000 to save children’s lives by expanding immunisation in poor countries. In its first ten years, GAVI-financed programs have immunised more than 280 million children, thereby saving more than five million lives. Saving Children’s Lives: GAVI Alliance Pledging Conference for Immunisation was held in London on Monday in which city-based vaccine major Serum Institute of India has participated. The objective of the conference was to bring together GAVI donors and partners. Vaccine manufacturers were specifically invited to demonstrate their active contribution to counter the financing challenge and making significant pricing and/or supply announcements. This year, Serum has offered GAVI the pentavalent vaccine at $1.75 per dose. The vaccine was purchased by GAVI a couple of years ago at more than $3/dose. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, chairman and managing director, Serum Institute of India, said: The mission to further children’s health in developing countries had been at the heart of the institutes business model right from when we started manufacturing life-saving vaccines at the lowest affordable prices and providing them to UNICEF and PAHO. India Severs Its Ties with the Gates Foundation In early 2017, Asianet Newsable announced that the Indian government had chosen to cut some of their funding ties with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their involvement with the Indian immunization program. Announcing the news, author Fleme Varkey wrote: The Gates Foundation was working with and funding the Immunization Technical Support Unit (ITSU), which provides strategy and monitoring advice for New Delhi’s massive immunisation programme that covers about 27 million infants each year. The Indian government has now distanced itself from the programme and refused their funding as well. Outlining the government’s reasons why they had chosen to boycott the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, she explained: 1. There were concerns that the BMGF was facilitating external (foreign) interest in this immunisation programme, bringing big pharmaceutical players to test, and market their products in India. This is in reference to the Foundation’s backing the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Concerned organisations have cited this as a conflict of interest. 2. In India, GAVI has been responsible for introducing the Hepatitis B vaccine into the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), a vaccination programme launched by the Indian government in 1985. The liquid Pentavalent vaccine is a replacement of DPT and Hep B vaccines, containing a combination of diptheria, pertusis, tetanus (DPT), Hepatitis B and Hib Meningitis antigens. The government of India decided to introduce it in UIP, as per WHO recommendations in 2011. However, there are allegations that without considering the experience of other countries using this vaccine, it was introduced in India and has resulted in a lot of infant deaths. She continued: The question lies that how were these vaccines allowed to still be promoted in different states under the National Immunisation Programme despite there being reports of deaths regarding its usage? Reading her article in full, which we highly recommend, will demonstrate that not only do the BMGF have many conflicts of interest but in their attempts to convince the Indian government that the pentavalent vaccines were safe and effective, they failed to mention the deaths that had been associated with this vaccine. One of the biggest myths being propagated in the compliant mainstream media today is that doctors are either pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, and that the anti-vaccine doctors are all “quacks.” However, nothing could be further from the truth in the vaccine debate. Doctors are not unified at all on their positions regarding “the science” of vaccines, nor are they unified in the position of removing informed consent to a medical procedure like vaccines. The two most extreme positions are those doctors who are 100% against vaccines and do not administer them at all, and those doctors that believe that ALL vaccines are safe and effective for ALL people, ALL the time, by force if necessary. Very few doctors fall into either of these two extremist positions, and yet it is the extreme pro-vaccine position that is presented by the U.S. Government and mainstream media as being the dominant position of the medical field. In between these two extreme views, however, is where the vast majority of doctors practicing today would probably categorize their position. Many doctors who consider themselves “pro-vaccine,” for example, do not believe that every single vaccine is appropriate for every single individual. Many doctors recommend a “delayed” vaccine schedule for some patients, and not always the recommended one-size-fits-all CDC childhood schedule. Other doctors choose to recommend vaccines based on the actual science and merit of each vaccine, recommending some, while determining that others are not worth the risk for children, such as the suspect seasonal flu shot. These doctors who do not hold extreme positions would be opposed to government-mandated vaccinations and the removal of all parental exemptions. In this eBook, I am going to summarize the many doctors today who do not take the most extremist pro-vaccine position, which is probably not held by very many doctors at all, in spite of what the pharmaceutical industry, the federal government, and the mainstream media would like the public to believe. Read: Medical Doctors Opposed to Forced Vaccinations – Should Their Views be Silenced? Canadian physician Dr. Andrew Moulden provided clear scientific evidence to prove that every dose of vaccine given to a child or an adult produces harm. The truth that he uncovered was rejected by the conventional medical system and the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, his warning and his message to America remains as a solid legacy of the man who stood up against big pharma and their program to vaccinate every person on the Earth. Dr. Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49. Because of the strong opposition from big pharma concerning Dr. Moulden’s research, we became concerned that the name of this brilliant researcher and his life’s work had nearly been deleted from the internet. His reputation was being disparaged, and his message of warning and hope was being distorted and buried without a tombstone. This book summarizes his teaching and is a must-read for everyone who wants to learn the “other-side” of the vaccine debate that the mainstream media routinely censors. Read Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Harm on your mobile device!
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CHRIST-LESS CONSERVATISM
By Coach Dave Daubenmire March 23, 2017 NewsWithViews.com
America is a mess and it is getting messier every day. If you think I am wrong I invite you to spend a couple of hours with a group of high school seniors. I don’t care where you find them. I don’t care if it is in a school, at a mall, or, dare I say it, a Christian youth group at your local church. You will be hard pressed to find any of those students who hold and are able to defend a truly Biblical worldview. The fake left has been successful in classifying hard-core Biblical beliefs as “hate” speech. Because the worst thing anyone can do today is hate something even the adoption of Christian values has to be given a different name. It is very unusual to find any young person who will self-identify as a Christian when questioned regarding his/her political ideology. Christians have modified their Christian beliefs and have instead adopted the much more politically correct identity of “conservative.” Christianity is “hateful” and ‘judgmental” while conservatism is “tolerant” and “accepting”. Whole churches have become “conservative” or “liberal” based on their political leanings in regards to their acceptance of hard-core Biblical beliefs. Because the church has refused to get involved in the political debate the fake left has engaged in a cultural rebranding that divides Christians along cultural issues into a conglomerate of a cornucopia of political beliefs. It is so bad today that the term Christian is no longer a standalone ideology but one that requires hyphenization…conservative-Christian, moderate-Christian, liberal Christian. The divide and conquer strategy has come home to roost. Christianity is no longer a self-describing political position. They have so successfully divided us that Christians no longer identify as Bible believers but as pro-this and anti-that political categories. You see, Christianity has become a meaningless term…even to those who claim Christ as their Savior. A few years ago I wrote a commentary called Conservatism is Pretend Salt which attempted to explain the sellout of Biblical beliefs to the murky meaningless term…conservatism. We now have homosexual conservatives, pro-marriage conservatives, compassionate conservatives, fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and my favorite, Christian conservatives. This all came to head this weekend when youthful conservative Tomi Lahren was exposed as a new breed of conservative…pro-choice. The Twitter world exploded with social conservatives who had been fooled into believing that Tomi was one of them. Even though they reacted with disgusted, they failed to realize that they had long ago forfeited their right to indignation when they subjugate their Christianity to the more politically correct conservative. Tomi is probably a sweet girl. She certainly knows how to make the conservative argument in a way that makes the Fox News crowd that so loved fake conservative Megan Kelly paddy cake their meat hocks until they realized that she wasn’t the type of conservative they were. That is where the substitution of Christian for conservative has led us astray. A conservatism not based on the foundations of the Bible is a Christ-less conservatism. Jesus is the standard by which all moral law is based. Remove Him and His Name from your political ideology and you find yourself in bed with the Log-Cabin conservatives. Which brings me to Milo. A few months ago flamboyant homosexual Milo Yiannopoulos was all of the conservative rage until he was exposed as a pro-paedophilia conservative…certainly a new-genre in the ever changing catch phrase of conservatism. Christians are always looking for the newest hero to carry their banner. But the best banner bearer of all is the namesake of the religion they claim to adhere to. Jesus is the Christian hero. He may not be as flashy as Tomi, or as feminine as Milo, but His political brand has stood the test of time for over 2000 years. Substituting conservative for Christianity reminds me of the failed rebranding the Coco Cola went through a few years ago. As is often the case, the original is usually the best. Christianity doesn’t need to be improved; it simply needs to be applied. I find it ironic that in the political waters that we swim things have gotten increasingly murky. Trump shocked the world by rising to the top of the political heap and he did it by not fitting into the mold that the political experts told us would be essential for his success. The Republicans told us that he wasn’t Republican enough and the conservatives told us he wasn’t conservative enough. The most ironic thing of all is that we were told by the Christians that he wasn’t Christian enough. This is the same group of conservatives who rejected His Name in favor of more politically correct monikers. As is becoming more and more obvious to those who have eyes to see the Republican Party is top heavy with Christ-less conservatives. All of their years of conservative jabbering…smaller government, anti-abortion, traditional family, school choice…was nothing more than political posturing. I am reminded of what Romeo uttered to Juliet. “A rose by any other name will still smell as sweet.” Biblical Christianity is a standard of morality. Conservatism is a political doxy. According to the dictionary a doxy is nothing more than a harlot. Christians stand on principles. Conservatives lay down with harlots. Any questions as to which group is running our government? Conservative-Christian? Some names simply do not smell as sweet. Note: If you enjoy hearing more Truth, please join our daily show at www.coachdavelive.com . Only the TRUTH can set us free!!
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A Critical Care Surgeon Meets the Great Physician
I felt distant from God until I witnessed a medical miracle.
Kathryn L. Butler/ February 17, 2017
My eyes darted to the tracing on the cardiac monitor. The gaps between my patient’s heartbeats lengthened. The plodding rhythm meant that blood, oozing from beneath his fractured skull, was crowding out his brain. He was 22, and someone had bludgeoned him with a baseball bat in his sleep. His wife, lying beside him, died during the assault. His four-year-old son witnessed everything. I thrived on the urgency of the emergency room—the chaos, the opportunities to reach people in dire moments. Yet as I placed my patient’s central venous line, I struggled to focus. I thought of his four-year-old son in footed pajamas, and the images of brutality he might never forget. As I wrestled with these thoughts, paramedics rushed in with a 15-year-old boy dying from a gunshot wound. They were performing compressions to force oxygen-rich blood to his brain. In a blur of adrenaline, I grasped a scalpel and surgically explored his chest. I cupped his still heart and searched its borders with trembling fingers. When my hand plunged into a yawning hole, I caught my breath. The bullet had torn open his aorta. We could not save him. As I fought tears, my trauma pager blared yet again. Another 15-year-old boy. Another gunshot wound. This time, the bullet had struck the boy’s head. I tried to compose myself. The least I could do, I thought, was to mend his wound, clean him, and give his family a final glimpse of the boy they loved. Midway through my work, the door opened. I raised my eyes in time to see his mother walk into the room. She froze, howled, and crumpled to the floor. I tugged the bloodied gloves from my hands, rushed from the room, and hid my face as I cried. Cut Off from God The next morning, as I finished my shift, I wandered about as if lost. I despaired over how little life mattered to people. Each of my patients had suffered at the hand of someone who looked at him and saw no worth. How could God allow such evil? I had grown up as a nominal Christian. My family observed certain Christian traditions, but we never read the Bible or talked about the gospel together. I understood Christianity to be synonymous with good behavior. After work, I drove for hours. A hundred miles from my home, I parked at a bridge that spanned the Connecticut River. Mountains flanked the bridge, and the October sun set the horizon afire in jewel tones. Below me, the river shone like polished metal. I gripped the guardrail, tipped my face against the wind, breathed, and felt . . . nothing. I parted my lips to pray, but no words came. I felt cut off from God. I thought the Lord—if he even existed—had abandoned me. Thereafter, I fell into agnosticism. Doubt led to hopelessness, and hopelessness to despair. I dreamed of an eternal sleep, of numbness, of annihilation. Thoughts of taking my own life troubled me daily. I fought the impulse to return to the bridge over the Connecticut River and hurl myself over the railing. Only love for my husband, Scottie, brought me home each evening. Months later, Scottie lost his job. While I struggled with the problem of evil, he sought the church, understood the Word for the first time, and accepted Christ as his Savior. Scottie invited me to join him in worship, but I remained disillusioned. When I finally attended church to appease him, the sanctuary, the singing, and the ceremony seemed awkward and foreign. He would bow his head in prayer, and I would stare ahead with my thoughts cast outside the church walls, my gaze defiant.
Scribe note click on the link below for the full article/
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2017/march/critical-care-surgeon-meets-great-physician.html
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Thursday March 23rd – Open Thread →
Freedom Watch Notifies Congress of “Deep State” Intelligence Whistle-Blower – full pdf…
Posted on March 22, 2017 by sundance
Freedom Watch notifies congress of a “Deep State” intelligence community whistle blower, Dennis Montgomery, with hundreds of millions of documents showing CIA and FBI and Intelligence Committees were spying on, and conducting surveillance on, American citizens for political purposes. Mr. Montgomery is trying to use a legal “whistle-blower” process and not follow the same approach as Edward Snowden.
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230 000 lost power across the US South, baseball-sized hail
Posted by TW on March 22, 2017
A line of severe thunderstorms hit the US South on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, leaving more than 200 000 customers without power and at least one person dead. Baseball-sized hail was reported in South Carolina during rush hour, damaging numerous cars. Some 230 000 customers were left without power Tuesday night in Georgia and Tennessee after a cluster of severe thunderstorms rolled through the region. Close to 40 000 were still without power Wednesday morning. In Georgia, one person was killed after a large tree fell on his home. In Hamilton County, Tennessee, a home caught fire after it was struck by lightning but there were no reports of injuries. In South Carolina, wind gusts reached 130 km/h (81 mph). Baseball-sized hail was reported during rush hour when thousands of cars were on the roads leaving work. WSPA reports countless cars saw windshields busted and body damage in Taylor and Greer area. "It sounded like bombs going off," Greer resident, Sam Manley said. According to the National Weather Service, a storm system will move from the Rockies to the East Coast during the next several days bringing a severe thunderstorm threat to many parts of the nation. On Thursday, large hail will be the main threat in the High Plains. By Friday a more widespread threat will develop in the ArkLaTex region where damaging winds, very large hail and tornadoes will be possible. Featured image: Hail covers the ground in Greenville, South Carolina on March 21, 2017. Credit: Tracy Maschke (via The Weather Channel)
https://watchers.news/2017/03/22/230-000-lost-power-across-the-us-south-baseball-sized-hail/
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TV: Explosion hits US nuclear plant — Officials declare emergency alert — “Fire shuts down reactor” — Gov’t conducting special investigation, possible “serious safety consequences” — “Atmospheric steam dumps” required (VIDEO)
Published: March 23rd, 2017 at 7:40 am ET By ENENews
WSVN, Mar 22, 2017 (emphasis added): Officials looking into explosion at Turkey Point that hurt 1… an alert was issued following the “arc flash” explosion… A plant worker was hurt in the explosion and treated at a local hospital… US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mar 20, 2017: Facility: TURKEY POINT… Emergency Class: ALERT… EMERGENCY DECLARED… ALERT DECLARED FOR INDICATIONS OF FIRE IN SAFETY RELATED SWITCHGEAR… “Alert declared at 1119 EDT 3/18/17 based on… Fire or Explosion affecting plant safety systems. Fire alarms in the Unit 3 4kV switchgear rooms resulting in a loss of the 3A 4kV bus and trip of all three Reactor Coolant Pumps… Decay heat is being removed using feedwater and steam generator atmospheric steam dumps. One person was injured with a minor burn and possible sprained ankle and was taken to a local hospital… Notified DHS SWO, DOE, FEMA, HHS, NICC, USDA, EPA, FDA (e-mail), NWC (e-mail), NNSA (e-mail), and NRCC SASC (e-mail)… [UPDATE] Emergency Plan personnel at the Technical Support Center and Emergency Operations Facility were no longer required for support, the Operations Support Center was staffed for recovery efforts, and plant personnel were sufficient and capable for continuing mitigation efforts. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mar 22, 2017: NRC To Conduct Special Inspection at Turkey Point Nuclear Plant… [A]n arc flash, or small explosion, also damaged a nearby fire door, which may have left other safety systems vulnerable had there been a fire. A plant worker who was in the room was injured and was treated at a local hospital. “This was an event that could have had serious safety consequences and we need to know more about what happened and why,” said NRC Region II Administrator Cathy Haney… The Citizen (Florida Keys), Mar 22, 2017: Turkey Point fire shuts down reactor… ABC 10 News, Mar 18, 2017: Firefighters respond to electrical fire at Turkey Point — Firefighters responded to reports of a fire inside the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station… according to the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department. Florida Power & Light reported there was an electrical fire… The incident didn’t… pose an immediate danger to the facility, according to FPL spokesman Peter Robbins… Watch the ABC 10 broadcast here
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BOMBSHELL: CIA Whistleblower Leaked Proof Trump Under "Systematic Illegal" Surveillance Over Two Years Ago: FBI Sat On It
The same day House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes gave a press conference disclosing that President Trump had been under "incidental surveillance," Attorney and FreedomWatch Chairman, Larry Klayman, sent a letter to the House Committee on Intelligence imploring them to pursue the claims and evidence presented under oath at a Washington DC FBI Field Office by his client - CIA / NSA Whistleblower Dennis Montgomery - who Klayman claims "holds the keys to disproving the false claims... ...that there is no evidence that the president and his men were wiretapped" When Montgomery attempted to deliver this information through the appropriate channels two years ago, the former CIA and NSA contractor wasn't given the time of day: [W]hen Montgomery came forward as a whistleblower to congressional intelligence committees and various other congressmen and senators, including Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who, like Comey, once had a reputation for integrity, he was “blown off;” no one wanted to even hear what he had to say. As a result, Montgomery went to attorney and FreedomWatch founder Larry Klayman - who then approached the FBI: Under grants of immunity, which I obtained through Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Curtis, Montgomery produced the hard drives and later was interviewed under oath in a secure room at the FBI Field Office in the District of Columbia. There he laid out how persons like then-businessman Donald Trump were illegally spied upon by Clapper, Brennan, and the spy agencies of the Obama administration. Montgomery left the NSA and CIA with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of information, much of which is classified, and sought to come forward legally as a whistleblower to appropriate government entities, including congressional intelligence committees, to expose that the spy agencies were engaged for years in systematic illegal surveillance on prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen such as Donald Trump, and even yours truly. Working side by side with Obama's former Director of National Intelligence (DIA), James Clapper, and Obama's former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, Montgomery witnessed “up close and personal” this “Orwellian Big Brother” intrusion on privacy, likely for potential coercion, blackmail or other nefarious purposes. He even claimed that these spy agencies had manipulated voting in Florida during the 2008 presidential election, which illegal tampering resulted in helping Obama to win the White House. Given the fact that the FBI had Montgomery's testimony and evidence for over two years, Klayman traveled to Washington DC last Thursday to meet with Committee Chairman Devin Nunes in the hopes that he would ask FBI Director Comey why the FBI hadn't pursued Montgomery's evidence. When Klayman arrived to speak with Nunes, he was "blown off" and instead shared his information with committee attorney Allen R. Souza - who Klayman requested in turn brief Nunes on the situation. During my meeting with House Intelligence Committee counsel Allen R. Sousa I politely warned him that if Chairman Nunes, who himself had that same day undercut President Trump by also claiming that there is no evidence of surveillance by the Obama administration, I would go public with what would appear to be the House Intelligence Committee’s complicity in keeping the truth from the American people and allowing the FBI to continue its apparent cover-up of the Montgomery “investigation.” And, that is where it stands today. The big question: will House Intelligence Committee Chairman Nunes do his job and hold FBI Director Comey’s feet to the fire about the Montgomery investigation? Klayman has detailed all of this in a NewsMax article, followed up with an official letter to Chairman Nunes today, requesting that he question Comey on Montgomery's evidence. Perhaps this explains Nunes' impromptu press conference today admitting that Trump's team was under "Incidental Surveillance" before making his way to the White House to discuss with the President. So - we know that evidence exists from a CIA / NSA contractor turned whistleblower, detailing a massive spy operation on 156 judges, the Supreme Court, and high profile Americans including Donald Trump. See the letter below:
Read the letter in context go to this link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/bombshell-cia-whistleblower-leaked-proof-trump-under-systematic-illegal-government-s
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etc.. Evil will be all around fighting, and wars, etc..
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North Korea’s latest missile test was a flop, officials say
The United States sent a supersonic bomber streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force against the North, officials said.
By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press March 22, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s latest missile launch ended in failure on Wednesday as the United States sent a supersonic bomber streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force against the North, officials said. The reported launch failure comes as the North angrily reacts to ongoing annual U.S.-South Korean military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. Earlier this month, North Korea fired four ballistic missiles that landed in waters off Japan, triggering strong protests from Seoul and Tokyo. The American military detected what it assessed as a failed North Korean missile launch on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement. It said the missile ‘‘appears to have exploded within seconds of launch.’’ South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it also believes the launch from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan ended in failure. It said it was analyzing what type of missile was launched. Get Ground Game in your inbox: Daily updates and analysis on national politics from James Pindell. The failure might mean that the missile is a newly developed one the North has not deployed, according to South Korean media. Last year, the country suffered a series of embarrassing failed launches of its new medium-range Musudan missile before it successfully test-fired one. View Story Patterson: N. Korea is Trump’s nuclear Rubik’s Cube North Korea’s history shows that it cannot be trusted. Also Wednesday, a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber and South Korean fighter jets conducted joint training exercises that displayed ‘‘strong deterrence against North Korean nuclear and missile threats,’’ South Korea’s Defense Ministry said. The U.S. military said the training was held after the bomber staged a similar exercise with Japanese fighter jets. The United States often sends powerful warplanes in times of heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which remains in a technical state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. About 28,500 U.S. soldiers are deployed in South Korea. North Korea is pushing hard to upgrade its weapons systems to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility. Many weapons experts say the North could have a functioning nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the continental U.S. within a few years. North Korea carried out two nuclear tests last year. American defense officials had said Tuesday that the U.S. military was expecting another North Korean missile launch in the next several days. The officials said the U.S. had increased its surveillance over the North and had detected a North Korean missile launcher being moved, as well as the construction of VIP seating in Wonsan. On Sunday, the North claimed a major breakthrough in its rocket development program, saying it had conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine. Washington, Seoul and others view the North’s space program as a cover for its banned long-range missile development program.
Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.
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China threatens American B-1 bomber flying off South Korea: Stand off as Beijing claims US aircraft violated its 'defense zone'
China has accused the US plane of operating in its airspace without permission
Pliots of a Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber were forced to respond to controllers
Chinese Air Traffic officials radioed the bomber flying 70 miles from Jeju Island
The US bomber was in the controversial Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone
American and Japanese officials do not recognize the airspace China claism
By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 01:54 EDT, 23 March 2017 | Updated: 05:56 EDT, 23 March 2017
Chinese military officials have accused US bombers of flying too close to the country and operating in its airspace during a mission off South Korea. Pilots of the US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber were forced to respond to Chinese air traffic controllers during a flight about 70 nautical miles southwest of South Korea's Jeju Island. American officials told CNN the pilots told the Chinese controllers they were conducting 'routine operations in international airspace and did not deviate from their flight path'. The network revealed the tense moment was the result of the bombers had actually entered the Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone - a controversial area of sky over the East China Sea. The airspace also covers islands claimed by Japan, and it is not officially recognized by the US. 'Pacific Air Forces ... did not recognize the Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone when it was announced in November of 2013, and does not recognize it today,' US Pacific Air Forces spokesman Major Phil Ventura told CNN.
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etc. For truly these are the end days and the end hours and darkness is all across the face of the earth
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Massive Cover-Up Alleged To Be Ongoing At Large, West Coast Universities As The Pacific Ocean Food Chain Collapses
- As The 'Gates Of Hell' Are Opening, The Appetites Of Demons Are Being Expressed Through Humans
March 23, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
According to this story from the Center For Biological Diversity, marine fish provide 15% of all animal protein consumed by human beings. Also warning in the first paragraph of their story that the global fisheries industry is collapsing, their story is further confirmation of what ENENews and many other local outlets along the West coast are publishing, the deep Pacific ocean is dead and broken, devoid of life over large portions. The February of 2017 story from Armstrong Economics asked "Has The Extinction Cycle Also Turned Against Us?" within which a claim is made that a massive coverup is ongoing about the true health of the Pacific Ocean with threats being made against researchers to prevent them from publishing their true findings. "The penalties for violating these new rules are severe: loss of tenure, civil lawsuits for violation of contract, and potentially employment termination." What might researchers have learned that requires such a cover-up and why should the public be concerned about a cover-up of the collapse of the Pacific Ocean food chain? The stories coming to us from that region largely have one thing in common - the mass die-off's happening now to life around the Pacific Ocean are all largely due to the creatures starving to death. Heartbreaking story after story warn of malnourished and diseased fish, birds and mammals. Where is their food this recent ENENews story asks? Where did 100's of millions of salmon go another ENENews story asks? This stunning claim was also recently made: "All forms of ocean life dying in stunning numbers across Pacific." That sadly also includes many fish, sea birds and mammals at the 'top of the food chain' in the ocean's, those without any predator's besides man, and 'the top of the food chain' definitely includes us. How many millions of Americans and people throughout the world might lose their lives due to what is now happening in the Pacific Ocean? If indeed the mass deaths happening there now are due to radiation, we should remember this fact: With each succeeding step in the food chain, radioactive particles are accumulated in predatory species. Bioaccumulation is the process by which harmful contaminants accumulate in organisms at the top of the food chain. Top predators, such as Pacific Bluefin Tuna, are at risk because they consume numerous, small organisms, along with the radioactive particles that the prey have inside their bodies. As tuna eat contaminated prey, the radiation increases in its tissues exponentially. Dating as far back as to this May 29, 2012 story from BBC we learned that Bluefin tuna caught off of the coast of California had tested positive for radiation within their bodies. Can the Pacific Ocean withstand another 50 million tons of radioactive waste poured into it with huge parts of it already showing massive signs of death and destruction? Each day we're getting more and more signs and indications that we're living in truly perilous and Biblical times whether or not the mainstream media wants to report upon them and as Steve Quayle along with Pastor Rick Wiles talk about in the first video below, from cannibalism going mainstream to 'all hell breaking loose on Earth', we're coming in to a time of God's promises being fullfilled as we watch the words of Hosea 4:3 coming true before our very eyes. Quayle warns us we're now watching the appetites of demons being expressed through humans. We shouldn't be surprised this is all unfolding - we've long been warned. As recently as June of 2016 it was reported a government think tank and FEMA contractor predicted a 395% spike in food prices which would cause social unrest as heard in the 2nd video below. Food has long been used as a weapon. In the 3rd video below from CNN back in October 2015 they reported the oceans food chain could collapse. Was that just 'fake news'? In the final video below we see an 'end times report' that looks at all of the 'mass animal death events' in 2017 alone. Much more below but first, from the Armstrong Economics story: I have just returned from visiting my friend, who is a senior cetacean biologist at one of the large west coast universities. While there, he described an amazing situation to me that has alarmed me greatly. He said that research at his university has conclusively identified the complete or almost complete collapse of several dozen food chains within the Pacific Ocean, all within the last 36 months or so. Further, in “unauthorized” exchanges with the relevant departments in other coast universities, he learned that the numbers involved may well be more like hundreds of chain collapses in the same timeframe as opposed to dozens. Finally, in talking with authoritative figures in Vancouver, they apparently believe that the figure is likely closer to 1000. My friend also explained that equally alarming is the fact that all these research departments are finding within the genres of sea life they have physically examined within the same timeframe “huge numbers of general body mutations, as well as skin disorders” which all cannot yet be accounted for in terms of causation. As bad as all of this sounds, here is the real rub. Regarding these findings about food chain collapses, mutations, and injuries, my friend’s university has instituted a policy that forbids them from publishing their findings, from discussing their findings (on this subject) publicly or in private with other researchers outside their own campus, or finally from taking “unauthorized” radiation readings as part of their research. As our society turns away from God and falls more and more deeply into spiritual decay, we shouldn't be surprised that Hollywood continually pushes 'hunger game' and 'cannibalism' movie themes at the same time as many of our sources of food are being systematically destroyed. As many paying attention know, the 'cannibalism' theme we're watching play out also carries over to politics as Quayle mentions in the 1st video below, and in the 7+-year-old story outlined below we get proof that John Podesta appears to enjoy pushing cannibalism as far as he can get away with. In this story dated June 1st of 2009, Politico asked DC's 'A-listers' where they go on vacation. The first full year of Barack Obama's presidency, they reported DC politicos were getting ready for August getaways and while Lynn Cheney proclaimed she'd be spending her summer at her home in Jackson, Wyoming, working on her autobiography of James Madison, John Podesta claimed he'd be in California doing conference calls in the most unusual way. Is there any particular reason his response then (seen in the screenshot and republished below) didn't raise any eyebrows? As we hear in this video, all of this push by Hollywood, politics and the mainstream towards what society has long-called a 'final taboo' is all coming at a time when the fabric of our society is being ripped apart all around us. The story over at the Church of Euthanasia is called "Butchering The Human Carcass For Human Consumption". A 'step-by-step guide' on how to break down the human body from 'full figure into serviceable choice cuts of meat', we see in their website another very real sign of our world's descent into madness, a world where life no longer means anything to the controlling few who hope to spend their lives eternally via transhumanism as men are changed into monsters. In closing, also discussed in the 1st video is Quayle's very interesting interpretation of Numbers 13:32-33 which we've republished below. As Pastor Wiles mentions, do these verses from Numbers refer to 'giants' and 'cannibalism'? So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. "There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
http://allnewspipeline.com/We_Were_Warned_Long_Ago_Gates.php
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etc.. The EU is on its own, Russia is on its own, China is on its own, many are not your friends, many have already plotted and planned the things that they shall do, it is recorded in my Book. And if you were to study my Book you would see the things that are taking place right now. etc..
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The Communist Global Governance Takeover; China Set to Take the Leadership Role of the New Global Human Order By Nate Brown - 03/20/2017
The hidden Chinese hand within the United Nations is finally being revealed, as China embarks on a global communist takeover. However, it’s almost like the world stage was discreetly prepared for such. China, once reluctant to contribute troops to the United Nations’ Peacekeeping force has now dispatched more troops than any other permanent member of the UN Security Council. China is ambitious, and they are planning to replace the United States as a Superpower. Over the last several years, China has sought to become a normative power; and with that, the communist nation has made substantial contributions to the United Nations. Just last year, China overtook the USA economically in size, and now they plan to dominate the US politically. Make no mistake; China is a communist nation, not one based on freedom. Controls over religion in China have increased since 2012, seeping into new areas of daily life and triggering growing resistance from believers. At least 100 million people—nearly one-third of estimated believers in China—belong to religious groups facing “high” or “very high” levels of persecution (Protestant Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, and Falun Gong). Despite tightening controls, millions of religious believers defy official restrictions in daily life or engage in some form of direct protest, at times scoring significant victories. The impact of these dynamics reaches beyond the realm of religious policy, deeply affecting China’s overall legal, social, political, and economic environment. Xi Jinping recently stated that China should take the lead in shaping the ‘New World Order,’ rather than their original position of just playing an important role. Interestingly enough, like an agenda, the communist nation is ready to take the lead on the world stage after everything is set in place within the UN. Just last year, the Christian Truther uncovered the United Nations’s ambitions of creating a new global human order one based on communism: “The UN at the seventy-first regular session has aggregated the role of the United Nations in promoting a new global human order into their agenda. In addition to the aforementioned under section A. titled, “Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences,” is also the plan for total Globalization and interdependence. Under the allocation of Agenda items resides the declaration of a formation of a new global human order. Adopted by the General Assembly at its 2nd plenary meeting, on September 16, 2016. The official adoption of such ideology brings to light the global conspiracy against humanity to form a New World Order, as mentioned by world leaders and select governmental officials.” The New Global Human Order adoption by the United Nations, was created by Cheddi Jagan, the fourth president of Guyana, who was a well-known communist. The very ideology of the New Global Human Order is based solely on communism, after the adoption by the UN, all that was left was for a leader aligned with the same ideology to take the stage; enter, China. According to the Chatham House Think Tank, China will play a significant role going forward, and China is seeking to be a global leader on several issues such as Climate Change; Trump was quite right when he tweeted the possibility that Climate Change was a Chinese ploy.
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Next-Gen Russian Subs 'Better and Cheaper' Than Newest US Subs
© Photo: press-service of JSC "PO "Sevmas Military & Intelligence 14:00 20.03.2017
Cutting-edge Russian-made nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarines, known as the Yasen class, cost nearly half as much as the USS Illinois, the latest US-built Virginia class subsurface ship, defense analyst Konstantin Makiyenko told Gazeta.ru, adding that the Russian system is also to a large extent better than its American counterpart. "The Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine has turned out to be approximately twice as cheap, while exceeding the American submarine in terms of numerous tactical and technical characteristics," Makiyenko, deputy director of the Moscow-based Center for Strategic and Technology Analysis in Moscow, asserted. The Yasen-class sub is estimated to cost approximately US $1.6 billion, while the Virginia class ships are said to cost $2.7 billion per unit. The newspaper also pointed out that the Russian sub has a crew of 64 sailors compared to 120 for the USS Illinois. The Russian nuclear-powered subsurface ship is capable of operating at a maximum depth of 600 meters (1968 feet), while the Illinois can dive to a maximum depth of 450 meters (nearly 1480 feet). Although both can travel at comparable speeds, the Yasen class is reported to be more self-sustainable. Ruslan Pukhov, who heads the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, said that the Yasen-class is also better armed that its American counterpart. The Yasen class can be outfitted with either 32 Oniks supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles or 40 Kalibr-PL anti-ship, anti-submarine and land attack cruise missiles. The Virginia-class subs are currently capable of carrying 12 Tomahawk BGM-109 long-range subsonic cruise missiles, but the Block V boats will have a total of 40 Tomahawks. For its part, "the Yasen class is expected to receive sea-based cruise missiles with a range of 5,500 kilometers, double the range of the latest version of the Tomahawk," Gazeta.ru observed. The Yasen class is expected to become the backbone of the Russian Navy. Severodvinsk, the first Yasen-class sub, entered service in June 2014 and was assigned to Russia's Northern Fleet. The second Yasen-class submarine, dubbed Kazan, will be the first watercraft of the improved Project 885. It is expected to be commissioned in 2018. Four more Yasen-class subs are currently under construction, with the sixth Project 885 watercraft, called Perm, laid down in July 2016. A total of six updated Yasen-class submarines are due to join the Russian Navy by 2020. A total of 13 Virginia class submarines have been in active service with the US Navy, with the USS Illinois commissioned in late October 2016. Long said to be the model defense-acquisition program, the Virginia class is said to have lately been plagued by delays and quality issues. "Problems seem to stem from two primary factors: the move in 2011 to double the submarine construction rate from one to two per year has strained shipyards and the industrial base that supplies parts for the subs; and the Navy has successively reduced contractual building times as shipbuilders grew more experienced with building the submarines, cutting back on earlier, highly-trumpeted opportunities to beat deadlines," Defense News reported.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201703201051764408-yasen-submarines-virginia-class/
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Scientists Have Invented a Hydrogel Fabric That's 5 Times Stronger Than Steel
But you can still bend and stretch it.
DAVID NIELD 3 MAR 2017
Scientists have created a new hydrogel material reinforced with fibres that they say is up to five times harder to break than carbon steel – but still easy to bend and stretch. That combination of properties means the new fabric could be used as the basis for artificial ligaments and tendons designed to help the body heal – or in manufacturing or fashion where a very tough but elastic material is needed. Researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan developed the fabric, called fibre-reinforced soft composite (or FRSC), by combining hydrogels containing high levels of water with glass fibre fabric. "The material has multiple potential applications because of its reliability, durability and flexibility," says one of the researchers, Jian Ping Gong. Putting two natural materials together to combine their properties is a trick people have been pulling off for a very long time – straw and mud go together to make bricks, and paper and glue gives you papier-mâché. The idea is you end up with a new super-material that combines the best parts of both your source materials. The scientists set out to create a substance that could bear heavy loads and was also very fracture-resistant, taking the best characteristics of hydrogels, but adding extra durability and toughness through the glass fibre fabric. The team says the incredible strength of the composite material comes from dynamic ionic bonds – atoms attracted to each other as electrons get swapped – acting between the fibre and the hydrogels, and within the hydrogels themselves. As the scientists increased the toughness of the hydrogels in the lab, the overall toughness of the composite material went up too. These same principles could also be applied to add toughness to other soft components, such as rubber, the researchers say, building on previous studies of hydrogels carried out at Hokkaido University. The end result is a material that's 25 times tougher than glass fibre fabric; 100 times tougher than hydrogels; and five times as strong as carbon steel, in terms of the energy required to break them. While hydrogels have already been touted as suitable materials for healing wounds and building soft robots, their lack of toughness has previously limited their usefulness – something which the new research could change. "This work provides a good guide toward the design of FRSCs with extraordinary fracture resistance capacity," the researchers write in their paper. The findings are published in Advanced Functional Materials.
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U.S. and Russian troops are now in the same Syrian city
By: Andrew deGrandpre, March 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military's "reassurance and deterrence" mission in the Syrian city of Manbij is achieving its goal of preventing key American allies from battling one another, the Pentagon said Monday, but what's already a tense situation could become more complicated with the arrival of Russian troops and continued advances by Turkish-backed rebels. Fewer than 100 elite Army Rangers are in Manbij to keep the peace between Syrian Kurdish forces and those loyal to Turkey, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. Russian troops are there providing security for humanitarian convoys that have entered the war-torn city, a development he called unsurprising in light of last week's high-level talks between the senior-most military commanders from Russia, Turkey and the U.S. The Americans and Russians have had no close interaction on the ground, Davis said. Moscow, he added, has "kept us abreast of their operations" in Manbij, but the two militaries do not coordinate in Syria. Rather, the Pentagon prefers the term "deconflict." The dynamic in Syria is deeply complex. U.S. troops there are focused on training and assisting local forces fighting the Islamic State. Their presence has swelled to around 1,000 in recent weeks with the addition of a Marine Corps artillery unit focused on the ISIS capital of Raqqa and the Army Rangers sent to Manbij. The Russians are backing Syrian President Bashar al Assad, whose military continues to battle rebel groups seeking to oust him from power. Meanwhile, Turkey's president has called for the liberation of Manbij from the Kurds. Ankara considers the Kurds to be terrorists linked to a militant group responsible for carrying out deadly attacks across the border. Video posted to social media from Manbij shows the Americans' armored vehicles — a mix of Strykers, humvees and mine-resistant tactical trucks — sitting idle or traveling in convoys. "They tend to find a place to park, and look out and watch," Davis said of the Rangers' mission. "They are, for the most part, static, but they do move." The Americans moved in during early March amid signs of violence between Syrian Kurdish militias, who hold the city proper, and Turkey's Syrian proxies, who've made several recent land grabs nearby. "Why we're there, and why we care, is we want to make sure the parties on the ground aren't shooting at each other," Davis said. In that regard, the mission has been "relatively successful in keeping all forces there focused on the common enemy of ISIS," he said. "We have not seen a large amount of sparring or skirmishing." The Rangers' vehicles display brightly colored American flags meant to make their presence abundantly obvious and, it is hoped, ward off direct attacks should hostilities erupt again. Davis declined to discuss what the U.S. military's response would entail if the soldiers come under fire, saying only that they maintain the right to defend themselves. For now, the mission appears to be open-ended. Asked whether the Russians' presence in Manbij means the small American force there can pull out, Davis said there are no immediate plans for that occur. Andrew deGrandpre is Military Times' senior editor and Pentagon bureau chief. On Twitter: @adegrandpre.
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/manbij-syria-us-troops-army-rangers-russia-turkey
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Russia Exposes Far-Left's Lunacy and Their Diabolical Scheme to Frame Trump
Published on Mar 20, 2017
LINKS TO THIS STORY:
— https://thelastgreatstand.com/2017/03...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMHNB9DQwt4
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Posted on March 19, 2017 by Jon Watkins
Project Dragnet: NSA Documents Prove Surveillance on Donald Trump for Years!
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Infowars.com have obtained credible information regarding individual records of U.S. citizens under National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance in the years 2004 through 2010 – a database that documents both Donald J. Trump and Alex Jones were under illegal, unauthorized government monitoring during those years. Michael Zullo, formerly the commander and chief investigator of the Cold Case Posse (CCP), a special investigative group created in 2006 in the office of Joseph M. Arpaio, formerly the sheriff in Maricopa County, an Arizona State Certified Law Enforcement Agency, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The NSA electronic surveillance data was created by the NSA as part of the NSA’s illegal and unconstitutional Project Dragnet electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/ dragnet-nsa-spying-survives-2015-review first revealed by news reports published in 2005, https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded as further documented by the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 – a project that Sheriff Arpaio and his chief CCP investigator Michael Zullo believe has never been shut down. Sheriff Arpaio and Chief Investigator Zullo have identified dozens of entries at various addresses, including both Trump Tower in New York City and Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, under which Trump was under NSA electronic surveillance, as a result of the analysis they conducted on Project Dragnet records of U.S. citizens that were the targets of electronic surveillance from 2004, during President George W. Bush’s term of office, through 2009, the first year of President Obama’s presidency. Here is an abstract of the NSA line-item listings as they appeared in the database detailing NSA electronic surveillance of Donald Trump, produced here as it shows up in the Project Dragnet Database (with the exception that the last four digits of the telephone number are redacted): Master Database Records Donald Trump - Trump International - 1 Central Park, NYC 212-299-xxxx 9/17/2008 Donald Trump Trump World Tower 845 United Nations Plaza, NYC 212-247-xxxx No Date Donald Trump - Trump Tower SAL - 108 Central Park, NYC 212-832-xxxx - 2/19/2007 - Donald Trump - Trump Palace Co 200 E. 69th Street A, NYC 212-472-xxxx - 11/12/2008 Donald Trump Trump Entrmt Re 725 Fifth Ave. FL, NYC 212-891-xxxx 2/19/2007 Donald Trump Trump Organization 725 Fifth Ave. BSM, NYC 212-715-xxxx 2/23/2009 Donald Trump Trump Palace 725 Fifth Ave., NYC 212-308-xxxx 6/1/2004 Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago Club 1100 S. Ocean BL, Palm Beach, FL 561-832-xxxx No Date Donald Trump No Business Identified 1100 S. Ocean BL, Palm Beach, FL 561-835-xxxx 4/30/2006 Donald Trump Trump International 401 N. Wabash Ave. 312-888-xxxx 11/11/2008 Donald Trump Douglass Limous 239 Nassau St., Princeton, New Jersey 609-924-xxxx 12/1/2008 Donald Trump Trump International 3505 Summit BLV, West Palm Beach, FL 561-682-xxxx 12/29/2004 Donald Trump Flights INC P.O.Box 196, Hamilton MA 978-468-xxxx 11/9/2004 Donald Trump No Business Identified 10 Market St., NYC 607-767-xxxx No Date Donald Trump Trump International 1 Central Park, NYC 212-299-xxxx 9/17/2008 Donald Trump Trump Hotels Huron Ave. BrigA, Atlantic City, NJ 609-441-xxxx No Date Donald Trump Trump National 339 Pine Rd, Briarcliff M 914-944-xxxx No Date Donald Trump Trump Plaza & C 2500 Pacific Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 609-441-xxxx 4/14/2008 Donald Trump Trump Palace Co. 200 E. 69th St., NYC 212-472-xxxx 11/12/2008 Donald Trump Seven Springs L. 66 Oregon Rd, Mount Kisco, NY 914-244-xxxx 12/13/2006 and 4/11/2008 The Project Dragnet database suggests Trump was under surveillance not only for phone conversations, but also for financial information, including most likely bank account transactions, credit card transactions, and tax filings. Also listed as under NSA surveillance in the period 2004-2010 was Trump’s former wife, Ivanka Trump at House of Ivanka, 10 East 64th Street, New York City. The Project Dragnet database also indicates that the NSA was conducting electronic surveillance on an extensive list of Trump employees in the years 2004-2010 – the only years for which Sheriff Arpaio had data. Here is a partial list of the Trump employees that show up in the Project Dragnet database: Patricia Hernandez, a Manager for the Trump Organization, was under NSA electronic surveillance at Trump Parc, Central Park South, in New York City, at phone 212-586-xxxx, date: 9/16/2008. Mike van der Goes, a Golf Pro at Oceans Trails Golf Course in Palos Verdes, who was promoted to be general manager when Trump bought the course from the bank in 2005 and renamed it Trump National. Mike van der Goes was under surveillance at Trump National, 1 Ocean TRL, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, at phone: 310-265-xxxx, no date. Carolyn Kepcher, a frequent guest on NBC’s television program “The Apprentice,” who was under NSA electronic surveillance when she was General Manager at the Trump National Golf Course in Briarcliff, New York, in Westchester County north of New York City, at 339 Pine Rd., in Briarcliff, New York, at phone 914-944-xxxx, date: 9/7/206. Joe Traci, a Real Estate Property Manager at Trump New World Property Management, at 438 W. 69th Street, New York City, phone 212-769-xxxx, date: 11/12/2008; and at 5 12th Street, New York City, phone: 212-586-xxxx, no date. Roger Socio, a Senior Project Manager, Trump Organization, Trump Tower, 725 Fifth Avenue, New York City, phone: 212-715-xxxx, 2/23/2009. Bill Fichter, Residents Manager, Trump Organization, Trump Palace, 200 E. 69th Street, New York City, phone: 212-879-xxxx, date: 2/24/2009. Florin Bogosel, Trump Park Avenue, 502 Park Avenue, New York City, phone: 212-223-xxxx, no date. Grace Dunne, Trump Park Residence, 3770 Barger Street, Shrub Oak, New York, phone: 914-245-xxxx, date 1/26/2006. Greg Bradley, Vice President, Trump Pavilion for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 9028 Van Wyck, East Richmond Hill, New York, phone: 718-291-xxxx, no date. All these employees appear to have been under NSA phone surveillance, plus various of them under financial surveillance as well. Alex Jones is listed as being under electronic surveillance for phone records, as well as under surveillance for financial records, in 2006. The address listed for Alex Jones in the NSA Project Dragnet database was correct for his residence at that time. So too, Alex Jones confirmed the phone number listed was also correct. Sheriff Arpaio and Chief Investigator Zullo have validated through law enforcement channels the validity of the name, address, and telephone numbers for the dates that appear in the Project Dragnet database. Sheriff Arpaio and Chief Investigator Zullo are prepared to share relevant information with appropriate federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, as well as the Department of Justice, Homeland Security Department, the White House, and members of Congress the Project Dragnet Database in whole, or in part, as it pertains to NSA electronic surveillance of Donald J. Trump and his various employee. Sheriff Arpaio and Chief Investigator Zullo also show up in the database, listed as being under both phone and financial surveillance. Zullo explained that he and Arpaio came in contact with the information from Operation Dragnet during an unrelated investigation that began in October 2013 and ended January 2015. A whistleblower by the name of Dennis Montgomery brought forward information that Montgomery alleges was collected while he was employed as a subcontractor for the NSA, working on various surveillance projects. Court documents do verify Montgomery was contracted by the NSA, in part to develop computer breaching software that has been utilized in government mass surveillance operations targeting American citizens without legal justification. While Montgomery’s credibility has been called into question, Zullo maintains that the amount of information provided by Montgomery related to Operation Dragnet was extraordinarily voluminous and that Montgomery had shared information with investigators in 2013 that is only now being revealed by media outlets. More coming…..
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Posted on March 19, 2017 by Ray Starmann
Surveillance – What Surveillance?
By Ronnie Herne “Mass surveillance is different. If you’re truly worried an attacks coming from anyone anywhere, you need to spy on everyone everywhere.”
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY UTAH DATA CENTER Our NSA (National Security Agency) does not have an open and transparent history. The NSA was created in secret in 1952 not by Congress, but by a pen stroke of Harry Truman in a 7-page document that remained classified for years. Even its name was undisclosed. And it stayed hidden until finally, in 1971, NSA analyst Perry Fellwock blew the whistle on NSA and their secret program Echelon with its vast information gathering technology even back then. This led to the Church Committee hearings and some legislation. Obviously, it wasn’t enough….. WHISTLEBLOWERS Over the recent years, 6 additional patriotic whistleblowers have come forward at great sacrifice and risk to themselves. These include Bill Binney, Edward Snowden, Russ Tice, Mark Kline, Thomas Tamm, and Thomas Drake. Click the above link for more information on these men. NSA TODAY Bigger: See Wired article from 2012. Written by James Bamford, this is an article that spares no one’s feelings in laying out what the NSA is, and does. Bigger and Nastier: “The NSA is more interested in the so-called invisible web, also known as the deep web or deepnet – data beyond the reach of the public. This includes password-protected data, US and foreign government communications, and noncommercial file-sharing between trusted peers. ‘The deep web contains government reports, databases, and other sources of information of high value to DOD and the intelligence community according to a 2010 report.’” But don’t feel left out. Oh No! They already have every keystroke, every conversation, every search (Yes, even those), every credit card purchase, every check, every rewards card purchase, every toll gate, every bill, every-everything about you. What do you think is filling up those monstrous computers? The next two blue links are enlightening wakeup articles from Bruce Schneier. Bruce is a go-to guy on internet security, and author of Data and Goliath, about collecting your data and controlling the world. It was a best selling Amazon Book of the Year in 2015. The Utah Data Center came online in 2014, at a cost of somewhere between one and one-half to two billion dollars for one million-plus square feet. Details are not readily shared with the public. 100,000 square feet will be for data storage. The remaining 900,000 square feet will be for administration and “technical support”…… ? What, exactly, does that mean in spook-talk? Data Mining? More secret programs? Mind Control with DOD’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)? It is widely believed that a large emphasis at the Utah Data Center will be put on cracking encryption. You know, breaking the private codes. This will done in conjunction with their Oakridge, Tennessee facility which is developing the world’s fastest supercomputer. Currently encryption done at 128 bits, and 192 bits, and most securely at 256 bits has them at bay. But between the vast storage data in Utah and the lightning speed in Tennessee they think they may be able to crack them. Would it be okay to pray for a large magnetic storm? And they’re building another data center in Fort Meade, Maryland that will be two and one-half times bigger. Just what are they going to do there? Here Are A Handful of the Programs… ECHELON Reportedly developed to monitor Russia and the Eastern Bloc, this one has been around since about 1966. “ECHELON was part of an umbrella program codenamed FROSTING, which was established by the NSA in 1966 to collect and process data from communications satellites. FROSTING had two sub-programs:[25] TRANSIENT: for intercepting Soviet satellite transmissions, and ECHELON: for intercepting Intelsat satellite transmissions.” This 1999 article brought more information to the fore. Echelon’s focus is international intercepts. Shrouded in secrecy, Echelon uses large golf-ball shaped facilities (called radomes short for radar-domes which protect delicate radar equipment from the climate) on earth, plus satellites, to listen in on, intercept, and copy any and all transmissions. Echelon includes sites in England (RAF Menwith Hill), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and others. The satellites used are said to be stationary. Several years back (+/- the year2000) there was an international flapdoodle as allegations flew that U.S. companies were getting insider information based on intercepted commercial bids, and using them to secure lucrative contracts. This, while believed to be true, was of course denied. CARNIVORE This was an earlier FBI e-mail wiretap system that could be set up by the FBI, in conjunction with your ISP (Internet Service Provider), and operated remotely. It was newer technology in the year 2000, unregulated (if you just forget the Fourth Amendment), and extremely prone to overreach without oversight. Carnivore was eventually renamed DCS1000 but that didn’t improve its murky reputation nor lessen the FBI’s secrecy surrounding the eavesdropping which many believed expanded to intercepting and copying all e-mails. Are we singing Kumbaya yet? SNIFFER This isn’t a program but rather a means of creating surveillance. Routers direct internet traffic noting destinations of the “packets” that go through the router. “Packets” are parts of transmissions that have been reduced into smaller parts to make transmissions flow more efficiently. A sniffer is an intercept monitor that can copy either limited, specific targets, or copy any and every thing that passes by. HEARTBLEED This was created through a flaw discovered in an update to the the SSL program. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. SSL has been supplanted by TLS, Transport Layer Security. However, SSL is still widely used. The SSL is used for security in roughly 2/3 of “secure” Net transactions (think credit card purchases on secured sites). This Heartbleed bug allowed the NSA easier access to our passwords and personal information. The NSA claims it did not know of the Heartbleed bug until 2014. Sources say the NSA knew at least two years earlier. You think? TRAPWIRE TrapWire is a shadowy overreaching program originated by a corporation known as Abraxos, in Virginia. Abraxos is filled with ex-CIA, ex-Intelligence Community spooks. Its purpose is to film people and study patterns of behavior, pre-assign likely guilt, and call it terror assessment. Talk about guilty until proven innocent! In 2005 an Abraxos officer stated that TrapWire could “collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists.” TrapWire was exposed in 2012 when a researcher went through a series of hacked e-mails from a company known as Stratfor, aka “Shadow CIA”. It was revealed at that time that literally millions of cameras – public, red light, traffic, bridge, commercial, casino, U.S. and international — were digitally recording people, encrypting the data, and sending it to places unknown for storage using face recognition to note “persons of interest” in “Suspicious Activity Surveillance”. TEMPEST This is a program used by the government to reconstruct information data streams by capturing electromagnetic radiation from computers, printers, handheld devices and converting these radiations into their original transmissions. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. PRISM Created under George W Bush, PRISM is a secretive tool that co-opts the biggest internet service providers. These include Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Skype (now owned by Microsoft), Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, and YouTube. It is believed information can be gleaned from the user equipment via back doors; from the internet backbone; or from the corporate cloud database. This may include general data and/or verbatim copies. Prism slides released by Edward Snowden. How we learned of PRISM. 2013 – 2014 leaks from Edward Snowden. The leaks he provided. XKEYSTROKE This is a very developed query program. You can search, or query, using MAC or Microsoft Office or pdf or phone number or e-mail address or type of document or extensions, and more. This classified link is from 2008 – “The Unofficial XKS User Guide”. TEMPORA This is a British program shared with NSA that collects – for later sorting – internet information carried on fiber optic cables. It went operational in 2011. The cable companies are aware. I believe all the major cables are now tapped. This matters because much of the international cable traffic flows through the US. SPECIAL SOURCE OPERATIONS (of the NSA) This is the division of NSA that collects data from telephone and cable sources. These commercial companies have been coerced (?) into being willing partners with NSA. It is loudly rumored that these companies – your carriers – are well paid for their cooperation. (Are you surprised?) Back in the day that worked just fine; they cooperated and no one was the wiser. Then in 2013 Edward Snowden happened and the big Verizon-NSA link became front page news. Well, it’s still going on and all the major companies are in on it. “SSO also cooperates with private telecommunication providers under the following four programs, which are collectively referred to as Upstream Collection:
– BLARNEY (collection under FISA authority, since 1978)
– FAIRVIEW (cooperation with AT&T, since 1985)
– STORMBREW (cooperation with Verizon, since 2001)
– OAKSTAR (cooperation with 7 other telecoms, since 2004)”
“The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We need to turn the cameras on the police and on the government, not the other way around.” Ron Paul June 14, 2013
We’ll continue in PART TWO with everyday surveillance that is all around us. The scope is breathtaking, and growing.
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/03/surveillance-what-surveillance/
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As you can clearly see the evil in the world is almost fifty-fifty, my word has shown you that before, so that should not be a surprise. For I have said that two shall be standing in the field and one shall go and one shall remain, that is fifty-fifty, and it has got to that place, that also means that the end is very, very near. So you will still have half of the world that desires to do evil and half of the world that desires to do good, but only about thirty percent are true Christians. etc.
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Scare Mongering about Home Schooling
8:00 AM, Mar 09, 2017 | By Charlotte Allen
The Washington Post Magazine's cover story this week is about … the horrors of home-schooling. Specifically, the horrors of "fundamentalist Christian" home-schooling. The cover illustration for the story depicts a sinister windowless log cabin that's supposed to be your typical home school, I guess. Author Lisa Grace Lednicer's main source for the story seems to have been an anti-home-schooling activist named Sarah Hunt, age 36, who was home-schooled herself and lived to tell the tale. Actually, Hunt seems to have done quite well for herself even though home schooling at the behest of her father had consisted "largely of reading and watching videos from the Bob Jones University curriculum." In other words, Hunt was essentially taking college course while still in high school—what was supposed to be wrong with that? She enrolled in the University of New Mexico at age 17 (with the approval of her father—an avionics engineer, by the way—who praised her grades and encouraged her to apply for a Rhodes scholarship), went to law school at Georgetown, one of the nation's top universities, and is now a practicing lawyer. Again, what was supposed to be wrong? Here's what was wrong: She straddled two worlds. There was the one she had grown up in, where she had learned that being a smart and outspoken woman was dangerous. And there was the world in which she was trying to make her way, where she was teased for her ignorance of pop culture touchstones such as "The Smurfs," Madonna and "Mad Max." Gee, no Madonna. So Hunt and a home-schooled friend from Georgetown have recently formed the Center for Home Education Policy where they "do legal work for those who want to attend public school." In other words, use the legal system to prevent parents from raising and educating their children according to their own religious views and moral standards. But remember, this is "fundamentalist Christian" home-schooling we're talking about, and we can't have that. One of the tenets of Hunt's campaign is that home-schooling breeds child abuse. She points out that her center has collected some 84 accounts of child deaths in home-schooling households over an indeterminate period dating back to at least 2011. (If you do the math, though, using figures from the federal government's Children's Bureau, you find out that that's at most less than half the rate at which children die from abuse or neglect in the general U.S. population.) Hunt's and author Lednicer's home-school horror-story poster child—or actually, poster adult at age 18—is Cornelia Hertzler, daughter of "fundamentalist" (that word again!) parents who didn't believe that higher education was part of "'God's plan' for her." At some point the parents had taken away Hertzler's laptop and cell phone, we are told. When Hunt heard all this in a phone interview with Hertzler, she pushed the panic button: Hunt texted a lawyer she knew in Oregon. She had a checklist: The home-schooled woman … would need to collect proof of her identity, because confiscating identification was a common parental tactic. The lawyer had to be prepared. Some parents forcibly restrain their children. If Hertzler, 18, got out, she would need to get to a computer, perhaps at a library, to alert people. She would also need help finding work and housing, and eventually coaching on issues such as the SAT and financial aid, Hunt said. What—were Hertzler's parents Mr. and Mrs. Ariel Castro? Lednicer interviewed Hertzler (and also her father, Roger Hertzler) and wrote this: etc. etc.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/scare-mongering-about-home-schooling/article/2007136
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FIVE migrants allegedly gang raped a seven-year-old girl at a refugee centre in Germany, according to reports
Daily Star - March 20, 2017
Cops are probing a “serious sexual assault” at the Central Initial Reception Center (ZEA) for refugees in the Hamburg, reports say. The alarm was reportedly raised on Tuesday evening shortly after 7pm. A girl, aged seven, is thought to be the victim of the alleged group sex attack, German newspaper BILD reported. Five Arabs have reportedly been accused of carrying out the alleged assault. Public prosecutor Nana Frombach told BILD: “We have initiated a case against five persons. “There had been no urgent need for action. The investigation will continue.”
https://www.infowars.com/five-arab-migrants-gang-rape-little-girl-seven-at-refugee-centre/
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Two immigrant high school students who 'raped a fourteen-year-old girl in a bathroom' arrived in America just months ago from El Salvador and Guatemala
Jose Montano, 17, and Henry Sanchez, 18, have been charged with first-degree rape and sexual offense in attack at Rockville High School in Maryland
The two arrived in the US from Central America less than a year ago
Police say Montano and Sanchez first approached a 14-year-old girl in the school hallway and propositioned her, but she refused
Teens then allegedly forced her into a boys' bathroom stall, and raped her
By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 20:21 EDT, 19 March 2017 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 20 March 2017
Two teens who were arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl at their high school had recently arrived from Central America, reports suggest. Police in Maryland arrested Jose Montano, 17, and Henry Sanchez, 18, after the young girl told school officials the pair had forced her into a bathroom stall and raped her. Sanchez is now facing deportation proceedings as he had a pending 'alien removal' case against him, according to the Washington Post. He is believed to have entered the US illegally from Guatemala seven months ago. Immigration and Customs Enforcement won't report on Montano's immigration status as he is a minor. Montano arrived El Salvador about eight months ago. Sanchez was held without bond in court on Friday. Montgomery County Assistant States Attorney Rebecca MacVittie called him a 'substantial flight risk'. Montgomery County Police announced the arrests on Friday, saying that the alleged assault happened the day before at Rockville High School. According to investigators, the victim was walking in a school hallway at around 9am when she ran into the two teens. Montano asked the freshman to walk with them and to have sex, but the girl turned them down, according to a press release from the Montgomery County Police Department. The 17-year-old boy repeated his request, then forced her into a boys’ bathroom and into a stall, where he and Sanchez proceeded to rape her. They reportedly took turns holding her down while repeatedly assaulting her and she cried out, and was eventually able to escape the bathroom. The teenage girl later reported the alleged attack to school officials, who immediately called the authorities. Despite their age, both the boys were placed in the ninth grade. Investigators with the Special Victims Division arrested Montano and Sanchez on campus that same day on charges of first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense. Montano is charged as an adult, but police have not released his booking photo. On Friday, Rockville High School sent a letter to parents addressing the incident and the arrests, according to WUSA. 'Ensuring a safe, secure and welcoming learning environment for all of our students is our top priority. Our staff remains vigilant in the monitoring of our school each and every day,' the note said in part. Gboyinde Onijala, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Public Schools, said that staff at Rockville High will increase monitoring of the hallways and bathrooms. The school has one school resource officer.
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First Democrat Official Tied To Elite Pedophile Ring Pleads Guilty (Video)
By Voice of Reason · Monday, March 20th, 2017
While the mainstream media has been trying to keep the public distracted with yet more stories about Russian conspiracies, the crackdown against high level pedophiles has begun. We have previously reported that many pedophiles are far from the image of a stereotypical loser; in fact they are often placed in the highest rungs of society, and are extremely well connected. Case in point – Democrat and former mayor of Hubbard, Ohio Richard Keenan. In the following video, Right Wing News looks at the recent guilty admission by the former mayor of 20 counts of sex crimes, including 8 counts of rape. The victim was 4 years old when the abuse started. President Trump is intensifying his efforts against the embedded pedophile rings, and this is only the beginning. Now that they know the President himself is after them, what desperate tactics will Democrats and the mainstream media resort to in order to keep themselves out of jail? Former mayor of Hubbard, Ohio (D) Richard Keenan has admitted in court to raping a young child, as President Trump’s urgent investigation into the elite pedophile ring that has infiltrated Washington D.C. and politics nationwide continues taking down high-profile perpetrators. Keenan previously blamed the 4-year-old victim for initiating the acts, describing her as a “willing participant“. He is now facing life behind bars. DO NOT MISS: White House Intruder Was Pizzagate Whistleblower Trying to Contact Trump (Video) The Youngstown Vindicator reports that according to court documents, the victim told Keenan’s wife about the sexual abuse that began when she was 4-years-old and lasted for three years. When Keenan’s wife confronted him about the allegations, he responded, “I did it.” The Democrat mayor also confessed to the allegations to his pastor, a social worker and his brother and sister-in-law, according to documents filed by the assistant prosecutor. Email
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Homosexual director of ‘Beauty and Beast’ wants to rip the Bible to pieces
Posted on March 18, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 54 Comments
I have published two posts warning about Disney’s new flick, Beauty and the Beast, that:
The Beast is Baphomet, i.e., the devil. Disney inserted homosexual propaganda into the movie by making Gaston’s manservant LeFou homosexual and featuring the studio’s first “exclusively gay scene”. Now we know why. Beauty and the Beast‘s director Bill Condon, 61, born in New York City and raised in an Irish Catholic family, is openly homosexual and has a visceral hatred for Christianity. Pete Baklinski reports for LifeSiteNews, March 17, 2017, that in a 2007 interview with Passport Magazine, Bill Condon said he wishes he could “rip pages out of the Bible” when he stays in hotel rooms. When asked what the first thing he does when he gets into a hotel room, Condon replied: “I wish I could say I’m like [homosexual actor] Ian McKellen and immediately go rip pages out of the Bible, but there don’t seem to be bibles in the hotel rooms I stay in these days.” According to a report by The Charlotte Observer’s Lawrence Toppman, there are two homosexual moments in the film: The first comes when “a young man whirls into the surprised Le Fou’s arms, and they dance happily away together”. Later in the dance, Le Fou “spins across the room and lands on the reclining Gaston’s lap, wrapping Gaston’s arms around him.” Neither scene is found in the original Beauty and the Beast story, nor are they essential or add to the plot. Which makes Disney’s new movie a FAKE Beauty and the Beast! Condon said in a March 1 interview with Attitude: “Le Fou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings. And [actor] Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.” So committed and insistent is Disney on the homosexual message in Beauty and the Beast that the studio would rather swallow the loss of box office revenue in Malaysia than cut out the pro-“gay” scenes, as requested by the Malay government. Beauty and the Beast is being boycotted by Christian and Conservative groups: A petition to boycott the film created by LifeSiteNews has been signed by 131,000 people. The petition to Disney states: “Children’s movies are no place for promoting a harmful sexual political agenda, one that offends the deeply held beliefs of countless parents and families. I pledge to boycott both the Beauty and the Beast movie, and other Disney films and products, until such a time as Disney commits itself to protecting, not harming, the innocence of our children.” The American Family Association has 51,000 petition signers saying they “can’t support Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ movie” because it pushes the “gay agenda on our children. Homosexual behavior is unhealthy and unnatural. It is irresponsible and careless of Disney to promote such an agenda in a movie designed and marketed to children.” Colorado Christian University created a petition to Disney CEO Rober Allen Iger where “Christian Americans” pledge to “not allow our children or grandchildren to be subjected to your radical Left-wing agenda through your latest rendition of Beauty and the Beast. We will not allow you to bully us into going against our Biblically-based beliefs in natural marriage, and we will certainly not let you circumvent us as leaders of our families to force these beliefs on the impressionable young minds of our children.” On March 2, evangelist Franklin Graham wrote his 5.5 million Facebook followers asking them to “say no” to Disney’s remake. “They’re trying to push the LGBT agenda into the hearts and minds of your children—watch out! Disney has the right to make their [shows], it’s a free country. But as Christians we also have the right not to support their company. I hope Christians everywhere will say no to Disney.” Earlier this month Christian owners of an Alabama drive-in theater said they would refuse to show the film because it would “compromise on what the Bible teaches.” Russia slapped a 16+ rating on the film, effectively banning children from seeing it. Alas, the boycotts evidently are in vain. The movie had a record $170 million opening in the U.S. this weekend, earning $350 million worldwide. (Hollywood Reporter)
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Blizzard-bound Churchill awaits supply train: OmniTrax says track cleared
Northern Manitoba town's grocery shelves are bare as residents face another blizzard
CBC News 1 Hour Ago
Another winter blizzard is hitting the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill, where people are already desperate for groceries that have been delayed since the last blizzard two weeks ago. But there could be relief as soon as Monday afternoon, if the train can get all the way through to the town of about 900 residents. OmniTrax, the Denver-based company that owns the rail line that brings supplies into Churchill, cleared the tracks and is trying to get supplies delivered as soon as possible. A train with supplies departed from the northern Manitoba town of Gillam, about 270 kilometres southeast of Churchill, at around noon Monday. "A lot of families are suffering because they have young children and they need milk," said local resident Lana Bilenduke. No bread or vegetables are for sale at the local store and meat is scarce, she said. "Everyone's in a crisis until we get our groceries in." Churchill 'like a ghost town' after blizzard buries town Churchill declares state of local emergencyThe northern Manitoba town is again in the midst of near-zero visibility, wind gusts of 90 km/h and wind chill values in the –40s due to an intense low pressure system over Hudson Bay, according to Environment Canada. 3.4k shares Another winter blizzard is hitting the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill, where people are already desperate for groceries that have been delayed since the last blizzard two weeks ago. But there could be relief as soon as Monday afternoon, if the train can get all the way through to the town of about 900 residents. Churchill to Winnipeg map Churchill, Man., is located about 1,000 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. (Google Maps) OmniTrax, the Denver-based company that owns the rail line that brings supplies into Churchill, cleared the tracks and is trying to get supplies delivered as soon as possible. A train with supplies departed from the northern Manitoba town of Gillam, about 270 kilometres southeast of Churchill, at around noon Monday. "A lot of families are suffering because they have young children and they need milk," said local resident Lana Bilenduke. No bread or vegetables are for sale at the local store and meat is scarce, she said. "Everyone's in a crisis until we get our groceries in." Churchill 'like a ghost town' after blizzard buries town Churchill declares state of local emergencyThe northern Manitoba town is again in the midst of near-zero visibility, wind gusts of 90 km/h and wind chill values in the –40s due to an intense low pressure system over Hudson Bay, according to Environment Canada. Churchill blizzard Churchill has been under a local state of emergency since March 10, after the area was hit with 60 cm of snow over three days. (Keith McDougall/YouTube) The forecast calls for five more centimetres of snow, on top of the 60 cm that fell over three days during the previous blizzard. The town has been under a local state of emergency since then. The latest blizzard conditions should ease late Monday afternoon or early in the evening. Churchill Deputy Mayor Shane Hutchins said a freight train hasn't come into town in nearly three weeks, and people are still digging out from the earlier blizzard. Deliveries usually come once a week, but shelves are bare at the town's lone supermarket — the Northern Store, he said. "I've lived here 50 years and no, we've never had anything like this." Another winter blizzard is hitting the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill, where people are already desperate for groceries that have been delayed since the last blizzard two weeks ago. But there could be relief as soon as Monday afternoon, if the train can get all the way through to the town of about 900 residents. Churchill to Winnipeg map Churchill, Man., is located about 1,000 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. (Google Maps) OmniTrax, the Denver-based company that owns the rail line that brings supplies into Churchill, cleared the tracks and is trying to get supplies delivered as soon as possible. A train with supplies departed from the northern Manitoba town of Gillam, about 270 kilometres southeast of Churchill, at around noon Monday. "A lot of families are suffering because they have young children and they need milk," said local resident Lana Bilenduke. No bread or vegetables are for sale at the local store and meat is scarce, she said. "Everyone's in a crisis until we get our groceries in." Churchill 'like a ghost town' after blizzard buries town Churchill declares state of local emergencyThe northern Manitoba town is again in the midst of near-zero visibility, wind gusts of 90 km/h and wind chill values in the –40s due to an intense low pressure system over Hudson Bay, according to Environment Canada. Churchill blizzard Churchill has been under a local state of emergency since March 10, after the area was hit with 60 cm of snow over three days. (Keith McDougall/YouTube) The forecast calls for five more centimetres of snow, on top of the 60 cm that fell over three days during the previous blizzard. The town has been under a local state of emergency since then. The latest blizzard conditions should ease late Monday afternoon or early in the evening. Churchill Deputy Mayor Shane Hutchins said a freight train hasn't come into town in nearly three weeks, and people are still digging out from the earlier blizzard. Deliveries usually come once a week, but shelves are bare at the town's lone supermarket — the Northern Store, he said. "I've lived here 50 years and no, we've never had anything like this." Blizzard in Churchill Blizzard conditions with near-zero visibility, wind gusts of 90 km/h and wind chill values in the -40s are expected in Churchill on Monday, just two weeks after the above storm slammed the area. (Keith McDougall/YouTube) However, the news that OmniTrax has a train loaded with supplies headed that way is welcome news, he said. "It looks like we should have groceries available to us hopefully some time either late this afternoon or early tomorrow morning," he said, adding: "I don't know what the expiry date of the vegetables or produce is … fingers crossed they are in relatively good shape." People in Churchill were becoming increasingly frustrated with OmniTrax after what Hutchins described as "nearly non-existent" communication between the company and the town since snow-clearing plows on the line were recently shut down. OmniTrax sells Hudson Bay rail line to First Nations group Churchill residents frustrated Omnitrax shuts down 'lifeline OmniTrax suspends rail service to Churchill Ron Margulis, an OmniTrax spokesperson, said the snow on the rail line to Churchill was abnormal and difficult for crews to get rid of. But as of Monday the crews had accomplished that goal. Margulis also disputed Hutchins's assertion OmniTrax has not communicated properly with the town. Margulis said the company had sent notices to communities along the route that were affected by the line's temporary closure.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/manitoba/churchill-blizzard-grocery-shortage-1.4032105
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Wildfire near downtown Boulder forces more than a thousand to evacuate the Colorado city
Wildfire consuming 62 acres in Sunshine Canyon near Boulder started early on Sunday morning
Authorities have ordered more than 1,000 to evacuate; another 2,200 told to be ready to move out
No property damage or injuries yet, but strong wind threatens to fan the flames toward town
By Associated Press and Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com Published: 10:49 EDT, 19 March 2017 | Updated: 19:40 EDT, 19 March 2017
A wildfire burning in the mountains just outside downtown Boulder, Colorado has forced more than a thousand residents to evacuate. The fire ignited dead trees that exploded into black plumes of smoke on Sunday. Wind pushed the flames in the wooded area a couple of miles west of Pearl Street, the shopping and dining heart of the university city's downtown. The fire was only about 62 acres and hadn't caused any injuries or damaged structures by noon on Sunday, but strong gusts and warm and dry weather threatened to fan the flames. Authorities made more than 1,000 calls to residents ordering them to evacuate and warned an additional 2,200 to get ready to leave if conditions worsened, said Gabi Boerkircher of the Boulder Office of Emergency Management. It wasn't clear exactly how many houses or residents were evacuated because the calls could have gone to multiple people living in the same home and likely didn't include children. There were no reports of injuries or damage to homes, emergency officials said. At least eight aircraft were making drops to battle the flames, and a community center has opened as an evacuation shelter. The fire was at 20 per cent containment by noon Sunday, according to the Boulder OEM. Officials were not sure how the fire started. It was first reported around 1.40am Sunday. Seth Frankel, who has been warned that he and his family may need to evacuate, said he had packed up 'generations of things' that can't be replaced and was ready to go if the air quality got worse. He said smoke is pouring toward neighborhoods and many dead trees are combusting and sending black smoke into the air less than a half-mile from his home. But he and his wife, a Boulder native, and three daughters have dealt with fires and floods before. 'It's always alarming and always on your mind, but it's not an uncommon sensation around here,' said Frankel, who has lived in Boulder for 20 years. He got word about the fire early Sunday from a neighbor who received a warning call and has been outside with neighbors watching the flames and smoke. But he let his daughters, 9, 11 and 13, get some more sleep. 'It's still alarming, but there's no panic,' Frankel said.
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Report: Hundreds of millions of Pacific salmon missing, presumed dead — Gov’t issues emergency order along US West Coast — Japan suffering historic collapse, fish starving to death — All forms of ocean life dying in stunning numbers across Pacific
Published: March 19th, 2017 at 3:40 pm ET By ENENews
South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL), Mar 16, 2017 (emphasis added): The low salmon run size for the Yuba River appears to be part of another regional salmon collapse. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife point to preliminary data from the Sacramento River that indicates salmon runs have also dropped to record low levels. According to Dan Bacher’s reporting, last year’s salmon run on the Klamath River was a 38-year low… Gary Reedy, SYRCL’s consulting salmon expert reports that “A new crash for the Central Valley Chinook salmon is not unexpected.”… The Oregonian, Mar 15, 2017: Worst Klamath chinook run on record forecast — The worst run forecast on record for the Klamath River’s chinook salmon could close all salmon fishing along most of the Oregon Coast this summer… Mendocino Beacon, Mar 16, 2017: Returns of spawning Klamath River fall Chinook are projected to be the lowest on record in 2017… “The salmon runs this year will present a challenge for ocean fishermen and managers throughout the West Coast,” said Executive Director Chuck Tracy… “the low forecast for Klamath River fall Chinook is unprecedented”… “This year will be an exceptionally difficult year for ocean salmon fisheries, especially in Oregon and California”… said Council Chair Herb Pollard. Juneau Empire, Mar 6, 2017: Spring king fishing canceled by emergency order… the Juneau area will be closed for king salmon fishing… biologists expect a second-straight year of record-low king salmon returns on the Taku River. “We’ve been in a period of low productivity, not just on the Taku, but on several rivers up and down the coast,” Juneau Area Management Biologist Daniel Teske said… Nobody knows exactly why Southeast king salmon are struggling, but biologists do know where the fish are being affected: in the ocean… The increased die-off must be happening in a marine environment, Teske said, otherwise numbers on the four rivers wouldn’t fall at the same time… Undercurrent News, Feb 1 , 2017: Japanese salmon fisheries in historic collapse — Landings in Hokkaido, Japan are the lowest in nearly three decades, reports the blog RussGeorge.net. The volume of salmon caught at main fishing ports, including Hokkaido, plunged 30-40% in 2016 from the previous year. The figure represented the lowest level in 28 years. The collapse has been confidently attributed to the starvation of four-year-old Chum salmon… Russ George, Jan 31, 2017: Japanese Salmon Fisheries in Historic Collapse… News from Japan is terrible for NW Pacific fish… Local fishermen have been increasingly concerned over the fact that the trend of meager catch that continued in recent years has not been held in check and indeed is worsening every year… Given the shortfall of fish and the scrawny condition of the fish that were caught all evidence points to a cataclysmic collapse of ocean pasture primary productivity and fish starving at sea… Across the Pacific ocean salmon pastures have failed… Minato-Tsukiji, Nov 17, 2016: Japan chum salmon landings the worst in 24 years — This year’s chum catch in Japan is very poor, with declines in landings not only in the Hokkaido region but also in Honshu… Also, chum sizes are also getting smaller… Russ George, Feb 3, 2017: Hundreds of Millions of Pacific Salmon Missing and Presumed Dead — Across 10,000 miles of North Pacific ocean pasture declarations from Japan and the USA are reporting a cataclysmic collapse of Pacific Salmon. The fish are tragically starving at sea as the plankton pastures have turned into clear blue lifeless deserts… Collapse of North Pacific ocean fish pastures has resulted in near total collapse of Pacific Salmon… It’s not just Pacific salmon that are dying in the North Pacific all forms of ocean life are being reported dead and dying [in] stunning numbers… Hokkaido Shimbun, Jan 31, 2017: Salmon landings in Hokkaido in 2016 are the lowest in three decades — The number of salmon caught in Hokkaido in 2016 plunged 29.4% from the previous year… The figure represented the lowest level in 28 years… Local fishermen have been increasingly concerned over the fact that the trend of meager catch that continued in recent years has not been held in check… Minato-Tsukiji, Mar 3, 2017: The harvest in Hokkaido was the worst in 24 years… Beginning with the Sanriku area, landings all over Honshu were below those of the previous year… The number of returning four-year-olds, which are regarded as the main shoal, was a record low… See also: Massive die-offs reported in Pacific Ocean — Officials: “No fish out there, anywhere, over a very large area”… “What’s happening? Where’s their food?” — “Alarming… Frightening… Like nothing we’ve ever observed before” (VIDEO)
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The Global Famine Begins: UN Announces That The Worst Food Crisis Since World War II Is Happening Right Now
Published: March 19, 2017
We always knew that this would start happening. Earlier this month, I wrote about the severe economic problems that are plaguing South America, but up to this point I have neglected to discuss the horrific famines that are breaking out all over Africa. Right now there is a desperate need for food in South Sudan, Somalia, northeast Nigeria, Eritrea and Kenya. And Yemen, even though it is not technically part of Africa, is being affected by many of the same factors that are crippling nations all over eastern Africa. The United Nations says that more than 20 million people could die from starvation and disease if nothing is done. When I write about economic collapse, this is the kind of thing that I am talking about, and we are starting to see alarming conditions spread across the globe. Many believe that we could never possibly face this kind of food crisis in the western world, but unfortunately wishful thinking will only get you so far. The United Nations was formed in 1945, and the UN has just announced that what we are facing this year is “the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the UN”. The following comes from a CNN article entitled “20 million at risk of starvation in world’s largest crisis since 1945, UN says“… “We stand at a critical point in history. Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the UN,” UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien said Friday. “Now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death. Many more will suffer and die from disease.” It would be hard to overstate the level of human suffering that we are witnessing in many parts of Africa at this moment. In Somalia, the UN estimates that more than 6 million people are in desperate need of food aid… As Somalia inches closer to a calamitous famine, the prospect of utter devastation and colossal loss of human life is once again becoming an imminent reality. The humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating by the day with up to 6.2 million people in need of urgent aid. People across Somalia have been forced to walk hundreds of miles in search of food, water and shelter- with women and children disproportionately affected. Over 300,000 children under the age of five are severely malnourished, with over 200,000 more children at risk of acute malnutrition. In South Sudan, close to half the population is in dire need of assistance, and things have gotten so bad there that people will literally eat grass if they can find it… Across South Sudan more than one million children are believed to be acutely malnourished and UNICEF have said that if urgent aid does not reach them, many of them will die. “There is no food, we eat anything we can find,” one South Sudanese mother told ITV. “We will find grass, we will eat it. That’s just the way it us for us now.” Over in Yemen, there are about seven million people in need of food help, and authorities are warning that if nothing is done “millions of children” could starve to death… “The numbers affected are absolutely extraordinary,” said Mark Kaye, Save the Children’s Yemen spokesperson. “We keep on talking about a country that’s on the brink of famine, but for me these numbers highlight that we’re at the point of no return. If things are not done now we are going to be looking back on this and millions of children will have starved to death, and we’ll all have been aware of this for some time. That will shame us as an international community for years to come. Eritrea was not specifically included in the recent UN alert, but it should have been. Much of the country has been hit by a crippling drought, and approximately half of all children in Eritrea are stunted… But we cannot understand why Eritrea is not included in the appeal. Unicef has confirmed what we know from our friends and families inside the country. In a report in January, the agency said that the El Niño drought has hit half of all Eritrea’s regions. Acute malnutrition is widespread. As Unicef put it: “Malnutrition rates already exceeded emergency levels, with 22,700 children under five projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition in 2017 … Half of all children in Eritrea are stunted, and as a result, these children are even more vulnerable to malnutrition and disease outbreaks.” We have been warned that there would be famines in diverse places in these times. But here in the western world we tend to be lulled into a false sense of security by our comfortable lives, not realizing that the massively inflated standard of living that we have been enjoying has been fueled by the largest mountain of debt in the history of the planet. In Kenya, a national emergency has been declared due to drought and famine. For those of you that are parents, what would you do if your children were crying out for food but you didn’t have anything to give them? The following story from Kenya is beyond heartbreaking… Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk. The flesh on his legs, which dangle from his mother’s hip as she carries him around, is wasting away. He seems listless and sad, tongue flicking repeatedly in and out of his mouth. ‘We do not have enough food,’ said Veronica, his 28-year-old mother. ‘We eat only once a day.’ The little boy is suffering from severe malnutrition and is at risk of starving to death. He weighs just 15lb – half the typical weight for a boy of his age. I don’t even know what to say after that. In the western world we can be so incredibly self-absorbed that we don’t even realize that children are literally starving to death on the other side of the planet. Hopefully those of us that live in “wealthy” western countries will step up to the plate and aid those in need, and hopefully this crisis will also help us to understand that we need to prepare for the day when things get difficult in our own nations too.
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Disastrous National Security Breach in U.S. Congress
By Douglas J. Hagmann - March 19, 2017
Unless you’re plugged in to the independent media, there’s a good chance that you’ve not yet heard of one of the largest and arguably most important cases of government infiltration in recent history. On February 2, 2017, three Pakistani brothers with top access to the computer systems inside the U.S. House of Representatives containing some of the nation’s most sensitive information were removed from their positions by U.S. Capitol Police. The three brothers who are the target of a criminal probe, deliberately understated as a “procurement scam” include Imran Awan, Abid Awan and Jamal Moiz Awan, each who were the “shared employees” of at least 31 Democratic Congressional Representatives. But the case itself and potential damage is much, much worse than is being reported, if it’s being reported at all. While the corporate media is obviously more intent to prove some nebulous cyber connection between President Donald Trump and the Russians, they have yet to pay even the most basic lip service to this case of apparent espionage that has taken place at the highest levels of our government. The Amal brothers had complete and direct access to information of three extremely sensitive committees: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Homeland Security Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The access to the information they had, along with their known or suspected affiliations to such groups as Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, has “shaken” government insiders with knowledge about the case. Imran Awan has been identified as the group’s leader, initially providing computer services for Florida Democrat and former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Recall that it was Schultz’s email which was “hacked” during the 2016 election when she served as DNC Chairman. Among the House members who presently employed the services of ring leader Imran Awan were Andre Carson, the second Muslim member of the House of Representatives, as did Congresswoman Jackie Speier. On March 22, 2016, it was Jackie Speier was one of eight House members who asked for additional funding so that the Awan clan could secure Top Secret/SCI level clearance. Additionally, it was revealed that these employees were paid more than three times the salary of a “normal” IT worker, grossing upwards of $4 million dollars combined during their tenure as IT professionals. While the average government IT professional earns about $55,000 per year, Imran Awan was being paid $165,130, Abid Awan grossed $164,980 per annum, and Jamal Awan $157,577 according to government records. Further investigation, however, found that the three brothers were merely the “core” infiltrators. Also on the government payroll were Hina R. Alvi, wife of Imran Awan, who was paid $168,300 per year and Natalia Sova, wife of Abid Awan, who was paid a meager $34,854. And, it gets worse. Investigators determined that not only did the Awan clan have access to highly sensitive information, they set up an external server and copied information from Congressional computers to their off-site server, reportedly stealing documents, records, emails and other sensitive and classified information to the server under their sole control. Much More than a “Procurement Scam” Notably in 2009, the Awan brothers opened a car dealership in Virginia identified as Cars International A, LLC, interestingly referred to as “CIA” in court documents. Information contained in several well-researched and comprehensive investigative reports by The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and George Webb, a guest on The Hagmann & Hagmann Report details the mysterious car dealership and notes that the Awan brothers were also the recipient of a $100,000 “loan” made by Iraqi politician and disgraced “doctor” Ali al-Attar, who has reportedly fled to Iraq and has ties to various Muslim groups, including Hezbollah. Ali al-Attar was born in Baghdad to Iranian parents. He was indicted by the U.S. government in 2012 for tax fraud that reportedly involved diverting a half-million dollars from his medical offices into his personal account. Such actions appeared to be international in scope as it is suspected but not proven that he also diverted money to the accounts of others in the Middle East. According to a source in contact with this writer, the potential damage to our national security is “incalculable.” This source is also questioning why an investigation of this magnitude has not been handed off to the FBI for investigation, rather than keeping it assigned to the Capitol Police. “That itself should raise a lot of flags,” stated this source who declined to be named for this report. At this point, the weight of evidence strongly suggests that the United States House of Representatives computer systems, including and especially the documents and emails to and from top Representatives on the most sensitive committees including but not limited to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Homeland Security Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee has been compromised from within. Consider the above in the context of the raid in Yemen on January 29, 2017 when a U.S. Navy Seal was killed. Just four days later, the Awan brothers were banned from the premises of the U.S. Capitol. A coincidence? I think not. According to my DC source, it was not a coincidence. More investigative results about the level of Muslim infiltration into the most sensitive areas of our nation’s infrastructure will be published in the coming days. They are working with the secular Progressive Socialists to bring down not merely President Donald Trump, but our nation. It will shock even the most hardened among us. Stay tuned.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/11346
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and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..
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Supreme Court judge: Marriage, religious liberty under attack
Thu Mar 16, 2017 - 2:44 pm EST
MADISON, N.J., March 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The United States’ commitment to religious liberty is being tested and hostility toward traditional moral beliefs is on the rise, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told a group of Catholic lawyers Wednesday night. Justice Alito repeated the words he had written in his own dissent in the Obergefell case legalizing homosexual “marriage,” telling the group that he suspected the decision would be used to “vilify those who disagree and treat them as bigots.” "We are seeing this is coming to pass," Alito said. He then referenced a famed Bob Dylan song lyric, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." "A wind is picking up that is hostile to those with traditional moral beliefs," Alito said. He told the audience that while religious freedom has been recognized in Congress and in the courts, attitudes are not so quick to change. The Supreme Court Justice described how a Democratic lawmaker opposed his 2005 nomination because Alito would make "too many Catholics on the court." Alito also called on Americans to raise awareness of threats to religious freedom in the wake of Supreme Court rulings such as the Hobby Lobby case, where the company’s Christian owners objected to being forced to provide contraception in violation of their religious beliefs. "We are likely to see pitched battles in courts and Congress, state legislatures and town halls," he said. "But the most important fight is for the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans. It is up to all of us to evangelize our fellow Americans about the issue of religious freedom." Alito’s appearance was sponsored by Advocati Christi — or Advocates of Christ. The initiative is part of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey’s Catholic Center for Evangelization. It offers outreach to Catholic lawyers and judges to “deepen their practice of the profession of faith, and integrate it into their daily life and practice.” Alito spoke for about 45 minutes, according to an AP report. He talked about the hostility faced by Catholics in the U.S. in previous centuries and his joy while staying up overnight as a Catholic youth in 1960 to witness John F. Kennedy’s election as the first Roman Catholic president. "I felt it had lifted me up from the status of second-class American," Alito recalled. While dissenting from the majority in the Obergefell decision in 2015, Justice Alito was alone in saying that marriage existed for the sake of procreation and child-rearing. He wrote that the majority opinion was based on ideas of romantic love. He had also expressed a concern shared by the other conservative dissenting justices that the Obergefell decision supplants the democratic process with the views of five unelected justices. “If a bare majority of justices can invent a new right and impose that right on the rest of the country, the only real limit on what future majorities will be able to do is their own sense of what those with political power and cultural influence are willing to tolerate,” Alito had written in his dissent. “All Americans, whatever their thinking on that issue,” he concluded, “should worry about what the majority’s claim of power portends.” Alito was a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey and based in Newark while a member of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. He was nominated to the High Court by President George W. Bush and has served since 2006.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/liberal-mom-objects-to-man-in-disneylands-womens-restroom
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Israel said to strike Syria for second time in 24 hours, amid threats from Damascus
Unconfirmed reports indicate jets hit Hezbollah weapons convoy, military targets, hours after drone strike in Syrian Golan; Syria UN envoy says retaliatory missile launches during Friday raid a ‘game-changer’
By Times of Israel staff March 20, 2017, 2:25 am
Israel is said to have struck Syria overnight Sunday-Monday, the second strike in 24 hours and third in three days as tensions escalated between the two countries over the weekend.
Syria media reported early Monday that Israeli jets took out a number of targets near the Lebanon-Syria border including a Hezbollah weapons convoy and Syrian military sites. The reports have not been confirmed. Earlier Sunday, an Israeli drone strike reportedly killed a member of a Syrian pro-regime militia, an attack that came two days after Israeli jets, in an early Friday morning operation, hit an arms transfer meant for Hezbollah near Palmyra, with Syrian air defenses firing missiles at the planes. One missile was intercepted by Israel’s Arrow missile defense battery, military officials said, in the first reported use of the advanced system. It was the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago. On Sunday evening, Syria’s ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said Syria’s response to Friday’s strike was a “game-changer.” Speaking on Syrian state TV, Jaafari said the military’s response was “appropriate and in line with Israel’s terrorist operation,” and that Israel “will now think a million times [before striking again],” according to a translation cited in Ynet. “Syria’s forceful response to the Israeli attacks changed the rules of the game,” he said. His comments came hours after Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman threatened to destroy Syrian air defense systems for targeting the Israeli aircraft during the bombing run Friday. “The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation,” Liberman said on Israel Radio. Israeli officials have warned of the possibility Hezbollah and Iran could attempt to set up a base to attack Israel near the border with the Israeli Golan Heights. Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow, where he asked the Kremlin to make sure Iran does not gain a foothold in the area. Israel has also repeatedly vowed to prevent Hezbollah from acquiring any advanced weaponry and several strikes on such convoys over the years since the Syrian civil war began in 2011 have been attributed to Israel. Jerusalem has also claimed several of the raids, including Friday’s. “Each time we discover arms transfers from Syria to Lebanon we will act to stop them. On this there will be no compromise,” Liberman said Sunday. “The Syrians must understand that they are held responsible for these arms transfers to Hezbollah and that if they continue to allow them then we will do what we have to do.” Earlier Sunday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Israeli aircraft struck a truck driving near the town of Khan Arnabeh in the Quneitra province, on the road to Damascus. The National Defense Force, a pro-regime militia set up in 2012, claimed the man killed was from among its ranks, naming him as Yasser Hussien Assayed.
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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.
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Rand Paul Fires Back at McCain: ‘He’s Unhinged, Makes a Strong Case For Term Limits’ (VIDEO)
Cristina Laila Mar 16th, 2017 9:56 pm 85 Comments
Senator John McCain went on a long winded rant from the Senate floor, accusing Rand Paul of working for Vladimir Putin simply because he objected to Montenegro’s bid to be a part of NATO. Rand Paul responded by saying McCain is unhinged, past his prime and makes a strong case for term limits. Ouch! Rand Paul Fires Back at McCain: ‘He’s Unhinged, Makes a Strong Case For Term Limits’ (VIDEO)
Cristina Laila Mar 16th, 2017 9:56 pm 85 Comments
Senator John McCain went on a long winded rant from the Senate floor, accusing Rand Paul of working for Vladimir Putin simply because he objected to Montenegro’s bid to be a part of NATO. Rand Paul responded by saying McCain is unhinged, past his prime and makes a strong case for term limits. Ouch! MSNBC: “What’s your reaction to Senator McCain’s characterization of your objection?” Rand Paul: “Well you know I think he makes a really really strong case, you know for term limits. Umm I think maybe he’s uh past his prime. I think maybe he’s gotten a little bit unhinged. I do think that when we talk about NATO there can be a rational discussion about the pros and cons of expanding it.” Rand Paul is correct. There needs to be a rational discussion about NATO without corrupt, unhinged career politicians tying everything to Russian conspiracies. Why does everything all of a sudden have to be about Russia?
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them
that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (KJV)
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Lutheran, Episcopal and United Church of Christ Clergy: “We Stand With Planned Parenthood” Abortion Biz
National Micaiah Bilger Mar 16, 2017 | 3:35PM Des Moines, Iowa
A group of female clergy from Iowa wrote a letter this week to publicly state their support of the abortion chain Planned Parenthood. The letter, published in the Des Moines Register on Wednesday, included signatures from seven women pastors from the United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Episcopal Church, Unitarian Universalist Association, Christian Church (Disciple of Christ) and Unity Church. A note included with the letter said the pastors were not speaking on behalf of their denominations or congregations. The pastors praised Planned Parenthood’s work and blasted a state bill that would defund the abortion group and redirect tax dollars to community health centers that don’t provide abortions. “As clergy and as women, we oppose any action by the Iowa Legislature to restrict a woman’s ability to make her own health care and reproductive decisions or to access health care services,” they wrote. “Additionally, we support Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the excellent care it provides for any woman who chooses its health care services.” In February, the Iowa Senate passed Senate File 2 to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups in the state. The legislation would direct taxpayer funding to federally qualified health centers that provide more comprehensive health care but not abortions. The bill currently is being considered in the state House. In their letter, the pastors described the bill as “dangerous” and “extreme” legislation that “threatens access to basic health care for low-income women.” They also claimed that legislators’ opposition to abortion is purely religious. They wrote: All arguments against a woman’s reproductive choices are based in morality and religious beliefs, using those religious beliefs to change the law and infringe upon the rights of women. Through our faiths, we are joining together to balance those arguments and to assure legislators that the religious community does not speak with one voice. We are deeply committed to social justice, which includes caring for the poor and oppressed. Defunding and shutting down Planned Parenthood would hurt those struggling to get by and those who already face many barriers in accessing health care. As clergy and as women, we know that women are well equipped to make their own health care decisions. We also believe that this bill is a matter of legislating inequality and will deny low-income women access to quality family planning services. SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately Their letter makes a number of assumptions that are not true, one being that the pro-life position is entirely a religious one. While Christians make up a large part of the movement, there also are quite a few secular pro-lifers. Data also does not back up their claim that women will lose access to health care if Planned Parenthood is defunded. As previously reported, supporters of Senate File 2 contend that Iowa “women will have access to 221 clinics statewide that will expand coverage to rural women who must now make long drives to urban areas for family planning services.” Women can find much more comprehensive health care at community health clinics. The non-abortion services that Planned Parenthood provides are very limited. For example, Planned Parenthoods do not provide mammograms and very few provide prenatal care; and those that provide ultrasounds appear to do so only for abortion purposes. Data from the abortion group’s own reports show a growing focus on abortions and a continuous decrease in its non-abortion services. From 2009 to 2014, “cancer screenings” dropped from 1,830,811 to just 682,208. “Breast exams/breast care” fell by more than half, from 830,312 in 2009 to 363,803 in 2014 and Pap smear tests dropped nearly two-thirds, from 904,820 to 271,539. In that same time period, Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers remained steady, hovering around 320,000 per year. Iowa is one of a number of states that are moving to defund the abortion group. Last week, Republicans in U.S. Congress released the American Health Care Act. Their plan to repeal Obamacare includes provisions that would revoke funding for Planned Parenthood. A provision in the bill prohibits states from using “direct spending” on “prohibited entities” with federal funds allocated from the legislation; and those entities include any entity that “provides for abortions.” That means the nation’s biggest abortion corporation — Planned Parenthood. President Donald Trump recently offered Planned Parenthood a deal that would have allowed it to keep receiving tax money if it stopped doing abortions. Planned Parenthood refused. http://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/16/lutheran-episcopal-and-united-church-of-christ-clergy-we-stand-with-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/
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Army to get laser that can zap drones
By Aaron Gregg March 16
Lockheed Martin said Thursday it has finished a 60-kilowatt laser system for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and is preparing to hand it over to the Army for further testing. In initial tests, the company achieved 58 kilowatts of power but expects its laser to reach its full potential by the time of its delivery in the next few months. The laser is what the company calls a “combined fiber” laser beam, bringing together individual lasers to form a single, stronger beam. Lockheed has been testing it at an installation in Bothell, Wash., and plans to ship it to an Army installation in Huntsville, Ala., in the next few months. “We’re really at the dawn of an era of the utility of laser weapons,” said Robert Afzal, senior fellow for laser and sensor systems at Lockheed Martin. The Army’s specialized military vehicles “can now carry something which is small enough and powerful enough for what we believe will be militarily useful.” Multiple military agencies and defense companies have been working on laser weapon capabilities. In 2014, Boeing published a video of its 10-kilowatt laser destroying a mortar in flight. Proponents say lasers could be cheaper than traditional munitions systems because they don’t require expensive projectiles and they don’t need to be reloaded. That could make the system useful in taking down airborne adversaries, such as off-the-shelf drones. The idea of an off-the-shelf drone fleet commanded by a non-state entity presents new challenges for a global military establishment that has focused for centuries on war with other governments. For example, Gen. David Perkins said this week that a U.S. ally had taken down an adversary’s off-the-shelf quad-copter — which can be purchased online for a few hundred dollars — with a multimillion-dollar Patriot missile. Mark Gunzinger, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said: “That’s $3 million to shoot down a three-or-four-hundred-dollar drone. . . . What if you could do that with a beam of light that costs a buck?” More powerful projectiles such as Hellfire missiles are also more likely to cause collateral damage, making them less practical in certain situations. Proponents say laser weaponry could be more precise and ultimately more effective against small airborne targets. Lasers “hit targets at the speed of light, they cost almost nothing per shot, and they have an almost unlimited number of times they can be used,” said Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the nonprofit Lexington Institute, which receives funding from defense firms including Lockheed Martin and Boeing. “A medium-sized laser should be able to take out any number of drones in a very short period of time because they are so fragile.” The Navy has already deployed a ship-based laser that it says is ready for combat use, but the Army faces a unique set of challenges. To protect American soldiers from low-budget drone fleets, the Army would need a highly mobile laser that can sit on the back of a truck. The agency would have to find a way to carry enough battery power to fire continually without the truck overheating. Such a large power source isn’t a problem if it’s stationary on a ship or military installation, but moving it around the battlefield might be difficult. With the 60-kilowatt laser announced this morning, Lockheed says that it has reached that goal and that the weaponry is ready to be deployed. “In terms of the maturity of this technology to be field-able on an Army vehicle, this technology is ready for that,” Afzal said. The company said its initial testing showed the laser to be near physical limits for accuracy and reasonably energy-efficient, directing 43 percent of electricity used to power it directly into the laser itself, helping it deal with the mobility problem. The system is designed to be a low-weight solution that sits on a ground-based vehicle called a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT), essentially a truck designed for carrying large artillery. The Army already has laser weapons it is testing, but Lockheed’s laser may have advantages in power and portability. The 60-killowatt laser has its origins in the Defense Department’s Robust electric laser initiative, which started in 2010 and ended when a 15-kilowatt laser was developed. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has its own initiative to create a turret-based laser that can fire downward from an aircraft.
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Japan holds first-ever evacuation drill simulating North Korean missile strike into waters nearby
Kyodo
AKITA – Amid a growing missile threat from North Korea, the northern city of Oga, Akita Prefecture, held Japan’s first-ever evacuation drill for local residents, gaming out a scenario in which Pyongyang lobs a ballistic missile into the waters nearby. The drill came as the North continues to make advances in its missile and nuclear weapons programs, having carried out a number of launches over the past year, with its latest test-firing earlier this month. Conducted on the premise of a ballistic missile falling into Japanese waters off Akita, the drill was aimed at promptly relaying information while facilitating the swift and safe evacuation of residents. Hosted by the prefectural and city governments, the drill saw local officials direct 110 residents and other participants in a district of Oga, which faces the sea, to evacuate to a public hall and elementary school. The central government relayed emergency information to the local municipalities partly through the J-Alert emergency advisory service, which is also employed in the event of disasters. The city then used its wireless system to broadcast the information it received via loudspeakers and inform residents, who had registered ahead of time for such information, through their smartphones and other gadgets. While the central government has been carrying out drills to relay news alerts to municipalities using the J-Alert system, Friday’s drill marked the first residents had taken part in an actual evacuation drill. At a local elementary school, 44 students who were on the school’s premises were rushed to its gymnasium following the broadcast. Shin Kikuchi, the school’s principal, expressed hope that key information will be relayed smoothly by the central and local governments, as the students must depend on authorities for such details. On March 6, North Korea simultaneously launched four ballistic missiles, three of which landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. Tokyo estimated that one of the missiles fell into the Sea of Japan just 200 km off the Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto Peninsula.
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N. Korea blasts U.S. bombing drills in S. Korea
2017/03/16 15:10
SEOUL, March 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday condemned South Korea and the United States for "escalating nuclear attack threats," citing the participation of U.S. strategic bombers and the nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson in joint military drills in South Korea. North Korea's official news agency, KCNA, said a fleet of B-1B Lancer bombers from the Andersen air base on Guam made a stealth flight over the Sangdong firing range of South Korea on Monday for about an hour on a nuclear bomb-dropping drill aimed at making preemptive strikes at major targets of the DPRK. DPRK is an acronym for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name. The defense ministry didn't confirm the deployment of the U.S. strategic assets to the region, where tensions have increased in recent weeks with North Korea's missile launches and the killing of Kim Jong-un's half-brother in Malaysia. A spokesman for U.S. Forces Korea said, "We do not discuss operational matters." Seoul and Washington kicked off their annual joint drills -- the computer simulation-based Key Resolve and field-centered Foal Eagle -- in March. The two-week Key Resolve started Monday, while Foal Eagle runs through the end of April. Pyongyang has long denounced the exercises as rehearsals for an invasion despite Washington's assurance that they are defensive in nature. The communist North also blasted a joint drill by South Korea, the United States and Japan to detect and trace North Korean missiles. The exercise involving Aegis-equipped destroyers from the countries began on Tuesday. The North's official news agency said this clearly shows that its enemies' reckless military act to make a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK has reached a "very dangerous phase."
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/16/0401000000AEN20170316007300315.htm
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Inching towards nuclear war? It's terrifying. North Korea's use of missiles threatens a new global flashpoint which could suck in South Korea, China, Japan and the US
By Neil Tweedie for the Daily Mail Published: 19:37 EDT, 16 March 2017 | Updated: 22:14 EDT, 16 March 2017
At 8.30 in the morning, rush hour is in full swing in the South Korean capital Seoul, home to some 25 million people. Those commuters crammed into the underground system are the lucky ones — initially, at least. When the missile hits, they are protected from the blinding light of the 20-kiloton detonation. But above ground, in the area centred on the Yeouido financial district, all is destruction. Buildings up to a mile from Ground Zero have been vaporised or reduced to rubble. Some 70,000 people are dead, killed by the heat and the blast wave. Many more will succumb to radiation burns and radioactive fall-out over coming days. The nuclear nightmare that has long bedevilled South Korea — America’s key ally in the region and one of the world’s most dynamic economies — has become reality. North Korea, most rogue of rogue nations, has struck. The nuclear explosion, similar in size to that which levelled Hiroshima, signalled the start of a blitzkrieg-style ground invasion intended to swiftly overwhelm its richer, more advanced neighbour. A second atomic warhead, inbound on a crude Rodong rocket, has been successfully intercepted by America’s THAAD (Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence) anti-ballistic missile system. But Seoul’s torment is only beginning as hundreds of North Korean heavy guns rain down shells on the capital, many containing Sarin nerve gas. The city, bunched up against the North-South border, is hopelessly vulnerable to a mass sneak attack of the kind now taking place, as hundreds of thousands of North Korean troops, and thousands of tanks, pour out of innumerable underground bunkers built within miles of the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries. The rest of the world watches as the horror is relayed via 24-hour rolling news and on social media. And waits for the next move ... Could such a scenario ever come to pass? Will Kim Jong-un, latest incarnation of the cult dynasty that has ruled the Communist northern half of Korea since 1948, exchange bluff for action and, one day, deploy his small but lethal nuclear arsenal? That terrifying possibility moved a step nearer this month when, without warning, Kim Jong-un ordered a salvo of missiles to be fired towards his other nervous neighbour, Japan. The latest in a series of escalating acts of provocation by the North Korean dictator this year saw three (non-nuclear) missiles land in Japanese waters. North Korean media, which released photographs of the launch ‘supervised’ by a delighted Kim Jong-un, said the missiles had been aimed at American bases in Japan. International condemnation was swift and wide-ranging, with the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, describing the launch as a ‘new level’ of threat. The U.S. appears to be losing patience. On Tuesday, it ratchetted-up the pressure further with the deployment to Korean waters of the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. The 100,000-ton Nimitz-class carrier, with 40-plus F-18 fighters on board, and a powerful escort of cruisers and destroyers, is the ultimate ‘big stick’ expression of American power — and a provocation to paranoid minds in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Sources in South Korea are claiming the heightened military presence — which includes moving in ‘Grey Eagle’ attack drones — is part of a U.S. plan to ‘decapitate’ North Korean leadership and demolish key military facilities. Ostensibly, Vinson is there to take part in the annual U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises — codenamed ‘Foal Eagle’ and ‘Key Resolve’ — involving 300,000 South Korean personnel and 20,000 Americans. This act of allied solidarity was met, as usual, with blood-curdling threats from Pyongyang. It warned of ‘merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater’ in retaliation. As the Vinson berthed in the South Korean port of Busan, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, on a tour of the region, warned that the ‘diplomatic and other efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea to a point of denuclearisation have failed’. The United States, said Tillerson, had provided $1.35 billion in assistance to Pyongyang to encourage it to abandon its nuclear programme, but to no effect. A ‘new approach’ was required — but what that might be, he refused to say. President Donald Trump has stated that ‘every option was on the table’ when it comes to North Korean aggression. While the phrase was meant to reassure, many Japanese, and South Koreans worry that the Americans are contemplating pre-emptive strikes on North Korean military sites — which would indeed place them in the crosshairs of retaliatory attacks. In unusually graphic language, China, North Korea’s reluctant patron, has warned that the communist state and the U.S. are like ‘two accelerating trains’ speeding towards a head-on crash. The rhetoric may not be misplaced. If World War III is to break out anywhere, then it will probably be in this febrile region. North Korea is intent on developing nuclear-tipped missiles that can hit the States. Large areas of Japan and all of South Korea are already in range. Its nuclear arsenal numbers some 20 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs. What is not clear is if North Korea has the ability to marry these A-bombs to its missiles to create workable devices. But even the most cautious of analysts warns it is only a matter of time. Kim Jong-un, irrational and unpredictable at the best of times, appears increasingly trigger-happy, revelling in his ability to make Western powers squirm. In February, North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, superior to anything that had gone before. Just days later came the brazen murder, by a hit squad using powerful VX nerve toxin of Kim Jong-un’s estranged half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The manner of the killing, at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia, was intended to strike terror into the hearts of exiled opponents of the Kim regime. (Yesterday, Interpol issued warrants for the arrest of four North Koreans in connection with the murder.) It is, however, the test-firing of four ballistic missiles towards Japan on March 5 (a fifth is thought to have failed) that most concerns the West. The missiles themselves are not the most worrying feature. Unlike the one launched on February 12, these were not propelled by solid-fuel motors which allow for quick launches. Nor did they have intercontinental range. Judging by the distance (600 miles) and height (160 miles) reached by the missiles, they were probably what experts call ‘extended-range’ Scuds, acquired in the Nineties after the fall of the Soviet Union. What truly alarmed was the simultaneous, multiple-firing, which suggests advanced operational skill; the impact area of three of the missiles within 200 miles of Japan; and the threats that followed. North Korea’s UN ambassador claimed that the situation on the Korean Peninsula was ‘inching to the brink of a nuclear war’. China’s intervention, calling on the U.S. and South Korea to halt military exercises in exchange for North Korea suspending tests seems, not surprisingly, to have fallen on deaf ears, as evidenced by the arrival of the Carl Vinson this week. For the time being, the U.S. military response is defensive, bringing forward the long-planned installation of its anti-ballistic missile system, known as THAAD, on South Korean soil. The system, while not perfect, is designed to knock out Scud-type missiles. China has called the installation of THAAD a provocative military escalation, a claim echoed by Russia. Both nations fear that the system’s radar would allow the Americans to peer deep into their territory and monitor their missile tests. China views every U.S. military development in its hemisphere as an attempt to thwart its ambitions for regional dominance. But America needs Chinese help in reining in Pyongyang. The best outcome for all in the region would be for China to use its leverage as North Korea’s biggest trading partner and main source of arms, food and energy to persuade Kim Jong-un to halt his nuclear ambitions. China has, in fact, recently put pressure on its troublesome semi-ally, announcing last month that it was stopping imports of North Korean coal, a third of the poverty-stricken nation’s exports. However, Beijing has always been cautious about actions that could cause the collapse of the North Korean system, and with it a flood of refugees. Before leaving office, Barack Obama warned Donald Trump that North Korea was the gravest security risk he would face as president. Every day that has passed since the inauguration confirms this assessment. Perhaps the best hope for those living in the shadow of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions lies in 33-year-old Kim Jong-un himself. He loves the good things in life, yachts, cars, the best tobacco, even as his people go hungry. War with South Korea means instant war with the United States, and whatever mayhem North Korea can cause during its brief nuclear rampage, it cannot hope to prevail against the world’s only superpower. In signing the order to attack South Korea, Kim would be signing his own death warrant. We must hope Kim Jong-un is still sane enough to understand that.
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Horror as father and son have throats slit in Paris street killing
A FATHER and son have died after a knifeman slit their throats in a stabbing in Paris in broad daylight.
By Katie Mansfield PUBLISHED: 12:13, Fri, Mar 17, 2017 | UPDATED: 17:15, Fri, Mar 17, 2017
Police sources say the men were discovered with their throats slit outside a building in the French capital’s 11th district. Both men died at the scene as paramedics tried to save them. The attack happened on Rue de Montreuil in the east of the French capital near Place de la Nation. One resident told Le Parisien: "I went down. I saw a body in the hall, a body in the yard and a third person sitting with the firemen and policemen around. There was blood everywhere.” Armed police surrounded the scene as officers launched an investigation into the attack. Police have arrested a man in connection with the attack. He is said to be a family member. Police sources have called for caution on the motives of the knifeman. Judicial police are leading the investigation. Local media say the father was killed in the courtyard of the building. The knifeman, said to be his son, is thought to have stabbed him in the stomach before slitting his throat. Witnesses said the killer then sat by the body. Police have set up a psychological unit on the ground floor for those affected by witnessing the killing. Traffic was stopped in the area with firefighters and SWAT officers at the scene throughout Friday afternoon. The attack comes amid high security in the city just hours before Prince William and his wife the Duchess of Cambridge visit to meet President Francois Hollande. France remains under a state of emergency following a string of deadly terror attacks in the past 18 months.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/780453/paris-father-son-dead-throats-slit-france
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Oklahoma state senator arrested on child prostitution charge
THOMASDISHAW.COM Mar 17, 2017
Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey is facing three felony charges for his involvement in child prostitution. The charges come after Shortey was caught in a motel room with a 17-year-old boy where it was apparent the two were there to engage in sexual acts. Shortey, who is 35, has a wife and three young children. Police were tipped off by the teen’s father. Authorities were able to obtain a search warrant during which they discovered the juvenile’s Kindle Fire tablet containing a conversation between him and Shortey pertaining to sex in exchange for money. The felony charges that Shortey will be facing include: -Engaging in child prostitution -Engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church. -Transporting a minor for prostitution/lewdness. While the age of sexual consent in Oklahoma is 16, state child prostitution laws apply to any person under the age of 18. Both Shortey and the teenage boy admit to being acquaintances for about a year, having met through Craigslist and later communicating on the messenger application Kik, which has been criticized as being unsafe for minors. Within a few hours after the arrest, Shorty was released on a $100,000 bond. Shortey has been a senator since 2010. He is a staunch Republican and was the state chair of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the primary elections. During his time in the state Senate Shortly pushed bills that targeted the expulsion of illegal immigrants and the expansion of the state’s gun rights. Ironically a few of his bills targeted gay and transgendered people, including a measure passed earlier this year that would allow business owners to discriminate against gay people. His most notable bill, however, was introduced in 2012 and would have banned the use of aborted human fetuses in food. The bill garnered a lot of controversies both in-state and around the country. The bill was never granted a hearing in a Senate Committee. The arrest has, of course, led to calls for Shortey’s resignation. The Oklahoma Senate imposed sanctions on Wednesday voting 43-0 for a resolution that accuses him of “disorderly behavior.” Among other things, it removes Shortey from membership and leadership of various Senate committees, bars him from occupying his office and reserved parking spot at the Capitol, blocks his expense allowances and authorship of bills, and revokes his right to have an executive assistant. Shortey will, according to Senate officials, still receive his $38,400 annual salary as a senator and will be allowed to vote. The allegations have also raised red flags pertaining to Shortey’s involvement with the Oklahoma City YMCA’s Youth and Government Program. Shorty has since been removed from his volunteer position of which he served over the last 17 years. He had been active in the program and served as a chaperone on several out-of-state trips. The organization is unaware of any allegations of wrongdoing involving Shortey’s work for the program, but the agency is conducting an internal investigation due to the nature of the criminal case.
http://www.thomasdishaw.com/oklahoma-state-senator-arrested-child-prostitution-charge/
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Nuclear Engineer: My biggest concern is Fukushima plant will collapse… Concrete under reactors is being “eaten away”… “There’s ongoing chemical attacks” — Containment structures are tilting, in jeopardy of falling over (AUDIO)
Published: March 17th, 2017 at 6:19 am ET By ENENews KGO 810 AM, Feb 9, 2017 (at 9:15 in):
Pat Thurston, host (emphasis added): “There’s a story that’s going around the internet, Snopes says there’s nothing to verify that this is true — I guess Tepco is denying it — but there’s a story going around that the containment structure is in jeopardy — its tilting — it’s in jeopardy of falling over, so we’ll talk about that too — if that is even a possibility. Were that to happen, what would that mean?… First, to the issue of the potential for a collapse of the building — for the building to topple over — for it to somehow to collapse. Is that a thing? Can that happen?” Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer: “Yeah, it can happen — and that’s my biggest concern. Tepco is building a wall along the ocean… it’s trapping all this groundwater onsite, and essentially making the ground mushy… There’s already significant damage [to the reactor buildings] — the entire coast of Japan dropped three feet during that earthquake and never rebounded… But the Fukushima site didn’t fall straight, it fell at an angle, it’s about a two inch incline across the site now. So the buildings are in mushy ground and they’re not quite straight. The other part is that there’s a toxic brew of radioactive chemicals inside there, but there’s also just chemicals – they’re eating away at the concrete and they’re eating away at the steel. It’s a nasty chemical broth inside these plants. My fear is that if there’s a Richter 7 quake, not the Richter 9 that happened 6 years ago, if there’s a Richter 7 quake on that site it could breach those containments… The horse is out of the barn at that point… (discussion continues at 32:00 in) On toppling over… probably half the concrete inside the containment that was originally there has been eaten away by the hot radioactive fuel — and there’s ongoing chemical attacks — so I really think the concrete under the containment is pretty darn punky [“resembling punk in being soft or rotted”] right now, and is getting punkier as time goes on.” ENENews has published several reports in recent weeks on this topic: TV: Collapse imminent at Fukushima — Officials find large section under reactor is “unstable… about to collapse” (VIDEOS) Expert: “Potential Global Catastrophe” from Fukushima Unit 2 highly radioactive fuel… Reactor could be destroyed, “making Tokyo area uninhabitable”… This is “most dreaded” scenario — Already “partially liquefying” below reactors Expert warns of collapse at Fukushima reactor: “It would be the end of Japan” — AP: Melted fuel has broken pieces of structure in containment vessel (VIDEO)
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Greg Hunter-Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.17.17
Greg Hunter Published on Mar 16, 2017
Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com looks back at the week's top stories on the Weekly News Wrap-Up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi8Pux5X36M
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Evacuation in California after massive cracks appear in the street, driveways and sidewalks in new development in Rancho Santa Fe
By Strange Sounds - Mar 15, 2017
Three homes in a Del Dios development near Lake Hodges were evacuated after after massive cracks appear in the street, driveways and sidewalks. A huge mass of earth is being pulled by gravity down slope. Consequently homes are sinking… And if this ‘landslide’ suddenly cracks a natural gas line, you can asphyxiate and that has already happened! Behind security gates is a newer development called Cielo with magnificent views and million-dollar mansions built on steep hilltops. But the earth beneath at least three of them is starting to shift. According to geologists, what they are experiencing is an arcuate failure or pull away service where this mass of earth is being pulled by gravity down slope. Such slides are home destroyers. They are slow-moving, but still dangerous. If it cracks a natural gas line, you can asphyxiate and that has happened. By most accounts, the cracks showed up just in the last week-and-a-half. These are properties worth millions of dollars, built just in the last 18 months. They are situated on a steep slope high above Lake Hodges. The cause of the sinking has not been identified. So far, just the three properties are showing signs the earth is moving, but neighbors are also feeling a little on edge.
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Secret Service Laptop Stolen With Trump Tower Floor Plans & Info On Clinton Scandal
by Staff Writer 9 · March 17, 2017
On Friday, law enforcement sources told multiple news agencies that a laptop containing floor plans for Trump Tower, information about the Hillary Clinton investigation and other national security information was stolen from a Secret Service Agent’s car. ABC News, CBS News, the NY Daily News and more stated that police sources confirmed that the incident happened on Thursday morning. If you have tips you want American Military News to investigate please email tips@americanmilitarynews.com . Your identity will be protected. Among other items stolen with the laptop were coins and a black bag that had the Secret Service insignia on it. Those were later recovered, but the laptop with “sensitive” material on it has not yet turned up. The Secret Service agent’s car was in the driveway of her home in New York when a thief reportedly stole the items. The NY Daily News reported that the thief “stepped out of a car, possibly an Uber, on a street in Bath Beach and stole the laptop from the agent’s vehicle. Video footage shows the suspect leaving the scene with a backpack. “The agent also told investigators that while nothing about the White House or foreign leaders is stored on the laptop, the information on there could compromise national security,” the NY Daily News reported. The suspect also took “sensitive” documents and the agent’s access keycard. CBS News reported that sources told them that the laptop also contained some important documents pertaining to Pope Francis. “The Secret Service is very heavily involved and, citing national security, there’s very little we have on our side,” a police source told the NY Daily News. “It’s a very big deal.” “There’s data on there that’s highly sensitive,” they added. “They’re scrambling like mad.” ABC News reported that the computer “is encrypted and authorities are able to wipe the hard drive remotely if needed.”
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Massive Chaos And Carnage Averted, This Time, What Happens The Next? War Drums Beating As Turkish Foreign Minister Warns: 'Holy Wars Will Soon Begin In Europe'
March 16, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In this brand new story from Daniel Lang over at SHTFPlan we're shown several 'mind-boggling' photos of 10,000 illegal firearms which were recently seized by Spanish police after a massive weapons operation was busted in Spain. With guns including anti-aircraft guns, machine guns and mortar rounds, this new RT story reports the illegal arsenal was likely meant for sale to criminals and terrorists according to Europol. With the massive 'trojan horse invasion' of Europe by terrorists posing as refugees still ongoing with refugees still pouring in to European nations despite less than 10% of 'planned refugee relocations' having been carried out, more and more signs are emerging that we could soon be witnessing outright war all across Europe after Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated "Holy wars will soon begin in Europe". We hear about this 'threat' in the 1st video below. Warning that 'wars of religion' in Europe will soon begin and that Europe is collapsing, we see that the globalist-backed Islamic attempt to overthrow Europe is being kicked into overdrive. We take a look below at what that might mean for us here in America with Obama-backed judges working dilligently to trample upon President Donald Trump's attempts to keep America and Americans safe from the same fate Europe is now suffering through. As the SHTFPlan story clearly points out, it's very difficult for most people in Europe to acquire guns legally as much of Europe is a 'gun-free zone'. Just imagine the kind of chaos and carnage that could be caused by terrorists who were able to get possession of an arsenal that looks like this. This LOOKS like preparation for war! While chaos and carnage was averted, this time, how many more such operations are being run across Europe or America, meant to supply 'trojan horse terrorists' with weapons capable of taking down airplanes or taking out big chunks of small cities? Having a value of more than 10 million euro on the black market, one Spanish govt spokeperson stated: 'This modus operandi used to purchase weapons is the same as the one used for the attacks carried out in Paris on January 7th, 2015, against employees of the satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo", in which 12 people were killed and another 11 injured, all with recommissioned weapons acquired at the time from a Slovak gunsmith.' As we are told in the 2nd video below, this massive weapons haul would have easily have been enough to either start a small war or carry out a coup. What did they have in mind for it? While we're grateful that authorities were able to bust up that ring, seeing the amount of weapons terrorists might have been able to get their hands on is quite disturbing. Certainly nothing good could ever come of these falling into the wrong hands. Also giving us another reason to back President Trump's immigration plans that keep getting shot down by Obama-appointed judges, (the latest one who has seemingly ruled a Muslim Imam has special Constitutional Rights to bring anyone he wants from terror countries in America), we're a bit concerned that President Trump's new national security advisor appears to share Barack Obama's view on Islam and terror as Raymond Ibrahim reports in this new story. As we reported back on March 5th, something very sinister is going on with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, the 'deep state' and the remainder of the election losers and their continuing attempts to sabotage and bring down President Trump, thus bringing down America as well. As we reminded you then, according to one expert, "Barack Obama switched sides in the war on terror" and we saw that in the US government's support of terrorists in Syria. After taking the Muslim Brotherhood off the terror watchlist, Obama invited them into the White House and if Obama really is 'an agent of Islamic terror' as many have warned, it's easy to see why the war against President Trump and America continues even though Obama is no longer in the White House. And what ever happened to all of the weapons that the govt purchased during the Obama administration for agencies such as the US Postal Service, the FDA, and practically every other government agency large and small? As we recently learned from WND, the DHS is now rationing ammunition to agents in the field. Where in the world have all the bullets gone? Are they being held in some warehouse somewhere in preparation to be used against the American people? Simply knowing that Barack Obama and the globalists are doing everything in their power to sabotage the agenda of President Trump tells us much that we need to know. America could be heading towards very dark days if Obama truly is himself a 'sleeper agent of Islam' and he's allowed to continue the Islamic jihad agenda for America. As we hear in the final video below from a former Muslim, Islam is a political system and according to her, there is no way that you can separate 'radical Islam' from 'spiritual Islam', "they are the same thing" she tells us. In fact, according to this former Muslim, she was also brought up to wage jihad against Christianity and the West. How can Americans possibly coexist peacefully with those who want to destroy us because of our religious beliefs? Between France's 'fatal attraction to Islam' to the Swedish 'welfare state' funding Islamic terrorism to much of Europe being completely overrun by those seeking to impose their will upon the people, not assimilate into the culture, we understand why its ever more important for President Trump's plans to be implemented here, before we're seeing widespread threats of 'holy wars' being carried out in US streets.
http://allnewspipeline.com/War_Drums_Beat_In_Europe_And_America.php
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America’s Final Solution-Only Trump Stands In the Way
By Dave Hodges
The criminal elite are panicked over what the Trump movement has brought to the forefront. Millions of previous unaware Americans are learning how evil is the system of governance that they have been living under truly is and they are angry beyond belief. This has forced the hand of the criminal elite and they are accelerating their timetable of total subjugation. A New Age of Genocide Is Being Unveiled Move over, Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot, there is a new extermination king in town. It is called Agenda 2030. In the Agenda 2030 conference previously held in Paris is being guided by 17 goals which contains targets that will forever alter humanity and change the planet forever. Of particular concern is goal #12, as it is the conduit from which the globalist depopulation agenda will be ushered in. Agenda 2030 Goal #12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Following the planned economic collapse, Agenda 2030 will enforce the most brutal austerity programs ever conceived of, or ever enforced. Just as it was in the Hunger Games movie, all food, water and medicine will be rationed. Inhabitants will be forced to take the Mark of the Best, the dreaded but largely unknown RFID chip. We are already witnessing the birth of a cashless society. Soon, cash will be banned. Automation will bring promises of unlimited food production. The public will be sold on the widespread use of robots to achieve this goal. It will be a ruse. The goal is to replace human workers with robots. The globalists will horde the food in order to help wipe out the ‘useless eaters’ through starvation. Then the population will be forced into a devastating World War III. Subsequently, Ted Turner and the other globalists will be able to achieve their goals of reducing the world’s population to a low of 500,000,000. Predictive Programming of Man’s Demise From the early 1960’s, the TV show, The Twilight Zone predicted the obsolescence of mankind through automation. It is chilling that a TV show from over 5o years ago predicted the time and events that we are now living in. Humans Are the Excess Inventory of the World What do business owners do with their excess inventory? They at first try to get rid of the product by selling at a reduced price and when that fails, they simply destroy the inventory. The latter is the fate that awaits the American people and ultimately the human race. Soon, humanity will no longer be needed because humanity has become the newest form of excess inventory. Over 90% of us will soon be obsolete. Soft Kill Methods Fluoride, aluminum from chemtrails and specific vaccines, artificial sweeteners, dangerous drugs (VIOXX) have constituted some of the passive means of depopulation. Humanity’s very existence is under assault. Why? Because the majority of humans are no longer needed as a species. One of the popular sayings in our society in regard to how many things causes cancer is to dismiss the danger as “everything causes cancer”. And of course, anybody that writes about our toxic environment, dangerous GMO food supply and tainted drinking water is a conspiracy theorist unless they work for the EPA and are preparing to steal your land. As devastating as the soft kill methods that we have been forced to endure are, these methods pale in comparison as to what lies ahead. Take the Globalists At Their Word The words of Henry Kissinger tells humanity what lies ahead. It’s no longer the Third World. Kissinger’s attitude towards all of humanity can be summed as, “We don’t need you anymore”. On this point, Kissinger has a lot of company as depopulation has been the order of the day for quite some time among the globalists. “A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal”. Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine “The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary”. Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER “No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation.” – David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative for the United Nations The above used to be just words, now they form the philosophy of the Fabian Socialists that are running the planet. Through Agenda 2030 and Goal #12, their words are fast becoming reality. Why Humans Are No Longer Needed The bulk of humanity has become expendable. We were good to the elite when they could exploit our labor and enjoy the fruits of humanity’s talents. One-third of jobs now performed by humans will be replaced by software, robots, and smart machines by 2025, according to a prediction by information technology research and advisory firm, Gartner. Some estimate that by 2050, 75% of all jobs will be eliminated by automation. This prediction reflects the evolution of robot capability, said Ryan Calo, a professor at University of Washington School of Law with an expertise in robotics. Robotic abilities are quickly surpassing human ability. Robots do not require food, health benefits nor do they require a minimum wage. The use of robotics in replacing humans will only continue to expand, according to Ray Kurzweil, the director of engineering at Google. Kurzweil anticipates that by 2029 robots will have reached human levels of intelligence and functionality. Many experts predict that these robots will put people out of work and this is exactly what we are finding. Automation has lessened the need for human capital. In short, we have become excess inventory and must be disposed of. For many who cover the misdeeds of the criminal elite, we know at the root of this struggle is the need for the elite to eliminate 90% of all humanity before humanity realizes the true nature of the coming agenda and rises up to oppose this tyranny. In order to accomplish this, the elite need to move from passive soft kill to hard kill methods and they need to do so very quickly. In order to accomplish this agenda, complete political control must be realized. The former beacon of freedom to the world, the United States must be obliterated along with any notion of individual liberties. The Final Solution There will become a bifurcation point where soft kill methods, and diluting the native population through massive immigration will not be enough to ensure total dictatorial control over the planet by the globalists because its methods of replacement are not expeditious enough. That is when soft kill will need to become the Final Solution of hard kill. In history, the pattern is always the same: Step One Perpetrate an economic collapse that will put millions of desperate people on the street. The Ameruica Spring, courtesy of George Soros is coming. Step Two Combine the economic collapse with the creation of a false flag series of events which necessitates the need for martial law and extreme measures of subjugation. It would appear that a mass casualty event is in the works. Step Three Step Five Systematically exterminate the undeCordon people off for their own protection Step Four Exploit whatever free labor can be extracted from this doomed group while they are being protected sirable group as a move to promote national unity against a contrived common enemy (e.g. Christians) Step Six World War III will evolve out of the turmoil as was the case with World War II-Serfdom will re-emerge Step Seven This is when global depopulation will begin in earnest. When the smoke clears and the bulk of humanity has been buried, the New World Order will truly be born. These seven steps are all supported by past history. What makes Americans think that we are immune to established historical precedent? Sometimes it is good to be reminded of who we are fighting and what their Agenda (2030) consists of. MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL DO SOMETHING TO HELP DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS……
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/03/17/americas-final-solution-only-trump-stands-in-the-way/
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As the Day Approaches
By Hal Lindsey
Just over two years ago, the Barna Group polled Americans about the end times. They found that 41 percent agree with the sentence, “The world is currently living in the ‘end times’ as described by prophecies in the Bible.” This is more than a vague awareness that things are off-track; more than an ill-defined sense of looming apocalypse. This is a specific belief that the events of our time match the Bible’s description of the end time. 2 Peter 3:10-13 says, “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, on account of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.” (NASB) Peter asked, “What sort of people ought you to be?” The King James Version translates it, “What manner of persons ought ye to be?” (KJV) Through Peter, the Holy Spirit tells the reader that the things of this world we get hung up on — money, houses, cars and other luxuries — will not last. He’s telling us to take the long view of history. Look at the big picture. See your life in context — not just the context of tomorrow or next week, but of eternity. Peter asked, “Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be?” Those words were hardly on the page when he began giving the answer. “In holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God.” (2 Peter 3:11-12 NASB) Forty-one percent believe we are in the end times as described in the Bible. So why don’t they live “in holy conduct and godliness?” Forty-one percent is not a majority, but it is such a large minority that mainstream advertisers would never want to offend it. The celebration of evil that permeates American entertainment would not hold — at least not in the mainstream. But even Christians can lose the ability to blush. The world is falling into a pit of violent debauchery, and a large percentage of people who believe Jesus is coming soon, are following the world down. We desperately need another Great Awakening in the United States. That doesn’t just mean sinners being saved. An awakening includes reformation and revival. Christians, including the clergy, need to renew their love for God and His word — to love Him more than money, prestige, or comfort. Hebrews gives us a great picture of how to live our lives, and then says that it is especially true for those who live in the end times. “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:23-25 NKJV) Two years ago, 41% of Americans said they could “see the Day approaching.” So why aren’t the 41% holding fast the confession of their hope without wavering? Why aren’t we stirring up love and good works in one another? Why do so many forsake the assembling together of those with like faith? I’ve spent much of my life pointing out just how near we are to “the Day.” It’s heartening that so many Americans now agree with that basic message. I pray that this glorious belief will begin to manifest itself in our attitudes and actions. When that happens, we will see miracles!
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-3-2-2016/
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Analysis: Will the Israel, Syria missile flare-up set a new precedent?
By Yossi Melman March 17, 2017 16:14
The incident showed the explosiveness that is threatening Israeli-Syrian relations, with the presence of Iran and Hezbollah, who are attempting to reach Israel's borders. In the most serious border incident since the start of the Syrian civil war six years ago, Arrow defense system intercepted a Syrian Missile fired at an IAF fighter jet, just after midnight on Thursday night. The incident showed the explosiveness that is threatening Israeli-Syrian relations, with the presence of Iran and Hezbollah, who are attempting to reach Israel's borders. Sponsored by the Syrian military regime under President Bashar Assad, the forces are looking to open a new front in addition to the Lebanese border. Thursday night’s incident was similar to about 15 events that had been reported by foreign media over the past six years. One can estimate that Israel's intelligence gathered accurate information which enabled the IAF to target what is considered "Strategic weapons," or in other words, accurate, long-range missiles. After completing the mission, while on their way back to Israel, Syria’s anti-aircraft missile defense system was activated. However, the fired missile missed the IAF planes. Syria’s response to the IAF’s fire forced the IAF to use it’s own Arrow battery, to shoot down at least one Syrian missile. It would be the first time that the Arrow defense system, which was built to intercept ground-to-ground and ballistic missiles, was successfully used to shoot down an anti-aircraft missile. Israel presumably did not intend to report the attack, wanting to continue with its ambiguous policy of neither confirming nor denying its actions in Syria. Such attacks are usually reported by foreign media and official statements from the Syrian army. This time, however, the IDF spokesperson confirmed the attacks in the early morning hours, a result of the fact that alert systems were activated in the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem area. Residents claimed to have heard and seen the launch. An IDF source told The Jerusalem Post that Israel has no plans to escalate or intensify tension with the Syrian army; however, Israel will continue to operate according it’s red lines, working to stop transfer of weapons, mainly accurate long-range missiles being transferred from Iran, through Syria, to Hezbollah. Syria, Iran and Hezbollah also have no interest in an escalation, especially with Syria's civil war raging on with no end in sight. This issue was a focal point in talks last week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Netanyahu sought to intensify Putin's understanding of Israel's interests in Syria as well as its red lines. Netanyahu stressed that Israel will not allow any attempts by Iran or Hezbollah to send their forces to Israel's border with Syria in the Golan Heights. However, it seems that even though Putin may understand Israel's interests, Russia's influence on Assad and his army is not absolute.
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No offense to the ‘Arrow,’ but greater threats loom from the north
While Friday’s use of surface-to-air missiles by Assad against Israeli jets is worrying, Iranian-built rocket factories in Syria and Lebanon are worse
By Avi Issacharoff and Times of Israel staff March 17, 2017, 2:57 pm
Set aside for one moment the celebrations here regarding the successful interception by the Arrow missile defense system of a Syrian missile early Friday. Israel has no shortage of reasons to be concerned by “the message” involved in Syria’s firing of surface-to-air missiles at Israeli fighter jets overnight. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the increasingly worrying situation taking shape in the north. It would seem that Assad wants to put Israel on notice that he no longer intends to sit idly by while weapons convoys headed from Syria to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon are destroyed by the IDF. According to Arab-language media reports, the target of the Israeli airstrike — which is said to have occurred near the Lebanese town of Baalbek — was a convoy of trucks carrying “strategic weapons,” a term which Israel has previously used to define advanced missiles and chemical weapons. In the past, Assad has rarely responded to reported Israeli air and missile strikes on targets deep within Syria. His apparent growing confidence would appear to come from his recent successes in defeating rebel groups and the Islamic State in the brutal Syrian civil war, thanks largely to massive Russian support. It is unlikely that there was any Russian involvement in firing the missiles at the Israeli jets. Israel works very hard to coordinate with Moscow to ensure no accidental clashes with the superpower in Syria’s crowded skies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a frequent visitor to Moscow, most recently last week where he went to press Russian President Vladimir Putin to try and prevent Israel’s arch-foe Iran from filling the vacuum in Syria left by the nearly vanquished Islamic state. These concerns show that the use of surface-to-air missiles against Israeli fighter planes is only a minor headache for Israel. A much greater problem for the Jewish state lies with a report published earlier this week in the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida that Iran has established rocket factories in Syria and Lebanon capable of producing long-range missiles. According to the al-Jarida report, the missile production facilities are built deep underground and are operated by advisers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as Lebanese experts trained at the Imam Hossein University in Tehran, a key training institution for IRGC personnel. The goal of these factories is said to be to produce highly accurate missiles and rockets capable of striking strategic targets in Israel, and if reports leaking out in the Arab-language media are true, then it is safe to say these factories will not be easily destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. The Iranian missile factories in Syria and Lebanon also correspond with Iran’s desire to establish a naval port in Syria to be leased for 50 years, which would help Iran guarantee its interests in the war-torn nation. All of this points to a trend that we will likely see much more of in 2017: as the Islamic State terror group gets weaker, the influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran expands and gets stronger.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/no-offense-to-the-arrow-but-greater-threats-loom-from-the-north/
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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..
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Homeschoolers under attack by officials conducting unannounced visits
Sunday, March 12, 2017 by: Thomas Dishaw
(Natural News) School officials in Paris, KY are attempting to overstep their boundaries by conducting unannounced visits to homeschooling families. According to the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), these visits are a clear violation of a state-wide agreement that was implemented to protect a family’s constitutional right to privacy. The school officials claim they are only there to help the parents, but part of their plan to help involves demanding information from parents about attendance records and curriculum. They have even asked to meet the children to question them in some instances. One home school parent, Jenny Griffith, who received one of these visits said “I got the impression that district staff could become more difficult if I didn’t cooperate in answering their questions or bring out my child to meet them. I tried to handle the situation as civilly as possible, without adding any threat to them.” The officials also told her that the district intends on visiting every homeschooling family three times a year. After being alerted of these visits, the HSLDA quickly got involved and warned parents of this threat to their fourth amendment rights. On the HSLDA website, they spell out for their members what their rights are and how they should handle the situation. According to Kentucky laws, a homeschool program operates as a private school. While private schools are required to keep attendance and scholarship records (i.e. report cards) in the same manner as the local public school, homeschooling parents do not need to open their homes and present these documents simply because a school official comes knocking TJ Schmidt, a contact attorney for Kentucky through the HSLDA, also said that unless school officials receive some report or have some evidence that the parents are not educating their children, no further inquiry should be made. This agreement, known as the Best Practices Document, has been in place for more than 20 years. Schmidt also assured families that he and Cindy West, a local CHEK representative and veteran homeschooling mom in Bourbon County, have contacted the Paris Independent School District and are objecting to the visits on behalf of the parents. They expect the visits to cease but promise to monitor the situation. (RELATED: Get all the news Google is trying to hide at Censored.news.) This is not the first time that the HSLDA has had to step in when dealing with a Kentucky school district. In 2015 homeschooling families in Gallatin County, KY received a packet from Roxann Booth, the director of pupil personnel, letting them know county officials would visit the home of every homeschool program through the coming school year. The packet also contained forms that requested detailed information not required by state law. When the HSLDA was alerted about this violation Schmidt wrote a letter to Ms. Booth on behalf of the families informing her that the information requested went well beyond what is required under Kentucky law. And because home visits would violate each homeschooling individual’s privacy rights the HSLDA would legally challenge any attempt to carry out these visits. Within two weeks, every homeschooling family received a follow-up letter from Ms. Booth apologizing for the demands for additional information and the challenge to the legitimacy of their homeschool programs. Public schools do not want any challenge to their plans to turn all of our children into politically correct social justice warriors with no ability to think for themselves. As we see from these examples, they know very well where the lines are but are more than willing to cross them until someone is brave enough to stand up and tell them that they refuse to conform.
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Chicago's violent gangs looting freight cars filled with guns
By Matt Finn Published March 09, 2017
The guns – boxes and boxes of them – are part of shipments that are destined for gun companies or gun shops across the country. But as gangsters have caught on to the practice, they are ransacking these trains and stealing weapons that eventually make their way to the city’s blood-soaked streets. "Any time you have individuals who can go in and steal guns from a train, that makes the environment very toxic," said Pastor Cory Brooks, who leads a church around the corner from the freight yard. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said that since 2013, more than 150 firearms have been reported stolen from freight trains. An Associated Press investigation revealed that some were traced to violent crimes and only 16 were recovered. CHICAGO RECORDS 762 HOMICIDES IN 2016, UP 57 PERCENT FROM PREVIOUS YEAR In a city already reeling from one of the most violent crime waves in years, where tens of thousands of firearms are recovered from the streets every year, 150 stolen guns might not seem like a big deal. But one single gun can be linked to at least 14 fatal shootings, according to the ATF. "How in the world are these kids getting these guns? I see them on Facebook. Everybody got guns. They can't go purchase a gun, so where are they getting them from?" said city alderwoman Emma Mitts of the 37th Ward. In one instance, thieves stole more than 100 new Ruger handguns described as "pretty" in comparison to the shoddy, makeshift guns criminals in Chicago’s rough streets often use. Brooks and Mitts both partially blame Norfolk Southern, the rail yard, saying it could easily beef up security to protect the sitting freight on its tracks. They said the company needs to do something before the weapons get in the hands of more dangerous criminals. "We need to be concerned about terrorists who could get into these areas unprotected here and steal things and explosives and really hurt our communities," Brooks said. Norfolk Southern told Fox News that it's fully liable for any stolen property. The company said it takes the issue seriously, working with all law levels of law enforcement and recently increasing security around its tracks. POLITICS OF POLICING MAKING CHICAGO CRIME WAVE WORSE? "While we can’t discuss the specifics of the ongoing investigations, we are taking significant steps to evaluate and adapt our security protocols, prevent criminal trespass and address community concerns," Norfolk Southern spokeswoman Susan Terpay wrote in an email. While working on this story, Fox News noticed a very responsive presence of security near the train yard. "Norfolk Southern’s Chicago-based police department, the largest freight railroad law enforcement force in the city, is increasing patrols of rail yards using uniformed officers in marked cars and K-9 units,” Terpay wrote. “In addition, the department is conducting undercover surveillance investigations." The company is hoping that beefed-up security at the rail yard would appease neighbors trying to keep guns out criminal hands in one of America's deadliest communities. "It only compounds that damage being done to our city,” Brooks said, “and it only hurts the individuals who are trying to live here and have a safe environment."
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White Genocide In South Africa: A Plea For American Christians To Pray
On March 10, 2017 By Geri Ungurean
Recently, a reader of Raptureready.com wrote to Todd Strandberg and copied me about the atrocities happening in his country of South Africa. The writer of the email gave me permission to publish it in this piece: “On the 22nd of April the Christians of all race groups are coming together to pray for our country. God has given Angus Buchan a number of one million people who will be going. For South Africa this is a great number considering that we are 40 million people in the country. Already most places of accommodation have been sold out in the Bloemfontein area. The prayer meeting will be held on a farm outside of Bloemfontein. Our country is in a terrible state with corruption, raping, hi-jacking and the most heinous murdering and torture ever imagined (especially on farms). With the greatest of respect to all Americans due your sufferings and problems, you guy’s have no idea of the utter violence and disrespect of life that goes on in South Africa. The government has no control, and the quietness from them sends a positive message to all evil doers. The “normal” murder rate, as I understand it, is 7 people murdered for every one hundred thousand citizens. In South Africa, it is 130 for every one hundred thousand citizens. Farmers are murdered and tortured in ways you cannot imagine. There are open statements being made that all white people in this country are going to be murdered. Todd, I take a lot of encouragement from the fact that God heard the cries of His people in the USA, and changed things around for you. I ask you now, please could you stand with us in South Africa by asking our USA brothers and sisters in Christ to pray with us and stand in the gap on 22 April that God would change South Africa for His glory.” From newamerican.com South Africa Facing White Genocide, Total Communist Takeover While most of the world refuses to acknowledge what is happening in largely communist-controlled South Africa, the non-profit group Genocide Watch declared last month that preparations for genocidal atrocities against white South African farmers were underway and that the early phases of genocide had possibly already begun. In the long run, Genocide Watch chief Dr. Gregory Stanton explained, powerful communist forces also hope to abolish private-property ownership and crush all potential resistance. According to experts and official figures, at least 3,000 white farmers in South Africa, known as Boers, have been brutally massacred over the last decade. Many more, including children and even infants, have also been raped or tortured so savagely that mere words could not possibly convey the horror. And the problem is growing worse, international human rights monitors and South African exiles say. The South African government, dominated by the communist-backed African National Congress (ANC), has responded to the surging wave of racist murders by denying the phenomenon, implausibly claiming that many of the attacks are simply regular crimes. Despite fierce criticism, authorities also stopped tracking statistics that would provide a more accurate picture of what is truly going on in the so-called “Rainbow Nation.” In many cases, the murders are simply classified as “burglaries” and ignored, so the true murder figures are certainly much higher than officials admit. The police, meanwhile, are often involved in the murders or at least the cover-ups, multiple sources report. A white South African exile living in the United States told The New American that when victims are able to defend themselves or apprehend the would-be perpetrators, many of the perpetrators are found to be affiliated with the ruling ANC or its youth wing. Experts are not buying the government’s cover-up. “The farm murders, we have become convinced, are not accidental,” said Dr. Stanton of Genocide Watch during a fact-finding mission to South Africa last month. It was very clear that the massacres were not common crimes, he added — especially because of the absolute barbarity used against the victims. “We don’t know exactly who is planning them yet, but what we are calling for is an international investigation that will try and determine who is planning these murders.” Indeed, most honest analysts concede that the thousands of brutal killings and tens of thousands of attacks are part of a broader pattern. And according to Dr. Stanton, who was also involved in the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa and has decades of experience examining genocide and communist terror, the trend points toward a troubled future for the nation. “Things of this sort are what I have seen before in other genocides,” he said of the murdered white farmers, pointing to several examples including a victim’s body that was left with an open Bible on top and other murder victims who were tortured, disemboweled, raped, or worse. “This is what has happened in Burundi, it’s what happened in Rwanda. It has happened in many other places in the world.” Speaking in Pretoria at an event organized by the anti-communist Transvaal Agricultural Union, Dr. Stanton also slammed the effort to dehumanize whites in South Africa by portraying them as “settlers.” The label is meant to paint Afrikaner white farmers — descendants of Northern Europeans who arrived centuries ago — as people who do not belong there. It is the same process that happened prior to the infamous genocide against Christian Armenians in Turkey, Stanton explained. The dehumanization phenomenon also occurred against the Jewish people in Germany under the National Socialist (Nazi) regime of mass-murderer Adolf Hitler, well before the Nazi tyrant began implementing his monstrous “final solution.” Unfortunately, South Africa might be next in line, experts believe. “Whenever you have that kind of dehumanization … you have the beginning of that downward spiral into genocide,” Stanton noted, adding that the situation in South Africa had already moved beyond that stage. The next phase before extermination, which began years ago in South Africa, is organizing to actually carry it out. “We are worried that there are organized groups that are in fact doing that planning,” Stanton continued during his speech. “It became clear to us that the [ANC] Youth League was this kind of organization — it was planning this kind of genocidal massacre and also the forced displacement of whites from South Africa.” Genocide Watch raised its alert level for South Africa from stage five to stage six — the eighth and final stage is denial after the fact — when then-ANC Youth League boss Julius Malema began openly singing a racist song aimed at inciting murder against white South African farmers: “Shoot the Boer” and “Kill the Boer.” Described by the anti-genocide group as a “racist Marxist-Leninist,” Malema has also been quoted as saying that “all whites are criminals” and threatening to steal white farmers’ land by force. After the calls to genocide made international headlines, the South African Supreme Court ruled that the song advocating murder of whites was unlawful hate speech. Incredibly, the President of South Africa, ANC’s Jacob Zuma, then began singing it early this year too. Since then, the number of murdered white South African farmers has been growing each month, according to reports. Other senior government officials, meanwhile, have openly called for “war.” “This is the kind of talk that of course is not only pre-genocidal, it also comes before crimes against humanity,” Dr. Stanton said, urging everyone to remember that they are all members of the human race. “Those who would be deniers, and who would try to ignore the warning signs in this country, I think are ignoring the facts.” There is also increasing “polarization,” where the target population — white farmers in this case — and even moderates are portrayed as an “enemy,” Stanton explained about the march to genocide. And that phenomenon is ever-more apparent in South Africa, leading Genocide Watch to classify South Africa as being close to the final stages of genocide in July of this year. The issue of land distribution, which has become one of the key drivers of the downward spiral, is also among the greatest concerns. The white minority in South Africa still owns much of the land despite ANC promises to redistribute it to blacks. But the re-distribution that has occurred — like in neighboring Zimbabwe — has largely resulted in failure. Despite the atrocious track record so far, extremists including elements of the ANC-dominated government are now hoping to expropriate land from white farmers more quickly, with some factions even arguing that it should be done with no compensation at all. And the communist agenda, like virtually everywhere else where forcible land redistribution has been adopted, has even broader goals. “Whatever system of land tenure is adopted in South Africa, the communists — in the long run — have in mind to take away all private property. That should never be forgotten,” Stanton warned, noting that he had lived in communist-run countries before. “Every place you go where communists have taken over, they take away private ownership because private ownership gives people the power — the economic power — to oppose their government. Once you have taken that away, there is no basis on which you can have the economic power to oppose the government.” Meanwhile, the South African government is stepping up efforts to disarm the struggling white farmers, too — stripping them of their final line of defense. As has consistently been the case throughout history, of course, disarmament is always a necessary precursor to totalitarianism and the eventual mass slaughter of target groups. In fact, arms in the hands of citizens are often the final barrier to complete enslavement and even extermination. “The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons,” Genocide Watch noted on its website in an update about South Africa posted last month. “Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.” The exile who spoke with TNA said that many of the guns confiscated from whites by officials have later been found at the gruesome murder scenes of white farmers. Even mere possession of an “unregistered” or “unlicensed” weapon — licenses have become extraordinarily difficult to obtain, if not impossible — can result in jail time. And in South Africa, especially for white farmers, that is a virtual death sentence, with widespread rape and HIV infections being the norm. Dr. Stanton promised the Afrikaners that he would be visiting the U.S. Embassy and bringing the issue to the attention of world leaders. However, he also urged them not to give up their guns and to continue resisting against the communist “ideology” espoused by so many of the political and party leaders that now dominate the nation’s coercive government apparatus. The United Nations defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.” The term also includes actions other than simply wholesale slaughter, though. According to the UN, among the crimes that can constitute genocide are causing serious harm to members of a specific minority group, deliberately inflicting conditions on the minority aimed at bringing about its destruction in whole or in part, seeking to prevent births among the targeted population, and forcibly transferring minority children to others. Activists and exiles argue that many of those conditions have already been met — and any single one can technically constitute genocide if it is part of a systematic attempt to destroy a particular group. Meanwhile, experts say that the government is encouraging the problem, actively discriminating against whites, and in many cases even facilitating the on-going atrocities. Of course, this would not be the first time a similar tragedy has happened in Southern Africa. When Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe seized power in Zimbabwe (formerly known as Rhodesia, once one of the richest countries on the continent), he began a ruthless war against the white population and his political opponents. The country promptly spiraled into chaos and mass starvation under the Mugabe regime when the tyrant “redistributed” the farms and wealth to his cronies, who of course knew nothing about farming. The regime murdered tens of thousands of victims, and estimates suggest that millions have died as a direct result of Mugabe’s Marxist policies. Whites who refused to leave their property during the “redistribution” were often tortured and killed by the regime or its death squads. With Mugabe still in charge, the tragic plight of Zimbabwe continues to worsen today. But the mass-murdering despot is still held in high regard by many senior officials in the ANC. Not all South Africans — especially city dwellers — are convinced that there is an on-going genocide in their country, or even that one may be coming. Indeed, the vast majority of blacks and whites would simply like to live in peace with each other, and there are plenty of other problems facing South Africa at the same time. However, virtually everyone agrees that without solutions, the precarious situation in the “Rainbow Nation” will continue to deteriorate, going from bad to worse. Many activists seeking to draw attention to the issue are calling on European governments and the United States to immediately begin accepting especially vulnerable white refugees from South Africa as a high priority. There are less than five million whites in the country, about 10 percent of the population, down from almost a quarter decades ago. Analysts say that giving them asylum, however, may prove tough politically — partly because it could expose the precious establishment myths of Nelson Mandela and his ANC as being “heroic” so-called “freedom fighters.” Unsurprisingly, the establishment press has barely reported a word about the looming potential calamity. And by the time the world media finally catch on, many analysts worry that it might be too late. – source Brethren, will you join with our brothers and sisters from all over the world to pray for South Africa? The date for the gathering of Christians to meet on a farm in South Africa is April 22, 2017. Right now there are over one million people scheduled to attend. We may not be able to be there physically, but that won’t keep our prayers from reaching the ears of God. Would you please share this article with as many of the brethren as you can? Our Father heard the prayers of Christians in America, and He turned the direction we were heading around. He can do anything because he is God! Please mark your calendars to fast and pray on April 22 for the people of South Africa. MARANATHA
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Assange says leaks show CIA's 'devastating incompetence'
[AFP] Dario THUBURN AFPMarch 9, 2017
Assange says leaks show CIA's 'devastating incompetence'
[AFP] Dario THUBURN AFPMarch 9, 2017
Speaking via streaming video from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been living as a fugitive from justice since 2012, Julian Assange, seen in 2016, waved off criticism of WikiLeaks while blasting the CIA for its poor controls Speaking via streaming video from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been living as a fugitive from justice since 2012, Julian Assange, seen in 2016, waved off criticism of WikiLeaks while blasting the CIA for its poor controls (AFP Photo/BEN STANSALL )
London (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets and said he would work with tech companies to develop fixes for them. "This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place," Assange said. "It is impossible to keep effective control of cyber weapons... If you build them, eventually you will lose them," Assange said. Assange was speaking in a press conference streamed live from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been living as a fugitive from justice since 2012. He said his anti-secrecy website had "a lot more information" about the Central Intelligence Agency's hacking operation but would hold off on publishing it until WikiLeaks had spoken to tech manufacturers. "We have decided to work with them to give them some exclusive access to the additional technical details we have so fixes can be developed and then pushed out. "Once this material is effectively disarmed by us we will publish additional details about what has been occurring," he added. - CIA questions Assange 'integrity' - On Tuesday, WikiLeaks published nearly 9,000 documents it said were part of a huge trove leaked from the CIA, describing it as the largest ever publication of secret intelligence materials. "This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA," it said. In Washington, the CIA, hit hard by the apparent leak of much of its cyber-spying arsenal, defended itself while criticizing the WikiLeaks founder. Assange says leaks show CIA's 'devastating incompetence' [AFP] Dario THUBURN AFPMarch 9, 2017
Speaking via streaming video from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been living as a fugitive from justice since 2012, Julian Assange, seen in 2016, waved off criticism of WikiLeaks while blasting the CIA for its poor controls Speaking via streaming video from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been living as a fugitive from justice since 2012, Julian Assange, seen in 2016, waved off criticism of WikiLeaks while blasting the CIA for its poor controls (AFP Photo/BEN STANSALL )
London (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets and said he would work with tech companies to develop fixes for them. "This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place," Assange said. "It is impossible to keep effective control of cyber weapons... If you build them, eventually you will lose them," Assange said. Assange was speaking in a press conference streamed live from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been living as a fugitive from justice since 2012. He said his anti-secrecy website had "a lot more information" about the Central Intelligence Agency's hacking operation but would hold off on publishing it until WikiLeaks had spoken to tech manufacturers. "We have decided to work with them to give them some exclusive access to the additional technical details we have so fixes can be developed and then pushed out. "Once this material is effectively disarmed by us we will publish additional details about what has been occurring," he added. - CIA questions Assange 'integrity' - On Tuesday, WikiLeaks published nearly 9,000 documents it said were part of a huge trove leaked from the CIA, describing it as the largest ever publication of secret intelligence materials. "This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA," it said. In Washington, the CIA, hit hard by the apparent leak of much of its cyber-spying arsenal, defended itself while criticizing the WikiLeaks founder. For more news videos visit Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android. "As we've said previously, Julian Assange is not exactly a bastion of truth and integrity," said spokeswoman Heather Fritz Horniak. "Despite the efforts of Assange and his ilk, CIA continues to aggressively collect foreign intelligence overseas to protect America from terrorists, hostile nation states and other adversaries." - Assange: CIA was 'careless' - The documents showed that CIA hackers can turn a TV into a listening device, bypass popular encryption apps, and possibly control one's car. Most experts believe the materials to be genuine, and US media said Wednesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is opening a criminal probe into the leak. The investigation could focus on whether the CIA was sloppy in its controls, or, as The Washington Post reported, it could be "a major mole hunt" for a malicious leaker or turncoat inside the agency. WikiLeaks itself said the documents, hacking tools and code came from an archive that had circulated among US government hackers and private contractors. "The CIA has been so careless to produce this material. So do various cyber mafia already The CIA on Wednesday accused the group of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering the fight against terror threats through its leaks. "The American public should be deeply troubled by any WikiLeaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community's ability to protect America against terrorists and other adversaries." "Such disclosures not only jeopardise US personnel and operations, but also equip our adversaries with tools and information to do us harm," Horniak said. While refusing to confirm the authenticity of the documents WikiLeaks published, Horniak stressed that hacking is a normal part of its mission "to be innovative, cutting-edge, and the first line of defence in protecting this country from enemies abroad."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/assange-accuses-cia-devastating-incompetence-over-leaks-155652521.html
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Raising Ramses: Archaeologists lift 3,000-year-old statue of Egyptian Pharaoh considered 'one of the most important discoveries ever' from muddy ditch in Cairo slum
Researchers from Egypt and Germany found the bust of the statue and the lower part of the head
They also found upper part of a life-sized limestone statue of Pharaoh Seti II, Ramses II's grandson
Discovery was made in the working class area of Matariya among unfinished buildings and mud roads
It shows the importance of the city of Heliopolis which was dedicated to worship of Ra - the sun god
By Tim Collins and Julian Robinson for MailOnline and Reuters Published: 05:56 EDT, 13 March 2017 | Updated: 11:57 EDT, 13 March 2017
This is the moment archaeologists lifted a 3,000-year-old statue of an Egyptian Pharaoh considered 'one of the most important discoveries ever' from a muddy ditch. Experts descended on the Souq al-Khamis district of the capital Cairo and used a crane to lift the three-tonne torso of the statue, which is believed to depict revered Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery, hailed by the Antiquities Ministry as one of the most important ever, was made near the ruins of Ramses II's temple in the ancient city of Heliopolis. Researchers from Egypt and Germany say the 26ft statue probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. The first part of the colossus - a large portion of the head - was pulled up Thursday. The Ministry of Antiquities says the statue's parts would be assembled at the Egyptian museum in central Cairo, where they would be pieced together and restored before being moved to the yet-to-open Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids. Ramses the Great was the most powerful and celebrated ruler of ancient Egypt. Known by his successors as the 'Great Ancestor', he led several military expeditions and expanded the Egyptian Empire to stretch from Syria in the east to Nubia in the south. He was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and ruled from 1279 to 1213 BCE. 'Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite,' Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told Reuters on Thursday at the site of the statue's unveiling. 'We found the bust of the statue and the lower part of the head and now we removed the head and we found the crown and the right ear and a fragment of the right eye,' Anani said. Just days ago, archaeologists, officials, local residents, and members of the news media looked on as a massive forklift pulled the statue's head out of the water The joint Egyptian-German expedition, which included the University of Leipzig, also found the upper part of a life-sized limestone statue of Pharaoh Seti II, Ramses II's grandson, which is 80 centimetres long. The discovery was made in the working class area of Matariya, among unfinished buildings and mud roads. Dietrich Raue, head of the expedition's German team, told Reuters that ancient Egyptians believed Heliopolis was the place where the sun god lives, meaning it was off-limits for any royal residences. 'The sun god created the world in Heliopolis, in Matariya. That's what I always tell the people here when they say is there anything important. According to the pharaonic belief, the world was created in Matariya,' Raue said. 'That means everything had to be built here. Statues, temples, obelisks, everything. But ... the king never lived in Matariya, because it was the sun god living here.' The find could be a boon for Egypt's tourism industry, which has suffered many setbacks since the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 but remains a vital source of foreign currency. The number of tourists visiting Egypt slumped to 9.8 million in 2011 from more than 14.7 million in 2010. A bomb attack that brought down a Russian plane carrying 224 people from a Red Sea resort in October 2015 further hit arrivals, which dropped to 1.2 million in the first quarter of 2016 from 2.2 million a year earlier.
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Superstar reporter goes public with Obama's creepy spying on her
Shares bizarre details about hacked computer as she investigated scandals
Published: 3 days ago by Garth Kant
WASHINGTON – The woman who is perhaps the nation’s top investigative journalist is fighting back against Big Brother. Sharyl Attkisson shared with WND a detailed and harrowing description of what it was like to experience a reality straight out of Orwell: The reporter claims she was spied on by the Obama administration while investigating its scandals. What tipped her off? Imagine what it must be like to watch your computer turn itself on and off. “That’s one visible sign I noticed over many months,” Attkisson told WND in an email interview. “At the time, I suspected it was some sort of phishing program seeking my passwords and contacts, and was confident my computer had sufficient protections. I never suspected it was connected to an intrusion of my systems until sources and forensics told me that it was.” She also watched a different computer that she used delete files by itself. After Attkisson released a video showing that as it was happening, Vox’s Max Fisher claimed it was more likely that she had a stuck backspace key. WND asked, as an Emmy-award winning investigative journalist and now the anchor of her own Sunday morning national TV news program, “Full Measure,”did she find Fisher’s claim that she was confused by a keyboard plausible? “It was just a silly attempt by a noted propagandist blog that had no firsthand information to deflect from the surveillance,” she replied dismissively. “The ‘expert’ didn’t even know enough to understand there is no ‘backspace’ key on the computer shown, and — in any event — that holding down such a key cannot duplicate the super fast deletions demonstrated at the beginning of that particular video clip.” What do YOU think? Will President Trump spy on American citizens like Obama did? Sound off now in the WND Poll! The five-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting announced in January she is suing the Justice Department and seeking $35 million in damages for illegally hacking her computers and monitoring her work between 2011 and 2013. Three separate computer forensic exams of her computers revealed what appears to be stunning evidence pointing straight to the Obama administration. “The most important and irrefutable finding is: forensic evidence of a government-owned I.P. (internet protocol) address accessing my computer,” Attkisson told WND. She said she was told that was “better evidence than the U.S. had when it accused China of various acts of hacking into our government, which the government accepts as proven.” Her computers were examined by three independent forensics examiners including: a confidential source, an examiner hired by CBS News, and an examiner hired by her attorney. What they found is just stunning. Attkisson provided an itemized overview of some of their findings, and described what a confidential source and examiner hired by her attorney found:
“A government-owned I.P. address was used to access my computer.”
“We are able to see instances of exact date and time that the intruders entered my computers, and the methods they used to do so.”
“They used commercial, non-attributable software proprietary to the CIA, FBI, NSA or DIA.”
“The malware was constantly running on my computers. It included a feature that logged my keystrokes, accessed all my emails and collected my passwords.”
“Skype was surreptitiously used to listen in on audio.”
“My smartphone was also infected.”
“Three classified documents had been put on my computer.”
“Once sources notified me that I was likely being surveilled, and I discussed this in emails, the intruders took steps to erase evidence of their presence. However, the deletions themselves create a record of evidence.” CBS and its analyst found:
“Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012.”
“Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts.”
“An intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.”
“This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.”
“[Attkisson’s] systems were indeed subject to non-standard interactions between June 2012 and January 2013.”
“Definitive evidence that shows commands were run from Sharyl’s user account that she did not personally authorize.” “This history has been deliberately removed from Sharyl’s hard drive.” The intruders conducted an inordinate number of internal computer clock “time stamp” changes, likely to try to confuse any forensics that might be conducted. Why her? WND asked the former CBS Washington bureau investigative correspondent, did she think the administration considered her a foe? And acted to stop her out of purely political concerns? “I have no idea, the perpetrators would have to answer that question and they certainly aren’t stepping forward,” she replied. “But,” she continued, “my computer intrusions occurred in context of the Obama administration’s crackdown on whistleblowers and a lot of my work deals with whistleblowers.” “Additionally, we know the administration was aggressively trying to control the narrative on a number of stories it saw as damaging, especially as the re-election year of 2012 shaped up.” Attkisson detailed her experience under surveillance in 2014 in her highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington.” Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, records previously obtained by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch indicate Attkisson was targeted by the Obama administration because of critical reporting. In 2014, Judicial Watch said it “obtained an October 4, 2011, email to White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz, Attorney General Eric Holder’s top press aide, (in which) Tracy Schmaler, described Attkisson as ‘out of control.’ “Schmaler added ominously, ‘I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer’ (an apparent reference to CBS’ Chief Washington Correspondent and Face the Nation moderator Bob Scheiffer). Schultz responded, ‘Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG’ (attorney general.)” Given that Obama’s Justice Department had labeled her as “out of control” and tried to get the reporter’s employer to rein her in, WND asked Attkisson: What did she make of an administration that seeks to control reporters? “I expect it,” was the sober response. “But it’s our job to resist it and we aren’t doing a very good job of that as an industry.” (Attkisson described problems endemic in the news media, including the genesis of fake news, in an interview with WND in December previewing her new book titled “The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote,” due to be published on May 22, 2017.) Did she think her experience and that of the Associated Press and Fox News reporter James Rosen (both spied on by the Obama administration) were part of a pattern? “Yes. I was informed about my case prior to us knowing about any of the other cases, just before the Snowden revelations, and prior to former DNI (Director of National Intelligence James) Clapper falsely telling Congress that the government was not collecting data of millions of Americans…but all of these events occurred in the same general time frame.” So, was it the administration that was “out of control?” “You decide!” she replied, echoing a famous news slogan. Investigating the truth about her own story, the award-winning reporter has faced what she called a Catch-22 dilemma. “To find out who accessed my computer, we need the government’s cooperation, but the government isn’t cooperating.” “In my lawsuit, we seek to learn who had access to the I.P. address that was used to infiltrate my computer,” she continued. “To date, the Department of Justice has taken multiple steps to block us from finding this answer.” However, her persistence has revealed some com“Finally, at my request, the DOJ (Department of Justice) Inspector General’s office sent investigators to look at a separate computer, my personal home computer.” Attkisson said that although the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office will not release their notes and records, “and have improperly failed to respond to my Freedom of Information Act request for the information,” their forensics investigators reported to her that they found the following on her personal computer: “Evidence of suspicious deletions of files that could not have been done by me. “Use of my computer in ‘advanced mode’ (which was not done by me).” “‘Someone’ installed software onto my desktop and executed it and overwrote some important logs effectively covering their tracks and erasing much evidence of their actions.” “As with my CBS computer, they found a lot of unusual time and date setting changes on my personal computer as well (15 times in four days).” “They executed data recovery, recovering previously deleted logs.” Attkisson said the forensics examiners working for the Justice Department’s inspector general “told me they believed the intruder(s) were actually working in my house at the computer conducting these acts, rather than conducting them remotely, but, in fact, the acts were conducted remotelypelling results. , as with the work computers referenced above.” “Furthermore,” she continued, “the examiners indicated that prior to their supervisors signing off on their findings, ‘somebody’ narrowed their mission to only reporting on any ‘remote’ intrusions (i.e. not addressing the suspicious forensics they found by someone they believed was actually in my house working at the computer.)” And that’s when the investigation hit a wall. “At this point, as their report was sent to higher-ups for approval, they dialed back their communications with me and would not deliver the promised final report or the notes that went with it.” Attkisson said she filed a FOIA to obtain them but it was ignored. Many months went by. “When Congress pressed the issue, the DOJ IG issued only a summary and emphasized there was no evidence of ‘remote’ intrusion in that computer and left out the suspicious forensics they discovered,” explained the investigative super-sleuth. “To this day, the DOJ IG has failed to properly respond to my FOIA requests seeking the full information and report.” As a result, “Many in the media misreported that this DOJ IG report was somehow conclusive evidence that my computers had not been infiltrated.” “In fact,” she clarified, “the DOJ IG didn’t even examine the primary computers in question — referenced in the other exams above— because CBS would not allow them to look at the computers.” Did she think the problem was specific to the previous administration, or was it due the growth of the surveillance community, its powers and lack of oversight? “I think this is an outgrowth of technology that makes such surveillance possible, politicians and corporate interests who are willing to use it for improper purposes, and a weak and conflicted news media that has done little to stop it.” Finally, WND said it would be remiss if it did not ask the ace reporter if her experience had given her any insight into President Trump’s accusations that his campaign had been spied on by the Obama administration. However, Attkisson said she has not looked at, or reported, on those allegations.
Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/03/superstar-reporter-describes-obamas-creepy-spying-on-her/#Zi53mtOL4baOc7kb.99
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SICKO: California State Sen. Richard Pan caught on video LYING about aborted human fetal cell tissue used in vaccines
Sunday, March 12, 2017 by: Mike Adams
(Natural News) California state senator Richard Pan just can’t stop lying about vaccines. Two years ago, he was caught blatantly lying about mercury in vaccines, attempting to push the blatantly false, anti-science fiction that mercury is somehow safe to inject into children. Now, he’s been caught on video, falsely claiming that aborted human fetal tissue cell lines are not used in vaccines when even the CDC list them prominently in the excipients (ingredients) lists for multiple vaccines (see list below). Both WI-38 and MRC-5 cell lines are derived from aborted human fetal tissue. The WI-38 cell line is widely known to be “derived from lung tissue of an aborted white (caucasian) female fetus,” as even the pro-vaccine Wikipedia website admits. As the Coriell Institute for Medical Research explains about the MRC-5 cell line / WI-38: The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman. The cell morphology is fibroblast-like. The karyotype is 46,XY; normal diploid male. Cumulative population doublings to senescence is 42-48. G6PD isoenzyme is type B. The WI-38 / MRC-5 cell lines are used in all the following vaccines, according to the CDC: (see the CDC.gov document at this link to prove it to yourself) Adenovirus - DTaP/IPV/Hib - Hep A - Hep A / Hep BMMR (MMR-II) - MMRV - Rabies - Varicella (chicken pox) - Zoster
Chicken pox vaccine ingredients include “human embryonic lung cell cultures” and “human diploid cell cultures” The chicken pox (Varicella) vaccine, by the way, is listed by the CDC as having the following excipient ingredients which obviously include fetal tissue cell lines: human embryonic lung cell cultures, guinea pig cell cultures, human diploid cell cultures (WI-38), human diploid cell cultures (MRC-5), sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, sodium chloride, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride, EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid), neomycin, fetal bovine serum
From the CDC document linked above, here’s the relevant section:
Again, see this list for yourself at this CDC.gov link. If the CDC removes it, we’ve saved a copy at this Natural News link. This means that every parent giving their child a chicken pox vaccine is injecting their child with cell lines originally harvested from aborted human fetuses. This is not a debate. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is established, admitted FACT that’s DENIED by vaccine pushers. Isn’t it fascinating how anyone who cites a CDC document and points out that vaccines contain African Green Monkey kidney cells or aborted human fetal tissue cell lines is immediately branded a “conspiracy theorist” even when they are irrefutably, factually correct? That’s the tactic of the lying, dishonest vaccine industry: Fill vaccines with the most grotesque, unclean and disease infested ingredients imaginable, then count on the fact that nobody will believe it when these facts are pointed out. To this day, Richard Pan continues to insist that vaccines contain no harmful mercury and no human fetal tissue cell lines even when the CDC openly admits vaccines are deliberately made with mercury and human fetal tissue cell lines. (See Sen. Richard Pan lying in the video below.) Thus is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a confirmed fact. But it’s a fact that Richard Pan and other medical child molesters refuse to publicly admit to because they know if the truth came out, parents would go berserk over the fact that their children have been injected with abortion harvested human fetal tissue cell lines (and other bizarre ingredients) year after year, all while the vaccine industry has absolute legal immunity from all the damage caused by their defective products. Richard Pan, you are a liar, a medical child abuser and a science denialist As you’ll see in the video below, Richard Pan, whom I’ve dubbed the “mercury joker” villain, blatantly lies about all this, claiming vaccines contain no human fetal tissue cell lines. (He also blatantly lies about mercury in vaccines, but that’s not surprising, given that he’s such a dishonest, despicable human being who seems to take great pleasure in the mass maiming of little children…) H/t to Experimental Vaccines for this video, where Richard Pan is caught blatantly lying by saying: First of all, vaccines are not made from aborted fetal cells. That, unfortunately, is a myth… A couple of the vaccines, Rubella vaccine, there was use of fetal tissue to develop the original Rubella vaccination, but the continuing production of those vaccines do not involve aborted fetal cells. Richard Pan is either medically incompetent or a pathological liar While Richard Pan says vaccines don’t contain aborted fetal cell lines, the CDC says they do. This means Richard Pan is either medically incompetent or a pathological liar. Either way, he is a clear and present danger to the children of California. We already know the answer to this one, by the way: Richard Pan is a pathological liar and a medical child abuse promoter. That’s why he also fled VAXXED documentary cameras when they wanted to ask him a simple question about vaccine ingredients:
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Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he warns against 'hysteria'
Harriet Alexander, New York 13 March 2017 • 12:53am
Hillary Clinton’s team members met with the Russian ambassador during the election as well as Donald Trump’s, the Kremlin spokesman has alleged, as he set out to dismiss the “hysteria” surrounding Mr Trump’s links to Russia. The house intelligence committee will hold its first session on Russia on March 20, with the heads of the FBI, national security agency and CIA expected to appear, plus previous intelligence chiefs. But Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that America was “self-humiliating” in insisting that Russia hacked its election. And he defended the actions of their ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, whose meeting with Michael Flynn, Mr Trump’s choice of national security adviser, caused Mr Flynn to lose his job. He was fired after just 24 days when it became clear that he had lied about meeting the Russian, and misled the vice president. “This is his job,” said Mr Peskov, speaking on CNN’s Sunday morning politics show. “He was talking about bilateral relations, about what is going on in the United States, so we have a better understanding in Moscow. “This is what happens all around the world.” He said that members of Mrs Clinton’s team had also met with Mr Kislyak, although he did not give specifics. “Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind,” he said. “There are lots of specialists in politology, people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.” Mrs Clinton's team is yet to comment on the allegations. But earlier this month Foreign Policy reported that no one from the former secretary of state's campaign met with Mr Kislyak or any other Russian official. The magazine also reported that all the other candidates kept the embassy "at arm's length". And supporters of Mrs Clinton would point out that the problem did not come from meeting the ambassador, but rather failing to disclose it. Mr Peskov said Moscow was upset about the cloud of suspicion. Mr Trump’s administration has been dogged by a continued stream of reports about ties to Russia, which has infuriated the president and energised his opponents. “The fact that Russia is being demonised in that sense comes very strange to us,” said Mr Peskov. “And we are really sorry about that. Because the whole issue takes us away from getting the situation to a better position. “Quite unexpectedly, we were in the position where Russia became, shall we say, a nightmare for the United States. “You are self-humiliating yourself to say that a country can intervene. “America, a huge country – the most powerful country in the world, with very, very stable political traditions – and you say that a country can easily intervene and easily influence your electoral process? This is simply impossible.”
Trump administration | Conflicting views on Russia
Donald Trump, US President
“The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defence – and, if not, the US must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves.”
“If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing really great things?” James Mattis, US Secretary of Defense
“Strengthening our alliances requires […] living up to our treaty obligations. When America gives its work it must mean what it says.” (confirmation hearing)
“There are a decreasing number of areas where we can co-operate, and an increasing number of areas in which we will have to confront Russia. […] The most important thing is that we recognise the reality of what we deal with, with Mr Putin, and we recognise that he is trying to break the North Atlantic Alliance.” Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State
“Russia today poses a danger […] It has invaded Ukraine […] and supported Syrian forces that brutally violate the laws of war. Our NATO allies are right to be alarmed at a resurgent Russia.” (confirmation hearing) Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA
“[Russia] reasserted itself aggressively, invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and doing nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS.” (confirmation hearing)
He insisted that Russia "has never had, and never will have, any intention to intervene in another country’s affairs".
Asked about whether he expected Mr Trump to lift sanctions, Mr Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin would not raise the issue first. There is no date yet for a meeting, but the pair will both be at the G20 Summit in Hamburg in July. Mr Putin, he said, was pleased that Mr Trump defeated Mrs Clinton, but he insisted that Russia did not intervene. “The candidate Hillary Clinton was quite negative – declaring Russia the main evil, the main threat,” he said. “Whom would you like better – the one that says Russia is evil? Or the one that says yes, we disagree, but let’s find points of agreement?” He said his initial contact with Mr Trump was “quite promising”, but Russia was increasingly disappointed with the response from the Trump administration. “We don’t have a proper understanding of the future,” he said. “We certainly would expect our contacts to be more frequent, more in depth, because we had quite a significant pause. “We were losing potential by blaming everything on Earth on each other. “We do worry. Public opinion – if you load with a huge burden of fake news, fake blaming on Russia, repeat every day numerous times that Russia is interfering, guilty of trying to hack, that everything that goes wrong in the country is the fault of Russia. “We want to see this hysteria coming to its logic end. Better sooner than later.”
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It's Time for Congress to Investigate the CIA Hacking Scandal
Written by C. Mitchell Shaw Sunday, 12 March 2017
With WikiLeaks providing hardware and software manufactures with technical details about the hacking tools the CIA developed — and lost — the manufactures are working to plug the holes. While that is happening, there may be the beginnings of a Congressional investigation into the CIA’s hacking activities. Almost as soon as WikiLeaks published a trove of documents and files revealing the size and scope of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber weapons and the fact that the CIA somehow lost control of that arsenal, Representative Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) released a statement saying, “I am deeply disturbed by the allegation that the CIA lost its arsenal of hacking tools.” Lieu, who has a degree in computer science, added: The ramifications could be devastating. I am calling for an immediate congressional investigation. We need to know if the CIA lost control of its hacking tools, who may have those tools, and how do we now protect the privacy of Americans. Since such a congressional investigation would likely be headed by either the House Intelligence committee or the Senate Intelligence committee. Lieu is not alone in his concerns or his willingness to take action. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told the assembled press at a briefing last Tuesday, “These [leaks] appear to be very, very serious." He added, “We are extremely concerned, and we are following it closely." If a congressional investigation had bipartisan support, it could avoid the typical political obstacles that might get in the way. Such an investigation would have the potential to upset the apple-cart of the surveillance state by uncovering wrongdoing within the CIA’s hacking programs. One possibility that the CIA has dismissed is that the agency could be shown to have used its cyber weapons to hack devices belonging to American citizens living in the United States. The CIA recently released a statement saying, in part: It is also important to note that CIA is legally prohibited from conducting electronic surveillance targeting individuals here at home, including our fellow Americans, and CIA does not do so. CIA’s activities are subject to rigorous oversight to ensure that they comply fully with U.S. law and the Constitution. That statement notwithstanding, the reality is that the agency has been accused in the past of hacking the computers and servers of Americans, including those used by a U.S. senator. In March 2014, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) — who was, at the time the Intelligence Committee chairwoman — accused the CIA of searching the computer she used to store files for her committee’s investigation into the CIA torture program operated under President Bush. In her remarks — made on the floor of the Senate — Feinstein said, “I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principle embodied in the United States Constitution.” Later that day, CIA Director John Brennan denied those claims in an appearance at the New World Order oriented Council on Foreign Relations. Brennan said that the CIA “has tried to work as collaboratively as possible with the committee on its report” and that “there have been many things written, and many things said — including, I understand, this morning — about the program, some fact and some pure fiction.” He also told the globalist group, “As far as the allegations of ... CIA hacking into ... Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. I mean we wouldn't do that," adding that doing so would be “beyond ... the scope of reason in terms of what we would do." One need not be a Feinstein fan to imagine that her claims were probably more truthful that Brennan’s denials. After all, a brief perusal of the documents published last week by WikiLeaks shows that the CIA developed methods for hacking computers, mobile devices, and SmartTVs to turn them into surveillance devices to be used against their owners. As this writer said in a previous article: While the CIA claims that it never uses its investigative tools on American citizens in the United States, one is reminded that the agency doesn’t exactly have a stellar reputation for being truthful. Besides, how many terrorist camps in the Middle East have SmartTVs to watch their favorite programs on? The reality is that these tools are designed to penetrate the very types of devices used by ordinary citizens in Western countries. Given the lack of accountability, lack of honesty, and lack of integrity that are par for the course where the CIA is concerned, the statement by the agency that “CIA’s activities are subject to rigorous oversight to ensure that they comply fully with U.S. law and the Constitution” would be laughable if so much weren’t at stake. Concerned Americans should pressure Congress to investigate the CIA’s hacking programs to determine at least the following:
• Were American citizens living in the United States targeted by those programs?
• How did the CIA lose control of its arsenal of hacking weapons?
• Did the CIA even have the authorization to create that arsenal in the first place?
• If so, who granted such authorization?
• What was the cost of developing and using that arsenal?
• Who had access to the documents and files that comprised that arsenal?
In the absence of such an in-depth investigation, the CIA will simply start over, rebuild its arsenal, and continue in its unaccountable ways.
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Trump's Wall Is Already Paid For
By Daniel John Sobieski March 11, 2017
Critics of the border wall proposed by President Trump have said the cost is prohibitive under current budget and economic conditions, that no way is Mexico going to pay for it, and, and shifting funds away from the TSA, Coast GuMA are counterproductive in terms of national security. These criticisms ignore the costs to the U.S. in terms other than money -- increased crime, overtaxed law enforcement, the drain on public resources such as education, medical care, etc., and the driving down of real wages through an endless supply of cheap labor. In fact, thanks in large part to the mere threat of the wall, the sudden enforcement of existing law, and the stripping of funding from sanctuary cities by President Trump, illegal immigration has plummeted by 40 percent in February, a trend that if continued will reduce the costs and burdens of illegal immigration to the point that the benefits of enhanced border security, including the wall, will be more than paid for. As the New York Post noted: The number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico declined by 40 percent from January to February, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Wednesday. The downturn came after President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 vowing to deport many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States… He said the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, which compiled the data, historically sees a 10 percent to 20 percent increase in apprehensions of illegal immigrants from January to February… “Since the administration’s implementation of Executive Orders to enforce immigration laws, apprehensions and inadmissible activity is trending toward the lowest monthly total in at least the last five years,” Kelly said. President Trump has shown that border security is not that hard. It merely requires willpower and resolve that puts the impact of illegal immigration on America and its citizens above the impact on the political fortunes of pandering politicians. Now comes a study from the Center for Immigration Studies showing that this ongoing reduction in illegal immigration will reduce related costs to the point the wall is paid for: President Donald Trump’s border wall only needs to stop about 10 percent of illegal crossing in order to pay for itself, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies. The estimated $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall would quickly be offset by the savings to the government if fewer illegal immigrants arrive in the country over the next decade, CIS found. Only a small portion of the population of people who are expected to attempt an illegal crossing in the next decade -- between 9 and 12 percent -- would have to be stopped for the wall to totally pay for itself. The analysis from CIS, a group that advocates for moderating immigration levels, relies on fiscal estimates from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) for the average cost to taxpayers of illegal immigrants. NAS estimates one illegal immigrant costs state and local governments approximately $75,000 in a lifetime, taking into account taxes paid and the cost of providing benefits such as education and health care. Critics say the costs of illegal immigration fall largely on state and local governments and it is a federal government burdened with debt that has to write the checks. But the costs in either case are born by the American taxpayer and the American worker. Ask Kate Steinle’s father what the true costs of illegal immigration are and who pays for them. Trump was able to begin immediate construction of the border wall and opening up bidding for contracts thanks to a 2006 measure signed into law by President George W. Bush and supported by Democrats including then-senators Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton. Democrats are already grumbling about Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, though Barack Obama and other leaders in their party voted not so long ago for George W. Bush’s proposal to build a major wall on the border with Mexico. Bush signed the proposal into law in 2006, after it was passed by huge bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate. The law ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to construct about 700 miles of fencing along the southern border, and authorized the addition of lights and cameras and sensors to enhance security. The law explicitly required the wall to be constructed of “at least two layers of reinforced fencing.” Two-thirds of the Republican-led House approved the bill, including 64 Democrats, and 80 of 100 senators approved the bill in the Senate. Then Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton were among the 26 Democrats who approved the bill. Supporters also included Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is set to take over leadership of the Senate for Democrats in 2016. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 required the construction of 700 miles of new border fence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. “The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide for at least two layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors…” the act said. It was to be modeled on the success of the border barriers in the San Diego sector of the U.S. border. The operative word was “secure.” Instead of this two-layer secure fence what has been built consists of flimsy pedestrian fencing or vehicle fencing consisting of posts people can slither through. The two-tier fence in San Diego runs 14 miles along the border with Tijuana, Mexico. The first layer is a high steel fence, with an inner high anti-climb fence with a no-man’s land in between. It has been amazingly effective. According to a 2005 report by the Congressional Research Service, illegal alien apprehensions in the San Diego sector dropped from 202,000 in 1992 to 9,000 in 2004. Cameras and sensors played a part but the emphasis was on physical barriers and roads that were patrolled by real live border guards, not by robots. Then in 2006 the Democrats took back Congress and, in 2008, the White House. They saw in unrestricted immigration a means to fundamentally transform the demographics of America and its political landscape. A wave of what some called “undocumented Democrats” would be allowed to flood across the border as ICE was told not to enforce the law. Former border state governor Janet Napolitano, who became DHS secretary, reportedly once said: “You show me a 50-foot fence and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border,” The rest, as they say, is history. But the consequences of unrestricted illegal immigration soon became too big to ignore and with a candidate willing to touch the new third rail of American politics, border security, a political movement chanting “build the wall” swept Trump into power. The San Diego fence worked. So will Trump’s wall. Build the Wall.
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Christians Worldwide Proclaim Jerusalem the "Undivided Capital of Jewish State"
Abra Forman : Mar 10, 2017 : Breaking Israel News
(Israel) — [Breaking Israel News] On Tuesday, Christians for Israel International presented a “Jerusalem Declaration” to President Reuven Rivlin at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. (Photo Credit: Commons Wikimedia) The Declaration states that Christians acknowledge that the city of Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people as part of God’s covenant promise and expresses unconditional support for the governance of the undivided city as the capital of the Jewish State of Israel. In the coming months, this Declaration will be brought to the attention of churches and Christian organizations worldwide. The delegation consisted of the organization’s International Board and regional and national directors from Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania/Pacific, USA and Brazil. The President thanked the organization for its enduring support in helping Jewish immigrants back to the State of Israel. On Wednesday, the European Coalition for Israel officially launched an open letter in support of a united Jerusalem, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in June 1967. Click here to read more.
http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=20769
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Man Saves Scraps for Decades to Raise $400K for Children’s Home
by McKinley Corbley - Mar 12, 2017
Johnny Jennings has been saving every penny and scrap of paper so he can help abused and abandoned children – and since he started his endeavor in 1985, he’s raised over $400,000. The 86-year-old earns money by collecting paper, cardboard, and cans for recycling. Over the course of the last 32 years, Jennings has saved 79,000 trees by reselling 9 million pounds of paper. He has also collected $20,000 in pennies, which is equal to about 24 miles of the copper coins. Every dollar that the senior collects, he donates to the Georgia Baptist Home for Children near Ringgold, Georgia. The facility cares for hundreds of children that have been rescued from abusive houses or trafficking rings within the state. MORE: 91-Year-old Has Knit 8,000 Hats For Homeless While in Hospice Care Jennings became devoted to the home after he visited the establishment as an 18-year-old. Touched by its sweet, young residents, he decided to try and dedicate the rest of his life to making sure they would have the financial assistance necessary to prosper. Even though Jennings has suffered two strokes in the last month, he has never failed to make his paper runs around town and deliver the materials to the Chattanooga Recycle Center. “He is the last of a dying breed,” says Shay Drennan-Love, an acquaintance of Jennings. “Our generation and the ones to follow could learn a lot from Mr. Jennings.”
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-saves-scraps-decades-raise-400k-childrens-home/
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Tue Mar 14, 2017 | 7:48 AM EDT
Exclusive: Japan plans to send largest warship to South China Sea, sources say
By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo | TOKYO
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two. China claims almost all the disputed waters and its growing military presence has fueled concern in Japan and the West, with the United States holding regular air and naval patrols to ensure freedom of navigation. The Izumo helicopter carrier, commissioned only two years ago, will make stops in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka before joining the Malabar joint naval exercise with Indian and U.S. naval vessels in the Indian Ocean in July. It will return to Japan in August, the sources said. "The aim is to test the capability of the Izumo by sending it out on an extended mission," said one of the sources who have knowledge of the plan. "It will train with the U.S. Navy in the South China Sea," he added, asking not to be identified because he is not authorized to talk to the media. A spokesman for Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force declined to comment. Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei also claim parts of the sea which has rich fishing grounds, oil and gas deposits and through which around $5 trillion of global sea-borne trade passes each year. Japan does not have any claim to the waters, but has a separate maritime dispute with China in the East China Sea. Japan wants to invite Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has pushed ties with China in recent months as he has criticized the old alliance with the United States, to visit the Izumo when it visits Subic Bay, about 100 km (62 miles) west of Manila, another of the sources said. Asked during a news conference about his view on the warship visit, Duterte said, without elaborating, "I have invited all of them." He added: "It is international passage, the South China Sea is not our territory, but it is part of our entitlement." On whether he would visit the warship at Subic Bay, Duterte said: "If I have time." Japan's flag-flying operation comes as the United States under President Donald Trump appears to be taking a tougher line with China. Washington has criticized China's construction of man-made islands and a build-up of military facilities that it worries could be used to restrict free movement. Beijing in January said it had "irrefutable" sovereignty over the disputed islands after the White House vowed to defend "international territories". The 249 meter-long (816.93 ft) Izumo is as large as Japan's World War Two-era carriers and can operate up to nine helicopters. It resembles the amphibious assault carriers used by U.S. Marines, but lacks their well deck for launching landing craft and other vessels. Japan in recent years, particularly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been stretching the limits of its post-war, pacifist constitution. It has designated the Izumo as a destroyer because the constitution forbids the acquisition of offensive weapons. The vessel, nonetheless, allows Japan to project military power well beyond its territory. Based in Yokosuka, near to Tokyo, which is also home to the U.S. Seventh Fleet's carrier, the Ronald Reagan, the Izumo's primary mission is anti-submarine warfare. (Additional reporting by Martin Petty in Manila; Editing by Nick Macfie)
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN16K0UP
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US Redeploys Armored Battalion from Korean DMZ to South of Seoul, Outside of Most DPRK Artillery Range
Post by Navarro » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:39 pm
"2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment moved their personnel and equipment from Camp Casey in Area 1 to Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The multi-day move, which started on Feb. 21 and ended March 10, has seen the battalion relocate its armored vehicle systems via railcar while the rest of their wheeled vehicle fleet moved by way of convoy from Casey to Humphreys ... The bilateral agreement, which was signed in October 2014, aims to consolidate U.S. Forces Korea to two enduring hubs south of Seoul in order to enhance readiness, deterrence and defense posture on the peninsula ... commitment to security and deterrence ... USFK units first began moving in July 2016 and the moves will continue until all affected organizations have relocated ... will keep the 210th Field Artillery Brigade in Area 1"
http://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Ar ... humphreys/
They reason that that the unit will be out of range of most DPRK artillery fire, should war breakout. The movement might then seem reasonable, but the function of US forces at the DMZ is to deter aggression, not to ever actually "fight tonight," as is the motto of US Forces Korea. This would then imply that USFK no longer sees deterrence as its priority, and is instead primarily concerned with surviving a DPRK attack. Perhaps USFK anticipates a US strike against DPRK, and are consequently redeploying to safer positions in order to survive any DPRK retaliatory artillery and missile barrage. DPRK would undoubtedly in fact retaliate, and the DMZ would be very predictably saturated with shells, rockets and missiles in the opening moments of DPRK's response.
http://www.defconwarningsystem.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8848&p=71289#p71289
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Departure North Korea, destination Hawaii
The linchpin of America’s Western defense remains vulnerable to attack
By Todd Tiahrt - - Sunday, March 12, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Hidden in the Hawaiian Island experience of aloha, sandy beaches and volcanic mountains is the linchpin of America’s Western defense. Prior to World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii was seen as the geographical sweet spot of the Pacific, key to protecting shipping lanes and much of the world’s economy. After the fateful sneak attack on Dec. 7, 1941 it became even clearer; Hawaii was a paramount defense location for America’s security our enemies were intent on taking out. Today this vibrant vacation destination for many travelers is home to more than 10 military facilities, including United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). Roughly translated in Hawaiian these facilities comprise the “mua liana o ka pale” or “first line of defense” for America’s western flank. Yet they remain vulnerable to some of the most serious threats. From what used to be a remote military hospital, USPACOM watches over half the world’s surface and 36 culturally, economically and geopolitically diverse nations. These countries comprise more than 50 percent of the world’s population, two of the three biggest economies, 9 of the 10 largest ports and the world’s busiest sea lanes. This area is also a heavily militarized region underscored by recent North Korean missile tests. Protecting this defense focal point from all threats must be a priority. With Pacific Command’s assets of hundreds of ships, more than a thousand aircraft, and nearly 380,000 military and civilian personnel the defense of this vacation spot should not be an issue. Yet, with all of these resources Hawaii still remains vulnerable to attack from a backward third world country, North Korea. Hidden from Western eyes and ears a problem festers and no country seems willing to treat the inflamed boil. The unpredictable Kim Jong-un continues to pursue a lethal combination of nuclear capabilities and long-range missiles. According to The New York Times, President Obama warned President Trump as he left office that North Korea would be “the most urgent problem” he would face. Certainly, the problem isn’t even close to going away; more likely, it will only become more inflamed.
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Swedish Welfare State Funding Islamic Terrorism
by Chris Tomlinson 12 Mar 2017
A new damning report shows that multiple Islamist fighters who have travelled from Sweden to fight in Syria and Iraq have been the beneficiaries of welfare payments from the Swedish government. The new report created by the by the National Defence University on behalf of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) shows that around 300 Islamists have claimed benefits by using others to give the government the impression that they are still in Sweden despite the fact that they are in Syria or Iraq fighting for jihadist groups, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports. Terrorist researcher and one of the authors of the report Magnus Ranstorp said the problem isn’t just limited to Sweden. Commenting on the results, he said: “it was not surprising, we have seen the same pattern in other countries. Most surprising was that almost all had it in some form. But it is the monitoring that needs to work better. The problem is that there is too little follow-up.” The 300 individuals covered in the report traveled from Sweden to the Middle East between 2013 and 2016, and are thought to have participated in fighting for groups including the terrorist Islamic State. Housing allowances, child support, student loans, maintenance and parental benefits are the most common types of benefits earned by the Islamists, often collected by a third party with the money then sent to them overseas. ” It’s not big money, they do not get rich on it, but it can go a long way in a conflict zone,” Ranstorp said. Police say that student loans, in particular, are an issue because the fighters can game the system by pretending to be going overseas to study and receive large lump sums from the Swedish government. Swedish Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education and Training Anna Ekström said the problem was “totally unacceptable. No state funds will be used for something that is in the vicinity of terrorism. We must take hold of this immediately. We are preparing now to go to the parliament and ensure that the government gets the opportunity to ensure that we do not pay out such large sums at once.” Sweden has seen at least one case in which the government paid a jihadi before. Late last year, Muslim convert Michael Skråmo was revealed to have been paid £4,300 by the government since leaving for the Middle East in 2014. The Swedish government has also essentially legalised the flying of the Islamic State flag after a Swedish court refused to prosecute a man who displayed the symbol on his social media account as a promotion of the terrorist group. In 2015 it was shown that the Swedish city of Gothenburg sent more Islamists to the Middle East per capita than any other city in Europe. Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson@breitbart.com
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/12/swedish-welfare-state-funding-islamic-terrorism/
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Homeland Security rationing ammo to agents in field
1 of several federal law-enforcement agencies 'reaching critical stage'
Published: 2 days ago
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it possesses a “limited amount” of 9mm bullets for agents in the field as well as for training purposes, and it is rationing its ammunition based on internal requests until it can award a new contract. It is one of several federal law-enforcement agencies that say they are reaching a “critical stage”: Their 9mm ammunition is being depleted and tens of thousands of service handguns are approaching the end of their life-cycle, too. The apparent role poor planning, or another agenda, played in the issue came to light when ICE said it would have run out of 9mm ammo by June 2017 in the absence of a modified contract with its supplier, Vista Outdoor Inc. So, the agency last month approved a $363,307 ceiling increase to contract No. HSCEMS-11-D-00002. The ICE Office of Firearms and Technical Programs, or OFTP, then ordered more ammunition in March, according to a Justification and Approval, or J&A, document that WND located through routine database research. But if it were not for the J&A’s sloppy redactions – the contract ceiling-extension cost, for example, was partly covered by what appeared to be faded black-marker ink, as were references to annual ammunition purchases under the original contract – the public would remain further in the dark about this questionable acquisition process. The biblical mandate for armed self-defense – especially in church! Get “Shooting Back” today! And if it had not been for this partially readable document – which was approved by Lowell Johnson, OFTP Supervisory Engineer-Ballistics Laboratory – taxpayers would have remained unaware that no record exists to prove that this procurement was ever opened to competition in the first place. An exhaustive search of the database – which included multiple keyword and archive-record searches – produced zero results for solicitations or calls for bids that should have preceded ICE’s awarding of a contract for 9mm bullets in September 2011. Though unrelated to the ammunition acquisition, the agency during the same month it awarded the $4.9 million ammunition contract did not fail, however, to post information about a Media Monitoring Services award worth $25,000 that it gave to a vendor named TV Eyes. This pattern of unexplainable – indeed, unjustifiable – redactions and omissions reflects a nearly DHS-wide pattern of secrecy that WND recently uncovered specific to no-bid, non-competitive contracts. DHS’s failure to adequately answer questions about that pattern – and its failure thus far to respond to WND’s follow-up inquiry – once again raise this question: What is DHS hiding? 9mm electronic trail What remains particularly unclear is why ICE failed to prepare for this purported ammunition depletion sooner than it did. According to the partial record, the agency as early as Sept. 29, 2011 – the start of the original base-year contract – knew it would be legally obligated to open the process once again to competition within five years. But the supposed depletion of its 9mm ammunition stores nonetheless arrived, even though – before that initial year ended – the agency identified a need for more 9mm ammunition and swiftly approved a J&A to raise the contract ceiling. The recent admission of a shortage: etc.
It vaguely attributed the necessity of that increase to “unforeseen changes in policy,” offering no details about which changes to which policies had taken place. ICE subsequently exercised all four option years through Sept. 28, 2016, each year purchasing 2,950 additional cases of Speer 9mm Luger +P (124 grain jacketed hollow-point) duty ammunition. Prior to the end of this five-year period of performance, or POP, the agency exercised an “Option to Extend Services,” stretching the POP from Sept. 28, 2016, to March 29, 2017, via contract amendment No. P00012. ICE then bought another 1,475 cases of the ammunition. Last month, a separate J&A was approved to raise the cost ceiling once again. Despite its long-term anticipation of the contract’s end date – and in spite of the agency’s repeated extensions and cost-ceiling expansions – the agency now emphatically claims competitive bidding, at this time, is out of the question. Engaging in such an open competition would prevent ICE, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, and the Federal Protective Service, or FPS, from complying with firearms-proficiency requirements and from performing their law enforcement duties, the J&A said. (A service agreement enables FPS – which provides armed security to various federal buildings and facilities – and CBP to buy ammunition through the ICE procurement process.) Despite the recent redaction of the initial and overall contract’s cost, the agency in 2012 had already uploaded notification of what it labeled as a contract award for nearly $4.9 million. However, in light of that document sharing an identical amendment number (P00002) with the latest J&A document, the notice clearly was mislabeled as an award notice rather than as a J&A. Though ICE apparently launched the 9mm ammunition procurement in 2011, a gap remains in the digital trail that otherwise would have shown when and how the process began. The missing and redacted documents, therefore, keep this process away from the reach of full public access and potential scrutiny. DHS: New questions In light of this incomplete record, WND posed the following questions via email to the DHS press office: 1) If these assessments by the agencies are accurate, why has DHS allowed this situation with firearms and ammunition to reach such a “critical stage”? 2) Is the mission of these agencies being thwarted because of weapons and ammunition issues? 3) Specific to solicitation No. 192112NFU0000345 in the ICE contract award, there is no available evidence that this procurement was ever subject to competitive bidding before the first contract was awarded in 2011; if this acquisition was not made through the competitive bidding process, why not? What is the justification? If this was simply a matter of failing to upload the solicitation, call for bids, or request for quotations to FedBizOpps, please provide me with the relevant document, which currently is not available through FBO. Next steps ICE has since deemed Vista Outdoors as a qualified vendor in the continue provision of these supplies to OFTP. The agency said in the J&A that Vista has a demonstrated record of performing its duties “at a satisfactory level” as the company currently ships 9mm ammunition worldwide to various DHS component locations. In the meantime, however, “there is an insufficient volume available on hand (both in the field and with OFTP),” ICE claimed in the J&A, acknowledging that ICE facilities are required to have, at a minimum, a quarter year of ammo in their vaults. ICE cannot substitute weapons and ammunition by using other caliber handguns in its arsenal. Indeed, the agency additionally justified the continued no-bid contract and ceiling increase by noting it has “insufficient .40 caliber handguns available to replace the 9mm handguns that are currently in service, so that is not a viable option.” Though ICE may not have enough of other handguns available to substitute 9mm firearms in the event the agency runs out of that ammunition, the agency apparently does not – and likely will not – face such a shortage of .40 caliber bullets. The Winchester division of Olin Corp. has begun providing – according to ICE’s own estimates – up to 50 million rounds of .40 caliber training ammunition. Even though the agency awarded Winchester a contract with a value “not to exceed $50 million,” ICE in the Sept. 11, 2014, contract award explicitly pointed out that the “estimated total procurement will be 50,000,000 rounds per year for a total of 250,000,000 rounds.” ICE and OFTP said in the recent J&A that they are conducting market research and already have contacted ammunition providers in anticipation of issuing another call for bids for 9mm ammunition. They expect to award an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract in FY 2017. Old guns CBP separately is scrambling to replace “52,000 handguns currently in service,” the majority which “are nearing the end of the expected life span for a handgun,” the agency said in a recently updated Request for Information, or RFI, via Solicitation no. 20094778. CBP’s Law Enforcement Safety and Compliance Directorate, however, “has no available contract to replace or replenish these aging handguns.” The agency said it recently began performing market research in order to formulate the best approach to acquiring new weapons. This assessment of “potential handgun technologies and production capacity of U.S. handgun manufacturers” has been taking place since Jan. 31, which it established as the deadline for responses to the official RFI, initially released in December. Though CBP made clear it would not award contracts as a result of the RFI, the agency estimated that eventually it could purchase 30,000 to 70,000 handguns, including service weapons as well as non-firing training models and “virtual simulator” guns. In addition to contacting DHS for a statement, WND also contacted the National Border Patrol Council, or NBPC, to elicit comment on whether the age of the handguns – and the absence of a contract to replace them – was an impediment to agents carrying out their duties. A call to Shawn Moran, NBPC vice president-media relations, thus far has gone unreturned.
Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/03/homeland-security-rationing-ammo-to-agents-in-field/#p1gM5Rm9QkFd06KH.99
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Winter storm Stella to hit 50 MILLION people across the Northeast: Residents are warned to expect travel chaos, power outages and up to TWO FEET of snow on Monday night and into Tuesday
Winter Storm Stella is headed to the Northeast with possible blizzard conditions starting on Monday
Forecasters on Sunday put the US East Coast from New York City to Boston on blizzard watch
Winter storm watch was in effect across the Northeast in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England
About 50 million people came under winter storm or blizzard watches as of Sunday evening
The blizzard could bring the season's biggest snowstorm with up to 24 inches in New York City
Thousands of flight cancellations expected at JFK, Newark Liberty, La Guardia and Logan International airports
By Clemence Michallon For Dailymail.com and Reuters and Associated Press Published: 15:11 EDT, 12 March 2017 | Updated: 06:12 EDT, 13 March 2017
About 50 million people found themselves under blizzard or winter storm warnings on Sunday as the Northeast braced itself for winter's last hurrah. Winter Storm Stella is expected to sweep the New York region starting Monday with possible blizzard conditions. It could bring the season's biggest snowstorm and dump up to 24 inches across parts of New York and New Jersey. New Yorkers began stocking up on groceries, salt and emergency supplies as they prepared for a snow day inside. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard watch Sunday for coastal regions including New York City and surrounding areas of Long Island, Westchester County and Connecticut. A winter storm watch was in effect for a larger area of the Northeast: New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN THE WINTER STORM HITS Air travel Air travel will be disrupted, with more than 1,500 flights grounded ahead of the storm. Airlines had already canceled more than 725 flights on Monday and 815 more for Tuesday due to the upcoming severe weather, USA Today reported. More cancellations were expected, with Southwest planning to stop almost all of its Northeast flights Tuesday. Other airlines were considering similar moves. Major US airlines will allow ticketed travelers affected by the storm to change their flights without an additional fee. Public transportation A meteorologist predicted travel chaos in the New York area once the storm begins. 'Traveling on Tuesday is going to be a no go, to be honest with you,' meteorologist Tom Kines told the New York Post. 'All travel, by land or air, is going to be a problem. If you have a choice of staying home on Tuesday, I would chose to stay home.' WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN THE WINTER STORM HITS Air travel Air travel will be disrupted, with more than 1,500 flights grounded ahead of the storm. Airlines had already canceled more than 725 flights on Monday and 815 more for Tuesday due to the upcoming severe weather, USA Today reported. More cancellations were expected, with Southwest planning to stop almost all of its Northeast flights Tuesday. Other airlines were considering similar moves. Major US airlines will allow ticketed travelers affected by the storm to change their flights without an additional fee. Public transportation A meteorologist predicted travel chaos in the New York area once the storm begins. 'Traveling on Tuesday is going to be a no go, to be honest with you,' meteorologist Tom Kines told the New York Post. 'All travel, by land or air, is going to be a problem. If you have a choice of staying home on Tuesday, I would chose to stay home.' The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was installing hundreds of pieces of snow equipment at the three New York area airports, including snow melters that can liquefy up to 500 tons of snow per hours and plows that can clear snow at 40 mph. Thousands of tons of salt and sand were prepared for airport roads, parking lots, bridges and tunnels. The New York City Department of Sanitation is taking similar action and also notifying additional workers to supplement staff if needed. Once the nor'easter hits, motorists in New York state can call 511 or access www.511ny.org to check on road conditions and transit information. Road closures New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned commuters against road closures, delays and cancellations. 'I encourage all New Yorkers in affected regions to plan ahead, and avoid any unnecessary travel as the storm progresses,' he said in a statement. Trains Amtrak, which operates the Northeast corridor, hadn't announced any delays as of the early hours of Monday morning. Travelers can check https://twitter.com/amtraknec for updates. School closures No school closures had been announced officially in New York City as of Sunday night, although they were deemed likely on Tuesday and possibly Wednesday, WTOP wrote. New Jersey schools also seemed likely to be affected as some of them have experienced closures or delayed opening due to snow in recent days. Forecasters warned of the potential for 12 to 18 inches of snow and wind blasts in some areas from Monday night into Wednesday as they put the US East Coast from New York City to Boston on a blizzard watch. Up to two feet of snow could fall in the New York area. New York City issued a snow alert for Monday night, preparing its fleet of snow plows. The first snow is expected in the city late Monday or just after midnight Tuesday, with up to 4 inches falling by dawn. Heavy snow the rest of the day could pile 10 to 14 inches more of white stuff, with sustained winds of about 30 mph and wind gusts of up to 50 mph. 'This would certainly be the biggest snowstorm of the 2017 winter season in New York City,' said Faye Barthold, a weather service meteorologist based on Long Island. New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo announced preparations for the so-called Nor'easter storm, activating the state Emergency Operations Center as of Monday night while also directing state agencies to be on heightened alert. 'I encourage all New Yorkers in affected regions to plan ahead, and avoid any unnecessary travel as the storm progresses,' Cuomo said in a statement, adding that commuters should expect road closures, delays and cancellations.
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March 12, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
Earlier this month, Jordan, the second most water-poor country in the world, ordered more rainfall through cloud-seeding to help alleviate water shortages. Jordan’s cloud-seeding experiment followed after Russia, which last year ordered the rain to fall earlier in order to guarantee a dry day for parades and celebrations. Around the same time as Russia was manipulating its weather, California’s Tahoe Basin, desperate for extra snow for the coming ski season, ordered, well, more snow. From Pacific Standard Magazine In the new story over at Foot's Forecast out of State College, Pennsylvania they warn that 'something wicked this way comes' to parts of the mid-Atlantic through New England as a late winter blizzard takes aim at nearly 50 million people. Expected to strike all of the major population hubs along the East coast from Washington DC to Baltimore to Philadelphia and up to New York city and Boston, a winter that has brought little to no snow to our nation's capitol in Washington DC is expected to pack a wallop there over the next several days, beginning late Monday night. As Wikipedia reports, the 'Northeast megalopolis' was home to more than 49 million people back in the year 2000 and is expected to grow to more than 58 million by 2025. With 17% of the US population on less than 2% of the nation's land area, the Northeast megalopolis preparing to be pummeled by Winter Storm Stella is the very definition of high population density with 931.3 people per square mile compared to a national average of 80.5 per square mile As the map seen above shows us, the Washington DC - Baltimore region is quite literally 'in the bullseye', expected to receive at least 2.0" total liquid projection - an amount that could bring 12 to 18" or more to much of the Maryland suburbs and even more up into New York and New England. Knowing that an inch of snow often brings the DC area to a standstill, what might up to or more than 18" do? Expect that the stores there will be cleaned out by Monday afternoon. Expected to bring along with it blizzard force winds, this massive storm is just the latest bizarre weather hitting much of the US this Winter with some of the same areas basking in temperatures of nearly 70 degrees only a week ago. And as we learn below, every day we're getting more and more indications that 'weather modification' or 'weather warfare' may be playing a major roll in the bizarre weather that we have been getting across America lately. Are large parts of America including Washington DC and the East coast now under a weather warfare attack? And might China somehow be involved? This September of 2016 story from Pravda is called "China Ready To Launch Weather Warfare?" within which they report China was only a stones throw away. As we see by looking over at the Tropical Tidbits GFS numerical model prediction website, the massive storm coming this week may be followed by another snowstorm to the mid-Atlantic and parts of New England by next weekend. For snow lovers upset that the snow never arrived this year, the month of March may bring their panacea. You can see next weekend's forecast for Sunday March 19th in the screenshot from Tropical Tidbits above. We've previously reported several times about the bizarre weather all across America during the winter of 2016/2017 while sharing the evidence with you that we may be witnessing full-scale weather modification or 'weather warfare', and while the mainstream media as a whole will call weather modification 'fake news', every day we get more proof that people across the world are awakening to what Steve Quayle warned us of years ago. The March 1st story from Fox News Tech reports that in the future, drones could be used for cloud seeding to make it rain and scientists in Nevada are now testing the technology. This Fox News report alone should silence anyone still calling weather modification 'fake news' or 'tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theory'. From Nevada: Drones are used for aerial photography, surveillance, news coverage, and rescue operations. Now a group of scientists and researchers are figuring out if drones can make it rain. The science is called cloud seeding, and it is being tested in Nevada at an FAA site, four hours north of Las Vegas. Seeding clouds involves releasing flares of silver iodide from a plane's wing to generate more ice particles in a cloud. This aims to help a cloud’s ability to produce and enhance precipitation. The weather conditions need to be right for this to take place--cloud cover and even the presence of storms are optimal. The process has been around for decades and usually involves a piloted aircraft flying into a storm. Now, The Nevada Institute of Autonomous Systems in conjunction with the Desert Research Institute has conducted tests with unmanned drones. They hope to have drones conduct cloud seeding flights in the future. The Governor of Nevada's office has helped fund the project. The recent story over at Futurism called "China's New 'Weather-Controlling Tech' Could Make It Rain On Demand" and it confirms this earlier report on ANP that China is controlling the weather and can make it rain. As we reported back on January 25th of 2017, China's recent announcement that they will make it rain over an area twice the size of France was bombshell, official confirmation that the 'conspiracy theorists' were right all along. We reported then: Warned of by Steve Quayle many years ago in his book "Weather Wars & Un-Natural Disasters", those who've ridiculed should be eating crow now. With China announcing they will make it rain over an area twice the size of France, proving to the world once and for all that weather modification does indeed exist, we remind you that Quayle warned of this long ago, stating: “Technology will make available, to the leaders of the major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised… Techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.” In this new story from The Daily Journal of Fergus Falls, Minnesota the author courageously asks if propaganda is behind the mainstream media. Our author asks us to read the Fargo Forum for the first week of December 2016 and a story that reports upon a pilot who recently died and his plane owned by a company called "Weather Modification Inc." "Who is paying, who authorized and what purpose or results are companies like this having on climate change? Why is the mainstream media not questioning? Maybe propaganda?" our author asks, questions we'll never see the MSM address. And great questions according to this recent story from The Pacific Standard which asks "Geoengineering: A Dangerous Tool or Climate Control of the Future?" Reporting that earlier in the month of February, the nation of Jordan ORDERED MORE RAINFALL via cloud seeding technology, they also report that California recently 'ordered more snow' as well to help their ski season. And what recently happened to California? Is there anybody still out there who doesn't believe that 'man can modify the weather'? If so, these next three paragraphs from the Pacific Standard story may leave you stupified if they don't 'awaken you'.: Earlier this month, Jordan, the second most water-poor country in the world, ordered more rainfall through cloud-seeding to help alleviate water shortages. Jordan’s cloud-seeding experiment followed after Russia, which last year ordered the rain to fall earlier in order to guarantee a dry day for parades and celebrations. Around the same time as Russia was manipulating its weather, California’s Tahoe Basin, desperate for extra snow for the coming ski season, ordered, well, more snow. Cloud-seeding geoengineering, in use for more than 75 years to produce rain and snow, is a technological approach to manipulate the weather and climate. In the process of cloud-seeding or weather modification, silver iodide, potassium iodide, or solid carbon dioxide is shot into clouds by rockets, sprayed into clouds by drones or aircraft, or burned in generators atop mountains. Once inside the cloud, the chemicals freeze to create ice crystals, which turn to rain or snow that falls to the ground. In the United States, cloud-seeding has been used for drought relief, snowfall, and rainfall across the western portion of the country. In 2015, cloud-seeding reportedly produced a 34 percent increase in the length of rainfall in Texas. These artificial rain storms allegedly covered 42 percent more land area, and the rain output was 137 percent more and produced 120,885 acre-feet of rain at a cost of less than $11 per acre-foot. In the first video below, Dane Wigington from the Geoengineering Watch gives us his latest geoengineering global alert in his March 11th of 2017 update. Warning us of the dangers of secrecy in a free and open society, why has the mainstream media failed us so by calling weather modification 'conspiracy theory' for so many decades? In the 2nd video below we get a time lapse video of the bread in a New Jersey supermarket being wiped out in these hours before the storm hits. And with Stella preparing to slam the East coast, putting 50 million in the line of fire, in the final video below we hear Pastor Paul Begley breaking down for us this beast now bearing down upon the East coast. For those who still don't believe in weather modification, even after all of the proof we've been getting lately, please check out this website which will happily sell you weather modification equipment from China.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes.php
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Extreme winds wreak havoc in Newfoundland and Labrador
Posted by TW on March 13, 2017
Hurricane-force winds wreaked havoc in the Canadian most easterly province of Newfoundland and Labrador on Saturday, March 11, 2017, downing power lines, damaging homes and tipping over cars. It was the fiercest storm the province has seen in more than 10 years, officials said. The storm produced wind speeds of up to 180 km/h (112 mph) at its peak, causing significant power outages and damage to property. The authorities urged drivers to avoid all non-emergency travel and to clear off the roads while emergency crews deal with the damage. Environment Canada meteorologist Wanda Batten said peak wind speeds in some areas broke records previously held by hurricane Igor in 2010. "It was the strongest storm we've seen in more than a decade," she said Saturday. "It blew through three-quarters of the island." The extreme winds on the back of the low brought extensive damage to much of eastern Newfoundland,” the government said. “Reports of damage include: power outages, tipped over trucks and trailers, siding and shingles ripped from buildings. In extreme cases, sheds, roofs, and the top floor to some houses were blown away.” Powerful winds grounded flights at St. John's International Airport, wreaking havoc on travel plans as the airport measured winds of up to 158 km/h (98 mph), the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Ferry crossings in the region were also canceled and several roads closed due to white-out conditions. In a statement released Sunday night, March 12, authorities at St. John’s International Airport said that the airport has sustained significant damage to its facilities. An electrical component in the Airport’s Terminal Electrical room was damaged, resulting in no electrical feed entering the Terminal Building. "The Terminal Building is presently operating under backup emergency power provided by two emergency generators as well as reduced normal power. The Airport Authority is reviewing all options to have heat and key operational systems restored as soon as possible," it said. At the height of the storm, some 70 000 customers were without power, Newfoundland Power said. No serious injuries have been reported.
https://watchers.news/2017/03/13/extreme-winds-newfoundland-and-labrador-canada-march-11-2017/
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Breaking "Iran Fires A Naval Missile" Just Now
Paul Begley Published on Mar 9, 2017
The world has lost its mind as military activity is starting to break out across the globe http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com
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KOREA SUICIDE Donald Trump set to send B-52 NUCLEAR BOMBERS to South Korea after North fires missiles at Japan and US warns of ‘overwhelming’ response
Secretary of Defence James Mattis said the US "remains steadfast in its commitment" to the defence of its allies
By Jon Lockett 9th March 2017, 1:10 pm Updated: 10th March 2017, 11:04 am
DONALD Trump is reportedly planning to send nuclear bombers to the Korean peninsula as tensions in the region reach breaking point. North Korea and the US have been teetering on the brink of war for months after Kim Jong-un carried out a series of controversial missile launches. Earlier this week, trigger-happy Kim pushed his luck once more when he fired off four ballistic missiles into the seas near Japan. Now US military chiefs are reportedly planning to fly in B-1 and B-52 bombers – built to carry nuclear bombs – to show America has had enough, according to the Korea Times. South Korea and the US have also started their annual Foal Eagle military exercise sending a strong warning to North Korea over its actions. A military official said 300,000 South Korean troops and 15,000 US personnel are taking part in the operation. Secretary of Defence James Mattis said the US “remains steadfast in its commitment” to the defence of the South, according to Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt Jeff Davis. Capt David said: “He further emphasised that any attack on the United States or its allies will be defeated and any use of nuclear weapons will be met with a response that is effective and overwhelming.” Washington is reportedly expected to deploy a series of strategic assets from the US as well as from military bases in Guam and Japan, reports the Daily Mail. The USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class supercarrier, will join the Foal Eagle exercise after departing from San Diego. The nuke-powered aircraft carrier will carry dozens of fighter jets, early warning aircraft and anti-sub craft. It will be accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) and two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers. From the US Marine Corps in Japan, F-35B stealth fighters will be deployed to the peninsula for the first time. "An F-35B is capable of evading anti-aircraft radar and making preemptive strikes," a military official said. North Korea repeatedly protests that both Foal Eagle and Key Resolve are rehearsals for invasion. Pyongyang's Korea Central News Agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stressed "a need for preparation for a fight". He listed guidelines to strike South Korea and the US "mercilessly".
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Trump Busts 1,500 Pedophiles — Media Keeps Silent
News: US News, Commentary by Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th. • ChurchMilitant.com • March 8, 2017
"It's not talked about enough. ... And we're going to talk about it" The mainstream media (MSM) has kept silent as President Donald Trump in his first two months of office has overseen the arrests of more than 1,500 pedophiles, almost four times more than the 400 pedophiles arrested under President Obama in all of 2014. Recent arrest reports show that more than 1,500 sexual predators were busted for their involvement in child sex-trafficking rings in the United States since January 20, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. A joint report by the Department of Justice and FBI reveals that for the entire year 2014, President Obama oversaw only 400 similar arrests. Many people are taking note of these facts and asking why a so-called "objective" MSM is so selective in its reporting policies. It's no coincidence that child sex-trafficking rings are under such attack by the Trump administration. On October 8, 2012, Trump tweeted, "Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts. Too many incidents — fast trial, death penalty." [ Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts.] Tweet
At a press conference on human trafficking in the White House on February 23, Trump laid down the law: "I want to make it clear today that my administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of human trafficking. ... A lot of you have been dealing with the federal government and it's been much more focused over the last four weeks — I can tell you that." "It's not talked about enough," he continued. "And we're going to talk about it, and we're going to bring it out into the open and hopefully we're going to do a great deal to help prevent some of the horrific — really horrific — crimes that are taking place." The MSM refuses to report on President Trump's war on pedophiles and on child sex-trafficking rings in spite of the recent avalanche of arrests which include the following:
Jan. 27: 42 arrested in a human trafficking operation in Tennessee
Jan. 29: 474 arrested in California (28 sexually-exploited children were rescued)
Jan. 18 to Feb 5: 108 arrested in Illinois sex-trafficking sting
Jan. up until Super Bowl Sunday: 178 arrested in Texas sex-trafficking sting
Jan: 16 arrested in Michigan for sex trafficking during the Detroit Auto Show
Feb: 11 arrested in Virginia child-sex sting
Feb. 14: 42 arrested in Florida child pornography related cases
The supposedly "unbiased" MSM has no qualms about quickly reporting on every sex abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church. The liberal media's ever-changing morality towards the grave evils of pederasty and pedophilia, however, has caused some journalists to question whether their tears are real or fake.
http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500-pedophiles-media-keeps-silent
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Obama DOJ Failed to Stop Mexican Cartel Murder of ICE Agent with Smuggled Guns
MARCH 07, 2017
The Obama administration had numerous opportunities to arrest Mexican drug and weapons traffickers before murdering a federal U.S. agent and seriously wounding his partner but opted for the hands-off approach, a new federal audit reveals. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which operates under the Department of Justice (DOJ), should have stopped the traffickers—members of the Los Zetas organization—long before the Immigration and Customs (ICE) agents were ambushed in Mexico with firearms smuggled south of the border thanks to a once-secret Obama administration gun-running operation. Instead, on February 15, 2011, ICE agents Victor Avila and Jaime Zapata were assaulted while returning to Mexico City from Matehuala, Mexico in their government-issued armored sports utility vehicle. Both agents were on assignment in Mexico and their SUV displayed diplomatic license plates. After passing through a toll booth on Mexican Route 57 in the early afternoon the agents noticed that two vehicles were following them, one of which passed and blocked the agents’ SUV from the front, forcing it to stop. Approximately eight assailants approached the SUV armed with various firearms, including assault weapons (AK-47s and AR-1Ss) and handguns. Two of the assailants gained access to the interior of the SUV through a partially open window and shot Zapata and Avila. Zapata died and Avila was seriously wounded. Authorities determined that members of the renowned drug trafficking organization Los Zetas carried out the attack with weapons that had been purchased in Texas as part of a scandalous Obama administration operation that that allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. The whole thing blew up when federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona. In this case the buyers, Otilio Osorio and his brother, Ranferi Osorio, had long been on the ATF radar for trafficking guns to Mexico. In fact, more than a year before the ICE agents were attacked the ATF witnessed the Osorio brothers “complete a transfer of 40 firearms” to Mexico, according to a report issued this month by the DOJ Inspector General. “There clearly was probable cause to arrest both Osorio brothers,” the report states after ATF witnessed the Osorios complete a transfer of more than three dozen firearms on November 9, 2010. Even when ATF agents found guns that they were legally entitled to seize at the Osorio brothers’ house in Lancaster, Texas they didn’t. Two of those weapons were later found at crime scenes in Mexico, the DOJ watchdog writes in its report. “Overall we found numerous problems with ATF’s assimilation of information concerning the Osorio brothers…and the timeliness of ATF’s response to mounting evidence that they were committing firearms offenses,” the report states. “We determined the ATF’s Dallas Field Division had collected sufficient facts to investigate further before Otilio Osorio purchased the gun used in the Mexico ambush.” The report identifies firearms that are most popular among Mexican drug cartels; “These include powerful long arms with high capacity ammunition clips. Examples are the Barrett .SO caliber rifle, AK-47 type rifles, and AR-1S type rifles. The firearms purchased by Otilio Osorio and Riendfliesh both were variants of the AK-47 (a Draco 7.62 caliber pistol and a WASR-10 7.62 caliber semi-automatic rifle).” Judicial Watch was a leader in investigating the Obama administration’s illegal Mexican gun-running operation and filed several lawsuits in federal court to uncover details. Known as Fast and Furious, the scandalous secret program was masterminded by the DOJ and implemented by the ATF under the leadership of Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. The weapons have been implicated in hundreds of crimes in both Mexico and the U.S., the records show. They also document how high-level officials of the Obama administration covered up the scandal and that the former president abused his office by asserting executive privilege to keep Fast and Furious records from going public. Obama even exerted executive privilege for Holder’s wife and mother to conceal emails with the then Attorney General involving the operation.
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Assange Says Wikileaks Will Share Details Of CIA Hacking Tools With Tech Companies
by Staff Writer 9 · Published March 9, 2017
On Thursday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that tech companies will be given access to more detailed information about the CIA hacking techniques so that they can “develop fixes” before Wikileaks continues to publish the confidential information. On Tuesday, Wikileaks released thousands of confidential CIA documents which detail techniques that the agency uses to spy on citizens through personal technology. Televisions, smartphones, and Internet-connected devices are all subjected to being hacked by the CIA to listen, track and spy on their owners. If you have tips you want American Military News to investigate please email tips@americanmilitarynews.com. Your identity will be protected. “Wikileaks has a lot more information on what has been going on with the cyberweapons program,” Assange said. “And so, I want to announce today that after considering what we think is the best way to proceed and hearing these calls from some of the manufacturers, we have decided to work with them to give them some exclusive access to the additional technical details we have so that fixes can be developed and pushed out so people can be secured.” “Once this material is effectively disarmed by us by removing critical components, we will publish additional details about what has been occuring,” he continued.
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Former NSA Whistleblower: "Trump Is Absolutely Right, Everything Was Being Monitored"
by Tyler Durden Mar 8, 2017 5:13 AM
Legendary NSA whistleblower William Binney (and creator of NSA's global surveillance system) confirmed to Fox News, that President Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was wiretapped and monitored... he was. As we noted previously, Binney is the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons”). Binney is the real McCoy. Binney resigned from NSA shortly after the U.S. approach to intelligence changed following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He "became a whistleblower after discovering that elements of a data-monitoring program he had helped develop -- nicknamed ThinThread -- were being used to spy on Americans," PBS reported. On Monday he came to the defense of the president, whose allegations on social media over the weekend that outgoing President Barack Obama tapped his phones during the 2016 campaign have rankled Washington. "I think the president is absolutely right. His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill Binney, a 36-year veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned in protest from the organization in 2001, told Fox Business on Monday. Everyone's conversations are being monitored and stored, Binney said. Binney also told Sean Hannity's radio show earlier Monday, "I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant." The judges on the FISA court are "not even concerned, nor are they involved in any way with the Executive Order 12333 collection," Binney said during the radio interview. "That's all done outside of the courts. And outside of the Congress." Binney also told Fox the laws that fall under the FISA court's jurisdiction are "simply out there for show" and "trying to show that the government is following the law, and being looked at and overseen by the Senate and House intelligence committees and the courts." "That's not the main collection program for NSA," Binney said. What Binney did not delve into, however, was if Obama directed surveillance on Trump for political purposes during the campaign, a core accusation of Trump's. But Binney did say events such as publication of details of private calls between President Trump and the Australian prime minister, as well as with the Mexican president, are evidence the intelligence community is playing hardball with the White House. "I think that's what happened here," Binney told Fox. "The evidence of the conversation of the president of the U.S., President Trump, and the [prime minister] of Australia and the president of Mexico. Releasing those conversations. Those are conversations that are picked up by the FAIRVIEW program, primarily, by NSA." Since Binney designed the NSA's electronic surveillance system, he would know.
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The most shocking revelation from the CIA spying scandal
March 8, 2017 by Simon Black
It happened again– another spying scandal in the Land of the Free. Yesterday Wikileaks released 8,761 CIA documents detailing the agency’s hacking of smart phones, routers, computers, and even televisions. These files reveal that the CIA can and has hacked devices that were supposedly secure– iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. The documents further reveal that the CIA is deliberately infecting personal computers with spyware, including Windows, Mac OS/X, Solaris, Linux, and other operating systems. They’re also hacking WiFi routers to deploy software that monitors Internet activity, and have even figured out how to bypass anti-virus software so that their spyware cannot be detected. They’ve also managed to make the rest of the world believe that Russian hackers, not the CIA, are behind all this malware and spyware. It’s like a restatement of that old Mission: Impossible line– “Should any of your IM force be caught or killed… we’ll blame Russia.” The CIA is pretty shameless about its activities, nicknaming its various hacking programs “Assassin”, “Medusa”, and “Brutal Kangaroo”. One of the deepest revelations is that the agency is able to hack Internet-connected televisions, including Samsung smart TVs, through a program called “Weeping Angel”. Basically the CIA can turn your TV into a listening device, recording conversations in the room and transmitting the audio to a CIA server. Even if you think the TV is off, it’s not. CIA hackers have been able to spoof the on/off display and set the television to a “false off” mode. Bottom line, no device that’s connected to the outside world is truly safe. And future Wikileaks publications may show that the intelligence community is hacking home automation devices, Internet-connected automobiles (including driverless vehicles), and artificial intelligence like Amazon’s Alexa. It’s hard to be shocked at this point that the government is spying on its own allies and citizens. This is just the latest in a pattern of brazen surveillance and flagrant Constitutional violations on the part of the US intelligence community. But that’s precisely what I find MOST concerning– the LACK of concern over these new CIA documents.
https://thedailycoin.org/2017/03/08/shocking-revelation-cia-spying-scandal/
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Prosecute Obama and his 'shadow government'
Exclusive: Erik Rush urges Trump to ignore tradition of leaving ex-presidents alone
Published: 2 days ago
There once was a convention among American presidents wherein chief executives refrained from disparaging their predecessors, even if there was known enmity between them; this pertained to immediate predecessors in particular. This sort of criticism was considered gauche, if nothing else, and it just wasn’t done. That convention was retired the moment Barack Hussein Obama took office in 2009. The first few years of his dismal excuse for a presidency consisted of innumerable instances of Obama deflecting every challenge, cynical query, or deficiency on his part with blame for the administration of George W. Bush. Obama’s “socialist mop” comment of October 2009 was one of his more notable complaints in this area. Historically, former American presidents also refrained from establishing political infrastructures dedicated to sabotaging their successors and illicitly maintaining power. Last week, President Donald Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 election season. Whether or not this actually occurred, it is certainly in keeping with the sort of machinations we’ve seen on the part of the Obama cabal. During the 2016 campaign season, we saw operatives from both the Obama camp and Hillary Clinton’s campaign engage in all manner of disruptive activities aimed at delegitimizing Donald Trump, including tactics mirroring those used by German fascists and communists in the 1930s. In recent weeks, a “shadow government” consisting of Obama surrogates who have worked to the detriment of the Trump administration has come to dominate discussions in alternative media venues. In a sense, it has been almost amusing to hear Democratic lawmakers and prominent liberals flood press venues over the last month with calls for Trump’s impeachment and cries against totalitarianism considering their lack of concern for the abject criminality, serial treason and war crimes committed by the president they sustained for eight years. In context however, their histrionics and those of the establishment press in its support of this propaganda ought not be a complete surprise given the manifest evil of the players involved and the fact that progressives have been at this game for 100 years. Yet the stark contrast between the hard-nosed businessman who played fair and won and those pampered socialist elites who caused the damage the businessman received a mandate to fix remains. There once was another convention among American presidents wherein chief executives refrained from prosecuting the actions taken by their predecessors whilst in office, whether minor misfeasance or suspected high crimes and misdemeanors. Arguably, there have been outgoing administrations worthy of having their actions and policies scrutinized and perhaps even criminally prosecuted, but between the arduous work involved, the appearance of pettiness and the specter of all outgoing administrations potentially facing the intense legal inquiry of incoming administrations, it’s something that just wasn’t done. Perhaps it is time for the Trump administration to re-evaluate this convention. If the aforementioned criminality, treason and other crimes committed by the Obama administration aren’t enough, one could argue that the direct orchestrated hostilities against the Trump administration – for which there are prosecutable statutes – is more than sufficient justification for a strong response, if not outright retaliation. In getting to the bottom of this unfortunate wiretapping issue as well as the program of contrived hostilities against his administration, President Trump might appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into these as well as other activities in which Obama, his surrogates and support organizations were engaged since he took office in 2009. Such an individual would certainly have his hands full for the balance of Trump’s presidency, particularly if his mandate was to investigate issues like the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s associated contempt of Congress charge; the trillion-dollar stimulus scam and money laundering to the benefit of unions, far-left and Islamist organizations; the militarization of government agencies (such as the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative nonprofits at the same time Obama’s own terrorist-connected brother had his nonprofit application personally fast-tracked for approval by none other than IRS official Lois Lerner); the unconstitutional aspects of Obamacare and the shady political machinations attendant to passing the health-care law; the harassment of and domestic spying on journalists and private citizens (for which there is documented evidence); the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound at Benghazi, Libya, for which the Obama administration spun a wholly fictitious cover-up when evidence suggested that the entire event may have been either orchestrated or sanctioned by the Obama White House; clandestine U.S. involvement in the civil war in Ukraine; U.S. involvement in the rise of the terrorist group ISIS and the facilitation of Islamist aggression in the Middle East theater; NSA spying on American citizens and our allies; the VA scandal; the super-shady Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment; the GSA scandal; taxpayer billions gifted to Solyndra and other green energy failures; and finally, the issue of Barack Obama’s identity and eligibility to serve as president, and measures that were taken to obscure related facts from the American people. Yes, I know that this would be unprecedented, as well as opening that nasty can of worms called Attempting to Destroy the Legacy of America’s Historic First Black President, but I think that Trump is tough enough and clever enough to pull it off. Given his administrative character to date, I believe the ensuing revelations of the scope of Obama’s crimes would provide sufficient justification to the American people for pursuing this course of action. Media wishing to interview Erik Rush, please contact media@wnd.com.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/prosecute-obama-and-his-shadow-government/#HWlPxD2vyjD7R8xj.99
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New identified faultline in California could create monster earthquake two new scientific studies say
By Strange Sounds - Mar 9, 2017
The stress is building up along the San Andreas and a large earthquake is inevitable.
Two new scientific publications corroborate this apocalyptical scenario: (1) Discovery of a newly identified fault line that could unleash a magnitude-7.4 earthquake in the region, (2) South California is already long overdue for a ‘Big One’ along the infamous San Andreas fault. The concerns are detailed in separate studies that put the quake risks of the USA’s most populous state into much sharper focus. The newly identified fault line is capable of a powerful quake that would impact 20 million residents of Los Angeles and San Diego, according to a study published Tuesday. The fault runs underwater from San Diego Bay to Seal Beach in Orange County and on land through the Los Angeles basin. In the meantime, areas north of Los Angeles may be long overdue for a ‘Big One’ along a portion of the San Andreas fault, according to a second study. Over the past 1,200 years, large earthquakes occurred there about every 100 years. Newly identified fault In the first study, the newly identified fault line is mostly offshore but never more than four miles from the San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles County coast. Even a high magnitude-5 to a low magnitude-6 quake can still have a major impact on those regions, which are some of the most densely populated in California. The fault, officially known as the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault zone, caused a 6.4-magnitude quake in Long Beach, Calif. that killed 115 people in 1933. About 3 million people lived in the entire Los Angeles metro area at that time. Today, that number is 13 million. The Newport-Inglewood and Rose Canyon faults were considered separate system, but the study found they are actually one continuous fault system. The last ‘Big One’ From the second study we learn that the last ‘Big One’ in southern California was a magnitude-7.7 to 7.9 in 1857 and thus that a major earthquake is way overdue on a 100 mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault from the Antelope Valley to the Tejon Pass and beyond. At that time, the population of the entire state of California was less than 100,000 people. Today, it’s 37 million. The land on each side of that portion of the San Andreas fault has been crushing together at a rate of over 1 inch per year since 1857. This is causing accumulating energy that will be released in a major earthquake, when the land along the fault would move by many feet.
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/ Cory Doctorow / 3:29 am Tue Mar 7, 2017
40% of households in Philadelphia can't pay their water bill
America is in the midst of an "invisible water crisis" as the post-war water infrastructure reaches the end of its duty-cycle and cash-strapped public utilities struggle to find the money to rebuild it. In cities like Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, and Detroit, families increasingly find themselves in water debt, and in Detroit, 50,000 households have had their running water cut off because of delinquency. The estimated bill for upgrading the end-of-lifed American urban water infrastructure is $1 trillion. Cities that have tried privatization as a means of pushing the bill onto investors have been shocked by the bills: in Atlanta, the private water provider charges $325.52 a month, which only qualifies as "affordable" if your household income tops $87K. For people already living in poverty — 40 percent of the population in Detroit — any increase in a water cost will strain a family’s finances, said Randy Block, director of the Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network. He and others in the faith community are trying to raise money to help needy residents pay for water. He thinks water should be recognized as a human right in Michigan just as the United Nations General Assembly defined it in 2010. He likened the city shutting off water for delinquent customers to a war on poverty, and he believes similar skirmishes will play out across the country as income inequality grows. “Detroit is the canary in a coal mine,” Block said. Mark Fancher, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, said unaffordable water has been a “pretty massive problem” in Detroit for 10–15 years. The practical result of shut-offs, he said, is residents relocating. While there are hardship extensions for residents who have fallen behind on their bills but are also suffering from a serious medical condition, according to Fancher, the system could be a lot better: Residents often don’t know about it, or their applications are denied. Other times, they might receive bills for water they didn’t use or not get the bills at all, he said. “The argument has been made that an affordability plan for the city of Detroit would be a really helpful thing for the struggling utility,” Fancher said. “Because even though people who take advantage of it may not be paying full market rate for water, they’ll be paying more than nothing, which will at least bring in some significant amount of money that right now they’re not getting at all.”
America’s Hidden Water Affordability Crisis [Ciara O’Rourke/Naked Capitalism]
http://boingboing.net/2017/03/07/invisible-water-crisis.html
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Artificial Humans Could Soon Be Grown In Labs After Clone Breakthrough
March 7, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
Artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the lab, after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells. Cambridge University mixed two kinds of mouse stem cells and placed them on a 3D scaffold. After four days of growth in a tank of chemicals designed to mimic conditions inside the womb, the cells formed the structure of a living mouse embryo. The breakthrough has been described as a ‘masterpiece’ in bioengineering, which could eventually allow scientists to grow artificial human embryos in the lab without the need for a sperm or an egg. Growing embryos would help researchers to study the very early stages of human life so they could understand why so many pregnancies fail, but is likely to prove controversial and raise ethical questions about what constitutes human life. (READ MORE)
http://skywatchtv.com/2017/03/07/artificial-humans-soon-grown-labs-clone-breakthrough/
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U.S. to host 68-nation meeting on countering Islamic State
Thu Mar 9, 2017 | 3:01pm EST
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host a 68-nation meeting in Washington this month to discuss the next moves by a coalition fighting Islamic State, the State Department said on Thursday. The March 22-23 meeting of coalition foreign ministers aimed "to accelerate international efforts to defeat ISIS in the remaining areas it holds in Iraq and Syria and maximize pressure on its branches, affiliates, and networks," the State Department said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State. The State Department said it would be the first meeting of the full coalition since December 2014, shortly after it was founded. "It's an opportunity for Secretary Tillerson to lay out the challenges that are facing the coalition moving forward," acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. "We all recognize that we have seen progress in defeating ISIS on the ground ... how do we leverage that success? How do we build on that success?" Islamic State has declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. It has been losing ground in both countries, with three separate forces, backed by the United States, Turkey and Russia, advancing on its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 28 requesting the Pentagon, joint chiefs of staff and other agencies to submit a preliminary plan in 30 days for defeating Islamic State. Toner said details of that plan are still classified, declining to provide further information. He said the meeting would look at how "to augment existing capabilities and processes on the ground." Iraqi forces have advanced deeper into west Mosul, facing stiff resistance from Islamic State militants who have used suicide car bombs and snipers to defend their last major stronghold in Iraq. The Iraqi operation to retake the eastern bank of the city, launched in mid-October with support from the U.S.-led coalition, took more than three months. The offensive to recapture west Mosul began less than three weeks ago. Mosul is the largest city which Islamic State has held. The group has lost most of the cities it captured in northern and western Iraq in 2014 and 2015. There is little doubt Iraqi forces will eventually prevail over the militants, who are outnumbered and overpowered, but even if it loses Mosul, Islamic State is expected to revert to their insurgent tactics of old. On Wednesday, bomb blasts ripped through a wedding party near Tikrit, which was recaptured by Iraqi forces in 2015, killing more than 20 people.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Yeganeh Torbati; Writing by Eric Walsh; editing by Grant McCool)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-idUSKBN16G271?il=0
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Newly identified fault line in California could unleash monster earthquake
Doyle Rice , USA TODAY Published 2:56 p.m. ET March 8, 2017 | Updated 24 hours ago
Southern California could be in for some serious shaking. Scientists uncovered a newly identified fault line that could unleash a magnitude-7.4 earthquake in the region, which other researchers say is already long overdue for a whopper of a temblor along the infamous San Andreas fault. The concerns are detailed in separate studies that put the quake risks of the USA's most populous state into much sharper focus. The newly identified fault line is capable of a powerful quake that would impact 20 million residents of Los Angeles and San Diego, according to a study published Tuesday. The fault runs underwater from San Diego Bay to Seal Beach in Orange County and on land through the Los Angeles basin, researchers found. In the meantime, areas north of Los Angeles may be long overdue for a whopper of a quake along a portion of the San Andreas fault, according to a second study, this from the U.S. Geological Survey. Over the past 1,200 years, large earthquakes occurred there about every 100 years. The last big one there was a magnitude-7.7 to 7.9 in 1857. At that time, the population of the entire state of California was less than 100,000 people. Today, it's 37 million. Most of the earliest quakes "appear to be quite large," between magnitude-7.0 and magnitude-7.5, said study lead author Kate Scharer of the USGS. The land on each side of that portion of the San Andreas fault has been crushing together at a rate of over 1 inch per year since 1857, the researchers told the Los Angeles Times. This is causing accumulating energy that will be released in a major earthquake, when the land along the fault would move by many feet. In the first study, the newly identified fault line is mostly offshore but never more than four miles from the San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles County coast, said study lead author Valerie Sahakian, formerly of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and now with the U.S. Geological Survey. Even a high magnitude-5 to a low magnitude-6 quake "can still have a major impact on those regions, which are some of the most densely populated in California,” she said. The fault, officially known as the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault zone, caused a 6.4-magnitude quake in Long Beach, Calif. that killed 115 people in 1933. About 3 million people lived in the entire Los Angeles metro area at that time. Today, that number is 13 million. The Newport-Inglewood and Rose Canyon faults were considered separate system, but the study found they are actually one continuous fault system. Both studies appeared in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Geophysical Research.
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Idaho boy credits 'angels' for helping him save his father's life
Wednesday, March 8th 2017, 12:44 pm EST Wednesday, March 8th 2017, 4:01 pm EST
By WMCActionNews5.com Staff
(WMC) - A boy from Idaho received an award for saving his father's life. East Idaho News reports J.T. Parker, 8, freed his father from underneath a Toyota Prius on July 30. Parker's father got trapped under the car when it fell off the jack holding it up. His son then jumped into action. Parker, who weighs about 50 pounds, moved the jack and started jumping on it. After about 15 minutes, he was able to free his father. Days later, Parker's family tried to get him to jack the car up again, but he was not able to do it. When asked by an East Idaho News reporter why he thought he was able to do it when he father was trapped under the car, Parker responded: "Angels." Months later, Parker was one of 11 people to receive the 2017 East Idaho Real Heroes award.
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Baby Jessica 30 Years Later: ‘My Life Is a Miracle’
By Darla Higgins•@djatlas Posted on March 8, 2017 at 9:00am EST
Millions of Americans remember when Texas 18-month-old Jessica McClure was rescued from a backyard well after being trapped for nearly 60 hours — but the center of attention herself has no recollection of the harrowing event. Now 30, Jessica McClure Morales — who still answers to “Baby Jessica” from friends and strangers in her hometown of Midland, Texas — understands why so many people across the country became invested in her survival in October of 1987. “I had God on my side that day,” Jessica says in the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. “My life is a miracle.” Television viewers watched as hundreds of paramedics, rescuers, drilling experts and contractors feverishly worked to save the baby’s life. Meanwhile, they were reassured when they heard Jessica singing “Winnie the Pooh” from deep in the well. As long as she was singing, she was still alive. Jessica McClure Morales Julian Dufort • For more on Baby Jessica’s harrowing tale of survival, subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. These days, Jessica and her family – husband Danny, 43, and children Simon, 9, and Sheyenne, 7 — enjoy a quiet life together. Jessica works as a special-education teacher’s aide at the local elementary school, while Danny is a foreman at a pipe supply company. She has few visible signs of the ordeal three decades ago, during which she went without food or water. But her right foot, which is noticeably smaller than her left, had to be reconstructed because it became gangrenous after it was above her head during the entire episode. A scar on her forehead, sustained when she fell asleep in the well as drilling commenced, is scarcely visible. • Tune in to People Icons: Heroes & Survivors on Tuesday, March 14, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC for more on these and other inspiring stories. While some have assumed that Jessica became wealthy as an adult, thanks to a trust fund set up by people from all over who watched the rescue unfold, she says much of the $1.2 million in the trust disappeared during a stock market dive in 2008. Much of the remaining funds went toward buying the family’s modest house, which features a large backyard for the kids. “I think it’s amazing that people would come together like that to donate money to a child that was not theirs,” she says of the generosity of strangers. “I appreciate everything they did.” Her own children are old enough now to understand what happened to her and have Googled scenes of the amazing rescue. Jessica says she hopes they learn from her rescue “to always be humble. And to remember that if you look hard enough, there are so many good people in this world.” Jessica, who says she never expected to be remembered 30 years after the rescue, tries to make sure her children don’t feel stuck in her shadow. “To me they’re so much more,” she says. “And can be so much more.”
http://people.com/human-interest/baby-jessica-30-years-later-my-life-is-a-miracle/
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Weekly Islamic call to prayer in Texas public high school
March 7, 2017 By Victor Skinner
FRISCO, Texas – There’s a special space for Muslim students at Liberty High School – room C112 — an empty classroom provided by the school for daily prayer sessions. School officials initially opened up a small conference room for Islamic prayers in 2009 after they noticed some Muslim students leaving on Friday afternoons to pray, and demand eventually forced them to dedicate an entire classroom for the ritual. “This is my seventh year at Liberty, my first year it kind of started when a core group of students were leaving campus every Friday for Friday prayer,” principal Scott Warstler told Wingspan, the student site. “Their parents would pick them up, so they may miss an hour and a half to two hours to two and a half hours of school every Friday, so I met with those students and a couple of their parents and suggested if they would be okay if the students were able to lead the prayer at school as a group, and we gave them a space to do that so they didn’t have to be in a car traveling thirty minutes each way on a Friday missing an hour, hour and half, of class.” Islamic Association of Collin County Youth Director Ryan Hillard explained why it’s important for Muslim students to have special access to C122 during lunch time every day. “By praying five times a day, which includes movements such as bowing and prostrating where you actually place your forehead and the tip of your nose on to the floor and also facing a specific direction, not only shows uniformity, in terms of how Muslims pray together and come together for that purpose,” Hilliard said. “But even more importantly it shows that they’re willing to put their entire body and their entire mind and their soul into this act and be able to focus on that moment where they’re able to have this conversation with God, when in many other places they would not be able to do so.” Warstler told Wingspan he’s never received a single complaint about the prayer room. “Like I’ve said, this is the seventh year that we’ve been doing this and we’ve never had one issue. You know we have other religious student groups that meet maybe before school or maybe after school,” Warstler said “As long as it’s student-led, where the students are organizing and running it, we pretty much as a school stay out of that and allow them their freedom to practice their religion.” Warstler’s inclusive and understanding attitude stands in stark contrast to the reaction other school officials in Texas and other states have shown to Christian students attempting to exercise their faith at school. Last fall, officials at O’Donnell High School, in O’Donnell, Texas, rushed to cover up a student painting of the Ten Commandments and an accompanying Bible verse after a single complaint, EAGnews reports. At Patterson Middle School in Killeen, Texas, school officials forced a staffer to censor her “A Charlie Brown Christmas” decorations to remove a reference to “Christ the Lord” shortly before Christmas, though a judge ultimately overruled the school, according to the Killeen Daily Herald. In other places, school officials and teachers have ended Bible studies, lectured students for reading the Bible during free time, and taken other actions to block Christian students. But at Liberty High School, it’s live and let live, Wartstler told KERA Radio. The station played audio of a student reciting the Islamic call to prayer in the classroom. “They’re not out proselytizing,” he said. “They’re not out in the lunch periods trying to gain, you know. They take care of themselves in their group and they accept those that are a part of their group. And honestly, if others wanted to go in and learn and see and experience that, they’re OK with that.” Unlike the general hostility against Christian students in many public schools, Muslim students at Liberty are welcomed, free to recite the Islamic call to prayer in peace, and it’s “really great,” junior Sarah Qureshi told Wingspan. “It gives us a way to pray in a classroom and then go straight back to class,” Qureshi said. “It takes five minutes instead of having to leave school, get in the car, and go with my parents to the actual masjid and then coming back. When I first found out I was really shocked. I think it was a really great opportunity and I was pretty happy for it that we actually get to have this choice to go and to do what we have to do.”
http://eagnews.org/weekly-islamic-call-to-prayer-in-texas-public-high-school/
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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Bird flu found in Tennessee chicken flock on Tyson-contracted farm
Mon Mar 6, 2017 | 6:03pm EST By Jo Winterbottom
A strain of bird flu has been detected in a chicken breeder flock on a Tennessee farm contracted to U.S. food giant Tyson Foods Inc, and the 73,500 birds will be culled to stop the virus from entering the food system, government and company officials said on Sunday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this represented the first confirmed case of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry in the United States this year. It is the first time HPAI has been found in Tennessee, the state government said. Tyson, the biggest chicken meat producer in the United States, said in a statement it was working with Tennessee and federal officials to contain the virus by euthanizing the birds on the contract farm. MORE FROM REUTERS.COM In 2014 and 2015, during a widespread outbreak of HPAI, the United States killed nearly 50 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens. The losses pushed U.S. egg prices to record highs and prompted trading partners to ban imports of American poultry, even though there was little infection then in the broiler industry. No people were affected in that outbreak, which was primarily of the H5N2 strain. The risk of human infection in poultry outbreaks is low, although in China people have died this winter amid an outbreak of the H7N9 virus in birds. The facility in Tennessee's Lincoln County has been placed under quarantine, along with approximately 30 other poultry farms within a 6.2-mile (10 km) radius of the site, the state said. Other flocks in the quarantined area are being tested, it added. Tyson, the USDA and the state did not name the facility involved. Tyson said that it did not expect disruptions to its chicken business. The USDA should have more information by Monday evening about the particular strain of the virus involved, spokeswoman Donna Karlsons said by email. HPAI bird flu was last found in a commercial turkey flock in Indiana in January 2016. The USDA said it would inform the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and international trading partners of the outbreak. The biggest traditional markets for U.S. chicken meat are Mexico and Canada, which introduced state or regional bans on U.S. broiler exports after the outbreak two years ago, and China, which imposed a national ban. Tennessee's broiler production is too small to rank it in the top five U.S. producing states but it is the third-largest generator of cash receipts in agriculture for the state. In January, the USDA detected bird flu in a wild duck in Montana that appeared to match one of the strains found during the 2014 and 2015 outbreak. The United States stepped up biosecurity measures aimed at preventing the spread of bird flu after the outbreak two years ago. Tyson said precautions being taken include disinfecting all vehicles entering farms and banning all nonessential visitor access to contract farms. In recent months, different strains of bird flu have been confirmed across Asia and in Europe. Authorities have culled millions of birds in affected areas to control the outbreaks. France, which has the largest poultry flock in the European Union, has reported outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus. In South Korea, the rapid spread of the H5N6 strain of the virus has led to the country's worst-ever outbreak of bird flu. (Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf in New York and Jo Winterbottom in Chicago; Editing by Will Dunham)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-birdflu-usa-idUSKBN16C0XL
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Iodine 131 meldown in Halden nuclear reactor in Norway which Media are not covering
A release of Iodine 131 from the Halden nuclear reactor adds to Europes nuclear pollution concerns and the radiation mapping is hiding the spikes of radiation from view. Bellona.org and the NRPA are trying to bring transparency and deal with the situation in a safe manner but the owners of the Thorium reactor (IFE) are doing a “TEPCO”” and protecting their investments instead of considering downwind populations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The IFE are risking a Hydrogen explosion (the same issue that happened at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in March 2011, nearly exactly 6 years ago) to protect their PR image and because of greed. I explain the issues and here is the link to the evidence. The secret meltdown in Norway is stepping in Fukushima footsteps! Iodine 131 in Europe again! #IAEA #UNSCEAR
https://web.archive.org/web/201703052343...-covering/
http://lunaticoutpost.com/thread-743524-post-13947136.html
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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Nine of the ten most dangerous countries in the world for Christians are Muslim
March 4, 2017 3:17 pm By Robert Spencer
Why is this the case, and why is it the case year after year? Might it have something to do with these teachings? “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, and do not forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29) Muhammad said: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294) Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Eritrea and Yemen. Trump’s ill-fated travel ban included six of these countries, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen, plus Libya. How racist. “EDITORIAL: Christian persecution keeps getting worse,” The Gazette, March 4, 2017: When President Donald Trump told the Christian Broadcasting Network in January he would give Middle East Christians priority refugee status, he was sharply criticized for religious favoritism and prejudice. Even a few high-profile American Christian leaders questioned his judgment. Trump’s executive order on refugees did not mention Christians, but referenced religious “minorities.” That means mostly Christians, Shi’a Muslims and Yazidis. A recent report by Open Door USA, a nonprofit research firm, identifies 2016 as the “worst year” for worldwide Christian persecution since the organization began monitoring human atrocities 25 years ago. “Christians throughout the world continue to risk imprisonment, loss of home and assets, torture, beheadings, rape and even death as a result of their faith,” the report stated. Open Doors documents evidence that says about 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith last year. More than 200,000 experienced religiously motivated violence or persecution. An earlier report by the Italy-based Center for Studies on New Religions also estimated 90,000 Christians were murdered for faith around the world in 2016. Study author Massimo Introvigne called Christians “the most persecuted religious group in the world.” A year ago March 14, Congress passed House Resolution 75 by a unanimous 393-0 vote. The resolution recognizes as “genocide” the persecution of Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities by ISIS. A week later, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said “Daesh” (ISIS) “is genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology, and by actions.” This week, Pope Francis released a video asking for prayers for an end to Christian persecution. The pope said Christians are “killed, burned alive, throats slit, and beheaded with barbarous blades amid cowardly silence.” The Open Doors report found North Korea tops the list as the most dangerous places for Christians. Somalia comes in second, followed by Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Eritrea and Yemen. The irrefutable evidence of Christian persecution, mostly at the hands of Muslims, led to outrage last year when data from the State Department Refugee Processing Center revealed only 0.5 percent of 12,587 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States in 2016 were Christian – a total of 68. Sunni Muslims comprised 98.2 percent and Shi’a Muslims totaled only 20, or 0.15 percent. Christians, Yazidis and Shi’a Muslims are victims of what the Obama administration identified as a widespread religious genocide of religious minorities throughout much of the Middle East and Northern Africa by Isis and other Sunni Muslim extremists….
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France's Fatal Attraction to Islam
by Giulio Meotti March 4, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10001/france-islam
Translations of this item: Dutch Instead of fighting to save what is savable, French opinion-makers are already writing the terms of surrender. By hybridizing cultures and rejecting Christianity, France will soon end up not even teaching also Arabic, but only Arabic, and marking Ramadan instead of Easter. Instead of wasting their time trying to organize an "Islam of France", French political leaders, opinion makers and think tanks should look for ways to counter the creeping Islamization of their country. Otherwise, we may soon be seeing not only a "Grand Imam de France", but also lashes and stonings on the Champs Élysées. Two years ago, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, suggested converting empty churches into mosques, to accommodate the growing Muslim community in abandoned Christian sites. Now, many people in France seem to have taken the idea so seriously that a report released by the foundation Terra Nova, France's main think tank that provides ideas to the governing Socialist Party, suggests that in order to integrate Muslims better, French authorities should replace the two public holidays -- Easter Monday and Pentecost Monday -- with an Islamic holiday and, to be ecumenical, a Jewish holiday. Written by Alain Christnacht and Marc-Olivier Padis, the study, "The Emancipation of Islam of France," states: "In order to treat all the denominations equally, it should include two important new holidays, Yom Kippur and Eid el Kebir, with the removal of two Mondays that do not correspond to particular solemnity". Thus, the Catholic Easter and Pentecost can be sacrificed to keep the ever-elusive multicultural "peace". Terra Nova's proposal was rejected by the Episcopal Conference of France, but endorsed by the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, close to the Muslim Brotherhood, which would also like to include the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in the calendar. The idea of replacing the Christian holidays was also sponsored by the Observatory of Secularism, an organ created by President François Hollande to coordinate secularist policies. The Observatory of Secularism also proposed eliminating some Christian holidays to make way for the Islamic, Jewish and secular holidays. "France must replace two Christian holidays to make way for the Yom Kippur and Eid," said Dounia Bouzar, a member of the Observatory. "France is no longer a Catholic country", wrote Frederic Lenoir, editor-in-chief of Le Monde des Religions. The newspaper Le Figaro wondered if Islam can already be considered "France's prime religion." Instead of fighting to save what is savable, French opinion-makers are already writing the terms of surrender. That is the meaning of Terra Nova's proposal. A similar shocking idea came from another think tank, the Montaigne Institute, which provides ideas to another presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron. In its report, written by Hakim El Karoui, the Montaigne Institute proposed the creation of a "Grand Imam of France", no less, as if Paris and Cairo would have the same historic roots. Macron recently apologized for French colonialism, feeding a defeatist sense of guilt that fuels Islamic extremists in their demands. The Montaigne Institute has also suggested teaching Arabic in public schools. This idea was also sponsored by Jack Lang, president of the Institute of the Arab world, who stated, "the Arab world is part of us". By hybridizing cultures and rejecting Christianity, France will soon end up not even teaching also Arabic, but only Arabic, and Ramadan instead of Easter. If the goal is accommodating Muslims in the French Republic instead of assimilating them, why not ban pork in the schools, avoid sensitive subjects such as the Crusades and the Holocaust, separate men and women in swimming pools, call cartoonists to "responsibility," and allow Islamic veils in the public administration? In fact, all these things are taking place in France today. And the result is not "emancipation," but religious segregation. It is in this Apartheid that Islamic extremists grow and permeate hearts and minds. France's director-general of intelligence, Patrick Calvar, has been clear: "The confrontation is inevitable," he said. There are an estimated 15,000 Salafists among France's seven million Muslims, "whose radical-fundamentalist creed dominates many of the predominantly Muslim housing projects at the edges of cities such as Paris, Nice or Lyon. Their preachers call for a civil war, with all Muslims tasked to wipe out the infidels down the street". The Socialist front-runner for the Presidential elections, Benoit Hamon, to whom the Terra Nova's report was directed, even justified the disappearance of French women from the cafés in Muslim-majority areas: "Historically, in the workers' cafes, there were no women," he said. Instead of wasting their time trying to organize an "Islam of France", French political leaders, opinion-makers and think tanks should look for ways to counter the creeping Islamization of their country. Otherwise we may soon be seeing not only a "Grand Imam de France", but also lashes and stonings on the Champs Élysées. Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10001/france-islam
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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Iran says S-300 air defense system now ‘operational’
Tehran announces it has successfully tested advanced Russian-made system delivered last year, using it to destroy airborne targets
By AFP and Times of Israel staff March 4, 2017, 11:55 am
Iran’s advanced S-300 air defense system, delivered by Russia following a July 2015 nuclear deal after years of delay, is now operational, state television reported on Saturday. Iran had been trying to acquire the system for years to ward off repeated threats by Israel to bomb its nuclear facilities, but Russia had held off delivery in line with UN sanctions imposed over the nuclear program. “The S-300 air defense system has been tested… in the presence of government and military officials,” the television said. It said that the test at a desert base had seen several targets, including a ballistic missile and a drone, intercepted. Air defense commander General Farzad Esmaili told the television that a domestically manufactured air defense system dubbed Bavar 373 which was “more advanced than the S-300” would be tested very soon. “The S-300 is a system that is deadly for our enemies and which makes our skies more secure,” he said. Iran’s activation of the defense system comes amid mounting tensions with the new US administration of President Donald Trump, who imposed sanctions after Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile in January. The deal to buy the S-300 system was originally signed in 2007 but Russia suspended it in 2010 citing a UN ban on arms sales to Iran. It was revived after the nuclear deal between Iran and major powers went into effect in January last year. In August, state television aired footage of the system being installed around the Fordo nuclear site in a mountain near Qom, south of the capital. The Russian-made missile defense system is one of the most advanced of its kind in the world, offering long-range protection against both aircraft and missiles. Israel had long sought to block the sale, which analysts say could impede a potential Israeli strike on Tehran’s nuclear facilities. Other officials have expressed concern that the systems could reach Syria and Hezbollah, diluting Israel’s regional air supremacy. The Israeli Air Force has trained for a scenario in which it would have to carry out strikes in Syria or Iran on facilities defended by the S-300. In a 2015 interview, IAF commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel said the S-300 was a “significant but not insurmountable challenge” for the IAF.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-says-it-successfully-tested-s-300-missile-defense-system/
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New York Mayor Hides 500,000 Illegals, Vows to Ignore Immigration Laws
by Mona Salama5 Mar 2017
The NYPD won’t cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seeking to repatriate illegal immigrants, Mayor Bill de Blasio told RTVi, or Russian Television International. “The NYPD will not participate as immigration enforcement agents because we have, for decades, built a close working relationship with immigrant communities,” de Blasio said. “Our police force is not going to be out there knocking on people’s door and it is not going to share information about people’s documentation status with the federal authorities.” According to de Blasio, who faces reelection in November, more than half a million people in New York are “undocumented” and a “vast majority don’t commit any crimes whatsoever.” City officials city and the NYPD officers will cooperate with the feds only in immigration cases which involve “serious and violent crimes,” he said. “In terms of the City of New York, we said the only area where we cooperate is we have a law that delineates 170 serious and violent crimes. If someone is convicted — not just accused, convicted of those crimes — then we will work with ICE in terms of their deportation.” According to the mayor’s office, ICE has submitted 80 “detainer” requests to the NYPD in 2016. These “detainers” ask local police forces to hold illegals who were arrested for other crimes until they can be transferred to ICE for later repatriation. But only two inmates were transferred to ICE in 2016, and only because federal officials got a warrant or a subpoena from a judge. New York City is among one of the largest U.S. cities that proudly labels itself as a “sanctuary city” for illegal aliens. Roughly 300 cities nationwide try to preserve illegals from deportation, partly because businesses gain from a local population of illegals who serve as cheap employees and as additional consumers. Since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, de Blasio has vowed to oppose any executive order regarding illegal immigration. He is running for re-election this year, has used this hot topic to raise campaign funds outside New York this weekend in Chicago and Florida. “We do not believe the President’s executive order related to immigration is legally clear or consistent,” de Blasio said, downplaying the risk that the city would lose federal funds. “We think it can be challenged effectively in court. If you look at it carefully, the only resources that could be held back, even if it were to pass judicial muster, the only resources that could held back would be from the NYPD, especially for anti-terrorism.” De Blasio added; I think that puts the President’s administration in a box of their own making. They claim they want to force us to change our ways, and their penalty is going to take away anti-terrorism funding that protects the biggest city in America and the number one terror target, I think that will end up being untenable and unacceptable. But in the first instance, nothing has been done to remove our funding so far, and if there ever were an attempt, we would immediately go to court to stop it. de Blasio also tried to blame a recent spike in anti-Semitic vandalism on Trump and his advisors. “[Trump] unleashed these forces and some of the people who are closest to these white supremacist movement, and they are very intolerant of any religion that is not Christian,” de Blasio said. Steve Bannon is an example of a leader of the right-wing that has fostered and supported these kind of movements and certainly given them access to his media platform. If the President wants to draw a clear line, he needs to make explicitly clear that he will not tolerate anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, anti-gay activities. I think it’s necessary to separate from the people, who, unfortunately, like Steve Bannon, have aided and abetted those kind of negative movements and to constantly make clear that he doesn’t want the support of any people like that and he will condemn them. Read the mayor’s complete statement here. The Russian-language interview is here:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/05/de-blasio-500000-illegals-blocks-law-enforcement/
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Something Very Sinister At Play - Remember! Expert Warned: 'Obama Switched Sides In War On Terror!'
March 5, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin D. Roosevelt While everything in life is not a coincidence and random events unrelated to each other do occur, we try to notice when such patterns as mentioned by President Roosevelt do emerge, patterns such as we recently reported on ANP in the string of deaths of numerous Russian ambassadors within months of each other all across the planet. Happening at the same time that a very real 'witch hunt' is ongoing with Congressional Democrats attempting to burn anything 'Donald Trump' at the stake and interestingly, attempting to tie Trump's success at defeating Hillary Clinton to Russia, many are very concerned the 'deep state war' upon president Trump and attempted coup by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tied loyalists will lead to a very real 'shooting war' on American soil. As YouTube videographer Colonel Ray Potter tells us in the brand new first video below, a 'breaking point' in America may soon be reached. According to former Attorney General Eric Holder, Barack Obama is seemingly ready for war. Announcing Obama's 'return' with "he's coming, and he's ready to roll", we have to ask, if Barack Obama is truly 'an agent of Islamic terror' as has been argued by many, and he's allowed 8 years worth of 'trojan horse terrorists' to come into America, how long might it be until Colonel Potter's warning of 'war turning hot' on US streets become a reality? Events of this weekend prove to us that Donald Trump backers are very real targets of terror after Trump supporters were attacked in California by left-wing terrorists - are we now witnessing the beginning of a very real attempt by Obama-backed terrorists to take down President Trump and America? We pray that Obama and George Soros' paid terrorists who'd try to take down Trump and America come to their senses before they cross a line they can never uncross. As even President Donald Trump recently tweeted in reference to this 'McCarthyesque witch hunt', Obama is either 'a bad or sick guy'. What if Obama is 'bad' and 'sick' and really hates America, as much as his 8-year-presidency proved, and he's truly willing to do everything in his power to 'take down America' as the globalists 'sickly' dream of doing? REMEMBER! Obama, Senator John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Trump-haters such as Nancy Pelosi, Clinton and Obama are PROVEN to be funders of Islamic terrorism!!!! Leaked audio PROVED Obama wanted ISIS to grow - and now he's attempting to sabotage President Trump's goal of 'eradicating them'. As Hawaiian Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard stated in her STOP ARMING TERRORISTS bill in Congress, "Under U.S. law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups. If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail. Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, quietly supporting allies and partners of al-Qaeda, ISIL, Jabhat Fateh al Sham and other terrorist groups with money, weapons, and intelligence support, in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government.". So why are people such as Clinton, Obama, and McCain still walking free despite arming terrorists who want to slaughter us and have a goal of overthrowing America? And was Obama's support of Islamic terrorism, while moving groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood off of terror watchlists and into the White House, the very 'root' of the 'deep state war' against President Donald Trump? Has America already been so 'completely infiltrated' by radical Islam that the 'enemies within' may be impossible to totally 'root out'? Trump and Americans must remember that during Obama's presidency, "Obama switched sides on the war on terror". We were warned back in 2014 that "America has moved towards its Muslim enemies" and the Obama administration had begun siding with jihadis such as ISIS. Gabbards 'stop arming terrorist' bill is proof of that yet the MSM will still call Obama and Hillary Clinton arming ISIS 'fake news'. As Infowars asked on Saturday, why haven't Senator John McCain's ties to ISIS terrorists been investigated? Were McCain's secretive meetings with ISIS NOT aiding and abetting terrorists and seditious conspiracy? And why does 'the left' prove to us they're in bed with terrorists by allowing a convicted terrorist to organize the next women's march? And are people who might be considered 'collateral damage' in this 'war' now being 'taken out'? Anybody who has been paying attention realizes that the entire Democratic party, and particularly Hillary Clinton, are deeply embroiled in financial scandal and corruption with the Clinton Foundation being much more than just the 'tip of the corruption iceberg'. Anyone who has been paying attention to real world events over the past many years also knows that the Clinton family has a body count that follows them around everywhere they go. Documented in this August 2016 story from WND and continuing to grow during the run-up to the November 2016 election with at least 5 more bodies added to 'the count', some believe the 'Clinton body count' continues to grow to this day. In the story over at the NY Post on March 1st, they reported a 'depressed Wall Street' executive had recently jumped to his death from his 9th floor apartment in New York. 'Depressed' 47-year-old Kevin Bell, a financial company executive, had worked at Arrowgrass Capital Partners and previously at Saba Capital Management, Citadel Investment group, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank before he allegedly killed himself on Wednesday. As the Daily Kos reported back in April of 2016, there are undeniable connections between Hillary Clinton and Deutsche Bank, from whom she took hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak in front of, then lobbied for them, pushing through the Panama Free Trade Treaty which enabled the bank to make huge money in shady deals. On Thursday, the NY Post reported 59-year-old lawyer Kenneth Freeling had also jumped to his death in New York, also from the 9th floor. If this vaguely reminds you of a pattern of mysterious deaths previously reported on ANP of bankers across the planet who suddenly decided to practice high jumps from tall buildings, you aren't the only ones. Freeling had worked for law firm Dewey & LeBouef prior to moving to Covington and Burling in Washington DC. According to this April of 2015 story from Politico, the Clinton Foundation has strong ties to Covington and Burling via "longtime Clinton supporter Stuart Eizenstat, a senior counsel at the powerhouse law firm". As was reported across the alternative media dating back to at least 2014, mysteriously dead bankers were all the rage across the internet back in 2015 and 2016, do mysterious trails of huge numbers of dead bankers lead somewhere? In the 2nd video below we see an hour+ or raw footage out of Berkeley, California while in the 3rd video below, Susan Duclos reports upon the 'so far' failed deep-state coup against Trump with Jeff Sessions now apparently in possession of some very valuable information. In the final two videos below, we hear about the recent deaths of Kevin Bell and Kenneth Freeling, both who 'coincidentally' attempted to fly out of their 9th floor apartments in New York recently.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Sinister_Attempt_To_Take_Down_America_Ongoing.php
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The Chinese Takeover of California-The Trojan Horse of the CALEXIT Movement
By Dave Hodges
If you want to understand the dymanics of California and how, under Governor Jerry Brown, we are all under threat from the Chinese and their related interests. This is not an easy document to review as one will have to work to absorb massive amounts of documentation which demonstrates how California is being sacrificed, who is behind it and for what reason. I previously reported the following with regard to California’s attempt to become a separate and independent nation under the control of El Presidente, present California governor Jerry Brown. According to Paul Preston, reports are coming in that numerous state legislators from California, including “California Senate pro tem Kevin de Leon), State representatives from Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Colorado have been meeting with members of La Raza, the Mexican government ( consulate), Mexican Mafia (“La EME”), California’s violent Mexican gangs (Nortenos /Sureños/ Sur 13), La Familia (Nuestra Familia) and religious leaders (Catholic / Jesuits) to come up with a plan to separate from the United States the above mentioned states”. Governor Brown, his aides, and the Bank of China have been in attendance in several of these meetings designed to sever California from the US. Further, The Common Sense Show has learned, independent of Paul Preston, that George Soros is bankrolling some of the costs associated with this movement as is the Bank of China. What is significant here is that if CalExit does not happen peacefully, the radical gangsters listed above, will force the California exit through the use of violence. Paul Preston and his sources have learned that many of the abovementioned groups will begin to execute white people and force a mass exodous of this population group from California. This information comes from an embedded eyewitness to many of the meetings. What was not known at the time I published the above passage, is that the United Nations is at the center of this conspiracy. Paul Preston, through his inside informant, we call “Mike”, revealed the brains behind the Calexit movement is actually the United Nations. When California exits the Union, they will be largely controlled by the Chinese, but will be under the political control of the UN with Jerry Brown as their leader. And as you will soon see, that California’s food supply is being handed over to the Chinese. The Chinese Connection to CalExit The Chinese government is in the process of relocating 250,000 people per week from rural farmlands to densely populated urban areas into what has been dubbed as the Chinese ghost towns. Many of us have heard about these Chinese ghost cities. However, until this year we didn’t really know the true purpose of why these ghost cities were being built. However, the veil is being lifted and now it is becoming very obvious as to what the Chinese are up to. Chinese political refugee and Princeton University professor, Cheng Xiaonong, stated in that in lots of places in China, farmers are being forcibly relocated at gun point and forced to relocate to urban areas. Cheng said, “[Party chief] Bo Xilai has been promoting a policy of moving farmers into towns, building apartments and moving forcibly relocated farmers into these stack and pack apartments and treating this as urbanization.” Cheng said urbanization isn’t about calculating how many farmers are relocated into cities, but about farmers being able to move into the city and gaining some measure of sustainable employment and adequate living conditions. These relocated farmers, without the prospect of jobs is a recipe for economic and social disaster. Soon, there will be tens of millions of Chinese totally dependent on government handouts to survive. This is the power that governments strive to obtain because it gives them total control. This Chinese scene is reminiscent of the Agenda 21 inspired movie, Hunger Games. Cheng makes the same observations as many other Chinese experts as he added that “urbanization is generally accompanied by economic growth as was the case in the US. In other countries, urbanization happens naturally, but in mainland China, urbanization is the result of the Chinese regime forcefully pushing farmers off of their land.” Another key globalist, Dominic Barton, the global managing director of McKinsey & CO, and he too sounds like a Paulson clone as recently stated, “The good news is that there is an underlying force of growth and that’s urbanization. What we’re basically seeing is more we than 250,000 people moving from rural areas to cities every week.” George Soros is also a player in this mass migration movement. If job demand is not fueling urbanization, then what is? Since the Chinese are not industrialized to the point which would justify the mass movement of 1 million people per month into its ghost towns, any reasonable person would be asking the question, why? THE CHINESE ARE FACING REBELLION AND POSSIBLE REVOLUTION FROM ITS OUTLYING PROVINCES. THE MOVEMENT OF CHINESE FROM THESE OUTLYING AREAS TO THE GHOST CITIES IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT A REVOLUTION AGAINST THE CHINESE STATUS QUO. HOWEVER, CHINA WILL SOON HAVE A FOOD PRODUCTION PROBLEM IN LIGHT OF THIS MASS MIGRATION. Enter Hank Paulson and Who could forget Hank Paulson, the former Secretary of the Treasury and the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and the author of the bail outs? Paulson is championing the strategy of forced relocation. In relation to Paulson’s observation and encouragement of Chinese urbanization he states, “The country’s economy is heading in the right direction. This is more important than achieving short-term growth.” Paulson went on to say that the economic growth in China has made urbanization a necessary and proper development. Are you kidding me? We have heard from Chinese experts, both inside and outside the country, who claim that economics is not fueling urban growth. Chinese urban growth is being fueled by bayonets and bullets. s the real reason. And this push for increased Chinese industrial output will benefit the globalists. However, what will the Chinese do about the food shortage? China Will Soon Own California’s Food China will soon have a serous food production problem. However, the Chinese government, through relocation is preventing a revolution. Further, the Chinese have positioned themselves, under the auspices of the United Nations to take as much food from California as needed as a meams to offset the loss of food production in the outlying provineces. The California drought, as I have covered before is the product weather manipulation. The artificially contrived California drought combined with an increasing Chinese presence in California will ultimately lead to a complete Chinese takeover of all California’s agricultural farm land. The Chinese military, posed as energy front men at the many solar farms will soon spring into action and seize all major farmland following the completion of CalExit. Chinese soldiers which are present in large numbers at the California Inland Ports (e.g. Sacremento and Stockton) and they are poised to takeover. How is this possible? Enter Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum. Feinstein entered the Senate as a millionaire and is now a billionaire. Their conflicts of interest are legendary. California and the EPA have enacted policies that drive farmers and ranchers off of their land by the thousands. This exodous of California farmers is being accomplished through the denial of water to ranchers and farmers. Richard Blum is buying up distressed properties and then selliing them back to Chinese interests. In other words, China will control California’s food supply when CALEXIT becomes a reality. The food will be sent back to China as an offset against the loss of farming in the outlying provinces. This will produce catastophic consequences regard food supplies and prices in the near future in the United States. I should note that the globalist desire to destroy the United States takes a big step forward with this plan. To add to the coming misery, I interviewed Paul Martin and he stated that his colleague, Ed Petrowski provided Paul with information that there is an acute national shortage of farmers. Record numbers of farms are being auctioned off. Paul said that Ed told him we are headed for a major famine in the United States. The short Paul Martin interview can be heard here. There is one more major consideration that is under investigation by The Common Sense Show, and that has to do with the Oroville Dam. If the dam, as many predict, does not survive the coming spring runoff, the fertile agriculttural lands between the dam and Sacramento will be temporarily gone along with its farmers and ranchers. The Chinse courtesy of the Feinsteins will buy up this land for pennies on the dollar. People between Oroville and Sacramento need to realize that there is now a political motive to allow the dam to fail. Paramilitary Operations Within the United States I recently reported on paramilitary operation centers being built inside the United states by Spanish speaking foreign workers. I am still investigating but would you be willing to bet that the Bank of China is funding this operation. In 2015, the Chinese control of the Long Beach Port was completed. The deep water port at Long Beach is the only of its type on the West Coast. And this country’s government has GIVEN AWAY the Long Beach deep water port to the Chinese in one of the biggest acts of treason in this country’s history. The giveaway of both the military installation and the deep water port went live in 2015. The Chinese can bring in any type of personnel, undetected, and this means Chinese military and eventually . Along with the paramilitary operations exposed by Judicial Watch and Marlon Brock, Paul Present informed that the Chinese Military is buying up massive amounts of abandoned buildings from which they can bring in their military. Here is the interview with Paul Preston where this is discussed. Conclusion In summary, California is on the path to becoming its own nation controlled by the United Nations. California Governor, Jerry Brown, is leading the way. After CalExit, the UN will assume control over California. The food interests of California will be controlled by the Chinese as America is already facing serious food shortages due to the mass departure of farmers. Further, these developments will go a long way towards handing off control of the California food supply to the Chinese. Most disturbingly, California, under Jerry Brown, will become a base of operation for the Chinese military who will have unrestrained access to California as a staging area for its military. Bit by bit America is being occuped by covert Chinese forces who will not be covert much longer. In a future article, I am going to tie this entire plot back in to the UN and this was foretold 20 years ago.
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IBM Patent: A.I. Fact-Checker with In-Call Actionability
By k.Renee - March 5, 2017
File Date (@US Patent Office): January 19, 2017
Patent: 20170019535 Family ID: 57775256 Kind Code: A1
Applicant: International Business Machines (IBM)
Super Easy Explanation:
A system that fact-checks live calls and takes action to “cause change” in any call that is “determined…as false”. [Abstract] Now, to Break It Down a Bit Further: Who’s Involved (initially) :
telecommunicating from & an automatic program, ran on an artificial-intelligencia computing system. What’s Happening : The A.I. system “detects a fact statement made during a conversation” [0024]. It detects “alleged facts” by using NLP (Natural Language Processing) to identify a “defined grammatical construct” and “the presence of one or more keywords”. [0025] “As some non-limiting examples” the system “can be configured to detect statements that include financial terminology…words referring to a location, an institution, an entity, and the like”. [0025]
The A.I. system “initiates a capture of a call segment”, recording the “fact statement”. The capture can retroactively record, including the conversation that occurred “at a time prior” to “wnhen the fact statement was made” [0026]. The call data is pre-processed and converted for fact-checking.
“The (call) data can include text, sound, graphical, or video information.” The A.I. “applies different methods to convert…the information.” [0035] The A.I. system then sends that processed data set “for fact-checking…verifying the accuracy of the fact statement by using information from a third-party.” [0030] As an example; call-data from a video transmission could include a text form of the “fact statement”, along with result data from ”sentiment analysis, facial expression analysis, or applied forensics” performed by the A.I. system.[0035] “Voice facts, such as timber or pitch of the voice can assist in verification.”[0037] The text data of the fact statement can be checked against third-party records, like “phone directories” [0038], “company directories” [0039], “financial or credit databases” [0040], “news databases” [0041], or any “social media site” [0055]. The A.I. system receives a “result of the fact checking operation…indicating that the fact statement is accurate, or inaccurate.” [0031]
“If the result indicates that the fact statement is inaccurate”, the A.I. system “takes action” “while the call in progress”. [0032] “Some non-limiting examples of possible actions” the system can take are “terminating the call,…notify the (telecommunication device) user via a haptic interface, or notify a third-party such as law enforcement.” [0032] This IBM A.I. system application “allows” telecommunication devices” to be “operated in a manner that prevents the perpetration of…undesirable activities.”[0045] “If the application determines that the caller or the call has violated the law, the application may notify the appropriate law enforcement agency” [0090], as the A.I. simotaneously “determines whether to continue the call-monitoring”.[0091] So You’re Absolutely Clear on This : IBM…the company that came up with the idea, and the system to number the Jews during the Holocaust…the company that created operating systems, like Linux….the company that created the “Smarter Cities” grid control program in 2008…the company that made the A.I. system that won Jeopardy! against the 74-game champ in 2011…and the A.I. system that beat the world’s chess champion IBM…creator of the first supercomputer..the first personal computer with a standardized platform IBM….who invented ATM’s… IBM has patented a system which monitors calls, using Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to take statements made during the call and fact-check them against a third-party database. These statements can be made in any transmitted verbal, visual, textual, or graphical data that is communicated between any two devices. Devices include, but are not limited to, phones, laptops, wearable devices, or tablets. The third-party database used to fact-check is configurable. It can be configured to an internal network-server database; it could be Wikipedia; or the Google/Oracle servers in whole; even the entire plethora of institutional recorded familial, educational, employment, legal, financial, and geological recorded data. This fact-checking is made in real-time, through the data network. If any statement made is deemed as “false”, IBM’s system will make a change in the call. These changes include, but are not limited to, ending the call, alerting the device’s user of the danger of “invalid” fact statements, or involving the appropriate legal agencies of the user’s “incorrect” statement, with or without the telecommuter’s knowledge, to arrange for arrest or any other correctional-type action from the alerted agency. This A.I. system can and will decide to continue a user’s communications, to an undefined extent or limitation, for data capture continued for any undefined reason. The A.I. listens and scans all, deciphering all communications between device users; using self-determined emotion-analytics, based on voice patterns, body language, and facial motions made during statements between communicating device users; fact-checking statements on its own terms, against its configuration of decided facts; then empowered to take action during the data transmission between the users. The A.I. can act to get you arrested, put you on an agency’s alert list, or block the user from telecommunicating on that device.
http://northwestlibertynews.com/ibm-patent-fact-checker-call-actionability/
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Heads Up! President Trump's 'War' Is 'America's War'! More Evidence Emerges We're Closing In On 'The Breaking Point'
- When It Comes To Totalitarian Surveillance, 'We Are ALL President Donald Trump'!
March 6, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The latest SQAlert on the website of Steve Quayle he calls one of the most important 'heads up financially' that he has ever posted in that it warns of the forthcoming bank plans to go cashless, another last ditch attempt to keep the global bankers goals of a 'boot stamping upon a human face, forever' intact. Warning 'the testing is complete' and a new technology "used to track people, their payments and enforce much higher taxes" is close to being implemented, we take a look within this story at that alert (below videos) and all of the latest signs showing a pivotal 'day of reckoning' is ahead for America. We also focus on a few strategies we believe President Donald Trump and America could take to not only stave off the coming pain but take our nation and our people in an entirely new direction in 2017 and onwards. Make no mistake about it, while the difficulties we face as a nation are momentous, there has never been a greater time than now for America to move upwards and begin again to accomplish the dreams of our forefathers. The challenges we face while walking the razor's edge of course are great - for President Donald Trump being wiretapped by 'the powers that were' shouldn't surprise anybody - they're tapping ALL of our phones in this totalitarian 'police state the globalists who've long been working to take down America have been building in its place. And as Owen Shroyer from Infowars tells us in the 1st video below, that is one reason why President Donald Trump's 'war' is America's 'war'. To borrow a line from a cable TV show, when it comes to totalitarian surveillance, "We are ALL President Donald Trump"! As this new story from Michael Snyder over at the Economic Collapse Blog reports, government spooks could have used the microphones and cameras on Trump's phone EVEN when he thought his phone was turned off - think that America-hating spooks aren't accessing the phone cameras or microphones of everybody in the White House when they want to? And need we wonder any further where SOME of the leaks are coming from? Just a small symptom of the overall problem, as long as govt spooks (aka our shadow govt) think they can 'lord over' even the President of our Republic, the will of the American people has been damned. As Roger L Simon over at PJMedia reports today, "If I were a Democrat, I'd be afraid. I'd be very afraid." We long appreciate the wisdom in the words attributed to former US President Thomas Jefferson who allegedly stated: "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Yet the problems America faces are much greater than just the totalitarian globalists surveillance state gone amok with President Trump himself a non-willing victim of it. As Snyder also pointed out in this recent story, 11 quotes directly from President Trump's speech proves he knows the US economy is in a massive state of trouble. With 43 million Americans now living in poverty, the middle-class in freefall, 94 million Americans out of the labor force, and one in five people in their prime working years not working, the incredible debt built up over 8 years of Obama financing terrorism across the planet while building mosques worldwide has put our nation in the most danger that we've ever been in, not just financially, with a national debt of nearly $20 TRILLION that is still growing by the second. You can hear that full list of Trump quotes from videographer Realist News in the 2nd video below. What are some of the answers to the problems that we face? While its absolutely true that in a time of the most grave emergency, humans are unable to EAT gold, thus proving why survivalists always recommend buying long-term food storage prior to buying gold when preparing for major emergencies and only purchasing precious metals when an adequate food supply is obtained, returning to a gold-backed US dollar under Trump is what many financial experts believe is absolutely necessary for returning to 'sound money' and a sound economy. President Trump has also spoken of beginning the process of rebuilding the inner cities across America, cities where a huge portion of those now living in poverty reside, and such an absolutely momentous task would not only bring REAL hope and change to areas greatly in need of it but bring jobs, jobs and more jobs to some of the areas that need them most. While there are many areas of revitalization that we hope Trump focuses on in the years ahead, and we'll be sure to discuss more of them in future ANP stories, we also see why it's still so important to prepare for possible dark times ahead. In the 3rd video below and this new story from Natural News we see why its so important for all of us to stock up on food now, just in case of dire emergency's such as what's happening now in Venezuela, which proves how quickly an entire nation can reach its 'breaking point'. As their story tells us, Venezuelans are now separating 'edible trash' from 'nonedible trash' so that scavengers have an easier time finding food. There but for the amazing Grace of God go we. In the final video below we hear from videographer Richie Allen in a video called "If People Understood The Money Supply They'd Be Halfway To Understanding The Overall Conspiracy" within which he breaks down 'the great global banking conspiracy' while sharing with us why we're still closing in on a 'boot stamping upon a human face, forever'. BANKS SET TO GO CASHLESS GOING TO CRASH THE BOND MARKET: ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HEADS UP FINANCIALLY, I HAVE EVER POSTED - I work IT at one of the highest technical positions in a major telecommunications firm .The only position higher than the one my colleagues or myself holds, is the CIO position. We usually get info way before implementation. There is now a project going on in banks to implement block chain technology. This is very different from past reports as the previous reports were banks testing it out. The testing is complete. Contractual discussions between banks and a big three letter company (helped to create the serial number generators for the Nazis) are underway. The details are more or less related to a typical service. But, still blockchain technology will be used to track people, their payments and enforce much higher taxes. Personally, almost all of my assets are outside of the banking system. I work with banks daily and have hundreds of clients. So, obviously I have some experience to back up my decision.-----------A second note about bank warnings. 1. ECB has put out recent warnings about the volatility in the forex and bond markets. I believe this is a face saving move, so when big losses come, they will say "we told you so". 2. Working with Federal Reserve on a technical project. They are clueless, have no plans, and make decisions that make no sense. Typically organizations run from the top down, so, I wouldn't be surprised if the heads of the Fed are the same. Hard to say if they are malicious or just brain dead. HERE ARE HIS RECOMMENDATIONS AS AN INSIDERS INSIDER 1 - Know that all your transactions can be tracked and are shared between governments. 2 - Gold & Silver are a must. I have used it to pay friends when I didn't want transactions showing up on my bank account. 3 - I like bitcoin. I know some people think this was created by "the elite", but why create bitcoin and leave it there while creating your own independent blockchain tech to back up fiat currency transactions? This tells me it is not elite controlled, at least, not completely. And, there is some anonymity there for privacy concerned people. 4 - Hold cash in small bills. Banks are moving towards a cashless society, no doubt. But, there is a major opinion that they do not want to do away with smaller denominations, at least anytime soon. The ECB has new banknote issuance into 2018 and they have the project teams to back up the news. I keep stacks of 5s, 10s, and 20s. From what we have seen in the recent past, it is always the large denominations that are banned overnight.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Preparing_To_Bring_It_All_Down_Now.php
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Here’s the List: More Than a Dozen Proven Victims of Obama’s Many Wiretaps
Jim Hoft Mar 5th, 2017 9:26 pm Guest post by Joe Hoft
The Main Stream Media and other enemies of the current President are challenging the proposition that President Obama wire tapped President Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential race. President Trump started this discussion with his tweets over the weekend. In his first tweet President Trump tweeted: Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! This is now being referred to as Obamagate! It is not unfounded that former President Obama would wire tap President Trump during the election process. This is because he has done this before. Here is a list of individuals who were wire tapped by the Obama Administration. WikiLeaks released the following list on February 23rd (see link here) of Obama Administration wire taps: * The US National Security Agency bugged a private climate change strategy meeting; between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin; * Obama bugged Chief of Staff of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for long term interception targetting his Swiss phone; * Obama singled out the Director of the Rules Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Johann Human, and targetted his Swiss phone for long term interception; * Obama stole sensitive Italian diplomatic cables detailing how Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to help patch up his relationship with US President Barack Obama, who was refusing to talk to Netanyahu; * Obama intercepted top EU and Japanese trade ministers discussing their secret strategy and red lines to stop the US “extort[ing]” them at the WTO Doha arounds (the talks subsequently collapsed); * Obama explicitly targeted five other top EU economic officials for long term interception, including their French, Austrian and Belgium phone numbers; * Obama explicitly targetted the phones of Italy’s ambassador to NATO and other top Italian officials for long term interception; and * Obama intercepted details of a critical private meeting between then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel and Berluscon, where the latter was told the Italian banking system was ready to “pop like a cork”. In addition to the above list we also know now that Obama wire tapped various individuals in the US media that were reporting information not flattering to the Obama Administration. It is widely known that Obama’s Justice Department targeted journalists with wiretaps in 2013: * In 2013 the liberal Washington Post expressed outrage after the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime in a probe of classified leaks. The reporter, Fox News’ James Rosen and his family, were part of an investigation into government officials anonymously leaking information to journalists. Rosen was not charged but his movements and actions were tracked. * Also in 2013, members of the Associated Press were also a target of the surveillance. The ultra liberal New Yorker even noted that “In moderate and liberal circles, at least, the phone-records scandal, partly because it involves the dear old A.P. and partly because it raises anew the specter of Big Brother, may well present the most serious threat to Obama’s reputation.” * Reporter Sharyl Attkisson said in 2014 that her personal computer and CBS laptop were hacked after she began filing stories about Benghazi that were unflattering to the Obama administration. A source who checked her laptop said the hacker used spyware “proprietary to a government agency,” according to an article in the New York Post. Update – WikiLeaks tweeted overnight that the Obama Administration spied on their journalists as well:
Scribe note: Click on the link below to read the Search and Seizure Warrant
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FBI Director Asked DOJ To Publicly Reject Trump Wiretapping Claims
by Tyler Durden Mar 6, 2017 5:32 AM
In the latest dramatic plot twist to emerge from Trump's accusation that Obama wiretapped the Trump Tower prior to the election, the NYT reports that FBI director James Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s allegation that Obama eavesdropped on the soon-to-be president. According to the NYT, which cites 'senior American officials' Comey has argued that the "highly charged claim" is false and must be corrected as there is no evidence to back them up, but the DOJ has not yet released any such statement. In other words, just a few months after Democrats savaged Comey for supposedly attacking Clinton, and even being responsible for the failure of her presidential campaign according to John Podesta, now it is the Republicans' turn to accuse him of turning on Trump. Comey, who made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter, has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down the claim because it falsely insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said. What is strange is that the FBI is requesting the DOJ to publicly deny Trump's claim when it is the FBI that has the jurisdiction to request a FISA warrant. It is therefore perplexing why Comey, if he wants to put the matter to rest, does not make the public denial himself instead of asking the DOJ to do it on the FBI's behalf. To be sure, as the NYT adds, a statement by the DOJ or by Comey refuting Mr. Trump’s allegations "would be a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation’s top law enforcement officials in the position of questioning the truthfulness of the government’s top leader" and adds that the situation "underscores the high stakes of what the president and his aides have unleashed by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr. Trump’s young administration." Furthermore, it is unclear who at the DOJ would issue such as statement, "even if it wanted to one", as Trump's close ally, AG Jeff Sessions has recused himself from any Trump-Russia investigation. As the NYT points out, "there are few senior politically appointed officials at the Justice Department who can make the decision to release a statement, the officials said. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself on Thursday from all matters related to the federal investigation into connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and Russia." Furthermore, such a public statement would further position the nation's top law enforcement agencies against the Executive Branch. Along with concerns about potential attacks on the bureau’s credibility, senior F.B.I. officials are said to be worried that the notion of a court-approved wiretap will raise the public’s expectations that the federal authorities have significant evidence implicating the Trump campaign in colluding with Russia’s efforts to disrupt the presidential election. That, or raise even greater "worries" about allegations that the Obama administration was seeking to potentially sabotage a presidential candidate with a wiretap over Trump's Russian connections that, as Clapper admitted earlier, has found nothing. In an additional ironic twist, Comey’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering is certain to invite contrasts to his actions last year, when he spoke publicly about the Hillary Clinton email case and disregarded Justice Department entreaties not to. Meanwhile as reported earlier, the White House showed no indication that it would back down from Trump’s claims. On Sunday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said that the White House has demanded a congressional inquiry into whether Obama had "abused the power" of federal law enforcement agencies prior the 2016 presidential election. In the statement, Trump called “reports” about the wiretapping “very troubling” and said that Congress should examine them as part of its investigations into Russia’s meddling in the election. As reported earlier, according to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, Trump was "pissed" about the wiretap story, and said that "when I mentioned Obama “denials” about the wiretaps, he shot back: “This will be investigated, it will all come out. I will be proven right.” It is unclear if the Comey statement would be found evidentiary, and would put the matter to rest or if, as Trump has demanded, a full blown probe into the alleged wiretapping will proceed regardless, especially since as in the case of former DNI director Clapper earlier today, it would be the DOJ's word against that of the president. In case Mr. Comey (or Ms. Lynch) needed a reminder of just what the so-called 'Obamagate' timeline looks like - and where the DoJ was allegedly involved - here is the story so far... 1. June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied. 2. July: Russia joke. Wikileaks releases emails from the Democratic National Committee that show an effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from winning the presidential nomination. In a press conference, Donald Trump refers to Hillary Clinton’s own missing emails, joking: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.” That remark becomes the basis for accusations by Clinton and the media that Trump invited further hacking. 3. October: Podesta emails. In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians. 4. October: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services. 5. January 2017: Buzzfeed/CNN dossier. Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence “dossier” compiled by a foreign former spy. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump. None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. Several media outlets claim that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington. 6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing. As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked. 7. January: Times report. The New York Times reports, on the eve of Inauguration Day, that several agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department are monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign suspected of Russian ties. Other news outlets also report the exisentence of “a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government,” though it is unclear how they found out, since the investigations would have been secret and involved classified information. 8. February: Mike Flynn scandal. Reports emerge that the FBI intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — then a private citizen — and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The intercept supposedly was part of routine spying on the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obama’s newly-imposed sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them. Sally Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps inadvertently) about the content of the conversation. 9. February: Times claims extensive Russian contacts. The New York Times cites “four current and former American officials” in reporting that the Trump campaign had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims — and the Times admits that there is “no evidence” of coordination between the campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks. 10. March: the Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign — once at a Heritage Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessions’s Senate office. The Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessions’s testimony at his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians, though in context (not presented by the Post) it was clear he meant in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to claims in the “dossier” of ongoing contacts. The New York Times, in covering the story, adds that the Obama White House “rushed to preserve” intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump campaign. By “preserve” it really means “disseminate”: officials spread evidence throughout other government agencies “to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators” and perhaps the media as well.
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President Trump has been provided the evidence of a paper trail leading to a FISA court that substantiates his assertions that Obama, obtained authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign under the pretense of a national security investigation
This is as Serious as it Gets
By Doug Hagmann —— Bio and Archives March 7, 2017
There is a large storm brewing over Washington, DC right now – a storm that could dwarf anything ever seen in recent times. It is growing stronger by the hour as new information is being disclosed that strongly suggests that it is possible, even likely, that Obama and his Department of Justice maliciously and criminally misused the FISA process to collect intelligence on Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. Additionally, Obama personally relaxed the limitations on how such information collected could be disseminated in the weeks before leaving office. The political ramifications from this, if proved correct, could be unprecedented in scope. Once fully exposed, it would explain the curious actions of Obama as he prepared to vacate the White House. It would also explain, in context, the actions and statements of not only Barack Hussein Obama, but others in key positions of power including Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, John Brennan, and others within the media. At issue is Obama’s insistence to secure a federal wiretap warrant of Donald J. Trump, the candidate, using the federal court system as the mechanism to do so. The ostensible probable cause was alleged ties between Donald J. Trump and/or his associates with Russia. The first warrant application was made in June 2016, according to reports published by The New York Times and elsewhere, but was rejected due to the lack of probable cause of criminal activity. When the request was denied in regular federal court, Obama and his Justice Department attempted an “end around” by citing the existence of a “foreign actor” and made a similar surveillance warrant application through the more specialized Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in October of 2016. According to published reports, that warrant application was rejected as well, a rare occurrence in the FISA venue, which strengthens claims that no evidence of any foreign involvement ever existed. It has been reported that the initial warrant application to the FISA court specifically named Donald J. Trump. It is also relevant to note here that this is the type of activity that led to the creation of the infamous “Wall” that was referenced after the 9/11 attacks. Its relevance to this specific instance is explained well by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy in this January 11, 2017 column. Apparently undeterred, the Obama Justice Department submitted yet another application to the FISA court, this time omitting the name of Donald J. Trump and submitting it as a FISA specific case. The FISA court reportedly approved the application under the new and more narrow scope. Specifically, ties to two Russian banks: Russia’s SV bank and Alfa Bank. The alleged target was a computer server reportedly situated inside the Trump Tower. Based on the lack of action consequential to that warrant and wiretap, it has been stated (and can be reasonably determined) that no actionable evidence was found. Shortly before leaving office, Obama expanded the power of the National Security Agency (NSA) as detailed in the unclassified document titled Procedures for the Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence Information by the National Security Agency (NSA). As detailed in that document, limitations were changed on what the NSA could do with the information they collected through their surveillance operations. These changes effectively relaxed the restrictions on the dissemination of information collected on private citizens by broadening the access to such information. It is also notable that on January 3, 2017, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed off on rule changes for phone taps. It appears that President Trump has been provided the evidence of a paper trail leading to a FISA court that substantiates his assertions that Barack Hussein Obama, working in concert with others including those wielding the full might and power of various federal agencies, improperly obtained authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign under the pretense of a national security investigation, and continued such monitoring beyond its tenuous scope even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found. This is as serious as it gets.
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Newsmax CEO: "I Spoke To Trump About The Wiretap Story, I Haven't Seen Him This Pissed Off In A Long Time"
by Tyler Durden Mar 5, 2017 5:48 PM
While the Sunday talk shows have been largely focused on debunking Trump's allegations that Obama hacked the Trump Tower, a somewhat different perspective into Trump's current state of mind comes from Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, a close friend of the President, who in an article this morning shares that having spoken to Trump about the wiretapping story, he hasn't "seen Trump so pissed off in a long time." Below are some of the highlights from Ruddy's article posted earlier today: When I woke up Sunday, I thought the morning news shows would all be talking about the unusual, perhaps dangerous, decision of the Obama administration to wiretap the offices of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. I’ve been watching Chuck Todd’s “Meet the Press” as I write this. There is actually little talk about this unprecedented wire-tapping and even less worry over it. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, usually thoughtful, just told Chuck Todd he found it is “shocking” that Trump disclosed the wiretapping claim on Twitter. But Friedman offered no shock that such a wiretap might have taken place! I spoke with the President twice yesterday about the wiretap story. I haven’t seen him this pissed off in a long time. When I mentioned Obama “denials” about the wiretaps, he shot back: “This will be investigated, it will all come out. I will be proven right.” Ruddy then focuses on the semantic denial by Obama that he had not ordered such a wiretap: Today on the "Meet the Press" James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, denied any agency that operated under him, including the FBI, ever wiretapped the Trump offices. “To my knowledge,” he added. [Wasn’t Clapper the same man who testified under oath that the NSA never collected phone data on millions of Americans — a fact proven untrue by the Snowden revelations?] But the most important Clapper revelation from “Meet the Press” was this: He emphatically told Todd the Obama intelligence agencies found “no evidence” of collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russians. Nothing. Nada. If that is true, and Trump is right he was indeed wiretapped, it will only fuel his argument that Obama administration officials improperly eavesdropped on his office. In lieu of a follow-up from Trump as this story progresses, here is what Ruddy thinks are the relevant things to consider in the near future: No one is denying that the Russians outrageously interfered in the U.S. election. Trump says it’s true too. But remember this “act of war” happened under Obama not Trump. Obama did nothing against Putin and the Russians despite having full knowledge of Russian’s active measures at the time they were happening. This wasn’t Trump’s fault. Another sign of the Obama administration’s weakness. The Russian interference, which again I take very seriously, did not change the election result. In fact, an argument could be made it hurt Trump and helped Hillary. Hillary outperformed Obama’s 2012 results in many, many states. For example, she cut Obama’s loss in Texas by half! Hillary’s problem was her campaign did little in the five states that mattered. As Woody Allen once described the secret of success, Trump just “showed up” in those states — and won. Despite Clapper and others saying there is no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, the media is continually trying to create such a narrative. For example, stories are proliferating of the Russian ambassador’s contacts with the Trump campaign. But the truth is that campaigns deal all the time with foreign diplomats. There is nothing unusual or illegal here. And considering Trump’s very open declaration he wanted to reset U.S.-Russian relations, these contacts should not be surprising. Lastly, Chuck Schumer and other Democrats calling for a special prosecutor are way, way over the top. The Constitution provides for a “special prosecutor” — it’s called Congress. The Senate Intelligence Committee and other Congressional committees will review these matters soon. If they find serious evidence of wrong doing by the Trump campaign, then they can seek a special prosecutor. As for the markets, the rising concern is that as Trump continues to get weighed down by such domestic policy "smokescreens" as Ruddy calls it, the reality is that the president's economic plans, be it the repeal of Obamacare or his tax policy, are becoming increasingly unlikely to be implemented in the near, and not so near future, and sooner or later the market will have no choice but to notice.
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Sessions Has Names Of CIA Intel Leakers - This Is Why Media And Obama Lackies Went After The Attorney General
March 5, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While all eyes have been on Trump's assertion that the Obama administration was wire tapping his communications before the election, the legal ramifications, the denials from Obama lackies with the help of the media, something huge fell through the cracks, which explains why the the "dark state" members within the intelligence community rushed to "leak" information on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in the hopes that the media could create such a firestorm that he would resign. Sessions didn't resign he simply recused himself of being part of any investigation or prosecution of "any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States." That is a very narrow scope of recusal, especially since there is no proof that the AG's office is even conducting any investigation relating to the campaigns for president of the United States. JEFF SESSIONS HAS THE NAMES OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY LEAKERS Joseph diGenova, the former U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia under Reagan, has spoken privately to his sources at the CIA who has confirmed that the names of the intelligence officials that have been leaking information to the Washington Post and the New York Times, illegally sharing classified information with the media, have been turned over to the Department of Justice, which is headed by none other than AG Jeff Sessions. CIA officials know who has been leaking classified information to The New York Times and The Washington Post, and the officials have passed that information on to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a former U.S. attorney for President Ronald Reagan. Joseph diGenova, the former U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia under Reagan, told LifeZette that in private conversations with CIA officials they confirmed they have the names of alleged leakers and have given the names to the U.S. Department of Justice. Sessions and the DOJ are now in possession of the names of some of the leakers, which fully explains why the media rushed to create a narrative by implication, when highlighting meetings Sessions held, while he was still part of the U.S. Senate, with Russian envoys. How would forcing Sessions to resign help those leakers, the media and Obama operatives still holding positions of power? The answer to that ties directly into what ANP reported on Saturday, that Barack Obama attempted to "stack the deck" at the DOJ, by quietly removing Dana Boente from the line of succession in the DOJ hieracrchy, which would have put U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia, the Northern District of Illinois and the Central District of California, in the direct line of succession. As we highlighted yesterday, "The man Obama placed at the head of the line of succession is D.C.'s U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips, who is quite cozy with President Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder." Via Lifezette: The New York Times revealed in a report Wednesday that President Obama’s staffers left bread crumbs for anyone looking to undermine the Trump administration throughout the federal government. The revelation by The Times indicates how a steady drip of embarrassing leaks has tormented the new administration of President Donald Trump. On Wednesday night, The Washington Post reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had met the Russian ambassador twice in 2016. Sessions was then the junior U.S. senator from Alabama. So, the CIA hands over the names of the leakers to the DOJ, meaning Sessions now has the names of those to build a case and possibly prosecute for leaking classified information, and what does the "deep state" Obama hold-overs immediately do? Leak information on Sessions, in an attempt to force him to resign, so that an Obama operative would be in charge of prosecuting, or more importantly, not prosecuting other Obama operatives. Or so they thought....... Unknown to Democrats and even the media, Trump quietly signed the order to put Boente back in the line of succession. Boente is now the Acting Deputy Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Not only does Sessions narrow scope of recusal leave him fully in charge of any investigation into the leaks, but even had the campaign against Sessions forced him to step down, it wouldn't be the person Obama hand picked to be in a position to help the intelligence leakers, but it would be someone willing to prosecute said leakers to fullest extent of the law, after building a case against them. OBAMA ADMIN ORCHESTRATED SESSIONS MEETING WITH RUSSIA AMBASSADOR One of the meetings "leaked" to the press about Sessions meeting with the Russian ambassador, to which Democrats started screaming collusion and started demanding Sessions resign, was sponsored by the Obama justice department in July 2016.
Breitbart reports: The two-day event was hosted by a civic organization, Global Cleveland, whose website cites the state department’s role: On Tuesday, July 19, Global Cleveland welcomed roughly 80 international ambassadors to its Global Partners in Diplomacy reception at Severance Hall. The event, coordinated in partnership with the 2016 Republican National Convention and the U.S. Department of State, introduced the ambassadors to nearly 200 of Northeast Ohio’s civic and corporate leaders. BOTTOM LINE SUMMARY In summary: The Obama administration left "bread crumbs" for his loyal operatives to undermine Trump, using those crumbs to "leak" classified information to outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Times. Obama also tried to stack the deck at the DOJ so that if said operatives were caught, or their names were handed over to the DOJ, someone very friendly to the Obama agenda would be in charge of whether to prosecute them or not after forcing Sessions to resign. The outcome: Sessions didn't resign, and any case that ends up at the DOJ, if any do, that concerns the presidential campaigns, his recusal statement deliberately listed Boente's name as the person that would be in charge of those cases, not the person Obama tried to insert. Exit point: Now you have Sessions, who just survived an orchestrated plan to attempt to force his ouster as AG, in possession of the names of the people that tried to force him to resign. Anyone else think that those Obama operatives that have been leaking classified information are about to have a very bad year.... or twenty to life?
http://allnewspipeline.com/Sessions_Has_Names_Of_Leakers.php
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Emergency Transmission: Alex Jones Begs Trump to Take the Media Head on
Coup against President Trump now taking place
Infowars.com - March 5, 2017
Alex Jones breaks down the Obama administration’s wiretapping of Trump Tower, and the mainstream media’s ceaseless attacks on the new president. Tune in to the Sunday edition of The Alex Jones Show from 4pm-6pm CST at infowars.com/show for the latest breaking information.
https://www.infowars.com/emergency-transmission-alex-jones-begs-trump-to-take-the-media-head-on/
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Two Hamas Positions Destroyed Following Shooting Attack
By Jewish Press News Briefs - 5 Adar 5777 – March 2, 2017
An IDF unit running normal operations alongside the northern Gaza border came under fire around 2:30 PM on Thursday. No one was injured in the attack, but signs of bullet fire were found on their vehicle. In response, the IDF, using the Air Force and a tank, obliterated two Hamas military positions in Gaza. The IDF holds Hamas responsible for any and all terror attacks emanating from within the Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Liberman, responding to the question as to why Israel didn’t response to the rocket attack against Israel last night said that the IDF doesn’t need to dance to Hamas’s tune and automatically react every time Hamas does something. He then blamed Hamas for the suffering of Gaza’s citizens.
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Israeli official to Hamas: We know of your cooperation with ISIS In Sinai
By Anna Ahronheim March 2, 2017 19:31
Maj. Gen Yoav Mordechai takes to Facebook to bash cooperation between terror groups. COGAT’s Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai told Hamas on Thursday that the IDF is well aware of its cooperation with Islamic State in Sinai. “Hamas leaders: Your efforts to hide your cooperation with Islamic State’s smuggling from Sinai, through lies and manipulation in attempts to broadcast ‘business as usual’ with Egypt, are not hidden from our view,” the head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories unit wrote in Arabic on Facebook. According to Mordechai, Bilal Brahma, a Salafist- linked Hamas member and top smuggler with Sinai Province, the Islamic State group in Sinai, was reported by Hamas to have been killed in the restive peninsula. But despite Hamas setting up a mourning tent for him, he is alive and receiving a salary from Hamas’s “military” wing, Izzadin Kassam, while being treated in a hospital in Gaza by Jihad Cahlut, who is supposedly responsible for contact with ISIS terrorists in Sinai, according to Mordechai. “Hamas is brazenly lying to its neighbors and to Egypt, which works to destroy tunnel infrastructures; this comes one week before representatives of the terrorist organization will make an expedition to Egypt,” he said. “Hamas’s senior delegation may want to consult with Bilal to know which tunnels are best for crossing from Gaza to Egypt and save the time waiting in Rafah.” Israel has a 240-km. border with Sinai and since Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rise to power, Cairo and Jerusalem have been closely cooperating in the Sinai peninsula in the fight against Islamic State terrorists. According to an infographic released by ISIS, Sinai Province operates in El-Arish, Bir Abd and Sheikh Zuweid. Sisi has waged extensive military operations against Islamic State in Sinai, and in January said 25,000 soldiers have been deployed to northern Sinai to fight the jihadists. Despite the small size of the terrorist group, Sinai Province is considered to be one of the most effective Islamic State franchises outside Syria and Iraq, and has carried out numerous deadly attacks on Egyptian security forces.
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Hezbollah-linked video threatens attacks on 9 Israeli nuclear, chemical sites
Propaganda clip includes pictures and details of the sensitive facilities
By Dov Lieber March 3, 2017, 1:56 pm
A propaganda video released by an outlet affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group threatens missile strikes on nine highly sensitive chemical and nuclear sites in Israel. The video published by the al-Ahed news website comes on the heels of increased saber-rattling by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatening to strike Israel’s nuclear reactor in the southern city of Dimona and an ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. The video, published on February 22, not only lists the nine sites and shows satellite images of the locations, but in some instances adds information such as how many people work there, how many buildings it’s comprised of and what dangerous materials are being handled in it. The video begins with what appears to be Russian S-300 missiles being fired and striking the Dimona nuclear reactor and the sound of alarms. The video also lists other sites, including the Nahal Sorek desalination plant in central Israel, and the Kishon chemical plant located near Haifa. Other locations included are nuclear weapons research sites for the Israeli arms developer Raphael, and sites where the Israeli military is allegedly storing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. While Israeli believes Hezbollah has a large weapons arsenal, with rockets that can strike much of the country, the terror group is not known to posses S-300 missiles. Several Israeli airstrikes in Syria have reportedly been carried out to thwart transfers of advanced weapons to the group. Earlier this week, a court ruled that an ammonia storage tank in Haifa must be emptied out and moved, partially in response to a report that found a missile strike on the site could kill tens of thousands of people.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-linked-video-threatens-attacks-on-nuclear-chemical-sites/
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Trump set to sign revised travel ban order
Published March 06, 2017 FoxNews.com
President Trump on Monday is set to sign a revised executive order that will halt America’s refugee program and temporarily ban the entry of people seeking to come to the United States from several countries in the Middle East and Africa, Counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed to “Fox & Friends.” Amid confusion over the original measure, Conway said the new version includes "six or seven" points that will clarify those areas. Among other changes, she said the new order will clearly exclude legal permanent residents and leave Iraq off a list of countries whose residents would be subject to a temporary travel ban. She also indicated the new version would no longer indefinitely bar Syrian refugees. The administration has repeatedly pushed back the signing of the new executive order as it has worked to better coordinate with agencies that it will need to implement the ban. The new order has been in the works since shortly after a federal court blocked Trump’s initial effort. Trump was elected in November in large part on a national security platform that included stronger U.S. borders and putting an end to ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups. One of his first official acts after taking office in late-January was to sign executive orders that temporarily halted the U.S. refugee program and travel from seven mostly-Muslim, Middle Eastern and African countries. The orders have been held up in a federal appeals court since early-February, with Trump weighing his options but making clear as recently as last week that he fully intends to fulfill his campaign pledge. “The vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country,” Trump said during his address to a joint session of Congress last week. “It is not compassionate, but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur,” he said. “We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America. And we cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists … That is why my administration has been working on improved vetting procedures, and we will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe.” The federal appeals court temporarily blocked parts of Trump’s executive orders and halted the travel ban, then denied the administration’s request to immediately lift the ban. Critics of the ban argue it was hastily crafted with parts lacking adequate constitutional authority. To be sure, uncertainty about the status of green card holders caused confusion and sparked major protests at international airports across the country on the Saturday after Trump signed the executive order, which was followed by administration officials promptly issuing guidance on legal permanent U.S. residents, or green card holders, to exempt them from the ban. According to a draft version of the new order outlined to lawmakers late last week, citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya will face a 90-day suspension of visa processing as the administration continues to analyze how to enhance vetting procedures. The revised order is expected to remove Iraq from the list of countries that would be subject to a 90-day travel ban. That follows pressure from the Pentagon and State Department, which had urged the White House to reconsider, given Iraq's key role in fighting ISIS. Other changes are also expected, including making clear that all existing visas will be honored and no longer singling out Syrian refugees for an indefinite ban. Syrian refugees will now be treated like other refugees and be subjected to a 120-day suspension of the refugee program. The new version is also expected to remove language that would give priority to religious minorities. Critics had accused the administration of adding such language to help Christians get into the United States while excluding Muslims. Fox News’ Joseph Weber and Serafin Gomez contributed to this report. The Associated Press also contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/06/trump-to-reportedly-sign-revised-travel-ban-order.html
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Sweden roundup: Another weekend of gang-rapes and sexual violence, police forensics so understaffed suspects walk free
Posted on March 6, 2017 14:30 By David Frankenhuis
Several Swedish women and girls have this weekend become the victim of gang rapes, rapes, and other forms of sexual violence. Increasingly, girls and women are publicly questioning the ‘normality’ of the harassment that for many of them seems to virtually have become a part of daily life. Linköping: young woman stabbed, gang-raped In Linköping, a 25-year-old woman was yesterday dragged away by two unknown men to a wooded area near the local university. She was subsequently stabbed, gang-raped, and robbed by the attackers, who have not been caught by police yet. A passer-by found the crying victim, who was bleeding from cutting wounds. According to daily Aftonbladet, a similar sex attack recently took place in the same area in Linköping. The woman managed to give a description of the assailants, but police are scarce with details. “We’re not presenting the information yet since it could negatively affect the investigation,” a law enforcement spokesman commented. The victim has been treated for her wounds in a hospital. Stockholm: young woman raped near school Stockholm police are investigating the rape, also committed last Sunday, of a woman in her early twenties near a school in the city centre, Expressen reports. The authorities are secretive on details of the sex attack, that took place in the early morning hours on the schoolyard of King’s Gymnasium. Forensic detectives have sealed off the place and are looking for traces of the crime. No arrest has yet been made in the case, police have stated. Harassment at the dance floor Tess Bengtsson, a 20-year-old Swedish woman (pictured above), on Friday posted an open letter on her Facebook page to the men who had groped her and two of her friends a few days before during a night out in Halmstad. When Bengtsson and the other young women were dancing in a crowd, several men systematically harassed them, even after the victims had repeatedly signalled to the attackers that they were not interested. “Maybe you just don’t care how we feel about this kind of thing, or you were simply enjoying yourself. To be macho and treat girls anyway you want. (…) We felt uncomfortable and humiliated, so we left, but then decided to go back inside again, so you wouldn’t be the ones to decide on when our evening should end.” But once back inside, Bengtsson writes, things turned even more violent when one of her friends was strangled by one of the perpetrators. “Our evening ended there and in tears, how did yours? (…) Many of us don’t even react to sexual harassment anymore. It happens everywhere, anytime, all the time. We have to constantly be on our guard and beware of you guys who experience things differently. And it’s never our fault that you do.” Prosecutors demand action One of the factors hampering investigations into sex crimes and other felonies is the inertia of the forensic divisions of the police. According to Sveriges Radio, several hundred of the country’s prosecutors are dissatisfied with the detectives’ work, a recent survey has proved. Sweden’s National Forensic Center (NFC) sometimes needs more than a year for a DNA analysis, while offenders go free. “The problem is approaching the size of legal scandal,” one of the commenting prosecutors said, while another stated that “serious criminals are set free because we’re awaiting the response of the NFC.” ‘Mosul safer than Stockholm’ Magda Gad, a female Swedish war correspondent, may exaggerate just a little when she recently stated that, at least for women, the Iraqi city of “Mosul is safer than Stockholm.” (Mosul is still partly occupied by the Islamic State.) “There is no law on the veil here, and it’s quieter to go out as a woman than it is in Stockholm. No one bothers you when you walk the streets, it’s very calm.”
https://gatestone.eu/sweden-roundup/
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Israel's unlikely path to World Baseball Classic
Martin Rogers , USA TODAY Sports Published 5:57 p.m. ET March 5, 2017 | Updated 8 hours ago
The written history of Israeli baseball would be a pretty small book, but as the World Baseball Classic gets ready to begin on Monday the tournament’s biggest underdog is motivated to provide one of its best story lines. Team Israel will take part in the 16-team field for the first time and is not expected to last too long, having been placed with South Korea, Taiwan and the Netherlands in Pool A with a squad that does not include a player currently on the 40-man roster of a major-league team. However, remarkable upsets are part of what we love about the game, and if the Israel team can display the same level of resiliency that it took just to put the group together, then it could have a fighting chance. MORE BASEBALL COVERAGE: Tim Tebow's Mets debut: Wednesday vs. Red Sox, Friday vs. Astros Does Noah Syndergaard regret skipping World Baseball Classic? 'Not one bit' “We had to hunt far and wide and find the best guys who could potentially be eligible,” Peter Kurz, president of the Israel Association of Baseball, told USA TODAY Sports. Eight of the players have had some major-league experience, with virtually all being Americans of Jewish heritage. Kurz scoured the country, using a baseball blog that charts the progress of Jewish players and relying on word of mouth. WBC regulations dictate that a player can participate if they are eligible to apply for citizenship of that country. Israeli law allows all Jews to receive automatic citizenship. Once Kurz had his list of candidates, a widespread collection of information began, with faxes and emails sent to WBC chiefs including parental birth certificates, evidence of bar and bat mitzvahs or anything else needed to verify the authenticity of the squad’s claim to Israeli eligibility. “In some cases it was easy,” Kurz said. “In others, we had elderly family members trying to track down documents. It was a process.” Then, the team had to actually do the business of qualifying, having lost in the final preliminary stage ahead of the 2013 tournament. There was no mistake this time, with Israel outlasting Brazil, Pakistan and Great Britain to reach the final field. “Playing for Israel is the last thing I thought I would be doing,” Ty Kelly, a utility player in the New York Mets farm system, said. “And there is nothing I would rather be doing. It really does have a deep meaning.” Kelly was part of a group of players to visit Israel in January on a promotional tour aimed at increasing baseball awareness and boosting the number of players from its current level of around 1,000. “When we went to Israel we saw the pride they have in their country,” Kelly added. “To be able to give the people another outlet to express that pride, by supporting a team in a sport that Israel has never been known for, it just feels really cool.” The sport’s national governing body has made moves to ensure the sport is integrated across different ethnicities and is confident that the positive coverage provided by the WBC will give an extra boost. While Israel is considered the biggest long shot out of the 16 teams, it has some names that will be familiar to baseball followers, including 2009 All-Star pitcher Jason Marquis and Ike Davis, who hit 32 homers for the Mets in 2012. Ryan Lavarnway, a catcher in the Oakland A's system, insisted no team will have a closer bond than Israel. “In America as a Jew are you a minority but especially in the game of baseball,” Lavarnway told the BBC. “We have so much shared experience and understanding that hardship road of the ups and downs of baseball. It has really bonded us as a team."
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Chick-fil-A employee gets new home from customer
By Travis Rice Published: February 22, 2017, 7:53 pm Updated: February 22, 2017, 7:53 pm
MCCLELLANVILLE, S.C. (WCBD) – A McClellanville family has a new home thanks to stranger. Brian Smyth was so pleased with his Chick-fil-A experience a year and a half ago due to Shakeel Williams, he befriended him. “He has this sort of natural humanity that just shines through in everything he does,” said Smyth. Smyth got to know Williams and his family. The title agency president started helping to pay for Williams’ medical bills stemming from sickle cell anemia and its complications. Smyth decided he needed to do something bigger for “Shack” as Williams is called by those close to him after driving him home from work one night. Last week, Smyth and the construction crew demolished the trailer William’s lives at with his mother and siblings. And on Wednesday, the family got to see what they will be moving into in a few days. “I thank God first of all,” said Tolunda Williams, Shekeel’s mother, “and thank God for my son.” “It’s like a blessing,” added Shekeel. Shekeel’s mother says she never imagined the values she instilled in Shekeel to pay off like this. “Shack treats somebody how you want them to treat you,” said Williams, “it’s a blessing.” Bryan Smyth’s company Landmark 13 gives 13% of it’s profits to people in need.
http://counton2.com/2017/02/22/chick-fil-a-employee-gets-new-home-from-customer/
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North Korea fires four missiles toward Japan, angering Tokyo and South Korea
By Ju-min Park and Kaori Kaneko | SEOUL/TOKYO Mon Mar 6, 2017 | 3:40pm EST
North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan's northwest on Monday, angering South Korea and Japan, days after it promised retaliation over U.S.-South Korea military drills it sees as preparation for war. South Korea's military said the missiles were unlikely to have been intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), which can reach the United States. They flew on average 1,000 km (620 miles) and reached an altitude of 260 km (160 miles). Some landed as close as 300 km (190 miles) from Japan's northwest coast, Japan's Defence Minister Tomomi Inada said in Tokyo. The United States and Japan have requested a United Nations Security Council meeting on the launches, which will likely be scheduled for Wednesday, diplomats said. The U.S. military on Monday left open the possibility of additional launch attempts. "There were four that landed. There may be a higher number of launches that we're not commenting on. But four landed and splashed in the Sea of Japan," Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told a news briefing. White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters the United States was taking steps to enhance "our ability to defend against ballistic missiles" such as a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in South Korea. "The launches are consistent with North Korea’s long history of provocative behavior," Spicer said. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said "strong protests" had been lodged with nuclear-armed North Korea, which has carried out a series of nuclear and missile tests in defiance of U.N. resolutions. "The launches are clearly in violation of Security Council resolutions. It is an extremely dangerous action," Abe told parliament. South Korea's acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn condemned the launches as a direct challenge to the international community and said Seoul would swiftly deploy a U.S. anti-missile defense system despite angry objections from China. The missiles were launched from the Tongchang-ri region near the reclusive North's border with China, South Korean military spokesman Roh Jae-cheon told a briefing, but said it was too early to say what their relatively low altitude indicated. Joshua Pollack, editor of the U.S.-based Non-Proliferation Review, said it did not appear the North had launched an ICBM. "It sounds like a field exercise involving deployed missiles, probably ones we've seen before," Pollack said. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, also told Reuters there were no indications so far that North Korea had tested an ICBM. “We deplore the continued violation of Security Council resolutions by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the most recent launches of ballistic missiles. The DPRK leadership should refrain from further provocations and return to full compliance with its international obligations,” U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said on Monday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news briefing that China, which is holding its annual meeting of the National People's Congress, had noted North Korea's action. "All sides should exercise restraint and not do anything to irritate each other to worsen regional tensions," Geng said, referring to both the missile launches and U.S.-South Korean military exercises. JOINT DRILLS North Korea had threatened to take "strong retaliatory measures" after South Korea and the United States began annual joint military drills on Wednesday that test their defensive readiness against possible aggression from the North. North Korea criticizes the drills and has previously conducted missile launches to coincide with them. Last year, North Korea fired a long-range rocket from Tongchang-ri that put an object into orbit. The United Nations condemned that launch for violating resolutions banning the use of ballistic missile technology. North Korea test-fired a new type of missile into the sea last month and has said it would continue to launch new strategic weapons. Last month's test was the first since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed to rein in North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un. Trump's national security deputies have reviewed options to counter the missile threat, the New York Times reported, including missile strikes on launch sites and the possibility of reintroducing nuclear weapons to the South, the Times said. Those options would soon be presented to Trump and national security aides, it said, quoting U.S. administration officials. The United States withdrew nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991 before the rival Koreas signed a declaration on denuclearization of the peninsula. North Korea walked away from the agreement, citing the threat of invasion by the United States. "The claim that we should redeploy nuclear weapons here, 20 years after they were withdrawn, is total nonsense," said Woo Sang-ho, floor leader of South Korea’s main opposition Democratic Party. "I am formally asking the United States not to bring this issue up for consideration," Woo told a party meeting. North Korea conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test last September, following what the United States said was an "unprecedented" level of activity in its banned nuclear and missile programs. State media said after that test Pyongyang had used a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on a ballistic missile. The United States has about 28,500 troops and equipment stationed in the South, and plans to roll out the THAAD system there by the end of the year. Japan plans to reinforce its ballistic missile defenses and is considering buying either THAAD or building a ground-based version of the Aegis system deployed on ships in the Sea of Japan. (Additional reporting by Christine Kim and James Pearson in Seoul, Tim Kelly in Tokyo, Ben Blanchard in Beijing, Phil Stewart in Washington and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Paul Tait and James Dalgleish)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN16C0YU
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etc. It is not the books that man writes, it is the word,
the living word, the logos, the rhema, stay in my word, walk in my word,
function in my word and you shall see what the EU is about ready to do, you
shall understand what Russia is planning and purposing now, you shall
even see China who is the last army that moves down into that valley after my
church is gone. You will understand these things, for it is very clear in my
word exactly what I shall do and you will not say, well, it must be fifteen
years off, you will not say it must be ten years off, you will not say it must
be five years off, for you shall see the signs clearly and
you shall understand the hour, you shall understand the time and you will know.
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Red alert on US destroyer in Black Sea as Russian jets 'buzz' aggressively overhead just yards above deck
The aircraft comes within yards of the the deck on the USS Porter as it shoots overhead
By Sam Adams 16:44, 2 MAR 2017Updated12:14, 3 MAR 2017
This dramatic footage shows the moment a Russian fighter jet buzzes a US destroyer in the Black Sea. The aircraft comes within yards of the the deck on the USS Porter as it shoots overhead. It is unclear why the jet engaged in such an aggressive manoeuvre, but Russia has recently been reasserting its strategic control over the Black Sea region. Russia has a huge naval battle fleet stationed in Sevastopol. The Kremlin is spending a fortune beefing up the nation's armed forces. Putin's forces are carrying out a gruelling Cold War exercise in freezing Arctic conditions as Russia moves to bolster its military presence in the region. A 2,000 kilometre convoy of snow trucks and impenetrable tanks was seen thundering over the frozen Laptev Sea as it travelled to a new state-of-the-art military base. Units will test out new equipment and specialised uniforms that can stand -30C conditions after travelling from the bleak Arctic port of Tiksi to the island of Kotelny. Deputy Defence Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov said the aim was to "research and test new and promising models of weapons and military and special equipment in the Arctic". We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story. For the latest news and breaking news visit Mirror.co.uk/news .
http://www.mirror.co.uk/incoming/alert-destroyer-black-sea-russian-9950876
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Act of War: Mexico deliberately pollutes Calif. beaches with tsunami of raw sewage 5 times that of Gulf oil spill
Posted on March 2, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 33 Comments
Is this Mexico’s revenge against President Trump’s construction of a wall along our southern border? Tijuana is a Mexican city located on the Gold Coast of Baja California, with a population of 1,696,923 as of 2015. Located on the Mexican-Californian border, Tijuana is part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. California’s state and local officials believe a massive sewage spill in Tijuana that is polluting beaches in San Diego County this month may have been no accident. Officials said during a period of more than two weeks that ended Thursday, March 1, about 143 million gallons of raw sewage spewed into the Tijuana River and made its way up the coast. While cross-border sewage spills of a few million gallons are routine for the region, this is one of the largest such events in the last two decades, according to water quality experts in San Diego. People from Tijuana to as far north as Coronado, a resort city in San Diego County, have been complaining of foul odors for weeks, prompting lawmakers in San Diego County to contact federal regulators as well as agencies in Mexico. The U.S. regulators said their Mexican counterparts have given little explanation, neither have Mexican officials responded to L.A. Times‘ requests for comment. Serge Dedina, mayor of Imperial Beach, a residential beach city in San Diego County, said he tried to get answers from officials on both sides of the border for more than a week with no response. Dedina said: “This was like a tsunami of sewage spills. What’s worse is it looks to me like this was deliberate. It saves [the Mexican agencies] a lot of money in pumping costs, and ultimately, they can get away with it and do it all the time, just on a much smaller scale.” The toxic discharge is estimated to have happened from Feb. 6 through March 1, while repairs were made to a major sewer pipe near the confluence of Mexico’s Alamar and Tijuana rivers, according to the U.S. side of the International Boundary and Water Commission. Baja California’s State Public Service Commission maintains the sewer-system infrastructure in that area. “They basically said it was a bypass of raw sewage into the Tijuana River during the rehabilitation of a large sewer pipeline in Tijuana,” said Lori Kuczmanski, spokeswoman for the U.S. side of the commission, which oversees international water treaties with Mexico, among other things. By Tuesday, Feb. 28, U.S. officials said their Mexican counterparts still offered only scant details of the situation. They also said Mexico didn’t give them advance notice of the sewer-pipe repair project. Dave Gibson, executive officer of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, said: “Was the spill intentional? Well, yeah. It appears they were working on the pipeline. I don’t believe that it was a question of it failing. At least a notification would be a good neighborly thing to do, to let us know what was coming down the river before it got here so we could alert the public. Two-hundred years ago this might have been the state of the science but there’s absolutely no question, whatsoever, that the state of the science is you capture the sewage and you keep it in the system.” Gibson said a similar project in the United States would include efforts to prevent sewage from flowing downstream by using booms and then pumping the diverted sewage back into the wastewater system. Countless residents in the area have smelled the the spill. In addition to health concerns, people nearby are concerned that they’re just now hearing about it. Many are furious, saying the sewage should’ve been recaptured and put back into the treatment system instead of being allowed to travel all the way into the Pacific Ocean. Plus, they say they were never warned of the spill. On the evening of March 2, dozens of angry South Bay residents concerned about the massive sewage spill packed an International Boundaries Water Commission meeting. Leslie Bell, a Coronado Cays resident who was at the meeting, said as her daughter stood nearby with a sign that read ‘Mexico must Pay!‘: “When our kids can’t go and swim at the beach that’s right across form us, a state beach, it’s very upsetting. We just want to make sure that somebody is held accountable for it. If it hadn’t gotten worse and worse, they would have just gotten away with it if they could have. So how often is this happening? I feel like I have to go test the water every time my kids go swimming now.” According to a document released by the International Boundary and Water Commission Thursday, both U.S. and Mexican commissioners have agreed to investigate the transboundary sewage spill. Sources: Los Angeles Times; NBCSanDiego This tsunami of sewage spill is an environmental disaster. Where is the Sierra Club? Where are California’s vaunted environmentalists? To give you a sense of the magnitude of Mexico’s deliberate sewage dump, let’s compare it to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster of 2010: In the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a total of 210,000,000 gallons of oil seeped into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of 5 months, from April 20 to September 19, 2010, i.e., 152 days — or 1.381 million gallons a day. In the case of Tijuana’s sewage spill, 143,000,000 gallons of raw sewage were dumped into the Tijuana River during a period of 21 days (Feb. 6 through March 1) — or 6.809 million gallons a day. That means on an average per day gallon basis, the Tijuana sewage spill is 5 times more than the Gulf oil spill. The Tijuana sewage spill is tantamount to an act of war by the government of Mexico.
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What is this 2.5mile long object moving under the Pacific Ocean?
A MASSIVE circular structure has been spotted slowly crawling across the Pacific sea floor 3000 feet below the surface.
By Paul Baldwin PUBLISHED: 00:07, Fri, Mar 3, 2017 | UPDATED: 00:41, Fri, Mar 3, 2017
The object, which observers say looks man-made rather than natural, is estimated to measure more than 2.5miles in diameter and is surrounded by what look like massive tank tracks. Other observers suggest the tracks may be trenches or fortifications. But the most baffling thing is the circular object which appears to have left a 41 mile track in its wake as it trundled across the floor of the North Pacific off the Californian coast . The object was brought to the attention of alien investigators SecureTeam10 Tyler, who helps run the internet investigations site, said: “There are certain areas of the ocean that are obviously blurred out. But what better place would there be for another race or another group of beings to hide than in the deep of our own oceans? “While we are up staring at the sky all day and worrying about what’s up there we have 90 per cent of our oceans unchartered. “We have no idea what’s there and we have a lot of mysterious UFO phenomena happening in our oceans. “Some of these tracks truly do seem to have been dug out by something. “We see a large circular object and an obvious path or trail created by it – and it disappears into a blurred out area – how convenient.” Not everyone is convinced however. After SecureTeam10 published the Google sonar map on YouTube Mikitan Fox said: “Large parallel lines = tectonic fissures, naturally occurring sorry. “The curvy line is likely the pathway of a underwater current and deposition field of said current.” But the sceptics were far outnumbered by viewers curious to discover what the 2.5 mile object was. Paul Skillman said: “70% of our planet is covered by water. There could be things going on in our oceans that we are totally unaware of.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/774215/spotted-massive-object-moving-under-Pacific-Ocean
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Artificial 'embryo' created for first time in historic breakthrough
The three-dimensional model of a mouse embryo appeared to be ‘anatomically correct’
Ian Johnston Science Correspondent Thursday 2 March 2017 19:53 GMT
An artificial embryo-like structure has been created in the laboratory for the first time in a historic breakthrough that could shed light on the “magic” behind the creation of life. Researchers at Cambridge University were able to make what looked like an early “anatomically correct” mouse embryo. While stressing it was “nowhere near” something that could grow into an actual animal, one of the scientists said this would “without a doubt” eventually be possible. The same technique could potentially be used to build an artificial model of a human embryo, which might help scientists work out reasons why some early embryos fail to develop in the womb. Commenting on the research, described in the journal Science, one scientist in the field described it as a “beautifully conceived masterpiece”. The embryo model was made by combining two different types of stem cells, which can turn into any kind of tissue needed to make an animal, from brain to skin cells. One type forms the foetus, while the other develops into the placenta. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, who led the research, said: “Both the embryonic and extra-embryonic cells start to talk to each other and become organised into a structure that looks like and behaves like an embryo. “It has anatomically correct regions that develop in the right place and at the right time.” Fellow researcher Sarah Harrison, a PhD student, said using human stem cells to create a similar structure in the lab was “something certainly to explore”. “Again it would be a model, it would never be the real thing … [but could be] something that’s going to help us discover what leads to pregnancy failure,” she said. The researchers said the cells seemed to organise themselves into the right structure after a three-dimensional scaffold on which they could grow was built for them. “Certainly, when we started the preliminary experiments, we were surprised by the amount of self-organisation we could get – the self-assembly, if you will – without a great amount of manipulation,” Ms Harrison said. “You just need the right mix of things and there’s a bit of self-organisation going on.” Further research could be carried out to discover “what are the magic factors that really allow such a process, the arrangement of these cells, in what is effectively a mix of things?” Asked if the same technique could be used to create something close to a human embryo, she said: “Without a doubt it could be done … everything is possible eventually. “What we have done is certainly nowhere near that. Maybe it’s a step towards that but we haven’t created something that’s anything like the real thing. “It’s still really a model of what’s going on. Perhaps somebody in the future would be able to do this.” A third type of stem cell, which would form the yolk sac, would be among the extra steps required to create a functioning embryo artificially. Professor Zernicka-Goetz pioneered a technique that allows early embryos to develop in a lab beyond the point at which they would normally implant in the womb. But their studies have been hampered by a lack of embryos. Being able to create something similar artificially could solve this problem. “We think that it will be possible to mimic a lot of the developmental events occurring before 14 days using human embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells using a similar approach to our technique using mouse stem cells,” Professor Zernicka-Goetz said. “We are very optimistic that this will allow us to study key events of this critical stage of human development without actually having to work on embryos. Knowing how development normally occurs will allow us to understand why it so often goes wrong.” Dr Dusko Ilic, a reader in stem cell science at King’s College London, said the research was “another masterpiece of recreating in vitro the earliest steps of embryo development coming from the Zernicka-Goetz lab”. He added it was “a beautifully conceived and executed study demonstrating interplay of different cells in different cellular compartments within the first days of mouse development”. And Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, of the Francis Crick Institute in London, described the paper as “very interesting on a number of counts”.
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Globalists Continue To Foreshadow Doomsday As 'Insider' Reveals Answer To The Question: 'Who Runs The World?'
Why Are The Globalists Continuing To Foreshadow An Apocalyptic Biological Attack?
March 2, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The first video below from Infowars begins "right now, the global elite are preparing for something big. It looks like they're in the final stages of positioning themselves for a worldwide global pandemic - an event they say is not a matter of 'if', but a matter of 'when' it will happen". Before you proclaim 'fake news', let's take a look at the facts. As we reported back on February 19th in an ANP story called "Bill Gates Chilling Warnings: 'The Doomsday Scenarios Are Real' - 'Could Kill Hundreds Of Millions' With 'Terrifying New Weapons'", when 'depopulation' Bill Gates talks, Americans should listen. As the Infowars video points out using Bill Gates own words spoken by him, vaccines are one of the best ways to depopulate and regain control over the growth of the human population. If knowing Gates huge ownership portion of Monsanto isn't bad enough, knowing his long-documented ties to eugenics and global health organizations tied to depopulation are another bright-red red flag. Within this story and the videos below we take a look at more emerging evidence that the globalists may be preparing something absolutely sinister to regain control over the world via a planned pandemic that could 'thin out the herd', a goal they've long expressed as seen at one of America's most sinister sites, the Georgia Guidestones. With the election of President Donald Trump guaranteeing the globalists have, at least temporarily, lost control of 'their biggest prize', America, and the war against President Trump unfolding on all fronts as Susan Duclos reported today on ANP, we also see in a book recently released by Chelsea Clinton herself the globalists goal of regaining control over America and the world in her cryptically sub-titled "Who Runs The World And Why?" According to the new story from the Independent Journal Review, Chelsea Clinton's 'bold new online persona may be prep for her own political career'. For those of us who truly believed that America was done with the Clinton's once and for all, their story may be evidence that an attempt at a new 'Clinton dynasty' awaits as 'Chelsea boldly goes where she's never gone before', attacking the Trump administration over and over again from her 'high seat' upon Twitter. Also publicizing her attendance at a Muslim solidarity rally where she brought her own daughter Charlotte to her first protest, she's also taken on 'fake news', Trump's comments on Sweden (which were later proven to be correct) while also recently releasing a book called "Governing Global Health: Who Runs The World And Why?". As TruthFeed reports, not only was her book a HUGE FLOP but Clinton and her co-writer Devi Sindhar never do actually get around to officially answering that question: "Who runs the world and why?" However, looking through the purposeful vagueness as well as reviews of the rest of the book, we see that question answered as: big banks and global health organizations across the planet who have purposefully positioned themselves into positions to rule over the world should a massive pandemic 'take down most of humanity'. As the Infowars video argues, more and more such reasons are emerging for President Trump to get the US out global organizations and global health agreements that put the US's medical sovereignty at risk. With Clinton seemingly arguing that 'global health partnerships' are the answer to the world's health problems, we'd have to disagree strongly as health care is a deeply personal issue like any other and govts and 'global partnerships' have never been 'the answer'. While a well-trusted and well-loved family doctor can offer amazing advice, those once beloved providers of healthcare and American values have largely gone away with the advent of big corporate medicine. Book reviewers over at Amazon have been absolutely brutal on Clinton with even the 'top positive review' of the book seen in the screenshot above absolutely shredding her despite giving the book 5 stars. Comparing the book to pepper spray to keep unwanted 'clingers' away, giving the book as a recent Valentines Day 'gift' has kept their 'clinger' away. As of this moment, 82% of book reviewers gave Clinton a 'one-star rating' on the disastrous book. As we see in the additional comments screenshot below, people aren't buying her obvious NWO propaganda and as the first comment mentions, "When you kill off one set of people who provide your income, I guess you need new ones from another set to take their place, right?"
http://allnewspipeline.com/Globalists_Foreshadowing_Doomsday.php
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Holder Admits to Coup Against the American People Led By Obama
By Dave Hodges
Meet America’s number one covert subversive operative, Eric Holder, the CALEXIT spokesman, perpetrator of the illegal Fast and Furious operation. He was also held in contempt of Congress for refusing to come clean in his other scandal, Fast and Furious which resulted in the death of Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry. Holder talks openly about the sedition being fermented by for President Obama and the OFA. I have just concluded an investigation into the role that Holder and Obama are going to play in the beginning of the coup and against President Trump and the civil war being perpetrated against the American people and their government. This is Part One of that investigation. Part 2 will follow later today and will focus on the long-standing nature of this plot that came before Holder and it is precisely the plot that Soviet defectors, from the 1970’s and the 1980’s warned our government about.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/03/03/holder-admits-to-coup-led-by-obama/
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EXCLUSIVE: Barack Obama's close confidante Valerie Jarrett has moved into his new DC home, which is now the nerve center for their plan to mastermind the insurgency against President Trump
Obama's goal is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment, a family friend tells DailyMail.com
Jarrett has moved into the 8,200-square-foot, $5.3-million Kaloroma mansion to work closely with the former president and Michelle Obama
Jarrett lived in the White House, dined with the Obamas, and helped shape his domestic and foreign policies
Obama cannot use his West End office, a post-presidency perk, for political purposes
'He's coming. And he's ready to roll.' former Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday about the former president's reentry into the political scene
By Leon Wagener For Dailymail.com Published: 15:12 EST, 1 March 2017 | Updated: 19:17 EST, 1 March 2017
Barack Obama is turning his new home in the posh Kalorama section of the nation's capital - just two miles away from the White House - into the nerve center of the mounting insurgency against his successor, President Donald J. Trump. Obama's goal, according to a close family friend, is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment. And Obama is being aided in his political crusade by his longtime consigliere, Valerie Jarrett, who has moved into the 8,200-square-foot, $5.3-million Kaloroma mansion with the former president and Michelle Obama, long time best friends. Jarrett played a vital - if at times low-key - role in the Obama presidency. She lived in the White House, dined with the Obamas, and help shape his domestic and foreign policies. The former president has set up an office on the West End of the national's capitol, where he recently hosted an open house for his White House staff - including Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Josh Earnest and Jarrett. But the office, part of his post presidency perks, cannot be used for political purposes. The rent on his home is paid by him personally. On Tuesday, former Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that Obama is indeed getting closer to making his public reappearance in politics. 'It's coming. He's coming,' Holder said speaking to reporters. 'And he's ready to roll.' According to the family source, Obama was at first reluctant to assume the role of leader of the opposition. 'No longer the most powerful man in the world, he was just observing Trump and not liking what he saw,' said the source. 'He was weary and burned out after eight years in office. But Valerie convinced him that he didn't have any choice if he wanted to save his legacy. And, as usual, he bowed to Valerie's political wisdom and advice.' In his only public comment against Trump since leaving the presidency, Obama came out in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict immigration from predominantly Muslim countries. A spokesman said the former president thinks they're 'citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake.' After Obama left office, Jarrett moved all her White House belonging into the Kalorama mansion. 'There was never any doubt that Valerie would have a suite of rooms in the house that the Obama's are renting,' said the source. 'Obama trusts her judgment more than any other person on the planet, as does Michelle. Obama doesn't make a decision without her.' Spurred on by Jarrett and Michelle, the ex-president has come to embrace his role as the leader of the opposition against Trump, whose policies he loathes and whose presidency he considers illegitimate. 'He is going to use his immense popularity with the half of the country that identifies as liberals and progressives,' said the Obama family source. 'Millions of Americans are energized and ready to take to the streets to oppose Trump, but they need to be organized and have their anger focused and directed. 'Obama is dismayed at the way Trump is tearing down his legacy—ObamaCare, the social safety net and the welcome mat for refugees he put in place,' the source continued. Trump's cabinet picks are also problematic for the former president, especially Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, whom Obama regards as too racially insensitive to be in charge of the Civil Rights division at Justice. Leaving Jim Comey as FBI Director is another thorn in Obama's side. He blames Comey for announcing that he was reopening the FBI investigation into Hillary's emails eleven days before the election, which, in Obama's view, was an irresponsible act that helped elect Trump. 'He had hoped to write his memoirs, golf to his heart's content. and bask in the glory of his eight years in power and the progressive achievements he brought about. Instead, he is going to be leading the fight and strategy to topple Trump.' says the insider. The Kalorama house, which the Obama's are renting from Joe Lockhart, who was Bill Clinton's press secretary, is still being refurbished and redecorated by Michelle. 'Michelle and Valerie have changed their minds many times over about colors, carpets, wall paper, furnishing and art,' said the source. Michelle hired Los Angeles-based interior designer Michel S. Smith, who designed several rooms in The White House during their residence, to decorate the Kalorama home. Smith will also decorate the Obama's new home in Rancho Mirage, California. According to the source, Michelle and Valerie have big plans for traveling and shopping as well as strategizing over Trump. The friend said that Valerie and her signature enormous totes are going to be packed and ready to go for shopping sprees with Michelle from their native Chicago to Paris and the Far East, including Shanghai. 'They feel like they have had some great trips while in the White House, but were always working and being herded around,' said the source. 'Now they are planning to travel together - home to Chicago, to Paris and Shanghai, and shop to their heart's content. 'The Obamas both love the Kalorama house and are making it their own,' continued the source. 'They have plans to build a pool on the grounds. And they are almost certainly going to wind up buying the house from Lockart in the next few years. 'They are also planning to have a house in Hawaii, as well as in Chicago, where the Obama Presidential Library will be built. But Kalorama, where the Washington action takes place, is going to be home base.'
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Posted on March 2, 2017 by Ray Starmann
The Democrats: Out of Touch, Out of Ideas, Out of their Minds
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to discern that the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy is an unhinged, untethered time bomb that needs to take a very long sabbatical on a very large and very soft shrink’s couch. President Trump’s speech on Tuesday night was nothing less than spectacular. It was a Cubs late inning grand slam, a Payton Manning touchdown throw, a Bill Murray, ‘Mirac’ all in one. Even Van Jones, seated on the CNN Trump kangaroo prosecution court said it best, “Trump became the President with that speech.” The Democrats didn’t think so… The ‘Not Our President’ crowd arrived in white outfits, led by Nancy Pelosi and looking like they were on their way to a Kool Aid party with Jim Jones after a quick stop in Congress. Mr. Trump spoke on many of his favorite issues; securing the border, destroying ISIS, fixing the decaying 19th Century infrastructure in the country and above all, repairing the economy and providing the forgotten men and women of America with quality jobs and a decent life. You would think that the Democrats would have applauded several of these issues. After all, everyone needs a job; whether you’re a liberal or a conservative. You would think… The Democrats reached a new low when the President hailed fallen US Navy SEAL, Chief William ‘Ryan’ Owens, who was killed in action during the SEAL raid on an Al-Qaeda camp in Yemen. Owens’ wife, Carryn, was given a standing ovation as she stood in the balcony, sobbing. It was an extremely emotional and maudlin moment. It was an occasion when all Americans should come together to honor a US serviceman who gave all that mortality can give. The Republicans stood and applauded with the President, Vice President Pence and Speaker Ryan. Most of the Democrats refused to stand and sat glumly, doing something Democrats are very good at, being unpatriotic. If the Democrats’ conduct was beyond disgraceful on Tuesday night, the comments made by former Hillary Clinton campaign operative Dan Grilo can only be labeled vile and the work of a coward. What kind of man mocks a military widow? Grilo called Carryn Owens an idiot on Twitter for letting herself be used by Mr. Trump, before he was savaged and forced to delete his account. After the speech, the Democrats rolled out former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, who looked like the guy from the Heaven’s Gate cult and who had seated around him, the last ten white people in mid-America who call themselves Democrats. Beshear said nothing, which is what the Democrats have to offer the nation in terms of solutions to fix the disaster brought upon by the globalist marionette, Barack Obama. Once the Democrats saw the CNN poll which indicated 78% of Americans liked the speech, they went into action. It was time to pull out their go to conspiracy; the old Russian fairy tale. To counter Trump’s speech, the Deep State wheels began churning. From Obama’s residence in DC and with the help of the always dutiful Marxist, Valerie Jarrett, a new angle was quickly invented: Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador, claimed the Democrats. And, he failed to inform Senator Al Franken during testimony before Congress. Of course what they failed to mention is that as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, it was Sessions’ job to meet with foreign ambassadors. When questioned by Franken, Sessions may have not provided the most articulate answer, but there was no intent to deceive Congress, which certainly knew when and where Sessions was meeting dignitaries from Russia. Any logic provided by Sessions and James Clapper and Paul Ryan is thrown out the window by hysterical Democrats. The Russian fairy tale is just that, a story created by Deep State intelligence personnel loyal to Mr. Obama and his gang of Chekists. But, the Democrats never operate with logic. They run on emotion. Since they have nothing to offer the nation in terms of ideas, liberals are clinging to the idea that somehow, some way, Russia caused Hillary Clinton to lose the election and everyone in Trump’s cabinet and the President was in on the imaginary conspiracy. The Russian fantasy lingers like a boil in the brains of Chuckie Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Pocahontas Warren and the rest of the barnyard animals and circus performers that are called the Democratic Party these days. Today, Senator Al Franken, former SNL comedian and Minnesota liberal acted like MASH’s paranoid Colonel Flagg as he spoke of the possibility that Sessions is somehow in cahoots with the Rodina. When Al Franken is the nation’s counter-intelligence expert, you know the lunacy has reached new heights. You would think it would be impossible to top the paranoia and helpless hysteria of Schumer, Pelosi, Warren and Franken. Enter New Hamsphire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who stated today that “We should think about whether it is an act of war or not.” “If the United States isn’t going to take any action in response to that Russian intrusion against your elections, then how can we think that the United States is going to take any action to protect us against Russia?” Wow, now the Democrats want to go to war with Russia over the imaginary idea that the Russians got Trump elected. Welcome to the Cold War liberals. You’re about 30 years late and 30 Rubles short. The fact is the Democrats are in a tailspin and they have no idea where the eject handle is on their kamikaze. The fact is the Democrats have nothing to offer Americans; zippo, nada: no new policies, no ideas, no solutions, nothing but a big fat goose egg. The fact is the Democrats are a bi-coastal party serving up politically correct horse dung for Hollywood jackasses like Meryl Streep and for Manhattan liberals who think they’re cultured because they live down the street from an art museum. The Democrats are the useful tools for the global elite, who have not given up their plan to continue the train wreck of open borders and trade deals that suck the life out of the American worker, while lining the pockets of billionaires. When you don’t have any plan to fix America, the plan is to deceive the population and to destroy the current administration. The Democrats need to remember one thing; if they ever win another Presidency, which is doubtful, payback is going to be a bitch.
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/03/the-democrats-out-of-touch-out-of-ideas-out-of-their-minds/
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So much for party loyalty: Michelle Obama's good friend George W. Bush praises Kimmel's 'damn good' anti-Trump Oscars monologue and laughs along as the comedian roasts his successor
George W. Bush was led in to several subtle jabs at President Trump on Thursday
He praised Kimmel's Oscars opening speech which slammed the new president
'I thought it was damn good!' he said of Kimmel's debut last Sunday night
He let out a roaring laugh when asked if he was jealous of Trump's inauguration crowd size
President Bush, 70, has been doing the media rounds to promote his new book
The book features a collection of oil painting portraits of post 9/11 veterans
They will also go on display in Texas until October in tribute to the Armed Forces
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com and Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com Published: 00:55 EST, 3 March 2017 | Updated: 09:16 EST, 3 March 2017
George W. Bush heaped praise on Jimmy Kimmel for his anti-Trump opening monologue at the Oscars on Thursday night, telling the comedian enthusiastically that his performance was 'damn good'. In a rare and lighthearted television appearance, Bush steered clear of mentioning the current president by name but was led into several subtle jabs at him by his mischievous host. Among the slights was a compliment for Kimmel's decidedly anti-Trump debut at the Academy Awards. 'I saw your opening. I thought it was damn good!' he enthused, adding later that Kimmel was a 'funny guy'. During his opening skit at the award ceremony Kimmel on Sunday landed several blows on President Trump about how he'd made the rest of the world 'hate' America and described a divided country that no one could fix. He then mocked Trump's assessment of Meryl Streep as one of Hollywood's most 'overrated actresses', sarcastically piling on to her apparent mediocrity. President Bush, eager to portray his sense of humor on Thursday, appeared to wholeheartedly approve of the roast. But Bush didn't stop there in allowing Kimmel to make pointed comparisons with the current commander-in-chief. Unlike Trump who has complained incessantly about news networks and their coverage of him, Bush said he didn't ever watch television during office. 'You're pretty busy, there's plenty to do.' He said he always enjoyed attending the White House Correspondents Dinner - something the current president boycotted - and even used it as an opportunity to poke fun at himself. 'I love humor, the best humor is when you make fun of yourself,' President Bush said, carefully resisting Kimmel's response: 'Tell that to the president!'. While he admitted he hadn't ever watched Alec Baldwin in his role on Saturday Night Live, President Bush embraced the show's imitations of him while he was in office. KIMMEL'S OPENING SPEECH OSCARS JABS AT TRUMP 'This broadcast is being watched live by millions of Americans, and around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us. And I think that is an amazing thing.' 'As you know, I don’t have to tell anybody, the country is divided right now. I’ve been getting a lot of advice. It’s time to bring people together. You have to say something. Let’s just get something straight off the top. I can’t do that. There’s only one “Braveheart” in the room, and he’s not gonna unite us either. Mel [Gibson], you look great. I think the Scientology is working. I really do.' 'You know, if every person watching this show — I don’t want to get too serious, but there are millions and millions of people watching right now — and if every one of you took a minute to reach out to one person you disagree with, someone you like, and have a positive, considerate conversation — not as liberals or conservatives, as Americans — if we could all do that, we can make America great again. We really could. It starts with us.' 'I want to say thank you to President Trump. I mean remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist? It has been an amazing year for movies. Black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz. That’s what you call progress. 'We are here tonight to honor great actors but we’re also here to honor the actors who seem great, but actually really aren’t. And of all the “great actors” here in Hollywood, one in part has stood the test of time for her many uninspiring and overrated performances.' 'Meryl, stand up, if you would. Everybody please join me in giving Meryl Streep a totally undeserved round of applause, will you? ... Nice dress by the way. Is that an Ivanka?' He let out a roaring laugh when asked if he was jealous of President Trump's inauguration size but stopped short of mocking his claims it was the 'biggest ever'. Instead, President Bush redirected the jest to himself. 'I was there. I was the guy trying to put the poncho on!' he laughed, recalling his scrambled attempt to take cover when the heavens opened during Trump's speech. Unlike Trump, who last year slammed The Wall Street Journal, President Bush said he relied on the publication for his daily news. The 70-year-old diplomatically resisted Kimmel's several attempts to have him chide Trump by name. He did let out an enthusiastic laugh when asked if he was jealous of the size of the crowds at Trump's inauguration. The former president shared several upbeat anecdotes from his time and office. He laughed off a hunting accident which saw Vice President Dick Cheney shoot lawyer Harry Whittington in the face. 'Every time Cheney would come in, a lot of people would yell duck!' He also revealed that prior to his marriage to former first lady Laura Bush, he once went on a date with Tricia Nixon, President Nixon's daughter. Nixon was president at the time and Bush, then in his twenties, took her to a dinner thrown by his father. It was the first time he'd ever been to the White House and he collected her in a purple Gremlin, he said. 'It was an arranged date by my dad. It was interesting. I pulled up in a purple Gremlin. I took her to a dinner. 'My dad had a dinner for Frank Bourman who was an astronaut from Houston and I took her.' He made a brief reference to his father's health, winning applause from the studio audience when he revealed both he and his mother are 'doing great'. George Bush Snr, 92, was admitted to hospital at the start of the year due to a respiratory issue that caused him to miss Trump's inauguration. He was released in time to flip the coin for the Super Bowl with his wife Barbara by his side. Asked how they were, he said enthusiastically: 'Thank you for asking, they're both doing great. 'When he came out to flip the coin at the Super Bowl it was a very joyful moment. He's a great guy.' The former president was on the show to promote his new book, Portraits of Courage: Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors. The book is compiled of oil paintings by the former president of members of the Armed Forces. President Bush has been doing the media rounds. On Wednesday, he spoke about his fondness for former first lady Michelle Obama during an interview with People. He said that he and Obama shared 'a genuine expression of affection' for one another during that moment when they were photographed embracing in Washington last September. Bush said he developed a lighthearted rapport with the former first lady, who took a liking to his sense of humor. 'Anybody who likes my sense of humor, I immediately like,' Bush told People. Bush, 70, and Obama, 53, found time to strike up a friendship while seated next to one another during official events, like the recent opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and Nancy Reagan's funeral. At the museum opening, Bush and Obama were photographed in a warm embrace. The image went viral and is often considered the definitive snapshot of their relationship. In July, Bush and Obama held hands while singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic during the memorial service for five police officers killed by a sniper in Dallas. Bush was evidently swinging his arms and appeared to be enjoying himself, prompting some to criticize him for not acting appropriately during a solemn occasion. 'I can't remember where else I've sat next to her, but I probably have a few wise cracks and she seemed to like it okay,' says Bush. 'I needle her a little bit and around her, I'm fairly lighthearted. [The Obamas] are around serious people all the time and we just took to each other.' The public relations blitz by Bush is aimed at promoting his latest undertaking - an exhibition of his oil paintings depicting US military veterans. An exhibition of the portraits will open Thursday at the former president's library in Dallas. The collection, on display at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas until October 1, features 66 portraits and a four-panel mural. Bush's paintings pay tribute to the nearly 100 wounded or traumatized personnel who he has known personally since leaving the White House in 2009. As the 43rd US president Bush had commanded the US military members, who all served in the wars he launched in Iraq and Afghanistan following the attacks on September 11, 2001. The former commander-in-chief released on Tuesday a book titled 'Portraits in Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors,' which includes images of the portraits and the veterans' personal stories. Bush said he wanted to use the paintings and book to highlight the veterans'
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:: 3-2-17 Hal Lindsey :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Declining Christianity
by Hal Lindsey
The Pew Research Center released the results of a poll last week showing a dramatic drop in the number of people who claim to be Christians in America. Over a period of only seven years, the number went down eight percentage points — from 79% to 71%. Meanwhile, the number of those who claim to be atheists, agnostics, or “nothing in particular” went up from 16% to 23%. Headlines across the nation ballyhooed the news. But closer examination shows that it’s hardly a victory for the forces of secularization. National Review’s David Paul Kuhn put the poll in perspective. “The share of Americans who identify as Christian has been declining for years,” he wrote. “The share of religious Americans has not. For about 75 years, despite periodic fluctuations, the Gallup Poll has found that approximately four in 10 Americans say they attend religious services at least once a week. Religious Americans made up the same share of the presidential electorate in 2012 as they did twelve years earlier, 42 percent.” The eight percentage point drop that Pew found comes primarily from people who weren’t serious about faith in the first place. They didn’t attend regular services, and religious faith wasn’t a big deal in their lives. Also, the old line, extremely liberal denominations continue their decline. The percentage of Americans who identify themselves as “evangelical” and/or “born again” has remained constant for a long time. That’s good news and bad. It means we’re keeping up with population growth, but not making much headway. So, it may not seem like a big deal that a few seculars stopped calling themselves Christian. But there are some disturbing factors for America. While some of the nation’s founding fathers and mothers were full-on followers of Jesus, others weren’t. What you find on close examination, though, is that in almost every case, non-believing leaders from that era in U.S. history expressed a world view that was essentially Biblical. They respected Christians and the Bible, and even if they didn’t embrace all of the Bible’s teachings, they saw it as a source of moral guidance. Secularism has fallen a long way since then. Today, the animosity of the anti-Christian, anti-Bible crowd takes your breath away. To get a glimpse of their vitriol, read the comments section on internet articles that deal with these issues. It’s all too easy to imagine some of these people cheering for the lions as they rip Christians to pieces. What would happen if Christian-haters came to be the majority, or even close to it? That’s not just a hypothetical question. We can look at history to get an idea. The French Revolution was not only a revolt against the monarchy, but against the Catholic Church. They outlawed Christianity. They stole Notre-Dame Cathedral and turned it into a “Temple of Reason.” Accounts written at the time tell of debauchery going on there that was anything but reasonable. After that, the magnificent structure was turned into a wine warehouse. It wasn’t used again as a house of worship for several decades. Similar things happened to churches all over the country during those years. In the 20th century, scores of communist countries took the ultimate step toward secularization and became officially atheist. The results were similar to those in revolutionary France. It turns out that atheism is not a tolerant or benevolent belief system. They killed, tortured, persecuted, and repressed Christians in all sorts of ways. To be fair, governments pushing religion have also been disastrous at various times in history. But American history shows a remarkable balance — tolerance and even good will for believers and unbelievers alike. Now, even though a remarkably high 71% of the nation’s adults claim to be Christians, the faith of Christ is viewed in negative ways by the media and academia. The word “Christian” began as a pejorative when it was first used at Antioch in the early days of the faith. Today the word is regaining its old taint. Without a new Great Awakening, the percentage of self-identified Christians will continue to go down. But my biggest concern is about the real Christians. There are enough of us that if we refused to watch certain kinds of television programs, most of those shows would disappear. But we rarely even complain. Christians make many of the same secular lifestyle choices as their atheist, agnostic, and “nothing in particular” neighbors. Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” [Matthew 5:14 NASB] I’ll be talking more about this poll and the implications of it on The Hal Lindsey Report that will be airing this weekend on TBN, Daystar, Word, and other outlets. Check your local listings for exact times and channels.
http://www.hallindsey.com/hlr-5-20-2015/
:: 3-3-17 The San Diego Union-Tribune :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Calls mount for investigation into massive Tijuana River sewage spill
Lawmakers, regulators and environmental groups in San Diego County are calling on federal officials to investigate a massive sewage spill in the Tijuana River that some people believe Mexico may have intentionally caused and then refused to explain much about it. Mexican authorities have yet to give a full accounting of how, without advance notice, an estimated 143 million gallons of effluent spewed into the river during 17 days that ended on Feb. 23. The pollution flowed into South County and has continued to contaminate beaches as far north as Coronado. Signs posted along that entire stretch of coastline urge people to stay out of the water because toxins in the sewage can sicken or kill swimmers. After water-quality experts, environmentalists and elected officials made inquiries starting in mid-February, the U.S. side of the International Boundary and Water Commission said it received a brief summary from Mexico on Friday saying the discharge resulted from a project to repair a sewer pipe at the confluence of that nation’s Alamar and Tijuana rivers. Mexican agencies gave no alert of the pipe repair, their U.S. counterparts said. Baja California’s State Public Service Commission maintains the sewer-system infrastructure in the originating area. That agency and other Mexican officials have not responded to The San Diego Union-Tribune’s requests for comment since Monday. On Wednesday, Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina, San Diego Councilman David Alvarez, Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey, Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, the clean-water group Wildcoast and the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation were among those calling on the International Boundary and Water Commission to launch an official investigation into the spill. As part of their campaign, they’re urging the public to gather at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at 301 Caspian Way in Imperial Beach to coordinate requests for the commission to launch a probe. The panel’s meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. in the same location. The commission’s U.S. side, which oversees international water treaties with Mexico, among other things, hasn’t said whether it will start a formal investigation. “There’s a deafening silence despite the crescendo of official complaints, and that’s just unacceptable,” said Dedina, who is also the head of Wildcoast. Alvarez, whose council district includes the Tijuana River Valley, also said the spill shouldn’t be tolerated. “The federal government needs to work with Mexico and … take the necessary steps to address this problem as soon as possible,” he said. Dave Gibson, executive officer of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, has said the discharge was likely no mistake. He has pushed for the International Boundary and Water Commission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other federal regulators to look into the situation. “I strongly support an investigation, and I am formally calling on (federal officials) to conduct one immediately,” Gibson said. “Whether it is one gallon or 143 million gallons, sewage should never be discharged untreated into our water bodies. “After working years to improve cooperation and communication on border issues, it is deeply disturbing that (Baja California’s State Public Service Commission) … utterly failed to take any measures to contain or redirect the raw sewage back into the sewage system or provide any public notice whatsoever,” he added. Peters, whose 52nd congressional district includes Coronado, said: “This is not supposed to happen. I am very concerned about the damage this spill has done to our beaches and bays. As a member of the (House) Energy and Commerce Committee, I plan to speak with the EPA and other relevant federal agencies to get answers on how this happened, why we weren’t informed sooner and what steps need to be taken to ensure it never happens again.” Rep. Juan Vargas, whose 51st congressional district encompasses much of the coastline affected by the sewage spill, hasn’t said as of Wednesday afternoon whether he will join the call for further scrutiny. Depending on how much of the sewage is flushed out to sea by recent storms, toxic materials may persist along the region’s beaches into the spring and summer, according to the water quality board. For much of the past month, South County beaches had been closed because of run-off pollution generated by rainfall. San Diego County’s Department of Environmental Health expanded an existing beach closure on Tuesday because of sewage. The closure now includes the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge, Imperial Beach the Silver Strand and Coronado. Officials said warning signs will remain along the shorelines of those sites until the ocean is safe for recreational use.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-spill-investigation-20170301-story.html
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Sessions Will Recuse Himself In Any Russia Probe
By Todd Beamon | Thursday, 02 Mar 2017 05:34 PM
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday bowed to pressure from Republicans and Democrats alike and recused himself of any investigations into Russia's role in the presidential election — but he doubled down on whether he misled Congress in not disclosing two meetings with the Moscow ambassador last year. "I have decided to rescue myself from any present or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaign of the president of the United States," Sessions told reporters at the Justice Department. He added that his announcement "should not be interpreted as confirmation of the existence of any investigation." The attorney general said he made his decision about recusal after his staff recommended that he step away from any investigation related to the Trump campaign, since he had been involved in the campaign. Sessions also slammed any suggestion that he tried to mislead the Senate Judiciary Committee in his January confirmation hearing on his Russian contacts. "That is not my intent," he said. "That is not correct." "The idea that I was part of a 'continuing exchange of information during the campaign between the Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government' is totally false." Sessions acknowledged, however, that he should have been more careful in his testimony. "I should have slowed down and said, 'But I did meet one Russian official a couple of times,'" he told reporters. He said Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente would handle such matters. Sessions has been under fire since The Washington Post and CNN reported Wednesday that the Justice Department said that he had met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year. Sessions was the first sitting senator to endorse President Donald Trump's campaign last year, he was a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee at the time. He also sat on the Judiciary Committee. One meeting with the ambassador occurred in July during the Republican National Committee in Cleveland — and the other came in September in Sessions' office on Capitol Hill. The Justice Department has maintained nothing improper occurred in Sessions' contacts or his answers to Congress, while the continuing allegations of Russian interference in American politics ignited Democratic calls for the former four-term Alabama senator not only to recuse himself but to resign. The White House has stood behind Sessions throughout the controversy, with President Trump telling reporters in Virginia that he had "total" confidence in the attorney general and — adding that "I don't think so at all" when they asked him about recusal. In January, Sessions did not disclose the meetings in his confirmation hearing. He had been asked by Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota what he would do if "anyone affiliated" with the campaign had contact with Russian officials. Sessions replied that he had no communications with the Russians, and answered "no" in a separate written questionnaire when asked about contacts regarding the election. "Let me be clear," Sessions told reporters on Thursday. "I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign." Franken's question, he said, "had gotten my attention — and that was the question I responded to. "I did not respond by referring to the two meetings — one very brief after a speech and one with two of my senior staffers with the Russian ambassador in Washington — where no such things were discussed." Sessions said that his response to Franken's question "was honest and correct as I understood it at the time. "I appreciate that some have taken the view that this was a false comment," he added. "That is not my intent. That is not correct." The attorney general said that he would write the Judiciary Committee this week to "explain this testimony for the record." Democrats called for Sessions to resign, while Republicans said that he should recuse himself from any probe of Russian-related hacking during the election. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California accused the attorney general of "lying under oath" — and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York called for a special prosecutor for a Moscow probe. Meanwhile, more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers, including some who said they were personally close to Sessions, urged him to recuse himself from any Justice Department probe. "If there is an investigation, he probably shouldn't be the person leading it," Oklahoma Sen. Tom Cole said. "Jeff Sessions is a former colleague and a friend," Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said, "but I think it would be best for him and for the country to recuse himself from the DOJ Russia probe.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/US-Attorney-General-Russia/2017/03/02/id/776599/
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etc.. Throughout the world right now peace is fastly disappearing, wars are rising up, trouble on the right hand, trouble on the left hand, etc..
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Is Sweden Safe? Military Draft Enacted Amid Russian Aggression, Security Fears
By Tom O'Connor @Shaolintom On 03/02/17 AT 9:42 AM
Sweden's defense minister announced Thursday the country would reintroduce mandatory military service next year as regional security fears were compounded by a shortage of soldiers. The northern European nation has remained largely neutral throughout the last two centuries of international affairs, but Russia's 2014 annexation of the former Ukrainian territory of Crimea and substantial, parallel military escalations between Moscow and NATO have sparked serious concerns over Sweden's defense capabilities should conflict break out. The country's Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist told local media that recent developments in Europe's geopolitical climate meant Stockholm could no longer rely on volunteers to man its armed forces. Sweden, which had male-only conscription until 2010, was set to begin recruiting 4,000 men and women out of about 13,000 candidates born in 1999 and 2000 as of the beginning of next year. The goal was to develop "full and practiced war units" capable of bolstering the existing volunteer system via the program that would cost an estimated $66 million. The number of compulsory troops would increase should the security situation continue to deteriorate in the region, according to Swedish broadcaster STV News. "The government wants a more stable staff supply system and to boost its military capability because the security situation has changed," Hultqvist told Sweden's TT news agency Thursday. A defense ministry spokesperson added that "Russian military activity is one of the reasons," according to BBC News. Russia annexed Crimea by a local referendum in March 2014 after claiming the Ukrainian revolution, which ousted pro-Moscow Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and reactionary forces threatened the largely Russian ethnic community in the region. Moscow then offered support to separatists in eastern Ukraine that have taken control of a number of cities and have routinely clashed with Ukrainian military forces. Russia's actions drew severe criticism from NATO and the U.S., by far the largest financial contributor to the international defense group, under former President Barack Obama. Obama urged allied nations to boost their NATO military presence along Russia's borders, prompting wide scale Baltic military drills from Moscow. While Sweden has not joined NATO, Russia's military escalation has affected the Scandinavian nation. Stockholm reported a number of airspace violations by Russian aircraft and expressed a desire to work closer with its Nordic neighbors, Norway and Finland, in matters of defense after questioning commitments by the governments of the U.K. and the U.S., according to the Financial Times. President Donald Trump, a political ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticized NATO members for not contributing enough to the alliance and has also criticized Swedish leadership for what he suggested was a soft stance on immigration and refugees, leading to an alleged wave of crime and unrest.
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Fake Evangelicals Support Illegal Immigration to Make a Buck
Rev. Austin Miles February 24, 2017
We live in an era of fake news which meddles with our minds. But worse, we also have fake preachers who meddle with our very souls. That is Satan’s most dedicated tactic. To destroy the soul is to destroy the man. This is why the evil one has managed to infiltrate our churches, precisely to turn people off to church, ministers and especially….God. A full page ad in The Washington Post, Wednesday a week ago, included the signatures of over 500 evangelical pastors urging President Donald Trump to reverse his ban on refugee resettlement. A couple of the signers on that list shocked me. You will see the entire list below. Those ‘evangelicals’ seem to be suffering a deplorable lack of reasoning. Here is their statement: “As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement. We have a historic call expressed over 2,000 years to serve the suffering. We cannot abandon this call now.” So bring them all in. Let them change our culture to theirs and give them full access to our wives and daughters, especially the very young ones. The organizer of the group letter is (another shock) the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), and one of the nine agencies that, now get this, resettle refugees in America. Notice that last part of the sentence….that resettle refugees in America. Doesn’t that sound like a line from a grant proposal? You bet it does. And that is precisely what this is all about. However, there is a small group of real pastors like Franklin Graham who are among the Remnant Pastors who are there for one purpose only, to preach the Gospel, not to enrich themselves with grants and other payola. He is joined by the National Religious Broadcaster’s Jerry Johnson and the Center for Law and Justice’s Jay Sekulow, who have spoken out, with clear heads, in defense of President Trump’s plan to protect our country. There are those who genuinely are, as the Wizard of Oz stated, “good deed doers.” Doing good for the sake of good. Then there are the do-gooders, who display themselves as good people by pushing favors upon others in order to make themselves look good and compassionate. Then there are those who camouflage their intentions by making it sound like a genuine humanitarian effort put together by caring people with a heart–as propagated by the fake news media, FNM. That’s what they want to convey…you can BANK on that-which is exactly what this do-gooder-for- profit relig-biz intends to do…bank on refugee re-settlement with the grant money they receive, enriching themselves personally while putting the rest of the United States in peril. Many of the ‘refugees’ are Muslims who slip in as ‘refugees’ so they can attack us from inside our borders, which has been taking place regularly. The FNM reports on this are very economical. This is what President Trump is trying to prevent. And we should be backing him. Let’s take another look at the religious groups competing for these grants: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, World Relief, Church World Services, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Episcopal Migration Ministries, the International Rescue Committee, and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Now here’s where it all meshes: When these groups send out their news releases making their case for more immigration, they fail to mention that they receive $2,050 for each ‘refugee’ they re-settle. But that is just a tiny part of the grants received for bringing in these people. Talk about conflict of interest! For sure it is not full disclosure. Yes, there are more grants to be had, hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars given to these impostors and their ‘altruistic’ organizations. They are not legitimate–NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. They are a very highly paid industry. But it gets even worse. All these religious groups must sign a federal waiver stating that they will not attempt to share the Gospel with the “refugees.” WHAT??? And preachers sign this? So again, this is NOT about doing God’s work, but engaging in activity that personally enriches these knuckle heads who pop up in righteous indignation over the protective actions of our president. It is clamp down time. These fake preacher creatures have sold the message of Jesus for mammon. That’s right, for money. When some of these refugees try to kill you, and they will, don’t expect God to protect you. You sold that protection by agreeing to NOT share the Gospel with the immigrants. Satan has bought you out. So when calamity strikes you, don’t yell, “Where’s God? Why did this happen?” ANSWER: You have forfeited any protection and favor from God since money was more important to you than preaching the Gospel. You actually sold out God and lost your soul in the process. Did you know that the U.S. Government has paid out over $1 Billion (with a B) to refugees as Social Security Benefits since (at least), 22,426 recipients have no Social Security Number? And did you know that each of these imposing immigrants who crash through our borders receive $1700 a month for welfare? They also get housing, food stamps, medical expenses and educational costs? MEANWHILE, a veteran who has fought in two wars and was awarded medals receives $1200.00 a month. Isn’t there something wrong with this picture? Back to the preachers: Yes, seminaries and churches have been infiltrated by groups specifically to destroy trust in the church. An overwhelming number of preachers are impostors. They are misfits who CHOSE the ministry as a career option or, were maneuvered in like Obama to the Oval Office. The uncalled preachers are the cog in the wheel. The true ministers, the Remnant Pastors, are those who have been called to the ministry. There is a HUGE difference. And thereby hangs the problem. Pastors, preach the uncompromising Word of Jesus. Preachers, MAN YOUR PULPITS. Parishioners, back up your pastor…however, if you see him or her fiddling with the Word of God, RUN, don’t walk, out the doors of that deception and don’t look back. Career Choice Preachers: You have no idea what damage you are causing. Do not dabble in Holy things, which is accumulating an eternal debt that you WILL have to pay. It is better that you flee the ministry without looking back than to be sentenced to hell. And for God’s sake, people, the majority of the people of The United States voted Donald Trump in as our President. He was genuinely elected to that highest office. This columnist believes that God Himself made certain that he won for the sake of America. Let us back him in every way possible. Write letters to the editors to confront any anti-Trump stories. Make phone calls. We must be ready to fight for our country. Insist upon traitorous and sedition charges be filed against George Soros who is the puppet master for all the evil taking place in our society today. And, one more time: Pastors, man your pulpits! Career choice pastors, run. One non-called career minister can do more damage to the cause of Christ than 10,000 if the most skilled atheists. ANALYZING TODAY’S NEWS FOR TOMORROW’S HISTORY Here is the link to Christianity Today with names of all the pseudo ministers who signed this declaration from hell:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2017/february-web-only/why-tim-keller-max-lucado-evangelicals-trump-refugee-ban.html?utm_source=ctdirect html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=14631563&utm_content=496776525&utm_campaign=email&start=4 To see the list of signers, see this link at bottom of first page, click on: SINGLE PAGE (READER MODE) then scroll all the way down to list.
http://ipatriot.com/evangelicals-want-refugees-hint-not-altruism/
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FAKE GOSPEL PRODUCES FAKE CHRISTIANS
By Coach Dave Daubenmire February 23, 2017 NewsWithViews.com
Fake News is all of the rage in the American culture today. In fact, it is an issue that we have been dealing with at least since the 1960’s. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the problem is not so much what Americans believe, but that so much of what they believe simply is not true. Lies rule the day. We are truly in the days where the Scriptures warn us “everyone is doing what is right in his own eyes.” It is not than we are uninformed…but that we are miss-informed. So much of what we believe simply is not true. There was a day in America when it was considered dishonorable to tell a lie. The almost universal sense of right and wrong used to demanded honesty in all of our dealings. Those were old-fashioned days with old-fashioned values…you know…when people were actually identified by their sins. Liar, thief, adulterer, crook, were commonplace terms bantered across America’s dinner tables as our parents instructed us on what types of behaviors would not be accepted in our family. “You remember Bill Jones who opened the grocery store, don’t you? He didn’t stay in business long because word got round town that he was not an honest business man. He was putting his thumb on the scales when weighing the ground beef. Folks in this town do not take kindly to crooks.” That simple statement from my Dad carried a very valuable life lesson. Crooks would not be tolerated and the certainly would not have the support of the townspeople. Today, using those adjectives to describe people are no longer acceptable. We have exchanged those diabolical descriptions for nice sounding words like “miss spoke”, “ladies man”, and “public servant.” Heck, today even baby murder is called choice, those who kill the babies are called doctor, and the murder itself is called healthcare. Fake words. Fake words lead to fake behaviors. Fake behaviors lead to fake laws. Fake laws lead to fake justice. Fake justice leads to fake liberty. Fake liberty leads to a fake God. A fake god leads to a fake Christians. Jesus said that people have eyes and ears yet they can't discern reality (Truth). We are in the mess we are in today because most of what you hear from your local churches is fake. The Fake Gospel has lead to the destruction of this once-Christian nation. I am not so worried about the Fake News being reported in the news media today. Fake news is nothing more than the bastard child of the Fake Gospel. I am far less worried about the lies of CNN than I am the lies of the pulpit that make the act of lying more palatable to the masses. Permit me to expose five lies (there are more) that have given cover to the miscreants in our midst and has given us churches full of Fake Christians. 1. We are all God’s children. I have no idea where this dastardly lie came from but nothing could be further from the truth. Although we were CREATED in the image of God only those who carry the name of Christ are His children. In fact, in more than one place in the Scriptures we are told that the Devil has children and many of us are in the Devil’s ancestral tree. No where in Scripture will you ever find the lost being called God’s children. Google it. 2. Jesus loves everyone. This one always makes me want to gag. Although the most famous Scripture in the world John 3:16 tells us that God so loved THE WORLD, you will have a hard time finding a verse that says that the love of Jesus is universally applied. It is universally AVAILABLE…but the love of Christ is conditional. WHOSOEVER is not a term that INCLUDES everyone, but rather is EXCLUSIVE in nature. Jesus loves HIS CHILDREN…not the Devil’s children…although HIS love is available to them. “God hates all workers of iniquity.” WATCH. I think that refers to those who actively and purposefully engage in disobedience to God…which is called sin. 3. Christians are not supposed to judge. One of the first things Michele and I tried to teach our children was the ability to judge between good and evil. All people, if they have a lick of sense, make thousands of judgments a day. That is why we are often told that we used “good judgment” or “bad judgment”. Judgment is nothing more than the ability to differentiate between good and evil, right and wrong. When we point out BAD BEHAVIOR we are judging the ACTION not the person. Homosexual behavior is bad. Getting an abortion is bad. “Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.” That comes from the Bible. How can you determine good from evil if you don’t judge? 4. Jesus accepts you just the way you are. Sorry. Not true. You can come to Jesus “the way you are” but you cannot remain in relationship with Him if you continue to live in the condition in which you came to Him. Jesus requires confession, repentance, and a turning away from your evil ways. Accepting Jesus gives you “the power to become children of God”…it doesn’t automatically MAKE YOU a child of God. "Not everyone who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Only those who “do His Will” become His children. Jesus transforms you into a new creature…he crucifies the old one. You die and He lives. You are no longer you…but CHRIST takes up residence in you. He loves you so much he commands YOU to die. 5. Jesus died for your sins. Well…sorta. I John 3:8 tells us that “FOR THIS PURPOSE was the Son of God manifest that he might destroy the works of the Devil.” Jesus died to destroy sin…the Devil’s work…and sin’s power in the world. Your, and my, salvation is a result of Him destroying the power of sin over the world. Because Jesus died, and because I have received Him as Lord, sin, death, hell, and the grave no longer have power over me. Sin, death, hell, and the grave are the works of the Devil. Jesus destroyed their power over me. I have accepted His finished work at Calvary and have applied His blood to my sin-sick life. He redeemed me…paid my price…and rescued me from the “law of Sin and death”…the soul that sins it shall die. Jesus died to destroy the power of sin in the world. My salvation is the fruit of that death, but He didn’t, as the song says, “Have me on His mind” when He went to the cross. “It IS FINISHED” He declared as he hung on the tree. What was finished? His purpose for coming...the destruction of the Devil’s works. Watch out for the Fake Gospel. It leads to Fake Christians. It is far more dangerous than Fake News. Note: If you enjoy hearing more Truth, please join our daily show at www.coachdavelive.com . Only the TRUTH can set us free!!
http://newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave497.htm
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American society headed toward a breaking point
By Michael Laitman February 23, 2017 10:36
If business people such as Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank must apologize for their conservative views for fear of losing business, this is not liberalism and certainly not pluralism. This is tyranny. A little over a week ago, Bill O’Reilly of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News slammed the twisted reporting of the deportation of illegal immigrants who were convicted felons, showing how the media portrayed them as innocent “maids, moms, and shopkeepers.” He said that this exemplifies how the media coverage of President Trump is beyond biased; it is “blatant dishonesty.” Mr. O’Reilly, whose program is “routinely the highest-rated show of the three major US 24-hour cable news television channels,” concluded the item declaring, “There is a radical element [the radical left] in this country that wants to destroy it. If this continues, there will be a breaking point.” As harsh as this threat sounds, judging by the relentless attempts of the Democrats to sabotage Trump’s efforts to man key positions, the media’s slew of warped and made up stories purporting to prove the president’s incompetence, through the army of on-the-ground agitators that Obama’s Organizing for Action has dispatched in order to disrupt every town-hall meeting in the country and create the pretense that the nation is with the Democrats, it seems that there is indeed a war against the president on multiple fronts. It is not a question of policy; it is a question of identity. Donald Trump recently deported 680 convicted criminals, and the media was up in arms over the deportation of “innocent people,” as they called them. Where was the media when Obama, to whom immigrants referred as “Deporter-in-Chief,” drove out 2.5 million people during his tenure, the majority of whom were without any criminal record? And where was the outcry when it became known that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, sold one fifth of US uranium to Russia, and that she and her husband, Bill Clinton, personally profited from the deal? The media were silent because Obama and Clinton were the guardians of power for a small ruling elite that wants to dominate the US. A president who does not comply with their dictates does not serve their interests and there is no telling what they will do to remove him from office. For now, they are using a bogus, humanistic agenda such as caring for the immigrants and backing the Obamacare program to promote their goal of ousting Trump, but there is no reason to believe that they will stop there. The Necessity of Diversity Liberalism in itself is a noble idea. Following World War II, numerous countries in the West adopted the Liberal agenda as a “vaccine” against fascism and Nazism. However, a society cannot be vital and vibrant unless many different views vie against one another and in the process become polished and refined. When all the parties understand that diversity of views creates vitality, they strengthen their society and increase its ability to cope with changes. Our own Jewish tradition encourages diversity and debate as a means to enhance social cohesion. Martin Buber wrote in Nation and World: “It is not neutrality that we need, but rather cohesion, cohesion of mutual responsibility. We are not required to blur the boundaries among the factions, circles, and parties, but rather share a recognition of the common reality and to share the test of mutual responsibility.” Likewise, the great Rav Kook wrote (Orot Hakodesh), “Near the end of days, the quality of unity will surface in the nation… This quality is immersed in pool of strife and discord, but its content is paved with love and wondrous unity.” For generations, Jewish leaders taught their disciples that conflict of views is a means for finding the ideal solution and strengthening social cohesion. The Talmud writes that “A father and son who engage in Torah become each other’s enemies, yet they do not move from there until they return to loving one another” (Kidushin 30b). The Zohar, too, writes (Aharei Mot), “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to also sit together. These are the friends as they sit together, and are not separated from each other. At first, they seem like people at war, wishing to kill one another. Then they return to being in brotherly love. …And you, the friends who are here, as you were in fondness and love before, henceforth you will also not part … And by your merit there will be peace in the world.” The Inevitable Evil Yet, the American society has denied the legitimacy of “other parties,” as Buber put it. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” said British Liberal MP Sir John Dalberg-Acton. Liberalism has been the sole “legitimate” agenda for decades now, but instead of using it to create a vibrant arena of views that invigorate one another, it has become a stifling mechanism by which anyone who contradicts what the media deems true is shamed and bullied. If business people such as Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank feel that they must apologize for stating their honest, very mildly conservative views for fear of losing business, this is no longer liberalism and certainly not pluralism. This is tyranny. Beneath a guise of free speech, America has become a fascist country, where only one view is permitted. But if “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” then this is to be expected. “The inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth” (Gen 8:21) is not merely a verse from the Torah. It is who we all are. This is why rulers need the media to monitor them, and why the media needs to be kept genuinely free and pluralistic. This is not the situation in America. Neoliberalism, which has destroyed Europe through immigration, and nearly destroyed the US by eliminating its middle class, has been the sole ruling agenda in the US for decades. It serves the interests of the small elite group of magnates who control the American economy, the media, and thereby the government, all the way up to the White House. They determine what is reported and what is not, who is defamed and who is glorified. By controlling the media, they have dominated public discourse, public opinion, and have avoided criticism. This is ingenious, but deadly to society. Their best interest is not the best interest of the American people. They aspire for world domination. Through proxies such as Obama and Clinton, they “removed” Arab leaders such as Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and Bashar Assad, destroyed their countries, and created an influx of migrants into Europe. It is not that these Middle Eastern tyrants are or ever were anything to admire, but if you look at Iraq, Libya, and Syria today, would it not have been better for their people if their tyrants had remained in place, rather than the ruin, death, hunger, and terrorism that is their daily reality today? If the people driving the “liberal” agenda in Europe maintain control over their governments, it will not be long before Europe accepts Sharia law. As this sad story of a forced child marriage shows, this is already happening, but it will spread much faster if they succeed. And what they have done to Europe, they will continue in America: This same group will allow unchecked influx of migrants into the US, who will drain the already overstretched welfare system, create an impossible conflict of cultures and faiths, which will result in extremism and subsequent bloodshed on both sides. And all this will be done in the name of liberal thinking, pluralism, humanism, and democracy. On the Side of Correction It may appear as though I am in complete support of President Trump and against the Democratic Party. In truth, I have no personal affinity for any particular person or agenda. I do have great affinity for diversity above which people can connect since diversity keeps society cohesive, agile, and healthy, and keeps the country strong. At the moment, President Trump represents this view quite well, and the Democratic Party, with its undisputed monarch Barack Hussein Obama, absolutely does not. I regard Trump’s victory as a sign that the American society is still alive and kicking. It gives me hope that it will also be able to go through the necessary sobering up without bloodshed and without dragging the world into another war. If Clinton had been elected, there is no doubt that war would have erupted. Russia, America, and Europe were already making preparations on the ground. Now, at least there is a chance for peace and the correction of society. But to correct society, all parties will need to learn from the Jewish tradition—that “love covers all crimes” (Prov 10:12). Rav Yehuda Ashlag, author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, wrote in his essay, “The Freedom”: “Just as people’s faces differ, so their views differ. Therefore, society is cautioned to preserve the freedom of expression of the individual. Each individual should maintain his integrity, and the contradiction and oppositeness between people should remain forever, to forever secure the progress of the free society.” Liberals would do well to listen to their own “coreligionist” Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times who wrote, “We progressives could take a brief break from attacking the other side and more broadly incorporate values that we supposedly cherish—like diversity—in our own dominions.” At the moment, Trump cannot end the war with the media and the Democrats because he is not the one waging it. For things to calm down, the media and the Democratic Party must decide that the best interest of their country comes before that of their party, or even that of their financiers. If this war does not stop, then either the media will be severely restricted going forward and American democracy will be hampered, or the next leader America’s political right sends forward will likely be one who will truly galvanize the conservatives in America, and “there will be a breaking point,” as O’Reilly put it. For America’s sake and for the sake of the world, I pray that this great nation wakes up and understands the value of diversity, the benefit of honing views through open debate, and the powerful cohesion attained when that debate yields solutions that contribute to the thriving of the whole of society.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/American-society-headed-toward-a-breaking-point-482372
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Family Christian has announced they will closing all 240 retail locations after 85 years in business. This unfortunate closing will impact 3,000 workers and 36 states according to this Econ Times report.
Family Christian is announcing today it will close its doors – after 85 years in business. Changing consumer behavior and declining sales led the world’s largest retailer of Christian themed merchandise to make the difficult decision to close. Family Christian is a not-for-profit business that employs more than 3,000 people and operates over 240 retail locations in 36 states, nationwide. Family Christian Ministries has provided humanitarian aid for more than 14 million orphans, widows and oppressed people across the globe. “We had two very difficult years post-bankruptcy,” said Chuck Bengochea, company President. “Despite improvements in product assortment and the store experience, sales continued to decline. In addition, we were not able to get the pricing and terms we needed from our vendors to successfully compete in the market. We have prayerfully looked at all possible options, trusting God’s plan for our organization, and the difficult decision to liquidate is our only recourse.”
http://www.thomasdishaw.com/economy/family-christian-close-240-stores-85-years-business/
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President Trump: Replace The Dollar With Gold As The Global Currency To Make America Great Again
Ralph Benko , Contributor Feb 25, 2017 @ 09:00 AM
Inside President Trump’s otherwise “standard Trump stump speech” at CPAC was nestled what might be a most intriguing observation: Global cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other countries is good, it’s very important. But there is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency or a global flag. This is the United States of America that I’m representing. There's a keen insight in there that could, just maybe, transform our lives, America, and the world. No "global currency?" Was this, with the poetic observation that “there is no such thing as a global anthem…or a global flag,” just a trope? Or could it contain a political portent with potential high impact on world financial markets? Let’s drill down. As it happens, there is a global currency. It’s called the "U.S. dollar.” Most international trade is priced in dollars. The Bretton Woods international monetary system invested the dollar, which then was defined as and (internationally) was legally convertible to gold at $35/oz, with global currency status. France’s then-finance minister, later its president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, called the “reserve currency” status of the dollar -- its status, along with gold, as global currency -- an “exorbitant privilege.” By this d'Estaing was alluding to the fact, as summarized at Wikipedia, that "As American economist Barry Eichengreen summarized: 'It costs only a few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other countries had to pony up $100 of actual goods in order to obtain one.'" That privilege, which made great sense during the period immediately after World War II, became a curse. In 1971 President Nixon, under the influence of his Svengali-like Treasury Secretary John Connally, "suspend[ed] temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold." That closure proved durable instead of temporary. The dollar became, and remains, the world's global currency. What had been an “exorbitant privilege” devolved into an exorbitant liability. As my former professional colleague John D. Mueller, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, formerly Rep. Jack Kemp's chief economist, writing in the Wall Street Journal in Trump's Real Trade Problem Is Money recently and astutely observed: a monetary system based on a reserve currency is unsustainable, since foreign official dollar reserves (for example) are acquired and must be repaid in goods. In other words, the increase in official dollar reserves equals the net exports of the rest of the world, which means it must also equal U.S. international payments deficits—an unsustainable situation. In other words, if President Trump wishes to address America’s merchandise trade deficit (balanced to perfection, of course, by a capital accounts surplus) he will find that allowing the dollar to be used as the global currency is the real snake in the economic woodpile. The dollar’s burden as the international reserve currency, not currency manipulation by our trading partners or bad treaties, is the true villain in the ongoing melodrama of crummy job creation. Mueller’s Wall Street Journal column enumerates the three options open to President Trump: First, muddle along under the current “dollar standard,” a position supported by resigned foreigners and some nostalgic Americans—among them Bryan Riley and William Wilson at the Heritage Foundation, and James Pethokoukis at the American Enterprise Institute. Second, turn the International Monetary Fund into a world central bank issuing paper (e.g., special drawing rights) reserves—as proposed in 1943 by Keynes, since the 1960s by Robert A. Mundell, and in 2009 by Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China. Drawbacks: This kind of standard is highly political and the allocation of special drawing rights essentially arbitrary, since the IMF produces no goods. Third, adopt a modernized international gold standard, as proposed in the 1960s by Rueff and in 1984 by his protégé Lewis E. Lehrman …and then-Rep. Jack Kemp. To “muddle along” would, of course, be entirely antithetical to Trump’s promise to Make America Great Again. It would destroy his crucial commitment to get the economy growing at 3%+ -- vastly faster than it has for the past 17 years -- which also happens to be the recipe for robust job creation and upward income mobility for workers. It also is the essential ingredient for balancing the federal budget while rebuilding our infrastructure and military. To turn the IMF into a world central bank would, of course, be anathema to Trump’s economic nationalism. To subordinate the dollar to the IMF’s SDR would be equivalent to lowering Old Glory and replacing the American flag with the flag of the United Nations on every flagpole in America. Unthinkable under a Trump administration. That leaves the third option, to “adopt a modernized international gold standard, as proposed in the 1960s by Rueff and in 1984 by his protégé Lewis E. Lehrman … and then-Rep. Jack Kemp” (whose eponymous foundation I advise). To this one should add, as Forbes.com contributor Nathan Lewis has shrewdly observed, the removal of tax and regulatory barriers to the use of gold as currency. As I have repeatedly observed Donald Trump shows a strong affinity for gold. He has also shown a keen intuitive grasp of how the gold standard was crucial to having made America great: Donald Trump: “We used to have a very, very solid country because it was based on a gold standard,” he told WMUR television in New Hampshire in March last year. But he said it would be tough to bring it back because “we don’t have the gold. Other places have the gold.” Trump’s comment to GQ: "Bringing back the gold standard would be very hard to do, but boy, would it be wonderful. We’d have a standard on which to base our money." Trump has been misled to believe that “we don’t have the gold. Other places have the gold.” In fact, the United States, Germany, and the IMF together have about as much gold as the rest of the world combined and America has well more than Germany and the IMF combined. [Note: This column has been updated to clarify that the United States has well more gold than Germany and the IMF combined but not, as originally stated, more than twice as much.] We have the gold. Bringing back the gold standard would not be very hard to do.
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etc.. The world walks in confusion, there are those countries that desire their own monetary system to choke out others, and then there are those that desire a world monetary system, and the world monitory system will be the one that wins out, my word calls it the mark of the beast, etc..
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"In The Name Of Fairness", A Very Touchy Subject…
Posted February 25th, 2017 at 9:57 PM (CST) by Bill Holter & filed under Bill Holter.
When it comes to the latest US stance vis-a-vis China’s currency manipulation, the jury is out, and based on two recent statements it is more confused than ever. Religion and politics, are both hot button issues no matter how you slice it, touchy subjects, if you will. Speaking, or writing about them, usually elicits rage, or anger …especially when they are mentioned together, or connected. Un-noticed by most is a ground shaking occurrence, whereby these two highly explosive issues are being joined at the hip. I do not want to anger anyone over their beliefs, so what I write below is entirely my observations of what is seemingly non-apparent to the financial community and to the public at large. The issue at hand is a potential game changer; negotiations between the two largest holders of gold in the world; “a deal between china and the vatican”. It was reported yesterday… the Pope has been in talks with China to advance, or bring into the open the Catholic Church’s presence in China; aka Christianity within the nation. First, I highly doubt these talks are still in the preliminary stages. Rather, the reported negotiations are probably more of a “trial balloon” to a done deal, substantially already made. As you can see here, there is dissent and fear regarding any deal made. I deeply believe, that on the surface, the “public” side of the argument has far more meaning than meets the eye, maybe I am being too cynical, but I have given what I present here with considerable thought. I have a potential theory, if it is incorrect so be it, but the topic is certainly worth exploring in depth. Some background; you may remember, that in the middle of last year we had a number of world leaders (including President Xi, Obama and the Pope) publicly mention a common refrain, about a “more equal and fair world, as well as a more equal distribution of wealth in the world”? BINGO!…I took these statements to be a veiled warning, of an upcoming “reset” among nations and peoples, whereby the rich, those country’s on the Dollar Standard, would lose wealth and purchasing power to those countries who’s standard of living suffered under Dollar Inflation (the poor). The most obvious way to accomplish this is seemingly a strategic move to reorganize the world trading standard, or even abolishing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. This makes sense, as I view it, because the U.S. (West) has advantages when it comes to standard of living via borrowing or outright printing money to consume other countries productivity and natural resources. Please keep this thought in mind while reading further. No matter what you hear or read about China being a “capitalistic” nation, their roots are Marxist, Socialist, or whatever term you would like to use. “Free market capitalists” they are not, THESE ARE COMMAND ECONOMIES. Judging from many statements by the Pope, he is also a socialist and as mentioned,…has also spoken of a “more equal and fair distribution of wealth in the world”. From a political ideology standpoint, the Vatican’s influence under a Jesuit Pope and China ruled by an appointed leader are in many ways very close in their world views, in my opinion. So, what to make of all this? Is the Pope trying to spread Catholicism and China openly embracing it, or is this happening tied to something much, much deeper in fact? Let’s take a step back and look at a couple of commonalities they each hold. First, they each have, or reach, a huge population of over 1 billion people in some form or another. Combined, Catholics and Chinese represent roughly two of every seven people on the planet, or close to 30%. Let’s call this a huge base, for lack of a better term. Secondly, and much more important, though not “official”, China is THE largest holder of gold on the planet …followed by none other than; The Vatican! Yes, you may tell me the U.S. is “THE” largest holder of gold, with 8,100 tons and you would be “officially” correct …but wrong in reality, as explained many times prior, as the Fed and Treasury continue to resist an audit of same. On the back of a napkin I can show China accumulating 20,000 tons or more. (You might also not agree the Vatican is a large holder of gold, I would ask, and how exactly were they paid during WWII to aid the travels and passports of refugees?) By the way, Franz Pick said before he died, The Vatican held more gold than anyone could imagine. I can “imagine”. Do you see the dots connecting here, between China and The Vatican? My assumption is, there is now a joining of the world’s two economic giants, both in size and wealth, which the last I knew equals “power”! Seemingly this coming together by these powerful forces gives rise to the old axiom; “He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules.” Now I have to venture, is this rapprochement between the Vatican and China part and parcel of a New World Currency Order, whereby the yuan becomes the concentric world reserve currency, in some fashion, tied to the International Monetary funds Special Drawing Right (SDR)? Maybe, but who really wants that albatross around their neck? History has seen nation after nation assume world currency status only to be hollowed out financially and economically after years of abusing the privilege. I theorize that China and The Vatican will revalue gold to levels unattainable by individuals and making it very difficult for sovereign treasuries and/or central banks to catch up. As the largest holders, they can effectively “make the price” … the higher they make it, the greater their wealth (and thus power)! I have to ask… What if China marks up gold but does not assume reserve currency responsibilities? What if they mark up gold and let the markets decide what each “currency” is worth …versus gold …based on how much gold held? Please understand this…China has been financially abused by the West for centuries. Silver was devalued at the turn of the 20th century as a way to impoverish China as they were a Silver Nation. If the above is correct, or even close, and gold is revalued, then what will happen to the exchange ratio of silver to gold? Will the current 70-1 ratio hold or will silver be priced closer to God’s ratio of closer to 10-1? As a side note, do you still wonder why President Trump has called China the “Grand master of currency manipulation”? Does he have a head’s up, or inkling, that a reset is in the works? I suspect he does. If this theory is correct, at least we will have a true American as president and working on our behalf as opposed to a leader giving up the keys to the kingdom and throwing its people under the bus in the name of “fairness”? The “One World Government,” or “New World Order Types” as they identify themselves, are strongly opposed to the individual liberty movement rearing it’s head here there and everywhere. Seemingly, the “people” have thrown a monkey wrench into their plans for a One World Order; here and there and everywhere. Populism to them is like a rapidly spreading cancer, that must be stopped dead in it’s tracks. My assumption is; THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO BE HUNG ON A CROSS OF GOLD.
(aka, Wm. Jennings Bryan). Standing watch, Bill Holter Holter-Sinclair collaboration
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The reason why is that shortly after Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said in a Bloomberg TV interview that there is “no urgency to brand China a currency manipulator”, and that no announcement on currency manipulation will come before the Treasury’s April report (which contradicted an October pledge by candidate Donald Trump to direct his Treasury secretary to name China a manipulator on the first day of his administration), hours later Reuters released an interview with Trump in which he accused China of being a “grand champion” at currency manipulation, adding he had not “held back” in his assessment that China manipulates its yuan currency. “I think they’re grand champions at manipulation of currency. So I haven’t held back. We’ll see what happens.” This morning China responded Trump’s accusation, when Beijing said it has no intention of using currency devaluation to its advantage in trade, which presumably excludes China’s August 2015 devaluation which unleashed a period of acute market volatility. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said he hoped the United States could “fully and correctly” view the exchange rate issue.
http://www.jsmineset.com/2017/02/25/in-the-name-of-fairness-a-very-touchy-subject/
:: 2-20-17 The Atlantic :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
The Post-Human World
A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari
Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Derek Thompson Feb 20, 2017
Famine, plague, and war. These have been the three scourges of human history. But today, people in most countries are more likely to die from eating too much rather than too little, more likely to die of old age than a great plague, and more likely to commit suicide than to die in war. With famine, plague, and war in their twilight—at least, for now—mankind will turn its focus to achieving immortality and permanent happiness, according to Yuval Harari’s new book Homo Deus. In other words, to turning ourselves into gods. Harari’s previous work, Sapiens, was a swashbuckling history of the human species. His new book is another mind-altering adventure, blending philosophy, history, psychology, and futurism. We spoke recently about its most audacious predictions. This conversation has been edited for concision and clarity. First, work. You have a smart and scary way of looking at the political implications of mass automation. At the end of the 19th century, France, Germany, and Japan offered free health care to their citizens. Their aim was not strictly to make people happy, but to strengthen their army and industrial potential. In other words, welfare was necessary because people were necessary. But you ask the scary question: What happens to welfare in a future where government no longer needs people? Yuval Harari: It’s a very scary scenario. It’s not science fiction. It’s already happening. The reason to build all these mass social service systems was to support strong armies and strong economies. Already the most advanced armies don’t need [as many] people. The same might happen in the civilian economy. The problem is motivation: What if the government loses the motivation to help the masses? In Scandinavia the tradition of the welfare state is so entrenched that perhaps they’ll continue to provide welfare even for masses of useless people. But what about Nigeria, South Africa, and China? They have been encouraged to provide services mostly in the hope of advancing prosperity, [which requires] having a large basis of healthy and smart citizens. But take that away and you might be left with countries with elites who don’t care about the population. Thompson: The last point is interesting, because, in Europe and the United States, the opposite seems more true: The population doesn’t care about, or think it needs, the elite. That’s a part of how we got Trump and Brexit. Now you see these radical-right backlashes against the establishment sweeping across Europe. Why is this happening now? Harari: That’s the big question. I didn’t foresee it coming. It’s not my expertise to look at the political situation in the U.S. or in Europe. But if you look at the objective condition of health and so forth, most people in the U.S. and Western Europe have better conditions than they used to. But they feel like they are being pushed aside and losing power. And they fear their children will have a worse life than they do today. I think these fears may be justified. But I don’t think the antidote will work. Trump will not help Alabama voters regain their power. People’s happiness depends on their expectations, not their conditions. Thompson: Americans might be richer and better educated than they used to be a generation ago, with better health care and superior entertainment options. But the fact of progress doesn’t seem to matter. The story is all that matters. And the victorious Trump story was that America’s cities were falling apart and “I alone can fix it.” Harari: [White Americans without a college degree] are a declining class within a declining power. The U.S. is losing power compared to the rest of the world, and within the U.S., the Trump voters are losing their status. Even though they are experiencing better conditions, the narrative self which is dominant in most people tells a story of decline, which says that the future will be worse than the present. And most people’s happiness depends on their expectations, not their conditions. Thompson: Let’s say the future for most people is a universal basic income, wonderful psychedelic drugs, and virtual reality video games. People don’t starve. They aren’t miserable. But they also stop striving. The Walt Disney virtues—challenge yourself! go on an adventure!—are sacrificed to live permanently inside of Disney-style entertainment. Is that utopia or dystopia? Harari: Most philosophers will say that your hypothetical is a dystopia. A far worse world. But you could argue that people already spend most of their lives in virtual games. Most religions are virtual games superimposed on the reality of life. Do this, and there’s a penalty. Do that, and you get extra points. There is nothing in reality that corresponds to these rules. But you have millions of people playing these virtual reality games. So what is the difference between a religion and a virtual reality game? Recently I went with my nephew to hunt Pokémon. We were walking down the street and a bunch of kids approached us. They were also hunting Pokemon. My nephew and these children got into a bit of a fight because they were trying to capture the same invisible creatures. It seemed strange to me. But these Pokémon were very real to the children. And then it hit me: This is just like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! You have two sides fighting over something that I cannot see. I look at the stones of buildings in Jerusalem and I just see stones. But Christians, Jews, and Muslims who look at the same stones see a holy city. It’s their imagination, but they are willing to kill for it. That’s virtual reality, too. Your hypothetical also raises a deep philosophical question: What is the meaning of life? Historically philosophers investigated questions that were interesting to only half a percentage of humankind. Thompson: Right. “What is ideal way to seek happiness?” isn’t a useful inquiry when the entire countryside is dying of plague.
Harari: Yes, but once you are free from considerations of famine and plague, this becomes a much more practical question: What is the meaning of life? If you design a self-driving car, you must design ethical algorithms in the case that it’s about to hit a child. Do you risk injury to the pedestrian, or the passenger? That is suddenly a very practical question. Philosophy, once an archaic system, becomes central once we take care of widespread death and misery. Thompson: Alright, let’s move from the end of work to the end of individualism. You have a beautiful way of summarizing human beings’ relationship with authority. First, we believed that authority came from the gods. But that belief has yielded to modern liberalism, which tells us that authority comes from individuals. Democracy says power comes from the voters, not the divine. Capitalism says the consumer is always right, not the Bible. Marketers say beauty resides in the eye of the beholder, not in platonic forms. But you have a ominous prediction that humans will merge with the computers, algorithms, and biochemical devices that make our lives better. We will yield our authority and identity to data and artificial intelligence. What invention or innovation in the world right now is the best example of this future? Harari: I like to begin with the simple things. Look at GPS applications, like Waze and Google Maps. Five years ago, you went somewhere in your car or on foot. You navigated based on your own knowledge and intuition. But today everybody is blindly following what Waze is telling them. They’ve lost the basic ability to navigate by themselves. If something happens to the application, they are completely lost. That’s not the most important example. But it is the direction we’re talking about. You reach a juncture on the road, and you trust the algorithm. Maybe the junction is your career. Maybe it’s the decision to get married. But you trust the algorithm rather than your own intuition. The most important invention that’s spreading now is biometric sensors. They may become ubiquitous. Humans will consult their biometric data to determine how to live. That is really interesting and scary stuff, because we will no longer be in charge of our identity. We will outsource our executive decisions to biometric readings of our neurochemical signals to decide how to live. Thompson: Here is how I understand this idea. It’s the future, and I’m hungry on a Friday night. I think, “I’d like fried chicken.” Then I consult my AI daemon, which can read by biochemical signals and predict my future emotions, and it says to me: “Actually, Derek, a chicken salad will make you happier.” So I eat salad. On a case-by-case basis, this technology seems wonderful. It’s making me so much healthier and happier. Technology is rescuing me from the natural errors of misreading my future wants and needs. But over time, “I” have disappeared, because I have outsourced my identity to a biochemical analyst. Harari: Yes, exactly. In this scenario, we will come to see that decisions don’t come from a mystical soul but from biological processes in the brain. In the past we couldn’t gather the data and analyze it. So you could imagine that there is a mystical, transcendental soul inside you making these decisions. From a practical perspective that was a good enough estimation. But once you combine a better understanding of the biochemical processes in the body with the computational power of big data then you have a real revolution, because this traditional notion of free will no longer make practical sense and you can have algorithm that make better decisions than an individual human. Thompson: That’s fascinating, because I now think of these algorithms as bringing me closer to myself. If a fitness tracker encourages me to run more, or an entertainment algorithm discovers a song I love, I’m happier. And I prefer myself happy. But over time, my decisions have been reduced to brain signals and brain signal readers. “I” am not special, or sacred, or even individual. I’m just a vessel for a bunch of signals that are best read by a computer. There is no room for “me” in that arrangement. Harari: What really happens is that the self disintegrates. It’s not that you understand your true self better, but you come to realize there is no true self. There is just a complicated connection of biochemical connections, without a core. There is no authentic voice that lives inside you. Have you seen Inside Out? For me this was the tipping point in popular culture’s understanding of the mind. For decades Disney sold us the liberal individualistic fantasy: Don’t listen to your neighbors or government, just follow your own heart. But then in Inside Out, you go inside this little girl Riley, and you don’t encounter a self or a core identity. What the movie shows to children and their parents is that Riley is a robot being manipulated by chemical processes inside her brain. The cataclysmic point in the story is your realize that none of the sources inside her are her true self. In the beginning you identify with Joy but the critical moment comes when you realize none of these emotions are Riley’s true self. It’s a balance between different sources. And I think this is what will happen more and more on a general level. The very idea of an individual that exists, which has been so precious to us, is in danger.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/the-post-human-world/517206/
:: 2-21-17 Breaking News Israel :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Is Genetic Engineering Recreating the Sin of Noah’s Generation?
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz February 21, 2017 , 11:30 am
New technology enabling scientists to manipulate genes, mixing human genes and organs with those of animals, is a disturbing trend in science which one rabbi believes mirrors the sin that led to global destruction in the generation of Noah. Last week, the National Academies of Sciences and Medicine released a new report including recommendations to ensure genetic research done in the United States is performed responsibly and ethically. In essence, this report gave the green light to gene research, even though funding for such research is currently banned by the government because of the ethical dilemmas it raises. The new technology bears with it practical risk. Genetic research can take two forms: gene editing to cure or prevent disease, and gene editing to enhance humans. Genetics is uncharted territory and scientists could accidentally introduce a dangerous mutation that will harm future generations, or, in an attempt to create vaccines, inadvertently create a superior form of the disease which could threaten mankind. Rabbi Moshe Avraham Halperin of the Machon Mada’i Technology Al Pi Halacha (the Institute for Science and Technology According to Jewish Law) stated in response to the report that there are clear Torah guidelines for this new technology. Rabbi Halperin referred to the Biblical law concerning mixing of species. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. Leviticus 19:19 “It is forbidden to create a creature that is a mixture of species, but as long as they are not producing a new creature that has a different form, it is permitted,” Rabbi Halperin told Breaking Israel News. However, he noted, “Improving species, even the human race, is not forbidden by Jewish law. Changing the color of the skin or hair is permitted, even more so when it concerns removing genetic maladies. But the process certainly needs oversight.” Rabbi Yosef Berger, rabbi of the Tomb of King David on Mount Zion, stressed that the issue of mixing species had serious Biblical ramifications, noting that the verse forbidding mixing breeds of animals directly preceded a section of the Torah dealing with sexual impropriety. And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. Leviticus 19:20 The rabbi explained the connection between the two distinct commandments. “This is also expressed in the sin of the generation of Noah, which, according to Jewish tradition was the forbidden mixing of animals and man,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News, quoting Genesis. And Hashem said: ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.’ Genesis 6:7 “Noah’s generation sinned sexually, but it was expressed in the mixing of species,” he explained. “This sexual sin could prevent the coming Messianic era as the connection between man and woman is a holy part of the process of bringing geula (redemption). This is the basis of the requirement to be fruitful and multiply: to bring Moshiach (Messiah).” Rabbi Berger stressed that this mitzvah (Torah commandment) requires a proper level of purity. Mixing of species is an improper manifestation of procreation that led to the destruction of the generation of Noah. Thus, even when saving lives, one of the most important mitzvot, one must be mindful of dangers and limits, Rabbi Berger cautioned. The limits of science and ethics are indeed being expanded and tested in remarkable ways. In 2015, several groundbreaking experiments took place in genetic engineering. A herd of cloned cattle, genetically engineered with human DNA, were used to incubate antibodies against the Ebola virus. In the same year, scientists at Duke University announced that they had successfully boosted brain size in mice by using human DNA as a catalyst. Also at Duke, kidneys from aborted human fetuses were transplanted into rats in order to determine if human organs could be grown in animals, solving the problem of organ donations. In one particularly disturbing case, geneticists in China modified the DNA of human embryos, concentrating on the gene responsible for β-thalassaemia, a potentially fatal blood disorder. However, in their final report, the researchers said they found a surprising number of unintended mutations. These experiments illustrate just some of the astounding areas researchers are exploring. The science involved is staggering, but the ethical considerations are even more perplexing, and less likely to receive clear-cut answers. Certain areas of research in the United States are stalled until the issue of abortions is resolved, establishing once and for all the legal status of fetuses and embryos. Manipulating genes in utero to eradicate genetic disease can alleviate great suffering, but brushes up against eugenics, the intentional improving of the human race. Negative eugenics were first espoused by the Nazis and other racist ideologies as a method of creating a master race. The research takes on dark spiritual overtones in the context of the growing transhumanism movement, which believes that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations by means of science and technology.
Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/83976/genetic-engineering-recreating-sin-noahs-generation/#AF6rVcrD36QCh0vw.99
:: 2-27-17 Science Alert :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Here's What You Need to Know About the Massive 'Cloudbleed' Data Breach
Now's a good time to change some passwords.
PETER DOCKRILL 27 FEB 2017
A huge data breach that may have exposed users' private information and log-in details for thousands of websites was uncovered last week, in what looks to be the most significant internet leak of 2017 so far. Dubbed 'Cloudbleed' in reference to the notorious 'Heartbleed' breach in 2014, the leak stems from a bug found in code operated by web infrastructure company Cloudflare, which provides security and hosting services for thousands of major internet sites. Some of these clients are big-name web companies – including Uber, Yelp, Fitbit, and OkCupid – and due to a tiny but significant error in some of Cloudflare's code, sensitive user information from some of these sites was being randomly inserted into web pages when visited by other people. "For example, you could have visited a page on uber.com, and a chunk of memory from a previous request/response to okcupid.com would be returned," security consultant Andrew Tierney from UK-based Pen Test Partners told Forbes. "This sensitive data could have been returned to anyone. There was no need to carry out an active attack to obtain the data – my mum may have someone else's passwords stored in her browser cache just by visiting another Cloudflare-fronted site." The leak was discovered on February 17 by security researcher Tavis Ormandy from Google's Project Zero bug-hunting team, who was sifting through publicly available website data to look for any errors in the code. "It's not unusual to find garbage, corrupt data, mislabeled data, or just crazy non-conforming data… but the format of the data this time was confusing," Ormandy explained in a blog post detailing the issue. "In fact, the data was bizarre enough that some colleagues around the Project Zero office even got intrigued." What they found was evidence of snippets from user sessions on Cloudflare-hosted sites being randomly grabbed and replicated on other Cloudflare sites, including things like encryption keys, cookies, passwords, and other potentially sensitive information. "I didn't realise how much of the internet was sitting behind a Cloudflare CDN [content delivery network] until this incident," Ormandy said on February 19. "The examples we're finding are so bad… I'm finding private messages from major dating sites, full messages from a well-known chat service, online password manager data, frames from adult video sites, hotel bookings." Ormandy reached out to Cloudflare, which assembled an international team of engineers to fix the problem, and who were able to stop the bug in less than 7 hours. It's great that the parsing error is no more, but that's not the end of the problem. The leakage may have actually been active from as far back as 22 September 2016 – almost five months before Ormandy found it – and there's no way of knowing how many people's sensitive information was exposed in that time. In a blog post last week, Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming explained that they hadn't detected any malicious activity resulting from the bug, but with nearly five months of exposed data in the wild, it's difficult to say how many user credentials may have been leaked. Adding to the problem, any exposed data could have been cached by search engine bots that index website code, meaning sensitive information could have been replicated far and wide, opening up even greater access to it. According to Cloudflare, the peak of the bug occurred between February 13 and February 18, with around one in every 3,300,000 HTTP Cloudflare requests potentially resulting in data leakage. That might sound like pretty good odds, but given the potential length of the leak – and that private data may have been cached elsewhere on the internet – now might not be a bad time to change some passwords if you think you may have been compromised. While there isn't an official list of affected services, a huge number of notable sites were exposed, including Uber, Yelp, Fitbit, OkCupid, the Pirate Bay, Change.org, Feedly, 4chan, and many more. You can search here to see if sites and services you use are on Cloudflare, and there's also an unofficial listing of the more than 4 million sites that could be affected here. While the overall level risk to any particular user is probably very low, a lot of personal data could have been leaked here, so it's a good idea to change your passwords for any potentially compromised sites. "Cloudflare has said the actual impact is relatively minor, so I believe only limited amounts of information were actually disseminated," security researcher and former Cloudflare employee Ryan Lackey wrote in a blog post. "Regardless, unless it can be shown conclusively that your data was NOT compromised, it would be prudent to consider the possibility it has been compromised." Of course, to minimise the potential risk of similar breaches (inevitably) happening in the future, make sure you don't use the same password across multiple sites. Since it's impossible to remember a huge number of passwords – given how many digital services we all uses these days – consider a password manager like LastPass or 1Password. Another good idea is to make sure you enable two-factor authentication on services that support it, which can protect your accounts even if your passwords do get out.
https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-massive-cloudbleed-data-breach
:: 2-26-17 Steve Quayle :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
CONCERNING MY QUESTION TO NUCLEAR EXPERT ABOUT FUKUSHIMA AND WHO SET OFF NUKES THAT ALL THE READINGS ARE COMING FROM-- HERES HIS REPLY
Over a thousand Sv/ minute, kills rad hardened robots in minutes – I know a thing or 2 about that - all my space stuff was hardened, and I was the dept expert. That is an insane melt down!!! DO NOT eat ANY sea foods from the pacific – from Ak to southern SA. 1 Sv is a lethal dose for a human – U die in less than a month form that –so they cant send any human beenz in there at all. They would die in seconds at those levels. Here is that nuke in Ukraine – go to about 14 min and Watch that fireballk and rising white column of ‘smoke’… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfBSFUePww
There were 2 small tac nukes that went off in Ukraine area last week. That is likely where the I-131 is coming from over yooroop. Israeli news live covered it, at about 14 min the second one goes off. Fireball with WHITE cloud rising very high. TNT is black smoke, and does not have enough heat to rise that high. Not a weapons cache as there were no secondary explosions. This was about 2 miles away from the camera from the delay of the BOOM. Given the foreground things, it was BIG.Much bigger than a 750 lber. Which would have been BLACK, too. Feb 26, 2017
http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=1971
:: 2-26-17 All News Pipeline :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Mysterious Phenomenon 'Radiation Clouds' May Be Bringing 'Radioactive Rain' To America - 'Radiation Readings Off The Charts' As 'Constant Phoenix' Is Deployed To Europe
- 'And No One Knows Where The Radiation Comes From'
February 26, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The February 3rd story from New Scientist reports upon a newly discovered mysterious phenomenon that may pose a risk to air travelers: 'radiation clouds'. 'Danger zones' in the air where radiation levels surge to the point where they could pose an unrecognized health hazard, the NASA-funded Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS) program which discovered these puzzling anomalies say they can't be blamed upon the 'usual suspects', cosmic rays or solar winds. Warning within their story that airliners may have to avoid these 'radiation clouds' in the future, we recently received an email from Steve Quayle in which he shared with us his own experience of flying through one of these 'radiation clouds' showing 25X the normal 'background radiation levels' at 35,000 feet as seen in the photo below. We hear from Steve in the 1st video below in his latest QCast in which he tells us about that experience and what we can do to prepare and protect ourselves from dangerous radiation. He also mentions "Nuclear War Survival Skills" by Cresson H. Kearney which you can find in PDF form here. With even New Scientist admitting the existence of 'radiation clouds', we find it interesting that only days ago, Victurus Libertas reported that California and other parts of America might be getting hit by radioactive rain. The new story from ENENews reports that according to officials in Europe, the mysterious radiation cloud we reported about on ANP on February 23rd continues to spread with this additional warning: "This could indicate a leak from a nuclear plant". You can hear all about this spreading radiation cloud in the 2nd video below in which our videographer warns it continues to grow unchecked. Back in 2011, the day after the massive earthquake hit Fukushima, Japan, the US Navy launched Operation Tomodachi, a humanitarian aid mission to Japan that turned deadly after the ships involved sailed through a deadly 'radiation plume' for several hours. At least 318 sailors aboard the USS Ronald Reagan and other ships have since joined a billion-dollar class action lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, for jnjuries suffered due to their radiation exposure. Sadly, some of the sailors children born after Operation Tomodachi are also suffering from the effects of radiation exposure. As Stars and Stripes reported back in March of 2016, 16 US ships that participated in those relief efforts after the nuclear disaster in Japan STILL remained contaminated 5+ years later with low levels of radiation according to a top US Navy official - that out of the 25 ships that took part in the 2011 operation. On February 23rd ANP reported upon the very mysterious spike in radiation that appeared to originate near the Arctic Circle and had alarmed experts after it was first detected in northern Norway this past December and then had spread to several country's in Europe. The Drive asked in a story if there had been a nuclear incident in the Arctic after increased levels of radioactive iodine isotopes had been detected across Europe. And with 'Constant Phoenix' (the US Air Force's 'sniffer' plane) now deployed, the mystery has deepened even further. As Greece's Tornos News reports, “Iodine-131 has recently been detected in tiny amounts in the ground-level atmosphere during week 2 of January 2017 in northern Norway. Iodine-131 was also detected in Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Spain, until the end of January”. What might be causing the increased levels of radiation detected across Europe? According to this new story from Survival Dan, he reports fears are growing of a North Korea nuclear strike after 42 missile tests and several nuclear bomb tests over the past several years. Warnings have also been given that Russia may have conducted a nuclear test, which they deny, as well as the theory that nuclear plants may be leaking. A dirty bomb is also a possibility though much less likely. While the answer to what is causing this mysterious radiation across Europe is still unknown at this time, the health effects of radiation are well known and can be deadly in a very short period of time if a person is exposed to 'too much' of it. While a very large amount of radiation exposure (acute exposure), can cause sickness or even death within hours or days, such acute exposures are extremely rare according to the EPA. In the first video, Steve Quayle also takes a look at several of the different possibilities about what might be causing this mysterious radiation spike being measured across Europe as well as what may be the causes of the mysterious radiation clouds being detected now all across the Northern Hemisphere. Quayle begins his discussion of the radiation clouds at the 5 minute mark after sharing with us news of an exciting conference coming up in September of 2017 in Branson, Missouri that he will be participating in. Below videos we take a look at some of the health recommendations for people who are exposed to radiation. In the interesting 3rd video, one brave YouTube videographer takes a visit to 'ghost town' Fukushima, Japan, and gets as close to the Fukushima power plant as he can get. Showing us a Fukushima nearly 6 years after 'the event', he proves to us that radiation was still practically everywhere in Fukushima back in November of 2016. We also take a look here at an email that was recently sent to Quayle from a listener of his from Norway who shared with him news of absolutely bizarre weather in Norway, much like we're having here where the weather went from nearly 72 degrees on Friday to 10 degrees with snow on Saturday, this after a week of temperatures nearly 30 degrees above normal. Hi! I've been listening to your shows and reading your books for years. Listening to you going through events going on around the world i cant help to think about where i live and whats going on here. We are experiencing a winter with +celsius degrees. No snow, floods, rain showers. Usally its meters of snow and -5 -10 celsius.. Of course this is not the case in whole of norway but the overall temperature has risen way beyond. Also, a wave of radiation has been spreading throughout Europe since the mid of january starting in the northern Norway in Finnmark. Main stream media has been ignoring it. And no one knows where the radiation comes from. If you or your family is exposed to radiation, what can you do? There are certain treatments which can be used for radiation exposure, some mainstream medical and others completely 'alternative'. While there is no cure for radiation sickness, the symptoms that are associated with radiation poisoning are treated on a case by case basis since the degree of sickness and the symptoms vary from person to person. Surviving without doctors - nuclear war survival skills here. While the effects of radiation poisoning can't be reversed, the damage which it does can be contained if treatment begins in a timely manner. Nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and weakness can be treated with specific medications designed to reduce these complaints. Blood transfusions may be needed to treat anemia and antibiotics to reduce the threat of infections. A bone marrow transplant may be required if one has experienced a massive doses of radiation. Death is usually immediate, but some people have survived with successful transplant surgery. The drug filgrastim is used in patients after chemotherapy to stimulate white blood cells and may be helpful in repairing damage to bone marrow. Camping Survival has an interesting key chain gadget with a radiation monitor and alarm for those who do not have a radiation monitor like Steve Quayle has. According to this story over at Natural News, natural treatments for radiation exposure include topical treatments, cleanses and homeopathy. We'd love to read any other suggestions readers might have in the comment section below. Topical Treatments Raw, organic honey possesses antibacterial properties and can reduce the severity of skin burns and lesions as well as lesson inflammation and ulcerations of the mucous membranes of the digestive tract. Calendula extract is a healing, soothing liquid that can be mixed with water and applied to relieve burns, sores, itching, peeling and other skin ailments resulting from exposure to radiation. Echinacea extract is rich in anti-inflammatory agents and acts as an antibiotic when applied to infected areas of the skin. It can be used in any skin ailment, especially those that become infected and septic. Cleanse Baking soda baths provide an excellent cleanse for removing radiation from body cells. Baking soda is highly alkaline and helps restore the body's pH, reducing the incidence of acidosis -- a state that fosters weakness and disease. Drinking baking soda mixed with water may help reduce inflammation and heal mouth sores resulting from exposure to radiation. Homeopathy Clinical experience has shown the efficacy of several homeopathic remedies for the treatment of radiation disease symptoms. Cadmium sulphuratum may relieve itching, gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting or diarrhea aggravated by the slightest movement, and severe flu-like aches and pains in the muscles. The person needing this remedy may feel chilled even in a warm room. Phosphorus is often the first remedy needed after exposure to radiation. It can help reduce the pain and intensity of burns to the skin as well as lessen vomiting and other stomach upsets. A dose of Phosphorus may help center someone after being exposed, enable them to cope. People needing Phosphorus are often very thirsty for ice-cold water, which is vomited when becoming warm in the stomach. Radium Bromatum may help people with severe aching, arthritic pains that are made better from movement. It's also been found effective in the treatment of skin sores, ulcers and acne-like pustules as well as sores that are slow to heal. Many other homeopathic remedies can offer relief for symptoms of radiation disease; however, no one should self-treat in the event of exposure. Seek the advice of a competent homeopathic practitioner. Remedies can be purchased from online homeopathic pharmacies and stored in the event of emergencies.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Mysterious_Radiation_Clouds_Across_Planet.php
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Humans 2.0: these geneticists want to create an artificial genome by synthesising our DNA
Scientists intend to have fully synthesised the genome in a living cell - which would make the material functional - within ten years, at a projected cost of $1 billion
By Emma Bryce 2 days ago
In July 2015, 100 geneticists met at the New York Genome Center to discuss yeast. At 12 million base pairs long, it's the largest genome scientists have tried to produce synthetically. Andrew Hessel, a researcher with the Bio/Nano research group at software company Autodesk, was invited to speak at the event. The audience asked him which organism should be synthesised next. "I said, 'Look around the room. You've got hardly anyone here and you're doing the most sophisticated genetic engineering in the world," Hessel recalls. "Why don't you take a page out of history and set the bar high? Do the human genome." This triggered a panel discussion that stuck in Hessel's mind for weeks. Soon afterwards, he contacted George Church, a prominent geneticist at Harvard University, to gauge his interest in launching what would effectively be the Human Genome Project 2.0. "To me it was obvious," Hessel recalls. "If we could read and analyse a human genome, we should also write one." A year later, his provocation had become reality. In May 2016, scientists, lawyers and government representatives converged at Harvard to discuss the Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-Write), a plan to build whole genomes out of chemically synthesised DNA. It will build on the $3 billion (£2.3bn) Human Genome Project, which mapped each letter in the human genome. Leading the Harvard event was Church, whose lab is synthesising the 4.5-million-base-pair E. coli genome, and Jef Boeke 1, the NYU School of Medicine geneticist behind the yeast synthesis project. "I think we realised the two of us were getting good enough at those two genomes that we should be discussing larger ones," says Church. ""If we can achieve this, it should be possible to write large genomes in hours"" Andrew Hessel
A Science paper published after the meeting formally laid out the group's proposal: to dramatically advance DNA-synthesis technologies so that the artificial production of genomes becomes easier, faster, and cheaper. Currently, we can synthesise short strands of DNA, up to about 200 base pairs long, but the average gene has several thousand base pairs. Even this limited process is inefficient, costly and slow. But it's vital: in biological sciences, synthesised DNA is the foundation of experiments that drive everything from cancer research to vaccine development. For scientists, it's like working with a blunt yet necessary instrument. The immense three-billion-base-pair human genome is seen as the project's ultimate goal, dangling like a carrot to drive innovation. Scientists intend to have fully synthesised it in a living cell - which would make the material functional - within ten years, at a projected cost of $1 billion. The fruits of HGP-Write could have wide-ranging, real-world impacts. But in its current form, say the scientists, it's primarily a call for technological advancement in synthetic biology. The May announcement received a frosty reception from some, however. A handful of scientists invited to the event declined to attend, due to organisers' decision not to include the press. Church says they were excluded because of an embargo on the forthcoming paper. There are bigger concerns: artificial production of genomes raises the ethically unsettling question of gene patenting. Other worries, echoing those that first surrounded the gene-editing technology CRISPR, are of designer humans and parentless babies. "Moving beyond reading DNA to writing DNA is a natural next step," concedes Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health. He warns, however, that any project with real-world implications would require "extensive discussion from different perspectives, most especially including the general public". Applications beyond the lab are a distant reality: synthesising a human genome may even prove unworkable. In any case, none of the project's deliverables will be "as exciting or as evocative as a baby", Hessel says. "Some of the things that were said [after the meeting] were so ludicrous that it allowed us to get through that bubble of misinformation and misinterpretation quickly." HGP-Write's central goal is to improve synthesis technologies so it's easier to write longer strands of genetic material. DNA is made using software that designs the layout of a strand, followed by machines in a laboratory that use this template to synthesise and assemble it. It's a clunky process that limits production to short stretches of DNA. But Hessel sees the potential for enhanced software allowing more precise genome design and printing tools that, for instance, harness enzymes to build DNA the way it happens in our cells. "If we can achieve this, it should be possible to write large genomes in hours," he says. Smaller plant and animal genomes could also be synthesised along the way. One major scientific benefit could be the creation of living cell lines for pharmaceutical testing. Whole-genome synthesis would also bring down the cost of gene editing. CRISPR allows individual edits to DNA, but producing a full genome would allow thousands of edits in one go. Church sees the potential of genomes being edited to have multiple-virus resistance, for example. But these are the "byproducts" of HGP-Write, in Hessel's view: the project's true purpose is to create the impetus for technological advances that will lead to these long-term benefits. "Since all these [synthesis] technologies are exponentially improving, we should keep pushing that improvement rather than just turning the crank blindly and expensively," Church says. In 20 years, this could cut the cost of synthesising a human genome to $100,000, compared to the $12 billion estimated a decade ago. In coming months, scientists will try to take HGP-Write from proposal to project. That depends on funding. Autodesk has pledged $250,000, but organisers want to secure $10 million by the end of 2017. In the meantime, they'll be expanding the HGP-Write conversation. "I want it to be as open and transparent as possible," says Hessel, "and to keep up as much interest in this powerful universal technology, which will enable us to bring our intention into the machinery we call life. And boy, do we need to get good at it."
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/porsche-design-book-one-laptop
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etc darkness is only going to continue to grow darker, the turmoil and the disaster in the world is only going to continue to get worse and every week you see how my word is being fulfilled even more so, saith the Lord. etc
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A Cautionary Tale
By Hal Lindsey
At a campaign-style rally in Florida last week, President Trump used Sweden as an example of what happens when immigration policies become too lax. He said, “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.” The media focused on the words, “last night,” but nothing out of the ordinary happened in Sweden the night before Mr. Trump’s remarks. Some Swedes felt offended by the remark, and struck back. Former Swedish Prime Minister, Carl Bildt, tweeted, “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking?” Speaking on the Fox News program, The Five, Bob Beckel seemed on the verge of losing control, yelling, “This president flat-out lied!” But President Trump never said there had been a terrorist incident in Sweden the night before. It’s easy to see how people got that impression, but they inferred it. He did not say it. Later, the President tweeted an explanation. “My statement as to what’s happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews.com concerning immigrants & Sweden.” Beyond the smoke and dust of the bruhaha over exactly what he meant, there is an extremely important point. Sweden’s immigration policy over the last 40 years stands as a cautionary tale for all nations. Sweden has long been a peaceful and prosperous nation. They used extremely controversial means to achieve their success, but they have had a lot of it. A 2005 commentary in the liberal London newspaper, The Guardian, called Sweden, “The most successful society the world has ever known.” That statement has never really been true of Sweden, but it shows the regard in which it was held not so long ago, particularly among liberals. Today things have changed. And the problem, as President Trump was trying to point out, largely traces back to irresponsible immigration policies. In 1975, the Swedish Parliament decided to bring in massive numbers of Muslims from the Middle East. Since then, violent crime has risen 300%! The number of rapes reported to police increased 1,472% — from 421 in 1975 to 6,620 in 2014. Sweden now has the highest per capita incidence of rape of any major nation on earth. A survey by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, an official government agency, shows that less than 25% of rapes in Sweden are even reported to police. Lest you think these are domestic issues, their study also found that, “In 58% of cases, the perpetrator was entirely unknown by the victim.” In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, prominent Swedish politicians, Jimmie Akesson and Mattias Karlsson, wrote, “Mr. Trump did not exaggerate Sweden’s current problems. If anything, he understated them.” Just a couple of days after the President’s remarks, riots broke out in an immigrant neighborhood of Stockholm. They set vehicles on fire, threw objects at police, damaged buildings, and looted businesses. The same area saw riots in 2010 and 2013. As a Christian minister, part of my job is to point out the vast differences between the Gospel and other systems of thought, including Islam. But the United States government does not have my job. It can’t take sides among religious faiths. Yet, it must keep U.S. citizens as safe as it can while adhering to the Constitution, the law, and our nation’s core principles. Here’s the bottom line. The United States government doesn’t need to address the relative merits or demerits of Islam. But it does need to carefully vet anyone who wants to enter this country from a nation known to be a hotbed of terrorism. The White House has said that President Trump will probably issue a new version of his executive order on immigration sometime next week. The original order is tied up in the courts. It singled out seven nations — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. It was not a travel ban from these countries, but a 90-day pause. We can expect the new order to cover the same countries. These nations are all predominantly Muslim. But the order was not a Muslim ban. The Obama Administration had already named these seven as “countries of concern.” President Obama was not singling them out because they are predominantly Muslim, but because they are hotbeds of terrorism, and because of the difficulty in vetting people from these countries. The Trump Administration took it a step further. It said it needs a 90-day pause in which to figure out how to safely allow immigration from these trouble spots. On a recent Hal Lindsey Report, I explained the reasons behind the choice of nations. “Each of them is known to have large numbers of terrorists and terrorist-sympathizers at every level of their societies. Six of the seven are either in the midst of, or in the immediate aftermath of, civil war. The seventh is the world’s most prolific state-sponsor of terrorism — Iran.” The new Administration needs time to find ways to appropriately vet people from nations in the middle of such chaos. And, to use the President’s words, it should be “extreme vetting.” We know that ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other terrorists regularly move among nations as immigrants. So, we must use every precaution. We don’t want them to bring here the kind of chaos they say they’re trying to leave behind. Remember Sweden.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-2-24-2017/
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Swedish Prosecutor Refuses to Charge Migrant for Child Rape As Girl Got Pregnant Abroad
by Chris Tomlinson 24 Feb 2017
Swedish prosecutors have dropped a case involving a man who married an underage girl in Syria and got her pregnant at 13 or 14-years-old because the crime took place abroad. The allegations of child rape were brought to the prosecutor by both the Social Services and Migration Board as the man and the woman in question are migrants from Syria. The man, born in 1987, and the young girl, born in 1999, were married in Syria in 2013 when the girl would have been between the ages of 13 or 14, the man around 26, and had a child together the following year. According to Swedish law, it is illegal for an adult to have sexual relations with a minor under the age of 15 but in a press release, the prosecutor said they would not be filing charges. The prosecutor indicated that charges would not be filed because the crime occurred outside of Sweden and the pair had “no connection” to Sweden before coming as asylum seekers in 2015. They did note that there are laws in Sweden that allow prosecutors to pursue charges against Swedes who commit crimes in other countries that may be legal abroad but not in Sweden. The example of underage sex tourism was used to illustrate the point. Attorney General Anders Perklev explained the decision saying, “There is nothing in the legislative history of the legislation to suggest that it has been the intention of crimes abroad to be prosecuted in Sweden in a situation like the present. At the same time, circumstances may differ, and an assessment must be made in each case.” Changing the existing laws, “could have far-reaching consequences for people who have fled here,” Perlev said and added, “A change in the principles would, therefore, require careful consideration and should not be done any other way than through new legislation.” In cases of international law, the Swedish government has prosecuted migrants for crimes committed in other countries. Recently a Syrian migrant was jailed for life after being accused of taking part and filming mass killings in the Syrian civil war. The case also raises the issue of child brides and the legality of child marriage in Sweden. In Germany, the government is fighting against child marriages which have been on the rise due to migration from areas in the Middle East and North Africa. Last year the middle-eastern nation of Jordan, which houses many Syrians who have fled the civil war conflict, said the number of child marriages had set a new record. Denmark has gone the opposite way of Germany and decided to allow underage migrant girls to reunite with their much older husbands in the country, despite their marriages being illegal under Danish law.
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'Trump was RIGHT!' Inside the Stockholm suburbs where cars are torched, drugs sold openly and fire engines must be bulletproof
President Donald Trump claimed Sweden was in the midst of immigration crisis
His words last week provoked ridicule and anger from Swedish officials
On Monday, a riot broke out in the deprived Rinkeby suburb of capital Stockholm
Young men set fire to cars, threw stones at police and looted shops in the area
Teenage boy with long criminal record who was on the run sparked the riots
The suburb - where nine out of ten residents are immigrants - is rife with crime
Youths openly deal heroin and other narcotics inside near the only train station
'Perhaps Trump was right after all,' a police officer in Rinkeby told MailOnline
But a Swedish government spokesman denied a connection between immigration and crime, saying 'it is mainly due to unemployment'
By Nick Fagge In Rinkeby, Sweden, For Mailonline Published: 10:06 EST, 23 February 2017 | Updated: 08:01 EST, 24 February 2017
The Stockholm suburb that was hit by violent riots on Monday is a police no-go zone where cars are torched almost every day, gangs rule the streets and fire engines have to be fitted with bulletproof glass. Residents of rundown Rinkeby, where nine out of ten residents are immigrants, have spoken out about how they live in fear, as Swedish politicians and police officers admitted that 'Trump was right'. 'The situation is here is terrible,' one resident said. 'I am scared most of the time when I leave my apartment. I have been assaulted twice and robbed once since I moved to Rinkeby. The criminal gangs can do what they want. 'What happened on Monday night is just the tip of the iceberg. Gangs control this whole area. There are riots every evening and the police can do nothing to contain the situation.' The US president said Sweden, usually considered among the most peaceful and stable on earth, was suffering from social problems linked to mass migration. His comments were widely mocked. But on Monday night, police were forced to fire warning shots after rioters torched cars, hurled stones at police and looted shops in the Rinkeby district of the capital, injuring a policeman. Beat officer Hanif Azizi, who was scrambled to the scene, told MailOnline: 'When we sat in the car and saw the riots I tapped my colleague on the shoulder and said, 'perhaps Trump was right after all'.' Politician Mattias Karlsson from the populist Swedish Democrats, Sweden's second most popular party, said that the chaos was the result of mass immigration, adding: 'I am very grateful to President Trump for focusing attention on this issue.' A forgotten suburb of Stockholm, Rinkeby is where brazen youths openly deal heroin and other drugs inside the entrance to the only train station. Stolen goods are on sale at the red brick over town square. School attendance levels are of great concern in the sprawling immigrant ghetto, where a massive 89.3 per cent of residents were born outside Sweden. Unemployment rates are among the highest in Sweden, at 15.4 per cent. The recent rioting in Rinkeby has been blamed on a hardcore group of criminals from immigrant backgrounds. These gangs have no links to radical Islam or any other religious groups, police sources have confirmed. One shopkeeper said: 'There is an ongoing war between the criminals on one side and the police and regular residents on the other.' Ahmed, 31, a refugee from Yemen who was placed in Rinkeby by the Swedish migration board after he claimed asylum a year ago, said: 'I fled from a country that was more like a war zone than a functioning society and ended up here. 'I am scared every day here and wish I could live somewhere else.' Ahmed added if his picture were published he would be attacked by the gangs that terrorise Rinkeby for speaking out. He is not alone. Shopkeepers told MailOnline how they regularly fall victim to the gangs of youths who openly sell heroin and other drugs inside Rinkeby's train station. 'The youths come into my shop and threaten me and my staff almost every day,' said Nouri, 44, who runs a shoe shop next to entrance to the train station where the riot erupted on Monday night. A former officer in the Afghan army, officer Nouri fled from the Taliban in 1998 and was offered asylum in Sweden. 'The gangs are always standing outside my shop,' he added. 'They come in here and grab pairs of expensive shoes and just walk out. There is nothing I can do. 'If I report them to the police they will torch the store. They are usually about 40 to 50 thugs hanging out here on the square at night. 'They sell drugs and stolen goods and are in control of the entire area. They can do what they like and there is nothing we can do about it. 'Everyone knows who they are but no one has the courage to report them to the police.' Another shopkeeper, an Iraqi man too frightened to give his name, told how his windows were smashed in the Monday night riots. 'My windows are smashed quite often,' he said. 'This is a lawless part of Stockholm. 'Gang members shoot at each other over drugs, residents are assaulted for looking the wrong way when someone is selling drugs, everything happens here. 'The situation in Rinkeby is awful. The police have lost control.' The area is so dangerous that emergency calls for ambulances and fire engines go unanswered until police can provide an escort, officials have confirmed. Victims of crime fail to report crime or volunteer themselves as witnesses due to fear of reprisals. Beat officer Hanif Azizi told MailOnline: 'We don't call this area [Rinkeby] a no-go zone ourselves [because] it stigmatizes the area and those who live here. I do not feel comfortable using that term. We call it a particularly vulnerable area. 'It is areas where we as a police force keeps extra focus and extra resources needs to be deployed here. 'The biggest problem here is those who are living here feel excluded from the rest of our society. 'People with difficult backgrounds are living here. They have no jobs and no real connection to the rest of Stockholm. They are left on their own here. 'A big part of our job is to assist fire trucks and ambulances entering the areas. We provide safety for them on a daily basis. 'We could not let the rescue services in to the area for a long time on Monday night. Several cars were on fire but we could not let them in until it was safe. 'Even the ambulances had to wait even though people were hurt. This happens often in this area.' He added: 'These areas do not only need police officers. We need teachers, adult role models for the kids, people who can take responsibility and stand up against crime. The residents are afraid to act and witness against crime. 'The young criminals have no adult role models. No one who tells them that what they are doing is wrong. 'When we sat in the car and saw the riots I tapped my colleague on the shoulder and said, 'perhaps Trump was right after all'.' Built between 1969 and 1971 as part of socialist Sweden's five-year plan to build one million homes, Rinkeby is a sprawling mass of high-rise apartments that are home to 60,000 people. Hump-back footbridges over the maze of roads provide perfect vantage points for disaffected youths to throw stones and bottles at blue-light flashing police cars – and fire engines and ambulances. Money transfer offices dominate the few shopping centres where residents – 89.3 per cent who were born outside Sweden – can transfer money to family abroad. Arabic, Somali and Persian are spoken in cafes, where traditional Swedish food is rare. Clothing stores stock headscarves, Islamic cloaks and face veils. The far right Swedish Democrats claim that Monday's carnage at Rinkeby was a direct result of mass immigration to Sweden. The country has run a liberal immigration policy for over 20 years, accepting tens of thousands of refugees every year including huge numbers of Kurds, Iraqis and Somalis. The system reached breaking point in 2015, following the arrival of over 160,000 refugees to Sweden during Europe's refugee crisis. Mattias Karlsson from the Swedish Democrats said: 'I am very grateful to President Trump for focusing attention on this issue. 'We have huge problems with border security, immigration and law and order. This is not only in Rinkeby. 'Now we have problems in our towns and cities that we did not dream could be possible ten years ago. 'Trump was right to highlight the problems we have here in Sweden.' The Swedish government has rejected Donald Trump's criticism of its immigration policy, however. Migration spokesman Fredrik Lundh Sammeli told MailOnline: 'The problems that we are facing in Rinkeby are due to basic reasons like alienation, unemployment and problems with housing. 'We are not doing the debate any favours if one draws a straight line between immigration and crime. There are other reasons why there is crime in these areas. It is mainly due to unemployment.' He added: 'It surprises me that the president of America raises Sweden as an example. I think Sweden can be an example in many cases. But not when it comes to crime related to immigration. 'Sweden did a tremendous effort during the migration crisis in 2015. We do have issues to deal with because of this. But crime in our suburbs has nothing to do with the influx of immigrants. 'Sweden is a country that is working. The social differences are far greater in the US than here. 'I think the American president misses the target. We do have challenges within these areas, but they are not related to immigration.'
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'Impact of BDS is worse than most people realize'
By Tamara Zieve February 26, 2017 00:21
Richard D. Heideman, one of the foremost legal experts on fighting the BDS movement, seeks to repair the tarnished name of Zionism.
The impact of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement against Israel on US campuses is worse than most people realize, according to Richard D. Heideman, a Washington-based attorney who is a nominee for the president of the American Zionist Movement, which is set to hold elections in March. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post in Jerusalem last week, Heideman recounted an exchange he recently had with students at the University of Michigan, where he studied many years ago. “I was shocked to hear about the intimidation and threats they receive – it’s more than rallies trying to encourage organizations to divest investments in Israel – it’s really the making of violent attacks that physically threatens and intimidates a student body. Some say it’s free speech – I think it’s hate speech and has to be talked down and responded to,” he said. He believes that such activity is having a damaging effect on the identity of young Jewish students and of their views of Israel. When you feel intimidated, it thwarts the willingness to speak out freely in an exchange of ideas,” he explained. Heideman is one of the foremost legal experts on fighting the BDS movement and pursuing legal actions on behalf of victims of terrorism in courts around the world. He also serves as the chairman of the Israel Forever Foundation and honorary president of B’nai B’rith International. Heideman believes the public opinion war against Israel began decades ago. Pointing to the 1975 UN “Zionism is racism” resolution, Heideman says one must ask what preceded it. “When you take Zionism as a national movement for the re-establishment of the Jewish homeland in the land of Israel and officially have nations of the world adopt a resolution that says Zionism is racism, you have to ask how Israel came to be viewed in such a negative light.” He says a major shift in tactics against Israel came following the country’s victories in the 1967 and 1973 wars. “Those who were against Israel as a nation-state shifted from a strategy of planned physical attacks to an attack in public upon the good name of Israel and the good name of the Zionist movement. “In 1975 when the PLO and other groups and Arab countries were able to get the UN to adopt the resolution, it served as a platform for assaults in the press, through organizations and in world public opinion.” Heideman believes that those who oppose Israel’s very existence, including the Islamic Republic of Iran and the PLO, have been winning that war. “We have done a terrible job standing up for our own good name,” he opines. He notes that while the “Zionism is racism” determination was later revoked, he says the UN has since been used for Israel-bashing. “It has been a well-planned attack and it continues to this very day...what we face is a mixture of assaults on Israel and the Jewish people, not only verbally but also threats and continued physical attacks – not by a formal army, but by terrorist organizations and individuals who identify with those who prefer to teach and practice hate and who do so under the guise of freedom-fighting,” Heideman says. “When you’re afraid to wear religious symbols, you don’t enjoy freedom of religion and when that fear precludes you – even those who don’t come here [to Israel] out of fear – it’s proof of the negative results of the concentrated effort to assault and malign Israel and the Jewish people. Heideman’s mission is to repair Israel’s tainted image through truth and advocacy. “The last time I saw my grandmother before she passed away, she said ‘don’t ever forget that at the end of your days all you will take with you is your good name,’” he recounts. “The good name of Israel and the Jewish people is very precious,” he stresses. “We have a great challenge to strengthen the good name of Israel and the Jewish people and of Zionism as a movement that has brought us to this time and this place.” Heideman seeks to mold a new forward-looking approach to the understanding of who the Jewish people is and who Zionists are – “committed to the concept that the Jewish people are entitled to a nation-state as the Jewish people with our homeland reestablished in Israel with Jerusalem as its capital.” He believes focus groups would be helpful in understanding Diaspora views of Israel, Judaism and Zionism. “If we’re not afraid to ask the questions we can learn a lot about ourselves – I intend to seek out professionals to find out what has happened to our good name.” He believes a major factor has been the aforementioned continuous “Israel bashing,” asserting that when you “beat long enough,” it has an impact. “Disaffection from the Jewish community, I believe is at the greatest percentage in my lifetime and it comes as a result from the beating,” Heideman says. “They haven’t heard or studied the motives and damage initiated against us by the other side.” He believes education, particularly of the younger generation, is key to arming Diaspora Jews with the right tools to stand up and respond to the bashing. “Most young people will not, cannot and don’t know how to respond because it’s easier to walk around and avoid the conflict.” He acknowledges the increase of campus activity by Jewish and Zionist organizations to change that, but says it is not yet enough. While Heideman acknowledges that politics inevitably play a part in this discussion, he highlights that up until the recent past the Left and the Right in the US agreed that Israel must not become a political football. He now wants to concentrate on a path for the future that will allow a greater coalescing of people to positively support Israel and its centrality in the lives of the Jewish people, and to rally around Zionism as a proud movement.
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Impact-of-BDS-is-worse-than-most-people-realize-482589
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Taxing Religious Freedom
Scott Weiser Editor-in-Chief, Altnews.US 3:44 PM 02/20/2017
Is a threat to eliminate the tax exemption of churches that endorse candidates or political parties posed by a 1954 law called the “Johnson Amendment” a constitutional infringement on the rights of church leaders to freely express themselves from the pulpit? At ColoradoPolitics.com, Deb Walker, executive director of Citizens Project writes, “Government may not subsidize political endorsements through tax exemption,” and that “The Johnson Amendment ensures that citizens of all faith traditions (or no faith tradition) are not inadvertently financially supporting church-based politicking.” There are two failures in reasoning here. First, the reasons for exempting churches from taxation are distinguishable from those that apply to other types of charitable organizations. Whereas the law may exempt secular charities because it deems that the charitable purposes provide public benefits that outweigh the need to tax such activities, the principle of not taxing churches originates in the constitutional, philosophical and political foundations of our nation. The Supreme Court examined this principle in Everson v. Board of Education, a 1947 case affirming the authority of a state to provide funding for school busses to transport children to Catholic schools in New Jersey writing, “The centuries immediately before and contemporaneous with the colonization of America had been filled with turmoil, civil strife and persecutions, generated in large part by established sects determined to maintain their absolute political and religious supremacy. These practices of the old world… began to thrive in the soil of the new America…Catholics found themselves hounded and proscribed because of their faith…men and women of varied faiths…were persecuted. And all of these dissenters were compelled to pay tithes and taxes to support government-sponsored churches. The people [of Virginia], as elsewhere, reached the conviction that individual religious liberty could be achieved best under a government which was stripped of all power to tax…[in order to] interfere with the beliefs of any religious individual or group. The ‘establishment of religion’ clause of the First Amendment means at least this…no tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.” This sounds as if the Court would hold that New Jersey has no authority to provide taxpayer-funded school busses for Catholic schoolchildren, but that’s not case. What the Court pointed out in affirming that policy is that “the amendment commands that New Jersey…cannot exclude individual Catholics, Lutherans, Mohammedans, Baptists, Jews, Methodists, Nonbelievers, Presbyterians, or the members of any other faith, because of their faith, or lack of it, from receiving the benefits of public welfare legislation.” (Emphasis in original) The second error is that a tax exemption is not a subsidy. An exemption from a tax is not giving the person or group exempted something they don’t already have. Neither a taxpayer not affiliated with a religious organization nor the government has something taken from them that goes to a church merely because the church doesn’t pay a tax. Therefore, a tax exemption does not mean that the public is “financially supporting church-based politicking”, nor does it mean that the government is entangled “in underwriting partisan political activity.” Where the Johnson Amendment and Walker go wrong is in failing to understand that when it comes to religion the taxing power of Congress has a constitutional hurdle it must overcome that doesn’t apply to conventional non-religious charitable organizations. The historic truths cited by the Supreme Court stand for the proposition that the government cannot tax religious institutions in ways that inhibit the free exercise of religion just as much as it does the proposition that it cannot tax anyone for the purposes of advancing religion. Thus, when it comes to religious institutions it’s questionable whether or not the 501(c)(3) rules apply at all because it is the First Amendment itself that arguably prohibits the taxation of churches because religion-suppressing taxation has always been as formidable an enemy of religious freedom throughout history as religion-supporting taxation has, as the Supreme Court points out and as the Founders went to great pains to avoid. Religiously motivated speech is a constitutionally protected aspect of religious liberty that cannot be suppressed by the threat of anti-religious, anti-free-speech government taxation. This includes the freedom of both ministers and others to preach in favor of or against any political party or candidate or any other matter that they believe would either threaten or support their rights to religious freedom.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/taxing-religious-freedom/#ixzz4Zu7HuVru
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'Great spiritual rewards' for keeping God's feasts
Mark Biltz explains how to walk with God
Published: 2 days ago
The Bible speaks of certain people who were able to “walk with God” in close communion. It seems difficult to believe in the hectic modern world, where people run from one obligation to another at the expense of the most important things in their lives. How can a person incorporate faith into everyday life? And how can a person truly live the way God intends? Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries, the man who discovered the “Blood Moons” phenomenon, lays out a program of total life reform in his newest book, “God’s Day Timer.” The key, he believes, is getting on the biblical calendar, “God’s calendar,” and observing the biblical feast days. “Our spiritual life is totally strengthened when we walk with God just as Enoch did, along with Noah, Abraham and David as they walked with God,” Biltz told WND. “In Amos 3:3 it asks, ‘If two can walk together unless they are in agreement.’ If we are to walk with God we must walk with Him in agreement. If I want to connect with someone in a different time zone, we need to be in agreement as to whose time zone we will choose. If you want to walk with God, you need to know when He goes on His walks! Biltz said that “being on God’s calendar rather than the one the world offers allows us to reconnect with the Creator as never before!” “There is no better way to energize your spiritual life than to make an actual connection with God according to His schedule!” However, the importance of following the biblical calendar and becoming knowledgeable about the feasts goes beyond one’s spiritual life. Biltz argues the biblical feasts provide an entirely new way of understanding the Bible. “God ordained the feasts to be the appointed times when He would prophetically intersect human history,” he explained. “For example, every year for 1,500 years before Yeshua (Jesus Christ) came, they would slay the Passover lamb on the 14th day of the first Hebrew month, Nisan. This is why Yeshua died on Passover, which is the 14th day of the first month. God even went into more detail as Yeshua was bound to the altar at 9 a.m., which is the same time the Passover lamb was bound to the altar. He died at 3 p.m., which is the same time as the evening sacrifice.” Biltz argues knowledge of the biblical feasts allows one to appreciate the deeper patterns contained within the Bible and the full interconnectedness of God’s plan. “God had King David write the funeral hymns to be sung 1,000 years later for the day when Messiah died,” Biltz said. “Every Passover the hymns that were sung were from the Psalms, which was their hymn book. The psalms that would be sung were known as the Hallel from Psalms 113-118. So when the New Testament said the disciples sang a hymn and went to the Mount of Olives, we know that last hymn was Psalm 118!” Biltz also claims the feasts have critical prophetic and eschatological importance for the entire Christian world. “Messiah died on Passover, He was buried on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, He rose on the Feast of First Fruits and the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Feast of Shavuot known as Pentecost,” Biltz marveled. “When we read in Acts about this event, it states that it was the third hour of the day. That is the time of the morning sacrifice! Every one of the spring feasts were ‘dress rehearsals’ for the times when God would intersect human history, not only to the day but to the very hour!” For that reason, Biltz urges anyone who believes the world is nearing the last days to immediately educate themselves on the biblical feasts. “If Messiah fulfilled the spring feasts to the day of His first coming, He will fulfill the fall feasts at His second coming,” Biltz said. “If Christians are not on God’s calendar they will be caught unaware when these events occur!” Pastor Biltz’s video presentation, “The Feasts of the Lord,” goes into more detail about each biblical feast, how it corresponds or will correspond with a major intervention by the Lord in human history and why Christians should be observing each one. In the end, Biltz says the biblical feasts are not just “dress rehearsals” for the major events in history. They are preparation for God’s Kingdom on Earth when Biltz says the whole world will follow the biblical law. And as part of that, all people will be observing the biblical feasts. “During the millennial reign, Jerusalem becomes the capital of the world and Jesus himself becomes the teacher of the Torah,” Biltz said. “We find from Zechariah 14 that on that day when the Lord stands on the Mount of Olives and it splits in two at His arrival, the Lord will be King over all the earth. In verses 16-19, three times it mentions that representatives from all nations have to come to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, and if not they receive the plague and no rain. “We are now living in a time where we can rehearse what we will be doing in the future. We will be participating in the feasts and living by the biblical calendar. What a great opportunity to learn now what we will be doing during the millennial reign!” Many Christians may find the idea of keeping the biblical, or Jewish, feasts strange or at least tangential to their faith. But ultimately, Biltz argues, the the biblical feasts and the calendar are central. After all, if God doesn’t change, then neither do the specific celebrations He wants His people to observe. “If we truly believe God is the same yesterday, today and forever, we must acknowledge He would never change His calendar of divine appointments,” said Biltz. “God is not schizophrenic, saying His Divine appointments are good for 2,000 years, then done away with for 2,000 years, and then good again for the next 1,000 years. They are eternal and constant, just like He is. “And we should rejoice. There are great rewards spiritually if we simply do what He asks, such as keeping His divine appointments!” The Bible story is more miraculous and astounding than you could have imagined. See the incredible proof of the unchanging nature of God – and the exciting clues to what awaits at the end of days in “God’s Day Timer” by Mark Biltz, available as a book or documentary now in the WND Superstore.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/great-spiritual-rewards-for-keeping-gods-feasts/#6hBXgsHIvdj5h4le.99
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The Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram recruited 2,000 children to fight in 2016, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said. The data were part of a report indicating that at least 65,000 children worldwide were released from military and armed groups in the past 10 years, UPI reported. An estimated 17,000 children were recruited in South Sudan since 2013 and child soldiers in the Central African Republic numbered 10,000, the report by UNICEF said. Of those released from military servitude, more than 20,000 were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nearly 9,000 in the Central African Republic and 1,600 in Chad. In northeastern Nigeria, more than 100,000 people have been killed in a seven-year conflict with Boko Haram and more than 2 million people have been displaced, Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, said on February 13. Many of the Boko Haram combatants have been boys and girls under the age of 18, and thousands more are among the displaced. Boko Haram also uses children as suicide bombers. An explosion at a Maiduguri market in December killed at least one person. A local civilian militia leader, Abdulkarim Jabo, commented that the two bombers were girls who appeared to be about 7 or 8 years old.
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“Smoke billowing” from Japan nuclear plant — Possible fire reported near reactors — TEPCO “has not identified the cause of the incident”
By ENENews, on February 23rd, 2017
Kyodo, Feb 23, 2017: Smoke emerges at TEPCO’s Niigata nuclear plant — Smoke emerged at a service building of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on Thursday but it quickly halted after a firefighting effort by workers, its operator said. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said there was no radiation leak in the incident. The utility has not identified the cause of the incident. The plant operator confirmed smoke coming out around 3:25 p.m. from a locker room inside the service building, located near the No. 6 and No. 7 reactors at the plant… Xinhua, Feb 23, 2017: TEPCO unaware of cause of smoke at Niigata nuclear plant in latest blunder – Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) on Thursday said that it had detected smoke billowing from a service room near two reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, located on the west coast of Honshu island. TEPCO said that there was no radiation leak as a result of the possible fire which occurred close to its Sea of Japan-facing reactors, although the utility has yet to comment on the cause of the fire. The plant operator said that it noticed smoke billowing out of a locker room inside the service building near its No. 6 and No. 7 reactors at the facility…
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Even now, saith your Father, they plot for a one world banking system, a one world government, a one world controlled by one man, etc..
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Shocking Banking Notice 'Red Pills' Customers And Proves We Don't Own Our Money Once We Put It In The Banks!
New 'Mark Of The Beast' And Cashless Society Warnings Flying At Us From All Directions
February 22, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
'Demon'-etization is the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender. It occurs whenever there is a change of national currency: The current form or forms of money is pulled from circulation and retired, often to be replaced with new notes or coins. The email yesterday came in to All News Pipeline from a reader quite concerned about the notice which a family member had just received from their bank - a credit union - which proved to them that once you put your money in the bank, you no longer own it. Another reason for Americans to keep their money out of the banking system, you can see a screenshot of that notice below. As the 'Change to Terms and Conditions" notice begins: effective February 1, 2017, the following addition has been made to the Membership and Account Agreement section of the Suncoast Credit Union Account Agreement and Disclosure. RIGHT TO RESTRICT SERVICES AND ACCOUNT ACCESS - We reserve the right to restrict, deny, suspend or terminate Credit Union services and/or your ability to access or withdraw account funds at any time, for any reason and without notice to you, in our sole discretion, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. Just more proof that we really don't 'own' our 'paper money' at all once we deposit it into a bank, and an 'instant red pill' for unsuspecting customers, we get more and more evidence in just the last few weeks that even though the globalists have lost their iron 'grip' upon America with Donald Trump voted in office, they've moved on to 'plan B' with a mad rush towards a cashless society. Also the latest example of what may be coming to America in the future when the globalists usher in 'the mark of the beast' to our nation with their 'cashless society', we see in the headlines of stories all across the world that cash is going the way of the dinosaurs. And with the ushering in of a cashless society also comes 'complete control' for the satanic globalists who long ago sold away their souls to satan with their promise to him they'll stomp upon the faces of humanity, forever. The recent story from Bloomberg is called "Surprise! Your Cash Is Now Worthless" within which they report upon India's drive to stamp out corruption by invalidating more than 80% of the currency in circulation. We shouldn't be the least bit surprised to report that according to Bloomberg's story, "the action might just end up working". 'Fake news' Washington Post has gleefully jumped on the 'Mark of the Beast' bandwagon, putting out a story last month urging the US to follow up on what India is doing, a move they report is akin to the Great Wall of China or America's interstate highway system. Should America bring in a fully digital payment system? Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that the United States should follow Modi’s lead in phasing out currency and moving toward a digital economy, because it would have “benefits that outweigh the cost.” Speaking of the inequity and corruption that is becoming an issue in the United States and all over the world, he said: “I believe very strongly that countries like the United States could and should move to a digital currency so that you would have the ability to trace this kind of corruption. There are important issues of privacy, cybersecurity, but it would certainly have big advantages.” The January 25th story from Survival Dan is called "Epocalypse: The Cashless Society Is Almost Upon Us" within which we read one of the best summary's of why the globalists who almost stole our country away during the past several decades so badly want a cashless society - it still gives THEM complete control. The ULTIMATE 'mark of the beast', if we see America going the way of cashless society, we know the end of 'free humanity' is near.: There are a number of reasons given for this, from convenience to security, but the underlying motive really is control. Bible prophecy makes it clear that a large part of the 666 beast system will be controls on what anyone can buy and sell. With these moves to do away with cash, we’re taking a giant step toward that reality. This move is intimately connected with the “Mark of the Beast”, and for that reason, this is an area to watch closely. If this sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, consider the following: no less Sterling standard of global economics than The Economist predicted thirty years ago that by 2018 a global currency would rise like the phoenix out of the ashes of the worlds fiat currencies. (Seen above) Once Cash Is Banned They Will Be Able To Force You To Buy Products: “Just Tax Their Excess Account Balance” In the event the President or other bureaucrat declares a financial crisis, the government can move with unprecedented speed to stabilize the system by simply compelling you to spend money to boost economic activity. And by “compelling” we mean forcing you through direct taxation and withdrawal of your funds. The idea is that either you start spending your money like a good Patriotic American according to the rules and regulations, or the government would just take it from you and reappropriate it as they see fit. But such a thing could never happen in America – that the government could force a private citizen to purchase a product or service, or face financial penalties and even jail time – right? To answer this question we direct you to the Patient Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare that the Republicans in Congress have already begun the legislative process of overhauling the law (although a final repeal bill is not likely to land on President Donald Trump’s desk for some weeks, even possibly months.) Besides, you don’t own that money you’re depositing at the bank anyway, because once you deposit those funds, according to new banking rules, you become a creditor to your financial institution and they can pretty much do whatever they want with what was formerly your money.” Is 'the mark of the beast' coming to America? As we are asked in the first video below, between demonetization, cashless payments, biometrics and all of the coming technology, can we connect the dots? James Corbett from The Corbett Report uncovers the truth about India's recent demonetization and follows the trail to the coming cashless biometric control grid. Long considered 'conspiracy theory', the fact that globalist-tied The Economist predicted a global currency by 2018 should be seen as a sign they'll do everything in their power to make that goal a reality. Judging by how quickly sovereign nations such as India and Sweden have switched to such a society shows us it could soon be our coming reality. As this recent story from Global Research reports, the EU has stepped up their pace for a cashless society by 2017/2018. Back in 2016 Zero Hedge reported China had readied their digital currency while the IMF called it 'extremely beneficial'. For those who want to control everything, we're sure it is. Back in January, Concerned US Patriots warned a totalitarian police state with Americans living in 'cashless smart cities' was clearly the way we were headed with the mad rush towards a cashless society and within their story, they shared with us the very real consequences of those unable to take part within the 'system' now in India.: There are a myriad of problems associated with this. Many street vendors, rickshaw drivers, and other small time merchants cannot afford the card readers necessary to conduct the transactions electronically. In some cases the consequences have been starvation, suicide, and the inability to pay for medical expenses because of lack of access to funds or because of how difficult it is to exchange the 500 and 1000 rupee notes for lower denomination bills. And as we hear in the 2nd video below from The Event Is Coming Soon, everything is now aligning for the globalists to usher in their 'mark of the beast' system as 'the globalists strike back' in their march to a cashless control grid. The new story today from Anonymous HQ that Steve Quayle linked to on his website reports that Europe wants to confiscate money, precious metals, crypto currecy and prepaid cards in their bid to 'fight terrorism'. Leaving little but a cashless society in which the elite control who buys what and when, we understand why John Whitehead over at LewRockwell.com writes "The Police State Is Alive And Well" and we only have 'the illusion' of choice in 2017. If Whitehead is correct, just imagine how much worse it might be should the globalists be successful at bringing in their 'cashless society' and 'mark of the beast'. It's bad enough knowing THEY own your cash once you deposit it in their bank.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Cashless_Society_Warning_From_Reader.php
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'Mystery From The Top Of The World' Alarms Experts - Scientists Warn: 'Billions Being Exposed' As Our Food Chain Is Decimated
- Was Mysterious Radiation Spike Coming From The Arctic A Russian Nuclear Weapons Test?
February 23, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
In the most recent story from ENENews they report scientists are very concerned that the radiation now hitting the US will only continue to worsen with this dire warning: "BILLIONS are being exposed." Warning us the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors will continue to pour radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean "for the rest of time", their story is just the most recent proving the Northern hemisphere is getting hit by a whole lot of radiation, with a huge new mysterious radiation spike that has alarmed and baffled scientists and experts now striking Europe from 'the top of the world'. According to a recent story from The Drive that Steve Quayle linked to on his website on Monday, increased levels of radioactive iodine have recently been reported all across Europe that appear to be coming from the Arctic Circle. As their story asks, "has there been a 'nuclear incident' in the Arctic"? In the 1st video below, our videographer takes a look at this latest mystery and asks, "has Russia conducted a nuclear weapons test in the Arctic region?" The concern was great enough that the US has flown a nuclear 'sniffer jet' to the UK after the mysterious radiation spike in Europe, a plane designed to detect nuclear explosions that were also used after the Chernoby disaster in 1986 and were recently deployed around North Korea after they were alleged to have conducted a nuclear test in 2016. Not surprisingly, according to The Independent, the radioactive Iodine-131 (most closely associated with atomic bombs) was found originally in Northern Norway back in December but authorities kept it secret, not announcing it until recently after it had also been detected elsewhere across Europe. Has a 'dirty bomb' been released by ISIS in Europe without the knowledge of authorities, its poisons silently spreading across Europe? Like what is happening across the Northern hemisphere due to Fukushima now, radiation is the 'perfect poison', invisible to sight, unable to be touched or tasted or smelled and we certainly can't 'hear it'. We have no real way of knowing that it's even there short of technology most of us don't have. From The Independent story: Mysterious radioactive spikes are being found across Europe – and nobody quite knows why. Iodine-131, a man-made radioactive material, is being found in small amounts across the continent. It was found in northern Norway early in January, according to officials, but has been gradually moving across the rest of Europe ever since. But despite finding the material in January, authorities didn’t announce that it had been found until recent days. That might be because it isn't at all clear where it has come from or how it got to be spread out. Further information makes the find even more unusual. Iodine-131 is usually found alongside other radioactive materials, but it wasn't. And it has a short half-life – the time required for one half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to disintegrate – but a significant amount of it was found, meaning that it is likely that it was introduced very recently. There is no imminent threat from the amount of material that is currently being found in Europe, according to the French IRSN, or nuclear security body. The IRSN said that it had shared the findings with the “Ring of Five” – a group of similar bodies across Europe – so that they can be further investigated. With most of the mainstream media refusing to report anything of real signifance to the American people, thus their 'fake news' label rightly earned, might America get some truth on the devastation that Fukushima radiation is causing from President Donald Trump? If a chronic perfect poison is continually being released into the oceans, causing the mass deaths of Pacific Ocean life and putting BILLIONS at risk as experts have warned, shouldn't we have the right to 'officially' know or is Fukushima just another globalist depopulation method, sure to be censored forever and eventually bring our planet to extinction? The February 5th story from ENENews reported upon a record number of dead whales scattered throughout the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Most of them 'sick and starving', officially, scientists are officially 'mystified' about what is causing the mass deaths of our planet's biggest mammals, living in the sea. We've called out our scientists over and over again in stories on ANP and will continue to do so within this story. As anybody paying attention to 'real world news' knows, the mass deaths of whales in Hawaii only continued a nearly 6-year-long spree of mass wildlife deaths across our oceans and planet Earth as has been extensively documented by End Times Prophecy. Long ago we were warned by a very wise man who lived here in America long before the globalists came here to destroy our planet that 'man does not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do the web, we do to ourselves'. As one 'expert' warned about Fukushima to mainly 'deaf ears' way back in 2015, "what is happening in Fukushima, it's all going to cascade up to us", one day. That day is getting closer every day now. In the 2nd video below, BPEarthwatch shares with us the news from scientists who warn that Fukushima will continue to 'leak until the end of time', completely poisoning and decimating our food chain (wonder why the whales are starving?!) while in the final video, David Knight from Infowars gives us an update upon this disaster that is still being highly censored by the MSM and top levels of government despite the fact that it will NEVER go away.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Experts_Warn_Billions_Exposed_Fukushima.php
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Massive coronal hole still facing Earth expect major quakes in coming days as our Sun hurled a twisted plume of debris more than 250,000 km into space
Spaceweather.com reports SOLAR TORNADO OVER-ROTATES, EXPLODES: Yesterday, an explosion on the sun's eastern limb hurled a twisted plume of debris more than 250,000 km above the solar surface. NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast: An 8-hr movie recorded by extreme ultraviolet telescopes onboard the spacecraft shows what happened: A tornado of magnetized plasma became unstable when the twister twisted a bit too much. Magnetic fields crissed, crossed, and exploded in a process known as "magnetic re-connection." The flying debris will not hit our planet; the blast was too far off the sun-Earth line. Meanwile a massive coronal hole is still facing Earth meaning we could still expect more major quakes and volcanic activity in the coming days. Solar wind flowing from the indicated coronal hole should reach Earth on Feb. 23-24. Credit: NASA/SDO.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/02/massive-coronal-hole-still-facing-earth.html Wednesday, 22 February 2017
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As you can clearly see the evil in the world is almost fifty-fifty, my word has shown you that before, so that should not be a surprise. For I have said that two shall be standing in the field and one shall go and one shall remain, that is fifty-fifty, and it has got to that place, that also means that the end is very, very near. So you will still have half of the world that desires to do evil and half of the world that desires to do good, but only about thirty percent are true Christians. etc.
:: 2-24-17 The Common Sense Show :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Breaking: Adams & Jones Taken Down by Google/CIA Prior to Big Event- Trump Needs to Beware
By Dave Hodges
The censorship of the Independent Media has begun in earnest by Jeff Bezos and Google. On my last radio show (2/19), Mike Adams revealed that he was contacted and was told “We will pay you $50,000 to provide us with damaging information against Alex Jones. If you do not help us, we will destroy you”. In the PM on February 22, 2017, Mike Adams reached out to me and informed me that Google’s search engines have removed all 140,000 pages of content from Natural News ( www.naturalnews.com ). If the reader puts Natural News in the Google search engine, it comes back as www.natural.news.com . This is Mike’s back up site which is a shell of his original site. Given the time proximity between the attempt to blackmail Mike Adams and Google’s takedown of one of one of the biggest websites in the Independent Media, it is too suspicious to be considered to be a mere coincidence. It is clear from just the circumstantial evidence, that entities representing Google tried to blackmail Mike Adams into providing damning information about Alex Jones and then when Mike did not respond, they took him down. In the same time frame, Alex Jones lost $3 million in Google advertising revenue which serves to validate the Mike Adams’ claim that he was indeed blackmailed in an attempt to destroy Alex Jones. Please notice that I have chosen my words very carefully! I am not saying that Google, itself, or Bezos, himself, are DIRECTLY responsible for these actions against Jones and Adams, beyond the censorship. I said entities representing Google interests are responsible for what will follow this round of censorship. Now, this does not take Bezos off the hook as the buck stops with him. I know, you are saying Dave, get to the point. I recently published information that showed that Google’s owner and now the owner of the Washington (com) Post had entered into a $600 million dollar deal with the CIA and indirectly with 16 other intelligence agencies. In my opinion, and in the opinion of my sources who have done business at this level, Mike Adams and Alex Jones are both victims of a CIA hit orchestrated in conjunction with Deep State and in this instance, that would be the Washington (com) Post. Why Would the CIA and the Washington Post Target Adams and Jones? Many will think, for example, that Adams was targeted because of his fine work in exposing the dangers associated with vaccines which is big business for many of the elite (eg Bill Gates). However, Mike has been exposing this information for years without suffering these kinds of illegal intimidation and anti-trust actions by Google. What do Alex and Mike have in common that would cause these people to act with such reckless abandon? The answer can be summed up in one word, Pizzagate. One must consider the fact that both Alex Jones and Mike Adams have been among the leaders in exposing Pizzagate and linking this heinous criminal enterprise with very prominent people. Names are beginning to be named and no doubt, Mike Adams and Alex Jones would be among the first to strike blows in this arena by naming prominent politicians. We fully know that we are days and weeks away from these revelations. The Common Sense Show is beginning to receive names of the participants. What has happened to Mike and Alex is damage control, a killing of the messenger. The criminal left is desperate. There is no false flag that these animals will not engage in. Another Related Motive In my recent interview with Mike (2/23), he suggested that this is also a silencing of the Independent Media prior to a very big event. This will likely be an event that the Deep State cannot allow any opposition to if they are to hoodwink the public. Please keep in mind that the Trump/Session forces are closing in on Pizzagate organizers and participants. The left is desperate. Trump cannot be allowed to continue with this investigation. The only way to stop this bulldog of justice is to do to him what was done to JFK. Mike Adams, myself and my best source believe that an assassination attempt is coming. The Independent Media cannot be allowed to be questioning the “official narratives”. In 1963, when JFK was murdered, there was no Independent Media around to question the official lies coming out of the Warren Commission. In 2017, the Deep State cannot allow any form of Independent Media to ask any questions and cast doubt upon the lies that will be fed to the American people because, as we can anticipate, Trump’s assassin will be the old familiar theme of a lone nut who has a diary stating what he was going to do and of course, just like Lee Harvey Oswald, he will be murdered, himself, to obscure the true nature of the false flag event. Conclusion The recent actions by the CIA and Google serve to inhibit any Pizzagate prosecution at the highest levels of corporate and political power. To ensure the investigations stop, the Trump administration must be neutered and the best way to do that would be to cut the head off of the snake and that means to assassinate Donald Trump. This is their only play. Protests, riots and incessant media lies have not derailed the Trump machine. We are witnessing the absolute desperation of the Deep State and Mike Adams and Alex Jones are caught up in the continued concealment of heinous crimes of prominent people protected by the Deep State. No doubt that more Google takedowns are coming. The answer for this is for the general public to all open a website. It can be done for free. You do not have to write anything or possess any technical skills. Simply republish and credit the Independent Media Sources on your site. In this manner, Google’s censorship of the truth will not be effective. America, the time to act is NOW! Please make this interview with Mike Adams go viral.
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Obama lawyers form 'worst-case scenario' group to tackle Trump
Fearful the new administration will abuse its power, the former president’s lawyers are uniting to fight back.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere 02/23/17 05:14 AM EST
Top lawyers who helped the Obama White House craft and hold to rules of conduct believe President Donald Trump and his staff will break ethics norms meant to guard against politicization of the government — and they’ve formed a new group to prepare, and fight. United to Protect Democracy, which draws its name from a line in President Barack Obama’s farewell address that urged his supporters to pick up where he was leaving off, has already raised a $1.5 million operating budget, hired five staffers and has plans to double that in the coming months. They’ve incorporated as both a 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4), allowing them to operate as a nonprofit but participate in some forms of political advocacy as well. While other Trump opponents focus on taking the president to court over the travel ban and deportations, the new group plans to drill into issues that aren’t already hitting the headlines, like potential intervention in and intimidation of regulatory agencies by West Wing staff. “When people hear concerns about democracies declining into authoritarianism, they expect that moment to come in a singular thunderclap where everyone can see that this is the time,” said Ian Bassin, who’s leading the new group. “In reality, often times, democracies decline over a period of years that happen through a series of much smaller steps.” They started by submitting 50 Freedom of Information Act requests this week that they believe will confirm their suspicions. The plan is to bring what they find to reporters, build it into pressure for congressional oversight with the help of a campaign director they’ll hire, and, as necessary, to file lawsuits. They’re also hoping to establish themselves as a base for government employees worried about ethics violations — up to and including becoming whistleblowers — and are hoping that their website, https://unitedtoprotectdemocracy.org/ ,can become a resource. White House press secretary Sean Spicer, responding to the group's formation, said, "This administration has raised the level of ethics training and oversight to a new level compared to the practices of the previous administration." “You need folks who have been in the government to understand how they operate to make sure that those protections continue to serve their function,” said Tom Perrelli, an associate attorney general during Obama’s first term now in private practice who's spoken with Bassin about the new group. Jesse Lee, who was Obama’s White House director of rapid response, is also on board as communications director,and Caroline McKay, a former legal assistant in the White House Counsel’s office, is managing operations. But they’re also coming with a huge network of support from other Obama lawyers, as well as partner organizations like the Brennan Center. "President Obama has said repeatedly that his lawyers deserve a lot of credit for helping his Administration go eight years without a major scandal,” said Danielle Gray, one of Obama’s former secretaries of the Cabinet. “The leaders of this effort will bring that experience to protecting and preserving accountable and democratic government.” Bassin “has managed to gain the support of a lot of very serious people,” said Karen Dunn, another former associate White House counsel best known for helping run debate prep for Obama and Hillary Clinton, and called her former colleague the “perfect person for this particular organization at this particular moment.” “It’s really important for a bunch of people to shine the light on this question, to make very clear when autocrats are starting in any way to detract from democratic institutions,” said Yascha Mounk, a Harvard Law lecturer who specializes in the rise of authoritarianism and has been having high level strategic advisory conversations with the group. But it’s more than just the smaller encroachments that are on Bassin’s mind. Trump’s attack on the judge who halted his immigration ban already has him building a plan for what might happen if the White House directly defies a judicial ruling, and what they’d need to do in the potential constitutional crisis that would follow. Existing nonprofits, he said, have not been structured to deal with the kind of unprecedented, norm-breaking threats that he believes are coming from Trump and his aides. “We need an organization that is specifically and holistically focused on that worst-case scenario,” Bassin said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/obama-trump-lawyers-worst-case-235280
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Liberals Claim Sedition is Now Legal in America
Michael CostFebruary 24, 2017
How are political “leaders” in the United States allowed to be openly seditious, and get away with it? By examining the legal definition of sedition, it is clear that establishment politicians and mainstream media outlets are in violation of this law. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and many other liberal-leaning media outlets and websites have been blatantly lying about President Donald Trump, and they have also called for his overthrow and/or impeachment. They are, by very definition, carrying out a seditious conspiracy to oust Donald Trump. 18 U.S. Code 2384 explains “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (Cornell University, 2017) (June 25, 1948, CH. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.) It is my opinion that President Trump is playing nice so that he doesn’t seem to the people as if he is some authoritarian; however it is high-time that these criminals begin being held accountable for their actions. University Professors, establishment politicians, Hollywood actors/actresses and many other left-minded and prestigious people have come out and openly called for the overthrow of President Trump and his administration. “The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders,” said Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University Professor at the New America Foundation. “WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE,”said Sarah Silverman, a Hollywood actress. “I hope he’s not there for four years. I hope that this man and who he is, the way that he has defined himself, the way that he is acting—I am hoping that we are able to reveal all of this. And my greatest desire is to lead him right into impeachment,” said Maxine Waters, Democratic Congresswoman from California. Waters has also made outrageous claims of President Trump having connections to the Russian government, but literally in the next breath implied that Vladimir Putin is invading…Korea?! The way she stated this was as if it was a question, and as if she was making up everything she was saying. Waters also called Trump’s admin “scumbags,” in a recent interview on live television. If these were regular/everyday citizens, they would be in prison for sedition, however because they are leftists-liberals with some clout, they seem to get a free pass on their blatant crimes. If it were just these three individuals calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected President, it would not be much to worry about. However, there are leftists all over this country who are following the example of these seditious criminals and there are calls all over America to oust the Trump administration, with no legitimate reason I might add. Americans should be demanding to know why these criminals are allowed to freely walk our streets and continue to spew their false narratives and straight-up lies to the American people. Trump’s cabinet is being delayed for a reason, and I believe that reason is to intentionally delay the Trump administration from having the power to come after these seditious criminals. Groups like Antifa and other radical leftists are running around America calling Trump and his supporters “fascists,” while at the same time they themselves, and their leaders, are acting fascistically. President Trump, from a U.S. Army veteran and patriot of this nation, I humbly request that you end this seditious and traitorous behavior immediately before this currently cold civil-war in America goes hot. It will not be the fault of President Donald Trump, nor his followers, when the blood begins to spill. It will be due to the lies and fake narratives fed to the American people from these seditious criminals, which will spark the battle.
http://ipatriot.com/liberals-claim-sedition-now-legal-america/
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John Quincy Adams: Supporting the Jewish homeland with the Bible in hand
By Benjamin Glatt February 23, 2017 11:31
The sixth US president's expertise in the ‘Good Book’ made him encourage the ‘rebuilding of Judea.’ Long before God had awakened the Jewish people to return to their ancient homeland, experts of the Bible, such as sixth US president John Quincy Adams, were already in support of a Jewish state in the Holy Land. Immediately upon entering the White House, Adams, like his father, president John Adams, had written to Maj. Mordecai Manuel Noah in the first year of his presidency that he believed in the “rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.” This love for the people who brought the Bible to the world was nurtured in the Adams puritan household. “They were also deeply religious Unitarians who admired Jews and sympathized with those who dreamed of a return to their ancient homeland,” wrote Denis Brian in “The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel.” Yet none of this could have happened had Adams not been so familiar with the Bible. In the American Jewish Historical Quarterly from 1955, the editors noted the fervor the Adams had for studying Scriptures and the importance he saw behind it. In the 1811 letter to his son, Adams wrote how happy he was to hear that his son was helping his aunt study the Bible every evening. “I advise you, my son, in whatever you read, and most of all in reading the Bible, to remember that it is for the purpose of making you wiser and more virtuous,” he said. “I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. I have always endeavored to read it with the same spirit and temper of mind, which I now recommend to you: that is, with the intention and desire that it may contribute to my advancement in wisdom and virtue.” Quincy Adams learned from his father that whoever reads the Bible can only come to the conclusion that God will fulfill his Word to the prophets and bring the Jewish people back to their ancient homeland. “I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity,” he once proclaimed. These beliefs and knowledge of the Bible that the American people have, continue to support the strong US-Israeli ties till this day, with the Adams family helping establish this fact in the highest and most powerful office in the country – the Executive Office of the President of the United States. On February 23, 1848, at the age of 80, the sixth president of the US John Quincy Adams died in Washington DC. He is remembered as one of the first leaders of the free world to announce his support for the fulfillment of God’s Word to the prophets through the creation of a Jewish state in the Holy Land.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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‘$3.75 billion investment in Israel's Leviathan gas reservoir a blow to BDS’
By Sharon Udasin February 23, 2017 16:09
The development of Leviathan, which is scheduled to take about three years, constitutes both the largest energy project and financial investment in Israel in the country's history. The announcement that the partners of the Leviathan gas reservoir will invest $3.75 billion in its development is a devastating blow to the BDS movement, Eli Groner, director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The development of Leviathan, which is scheduled to take about three years, is both the largest energy project and financial investment in Israel in the country’s history. Groner hailed Thursday’s final investment decision (FID) for ending years of bureaucratic squabbles that all but froze Israel’s natural gas sector, the country’s largest resource, is officially on the road to development. “After seven years, after embarrassing delays, the message we’re getting today is that Israel is comfortably on its way to achieving full energy security,” Groner said. “This is the biggest investment ever in Israel.” Gas is expected to flow from the Leviathan reservoir to Israel’s shores by the end of 2019. The reservoir, located about 130 km. west of Haifa, will not only boost domestic gas supplies, but will also likely serve as an export outlet for Israel’s immediate neighbors and the wider Mediterranean region. Houston-based Noble Energy holds a 39.66% share of the Leviathan reservoir, while the Delek Group’s subsidiaries Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration each have 22.67% and Ratio Oil Exploration has 15%. “In an era of the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] movement, when the Israeli government is going to such efforts to thwart BDS, this is a great victory,” said Groner, who was a guiding force on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office in recent gas negotiations. “Almost tragically, there were many voices within Israel from the populist side that did everything in their power to thwart this investment,” Groner continued. “But thanks to leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, the haters were not able to succeed, and Noble was convinced that this is a place that’s worthwhile to invest in. The next stage is to ensure that many other energy exploratory companies form around the world will invest here.” “If you look at the history of the 20th century through the lens of energy, you realize that countries around the world would go to war over types of reservoirs that we had under our noses,” he said. Steinitz also celebrated the announcement, declaring that the FID puts an end to the claims of those who objected to the gas outline. “If we continue on a responsible and steadfast path, we will also succeed in discovering more gas fields, positioning Israel as an important player in the energy market alongside our neighbors in the Middle East and Europe,” Steinitz said. The energy minister pointed out the numerous benefits of the field to Israel, including financial profits, clean air for future generations and an increase in energy security. Netanyahu also voiced his support for the investment, adding that the process “provides a gas supply to the State of Israel and promotes cooperation with neighboring countries in the energy sector.” The $3.7b. project budget adds to the already approximately $1b. invested in various exploration, appraisal and planning activities to date. “Development of the Leviathan project is another milestone in the fulfillment of Israel’s energy security and will bring benefits in the air quality and health of Israel’s citizens, who will also benefit from increased government revenues and from a path to better relations with their neighbors in the region,” Bini Zomer, Israel country manager for Noble Energy, said on Thursday.
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etc. for if you put the man in that I desire for you to put in, you will have good times until you go. If not it shall be hell here on earth and you will think that you have been left behind, but that is not so.
:: 2-22-17 Townhall :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Trump Administration To Overturn Guidance on Transgender Bathrooms in Schools UPDATE: Happened
Christine Rousselle Posted: Feb 22, 2017 6:05 PM
UPDATE: This has happened. The Trump administration cited "legal confusion" as to why they were lifting the guidance. ---Original Post---
President Trump is set to overturn an Obama administration guidance regarding transgender bathrooms in schools. The original guidance, which said that students should be permitted to use the bathroom of their "gender identity" rather than their biological sex. This was blocked by judge. From the Washington Post: In a letter to the nation’s schools, administration officials plan to say they are withdrawing guidance issued by the Obama administration that found that denying transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice violates federal prohibitions against sex discrimination, according to a draft of the letter obtained by The Washington Post. “This interpretation has given rise to significant litigation,” states the two-page draft, which indicates that the Education and Justice departments plan to issue it jointly. The draft says administrators, parents and students have “struggled to understand and apply the statements of policy” in the Obama-era guidance. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was reportedly against overturning the guidance, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in favor.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2017/02/22/transgender-bathrooms-n2289194
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Are You Going To Cast A Spell On Trump?
Get your coven. By Jaya Saxena Feb 23, 2017
Those who don't like Donald Trump and the current Republican administration are mobilizing in all sorts of ways. They're speaking up in town halls and calling their representatives. They're organizing protests and demonstrations. And, for the magically-inclined, they're casting spells. Starting at midnight on Friday, witches around the country are calling for a mass spell to be cast on Donald Trump every night of a waning crescent moon until he's driven from office. The spell was publicized by Michael M. Hughes, who told ELLE.com that it was tweaked from multiple spells he saw going around private witchcraft groups. He published it on Extra News Feed because he felt "it would be very welcome to a lot of people." It quickly spread, with events being formed around the country and support on social media. Hughes explained that he chose a binding spell because "we're not wishing harm on anyone, we're just trying to stop the harm they're doing. It's not the equivalent of punching a Nazi in the face, it's the equivalent of tying him up and taking his bullhorn away." The ritual itself is pretty standard magic working, binding Trump from doing harm to others and to himself, rather than asking any forces to do harm to him. There are objects to represent the elements and to represent Trump himself. The tarot card of the Tower represents ambitions built on lies, which are struck down by a lightning flash of truth. For those who believe in witchcraft, it looks to be an effective spell. However, even for those who don't, the ritual can have meaning. Witches have gathered to create spells for social justice before, whether it was to hex convicted rapist Brock Turner or exorcise the Pentagon. "My feeling was people were feeling so helpless in the face of all this," said Hughes, who sees the ritual, as much as anything, as a self-exorcism. "So many of us are overwhelmed by this guy's face, this energy―it's ever present and beating a lot of us down. I see this as a way of people reclaiming their own power...it's not just that we can stop him, but we can expunge him from ourselves." Hughes also says that all are welcome, even those highly skeptical of magic. "The real intention is just to get the energy focused at the same time, as many people as possible," he says. People can participate in their own religious rituals, or even perform this as a joke or an art project. "No matter how you approach it, it's still great to be part of it." Plus, we're sure you have some candles lying around.
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a43285/casting-spell-donald-trump/
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Friday, 24 February 2017 | MYT 8:51 AM by farik zolkepli
IGP: Nerve agent used in Kim Jong-nam murder
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have identified the type of chemical used in the murder of Kim Jong-nam as the highly toxic VX-nerve agent. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the Centre for Chemical Weapons Analysis at the Chemistry Department carried out preliminary tests to identify the type of chemical used in the murder. "The centre did dry swabs on the eyes and face of the victim. "The chemical substance on the exhibits has been identified as VX-Nerve-Agent," Khalid said in a statement on Friday. He added that VX is classified as a chemical weapon under the Schedule 1 of the Chemical Weapons Convention Act 2005 and Chemical Weapons Convention Act 1997. "Other exhibits are still being analysed," he said. Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was killed after two women splashed a chemical on his face at the KL International Airport 2 on Feb 13. Two women, a Malaysian man and a North Korean man have been arrested to assist in the investigations. VX (S2 ethyl diisopropylamino methylphosphonothioate) is an extremely toxic substance that has no known uses except in chemical warfare as a nerve agent. according to Wikipedia. It is a tasteless and odorless liquid with an amber-like color. 10 milligrams is sufficient for it to be fatal through skin contact and for inhalation it is estimated to be 30–50 mg·min/m3. As a chemical weapon, it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations in UN Resolution 687. The production and stockpiling of VX exceeding 100 grams per year per signatory was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. The only exception for its use is for research, medical or pharmaceutical purposes.
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They won't admit it in Stockholm, but Donald Trump is right about immigration in Sweden
Fraser Nelson 23 February 2017 • 7:18pm
I was in Stockholm last Friday, an eyewitness on the great night that nothing happened. Donald Trump gave a speech in Florida the next day, asking his audience to look at what had occurred “last night in Sweden”. Something appalling, apparently, involving asylum seekers. The Swedes “took in large numbers,” he said. And now “they’re having problems like they never thought possible”. But he was wrong: nothing of note had happened that night. His mistake was used by much of the Swedish media (and politicians) to slate him, as if he concocted the whole idea of an immigration problem. The mockery lasted for days: what event could he have been referring to? Were some meatballs burned in Uppsala? Did an Ikea run out of Billy bookshelves? “What has he been smoking?” asked Carl Bildt, a former prime minister. He could almost have asked: Crisis? What crisis? The inside pages of most Swedish newspapers would carry the answer. Earlier this week, for example, a riot broke out in one of Stockholm’s suburbs, ending in a photographer being injured and a policeman opening fire. There were also stories about how six Afghan child refugees have committed suicide in Sweden in the last six months, failed by a government system that cannot cope with the 25,000 unaccompanied migrant children in its care. All this is shocking – but in Sweden nowadays, not so surprising. Sweden is not a country that is falling apart. You can still land in Stockholm’s gorgeous Arlanda airport, skate on the frozen lakes in special lanes polished by the local authorities, cook sausages on the communal barbecues. The Scandinavian paradise is still there, welcoming and inspiring. The government has, after great upheaval, managed to cut the refugee influx by four fifths. But its failure to integrate those already there has led to another Sweden, a country within a country characterised by gang violence and joblessness. It’s easier to ignore this in Stockholm than it is in Malmö, a smaller city which has long been the first port of call for immigrants who arrive over the bridge from Denmark. On the day I arrived in Sweden, a 23-year-old was murdered in the city square there, shot in the head in front of several witnesses. It was the third such murder in six weeks. The local press tends not to report the ethnicity of the victim or suspects in such attacks, but Swedes have learnt to recognise immigrant-related gang crime when the see it. Foreigners who visit the wrong part of Sweden can pay a heavy price: last summer a British boy was killed in a grenade attack in Gothenburg as he slept with his family. If grenades were being thrown into children’s bedrooms in Birmingham or asylum centres were being torched in Surrey, the immigration debate in Britain might be a little different. The word “crisis” might be used. But what’s striking about Sweden is how defensive policymakers are when confronted about all this; how insistent they are that things are under control. As the violence affects just a sliver of society, the overall Swedish crime figures are quite small. Trouble can be buried in the data. Wider discussion about all of this is also discouraged by what’s known as Sweden’s “opinion corridor”, the narrow parameters into which public debate is confined. Those who step outside, and talk about the immigration problems, risk being accused of bigotry. Or, perhaps worse, giving succour to the populist Sweden Democrats, now supported by one in six Swedes. The immigrants do want to work, but find themselves stuck outside a heavily-regulated jobs market that could have been designed by a populist demagogue to keep them out. For unskilled work in restaurants, for example, the trade unions’ unofficial (but strictly enforced) minimum wage is about £10 an hour. For unskilled immigrants, especially from countries like Afghanistan and Somalia with no properly functioning education system, this means the Swedish dream ends before it begins. A policy intended to lift everyone’s wages has ended up destroying entry-level jobs, and ensuring thousands of immigrants are shut out of the economy, denied the first rung on the ladder to work. Among Swedes, unemployment is about 4 per cent and falling. Among immigrants, it’s 22 per cent. No developed country has a higher differential: in Britain, there’s barely any difference at all. The Swedish government describes itself as a “humanitarian superpower” and accepted refugees on that basis, but its fatal mistake was failure to welcome so many without being able to integrate them. Hence the zones of joblessness and the criminality, and the inability to know what to do about it. The resulting shadow society is now quite advanced, with its own moral codes and even its own legal system. Tribal courts are now in operation, dealing with crimes – or, at least, what count as crimes in the underworld. The fine for a failed attempted murder is about £50,000, according to Malmö’s chief prosecutor. Of the 37 murders and attempted murders in the first half of last year, just seven have been solved. But what are police to do, when witnesses drop out and victims drop the charges? Officers admit that, when child refugees go missing from care homes – feared to have been passed into prostitution or criminal gangs – there is not much they can do. In so many fields – technology, music, retail – there are Swedish firms leading the world. But its social model, created from the best of intentions, has ended up incubating a violent underworld in which too many immigrants are ensnared. As a friend of mine puts it, Sweden is still “10 parts heaven to one part hell” and you can avoid the hell (if you’re not a refugee). But the problems it now faces are hideous: shadow societies, mafia courts, gangland killings and conundrums like how to handle adult refugees who turn up with a child bride in tow. And how to pacify suburbs that are slipping out of police control. These issues all fit a certain description. They stem from Sweden’s decision to take larger numbers than it could cope with, leading to problems that were once never thought possible. It will pain the Swedish government to admit it. But on this point, at least, Donald Trump was right.
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Blasphemy Laws In Denmark Used For First Time In Over 40 Years Against Man Who Filmed Himself Burning The Quran
James Macintyre 23 February 2017
A man who filmed himself burning the Quran in December in 2015 has become the first person to be charged under Denmark's blasphemy law in 46 years. The 42-year-old recorded himself burning a copy of Islam's holy book in his back yard, and then posted the video on the anti-Islamic Facebook group 'Yes to freedom – no to Islam alongside the words, 'Consider your neighbour: it stinks when it burns.' In a statement yesterday afternoon, the Danish prosecutor Jan Reckendorff announced his decision to bring charges. 'It is the prosecution's view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in certain cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion,' he said. The case marks the fourth time in Danish history that anyone has been prosecuted under Denmark's blasphemy clause. Four people were sentenced for posting posters mocking Jewish teachings in 1938; two people were fined for carrying out a fake baptism at a masked ball in 1946; and two programme leaders at Danish Radio were exonerated in 1971 for airing a song mocking Christianity, according to Danish news outlet When the Jyllands-Posten newspaper famously published twelve cartoons in 2006 picturing the Prophet Mohammad, Danish prosecutors famously declined to invoke the country's blasphemy laws in 2006.
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Posted on February 19, 2017 by Ray Starmann
What’s Happening in Sweden? 24/7 Refugee Crime; That’s What!
The alt-left mainstream media has been in another delusional frenzy for the last 24 hours after President Trump made this comment at his rally in Melbourne, Florida, yesterday. “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden,” Trump said. “Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.” The left was quick to move into their typical mode of complete denial. According to liberals in the USA and in Europe, nothing is going on in Sweden. It’s a virtual paradise right now. Nothing to see in Sweden folks, move on. Reuters claimed erroneously that crime has fallen in Sweden since 2005. Of course it has. When you bring in hundreds of thousands of young, single, Muslim men, crime always sinks. Muslim men are virtual rocks of civilized Gibraltar for European society. Wrong! According to the Gatestone Institute, ‘Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa. Mass immigration is continuing to claim victims in Sweden. Murder, assaults and rape have become everyday occurrences in this small country, with a population just short of ten million, which last year opened its doors to almost 163,000 immigrants. Although the massive influx of asylum seekers has decreased drastically since January 4, when Sweden implemented border controls on the Swedish/Danish border, the people who are already here pose a giant problem to municipalities, police and citizens. The police are fighting a losing battle against street crime, as well as daily incidents at asylum houses – general disturbances that include fights, rapes and threats. Here are some highlights of various types of refugee-induced crime taking place in Sweden in February and June 2016. These are the facts the alt-left media doesn’t want you to know about. February 3: Teenage girls attending the Vårboskolan high school in the Malmö suburb of Arlöv were sexually assaulted and stalked by young migrants in their 20s who take Swedish language classes at the school, according to the local daily newspaper, Sydsvenskan. As most of the migrants are male, the gender balance at the school has been severely skewed. February 18: A Somali-Swedish girl, 17, who was arrested in Vienna on suspicion of planning to join the Islamic State in Syria, was sentenced to one year in prison. February 22: A 27-year-old asylum seeker from Iran was sentenced to 10 months in prison for sexually assaulting a mentally disabled woman. June 1: On the evening of May 31, a man was pushed in front of a speeding subway train in Stockholm. The victim was a 23-year-old Swedish student at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He received skull fractures and lacerations, lost half his foot, broke his ribs and collarbone and punctured one of his lungs; whether he will ever fully recover remains unclear. The day after, a 34-year-old Algerian-Swedish citizen was apprehended for the crime. June 8: Three Somali men in their 20s, who locked a 14-year-old girl in a room and took turns raping her, received very lenient sentences — and all three avoided deportation. Two of the men got two and a half years in prison. The third, who was also convicted of drug-related crimes and drunk driving, got three years. After serving their time, they will all be allowed to stay in Sweden, even though they are not Swedish citizens. June 9: Three young men, around 18, were indicted for a violent mugging attack against a Swedish man of about 25, outdoors in the town of Norrköping. One of the young men, Abdimalik Hassan Shido from Somalia, was also indicted for raping the victim at knifepoint in connection with the mugging. June 14: An exceptionally lenient verdict against a rapist from Yemen caused emotions to run high in Mariestad. Maher Al Qalisi attacked a 13-year-old girl, knocked her off a bicycle, knifed her in the face and raped her in a park — yet, he only got 18-months’ probation and will not be deported. June 23: Four men and a woman, all Syrians, were indicted at the Sundsvall Municipal Court for kidnapping, severely beating and sexually abusing a man. June 26: A 25-year-old Afghan was arrested at an asylum house in Mariannelund for the murder of his 22-year-old wife June 27: A Muslim man attacked the St. Pauli church in Malmö. He broke several windows, and when the police arrived, he was at the top of the church, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” A year before, in 2015, Swedes were in shock after learning of a double murder at an Ikea store. On August 10, two asylum seekers from Eritrea (the second largest source of asylum applicants in Sweden), were suspected of having grabbed knives from the kitchenware department and attacked two random Swedes. The victims were 55-year-old Carola Herlin and her 28-year-old son, Emil. What follows are excerpts from emails sent from private citizens to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven: From Mattias, a social worker and father of four, “a dad who wants my kids to grow up in Sweden the way I had the good fortune of doing, without explosions, hand grenades, car fires, violence, rape and murder at IKEA”: “Hi Stefan. I am a 43-year-old father of four, who is trying to explain to my children, ages 6-16, what is going on in Sweden. I am sad to say that you and your party close your eyes to what is happening in Sweden. All the things that are happening [are] due to the unchecked influx from abroad. You are creating a hidden hatred in Sweden. We are dissatisfied with the way immigration is handled in Sweden, from asylum housing to school issues. And it takes so long to get a job, many people give up before they even get close. Mattias” If the rapes and murders weren’t enough to shatter Sweden into a million pieces, the threat of ISIS infiltration among the refugee community has now reached Sweden’s shores. According to RT: Swedish security services are on high alert in connection with a potential terror threat, officials said. Reports in Swedish media say several Islamic State fighters have arrived in Sweden to carry out attacks on civilian targets in the capital Stockholm. Several months ago, a crew from 60 Minutes-Australia, traveled to Sweden to document the refugee crisis in the small country. The video below details their experiences as they are verbally and physically assaulted in a Somali no-go zone in Sweden. Yet, with all the crime taking place, courtesy of the Islamic invasion of Sweden, the left and their willing dupes in the Swedish government mock the President. Former Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt wrote on Twitter: “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound.” Yes, question do abound, Mr. Bildt, as in why is your country committing national suicide and why do you and the liberal media continue to reject reality? Other Swedes mocked Trump’s remark on Twitter using the hashtag #LastNightInSweden, posting pictures of reindeer, Swedish meatballs and people assembling the country’s famous IKEA furniture. Keep on laughing Sweden, as your women are raped, your cities turned into burning no-go zones and your orderly and clean streets turned into labyrinths of terror, courtesy of the Sons of Allah. Veritas vos liberabit, Sweden and delusional liberals; the truth will set you free. The left despises Mr. Trump because he has the intestinal fortitude to tell the truth, while they are happy to wallow in their own politically correct cowardice. That’s what’s happening in Sweden; alt-left lying media, deranged Swedes and assorted left wing fools. Rapes, assault, petty crime, murder, terror, those are the crimes taking place right now at this very moment in Sweden. That’s what President Trump meant. You know what he meant, but you choose to live in a state of total denial as Third World Visigoths rape, pillage and plunder your country six ways from Sunday. You have no future Sweden. Your future is a minaret rising above every Swedish town, a Hijab wrapped around a head of blonde hair, a public caning and a weekly beheading. Your country is done. Take the fork out of the meatball and stick it in your nation.
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/02/whats-happening-in-sweden-247-refugee-crime-thats-what/
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Lawmakers urge VA to explain rising cases of drug theft
By HOPE YEN Associated Press Feb 21, 5:25 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of two congressional committees said Tuesday they want the Department of Veterans Affairs to better explain its efforts to stem drug theft and loss in light of rising cases of missing prescriptions and other unauthorized use at VA hospitals. Rep. Phil Roe, who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said his panel had scheduled a hearing for Monday. The Associated Press reported last Monday on government data showing a sharp increase since 2009 in opioid theft and drugs that had simply disappeared at the VA. He said the panel would call on VA officials to discuss what they were doing to improve internal controls and hold employees accountable. "The fact that drugs are going missing from VA facilities further underscores the importance of oversight," said Roe, R-Tenn., who is a physician, citing the AP story. "This is a serious issue, and it must be addressed quickly." Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, also described incidents of rising drug loss and theft as concerning. The Wisconsin Republican last year raised issues of possible unauthorized use at the Milwaukee VA medical center, involving allegations that drugs from the hospital's pharmacy was going to nonveterans. His office said Tuesday that committee review was continuing. Data obtained by the AP show that doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at federal hospitals - the vast majority within the VA system - siphoned away controlled substances for their own use or street sales, or drugs intended for patients disappeared. Aggravating the problem is that some VA hospitals have been lax in tracking drug supplies. Congressional auditors said spot checks found four VA hospitals skipped monthly inspections of drug stocks or missed other requirements. Investigators said that signals problems for VA's entire network of more than 160 medical centers and 1,000 clinics, coming after auditor warnings about lax oversight dating back to at least 2009. Veterans groups urged full accountability. "Medical practitioners at the VA have a responsibility to provide the best care for the injured and ill veterans in their charge, and these actions are contradictory to the very nature of their professional obligations," said Garry Augustine, a Vietnam-era combat-wounded Army veteran, who is executive director of Disabled American Veterans' Washington headquarters. The VA acknowledged it has had problems keeping up with monthly inspections. It said it was requiring hospitals to comply with inspection procedures and develop plans for improvement. In a broadcast interview that aired Tuesday, newly confirmed VA Secretary David Shulkin reiterated his support for VA employees as the "best in health care" but pledged to remove any bad actors. Shulkin served as the department's undersecretary of health while the drug problem was growing. "When you have one or two or three people that really aren't doing their job, they bring everybody down," he told "Fox and Friends." The VA said Tuesday it was compiling information requested by the AP more than three weeks ago on cases of drug loss and theft at its hospitals. Reported incidents of drug losses or theft at federal hospitals jumped from 272 in 2009 to 2,926 in 2015, before dipping to 2,457 last year, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. "Federal hospitals" include the VA's more than 1,100 facilities as well as seven correctional hospitals and roughly 20 hospitals serving Indian tribes.
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Has There Been A “Nuclear Incident” In The Arctic?
Increased levels of radioactive iodine isotopes have been detected across Europe, and now the deployment of the Air Force’s WC-135 “Constant Phoenix” atmosphere-sniffing jet has deepened the mystery.
By Tyler Rogoway February 19, 2017
There have been rumblings regarding some sort of nuclear incident—or possibly incidents—in the Arctic over the last month. Multiple reports, some of them from official monitoring organizations, have reported iodine 131—a radioactive isotope often associated with nuclear fission—has been detected via air sampling stations throughout the region. The first detection of the isotope came during the second week of January, via an air sampling station located in Svanhovd, on Norway’s border with Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Within days, air sampling stations as far south as Spain also detected the presence of small amounts of the isotope. The fact that iodine-131 has a half-life of just eight days would point to the release occurring just days earlier, and not being a remnant of a past nuclear event. Because of the low levels of concentration, there is no health risk to the public or the environment, at least on a wide scale. By comparison, these recent measurements are roughly 1/1000th the size of what was detected during the Fukushima incident and 1/1,000,000th the concentration found in the nuclear tainted cloud that washed across Europe following the Chernobyl disaster. Iodine 131 levels monitored across Europe last month (IRIN graphic): After weeks without answers, the story seemed to pass as a peculiarity, not nearly an unprecedented one at that, until Friday when the US dispatched its WC-135 Constant Phoenix atmospheric testing aircraft to Europe without explanation. The highly unique aircraft are specifically designed to respond to nuclear incidents—especially those that include the detonation of nuclear warheads. By sampling the air over wide areas and at altitude, the aircraft can provide critical data to better understand the “signature” of a radiation release. During nuclear tests, this can help scientists define what type of weapon was detonated, and, in conjunction with other data, how large the blast was. They can also be used to measure the effects and scale of other radiological events, like the meltdown of nuclear plants. For instance, the WC-135s went to work following the 2011 earthquake that resulted in the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. This leaves us with a number of unanswered questions. The first: What are WC-135s doing up there? Was this a good opportunity for a training sortie and to support scientific endeavors, or is it in response to a specific incident? You can check twitter to see loads of people claiming this is proof that the Russians have restarted nuclear weapons testing at Novaya Zemlya near the Arctic. That assertion is problematic for a variety of reasons. The first is that we have no corresponding seismic data indicating a nuclear detonation from that region. Some have floated the possibility that a small tactical nuclear warhead may have been tested; once again, this still makes a big boom, and it is not clear if the levels of iodine-131 are indicative of such a test. Of course, politically speaking, restarting nuclear weapons testing would signal a massive shift in Moscow’s nuclear weapons policy. There has been some talk about even the US restarting its nuclear testing under President Trump, but this is largely speculation mixed with hyperbole. Even though we have seen Russia is willing to migrate away from key weapons treaties in order to obtain niche strategic capabilities, violating the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty would signal a whole other level of aggression and defiance. A more likely possibility is that some sort of limited nuclear material storage, research, or power generation incident has occurred. Russia uses nuclear propulsion for many of its active submarines as well as its Kirov class battlecruisers and its icebreakers. Russia also uses nuclear power in the arctic region for multiple applications. Not just that, but Russia’s northerly naval bases near the arctic are nuclear graveyards of the Cold War. The international community has worked with Russia over the last two decades to safely dispose of hundreds of Soviet-era nuclear submarines, but decommissioned hulls and reactor sections still sit idle waiting to be denuclearized and properly disposed of. Many have said that over the decades following the end of the Cold War, these vessels were just an accident waiting to happen. Some of these vessels remain on the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk. One of Russia’s largest nuclear waste containment facilities, where the reactors of these decommissioned submarines are stored, is also located nearby at Saida Bay. Today, some 80 reactors and their shredded components are stored there in massive casks. Eventually the facility will store 155 junked reactors and their waste. Disposing of such toxic, complex and ungainly machinery is no easy task and comes with its own share of risks. The Arctic is also dotted with other Cold War relics that relied on nuclear power to function, these include Russia’s nuclear lighthouses and outposts. And this is just what you can see, below the surface, hulks of sunken nuclear vessels and other waste still pose a major threat to the environment. It is not really a question of if they will do harm, but when. During the Cold War, Russia dumped all types of nuclear waste in the Kara Sea, including an estimated 17,000 containers and 19 vessels full of radioactive waste. The USSR also pitched 14 nuclear reactors, some with spent fuel rods, into the same body of water and other forms of lower-level nuclear waste was just poured directly into the sea. The Russian submarine K-27, which was scuttled in the Kola Sea, is said to be literally a ticking time bomb. That is just that one area, and other areas in the region, such as the Barents Sea (K-159) and Norwegian Sea (K-278), also have abandoned nuclear submarines and who knows what else lining the sea floor. Even the US left its own portion of nuclear waste in the northern latitudes, such as the once secret reactor at Camp Century, in Greenland, although this is minuscule compared to what the Soviets left behind. A graphic showing the known nuclear waste and wreckage sites near northern Europe and the Arctic (Bellona.org graphic): On top of all the Russian nuclear material that is actually rotting in arctic, there are also nuclear power, ship maintenance, and research stations that also dot Russia’s northern reaches. With all this in mind, if there was a peculiar release of iodine-131 into the atmosphere, it is much more likely to have come from the nuclear wasteland that the Soviet Union created, or from operational reactors in the region, and not from some sort of clandestine atomic testing. That doesn't mean it is impossible, just highly unlikely. There is even a possibility that it didn’t come from Russia at all, and was leaked by a reactor in Europe or elsewhere. Still, with the Arctic likely becoming a key battleground of the future—a reality that has been spurred by Russian military expansion into the region—and considering Moscow's great change in geopolitical tone and military stance over the last few years, suspicions surrounding Russia's true intentions in the region are at an all-time high. Now we’ll have to wait and see if the Pentagon releases more information on the movements and findings of its WC-135, and if there is yet another new spike in radiation coming from the region. If anything else, this mystery should serve of a stark reminder—and a warning—of what mankind has left behind near the arctic, and how perilous a threat it still poses nearly three decades after the Cold War officially ended. UPDATE: 2.22.17- The WC-135 Constant Phoenix along with a RC-135 Rivet Joint, as well as tanker support, have taken off on a mission to the Norwegian and Barents Sea. Read the update in full here. Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7758/has-there-been-a-nuclear-incident-in-the-arctic
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'I was raped every day for a month in front of my children': Women reveal the horrors they endured as ISIS sex slaves... despite being SUNNI Muslims just like their captors
Abuses against Yazidi women are well documented under the brutal rein of ISIS
But Human Rights Watch says Sunni women are also being raped and tortured
Shocking reports come despite ISIS claiming to follow pure brand of Sunni Islam
One Sunni woman said she was blindfolded, beaten with cables and then raped
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline and AfpPublished: 02:08 EST, 20 February 2017 | Updated: 22:12 EST, 20 February 2017
Women have revealed the horrors they endured at the hands of ISIS sex slaves - despite being Sunni Muslims just like their captors. Abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented under the terror group's brutal rein in parts of Iraq and Syria. But according to Human Rights Watch there is now evidence that Sunni Arab women are now being targeted too with one victim telling the group how she was raped everyday for a month in front of her children. ISIS, which proclaimed a 'caliphate' straddling Iraq and Syria in June 2014, claims to follow a pure brand of Sunni Islam as it was practised in the time of Prophet Mohammed. But Human Right Watch has now documented cases of arbitrary detentions, beatings, forced marriages and rape by the jihadists on Sunni women who have fled the town of Hawijah, which is still under ISIS control. HRW recounted the story of Hanan, a 26-year-old whose husband had already fled Hawijah, who was captured by ISIS fighters along with 50 other women when they also attempted to escape the town in April 2016. ISIS fighters told the mother-of-three that her husband's flight made her an apostate and that she should marry the local jihadist leader. She refused, telling her ISIS captors 'Kill me, because I refuse to do that'. But she was blindfolded, beaten with plastic cables, suspended by her arms for some time and then raped. 'The same guy raped me every day for the next month without a blindfold, always in front of my children,' Hanan told HRW. 'My daughter suffers from an intellectual disability so she doesn’t really understand what she saw, but my older son brings it up often. I don’t know what to do.' A month after she was captured, Hanan’s father was able to locate her and gave ISIS a car and paid $500 for her release, she said. He was forced to sign a document stating that if she escaped ISIS-controlled territory, he would be killed. The ISIS fighter who had been raping her said he wanted to marry her, but she and her father refused, she said. In January 2017, she said, she escaped with the rest of her family to Kirkuk. She said she did not know what happened to the other women, but heard from the woman from another captive's family that she had been forced to marry her rapist. Another woman, 25, said she was captured while waiting to escape in October 2016 when ISIS fighters opened fire on her group and shot her son, six, in the back. She was hit in the shoulder with a gun butt and locked up with the other women in an abandoned house. Three female guards came and lashed each woman 65 times with a thin cane, she said. They were told that if they winced, they would get more lashes. Eventually her family paid for her release and found her son had survived after having four operations. Fawzia, 45, from Daquq said her house was occupied by three fighters after her husband fled to avoid being used as an ISIS spy. She said the men would bring girls aged about 16 into a room 'for about an hour' and that she could hear them crying. HRW said the issue was not given enough attention and that too little was being done to tackle the stigma that prevents many more victims from coming forward. 'Little is known about sexual abuse against Sunni Arab women living under ISIS rule,' said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at HRW. 'We hope that the international community and local authorities will do all they can to give this group of victims the support they need,' she said. ISIS fanatics have justified the mass rape and sexual enslavement of women from the Yazidi minority - who are neither Arab nor Muslim - on the grounds that they are polytheists. The accounts collected by HRW often refer to ISIS fighters accusing the women of apostasy, or abandoning their faith, before abusing them.
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'How is this ALLOWED?' Fury as Turkish PM holds election rally in GERMANY
HUNDREDS of protesters voiced their fury when Turkish Prime Minister visited a German city in a bizarre stunt for German-Turkish votes, after the leader was able to ban German-born journalists from the rally.
By Oli Smith PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Feb 19, 2017 | UPDATED: 17:52, Sun, Feb 19, 2017
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim took a controversial detour on his visit to Germany on Saturday to stump for German-Turkish votes, ahead of a key national referendum. A whopping 1.5 million votes are up for grab in Germany, with the biggest Turkish diaspora outside of the country. However, many were outraged that a Turkish politician was allowed to hold a political rally as if he was in his own country. Others criticised the event as the PM banned several German journalists and restricted those who were allowed into the political speech. Those unhappy with the rally voiced their concern that the opposite scenario - a European politician campaigning in Turkey - would be unimaginable. The political address, which took place in a giant arena in Oberhausen, a city in western Germany, tried to rally support for April's constitutional referendum. Mr Yildirim told supporters that if they love their country, they have to vote yes - a decision which would dramatically expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Critics claim the new presidential system would cement one-man authoritarian rule in the country. These fears prompted hundreds of opponents to protest outside the stadium. A German Government spokesman said of the event: "We assume that all people involved in the Oberhausen event will make sure that Germany will not become the setting for infighting among Turkish people." However, MPs criticised the planned speech after several German journalists were banned from covering the campaign event. People on Twitter also voiced concern that German taxpayers would have to foot the police bill for the massive arena rally. Those on social media also asked how this was allowed to happen in Germany. Others described the massive arena as being transformed into "mini-Istanbul". The event also comes just a day after Turkey detained a correspondent for German newspaper Die Welt. Rolf Mützenich a German MP from the Social Democrats, said: “Mr Yildirim should rather ensure the liberation of the journalist." Die Linke politician Sevim Dagdelen said Yildirim should be denied entry in order to prevent this "ad campaign for a Turkish dictatorship". Cem Ozdemir of the Greens added: "I find it shocking that a Turkish prime minister has no qualms about taking advantage of our democracy while he and his henchmen make their opponents disappear behind bars." German politicians said Turks in Germany should be politically involved in Germany, rather than flocking to Turkish politicians.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/769286/Erdogan-rally-authoritarian-German
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“Steve Bannon: ‘I Could Care Less’ About Repairing Relationship with ‘Opposition Party’ Media” — BREITBART Posted on February 19, 2017 by State of the Nation
Trump agrees with Steve Bannon that media is the ‘opposition party’
Rebecca Harrington Business Insider
President Donald Trump agreed with top adviser Steve Bannon in characterizing the media as an “opposition party” in an interview with CBN News’ “The Brody File” released Friday. Bannon, Trump’s chief White House strategist, drew ire when he used that phrase during an interview with The New York Times. “You’re the opposition party,” Bannon told the Times. “Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.” David Brody asked Trump if he believed that, as well, and the president said he agreed. “I’m not talking about everybody, but a big portion of the media, the dishonesty, total deceit and deception. It makes them certainly partially the opposition party, absolutely,” Trump said. “I think they’re much more capable than the opposition party. The opposition party is losing badly. Now the media is on the opposition party’s side.” Trump complained that he didn’t think the media treated him fairly, but said it didn’t matter because he had a “big voice” that voters responded to. “I actually said to myself, I say, they treat me so unfairly it’s hard to believe that I won,” Trump continued. “The media is a disgrace, and they’ve called me wrong from the beginning.”
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=66489
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BREAKING: @Reince’s Gal & @WhiteHouse Chief of Staff @KMWalsh_GOP Is Source Of Trump Leaks To @NYTimes & Others Feb 19, 2017 by GotNews
White House Deputy Chief of Staff and #NeverTrump Republican Katie Walsh has been identified as the source behind a bunch of leaks from the Trump administration to The New York Times and other media outlets, according to multiple sources in the White House, media, donor community, and pro-Trump 501(c)4 political group. “Everyone knows not to talk to her in the White House unless you want to see it in the press,” says a source close to the president. “The only question is whether or not she’s doing it at the behest of [White House Chief of Staff] Reince Priebus or if she’s doing it to advance herself in DC media circles.” One source in particular stands out: Walsh is close to Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter who wrote fawning pro-Republican National Committee stories during the presidential election. Walsh has also planted stories in The Washington Post and Politico. Walsh is referred to as “Madame President” in the White House, says a senior aide. “It isn’t a compliment.” You won’t hear this stuff from the lying mainstream media. Keep the GotNews mission alive: donate at GotNews.com/donate or send tips to editor@gotnews.com. If you’d like to join our research team, contact editor@gotnews.com. Walsh would have significant access as she controls the president’s schedule. There’s also reportedly a trove of e-mails where Katie Walsh and Reince Priebus discuss how to rid themselves of Trump, according to a former #NeverTrump consultant. “The president and his allies have been deliberately feeding her fake information in order to find her network,” says a source close to the president’s family. “It’s been going well.” Walsh was a #NeverTrump Republican during the campaign. Neither Walsh nor her family were supporters during the campaign, says a source from Walsh’s hometown of St. Louis. A White House investigation is planned into Walsh, who couldn’t be reached for comment. Stay tuned for more.
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'Atmospheric river' drives ANOTHER catastrophic rain storm towards California - including its stricken dam - as state braces for MORE flooding and residents are told they could have just 15 minutes to evacuate
Rain and wind picked up in Northern California on Saturday renewing flood fears
Sections of Interstate-5 in Williams, CA overflowed, blocking traffic for hours
Rain is expected to continue through Tuesday prompting evacuations
By Anna Hopkins For Dailymail.com and Associated Press Published: 18:28 EST, 19 February 2017 | Updated: 07:36 EST, 20 February 2017
Engineers at the stricken Oroville Dam in Northern California have increased the rate at which they are draining water from the reservoir as a powerful rain storm driven by the phenomenon known as an 'atmospheric river' hits the state. In anticipation of the storm which threatens widespread flooding in many areas, supervisors increased the amount of water being channeled out of the dam to accommodate incoming rain. The amount of water flowing down the spillway was increased from 55,000 cubic feet a second (cfs) to 60,000 cfs on Sunday afternoon. Earlier this week, outflows were at nearly 100,000 cfs. However, an evacuation warning is still being issued as residents immediately below the dam could be at a major risk if the dam were to abruptly fail - as they would not be able to receive warning quickly enough to evacuate. The first outer rain bands from the powerful Pacific storm headed to Northern California brought light rain and wind and renewed warnings of possibly dangerous flooding in the already soggy region on Sunday. More wet weather is expected on Monday and Tuesday, and officials are preparing for the worst after Southern California was devastated by the strongest storm in decades earlier this week. The National Weather Service has reportedly urged California residents to be ready to leave their homes on a moment's notice. A discussion post said: 'If you were given less than 15 minutes to evacuate your home would you have everything you need and gas in your vehicle?' It continued: 'Northern California has become very vulnerable since being hit continuously with storms since early January and we want all residents in our region to plan ahead and be prepared.' The San Joaquin River at a measuring station near Vernalis remained at 'danger stage,' meaning it keeps approaching the top of levees, said Tim Daly, a spokesman with San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services. 'When the water gets that high and more water is coming, there is just too much pressure and levees can break. They can be topped,' Daly said. Daly says residents of low-lying areas have been told to be ready to evacuate, especially those in San Joaquin River Club, a riverside, private neighborhood of 800 homes 10 miles south of Tracy. Residents of the community have been constantly patrolling the levees for signs of danger and holding meetings to discuss evacuation routes and preparedness, said Paula Martin, who is helping coordinate evacuation plans. 'We have a levee response team, a sand bagging team, teams to check on what walkers checking on the levees find,' Martin said. 'Our community is pulling together like real champs.' Water was also receding in the farm community of Maxwell, where dozens of people sought higher ground after creeks topped their banks and inundated houses on Friday, said Colusa County Assistant Sheriff Jim Saso said. Nobody was hurt as crews used boats to rescue residents from a low-lying neighborhood. 'We're telling those people to keep a bag close by and get ready to leave again,' Saso said. 'If the water comes back up, it's going to be those areas affected.' 'Widespread flooding will be likely as an atmospheric river (of moisture) takes aim somewhere along the central California coast,' the National Weather Service said. The damage to the spillway at Lake Oroville forced the evacuation of 188,000 people last weekend. The California Department of Water Resources said Sunday that the water level continues to fall even as they decrease the amount of water flowing down the spillway. During recent storms, authorities up and down the state have dealt with overflowing creeks, mudslide threats in foothill areas blackened by fires, road collapses and hundreds of toppled trees in neighborhoods. At least three deaths have occurred. Most of Southern California appeared to dodge any major disasters in heavy rain on Friday. But in the desert town of Victorville, several cars were washed down a flooded street and one man was found dead in a submerged vehicle after others were rescued, authorities said. The victim was later identified as 41-year-old Michael Douglas Williams of Victorville. The victim's wife Joel Williams told Victor Valley News: 'He was new to the area and would have never known how dangerous these streets can get. 'I just wish they would have closed the road, but it was still open.' She told the newspaper: 'He's leaving behind two children, an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old, it's going to be a tough to tell them.' The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a release that Williams had been 'inside an almost completely submerged vehicle'. In the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, a man was electrocuted when a tree falling in heavy rain downed power lines that hit his car. On Saturday, searchers found the body of a man in his 20s who was swept down a rain-swollen gully in Thousand Oaks a day earlier. Three other people stranded by the water were rescued.
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February 19, 2017 10:01 AM
Central Valley urged to be ready to ‘evacuate quickly’ as another storm approaches
By Ryan Sabalow and Adam Ashton rsabalow@sacbee.com
MAXWELL Forecasters with the National Weather Service offered a stark warning Sunday for just about everyone living in the soggy, soaked Central Valley. “Pretty much anybody needs to be prepared for the possibility that they may have to evacuate quickly,” said Sacramento meteorologist Brooke Bingaman. Though most of the Valley had avoided further flooding by Sunday evening, the worst may be yet to come Monday and Tuesday, Bingaman said. On Sunday, the weather service issued a flood warning in urban areas and along small streams through Thursday for the counties that make up the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys, as well as for most of the counties that sit along the valleys’ rim. “We may see flooding in locations which haven’t been impacted in many years,” the alert reads. In other words, those living anywhere near a river, a slough, a levee, a creek or a canal need to be ready to flee floodwaters at a moment’s notice. Case in point: Maxwell, a rice-farming town of 1,100 people an hour north of Sacramento. It flooded early Saturday as storm runoff overwhelmed a creek, filling a neighborhood and small business district with more than a foot of water. Bingaman said the same scenario in Maxwell could happen in just about any low-lying area. “We have been hit hard with storm after storm after storm since early January, so our soils are very saturated and it’s getting to the point where there’s no place for the water to go,” she said. In Maxwell, the water was receding Sunday morning and only one person was still at a Red Cross shelter in nearby Williams, said Jim Saso, assistant sheriff at the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office. But with the next storm approaching, he urged residents to be ready to get out again. “If they were affected (by the floodwaters) before, they’ll probably be affected again,” Saso said. In Maxwell on Sunday, residents hurriedly stacked sandbags made from rice sacks around their houses as they prepared for that eventuality. “It’s going to be worse than the last one,” said Richard Airozo, 77. Firefighters awoke him about 4 a.m. Saturday with a knock on the door, as water was seeping into his garage. By noon Sunday, he had returned to his house and removed soaked carpet from his living room. It was piled in a damp stack next to his driveway. Inside the house, a portable heater and fan were drying the room. Kim Troughton, 52, spent Saturday and Sunday cooking meals for firefighters and police in Maxwell’s fire hall. She said she wasn’t sure it made sense to start cleaning out her restaurant, Kim’s Country Cafe, before the next storm hit. “If we get more water, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” she said. Instead, she planned to spend the afternoon laying sandbags around her house. Two hours south in the San Joaquin Valley, locals nervously were watching the swollen San Joaquin River. The river at a critical measuring station near Vernalis, southeast of Tracy, had filled to “danger stage” Saturday night. That’s the point that emergency officials say water could overtop levees. “We’re bracing for flooding,” said Jenny Rich, a spokeswoman for San Joaquin County. “We’re anticipating it happening.” Low-lying areas near the river, which passes by Manteca, Lathrop, Stockton and Tracy, are all are at risk. But Rich said most of the troubles are likely to occur in southern San Joaquin County. Along the river, between Manteca and Tracy, teams of volunteers have been patrolling levees every two hours, brushing up on emergency action plans, and filling some 900 sandbags at the San Joaquin River Club, a private community of more than 800 people, said Rick Hall, a 10-year resident who is helping lead the volunteer effort. The hope was that the community could make through the next few days without hearing a blast from emergency sirens installed at the clubhouse and at a church that would warn of incoming floodwaters, he said. “Everybody’s worried, of course, but we’re just trying to be proactive,” he said. Some of the concerns are due to the precariously full Don Pedro Reservoir, which captures water from the Tuolumne River, a key tributary of the San Joaquin. The reservoir, which has more than twice the capacity of Folsom Lake, remained close to cresting Sunday. If it goes over the top of its spillway, it would send a gush of water that could overwhelm the small Tuolumne River channel, flood part of Modesto and cause the San Joaquin to rise. Based on Sunday’s forecasts, the spillway could start sending out releases as early as Tuesday, said Brandon McMillan, a spokesman for the Turlock Irrigation District, which manages New Don Pedro Dam. “Of course everything’s based on the weather, and that can change,” McMillan said. Three and a half hours to the north, engineers at troubled Oroville Dam said Sunday that the lake is ready to handle the influx of water from the approaching storms. Officials said Sunday that the lake levels continued to dip and are where they should be for this time of year to catch additional rain and melting snow. The lake had dropped Sunday to nearly 50 feet below the dam’s emergency spillway. On Feb. 7, during a round of winter storms, state engineers discovered a cavernous hole in the lower section of the dam’s main spillway, a 3,000-foot concrete span that acts as the dam’s primary flood-control outlet during the rainy season. Fearing the spillway would become inoperable, dam operators stopped the flows for a time, then gradually reactivated releases. With runoff from the stormy Sierra Nevada still rushing in, reservoir levels climbed, and on Feb. 11, water overtopped the dam’s emergency spillway for the first time in its 48-year history. Unlike the main spillway, which is lined with concrete, the adjacent emergency spillway dumps water in uncontrolled sheets over a 1,700-foot concrete lip onto a steep, wooded hillside. The next afternoon, a day and a half after the emergency system activated, the hillside just below the spillway lip was showing serious erosion, raising fears the structure would collapse. The concerns prompted mandatory evacuation orders in Butte, Yuba and Sutter counties covering nearly 200,000 people. The orders were lifted Tuesday, after the state Department of Water Resources cranked up releases on the main spillway, despite the damage to its midsection, and managed to lower reservoir levels below the emergency lip. On Sunday, the flows out the main, damaged spillway had been reduced to nearly half what they were during the heat of the crisis. Officials said the lower flows were allowing crews to use cranes and dredges to clear the debris that formed in the channel below the spillways. The debris has raised water levels in the Feather River below the dam to the point that Oroville’s power plant – the dam’s primary release outlet outside of flood season – can’t operate. Once debris is cleared and the power plant is restarted, the facility is capable of draining another 14,000 cubic feet per second from the lake. “We’re shooting to be able to re-operate it a week from Monday if we need to,” said Chris Orrock, a spokesman for the DWR, which manages the dam. But he noted “it’s not a guaranteed date.” Meanwhile, despite the wet weather, crews continued to haul rock and cement into the eroded areas below the emergency spillway in case it needs to be used again.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/weather/article133714379.html#storylink=cpy
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21 women assaulted by 'transgenders' in restrooms
Saturday, February 18, 2017 Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com
Men have assaulted or violated women’s privacy in public bathrooms 21 times due to pro-LGBT transgender restroom policies, according to a list compiled by a nationally recognized pro-family organization. The Family Research Council (FRC) insists that – contrary to what homosexual activists claim – transgender-friendly policies and laws escalate the risk of women becoming victims of sexual attacks at the hands of men who claim to be women. Setting up assault It is argued by the Christian nonprofit group that so-called “non-discrimination laws” working to permit all people to use restrooms based on their gender identity – as opposed to their natural sex at birth – provide sexual predators with the opportunity to take advantage of the situation so they can partake in voyeurism and sexually assault women and children. "It is important to note that the concern is not that transgendered individuals are more likely to be sexual predators, but rather that sexual predators could exploit such laws by posing as transgendered in order to gain access to women and girls," FRC attorneys wrote their issue brief. "Beyond this, when companies such as Target implement any-sex bathroom/dressing room policies, it encourages criminals to take advantage of these policies to commit crimes." According to the legal group based in Washington, D.C., transgender activists have made a habit of discounting and denying the existence of reported assaults on women at the hands of transgender men entering women’s public restrooms. The attorney group notes that such activists have actually “scoffed” at suggestions that men in women’s facilities heighten the risk of such incidents. A right to offend? A list of 21 reported cases of women being sexually assaulted by transgender men has been compiled by FRC – incidents that span from 1999 to 2017 – with the most of the incidents occurring in women’s restrooms, locker rooms and other private spaces taking place within the past decade. Target stores – which have been the subject of a nationwide boycott campaign led by the conservative American Family Association (AFA) for putting women and children at risk due to their transgender policies in women’s facilities – provided the venue for the latest recorded assault. “The most recent case was reported on Jan. 17 by WPRI, concerning a man who mounted a camera inside the family bathroom at a Target store in Lincoln, Rhode Island,” The Christian Post (CP) reported from FRC’s list. “Umit Cakmak, 41, of Providence, was arrested by Lincoln police and charged with video voyeurism, with reports noting that the man already had an active warrant for the same crime.” Just months earlier, a Target on the other side of the country was the location where another sexual predator staged an assault on a woman. “In a similar case from July 2016, in Idaho Falls, a man who identifies as transgender was arrested on one count of felony voyeurism for taking photos of another woman changing clothes at a Target store in Ammon,” CP’s Stoyan Zaimov informed. Call to stop transgender men from targeting women and children AFA produced a similar list late last year to draw attention to how Target’s pro-LGBT policies unnecessarily put women and children in jeopardy. “The American Family Association also compiled a list of 10 cases back in September to show why the retail giant's policies of allowing male customers who identify as female to go into women's bathrooms and dressing rooms is dangerous for women and children,” Zaimov added. AFA President Tim Wildmon noted at the time that more and more women and children will continue to be assaulted at the hands of transgenders if Target continues to refuse to protect and value its customers. "The overwhelming evidence continues to pile up against Target's policy to allow men into women's restrooms and dressing rooms in its stores," Wildmon expressed when AFA’s list was announced. "Target's policy is exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims – and the proof keeps mounting." The effort calling Target to take pro-family measures and put an end to its problematic pro-LGBT privileges has caused a national stir – one that many claim is responsible for the retail giant’s uncharacteristic decline in profits in recent months. "Clearly, Target's dangerous policy poses a threat to wives and daughters,” Wildmon continued. “Over 1.4 million people have pledged to boycott Target stores until protecting women and children is a priority." Taking little heed of the warnings issued by pro-family advocates, Target responded to the controversy by refusing to end its pro-LGBT policies, while defending its stance to champion transgenders at the expense of its customers’ safety in bathrooms and changing rooms. "We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity,” Target declared in a public statement over the matter. “Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."
https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2017/02/18/21-women-assaulted-by-transgenders-in-restrooms
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etc.. The world walks in confusion, there are those countries that desire their own monetary system to choke out others, and then there are those that desire a world monetary system, and the world monitory system will be the one that wins out, my word calls it the mark of the beast, etc..
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Infrastructure ‘in place’ for Mark of the Beast!
February 19, 2017
Commerce is key to human survival and those who control our commerce control the system and the people. Today, our money system is changing from a ‘substance’ system to a metaphysical ‘symbol’ system. Money is transitioning to cyberspace from our historical observable space. This change is monumental when understood. This means that our entire global monetary system will soon be cashless (no physical money units) and metaphysical (no substance units). Where does this eventually lead? I would suggest the ‘Mark of the Beast’ monetary system! Let’s see some evidence! What Is A Cashless Society? A cashless society is a society where currency notes or cash money are not used in monetary transactions. It is a hypothetical move or situation in favor of alternative means of exchange. Cashless societies in the past were based on the barter system where people exchanged their livestock for food crops or other goods. However, the present concept of a cashless society or country is a completely new thing. Here cashless transactions are made with the help of digital currencies. In a truly cashless society, legal tender (money) is exchanged and recorded only in the electronic digital forms. Our global economy is now mostly digital (computer driven). When Did The Trend To Go Cashless Begin? During the late 1980’s and the 1990’s, the growing popularity of electronic banking made the use of non-cash transactions and settlements popular. Digital payment methods became well established in countries across the world by the 2010’s. Online tools like Paypal, Google pay, NFC payments, Credit Cards, were the primary method for payments. Digital wallet systems operated by Apple, electronic banking and bill payment systems helped people make cashless transactions online. Some countries even started to set limits on transaction values that can be used for non-electronic payments to encourage cashless transactions. These limits are now growing in most countries. Countries which are now going Cashless and Digital: One country stands out as the flag bearer for digital money: Sweden. According to the Swedish central bank, cash transactions made up just 2 percent of the total value of payments made in 2015. The number is similar for 2016. An astonishing 900 of Sweden’s 1,600 bank branches no longer maintain cash deposits, a report in the Guardian said. As technology advances and the fight against tax evasion takes center stage globally, some countries are looking at Sweden as a possible model for promoting a digital (cashless) society. India’s attempt to digitize their economy has long been coming. Early in his term, Narendra Modi announced a much-needed drive to increase financial inclusion across the country and launched attractive financial schemes to bring India’s poor into the fold of the country’s banking system, from debit cards to pension plans. The goal is total digitization of the Indian economy. Paper notes are being called in and customers are being encouraged to open digital banking accounts. While digital payments are dominated by debit or credit cards in many Western countries, China’s consumers have jumped directly from cash to mobile. Of the country’s 710 million internet users – more than the United States and Europe combined – the utilization ratio of mobile online payments stands at 57.7%. This is growing exponentially. Put in plain English, the majority of people who go online are using their smartphones to pay for goods and services. 2016 has been the ‘Year of the Blockchain,’ with corporation after corporation, even nations, touting their interest and ability to use Bitcoin’s underlying advancement in their future business models. Will 2017 be the ‘Year of the National Digital Currency?’ Ukraine looks to enter the cashless society with a plan on creating their own national digital currency based on the Blockchain technology, according to Ukrainian news site Ukrinform. The United Nations ‘Better than Cash Alliance’ ( https://www.betterthancash.org/members/ government) currently has 25 nations that are members of the alliance. All are working on creating a cashless (digital) society for their countries. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Columbia, Peru, India, Philippines, Kenya, and Mexico are a few of the members. Which Are The World’s Most Cashless Countries? Rank Country Noncash Payments’ Share Of Total Value Of Consumer Payments % Of Population With A Debit Card
1 Belgium 93 86
2 France 92 69
3 Canada 90 88
4 United Kingdom 89 88
5 Sweden 89 96
6 Australia 86 79
7 The Netherlands 85 98
8 United States 80 72
9 Germany 76 88
10 South Korea 70 58
If we think about our global banking system, we can conclude that all banks are now part of the digital Swift payments system. Competitive payment systems which are emerging in Asia are also digital systems. All this is because we now have a computer driven global economy. Computers, algorithms, and select software programs determine what is happening within our global cyber markets. All businesses are converting their accounting systems to digital and this means that the ‘Mark of the Beast’ financial system is essentially here now. The implementation of the ‘Mark of the Beast’ system will likely start after our current bubble economy crashes. Our governmental authorities will then demand that everyone follow precise rules which mandate their economic behavior. Authorities will likely demand that everyone give allegiance to their digital (cashless) financial system. Those who refuse to comply will be restricted from using the system for their survival. This starts the clock for the ‘Mark of the Beast’ system which has been prophesied in scripture. Either you comply with the State or you must barter for your goods and services and take the risk of being arrested. Watch this video from Mr. Trump: https://youtu.be/vFofB6RaB4I which reveals his inner sense that our global economy is now in a huge bubble. When will this bubble burst? It could happen any day now. It is currently being prevented from crashing by our Central Bank trading computers. Central Banks can continue this manipulation until confidence crashes due to all this manipulation and economic distortion. Watch: https://youtu.be/vFofB6RaB4I.
https://kingdomecon.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/infrastructure-in-place-for-mark-of-the-beast/
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BREAKING: Health Ranger threatened by left-wing media goons: “Destroy Alex Jones or we will destroy YOU”
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by: Mike Adams
(Natural News) FULL DISCLOSURE: I am being threatened with the “complete destruction” of my reputation, my brand and my character by left-wing media operatives who have issued a new threat this week: “Destroy Alex Jones or we will destroy YOU.” Alex Jones, of course, is the founder of InfoWars.com, one of the most popular multi-media publishers of pro-America news, videos and radio broadcasts in the world. The warning implies that a barrage of left-wing media stories will target me personally — obviously spreading “fake news” lies — unless I agree to go public with “opposition research” targeting Jones that was previously delivered to me on a physical thumb drive. I destroyed the thumb drive and refused to kow-tow to the insane, criminal agenda of destruction and lies now being pursued daily by the unhinged, delusional left-wing media (and its puppet masters such as George Soros). I have no doubt I am being targeted with this threat because I previously served as a substitute host for the Alex Jones Show, from 2011 – 2013. After I left the show in 2013, I was contacted by another left-wing media source that offered to pay me $50,000 to “expose” Alex Jones. I refused. Later, someone with access to some very advanced technology was able to engage me in a phone text conversation where they impersonated Alex Jones’ cell phone number, but I quickly realized it was a ruse and cut off communication. In various ways, I have been hounded since 2013 by left-wing criminals who are attempting to exploit my contact with Alex Jones to discredit his entire organization and silence him forever. Time and time again, I have refused to take part in their nefarious plots. I flat-out refuse to be manipulated through false fear and intimidation tactics deployed by manipulative “media spooks” who are obviously very well funded but incredibly misinformed. I do not consider myself to be a “competitor” of InfoWars. I consider myself to be a defender of liberty, truth and healthy living. I am on “team humanity” to defend humanity against the sinister agendas of the vaccine industry, the biotech industry and the sick-minded depopulation agenda of the most dangerous globalists of all. Anyone who is on “team humanity” is my ally, not my enemy. Malicious effort now under way to take out prominent Trump supporters and silence their support of our President Now, it seems, the stakes are even higher because of the victory of President Trump, a true patriot and determined warrior who is waging an epic battle against globalist forces, the “fake news” media and the corrupt elements of the so-called “deep state.” As the publisher of Trump.news, a pro-Trump REAL news website, I am being targeted as part of a left-wing media effort to discredit and destroy all Trump supporters who are prominent media innovators or personalities. The following document, entitled Democracy Matters, Strategic Plan for Action, reveals the sinister tactics of the left-wing media to discredit and destroy any people who support Donald Trump’s vision for America. The document states: (bold added) In the next four years, Media Matters will continues its core mission of disarming right-wing misinformation, while leading the fight against the next generation of conservative disinformation: The proliferation of fake news and propaganda now threatening the country’s information ecosystem. Here’s what success will look like: * Serial misinformers and right-wing propagandists inhabiting everything from social media to the highest levels of government will be exposed, discredited. * Internet and social media platforms, like Google and Facebook, will no longer uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news sites and propagandists. * Toxic alt-right social media-fueled harassment campaigns that silence dissent and poison our national discourse will be punished and halted. … Shareblue will take back social media for Democrats. We will delegitimize Donald Trump’s presidency by emboldening the opposition… * Trump allies will be forced to step down or change course due to news pushed by Shareblue. Media Matters will… “weaponize our research products to understand and take action against the changing media ecosystem and the extremists seeking to manipulate it…. Key alt-right figures will lose credibility and influence in response to our research and pressure.” A $13.4 million budget will allow Media Matters to “create a 34-person research department” [to destroy the opposition]. Intimidate Trump supporters into silence (or get them to turn on each other) It’s obvious from this document that a whole new effort of malicious intimidation and threats is being deployed against prominent Trump supporters who have achieved any substantial level of new media success. The goal is clear: To intimidate Trump supporters into silence, or — even better for the left-wing media — get pro-Trump publishers and journalists to turn on each other and destroy each other from within. I’ve already seen recent examples of insider attacks being leveled against Alex Jones and InfoWars. I have no doubt the very same cookie cutter-style attacks will also be recycled to target Natural News and the Health Ranger. It all stems from a blueprint plan that’s designed to demoralize Donald Trump supporters, then demonize and destroy them. It’s right out of the same playbook the radical left-wing media invoked in an attempt to destroy Trump from day one (an effort which spectacularly failed, by the way). In fact, that’s the bigger point in all this. Every person attacked by the left-wing media just gets more popular in the same way Trump became ever more popular as the media smeared him. Look at the case of Milo Yiannoupoulos from Breitbart: The malicious media attacks on his character — falsely labeling him part of the “alt-right” movement — resulted in him being offered a $250,000 advance on a book deal that has already seen his book reach the #1 ranking on Amazon even before its launch! Alex Jones, too, rode a wave of hit pieces and defamation against his character to become a powerful voice that now reaches more people than CNN! Every effort to destroy Alex, Milo, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge or Steve Bannon have only backfired on the insane left-wing media. It is precisely because of their malicious attacks and deceptions that Donald Trump won the election. The public was tired of the lies, and the backlash was truly historic. We must stand with Trump, or we’ll lose America forever But the battle has only just begun. As I’ve repeatedly warned in my Health Ranger Report podcasts, we must now stand with Trump and defeat the insane criminal forces that seek to destroy this nation and silence reason. The radical, unhinged Left is now the single greatest threat to the future of our nation, and they will use ANY means to silence or destroy their political opponents, including violating the law, committing acts of extreme violence, publishing malicious falsehoods, citing fictitious “sources” in their stories, misrepresenting their words with dishonest editing, etc. So I’m going to be crystal clear in my message to these criminal left-wing bullies and intimidation operatives: COME AND TAKE IT. You want to silence me? Bring a team and prepare to take casualties. Unless you somehow manage to put a bullet in my brain, there is no possibility whatsoever that I’m going to carry out your nefarious agenda and join your sick, demented cabal of insane f#cktardery. You might be able to pull it off if you bring a big enough force, but it’s going to cost you. I’m not going to lay down to your fake intimidation tactics… especially not when we have already won! We are the new media. We are rightfully trusted by the public because we’ve earned that trust by honestly reporting the real news. We are where people go for authentic news instead of the fake news you’ve been peddling for decades. I publish over 100 websites, and readership keeps rising by the day because we are taking your readers away from your lame “fake news” websites like the Washington Post and New York Times. People are turning off your lies and turning on the truth at Natural News, NewsTarget, Trump.news and other websites we run to protect liberty, defend the Republic and expose the destructive anti-human agendas of the political Left and the globalists that run them all. Listen to my full podcast to hear a more detailed explanation of these threats and why I refuse to take part in their sinister agenda.
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WikiLeaks Drops Bombshell Report Exposing CIA Involvement In 2012 French Election…
Posted on February 16, 2017 by sundance
Today WikiLeaks drops a bombshell exposing President Obama and Hillary Clinton using the CIA to manipulate the outcome of the 2012 election in France (full pdf below).
According to documents released today by WikiLeaks the CIA ordered covert targeted activity in the 2012 French presidential election which included French Politicians Francois Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy & Marine Le Pen. WIKILEAKS – All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies in the seven months leading up to France’s 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named specifically as targets are the French Socialist Party (PS), the National Front (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) together with current President Francois Hollande, then President Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one presidential front runner Marine Le Pen, and former presidential candidates Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Khan. The CIA assessed that President Sarkozy’s party was not assured re-election. Specific tasking concerning his party included obtaining the “Strategic Election Plans” of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP); schisms or alliances developing in the UMP elite; private UMP reactions to Sarkozy’s campaign stratagies; discussions within the UMP on any “perceived vulnerabilities to maintaining power” after the election; efforts to change the party’s ideological mission; and discussions about Sarkozy’s support for the UMP and “the value he places on the continuation of the party’s dominance”. Specific instructions tasked CIA officers to discover Sarkozy’s private deliberations “on the other candidates” as well as how he interacted with his advisors. Sarkozy’s earlier self-identification as “Sarkozy the American” did not protect him from US espionage in the 2012 election or during his presidency. The espionage order for “Non Ruling Political Parties and Candidates Strategic Election Plans” which targeted Francois Holland, Marine Le Pen and other opposition figures requires obtaining opposition parties’ strategies for the election; information on internal party dynamics and rising leaders; efforts to influence and implement political decisions; support from local government officials, government elites or business elites; views of the United States; efforts to reach out to other countries, including Germany, U.K., Libya, Israel, Palestine, Syria & Cote d’Ivoire; as well as information about party and candidate funding. Significantly, two CIA opposition espionage tasks, “What policies do they promote to help boost France’s economic growth prospects?” and “What are their opinions on the German model of export-led growth?” resonate with a U.S. economic espionage order from the same year. That order requires obtaining details of every prospective French export contract or deal valued at $200m or more. The opposition espionage order also places weight on obtaining the candidates’ attitudes to the E.U’s economic crisis, centering around their position on the Greek debt crisis; the role of France and Germany in the management of the Greek debt crisis; the vulnerability of French government and French banks to a Greek default; and “specific proposals and recommendations” to deal with “the euro-zone crisis”. The CIA espionage orders published today are classified and restricted to U.S. eyes only (“NOFORN”) due to “Friends-on-Friends sensitivities”. The orders state that the collected information is to “support” the activities of the CIA, the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)’s E.U section, and the U.S. State Department’s Intelligence and Research Branch. The CIA operation ran for ten months from 21 Nov 2011 to 29 Sep 2012, crossing the April-May 2012 French presidential election and several months into the formation of the new government. (LINK) Here’s the CIA Intelligence Release from WikiLeaks: To answer that question, you must also remember the research and evaluation rules. To understand activity within any intelligence action any observer must do two things: #1 You must stay elevated. If you try to get into the weeds you will be lost because your insight will be lacking specificity briefs.
#2 You must always reflect upon the recent historic context of the engagement you are observing. Including, most importantly, the engagements of the parties therein. CTH is in a unique position to highlight what could be happening because we have tracked the larger globalist movement through the key state and agency apparatus where their activity is most transparently obvious, specifically France. It was slightly less than a week ago when we shared the transparently obvious State Department effort to influence the 2017 French Election – SEE HERE – CNN began broadcasting a narrative that Russia was set to interfere and attempt influence over the upcoming election. Excerpt: Those who follow the messaging from within the unofficial news agency of the U.S. State Department, CNN or CNNi, might have noticed a report delivered by Wolf Blitzer yesterday claiming the Russians were set to influence another nationalist election victory, this time in France. With a vote coming in April, could French elections be targeted by the same Russian hackers accused of meddling in the US campaign? (CNN LINK) The entire proclamation by Blitzer, and the executive level CNN folks who put it together, was almost identical to the previous claims of a vast Russian conspiracy influencing the U.S. election and the victory of President Donald Trump. The difference between November 2016 and today, is this time CNN is attempting to get out ahead of an election rather than responding to the outcome therein. In essence, CNN -and by extension the progressive State Department officials remaining within the shadow deep state construct- is trying to influence the French Presidential Race. Blaming the Russians in advance is an attempt to weaken Marine Le Pen. But why would they do this, you might ask. Well, those of you who have followed the historic research on the State Department might well remember the “Rivkin Project“. The globalist agents who carry a vested interest are simply not willing to concede another loss in their decades long approach toward eliminating nationalist sentiment. (read more) This release today from WikiLeaks appears to be a push back against the U.S. State Department effort. [As outlined in the CNN and CNNi narrative.] However, it would also be naive to believe this release today was the exclusive work of WikiLeaks. The timing, against the backdrop, is just way too coincidental. This release today appears to be an outcome of Russia pushing back against the U.S. State Department intention (the shadow globalist operatives embedded there), by delivering information to WikiLeaks that would undercut the U.S. DoS objectives to undercut Marine Le Pen. This early in 2017 it’s not the U.S. Trump State Department engaging in France; this is activity from the remaining elements of the Obama Globalist State Department who are still in place. [might also explain Putin’s ship off the East coast – a ‘ping’ of sorts] In essence, what we could be witnessing is the very public visibility of two groups of interests, U.S. DoS and Russia, conducting a proxy psy-ops campaign – with each state actor using competing conduits. • The U.S. DoS using CNN and CNNi, • and Russia hitting back using WikiLeaks. [The French election outcome is the objective.] Holy Cats ! Yes, this is pretty darned stunning. Expanding and staying elevated – This confluence of events: If the Wikileaks source is Russia, as the motive would seem to be…. then this would also indicate, or at least support the notion, that Russia was the source of the 2016 WikiLeaks DNC and Podesta releases. Perhaps this entire construct of covert state sponsored activity is what explains why Team Clinton (Democrats, Media, professional left et al) are so violently vitriolic toward Russia as an outcome of their 2016 election defeat. Accepting that possibility does not indicate the information contained within either release is inaccurate, but rather to say there is a historic explanation here for current motives of both parties, Russia and Clinton. That motive is not being expanded by anyone. fbi-clinton-4-shadow-government
The remaining globalists embeds within the U.S. Department of State are trying to influence the French election (CNNi as a participatory agent). Russia is pushing back against the U.S. activity by exposing the 2012 CIA activity via WikiLeaks. The Globalists (the shadow governments) are losing; with the losses they are getting dragged into the sunlight, and striking out. Things begin to make a lot more sense….
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etc For truly in the world right now, saith your Father God, is much trouble, trouble that they know not how to deal with. They know not how to stop the drought, the global warming, the flooding, they know not how to stop the rains, the forest fires, they do not know these things. They do not know how to stop the wars, the troubles that are taking place in the world and the troubles yet to come. etc.
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Manhattan-Sized Iceberg Just Broke Away from Antarctica
Environment 01:24 17.02.2017(updated 08:31 17.02.2017)
Rising temperatures in the waters surrounding Antarctica have caused an enormous chunk of ice the size of Manhattan to break away, according to experts. Satellite imagery from January shows a huge section of the Pine Island Glacier separating from the continent. Areas of Antarctic ice have scores of cracks, according to National Geographic, indicating that glacial calving may continue or increase. The break "is the equivalent of an "aftershock'" in the wake of a July 2015 calving event, Ohio State University glaciologist Ian Howat told NASA. While the last ice break-off was approximately 225 square miles, the most recent chunk is smaller, about the size of the island of Manhattan. “Such ‘rapid fire’ calving does appear to be unusual for this glacier,” according to Howat. Nevertheless, the incident “fits into the larger picture of basal crevasses in the center of the ice shelf being eroded by warm ocean water, causing the ice shelf to break from the inside out,” he said. The surface area of the ice has hit an all-time low of 872,204 square miles, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center. The Pine Island Glacier is "retreating and thinning," according to Simon Gascoin, of France’s National Center for Scientific Research. Waters below the Pine Island Glacier have gotten about 1 degree fahrenheit warmer over the past 27 years, Climate Central reports. "The recent rifting and calving could totally be evidence of an ongoing, rapid disintegration of the ice shelf, mostly due to ocean warming," Gascoin said.
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201702171050768233-manhattan-sized-iceberg-broke-antarctica/
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Summit of the Embattled: Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Couldn't Come at Better Time
Published February 15, 2017 By Benny Avni, The New York Post
Wednesday at the White House: the summit of the embattled.
After a combined 11 years as Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is under police inquiry that may soon turn into a criminal-corruption investigation. With the resignation of his national security adviser Monday, President Trump is facing his first serious White House crisis. And that’s the moment Bibi, who as premier never enjoyed a friendly White House for even a moment, comes to say hi to an old buddy from New York. Truth is, both leaders could probably use a distraction and a friendly face. But though they’ll be discussing a range of Mideast issues, the only one that really matters is Iran. Oh yes, the Palestinian issue will be on the agenda, and Foggy Bottom-types, media eggheads and others in the ever-growing peacemaking industry will very carefully study every word for signs of change or continuity. But, for all Trump’s boast that he’s uniquely qualified to make the ultimate deal, there’ll be no serious breakthrough on this front. Maybe the Israelis or the Americans will budge a bit to one side on settlements.
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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.
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Putin: NATO keeps trying to draw Russia into confrontation, meddle in internal affairs
Published time: 16 Feb, 2017 10:57 Edited time: 16 Feb, 2017 11:25
NATO is constantly trying to draw Russia into a confrontation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. He added that members of the alliance continue to interfere in Russia’s domestic affairs. The accusations came as Putin addressed senior members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB on Thursday. The president said that over the past years the global security situation “has not improved, but on the contrary, many existing threats have only become more serious.” NATO with its “newly-declared official mission to deter Russia” is one such threat, Putin said. “This is the goal behind the expansion of this military bloc. It happened before, but now they have found a new justification which they believe to be serious,” Putin said. “In fact, they are constantly provoking us, trying to drag us into a confrontation,” Putin stated, adding that NATO members “are continuing their efforts to interfere in our domestic affairs with the goal of destabilizing social and political order in Russia proper.” Putin added that foreign intelligence agencies continue intensive operations in Russia. “In the past year 53 foreign intelligence operatives and 386 agents of foreign intelligence services have been busted,” he said. The president also expressed regret over Russia and Western nations no longer coordinating efforts to fight against common enemies such as terrorist groups. “It's in everyone's interest to resume dialogue between the intelligence agencies of the United States and other members of NATO,” Putin said
https://www.rt.com/news/377538-nato-russia-confrontation-meddling/
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THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS CONGRESS
February 15, 2017
Let's compare what President Trump has accomplished since the inauguration (with that enormous crowd!) with what congressional Republicans have done. In the past three weeks, Trump has: staffed the White House, sent a dozen Cabinet nominees to the Senate, browbeat Boeing into cutting its price on a government contract, harangued American CEOs into keeping their plants in the United States, imposed a terrorist travel ban, met with foreign leaders and nominated a Supreme Court justice, among many other things. (And still our hero finds time to torment the media with his tweets!) What have congressional Republicans been doing? Scrapbooking? More than 90 percent of congressional Republicans kept their jobs after the 2016 election, so you can cross "staffing an entire branch of government" off the list. Only the Senate confirms nominees, which they've been doing at a snail's pace, so they've got loads of free time -- and the House has no excuse at all. Where's the Obamacare repeal? Where are the hearings featuring middle-class Americans with no health insurance because it was made illegal by Obamacare? The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law. Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt. After the inauguration (gigantic!), House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put out a plan for repealing Obamacare ... in 200 days. They actually gave their legislative agenda this inspiring title: "The Two Hundred Day Plan.” TWO HUNDRED DAYS! What was in the last six Obamacare repeals? If we looked, would we find "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" carefully typed out 1 million times? Seriously, what does Paul Ryan's day look like? This is the Silence of the Lambs Congress. They're utterly silent, emerging from the House gym or their three-hour lunches only to scream to the press about Trump. To the delight of the media, these frightened little lambs are appalled by nearly everything Trump does. They've been especially throaty about Trump's temporary travel ban from seven terrorist nations -- as designated by the Obama administration (and by everybody else who hasn't been in a deep freeze in a Finnish crevasse for the past decade). Just like the six Obamacare repeals, a refugee ban was already written and passed by one house of Congress. Then suddenly: the Silence of the Lambs. McConnell and Ryan are hiding under their desks, as Trump is being attacked from every side. Way, way back, 15 long months ago, congressional Republicans didn't have a problem with a total ban on Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Not for a mere three months like Trump's order -- but permanently, unless the director of the FBI, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence personally certified that a particular refugee posed no danger to the U.S. That bill passed the House with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority, including 47 Democrats. Then it went to the Senate to die. But when President Trump imposed a comparatively mild three-month ban on immigrants from Syria, Iraq and five other terrorist nations, the same Republicans who had voted for a limitless ban on refugees whiled away their days calling reporters to denounce Trump. A little more than a year ago, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, bragged in a press release that he had introduced the House's refugee ban, calling it a bill that would "protect Americans from ISIS.” But when it came to Trump's three-month pause, McCaul told the Post that Trump's order "went too far.” I guess that ISIS problem just sort of faded away. (Or maybe we should check with Mrs. McCaul, inasmuch as it's her family money that makes Rep. McCaul one of the richest members of Congress.) Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., who voted for the House's permanent refugee ban, demanded that Trump immediately rescind his travel ban, babbling on about the "many, many nuances of immigration policy" -- which he must have learned about on one of his congressional jaunts to a Las Vegas casino. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said that Trump's order "overreaches and undermines our constitutional system." Evidently, he was suddenly struck by the realization that it's "not lawful to ban immigrants on the basis of nationality," despite having voted to ban refugees on the basis of nationality just 15 months earlier. (I'm OK with this, provided the Syrians, Somalis and Yemenis are sent to live on Justin's street after being told about his support for gay marriage.) Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., both rushed to The Washington Post with this refreshingly original point: NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS! Why, thank you, senators! Where would the GOP be without you? The Post also quoted spokesmen -- spokesmen! -- for Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rob Portman of Ohio and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina complaining about not having been briefed on Trump's order. The senators themselves were far too busy to talk to the press because they were -- wait, what were they doing again? Words With Friends? Decoupage? Since the election, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has been mostly occupied polishing his anti-Trump quotations to get a pat on the head from an admiring media. He complained about Trump's order, saying it was "poorly implemented" and that he had to find out about it from reporters. (I wonder why.) This is the moment we've been waiting for our entire lives, but Republicans in Congress refuse to do the people's will. Their sole, driving obsession is to see Trump fail. I am not presently calling for these useless, narcissistic, Trump-bashing Republicans to be defeated in their re-election bids, but they're on my Watch List. To be cleared, they can start by getting off the phone with The Washington Post and passing one of those six Obamacare repeal bills.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-02-15.html
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Dark Forces At Work To Start WW3 As War-Hungry 'Enemies Of America Within' Continue To Sabotage President Trump
- Gerald Celente's Advice To President Donald Trump: 'Play The Trump Card, There Are No Rules, That Is The Lesson'
February 15, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
"His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matthew 3:12 It has long been warned that when the time comes, the wheat will be separated from the chaff and recent events in Washington DC and across the planet show us that is the direction we are now headed. We warned yesterday in a story on ANP that a 'Biblical event' awaits us with globalists in America who hold 'terroristic tendencies' (and who quite literally armed and supported ISIS terrorists during the Obama regime) still pushing for a World War 3 with Russia. With their 'satanic nwo' completely falling apart with Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump blowing massive holes in their plans, we get new indications today that 'enemies of America within' are once again pushing for our destruction. We also reminded you just days ago that only weeks before the election, tensions between the US and Russia were at a fever-pitch and quickly headed towards nuclear war and potential worldwide nuclear annihilation, especially had Hillary Clinton 'stolen' the US presidency, thus assuring a World War 3 with Russia according to Russian president Vladimir Putin. And now we hear from former Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich in the 2nd video below who argues what we're now watching coming from the Neocons who want death and destruction could blow up in America's faces. In the first video below, Christopher Greene of AMTV warns us the dark forces spoken of in this story are on a mad rush to start up World War 3 despite the will of President Trump. First, from the Fox News Kucinich interview. Former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was a guest Tuesday on "Mornings with Maria" discussing how the intelligence community is seeming to upend President Donald Trump in the wake of Michael Flynn's resignation as national security adviser. The former Democratic presidential candidate and Fox News contributor said the bigger issue here is that the phone conversations between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were intercepted and leaked to the media. "The American people have to know that there's a game going on inside the intelligence community where there are those who want to separate the U.S. from Russia in a way that would reignite the Cold War," Kucinich said. "That's what's at the bottom of all this. It's early in the morning, it's Valentine's Day, but wake up America!" He said he believes money is a factor for those looking to cash in on any conflict between the U.S. and Russia. "What's going on in the intelligence community with this president is unprecedented," he said. "They're making every effort to upend him. Who knows what the truth is anymore?" Kucinich said Trump must get a hold of the intelligence community because he believes there is "definitely something going on" to undermine the president. Why have terrorists supporters in America such as psychopaths Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and all of the other filth who've helped to put Christians in the crosshairs in the Middle East and around the world while arming our enemies as outright stated by Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard in her STOP ARMING TERRORISTS bill in Congress NOT been arrested in a massive round-up of 'terrorist supporters' and 'enemies of America within'? Or is it ok for terrorist-supporters like John McCain to arm the terrorists killing Christians in Syria and around the world just because they do the work of cowards in Washington DC? If you ask us, that 'terrorist-supporter-roundup' should have commenced long ago! We had reported on ANP as recently as October of 2016 that Steve Quayle might soon have to 'put up his red screen', thus indicating to us that nuclear was was imminent and it was time to hunker and bunker down. While the election of President Donald Trump had seemingly put off that possibility, new events both here in America and across the planet warn us that it may be once again time to revisit that dreadful thought. As Gerald Celente recently warned USA Watchdog Greg Hunter, there is a definite movement to take out President Donald Trump by the death-and-war-hungry neocons seeking death, war and destruction. You can hear the full interview with Hunter and Celente in the final video below. Trends forecaster Gerald Celente says the resignation of top security advisor Michael Flynn is further proof there is an ongoing “destabilization campaign” and a “definite movement to take out Trump.” Celente explains, “When Trump came in, one of the first things he said in his campaign is let’s stop this fighting with Russia, they’re not the threat that everyone says they are. Since he’s been saying that, he’s been attacked. Let’s go back to Michael Flynn. Trump and Flynn say the CIA has become too politicized. A lot of these agencies have been wasting money and giving us bad information. That was what a lot of Flynn was about. Let’s not forget that Obama dumped Flynn because those were the things that Flynn was saying that Obama didn’t want to hear.” The issues dreamed up to take out Trump have been ongoing since the day Trump won the 2016 election. Celente lists the top three and says, “The first issue was the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. The second one was the Electoral College, and you remember the third one? It was we need a vote recount in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. That’s all we heard. The media has been attacking Trump from day one. They are bringing in the Flynn thing because he was an anti-neocon. That’s the reason. The neocons want war. They want destruction. They want the military industrial complex to continue to build. . . . I don’t know why Trump is still campaigning. He should keep his people off the air. They shouldn’t go on the presstitute networks.” Celente says Trump can win by playing his own game. When it comes to his own GOP party, Celente explains, “He didn’t need them. He doesn’t need them now. Trump beat Hollywood. He beat the Katzenbergs, the Spielbergs, the Clooneys and De Niros. He beat Silicon Valley. . . . What I am saying is Trump can beat and win. He beat all of them. He beat Obama. It wasn’t the Russians that made the election go his way. . . . Play the Trump card. There are no rules. That is the lesson.” President Trump has something that the globalists seeking to blow up the world and destroy America will never have - the huge and unwavering support of the American people despite what the MSM or whining protesters in American streets will tell us. And now we hear directly from former Democratic Congressman Kucinich in the brand new first video below who also warns us "there’s a game going on inside the intelligence community where there are those who want to separate the US from Russia in a way that would re-ignite the cold war”. Kucinich doesn't hold back one bit, warning America bluntly that it's time to wake up! In the recent story over at the Daily Mail that Steve Quayle linked to on his website on Tuesday we learned that Russian military jets have once again buzzed a US destroyer in the Black Sea with 4 Russian military aircraft conducting low passes against the USS Porter back on February 10th. What the Daily Mail called just the latest of a series of belligerent moves of President Donald Trump's young presidency while the NSA in America is dealing with an internal crisis, we see that 'enemies of America within' will stop at nothing to get the war they so eagerly want, even if that means bringing down President Trump and America along with them. And as NATO continues to push Russia, we read in another new story from the Daily Mail that Russian troops in amphibious vehicles have been practicing 'invastion tactics' after NATO deployed troops to the Baltic states allegedly to provide them 'protection'. For those who think this is merely 'fear mongering', did you know that last week, Putin told the Russian air force to 'prepare for a time of war'? It's long been warned by Russian insiders living here in America that if America brings war to Russia, we should all be prepared for 'the end'. What does 'the end' mean? From the Russian insiders living here in America.: We now feel that it is our duty, as Russians living in the US, to warn the American people that they are being lied to, and to tell them the truth. And the truth is simply this: If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead. Thus, if tomorrow a war were to break out between the US and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US would be obliterated. At a minimum, there would no longer be an electric grid, no internet, no oil and gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air transportation or GPS-based navigation. Financial centers would lie in ruins. Government at every level would cease to function. US armed forces, stationed all around the globe, would no longer be resupplied. At a maximum, the entire landmass of the US would be covered by a layer of radioactive ash. We tell you this not to be alarmist, but because, based on everything we know, we are ourselves alarmed. If attacked, Russia will not back down; she will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate the United States. Are YOU prepared to live without electricity, the internet, and all of the other luxuries that make living in America today 'modern', all to satisfy the blood lust of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the criminal globalists? America would be much better off if Trump just locked them all up for supporting ISIS terrorists. And why would globalists politicians such as McCain and Clinton want massive death and destruction in America? In the 3rd video below from Paul Joseph Watson over at Infowars he tells us all about the globalists take down of Michael Flynn, just the latest sign to us that those who hate 'life' and who hate 'America' will stop at nothing to complete their evil, satanic plans for Americans and the world while bringing us only more death and destruction.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Dem_Congressman_Drops_WW3_Bombshell.php
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New World Order Forming Under Pagan Temple of Ba’al Arch?
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz February 16, 2017 , 12:30 pm
“For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant; The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moav, and the Hagrites.” Psalms 83:6-7 (The Israel Bible™)
A replica of a Roman arch that once stood in front of the pagan Temple of Ba’al was erected for the World Government Summit in Dubai this week, creating a scene that one rabbi claims symbolizes the dangerous fusion of Ishmael and Edom against Israel. The original Roman Victory Arch stood for 1,800 years in Palmyra, Syria, until it was destroyed by ISIS in October 2015. A full-size 28-meter tall replica of the arch was created last year by the Institute for Digital Archeology, a joint project of Oxford and Harvard universities, and has been displayed twice before. The replica was erected for the opening of the World Government Summit that opened on Sunday in Dubai. Based in the United Arab Emirates, the summit is an international organization for global dialogue where leaders in government, business, and technology discuss how governments operate and how policies are made. The first summit, held in 2013, was attended by former US President Barack Obama, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and other world leaders. Though a Roman artifact recreated in a modern Arab metropolis may seem incongruous, Rabbi Pinchas Winston, a prolific author and End of Days scholar, saw a deeper meaning in it that is incredibly relevant today. Though Rome and the Arab Emirates appear in different parts of the world and at different points in history, Rabbi Winston sees them as connected ideologically and spiritually. “Tradition tells of four exiles, the last being the Roman exile. Israel is being assailed by the Arabs but nowhere do we hear of a fifth, Arab or Ishmael exile,” explained Rabbi Winston. “This Roman arch in Dubai symbolically ties them both together: Ishmael, the Arabs, and Edom, which was epitomized by Rome.” The original arch in Palmyra, built by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, stood in front of a preexisting temple that was used by the Mesopotamians to worship the pagan god Bel, mentioned often in the Bible as Ba’al. For he built again the high places which Chizkiyahu his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal. II Kings 21:3 “Just like the Romans, the Arabs are trying to control the world, and succeeding,” said Rabbi Winston. “Even though it is the Arabs against the Jews, it is really the Arabs continuing the mission of Edom to conquer the world. This connection between Dubai and Rome is showing that Edom never ended. It just put on a different mask.” The first century Jewish sage Jonathan ben Uzziel wrote about how this Biblical alliance between Ishmael and Esau and would reappear at the End of Days. Clear evidence of the spiritual connection between these two seemingly disparate worlds can be found in the growing political cooperation between Rome and the Muslim/Arab world. The bond has manifested in the strengthening of ties between the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority, as well as Pope Francis’ meeting with the President of Iran. Though Edom and the desire to rule the world is personified by Rome, Rabbi Winston explained that the archetype has Biblical roots. “The push for one world government goes back to the Tower of Babel, trying to put the power in the hands of the wealthy, the powerful, and the arrogant,” he said. And they said: ‘Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ Genesis 11:4 “The Arab desire to rule the world is part of their religion and that is also very Roman,” continued Rabbi Winston. “World rule is also the religion of the rich and powerful.” The motive behind world rule can sound altruistic, but Rabbi Winston noted a critical distinction. “The desire to fix the world and to make it a better place resembles a Messianic movement,” the rabbi said. “But unless it is based in God, it is twisted and turns destructive because it is based on ego. It has always attracted secular academia because it aggrandizes Human Intellect over the One who rules over us all.” The reproduction appeared for the first time in London on April 19 during the UNESCO Heritage Week, which coincided disturbingly with Beltane, a major pagan festival for worshiping Ba’al. The arch appeared again in New York City’s City Hall Park in September.
Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/83746/new-world-order-forming-pagan-temple-baal-arch/#jKH2D3lW28Q3u2UY.99
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Heads Will Roll: Jason Chaffetz Requests Official DOJ Investigation Into Illegal Leaks Of Flynn-Russia Calls To The Press
by ZeroPointNow Feb 16, 2017 5:18 AM
Heads are about to roll, can you feel it? House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz along with Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) have submitted a letter to the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, requesting a formal investigation into both the surveillance and subsequent leaks of classified communications "of or regarding" former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn - citing the highly inappropriate release of information. Generally, collection activities by intelligence agencies are classified, as are the products that result from those activities. This is to ensure the continued integrity of the sources and methods used. Therefore, it seems probable that the fact that an intelligence agency monitored the call, if it did, as well as any recording of the call, would also be classified. Chaffetz and Goodlatte's letter cite "serious concerns" about mishandling of classified information, stating the release of which would, by definition, "have grave effects on national security." In a discussion with Fox's First 100 Days, Chaffetz also made clear that he's concerned about both the Flynn leaks and President Trump's conduct, following a letter the congressman to the White House over Trump's public discussion at Mar-a-Lago with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe regarding North Korea's recent missile launch. While it's perhaps to be expected that our intelligence agencies might monitor an incoming administration's communications, using those obviously classified conversations as a weapon for the purposes of propaganda designed to undermine a sitting US President is absolutely beyond the pale. "How does that information end up at the news media? The President has made some very serious allegations in his description in the movement of this information. See text of the Chaffetz / Goodlatte letter here (with Fox interview below):
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Media Continues Bashing Trump, But New Poll Shows Americans Think He’s Exactly What We Need
Rusty Featured Contributor February 14, 2017
While the mainstream media continues to viciously attack President Trump and his administration, Americans continue to believe he is the answer to our nation’s biggest problems. A new Gallup poll indicates that the American people view Trump as a strong leader, and a man who keeps his promises. And why wouldn’t they? In the few weeks he’s served in the White House, President Trump has issued orders sending ISIS terrorists to Gitmo, shifted counterterrorism efforts to focus on radical Islam, laid the foundation for building the wall, and tried to institute a temporary travel ban for refugees coming from terrorist hotbeds. All of which were campaign promises kept. What’s more shocking is this – after the media fawned over Barack Obama for 8 years as the hope and change President, Americans believe the real agent of change in Washington is, in fact, President Trump. Via TheBlaze: During the elections, polls were not kind to now President Donald Trump, but they certainly seem to be now. A new Gallup poll released today shows that most Americans view Trump as a strong leader, but even more of them believe he’s a President who keeps his promises. According those polled, 62 percent believe that Trump “keeps his promises.” Moreover, 59 percent believe he “is a strong and decisive leader.” Most surprisingly, over half of Americans believe Trump “can bring about the changes this country needs” at 53 percent. During his RNC acceptance speech, candidate Trump acknowledged the need for change – from Obama, from Clinton, from Democrat policies in general. “The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them,” he said. “A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes.” Now 53% – a clear majority – still, after all the negativity coming from the hysterical media, believe Trump “can bring about the changes this country needs.” Gallup writes, “His series of executive orders and Cabinet appointments show a president who is decisive and trying to bring about change, also qualities that a majority of Americans (59% and 53%, respectively) say apply to him.” Compared to the same poll conducted in September, that 53% rate constitutes a 13% jump for Americans in general. Even 11% more Democrats believe he can bring about change than they did in September. We’d like to see the media report accurately on these views held by the American people, but we wouldn’t bet on it happening.
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Hundreds of thousands of dead fish cover beaches in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica
By Strange Sounds - Feb 15, 2017
Alarmed officials are investigating the cause of the unexplained and widespread fish mass die-off in Piedra Santa beach, La Mona, Ensenada and Los Moragas. This fish kill isn’t localized to one single place. No, here we have a giant mass die-off that stretches over several kilometers of beaches around the Gulf of Nicoya. It’s not a local problem. It’s a global problem! Thousands of fish were found dead on several beaches in the Gulf of Nicoya on Wednesday, but no apparent cause is known at this time. All the fish are the same species (Galician sardine). At the moment, no other affected animals have been found. Officials have no detail on how many beaches are being affected by this phenomenon, but it is known that dead fish covered Piedra Santa beach, La Mona, Ensenada, Manzanillo and the Moragas estuary. Dead fish carcasses are now starting to smell really bad. Biologists from the National Coast Guard Service are traveling to the Caldera and Níspero beach in emergency to determine the cause of the death. This occurs after three other fish die-offs were reported in Chile, Colombia and New Zealand in the last 4 days or so.
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US and Japan demand UN action after North Korea reveals pictures of new nuclear-capable missile that will be impossible for Western satellites to spot before it's fired
New type of rockets can be launched at short notice without much preparation
In addition, solid fuel engines also boost the power and range of ballistic rockets
They are also more difficult to track by satellite because they have fewer support vehicles in their entourage, expert warns
UN strongly condemned its launch describing it as a 'further troubling violation'
Missile flew about 310 miles before falling into the sea Sunday
Launch was seen as a test of response from President Trump
By Sarah Dean For Mailonline and Afp
Published: 01:55 EST, 13 February 2017 | Updated: 11:30 EST, 13 February 2017
The United States and Japan have demanded UN action after North Korea boasted about the launch of its latest ballistic missile, which is almost impossible for Western satellites to spot before it's fired. Kim Jong Un's men successfully launched a new type of medium-to long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, the first test of U.S. President Donald Trump's vow to get tough on the isolated regime. The missile test came as Mr Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Mr Abe condemned the launch as 'absolutely intolerable', and Mr Trump said Washington would stand behind Japan, 'its great ally, 100 per cent'. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday strongly condemned the launch, describing it as a 'further troubling violation' of UN resolutions. The North's state-run KCNA news agency said leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of the Pukguksong-2, a new type of strategic weapon that can launch faster, is easier to hide from satellites and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. In addition to launching more quickly, the solid fuel engines on the new missile also boost the power and range of ballistic rockets. 'Solid-motor engines mean that the fuel is pre-stored and the missile can be launched quickly. For example, rolled out of a cave, tunnel, or bridge,' said Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the U.S.-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California. 'They are also more difficult to track by satellite because they have fewer support vehicles in their entourage.' KCNA said the missile was fired at a high angle in consideration of the safety of neighbouring countries. A South Korean military source said on Sunday the missile reached an altitude of 550 km (340 miles). It flew about 500 km towards Japan, landing off the east coast of the Korean peninsula. The missile was propelled by a solid fuel engine and was an upgraded, extended-range version of its submarine-launched ballistic missile that was tested successfully last August, according to KCNA. South Korea's military said on Monday the missile had been launched using a 'cold-eject' system, whereby it is initially lifted by compressed gas before flying under the power of its rocket, a system used for submarine-launched missiles. North Korea's pursuit of large solid-fuelled missiles was 'a very concerning development', said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 'This new rocket is the type that we should be much more worried about. Solid fuel rockets can be launched at short notice without much preparation,' he said in an email. 'Large solid fuel motors are difficult to make work correctly so this is indeed a significant advance by North Korea,' McDowell said. The test also verified a 'feature of evading interception' and 'the mobility and operation of the new type missile launching truck', KCNA reported. The North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed pictures of a missile fired from a mobile launch vehicle resembling a tank, with a flame appearing only after it had risen clear of the vehicle. The United States, Japan and South Korea requested urgent U.N. Security Council consultations on the test, with a meeting taking place on Monday afternoon, an official in the U.S. mission to the United Nations said. 'The DPRK leadership must return to full compliance with its international obligations and to the path of denuclearization,' said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement. The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors later Monday to discuss the missile test, the first carried out by Pyongyang since US President Donald Trump took office. Guterres appealed 'to the international community to continue to address this situation in a united manner,' in an apparent reference to the United States and China, Pyongyang's ally. Japan said on Monday further sanctions against Pyongyang could be discussed at the United Nations, and called on China to take a 'constructive' role in responding to the latest launch. China is North Korea's main ally and trading partner but is irritated by Pyongyang's repeated provocations, although it resists calls from the United States and others that it should be doing more to rein in its neighbour. 'We have asked China via various levels to take constructive actions as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and we will continue to work on it. At the same time, Japan will continue to urge North Korea to exercise self-restraint from provocative actions and comply with U.N. resolutions,' Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Monday. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang on Monday said it opposed the launch. However, Beijing counters that its influence is overstated and suggests that Washington's refusal to talk directly to North Korea is impeding progress toward a solution. 'The root cause of the (North Korean) nuclear missile issue is its differences with the U.S. and South Korea,' Geng told reporters at a regular briefing. Geng said China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has been 'completely and comprehensively' implementing Security Council resolutions on the nuclear issue. He said Beijing 'has been striving for a settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue by proactively engaging in mediation and promoting peace talks.' Although generally dismissive of sanctions, Beijing has signed on to successive rounds under the U.N. Security Council, and last month banned more items from being exported to North Korea, including plutonium and dual-use technologies that could aid its nuclear program. Geng urged all sides to refrain from provocative action and said China would continue participating in Security Council discussions in a constructive and responsible way. North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests, including two last year, although its claims to be able to miniaturise a nuclear weapon to be mounted on a missile have never been verified independently. Before Sunday, the North's two most recent missile tests had taken place in October. Both were of intermediate-range Musudan missiles and both failed, according to U.S. and South Korean officials. A U.S. official said at the weekend the Trump administration had been expecting a North Korean 'provocation' soon after taking office. The latest test came a day after Trump held a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and also followed Trump's phone call last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Late 1970s: North Korea starts working on a version of the Soviet Scud-B (range 300 kilometres or 186 miles). Test-fired in 1984 1987-92: Begins developing variant of Scud-C (500 km), Rodong-1 (1,300 km), Taepodong-1 (2,500 km), Musudan-1 (3,000 km) and Taepodong-2 (6,700 km) Aug 1998: Test-fires Taepodong-1 over Japan as part of failed satellite launch Sept 1999: Declares moratorium on long-range missile tests amid improving ties with US July 12, 2000: Fifth round of US-North Korean missile talks ends without agreement after North demands $1 billion a year in return for halting missile exports March 3, 2005: North ends moratorium on long-range missile testing, blames Bush administration's 'hostile' policy July 5, 2006: Test-fires seven missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2 which explodes after 40 seconds July 15, 2006: UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1695, demanding halt to all ballistic missile activity and banning trade in missile-related items with the North Oct 9, 2006: North conducts underground nuclear test, its first Oct 14, 2006: Security Council approves Resolution 1718, demanding a halt to missile and nuclear tests April 5, 2009: North launches long-range rocket which flies over Japan and lands in the Pacific, in what it says is an attempt to put a satellite into orbit. The United States, Japan and South Korea suspect it is a disguised test of a Taepodong-2 April 13, 2009: UN Security Council unanimously condemns launch, agrees to tighten sanctions. North quits nuclear disarmament talks in protest, vows to restart its plutonium programme May 25, 2009: Second underground nuclear test, several times more powerful than the first June 12, 2009: Security Council passes Resolution 1874, imposing tougher sanctions on the North's atomic and ballistic missile programmes Feb 18, 2011: Satellite images show the North has built a launch tower at a complex on the west coast December 31, 2011: Kim Jong-Un declared the North's 'supreme leader' during memorial ceremonies for his late father Kim Jong-Il April 13, 2012: North launches what it has said is a long-range rocket to put a satellite into orbit, but it disintegrates soon after blast-off and falls into the ocean December 12, 2012: A multi-stage rocket successfully places an Earth observational satellite in orbit February 12, 2013: Third underground nuclear test January 6, 2016: Fourth underground nuclear test. North says it was a hydrogen bomb - a claim doubted by most experts February 7, 2016: North says its second successful space rocket launch has placed another Earth observation satellite in orbit March 9, 2016: Leader Kim Jong-Un claims the North has successfully miniaturised a thermo-nuclear warhead April 15, 2016: Failed attempt to test-fire what appears to be a medium-range missile on the birthday of founding leader Kim Il-Sung April 23, 2016: North test fires a submarine-launched ballistic missile July 8, 2016: US and South Korea announce plans to deploy an advanced missile defence system - the US THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) August 3, 2016: North fires a ballistic missile directly into Japanese-controlled waters for the first time August 24, 2016: Successfully test-fires a submarine-launched ballistic missile, in what it says is retaliation for large-scale South Korea-US military exercises. September 5, 2016: Fires three ballistic missiles off its east coast as top world leaders meet at the G20 summit in China September 9, 2016: Fifth nuclear test October 15, 2016: An intermediate-range Musudan missile, theoretically capable of reaching US bases on Guam, is tested but explodes shortly after launch February 3, 2017: US Defense Secretary James Mattis warns of an 'effective and overwhelming' response to any nuclear attack by the North February 7, 2017: US and Japan conduct the first interception of a ballistic missile target using a jointly-built ship-launched missile, that successfully hits its target in space February 12, 2017: North conducts new ballistic missile test. The missile is launched near the western city of Kusong and flies east about 500 kilometres (310 miles) before falling into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) Abe described the test as 'absolutely intolerable'. In brief comments standing beside Abe in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said: 'I just want everybody to understand, and fully know, that the United States of America is behind Japan, our great ally, 100 percent.' The U.S. stance towards North Korea is likely to become tougher than before, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday. 'I believe that the stance of the United States towards North Korea will become much tougher, that is clear,' Abe said on a NHK public broadcasting news programme, after returning from meetings with Trump in the United States. Trump said the United States remained committed to Japan's security and that it was behind Japan '100 percent' in the aftermath of the missile launch, which occurred as Abe was wrapping up his visit. Trump and his aides are likely to weigh a series of possible responses, including new U.S. sanctions to tighten financial controls, an increase in naval and air assets in and around the Korean peninsula, and accelerated installation of new missile defence systems in South Korea, the administration official said. However, the official said that, given that the missile was believed not to have been an ICBM and that Pyongyang had not carried out a new nuclear explosion, any response would seek to avoid ratcheting up tensions. Kim said in his New Year speech the North was close to test-launching an ICBM and state media have said such a launch could come at any time. The Pukguksong-2,pictured, is a new type of strategic weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead +13 The Pukguksong-2,pictured, is a new type of strategic weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead The new type of solid fuel rockets can be launched at short notice without much preparation +13 The new type of solid fuel rockets can be launched at short notice without much preparation The new rocket flew about 500 km towards Japan, landing off the east coast of the Korean peninsula +13 The new rocket flew about 500 km towards Japan, landing off the east coast of the Korean peninsula North Korea's pursuit of large solid-fuelled missiles was 'a very concerning development', said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +13 North Korea's pursuit of large solid-fuelled missiles was 'a very concerning development', said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics How does the new missile work? Pukguksong-2 translates as north star or Polaris, the same name as the first U.S. submarine-launched missile. It uses a large solid-fuel engine, which consist of a pre-mixed fuel and oxidizer in solid form which is then ignited. The system is less efficient than the liquid-fuel rockets used in previous generations of North Korean missiles, but it is more simple and less costly. It is also more difficult to engineer and launch successfully, as once the ignition process begins it cannot be altered or turned off, which is why world powers are concerned by North Korea's recent success. Previous generations of liquid-fuel rockets consist of a fuel and oxygen or, other oxidizer, in liquid state. The fuel flow to the engine can be controlled and the amount of thrust produced can be regulated or turned on and off as needed. 'Large solid fuel motors are difficult to make work correctly so this is indeed a significant advance by North Korea,' McDowell said. The test also verified a 'feature of evading interception' and 'the mobility and operation of the new type missile launching truck', KCNA reported. The North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed pictures of a missile fired from a mobile launch vehicle resembling a tank, with a flame appearing only after it had risen clear of the vehicle. The United States, Japan and South Korea requested urgent U.N. Security Council consultations on the test, with a meeting taking place on Monday afternoon, an official in the U.S. mission to the United Nations said. 'The DPRK leadership must return to full compliance with its international obligations and to the path of denuclearization,' said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement. The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors later Monday to discuss the missile test, the first carried out by Pyongyang since US President Donald Trump took office. Guterres appealed 'to the international community to continue to address this situation in a united manner,' in an apparent reference to the United States and China, Pyongyang's ally. Japan said on Monday further sanctions against Pyongyang could be discussed at the United Nations, and called on China to take a 'constructive' role in responding to the latest launch. China is North Korea's main ally and trading partner but is irritated by Pyongyang's repeated provocations, although it resists calls from the United States and others that it should be doing more to rein in its neighbour. 'We have asked China via various levels to take constructive actions as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and we will continue to work on it. At the same time, Japan will continue to urge North Korea to exercise self-restraint from provocative actions and comply with U.N. resolutions,' Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Monday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 on the spo +13 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 on the spo North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles as military staff cheer and congratulate him on the launch +13 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles as military staff cheer and congratulate him on the launch In addition to launching more quickly, solid fuel engines also boost the power and range of ballistic rockets +13 In addition to launching more quickly, solid fuel engines also boost the power and range of ballistic rockets The benefits of 'cold-launch' missiles Vertical launch missile systems operate in two ways. In the first, known as a 'hot launch', the missile is expelled from its launch cell by igniting its rocket propulsion system immediately. The second, as used by the Pukguksong-2, is a 'cold launch', which are generally used in naval settings. In this type of system, the missile is expelled from its cell by gas produced by a generator. The benefit of this system is it avoids the need for additional systems designed to dispose of the heat and exhaust fumes generated by the missile's launch. It also afford the missile a slightly longer range, as less fuel is used in the initial launch process, as well as quicker launching and reloading times. Disadvantages may include problems with accuracy in strong winds, as the initial gas expulsion phase of the launch may be affected. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang on Monday said it opposed the launch. However, Beijing counters that its influence is overstated and suggests that Washington's refusal to talk directly to North Korea is impeding progress toward a solution. 'The root cause of the (North Korean) nuclear missile issue is its differences with the U.S. and South Korea,' Geng told reporters at a regular briefing. Geng said China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has been 'completely and comprehensively' implementing Security Council resolutions on the nuclear issue. He said Beijing 'has been striving for a settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue by proactively engaging in mediation and promoting peace talks.' Although generally dismissive of sanctions, Beijing has signed on to successive rounds under the U.N. Security Council, and last month banned more items from being exported to North Korea, including plutonium and dual-use technologies that could aid its nuclear program. Geng urged all sides to refrain from provocative action and said China would continue participating in Security Council discussions in a constructive and responsible way. North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests, including two last year, although its claims to be able to miniaturise a nuclear weapon to be mounted on a missile have never been verified independently. Before Sunday, the North's two most recent missile tests had taken place in October. Both were of intermediate-range Musudan missiles and both failed, according to U.S. and South Korean officials. A U.S. official said at the weekend the Trump administration had been expecting a North Korean 'provocation' soon after taking office. The latest test came a day after Trump held a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and also followed Trump's phone call last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump made a statement once the missile launch news made headlines. 'I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 per cent' +13 Trump made a statement once the missile launch news made headlines. 'I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 per cent. How North Korea's missile programme has grown Late 1970s: North Korea starts working on a version of the Soviet Scud-B (range 300 kilometres or 186 miles). Test-fired in 1984 1987-92: Begins developing variant of Scud-C (500 km), Rodong-1 (1,300 km), Taepodong-1 (2,500 km), Musudan-1 (3,000 km) and Taepodong-2 (6,700 km) Aug 1998: Test-fires Taepodong-1 over Japan as part of failed satellite launch Sept 1999: Declares moratorium on long-range missile tests amid improving ties with US July 12, 2000: Fifth round of US-North Korean missile talks ends without agreement after North demands $1 billion a year in return for halting missile exports March 3, 2005: North ends moratorium on long-range missile testing, blames Bush administration's 'hostile' policy July 5, 2006: Test-fires seven missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2 which explodes after 40 seconds The reclusive regime carried out more than 20 missile tests last year, one of which reached Japanese-controlled waters after a launch in August. Pictured is a map of the North Korea missile test +13 The reclusive regime carried out more than 20 missile tests last year, one of which reached Japanese-controlled waters after a launch in August. Pictured is a map of the North Korea missile test July 15, 2006: UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1695, demanding halt to all ballistic missile activity and banning trade in missile-related items with the North Oct 9, 2006: North conducts underground nuclear test, its first Oct 14, 2006: Security Council approves Resolution 1718, demanding a halt to missile and nuclear tests April 5, 2009: North launches long-range rocket which flies over Japan and lands in the Pacific, in what it says is an attempt to put a satellite into orbit. The United States, Japan and South Korea suspect it is a disguised test of a Taepodong-2 April 13, 2009: UN Security Council unanimously condemns launch, agrees to tighten sanctions. North quits nuclear disarmament talks in protest, vows to restart its plutonium programme May 25, 2009: Second underground nuclear test, several times more powerful than the first June 12, 2009: Security Council passes Resolution 1874, imposing tougher sanctions on the North's atomic and ballistic missile programmes Feb 18, 2011: Satellite images show the North has built a launch tower at a complex on the west coast December 31, 2011: Kim Jong-Un declared the North's 'supreme leader' during memorial ceremonies for his late father Kim Jong-Il April 13, 2012: North launches what it has said is a long-range rocket to put a satellite into orbit, but it disintegrates soon after blast-off and falls into the ocean December 12, 2012: A multi-stage rocket successfully places an Earth observational satellite in orbit February 12, 2013: Third underground nuclear test January 6, 2016: Fourth underground nuclear test. North says it was a hydrogen bomb - a claim doubted by most experts February 7, 2016: North says its second successful space rocket launch has placed another Earth observation satellite in orbit March 9, 2016: Leader Kim Jong-Un claims the North has successfully miniaturised a thermo-nuclear warhead April 15, 2016: Failed attempt to test-fire what appears to be a medium-range missile on the birthday of founding leader Kim Il-Sung The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Monday on North Korea's missile launch, the first test since US President Donald Trump took office (file photo) +13 The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Monday on North Korea's missile launch, the first test since US President Donald Trump took office (file photo) April 23, 2016: North test fires a submarine-launched ballistic missile July 8, 2016: US and South Korea announce plans to deploy an advanced missile defence system - the US THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) August 3, 2016: North fires a ballistic missile directly into Japanese-controlled waters for the first time August 24, 2016: Successfully test-fires a submarine-launched ballistic missile, in what it says is retaliation for large-scale South Korea-US military exercises. September 5, 2016: Fires three ballistic missiles off its east coast as top world leaders meet at the G20 summit in China September 9, 2016: Fifth nuclear test October 15, 2016: An intermediate-range Musudan missile, theoretically capable of reaching US bases on Guam, is tested but explodes shortly after launch February 3, 2017: US Defense Secretary James Mattis warns of an 'effective and overwhelming' response to any nuclear attack by the North February 7, 2017: US and Japan conduct the first interception of a ballistic missile target using a jointly-built ship-launched missile, that successfully hits its target in space February 12, 2017: North conducts new ballistic missile test. The missile is launched near the western city of Kusong and flies east about 500 kilometres (310 miles) before falling into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) Abe described the test as 'absolutely intolerable'. In brief comments standing beside Abe in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said: 'I just want everybody to understand, and fully know, that the United States of America is behind Japan, our great ally, 100 percent.' The U.S. stance towards North Korea is likely to become tougher than before, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday. 'I believe that the stance of the United States towards North Korea will become much tougher, that is clear,' Abe said on a NHK public broadcasting news programme, after returning from meetings with Trump in the United States. Trump said the United States remained committed to Japan's security and that it was behind Japan '100 percent' in the aftermath of the missile launch, which occurred as Abe was wrapping up his visit. Trump and his aides are likely to weigh a series of possible responses, including new U.S. sanctions to tighten financial controls, an increase in naval and air assets in and around the Korean peninsula, and accelerated installation of new missile defence systems in South Korea, the administration official said. However, the official said that, given that the missile was believed not to have been an ICBM and that Pyongyang had not carried out a new nuclear explosion, any response would seek to avoid ratcheting up tensions. Kim said in his New Year speech the North was close to test-launching an ICBM and state media have said such a launch could come at any time. A fully developed ICBM could threaten the continental United States, which is about 9,000 km (5,500 miles) from North Korea. South Korea's finance ministry said it would act 'swiftly and firmly' if financial markets reacted to the missile launch. The South Korean won and shares showed little reaction to the test.
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How algorithms (secretly) run the world
[AFP] Rob Lever AFPFebruary 11, 2017
Washington (AFP) - When you browse online for a new pair of shoes, pick a movie to stream on Netflix or apply for a car loan, an algorithm likely has its word to say on the outcome. The complex mathematical formulas are playing a growing role in all walks of life: from detecting skin cancers to suggesting new Facebook friends, deciding who gets a job, how police resources are deployed, who gets insurance at what cost, or who is on a "no fly" list. Algorithms are being used -- experimentally -- to write news articles from raw data, while Donald Trump's presidential campaign was helped by behavioral marketers who used an algorithm to locate the highest concentrations of "persuadable voters." But while such automated tools can inject a measure of objectivity into erstwhile subjective decisions, fears are rising over the lack of transparency algorithms can entail, with pressure growing to apply standards of ethics or "accountability." Data scientist Cathy O'Neil cautions about "blindly trusting" formulas to determine a fair outcome. "Algorithms are not inherently fair, because the person who builds the model defines success," she said. - Amplifying disadvantages - O'Neil argues that while some algorithms may be helpful, others can be nefarious. In her 2016 book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," she cites some troubling examples in the United States: - Public schools in Washington DC in 2010 fired more than 200 teachers -- including several well-respected instructors -- based on scores in an algorithmic formula which evaluated performance. - A man diagnosed with bipolar disorder was rejected for employment at seven major retailers after a third-party "personality" test deemed him a high risk based on its algorithmic classification. - Many jurisdictions are using "predictive policing" to shift resources to likely "hot spots." O'Neill says that depending on how data is fed into the system, this could lead to discovery of more minor crimes and a "feedback loop" which stigmatizes poor communities. - Some courts rely on computer-ranked formulas to determine jail sentences and parole, which may discriminate against minorities by taking into account "risk" factors such as their neighborhoods and friend or family links to crime. - In the world of finance, brokers "scrape" data from online and other sources in new ways to make decisions on credit or insurance. This too often amplifies prejudice against the disadvantaged, O'Neil argues. Her findings were echoed in a White House report last year warning that algorithmic systems "are not infallible -- they rely on the imperfect inputs, logic, probability, and people who design them." The report noted that data systems can ideally help weed out human bias but warned against algorithms "systematically disadvantaging certain groups." - Digital crumbs - Zeynep Tufekci, a University of North Carolina professor who studies technology and society, said automated decisions are often based on data collected about people, sometimes without their knowledge. "These computational systems can infer all sorts of things about you from your digital crumbs," Tufekci said in a recent TED lecture. "They can infer your sexual orientation, your personality traits, your political leanings. They have predictive power with high levels of accuracy." Such insights may be useful in certain contexts -- such as helping medical professionals diagnose postpartum depression -- but unfair in others, she said. Part of the problem, she said, stems from asking computers to answer questions that have no single right answer. "They are subjective, open-ended and value-laden questions, asking who should the company hire, which update from which friend should you be shown, which convict is more likely to reoffend." - The EU model? - Frank Pasquale, a University of Maryland law professor and author of "The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information," shares the same concerns. He suggests one way to remedy unfair effects may be to enforce existing laws on consumer protection or deceptive practices. Pasquale points at the European Union's data protection law, set from next year to create a "right of explanation" when consumers are impacted by an algorithmic decision, as a model that could be expanded. This would "either force transparency or it will stop algorithms from being used in certain contexts," he said. Alethea Lange, a policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said the EU plan "sounds good" but "is really burdensome" and risked proving unworkable in practice. She believes education and discussion may be more important than enforcement in developing fairer algorithms. Lange said her organization worked with Facebook, for example, to modify a much-criticized formula that allowed advertisers to use "ethnic affinity" in their targeting. - Scapegoat - Others meanwhile caution that algorithms should not be made a scapegoat for societal ills. "People get angry and they are looking for something to blame," said Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. "We are concerned about bias, accountability and ethical decisions but those exist whether you are using algorithms or not."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/algorithms-secretly-run-world-061905775.html
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When a Pro-Donald Trump Fashion Statement Took Over The Grammy Awards Red Carpet
News18.com First published: February 13, 2017, 12:30 PM IST | Updated: 2 days ago
Joy Villa, a singer who has sung songs such as Get Your Freedom and Vagabonds, made herself stand out with her fashion pick at the Grammys this year. The 25-year-old singer arrived at the 59th edition of Grammy Awards in a white cape and soon tore it off to unveil the blue statement dress. Adorned with the statement 'Make America Great Again' in the front and 'Trump' printed on the lower back near the seams of her dress, the ensemble was one of its kind. Considering that the trend of anti-Donald Trump speeches has taken over award ceremonies, one would like to count the dress as a part of it too. But contrary to popular wave, the singer supports Trump and decided to wear this dress as an ode to the President. Joy, who is pretty active on social media, penned down why she opted for a dress like this. "Sometimes you just gotta be free to express yourself. thank you to all of my supporters and fellow believers. Life is about living free and loving it. Be your beautiful selves tonight! dr as by @officialandresoriano makeup by @nicholerayartistry Publicist: @mwprinc #grammys2017 #love #happygrammysday #joyvillagrammys #joyvilla". This was probably one of the very few stands in favour of Trump as most celebrities including host James Corden, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and Paris Jackson indirectly slammed Trump in their speeches.
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One in seven Belgian jihadists receives welfare benefits
Posted on February 11, 2017 13:00 By David Frankenhuis
Some 16 Belgian citizens who had previously joined the ranks of Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and other Jihadist terror bands operating in Syria and Iraq, are back in their home country living off welfare funded by the Belgian State. Since the men “comply with all of the legal requirements,” the authorities claim, it cannot be prevented that they’re now growing fat on Belgian taxpayers’ money, even though they may have been involved in terrorism, mass murder, (child) rape, slavery, and the like. According to the most recent statistics produced by Belgium’s anti-terrorism agency, OCAD, 117 foreign terrorist fighters who had left for Syria have since returned to the little Western European country. About 1 in 6 of the Jihadists has these past 6 months been soaked in social benefits, the authorities admitted to Belgian daily De Tijd. Wouter Langeraert, spokesman for the national social security institution RVA, explains: “We’re simply living in a constitutional state, not every Syria fighter who has returned is in jail. Some returnees comply with all of the legal requirements: they’re not imprisoned, they’ve been registered in their municipalities, they’re available to the labour market, they answer calls from the public employment services, et cetera.” According to Langeraert, the RVA always asks OCAD and other relevant organisations to provide information on individuals asking for unemployment benefits. Approximately 600 Belgians are registered in OCAD’s Jihadist database, making Belgium the Western country with the highest number of foreign fighters per capita. In Brussels and certain parts of Flanders alone, recent reports have shown several dozens of Muslim terrorists have been cashing welfare grants, thereby possibly financing their genocidal Islamist backpacking journeys with tax money. In order to put a halt to this, Belgium started the BELFI-project in the autumn of 2014. Since then, almost a hundred illegitimate cases have been discovered. It turned out that not only unemployment benefits are used to fund Islam’s ‘holy war’, but child support payments as well. Denmark The Danes too have been struggling with Jihadist citizens living off welfare benefits. At least 34 of them have fought for Isis but continue to receive state grants, The Independent some two months ago reported. Islam poses big problems for Belgium Newly arrived immigrants are making the costs of the Belgian welfare system spiral out of control, recent reports proved. Furthermore, people from Islamic cultures pose specific problems for Belgium, for example keeping its specialized police officers increasingly occupied with paperwork on files concerning Jihadist terrorists and radicalised Islamic citizens. At the same time, the more ‘moderate’ Muslims turn parts of the country’s urban environment into virtual no-go zones even for police while others commit gang rapes singing Arab songs.
https://gatestone.eu/belgian-welfare-jihad/
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Get Ready, Russia: Britain Is Sending Warships to the Black Sea
Is Britain girding for a fight in Russia’s backyard? For the first time since the Cold War, Britain is sending a warship to the Black Sea on a military mission. This time, the goal is to send a message to Russia: don’t invade Ukraine. The question is whether Russia will—or even should—bother to take the warning seriously. Last time Britain invaded the Crimea was in 1854, when an Anglo-French expeditionary force of several hundred ships and six hundred thousand men captured Sevastopol. This time, it’s just the single Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond, which will carry sixty Special Boat Service and Royal Marine commandos, according to the Daily Mail. “HMS Diamond will lead a NATO task force and help protect 650 British troops who are involved in secret exercises in Ukraine—a country invaded by Russian-backed rebels in 2014,” the newspaper reported. Type 45 Destroyers—among Britain’s newest and most advanced warships—are armed with Sea Viper antiaircraft missiles, Harpoon antiship missiles and Phalanx point defense cannon. The Diamond, launched in 2007, will also carry Lynx helicopters to transport the commandos. However, the Type 45 has also suffered from engines that break down when the destroyers sail into warm waters such as the Persian Gulf. Fortunately for the Royal Navy, the Black Sea is not in the tropics. Britain’s Defense Secretary Michael Fallon told the Daily Mail that “the UK is sending a clear message that we are committed to defending democracy across the world and support Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.” Retired Royal Navy admiral Alan West also told the newspaper that Britain has “undertaken many naval exercises in the Black Sea in the past but these were much more benign circumstances and with benign intentions. This is an operation with a very serious purpose. HMS Diamond can really look after herself and President Putin is a man who respects hard military power. NATO has to show it won’t be threatened and that the UK takes the lead.” However, it seems unlikely that Putin and his government will feel particularly threatened by the British move. Militarily, a single warship with sixty commandos is merely symbolic. If deterrence escalates into war, then a single Type 45 destroyer, even as part of a NATO task force, wouldn’t survive long off Russia’s coast, which bristles with land-based aircraft, coastal defense missiles and the warships of the Black Sea Fleet. Nor would it help Ukraine much against a Russian land invasion. Even as a symbol, a lone destroyer doesn’t exactly send a strong signal that Britain will go to war with Russia to save Ukraine. But what’s particularly interesting is that the Black Sea deployment is part of what seems to be a more muscular British foreign policy. Royal Air Force jets are attacking ISIS in Iraq and Syria, British troops are training Ukrainian soldiers, a thousand troops will be deployed this summer in Estonia and Poland, and Typhoon fighters are headed to Romania. Meanwhile, other RAF Typhoons are headed to Japan for joint exercises, while Britain has announced that its Queen Elizabeth–class aircraft carriers will be deployed in the South China Sea once the ships are completed in the 2020s. All of which is quite a feat, considering that the Royal Navy has now shrunk to just nineteen destroyers and frigates, the RAF has also downsized, and the British Army has receded to fewer than eighty thousand regular soldiers. Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the National Interest. He can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
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Two-thirds of Navy strike fighter jets can't fly
By Zachary Cohen, CNN Updated 4:58 PM ET, Fri February 10, 2017
(CNN) Nearly two-thirds of the US Navy's F/A 18 strike fighter jets are currently unable to fly, grounded due to repair delays or because they are awaiting spare parts. With more than half of all Navy aircraft out of service and no budget agreement in place to increase defense spending levels, the top brass says its usable planes are being pushed to the limit. "For a variety of reasons, our shipyards and aviation depots are struggling to get our ships and airplanes through maintenance periods on time," Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Moran told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee earlier this week. The number of non-operational F/A 18 Hornets is "double where we should be," he said, confirming reports that 62% of the Navy's F/A 18s are unable to fly and 53% of the Navy's total air fleet is grounded. Defense News first reported the amount of grounded Navy aircraft ahead of Tuesday's hearing. Moran, joined by commanders from the Army and Air Force, described an aging, overworked and undermanned air fleet that is feeling the weight of sequestration and furlough budget cuts implemented by Congress and the Obama administration. But Peter Singer, a strategist for the Washington-based New America Foundation, said that "the readiness problems are a culmination of a series of decisions to keep kicking the can down the road, from Congress's budget issues to the Pentagon assuming there would be a new replacement jet by now." Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, however, cited budget caps implemented by Congress and President Barack Obama in 2011, coupled with the high demand for the fleet's services, as key factors contributing to the Navy's lack of fiscal flexibility. "The budget caps imposed on military and nonmilitary spending in the Budget Control Act have degraded our military readiness," Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN, adding that those constraints have been "compounded by over a decade of war" and "long delays in the development of replacement aircraft." Congress opted not to address restrictions resulting from the Budget Control Act this year, failing to produce a budget before the October 1 start of fiscal 2017. Instead, lawmakers chose to use stop-gap measures that kept defense spending at the 2016 levels. One Republican House Armed Services Committee aide told CNN that simply blaming Congress for the military's degraded readiness is an over-simplification of the issue and that today's problems are a result of a "disconnect between the previous administration and Congress" over matching budget cuts for domestic and defense programs under sequestration. Often described as the backbone of naval aviation, the F/A 18 was designed to have a lifespan of roughly 6,000 flight hours. Today, jets are being stretched to fly between 8,000 and 9,000 hours to fulfill mission expectations as a result of fewer operational aircraft, budget restrictions and delays to the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Moran warned that the shortage of flyable aircraft in an already aging fleet has left the Navy with "no depth on the bench" for future conflicts. John Venable of the Heritage Foundation said the problems highlighted by Moran and other commanders illustrates the US military's "extraordinarily low levels of readiness" and that things could get worse before they get better. Newly confirmed Secretary of Defense James Mattis has already outlined readiness, the increase of personnel numbers and recapitalization as some of the administration's top priorities. But according to Smith, the Trump administration and Congress will be faced with major challenges when it comes to fulfilling campaign promises like building a 355-ship Navy or adding more planes to the Air Force. "You can fantasize about spending as much money as you want, but the reality is we won't be able to fix our military readiness problems without repealing the Budget Control Act," Smith told CNN. "So far the Republicans haven't been able to show us any plan to do that." Ryan Browne contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/us-navy-planes-grounded/index.html
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Expert: Potential Global catastrophe from Fukushima unit 2 highly radioactive fuel Tokyo could be
Discussion in 'Current Events' started by MindWars, Sunday at 5:57 PM.
Expert: “Potential Global Catastrophe” from Fukushima Unit 2 highly radioactive fuel… Reactor could be destroyed, “making Tokyo area uninhabitable”… This is “most dreaded” scenario — Already “partially liquefying” below reactors Well it seems those reactor rods are melting, isn't this just special. It's even more amazing how msm doesn't report this. Guess the Global elites wants to make a few billion off the unknowing once cancer hits them back here in the US it's already reached the west coast. and look how many still deny it all. According to your article reactor 4 has 14,000 times the amount of radiation that Hiroshima had. This video is a report from 2014 which says there was a 500% radiation increase level in California.........and now? Now California is in very, very serious trouble. The Mainstream Media is too busy trying to ban Ivanka Trump's shoes from Macy's and no one is warning the people of California about the level of danger they are in. Very serious situation. You can be sure Michele and Barack Obama know about this as they didn't stay at their designated after inauguration friend's home in California but opted to leave the country and go to Necker Island owned by Richard Branson instead- therein staying as far away as possible from the growing radiation danger in California. It amazes me how liberal democrats trust the MSM to keep them informed and protect their children. If the MSM doesn't report it, in their world? It doesn't exist. Can't tell them anything. Even if they are laying in bed with cancer the Doctor will dream up every reason there is as to why they have cancer. Not saying every single doctor is going to say hey maybe it's radiation, but just like the Flint water situation it will take one Dr. to grow a pair risk their career and come out and admit it. When and if that happens that Doc. will either end up dead, or tormented over it by trendy liberal morons who are huge attackers on ppl who want to admit the truth of certain information. Being afraid freaks them out so they just react like lunatics. etc.. etc..
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Sabotage: Obama Is Commanding An Army Of 30,000 Anti-Trump Activists From His Home 2 Miles From The White House
This army has already been heavily involved in many of the protests and riots
Michael Snyder | The American Dream - February 13, 2017
Throughout American history, most ex-presidents have chosen to move away from Washington D.C. once their terms have ended, and the vast majority of them have tried very hard not to interfere with their successors. Unfortunately, Barack Obama has opted for the exact opposite approach. His new home is less than two miles from the White House, and from this “command center” he will be directing the activities of an army of more than 30,000 anti-Trump activists. In fact, as you will see below, this army has already been heavily involved in many of the protests and riots that have been popping up around the nation in recent days. “Sabotage” is a very strong word, but it is becoming apparent that Obama intends to do all that he can to sabotage the Trump administration, and that is very bad news for the American people. On Saturday, the New York Post ran an excellent article by author Paul Sperry that was entitled “How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency”. In that piece, Sperry actually accuses Obama of setting up “a shadow government” to oppose Trump… When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House. In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda. The “army of agitators” that Sperry is talking about is actually a nationwide network of “community organizers” known as “Organizing for Action”. If you go to the official website of Organizing for Action, you will see that there is a big picture of Obama right in the background of the homepage. Organizing for Action “grew out of Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign”, and it claims to have 250 local chapters around the nation. If Hillary Clinton had won the election, Organizing for Action would almost certainly have faded from the spotlight, but now that Trump is in the White House they are rapidly raising money and gearing up for war. And one of the first things the organization is trying to do is to save Obamacare. The following comes from NBC News… To defend Obamacare, the group says it has planned 400 health care-focused events in 42 states this year with partners that include mainline liberal groups, like the Center for American Progress and Planned Parenthood, as well those from the progressive wing, like MoveOn.org. OFA says 20,000 people have used their tool to call senators’ offices to urge them not to repeal Obamacare and says one million supporters have already taken action with OFA. The goal is to further hinder the already stalling momentum around repeal the Affordable Care Act. But Organizing for Action is not just about peaceful political action. In fact, according to Sperry some of the anti-Trump marches that Organizing for Action helped put together actually “turned into riots”… Far from sulking, OFA activists helped organize anti-Trump marches across US cities, some of which turned into riots. After Trump issued a temporary ban on immigration from seven terror-prone Muslim nations, the demonstrators jammed airports, chanting: “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!” Run by old Obama aides and campaign workers, federal tax records show “nonpartisan” OFA marshals 32,525 volunteers nationwide. Registered as a 501(c)(4), it doesn’t have to disclose its donors, but they’ve been generous. OFA has raised more than $40 million in contributions and grants since evolving from Obama’s campaign organization Obama for America in 2013. So many people have been pointing the finger at George Soros for funding and organizing anti-Trump activists, but the truth is that Organizing for Action is perhaps even more involved than Soros is. And Barack Obama is guiding and directing Organizing for Action from his brand new compound less than two miles from the White House. The ironic thing about all of this is that Obama is currently building a very tall brick wall around his compound while at the same time his army of activists is highly criticizing Trump for wanting to build a border wall to protect the United States from unwanted intruders. If Obama doesn’t like walls, he should tear down his own wall first. Another form of sabotage against the Trump administration is coming from Obama loyalists that are still embedded within various government agencies. According to Trump, those loyalists are responsible for the very disturbing leaks that have been happening… President Donald Trump pointed the finger at Obama administration holdovers at the White House and National Security Council for leaking information about private phone conversations he had with leaders of Australia and Mexico. “It’s a disgrace that they leaked because it’s very much against our country,” Trump told Fox News Sunday, accusing “Obama people” in civil service positions for the leaks. “It’s a very dangerous thing for this country,” he added noting that these individuals were still being sought out and replaced. Needless to say, after eight years under Obama many government agencies are absolutely crawling with people that are still very loyal to him. Trump needs to do a major housecleaning, and that is going to take some time. What is going on between Obama and Trump is a microcosm of what is happening to society as a whole. Obama and his loyalists have totally bought into the radical progressive agenda of the global elite, and Donald Trump and his followers are very much against it. I don’t know that it is possible for there to be much compromise between the two sides, and so that means that more conflict is ahead. The election of Donald Trump has fired up the radical left like never before, and I believe that the protests and riots that we have seen so far are only just the beginning. And if things go really bad under Trump, it is very easy to imagine widespread civil unrest erupting all over the nation. Unfortunately, throughout all of this we are going to be having an ex-president sitting less than two miles from the White House guiding and directing the anti-Trump forces every step of the way.
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The Obamanation is Back, Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency Leading Anti-Trump Organization Of 30,000 with Eric holder as his consiglio di mafia for civil war. Beware Obama Trump Supporters Are Not Taking Anymore shit(video) Former President Barack Obama spoke out Monday for the first time since leaving the White House, praising the protesters who have marched against President Donald Trump and saying he is “heartened” Protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration order are “exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake,” former President Barack Obama said in a statement Monday. J. SCOTT by the groundswell of engagement.30 Jan 2017 The senseless protests we’re seeing break out on the campuses of the University of Missouri, Yale and other colleges, as well as on bridges and highway overpasses and outside police stations, are precisely the kind of thing Obama was trained to organize while attending leftist agitation schools founded by Chicago communist Saul Alinsky. He learned to a fare-thee-well how to “rub raw the sores of discontent.” Now Obama is returning the favor of his Alinsky masters, training and cloning an army of social justice bullies to carry on his revolution to “fundamentally transform America.” He’s doing it mainly through a little-known but well-funded group called Organizing for Action, or OFA, The Troops. OFA, formerly Obama for America, has trained more than 10,000 leftist organizers, who, in turn, are training more than 2 million youths in Alinsky street tactics. Obama has trained hundreds of thousands of junior agitators through AmeriCorps, a Clinton youth program he’s dramatically expanded, and through My Brother’s Keeper, the “racial justice” initiative he launched in the wake of the 2012 death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The New York Post has confirmed some bad news for Trump in what appears to be an attempt by the former president to derail Trump. With 30,000 protesters just 2 miles from the Oval Office, Obama will now lead the charge against Trump in an effort to disrupt the current president’s goals and ambitions—with the ultimate aim of impeachment. get ready for street protests all over How is Obama able to accomplish this? Obama is going to do it the Chicago way A network of non-profit organizations operating under the parent agency “Organizing for Action.” In a normal situation, and one that mirrors anything in past American political history, Obama would retire from politics, upholding the sacred tradition designed to protect the presidency from partisanship that could harm the democratic framework of our government system. But, as the election cycle showed us all, today’s America is anything from routine. The 55-year-old Obama is not content to go quietly into the night like other ex-presidents he wants to stay around and cause as much damage to America as he can. “They are protesters in search of an issue, agitators in search of a target. They aren’t even rabble-rousers so much as rubble-rousers picking through the charred remains of the last revolution. Obama’s job for the NWO was to weaken the US military cause social divisions and create a situation of disaster that destroys America through loss of jobs and poverty. He almost completed all his tasks Hillary was to finish the Job possibly including ww3 and the end of the USA. Thank God for Trumps election This is a headline from zero hedge on Obama’s dismal record shows Trump did more for American workers before he became president than Obama did in his first 8 years. Top Ex-White House Economist Admits 94% Of All New Jobs Under Obama Were Part-Time Never Before Seen Video: the man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth “Through social media, they mobilize flash mobs against “biased cops,” “climate-change deniers,” “Wall Street predators” and “gun extremists.” They hold rallies against conservative foes of gay marriage, LGBT rights, abortion and amnesty for illegal immigrants” Since November 8th, the network of dissenters has grown dramatically, with the official position of their policy stating, “we’re not backing down.” Obama is heavily involved in the day-to-day operations of the non-profit groups. In fact, he even posts from their official twitter account, giving orders to ‘activist soldiers’ on the ground. “Alinsky’s 13th rule for radicals — “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it” In a dramatic shift from his original promise of a “smooth” transition, Obama has now made his mission clear, stating “now is the time for some organizing.” Critical to the fight is rebuilding the ravaged Democrat Party. Obama hopes to install his former civil-rights chief Tom Perez at the helm of the Democratic National Committee. Perez is running for the vacant DNC chairmanship, vowing “It’s time to organize and fight . We must stand up to protect President Obama’s accomplishments;” while also promising, “We’re going to build the strongest grass-roots organizing force this country has ever seen.” UCLA students stage a protest rally in a show of solidarity with protesters at the University of Missouri on Nov. 12. AP Obama is leaving behind a generation of militant jerks — collectively known as his “family” — to continue to proliferate protests and militate against everything and nothing. These irritating, self-absorbed, belligerent brats will “hands-up, don’t shoot” themselves into every cobwebbed corner of society, and the liberal media will give them the national bullhorn to amplify their hatred every time. Alinsky advised Obama and other young radicals: “A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of lives — agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values [until] masses of people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. . . . The time is then ripe for revolution.” Hillary is also making a comeback -She praises the anti-trump Soros funded Pussy March encouraging more protests against Trump. Also initiating more divide and conquer between Male and Female. She is also going to join Obama and fight Trump with a possible run for New York Mayor in 2018. THE WITCH IS BACK-SICK HILLARY HAS A MESSAGE FOR PROTESTORS Eric holder is a master when it comes to race Baiting. (Via Investors business Daily) Racial Politics: Unable to pin racism charges on Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder is using half-baked data to manufacture a case of racism against his entire police force. Holder’s race-baiting civil rights crew combed through several years of Ferguson Police Department data on traffic stops, searches and arrests and “found a pattern of racial disparities in Ferguson’s police activities.” Obama will oversee the entire operation from a mansion located just two miles from the White House lawn. Ironically, Obama is currently building a tall brick wall around the complex, which will include a tax-payer funded office, filled with Obama’s own Chief of Staff and Press Secretary. From the Book of wisdom The wicked say, Come on, then, let’s enjoy the good things of life, and live in this world the way we did when we were young and free of care! 7 Let’s drink the most expensive wines and use the finest perfumes. Let’s not miss a single flower in the springtime!8 Before the roses wither, let’s pick them and wear them in our hair! 9 Let’s all join in and leave signs everywhere of our carefree revelry! Life owes us that much! 10 We’ll oppress the poor, even if they are righteous. We’ll show no respect for widows or old people. 11 We’ll call ourselves right if we are strong enough to get what we want. No one ever got anywhere by being weak! 12 Righteous people are nothing but a nuisance, so let’s look for chances to get rid of them. They are against what we do; they accuse us of breaking the Law of Moses and violating the traditions of our ancestors. 13 They claim to know God, and they call themselves the Lord’s children. 14 We can’t stand the sight of people like that; what they are contradicts our whole way of thinking.15 They are not like other people; they have strange ways That is how evil people think, but they are wrong. They are blinded by their own wickedness. 22 They have never known God’s secrets, never hoped for the rewards of a holy and blameless life.23 When God created us, he did not intend for us to die; he made us like himself. 24 It was the Devil’s jealousy that brought death into the world, and those who belong to the Devil are the ones who will die. There is hope Just as CNN and the large networks found out the more the left organizes and protests the more foolish wicked and evil they look and the more popular Trump will become. Get ready Obama the people are sick of your race baiting and protesting Trump Supporters Are Not Taking Anymore Shit..
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The smell that Wont go away Hillary Clinton, May run as mayor of New York?
on February 9, 2017
Even after the turmoil of the 2016 presidential bout, political hubbub continues. Consider that Hillary Clinton is now mulling a run for New York City mayor in an election that will take place in just nine months. No, really. She is being urged by “major Democratic donors and leaders” to challenge incumbent Bill de Blasio, says John Gizzi, White House correspondent for Newsmax who cites unnamed sources in local Democratic and media circles and suggests that Mrs. Clinton’s famous “inner circle” is intrigued by the whole idea of Madame Mayor. “If she ran, she’d win,” one insider told Mr. Gizzi. Well, who knows? Perhaps former President Bill Clinton will get to serve as a “first gentleman” after all. And if President-elect Donald Trump establishes a Manhattan White House of sorts at Trump Tower, the dynamics could be most interesting. The news media is keen on the notion of “Mayor Clinton”; a dozen major reports addressing the possibilities have appeared in the last 24 hours. It’s not a new idea, however. Convinced she was an ideal candidate, Michael Bloomberg – once Big Apple mayor himself – contacted Mrs. Clinton in 2012 and urged her to enter the race the following year, according to The New York Times. What about residency requirements? “The Clintons live in the Westchester County hamlet of Chappaqua, but state law requires only that a candidate for mayor be a New York City resident by Election Day, a spokesman for the State Board of Elections said,” The Times notes. Should she decide to take the plunge this time around, Mrs. Clinton has some serious competition: nine other Democrats are eyeing the plum post, along with Republican billionaire and talk radio host John Catsimatidis, who reportedly plans to reveal his ultimate mayoral plans some time this month “I’m a people person. I’m a law-and-order person. I believe our people from the inner city have to be helped. Maybe we should start a new party called the Common Sense Party,” Mr. Catsimatidis recently noted in a radio appearance.
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Trump Plan to Prioritize Religious Minority Refugees Is American Tradition, Experts Say
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter Feb 12, 2017 | 10:37 AM
The prioritization of religious minority refugees facing genocide is a "tradition" that has been carried out by the United States government on a number of occasions in the last century, leading religious freedom advocates are saying. As Christian organizations and others continue to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive order barring refugee resettlement for 120 days, many are speaking out against language in the order that calls for the State Department to prioritize individual asylum claims of religious minorities facing persecution once the order is lifted. Considering that Trump told CBN News that he does see Christian refugees in Syria as a "priority," critics have claimed that Trump plans to give special status for Christians. Although nothing in the order's actual language states that Christians will be favored over other persecuted religious minorities, staunch opponents of Trump's order have decried any attempt to prioritize Christians. An appeals court Thursday upheld a temporary suspension of the executive order and late Friday Trump said the White House is considering rewriting the executive order. Jenny Yang, the vice president of advocacy for the evangelical refugee resettlement organization World Relief, argues that "thinking [that] Christians are preferred to other religions actually perpetuates the risk they face." Additionally, Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit who serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, told The Washington Post that "any proposal that preferences Christians over Muslims as refugees makes Catholic leaders nervous because it feeds that narrative that this is a war between the Christian West and the Muslims." While Trump's order has received widespread criticism from leaders affiliated with various Christian faiths and federal courts continue to weigh whether or not the order's clause on prioritization is constitutional, experts who advocate for international religious freedom concerns have explained that there is nothing new about a U.S. policy taking religious persecution into consideration when aiding and resettling refugees. Given the fact that the U.S. Government has declared that the Islamic State has committed genocide against Christians, Yazidis and other persecuted religious minorities in Iraq and Syria, Andrew Walther, the vice president of communications and strategic planning for the Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus, believes it would make sense to prioritize persecuted religious minorities victimized by IS. In fact, he told The Christian Post that, "religious persecution is one of the factors that establishes refugee status under American law, and prioritizing Syrian Christians and other religious minorities was the stated policy of the Obama administration as well, though the prioritization failed to materialize for any of the minority groups in terms of actual numbers of those admitted." "In previous cases of genocide, the United States government has prioritized religious minorities who were targeted for genocide, who were refugees, who were displaced, who were in need of humanitarian aid, immigration or resettlement assistance," Walther, who has been to Iraq twice in the last year, continued. "What we have is an unbroken history of prioritizing people that have been victims of genocide or targeted for genocide. That is a proud tradition for this country." Additionally, Samuel Tadros, a senior fellow with the Washington D.C.-based think tank Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, told nationally syndicated religion columnist Terry Mattingly that "there's nothing new about the United States taking religion into account when it's clear that refugees are part of persecuted minority groups." "Tragically, religion is part of the refugee crises we see around the world right now and that certainly includes what's happening in Syria and Iraq," Todros asserted. Walther explained that after both World War I and World War II, persecuted religious minorities, such as Armenians who experienced genocide perpetrated by the Ottomans and Jews who survived the Holocaust, received preference from the U.S. government on the basis of the persecution they endure. "You have World War II, where you have Jewish Holocaust survivors who were prioritized in terms of the number that were admitted for resettlement compared to the other groups," Walther explained. "There was certainly a much greater percentage resettled from the Jewish community towards the end the war and after than from some of the other communities that had refugees on a percentage basis. It was striking." In addition to the treatment of Jews and Armenians who faced genocide, Congress passed the Lautenberg Amendment through an appropriations bill in 1990 that loosened refugee status standards for persecuted religious minorities — Christians, Jews and Baha'is — fleeing from the Islamic Republic in Iran. "Year after year, the Lautenberg Amendment has been extended to provide a lifeline to Jews, Baha'is, Christians and others fleeing persecution in Iran, the former Soviet bloc and parts of Asia," Mattingly wrote.
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ISIS form deadly alliance with elite Hamas commandos to DESTROY the West
ELITE commandos are joining up with beleaguered ISIS from fellow terror group Hamas to wage war against the West.
By Jamie Micklethwaite / Published 10th February 2017
Members of the Hamas commando wing Nukhba have joined the under-pressure murder-cult as they face imminent destruction from numerous enemies. ISIS are believed to be resorting to desperate tactics as coalition forces close in on their last two strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa, killing civilians at the drop of a hat and imposing curfews throughout their territories. Among the Hamas exiles joining ISIS are believed to be highly trained bomb experts, to carry out the terror group's MO of suicide bombing. Hamas is one of the largest of the Muslim militant groups, aiming to "liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation". The Hamas commandos have joined the group in war-torn Sinai, Egypt, and could be deployed in either Raqqa or Mosul. US army chiefs revealed they expect the notorious group – who have waged a terror war for more than ten years – to be utterly destroyed this year after they are pushed out from strongholds Mosul and Raqqa. US Army LT Gen Stephen Townsend said: "Within the next six months, I think we'll see both conclude." The US-led operation to rid Mosul of ISIS has already seen the eastern side of the city retaken. Forces are now circling on the western half of ISIS' Iraqi capital, to liberate it for good and to prevent any of the terror rats from fleeing the battle. Terror cops in Turkey today foiled a huge ISIS bombing plan as 150kg of explosives and 24 suicide belts were seized from Gaziantep, near the Syrian border. This comes after an ISIS gunman massacred revellers at a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year's Day.
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NFL players pull out of Israel trip
Three American footballers refuse to go on tour saying they don’t want to be “used” by Israeli government.
By Andrew Sherwood February 12, 2017, 9:11 am
Three NFL players who were set to go on a tour of Israel have pulled out of the trip, saying they don’t want to be “used” by the Israeli government. Eleven players were due to go on the trip, which is a joint-initiative between the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy. Taking in visits to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea and Christian sites, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said it was to give the players a balanced picture of Israel, while showcasing the country’s “true face” to the world. However, a trio of the stars have since decided not to go, with Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett the first to pull out. First tweeting a picture of Martin Luther King Jr., saying “I’m not going to Israel,” he then explained the reason for decisions. He said: “I was excited to see this remarkable and historic part of the world with my own eyes. I was not aware until reading this article about the trip in The Times of Israel that my itinerary was being constructed by the Israeli government for the purposes of making me, in the words of a government official, an ‘influencer and opinion-former’ who would then be ‘an ambassador of good will.’ “I will not be used in such a manner. “When I go to Israel — and I do plan to go — it will be to see not only Israel but also the West Bank and Gaza so I can see how the Palestinians, who have called this land home for thousands of years, live their lives.” Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills retweeted Bennett, adding: “Couldn’t have said it any better. I’m in!”, before Bennett’s brother Martellus, who was part of the New England Patriots team that won the Super Bowl last week, joined the boycott. Adding how one of his heroes was Muhammad Ali, Michael Bennett, in his letter, said how Ali “always stood strongly with the Palestinian people,” and said that he wants to be a “voice for the voiceless…I cannot do that by going on this kind of a trip to Israel.”
http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/nfl-players-pull-out-of-israel-trip/
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KKK 'imperial wizard' found fatally shot near Missouri river after employer reports him as missing
BY Nicole Hensley NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, February 12, 2017, 10:19 PM
A Ku Klux Klan leader was reportedly found dead with a gunshot wound to the head near a rural river in Missouri after being reported missing by his employer. A body discovered on Saturday was identified as Frank Ancona, the self-proclaimed “imperial wizard” of a KKK chapter near St. Louis. The 51-year-old was last seen at his Leadwood home on Wednesday morning, his wife told authorities. Ancona's wife, Malissa Ancona, said he was called to work to make an out-of-state delivery. He packed a bag, took his guns and had not made contact with relatives since, according to the Daily Journal newspaper. Police said Ancona’s employer made no such call and reached out to authorities on Friday after he was a no-show at work. A safe inside the couple’s home was bashed in with a crowbar and its contents missing when an officer stopped by the home, the Journal reported. Leadwood Police Chief William Dickey said a burglary was not suspected. Cops also questioned Ancona's wife on a Facebook posting she made the day of his disappearance that sought a roommate for her husband. She said Ancona was filing for divorce when he returned and would likely need help paying for rent, according to authorities. Ancona's vehicle was found near the site of his body in Washington County. No arrests have been made and Leadwood police did not name a suspect. Ancona's son, whose name is also Frank, said in a Facebook post Thursday evening that his family had not had contact with his father since Wednesday night. "This isn't like my dad," the younger Ancona wrote. The Daily Journal report makes no mention of Ancona's affiliation with the hate group or that he runs a website dedicated to the "Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." The site features Ancona wearing KKK regalia in front of a burning cross. In the wake of the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Ancona threatened that KKK members would use “lethal force” against protesters. The KKK leader was named in a 2013 lawsuit lodged by the American Civil Liberties Union against the city of Desloge for preventing Ancona’s KKK group from distributing neighborhood watch leaflets, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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State Dept Whistleblower: Refugee Program ‘Full of Fraud’
Refugee specialist wants Trump ban expanded
Dan Lyman | Infowars.com - February 9, 2017
Whistleblower Mary Doetsch, an ex-State Department official and refugee coordinator, detailed reasons why President Trump’s refugee and travel moratorium was not only correct and necessary, but needs to be expanded. She begins – “I fully support President Donald Trump’s executive order that temporarily halts admissions from the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and bans travel from nationals of countries that potentially pose a security risk to the United States; however, I don’t think the action goes far enough. Further, I believe there are many people throughout the country who feel the same way.” This assertion is supported by a recent poll conducted by Investor’s Business Daily showing that a majority of Americans (51%) support Trump’s executive order. Also of note, a poll of nearly 10,000 Europeans from around the continent revealed that over 55% want immigration from Muslim-dominated countries halted completely. “As a recently retired 25-year veteran of the U.S. Department of State who served almost eight years as a refugee coordinator throughout the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Cuba, I have seen first-hand the abuses and fraud that permeate the refugee program and know about the entrenched interests that fight every effort to implement much-needed reform. Despite claims of enhanced vetting, the reality is that it is virtually impossible to vet an individual who has no type of an official record, particularly in countries compromised by terrorism. U.S. immigration officials simply rely on the person’s often rehearsed and fabricated ‘testimony.’ I have personally seen this on hundreds of occasions.” FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Homeland Security Committee in October, 2015, stating that proper vetting of ‘refugees’ was virtually impossible, “We can only query against that which we have collected, and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interests reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing [that will] show up, because we have no record on that person.” Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is on record as saying, “I don’t, obviously, put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees, so that’s a huge concern of ours.” WikiLeaks released text of a speech delivered by Hillary Clinton in 2013 in which she admitted, “jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees.” Despite this knowledge, she called for a ~550% increase in the number of ‘refugees’ already being admitted by the Obama administration. Ms. Doetsch concludes her stunning letter – “As a refugee coordinator, I saw the exploitations, inconsistencies and security lapses in the program, and I advocated strongly for change. Nonetheless, during the past decade and specifically under the Obama administration, the Refugee Admissions Program continued to expand blindly, seemingly without concern for security or whether it served the best interests of its own citizens. For instance, the legally questionable resettlement of refugees from Malta to the United States grew substantially, despite the fact that as a European country with a functioning asylum system, ‘refugees’ should have remained there under the internationally accepted concept of ‘the country of first asylum.’ Similarly, the ‘special’ in-country refugee programs in Cuba and Russia continue, although they are laden with fraud and far too often simply admit economic migrants rather than actual refugees.” President Trump’s executive order has been temporarily blocked by activist judges, despite the full legality of his decision as supported by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which clearly grants the President express powers to control the entry of non-citizens into the United States on virtually any basis.
http://www.infowars.com/state-dept-whistleblower-refugee-program-full-of-fraud/
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20 metro areas are home to six-in-ten unauthorized immigrants in U.S.
By Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn
Most of the United States’ 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants live in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in New York, Los Angeles and Houston, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. The analysis shows that the nation’s unauthorized immigrant population is highly concentrated, more so than the U.S. population overall. In 2014, the 20 metro areas with most unauthorized immigrants were home to 6.8 million of them, or 61% of the estimated nationwide total. By contrast, only 36% of the total U.S. population lived in those metro areas. But the analysis also shows that unauthorized immigrants tend to live where other immigrants live. Among lawful immigrants – including naturalized citizens and noncitizens – 65% lived in those top metros. By far the biggest unauthorized immigrant populations were in the New York and Los Angeles metro areas (1.2 million and 1 million, respectively). No other metro area approached a million. Among the top 20 areas, the smallest unauthorized immigrant populations included Orlando (110,000) and Austin (100,000). Five of the 20 metros with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations are in California: Los Angeles, Riverside-San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose. Three – Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin – are in Texas. Some of these areas could be affected by the Trump administration’s promise to take action against localities that do not cooperate with federal officials in identifying unauthorized immigrants. The president’s executive order promises to cut federal funds to these “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Mayors in several big cities have said they will not comply with the order. The top 20 metropolitan areas for unauthorized immigrants have been remarkably consistent over the past decade, according to the Center’s analysis. Nineteen of the 20 top metropolitan destinations for unauthorized immigrants in 2014 ranked among the top 20 each year over the previous decade. The Census Bureau dataset used for this analysis does not separate cities from the larger metro areas that contain them in all cases. But such a distinction is possible for 11 of the top 20 metro areas. Within those areas, the cities with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations include New York City, with an estimated 525,000 unauthorized immigrants; Los Angeles, with an estimated 375,000; and Chicago, with an estimated 140,000. Other cities with available data are Miami (55,000), Denver (55,000), Philadelphia (50,000), Boston (35,000), San Francisco (35,000), Washington, D.C., (25,000) and Seattle (20,000). Among the top 20 metro areas, only one city for which data were available – Phoenix – was home to a majority of the unauthorized immigrants in that metropolitan area, with about 140,000 out of a total 250,000. In the others, most of the unauthorized immigrants living in the metro area lived outside the borders of the largest city. The Center’s analysis relies on augmented data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, using the same residual method as its previous reports on unauthorized immigrants. Unauthorized immigrants include people who either crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas. Because these estimates are from a sample, they have margins of error, so some apparent differences in unauthorized immigrant populations between metros or cities may not actually be significantly different. In 150 of the 155 metro areas analyzed, individual metro areas do not differ in rank from those immediately below them. The metro areas that do differ in rank from those immediately below them are New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington and San Francisco. Nationally, unauthorized immigrants made up 3.5% of the total population in 2014. The Philadelphia metro area is the only one of the top 20 metropolitan areas for unauthorized immigrants that had a lower share, the Boston metro area had a roughly equal share and the rest had a higher share than that, including 8.7% in the Houston metro and 8% in the Las Vegas metro. Unauthorized immigrants account for about one-in-four foreign-born U.S. residents. They make up a somewhat higher share of immigrants in the Houston (37%), Dallas (37%), Atlanta (33%), Phoenix (37%), Las Vegas (35%), Denver (37%) and Austin (34%) metro areas. They make up a somewhat lower share of all immigrants in the New York (19%), Miami (18%), San Francisco (17%) and San Jose (17%) metro areas. Note: A complete table based on data for the 155 metropolitan areas in the dataset that had foreign-born populations of at least 20,000 people – enough to provide a reliable estimate – can be found here in PDF form and Excel sheet. The Center’s methodology for estimating unauthorized immigrant populations can be found here. For an interactive graphic showing unauthorized immigrant population estimates and trends for the U.S., states and countries of birth, click here.
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. (KJV)
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etc.. You shall be hated by the world, the world shall be against you, etc.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (KJV)
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Saeed Abedini: Anti-Christ Spirit Is Lurking in America Ready to Attack Christians
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter
Feb 8, 2017 | 2:32 PM
Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American pastor who spent three-and-a-half years imprisoned in Iran for his faith, is warning Americans that the "spirit of the anti-Christ" is coming in the face of activist judges who rule against Christians for their biblical beliefs. Abedini, who voted for President Donald Trump in his bid for the White House against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that last week the court system "stood against our country's security." He linked to an article in USA Today reporting on Trump's executive order temporarily banning refugees amid security concerns. The order was halted late last week by a Seattle judge's injunction, and is currently being reviewed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Abedini wrote that he has a "serious problem" with the way some issues are handled by the judicial system, and warned that if the trajectory continues Christians could "go to prison or be punished for standing for their biblical beliefs." As an example, he pointed to the cases of conservative Christian business owners who've been sued or fined for refusing to participate in same-sex marriage ceremonies because of their belief that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. He argued that Christians are not only suffering persecution at the hands of extremists around the world, but also at the hands of "liberals and secularists." Pointing to 1 John 4:3 as found in the Bible, he wrote: "This is the spirit of anti-Christ, whom [the] Apostle John said thousands years ago is active in the world and would get more power by globalism in [the] future." The pastor suggested that Americans can "slow down" the "evil globalism" before the anti-Christ's coming by standing for "strong American nationalism, strong American military, strong American borders, strong American economy." Abedini warned that the spirit of the anti-Christ "has already started his fight against us even before we were born." "We are in this world for a spiritual fight for [the] Lord's Kingdom and [the] Lord has a plan for each of us. What's your spiritual fight today?" he asked. Conservative groups, such as the Family Research Council, have long been speaking out against the growing number of legal cases taking aim at Christian business owners. In December, the organization listed 12 major cases where Christians have been punished or threatened with punishment for adhering to biblical beliefs about marriage and being found guilty of not complying with LGBT anti-discrimination laws. International Christian Concern listed the U.S. among the top 12 nations where Christians are targeted for their faith for the first time in its "Hall of Shame" 2016 report, precisely because of the court cases against Christian business owners. "Decades of accumulated poor judicial decisions and precedents have twisted the First Amendment so that the courts, in defiance of the Founders, are pushing religion out of the public square, and into the small space of private expression," the ICC's report published in January stated. "In essence, the courts are deciding that you only have full religious freedom and expression in the church and your home. In the public domain, your religious views and thoughts must be restrained and controlled."
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Women's March Reveals Godless Nature of Feminism
By Julie Roys , CP Op-Ed Contributor Feb 3, 2017 | 12:24 PM
Madonna dropping F-bombs and talking about blowing up the White House. Actress Ashley Judd proudly proclaiming, "Yeah, I'm a nasty woman — a loud vulgar, proud woman." And mothers marching with their daughters while wearing female genitalia on their heads. The recent Women's March was enough to make most anyone think twice about supporting women's causes, especially those who are Christians. In addition to the march's vulgarity and verbal violence, it also championed abortion and banned pro-life groups from officially participating. Those, like Students for Life, who dared to march anyway were spat upon, jeered, and had signs ripped from their hands. It's no wonder a young woman from the pro-life group remarked, "If this is what feminism is, I don't want any part of it." In the past several years, there's been renewed interest among Christians to embrace feminism, spearheaded in large part by Sarah Bessey's popular book on the topic called Jesus Feminist. To Bessey, feminism — at least Jesus feminism — is simply "the radical notion that women are people too." And likely, there were Christians who participated in the Women's March simply because they believe women possess equal worth and should be treated with dignity and respect. But as the Women's March illustrated — today's feminism has very little to do with dignity, respect, or even promoting what's best for women. Instead, it's become a hodgepodge of misguided ideas and platforms drawn from feminism's second, third, and fourth waves. Rather than jumping on this bandwagon, Christian women should educate themselves about what feminism truly is, and then strongly resist this movement. Second-Wave Feminism The organizers of the Women's March typify what's known as second-wave feminism, which began in the 1960s and was popularized by women like Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique. While the first wave of feminism in the late 19th- and early 20th-century embraced motherhood and family, the second wave of feminism viewed motherhood and family as an impediment to women's liberation. Simone de Beauvoir, the woman who inspired Friedan and to whom Friedan dedicated her book, once wrote: "Woman can be emancipated only when she can take part on a large social scale in production and is engaged in domestic work only to an insignificant degree." Similarly, Friedan compared modern housewives to "the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps." To second-wave feminists, the home is a prison and women can be free only when they secure financial independence and find fulfilling work outside the home. Marriage is okay, as long as women can continue on their path to self-actualization. And children are welcome — if they are planned, and fit into a woman's educational and professional goals. Since unplanned babies can sidetrack a woman's career — or equally abhorrent, make her dependent on a man — second-wave feminists are pro-choice. This pro-choice, anti-family agenda featured prominently in the Women's March. Planned Parenthood, one of two Premiere Partners of the Women's March, is the nation's largest abortion provider. Two other Women's March partners were the National Organization for Women (NOW) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, both of which are radically pro-choice, and were either co-founded or founded by Betty Friedan. This agenda of second-wave feminism is completely antithetical to Christianity. It rejects the sanctity of life and the goodness of marriage, institutions designed and established by God. It also tells women that to find their life, they must grasp it and put themselves first. Jesus, on the other hand, said that to find our life, we must lose it. This is so true when it comes to the choice between abortion and embracing motherhood. One comprehensive study showed that 81% of mothers who abort their children are more likely to experience subsequent emotional health problems. But mothers who keep their children enjoy the lifelong benefits of children, something Scripture repeatedly refers to as a blessing. Third-Wave Feminism The flaunting and promotion of female sexuality at the Women's March is typical of third-wave feminism. Unlike second-wave feminists, who oppose pornography because they view it as degrading to women, third-wave feminists (often the daughters of second-wave feminists) embrace pornography, as well as sexual license. Influenced by the message of the sexual revolution, they view unrestrained sexual expression as essential to women's freedom. As a result, many are as sexually aggressive and sexually vulgar as any predatory man. It's not surprising, then, that Ashley Judd yelled at the march, "Our p—ies are for our pleasure," or that thousands of women donned pink p—y hats or dressed as sex organs. Third-wave feminists are the women that make the rampant hook-up culture possible, who convince women that obsession with sex is normal, and that sex without commitment is somehow a positive-sum game, instead of a negative one. However, Scripture teaches that God intended sex to bind husband and wife together in a lifelong union reflecting the relationship of Christ and His church. Our sexuality is beautiful and sacred. It is something to be cherished as a gift to give our spouses, not as means of recreation, or a tool to exert our power. And just like defying God's mandate to cherish life hurts women, so does defying his command to reserve sex for marriage. As David Buss, a psychology professor specializing in sexuality at the University of Texas at Austin, notes, the hookup culture has made sex and women much more available to men. And since men don't have to make women a "priority," they don't. As one female student at Boston College told a reporter for Vanity Fair, "Sex should stem from emotional intimacy, and it's the opposite with us right now, and I think it really is kind of destroying females' self-images." Interestingly, a classmate Amanda, added: "But if you say any of this out loud, it's like you're weak, you're not independent, you somehow missed the whole memo about third-wave feminism." Fourth-Wave Feminism Fourth-wave feminism is all about "intersectionality" — about identifying how forces that oppress one group of people may interact or overlap with the forces that oppress other groups. This is why the Women's March included many causes seemingly unrelated to women, like LGBTQ rights, environmentalism, or Black Lives Matter. It's also why one marcher carried a sign that said, "Feminism Without Intersectionality Is Just White Supremacy." Fourth-wave feminists tend to be young and align themselves with groups they perceive to be similarly oppressed as women. Interestingly, this group of feminists tends to be much more open to the pro-life message because the unborn clearly qualify as an oppressed people group. As Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins told me recently, the women who were hostile to her group at the march were women over 40 (second-wave feminists). Young women, on the other hand, were much more receptive. Certainly, Scripture calls Christians to fight for the oppressed, and Christians can find some solidarity with feminists fighting racism, human trafficking, or other human rights abuses. But the problem with fourth-wave feminism is that it's based on certain assumptions and beliefs that are decidedly anti-Christian. Scripture teaches that our identity, for example, is not fundamentally rooted in our race, class or gender/sexuality, but in our relationship to Christ. And in regards to our sexual identity, Scripture teaches that we are male and female, and that our gender identity should correspond to our anatomy. Ultimately, fourth-wave feminism's alignment with the LGBTQ community will lead to feminism's complete undoing. After all, feminism is based on acceptance of a gender binary — that some people are objectively women and some are men. But this is something the LGBTQ community denies. Interestingly, transgender activists expressed dismay over the Women's March because the focus on female genitalia "sent a clear oppressive message to trans women" that "having a vagina is essential to womanhood." When society no longer accepts women as women, it will become virtually impossible to sustain feminism. offended by Hillary Clinton's. After all, what could be more misogynistic than attacking the sexual victims of your husband or promoting the faux right to kill one's own progeny? Sadly, we women are often our worst enemies — and by embracing feminism, we only hurt ourselves. Instead we should embrace womanhood as defined in Scripture. We should cherish children and the family, and reclaim motherhood as a noble and worthy pursuit. And instead of urging men to join us as we demand abortion, we should challenge men to provide and protect, and to begin taking responsibility for children, not paying for their extermination. We should reserve sex for marriage and value modesty and restraint. And we should accept that we are women — fundamentally and beautifully different than men. I doubt that a march upholding these principles would attract the media attention the Women's March did. But living these principles has the power to radically change our society, and to make this world a better place for women and men, and our children. A Path Forward There's no doubt that women today face many threats. Like many at the Women's March, I was offended by Donald Trump's past misogynistic statements and actions. But I was equally offended by Hillary Clinton's. After all, what could be more misogynistic than attacking the sexual victims of your husband or promoting the faux right to kill one's own progeny? Sadly, we women are often our worst enemies — and by embracing feminism, we only hurt ourselves. Instead we should embrace womanhood as defined in Scripture. We should cherish children and the family, and reclaim motherhood as a noble and worthy pursuit. And instead of urging men to join us as we demand abortion, we should challenge men to provide and protect, and to begin taking responsibility for children, not paying for their extermination. We should reserve sex for marriage and value modesty and restraint. And we should accept that we are women — fundamentally and beautifully different than men. I doubt that a march upholding these principles would attract the media attention the Women's March did. But living these principles has the power to radically change our society, and to make this world a better place for women and men, and our children.
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etc. the whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North Korea has declared war on the United States of America. The whole country can tell you an invasion is coming
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Should U.S. be preparing for a North Korean nuclear strike on the West Coast?
February 9, 2017 6:17 PM
WASHINGTON After listening to experts describe the threat posed by North Korea and its nuclear arsenal, U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, paused amid a Capitol Hill hearing earlier this week and made a suggestion. “We ought to have civil defense in this country,” said Sherman during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Some of us are old enough to remember when we had civil defense and we were under our desks.” The congressman wasn’t calling for an immediate return to the “duck and cover” days of the Cold War. But his statement reflects heightened alarm among members of Congress – especially those from the West Coast – over North Korea’s continuing nuclear tests and advances in missile technology. In the last year alone, North Korea has conducted 20 missile tests and two nuclear tests. That’s a marked annual increase from the 42 missile tests and two nuclear tests of the previous seven years, according to Victor Cha, a Korea specialist with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Cha and other experts say it is highly likely that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will launch another intercontinental ballistic missile this year, in part to gauge the response from President Donald Trump. While some of North Korea’s missile tests have ended in failure, the regime seems to be learning from each launch to improve its capability. Many arms control specialists believe that, by 2020, North Korea could have the capacity to launch a miniaturized nuclear device on an ICBM, with the range to strike at least the West Coast. It might even have that capability sooner. “The difficulty here is the lack of visibility into North Korea’s nuclear program. It’s a black hole,” said Anthony Ruggiero, a Korea researcher who previously worked in the Treasury Department, the U.S. agency tasked with enforcing sanctions on Pyongyang. North Korea remains one of the world’s most closeted countries, and international inspectors haven’t had even partial access to its nuclear facilities since 2009. To slow North Korea’s nuclear advances, the United Nations has imposed increasingly harsh sanctions. Those sanctions have deprived Pyongyang of hard cash but have received spotty enforcement, especially by China, which is wary of squeezing North Korea too hard. Within Congress, there is increasing recognition that North Korea has gotten short shrift amid the intense foreign policy attention on the Islamic State, Iran and the Middle East. “Are we as focused on this threat as we should be? If you look over the last 10 years, the answer is clearly no,” Ruggiero, a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, said in an interview. “We have not focused on that threat, and it has continued to grow.” Several members of Congress from the West Coast are aiming a spotlight at North Korea, particularly Rep. Ed Royce, a Republican from Southern California who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee. On Tuesday, Royce led a hearing examining how the United States and its allies could further squeeze North Korea financially and possibly slow its nuclear weapons program. Royce said he was particularly concerned about North Korea’s bomb miniaturization efforts, along with one of its missile tests last year from a submarine. “That is what has got our attention,” Royce said. “At this point it is clear that very, very soon, North Korea is going to be able to target all 50 states in the United States, as well as target our allies.” Some analysts doubt that North Korea, as it advances its weapons systems, would launch a first strike on the United States or its allies. Kim is pursuing the weapons program, they say, as a deterrent to a U.S. attack and also to enhance his stature at home. Yet U.S. officials feel compelled to remind Pyongyang what would happen if it were to strike first. “Any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said last week during a visit to South Korea’s Defense Ministry. Given the failure to slow North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, some Asia specialists say the United States should consider a new strategy, attempting to negotiate with Pyongyang on a freeze, or “cap,” in missile and weapons development. Others say such a move would be a disaster, even if Kim abided by a freeze. “Agreeing to a cap means the U.S. accepts North Korea as a nuclear weapons state for the indefinite future, which would destroy our credibility not only with our allies but with other rogue regimes,” said Sue Mi Terry, a Korea analyst with the consulting firm Bower Group Asia, who testified at Tuesday’s hearing. She added that the U.S. must keep highlighting North Korea’s human rights abuses while trying to reach out to elites in Pyongyang susceptible to defection. Last year, Royce and Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat from New York who’s the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, led passage of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act, an attempt to stanch the outside cash that flows into North Korea, bolstering the regime. Such laws, however, depend on the capacity and commitment of the U.S. Treasury Department to pursue alleged violators. Last year, federal prosecutors charged four Chinese businesspeople and a Chinese company with conspiring to create a web of shell companies to evade U.S. economic sanctions and funnel money to North Korea. But critics have questioned why the Treasury Department didn’t also hold Chinese banks accountable for their role in creating the shell companies. “The fact that a Chinese bank has not been punished for that is quite appalling,” said Ruggiero. He and other analysts have criticized the Obama administration, saying it was inconsistent in the region. While Obama once counseled a policy of “strategic patience” with Pyongyang, he left office reportedly advising Trump that nuclear North Korea should be the new president’s top foreign priority. How Trump will handle Korean affairs remains a mystery. When Kim hinted in a New Year’s speech that North Korea might test another missile, Trump responded with one of his trademark Twitter blasts: “It won’t happen!” Trump sent mixed messages during the presidential campaign on his support for Asian allies, such as South Korea and Japan, who face an immediate threat from North Korea missiles. Mattis’ trip to Asia last week – the first foreign trip by a Trump Cabinet member – was widely seen as an attempt to ease allies’ concerns about the new president. Sherman, a Democrat from Northridge, raised the possibility of restarting “civil defense” in the context of raising awareness about North Korea’s actions, including its reported sharing of nuclear technologies with Iran and other regimes. “We have a foreign policy establishment that will not admit to the American people that it (deterrence) may fail to prevent us from being hit,” he said. “We could prepare to minimize casualties. We won’t, because that means we’d have to admit that there’s the possibility we will face casualties.”
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'Big brother' mind reading is inevitable and controls need to be put in place now, experts warn
Experts find mind-reading algorithms could be used as lie detectors
Could create functional magnetic resonance showing lies and truths
Scans could be admitted as evidence in court, but will never be error proof
Technology still picks up false memories and could convict the innocent
By Julia Gottwald and Barbara Sahakian With The Conversation Published: 18:02 EST, 9 February 2017 | Updated: 18:08 EST, 9 February 2017
Are you lying? Do you have a racial bias? Is your moral compass intact? To find out what you think or feel, we usually have to take your word for it. But questionnaires and other explicit measures to reveal what's on your mind are imperfect: you may choose to hide your true beliefs or you may not even be aware of them. But now there is a technology that enables us to 'read the mind' with growing accuracy: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It measures brain activity indirectly by tracking changes in blood flow – making it possible for neuroscientists to observe the brain in action. Because the technology is safe and effective, fMRI has revolutionised our understanding of the human brain. It has shed light on areas important for speech, movement, memory and many other processes. More recently, researchers have used fMRI for more elaborate purposes. One of the most remarkable studies comes from Jack Gallant's lab at the University of California. His team showed movie trailers to their volunteers and managed to reconstruct these video clipsbased on the subjects' brain activity, using a machine learning algorithm. In this approach, the computer developed a model based on the subject's brain activity rather than being fed a pre-programmed solution by the researchers. The model improved with practice and after having access to enough data, it was able to decode brain activity. The reconstructed clips were blurry and the experiment involved extended training periods. But for the first time, brain activity was decoded well enough to reconstruct such complex stimuli with impressive detail. So what could fMRI do in the future? This is a topic we explore in our new book Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in our Minds. Some of your answers would be truthful, some would be lies. The computer model is told which ones are which in the beginning so it gets to know your 'brain signature of lying' – the specific areas in your brain that light up when you lie, but not when you are telling the truth. Afterwards, the model has to classify new answers as truth or lies. The typical accuracy reported in the literature is around 90%, meaning that nine out of ten times, the computer correctly classified answers as lies or truths. This is far better than traditional measures such as the polygraph, which is thought to be only about 70% accurate. Some companies have now licensed the lie detection algorithms. Reading minds is an ability only found in comic book heroes. But new research has revealed that computers can now analyse brain scans and work out who a person is thinking about. The AI system can even create a digital portrait of the face in question. Researchers at the Kuhl Lab at the University of Oregon used an innovative form of fMRI pattern analysis to test whether lateral parietal cortex actively represents the contents of memory. Using a large set of human face images, the first extracted latent face components, known as eigenfaces. Then machine learning algorithms were used to predict face components from fMRI activity patterns and reconstruct images of individual faces in digital portraits. Their next big goal: getting fMRI-based lie detection admitted as evidence in court. They have tried several times now, but the judges have ruled that the technology is not ready for the legal setting – 90% accuracy sounds impressive, but would we want to send somebody to prison if there is a chance that they are innocent? Even if we can make the technology more accurate, fMRI will never be error proof. One particularly problematic topic is the one of false memories. The scans can only reflect your beliefs, not necessarily reality. If you falsely believe that you have committed a crime, fMRI can only confirm this belief. We might be tempted to see brain scans as hard evidence, but they are only as good as your own memories: ultimately flawed. Still, this raises some chilling questions about the possibility for a 'Big Brother' future where our innermost thoughts can be routinely monitored. But for now fMRI cannot be used covertly. You cannot walk through an airport scanner and be asked to step into an interrogation room, because your thoughts were alarming to the security personnel. Undergoing fMRI involves lying still in a big noise tube for long periods of time. The computer model needs to get to know you and your characteristic brain activity before it can make any deductions. In many studies, this means that subjects were being scanned for hours or in several sessions. There's obviously no chance of doing this without your knowledge – or even against your will. If you did not want your brain activity to be read, you could simply move in the scanner. Even the slightest movements can make fMRI scans useless. Experts at the University of Washington have revealed how hackers could inserting images into dodgy apps and recording our brain's unintentional reaction using brain-computer interfaces. For example, when playing a video game users may see logos of familiar brands pop-up on the screen that just vanish. Hackers put those images in the game and they were recording your 'brain's unintentional response to them' using a BCI, which can be a wearable device that monitors stress levels or a cap covered in electrodes. This technology could one day be used by advertisers to gather more information about their customers. Also, police officers and government officials could use this method to convict criminals or as a 'remote lie detector test'. Although there is no immediate danger of undercover scans, fMRI can still be used unethically. It could be used in commercial settings without appropriate guidelines. If academic researchers want to start an fMRI study, they need to go through a thorough process, explaining the potential risks and benefits to an ethics committee. No such guidelines exist in commercial settings. Companies are free to buy fMRI scanners and conduct experiments with any design. They could show you traumatising scenes. Or they might uncover thoughts that you wanted to keep to yourself. And if your scan shows any medical abnormalities, they are not forced to tell you about it. Mapping the brain in great detail enables us to observe sophisticated processes. Researchers are beginning to unravel the brain circuits involved in self control and morality. Some of us may want to use this knowledge to screen for criminals or detect racial biases. But we must keep in mind that fMRI has many limitations. It is not a crystal ball. We might be able to detect an implicit racial bias in you, but this cannot predict your behaviour in the real world. The scientists used a technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). This involves shining long wavelength light through the scalp and measuring its absorption in the brain. At the same time, electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes detected electrical activity. 'The machine records the blood flow... and calculates how (it) changes during 'yes' and during 'no', and the computer develops an idea, a pattern,' Birbaumer said. 'And after a while, we know what the patient is thinking, when he thinks 'yes', or when he thinks 'no', and from that we calculate the answer.' The 'known' questions elicited correct responses seven times out of 10, and the question 'Are you happy?' resulted in a consistent yes response from the four people, repeated over weeks of questioning. Or they might uncover thoughts that you wanted to keep to yourself. And if your scan shows any medical abnormalities, they are not forced to tell you about it. Mapping the brain in great detail enables us to observe sophisticated processes. Researchers are beginning to unravel the brain circuits involved in self control and morality. Some of us may want to use this knowledge to screen for criminals or detect racial biases. But we must keep in mind that fMRI has many limitations. It is not a crystal ball. We might be able to detect an implicit racial bias in you, but this cannot predict your behaviour in the real world. MIND-READING DEVICE HELPS THOSE WITH LOCKED-IN SYNDROME SPEAK AGAIN The scientists used a technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). This involves shining long wavelength light through the scalp and measuring its absorption in the brain. At the same time, electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes detected electrical activity. 'The machine records the blood flow... and calculates how (it) changes during 'yes' and during 'no', and the computer develops an idea, a pattern,' Birbaumer said. 'And after a while, we know what the patient is thinking, when he thinks 'yes', or when he thinks 'no', and from that we calculate the answer.' The 'known' questions elicited correct responses seven times out of 10, and the question 'Are you happy?' resulted in a consistent yes response from the four people, repeated over weeks of questioning. fMRI has a long way to go before we can use it to fire or incarcerate somebody. But neuroscience is a rapidly evolving field. With advances in clever technological and analytical developments such as machine learning, fMRI might be ready for these futuristic applications sooner than we think. Therefore, we need to have a public discussion about these technologies now. Should we screen for terrorists at the airport or hire only teachers and judges who do not show evidence of a racial bias? Which applications are useful and beneficial for our society, which ones are a step too far? It is time to make up our minds. Julia Gottwald, PhD candidate in Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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Lunar eclipse, comet, full moon all coming Friday night: Rare space TRIPLE event on February 10, 2017
By Strange Sounds - Feb 8, 2017
A “penumbra” lunar eclipse during the full “snow” moon… and the flyby of a comet. Here’s a look at what you will see if you set your eyes to the night sky: Eagle-eyed skywatchers will see a “penumbral” lunar eclipse Friday evening during the full moon. This rather subtle phenomenon occurs when the moon moves through the outer part of Earth’s shadow – the penumbra. The outer shadow of the Earth blocks part — but not all — of the sun’s rays from reaching the moon, making it appear slightly darker than usual. The exact moment of the penumbral eclipse is 7:43 p.m. ET (6:43 p.m. CT, 5:43 p.m. MT and 4:43 p.m. PT). Full “snow” moon As required during any eclipse, the moon will be full Friday night. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, Native Americans in the northern and eastern U.S. named February’s full moon the “snow” moon or the “hunger” moonh. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. The Farmer’s Almanac reports some tribes referred to February’s moon as the , because harsh weather conditions made hunting difficult. Comet 45P A few hours after the eclipse, Comet 45P, which has been visible after sunset for the past two months through binoculars and telescopes, makes its closest approach to Earth, when it will be “only” 7.4 million miles away. Look to the east around 3 a.m. Saturday morning, where it will be visible in the sky in the constellation Hercules. Binoculars or a telescope could be helpful. Watch for a bright blue-green “head” with a tail. It will be visible in various points of the night sky until the end of February. If you miss it, don’t worry: It will return again in 2022. So on February 10, 2017 keep your eyes to the sky!
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etc. Babylon destroyed in twenty-four hours, and you shall see the other earthquake on the west coast, you shall see the one in the middle and that shall come unto you soon, just as soon as they divide my land again, saith your Father God, you shall see that. For it is that hour and it is that time and it shall come to pass, etc.
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'I won't condemn Israel, it's been through enough'
Boaz Bismuth
In exclusive interview with Israel Hayom, U.S. President Donald Trump says he understands and respects Israel greatly • Trump stresses he would like to see peace in the Middle East and beyond, says he looks forward to meeting with PM Netanyahu next week. "I understand Israel very well and I respect Israel. ... I would like to see peace [between Israel and the Palestinians] and beyond," U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom in an exclusive interview Thursday -- the first interview the 45th president of the United States has given Israeli media since taking office on Jan. 20.
Q: On multiple occasions we spoke of your views on Israel and your determination to be Israel's friend. Can you share your general plan for improving Israeli-American relations after the past eight years?
"Well, I think we are going to have a better relationship. The deal with Iran was a disaster for Israel. Inconceivable that it was made. It was poorly negotiated and executed. Everything about that deal was something. ... You know, as a deal person, I understand all sides of deals. I understand good deals and bad deals, but this deal is not even comprehensible. Beyond comprehension. And you see the way Iran has reacted; unlike reacting as they should, which is being thankful for President [Barack] Obama for making such a deal, which was so much to their advantage. They felt emboldened even before he left office. It is too bad a deal like that was made."
Q: What is your biggest takeaway from your meeting with PM Netanyahu in September? People say you have good chemistry. Is that true?
"We do. We've always had good chemistry, and he is a good man. He wants to do the right thing for Israel. He would like peace; I believe that he wants peace and wants to have it badly. I have always liked him."
Q: How soon will you decide on the issue of relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem?
"Well, I want Israel to be reasonable with respect to peace. I want to see peace happen. It should happen. After all these years. ... Maybe there is even a chance for a bigger peace than just Israel and the Palestinians. I would like to see a level of reasonableness of both parties, and I think we have a good chance of doing that."
Q: And the embassy?
"I am thinking about the embassy, I am studying the embassy [issue], and we will see what happens. The embassy is not an easy decision. It has obviously been out there for many, many years, and nobody has wanted to make that decision. I'm thinking about it very seriously, and we will see what happens."
Q: We heard from Washington this week that settlements are not an impediment to the peace process. I guess this is an issue you and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are going to discuss?
"They [settlements] don't help the process. I can say that. There is so much land left. And every time you take land for settlements, there is less land left. But we are looking at that, and we are looking at some other options we'll see. But no, I am not somebody that believes that going forward with these settlements is a good thing for peace."
Q: Will we see America condemn Israel a lot during your presidency?
"No, I don't want to condemn Israel. Israel has had a long history of condemnation and difficulty. And I don't want to be condemning Israel. I understand Israel very well, and I respect Israel a lot, and they have been through a lot. I would like to see peace and beyond that. And I think that peace for Israel would be a good thing for the Israeli people, not just a good thing, a great thing."
Q: You always speak about making good deals. Don't the Palestinians have to make concessions as well?
"Yeah. They do. Absolutely. It has to be good for everybody. No deal is good if it is not good for everybody, and we are in that process, and we will see what happens. People have been in that process for many decades, and it has been going a long for a long time. So many people think it cannot be made. I have very smart people that ... say a deal can't be made. I disagree with them. I think a deal should be made, and it can be made," he concluded.
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Will Trump Back Israel in the Next War?
avatar by Ruthie Blum February 10, 2017 8:40 am
Analysts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean — and of the political spectrum — have been scrutinizing every syllable uttered by members of the new administration in Washington to determine whether US President Donald Trump is as good a friend to the Jewish state as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes. So far, four issues have been discussed and debated ad nauseam: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s pronouncement that her government would not abandon Israel at the world body, as the Obama administration did when it enabled the passage of Security Council Resolution 2234, which deemed all Jewish presence beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines illegal; the nomination of David Friedman — a settlements sympathizer who supports relocating the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — as US ambassador to Israel; a recent Trump administration warning that Israeli settlement construction could be potentially harmful to peace negotiations toward Palestinian statehood (the “two-state solution”); and the omission of any mention of Jews in the statement issued by the administration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Where the bigger picture is concerned, Israel is observing Team Trump’s behavior toward Iran, telling Tehran that its saber-rattling and ballistic missile tests will incur serious consequences; imposing new sanctions on the mullah-led regime; and openly weighing the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. But the one question that has not been raised is how the Trump administration will respond when Israel is forced to go to war, yet again, with Hamas in Gaza and/or with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Middle East experts have been predicting, albeit cautiously, that neither scenario is likely in the near future, due to the internal difficulties each terrorist group is currently experiencing. Hezbollah is deeply entrenched in the Syrian civil war, and has already lost many of its men in the fighting. Hamas is suffering from a loss of income, as a number of European countries begin to reconsider the process of transferring cash earmarked for the rehabilitation of Gaza, which ends up paying for the rebuilding and enhancement of tunnel and rocket infrastructure. Recent developments indicate, however, that more serious military action — in addition to retaliatory IDF moves following errant or aimed fire on Israel from just beyond its southern and northern borders — may be unavoidable. This week, a Haifa court ordered the temporary closure of the city’s 12,000-ton ammonia tank, pending further discussion on Sunday. This was after the municipality requested that it be shut down completely, following a report indicating that in any explosion, tens of thousands of people in the area would be killed. And since Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah threatened in February to attack it, residents of the region have been living in fear. Meanwhile, over the past few days, Hezbollah has been engaging in a crowd-funding campaign on social media hashtagged “Money for jihad is a must,” with a video appeal featuring fighters and clerics asking people to donate to the “resistance. ”Though this is clearly a result of the organization’s dwindling resources, caused by its extended stint in Syria, Nasrallah’s deputy, Naim Qassem, said in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Binaa that the group’s message to Israel remains the same: “We are willing to pay the price of the conflict. Are you?” Hamas, too, has been busy threatening Israel online. In a new music video — titled “Zionist, You Will Die in Gaza” — the terrorist organization that reigns supreme in the enclave lodged between Israel and Egypt warns, “A rocket will come to you, Zionist, wherever you live. You will die sleeping, awake or on the mountain. I will make you drink from the glass of death; what a bitter taste.” It would appear, then, that war is on the horizon. During Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s battle against Hamas in Gaza in the summer of 2014, then-President Barack Obama said that though the Jewish state had a right to defend itself, it should exercise “restraint.” In a meeting at his New York office with Jewish journalists during the US presidential primaries, Trump was asked whether he agreed with the statement — made by Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders to the editorial board of the Daily News — that Israel had used “disproportionate force” in Gaza. “When missiles are being shot into your country, I don’t know what ‘disproportionate force’ is supposed to mean,” he replied. It is a matter of when — not if — this attitude in relation to Israel and its enemies is put to the test. So far, Netanyahu, who will be convening with Trump on Wednesday in the White House, has good reason to believe that Obama’s successor will pass it with flying colors. Ruthie Blum is the managing editor of The Algemeiner.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/02/10/will-trump-back-israel-in-the-next-war/
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem
by Hal Lindsey
Throughout the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But we’ve heard that before. In 1996, the Republican Party platform said, “A Republican administration will ensure that the U.S. Embassy is moved to Jerusalem by May 1999.” The Republicans lost that year, so we don’t know if they would have kept their promise. However, in 1995, Congress passed the “Jerusalem Embassy Act.” The bi-partisan bill stated, “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.” The act also contained a provision allowing the president to leave the embassy in Tel Aviv if he deemed it important “to protect the national security interests of the United States.” President Clinton chose to not to move it. Would a Republican president choose a different course? The party platform of 2000 promised, “Immediately upon taking office, the next Republican president will begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” Republican George W. Bush was elected, but nothing happened. Despite the inactivity of their president in the preceding four years, the 2004 Republican platform said, “Republicans continue to support moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” But in his second four years, President Bush again kept the embassy in Tel Aviv. Nations place embassies in the capitals of countries because they want their ambassadors near the centers of power. The “Jerusalem Embassy Act” said, “The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous government ministries and social and cultural institutions.” The point of having an embassy and an ambassador is to have a local representative of one government to another. That means, the embassy needs to be located in the center of power. But the nations of the world have decided to make a political statement by not recognizing Israel’s right to name its own capital. In 2008, then-candidate Obama proclaimed unequivocally that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. But as a president, he acted just like Presidents Bush and Clinton. In 2012, his White House spokesman at the time, Jay Carney, wouldn’t say whether Jerusalem was Israel’s capital or not. He just said, “our position hasn’t changed,” and “you know the answer.” What will President Trump do? He said throughout the campaign that he would move the embassy. For instance, he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March, “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” But now his administration has begun to equivocate. In his first full press briefing, new White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked, “What is the U.S. strategic interest in moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I don’t — as I noted yesterday through several press inquiries, we haven’t — there’s no decisions. We’re at the very early stages of that decision-making process.” Wait a minute. We thought the decision had been made. We were given a promise, but now he tells us they’re at the “early stages of that decision-making process.” Isn’t this bait and switch? Isn’t this an example of the very swamp of Washington politics Donald Trump promised to drain? Later, Spicer repeated, “It’s very early in this process. We are at the beginning stages of this decision-making process and his team’s gonna continue to consult with stakeholders as we get there.” Later still, a reporter asked the question point blank. “At the end of the next four years, will the United States embassy be in Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I — I think I’ve answered it twice now. I — we are at the early stages in this decision-making process.” The questioner then said, “But it’s not whether, it’s when and how?” Spicer said, “I — I — there’s a reason you go through a decision-making process. And that’s what we’re in the process of starting right now. So, I just don’t want to get ahead of — it would — if it was already a decision, then we wouldn’t be going through a process.” But if the decision hasn’t been made and they are in the early stages of the process, why would candidate Trump make a promise, then repeat it again and again? The 5th chapter of 2 Samuel tells how David made Jerusalem Israel’s capital. Dozens of scriptures from that point forward, show that God inspired and blessed that idea. Isaiah 14:32 says, “The Lord has founded Zion, and the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.” (NASB) A sovereign nation gets to choose the location of its capital, and Israel chose Jerusalem — three thousand years ago. One of the most important things to watch for over the next few weeks is whether the United States chooses to respect that choice.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-27-2017/
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MSM Hides One Of The Biggest National Security Breaches Of The Century From Their Audience
February 10, 2017 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
While the MSM is still in full "attack Trump" mode, breathlessly reporting each of his tweets, attacking his cabinet picks, gleefully celebrating how the most liberal court in the land, as well as the one that has the most over-turned rulings by the Supreme Court, has temporarily blocked the immigration pause, we see that one of the biggest bombshells was dropped on February 4, 2017, yet major outlets like Washington Post, New York Times and other mainstream outlets, has either downplayed it or simply hidden it from their audience. Three Pakistani brothers, are under criminal investigation for unauthorized access into congressional computers. The suspects had access to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs', most sensitive information. Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism. All three brothers were employed by Democrats. Maria Bartiromo of Fox News discusses this issue in the short clip below. How sensitive is the information these men had access to? That is explained in detail by FrontPage: The offices that employed them included HPSCI minority members Speier, Carson and Joaquín Castro. Congressman Castro, who also sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, utilized the services of Jamal Moiz Awan. Speier and Carson’s offices utilized Imran Awan. Abid A. Awan was employed by Lois Frankel and Ted Lieu: members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also on the committee is Castro. As is Robin Kelly whose office employed Jamal Awan. Lieu also sits on the subcommittees on National Security and Information Technology of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Tammy Duckworth’s office had also employed Abid. Before Duckworth successfully played on the sympathy of voters to become Senator Tammy Duckworth, she had been on the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces of the Armed Services Committee. Gwen Graham, who had also been on the Armed Services Committee and on the Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee, had employed Jamal Awan. Jamal was also employed by Cedric Richmond’s office. Richmond sits on the Committee on Homeland Security and on its Terrorism and Cybersecurity subcommittee. He is a ranking member of the latter subcommittee. Also employing Jamal was Mark Takano of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Imran had worked for the office of John Sarbanes who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees, among other things, the nuclear industry. Other members of the Committee employing the brothers included Yvette Clarke, who also sits on the Bipartisan Encryption Working Group, Diana DeGette, Dave Loebsack and Tony Cardenas. But finally there’s Andre Carson. Carson is the second Muslim in Congress and the first Muslim on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and, more critically, is the ranking member on its Emerging Threats Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Subcommittee. The bold print emphasis above is mine, showing the amount of critical, dangerous information that these men had access to. One would think that major media outlets would at least be asking why these people were accessing data they were unauthorized to access, to the point where there is now a criminal investigation into those security breaches, and more critically, what were they doing with the information they were accessing? According to Politico, Imran Awan, who has worked for more than two dozen Democrats since 2004, is still on the payroll of former DNC Chair and current Representative of Florida's 23rd congressional district, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who was forced to step down from the DNC Chair after Wikileaks exposed her corrupt practices during the presidential campaign season. That same article reports that Imran Awan's wife, Hina Alvi, is also still employed by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), pending investigation. In a follow up article, The Daily Caller, found that these men and Iman's wife, had massive debts and a history of suspicious activity, yet PJ Media reports that "the House passed a rule last year requiring all employees with access to IT to pass background checks in order to flag potential problems such as the credit and legal issues." Those background checks were applied retroactively and the only way to avoid them was if "a 'hiring authority' in a congressional office had signed a waiver attesting to the 'trustworthiness and judgment' of the privileged user." We have multiple Congressional employees, from Pakinstani descent, accessing information critical to national security on almost every level, with no idea what they have been doing with said information, all under criminal investigation ........ so where are the mainstream media reports? In the video below after a very brief description of why I am doing Google searches in the New York Times and Washington Post, in a one month time frame, for the names Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan, we see that according to Google, all three names when plugged into their search engine come up as "did not match any documents," in both major newspapers. Below the video are screen shots from a direct search from over the last seven days at the NYT website itself, which comes up with the same results..... nothing, nada, zip. BOTTOM LINE We are left wondering why both the NYT and Wapo is hiding what could arguably be one of the biggest national security breaches of the century, from their readers. The Daily Caller exclusive was published on February 4, 2017, which has give the MSM outlets mentioned above six full days to report this to their audience.... so why haven't they? Over the last two years we have learned that when the media doesn't want the public to know something, it is usually something we should know.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Bombshell_MSM_Is_Hiding.php
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Iraqi girl, 10, is 'bitten to death' with medieval torture device by female ISIS fanatics after her mother was asked to choose if she or the child would be punished for stepping outside their house
The girl, named Faten, died after being 'bitten' by a medieval torture device
She was being punished for stepping outside her home alone in Mosul, Iraq
Her mother was asked if she or her daughter should take the punishment
In another instance, a woman died after being given 30 lashings for lifting her veil
By Dave Burke For Mailonline Published: 05:02 EST, 7 February 2017 | Updated: 11:04 EST, 7 February 2017
A ten-year-old Iraqi girl was bitten to death with a medieval torture device, lined with poison, by ISIS 'morality police' in front of her horrified mother. The youngster, named Faten, was punished after stepping over the threshold of her home while cleaning. Under strict rules imposed by the fundamentalists in the city of Mosul, women were banned from leaving home on their own. Russian outlet Sputnik reports that the girl's mother was asked by the Hisbah police whether she or her daughter should endure the cruel punishment. Believing that a 'bite' would be administered by a person, the mother elected to let the young girl face the treatment. But members of the female al-Khansa brigade produced the torture device, and Faten bled to death from her wounds, a witness claimed. A woman in her 20s, identified only as S, also told the outlet that a woman died from her injuries after she was lashed 30 times for lifting her veil. S told Sputnik: 'I never felt like I was a human being. Why all of this black clothing? 'It’s like I’m getting into a bag and it’s closed on me so I can’t even breathe or enjoy the sun.' She said young girls are most likely to be targeted for abuse by the morality police in the Iraqi city, which came under ISIS control in 2014.
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Trump: 'Dishonest press' won't report terrorist attacks
By Jordan Fabian and Rebecca Kheel - 02/06/17 02:21 PM EST
President Trump used his first speech to military service members Monday to accuse the news media of refusing to report on terrorist attacks. Speaking at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Trump rattled off a series of strikes carried out by “radical Islamic terrorists,” including Sept. 11 and the more recent violence in Orlando, Fla.; San Bernardino, Calif.; Paris; and Nice, France. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” he told a group of senior commanders. “And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it.” The president implied that media organizations have an ulterior motive to bury coverage of such attacks. “They have their reasons, and you understand that,” he said. Trump initially provided no evidence to back up his comments. Many found them baffling since terror attacks both at home and abroad often spark blanket coverage on cable news networks, in newspapers and among online outlets. Two of the earliest American victims of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria were James Foley and Steven Sotloff, journalists who were covering the war in Syria. Hours later, the White House circulated a list of 78 attacks carried out between September 2014 and December 2016, most of which it said “have not received the media attention they deserved.” The list includes major attacks Trump cited in his speech that dominated news coverage for weeks. It also included many strikes overseas that received limited media attention in the U.S., including killings in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Parramatta, Australia; and Zvornik, Bosnia. Trump continues a feud with the news media that stretches back to the very beginning of his presidential campaign. The comments resemble recent claims by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that the media refused to cover the nonexistent “Bowling Green massacre.” After coming under criticism, Conway has since said that she “misspoke.” Separate reports on Monday indicated that Conway on at least two earlier occasions had talked of a violent incident in Bowling Green, Ky. No attack happened, but two Iraqi citizens were arrested in 2011 for attempting to send arms and money to terrorists in Iraq. The president earlier on Monday bashed The New York Times over its report on chaos and confusion within the White House. Trump also criticized news organizations for publishing opinion polls showing him with historically low approval ratings and for running stories highlighting the power amassed by his senior counselor, Stephen Bannon. “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” he tweeted. In the first 17 days of his presidency, Trump has twice gone after the press at two major U.S. national security sites. Trump claimed in a speech to the Central Intelligence Agency one day after being sworn in as president that “dishonest” reporters downplayed the size of his inauguration crowd. Trump also used his speech to issue a stern ultimatum to ISIS and other Islamic militant groups, offering a defense of his efforts to shield the nation from terror plots, including his controversial travel ban. “Today we deliver a message in one very unified voice to these forces of death and destruction: America and its allies will defeat you,” the president said. “We will defeat them. We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism. And we will not allow to it take root in our country. Not going to allow it.” With his visit to Florida, Trump is trying to show that he’s a friend of the military. MacDill is home to U.S. Central Command and Special Operations Command, which are responsible for leading the fight against groups like ISIS and al Qaeda in the Middle East. He received a briefing from both military groups and ate lunch with enlisted personnel. Trump sought to highlight his bonds with the military by referring to polls that showed he was popular among service members during the 2016 campaign. “We had a wonderful election, didn’t we? And I saw those numbers — and you like me, and I like you,” he said. The president pledged to follow through on his goal of investing in “beautiful new equipment” for the armed forces. During the campaign, Trump outlined plans to buy more ships for the Navy and aircraft for the Air Force and to increase the size of the Army and Marines Corps. Once in office, Trump ordered Defense Secretary James Mattis to conduct a “readiness review” to kick off his military buildup, and Mattis has started by ordering the Pentagon to prepare a supplemental budget request for this fiscal year. Trump also sought to assuage concerns of some national security officials about the U.S. commitment to its NATO allies. During the campaign, Trump dismissed the Cold War-era alliance as “obsolete” and complained other member nations weren’t making large enough military contributions. “We strongly support NATO,” said Trump, who spoke with the organization’s secretary general over the weekend. “We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions to the NATO alliance, which many of them have not been doing. Many of them have not been even close.” The air base visit also follows a Navy SEAL raid against al Qaeda in Yemen, which is part of Central Command’s responsibility. The raid led to the death of one SEAL and an unspecified number of civilians. Trump visited Dover Air Force Base last week to witness the return of Chief Special Warfare Operator William Owens’s body, but he did not mention the operation during the speech Monday. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), a Marine veteran who fought in the Iraq War, slammed Trump for failing to mention the Yemen raid while touting his election win and denigrating the media. “The first thing he talks about is the political campaign?” Gallego said in a phone interview after the speech. “That’s just disgusting.” Gallego also said it was contradictory of Trump to pledge to give the military everything it needs while defending a travel ban that would hurt interpreters the military relies on overseas. “You say you’re going to give them everything you can to get the job done, but how are you not connecting the fact that the refugee ban is on Muslim interpreters that the military needs?” he said.
Updated at 8:58 p.m.
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PROPHET OF DOOM: John McAfee’s major cybersecurity predictions for 2017
February 7, 2017
John McAfee, CEO at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. (MGTI) provides CSO with his predictions for 2017.
1. “IoT denial of service attacks on major Internet carriers, like the one carried out on Dyn earlier year will become commonplace, and the severity will be orders of magnitude greater than what we have seen. The 2016 IoT DDoS attacks were, I am convinced, merely designed to calibrate their weaponized software. 2017 will see serious internet outages.”
2. “The anti-virus paradigm will finally been seen as a dead paradigm. I invented this paradigm and predicted its demise more than 10 years ago. Every major hack of the American government and American enterprises were protected by multiple anti-virus software products. The world must move to proactive systems that detect the presence of a hacker within milliseconds of the hackers’ entry – months or years before the hacker can plant the malware that [anti-virus] systems can detect.”
3. “Intelligence agencies will finally accept the fact that a sophisticated Nation State can perpetrate any hack and make it point to any Nation or agency that they choose. Attribution for a hack, in this day and age, is statistically, a near impossibility. Hopefully this will motivate our leadership to focus on cyber defense rather than cyber weaponry and abandon the futile and obviously erroneous pursuit of forensic science as a means of identifying a hacker. This works for a 15-year-old who obviously knew no better, but Nation States and organized hacking organizations will never be trapped in this manner. It’s like determining that America obviously developed the Atom Bomb because “America” and “Atom” start with the same letter. It is a futile, senseless science that completely disregards the fact that more than 75 percent of all hacks are social engineering. Only 25 percent is technology.”
Asked for more on what he expects in 2017, McAfee stated “Ashley Madison, multi-billion dollar company, went bankrupt because of a hack a little more than a year ago. We will see dozens of such cases in 2017.” McAfee also reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely in the near future, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared.
http://www.survivaldan101.com/john-mcafees-cybersecurity-2017/
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Back to the Future: Will War Change Focus of Trump Presidency?
Posted by Sgt Tim on February 7, 2017
Sgt Tim Senior Editor, Outlaw Patriot News
Often overlooked in discussion of the George W. Bush presidency is the fact that in 2000, he campaigned on a platform of less military intervention and nation-building. After almost a decade of military interventionism and adventurism by the Clinton presidency, which saw actions taken primarily in Africa, the Middle East, and the former Yugoslavia, the American people were tired of playing police to a world that was growing increasingly more chaotic after the collapse of the bi-polar world system of the Cold War. Certainly, that campaign platform took a major back-burner following the actions on 11 September, 2001. No matter your opinion on those attacks, the persons responsible, or what exactly happened that day, it cannot be denied that in the days and weeks subsequent to that event, and the general feeling in the country, it would have been practically impossible for George W. Bush to follow his initial foreign policy platform. People can say what they wish of George W. Bush, but my personal opinion is that he likely believed in the platform. However, being surrounded by globalist hawks within his administration that saw the opportunity to establish a new enemy for the US military, and thus, secure funding for a major buildup in military spending and just cause for military action, he was not allowed to follow that policy. Whatever the case may have been – and none of us outside of his inner circle really will ever know for sure – after that fateful day in September, the American people also cried out for a response to the attack. In looking at the policies put forward by our newly-elected president, I see some similarities with the policy that Bush campaigned upon. Less interventionism, more policy directed at bringing America off its course of parity with the rest of the world. His policies have drawn the ire of the very people that have fought to bring this system of global economic parity into play, a plan that has been in the works for much of the last 70 years. With so much work having gone into this plan, it cannot be expected that these architects of a world order constructed upon a theory of global Marxism will simply vanish into the night so quietly. Already, we see tensions heating up around the world in the form of Chinese and Iranian saber-rattling with Chinese warships testing US resolve on statements made regarding islands in the South China Sea and Iranian missile testing. We see tensions at home with paid protests (riots) funded by those that are key players in the globalist system. Politicians that were funded in part by these same elements present themselves as stumbling blocks to his efforts to “Make America Great Again”. Attacks from those that see his policies as putting an end to the agenda they have worked so many years upon try unendingly to paint him as an asset of Vladimir Putin, all the while mocking Russia as far more backward than what it actually is. From the dying corporate media to politicians and agitators, the message is clear: they will not allow the agenda to be stymied without a fight. In 2000, it took those same powers until September, 2001 to put a plan in motion which would draw George W. Bush from his platform of non-interventionism. With the speed and ferocity that Donald Trump is moving with over the first weeks of his presidency, how long do you think it will take those powers to draw the US into an attack that will derail his plans? As the attacks upon his character, his policies, and his overall platform prove to only move the American people more resolutely in line with him, what plan will those that seek to thwart the renewed American spirit devise to disrupt the resurgence in American exceptionalism? These are the actions that we must be aware of, and we must guard against. Simultaneously, we must stay vigilant of any relenting on the part of Trump to the globalist agenda, and support his actions against it. We must continue to pray for our country’s new leadership, that they be given discernment to act in accordance with what is good for the American people and in accordance with the Word. Much needs to be done – but we cannot let the size of the work before us impact our resolve. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and even the largest boulder may be broken with steady strikes from a pickaxe. https://outlawpatriotnews.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/back-to-the-future-will-war-change-focus-of-trump-presidency/
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etc. But it is a very, very dark hour, a very wicked hour, a very evil hour with much going on every day, every moment of the day. You see it not maybe here in the sense that others are seeing it around the world. But I say unto you, open your spiritual eyes, open your spiritual eyes, see, see, see what is taking place. etc..
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'Bloodbaths' In Brazil And Venezuela Are More Warning Signs Of Coming Upheaval
- As More Signs Emerge The Elite Are Preparing For 'The Apocalypse'
February 6, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The brand new story from the Daily Mail Monday morning reports that since military police have gone on strike in the state of Espirito Santo in Brazil, widespread looting, rape and murder have broken out in the streets with 'thugs randomly shooting at anyone who passes'. Describing the chaos on the streets of Brazil to something straight from the movie 'The Purge', we see more and more events every day that should sound a loud and clear alarm to us here in America. In a recent story from the Catholic News Agency, according to Archbishop Ubaldo Santana when asked by a reporter about the possibility of civil war in his nation of Venezuela, Santana responded "there is already a bloodbath of considerable proportions in Venezuela". Warning that the 30,000 people murdered in a year could rapidly go up if "we don't manage to find peaceful ways to understand each other", what's happening in Venezuela right now could be looked at as a microcosm for what is happening across much of the world. A September of 2016 story from the New York Post reported that socialism had left Venezuela a 'walking dead nation'. As we've reported on ANP time and again, what has been happening in Venezuela should also be looked at as a warning for Americans and as YouTube videographer Stefan Molyneux shares with us in brand new first video below, the 'death of Venezuela' is absolutely a sign for all of us to prepare ourselves accordingly. First, new from Brazil: Harrowing scenes were reported from all around the state, and one resident told Political Outsource: 'The thugs are randomly shooting at anyone who passes the street in Espírito Santo. My God what is happening.' Schools have been closed and even football matches cancelled in the affected areas due to the lack of security, which has meant many people are refusing to even venture outdoors. 'I won't even leave my house today,' one Brazilian resident in Espirato Santo told Political Outsource. 'Things are absolutely crazy, there are people running around with guns in pretty populated areas, dozens of people stealing from malls, even dead bodies on streets.' In the first video below, Molyneux interviews 'Gabriel' who lives in Venezuela and shares with us that the people of Venezuela are basically now living under a dictatorship and the national media is not reporting on anything really going on there. Claiming that under former President Chavez, the socialist government consolidated all of their powers under one arm, he warns that "the Venezuelan government can get away with whatever they want and whenever they want to". Another sign of possible impending disaster for the rest of the world, we see in his warning of a 'government out of control while the people suffer' as a very real look at what America has been going through over the past several decades as civil liberties of ordinary Americans were squashed while public servants in Washington DC enriched themselves at the expense of the middle class while they attempted to bring in a totalitarian, dictatorial world govt body. And while some might say that what is happening far, far away from us shouldn't be of any concern, the recent stories outlined below from across the internet prove to us otherwise. As we read in the brand new SQAlert republished below, if we pay close attention to what the 'elite' are doing with a new Trump presidency bringing the 'winds of change to the air', we might learn of 'impending upheavals' before the rest of the masses. Paying attention now to the signs we're getting from all over could be the difference between life and death.
HEADS UP: WHEN THE ELITE FLEE, YOU KNOW THE TIME HAS COME TO RECOGNIZE THEY ARE FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES - Hi Steve I was chatting to a contact of mine who works all over Africa, he said abandoned mines are being re-purposed for deep underground bunkers for royals and elites. He came across the people involved and the areas where they are being built and the royals themselves. These royals are "doing good" in the area and giving things to the poor but their real reason was their hideout was being built. I can ask if he minds giving you more detail directly... SQ - THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ALERT, THAT TIES IN WITH WHATS GOING ON IN THE ANTARCTIC. ALSO, INFORMATION COMING IN, THAT THE RICH AND POWERFUL ARE BEING SUMMONED AND PREPPED FOR MAJOR REVELATIONS AND ALSO BEING TOLD TIMELINES OF IMPENDING UPHEAVALS - THEY WANT TO BE WHERE THE STARVING MASSES ARE NOT, IN OTHER WORDS, WHERE EVERYONE ELSE ISN'T! Back on February 4th we published a story on ANP within which we asked if all of the recent news coming to us from Fukushima, Japan, and the West Coast of the USA was the reason why so many 'elite' were moving to the Southern hemisphere. We reported within that story that 'extraordinary levels' of radiation had been detected at Fukushima, the highest levels since the plant had melted down back in 2011, and the endless poisons that the plant had been pushing out since then had 'blanketed the entire Northern hemisphere' while being detected all across the planet. And while the Daily Mail story reporting on all of these elitists moving to the Southern hemisphere neglected to mention Fukushima poisons blanketing the Northern hemisphere, it did bring out some excellent points. Claiming that 'tech billionaires' are building boltholes to escape social collapse or nuclear war, the DM also asks "what do the 'super rich' know that we don't know?" Their answers won't surprise most 'preppers'.: Attracted by a remote First World country that has the potential to be self-sufficient and is on no one’s list of nuclear targets, the super-rich kings of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are buying up vast tracts of its land — in anticipation of the day when they may need to live there. The controversy has revealed the extraordinary precautions being taken by the mega- rich to ensure that WTSHTF — a crude survivalist acronym for ‘when the **** hits the fan’ — they and their loved ones will be safe and comfortable. What the catastrophe will precisely be remains unclear, but possibilities include a devastating asteroid impact, giant earthquake, nuclear war, civil war, pandemic, zombie invasion and the Second Coming. Tellingly, the geeks of Silicon Valley appear to be most worried that it will be a struggle between rich and poor in a world economy turned upside down by new technology — with them as the main targets. And as Susan Duclos reported in her latest story today on ANP, "agent provocateurs" have infiltrated the 'patriot movement' and are pushing for martial law in America. Clearly being urged on and likely paid by George Soros and the globalists who've long been working to 'bring down America', its clear the dangers America faces despite Trump being voted into office are expanding as globalists join snowflakes in total meltdown mode. The stories from 3 mainstream websites over the past few weeks alone include CNBC reporting "The Super Rich Are Preparing For The End Of The World", Vanity Fair reporting "Silicon Valley Is Preparing For The Apocalypse" as well as The New Yorker reporting "Doomsday Prep For The Super-Rich" that came along with the subtitle: "Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization." So, what do the 'super rich' know that we don't know? The fact that many believed that the US was heading towards economic collapse prior to President Trump's election can never be overlooked, especially with the US now nearly $20 trillion in debt and that debt growing by the second. And while story over at HeatStreet that the Drudge Report linked to on Friday reporting that a severe vegetable shortage has deprived many Europeans of spinach and broccoli this year due to a 'severe winter' is likely only a small symptom of the overall problem, the fact that we're seeing more and more such stories of the elite getting ready for catastrophe is a much bigger sign. As Steve Quayle mentioned in the previously republished SQAlert, in such a worst case scenario as total collapse or other upheavals, the very last place that we want to be is where everybody else is as it has long been reported that population density is one of the key indicators of the likelihood to survive many disasters. In the 2nd video below, videographer The Money GPS shares with us the better places we could be living that will increase the odds being in our favor should the worst case scenarios the rich are now preparing for come to pass. As we've reported previously on ANP, in such a scenario, the last place we want to be is the big cities in the US, 'death traps' by their very nature in a SHTF scenario.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Elite_Again_Preparing_For_The_End.php
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Silver Market Set Up For Much Higher Price Move Than Gold
Filed in News, Precious Metals by SRSrocco on February 6, 2017
When the paper markets finally collapse, the silver market is set up for much higher price gains than gold. Why? Because the fundamentals show that precious metals investment demand has put a great deal more pressure on the silver supply than gold… and by a long shot. There are three crucial reasons why the silver price will outperform the gold price when the highly inflated paper markets disintegrate under the weight of massive debt and derivatives. While many precious metals investors are frustrated by the ability of the Fed and Central Banks to continue to prop up the markets, the longer they postpone the day of reckoning, the worse the collapse. This chart shows that the U.S. relied upon 72% of its domestic silver demand from foreign sources in 2015. Thus, U.S. silver supply reliance (72%) is double that of copper (36%), while U.S. gold demand enjoyed a 48% surplus versus its domestic supply. The second reason the silver price will surge higher than the gold price is due to the amount of physical silver, in total ounces, purchased by investors versus gold: From 2010 to 2016, investors purchased a total of 1,505 million oz (Moz) of silver bar and coin compared to only 284 Moz of physical gold. Thus, precious metals investors purchased five times more silver ounces, than gold ounces during this seven year time period. Of course, the total value of physical gold investment was much higher than silver during this time period, but this tremendous amount of silver bar and coin demand has impacted the silver market much greater than the gold market. This brings me to the third reason. Due to the huge amount of silver bar and coin demand since 2010, the silver market suffered a net deficit of 801 Moz. However, the 284 Moz of gold bar and coin demand did not impact the gold market the same way. According to the World Gold Council, the gold market enjoyed a small 7.5 Moz net surplus during this time period: While it is true that World Gold Council may be underestimating Chinese physical gold demand, and its impact on the annual surplus of deficit figures, a 7.5 Moz surplus is only 3% of the 284 Moz total gold bar and coin demand figure 2010-2016. However, the 801 Moz net silver deficit is more than 50% of total silver bar and coin demand during that same time period. Which means, physical silver investment demand is causing much more stress on the silver market than it is on gold. While the silver market has been able to supplement the annual deficits with old silver coin stocks or large bars that were liquidated during the 1990’s, this is not an endless supply. According to the data I obtained from the GFMS Team at Thompson Reuters, invested dumped a net 580 Moz of silver bar and coin on the market between 1995-1999. Now compare that to the past five years (2012-2016) as investors purchased a net 1,152 Moz (1.15 billion oz) of silver bar and coin. And here is the CLINCHER. From 1985 to 2007, the total net silver bar and coin demand was a NEGATIVE 95 Moz. Which means investors sold a net 95 Moz of silver bar and coin in that 23 year period. However, investors purchased a net 1,785 Moz of silver bar and coin from 2008 to 2016. This is a huge TREND CHANGE. After the U.S. financial and economic meltdown in 2007, investors continue to purchase a record amount of silver bar and coin. This has put severe stress on the silver market as the total net deficit since 2008 surpassed 1,155 Moz. While the silver market will continue to supplement the ongoing annual deficits with old silver stocks, this supply is not endless. Furthermore, the days of the TRUMP STOCK MARKET RALLY are numbered. The last time the stock market crashed 2,000 points in the beginning of 2016, investors flocked into gold and silver in a BIG WAY. In conclusion, the fundamentals in the silver market are setting up for a much higher price spike than gold due to the three reasons stated in the article. The timing of these event is hard to forecast as it is difficult to pinpoint when the Fed and Central Banks lose control of their massive market intervention. My work is not meant to provide a short term outlook on the precious metals, rather it offers fundamentals that will win out over the medium to longer term. Precious metals investors need to look at buying and holding gold and silver the same way an individual puts money away each month in their 401K, pension plan or retirement account. The difference between the precious metals investor acquiring PHYSICAL METAL compared to individual acquiring PAPER ASSETS or DIGITS, is one is real wealth, while the other is an IOU. Those who transition out of PAPER-DIGIT IOU’s and into physical gold and silver before the FAT LADY SINGS, will be rewarded with much better options. To understand why the markets may be heading for big trouble, check out my article, A Large Crack Appeared In The Global Market… And No One Noticed.
https://srsroccoreport.com/silver-market-set-up-for-much-higher-price-move-than-gold/
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At least 231 children abused at Catholic boys’ choir run by Pope Benedict’s brother
on February 6, 2017
Posted In: catholic church, global pedophile rings, world religious news image above Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict AT LEAST 231 children at a famous Catholic boys’ choir in Germany were victims of physical abuse, a lawyer commissioned to investigate the scandal said today. The Domspatzen, a 1,000-year-old choir in Regensburg, Bavaria, was dragged into the massive sexual abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church in 2010, when allegations of assaults that took place several decades ago went public. The choir was run by Pope Benedict’s elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, from 1964 to 1994 when most of the claimed abuses took place. Ratzinger has said that the alleged sexual abuse was “never discussed” in the time that he ran the choir attached to the boarding school. Lawyer Ulrich Weber, who had been commissioned by the diocese to look into the cases, said at a press conference today that his research, which included 70 interviews with victims, uncovered abuse that took place from 1945 to the early 1990s. “I have here 231 reports of physical abuse,” he said, announcing a figure far higher than had previously been assumed. These ranged from sexual assault to rape, severe beatings and food deprivation, said Weber. The reported cases of sexual abuse in Regensburg were mostly concentrated in the period of the mid to end 1970s. Weber added that “50 victims spoke of ten perpetrators”. MONSTER POPE BENEDICT OR BENNY THE RAT Pope Benedict is applauded by members of the Regensburger Domspatzen choir, now the subject of a wide-ranging abuse scandal, in 2006. The director and composer Franz Wittenbrink, a former pupil of the boarding school, had told Der Spiegel magazine in 2010 that there was a “system of sadistic punishments connected to sexual pleasure”. Several other German institutions have also been engulfed by the ongoing clerical abuse scandal, including an elite Jesuit school in Berlin which had admitted to systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the priests concerned are not expected to face criminal charges however, because the alleged crimes took place too long ago. However, there had been calls for a change in the law and for the church to pay compensation to victims. SOURCE
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For third time this winter, the North Pole will warm to near melting point
By Andrew Freedman 2 days ago
An extraordinarily powerful storm system is spinning across the North Atlantic Ocean, just southeast of Greenland. Together with long-term climate change and other transitory weather systems, it is setting the stage for a dramatic and unusual warmup at the North Pole this week. For the third time this winter, such a storm is likely to vault unusually warm air toward the pole, potentially bringing temperatures across the sunless Arctic to near the melting point for a brief period late this week. SEE ALSO: No, U.S. climate scientists didn't trick the world into adopting the Paris deal The storm, an unnamed beast that looks like it came straight from meteorological central casting, exploded in intensity on Sunday. The air pressure at the center of the storm bottomed out at an astonishing 932 millibars, or 27.52 inches of mercury on a home barometer. In general, the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm, and a reading this low indicates that the storm means business. In fact, such a low pressure reading is more typically seen in Category 3 or 4 hurricanes, although this particular tempest is not tropical in origin, and therefore was not given a name by the National Hurricane Center. The National Weather Service's Ocean Prediction Center (OPC) has been keeping an eye out on this storm for a while. In fact, the center predicted that the storm would develop and intensify into a dangerous low pressure area that could doom ships caught in its path. According to the OPC, the weather system has clocked in with winds as high as 90 miles per hour, and churned up waves of greater than 46 feet along its southeastern flank. Arctic heat wave While this powerful storm is noteworthy on its own, its impacts across the Arctic will be especially significant. The Arctic has had a freakishly warm winter to follow its warmest year on record. Sea ice extent continues to limp along at an anemic record low for this time of year, due to weather patterns and long-term climate change. The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, mainly because of feedback loops in the climate system that kick in as snow and ice melts and darker land and sea surfaces are exposed to the sun. This winter has been anything but typical in the far north. On at least two occasions, so far, the North Pole itself has neared or reached the melting point of 0 degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, in part because of pulses of mild and moist air flooding the region from the Atlantic side of the Arctic Ocean. On Thursday, temperature departures from normal of 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit are projected for areas near the North Pole. Such anomalies would take actual air temperatures to near the melting point. This particular storm will cause the third such event since November, as the counterclockwise flow of air around the low pressure area teams up with the circulation around a high pressure area over northern Europe, funneling mild air toward the North Pole. While these relatively brief Arctic warmups are not unheard of, having so many of them in a single winter is rare. If this situation seems familiar to you, it's because a nearly identical event occurred in December 2015, causing alarm over a melting North Pole. During the last warm Arctic event, experts said that while storm systems are the major player in causing transient and dramatic warm spells, such events are most likely enabled by low sea ice cover as well. The second-lowest sea ice cover on record in the Arctic was recorded in September, and recent months have set monthly records as well. In the summer and fall, missing sea ice cover allows ocean waters to absorb heat from the sun, which is then slowly released into the air in the fall and early winter. Ice-covered areas stay cooler since sea ice reflects most incoming solar radiation. A study published in Nature Scientific Reports on Dec. 15 found that North Pole winter warming events are associated with low pressure systems, or cyclones, near the pole, as well as a polar vortex that is "perturbed," or weakened, which allows for areas of extreme cold to leak out into the midlatitudes. Both of these conditions are present this week, and have been at other times this winter. The author of that Nature study, Kent Moore, a physics professor at the University of Toronto, said in December that records of such events go back at least to 1959, with an observed frequency of about once or twice each decade. While there isn't a clear indication that these events are becoming more frequent, Moore said the magnitude of the temperature extremes are growing at twice the rate of general Arctic warming. Moore says this is consistent with the loss of winter sea ice near Norway, which allows a "reservoir" of warm air to move closer to the Pole, where storms can tap into it. "We’re getting to the point where extremes are becoming more extreme,” Moore said. According to Moore, sudden warming events like this one can cause serious problems for Arctic wildlife by causing rain to fall on top of snow, leading to an icy crust that prevents reindeer herds from accessing their food beneath the snow.
http://mashable.com/2017/02/06/storm-will-warm-north-pole-melting-point/#lVCIqO0Exaqm
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NEW!!! Q-CAST: Fukushima - Third of Sea Life DEAD! 2-6-17
Steve Quayle Published on Feb 6, 2017
The Official Steve Quayle Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKn54nxBlY
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'Leftist Fight Club' trains UCF students to fight Republicans
Lauren Cooley Florida Campus Correspondent @laurenacooley on Feb 06, 2017 at 12:08 PM EDT
The “Knights for Socialism” group at the University of Central Florida (UCF) held a workshop Sunday to teach left-wing students how to “BASH THE FASH” with a “Leftist Fight Club” open to everyone but Republicans. “In response to the record number of hate crimes against Latinxs, Immigrants, Muslims, Women, the LGBTQIA+ community, Jews, African Americans and other minorities since the rise of Donald Trump and other Alt-Right Neo-Nazis, Knights for Socialism has decided to host a series of self-defense clinics for anyone that wants to learn how to BASH THE FASH,” asserts the Facebook event page for “Leftist Fight Club: The Rumbles at Lake Claire.” The description explains that a local amateur boxer was on hand to teach basic hand-to-hand combat techniques at the self-defense clinic, in order to help the socialist students better protect themselves from potential hate crimes performed by those sympathetic to “Donald Trump and other Alt-Right Neo-Nazis.” After the instruction, students were given the opportunity to practice what they learned by sparring with one another. The event planners specifically urged women to attend because they expect a rise in sexual violence due to the election of President Trump. “Ladies: The Commander in thief is a sexual predator and rapist,” the description warns. “He has normalised sexual assault and it is expected that sexual violence against women is going to skyrocket in the next 12 months. Please join us! There will be other women there for you to spar against!” The organizers also imply that they are looking forward to unprotected sparring, remarking that “We will have gloves and pads, no bare-knuckle yet ;).” Scott Benton, a UCF College Republican, told Campus Reform that he considers the impulse toward violence to be a natural consequence of the intellectual indefensibility of leftists beliefs, saying, “If you can’t hang with someone on a debate stage, then you resort to other means to try and justify your cause.” Other students, however, say they feel less safe on campus because of the event. Campus Reform obtained an email exchange in which a UCF student alerts the Dean of Student Conduct, Dana Juntunen, to the existence of the “disturbing event,” to which Juntunen replied by thanking the student for bringing the event to the school’s attention and stating that campus administrators would be “looking further into this.” “This event is open to everyone and anyone, EXCEPT REPUBLICANS,” the Facebook event page proudly proclaims. Karis Lockhart, chair of the UCF College Republicans, put it simply, telling Campus Reform that “the fact that the description of the event says ‘everyone except republicans’ means they don't want to hold an educational discussion about the issues, they just want to whine.” Neither Knights for Socialism nor UCF spokespersons responded to requests for comment from Campus Reform in time for publication.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8741
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Google Redefines ‘Fascism’ To Smear Conservatives
"Extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.”
The word "fascist" is on the lips of every progressive these days who hysterically likens President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler despite being unable to define the word correctly. In fact, its true definition is irrelevant to progressives, because all they care about is employing the nasty label as a scare tactic to paint Trump and conservatives as Nazis. For any progressive who might actually have the intellectual curiosity to look up the definition online, The Daily Caller reports that Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has now helpfully twisted the definition to smear the right. As the Daily Caller points out, Merriam-Webster defines the word “fascism” as “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.” The secondary definition is “a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.” This definition stresses the fact that Nazis were fascists of the left, who generally advocate for a powerful central government, as opposed to the right's preference for less intrusive government where power rests with the states and individuals. Google, on the other hand, now defines fascism as “an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization,” [emphasis added] and omitted the “severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition” part. Its secondary definition is, “extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.” Here is a screen capture of the definition from Google: It's unknown why Google changed the definition, but Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a known progressive activist and Trump critic. You do the math. As the Daily Caller concludes, Many members of the mainstream media have unquestioningly adopted the new Google meaning without explaining why, leaving their audience with the impression that speech or advocacy contrary to liberal orthodoxy is fascistic when, by definition, it is not.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/google-redefines-fascism-smear-conservatives
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STARBUCKS, GOOGLE, TESLA MOTORS, AND OTHERS- OPPOSITION TO TRUMP IS A PROJECTION OF GLOBALIST HATRED
Opposition to Trump is a Projection of Globalist Hatred of Nationalism, European America and Ethnic Nationalism in General
By Jack Mullen | The Government Rag | 4Feb2017
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell
Travel ban opposition aimed at Trump is the PROJECTION of a rabid, deep hatred of European America, Americans and ethnic nationalism in general. The Zionist world platform is based on infiltrating existing culture, slowly occupying positions which influence culture, media, art, science, education and the like – and, after a period of time, they begin to create their own culture, a rotten, fake, dirty, shallow, hallow, plastic culture. As time passes and they go unnoticed they slowly begin streaming their culture, illustrating fake lifestyles, featuring prurient and morally degrading images, manufacturing irrational, immoral, unnatural social situations, and creating narratives which reinforce fabricated, heavily publicized, events (fake news and history) which steer the culture toward the goals of the Zionist/Communist agenda. Companies such as Google, Starbucks, Tesla Motors and individuals and super too-good-to-be-true stars like Elon Musk are subversive enemies of nationalism, European culture, ethnic culture and natural mankind in general — Starbucks promises to create 10,000 jobs starting in the USA — but not for the dominant, struggling, over taxed, licensed-to-death, insurance poor, mortgaged to the hilt, middle class American — nope — these haters of standard of living, outside of their “Hunger Games” elites and the American legacy plan to employ refugees. The unemployment rate in America is really, according to the reality based stats at Shadow Stats (shadowstats.com ) 22.7% and rising (government stats are shameless lies. ) Layoffs are conveniently never covered and the loss of primary manufacturing means the only sectors presenting openings are in restaurant and bar jobs, prison guards for growing prison populations and miscellaneous part time work. But there are many including Starbucks which support offshoring American jobs while importing illegal refugees to pick up the part time jobs that might open up — Please Boycott Starbucks, Elon Musk fairy tales and all the other globalist companies subversively hammering away at the old world of nations and building their dumbed-down planet of the morons – they like to call their New World Order. For your information and research queries, Starbucks was invited to participate in discussions about implementing and creating the Transpacific Partnership TPP. This agreement would have stamped out the American Standard of Living by forcing Americans to take wages for work that could be done elsewhere cheaper at the lower outside wage — For many that would mean $2 hour jobs for certain types of jobs Americans were told were being “created” in the USA. According to an article critical of Starbucks, there are 5 good reasons to stop buying this mega-corporations products ($14 billion a year) – These reasons include: Starbucks uses non-organic milk from factory farms Starbucks peddles mostly non-organic, GMO (junk) foods and drinks Starbucks is a member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (which spends millions a year trying to block product labeling) Starbucks fails the Fair Trade test Starbucks is negotiating “free trade” in secret Are we not sick (literally) to death of these alien, hostile, globalist elitists and their bastard offspring corporations trying to destroy America ? Does anyone believe they will be better off as a tax slave in a One World Dictatorship? “All the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.” - Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June 1931 speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.
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Reuters told their reporters to cover Donald Trump like a dictator :Who Owns The Media? Are you really getting the truth?
on February 7, 2017 Posted In: america, Donald Trump, DONALD TRUMP
Steve Adler, editor in chief of Reuters news agency, has written a memo for all Reuters journalists instructing them how to cover Donald Trump’s administration. In the memo, Adler acknowledged that Trump’s presidency is an entirely new challenge for United States political journalists, in that they are dealing with an administration that has already actively spread disinformation. He pointed to the outlet’s history in covering dictatorial regimes in ZImbabwe, Russia, Egypt and Turkey: To state the obvious, Reuters is a global news organisation that reports independently and fairly in more than 100 countries, including many in which the media is unwelcome and frequently under attack. I am perpetually proud of our work in places such as Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Thailand, China, Zimbabwe, and Russia, nations in which we sometimes encounter some combination of censorship, legal prosecution, visa denials, and even physical threats to our journalists. He continued: We don’t know yet how sharp the Trump administration’s attacks will be over time or to what extent those attacks will be accompanied by legal restrictions on our news-gathering. But we do know that we must follow the same rules that govern our work anywhere. He urged reporters not to worry about the “inside baseball,” and be resourceful in the event of the administration cutting off access channels. Adler then listed the Do’s and Don’ts for best practice; which included to “worry less about official access” and to not “take too dark a view of the reporting environment: It’s an opportunity for us to practice the skills we’ve learned in much tougher places around the world and to lead by example”. You can read the full briefing on the Reuters website. Question? Who Owns The Media? Who Owns Reuters? These are the 6 media companies that exist today. There used to be 88. These 6 all get their news from Reuters and the Associated Press. As many people have come to believe real journalism is dead. Gone are the days of objective fact-finding journalism. Most mass consumed media today is nothing more than state-sponsored propaganda. The non-stop partisan media shares one common trait. The political lines are nothing more than an illusion propagated by these 6 corporations. Who get their news from 2 sources. Whose agenda is being sold via the media to the unwashed masses? Let us take a look. Reuters was previously owned by the Rothschild banking family. They sold Reuters to the Thompson family in 2008. The new company is called Thompson-Reuters. The Thompson family owns a majority of shares at 53%. Historically, no single individual has been permitted to own more than 15% of Reuters, under the first of the Reuters Principles, which states, “Reuters shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group or faction.” However, that restriction was waived for the purchase by the Thomson family. When you get all of your information from 6 corporations who then, get all their information from two sources. Are you really getting the truth? What will it take to get the truth out of the media? Perhaps water boarding might be a good start? When so few give out the news to so many rather than covering Trump like he is a dictator wouldn’t it be more fair to say that the propaganda emanating from such sources is like the news from a state run dictatorship? in other words FAKE NEWS EVERYDAY ALL DAY. No wonder Trump is in favor of waterboarding.
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“Behead them in their own homes”: Pennsylvania Muslim’s assassination list of US military personnel
By Pamela Geller - on February 6, 2017
Interesting, I don’t see any New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, et al coverage of the story, but Islamophobia stories (that turn out to fake, of course) are splashed across their front/home pages.
February 6, 20175:10 pm By Robert Spencer: “After the hearing, Thornton described his client as ‘a young kid who was tweeting from his bedroom. He’s very sorry that he ever got himself involved in something like this.’” His targets would have been even sorrier if this poor “young kid” had carried out his plans. “Pennsylvania man, 20, pleads guilty to charges he conspired to aid the Islamic State,” Associated Press, January 30, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia): A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to help the Islamic State group and to tweeting out a list that identified and targeted people serving in the U.S. military. Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz faces the potential of up to 25 years and a $500,000 fine after admitting to a charge of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group and to transmitting a communication containing a threat, both felonies. Aziz, a natural born American arrested in Harrisburg in December 2015, used about 70 different Twitter accounts and an encrypted mobile messaging application to spread messages from the Islamic State group and to help people trying to travel to territory it controls, said federal counterterrorism prosecutor Robert Sander. In March 2015, Aziz published on Twitter a list of more than 100 American military personnel that included photos, rank and addresses, along with instructions to kill them, Sander told the judge. Aziz referred to it as an assassination list, Sander said. The message exhorted people to ‘kill them in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk their street.’ Federal officials say the service members on the list were notified and appropriate security measures were taken. During a search in November 2015, authorities found five high-capacity magazines, a knife, a balaclava and other equipment in the home he shared in Harrisburg with his parents. Federal public defender Thomas Thornton said Aziz does not remember all of the messages he was accused of sending or retweeting. After the hearing, Thornton described his client as ‘a young kid who was tweeting from his bedroom.’ ‘He’s very sorry that he ever got himself involved in something like this,’ Thornton said. Authorities have said Aziz also expressed on Twitter his interest in ‘buying’ a Yazidi woman upon his arrival in Islamic State group territory. ‘I just want one girl 17 years old,’ he tweeted, according to federal prosecutors. In a filing last week that argued the Yazidi posts were irrelevant and should not be evidence at trial, Thornton called the communications ‘no more than the fantastical musings of an isolated and suppressed teenage boy.’ Yazidis, whose heartland is in Iraq’s remote Sijar region, have been targeted by Islamic State group militants for conversion and elimination, and Yazidi women have described being forced into sexual slavery….
http://pamelageller.com/2017/02/pa-muslim-behead-us-military-soldiers.html/
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Accepting the authority of Jesus
Jonathan McAnulty - Minister
Jesus was crucified on the cross and buried in a tomb. In fulfillment of His words and the words of Scripture, He rose from the dead on the third day and appeared to many witnesses. Chief amongst these witnesses were the apostles He had selected to carry His words to the world. (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:1-5) Having risen from the dead, when Jesus appeared to His apostles, He declared to them, “All authority has been given to me in Heaven and on earth.” (Matthew 28:18) The resurrection of Christ was the crowning of Jesus as King, and the fulfillment of the second Psalm, in which we read, “I have set my King on my holy hill,” and “you are my son, today I have begotten you.” This psalm declares the Jesus will rule the nations with a rod of iron, a rod that the New Testament confirms Jesus now has. (cf. Psalms 2:6-9; Revelation 2:27) The Bible calls Jesus the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. When Jesus claimed to possess all authority, He was claiming nothing less than the full power of divinity. His word is law. His judgment is absolute, and to Him, every knee shall one day bend. But what does that authority mean for us today? Many are willing to give faith in Jesus lip service, but are not actually willing to live their lives according to His commandments. When Jesus says, “all authority,” He is demanding a choice… do you believe that the Son of God rose from the dead and deserves to command your every word and deed by the power of His authority, or do you reject His authority? (cf. Colossians 3:17) It is not enough to nod in agreement with the words of Jesus. A king expects those things he commands to be carried out. In one place, Jesus said that the man who heard His words and did them was like a wise man, building his house on a firm rock, and was able thus to withstand the storm. But the man who hears the words of Jesus and refuses to do them, Jesus said, is a foolish man who has built his house on sand, and is destined for a great fall when the storm strikes. (cf. Matthew 7:24-27) Though there are many possible storms that can afflict a man’s soul, we cannot forget the rod of judgment the Bible says that Jesus possesses: that same rod He will use to dash the wicked and rebellious nations to pieces. It seems like a rod powerful enough to punish nations is likely effective against a single wicked and rebellious man. After declaring the force of His authority, Jesus then proceeded to give a command. His followers were authorized to go out and make disciples. Specifically Jesus commanded, “Go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19) Jesus was speaking, at this time, to those who were already disciples – men and women who already believed in Him and accepted His authority. He was telling them to go find others who would be willing to accept His authority, obey His commands, and follow Him all the way, wherever He would lead. A disciple of Christ is thus one who accepts the authority of Jesus and wants to obey Him. In obedience, that person is going to be baptized, beginning a walk of righteousness and obedience. This baptism, we are elsewhere taught, is a baptism of believers (cf. Mark 16:16), who have repented of their sins (cf. Acts 2:48) and who want to have those sins washed away through the blood and power of Christ (cf. Acts 22:16). This new birth of baptism (cf. John 3:5; Romans 6:4) is a burial with Christ, and a rising to walk a new life. This new life is one lived in conformity to the Lord, who also said that disciples to come were to be taught to obey all those things He had commanded. (Matthew 28:20) Obeying His commands brings us right back around, full circle, to His authority. The question for each one of us is this: do we believe that Jesus is the Son of God who is risen from the dead, and who has been given all authority in heaven and on earth? If so, then the wise man submits to Him in full obedience (cf. Psalm 2). Such a man will obey the commands of Christ, beginning with baptism, but certainly not ending there. And such a man, walking in the full authority of Christ will then seek to go out and find others who also desire to be the disciples of Christ, and teach them, just as he was taught of Christ. The church of Christ is a group of disciples who want to do all those things Jesus taught us, including the making of new disciples. We would love to have you study with us the words of Jesus, joining us in worship at 234 Chapel Drive, Gallipolis, Ohio. Likewise if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us through our website: chapelhillchurchofchrist.org. Jonathan McAnulty is minister of Chapel Hill Church of Christ.
http://mydailyregister.com/opinion/12198/accepting-the-authority-of-jesus
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Witnessing For His Kingdom
Posted by Alex Wohler
Being God’s witness and bringing people to Christ is one of the most rewarding and challenging things anyone can ever do. Bringing people to Christ can be a challenge because not everyone will accept Him as their savior and their Lord. Some people may not believe the story of Jesus coming to Earth after a virgin birth, then preaching until He was 33, gathering 12 disciples and then dying on the cross for everyone’s sins. Some people will ultimately think that the entire story of Jesus, His life and ministry is a fake, untrue and even too extreme to be true. Some may even believe that His birth wasn’t even miraculous. Those people who don’t believe in Jesus are the ones we need to reach out to the most. Even though it’s important to continue to reach out to the believers, it is even more important that the unbelievers come to Christ. The fact that we can be witnesses to and for His story, to His glory and the ultimate gift of salvation that He gives, is a privilege we shouldn’t take for granted. People need to hear about Jesus in His word, through going to church and through Bible studies as well as through every day discussions. When someone asks how you are, you can respond with “I’m blessed.” Maybe that will open the door to them asking you why you say you feel like you’re blessed. Then it opens the door for you to tell them about how God has changed your life for the best and discuss how to gain His salvation. We can bring people to recognize Christ in us and in our lives through our words and through our actions. Maybe someone will see the kindness you bestow on others and in turn, return that favor to someone else. It can be as simple as holding a door for someone, opening a car door for someone, helping an elderly person or making dinner for one of your colleagues that is going through a death in the family. It can also be as simple as comforting a friend or a loved one after a stressful day on the job or at school. All of those actions show Gods love. Some people may have asked you, “how do you have that peace in your heart?” Or, “what can I do to gain the peace that you have? You always seem to be happy, why is that? What do you have that I don’t have?” Some of my favorite questions are: “what do I do about peace? I’ve prayed for peace and I never get it. I need that peace. How do I get the peace you have?” I explain that, God gives me the peace that I have, as well as the passion in my heart for my work and in my life. It is because of God, I am who I am today. He makes me who I am and continues to shape me into the person He wants me to be. Even if people don’t believe what I’m saying about Him, all I can do is try to teach them the one true way and how to ask for the salvation that God freely gives. Mathew 10:14, says,14 “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.” This verse says that all believers can do is try and share the good news with those who are suffering and those who don’t believe. If people don’t accept His message through the words He gives you, you can still pick yourself up, knowing that you did all you could. You can walk away with your heart full and your head held high. Don’t beat yourself up if someone doesn’t come to Christ through you. You will know full well in your heart that you did all you could for His Kingdom with that particular person. You can find the joy of teaching someone else about God too. All the people we talk to have to do is, ask God to come into their lives with all their heart, ask Him to forgive their sins and accept His forgiveness with their full heart. Some of the Bible verses that you can use in your discussions include: John 14:6. John 14:6 says, 6 “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Another verses to share with people is: John 3:16. it says says, 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” This verse can be used to help people understand what Jesus did for them and that He wants a relationship with them, and that He wants to have a place prepared for them in Heaven. You can also explain to them that God wants everyone to come to Him so that they can be saved and have an eternal place in Heaven, one day when He returns. Romans 10:9 says, “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Another verse about witnessing for Him is, Ephesians 6:19: “19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.” This verse can be used to help others witness and through prayer for other believers. Witnessing and bringing people to Christ is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of life. It is challenging because Satan is always prowling around like a Lion to devour us with his lies and schemes. He wants us to give up on bringing people to Christ. He can easily tell a believer that is it’s not worth pursuing God’s love or to help bring people to know Christ. He will tell people that they can make it on their own without God. Satan also spreads the fear that telling people about God will make people hate you and it will make you lose friends. Even though telling others the good news may cause you to loose friends, it can also save people’s lives. As Christians we learn not to believe Satan’s lies and trust in God’s almighty power. On the other hand, knowing and bringing people to Christ can be one of the most rewarding aspects in life, because He gives people the peace in life that we know only can come from Him. Philippians 4:7 says, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Never give up on bringing people to Christ. He is who the world really needs. Don’t let anything hold you back from sharing the good news!
Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/wewaitheworks/2017/02/witnessing-for-his-kingdom.html#30JAqbR6qzzROpub.99
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Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty
Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest
As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria’s most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country’s civil war as part of an extermination policy ordered by the highest levels of the Syrian government, according to Amnesty International. Many thousands more people held in Saydnaya prison died through torture and starvation, Amnesty said, and the bodies were dumped in two mass graves on the outskirts of Damascus between midnight and dawn most Tuesday mornings for at least five years. The report, Human Slaughterhouse, details allegations of state-sanctioned abuse that are unprecedented in Syria’s civil war, a conflict that has consistently broken new ground in depravity, leaving at least 400,000 people dead and nearly half the country’s population displaced. It suggests thousands more people could have been hanged in Saydnaya since the end of 2015, after which former guards and detainees who spoke to Amnesty no longer had access to verifiable information from inside the prison. Among the 84 people interviewed were four former guards at two key buildings, a “red building” in which civilian detainees were held and a “white building” that held former military members and where hangings were carried out in the basement. More than 12 months of research focused on 31 men who were held in both buildings. A military judge was also interviewed. The witnesses claimed that once or twice a week 20 to 50 people at a time were hanged after sham trials before a military court. Their bodies were taken to the nearby Tishreen military hospital where a cause of death was typically registered as a respiratory disorder or heart failure. They were buried on military land in Nahja, south of Damascus, and Qatana, a small town to the west. The report’s author, Nicolette Waldman, said the estimate of the number of people hanged ranged from a minimum of 5,000 to a maximum of 13,000. “There is no reason at all to expect that the hangings have stopped. We believe it is very likely that the executions are going on to this day and that many thousands more people have been killed,” she said. “They came for them on a Monday. Before they were hanged, victims were condemned to death in a two- to three-minute hearing. The death sentence was signed by the minister of defence, who was deputised to sign by President Assad. It is inconceivable that all of the top officials did not know about it. This was a policy of extermination.” Waldman said the hanging victims were separate to claims of the systematic killing of more than 11,000 detainees in Syria from March 2011 until August 2013, which were documented by a photographer codenamed Caesar who worked for the Syrian military police. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed last May that at least 60,000 people had died as a result of torture or dire conditions in Syrian prisons from the earliest months of the anti-Assad insurrection. Since then, Syria has been gradually torn apart. The initial uprising was met with a brutal crackdown and mass detentions, and by late 2011 it had started to transform into an armed insurgency that aimed to topple the four-decade Assad dynasty and its supporting state structure. By mid-2012 the uprising had been joined by jihadists from outside Syria, who blended with hundreds of hardcore Islamists freed from Syrian prisons who had begun to splinter the opposition. All the while, mass arrests and detentions accelerated, as did an exodus of civilians from most parts of the country. The war soon sparked the biggest refugee crisis anywhere since the end of the second world war. Mass immigration has since been a focal point of political discourse in Europe and the US, feeding the rise of populism and nationalistic leaders such as Donald Trump, whose travel ban prevented Syrians, among others, from entering the US, until the order was overturned by a federal judge on Friday. Amnesty said non-state armed groups had also carried out serious human rights abuses against detainees. It singled out the al-Qaida-inspired Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State as perpetrators of war crimes. But it said the “vast majority of detention-related violations since 2011 have been carried out by Syrian authorities”. Witnesses to the killings in Saydnaya described a methodical routine in which those about to be hung were collected from their cell block in the red building in the afternoon and told they were to be transferred to another prison. They were instead taken to the basement of the white building, several hundred metres away, and repeatedly beaten. They were taken before a military judge and condemned, before being hanged between midnight and 3am. “Some of them initially did not know what the sounds were,” said Waldman. “It is such a dehumanising and horrible experience in prison already.” Amnesty said its witnesses had detailed each step of the process, with some giving graphic accounts of having heard the hangings being carried out in the room beneath them. The organisation said it had sought a response to its allegations from Syrian officials in mid-January but received no reply. Amnesty researchers are barred from entering Syria. “What we have uncovered is beyond anything else we have seen,” said Waldman. “This demands a new kind of response. These practices have to stop. It is one more step of diabolical intent by the Syrian authorities.”
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Israel legalises West Bank settler homes
Published: 10:03 pm, Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Israel's parliament has passed a law designed to legalise thousands of settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank. The measure has drawn international concern, with UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warning it will "greatly diminish the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace". Under the law, settlers could remain on the land if they built there without prior knowledge of Palestinian ownership, or if homes were constructed at the state's instruction. Palestinian owners would be compensated either with money or alternative land, even if they did not agree to give up their property. Jewish Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. During a heated debate ahead of the vote, Israeli cabinet minister Ofir Akunis said: 'We are voting tonight on our right to the land. 'We are voting tonight on the connection between the Jewish people and its land. This whole land is ours. All of it.' The vote passed 60 to 52 in Israel's 120-member Knesset, but the law is expected to be challenged in the courts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on a trip to London to meet Theresa May, had voiced misgivings about the law in the lead-up to the vote - and said he had wanted to delay it until his meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on 15 February. Israel's attorney general has said it is unconstitutional and he will not defend it at the country's Supreme Court. Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said: 'This is an escalation that would only lead to more instability and chaos. It is unacceptable. It is denounced and the international community should act immediately.' Mrs May told MPs she had raised the issue of Israeli settlement building on Palestinian land during her meeting with Mr Netanyahu in Downing Street. Later, her spokeswoman said: 'We want to be able to support finding a resolution, finding a path to the two-state solution. 'In that context we want to work with Israel as a friend, recognise their right to be free from terrorism, but also be clear when we have concerns about that approach and how it can undermine trust.' During the meeting, Mrs May signalled her continued support for the international nuclear deal with Iran, despite Mr Netanyahu urging her to join President Trump in imposing fresh sanctions against Tehran. The Israeli PM believes the deal will do nothing to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions, but Mrs May's spokeswoman said the deal has 'neutralised the possibility of the Iranians acquiring nuclear weapons for more than a decade'. Co-operation on cybersecurity, innovation and technology were also discussed during his visit. Sky News UK
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/mideast/2017/02/07/israel-legalises-west-bank-settler-homes.html#sthash.JQ8WNUs4.dpuf
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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.
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Kremlin Wants Apology From Fox News Over Putin 'Killer' Comment, Says Iran Not 'Terrorist'
The Kremlin says it wants an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one of the U.S. channel's presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaking to U.S. President Donald Trump in an interview broadcast on February 5, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly called Putin "a killer." Trump responded, "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?" Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on February 6 that O'Reilly's comments were "unacceptable and insulting." He said the Kremlin would like "to receive an apology to the president" from Fox. Peskov declined to comment on Trump's response to O'Reilly's remark. Trump's remarks on the Russian president have been followed closely in the United States, where critics say he is too complimentary about Putin. U.S. intelligence agencies say Russia used hacking and other methods to meddle in the 2016 presidential election campaign with the aim of discrediting U.S. democracy, bolstering Trump, and undermining his rival in the November vote, Hillary Clinton. O'Reilly did not say who he believed Putin has killed. Some Kremlin opponents say they believe Putin was behind killings of critics such as journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead in 2006, and politician Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in February 2015, as well as 1999 apartment-building bombings that killed hundreds of people in Russia and increased popular support for a second war against separatists in Chechnya. Putin and the Kremlin have denied involvement in these and other attacks. In January 2016, after a British judge ruled that Putin might have authorized the fatal poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko in London with the radioactive isotope polonium-210 in 2006. Trump noted that Putin had not been convicted of killing the former KGB officer and said: "Many people say it wasn't him. So who knows who did it?" Speaking to journalists on February 6, Peskov also said that the Kremlin did not agree with remarks by Trump in which he called Iran a "terrorist state." 'Don't Fix What's Not Broken' Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, meanwhile, warned the United States not to try to "rewrite" a July 2015 deal between Tehran and six world powers that curtailed Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. "My advice to our U.S. colleagues on the Iran nuclear deal is very simple: Don't try to fix what is not broken," Ryabkov said in an interview with the Russian PIR-Center think tank's magazine, Security Index. "It would be too risky to try to launch a new process on such a serious issue and seek new terms of the deal," he said. "This would be an undesirable and negative scenario, which would only add fuel to the fire in the Middle East." Trump has called the deal forged with Iran by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany "one of the worst deals we have ever made" and indicated during his campaign that he would seek to abandon or alter it, but has taken no specific steps to do so since he took office on January 20. His administration did, however, impose new sanctions on Iran on February 3, after Tehran carried out a medium-range ballistic-missile test. Russia has close relations with Iran, and both countries' military forces are backing the Syrian government in the country's civil war. While criticizing Trump's characterization of Iran, Peskov said that differences between Russia and the United States should not stop the two countries from building a mutually beneficial relationship. Ukraine Conflict The Kremlin also took issue with the White House's description of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where government forces are fighting Russia-backed separatists in a war that has killed more than 9,750 people since April 2014. In a brief statement about Trump's February 4 telephone call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the White House said the two discussed topics including "Ukraine's long-running conflict with Russia." Peskov said: "There is no conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Donbas is exclusively an internal Ukrainian conflict." Russia has repeatedly denied involvement in the conflict, despite large amounts of evidence that it stirred up separatism in eastern Ukraine early in 2014 and has sent military forces and weapons into the region, which borders Russia, to help the separatists. The White House statement quoted Trump as saying the United States "will work with Ukraine, Russia, and all other parties involved to help them restore peace along the border." Trump's talk with Poroshenko came a week after he spoke by phone with Putin, their first conversation since Trump took office on January 20. An upsurge in fighting in the Donbas killed at least 35 people last week in a week of escalated fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists. On February 2, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, expressed "strong condemnation of Russia's actions" in eastern Ukraine. Haley also said that "Crimea is a part of Ukraine" and that U.S. sanctions related to Russia's seizure of Crimea in March 2014 "will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine.” With reporting by Reuters, Interfax, AP, and TASS
http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-fox-news-apology-putin-killer/28282958.html
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Putin orders Russia's air forces to prepare 'for a time of war' with 'special attention paid to air defence systems and readiness to repel aggression'
Defence minister Sergey Shoigu said Putin had ordered forces to 'evaluate readiness' for combat
Air defence systems are set to be deployed, he revealed
The move comes at a time of heightened tensions with Nato countries
By Dave Burke For Mailonline Published: 07:13 EST, 7 February 2017 | Updated: 10:04 EST, 7 February 2017
Vladimir Putin has ordered his air force to prepare for 'a time of war', Russia's defence minister has revealed. The Russian president has launched a spot check on the country's aerospace forces, in order to 'evaluate readiness' for combat. Air defence systems are set to be deployed, minister Sergey Shoigu revealed. He stated, TASS news agency reports: 'In accordance with the decision by the Armed Forces Supreme Commander, a snap check of the Aerospace Forces began to evaluate readiness of the control agencies and troops to carry out combat training tasks.' He continued: 'Special attention should be paid to combat alertness, deployment of air defense systems for a time of war and air groupings’ readiness to repel the aggression.' It comes during heightened tensions with Nato countries, and Putin has been publicly increasing his military strength in recent months. The defence minister said battalion task groups and tactical teams of ground troops had started to 'take steps in order to improve their interaction'. Fighter pilots have been practicing solitary excercises as well, he stated.
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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.
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China sails warships near islands Mattis vowed to defend for Japan
By Lucas Tomlinson Published February 06, 2017 FoxNews.com
STATE-OF-THE-ART CHINESE BALLISTIC MISSILE APPEARS IN MILITARY DRILLS
The ships sailed within Japan’s territorial waters some 12 nautical miles off the islands in the East China Sea, roughly 140 miles northeast of Taiwan, a U.S. defense official told Fox News. On his first overseas trip as defense secretary, Jim Mattis, speaking in Tokyo, said China “has shredded the trust” of countries in the region by building up man-made islands in the South China Sea. He also said the U.S. commitment to protect Japanese territory applied to its islands in the East China Sea. CHINA'S FIRST LARGE HOMEMADE PASSENGER JET TO FLY IN 2017 Mattis later called for all regional disputes over territory to be handled peacefully during a press conference alongside his Japanese counterpart , Minister of Defense Tomomi Inada. The Chinese, who also lay claim to the Senkakus, call the uninhabited islands the Diaoyus. Japan has laid claim to the islands since the late 19th-century. China has claimed the islands since the end of World War II. “I made clear that our long-standing policy on the Senkaku Islands stands. The U.S. will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands,” Mattis said. “As such, Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty applies.” Article 5 commits the U.S. to defend Japan or its territories if attacked. Following Mattis’ pledge, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said, “We urge the U.S. side to take a responsible attitude, stop making wrong remarks... and avoid making the issue more complicated and bringing instability to the regional situation.” The three Chinese coast guard cutters were Haijing patrol boats with hull numbers 2302, 2305 and 2501, the U.S. official added. Chinese government ships intruded in Japanese waters at least 34 times in 2016, The Japan Times reported. The sailing of the Chinese warships close to the contested islands followed a series of other recent provocations in the region. China has flown nuclear-capable bombers around other contested islands, including the Spratly Islands, six times this year. The latest flight took place on Sunday, according to the official. In late November, China flew a pair of nuclear-capable bombers around Taiwan for the first time. Days later the Taiwanese president called then-President-elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on his election win. The call broke a decades-long “one-China” protocol with American leaders communicating directly with Beijing only. Japan scrambled eight F-15 fighter jets to intercept the Chinese flight while it was circumnavigating Taiwan, according to officials. In recent years, China has constructed seven artificial islands in the South China Sea and has placed runways on three of them. In recent months, China has added military fortifications to protect the islands In late December, China placed hundreds of surface-to-air missiles on Hainan Island off mainland China, which intelligence officials say could one day be moved to China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea to better defend them. President Trump’s newly confirmed secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing last month that China’s buildup in the South China Sea was "akin to Russia’s taking Crimea” from Ukraine. "We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed,” he said. Mattis visited South Korea before arriving in Japan as part of his Asia trip. He also met Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BREAKING: CHINA JUST SENT JAPAN A BOLD MESSAGE AFTER MAD DOG MATTIS DECLARES US WILL DEFEND THEM
The Next News Network Published on Feb 6, 2017
sent three warships into Japanese waters close to the disputed Senkaku Islands. The ships entered Japanese territorial waters Monday and proceeded to approximately 12 miles from shore of the islands.
Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | Fred Maxwell for Western Journalism reports, Two days after Defense Secretary James Mattis criticized China and vowed to protect Japan in the event of an attack, China
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Trump's defense secretary warns North Korea there will be an 'effective and overwhelming' response if they use nuclear weapons as Kim Jong-un sacks his spy chief
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pays first foreign visit in office to South Korea
Move is aimed at reassuring Seoul of US commitment to its security
Mattis warned North Korea that it face 'overwhelming response' if it attacked
North accused US and South of pushing peninsula to 'brink of nuclear war'
By Associated Press and Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com Published: 20:52 EST, 2 February 2017 | Updated: 12:42 EST, 3 February 2017
Donald Trump's defense secretary James Mattis has warned North Korean despot Kim Jong-un his hermit state faces an 'effective and overwhelming response' if it uses nuclear weapons. During a visit to south east Asia, Mattis warned the dictator that he faces oblivion if he attacks either Japan or South Korea. Pyongyang responded by claiming Trump was pushing the peninsula to 'the brink of nuclear war' as it emerged Kim Jong-un had sacked his spy chief Kim Won-Hong for 'abuse of power'. Mattis issued the threat during a meeting with the South Korean defense minister Han Min Koo. He said: 'North Korea continues to launch missiles, develop its nuclear weapons program, and engage in threatening rhetoric and behavior. 'We stand with our peace-loving Republic of Korea ally to maintain stability on the peninsula and in the region,' he added. 'America's commitments to defending our allies and to upholding our extended deterrence guarantees remain ironclad: Any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming.' But the North says that Mattis' visit 'worked out a plan for a preemptive attack on the North and ... desperately pushed forward it, pushing the situation on the peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war.' Mattis's statement showed why he chose South Korea for his first visit overseas since becoming defense secretary January 20. He sought to reassure South Koreans of the longstanding US commitment to a defense treaty that President Donald Trump suggested during the campaign was a bad deal for America. Mattis also was discussing with the South Koreans a timetable for deploying an advanced US missile defense system, the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAAD, that is meant to improve protection of South Korea and Japan — as well as US troops stationed in both countries — against a North Korean missile attack. The current caretaker South Korean government has said it supports THAAAD deployment, but the decision is in doubt because of approaching national elections. In his remarks Friday, Han echoed Mattis's concern about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. He said they 'blatantly threaten' the international community and have created a 'severe security situation' on the Korean peninsula. He described Mattis's visit so early in his tenure as a warning to North Korea. After a series of meetings in Seoul, Mattis was scheduled to fly to Tokyo on Friday for further consultations. The US has 28,500 troops permanently based in South Korea and about 50,000 in Japan. Speaking to reporters as he traveled to South Korea, Mattis said he would consult with South Korean and Japanese officials about whether the current strategy for getting the North to curtail or eliminate its nuclear and missile programs was adequate. North Korea has said it was nearly ready to test-launch a ballistic missile of intercontinental range, meaning it could theoretically threat the United States. 'Were it not for the provocative behavior of North Korea, we would have no need for Thaad out here,' Mattis said in his breif remarks to reporters. Alluding to China's objections to having Thaad deployed in South Korea, Mattis said, 'Thaad should be a worry to no nation other than North Korea.' Following his trip to Seoul, Mattis continued to Tokyo to hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He said: 'I want to make certain that Article 5 of our mutual defense treaty is understood to be as real to us today as it was a year ago, five years ago - and as it will be a year, and 10 years, from now.' Article 5 obliges the United States to defend territories under Japanese administrative control. Japan has been keen for assurances that Trump's administration would continue Washington's previous policy of committing to defend disputed East China Sea islands that are under Japanese control but claimed also by China. Abe said he was convinced that, with Trump and Mattis, the United States and Japan could demonstrate to the world their 'unwavering alliance'. Trump singled out both South Korea and Japan on the campaign trail, suggesting they were benefiting from the U.S. security umbrella without sharing enough of the costs. Mattis is due to hold sit-down talks on Saturday with Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, who has repeatedly said Japan is bearing its fair share of the costs for U.S. troops stationed there and has stressed that the alliance is good for both nations. Japan's defense spending remains around 1 percent of GDP, far behind China, which is locked in a dispute with Japan over the East China Sea islets, known as the Senkakus in Tokyo and the Diaoyus in Beijing. In Washington this week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held its first policy hearing since Trump took office to discuss North Korea. There were more questions than answers. Last month, Trump fueled speculation of possible US military action to pre-empt North Korea's weapons development. In response to Kim's threat, Trump tweeted, 'It won't happen!' But he didn't elaborate how he could be so sure. 'Does that mean we have drawn a red line?' Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., asked at Tuesday's Senate hearing. During the campaign, Trump complained that defense treaties disadvantaged the US and that he would not rule out abandoning signatories if they refuse to pay more for their defense. He also suggested that South Korea and Japan, which are already within the range of North Korean missiles, might acquire their own nuclear weapons rather than rely on US deterrence.
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Ex-Obama Official Suggests ‘Military Coup’ Against Trump
by Aaron Klein2 Feb 2017
In a blog post for Foreign Policy magazine, Rosa Brooks, a former Obama administration official, outlined four ways to “get rid” of President Trump, including declaring him mentally unfit for command or carrying out a military coup. Brooks is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation, which is funded by billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. She served from 2009-2011 as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and served as a senior adviser at Obama’s State Department. Her posting is titled “3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020,” although the piece actually outlines four ways. In what seems to be a deliberate tactic, Brooks repeatedly questions Trump’s mental stability, claiming that the president’s first week in office “has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared.” Brooks, who is not a mental health professional, offered no evidence for her armchair psychological evaluation other than citing policies that she doesn’t like. Remember those optimistic pre-inauguration fantasies? I cherished them, too. You know: “Once he’s president, I’m sure he’ll realize it doesn’t really make sense to withdraw from all those treaties.” “Once he’s president, surely he’ll understand that he needs to stop tweeting out those random insults.” “Once he’s president, he’ll have to put aside that ridiculous campaign braggadocio about building a wall along the Mexican border.” And so on. Nope. In his first week in office, Trump has made it eminently clear that he meant every loopy, appalling word — and then some. Brooks listed four ways to get rid of a “crummy” president. Elect him out of office after his four-year term. “But after such a catastrophic first week, four years seems like a long time to wait,” she wrote. Impeachment. However, she lamented, “impeachments take time: months, if not longer — even with an enthusiastic Congress. And when you have a lunatic controlling the nuclear codes, even a few months seems like a perilously long time to wait.” Utilizing a claim of mental instability to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, which sets the path for the commander-in-chief’s removal if the “president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” A military coup. She writes: “The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.” Regarding her suggested military coup, a creative Brooks proposes preposterous scenarios that she fears Trump might try to play out: What would top U.S. military leaders do if given an order that struck them as not merely ill-advised, but dangerously unhinged? An order that wasn’t along the lines of “Prepare a plan to invade Iraq if Congress authorizes it based on questionable intelligence,” but “Prepare to invade Mexico tomorrow!” or “Start rounding up Muslim Americans and sending them to Guantánamo!” or “I’m going to teach China a lesson — with nukes!” When it comes to invoking the 25th Amendment, Brooks argues for appealing to the “ambitions” of Vice President Mike Pence. That Amendment states: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. “Surely Pence wants to be president himself one day, right?” Brooks writes. “Pence isn’t exactly a political moderate — he’s been unremittingly hostile to gay rights, he’s a climate change skeptic, etc. — but, unappealing as his politics may be to many Americans, he does not appear to actually be insane. (This is the new threshold for plausibility in American politics: ‘not actually insane.’)” During the 2016 presidential campaign, opponents of Trump similarly attempted to delegitimize his policies by raising questions about his mental health. As I wrote at the time, the template for such attacks may have been set more than five decades ago when such claims were deployed against Senator Barry Goldwater during his 1964 presidential campaign, which was widely considered a threat to the political establishment. That theme has continued into Trump’s first two weeks in office. Earlier this week, U.S. News and World Report ran a story titled, “Temperament Tantrum: Some say President Donald Trump’s personality isn’t just flawed, it’s dangerous.” Apparently violating the so-called Goldwater Rule, established by the American Psychiatric Association after similar attacks against Goldwater, the magazine quoted numerous health care professionals attempting to categorize Trump’s mental stability. The APA’s Goldwater Rule forbids psychiatrists from commenting on someone’s mental status unless they first carry out an examination and the doctor is authorized by the patient to speak to the public. The U.S. News story, for example, quotes John D. Gartner, described as a “practicing psychotherapist who taught psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School” as claiming Trump is “dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president.” The Independent newspaper this week ran a story that also attempted to diagnose Trump. It was titled, “’Malignant narcisissm’: Donald Trump displays classic traits of mental illness, claim psychologists.” The article similarly cited mental health professionals commenting on Trump’s alleged psychological disorder. The Independent article partially drew from a New York Daily News story from this week titled, “President Trump exhibits classic signs of mental illness, including ‘malignant narcissism,’ shrinks say.” “Narcissism impairs his ability to see reality,” Dr. Julie Futrell, a clinical psychologist, told the newspaper while pointing out that she never actually treated Trump. During Goldwater’s candidacy, the campaign to distort the public’s perception of the politician culminated in an infamous 1964 article in Fact Magazine, which surveyed members of the American Psychiatric Association, or APA, on Goldwater’s mental stability, though none of the psychiatrists had personally examined the presidential candidate. The New York Times reported on the Goldwater smear: The survey, highly unscientific even by the standards of the time, was sent to 12,356 psychiatrists, of whom 2,417 responded. The results were published as a special issue: “The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater.” The psychiatrists’ assessment was brutal. Half of the respondents judged Mr. Goldwater psychologically unfit to be president. They used terms like “megalomaniac,” “paranoid,” and “grossly psychotic,” and some even offered specific diagnoses, including schizophrenia and narcissistic personality disorder. Only 27 percent of the respondents said Mr. Goldwater was mentally fit, and 23 percent said they didn’t know enough about him to make a judgment. Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/ex-obama-official-suggests-military-coup-trump/
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Facebook investing in neuroscience “telepathy” technology that can read minds, report your thoughts to the NSA
Thursday, February 02, 2017 by: Ethan Huff
(Natural News) Mark Zuckerberg and his team of social engineers are hoping to push the Facebook platform one step closer to singularity by developing new ways to invade the human mind in order to spy on people’s thoughts. According to reports, the social media giant is tasking a team of neuroscientists with developing a so-called “brain-computer interface” that will supposedly allow users to talk to each other telepathically, while also allowing Facebook to intercept this flow of communication for around-the-clock monitoring. Known conspicuously as the “Building 8,” or B8, team, the crew working on the project is using advanced neuroscience and electrical engineering to build a platform whereby it will one day be possible for Facebook to use artificial intelligence to map the thoughts and movements of users’ brain in order to exploit them. The technology will have the ability to “capture a thought,” to quote the words of Zuckerberg, who explained how it will all work at a question and answer session he attended back in 2016. In essence, the technology will give Facebook the ability to enter the human brain and extrapolate whatever is going on there, taking this information “in its ideal and perfect form in your head and shar[ing] that with the world,” Zuckerberg says. “The B8 team will apply DARPA-style breakthrough development at the intersection of ambitious science and product development,” reads a jobs announcement posted by Facebook about what the new project will entail. “It will operate on aggressive, fixed timelines, with extensive use of partnerships in universities, small and large businesses.” Using Facebook contributes to the enslavement of humanity by machines In an attempt to merge humans with machines, this latest Facebook endeavor is an absolute privacy and security nightmare that threatens to allow near-unlimited access into the human brain by advanced computer systems. Much like how Amazon’s “Alexa” can listen to speech and follow commands, Facebook’s B8 project will be able to listen to and track a person’s thoughts. An alarming ramification of such a prospect is the idea that Facebook, potentially working in lockstep with government spying programs like those at the National Security Agency (NSA), might gain access to the private thoughts of individuals who would rather keep such information to themselves. Facebook’s attempts to create a more “realistic and immersive” experience with its products could end up creating a thought prison of epic proportions. (RELATED: Read up on technological invasions of your privacy at PrivacyWatch.news) Whether such technology ever comes to fruition remains to be seen, but this certainly wouldn’t be the first time that Facebook as pushed the limits of spying and control — nor is it the first time that emerging Facebook technology has had such nefarious underpinnings. Facebook officials claim that users who are to become targets of active government monitoring or surveillance will be notified in advance, suggesting that anyone who has not received such a notice likely has nothing to worry about in terms of spying. But a statement released by Facebook’s security chief Alex Stamos about the company’s policy on this infers that only government “attacks” will be subject to such notification, and what exactly constitutes an attack? “While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored,” Stamos says. “We do this because these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others, and we strongly encourage affected people to take the actions necessary to secure all of their online accounts.” Stay informed on the abuse of technology to enslave humanity at GLITCH.news.
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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..
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America’s Student Debt Problem Is Much Bigger Than Anybody Realized
by Tyler Durden Feb 2, 2017 3:58 PM
The Department of Education recently released a memo admitting that repayment rates on student loans have been grossly exaggerated. Data from 99.8% of schools across the country has been manipulated to cover up growing problems with the $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans. New calculations show that more than half of all borrowers from 1,000 different institutions have defaulted on or not paid back a single dollar of their loans over the last seven years. This comes in stark contrast to previous claims and should call into question any statistics provided by government agencies. The American people haven’t fully grasped the long-term implications of loaning a trillion dollars to young people who have no credit or assets. Increases in tuition seen over the past two decades have become a point of controversy and angst for those who don’t fully understand the contributing factors. Between 1995 and 2015, the average cost of a public, four-year university skyrocketed by well over 200%. Although federal student aid programs are often championed as a necessity, they have been instrumental in making higher education unaffordable. The opportunity to pay for college by working a part-time job evaporated as soon as huge sums of money were handed out to anyone with a pulse. Since students no longer pay their tuition upfront, colleges are able to raise prices in perpetuity, knowing the government will step in and make credit easier and easier to obtain. As an added bonus, outstanding student loans account for 45% of the government’s financial assets. Subsidizing the lives of an entire generation has turned personal growth and advancement into a choice instead of a necessity. After all, why take risks or work your way up from the bottom when with just a signature, the life you’ve always wanted could be laid at your feet? It’s not hard to figure out why so many people are tempted to take advantage of the instant gratification that comes from student loans, but like everything else in life, they have a price. The same safety net that delays the anxiety of the future also ensures that monthly payments will be owed for decades to come. Procrastinating when faced with pivotal life decisions is an instinct that used to be overcome as a teenager, but today it is worn like a badge of honor well into adulthood. The policies of intervention haven’t stopped at federal aid, and loan forgiveness is now being offered to those willing to work in the public sector or at a non-profit for ten years. This perverse incentive only serves to drive those desperately in debt further towards government dependence. Productive jobs are created when the needs of others are met in the free market, not by joining the ranks of the state for self-preservation. The idea that success comes exclusively through attending a university has created a stigma against some of the most valuable occupations. The lack of real skill sets has lead to a shortage of welders, electricians, carpenters, and other trade workers. Instead of learning through experience with apprenticeships, many students have embraced four years of sleeping in, drinking heavily, and getting an increasingly useless degree. While there are many fields that require specialized training, the surge in popularity of degrees like sociology, anthropology, and communications clearly illustrate a disconnect between the needs of the economy and the skills of the incoming workforce. The normalization of this system has blinded individuals to their own potential. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs and thinkers are those who have bypassed traditional education. Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, and hundreds of other innovators achieved greatness by breaking from predictable paths to knowledge. Instead, passion and experience were the foundations that gave them the confidence needed to make groundbreaking strides. What it means to learn and be educated is changing rapidly as technology develops, and it will eventually force the State to adapt with it. Albert Einstein was able to spot the innate flaws in the education system even back in 1936, but it’s doubtful he could have fathomed how far things would go: “I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has to use later directly in life. The demands of life are much too manifold to let such a specialized training in school appear possible…The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost.” Those who do achieve their degrees often do so without developing important skills like critical thinking and individual discernment. The scariest part about this revelation is that almost 90% of outstanding private loans are co-signed by parents, making this an intergenerational problem. As the instability of pension funds, social security, and economic conditions continue, any additional burdens passed onto the baby boomers could have far-reaching ramifications. The vast distortions in information that this report exposes should motivate everyone to become an independent fact checker. The only way to reform this broken system is to shift the pursuit of knowledge towards the direction of each individual’s passion instead of creating more cogs for the machine.
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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How Trump Can Help Persecuted Christians and Protect Americans with One Move
2017/02/03 by Raymond Ibrahim
During a recent interview on CBN, President Trump was asked if he thinks America should prioritize persecuted Christians as refugees. He responded: Yes. Yes, they’ve been horribly treated. If you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, or at least very, very tough, to get into the United States. If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair — everybody was persecuted, in all fairness — but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them. Trumps response is far different from that given by Barrack Hussein Obama back in November 2015. Then, as president, he described the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees as “shameful”: “That’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion,” he had added. While Obama was making such lofty admonishments, his administration was quietly discriminating against Mideast Christians in a myriad of ways—including, as Trump pointed out above, by very obviously favoring Muslim refugees over Christian ones. Indeed, despite the U.S. government’s own acknowledgement that ISIS was committing genocide against Syrian Christians—and not against fellow Sunni Muslims—the Obama administration took in 5,435 Muslims, almost all of whom were Sunni, but only 28 Christians. Considering that Christians are 10 percent of Syria’s population, to be merely on an equal ratio with Muslims entering America, at least 500 Christians should’ve been granted asylum, not 28. But questions of equal numbers aside, the idea of prioritizing Christian refugees over Muslims (which I argued for back in 2015) is not only more humane; it brings benefits to America as well. Consider: Unlike Muslims, Christian minorities are being singled out and persecuted simply because of their despised religious identity. From a humanitarian point of view—and humanitarianism is the reason being cited for accepting millions of refugees—Christians should receive top priority simply because they are the most persecuted group in the Middle East. Even before the Islamic State was formed, Christians were, and continue to be, targeted by Muslims in general—Muslim individuals, Muslim mobs, and Muslim regimes, from Muslim countries of all races (Arab, African, Asian)—and for the same reason: Christians are infidel number one. (See Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians for hundreds of anecdotes before the rise of ISIS as well as the Muslim doctrines that create such hate for Christians.) Conversely, Muslim refugees—as opposed to the many ISIS and other jihadi sympathizers posing as “refugees”—are not fleeing religious persecution (as mentioned, 99% of Muslim refugees accepted into the U.S. are, like ISIS, Sunnis), but chaos created by the violent and supremacist teachings of their own religion. Hence why when large numbers of Muslims enter Western nations—in Germany, Sweden, France, the UK—tension, crimes, rapes, and terrorism soar. Indeed, what more proof is needed than the fact that so-called Muslim “refugees” are throwing Christians overboard during their boat voyages across the Mediterranean to Europe? Or that Muslim majority refugee centers in Europe are essentially microcosms of Muslim majority nations: there, Christian minorities continue to be persecuted. One report found that 88% of the 231 Christian refugees interviewed in Germany have suffered religiously motivated persecution in the form of insults, death threats, and sexual assaults. Some were pressured to convert to Islam. “I really didn’t know that after coming to Germany I would be harassed because of my faith in the very same way as back in Iran,” one Christian refugee said. Is persecuting religious minorities the behavior of people who are in need of refugee status in America? Or is this behavior yet another reminder that it is non-Muslims from the Middle East who are truly in need of sanctuary? The U.S. should further prioritize Christian refugees because U.S. foreign policies are directly responsible for exacerbating their persecution. Christians did not flee from Bashar Assad’s Syria, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or Muamar Gaddafi’s Libya. Their systematic persecution—to the point of genocide—began only after the U.S. interfered in those nations under the pretext of “democracy.” All that these policies did is unleash the jihadi forces that the dictators had long kept suppressed. Now the Islamic State is deeply embedded in precisely all three nations, enslaving, raping, and slaughtering Christians and other minorities. Surely if U.S. policies were responsible for unleashing the full-blown jihad on Christians, the least humanitarian America can do is prioritize Christians as refugees? In fact, and as Trump pointed out during his CBN interview, it’s the opposite: According to one report, from May 1 to May 23 alone, 499 Syrian refugees were received into the U.S, 99% of them Sunnis. Zero Christians were admitted. Questions of fairness and humanitarianism aside, there are also benefits in absorbing Mideast Christians refugees instead of Muslims. Christians are easily assimilated in Western societies, due to the shared Christian heritage and outlook, and regularly become productive members of society. Muslims follow a completely different blueprint, Islamic law, or Sharia—which calls for constant hostility (jihad) against all non-Muslims, and advocates any number of distinctly anti-Western practices (misogyny, sex slavery, death for “blasphemers” and “apostates,” etc.). Hence it’s no surprise that many Muslim asylum seekers are anti-Western at heart—or, as a German police union chief once said, Muslim migrants “despise our country and laugh at our justice.” Mideast Christians also bring trustworthy language and cultural skills. They understand the Middle Eastern—including Islamic—mindset and can help the U.S. understand it. And unlike Muslims, Christians have no “conflicting loyalty” issues: Islamic law forbids Muslims from befriending or aiding “infidels” against fellow Muslims (click here to see some of the treachery this leads to in the U.S. and here to see the treachery Christians have suffered from their longtime Muslim neighbors and “friends”). No such threat exists among Mideast Christians. They too render unto God what is God’s and unto Caesar what is Caesar’s—not to mention they have no loyalty to the Islamic ideologies that made their lives a living hell in the Middle East, the Islamic ideologies that are also responsible for jihadi terror in America. Thus a win-win: the U.S. and Mideast Christians complement each other, if only in that they share the same foe. All the above reasons—from those that offer humanitarian relief to the true victims of persecution and genocide, to those that offer stability and benefits to the United States—are unassailable in their logic. President Trump understands this—even if most liberals and lying media don’t.
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Western Europe braces its self for series of massive storms rolling in from Atlantic: Waves over 9 meters (30 feet) and 100mph winds
Friday, 3 February 2017
Photo The Sun Waves batter the Cornwall coast A series of massive storms rolling in from the Atlantic are unleashing powerful winds to Ireland the UK, France, Spain and neighboring Portugal through the first weekend of February. Northwestern France is likely to suffer the most extreme winds before the storms shifts southward later today. Winds of 150 km/h are expected on some exposed coastal areas possibly resulting in travel delays power outages and damage to trees and homes. Along with the threat for damaging winds, wind-driven rain will pound the same communities each day. No hiding place! Earthwind map shows the perfect storm! The greatest threat for flooding will be across northern Portugal and northwestern Spain where rainfall totals of 75-150 mm (3-6 inches) will be common with local amounts exceeding 200 mm (8 inches). Locations in western and central France can expect 25-75 mm (1-3 inches) of rain through Sunday, prompting localized flooding. “These storms will also bring a high risk for coastal flooding, especially during high tide,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys. “Dangerous seas will also persist across the Bay of Biscay through Sunday with waves over 9 meters (30 feet) at times,” Roys added. Click on image to enlarge Additional unsettled weather is expected across France and Spain next week. However, the threat for damaging winds and flooding will lessen. A swell chart from Thursday at 9pm shows the largest waves reaching 36ft just off the coast of England and Ireland UK Storm Doris has arrived off the south coast of England and is battering Cornwall and will bring more gales and floods to the UK this weekend. As storm Doris takes aim for the UK some coastal areas are bracing themselves for winds of up to 100mph Met Office has issued severe weather warnings but has not named the low pressure system moving across, they have issued 42 flood alerts. Four people were rescued after getting stuck in 70mph winds on a Scottish coastal walk last night as storms brought huge waves and flash flooding across the west of Britain. With weather warnings in place, power cables have exploded, sending sparks flying, as stormy weather makes its way across the Atlantic to Britain. Trees have been blown over, crushing cars in Devon, while waves have battered the coastline in Dawlish. Coastguard rescue teams from Portpatrick, Stranraer, Drummore and Ballantrae were scrambled after a woman injured her leg and she and her three companions got stuck in inaccessible terrain near Dunskey Castle, in Dumfries and Galloway. In Stafford, a man had to be rescued by firefighters when his Mercedes was swamped with floodwater after a freak rain shower. etc.. etc..
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/02/western-europe-braces-its-self-for.html
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Australia's Unwanted Asylum Seekers (Mostly Iranians) to Be Resettled in the US
By Nayla Rush February 2017
UPDATE, 2/2/17: The deal to resettle Australia's unwanted asylum seekers made between Australia and the outgoing Obama administration is currently on hold. It is not certain yet whether the deal will be honored by the current Trump administration, especially following its latest executive order, temporarily halting refugee resettlement. After a contentious phone call with the Australian prime minister, President Trump on Twitter questioned the basis of such an agreement: "The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!" As we have written before, from the Australian point of view, this is a "great achievement," but it must be one of America's worst deals. (Originally published 12/5/16) The Obama administration is going to resettle in the United States an unspecified number of asylum seekers from Australia's offshore detention centers on the small island nation of Nauru and on Manus Island, part of Papua New Guinea. Australian officials hope to close both detention centers and resettle most (if not all) detainees before President Obama leaves office. Negotiations between the two governments have been ongoing for months but the deal was announced just last month, a few days after the U.S. presidential election. Homeland Security officials have already made the trip to Australia to interview detainees. Over 1,600 of them could be resettled into the U.S. by January 20, 2017. Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, made the official announcement from Canberra on November 13: "I can now confirm that the government has reached a further third country resettlement arrangement for refugees presently in the regional processing centres. The agreement is with the United States." The PM insisted it was "a one-off agreement…not be repeated." The chief of Operation Sovereign Borders warned smugglers not to use this deal as an incentive to restart their illicit trade: "To the people smugglers, my message is simple: We have re-enforced our offshore law enforcement and intelligence cooperation and we have deployed more ships and more aircraft…Your boats will be intercepted and they will be returned safely." The U.S.-Australia deal comes only a couple of months after Australia announced it would take part in the U.S.-led effort to resettle Central American "refugees" from a processing center in Costa Rica. Australia is to increase its refugee intake to 18,750 (up 5,000 from 13,750) by 2018-19. The announcement was made in September at the Leaders' Summit on Refugees hosted by president Obama in New York. This surprise commitment leaves room for speculation of a possible "people-swap" between the two countries. The Australian PM rejected these allegations, insisting the agreement to resettle Central Americans was "not linked to any other resettlement discussions" involving Australia's refugees admitted into the U.S. What is certain is that President Obama was adamant to get world leaders to commit to more resettlement during his Refugee Summit. The success of this summit, it is safe to say, was personally important to him as he prepared to leave office and set up his legacy. Australia's Offshore Detention Policy under Pressure Australia follows a policy of mandatory and indefinite detention of unlawful noncitizens, including asylum seekers. Under Australia's tough border security laws, asylum seekers who are intercepted trying to reach the country by boat illegally are automatically sent to offshore processing centers. An offshore processing policy known as the "Pacific Solution" was introduced in 2001 to allow the transfer of unauthorized arrivals to offshore processing centers established on Nauru and Manus Island, where they are to remain while their asylum claims are processed. Those who were "found to be owed protection were eventually resettled either in Australia or in a third country, with the emphasis on trying to find resettlement solutions in a third country in preference to Australia." (Emphasis added). The Pacific Solution was criticized by human rights organizations as disproportionally costly, contrary to international refugee law and psychologically damaging for detainees. It was shut down in 2008 and reintroduced in 2012 in response to increases in boat arrivals and drowning. In July 2013, the government further toughened its immigration policy and announced that any asylum seeker who attempts to reach its shores without a visa would never be settled in Australia. Australia pays Nauru and Papua New Guinea to host these boat arrivals but could not get either one to settle them permanently, hence the search for resettlement in a third country. In September 2014, Australia and Cambodia signed an agreement to resettle refugees from Nauru. Australia provided Cambodia with $40 million in "development assistance" – not related to the resettlement deal according to officials – as well as $15 million for the resettlement program to be paid "on performance." The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, condemned the agreement as contrary to international norms, blaming Australia for attempting to shift its moral and legal protection obligation onto one of the least developed countries in the region. Most detainees on Nauru refused to go to Cambodia: protest marches were organized, many attempted suicide while others sewed their lips shut. Despite Australia's efforts to sell the deal through psychological pressure (reminding detainees they were never going to be admitted into Australia), cash incentives ($15,000 per person), and promises of family reunification (same cash amount to be given to every family member who joins in), only five refugees accepted to be resettled since the agreement was signed. The resettlement of offshore detainees reached a deadlock. Prime Minister Turnbull, whose recent poll numbers saw a 14-month low, was facing increased pressure from the opposition, the United Nations, and human rights groups to shut down the Nauru and Manus Island detention camps denounced as places of depression, despair, and violence. The conditions of over three years of detention have had enduring psychological damage on detainees, while mental health staff was scarce. Revolt and riots, incidents of self-harm, and suicide attempts (including swallowing poison and self-immolation) were alarmingly on the rise. Furthermore, the company that operates the offshore detention centers announced it will not renew its contract due to expire in three months. Since Australia cannot directly run its detention centers located in other sovereign nations, those are operated by Broadspectrum Limited, an Australian company contracted by the government. The company faced intense criticism by human rights groups. Accusations of sexual and human rights abuses carried out by its staff at the detention facilities put added pressure on the company despite its firm denial of any of these abuses. No Business in Abuse (NBIA), a movement "to shine a light on the corporations making money from an abusive detention system and to take practical actions to end it" is actively going after those involved in "the detention center business," calling upon investors not to work with companies that manage detention centers. Shen Narayanasamy, NBIA's executive director, warned: "Any company needs to know they face a massive public relations risk in running these centres." On April 2016, The Spanish company Ferrovial became the controlling shareholder of Broadspectrum Limited. Ferrovial subsequently announced it will not bid to get the new five-year contract (worth $2.7 billion) to run the offshore processing centers when its current contract expires in February 2017. The government of Papua New Guinea has also been under pressure after the supreme court ruled last April that the Regional Processing Centre was unconstitutional and ordered the closure of Australia's offshore detention facilities on Manus Island. Papua New Guinea's government agreed to close Manus Island's detention center while keeping a transit center facility open. Undoubtedly, the resettlement deal with the U.S. that could very well empty Australia's offshore processing camps comes as a relief for Turnbull's government. It also brings a substantial economic gain. The offshore detention centers cost the Australian government (and taxpayers) a lot of money. A recent report by UNICEF and Save the Children reveals that financial costs of at least $3.6 billion were incurred by Australian taxpayers between 2013 and 2016 in maintaining offshore processing Nauru and Papua New Guinea. "Offshore processing alone is estimated to cost over $400,000 per person, per year." The authors of the report recommend the following: "If Australia continues to refuse to resettle them in Australia, it must ensure third country resettlement by the end of 2016." This recommendation is about to be implemented as the United States may very well resettle Nauru and Manus Island detainees around that time frame. Australia's Offshore Asylum Seekers There are currently over 1,600 asylum seekers eligible for resettlement in the U.S. under the new deal reached between the two countries. According to Australian detention statistics released on September 30, 2016, there are 1,269 people in detention on Nauru and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea: 396 on Nauru and 873 on Manus Island (PNG). Of the 396 in Nauru, 300 are men, 51 women and 45 children. All 873 detained on Manus Island are men. Another 370 asylum seekers, also eligible for resettlement, came to Australia for medical treatment and refused to go back to the islands. According to refugee advocates, at least 10 are women, victims of sexual assault and rape while on Nauru. The other 360 include those receiving treatment for serious mental and physical health issues and their immediate family. All detainees who have left Nauru and Manus for medical treatment in Australia – including sexual assault victims and mental health patients – will have to return to the islands if they are to have any chance of being accepted under the U.S. resettlement deal. Asylum seekers who refuse offers to resettle or if their applications fail will be offered a 20-year visa to stay on Nauru, but no financial support. They could return to their country of origin or accept the Cambodian resettlement deal. They would be blocked from ever returning to Australia. A bill to ban for life those asylum seekers from ever coming to Australia is under discussion in the Senate. A total of 1,639 unwanted Australian asylum seekers could end up being admitted to the United States as refugees. Most are "Muslims from the Middle East, Africa and Asia" according to the Associated Press. A recent report released by the Australian government gives more insight: [T]he vast majority of asylum seekers at both Processing Centres [Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea] come from Iran. The PNG Processing Centre (which only accommodates males) is also largely composed of asylum seekers from the Middle East including countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. In contrast, the Nauru Processing Centre (which accommodates males, females and children) is also largely composed of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and with people who have no country of nationality (Stateless). The report includes a look at the composition of both processing centers: Multiple reports, including from the Australian parliament, have highlighted bad detention conditions, such as "inadequate healthcare, poor food and a lack of clean water, sewage pooling on the ground and allegations of brutal treatment by guards." The Nauru files reveal over 2,000 incidents of assault, abuse, and self-harm recorded on Nauru from May 2013 to October 2015. According to Dr. Peter Young, a former medical director of mental health for Australia's immigration detention system, long-term detention has serious mental health repercussions: "Self-harm and suicide attempts increase steadily after six months in detention." Under international law, Australia is legally responsible for the detainees on Nauru and Manus Island, but Australia says the welfare of the offshore detainees is the responsibility of their host state. How Many to Be Resettled and How Fast? It is not clear how many will be resettled in the U.S. under this arrangement. Michael Pezzullo from Australia's Immigration Department said it was up to the U.S. government to make that call. A spokesman said the U.S. State Department "will determine the size of this program in consultation with UNHCR. We outlined in a previous report the role of UNHCR in the selection and pre-screening process of refugees eligible for resettlement in the United States. According to the Australian Prime Minister, the U.S. is to give priority to the "most vulnerable," especially women, children and families on Nauru. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, however, was more inclusive: "We in the United States have agreed to consider referrals from UNHCR on refugees now residing in Nauru and in Papua New Guinea." (Emphasis added). Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton does want all asylum seekers resettled, including those whose refugee claims have been rejected but still refuse to go home. Iran (who is home to a majority of these asylum seekers) won't take back its nationals who won't agree to go home voluntarily. Australian media claim "the deal would see the transfer of up to 1800 detainees currently held on Manus Island and Nauru (many of whom have been detained by Australia for up two years) to the U.S. before Trump's presidency begins." It looks like the Turnbull government is, in the words of one report, "racing to implement an agreement for a one-off transfer of some of the 1800 detainees held in Australian immigration detention facilities on Manus Island and Nauru to the US." Australian Coalition frontbencher Christopher Pyne was confident there was "plenty of time" to put the deal in place before Trump takes office in January: "Two-and-a-half months is plenty of time, and if it's the case it will be another great achievement from the Turnbull Government." PM Turnbull also wished for the refugee resettlement deal to "proceed in a speedy manner." U.S. officials seem to be rushing as well; processing and security checks began soon after the deal was announced. "Officials from Homeland Security are in Australia right now, in fact and they will be going to Nauru shortly," Turnbull said on November 19 in Peru. We have no doubt the Obama administration can resettle all of Australia's unwanted offshore detainees in a couple of months or so if it wishes to do so. After all, it sped up resettlement processes in a "surge operation" this February in Jordan. Over 12,000 Syrian refugees were interviewed there in three months to meet President Obama's 10,000 FY 2016 target. 1,600 interviews in over two months seem like a child's play in comparison. Will President Trump Uphold the Deal? It is unclear if President Trump would honor the deal made between Australia and the outgoing Obama administration when he takes office this January. Prime Minister Turnbull did not discuss the deal with President-elect Trump: "We deal with one administration at a time and there is only one president of the United States at a time," he told reporters in Canberra. Turnbull did try to set up a meeting with Trump at his headquarters in New York a few days later on his way to the APEC forum in Peru, but was unsuccessful. The Trump administration could take a different position, acknowledged the secretary of Australia's Immigration Department, Michael Pezzullo, but "we have an agreement with the US Government". Former U.S. ambassador to Australia, John Berry, who was appointed by President Obama and returned to the U.S. this September, believes that Trump will honor the deal: "I do not foresee a big change on that issue, other than, you know, [Trump] may take a short while to learn and come up to the speed on the issues..." Contrary to Berry's prediction (and wish), President Trump might choose to stop the deal altogether instead of "coming up to speed" on it. But it could be too late: for refugees who already made it to the U.S. under the agreement, it doesn't seem like much could be done to reverse their resettlement, if for no other reason than it would be hard to find somewhere else to send them. Those who are still on the islands could be denied entry. President Obama and Australian PM Turnbull are well aware of that fact, hence their rush to implement the deal in full before January 20. Australia's Gain and America's Loss For the Australian government faced with intense criticism, political pressure, and huge financial costs, the deal with the U.S. is nothing short of a "great achievement," as its coalition leader, Christopher Pyne, put it. But it must be one of America's worst deals. Think of it this way, Australia's unwanted asylum seekers, originating for the most part from countries of turmoil (Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq) where violence and terrorism are not uncommon; those detained for years in offshore processing centers on two Pacific islands under horrible conditions, who suffer from serious physical and mental health problems, are to be admitted into the United States. The Obama administration expects these people in despair, traumatized by years of detention, to integrate and become "self-sufficient" after a few months in the United States? This is extremely optimistic, to say the least. But the recurrent question is, why bring Australia's unwanted asylum seekers here at all? According to Berry, the former U.S. ambassador to Australia, "this may be an opportunity for the United States to help Australia relieve some of the pressure on these sensitive areas." (Emphasis added). It certainly relieves Australia, which finally conceded that the island centers were unsustainable. But what's in it for the United States? Assuming President Obama was acting out of a humanitarian calling, the fact remains that immigration policies driven by humanitarian sensibility and compassion are nothing but a recipe for disaster. The truth is, this deal, to many if not most Americans, is beyond comprehension. There's another point to be made here: the refugee resettlement program is not about "picking and choosing" one's resettlement country. Resettlement, by definition, is to be implemented when no other viable option is available. Cambodia (or other countries) might not be ideal for asylum seekers trying to reach Australia and, for many, family members already settled there. But America is no consolation prize either. Prime Minister Turnbull met President Obama in Lima, Peru, for the last time and thanked him for, among other things, the refugee resettlement deal. He also added: "I'll leave it to Mr Trump when he is president of the US to advocate the interests of the United States, my job as Prime Minister is to look after Australia's interests." We hope and trust President Trump will do just that – defend first and foremost the interests of the United States. Meanwhile, we will keep asking, as we did before: What else might we expect to see from President Obama before he leaves office?
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UPDATE: REPORT DENIED: Secret Service Managers Fired, Escorted from White House Grounds
Kristinn Taylor Feb 3rd, 2017 12:47 am
UPDATE: The Secret Service has branded the report by reporter Steve Clemons that at least two managers were forced to resign overnight as “absolutely false”, the Washington Examiner reported. Friday morning. Clemons corrected and clarified his reports to now state that officials with White House cyber security were forced out. His new tweets have been added at the end of this article. “The report regarding the Secret Service personnel is absolutely false,” an agency spokeswoman said Friday. She referred all further questions to the White House press office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Original TGP report based on Clemons reports: At least two manager level Secret Service officials were fired and escorted from the White House complex, according to a report by reporter Steve Clemons. The Secret Service was accused of slow-walking an investigation of an agent based in Denver who publicly stated she would not ‘take a bullet’ for President Donald Trump. “Reports coming in that some Secret Service mgr level personnel forced 2 resign 2nite & escorted out of EEOB. Two out but source says more…Repeat. Two (& perhaps more) @SecretService Mgr level staff abtuptly forced to resign tonight & escorted out of EEOB #trump #whitehouse”
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How on earth is all this stuff getting in the newspapers? Bob Haldeman told Richard Nixon that he had uncovered the culprit: Mark Felt, a top official at the FBI. “Now why the hell would he do that?” asked Nixon, who was secretly recording the exchange. Cracking down on Felt directly was out of the question, the two men agreed. “If we move on him, then he’ll go out and unload everything,” Haldeman said, of the man later revealed as Deep Throat. “He knows everything that’s to be known in the FBI. ”Donald Trump, a self-professed Nixon admirer, is learning this history lesson about the presidency in real time: His most dangerous enemies are people who ostensibly work for him. Modern presidents always feel hectored by the news media and harried by opposition legislators. But mortal threats to their power typically come from hostile forces inside the executive branch. The phenomenon has rarely been on more vivid display, with Trump buffeted by an unprecedented barrage of leaks about his decision-making and direct challenges to the decisions themselves—a new example coming almost daily—from within the permanent bureaucracy of government. On Trump’s first full day in office, he called National Park Service Director Michael Reynolds and ordered him to produce photos that would buttress Trump’s claims that reporters had falsely described the magnitude of his inaugural crowds. Trump’s intervention quickly found its way into the media. A draft executive order directing the CIA to consider reviving interrogation techniques widely regarded as torture was quickly publicized without White House approval—as was the news that Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo were allegedly “blindsided” by the proposal. More than 1,000 State Department officials signed and submitted a “Dissent Channel” memo criticizing Trump’s executive order halting refugees from several predominately Muslim countries from entering the country. A memo from acting Attorney General Sally Yates to Justice Department officials telling them not to defend the order was quickly publicized, leading to Yates’ firing by Trump a few hours later. Extensive details of Trump’s combative phone calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia—calls that ordinarily are private or are described in anodyne terms—were leaked shortly after the calls were over, from sources that likely included U.S. officials concerned by Trump’s unconventional brand of diplomacy. Reconstructions of a botched commando raid on Al Qaeda in Yemen— Trump’s first use of military force—noted that the decision-making meeting was attended by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and counselor Steve Bannon, an involvement by primarily political aides that offends many career national security officials. The examples are notable both for the speed in which they are coming and the obvious skepticism they convey from within the executive branch both about the merits of Trump’s agenda or the methods by which he is trying to impose it. “Where you have new Cabinet secretaries and unnamed officials speaking out on background across the board about the lack of input screams dysfunction and it’s dangerous and irresponsible,” said a former Bush administration official who did not want to be quoted by name criticizing the current administration. Trump reached his present station by mocking news media skeptics and humiliating establishment politicians who challenged him. He arguably has earned the right to be contemptuous of criticism from these quarters. But what he has experienced his first two weeks is different. It is an illustration of something most of his predecessors learned about the presidency: When people say “Yes, sir,” they might really mean “Screw you.” Nixon certainly knew it. It may have been the Washington Post that won fame for his fall. But as the Oct. 19, 1972, conversation with Haldeman in the White House tapes suggested, it was Felt and the institutional hostility of the FBI that was a primary engine of his undoing. Nixon and his most fearsome henchman had accurately fingered a key source for Watergate stories almost 33 years before Bob Woodward’s golden source was revealed. Nixon’s suspicion of institutional forces supposedly under his control was compulsive—but not necessarily inaccurate. Another passage in the tapes has him noting that Secretary of State William Rogers was vouching for the loyalty of Foreign Service officers. “He knows better. He knows better,” Nixon fumed, according to a transcript from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “Those sons of bitches are out to screw us.” The larger reality Nixon was describing—that presidential power can’t necessarily be captured in an org chart—is one that even presidents without his paranoid streak knew well. When Dwight Eisenhower, a five-star general who was used to having his orders followed, became president, his unadmiring predecessor Harry S. Truman supposedly remarked: “Poor Ike. He’ll say ‘do this’ and ‘do that’ and nothing at all will happen.” Unique among modern presidents, Trump arrived in office without government experience and without, so far as the public record is known, any deep reflection about how to use the levers of the executive branch to achieve his objectives. What’s unclear so far is whether his willingness to offend and defy the sensibilities of the executive branch servants assigned to carry out his policies simply reflects his own temperament or is part of a deliberate strategy. Asked about the State Department dissent channel memo, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters: “These career bureaucrats have a problem with it? I think they should either get with the program or they can go.” “You can’t make omelets without breaking eggs,” was how Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser who also worked in the Nixon administration, put it. While Trump’s particular circumstances are extraordinary, the larger dynamic—like an unruly Rottweiler, the permanent bureaucracy will either be at your heel or at your throat—is one all presidents must reckon with. “I have often joked with people that one question that I heard more than once from the president is, ‘Don’t those people work for us?’” said Jack Quinn, former counsel to President Bill Clinton. Often presidents decide that accommodation, or sullen acquiescence, is the wiser course. During his first term, as President Barack Obama was deciding how rapidly to carry out his stated desire for withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, the timing and substance of his policies often seemed to reflect his desire to avoid open warfare with the military. In particular, Gens. David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal, before their own controversies forced them from office, were highly popular and well-connected commanders whose disagreement could have far-reaching implications for the administration even if they never went public with an open break. Clinton loathed Louis Freeh, his own appointee as director of the FBI, and mused to aides about whether Freeh was more disloyal or more incompetent. But because Freeh was investigating his own administration, and because Clinton had a distant-at-best relationship with Attorney General Janet Reno, he didn’t dare fire him. Asked if Clinton had confidence in his own appointee, press secretary Mike McCurry responded, “The president has great confidence that Louis Freeh is leading that agency as best he can.” While unsympathetic to Trump, Leon Panetta, a former chief of staff for Clinton and defense secretary and CIA director under Obama, sounded sympathetic to the larger challenge of getting the executive branch to yield to a president’s objectives. “To govern, frankly, it’s not a pretty-please process, it’s a kick-ass process,” Panetta said in an interview. One simple piece of advice Panetta has for Trump is face-time with his new bureaucrats to try to win their loyalty. “Most presidents take the time to visit the different departments and agencies and convey the fact that while they may not agree on all the issues, that they respect what they’re doing, what they’ve done and that they’re now part of a new administration. You gotta lay that groundwork or otherwise it all becomes guerrilla warfare,” he said. Extending that olive branch to your own government employees is a crucial step. “My experience is you’re far better off respecting the civil servants than you are by ignoring or dismissing them because it will come around and bite you in the end,” said David Gergen, a former adviser to four presidents, including Nixon. Though Trump’s style seems wildly improvisational, the public official in recent times who thought more methodically about how to control and dominate the executive branch was former Vice President Dick Cheney. Unlike Trump or his coterie, Cheney was intimately familiar with the hidden byways of the federal government due to his service as chief of staff under Gerald Ford, a member of Congress in the Reagan years and defense secretary in the George H.W. Bush administration. He believed that the presidency had been weakened by an overreaction to Watergate and was determined to restore presidential prerogatives to what he considered their rightful place. Along the way, he often faced a permanent bureaucracy hostile to his conservative ideology and hawkish military views. And he made it his mission to ensure that these forces did not thwart administration policies. “Cheney focused less on the Cabinet than subcabinet and assistant and deputy assistant secretaries because he knew the policy pivot points were there,” said Bart Gellman, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.” “He bypassed normal interagency and White House review, sending documents for Bush’s signature before even the staff secretary reviewed them,” Gellman noted. Cheney often got his way until Bush lost confidence in his hard-line ideas, and only then, said Gellman—pointing to the White House’s showdown with the Justice Department over warrantless wiretapping—when they became “a threat to his reelection and his presidency itself.” That’s a lesson that Trump, who is already revving up the 2020 machinery only 14 days into his term, can understand.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/trumps-enemies-within-214735
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries
Published February 1st, 2017 - 09:17 GMT
Citizens from five Muslim-majority countries will no longer be able to obtain Kuwaiti visas, after reports the Gulf state issued tight entry restrictions that mirrored US President Donald Trump's Muslim ban. Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Pakistanis and Afghans will not be able to obtain visit, tourism or trade Kuwaiti visas with the news coming one day after the US slapped its own restrictions on seven Muslim-majority countries. Passport holders from the countries will no lot be allowed to enter the Gulf state while the blanket ban is in place and have been told not to apply to visas. Kuwaiti sources told local media that the restrictions were in place due to the "instability" in the five countries and that the ban would be lifted once the security situation improves. Pakistan and Afghanistan have all witnessed violence from extremist groups, while Syria and Iraq are embroiled in internal conflicts. Although mainly peaceful, tensions between Iran and the Gulf have ratched up over the past year with the GCC powers accusing Tehran of attempting to destabalise the region. Kuwait is concerned about the threat of extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group with both militant organisations have a presence in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Gulf state has witnessed a number of militant attacks over the past two years, including the bombing of a Shia mosque in 2015 which left 27 Kuwaits dead. Kuwait responded by arresting dozens of suspected Daesh sympathizers and rolling out mandatary DNA testing programme and database for the Gulf state's 4 million population. Kuwait reportedly issued a ban on all visas for Syrians in 2011, but allowed those inside the country to remain. It made Kuwait the only country in the world to officially bar entry to Syrians, until the US named Syria in seven countries banned from entering. Kuwait has issued a number of laws targeting foreigners in recent years, and made it one of the most unfriendly Gulf states towards expatriates. In 2015, Kuwait was named as the worst place in the world for expatriates in a 64 country InterNations survey. Meanwhile, Trump's Muslim ban has been met with widespread outrage since it was signed on Friday, although Gulf states have remained quiet on the issue. Dubai security chief Dhahi Khalfan outraged Syrians and other nationalities included in the ban when he publically backed Trump's decision.
http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/kuwait-issues-its-own-trump-esque-visa-ban-five-muslim-majority-countries-932174
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URGENT! NEW REPORT EXPOSES 6 TOP REPUBLICANS ON SOROS PAYROLL! GUESS WHO’S BEING PAID TO STOP TRUMP?
The Next News Network Published on Feb 2, 2017
Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | Lindsey Bruce for Liberty Writers reports, We always knew that there were RINOS in Washington, but Opensecrets.org just revealed that some of those RINOS are actually traitors. Investment Watch: “The non-profit, non-partisan research group based in Washington, D.C., that tracks the effects of money and lobbying on elections and public policy, revealed that while George Soros is responsible for funding Democrats and progressive causes, he has also bankrolled Senator John McCain and a small but select group of other Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_NxAmQOJmo&feature=youtu.be
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Media Promotes Military Coup to Remove Trump from Office
February 2, 2017
(Intellihub) In yet another astonishing attack on the very legitimacy of the Trump presidency, multiple high-profile news outlets have published an article that floats the idea of using the military to remove Trump from office. Writing for Foreign Policy, Georgetown University professor and Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation, Rosa Brooks discusses three ways that the left believes they may be able to remove the rightfully elected president from office. Brooks first touches on the ludicrous idea of impeaching Trump for literally nothing more than intelligence agency disinformation and political differences. She then moves on to the played out idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove the president which would require his entire cabinet turning against him. Finally Brooks gets to the more sinister idea being pushed in leftist circles which would amount to the end of American democracy as we know it and the beginning of using military force to remove leaders that parts of the country disagree with. “The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders,” writes the Georgetown Professor. Brooks continues, “For the first time in my life, I can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: “No, sir. We’re not doing that,” to thunderous applause from the New York Times editorial board…”
http://www.libertyheadlines.com/media-promotes-military-coup-remove-trump-office/#disqus_thread
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem
by Hal Lindsey
Throughout the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But we’ve heard that before. In 1996, the Republican Party platform said, “A Republican administration will ensure that the U.S. Embassy is moved to Jerusalem by May 1999.” The Republicans lost that year, so we don’t know if they would have kept their promise. However, in 1995, Congress passed the “Jerusalem Embassy Act.” The bi-partisan bill stated, “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.” The act also contained a provision allowing the president to leave the embassy in Tel Aviv if he deemed it important “to protect the national security interests of the United States.” President Clinton chose to not to move it. Would a Republican president choose a different course? The party platform of 2000 promised, “Immediately upon taking office, the next Republican president will begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” Republican George W. Bush was elected, but nothing happened. Despite the inactivity of their president in the preceding four years, the 2004 Republican platform said, “Republicans continue to support moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” But in his second four years, President Bush again kept the embassy in Tel Aviv. Nations place embassies in the capitals of countries because they want their ambassadors near the centers of power. The “Jerusalem Embassy Act” said, “The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous government ministries and social and cultural institutions.” The point of having an embassy and an ambassador is to have a local representative of one government to another. That means, the embassy needs to be located in the center of power. But the nations of the world have decided to make a political statement by not recognizing Israel’s right to name its own capital. In 2008, then-candidate Obama proclaimed unequivocally that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. But as a president, he acted just like Presidents Bush and Clinton. In 2012, his White House spokesman at the time, Jay Carney, wouldn’t say whether Jerusalem was Israel’s capital or not. He just said, “our position hasn’t changed,” and “you know the answer.” What will President Trump do? He said throughout the campaign that he would move the embassy. For instance, he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March, “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” But now his administration has begun to equivocate. In his first full press briefing, new White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked, “What is the U.S. strategic interest in moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I don’t — as I noted yesterday through several press inquiries, we haven’t — there’s no decisions. We’re at the very early stages of that decision-making process.” Wait a minute. We thought the decision had been made. We were given a promise, but now he tells us they’re at the “early stages of that decision-making process.” Isn’t this bait and switch? Isn’t this an example of the very swamp of Washington politics Donald Trump promised to drain? Later, Spicer repeated, “It’s very early in this process. We are at the beginning stages of this decision-making process and his team’s gonna continue to consult with stakeholders as we get there.” Later still, a reporter asked the question point blank. “At the end of the next four years, will the United States embassy be in Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I — I think I’ve answered it twice now. I — we are at the early stages in this decision-making process.” The questioner then said, “But it’s not whether, it’s when and how?” Spicer said, “I — I — there’s a reason you go through a decision-making process. And that’s what we’re in the process of starting right now. So, I just don’t want to get ahead of — it would — if it was already a decision, then we wouldn’t be going through a process.” But if the decision hasn’t been made and they are in the early stages of the process, why would candidate Trump make a promise, then repeat it again and again? The 5th chapter of 2 Samuel tells how David made Jerusalem Israel’s capital. Dozens of scriptures from that point forward, show that God inspired and blessed that idea. Isaiah 14:32 says, “The Lord has founded Zion, and the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.” (NASB) A sovereign nation gets to choose the location of its capital, and Israel chose Jerusalem — three thousand years ago. One of the most important things to watch for over the next few weeks is whether the United States chooses to respect that choice.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-27-2017/
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Did Obama just hack President Trump's statement on Israel?
By: Daniel Horowitz | February 02, 2017
The final major policy fight of Obama’s presidency was his public dispute with Israel over their right to build homes in their biblical homeland. The country was rightly appalled that Obama and then-Secretary of State John Kerry chose to focus on a few thousand Jewish homes in the foothills of ancient Samaria at a time when Islamic mayhem is breaking out all over Western Civilization. In many respects, this parting shot from Obama epitomized the moral dyslexia of his entire presidency. At the time, conservatives and even some intellectually honest liberals breathed a sigh of relief that a new a president would soon be welcomed — one who stopped condemning our ally as a way of apologizing to the Islamic world. We thought we could finally break away from the global elite’s maniacal obsession with the illogical and incoherent distraction of the two-state solution and focus on the root problem: Islamic supremacism. Thus, naturally, this statement from the Trump White House was shocking: The American desire for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians has remained unchanged for 50 years. While we don’t believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal. As the President has expressed many times, he hopes to achieve peace throughout the Middle East region. The Trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity and looks forward to continuing discussions, including with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he visits with President Trump later this month. At first I thought this was a hoax, or that it was drafted by an Obama holdover. Some might suggest that at least Trump’s White House put some distance between this administration and his predecessor by recognizing some right for Jews to live in part of Judea and Samaria. Really folks? Is this the soft bigotry of low expectations? Are we aiming for pale pastels, haggling over a few inches in an area virtually invisible on a map compared to the mass of land controlled by Islam? At a time when the entire premise of this two-state solution has been countermanded by reality, are we going to continue the same failed recognition of the PLO terrorists the way Clinton, Bush, and Obama did? What exactly does it mean to “achieve peace” and why is the creation of a 23rd Arab state in our best interest? Why should we continue to invest our diplomatic capital into the foreign policy version of Obamacare? I spent the entire week robustly defending Trump’s immigration policy from a legal, political, historical, and philosophical perspective precisely because we don’t want to endanger our land with Islamic supremacism. Why is the Trump White House asking Israel to do something he wouldn’t want to do himself? Moreover, this is the very stupidity that embodies the anger people felt against the political establishment and why they voted for Trump. While on the campaign trail, President Trump boldly decried the “stupid” politicians who are “pathetic losers” and perpetuate failed policies that are devoid of common sense. There is nothing that better fits this description than the globalist elite obsession with creating a PLO terror state west of the Jordan River; one which will become saturated with ISIS and Al Qaeda elements within days. The two-state solution is the Obamacare of foreign policy. Much like Obamacare has locked up our economy and job market on the domestic front, the PLO nonsense has paralyzed our leverage in the Middle East and has consumed our foreign policy for 23 years. It is rooted in an apologetic concession to Islam instead of confronting the reality of Sharia-based Islam. Now, Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood know that any time they want to leverage Trump into making a concession, they will call upon Hamas and the PLO to ratchet up attacks on Israel and criticize the presence of Jews in Jewish territory. We have lost our leverage now that they know we “fear the Arab street” as it relates to moving the embassy and our ally building homes wherever they damn please. What happened to the tough negotiator? Is this coming from his meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan today? A tough negotiator would tell Abdullah, “listen buddy, you create an Arab terror state on your western border and your country will fall to the Islamists within weeks. We won’t be there to save you.” Jordan would be just as adversely affected by such a dumb move as Israel. Finally, there is a background here that is probably missed in the media. The reason Israel announced more construction in Samaria today is because, thanks to Israel’s crazy Supreme Court [Robert Bork wrote a lot about it during his lifetime], the Israeli government just dismantled an entire community of Jews in a town called Amona and sent their own army in to kick out their own families who have been living there for 20 years. This is something, to my knowledge, no other nation has done in history. So the building of more homes was somewhat of a domestic compromise for kicking those people out. For the Trump administration to then issue a statement on the same day and rip that wound wide open is appalling to the many religious Christians and Jews who so enthusiastically supported him on the premise that he wouldn’t follow such policies. The bottom line is there was absolutely no reason to even focus on this issue at a time like this or issue any such statement. Silence in the face of Israel building homes would have been the refreshing change we all expected. It’s disappointing that Trump is willing to get us sucked into the foreign policy cause célèbre of the very political establishment he claims to detest. On the one hand, he (rightfully) proclaims that our political leaders have been stupid to try to create democracy in the Middle East among existing Arab nations. Yet at the same time, he is willing to expend American capital creating a new Arab state that hates America, exports terrorism, destabilize the region, strengthen the Muslim Brotherhood, and will become a client-state of Iran? We know you are better than this, Mr. President. Return to the inner voice of common sense and ignore the foreign policy elites.
- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/02/did-obama-just-hack-president-trumps-statement-on-israel#sthash.kFw7dlVY.dpuf
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US hits 13 people, 12 companies in new Iran sanctions
The Associated Press 2 hrs ago (0)
WASHINGTON • The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on 13 people and a dozen companies in response to Iran's recent ballistic missile test. The Treasury Department announced the action Friday. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, said this week that the administration was putting Iran "on notice" for its missile test Sunday and for supporting Shiite rebels in Yemen. Trump tweeted Friday that "Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!"
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For I have told you before this that this would be the last President, that this would be the last President as you know a President, therefore listen, pay attention, for it is your life it will affect, but it doesn’t need to affect it in a bad sense it can affect it in a good sense. You can be the victors, you can be the overcomers, but hear, hear what I, your Father God, has to say.
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Trump Reportedly Preparing to Issue Executive Order Protecting Religious Freedom
Veronica Neffinger | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Thursday, February 02, 2017
A four-page draft of an executive order on religious freedom that President Trump reportedly plans to issue has been obtained by The Nation and The Investigative Fund. The document states that, "Americans and their religious organisations will not be coerced by the Federal Government into participating in activities that violate their conscience." This executive order would seem to have bearing on cases such as the Christian bakers who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding or the Catholic hospitals which refused to provide contraception under the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The forthcoming executive order would reportedly provide exemptions for all religious companies and institutions based on “religious exercise,” which it defines as “any act or refusal to act that is motivated by a sincerely held religious belief, whether or not the act is required or compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief.” Some experts have been questioning whether this order is legal. Marty Lederman, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center explained, "This executive order would appear to require agencies to provide extensive exemptions from a staggering number of federal laws – without regard to whether such laws substantially burden religious exercise." "Moreover, the exemptions would raise serious First Amendment questions, as well, because they would go far beyond what the Supreme Court has identified as the limits of permissive religious accommodations,” he added. Although Trump is preparing to issue this executive order in support of religious freedom, he decided earlier this week to leave in place anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in the workplace.
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Introducing the next Antonin Scalia ...
Trump nominates judge to replace late justice on Supreme Court
Published: 15 hours ago. Updated: 01/31/2017 at 10:03 PM
At last, President Donald Trump has announced his nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court: federal Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, whom some have dubbed “Scalia 2.0.” At 49, Gorsuch is the youngest nominee to the Supreme Court in 25 years and, if confirmed, could serve on the high court for decades. In making the announcement Tuesday at the White House, President Trump said, “When Justice Scalia passed away suddenly last February, I made a promise to the American people: If I were elected president, I would find the very best judge in the country for the Supreme Court. “I promised to select someone who respects our laws and is representative of our Constitution and who loves our Constitution. And someone who will interpret [it] as written.” Trump added, “This may be the most transparent judicial selection process in history,” noting that he provided a list of candidates to the American people during his campaign and made a pledge to select an individual from that list. “Millions of voters said this list was the single most important issue to them when they voted for me for president. I am a man of my word,” Trump said. “I will do as I say, something that the American people have been asking for from Washington for a very, very long time.” Trump continued, “Today, I am making another promise to the American people by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch … to the United States Supreme Court.” What do YOU think? What’s your reaction to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? Sound off in today’s WND poll! Trump called Gorsuch to the stage and said, “I have always felt that after the defense of our nation, the most important decision a president of the United States can make is the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. Depending on their age, a justice can be active for 50 years, and his or her decisions can last a century or more and can often be permanent. “I took the task of this nomination very seriously. I have selected an individual whose qualities define, really, and I mean closely, define what we’re looking for. Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan support.” The president called Gorsuch’s resume “as good as I have ever seen.” “He is a man of our country and a man who our country really needs and needs badly to ensure the rule of law and the rule of justice,” Trump said. “I would like to thank Senate leadership. I only hope that both Democrats and Republicans can come together for once for the good of the country. Congratulations to you and your family. May God bless you. May God bless our glorious nation.” Gorsuch delivered the following remarks: Mr. President, thank you very much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, you and your team have shown me great courtesy in this process, and you’ve entrusted me with the most solemn assignment. Standing here, in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed, I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country. For the last decade, I have worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six western states, serving about 20 percent of the continental United States and about 18 million people. The men and women I’ve worked with at every level in our circuit are an inspiration to me. I’ve watched them fearlessly tending to the rule of law, enforcing the promises of our Constitution and living out daily their judicial oaths to administer justice equally to rich and poor alike, following the law as they find it and without respect to their personal political beliefs. I think of them tonight. Of course, the Supreme Court’s work is vital not just to a region of the country but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people’s liberties under the law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known. The towering judges that have served in this particular seat of the Supreme Court, including Antonin Scalia and Robert Jackson, are much in my mind at this moment. Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench cherished his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. … I respect too the fact that in our legal order, it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people’s representatives. A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge, stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands. As WND reported, Gorsuch has been a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2006. Gorsuch didn’t face any organized opposition in the Republican-controlled Senate when he was appointed to the Tenth Circuit by President George W. Bush. Gorsuch is married with children and has been living in Boulder, Colorado. Born Aug. 29, 1967, in Denver, Colorado, Gorsuch’s mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, was the first female head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Ronald Reagan. Gorsuch earned his B.A. from Columbia University in 1988, his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991, and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2004. While at Columbia, Gorsuch co-founded the Federalist newspaper and a magazine, the Morningside Review. Previously, he served as principal deputy, associate attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to that, he was in private practice. He was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. The U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment to the Court of Appeals by voice vote and was rated unanimously well qualified by the American Bar Association at the time. Immediately after Trump’s announcement, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, tweeted: “Judge Gorsuch is a tremendous pick for the Supreme Court and I look forward to doing everything I can to ensure he is confirmed by Senate.” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said: “After the untimely death of the conservative lion Justice Antonin Scalia, I strongly believed that the American people deserved a voice in filling this critical vacancy. President Trump has made an outstanding selection in nominating Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and I am confident that he will preserve Scalia’s legacy on the bench for generations to come. “Our next Supreme Court Justice must be a steadfast supporter of the rule of law with an unwavering commitment to the Constitution. There is no doubt that Judge Gorsuch meets these necessary qualifications. I look forward to supporting his nomination and urge my Senate colleagues to join me.” House Speaker Paul Ryan released the following statement: “In Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump has fulfilled his pledge to nominate a judge who has a demonstrated loyalty to the Constitution and a strong commitment to life. He is a phenomenal nominee for the Supreme Court. His belief in judicial restraint will serve the Court – and the country – very well. I also commend his career-long fight to uphold the constitutional right of religious liberty. I am confident my colleagues in the Senate will confirm Judge Gorsuch.” What do YOU think? What’s your reaction to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? Sound off in today’s WND poll! On Sept. 23, 2016, Gorsuch was included in a second list of individuals then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.” The following is a photo of Gorsuch with Scalia on the Colorado River. Scalia appears to have addressed the photo to Gorsuch, writing: “To Neil Gorsuch, Fond memories of a day on the Colorado. With warm regards, Antonin Scalia.” An analysis of the nominee by the SCOTUSBlog website identified parallels between the legal approaches of Gorsuch and the late Scalia. “With perhaps one notable area of disagreement, Judge Gorsuch’s prominent decisions bear the comparison out,” the report said. “For one thing, the great compliment that Gorsuch’s legal writing is in a class with Scalia’s is deserved: Gorsuch’s opinions are exceptionally clear and routinely entertaining; he is an unusual pleasure to read, and it is always plain exactly what he thinks and why. Like Scalia, Gorsuch also seems to have a set of judicial/ideological commitments apart from his personal policy preferences that drive his decision-making. He is an ardent textualist (like Scalia); he believes criminal laws should be clear and interpreted in favor of defendants even if that hurts government prosecutions (like Scalia); he is skeptical of efforts to purge religious expression from public spaces (like Scalia); he is highly dubious of legislative history (like Scalia); and he is less than enamored of the dormant commerce clause (like Scalia). In fact, some of the parallels can be downright eerie.” Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. Upon Scalia’s death in 2016, Gorsuch wrote a tribute to the late justice in which Gorsuch discussed and championed Justice Scalia’s method of legal interpretation. Gorsuch wrote: Judges should instead strive (if humanly and so imperfectly) to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure, and history to decide what a reasonable reader at the time of the events in question would have understood the law to be — not to decide cases based on their own moral convictions or the policy consequences they believe might serve society best. As Justice Scalia put it, “if you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.” Carrie Severino, policy director and chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network had this to say about Gorsuch: “He has a clear record of a consistent judicial philosophy and applying that in action. … One of the real values here is he’s someone with solid record and we’re able to assess his experience. Conservatives are still concerned about the ‘David Souter effect.’” The “Souter effect” is certainly a concern by many conservatives who have been promised originalist appointments in the past, only to see some, notably Souter, devolve into knee-jerk progressives after some time inside the beltway. Last month, law professor Justin Marceau described Gorsuch as “a predictably socially conservative judge who tends to favor state power over federal power … a judge who, while perhaps not as combative in personal style as Justice Scalia, is perhaps his intellectual equal … and almost certainly his equal on conservative jurisprudential approaches to criminal justice and social justice issues that are bound to keep coming up in the country.” In 2013, Gorsuch gave the 13th Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture established by the Federalist Society in 2001 in honor of Barbara Olson, wife of former U.S. solicitor general Ted Olson, who died in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Of particular note was Gorsuch’s dissent in the Tenth Circuit’s denial of rehearing en banc in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Herbert. As background, in the aftermath of the Center for Medical Progress’ release of videos depicting various Planned Parenthood affiliates’ involvement in harvesting body parts, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert directed state agencies “to cease acting as an intermediary for pass-through federal funds” to Planned Parenthood’s Utah affiliate. But after the district court denied Planned Parenthood’s request for a preliminary injunction against Herbert’s directive, a divided panel ruled that Planned Parenthood was entitled to a preliminary injunction. His position on the “life” issue was fairly laid out in his book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” which, noted Princeton University Press, “builds a nuanced, novel, and powerful moral and legal argument against legalization [of assisted suicide and euthanasia], one based on a principle that, surprisingly, has largely been overlooked in the debate – the idea that human life is intrinsically valuable and that intentional killing is always wrong.” Gorsuch also has written in favor of political term limits. In 1992, he authored a Cato Institute paper arguing that term limits are “constitutionally permissible.” “Recognizing that men are not angels, the Framers of the Constitution put in place a number of institutional checks designed to prevent abuse of the enormous powers they had vested in the legislative branch,” Gorsuch wrote. “A term limit, we suggest, is simply an analogous procedure designed to advance much the same substantive end.” The significance of the nomination by Trump couldn’t be more pronounced given the balance of the Supreme Court is at stake, with three conservative justices, one swing vote and four solid liberal jurists in place for the time being.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/introducing-the-next-antonin-scalia/#FDDGK8bOHQjV8YrL.99
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The Wall Street Journal
Army Corps gets green light for Dakota pipeline permit
By Will Connors Published: Jan 31, 2017 10:49 p.m. ET
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been given the green light to proceed with the final permit necessary to finish the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. But a local tribe opposed to the pipeline vowed to continue to fight the project in court. The Republican senator said in a statement late Tuesday that during a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer, Speer said he directed the Army Corps “to proceed with the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline.” In December, under the directive of the Obama administration, the Army Corps denied the permit needed to complete the last leg of the $3.8 billion oil pipeline being built by Energy Transfer Partners ETP, +2.23% The tribe said it “will vigorously pursue legal action to ensure the environmental impact statement order issued late last year is followed so the pipeline process is legal, fair and accurate.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/army-corps-gets-green-light-for-dakota-pipeline-permit-2017-01-31
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Israel urges Trump, UN to act against Iran after ballistic missile test
ByJPOST.COM STAFF 31 January 2017 11:13
The United Nations Security Council was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on the test; Iran says such trials don't breach nuclear deal, UN resolution. Israel is urging the world to take action after a US official said Monday that Iran carried out a test launch of a medium-range ballistic missile over the weekend, seemingly in violation of UN Resolution 2231, which forbids the Islamic Republic from carrying out such tests for a period of eights years. The United Nations Security Council was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on the test at the request of the United States. The US request came after Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called for the meeting, saying of the test, "This aggression is not only directed toward Israel, it is directed toward the entire Western world." New US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley was expected to take part in the Security Council talks. The call for the meeting was the first such request that the US has made since Haley was confirmed for her post last week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that in light of reports of the Iranian ballistic missile test, one of the issues he will raise with US President Donald Trump during their meeting on February 15 will be the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran. He said it is forbidden that Iranian “aggression” go without a response. Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Army Radio on Tuesday that "there is no doubt that further sanctions on Iran are needed," following the ballistic missile test. Katz said that not only Iran's ballistic missile program, but also its entrenchment in Syria and the aid it gives to Hezbollah constitute threats to Israel's security. The intelligence minister suggested that the Trump administration, and its stance on Iran, offers new opportunities to thwart Iran's hegemonic ambitions in the region that endanger Israel. "The Trump administration - I was briefed on the conversations between Trump and the Saudi king, and other leaders - sees Iran in a negative light. This is a significant development in this region. There are initiatives, and it is possible, to advance initiatives to levy sanctions on Iran to prevent the aid that Iran gives to Hezbollah, preventing Iranian meddling in the region, preventing Iran's entrenchment in Syria. These are goals that we must promote," Katz said. According to a US official speaking on condition of anonymity, the medium-range ballistic missile launched by Iran in Sunday's test exploded after 630 miles. The official said the test was carried out from a site near Semnan, east of Tehran. The official added that the last time this type of missile was test launched was in July 2016. The White House said it was aware that Iran had tested a missile. "We're looking into that. We're aware that Iran fired that missile. We're looking into the exact nature of it, and I'll try to have more for you later," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said during a press briefing. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, condemned Iran on Monday and said he would work with other lawmakers and Trump's administration to hold Iran accountable. On Tuesday, Iran said that the ballistic missile tests carried out by the country were neither part of a nuclear agreement with world powers, or the UN Security Council resolution endorsing the deal. Neither confirming or denying US accusations that Iran had carried out a missile test on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated that Iran would never use missiles made in Iran to attack another country. Zarif also said that such tests were not part of any United Nations resolution ratifying accord. "The missiles aren't part of the nuclear accords. Iran will never use missiles produced in Iran to attack any other country," said Zarif, speaking at a joint news conference held with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. "No Iranian missiles have been produced to carry nuclear warheads." Ayrault told reporters at the conference that France had made clear its concerns over the Iranian ballistic missile test, adding that it harmed the international community's confidence in Iran and contravened UN Security Council Resolution 2231. Reuters contributed to this report.
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Report: Hezblooah Rocket Hitting Haifa's Ammonia Stock Would Kill Thousands
By: David Israel Published: January 31st, 2017
Once a month, at regularly scheduled visits, a vessel loaded with ammonia docks at Haifa’s Kishon harbor, and over some 24 hours unloads 10,000 tons of its capacity of 16,700 tons of liquid ammonia into a local container. A report presented to the media on Tuesday by Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav, written by ten chemistry doctors and professors from four academic institutions, led by the Technion’s Prof. Ehud Keinan, suggests that metropolitan Haifa, with more than 300,000 is facing terrifying environmental consequences from a terrorist rocket direct hit on the vessel or the permanent container. It also suggests that even without an act of war, Haifa’s ammonia container “could disintegrate tomorrow.” Mayor Yahav says he is weighing a lawsuit to prevent the ammonia carrying ship from entering Israel’s territorial water. Prof. Keinan is adamant about the need to “close down the plant now.” He warns that “should the ammonia ship be hit, nothing will be left alive up to six miles away. Half a percent of ammonia in the air means certain death within 10 to 15 minutes.” The same is true if the permanent container is breached, argues Keinan, who notes that a third of the ammonia being unloaded from the vessel is shipped to the Haifa Chemicals plant and elsewhere in Israel, north to south, in trucks, on civilian highways – and trucks are known to get into accidents.” It can be said that life as we know it is impossible without ammonia, a colorless gas with a characteristic pungent smell. It contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of plants by serving as a precursor to food and fertilizers. Ammonia, either directly or indirectly, is also a building block for the synthesis of many pharmaceutical products and is used in many commercial cleaning products. And, in high doses, ammonia will kill you. According to a report submitted to Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry, the bulk of the imported ammonia – 80% – ends up being processed and exported by Israeli manufacturers. Only a small portion is needed for all that life giving blessing of this compound. Also, according to the same report, that portion can be easily produced locally in different regions of Israel, rather than process all of it in an area that’s well within enemy fire. According to various reports, Hezbollah today is in possession of an estimated 130,000 rockets of various types. The distance from the Lebanese border and the Kishon harbor is 25 miles. Now do the math: the Grad rocket’s range is up to 25 miles; the Iran-made Fajr-3 reaches up to 47 miles; the Zilzal (also Iran-made) can do 150 miles; the Fatah and the M-110 reach 155 miles; and the Russian-made Scuds cover 435 miles. Utilizing underground launchers, truckbed launchers and dedicated mobile rocket carriers (such as the Kayuasha) the IDF estimates that Hezbollah will be able to shoot as many as 1,500 rockets per day of fighting – compared with 200 a day it shot during the 2006 Second Lebanon War. According to Prof. Keinan, for Hezbollah “to hit the ammonia ship would be a duck shoot.” Mayor Yahav shared with reporters on Tuesday that he had reviewed a report from Israel’s National Security Commission saying the Kishon Harbor ammonia container was completely resilient. “I asked my staff to find out who’s behind this report, which recommends keeping the container here. To my surprise I discovered that the report being used by the NSC was written by Haifa Chemicals, the plant’s owner.”
David Israel About the Author: David writes news at JewishPress.com.
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Bombshell: At Least 25 Million Dead and Fraudulent “Registered Voters” in 2016
Trump proven right: millions of dead and invalid voters not included in study showing 800,000 illegals for Hillary!
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - January 27, 2017
A study revealing that over 800,000 non-citizens voted for Hillary Clinton doesn’t account for dead and fraudulent voters, which accounted for over 25 million “registered voters” during the 2012 presidential election – and little has changed since then. Illegal alien voters combined with dead and “multiple state” voters could easily explain Clinton’s “popular vote” margin over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, especially considering that her “victory” came from Democratic-controlled counties known for illegal immigration and loose voter ID laws such as in New York and California. “A report by the Pew Center on the States finds that more than 1.8 million dead people are currently registered to vote, and 24 million registrations are either invalid or inaccurate,” NPR reported in 2012, which is ironic given how NPR is heavily controlled by Democrats. And many of the dead, registered voters somehow keep voting Democrat from beyond the grave, most recently in Philadelphia, Penn. and Colorado. It’s also worth noting that the U.S. population has increased since 2012, meaning that there’s likely more dead and invalid voters than before. “…The Pew study found that almost 3 million people are registered to vote in more than one state,” NPR added. That’s because when a new resident registers to vote in a state, officials usually never bother to tell his former state about the change in voter residency. Under the “catch and release” immigration program by the Obama administration, illegal aliens were routinely given bus tickets to travel to other states by immigration officials, so it was theoretically possible for non-citizens to register to vote in a border country illegally, then register to vote in another state after their taxpayer-funded bus dropped them off. Clinton won most of the 163 most populous counties in the US that account for half of the total votes in the election, including dense urban areas in New York and California, yet she only won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes, which reveals the lack of enthusiasm voters had for her in comparison to Trump – and that Democrats would have depended more on illegal votes. A portion of the 24 million invalid voter registrations combined with a portion of the 1.8 million dead voters and the over 800,000 known illegal voters could explain the difference of 2.8 million votes, and it’s worth noting that the 800,000 figure could be a low, conservative estimate. That said, a popular vote victory is meaningless; if the president was elected by popular vote, then both Trump and Clinton would have campaigned in entirely different states because only densely population regions of the U.S. would decide who would become president. Without the electoral college, the United States of America would be reduced to the United States of New York and California, with 48 other vassal states. Yet notice how Clinton campaigned in other, less populated states. They knew the popular vote was meaningless ahead of the election. However, the popular vote is useful as a barometer for voter fraud since the most populous countries are also the most susceptible to election tamperingx by illegal, invalid and dead voters.
http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-at-least-25-million-dead-and-fraudulent-registered-voters-in-2016/
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TRUMP: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GUN FREE ZONE
*Author's note - On Thursday January 26, Donald Trump was speaking in Philadelphia at a meeting of Republican lawmakers and he noted violent crime rates in some of the major American cities are out of control. In particular Donald singled out Chicago, saying "What the Hell is happening in Chicago?" Well Donald I can tell you the difference between say Chicago and its crime rate and cities like Houston, Salt Lake City or Oklahoma City, is the right to keep and bear arms. These cities and many others are helping America experience a large downturn in violent crime which has gone down every year since 1994, reaching 1978 levels in 2014, according to the FBI. These cities allow some form of concealed carry by permit or Constitutional carry, in accordance with the Supreme Law of the land. It is to the politically created reality which touts the benefits of disarming the citizen to order reduce crime that I speak to now, because, as you know and all men of reason know, There is No Such Thing as a Gun Free Zone. by Jack Mullen | The Government Rag | Re-published 28Jan2017 Gun-free zones are a magnet for those who want to kill many people quickly. Even the most ardent gun control advocate would never put “Gun-Free Zone” signs on their home. Let’s stop finally putting them elsewhere. - John Lott Jr. Theorem: There are NO GUN FREE ZONES "Gun Free Zones" are bounded regions where law abiding people are not allowed to be armed - formally being disarmed before entering. Gun Free Zones in Public Spaces (GFZPS) are a violation of the Constitution for the United States, violate many State Constitutions, and, more importantly, violate Natural Law. The fundamental law is the foundation of our society. In the United States of America, it is the U.S. Constitution. Through this document, our fundamental rights are secured and protected against infringement by the federal government and by the State governments, because the States are also parties to this contract. - Paul Andrew Mitchell, “The Federal Zone” No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it. [16 Am. Jur. 2d, Section 177; later 2d, Section 256] The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of Nature for his rule. John Locke Gun Free Zones in Public Spaces are dangerous and, like cancer, can become a pathological process spreading ever widening areas, including cities, parks, government occupied buildings and properties. It can further metastasize over whole public regions including counties and States. COMPETITION FOR PEACE AND SECURITY Competition is a sin, therefore you must destroy it. John D. Rockefeller The theory of natural monopoly is an economic fiction. No such thing as a ―natural monopoly has ever existed. The history of the so-called public utility concept is that the late 19th and early 20th-century ―utilities competed vigorously, and like all other industries, they did not like competition. They first secured government-sanctioned monopolies, and then, with the help of a few influential economists, they constructed an ex post facto rationalization for their monopoly power. . . . The theory of natural monopoly is a 19th-century economic fiction that defends 19th-century (or 18th-century, in the case of the U.S. Postal Service) monopolistic privileges and has no useful place in the 21st-century American economy. - June 14, 1995 at the CATO Institute conference examining the question Postal Service in the 21st Century: Time to Privatize? DiLorenzo, Thomas J. It is an axiom: competition for solutions in the markets of human action produce outcomes maximizing the values which support mankind's life and happiness. Competitive forces maximize truth and transparency, while actively and invisibly minimizing deception, fraud and dissimulative activities which drain and dissipate the resources originally available for the problems. Values necessary for human survival include Peace and Security, without out either, mankind cannot evolve as a community and in the long term he cannot exist. Gun Free Zones reduce competition for peace and security. Proceeding with an analogy from economics, GFZPS have the same effect as cartel created monopolies, unnatural and forcibly defended barriers against competitors deliberately erected around lucrative high demand products such as medical drugs (legal) and recreational drugs (illegal), and services, such as the provision of security via police forces and law enforcement. Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of competition. - THE BUSINESS END OF GOVERNMENT (1973). Dan Smoot Forcibly defended monopolies mean the only people and groups allowed to provide and profit from the monopolized products, or services, are cartel members (corporate or criminal gangs) or Government created gangs (police forces.) In the case of gun free zones, the only people carrying weapons (illegally) are criminals. Criminals of course are not bound by the laws of a monopoly because all observance of law is a voluntary decision and criminals do not, by definition, voluntarily observe the law. THE IDEA OF A GUN FREE ZONE IS MAGICAL THINKING: MANY PEOPLE ARE ARMED IN GUN FREE ZONES In a monopoly controlled Gun Free Zone, there still exists a market for peace and security, but market forces are nullified creating a vacuum of competing solutions which would provide life maximizing results. In this situation, cartel members and criminals are given exclusive control of peace and security and yet neither group has any personal concern or investment for return in those values. Legally armed cartel members are concerned with law abiding people remaining disarmed and criminals are also concerned with law abiding people remaining disarmed, however for the different reason of increasing their chances of committing lowered risk further crime. This is common sense and is consistent with natural law. Natural Law can be discovered and even understood and it can only be violated at some cost. In the case of an individual's ability to maximize his peace and security, Natural Law is clear, the Individual must be fully self-responsible, ie., he or she must be a competing market provider of peace and security, primarily focusing on preserving protecting their own. Competition, properly so-called, rests on the activity of separate, independent individuals owning and exchanging private property in the pursuit of their self-interest. It arises when two or more such individuals become rivals for the same trade. - Ayn Rand However as an individual provides for his own peace and security and brings his solution to the market, others will too, and must, bring their solutions thereby maximizing the number of competitive solutions providing peace and security. As the number of armed people increases, the incidence of violence and crime, inversely, is reduced. In an invisible way, crime and anti-life activity is minimized for all as the number of competing solutions for peace and security increase. COMPETITIVE MARKET IN WEAPONS In the case of weapons it’s also axiomatic that to support the Natural Law of competing solutions maximizing peace and security, there must be a competitive market of weapons available to competitors. It would be an unnatural (monopolized) market if only criminals and cartel members could be armed with the most powerful or technologically superior weapons. Again, criminals and unbalancing agents of the enforced monopoly would have a competitive edge in this market and peace and security would again be reduced if there were not competitive weapons available to everyone in the market. Thus it is important to recognize: calls for reducing or eliminating your access to the best possible weapons technology of the day, are really deceptive calls to unbalance the market for peace and security and place you at a disadvantage in terms of maximizing your peace and security. Gun Bans and Restrictions on Weapons Are Market Destabilizing Cartels and monopolies of force are often created as a result of criminal elements having eliminated or usurped third party representatives formerly considered to be functioning to increase your peace and security. The Constitution of the United States, acting as a clarifier and preserver of Natural Law, explicated the Natural Law of Self Defense. The Constitution did not make the Law, but was created to provide a legal framework wherein the government established by the document would have enumerated restrictions on how the government could legally act. It's clear that for a period of some years, the Constitution was a sufficient reminder and the court systems a sufficient deterrent against acting outside or in a manner inconsistent with Natural Law and the Laws restricting government action as codified in the Constitution. But consistent with our understanding of how deception, fraud and unbalancing of coercion free markets is necessary for criminals, and those seeking enrichment not via successful and productive efforts but rather by enslaving or stealing from others, we can directly correlate the creation of monopolies in all profitable markets required by man with a violation of Natural Law (with costs distributed to all not benefitting from the monopoly) and hence violations of the Constitution for the United States. The Constitution has now become powerless and no longer limits government action, but has been interpreted to limit the action of market actors; the market being all areas where men and women could and should rightly participate in commerce without coercive limitations on action. One such area is in the market for peace and security. Criminals, now actually parties with legal rights or cartel rights inside the created monopolies, are restricting free and open competition for maximizing the values of peace and security. It’s totally clear and fully transparent, gun free zones, proliferating in ever widening circles of enforcement, are spaces being made safe and for criminal activity, keeping in mind, criminals do not voluntarily recognize the legal restrictions of gun free zones. Arming the people has the effect of creating competition in economic markets - With more and more people armed the competition for peace provides MAXIMUM PEACE. And by way of economic principles, it is not the actual competition (outwardly carrying guns) that reduces violence, but rather it is the threat of competition (possible concealed weapons on everyone) -- the threat of people everywhere competitively armed - that reduces the violence and cost.. It is common sense and natural law. We are now witnessing the government acting in a manner that is consistent with favoring criminals, unbalancing the market and institutionalizing violence and predation. STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM History records time and time again, institutions organizing, at first in service or as representatives for individuals acting in a way supposedly beneficial to individuals. This usually starts out as a system of providing quasi-market solutions for problems individuals find troublesome or uncomfortable creating solutions. However, over time, criminal elements, psychopaths and their sycophants will begin to infiltrate and then escalate the number of services provided. Slowly at first, market solutions for many common problems are eliminated as government offers solutions sold as better than competitive services can provide. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith This process easily continues as people, especially European people , (read about white Pathological Altruism), are very trusting and readily handover responsibilities and tasks they find troublesome, labor intensive, or otherwise not pleasurable. Over time these governments, Monarchies, or any system of controlling people begin to use fear, intimidation and the invention of problems for which they can provide monopoly solutions. Costly solutions that ultimately reduce peace and security as their veiled goal is really predation on those unbalanced toward a weaker position in the market place of human action. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. Adam Smith State Sponsored Terrorism is a natural and typical act of a fully evolving criminal, mentally ill, control system which attempts to surround populations in monopolies of force, eventually creating total gun free zones inside their nations, while terrorizing the people into giving up their competitive positions and, as criminals, preying on the unprotected individuals across all perceived dimensions of wealth and value. These governments and their masters know peace and security are increased by individual competitors, using the most competitive weapons technology available, freely offering (un-coerced) competitive solutions in the marketplace. Therefore, the only logical conclusion to be drawn is, the Government intends to do violent crimes against the people and naturally must reduce the number of firearms in the hands of the people to accomplish this goal. State Sponsored Terrorism is nothing more than marketing, albeit ruthless, often bloody, and always immoral, by a control system in support of a monopoly in the market of solutions and services offering peace and security Governments, collectivized gangs and pockets of mentally ill crime syndicates must still compete in the social and economic market place of human action in order to gain market share and market control. This is a fact most don't understand, much or all of the evil and injustice done by one group to another is done with permission, either overtly or covertly via tacit acceptance of the products, services and contracts of an illicit defacto control system. It’s not until, an organization within a market obtains a corner on the market that they can evolved into a fully coercive tyranny, closing the doors to any competition and then gouging takes places in areas of important services. This explains why the Obama Regime must continuously create false flag shootings in order to gain American's permission to begin the process of disarming. After a certain number of people provide support for the idea, the monopoly will have enough power to force its barriers around all peoples: Time is short. Gun Free Zones are the safe spaces where State sponsored terrorism can exist mostly unimpeded. Gun Free Zones are action zones, State actors and criminal actors artificially causing market unbalancing legal restrictions on people's ability to protect themselves. In the end, as all people are disarmed, the worst personality traits begin to monopolize the positions of authority in the control system until, a mentally ill monopoly of force begins its most egregious acts of terrorism, theft, rape and mass murder. This has been explored as the concept of Pathocracy wherein, organizations begin to populate with similar minded, mentally ill or psychopathic personality traits. Communism is such a political system and, over its nearly 200 years of implementation, every expression of this malignant political system has exhibited mentally ill and psychopathic behaviors leaving misery and wealth destruction as its legacy. When a government or system of control begins to demand it provide solutions for peace and security, not voluntarily, and when concomitantly, peace and security are reduced with violent and escalating attacks on people and property (and always "advertised" via a public media circus) you must immediately recognize the danger; the control system is marketing a mentally ill system of control. At this moment in time we have an emergency situation. The acts of Terrorism against the people, ie., Oklahoma City bombing, 9-11, mass shootings like the Batman Movie Theatre shootings, with James Holmes or the Safeway Shooting with Jared Loughner, or the TOTALLY FAKED attacks like the Sandy Hook School Shooting and likely the Boston Bombing, and attacks which may have been faked like those recently in Paris and San Bernardino, **are only the beginning**. Because when the people can no longer provide for their own defense, then anything and everything will be done to them -- history has shown. ARGUMENTS FOR IRRATIONAL ACTORS Many argue mass shooters are mentally ill and emotionally charged. Claiming such states of mind preclude rational thinking regarding the location of mass shooting. The Batman Shooter, James Holmes for example never mentioned in his notes or other clues the theatre's 'Gun Free Zone" policy had anything to do with his choice of venue for his "mass shooting". However, if one actually believes the Holmes shooting was not either encouraged, provocateured, engineered or otherwise influenced by State actors working toward an agenda of total disarmament of the American people, one has to realize by unintentionally choosing a "Gun Free Zone" Holmes was elevating his chances of not being shot while committing his crime. Further the death toll was statistically likely to be higher as a result of the "Gun Free Zone" location. It was also claimed in a 2002 study right to carry laws have no effect on the location of a mass shooting (This study does not include recent data, refuting this claim.) But again, it is not the location a "right to carry" law should affect, it's the elimination of a threat or shooting in progress that a Natural Law right to defend your life most certainly will affect. Most Americans cannot wrap their head around the fact that most of the recent escalation of mass shootings is in some way influenced by the control system which is attempting to disarm Americans. NATURAL LAW SOLUTIONS FOR REDUCING GUN AND OTHER VIOLENT CRIME If the government actually cared about insuring the least number of causalities were caused by mass a shooting situation (or other violent crime), then it would have no choice but to recommend the Swiss system of arming and training all people to defend themselves. Gun and weapons training could again be part of the education system and begin early in a child's life resulting in self-assured less fearful people aware of the fact that a virtual police officer was everywhere - all the time - in the form of citizens equally armed and trained to respond. Training people at a young age to use, respect and understand the importance and position, in a self-dependent individual's life tool complement, is the most responsible, rational and mature way to ensure self-defense is a basic component of healthy state of mind and part of creating, from birth, healthy and self-dependent personality traits. This system naturally reduces violent crimes, rapes, robberies, while minimizing damage due to mentally ill shooters who are not motivated to save their own lives in first place. Creating a state of dependency in which others are to stand up for your life and to be available in your instantaneous moment of need is childish thinking; the magical thinking of an undeveloped state of consciousness. This is a condition deliberated created by those planning to exploit this vulnerability; public education is culpable and complicit in the devolution of adult states of mind. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin Clearly Natural Law requires adult people take responsibility for their own lives, otherwise third parties, who are under no obligation to risk their lives for yours, will convince you to transfer your self-responsibility to them in exchange for protection. Transferring self-responsibility to another makes you a ward, a slave, beholden to another for your physical safety and, by induction, anything similar to safety, eventually transferring responsibility for whole classes of actions you are no longer rightfully allowed to take. SILLY ARGUMENTS THAT GUNS IN HANDS OF THE PEOPLE DO NOT STOP TYRANNY Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison There are many that argue (supporting their oppressors) guns in the hands of militias and the people could not have stopped the absolute torturous blood bath of the mentally ill Bolsheviks set loose on Russia by the European and American Jewry and other genocides prosecuted against defenseless peoples. In the myopic article called Militia Myths the author makes the claim: A historical analysis reveals that Militias are typically the gateway to tyranny, not the safeguard against it. A heavily armed population has little to no bearing on preventing tyranny. and then gives examples of nations using a militia to throw off foreign aggressors only to create some new form of dictatorship afterwards. He cites examples of the liberating militias degenerating into tyrannies in countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Cuba, Somalia, Iraq, and southern Lebanon. The rest of the article makes similar claims about Bolshevik Russia and other nations where blood baths resulted when unarmed and untrained peoples fell victims to violent psychopaths. The article referenced above is written by a person with absolutely no understanding, or apparent education regarding the psychologies and personality types of nations, races and cultures. Nations structured around forms of social hierarchy, having no long standing, historical and institutionalize protection of values, such as property rights, contract law, Individualism, Natural Law and other mainly Western values, as codified in common law principals, cannot be expected to create new governments or ruling bodies based on those values. Western culture (European white cultures) have for hundreds of years had an enlightened system of law and justice based on the Natural Law ideas of 1) Do all you have agreed to do – which is the basis of contract law; 2) Do not encroach on other persons and their property – which is the basis of criminal and tort law. Richard Maybury Additionally, nations and their peoples with NO HISTORY of identifying and enshrining moral philosophical values preserving individual rights OR isolating governments from assimilating a religious dogma as part of its system of law, cannot expect some liberating internal militia to afterward "promote a Free State". Again, this is childish or magical thinking, resulting in the formation of conclusions which are harmful to rational thought regarding maintaining peace and security and minimizing despotism, tyranny and mentally ill systems of control. The cultures and governments of the East and, in fact, isolated and heavily influenced by Eastern immigrants, Czarist Russia, did not or do not possess a law based on Scientific Law, or Natural Law, but rather on Political law. As Richard Maybury aptly points out: POLITICAL LAW IS BASED ON POLITICAL POWER. It has no requirement for logic or morality. It changes whenever the political wind changes. Fickle and tangled, no one can completely understand it…. You do whatever the power-holders say, or else. Right or wrong. This type of social structure will not allow or promote a system enabling individuals to grow and advance with an understanding of their right to self-defense and protection of their own property. To expect a "Free State” to just manifest after an untrained, either morally or philosophically, militia or organization of peoples with guns, throw off a given tyranny is just plain silly. But in fact, Americans, mostly educated (as the educational system has been hobbled and purposely dumbed-down) in a system of property rights, contract law, and the moral values of individualism, could easily and handily throw off tyrants and still retain the knowledge and understanding of how to reconstituted a system based on those principles of property rights, contract law and the common law (Natural Law) tenets of individual rights. A skilled common law judge would try to make all his decisions logically consistent with the two fundamental laws. Common law was not only a private legal system, it was a scientific one. Abraham Lincoln considered `Euclid's Geometry' to be one of his most important law books; he studied it to be sure the logic of his cases was airtight. One of the most important characteristics of common law was its certainty. It had evolved very carefully over many centuries, changing little from one decade to the next. The two fundamental laws remained always in place, a stabilizing force. The community could expect their legal environment to remain reasonably orderly. Richard Maybury] It has been shown repeatedly armed citizens reduce causalities or prevent mass shootings. The question for the American people, and not the usurped Federal or State Governments, is one of third party trust. Can American's expect their governments to protect them? Can American's in light of all of human history, expect their governments to not become immoral, corrupt or tyrannical? Do Americans feel safe, even as their governments invite mostly fighting age males from Eastern nations having no moral or philosophical training or upbringing in the ways of a Limited Republic or a religiously unconcerned system of control based on common law, including property rights and individual rights? Do American's feel safer disarmed as their own country is being overrun by criminals, former terrorists, rapists and people with other undesirable characteristics, a people that are not going to assimilate and become Western, but are rather going to struggle non-stop to make America more Eastern. Will Americans feel safer disarmed as a financial collapse of proportions never experienced in America, deliberately caused by the financial looting of a criminal banking system and the vitiated corporate monopolies they licensed, creates armies of hungry, homeless and outraged people forced to take to the streets looking for answers and shelter from the banker's caused financial nuclear winter? The Government, their corporate masters and the criminal banking families behind them all are desperate to be sure Americans do not throw off their intended tyranny and restore a Natural Law system of government and reinvigorate the moral justice system that was once America and finally come after those who have attempted, with extreme hubris, to collapse civilization and rebirth it into a deformed, mentally ill, fledging New World Tyranny. MY CONCLUSION: Hold On To Your Guns Like Your Life Depends On Them.
http://www.thegovernmentrag.com/trump-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-gun-free-zone.html#. WI90izgoEdV
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40 Men Control the Planet: It’s Trump and You vs. Everyone Else
Dave Hodges
President Trump has a nearly impossible job. The Mexican President, Nieto, spit in Trump’s face yesterday. Mexico says that they will refuse to negotiate with the Trump administration so long as they insist that Mexico will build the wall. The simple thing to do seems to consist of canceling NAFTA. Mexico enjoys a $60 billion dollar trade surplus . They play home to millions of manufacturing jobs that used to go to Americans. Some economists will quietly say that this costs the United States almost a trillion dollars per year. This means lower wages, higher taxes and a declining standard of living for America. To add insult to injury, the tens of millions of illegal immigrants that have flooded into America sent home $25 billion to Mexican private interests in 2015. This money is not taxed. The labor represented by this amount, which does not account for the under-the-table money that is sent to Mexico, is only a drop in the bucket. Conservatively, and this is a gross under-representation of the actual money that America is bleeding. The labor represented in this amount is not taxed, none of this goes to unemployment compensation, workmen’s compensation, social security and medicare. This greatly increases the burden on American citizens to cover these needs. Mexico will never build the wall unless this movement of money is controlled and taxed. However, Trump is taking on an entire global economic empire. If you wondered why the media vilifies Trump at every turn, their six owners of the entire media profit greatly from all free trade agreements. This is what Trump is trying to undo. However, what most Americans don’t realize is the entire American economy is controlled by a few men who controls goverment and virutally every major industry in America. Below is just a partial snapshot of how monolithic the corporate interests that controls our daily lives have beccome. Until Trump was elected, nothing ever happened without their approval. They own it all, they control it all. Take a look. Please keep in mind that this is just the tip of the iceberg. The entire American economy is owned by fewer than 40 men, except for the dwindling number of small businesss that were devastated by the Obama administration. These corporate giants dominate every aspect of your life and they own the media that tells what to think and how to behave. They control the voting process that stole about 20% of the popular vote. Yet, they still could not defeat Donald Trump and the American people. Donald Trump can shut down NAFTA and cause Mexico to lose $60 billion a year in lost revenue, courtesy of Americans, and they can be taxed on the $25 billion that leaves the country, in the form of wire transfers from America to Mexico. However, it is critical to remember, this is a drop in the bucket. These corporations benefit from bringing in cheap labor because they cannot export every job out of America. This is why we have massive illegal immigration. Your wages are lower and your working conditions are poor because the corporations have you where they want you. Ironically, they will NEVER allow immigrants to become citizens because they don’t want to pay employement costs of medicare, social security, unemployment compensation and workmen’s comp. The corporations are the biggest abuser of immigrants and yet, the media they control will never report this. For Trump to be successful in negating free trade agreements, he needs our help. Congress must be made to feel the heat. Any Congressmen supporting the anti-Trump movement needs to be removed from office because they are costing you and your kids a decent wage and standard of living. I have long advocated on shopping local, trading and bartering and removing your participation, as much as possible, from the corporate controlled economy. Eat out at Mel’s Diner and not Outback, for example. Go to Joe’s Hardware store and not Ace Hardware. The American people are caught in a war. We face politicans who are bought and paid for by the very corporations that enslave us. We face a media that is relentless in their propaganda. And we have become conditioned to be apathetic and uninvolved. Trump cannot do this alone.
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Even now, saith your Father, they plot for a one world banking system, a one world government, a one world controlled by one man, etc..
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Europe Proposes "Restrictions On Payments In Cash"
Published: January 27, 2017 Source: Zero Hedge
Having discontinued its production of EUR500 banknotes, it appears Europe is charging towards the utopian dream of a cashless society. Just days after Davos' elites discussed why the world needs to "get rid of currency," the European Commission has introduced a proposal enforcing "restrictions on payments in cash." With Rogoff, Stiglitz, Summers et al. all calling for the end of cash - because only terrorists and drug-dealers need cash (nothing at all to do with totalitarian control over a nation's wealth) - we are not surprised that this proposal from the European Commission (sanctuary of statism) would appear.. The Commission published on 2 February 2016 a Communication to the Council and the Parliament on an Action Plan to further step up the fight against the financing of terrorism (COM (2016) 50). The Action Plan builds on existing EU rules to adapt to new threats and aims at updating EU policies in line with international standards. In the context of the Commission's action to extent the scope of the Regulation on the controls of cash entering or leaving the Community, reference is made to the appropriateness to explore the relevance of potential upper limits to cash payments. The Action Plan states that "Payments in cash are widely used in the financing of terrorist activities… In this context, the relevance of potential upper limits to cash payments could also be explored. Several Member States have in place prohibitions for cash payments above a specific threshold." Cash has the important feature of offering anonymity to transactions. Such anonymity may be desired for legitimate reason (e.g. protection of privacy). But, such anonymity can also be misused for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes. The possibility to conduct large cash payments facilitates money laundering and terrorist financing activities because of the difficulty to control cash payment transactions. Potential restrictions to cash payments would be a mean to fight criminal activities entailing large payment transactions in cash by organized criminal networks. Restricting large payments in cash, in addition to cash declarations and other AML obligations, would hamper the operation of terrorist networks, and other criminal activities, i.e. have a preventive effect. It would also facilitate further investigations to track financial transactions in the course of terrorist activities. Effective investigations are hindered as cash payments transactions are anonymous. Thus restrictions on cash payments would facilitate investigations. However, as cash transactions are moved to the financial system, it is essential that financial institutions have adequate controls and procedures in place that enable them to know the person with whom they are dealing. Adequate due diligence on new and existing customers is a key part of these controls in, line with the AMLD. Terrorists use cash to sustain their illegal activities, not only for illegal transactions (e.g. the acquisition of explosives) but also for payments which are in appearance legal (e.g. transactions for accommodation or transport). While a restriction on payments in cash would certainly be ignored for transactions that are in any case already illegal, the restriction could create a significant hindrance to the conduct of transactions that are ancillary to terrorist activities. Organised crime and terrorism financing rely on cash for payments for carrying out their illegal activities and benefitting from them. By restricting the possibilities to use cash, the proposal would contribute to disrupt the financing of terrorism, as the need to use non anonymous means of payment would either deter the activity or contribute to its easier detection and investigation. Any such proposal would also aim at harmonising restrictions across the Union, thus creating a level playing field for businesses and removing distortions of competition in the internal market. It would additionally foster the fight against money laundering, tax fraud and organised crime. And then right at the end, they mention "fundamental rights"... While being allowed to pay in cash does not constitute a fundamental right, the objective of the initiative, which is to prevent the anonymity that cash payments allow, might be viewed as an infringement of the right to privacy enshrined in Article 7 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. However, as complemented by article 52 of the Charter, limitations may be made subject to the principle of proportionality if they are necessary and genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognised by the Union or the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others. The objectives of potential restrictions to cash payments could fit such description. It should also be observed that national restrictions to cash payments were never successfully challenged based on an infringement to fundamental rights. Below are some recent thoughts on the matter from SovereignMan's Simon Black, who detailed previously that the war on cash is happening faster than we could have ever imagined, and predictably, is based on lies. Every time we turn around, it seems, there’s another major assault in the War on Cash. India is the most notable recent example– the embarrassing debacle a few weeks ago in which the government, overnight, “demonetized” its two largest denominations of cash, leaving an entire nation in chaos. But there have been so many smaller examples. In the US city of New Orleans, the local government decided earlier this month to stop accepting cash payments from drivers at the Office of Motor Vehicles. As I wrote to you recently, several branches of Citibank in Australia have stopped dealing in cash altogether. And former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers published an article last week stating that “nothing in the Indian experience gives us pause in recommending that no more large notes be created in the United States, Europe, and around the world.” In other words, despite the India chaos, Summers thinks we should still curtail the $100 bill. The conclave of the high priests of monetary policy almost invariably sings the same chorus: only criminals and terrorists use high denominations of cash. Ken Rogoff, Harvard professor and former official at the International Monetary Fund and Federal Reserve, recently published a book blatantly entitled The Curse of Cash. Ben Bernanke’s called it a “fascinating and important book”. And, shockingly, a number of reviews on Amazon.com praise “brilliant” Rogoff’s “visionary concepts” in his “excellent book”. Rogoff, like most of his colleagues, contends that large bills like the $100 or 500 euro note are only used in “drug trade, extortion, bribes, human trafficking. . .” In fact they jokingly refer to the 500-euro note as the “Bin Laden” since it’s apparently only used by terrorists. Give me a break. My team and I did some of research on this and found some rather interesting data. It turns out that countries with higher denominations of cash actually have much lower crime rates, including rates of organized crime. The research was simple; we looked at the World Economic Forum’s competitive rankings that assesses countries’ levels of organized crime, as well as the direct business costs of dealing with crime and violence. Switzerland, with its 1,000 Swiss franc note (roughly $1,000 USD) has among the lowest levels of organized crime in the world according to the WEF. Ditto for Singapore, which has a 1,000 Singapore dollar note (about $700 USD). Japan’s highest denomination of currency is 10,000 yen, worth $88 today. Yet Japan also has extremely low crime rates. Same for the United Arab Emirates, whose highest denomination is the 1,000 dirham ($272). If you examine countries with very low denominations of cash, the opposite holds true: crime rates, and in particular organized crime rates, are extremely high. Consider Venezuela, Nigeria, Brazil, South Africa, etc. Organized crime is prevalent. Yet each of these has a currency whose maximum denomination is less than $30. The same trend holds true when looking at corruption and tax evasion. Yesterday we wrote to you about Georgia, a small country on the Black Sea whose flat tax prompted tax compliance (and tax revenue) to soar. It’s considered one of the most efficient places to do business with very low levels of corruption. And yet the highest denomination note in Georgia is the 500 lari bill, worth about $200. That’s a lot of money in a country where the average wage is a few hundred dollars per month. Compare that to Malaysia or Uzbekistan, two countries where corruption abounds. Malaysia’s top cash note is 50 ringgit, worth about $11. And Uzbekistan’s 5,000 som is worth a paltry $1.57. Bottom line, the political and financial establishments want you to willingly get on board with the idea of abolishing, or at least reducing, cash. And they’re pumping out all sorts of propaganda to do it, trying to get people to equate crime and corruption with high denominations of cash. Simply put, the data doesn’t support their assertion. It’s just another hoax that will give them more power at the expense of your privacy and freedom.
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Ukraine Just Opened Its Doors to NATO 'Training' Missions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Why does Russia insist on putting its country so close to NATO training missions? Curious minds want to know.
Richard Brandt Subscribe to Richard Brandt Sat, Jan 28, 2017
What is Poroshenko's escape plan, considering that he is now less popular than facial herpes, and the right-wing goons that he has cynically used to carry out terror in the Donbass are quickly turning on him? The answer is very simple: Do everything possible to provoke Russia (an actual war would be ideal). This solves the problem of right-wing goons lynching him (because they will all volunteer to go fight Russia, and immediately die), as well as provides a convenient distraction while Porky and his oligarch friends vacuum up the last crumbs of wealth from Ukraine before high-tailing it to London or wherever. Yes, we're being a bit dramatic here. But the fact remains: No one would benefit more from a NATO-led conflict with Russia than Poroshenko. Actually, he doesn't even need a real war. Just some good ol' fashioned Cold War provocations, to keep the Ukrainian people properly scared out of their wits. A good citizen is a scared citizen. They ask fewer questions, too. A NATO confrontation with Russia is the golden parachute that Poroshenko desperately needs and yearns for. And so, in keeping with his longstanding policy of being a terrible person, Poroshenko has signed a new decree, allowing troops from the United States and other NATO countries to carry out training missions in Ukraine. It said about 2,500 troops, up to 10 navy surface ships, five submarines, planes, helicopters and other equipment, would arrive for 25 days during the summer as part of the Sea Breeze 2017 training operation. Maneuvers under an operation called Rapid Trident will also be held in Ukraine during 2017. The Trump Administration has apparently pledged full support for NATO. In other words, the idea that Trump will bring a swift end to the insanity in Ukraine is looking less and less likely. But the questions remains: How much longer can the conflict in Ukraine stay "frozen" before the situation heats up?
http://russia-insider.com/en/ukraine-just-opened-its-doors-nato-training-missions/ri18727
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Japan blanketed by anomalous sea effect snow so intense that it is creating wind vortices off the islands in the East China Sea
By Strange Sounds - Jan 27, 2017
Japan blanketed by sea effect snow so intense that it is creating wind vortices off the islands in the East China Sea. Tottori Prefecture received a full year worth of snow in one day. Highways cut, millions of people stranded, power outages in Hokkaido ski resorts closed due to too much snow. The weather currently sweeping across Far East Asia is anomalous… Deeply anomalous!
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As you can clearly see the evil in the world is almost fifty-fifty, my word has shown you that before, so that should not be a surprise. For I have said that two shall be standing in the field and one shall go and one shall remain, that is fifty-fifty, and it has got to that place, that also means that the end is very, very near. So you will still have half of the world that desires to do evil and half of the world that desires to do good, but only about thirty percent are true Christians. etc.
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George Soros: The “God” Who Should Be Jailed
Written by William F. Jasper Tuesday, 24 January 2017
George Soros, who fancies himself a god and intends to remake the world, is the Lord of Chaos and pursues a world order that is demonic, not divine. “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of self-importance — to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god.” So confessed George Soros (shown) in his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance. George Soros’ use of past-tense verbs in the admission above might lead some readers to assume his psychological deity complex was a passing narcissism that the maturing billionaire has conquered in the three decades since it was written. That would be a false assumption; if anything, the 86-year-old currency speculator has grown more megalomaniacal with each passing year. “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out,” Soros told the British newspaper The Independent in 1993. Yes, the hedge-fund mogul has been “living out” his delusional fantasies, sometimes elevating himself from merely “a god,” to actually being “God.” Naturally, claiming such supernatural attributes entails more than a bit of madness, something Soros has also publicly discussed on more than one occasion. “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad,” Soros once explained in a British television interview. “In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it.” Has the delusional billionaire really escaped the madness? He told his biographer, Michael T. Kaufman, that he views himself as “the conscience of the world.” And he is spending billions of dollars to remake the world to fit his fantasies. If a homeless derelict were to declare himself God and the conscience of the world, he would be ignored, shunned, or locked up; madmen with wealth and power are praised and sycophantically courted. The Roman emperors Nero and Caligula are notorious for their murderous megalomania. They assigned themselves god status, but ruled as demented demons. Soros may not possess their dictatorial powers, but then, they didn’t possess his wealth and global influence. We intend in this article to examine some of the vast activist networks and political campaigns that George Soros funds. Certainly, the super-rich should have as much right as any other citizens to participate in the political system that governs us all. But Soros appears to be perfectly comfortable operating both within and outside the law to destroy (he would say “reform”) our political-economic system. In his book Soros on Soros, the would-be god says: “I do not accept the rules imposed by others.” After years of operating with impunity, he has become so brazen that he appears not to worry about doing the illegal, as well as the immoral. It is our contention that the prima facie evidence of criminal activity by George Soros and those he funds is sufficient to demand official investigations — by Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice, and state attorneys general. Utilizing the subpoena and other investigatory powers not available to the private citizen, these officials have the duty to take on powerful interests that are corrupting and undermining the rule of law in America — and endangering the freedoms we hold dear. At the very least, the Internal Revenue Service — which recently denied Tea Party groups non-profit status — could take away the tax-exempt status of Soros’ huge foundations, or force them to cease funding radical groups. And if federal authorities exercise even a fraction of the zeal they expended on prosecuting and persecuting conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, Soros the god-man could end up in jail. Organizing Chaos Over the past several years, American cities have been plunged into racial and civil turmoil at a level we have not experienced since the 1960s and 1970s. The anti-police riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and elsewhere have morphed into anti-Trump riots across the country, with many of the same organizations and individuals serving as instigators: Black Lives Matter, MoveOn.org, International Action Center, ANSWER Coalition, and other far-left, fake “grassroots” groups. They reliably perform on cue because they are lavishly funded by the Soros Open Society Foundations (OSF), the other big tax-exempt foundations (Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al.), and activist “pass through” organizations, such as the Tides Foundation, that bundle and launder hundreds of millions of dollars in “dark money” to the street revolutionaries. Black Lives Matter (BLM), which has become one of the most efficient riot-making operations, has been especially blessed with largess from the billionaire elites. As The New American noted in a 2014 article (“Rioting for a Reason”), BLM was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, three black lesbian Marxists “who idolize communist terrorist revolutionaries Assata Shakur and Angela Davis, as well as the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Movement.” Naturally, for Soros, that qualifies BLM for oodles of cash. An investigation of Soros/OSF financials by the Washington Times in 2015 found that Soros had showered BLM and its related network of activist organizations with more than $33 million. Not bad, but that was only seed money. The Ford Foundation, which has been funding revolution for decades, announced a few months ago it intends to raise $100 million in pooled donor funds for a newly formed Black-Led Movement Fund, of which the BLM (and its rioters) will be major beneficiaries. Following the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida in 2012, Black Lives Matter grew from a hashtag slogan to a nationwide phenomenon, thanks largely to funding from Soros and a huge boost from the major media. However, BLM’s big break came with the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, and the organized “unrest” that followed. Two of the BLM groups that played a central role in the “Ferguson unrest” (that included riots, arson, shooting, and looting) are the Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) and Missourians for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), both of which are hardcore Marxist-Leninist organizations run by veteran communists who have been leading riotous “protests” for decades. A top founder/leader at OBS is Jamala Rogers, a professional “community organizer” since the 1970s and veteran member of the Revolutionary Communist League, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and the radical Black Power movement. MORE is simply the rebranded Missouri chapter of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the former national organization of paid activists inspired by Marxist strategist Saul Alinsky and founded by 1960s SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) radical Wade Rathke. Like ACORN, the white “social justice” leaders at MORE pay protesters (mostly black or “people of color”) to create street theater that can be exploited to advance their causes. Some of MORE’s rent-a-mob activities in Ferguson were exposed in 2015 when black protesters occupied MORE’s offices and threatened the white radicals because they hadn’t been paid as promised. To placate the angry protesters, MORE provided them with documents showing that they had dispersed the funds appropriately. Where did the money go? The accounting documents list, among other things, payments for cellphones, walkie-talkies, banners, T-shirts, art supplies, van rentals, gasoline, catering, training sessions, organizer salaries, etc. In other words, virtually everything needed to give a purely AstroTurf production the appearance of a “grassroots” protest. Where did the funding come from? The Washington Times investigation found that one line of Soros funding for “police reform” in 2014 amounted to $5.4 million, with about half of those funds “earmarked to Ferguson, with the money primarily going to OBS and MORE.” Another significant recipient of Soros cash is Colorlines, an online news site that helped parlay Ferguson into a national road show. “More than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support the people of Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national movement,” wrote Akiba Solomon, a writer at Colorlines. Readying the Rioting The anti-Trump demonstrations and riots — both before and after the election — follow a pattern that we have seen over and over again, from the protests of Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to Dream Act/Open Borders. Not only are the tactics the same, but many of the same groups and individuals keep reappearing in all of these seemingly spontaneous outbreaks of organized chaos. Were the “Not My President” rioters that illegally blocked streets and freeways, set fires, threw Molotov cocktails, injured police officers, destroyed property, and defaced public buildings with graffiti day after day following the November 8 election merely Soros rent-a-mobs? There is good reason to believe so. Not only were well-known Soros-funded organizations such as Black Lives Matter and MoveOn.org prominently involved, but Soros-funded groups such as Washington Community Action Network (Washington CAN) ran advertisements on Craigslist and in newspapers for “full-time organizers” to “Fight the Trump Agenda!” at $15/hour, plus paid vacation and benefits. Many of the anti-Trump rioters traveled across state lines, which means they not only violated state laws against rioting and inciting to riot, but also federal law against the same crimes. Specifically, the rioters could be (and should be) charged under Title 18 U.S. Code § 2101, which provides that “whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce … to incite a riot; or to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or … to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot … shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” As to be expected, Soros PR minions deny that their boss has anything to do with the mayhem caused by those he funds. “George Soros is not funding these (anti Trump) protests,” Soros spokesperson Michael Vachon said in an interview with Value Walk. Of course, Soros also denied funding the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. But financial records showed that he had provided millions of dollars to the Tides Foundation, which then passed through funding to the OWS activists. This is why official congressional and prosecutorial investigations are necessary. Soros and the other funders of the riots, subversion, and anarchy will continue to deny the obvious, as they have been doing for decades. The undercover videos of James O’Keefe’s Veritas Project have exposed top Democratic Party operatives boasting of their illegal activities, such as voter fraud, busing in demonstrators, fomenting riots, initiating fights, illegal funding, etc. This is happening on a massive scale and can only be stopped by utilizing the same legal bulwarks that are used against organized crime. The financial records of the funders and organizations involved must be subpoenaed, and individuals placed under oath, where they will face the full penalty of perjury. As the saying goes, “follow the money,” and prosecute those who are financing the ongoing demolition of America. Investigation and prosecution of the rioters — and especially those who fund and direct them — is important not only for redress of the crimes already committed and social harm already done, but also to deter plans for similar future havoc. Dark Money Campaign Cash According to a survey of official records by the Center for Responsive Politics, George Soros gave $19.5 million in political contributions during the most recent election cycle. That does not include funds he gave to nonprofits and activist groups that are not officially backing a particular candidate or ballot measure, but are nonetheless actively involved those campaigns. The Soros hypocrisy meter hits the highest levels when it comes to “dark money,” which the liberal-left media invariably associate with those labeled conservative. For the past two decades, Soros has led and funded the “campaign finance reform” movement. However, at the same time that he was decrying the “corrupting influence” of money on politics, he was pioneering the funding of “527 Groups” (so-called due to their status under Section 527 of the IRS Code) which can raise unlimited funds for political campaigns. He has organized Democracy Alliance, bringing together dozens of billionaires and millionaires to provide rivers of cash to his favored candidates and causes. Voter Fraud It is impossible to sustain our system of representative government if the election process is corrupted. Groups that encourage non-citizens to vote and that work to make it difficult-to-impossible to enforce election security and verify voter identity are undermining our Republic. The Soros network has generously funded many of these “open border” and “open voting” groups, such as the American Council of La Raza, America Votes, ACLU, America’s Voice, American Bridge 21st Century, and Project Vote. Although charges of widespread vote fraud, particularly involving illegal aliens, have been dismissed by the establishment media, there is ample reason to believe this fraud is significant and should be officially and aggressively investigated. Coopting the U.S. Government In a 2005 interview, National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep noted that Soros has “been described as the only private citizen with his own foreign policy.” Inskeep remarked to Soros: “Uzbekistan, the Open Society Institute was actually receiving grants from the US State Department and spending millions of dollars of US government money on various programs.” That was under President George W. Bush; it was not an isolated incident, and got much worse under President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It’s easy to be a “philanthropist” when you’re spending other people’s money — in this case (and others), American taxpayers’ money. Soros has similarly hijacked U.S. government policy (not by force, but by collusion) in Ukraine, Egypt, Albania, the European Union, and elsewhere — invariably with disastrous results. He has also been exposed as one of the major forces behind the calamitous “refugee crisis” that is swamping Europe with a tsunami of Muslim migrants — and that is threatening to do the same here, thanks to Soros-Obama-Clinton-Kerry collusion. A May 2016 internal report of the International Migration Institute (IMI), an official project of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, boasted of providing the funding for the “Sutherland Report,” the blueprint for Europe’s migration catastrophe authored by Goldman Sachs billionaire Sir Peter Sutherland, now the UN secretary-general’s special representative on international migration. The same report by top IMI staffers Anna Crowley and Kate Rosin, entitled “Migration Governance and Enforcement Portfolio Review,” calls for “accepting the current crisis as the new normal.” Soros also provides funding for the Columbia Global Policy Initiative (CGPI) at Columbia University, which hosts the secretariat for Peter Sutherland’s UN migration office. The Media “Echo Chamber” How does George Soros manage to keep getting away with it? Obviously, his billions have bought a lot of influence. One of the major keys to his success is the Teflon shield he has been provided by the establishment corporatist media, which also act as his “echo chamber.” That’s by design. A September 27, 2007 e-mail from John Podesta to Soros, Peter Lewis, Steve Bing, and other left-wing billionaires outlined his plans for parlaying the vast network they had financed into a media “echo chamber” that would “control the political discourse.” At the time, Podesta was president of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress. He went from that post to be Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. “Now that this enhanced infrastructure is in place — grassroots organizing; multi-issue advocacy groups; think tanks; youth outreach; faith communities; micro-targeting outfits; the netroots and blogosphere — we need to better utilize these networks to drive the content of politics through a strong ‘echo chamber’ and message delivery system,” Podesta wrote. “Non-partisan voter registration can be highly effective in delivering progressive voters to the polls,” Podesta states in the memo. “The Sandler family and [Open Society Institute] are already deeply involved in funding organizations to do this work in communities of color and with respect to unmarried women.” This further underscores our point above regarding the ostensibly non-partisan nature of the Soros focus on voter registration. Several thousand hacked e-mails released by WikiLeaks and DCLeaks have provided plenty of damning evidence to justify initiating a whole series of investigations into the Lord of Chaos. Not surprisingly, the controlled establishment media has almost completely ignored this bonanza, prompting an editorial from Investor’s Business Daily this past September 19 entitled “The Bizarre Media Blackout of Hacked George Soros Documents.” Bizarre indeed. However, it would be worse than bizarre — it would be serious nonfeasance of office — for our elected and appointed officials to evade their responsibilities to investigate and prosecute the “malefactors of great wealth” who undermine our society while posing as its saviors.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/biography/item/25189-george-soros-the-god-who-should-be-jailed
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'An Enemy Within' – Keith Ellison exposed
New documentary reveals anti-American radical poised to take over DNC
He was put into office by dedicated communists. He supported the dissolution of the United States to create an ethnostate only for blacks. He’s been the biggest defender of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress. And, now, he’s poised to take over one of America’s two major political parties. He’s Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. And he’s one of “The Enemies Within” profiled in Trevor Loudon’s explosive new documentary of that name. Loudon, who has researched communism and leftist movements for decades, says Ellison has a long partnership with anti-American movements, dating back to when he was as student. “During his student days, Ellison was very close to the Maoists of Freedom Road Socialist Organization,” he told WND. “They believed in the Communist Party’s old 1930s dream of a black state in the South to split and weaken America to Soviet advantage. It’s no wonder then that Ellison supported a similar notion.” Writing under the name of Keith Hakim, Ellison defended the Nation of Islam while a student at the University of Minnesota Law School. Ellison additionally appeared on stage with notorious anti-Semite and anti-white activist Khalid Abdul Muhammad during an event to promote Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March. Ellison also was involved in explicitly Communist movements. In June 1989, Loudon reports, Ellison was interviewed by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization’s publication Forward Motion on the subject of police brutality. “The responsible activist has to show young people … that white supremacy and capitalism are what’s putting them in the position they’re on,” Ellison stated in the interview. A few years later, Ellison participated with a leader of the Vice Lords gang in a rally against police. Loudon claims Ellison remained heavily involved with communists as he began his political career. “In the 2000s, Ellison was very close to the old Communist Party USA (CPUSA),” Loudon told WND. “He held several fundraisers in the home of CPUSA Minnesota leader Erwin Marquit, and the CPUSA supplied nearly half of the phone-bankers used by Ellison in one election cycle.” The late Erwin Marquit, a college professor who served on the Economics Commission and International Affairs Commissions of the Communist Party USA, recounted in his memoirs how he and his wife, also a CPUSA member, served as Democratic-Farmer-Labor delegates and “campaigned for Ellison before and at” the Democratic convention, helping to secure Ellison the DFL nomination. Marquit also recounted how when campaigning for Ellison, he was often recognized as “the communist at the University of Minnesota” but “the fact that I was campaigning for Ellison did not seem to bother any of them.” Ellison was praised during his congressional run by the People’s World, an online publication which, in its own words, is the “direct descendant of the [Communist] Daily Worker.” “The websites enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views,” according to the group’s website. The publication called Ellison “a fresh progressive voice in the tradition of Paul Wellstone” in August 2006 and boasted how “peace and justice activists have been volunteering in increasing numbers.” As Loudon details in “The Enemies Within,” communists and other leftists often make themselves indispensable to “mainstream” Democrats by performing the grunt work of campaigns. Ellison attended several house parties and meetings at the Marquits’ home and relied heavily on communists as campaign workers. In 2014, Ellison made the connection even more explicit by writing an article on “grassroots movements” for People’s World under his own name. Yet Ellison is not only directly tied to the Communist Party, he is also widely believed to function as an operative for the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim American Society, which has been called a national security threat, paid $13,500 of Ellison’s “Hajj,” or pilgrimage, to Mecca. WND’s Leo Hohmann reported in December 2016 Ellison held weekly meetings with the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and is intricately involved with a host of organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Philip Haney, a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, Islamic terror expert and co-author of “See Something, Say Nothing,” says Ellison will be in an awkward position if the Muslim Brotherhood is officially labeled a terrorist organization by the new administration. “If President Trump designates the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and Keith Ellison becomes the DNC chairman, then the DNC will be in a terribly compromised position,” said Haney. “Ellison is affiliated with CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America, as well as the Muslim American Society (MAS). All of these groups are tied to extremists. “CAIR are ISNA are unindicted co-conspirators in the federal Holy Land Foundation trial. CAIR has already been designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates, and the Muslim Brotherhood itself has been designated as a terrorist group by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Russia.” Haney also argued Ellison is driven by a deep anti-Israel bias, referencing recently exposed comments Ellison made at a private fundraiser in which he accused the Jewish state of “governing” American foreign policy. Ellison stated: “The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes.” Haney claimed it is indisputable Ellison is closely aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, its front groups and its ideological goals. He warned the Democratic Party not to align itself with such an extreme figure. “Despite Mr. Ellison’s claims that the Muslim Brotherhood is not active within the American political arena, should the DNC take the risk?” he asked rhetorically. “Should the Democrats elect someone as chairman of the Democratic Party who is a proven close affiliate of known Muslim Brotherhood front groups? Not unless the DNC wants to be labeled as a supporter of Hamas, or as a default supporter of an organization that President Trump has promised to designate as a terrorist organization.” Loudon explained Ellison’s simultaneous work in both communist and radical Islamic movements is not unusual. In “The Enemies Within,” he shows how the left has formed a tactical alliance with such groups to attack the United States from within. “I think he is essentially a communist first and Muslim second,” Loudon said of Ellison. “I think he still holds extreme communist and anti-American views. And the Democratic Party is doubling down on ‘progressivism.’ There will be no move back to the center now.” Indeed, the worst part of Ellison, according to Loudon, is not that he is an extremist. It’s that a figure so closely tied to communists, radical Islamists and black nationalists is perfectly mainstream for the modern Democratic Party. “The Democratic Party is essentially an anti-American party now,” Loudon said. “Its goal is to unite all progressive factions to form a permanent majority ruling bloc. Ellison is perfect for the job.” WND was unable to obtain comment from Ellison.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/an-enemy-within-keith-ellison-exposed/#frTR6pYTq3xQhwJe.99
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The 'Enemies Of America Within' Are Still Within - John McCain's Ties To George Soros And ISIS Prove America Is Still In Danger As The Globalists Become Desperate To Bring Down President Trump Via Any Way Possible
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die January 27, 2017
The recent story from USAToday reports Arizona Senator John McCain has come out swinging against President Donald Trump and his new administration soon after McCain won another six-year term in the Senate, his sixth term in office. McCain, who back on December 29th of 2016 was reported to be seeking stronger sanctions against Russia, has also just warned Trump he'll fight him on his plans of lifting sanctions against them. In a new story over at the Gateway Pundit they report George Soros-funded Media Matters is secretly working with Facebook to fight 'fake news' aka anything that isn't globalist propaganda. According to an explosive report released by the Washington Free Beacon, the radical group is assisting Facebook with helping them identify what they deem to be “propaganda” and “fake news” in what many are calling a clamp down on free speech and a boxing out of conservative media on the social media giant. In another story published over at the Daily Mail that the Drudge Report linked to back on January 12th that had the Drudge headline "Demented McCain Turns Dirty", we see McCain admit "I did what any citizen should do" after he turned over the 'golden showers smear dossier' on Trump to the FBI. Doing so even though he admitted he had no idea whatsoever if the information it contained was credible, we see McCain's behavior akin to that of snowflakes melting down in the streets of America and Starbucks coffee shops: Senator John McCain pushing 'fake news' within the US Capitol. The story that came out on WND written by Jerome Corsi all the way back on February 12th of 2008 reported that McCain has long been funded by, of all people, George Soros....dating back to at least 2001. Corsi reported then McCain had founded an Alexandria, Virginia based Institute called 'the Reform Institute' under which it received funding from Soros' 'Open Society Institute'. McCain was even forced to cut his ties to 'the Reform Institute' when he ran for president back in 2008 but by then, the damage was done. The Reform Institute proves that Senator McCain is another 'Soros stooge'. With Trump now firmly in office, why should we be concerned? As we see in news headlines below from all across America over the first week of Trump's presidency, massive cases of Trump derangement syndrome are breaking out everywhere with more and more people calling for Trump to be impeached, removed from office or otherwise 'taken down'. And knowing Senator McCain's ties to ISIS terrorists as outlined below and his past as a 'songbird' that is more than happy to 'sing' gives us great reason to be concerned about where his loyalty lies. One week into Trump's presidency, the MSM is still in total 'meltdown mode'. Satanic, liberal Hollywood has also picked a fight with our new president. CNN's own president recently made a veiled threat at Trump while confirming that CNN is more than happy to 'push fake news' about him. As Susan Duclos reported days ago, 'nasty, man-hating women' are also going on an all-out offensive against Trump (most of their groups ALSO funded by George Soros as shared in this story and the 3rd video below) while leftists lunatics calling for love torch cars and outright verbally or physically attack anybody who doesn't see eye to eye with them. And as Susan Duclos tells us in the first video below, with the mainstream media still happy to push 'fake news', most recently with the Washington Post claiming that the entire upper tier of the US State Department had resigned when in all actuality they had been fired, we see that the 'enemies of America within' are going nowhere and are fighting on. As Stephen K. Bannon recently called them, the MSM is 'the opposition party'. Completely beholden to Hillary Clinton during the election, it appears the MSM will stop at nothing to bring down President Trump. Going back to 2014 in a viral John McCain interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, McCain actually admitted to 'meeting with ISIS' and staying in contact with them. If you want to hear McCain himself making those admissions, you can hear him in the 4th video below. Knowing that McCain is still in Washington DC should send out a huge alarm. In fact, his face should have the very phrase 'TERM LIMITS' written all over it. Should America trust 'enemies of America within' who have very clear ties to terror, Senator John McCain leading the way? If you're one of the 'still sleeping' who believe that the US would never have ties to terrorists, we ask you to please take a look at Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's STOP ARMING TERRORISTS bill for clarification. When listening to Senator McCain's remarks in that 4th video, please keep in mind Gabbard's comments on her bill.: “Under U.S. law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups. If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail. Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, quietly supporting allies and partners of al-Qaeda, ISIL, Jabhat Fateh al Sham and other terrorist groups with money, weapons, and intelligence support, in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. “The CIA has also been funneling weapons and money through Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others who provide direct and indirect support to groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. This support has allowed al-Qaeda and their fellow terrorist organizations to establish strongholds throughout Syria, including in Aleppo." The new story from Infowars reports that the 'Stop Soros' movement is now sweeping Europe. The man largely behind the mass immigration of Muslim's into Europe, even his own home country of Hungary is making moves to eliminate all NGO's funded by globalist Soros. DC Clothesline reports that Stop Operation Soros, the massive operation to overthrow Soros' influence in Macedonia has also recently exploded. While continuing to fund anarchists and the extreme left here in America in their protests against President Donald Trump, we see that many in Europe have had enough of him.: During a press conference last week, SOS founders called on all “free-minded citizens,” regardless of race, ethnicity or religion, to “fight against one-mindedness in the civil sector, which is devised and led by George Soros,” the Vecer newspaper reported. This move comes on the heels of the Hungarian government announcing that it will use “all the tools at its disposal” to target and “sweep out” all non-governmental organizations funded by Soros, a Hungarian-born financier who has become one of the U.S. Democratic Party’s major sources of funding, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling party. And it's not just in America that Soros funded groups are turning towards violence as Infowars reports.: “The Open Society Foundation, operating under the Soros umbrella, used its funding and personnel to support violent processes in Macedonia,” he said in a press conference Tuesday. “That is unacceptable and goes beyond the principles of civic organizing.” Soros set up the Open Society Foundation in in the 1980s with the stated goal of helping former Soviet bloc countries transition from communism, but in reality, the foundation is used to destabilize governments and foment discontent within countries. And while McCain is a 'Republican' like Trump, he and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have come out against Trump 'guns ablazing'. Clearly part of a very concerted 'globalist snowflake effort' to take down our 45th President, we're incredibly grateful for all of the good people surrounding Trump, ready to give their own lives if necessary to protect him from all of the insanity that Soros, McCain and the globalists have unleashed upon the world. And as we read in the closing comments we'll give below to Theodore Shoebat, John McCain is no saint and what we're clearly witnessing with his ties to Soros and other 'enemies within' and to the ISIS terrorists who want to destroy us, a very real 'axis of evil' is aligned against the American people, willing and ready to take America down to the level they lie on. According to Theodore Shoebat, Communications Director for Rescue Christians, an organization that is on the ground in Muslim lands, rescuing Christians from persecution, and the author of two books, For God or For Tyranny and In Satan's Footsteps: The Source and Interconnections of all Evil.: "John McCain is a giant bag of scum; his mouth is a continual sewer of bile, his heart is a decayed rot of dung, his mind a river of filth, and his soul is amongst the damned. He is nothing but a murderous scumbag. His evils are so great, that the words of Trump don't even bother me. McCain is a demon incarnate. His service in Vietnam does nothing to justify the evils he has supported and pushed for."
http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Enemies_Of_America_Are_Still_Within.php
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem
by Hal Lindsey
Throughout the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But we’ve heard that before. In 1996, the Republican Party platform said, “A Republican administration will ensure that the U.S. Embassy is moved to Jerusalem by May 1999.” The Republicans lost that year, so we don’t know if they would have kept their promise. However, in 1995, Congress passed the “Jerusalem Embassy Act.” The bi-partisan bill stated, “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.” The act also contained a provision allowing the president to leave the embassy in Tel Aviv if he deemed it important “to protect the national security interests of the United States.” President Clinton chose to not to move it. Would a Republican president choose a different course? The party platform of 2000 promised, “Immediately upon taking office, the next Republican president will begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” Republican George W. Bush was elected, but nothing happened. Despite the inactivity of their president in the preceding four years, the 2004 Republican platform said, “Republicans continue to support moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.” But in his second four years, President Bush again kept the embassy in Tel Aviv. Nations place embassies in the capitals of countries because they want their ambassadors near the centers of power. The “Jerusalem Embassy Act” said, “The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous government ministries and social and cultural institutions.” The point of having an embassy and an ambassador is to have a local representative of one government to another. That means, the embassy needs to be located in the center of power. But the nations of the world have decided to make a political statement by not recognizing Israel’s right to name its own capital. In 2008, then-candidate Obama proclaimed unequivocally that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. But as a president, he acted just like Presidents Bush and Clinton. In 2012, his White House spokesman at the time, Jay Carney, wouldn’t say whether Jerusalem was Israel’s capital or not. He just said, “our position hasn’t changed,” and “you know the answer.” What will President Trump do? He said throughout the campaign that he would move the embassy. For instance, he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March, “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” But now his administration has begun to equivocate. In his first full press briefing, new White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked, “What is the U.S. strategic interest in moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I don’t — as I noted yesterday through several press inquiries, we haven’t — there’s no decisions. We’re at the very early stages of that decision-making process. ”Wait a minute. We thought the decision had been made. We were given a promise, but now he tells us they’re at the “early stages of that decision-making process.” Isn’t this bait and switch? Isn’t this an example of the very swamp of Washington politics Donald Trump promised to drain? Later, Spicer repeated, “It’s very early in this process. We are at the beginning stages of this decision-making process and his team’s gonna continue to consult with stakeholders as we get there.” Later still, a reporter asked the question point blank. “At the end of the next four years, will the United States embassy be in Jerusalem?” Spicer answered, “Well, I — I think I’ve answered it twice now. I — we are at the early stages in this decision-making process.” The questioner then said, “But it’s not whether, it’s when and how?” Spicer said, “I — I — there’s a reason you go through a decision-making process. And that’s what we’re in the process of starting right now. So, I just don’t want to get ahead of — it would — if it was already a decision, then we wouldn’t be going through a process.” But if the decision hasn’t been made and they are in the early stages of the process, why would candidate Trump make a promise, then repeat it again and again? The 5th chapter of 2 Samuel tells how David made Jerusalem Israel’s capital. Dozens of scriptures from that point forward, show that God inspired and blessed that idea. Isaiah 14:32 says, “The Lord has founded Zion, and the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.” (NASB) A sovereign nation gets to choose the location of its capital, and Israel chose Jerusalem — three thousand years ago. One of the most important things to watch for over the next few weeks is whether the United States chooses to respect that choice.
http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-27-2017/
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Trump Will Keep Vow on Jerusalem Embassy Move, Giuliani Says
by Michael Arnold and Jonathan Ferziger
January 26, 2017, 5:01 PM EST January 27, 2017, 5:39 AM EST
Ex-New York mayor delivers message from Trump to Netanyahu
Devising new approach to Mideast peace efforts may take months
President Donald Trump salutes as he exits Marine One at the White House, Jan. 26. Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Donald Trump will keep his pledge to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, despite Palestinian warnings that such a step would spark violence and sabotage the prospect of renewed peace talks. Traveling to Israel with messages from Trump to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Giuliani said the new U.S. president and his advisers will probably take “six months or so” to develop a new strategy for American peace efforts in the Middle East. How and when the U.S. moves the embassy will be discussed when Netanyahu visits the White House in early February, Giuliani said. “I think you’ve got to wait a little bit, but it will get done,” Giuliani said of the embassy move, speaking in an interview at the Tel Aviv offices of Greenberg Traurig LLP. He heads the law firm’s global Cybersecurity, Privacy and Crisis Management practice. The fate of Jerusalem is among the most sensitive issues Israelis and Palestinians will need to address in any future peace negotiations. Israel took the eastern part of Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War and considers all of the city as its capital, while the Palestinians want the eastern portion as the capital of their hoped-for state. Trump realizes the embassy decision “implicates four or five countries and how they’re going to react,” Giuliani said. “He needs to know how the prime minister of Israel is going to react and how he wants to see something like this done.” Warm Relationship Trump on Thursday told Fox News it was too early for him to speak publicly on the issue. Giuliani, who was known during his tenure for a hard-line attitude toward even petty crime in New York City, dismissed Palestinian warnings that moving the embassy would ignite the whole region. “I think this country is capable of dealing with waves of violence,” the former mayor said. Giuliani predicted Netanyahu and Trump would have a “very, very good, collaborative relationship,” as opposed to what he described as the “hostile relationship” between President Barack Obama and the Israeli leader. The changed atmosphere was already evident in the first week of Trump’s tenure. While construction plans beyond Israel’s 1967 border were a recurring source of friction with the Obama administration, Trump was silent this week as Israeli officials approved plans for 2,500 housing units in the West Bank and hundreds of apartments in eastern Jerusalem. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, called the building plans a “flagrant violation of international law” and accused Israel of “exploiting the inauguration of the new American administration to escalate its violations and the prevention of any existence of a Palestinian state.” Cybersecurity Trump considered Giuliani for attorney general and secretary of state before ultimately naming him to head a committee on cybersecurity. Giuliani said he discussed cyberdefense with Netanyahu and other Israeli officials Thursday and will return in a few months for more substantive talks on the subject. Israel is among the global leaders in the field. “We realize in the United States that we have a cybersecurity defense problem,” Giuliani said. His committee is tasked with organizing private-sector experts into groups that can help address the government’s cyber priorities, he said.
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State department to reconsider releasing $221 million to Palestinians
By i24news Published: 01/25/2017 - 09:38am
The decision to release the funds was 'inappropriate', says one GOP lawmaker who previously placed hold The US State Department is reconsidering the decision made in the final hours of the Obama administration last week to transfer 221 million dollars over to the Palestinian Authority. Defying GOP members of Congress who had been blocking the funding, Secretary of State John Kerry, notified some lawmakers of the move hours before the end of his tenure on Thursday January 19, while aides said Congress received a written notice on January 20, hours before Trump's inauguration. The department announced on Tuesday, that it would review the funds and make adjustments in accordance to the new Trump administration. Initially, congress had approved the budget for Palestinian funding in years 2015 and 2016, but had been frozen by at least two Republican lawmakers over the Palestinian Authority's efforts to join international organizations. Such congressional holds are generally respected by the White House, but are not legally binding. The Obama administration had repeatedly pressed for the funds, which come from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), to be released. One of the lawmakers, Kay Granger, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, released a statement on Tuesday expressing disappointment in former President Barack Obama’s decision to release the money, which "defied congressional oversight.” “I worked to make sure that no American taxpayer dollars would fund the Palestinian Authority unless very strict conditions were met," Granger stated. “While none of these funds will go to the Palestinian Authority because of those conditions, they will go to programs in the Palestinian territories that were still under review by Congress.” “The Obama Administration’s decision to release these funds was inappropriate,” she added. According to the notification sent to Congress, the funds are intended for humanitarian aid in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, political and security reforms in the Palestinian territories, and to establish the foundations for good governance in a future Palestinian State. In addition to the $221 million sent to the Palestinians, the former Obama administration informed Congress Friday that it would also allocate $6 million for foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs, and $1.25 million in voluntary contributions to UN organizations, the Associated Press reported. The move by the former Democratic administration directly challenges the incoming Republican administration's agenda, with the new president, Donald Trump, having vowed to cancel billions of dollars in US funding to United Nations climate change programs and naming Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump has also taken an ardently pro-Israel stance after eight years of acrimony between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, peaking in December when the premier accused the now-former president of orchestrating a landmark UN Security Council vote which led to a resolution condemning Israel's settlement building in Palestinian territories. In a phone call with Netanayhu on Sunday evening, Trump affirmed his "unprecedented commitment to Israel's security" and invited the premier to visit the White House in early February.
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Trump says he will make Christian refugees a priority
William Cummings , USA TODAY Published 12:56 a.m. ET Jan. 28, 2017
President Trump said persecuted Christians would be treated as a priority as the White House implements major changes in the U.S. refugee program and immigration policy. Trump said Syrian Christians seeking refugee status in the U.S. have been treated unfairly in contrast to Syrian Muslims in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody on Friday. "The refugee program, or the refugee changes you’re looking to make. As it relates to persecuted Christians, do you see them as kind of a priority here?" Brody asked. "Yes," Trump replied. “They’ve been horribly treated," the president continued. "Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.”
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Satanic Statue May Be Erected at Arkansas Capitol
by Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th. • ChurchMilitant.com • January 23, 2017
Last-ditch petition circulates prior to Wednesday's final meeting
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Arkansas state commission will hold a final meeting this week to determine if the Satanic Temple (ST) can erect its satanic image on the capitol grounds. A subcommittee of the Arkansas State Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission will meet Wednesday, January 25, to finalize its decision on the matter. John Horvat, vice president of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), is circulating a petition with which to inform the subcommittee of the "growing opposition to this Satan statue by God-fearing Americans." "The Arkansas state capitol allowed the Ten Commandments on public property," Horvath relates. "This monument reminds Americans of the foundation of our laws and morality. The satanists were unhappy with this. So they are trying to counter the Ten Commandments monuments with a Satan statue of their own!" While claiming to advocate for separation of Church and State, the Satanic Temple has been trying to erect a statue of Baphomet — a demonic figure seemingly instructing two children — on the Arkansas capitol grounds since the summer of 2015. Arkansas state lawmakers had approved a Ten Commandments display, which precipitated the decision by the Satanic Temple to do likewise. The group had intended to set up its statue in protest. After the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled the state's display was unconstitutional, the Satanic Temple withdrew its plans. At that time, Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves revealed, "It was always our intention to take this wherever it was relevant, wherever it was necessary and wherever that dialogue needed to take place." Urging people to sign the petition, Horvath asks, "[W]hat freedoms are satanists reaching for ... what are their ideals for our society?" He continued, "We must hold to our Christian ideals. ... We must fight and pray." He reminded everyone that petitions do work, citing the stoppage of the "black mass" on Harvard's campus. He also noted Americans do not need such things as after-school Satan clubs or "invocations at our town council meetings" or "black masses," such as in Oklahoma. Horvath hopes the petition will garner at least 45,000 signatures. There are currently slightly more than 40,000 signatories. He urges all concerned citizens to sign the petition.
http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/will-satanic-statue-be-erected-at-arkansas-capitol
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Miami first to accept Trump’s call to end sanctuary cities
By Todd Venezia January 26, 2017 | 7:26pm
One of America’s biggest metropolitan areas has submitted to President Trump’s call for an end “sanctuary cities” — as the Mayor of Miami-Dade County has ordered his jails to comply with requests from federal immigration officials, according to a report. Mayor Carlos Gimenez said he made the move for fear of Trump’s executive order threatening to cut funds to “sanctuary cities,” according to the Miami Herald. “In light of the provisions of the Executive Order, I direct you and your staff to honor all immigration detainer requests received from the Department of Homeland Security,” Gimenez wrote to one of his top jail executives, the report said. The Florida county — which a population of 2.9 million — has never officially called itself a “sanctuary city,” though they have in the past followed policies similar to such cities as they have refused federal immigration requests to hold certain inmates in its jails. Gimenez is a Republican who attended Trump’s inauguration, but who said he voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/miami-first-to-accept-trumps-call-to-end-sanctuary-cities/
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Not even a full 24 hours after the inauguration of the new Trump administration, “jihadis in suits” have already made an appearance at an inaugural event.
On the morning of Saturday 21 January, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and their families attended the traditional prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Billed as an interfaith service which began with a Navajo blessing, the event featured Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim and Sikh clerics, each of whom was supposed to intone prayers asking protection and wisdom for the new Trump administration. Unfortunately, the two Muslims – Imam Mohamed Magid and Mr. Sajid Tarar – are what might best be described as “jihadis in suits.” Magid is the outgoing president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest Muslim Brotherhood front group in the U.S. Magid also remains the head of the ADAMS (All Dulles Area Muslim Society) Center in Northern Virginia. The ADAMS Center is an openly shariah-adherent facility, whose website states that it collects zakat (annual obligatory tax for Muslims and firms doing shariah-compliant business), one-eighth of which must be donated to jihad, as per Islamic Law (shariah), as stipulated in Reliance of the Traveler (see pg. 272, Section h8.17) and the Qur’an itself. (See Q 9:60) Worse yet, Magid was named to President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Working Group in 2010 and from that position helped persuade DHS to erase from its “Countering Violent Extremism” curriculum any suggestion that Muslim terrorism draws its inspiration from the laws and doctrines of Islam. The ADAMS Center was among the many Northern-Virginia-based Muslim organizations raided in March 2002 by federal agents in “Operation Green Quest” on suspicion they were providing material support to terrorists. For his prayers, Magid recited two specific Qur’anic verses: Sura 30:22 and Sura 49:13. The first of these is an encouragement to diversity, obviously a reference to the variety of the day’s denominations present at the service, and reads: “And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.” The second (Q 49:13) likewise emphasizes the diversity theme: “O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.” The other Muslim at the service to offer a prayer in Arabic was Mr. Sajid Tarar, a Pakistani native and naturalized U.S. citizen, who has made himself popular among Republican ranks and gave the closing prayer at the Republican National Convention in July 2016. He was an adviser to the National Diversity Coalition for Trump and founded a group called American Muslims for Trump. He attends the Raza-e Mustafa Islamic Center in Pikesville, MD, known as a Sunni mosque whose congregation can be seen from its Facebook page to be shariah-adherent, gender-segregated and including many from the Asian subcontinent. The Islamic Center’s website is almost studiously empty of content. The Qur’anic verse Tarar chose for the National Cathedral service is known as Al-Fatihah and is both the first and the shortest verse in the Qur’an. Al-Fatihah includes an invocation to Allah that is directly critical of both Christians and Jews in a way that subtly evokes Islamic supremacism. Al-Fatihah is repeated 17 times per day by every Muslim who attends regular services at a mosque or Islamic Center. “Guide us to the straight path – The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.” As all observant Muslims, Tarar included, know very well, the reference to “those who have evoked your anger” means those whom Muslims believe heard and know the truth of Islam but refuse to accept or follow it. This line is a very specific reference to the Jews. “Those who are astray” means Christians, whom Muslims believe also have wantonly taken a pathway away from Allah. Muslims know exactly what these verses mean and they recite them repeatedly every time they participate in Islamic prayer services at a mosque. In this instance, at the National Cathedral prayer service for the Trump inauguration, Tarar was literally throwing an insult – as well as a warning – in the face of every Christian and Jew in the Cathedral, confident in the knowledge that not one of them knew what he was saying. It is unclear how a man like Magid would be allowed to participate in an important public event organized for the new President of the United States – or how a mainstream, ubiquitous and insulting Qur’anic Sura like Al-Fatihah could be recited in its entirety before an audience with so many Christians and Jews in attendance. It is to be hoped that some fact-filled briefings might soon rectify this situation. Clare M. Lopez is Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy and editor and co-author of the Center’s 2010 publication “Shariah: The Threat to America.” Read More
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Corn is turning French hamsters into 'deranged cannibals' that eat their own offspring
Researchers say a monotonous diet is leaving the animals starving
The problem is a lack of vitamins. In fact, one in particular: B3, or niacin
Hamsters ran in circles, 'climbing and pounding their feeders'
Females stored pups with their hoards of maize before eating them alive
By Afp Published: 18:42 EST, 27 January 2017 | Updated: 19:06 EST, 27 January 2017
A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported. 'There's clearly an imbalance,' Gerard Baumgart, President of the Research Centre for Environmental Protection in Alsace, and an expert on the European hamster, told AFP on Friday. 'Our hamster habitat is collapsing.' More common farther to the east, Cricetus cricetus in critically endangered in western Europe. Once nourished by a variety of grains, roots and insects, the burrowing rodents live today in a semi-sterile and unbroken ocean of industrially grown maize, or corn. The monotonous diet is leaving the animals starving, scientists discovered almost by accident. The problem is a lack of vitamins. In fact, one in particular: B3, or niacin. Researchers led by Mathilde Tissier at the University of Strasbourg had set out to determine whether hamster diet affects their ability to reproduce in the wild. Earlier work had looked at the impact of pesticides and mechanised ploughing, which can destroy their underground homes, especially during hibernation in winter. But the possible link with what they eat remained unexplored. A first set of lab experiments with wild specimens compared wheat and corn-based diets, with side dishes of clover or worms. There was virtually no difference in the number of pups born, or the basic nutritional value of the different menus.
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etc.. For you made your choice, you made your choice on who would run the country even though you knew he didn’t know me, even though you knew he wasn’t a Christian, even though you knew he was a Muslim, even though you knew these things, you made your choice and now and now you shall see what that choice has brought.
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Trump Orders Removal Of Islamic Symbols, Practices In The White House
By Ike A. Offor
Obama was seen storming away from the West Wing after staffers from Donald Trump’s transition team began preparing the executive offices for the new administration. On Trump’s orders, one of Obama’s most secretive rituals is being reversed and all signs of it removed from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For the past 8 years, to appease any Muslims working at or visiting the White House, silence has been ordered during the 5 times of Islamic prayer each day. In addition, prayer rugs and crescent moon symbols are available in several areas of the executive mansion to make Muslims more comfortable. The administration has defended the practice by asserting that it also observes several other religious moments of silence and prayer out of respect, including a full 15 seconds for Christianity on Sunday morning while a chaplain blesses a staff breakfast. None of the prayers is mandatory or led by a government official, which has allowed the administration to subvert 1st Amendment issues, but the obvious favouritism towards Islam, which is observed for 25 minutes per day 7 days a week, tells a story this president has denied for 8 years. President-elect Trump, who acknowledges that this country was founded by Christians and was built on Christian morals, is having all pagan symbols removed from the property unless they offer some historical significance. Only the cross in the White House chapel will remain for worship. Jim Mergernerlerny, head of the team that will transform the White House from the Obama’s home to the Trumps’ second home, told MSNBC: “Mr Trump doesn’t see the need to provide prayer rugs and false idols in a house built by Christians. Washington, DC offers a diverse cultural centre for the worship of any kind. You won’t find any special considerations for Judaism or crucifixes to appease Catholics, either. There is a simple chapel with a single cross on one wall that is suitable for prayer by anyone. Our government doesn’t need to be forcing prayer rituals down people’s throats just so we don’t “offend” apologising people looking to blow us up. Patriots around the U.S. can rest assured that apologising for our faith has come to an end. http://www.twitter.com/RNNetwork1
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The Day Trump Saved America: “A Nation Without Borders Is Not a Nation”
By Dave Hodges
Many great immigrants have come to America and contributed mightily to our way of life and I am sure they will continue to do so. However, the vast majority of immigrants, in previous stages of our history, came into our country the right way, the legal way and they did not come with an expectation and attitude of entitlement. Obama and Bush created an atmosphere of entitlement among many immigrants. Although most have come here and expected nothing but to work hard, the establishment has misused the resources of the people and created a sense of entitlement. Further, the previous two administrations displayed a sense of depraved indifference toward the safety of the citizens of this country. Obama’s catch and release program was criminal facilitation at best. When an illegal immigrant drives drunk, commits rape, robbery and even murder, they deserve the consequences that comes with our system of justice. Instead, Obama ordered thousands of felons released to only commit the same acts again and victimize more American citizens. Apparently, these days are over. Trump Signs Executive Orders Which Brings Sanity to Immigration Trump signed an executive order enacting his campaign promise to build “the wall” along the American border with Mexico. Trump is consistently standing by previous comments that the government of Mexico would ultimately pay for the wall, even if the method of payment was not yet clear. Trump promised that Mexican payment for the wall would commense very soon. President Trump has long held that “sanctuary cities” are breaking the law, and they are. In addition to the notion of building a wall, Trump signed a series executive actions on January 25th in which he ordered the construction of the wall, he also singled out sanctuary cities. As promised in his campaign, he is threatening to cut off all federal money to “sanctuary cities”. Critics are claiming this amounts to economic blackmail. They are correct and it is the same as what Obama did with Common Core, and nobody on the left cried foul. Under Obama, Our Nation Stopped Being a Nation “A nation without borders is not a nation, Beginning today, the United States existing law of America gets back control of its borders.” President Trump. As previously stated, one of Obama’s first executive orders calls for the “immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border,” and orders the DHS secretary to take “all appropriate steps to immediately plan, design, and construct” the wall using authority under the existing law. Mexico Threatens to Break Off Talks “Ultimately it will come out of what’s happening with Mexico,” Trump told ABC News in a separate interview, adding construction could begin in a matter of months. Mexico has responded by saying that they will not conduct any negotiations with the United States unless Trump abandons his plans to try make Mexico finance the construction of a border wall on our southern border, according to Mexican Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal. To Mexico, I say, “break off negotiations, lose NAFTA and risk losing the entire trade imbalance that exists between our two nations”. It is an empty threat and Trump needs to call Villarreal on his meangingless statement. Finally, A Screening Process to Determine National Security Risks President Trump issued other executive orders which are expected to temporarily close our borders to most refugees. The Trump administration will will block visas from being issued to citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. This is a big middle finger to the UN Refugee/Resettlement Program. On July 4, 2016, FBI Director, James Comey, stated that 10% of all Muslim immigrants are radicalized and that ISIS had cells in all 50 states. Americans do not need to admit radicalized terrorists into the country. This does not mean excluding all Muslims on a permanent basis. It does mean establishing a proper screening process in order to protect the citizens of this country. The Trump administration limitations in this area include a months-long ban on admissions from all countries ” until government agencies can boost intensity of vetting process”. Conclusion America has a natural citizen birth rate of 1.8. We need a birth rate of 2.1 in order to maintain our population from which programs such as Social Security and Medicare are dependent on the maintenance of present population levels. America needs immigration. However, America does not need free-for-all immigration in which the American people forfeit resources to support and potentially risk property and life. Obama’s purpose to immigration was to deculturalize America, break the back of the economy irreversibly turn our back on American traditions, such as orderly immigration. Obama is a traitor to this country. Under President Trump, we are going to have immigration that benefits Americans first and immigrants second. There will be no “catch and release” and no Sharia Law to replace the Constitution. I do not need to sacrifice my country’s most cherished traditions to demonstrate how tolerant I am. I have long said that an immigrant’s rights end where my Constitutionally protected nose begins. If immigrants understand this principle, then I say welcome and I look forward to working with you.
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Trump orders weekly publication of crimes committed by illegals in sanctuary cities
January 25, 2017 By Kyle Olson
In order to better inform Americans about the impact illegal aliens are having on crime rates in sanctuary cities, President Donald Trump today ordered the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by illegals. In an executive order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” Trump directed Secretary John Kelly to be transparent with citizens. “To better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions, the Secretary shall utilize the Declined Detainer Outcome Report or its equivalent and, on a weekly basis, make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens,” the order reads. The same executive order “directs that federal funds be withheld from cities and counties that don’t cooperate with immigration officials,” Patch reports.
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INVASION USA
Abandoned Walmart opens as shelter for illegals
Angry residents of U.S. city sound off: 'Bulls--t! Send them all back!'
Published: 19 hours ago
An abandoned Walmart building in Brownsville, Texas, will be used to shelter illegal immigrants streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border. Brownsville, which is located at the southernmost tip of Texas, sits along the U.S.-Mexico border directly across from Matamoros, Mexico. The new facility is the fourth of its kind to open in Brownsville and the seventh in Cameron County, Texas. The nonprofit organization behind the effort, Southwest Key, says the building will open in March and house unaccompanied illegal-alien children under the age of 17, most of whom come from Central America.
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Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND’s Email News Alerts! As Diana West noted in a 2014 WND column, Southwest Key has an annual budget of $150 million, much of it coming from federal government contracts. It is funded by the Office of Refugees Resettlement. It has 27 shelters in for illegal immigrants in Texas, Arizona and California, according to its website. West added, “The chairman of Southwest Key’s board of directors, Victor Garza, is an official of La Raza, which hopes to reclaim the Southwest for Mexico.” Once they cross the border and enter the facility, illegal immigrants are given food, a place to sleep, schooling, health care and access to counseling services, according to south Texas’ KRGV-TV.
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Soros, MasterCard Launch Venture to Profit from Mass Migration
Billionaire leftist looks to cash in on refugee crisis he helped create
by Edmund Kozak | Updated 19 Jan 2017 at 2:07 PM
Billionaire activist and arch globalist George Soros just won’t let his dream of a borderless, cultureless world free of Western values die. Soros is partnering with MasterCard Inc. to create Humanity Ventures, with the ostensible purpose of improving the lives of migrants through investments in education and health care, and fostering economic development in migrant communities. “Migrants are often forced into lives of despair in their host communities because they cannot gain access to financial, healthcare and government services,” Soros said on Thursday in a joint statement with MasterCard. “Our potential investment in this social enterprise, coupled with MasterCard’s ability to create products that serve vulnerable communities, can show how private capital can play a constructive role in solving social problems,” he continued. But while Soros’ previous political efforts have largely been almost entirely in the form of his foundation making grants to other entities, Humanity Ventures appears a longer-term, more intensive project. “Humanity Ventures is intended to be profitable so as to stimulate involvement from other business people,” Soros said in his statement. Clearly it’s not enough for Soros that he spends his money on encouraging mass migration — he wants other millionaires and billionaires to do so also and is enticing them to do so with the promise of profit. Soros is one of the world’s most prominent proponents of the displacement of Westerners and erosion of traditional Western identity through mass migration. His Open Society Foundations has donated millions of dollars to organizations and causes promoting everything from mass migration to radical feminism. His destructive activities are so prolific that last week, Szilard Nemeth, vice-chairman of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party, called for OSF and any organizations it funds to be banished from the country. “These organizations must be pushed back with all available tools, and I think they must be swept out, and now I believe the international conditions are right for this with the election of [Donald Trump],” Nemeth said. Nemeth's comments follow Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's declaration in December that the year 2017 would be "about the extrusion of George Soros and the forces symbolized by him." Every country "will want to displace Soros," Orban said. "This can already be seen in Europe. They investigate where the money comes from, what kind of intelligence connections there are, which NGOs represent what interests." Unfortunately for those who cherish national sovereignty, border security, and traditional values, OSF is not prepared to go quietly into the night and leave sovereign nations to administer their own affairs. "The Open Society Foundation [sic] will continue to work in Hungary despite government opposition to our mission of fairer, accountable societies," the group's president, Christopher Stone, told Bloomberg last week. "In Hungary and around the world, we are more focused than ever on working with local groups to strengthen democratic practice, rights, and justice."
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/soros-mastercard-launch-venture-profit-mass-migration/
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Yazidi Girls Sold as Sex Slaves while Women March against Trump
by Uzay Bulut January 24, 2017 at 4:30 am
Some Yazidi girls were "sold" for a few packs of cigarettes. "Some of those women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped by ISIS militia multiple times a day. ISIS militias have burned many Yezidi girls alive for refusing to convert... Why? Because we are not Muslims..." — Mirza Ismail, chairman of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International. "This is genocide against women." — Zeynep Kaya Cavus, leading Alevi activist. Sadly, many of the organizers and participants of the "Women's March" in Washington chose to ignore women being tortured and exterminated by Islamic terrorists, and in other parts of the world, not being able to to receive an education or even leave the house without the permission of a male. If only these women felt as motivated to protest about the enslavement, rape and torture of Yazidi women and children, as about the cost of tampons. On January 21, some women's rights groups organized "Women's Marches" in many cities across the Unites States and around the world. The rallies largely targeted recently-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump. There were many speakers and participants. One, the actress Ashley Judd, read a poem in Washington D.C. that asked why "tampons are taxed when Viagra and Rogaine are not". As Ms. Judd talked about her devastating tragedy, thousands of Yazidi children and women were being forced into sexual slavery in Iraq and Syria at the hands of Islamic State (ISIS), and available for purchase at sex-slave markets. ISIS attacked the Yazidi homeland of Shingal in Iraq on August 3, 2014; more than 9,000 Yazidis were killed, kidnapped, or sexually enslaved. Yazidis are a historically persecuted religious minority in the Middle East. The Islamic State has institutionalized a culture of rape and sex-slavery. ISIS is waging a literal war against women. It has even published a "price list" of Yazidi and Christian girls -- as young as one to nine years of age. Middle East scholar Raymond Ibrahim wrote about one Yazidi girl enslaved when she was 15 years old and endured months of captivity before she managed to escape: "I remember a man who looked at least 40 years old coming and taking a ten-year-old girl. When she resisted him, he beat her severely, using stones, and would have opened fire on her if she had not gone with him. Everything against her will. They used to come and buy the girls without a price, I mean, they used to tell us Yazidi girls, you are sabiya [spoils of war, sex slaves], you are kuffar [infidels], you are to be sold without a price," meaning they had no base value. Some Yazidi girls were sold for a few packs of cigarettes. "Every day I died 100 times over. Not just once. Every hour I died, every hour. ... From the beating, from the misery, from the torture," she said. Mirza Ismail, founder and chairman of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International, said in his speech at the U.S. Congress: "According to many escaped women and girls to whom I spoke in Northern Iraq, the abducted Yazidis, mostly women and children, number over 7,000. "Some of those women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped by ISIS militia multiple times a day. ISIS militias have burned many Yezidi girls alive for refusing to convert and marry ISIS men. Why? Because we are not Muslims, and because our path is the path of peace. For this, we are being burned alive: for living as men and women of peace." In December 2015, reports disclosed that ISIS was selling Yazidi women and children in the southeastern city of Gaziantep (or Antep), Turkey. Gaziantep has come to be known for the widespread Islamic State activities in the city. However, this and many other threats did not stop women's rights defenders in Gaziantep from protesting the Turkish government's inaction in the face of IS activities. An activist from the group "Gaziantep Democratic Women's Platform", Fatma Keskintimur, read a statement to the press, which said in part: "That the jihadi gangs fighting in Syria has received the biggest support from Turkey and that the cell houses they use... [are] known by everybody. Given what kind of a danger this situation creates for those who live in Antep, the uneasiness of people is intensifying every day." Even under these conditions, women's rights defenders in Turkey -- particularly Kurds -- kept struggling and protesting the government. Last year, for example, the "Yazidi Women's Assembly" commemorated August 3rd as "the day of international action against massacres against women and genocide". Members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) organized protests in many cities across Turkey to condemn the Yazidi genocide and show solidarity with the victims. Safak Ozanlı, a former MP from the HDP, said that ISIS still held 3,000 Yazidi women as sex slaves: "ISIS sees women in Shingal and Kobane as war booty. The women who remain alive are sold to Arab sheikhs. We -- as women -- will stand united against ISIS and all dictators." Members of the Alevi religious minority also supported the protest in Mersin. Zeynep Kaya Cavus, a leading Alevi activist, said that the Yazidi women are "kidnapped and enslaved as war booty and exposed to systematic sexual assaults and this is genocide against women". There are a few Americans, too, that are doing their best to help Yazidis, such as Amy L. Beam, a human rights activist who has been living with and advocating for Yazidis full time since 2014. Her book The Last Yezidi Genocide, is to be published shortly, and she is the executive director of "Amy, Azadi and Jiyan" (AAJ -- "Friend, Freedom, and Life"), a humanitarian organization in Iraqi Kurdistan. "Thousands of Yezidis have a long list of dead or missing family members under ISIS control in Iraq or Syria," she wrote. "Their psychology is very bad as they see very little international help on the one-year anniversary of the attack. "Yazidi girls and women with their children ... are subjected to repeated beatings and rape by ISIS fighters who each was given one girl as a war trophy. Over 1,000 of these girls and women have escaped independently or been liberated from ISIS". One wishes that the women activists in the U.S. would raise their voices against the genocidal attacks on Yazidi women and children. But they have not. "Women's rights groups in the U.S. have not supported the women in Iraq and Syria who really are oppressed, kidnapped, and raped," Beam told Gatestone. Some of the participants of the women's march in Washington claim that Trump will take away their rights -- an accusation that many women who suffer under Islamist governments or organizations would find laughable. They are worried about being able to get an abortion, and their concern is justified. But it is not ayatollahs that have come to power in the U.S. Moreover, Trump seems determined to fight radical Islamic terrorism, the greatest threat to the dignity and freedom of women all around the world. That already shows his commitment to liberty -- especially liberty for women. Radical Islamic ideology is a universal threat. Wherever it is weakened or defeated, this helps liberate victims in other parts of the world, as well. To so many persecuted peoples in the Middle East, Trump's presidency represents hope for a positive change. On November 7, the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International issued a public statement titled "Yezidis look forward to a Trump presidency to help them wipe out ISIS." A Yazidi woman in Iraq has recently named her newborn baby boy "Trump." The women's march, for all the good intentions on the part of many, violated the core principle of human rights: "The worst first." Sadly, many of the organizers and participants of the march chose to stand by and ignore women being tortured and exterminated by Islamic terrorists, and in other parts of the world, not being able to receive an education or even leave the house without the permission of a male. If only these women felt as motivated to protest about the enslavement, rape and torture of Yazidi women and children, as about the cost of tampons. Acting like self-serving, delusional fanatics, whose sheer hatred of an elected president blinds their eyes to the real problems of the world, does not help anyone. There have been just as many people who might have hated other presidents. Let us with our actions remind women in the Middle East that we take their plight to heart.
Uzay Bulut, a journalist born and raised a Muslim in Turkey, is currently based in Washington D.C.
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Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms
E coli microbes have been modified to carry an expanded genetic code which researchers say will ultimately allow them to be programmed
Ian Sample Science editor Tuesday 24 January 2017 02.01 EST
From the moment life gained a foothold on Earth its story has been written in a DNA code of four letters. With G, T, C and A - the molecules that pair up in the DNA helix - the lines between humans and all life on Earth are spelled out. Now, the first living organisms to thrive with an expanded genetic code have been made by researchers in work that paves the way for the creation and exploitation of entirely new life forms. Scientists in the US modified common E coli microbes to carry a beefed-up payload of genetic material which, they say, will ultimately allow them to program how the organisms operate and behave. The work is aimed at making bugs that churn out new kinds of proteins which can be harvested and turned into drugs to treat a range of diseases. But the same technology could also lead to new kinds of materials, the researchers say. In a report published on Monday, the scientists describe the modified microbes as a starting point for efforts to “create organisms with wholly unnatural attributes and traits not found elsewhere in nature.” The cells constitute a “stable form of semi-synthetic life” and “lay the foundation for achieving the central goal of synthetic biology: the creation of new life forms and functions,” they add. Floyd Romesberg and his team at the Scripps Research Institute in California expanded the genetic code from four letters to six by adding two new molecules they call X and Y and adding them to the bugs’ genetic makeup. The microbes are modified to absorb the new genetic material which the scientists make separately and then feed to the cells. The need to supply the bugs with the X and Y molecules is meant to ensure that the cells will die should they somehow get out of the lab. But Romesberg said that despite the protective measure, he still gets asked if he has seen Jurassic Park. In the 1993 movie, Jeff Goldblum questions whether the park’s dinosaurs might breed in the wild despite the failsafes built into their genetic makeup. “What the movie depicted is very different to our failsafe,” Romesberg said. “Our failsafe is based on the availability of X and Y and the cell could never make them.” “In addition, evolution works by starting with something close and then changing what it can do in small steps. Our X and Y are unlike natural DNA, so nature has nothing close to start with. We have shown many times that when you do not provide X and Y, the cells die, every time,” he added. It is not the first time Romesberg has made microbes with an expanded genetic alphabet. In 2014, he announced the first such organisms, but these were sickly and soon died out. He compares the situation to having proved he could generate electricity, but not put it to good use. “We demonstrated that you could throw the switch and the light would go on, but then it would quickly go out,” he said. Over the past two years, his team worked out how to make the microbes hardier and pass on their synthetic genetic bases more faithfully when they divided. If the X and Y are not passed on, the bugs’ DNA quickly reverts to the standard four letter genetic code, he said. It took three crucial fixes for the microbes to survive and reliably pass on their new genetic material. In one key improvement, Romesberg modified the microbe’s immune system so that it destroyed any DNA that was missing the synthetic X and Y bases. The end result, he says, is that the bugs can hold the new genetic material indefinitely. “Now you throw the switch and the light stays on,” he told the Guardian. For now, the synthetic bases do nothing other than survive in the microbes. The next stage of the research is to have the microbes read the extra genetic material, and in the first instance, make new kinds of proteins that are not found in nature. “This will blow open what we can do with proteins,” Romesberg said. Details of the work are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “This is a major step forward in showing that a living cell such as a simple bacterium can be engineered to sustain a synthetic base pair not found in nature,” said Paul Freemont, who specialises in synthetic biology at Imperial College in London. “This leads to the concept of semi-synthetic living systems that could be engineered to perform specific functions that would rely on a distinct genetic code compared to the natural genetic code.” But he said that the “real power” of the approach would be in making microbes that carried multiple artificial DNA bases, or even a completely human-designed synthetic genome, which the study suggested was at least possible in principle. Romesberg said it was important for science to be explained to help “eliminate the fear of the unknown”, adding: “the benefits need to be weighed against the potential costs, and in this case the benefits include new and better drugs.”
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etc.. Hear my voice and know what hour this is. It is the hour just before the first three and a half years of the seven years. Do not fear the Islamic revolution, nor the Russian warhead, for I plan to break their power, for they have blasphemed my name and made little of my son Jesus and have established their own god and deliverer. Fear not the false prophet or the anti-christ nor his army. Fear not the anarchy and the terrorism and the monetary collapse. etc..
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2017’s Real Milestone (Or Why Interest Rates Can Never Go Back To Normal)
January 24, 2017 12 Comments
Forget about NAFTA or OPEC or TPP or crowd size or hand size or any other acronym or stat or concept that obsesses the financial press these days. Only two numbers actually matter. The first is $20 trillion, which is the level the US federal debt will exceed sometime around June of this year. Here’s the current total as measured by the US Debt Clock: To put $20 trillion into perspective, it’s about $160,000 per US taxpayer, and exists in addition to the mortgage, credit card, auto, and student debt that our hypothetical taxpayer probably carries. It is in short, way too much for the average wage slave to manage without some kind of existential crisis. It’s also way more than it used to be. During his tenure, president George W. Bush (2000 – 2008) nearly doubled the government’s debt, which is to say his administration borrowed as much as all its predecessors from Washington through Clinton combined. At the time this seemed like a never-to-be-duplicated feat of governmental profligacy. But the very next administration topped it, taking the federal debt from $10 trillion to the soon-to-be-achieved $20 trillion. And the incoming administration apparently sees no problem with continuing the pattern. The other meaningful number is 6.620. That’s the average interest rate the US government paid on its various debts in 2000, the year before the great monetary experiment of QE, ZIRP and all the rest began. When talking heads at the Fed and elsewhere refer to “normalizing” interest rates they’re proposing a return to this 6% average rate. But of course the last time that rate prevailed our debts were just a little lower. Run the numbers on today’s obligations and you get, well, let’s see: $20 trillion x 6% = $1.2 trillion a year in interest expense. To put that in perspective… It’s $15,000 a year per family of four, or about a fourth of what the typical American family earns. It’s 31% of the federal budget, which would mean massive cuts in every other spending program. The conclusion: It can’t happen without causing one of the following: Government spending cuts and/or tax increases that impose Greek-style austerity on Americans who won’t respond well to their sudden demotion to Third World status. A new round of monetary experiments involving the “forgiveness” of the government’s debts, financed with newly-created dollars. This will work – as long as dollars remain universally accepted as a store of value. History offers no examples of such a thing. An overt effort to devalue the dollar, with the goal of paying the interest in full, but (again) with newly- created, much-less-valuable currency. The resulting dilemma: If we hope to live within our means interest rates can never be allowed to rise. But if interest rates don’t rise, the Fed is forced to create a tsunami of new dollars to keep rates low, and must take its chances with inflation, currency war, crack-up boom, and all the other black swans that live in the land of monetary excess. Which is why the sound money community keeps harping on gold. All the politically-acceptable policy options have inflation/devaluation at their core, and those things are always and everywhere great for real assets.
http://dollarcollapse.com/interest-rates-2/2017s-real-milestone/
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A Horrific Ending As The World Moves One Day Closer To Armageddon
January 25, 2017
With the Dow surging above 20,000, while bonds and the dollar were weak once again, one of the greats in the business just warned that a horrific ending is coming as the world moves one day closer to Armageddon. John Embry: “Eric, I read Egon von Greyerz’s KWN interview over the weekend and it was such a tour de force that I’m not sure what I can add to what he already said. However, I agree with every word of his interview, and the fact that the vast majority of the population, including most of the rich and famous, seem oblivious to that reality and the resulting coming catastrophe, this virtually guarantees it can’t be avoided… John Embry continues: “In my lengthy career in the investment business I have never seen a disparity in price like the one that currently exists between the price of physical gold and silver, and the bloated valuations currently in effect for bonds, stocks, and real estate. I supposed it stands as testimony to the chicanery in the paper gold and silver markets, the resulting terrible price action in gold and silver, and the relentless propaganda attempting to validate that same price action. A Horrific Ending As World Moves One Day Closer To Armageddon This will all change violently, but the timing is difficult to predict. With the enormous increase in what I call ‘financial innovation’ — high frequency trading, algorithms, staggering quantities of derivatives, etc, the amount of leverage that has been introduced into the global financial system in the last couple of decades ensures a horrific ending. However, I have learned from experience that putting a price forecast and a specific date in the same sentence is a dangerous practice. But with each passing day we are one day closer to Armageddon. I recently returned from a 4 day stay in New York, which coincided with the inauguration of Donald Trump, and the women’s march was the following day. I have never seen as many police in one spot as I saw on 5th Avenue prior to the start of last Saturday’s march. The degree of discord in the U.S. is remarkable to me. Thus the new president has his work cut out for him and I wish him the best. However, as Egon detailed, the past excesses in the U.S. and globally are working against him. Unfortunately I think he has a better chance at being a latter day Herbert Hoover. But his misfortune will be primarily caused by what went before, rather than the specific actions of his administration. From the numbers I look at the U.S. economy is stagnating at best and inflationary pressures are building. With at historically elevated levels — government, corporate, and personal — this is a very dangerous situation. Gold, silver, and their respective stocks remain the obvious financial alternatives. But they are available in very limited amounts compared to other financial assets, so it would be wise to get there before the crowd.”
http://kingworldnews.com/a-horrific-ending-as-the-world-moves-one-day-closer-to-armageddon/
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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Energetic earthquake swarm detected at Takawangha volcano (Alaska) – Alert levels risen – No historical eruptions known
By Strange Sounds - Jan 25, 2017
The sequence is continuing. Is this the sign of an imminent explosion for a volcano that has no known historical eruptions? An energetic earthquake swarm on Tanaga Island started yesterday, January 23, and is continuing, but slightly decreasing. AVO is therefore raising the Aviation Color Code to Yellow and Alert Level to Advisory for Takawangha Volcano. The earthquakes locate 6 to 7 km ESE of Takawangha Volcano. This activity may be due to brittle failure in the surrounding rock caused by magma movement. However, no volcanic activity has been detected at the volcano in satellite data. Takawangha lies across a saddle from historically active Tanaga volcano to the west; older, deeply eroded volcanoes lie adjacent to Takawangha on the east. Numerous small post-caldera tephra cones are located within the caldera and on its rim and flanks. The youngest cones are some of those inside the caldera of the basaltic-to-dacitic volcano.
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Google Permanently Bans 200 "Fake News" Sites
by Tyler Durden Jan 25, 2017 10:10 PM
The crackdown has begun. In a blog post by Scott Spencer, director of product management for sustainable ads, posted on Wednesday, Google said it has banned 200 publishers from accessing its Adsense advertising service for posting fake news stories. Google said it had cracked down on sites which contained 1) Ads for illegal products; 2) Misleading ads; 3) Bad ads on mobile; 4) Ads trying to game the system and, 5) Promoting and profiting from bad sites. But the emphasis was on the so-called "fake news" category which has dominated media buzz for the past two months. This is how Spencer explained his action: In 2016, we saw the rise of tabloid cloakers, a new type of scammer that tries to game our system by pretending to be news. Cloakers often take advantage of timely topics—a government election, a trending news story or a popular celebrity—and their ads can look like headlines on a news website. But when people click on that story about Ellen DeGeneres and aliens, they go to a site selling weight-loss products, not a news story. We've had long-standing policies prohibiting AdSense publishers from running ads on sites that help people deceive others, like a site where you buy fake diplomas or plagiarized term papers. In November, we expanded on these policies, introducing a new AdSense misrepresentative content policy, that helps us to take action against website owners misrepresenting who they are and that deceive people with their content. Google has faced criticism over its handling of fake news stories, including allowing a fake news website to rise to the top of its results displaying an incorrect story claiming that President Trump had won the popular vote. In his post explaining how Google attempted to crack down on “bad ads, sites and scammers,” Spencer explained that Google had expanded its policies against misleading websites in November, leading to the crackdown. From November to December 2016, we reviewed 550 sites that were suspected of misrepresenting content to users, including impersonating news organizations. We took action against 340 of them for violating our policies, both misrepresentation and other offenses, and nearly 200 publishers were kicked out of our network permantly. In total, Google took down 1.7 billion ads that they found in violation of their policies in 2016, more than double the 780 million they removed in 2015. It wasn't just fake news: Google provided the following examples of common policy violations among bad sites in 2016: We took action on 47,000 sites for promoting content and products related to weight-loss scams. We took action on more than 15,000 sites for unwanted software and disabled 900,000 ads for containing malware. And we suspended around 6,000 sites and 6,000 accounts for attempting to advertise counterfeit goods, like imitation designer watches. Some of the more conventional bans were the result of Google adding a policy mid-year prohibiting ads for payday loans, considered predatory. Roughly five million payday loan ads were disabled over the latter six months of 2016. Also among those the removed ads were what Google calls “tabloid cloakers.” These advertisers run what look like links to news headlines, but when the user clicks, an ad for a product such as a weight loss supplement pops up. Google suspended 1,300 accounts engaged in tabloid cloaking in 2016. Spencer concludes: In addition to all the above, we support industry efforts like the Coalition for Better Ads to protect people from bad experiences across the web. While we took down more bad ads in 2016 than ever before, the battle doesn’t end here. As we invest in better detection, the scammers invest in more elaborate attempts to trick our systems. Continuing to find and fight them is essential to protecting people online and ensuring you get the very best from the open web. Google has not disclosed the list of 200 sites it had permanently banned.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/google-permanently-bans-200-fake-news-sites
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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un 'will launch a nuke at the US as soon as his power is threatened' says high-powered diplomat who defected
Thae Yong-ho, former deputy ambassador in London, made the warning
He claims the leader will stop at nothing to develop a nuclear programme
He believes Kim Jong-un's regime 'one day would collapse by people's uprising'
By Hannah Al-othman For Mailonline
Published: 06:19 EST, 26 January 2017 | Updated: 10:41 EST, 26 January 2017
North Korea's most high profile defector has claimed Kim Jong-un would fire a suicidal nuclear weapon at Los Angeles if he felt his power was being threatened. Thae Yong-ho, the former deputy ambassador in London, and North Korea's most senior defector said the dictator would be prepared to 'press the button' despite the inevitable consequences. Mr Thae told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire Show he believed the North Korean leader 'will press the button on these dangerous weapons when he thinks that his rule and his dynasty is threatened'. However, the defector has also said that he believes Kim Jong-un's regime 'one day would collapse by people's uprising'. When questioned as to whether he thought Kim would be prepared to launch a nuclear attack on the States even if meant his inevitable destriction, Mr Thae replied: 'Yes.' Mr Thae has previously said the country is aiming to complete its development of nuclear weapons by the end of this year. He claims the leader will stop at nothing to develop a nuclear programme - and would even turn down trillions of dollars if he was offered a pay-off to abandon the nuclear race. Thae Yong-ho appeared on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show Thae Yong-ho appeared on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show He added: 'Kim Jong-un knows quite well that a nuclear weapon is the only guarantee for his rule. If he lose the power then it is his last day. He may do anything.' Pyongyang has warned it will conduct its next nuclear missile test 'anytime and anywhere'. On the other side of the Pacific, President Trump has announced that the US is developing a 'state-of-the-art' missile defence system to protect the the country from potential attacks from Iran and North Korea. He made the announcement in a statement posted to the White House website just minutes after he was sworn into office.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4159480/Kim-Jong-launch-nuke-threatened.html#ixzz4WuD7QKTG
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God welcomed back to D.C., says Land
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Bill Bumpas (OneNewsNow.com
An evangelical leader says the feeling among Christian leaders attending Donald Trump's inaugural festivities is that God hasn't given up on the United States. "We didn't dodge a bullet. We dodged an atomic bomb," Dr. Richard Land says of the Nov. 8 election that put Donald Trump in the White House. During the presidential campaign, Land served on an advisory board of evangelicals that was repeatedly called on for advice as Trump sought to woo conservative evangelical voters. Land said in recent weeks that he and other conservatives "have been pinching ourselves" at the ongoing outreach from the Trump administration. Trump frustrated evangelicals during the campaign with his lack of biblical knowledge and crude statements, but Evangelicals voted for him 80-16 over Hillary Clinton, outpacing their support for past GOP candidates. Land tells OneNewsNow that the prayers offered during Trump's inauguration were "unabashedly strong" and "overtly Christian." He says he particularly appreciated that Franklin Graham quoted from the second Chapter of First Timothy, when Paul instructed Timothy to pray for those in authority and attempt to live in peace with them. The verse further states that "there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people." "And of course what Franklin Graham did is presented the gospel. That's the gospel right there," Land says of the Bible verses. "And I thought Mr. Trump saying we are protected by our great military and by God - I'm sure the politically correct are looking for the smelling sauce at this point in time," he adds. OneNewsNow reported on the morning of Inauguration Day that Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress preached about Nehemiah to Trump's family and guests at an annual church service at St. John's Episcopal Church.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/church/2017/01/24/god-welcomed-back-to-dc-says-land
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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Senior manager at Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm arrested in Moscow
Nataliya Vasilyeva, The Associated Press 01.25.2017
MOSCOW — A manager in charge of investigating hacking attacks at Russia’s biggest cybersecurity firm has been arrested, the company said Wednesday. Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday confirmed reports in Russia’s respected Kommersant newspaper that Ruslan Stoyanov, head of its computer incidents investigations unit, was arrested in December. Kommersant said that Stoyanov was arrested along with a senior Russian FSB intelligence officer and that they both face charges of treason. Kaspersky’s spokeswoman, Maria Shirokova, said in a statement that Stoyanov’s arrest “has nothing to do with Kaspersky Lab and its operations.” She said the company has no details of the charges Stoyanov faces, but added that the investigation dates back to the time before Stoyanov was hired by Kaspersky. Stoyanov’s previous jobs, listed on the LinkedIn website, include a position at the Cyber Crime Unit at the Russian Interior Ministry in the early 2000s. U.S. intelligence agencies have accused Russia of meddling in the U.S. presidential election through hacking, to help Donald Trump win the vote, claims that Russia has rejected. U.S. and EU officials also have accused Russia of hacking other Western institutions and voiced concern that Russia may try to influence this year’s elections in Germany, France and the Netherlands. It wasn’t immediately clear if the arrests are somehow linked to these allegations. The FSB’s press office wasn’t immediately available for comment and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also declined comment. Andrei Soldatov, who has studied the internet and Russian security services for more than a decade, called the arrest of the Kaspersky manager “unprecedented.” “It destroys a system that has been 20 years in the making, the system of relations between intelligence agencies and companies like Kaspersky,” he told The Associated Press. “Intelligence agencies used to ask for Kaspersky’s advice, and this is how informal ties were built. This romance is clearly over.”
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CIA Dir. Pompeo: 'Jesus Christ Our Savior Is Truly the Only Solution For Our World'
By Michael W. Chapman | January 25, 2017 | 10:51 AM EST
(CNSNews.com) -- Speaking at a church event in Wichita, then-Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas), the newly confirmed Diretor of the Central Intelligence Agency, said radical Muslims want "to wipe Christians from the face of the Earth," and that Christians need to pray, fight, and understand that "Jesus Christ our Savior is truly the only solution for our world." During his talk at the church in 2014, Pompeo said there is a "great debate" over the exact meaning of the Quran and he would not "explicate" it or the Bible because "there are scholars much greater than him who can explain the details and nuances of those books. "But I can tell you that this threat to America is from people who deeply believe that Islam is the way and the light and the only answer," said Pompeo. "So, as we think about what U.S. policy needs to be, how we will begin to combat this, we need to recognize that these folks believe it is religiously driven for them to wipe Christians from the face of the Earth," he said. Ad Feedback "They may be wrong," he continued. "There’s some debate about that, what the Quran actually says. They may be wholly misguided, and I will tell you that it is absolutely a minority within the Muslim faith." "But these folks are serious and they abhor Christians," said the future CIA director. "And [they] will continue to press against us until we make sure that we pray and stand and fight and make sure that we know that Jesus Christ our Savior is truly the only solution for our world.” Radical Muslim terrorists, members of ISIS, prepare to behead Coptic Christian men on the shores of Libya. (Screenshot: YouTube) Mike Pompeo served in Congress from 2011 to 2017. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the director of the CIA and the Senate confirmed his nomination. Pompeo began his new job on Monday, Jan. 23. Pompeo is a graduate of the West Point Military Academy and Harvard Law School. He served as a cavalry officer in Europe and in the Gulf War. He is married and has one child.
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Police carry pregnant woman six miles through the snow on their shoulders
Jen Mills for Metro.co.ukWednesday 18 Jan 2017 3:54 pm
Police officers carried a pregnant woman on their shoulders for six miles, when heavy snow blocked all the roads down the mountain. The 23-year-old woman, named as Kamini, went into labour in the early evening of January 9, and phoned for an ambulance to take her to hospital. However, heavy snow meant paramedics could not reach her remote Indian village of Bhont, near Shimla in the foothills of the Himalayas. Kamini and her mother Sarla were losing hope of getting treatment, but then six policeman arrived at the house. They wrapped Kamini in a quilt and asked her to lie down on the cot they brought with them, then started the long walk down the mountain, trudging for three and a half hours through the ice and snow to Shimla. They arrived at 9.30pm, and Kamini was admitted to the hospital where she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Now her amazing story has been covered throughout India, with people applauding the heroic officers who rescued her. ‘Congrats, Shimla Police, for its great act of humanity,’ one man wrote.
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Stocks up on reinvigorated Trump rally; Dow tops 20,000
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | NEW YORK
Global equity prices rallied and the Dow Jones Industrial Average blew past the psychological 20,000 level on Wednesday, lifted by strong Japanese trade data, robust earnings and investor hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump will press ahead with a large fiscal spending package. The rally in stocks boosted U.S. Treasury debt yields, but lingering concerns about growing protectionism and the potential negative effects on global trade and growth pushed the U.S. dollar lower. MSCI's world index, which tracks shares in 46 countries, hit a 19-month high, up 0.8 percent. Data showing Japan's exports rose for the first time in 15 months in December and strong corporate results in Europe boosted the index. Rallying U.S. stocks pushed it higher. The Dow, which came within a point of 20,000 on Jan. 6, had struggled to top it as investors looked for clarity on the new U.S. administration's policies. Strong earnings and renewed focus on Trump's pro-growth initiatives, however, reignited a post-election rally and pushed the three major benchmark U.S. stock indexes to record highs. "It was definitely a milestone that the market has been focused on for really the better part of two months and you were starting to get a little bit of anxiety as to whether it was going to be surmounted or not," said Julian Emanuel, Equity Strategist at UBS in New York. "We are particularly encouraged to see financials acting well again because they have been the leadership." Trump has made several business-friendly decisions since taking office on Friday, including signing executive orders to reduce regulatory burden on domestic manufacturers and clearing the way for the construction of two oil pipelines. Sentiment was also lifted by better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. Of the 104 S&P 500 companies that have reported results through Wednesday morning, nearly 70 percent have beaten expectations, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Earnings are expected to show growth of 6.8 percent for the quarter, the strongest in two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 155.8 points, or 0.78 percent, to finish at 20,068.51, the S&P 500 gained 18.3 points, or 0.80 percent, to end at 2,298.37 and the Nasdaq Composite added 55.38 points, or 0.99 percent, to close at 5,656.34. European shares rose sharply, boosted by strong earning from Logitech and Banco Santander. Europe's broad FTSEurofirst 300 index closed up 1.31 percent at 1,448.08. Rallying stocks sent U.S. Treasury debt yields higher. Benchmark yields hit a four-week high following a poor $34 billion auction of five-year Treasury notes, as investors further scaled back their bond holdings. Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were down 14/32 in price to yield 2.521 percent, up from 2.471 percent late Tuesday. The rush to own stocks also eroded bullion's safe-haven attraction and gold prices fell to a 1-1/2-week low. Spot gold was down 0.68 percent to $1,200.51 an ounce. The dollar failed to maintain Tuesday's upward momentum and hit a roughly seven-week low against a basket of major currencies on lingering concerns about trade protectionism. "Rather than hearing about fiscal stimulus, which I think most people assume is the gateway to higher interest rates and a stronger dollar, out of the gate from Trump we've heard about building a wall and trade protectionism," said David Gilmore, partner at FX Analytics in Essex, Connecticut. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six other major currencies, was down 0.41 percent to 99.942. Oil prices settled little changed, reversing earlier losses even after data showing a build in U.S. crude inventories reinforced traders' sentiment that oil is trapped in a range by expected OPEC production cuts and U.S. output growth. Brent crude settled down 36 cents, or 0.65 percent, at $55.08 a barrel, and U.S. crude settled down 43 cents, or 0.81 percent, at $52.75. (Reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed; Additional reporting by Herbert Lash and Sam Forgione in New York and Tanya Agrawal in Bengaluru; Editing by Nick Zieminski and James Dalgleish)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-idUSKBN157023
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Top Divinity Schools Tell Professors to Refer to God with Gender-Neutral Language
Veronica Neffinger | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Two prominent divinity schools have instructed their professors to use gender-neutral language when referring to God. According to National Review, the divinity schools at Duke and Vanderbilt Universities have told their faculty to give “consistent attention to the use of inclusive language, especially in relation to the Divine,” in an effort to be more “inclusive” and to “mitigate sexism. ”Although “It is up to the individual professor’s interpretation for their classes and is suggestive rather than mandatory,” National Review writer Katherine Timpf notes that most attendees at Duke’s divinity school, for example, are already part of the Methodist church, which believes that its God is a male. Therefore, although anyone has a right in America to refer to God however they see fit, they do not have the license to make the biblical God into an entity with no gender specificity when He is clearly spoken of as a male in the main Christian text, the Bible. “It would be like teaching Hamlet and calling Hamlet ‘she,’” Timpf points out. But Duke’s guidelines for their professors say that gender-specific pronouns and language should be replaced with simply “God” or even “Godself. ”Masculine pronouns for God “have served as a cornerstone of the patriarchy,” say the universities.
:: 1-24-17 The Common Sense Show :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Will America’s Counter-Revolution Be Successful?
Dave Hodges
America has been conquered from within. Many have said that this is not the America that they have grown up in and they are correct. However, few people realize that America is an occupied nation. There is a counter-revolution going on in America today and it is the Trump version of populism. The Cold War Never Ended Many Americans have adopted an historical view of the Cold War that is inaccurate and very dangerous. Many believe that when the Berlin Wall came down that was the end of the Communist threat for America. Nothing could be further from the truth. Russia has never been defeated, it is not in their DNA to ever quit. Although they were forced to abandon their arms race with the United States, they adopted a guerrilla style war with the United States by conquering America from within. If one doubts that Obama is part of a Communist plot to takeover the US government, please read the following with an open mind. The How and Why Behind Obama’s Mysterious Rise to the Presidency (parts 2 and 3 can be linked to from this article) High Ranking Russian Defectors Warned of Attacks Upon the American Media Please be aware that the two articles, linked to four articles, are only the tip of the iceberg. You could literally spend an entire day and investigating this by using the search engine on the website. The fact remains, that there is a Communist/Muslim Brotherhood movement to takeover this country. How effective have they been? The following is a snapshot answer to this question. Sources: US Treasury Department, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Agriculture, US Congressional Budget Office.
Debt per US Citizen – Year 2009 = $31,000……..Year 2017 $61,340 (-$30,340)
Labor Force Participation Rate – Year 2009= 65.8%….Year 2017 = 62.8%
Home Ownership rate -Year 2009 = 67.3%….. Year 2017 = 63.5%
Real Median Household Income – Year 2009= $57,744….. Year 2017 = $54,045 (-$3,699). This does not include 5% per year, adjusted for inflation.
Average Hath Insurance Rate – Family Plan – $12,680….. Year 2017 = $18,142
Food Stamp Dependency – Year 2009 = 32 million……Year 2017 = 43.6 million (-10.4 million) !!
Persons living in poverty – Year 2009 = 38 million….. Year 2017 = 45 million (7 million) !!
Number of people on Obamacare private insurance…Year End 2016 = 334,867
Number of people on Medicaid supplemental – Year End 2016 = 17.4 million
National Debt – Year 2009 = $10.6 Trillion…….Year 2017 = $20.1 Trillion (-$9.5 Trillion)
$240 trillion dollar unfunded, but mandated liability of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Obama’s final economic gift to the American people includes a credit swap derivatives debt, of which Obama has granted full payment of $1.6 quadrillion credit swap derivatives debt with annual interest rate of $505 trillion. Please note that the US government only takes in $2 trillion per year. Beginning four years ago, I wrote that Obama was the manifestation of what the Soviet defectors said was coming. Namely, they said we would be conquered from within. A moron could look at these economic numbers and conclude that they are so bad and that the devastation of this economy had to be deliberate and NOBODY could be this incompetent. This was a deliberate communist takeover of this country by first destroying our means of production in classic Marxian theory and Obama succeeded in putting this economy on life-support. Trevor Loudon’s Stellar Work Trevor Loudon, through his magnificent work, The Enemies Within, documents the many groups (e.g. the Democratic Socialists of America) and identifies them as communist front groups designed to ensnare as many Democratic members of Congress as possible. , Loudon emphasizes expresses the belief that classic Marxist revolution, in which the “exploited” working class is recruited to participate in a “working class revolution” is a fool’s errand. The new breed of Congressmen, who are casting a long-shadow of Communism over the nation’s capital, can best achieve their communist goals by infiltrating traditional American society and creating a social revolution. If you don’t think that the bizarre policy changes coming from the Federal government such as the Target transgender bathroom issue is not the poster child for the undermining of the American society, then you are not paying attention. The communist ideals have penetrated and are dominating political parties, churches, civic groups, labor unions, our ultra liberal “snowflake universities, the media, Home Owners Associations (HOA), Planned Parenthood, radical fundamental Islamic terrorism. Wait, you thought I was only speaking about communism affiliations didn’t you? Loudon documents that when the Muslim Brotherhood was kicked out of Egypt, they were absorbed, in part, by Russian intelligence. The two groups are terrorist groups and people wonder why I do not trust or support Putin. I do not want a war with Russia, if it can be avoided, however, Putin is an old-line KGB Colonel who is dedicated to the destruction of the United States from within. Congressman Keith Ellison: The Poster Child for the Marriage Between the Radical Muslim Brotherhood and the Communist Party The man in-line to become the DNC chair, is as anti-American as they get. At least Obama tried to hide, to some degree, his Muslim Brotherhood and Communist Party affiliations. Ellison is as radical as they get and he is close to running the Democratic party. Ellison was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam who publicly espouses anti-Semitism. As a Congressional candidate, “he purposely accepted $50,000 in campaign contributions given and raised by Islamic radicals who openly supported Islamic terrorism and were leaders of front groups for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood”. Ellison represents an increasing number of Congressmen who have ties to both the Communist Party and the Muslim Brotherhood as evidenced by his membership in the Communist front group, the Progressive Caucus. Trevor Loudon and former Congressmen West will tell you that there are 80 members of Congress who fit a similar profile to Ellison. I have found even more and the number may pass 100 before all is said and done. Here is merely a smattering of well-known names that fit this profile: The House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi Louis Gutierrez John Conyers Charles Rangel Marcy Kaptur Peter DeFazio Sheila Jackson Lee Jim McDermott Raul Grijalva Kyrsten Sinema …and a further cast of dozens. The Senate Barbara Boxer Dick Durbin Tom Harkin Barbara Mikulski Elizabeth Warren Ed Markey Debbie Stabenow Al Franken Sherrod Brown Ron Wyden Jeff Merkley Patty Murray Tammy Baldwin Source: The Enemies Within-Trevor Loudon I estimate before it is all said and done that a full 20% of the Congress (both houses) have ties to radical groups who are dedicated to Communist Party/Muslim Brotherhood ideals which means the eradication of the Constitution and the elimination of all civil liberties not granted by the state, the breakdown of traditional American morality, the subversion of the election process so that leaders are selected not elected and the establishment of Sharia Law in place of the Constitution. Conclusion Loudon documents how the US Communist Party enacted a stealth plan designed to infiltrate the Democratic Party. At its core, the plan was designed to form alliances among and between the radical elements in organized labor, along with fringe radical elements in the Black community and the feminist movement (e.g. Planned Parenthood) to establish a radicalized, leftist coalition that would control America’s national political agenda for decades to come. The abovementioned groups were in strong evidence as they marched through the streets of America recently. In light of this information, do you view the UNSCREENED importation of Syrians in a different light? The government of this country has successfully been overthrown. President Trump represents a counter-revolutionary movement designed to take the country back. If you thought you could sit on your backside and Trump would do the rest, you are delusional. We are in a war for cultural, religious, economic and physical survival. The American people must accept responsibility for putting pressure on a compromised Congress to tall into line with Trump’s populism, or face being thrown out of office.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/23/will-americas-counter-revolution-be-successful/
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Comparing the 1930s and Today
Guest Post by Doug Casey
You’ve heard the axiom “History repeats itself.” It does, but never in exactly the same way. To apply the lessons of the past, we must understand the differences of the present. During the American Revolution, the British came prepared to fight a successful war—but against a European army. Their formations, which gave them devastating firepower, and their red coats, which emphasized their numbers, proved the exact opposite of the tactics needed to fight a guerrilla war. Before World War I, generals still saw the cavalry as the flower of their armies. Of course, the horse soldiers proved worse than useless in the trenches. Before World War II, in anticipation of a German attack, the French built the “impenetrable” Maginot Line. History repeated itself and the attack came, but not in the way they expected. Their preparations were useless because the Germans didn’t attempt to penetrate it; they simply went around it, and France was defeated. The generals don’t prepare for the last war out of perversity or stupidity, but rather because past experience is all they have to go by. Most of them simply don’t know how to interpret that experience. They are correct in preparing for another war but wrong in relying upon what worked in the last one. Investors, unfortunately, seem to make the same mistakes in marshaling their resources as do the generals. If the last 30 years have been prosperous, they base their actions on more prosperity. Talk of a depression isn’t real to them because things are, in fact, so different from the 1930s. To most people, a depression means ’30s-style conditions, and since they don’t see that, they can’t imagine a depression. That’s because they know what the last depression was like, but they don’t know what one is. It’s hard to visualize something you don’t understand. Some of them who are a bit more clever might see an end to prosperity and the start of a depression but—although they’re going to be a lot better off than most—they’re probably looking for this depression to be like the last one. Although nobody can predict with absolute certainty what this depression will be like, you can be fairly well-assured it won’t be an instant replay of the last one. But just because things will be different doesn’t mean you have to be taken by surprise. To define the likely differences between this depression and the last one, it’s helpful to compare the situation today to that in the early 1930s. The results aren’t very reassuring. CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY 1930s Banks, insurance companies, and big corporations went under on a major scale. Institutions suffered the consequences of past mistakes, and there was no financial safety net to catch them as they fell. Mistakes were liquidated and only the prepared and efficient survived. Today The world’s financial institutions are in even worse shape than the last time, but now business ethics have changed and everyone expects the government to “step in.” Laws are already in place that not only allow but require government intervention in many instances. This time, mistakes will be compounded, and the strong, productive, and efficient will be forced to subsidize the weak, unproductive, and inefficient. It’s ironic that businesses were bankrupted in the last depression because the prices of their products fell too low; this time, it’ll be because they went too high. UNEMPLOYMENT 1930s If a man lost his job, he had to find another one as quickly as possible simply to keep from going hungry. A lot of other men in the same position competed desperately for what work was available, and an employer could hire those same men for much lower wages and expect them to work harder than what was the case before the depression. As a result, the men could get jobs and the employer could stay in business. Today The average man first has months of unemployment insurance; after that, he can go on welfare if he can’t find “suitable work.” Instead of taking whatever work is available, especially if it means that a white collar worker has to get his hands dirty, many will go on welfare. This will decrease the production of new wealth and delay the recovery. The worker no longer has to worry about some entrepreneur exploiting (i.e., employing) him at what he considers an unfair wage because the minimum wage laws, among others, precludes that possibility today. As a result, men stay unemployed and employers will go out of business. WELFARE 1930s If hard times really put a man down and out, he had little recourse but to rely on his family, friends, or local social and church group. There was quite a bit of opprobrium attached to that, and it was only a last resort. The breadlines set up by various government bodies were largely cosmetic measures to soothe the more terror-prone among the voting populace. People made do because they had to, and that meant radically reducing their standards of living and taking any job available at any wage. There were very, very few people on welfare during the last depression. Today It’s hard to say how those who are still working are going to support those who aren’t in this depression. Even in the U.S., 50% of the country is already on some form of welfare. But food stamps, aid to families with dependent children, Social Security, and local programs are already collapsing in prosperous times. And when the tidal wave hits, they’ll be totally overwhelmed. There aren’t going to be any breadlines because people who would be standing in them are going to be shopping in local supermarkets just like people who earned their money. Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of it is that people in general have come to think that these programs can just magically make wealth appear, and they expect them to be there, while a whole class of people have grown up never learning to survive without them. It’s ironic, yet predictable, that the programs that were supposed to help those who “need” them will serve to devastate those very people. REGULATIONS 1930s Most economies have been fairly heavily regulated since the early 1900s, and those regulations caused distortions that added to the severity of the last depression. Rather than allow the economy to liquidate, in the case of the U.S., the Roosevelt regime added many, many more regulations—fixing prices, wages, and the manner of doing business in a static form. It was largely because of these regulations that the depression lingered on until the end of World War II, which “saved” the economy only through its massive reinflation of the currency. Had the government abolished most controls then in existence, instead of creating new ones, the depression would have been less severe and much shorter. Today The scores of new agencies set up since the last depression have created far more severe distortions in the ways people relate than those of 80 years ago; the potential adjustment needed is proportionately greater. Unless government restrictions and controls on wages, working conditions, energy consumption, safety, and such are removed, a dramatic economic turnaround during the Greater Depression will be impossible. TAXES 1930s The income tax was new to the U.S. in 1913, and by 1929, although it took a maximum 23.1% bite, that was only at the $1 million level. The average family’s income then was $2,335, and that put average families in the 1/10th of 1 percent bracket. And there was still no Social Security tax, no state income tax, no sales tax, and no estate tax. Furthermore, most people in the country didn’t even pay the income tax because they earned less than the legal minimum or they didn’t bother filing. The government, therefore, had immense untapped sources of revenue to draw upon to fund its schemes to “cure” the depression. Roosevelt was able to raise the average income tax from 1.35% to 16.56% during his tenure—an increase of 1,100%. Today Everyone now pays an income tax in addition to all the other taxes. In most Western countries, the total of direct and indirect taxes is over 50%. For that reason, it seems unlikely that direct taxes will go much higher. But inflation is constantly driving everyone into higher brackets and will have the same effect. A person has had to increase his or her income faster than inflation to compensate for taxes. Whatever taxes a man does pay will reduce his standard of living by just that much, and it’s reasonable to expect tax evasion and the underground economy to boom in response. That will cushion the severity of the depression somewhat while it serves to help change the philosophical orientation of society. PRICES 1930s Prices dropped radically because billions of dollars of inflationary currency were wiped out through the stock market crash, bond defaults, and bank failures. The government, however, somehow equated the high prices of the inflationary ’20s with prosperity and attempted to prevent a fall in prices by such things as slaughtering livestock, dumping milk in the gutter, and enacting price supports. Since the collapse wiped out money faster than it could be created, the government felt the destruction of real wealth was a more effective way to raise prices. In other words, if you can’t increase the supply of money, decrease the supply of goods. Nonetheless, the 1930s depression was a deflationary collapse, a time when currency became worth more and prices dropped. This is probably the most confusing thing to most Americans since they assume—as a result of that experience—that “depression” means “deflation.” It’s also perhaps the biggest single difference between this depression and the last one. Today Prices could drop, as they did the last time, but the amount of power the government now has over the economy is far greater than what was the case 80 years ago. Instead of letting the economy cleanse itself by allowing the financial markets to collapse, governments will probably bail out insolvent banks, create mortgages wholesale to prop up real estate, and central banks will buy bonds to keep their prices from plummeting. All of these actions mean that the total money supply will grow enormously. Trillions will be created to avoid deflation. If you find men selling apples on street corners, it won’t be for 5 cents apiece, but $5 apiece. But there won’t be a lot of apple sellers because of welfare, nor will there be a lot of apples because of price controls. Consumer prices will probably skyrocket as a result, and the country will have an inflationary depression. Unlike the 1930s, when people who held dollars were king, by the end of the Greater Depression, people with dollars will be wiped out. THE SOCIETY 1930s The world was largely rural or small-town. Communications were slow, but people tended to trust the media. The government exercised considerable moral suasion, and people tended to support it. The business of the country was business, as Calvin Coolidge said, and men who created wealth were esteemed. All told, if you were going to have a depression, it was a rather stable environment for it; despite that, however, there were still plenty of riots, marches, and general disorder. Today The country is now urban and suburban, and although communications are rapid, there’s little interpersonal contact. The media are suspect. The government is seen more as an adversary or an imperial ruler than an arbitrator accepted by a consensus of concerned citizens. Businessmen are viewed as unscrupulous predators who take advantage of anyone weak enough to be exploited. A major financial smashup in today’s atmosphere could do a lot more than wipe out a few naives in the stock market and unemploy some workers, as occurred in the ’30s; some sectors of society are now time bombs. It’s hard to say, for instance, what third- and fourth-generation welfare recipients are going to do when the going gets really tough. THE WAY PEOPLE WORK 1930s Relatively slow transportation and communication localized economic conditions. The U.S. itself was somewhat insulated from the rest of the world, and parts of the U.S. were fairly self-contained. Workers were mostly involved in basic agriculture and industry, creating widgets and other tangible items. There wasn’t a great deal of specialization, and that made it easier for someone to move laterally from one occupation into the next, without extensive retraining, since people were more able to produce the basics of life on their own. Most women never joined the workforce, and the wife in a marriage acted as a “backup” system should the husband lose his job. Today The whole world is interdependent, and a war in the Middle East or a revolution in Africa can have a direct and immediate effect on a barber in Chicago or Krakow. Since the whole economy is centrally controlled from Washington, a mistake there can be a national disaster. People generally aren’t in a position to roll with the punches as more than half the people in the country belong to what is known as the “service economy.” That means, in most cases, they’re better equipped to shuffle papers than make widgets. Even “necessary” services are often terminated when times get hard. Specialization is part of what an advanced industrial economy is all about, but if the economic order changes radically, it can prove a liability. THE FINANCIAL MARKETS 1930s The last depression is identified with the collapse of the stock market, which lost over 90% of its value from 1929 to 1933. A secure bond was the best possible investment as interest rates dropped radically. Commodities plummeted, reducing millions of farmers to near subsistence levels. Since most real estate was owned outright and taxes were low, a drop in price didn’t make a lot of difference unless you had to sell. Land prices plummeted, but since people bought it to use, not unload to a greater fool, they didn’t usually have to sell. Today This time, stocks—and especially commodities—are likely to explode on the upside as people panic into them to get out of depreciating dollars in general and bonds in particular. Real estate will be—next to bonds—the most devastated single area of the economy because no one will lend money long term. And real estate is built on the mortgage market, which will vanish. Everybody who invests in this depression thinking that it will turn out like the last one will be very unhappy with the results. Being aware of the differences between the last depression and this one makes it a lot easier to position yourself to minimize losses and maximize profits. So much for the differences. The crucial, obvious, and most important similarity, however, is that most people’s standard of living will fall dramatically. The Greater Depression has started. Most people don’t know it because they can neither confront the thought nor understand the differences between this one and the last. As a climax approaches, many of the things that you’ve built your life around in the past are going to change and change radically. The ability to adjust to new conditions is the sign of a psychologically healthy person. Look for the opportunity side of the crisis. The Chinese symbol for “crisis” is a combination of two other symbols—one for danger and one for opportunity. The dangers that society will face in the years ahead are regrettable, but there’s no point in allowing anxiety, frustration, or apathy to overcome you. Face the future with courage, curiosity, and optimism rather than fear. You can be a winner, and if you plan carefully, you will be. The great period of change will give you a chance to regain control of your destiny. And that in itself is the single most important thing in life. This depression can give you that opportunity; it’s one of the many ways the Greater Depression can be a very good thing for both you as an individual and society as a whole. Editor’s note: America is about to enter a crisis far more severe than what we saw in 2008–2009. It could all start after Trump’s inauguration and could change everything… in sudden, unexpected ways. This is exactly why Doug and his team put together a time-sensitive video explaining how it could all go down.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/01/22/comparing-the-1930s-and-today/#more-141505
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Trump Captures ISIS Leader On Day One Of Airstrikes
Posted on January 23, 2017 by Baxter Dmitry in News, US
The United States has wounded and captured ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi after one day of punishing airstrikes, according to reports from Iraq. President Trump convened his top generals on his first day in office and ordered them to provide a plan to eradicate ISIS within 30 days – a key election promise – and according to sources in the region the new tactics have drawn immediate success. Secretary of Defense James Mattis spent his first full day at the Pentagon by overseeing 31 strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. A variety of fighters, bombers and remotely piloted aircraft engaged in the bombing run, which saw 25 strikes in Syria and six in Iraq. In Syria, two strikes destroyed ISIL units and artillery near the town of Bab. Daesh forces in Raqqa, the terrorist group’s stronghold, took a heavy beating, as 22 strikes destroyed 12 tactical units, nine fighting positions, two underground improvised explosive bomb factories and an ISIS headquarters. The final strike targeted two IS oil wells in Deir ez Zour. The account was backed up by the Iraq Oil Report, a respected source that gathers daily updates on security developments inside Mosul and surrounding ISIS-held areas from a network of local reporters, residents and fighters. “Increased coalition air activity spotted around Ba’aj fuels rumors of IS “Caliph” being surrounded“. As the dust settles on the fiercest bombardment ISIS have ever received, the word on the street in Iraq is that the new US administration have done what Obama could not, or would not, do – take out ISIS mastermind Al-Baghdadi. A cornerstone of President Trump’s campaign was the promise that he would destroy ISIS as quickly as possible. He convened his top generals on his first day in office and ordered them to provide a plan to eradicate ISIS once and for all within 30 days. As the new head of the Pentagon, Mattis would be expected to act on Trump’s plans and make them happen. The former Marine general, who once referred to Obama’s ISIS policy as full of “half measures” seems to have the plan on track.
http://yournewswire.com/trump-captures-isis-leader/
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Experts: US hit with sudden spikes of rare radioactive material from Fukushima — Has 15.7 Million year half life — “Orders of magnitude” rise in levels on West Coast — Much higher amounts than were detected near Fukushima plant just after 3/11
Published: January 23rd, 2017 at 6:42 am ET By ENENews
Royal Society of Chemistry, National Institute for Physics & Nuclear Engineering, Romania, 2015 (emphasis added): AMS analyses of I-129 from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in the Pacific Ocean waters of the Coast La Jolla, San Diego, USA — This paper presents the results of an experimental study we performed by using the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) method with iodine 129 (Halflife = 15.7 Million years], to determine the increase of the radionuclide content in the USA West Pacific Coast waters, two years after the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident… The results of the experiments showed a significant increase of the radionuclide concentration during the late spring of 2013. Compared to the isotopic ratio 129I/127I, measured at a 40 km distance, offshore of Fukushima and immediately after the accident, our results show an increase on the USA West Coast that was more than a 2.5 factor higher. Also, compared with the pre-Fukushima background values [in San Diego], our results show an isotopic ratio of about two orders of magnitude higher… The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant… released an enormous amount of liquid waste of 129I and other fission isotopes directly into the Pacific Ocean that were subsequently dispersed eastwards. This paper reports on the determination of the nuclear plume impact on the West Coast of the USA that happened during April–July 2013… The determined maximum 129I concentration increase was in an amount of more than 2 times greater than the concentration of the isotope measured offshore of Fukushima at a 40 km distance immediately after the accident… 129I concentrations were measured… from the ocean water of the West Coast of the USA [at] La Jolla, San Diego… This work reports two sudden increases of the 129I/127I isotopic concentration in the ocean water, which were observed at the end of spring 2013… Our exploratory measurements on the USA West Coast started on samples collected at the beginning of 2013. The lowest 129I concentrations that we measured had values between [6-20 million] atoms per L. Such values correspond to the equilibrium concentration of iodine… offshore of La Jolla, San Diego… Our results… measured offshore of Cove La Jolla, San Diego, USA, during the spring of 2013, are presented in Fig. 5. Two high and distinct spike maxima are visible. They reveal the maximum concentration values of [1.2 billion] atoms per L measured on May 24, 2013 and [1.7 billion] atoms per L measured on June 18, 2013, with 24 days in between. Both peaks occurred in the measurement spectrum after a slow increase in concentration that started about 15-20 days before the main increase… Samples collected [by Fukushima Daiichi, Jun 2011] at a distance of about 40 km away from the coast [had] a maximum concentration value of [620 million] atoms per L for 129I in the surface water of the ocean. Taking into account this value as a reference value, the maximum 129-iodine concentration reaching the USA West Coast was 2.5 times stronger than in the contaminated ocean water offshore of Fukushima after the accident. If we compare it to the equilibrium value of 129I concentration in the ocean water [near San Diego], then during the impact its concentration was about 100 times higher… AMS measurements of 129I were performed on ocean water… offshore of Cove La Jolla, San Diego, USA, and definitely have shown an increase of the radioactivty
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Even now, saith your Father, they plot for a one world banking system, a one world government, a one world controlled by one man, etc..
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They Are Coming For Your Cash! Currency Bans Are Sweeping The Globe
ThomasDishaw.com Jan 23, 2017
Greedy Governments continue to tell us a cash ban is needed to stop the terrorists, while they are the ones funding the terrorists. Governments tell us the cash ban is to stop tax dodgers, when some of the biggest tax offenders are the ruling class. Governments tell us a cash ban will kill the black market, when they are the ones who control the black market. I’m sure you see the pattern….Its all so Orwellian. And unfortunately it’s getting worse. Countries like Australia are getting more aggressive and calling for the $100 bill to banned. Economist Joseph Stiglitz is pushing the US to abandon cash as well, ignoring the fact that India’s currency ban has caused its economy to all but completely crash vity more than two orders of magnitude over the natural level of the Pacific Ocean before the accident… If the implications of a cashless society don’t concern you just take a moment to think about what would happen in a grid down situation, which would mean that we don’t have access to our finances and we cant purchase basic goods. There is also the access that the Government now has of your purchases, meaning now they can easily tap into what books you read, the church you give to and the guns you purchase. Should you still not be convinced at how quickly the transformation is taking place, look no further than the following list of countries that are at the forefront of banning cash. Sweden leads the race to become cashless society “I don’t use cash any more, for anything,” said Louise Henriksson, 26, a teaching assistant. “You just don’t need it. Shops don’t want it; lots of banks don’t even have it. Even for a candy bar or a paper, you use a card or phone.” Swedish buses have not taken cash for years, it is impossible to buy a ticket on the Stockholm metro with cash, retailers are legally entitled to refuse coins and notes, and street vendors – and even churches – increasingly prefer card or phone payments. According to central bank the Riksbank, cash transactions made up barely 2% of the value of all payments made in Sweden last year – a figure some see dropping to 0.5% by 2020. In shops, cash is now used for barely 20% of transactions, half the number five years ago, and way below the global average of 75%. And astonishingly, about 900 of Sweden’s 1,600 bank branches no longer keep cash on hand or take cash deposits – and many, especially in rural areas, no longer have ATMs. Circulation of Swedish krona has fallen from around 106bn in 2009 to 80bn last year. “I think, in practice, Sweden will pretty much be a cashless society within about five years,” said Niklas Arvidsson, an associate professor specialising in payment systems innovation at Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Norway’s Biggest Bank Calls For Country To Stop Using Cash The largest bank in Norway has called for the country to stop using cash, the Local reported Friday. This comes as the latest move in a country that has been leading the global charge toward electronic money in recent years, with several banks already not offering cash in their branch offices and some industries seeking to cut back on paper currency. DNB, the bank with the proposal, has said eliminating the use of cash would cut down on black market sales and crimes such as money laundering. “There are so many dangers and disadvantages associated with cash, we have concluded that it should be phased out,” he added. The country has already moved in this direction naturally. Bentestuen estimated that about 6 percent of Norwegians use cash on a daily basis, with the numbers higher among elderly people. Denmark is set to become the first country in the world to make cash payments obsolete DENMARK is on track to become the world’s first cashless nation, with its government pushing to free some stores, restaurants and petrol stations from accepting cash payments. The proposal to scrap cash transactions is part of a package of cost-saving measures being introduced ahead of the Danish election in September, the Independent reports. It is understood the government is hoping to get rid of the option to pay by cash by as early as 2016. Nearly a third of all Danish citizen prefer to use Danske Bank’s official app,MobilePay, to pay for services and transactions, and it is expected that the proposal will be met with little opposition. Cash May No Longer Be Needed in Finland Financial experts from the Bank of Finland suggested that banknotes could be phased out by 2030. Technological advancements surrounding mobile payments and the need for convenient banking services are largely responsible for this feasible prediction. Kari Takala, senior advisor at the Bank of Finland’s Currency Department, said, “Many see cash as a backup system. It’s quick and convenient to use. In the future we’ll have to see how quickly mobile payment methods replace cash.” Greece Unleashes ‘Soft’ Cash Ban The spread of global cash bans continues with Greece unveiling their so-called ‘soft’ approach by which taxpayers will only be granted tax-allowances or deductions when payments are made via credit or debit cards. AsKeepTalkingGreeece reports, the new guidelines refer to employees, pensioners, farmers, and also the unemployed. Indian Economy Grinds To A Halt After Cash-Ban: “Faith In System Shaken” Amid scenes of panic across India, following PM Modi’s shock decision to withdraw high-value bills in the middle of the sowing and wedding season, Reuters reports the move, aimed at cracking down on the shadow economy, has brought India’s cash economy to a virtual standstill. With over 90% of all transactions done in cash, money flows in and out of the black-and-white system… until now, as Devangshu Datta exclaims, “The system works because everybody believes that those pieces of paper will be accepted by everybody else… This move has shaken that trust.” Farmers have been left stranded as traders have no cash to pay for their produce, while millions of Indians lined up outside banks and post offices for the ninth day to exchange old banknotes or withdraw rationed money from their accounts. Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash Venezuela is taking nearly half the country’s bank notes out of circulation beginning Wednesday, threatening to ruin the holidays season for Venezuelans already suffering from dire cash shortages, hyperinflation and an economic meltdown. The country’s largest bill, worth 100 bolivars or just 3 U.S. cents on the black market, is to become illegal, in a move designed to combat contraband along Venezuela’s borders, the government said. President Nicolás Maduro said outlawing the notes would destroy what he claims are Colombian smuggling mafias that hoard bolivars to buy price-controlled food and gasoline in Venezuela, which is then resold at a markup. Mr. Maduro said Monday night he was closing the Colombian border until Thursday night to prevent stacks of bolivars from making it back to the country. Germany Unveils “Cash Controls” Push: Ban Transactions Over €5,000, €500 Euro Note It was just two days ago that Bloomberg implored officials to “bring on a cashless future” in an Op-Ed that calls notes and coins “dirty, dangerous, unwieldy, and expensive.” You probably never thought of your cash that way, but increasingly, authorities and the powers that be seem determined to lay the groundwork for the abolition of what Bloomberg calls “antiquated” physical money. We’ve documented the cash ban calls on a number of occasions including, most recently, those that emanated from DNB, Norway’s largest bank where executive Trond Bentestuen said that although “there is approximately 50 billion kroner in circulation, the Norges Bank can only account for 40 percent of its use.” That, Bentestuen figures, “means that 60 percent of money usage is outside of any control.” “We believe,” he continues, “that is due to under-the-table money and laundering.” DNB goes on to say that after identifying “many dangers and disadvantages” associated with cash, the bank has “concluded that it should be phased out.” Uruguay bans all cash payments over US$5,000 as of next year Uruguay yesterday sanctioned its Financial Inclusion Law, which will ban cash payments worth more than US$5,000 as of May 1 next year. Property transactions and car purchases will thus have to be made through banking mechanisms. The measure will affect thousands of Argentines who have snapped up properties across the River Plate, primarily in the summer-favourite destination of Punta del Este. According to Uruguayan daily El País, if a property is bought with funds located in another country, deeds will have to include details on how the transaction was made, including account numbers and the names of the buyer and the bank where the funds came from. The recipients of income from rent contracts already in place before May 1 of 2015 will have to declare a bank account to which the funds should be deposited. Management firms,’ lawyers’ and notaries’ fees as well as the commissions of real estate agencies will also have to be made electronically should they exceed the US$5,000 limit. In addition, all taxes will have to be paid electronically, regardless of the sum that is owed. The Solution To Argentina’s Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless There is no way back for Argentinian people to trust their own currency. Several governments have used the “Peso/Dollar” exchange to dig into people’s savings, reward their friends and limit the freedom of citizens to use other currencies. Short of Dollarizing the economy again, the only solution for the country is going cashless. People are desperate, and they’re looking for alternatives such as mobile payments, Amazon gift cards and Bitcoin to store their savings away from government control. A digital currency could help curb black market exchanges, fight corruption and restore the country’s image. $100 note to be scrapped? Australia to crack down on cash payments Australia looks set to follow in the footsteps of Venezuela and India by abolishing the country’s highest-denomination banknote in a bid to crack down on the “black economy”. Speaking to ABC radio on Wednesday, Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O’Dwyer flagged a review of the $100 note and cash payments over certain limits as the government looks to recoup billions in unpaid tax. Monday’s midyear budget update will include the appointment of former KPMG global chairman Michael Andrew to oversee a black economy taskforce. The black economy accounts for 1.5 per cent of GDP, given many cash payments are untaxed. Ms O’Dwyer told the ABC not only is the lost revenue owed to the Aust
ralian people for schools and hospitals, but it’s also critical for those who do the right thing and pay tax. “The whole point of this crackdown on the black economy is to make sure we close down any potential loopholes,” she said. Despite the broad use of electronic forms of payment, Ms O’Dwyer warned there are three times as many $100 notes in circulation than $5 notes. Belgium bans cash transactions Several of Saturday morning’s newspapers report that the legal limit for payments in cash is to be reduced from 15,000 to 5,000 Euro. The new measures are intended to help in the battle against money laundering. The Federal Secretary of State responsible for tackling fraud John Crombez (Flemish socialist) told journalists that “There is evidence that payment by bank transfer reduces the risk of fraud”. Within the next few years, the maximum limit for cash payments will be further reduced. Mr Crombez hopes that by the end of the current legislature the limit will stand at 3,000 Euro. The government is to adopt a phased approach to reducing the limit, as it wants to ensure that it will be respected. “As far as I’m concerned, if we are successful in ensuring the limit is respected, it can be reduced still further in the future, as has been the case in some other countries.” Canada pushing toward a cashless society with a 70 per cent drop in cash transactions by 2030 By 2030, cash purchases will make up only 10 per cent of money spent in Canada, according to a prediction by Moneris Solutions Corporation (“Moneris”), Canada’s leading credit and debit card processor. Compared to 35 per cent of overall transactions in 20141, the 70 per cent decline will coincide with an increase in the use of digital payment technologies, especially among younger Canadians. Consumer misconceptions about (1) the security of mobile wallets and (2) the ability of mobile wallets to digitally store physical wallet contents (including plastic loyalty cards and receipts), are among the factors slowing the transition. China’s race to become a cashless society Although China still has some way to go before it catches up with countries such as the US and Sweden, the speed at which China has made the shift from cash towards cashless has surprised many. Non-cash payments have been growing by around 40 per cent a year and last year China moved into 4th place in the world for non-cash payments after the US, Europe and Brazil. There are many reasons for China’s rapid transition away from cash. One is urbanisation, as non-cash payments are becoming both easy and popular. This is especially the case in top-tier cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing where it is both trendy and convenient to pay without using cash. There is a huge variety of choices when it comes to making cashless payments and China UnionPay has definitely helped to encourage this, particularly in the case of debit cards, which outnumber credit cards in China by 10 to one. China has more than 4 billion cards on issue – almost enough for each adult to have about three each. Mobile payments have also taken off in China – it has the largest proportion of people in the world using their mobile phones to make payments, online and physically. The Chinese government is also pushing China towards a cashless society. As in Thailand the authorities are keen to encourage the use of non-cash payments as it will reduce the cost of printing, circulating and handling banknotes, and help in the battle against tax evasion and corruption, as well as other illegal activities. In order to accelerate the use of non-cash payments, the Chinese government has increased the availability of point-of-sale machines and opened up the domestic card-payments market to competition. Competition is intense, as pre-paid cards and electronic wallets such as Wechat, Mi Wallet and Alipay have become extremely popular, especially with young people. I have been using one of these electronic wallets to pay for my shopping at the bakery and convenience store for a few months now. Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital cash In 2000, Ecuador moved to ditch its stumbling currency for the U.S. dollar. Now more than 15 years later, the South American country is revamping its monetary system again—using digital currencies. Ecuador’s Sistema de Dinero Electrónico (electronic money system) kicked off in December by allowing qualifying users to set up accounts, and it will begin acting as a real means of transaction this month. Once the government flips the switch, the South American nation of 16 million will host the first-ever state-run electronic payment system. (Other countries, such as Sweden, use digital currencies widely, but they’re not state-sponsored.) But the Ecuadorean government says the scheme is designed to support its dollar-based monetary system, not replace it. France To Prohibit Cash Payments Over €1,000 France becomes the latest as Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault plans to erect new controls on cash transactions in order to tighten up tax collection and meet the country’s optimistic budget deficit target of 3% of GDP. The government needs euros and they need some fast. In the government plan labeled “Fight against fraud,” France’s fiscal residents would see the cash transaction limit decrease from €3,000 to €1,000 per purchase. However, in a nod to the exiled wealthy and what Wolf Richter calls the “Depardieu exception,” those fiscal residents of a country other than France would have their cash transaction limits reduced from €15,000 to €10,000 per purchase. Legislative measures could be finalized by the end of 2013. Why Hong Kong going cashless is no small change Hong Kong was one of the first places in the world with a cashless payment system when it introduced the Octopus card in 1997, but since then e-payment options have mushroomed globally. And despite the city granting 13 licences for stored-value e-payment services, uptake has been slow. Hong Kong prides itself on being up to date with the latest technology, and the government likes to call it a “smart city”, but to really embrace that concept, many believe Hongkongers must abandon the idea that cash is king and join the global trend towards electronic payments. Take Larry Salibra, a tech-savvy shopper, for example. He is frustrated that he is forced to carry cash whenever he is commuting around Hong Kong, even though at least a dozen e-payment options are available. Bank Of Ireland Bans “Small” Cash Withdrawals At Branches Now, in what should be a wake up call to the world, Bank of Ireland has banned branch withdrawals of less than €700. Seriously. Here’s The Irish Times explaining that tellers will still assist the “elderly” if they have trouble using automated methods of obtaining cash: Under new rules, designed to streamline in-branch services, Bank of Ireland said withdrawals of less than €700 will no longer be facilitated with the assistance of tellers. From mid-November, customers will have to use ATMs or mobile devices for small and modest-sized withdrawals. Lodgements of up to €3,000 and those involving less than 15 cheques will also have to use the bank’s dedicated lodgement ATMs. “Bank of Ireland understands these changes may be a new way of banking for some of our customers, and the branch teams will be available to help and guide them through this change,” the bank said in a statement. So, if you are, i) wanting less than €700, ii) have less than 15 checks to deposit, or iii) aren’t looking to put at least €3,000 into your account, you are no longer welcome inside Bank of Ireland branches. Israel Eyes Becoming a Cashless Society A special committee headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Harel Locker, has recommended a three-phase plan to all but do away with cash transactions in Israel. The motivation for examining a cash-less economy is combatting money laundering and other tax-evasion tactics, thereby maximizing potential tax collection and greatly expanding the tax base. This is important considering the enormous strain put on Israel’s national budget by the army, healthcare system and other public services. The committee estimated that the black market represents over 20 percent of Israel’s GDP, and cash is the facilitating factor. Cash enables tax evasion, money laundering and even financing terrorism. Large Cash Transactions Banned In Mexico Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a ban on large cash transactions. The ban will take effect in about 90 days and it is part of a broader effort to control monetary flows within the country. Under the law, a Specialized Unit in Financial Analysis operating within the Attorney General’s Office will be created to investigate financial operations “that are related to resources of unknown origin.” For real estate transactions, cash payments of more than a half million pesos ($38,750) will be forbidden and, for automobiles or items like jewelry, art, and lottery tickets, cash payments of more than 200,000 pesos ($15,500) will be forbidden. The law carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison. In 2010, Mexico instituted strict limits on foreign exchange cash transactions to $1,500 per person per month, which caused several cash dollar exchanges to withdraw from the business and had the effect of penalizing tourists. SPAIN: Cash BANS above $1,000 euros are now in effect The government is working on a decree law that includes a series of means of fighting against fraud, among which include limiting cash payment of 1,000 euros instead of the current 2,500 . The intention of the Executive is to approve this measure in the Council of Ministers next Friday, although the Ministry of Finance says that this point is not yet closed and could be delayed somewhat more in time, and with it is intended to deter and curb fraud Which are discussed through VAT as well as the submerged economy. UK Scrap money and go digital, says Bank of England Andy Haldane has proposed that Britain should abandon our centuries-old system and opt for a government-backed digital currency. The Bank of England’s radical thinker argues such a move would give the bank new flexibility in the event of another economic downturn. Mr Haldane said negative interests could be necessary to protect the UK economy and would help the Bank of England fight off the next recession. He added that a switch to digital would help the bank to manage inflation by enabling it to bypass the current constraint against lowering rates below zero. Davos Elites Call For a Ban on Physical Cash… in the US Roughly two weeks ago, when writing about the cash ban in India, I stated: If you think the Elites aren’t watching this unfold with sheer delight you’re mistaken. Globally a war on cash has been declared. And India has now proved that it can be done with little consequence. The fact it INCREASE tax hauls (something every Government on the planet wants) is just icing on the cake. Fast forward to this week at the Davos Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, and Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz all but said the exact same thing. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already removed 86% of his country’s currency from circulation in an attempt to curb tax evasion, tackle corruption and shut down the shadow economy. Should the US follow suit? Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, thinks so. Phasing out currency and moving towards a digital economy would, over the long term, have “benefits that outweigh the cost,” the Columbia University professor said on day one of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos… “I believe very strongly that countries like the United States could and should move to a digital currency,” he said, “so that you would have the ability to trace this kind of corruption. There are important issues of privacy, cyber-security, but it would certainly have big advantages.”
http://thomasdishaw.com/2017/01/coming-cash-currency-bans-sweeping-globe/
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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come. At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc
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Monday, 23 January 2017
Chance of major quakes as new coronal hole on the Sun turns to face Earth
As a large coronal hole on the Sun moves away from facing the Earth another large one is turning to face us, therefore we could be in for more large quakes in the coming days.
Coronal holes are considered by some experts to be the primary earthquake factor. Look for the dark patches on our Sun, which indicate that the interplanetary magnetic fields connecting earth to the sun may be about to experience significant fluctuations of energy. Spaceweather.com reports: A coronal hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind into space. An extreme ultraviolet telescope on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the structure turning to face Earth on Jan. 23rd: This is a "coronal hole" (CH)--a region in the sun's atmosphere where the magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape to escape. A gaseous stream emerging from this coronal hole should reach Earth on or about Jan. 27th. Arctic sky watchers, mark your calendars. Auroras are in the offing later this week. According to Ben Davidson of quakewatch.net, the occurrence of geomagnetic storms appears to have a depressive effect on earthquakes during the peak of the storms. Often the primary risk window begins when a coronal hole begins facing earth, and ends when geomagnetic storms occur, or when the coronal hole leaves the earth-facing half of the sun. Home Posted by Gary Walton at 1:00 pm Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
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More Religious Leaders Than Ever Before Take Part in President Trump's Inauguration: Record Breaking
News Staff : Jan 20, 2017 : CBN News
(Washington, DC) — [CBN News] Hollywood A-listers may be bypassing President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, but several religious leaders are participating by praying for his administration and reading Scripture for the ceremony. (Photo Credit: CBN News) Jim Bendat, an author and historian of inaugural ceremonies, said six religious leaders will take part — the most ever for any president. A rabbi, a cardinal, and four Protestant preachers will have roles. Each will have a minute to a minute and a half to pray or read the Bible. "Some inaugurations have had just one, others have had two or three covering different religions, but this is a record," Bendat told The New York Times. Those who are scheduled to take part in Trump's inauguration include: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York since 2009; Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and the president and chief executive of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse; Pastor Paula White, a TV-evangelist and Florida pastor; Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization which is named after the Holocaust survivor and 20th-century Nazi hunter; and Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, the leader of Great Faith Ministries International and Impact Television Network. "There are 364 days a year for politics, for the two sides to pile on each other," Hier told the Times. "Three hundred sixty-four days of that is enough. Once every four years, the president of United States deserves a pass from both sides from political bickering; otherwise, we weaken our democracy." CBN News
http://breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=20313
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Jeffress preaches on Nehemiah to president-elect
Friday, January 20, 2017 Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com
An evangelical pastor who surprised many with his early support of Donald Trump preached to the president-elect this morning about the prophet Nehemiah. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, was chosen by the inaugural organizers to preach to the Trump family and others in a private ceremony at St. John's Episcopal Church before the inauguration. The private sermon to the president-elect continues an Inauguration Day tradition at the church, which is located steps away from the White House. Jeffress turned heads a year ago when he appeared at Trump campaign events in the battleground state of Iowa weeks before the caucuses. He predicted to OneNewsNow at the time that Evangelicals will support Trump because they believe Trump can win over a Democratic nominee. "Not because they believe he's the best candidate to lead Bible studies in the Oval Office," he said, "but they do believe maybe he's the best candidate who has a chance of beating Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders." Jeffress, 61, hosts radio program "Pathway to Victory" on American Family Radio. Nehemiah, a cup-bearer to Persian king Artaxerxes, returned to Jerusalem to oversee the rebuilding of the city's walls that had fallen into disrepair. The first chapter recalls Nehemiah telling the king that "those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire." Jeffress told Fox News on Thursday that he planned to focus on Nehemiah "as an example of why God blesses leaders." CNN predictably criticized Jeffress for his biblical views and comments about homosexuality and Islam, referring to him as an "inflammatory" pastor.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/church/2017/01/20/jeffress-preaches-on-nehemiah-to-president-elect
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There Never Was a Two-State Solution; It’s Time to Move On
January 19, 2017 7:29 am by Mitchell Bard
The answer to the question of how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has been to partition “Palestine” into two states. This assumes, however, that the parties only have a dispute over land; but that has never been the case. The conflict has always had political, religious, historical, geographical and psychological dimensions. The international community’s unwillingness to accept this reality has led to the continued fantasy that a two-state solution is possible. An honest appraisal of the historical record indicates that it was never possible for one principle reason: The Palestinians have never been prepared to share any part of the land they claim as their own. This irredentism is based in large measure on the view that Jews have no place in the Islamic world — except as second-class citizens (dhimmis) under Muslim rule. No UN resolution or State Department formula will change this reality, and therefore, it is time acknowledge that the two-state idea, as presently conceived, is dead. Before readers pigeonhole me as a right-wing extremist, let me lay my cards on the table. In 1988, I wrote in Commentary that Israel should unilaterally withdraw from the territories. My logic was that Israel could not possibly negotiate more secure borders than it could draw for itself. At the time, the main alternative was the Jordan option; however, this wasn’t actually an alternative, since King Hussein had given up his claim to the West Bank. Moreover, I argued that Israel would be better off if a small Palestinian state were established in the West Bank, surrounded by two large countries that both had vested interests in preventing the Palestinians from becoming a threat. Even after the disengagement from Gaza I believed this. It was a minority view, but one held by some serious people like Michael Oren. It is true the evacuation from Gaza did not bring peace, but Israel has proven that it can address the threat posed by Hamas. Moreover, Gaza was never going to be annexed to Israel, so I still believe that Israel is better off without having responsibility for nearly two million Palestinians or the need to keep soldiers in constant danger to protect fewer than 9,000 settlers. The Gaza experience clearly shifted Israeli public opinion to the right. Today, there is little enthusiasm for territorial concessions to the Palestinians. Even those who believe that Israel should withdraw from the West Bank do not believe that it can be done so long as there is no evidence the Palestinians are interested in peace. For some time, I believed that the Palestinian people wanted peace but were denied the opportunity by their leaders. But decades of incitement and educational brainwashing regarding the evils of Jews and Israel have had an impact, and now poll after poll has found opposition to peace among Palestinians. The joint poll conducted in June by the Israel Democracy Institute and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, for example, provides a devastating dose of reality to left-wing Jews, Arabists and other peace processors. Here are the percentages of West Bank Palestinians opposed to various proposals for a permanent settlement: Mutual recognition of Palestine and Israel as the homelands of their respective peoples. The agreement will mark the end of conflict, Israel will fight terror against Palestinians, and no further claims will be made by either side: 58% opposed. Demilitarized independent Palestinian state will be established in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: 82% opposed. A multinational force will be established and deployed in the Palestinian state to ensure the security and safety of both sides: 63% opposed. The Palestinian state will have sovereignty over its air space, its land, and its water resources, but Israel will maintain two early warning stations in the West Bank for 15 years: 71% opposed. The Palestinian state will be established in the entirety of West Bank and the Gaza Strip, except for several blocs of settlement which will be annexed to Israel in a territorial exchange. Israel will evacuate all other settlements: 69% opposed. The territories Palestinians will receive in exchange will be similar to the size of the settlement blocs that will be annexed to Israel: 71% opposed. East Jerusalem will be the capital of the Palestinian state and West Jerusalem the capital of the Israel: 70% opposed. In the Old City of Jerusalem, the Muslim and Christian quarters and al Haram al Sharif will come under Palestinian sovereignty, and the Jewish quarter and the Wailing Wall will come under Israeli sovereignty: 73% opposed. Palestinian refugees will have the right of return to their homeland whereby the Palestinian state will settle all refugees wishing to live in it. Israel will allow the return of about 100,000 Palestinians as part of a family unification program. All other refugees will be compensated: 54% opposed. In the poll, large majorities opposed a two-state solution even if, in addition to everything proposed in the prior questions, Israel also agreed to accept the Arab Peace Initiative; acknowledged its “responsibility” for the creation of the refugee problem; and if free movement throughout Jerusalem — West and East — were ensured. Put simply, the majority of Palestinians have no interest in peace with Israel under any circumstances. This view is reinforced daily by their leaders’ pronouncements, the incessant terror and incitement, and an education system that teaches intolerance, denies the Jewish connection to the land of Israel and extols the virtue of martyrdom. Just to give one example of the disconnect between fantasy and reality, the same week John Kerry was extolling the virtues of the two-state solution and skewering Israel for allegedly creating obstacles to peace through settlement construction, the ruling Fatah party celebrated the 20 most outstanding terrorist operations of all time. As Andrew Friedman wrote in The Jerusalem Report, “To most Israelis, a single glorification of a murder speaks louder than a thousand statements about peace.” Why Kerry or anyone else would expect Israelis to make concessions to people who commemorate the murder of Jews is a psychiatric rather than a political question. It is truly bewildering how peace advocates can ignore the evidence of intransigence by Palestinians in both words and deeds. Kerry’s vituperative attack on Israel exemplified a reason for America’s consistent failure to facilitate a final peace agreement. The nefarious influence of the Arabists has led Kerry and others to pressure Israel to capitulate without exerting any pressure whatsoever on the Palestinians, and to maintain the fiction that peace can be achieved if Israel would only accede to Palestinian demands. Given this reality, what should Israel do? Here are the primary options: Do nothing. Maintain the status quo. Continue to pursue negotiations for a two-state solution. Stop or suspend settlement construction. Withdraw from some or all of the West Bank. Agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Resurrect the Jordanian option. Militarily defeat the Palestinians. Annex some or all of the territories. Let’s briefly look at each option in turn. The Status Quo An assumption often stated as fact is that Israel cannot maintain the status quo. Why not? Israel has administered the territories now for nearly 50 years and nothing has significantly changed during that time to indicate this could not continue for another 50. Yes, the recent UNSC resolution is an example of the frustration of the international community over the persistence of a problem they see primarily as an irritant to their relations with the Arab states. Still, even this latest attempt to coerce Israel has no teeth and will not alter Israeli policy. Moreover, even as countries cast votes for bankrupt and ineffectual political statements, they continue to engage Israel as a member in good standing of the international community. One problem is that the Palestinians will continue their delegitimization campaign aimed at turning Israel into a pariah, and convincing the international community to dismantle the Jewish State. Another concern with the status quo is that Palestinian terrorism fueled by hopelessness, incitement and radical Islam. I do not want to make light of this danger, but it is not an existential one and Israelis have proved capable of living with it for the last 50 years and, if necessary, can do so for another 50. Moreover, the idea that terrorism will cease if Israel were to yield to Palestinian demands or reach a peace agreement is wishful thinking; radical Muslims will not rest until the descendants of apes and pigs are driven from holy Islamic soil. Some argue that “occupation” corrodes Israeli values and exacts a psychological toll on soldiers; however, polls indicate that Israelis venerate the IDF, and remain healthy, happy and proud of their country — even after 50 years of administering the territories. This does not mean that administering the territories is good for the Israeli soul, and continuing to do so indefinitely is not supported by the Left or the Right. The bigger problem with the status quo is that it is not static. The Palestinians have adopted the strategy of seeking an imposed solution while Israel continues to engage in “creeping annexation.” In many ways this is the worst of all possible worlds for Israel, because the conflict does not end, the disposition of the territories remains in doubt and Israel bears the brunt of international opprobrium. Continue to Pursue Negotiations for a Two-State Solution For the last eight years, the Palestinians have refused to negotiate altogether, and their position has not changed in 80 years. Since 1937, the Jews have agreed to divide the land and share sovereignty, but the Arabs have rejected the idea. Today’s Palestinians are no more interested in compromise than their predecessors. As the poll data above indicates, the only acceptable solution is to have one state called Palestine that encompasses the West Bank, Gaza and what is currently known as Israel. A wholesale change in attitudes and leadership will have to occur if there is to be any prospect of negotiating a peace agreement. Even then, it is difficult to imagine a reversal of the Islamization of the conflict — and there can be no compromise with jihadists. Stop Settlement Construction Despite the ease with which it is possible to prove that settlements are not the obstacle to peace (e.g., did the Arabs agree to peace during the 19 years Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied Gaza and not a single Jewish settlement existed?), President Obama never figured this out; but he is not alone. The obsession with settlements will not go away. Even when Israel agreed to Obama’s demand for a 10-month settlement freeze and the Palestinians responded by refusing to negotiate, Obama did not change his view. I’m not sure whether to call that naiveté or just stupidity. Still, his failure to learn anything in eight years was apparent in his last minute UN tantrum. If their statements are to be believed, the incoming Trump officials seem to understand reality and are prepared to act accordingly by rejecting the specious notion that settlements, rather than Palestinian implacability, are the obstacle to peace. Withdraw From Some or All of the Disputed Territories Been there, done that. Israel has evacuated approximately 94% of the territory it captured in 1967, which, it could be argued, has already satisfied UN Security Council Resolution 242’s expectation that Israel withdraw from territory. Most people, including all Arab leaders, ignore that resolution 242 also required that the Arab states guarantee the peace and security of Israel in exchange for withdrawal. Israel is still waiting. Israel withdrew from roughly 40% of the West Bank and 100% of Gaza, and this did not bring peace; it brought more terror and should have forever buried the myth that if Israel cedes land, it will receive peace in return. Like other inconvenient facts, however, the left ignores this one. Agree to the Establishment of a Palestinian State in Most of the West Bank Israel already made this offer, and the Palestinians turned it down. In light of recent events, however, the threat posed by a Palestinian state has grown. More than 20 years ago, Yitzhak Rabin recognized the danger and, in his final speech to the Knesset before his assassination, he reaffirmed his opposition to the establishment of such a state. Left-wing Israelis and Americans who lionize Rabin ignore his position. Rabin deserves to be praised because he was prepared to make compromises for peace, but, as a military man, he understood the risks and rejected the idea of allowing a potential terrorist base to be established on Israel’s border. Furthermore, as we have seen from the Arab spring, leadership in the Arab world is tenuous given the lack of democracy there. If a Palestinian Zionist emerges tomorrow, it will still be risky for Israel to make a deal because 5, 10, or 20 years down the road, a radical Islamist or other hostile leader may emerge. Advocates of the two-state solution on the Israeli side talk about a demilitarized Palestinian state, but this is not acceptable to the Palestinians because it would be a significant limitation on their sovereignty. This is another reason why the “solution” is flawed. Resurrect the Jordanian Option John Bolton is among the advocates of this idea. He also has proposed that Egypt take over Gaza. Bolton is one of the more clear-eyed analysts of the region, but he is off base in this case. First, Jordan has no more interest under the present king in taking responsibility for the West Bank than his father did. Second, the majority of the population in Jordan is already Palestinian and the demographic imbalance would be worsened by the addition of more than two million Palestinians who have no loyalty to the Hashemites, and would like to see Jordan become a Palestinian state. This would destabilize a country now at peace with Israel, and would threaten Jordan’s pro-Western orientation. As I argued in 1988, turning Jordan into Palestine would create a larger, more dangerous state on Israel’s border than a rump state of Palestine in the territories. As for the idea of Egypt taking over Gaza, that is not going to happen. The last thing Egypt wants is to be responsible for nearly two million Palestinians when it cannot take care of its current population. Hamas is also allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, and this would strengthen the Islamist threat to the government, which would not be in Israel’s interest. “Defeat” the Palestinians This is the idea of another of the most astute observers of the region, Daniel Pipes. Once again, this is a rare case where I disagree with his assessment. He makes a good point when he argues that peace can only be made with enemies that have been defeated, but his prescription for victory will not succeed because it is not sufficiently ruthless. Pipes calls for “a policy of commensurate and graduated response.” Minor transgressions, he says, merit moderate reactions while more serious actions should trigger more severe consequences. Though his examples are different, Israel already has a similar policy to what Pipes advocates. His suggestions, such as taking money from the PA to repair damage caused by “martyrs,” burying terrorists anonymously or seizing weapons from PA security forces used against Israelis are not going to coerce the Palestinians to accept Jews, Zionism and Israel. No, to defeat the Palestinians Israel would have to apply the Powell Doctrine, which says that “every resource and tool should be used to achieve decisive force against the enemy…and ending the conflict quickly by forcing the weaker force to capitulate.” Israel would have to be prepared to kill every terrorist with little regard for collateral damage; the Air Force would have to bomb refugee camps and other targets that would result in thousands of casualties rather than hundreds. The United States did not flinch from killing tens of thousands of Iraqis to defeat Saddam Hussein and is unapologetic when bystanders are killed in drone strikes (never mind examples such as the Allied bombing of Dresden or the US use of the atomic bomb). Israel would have to be equally callous to “defeat” the Palestinians. Israel has been unwilling to follow Powell’s guidance because the public would see the action as disproportionate and immoral, the international community would condemn Israel and the United States would force Israel to cease military operations before total victory out of moral indignation and fear of Arab/Muslim reaction. Israel has learned the hard way in battles with the Palestinians and Hezbollah that it does not have the same freedom as a superpower to use decisive force, and therefore cannot militarily defeat the Palestinians. Annexation Israel could have annexed the West Bank at any time in the last 50 years, but has not done so. “Right-wing” prime ministers who supposedly believed in “Greater Israel,” such as Begin, Shamir and Sharon, never did it. Netanyahu is vilified and accused of being an extremist; yet he is the one who agreed to withdraw from parts of the West Bank in the 1990s and has gone farther than Rabin ever did in stating a willingness to accept a Palestinian state. The reason that none of these men annexed the West Bank is well known: Israel cannot remain a democratic, Jewish state if it assimilates 2.7 million Palestinians (according to the 2013 CIA estimate). Some argue the demographic argument is bogus, that the Palestinian population is much smaller, their birthrate has declined and that many have or will emigrate. Meanwhile, the Jewish birthrate has increased, Aliyah will accelerate as global antisemitism worsens and the Palestinians will not become a majority in Greater Israel. It’s a straw man, however, as the Palestinians need only become a sizeable minority to change Israel’s character. Today, the third largest party in the Knesset is the Arab Joint List. Imagine what would happen if that number doubled or tripled: Israeli Arabs could hold the most seats. For these reasons, I do not believe Israel should annex the entire West Bank; but it should begin a gradual, strategic absorption of parts of Judea and Samaria. The idea is not as radical as it might sound. In fact, the respected Institute for National Security Studies in Israel recently released a similar plan. The Way Forward While the international community insists the settlements are an obstacle to peace, they actually can serve as a catalyst for peace. I believe that this is the reason the Palestinians entered the Oslo talks. “The Palestinians now realize,” Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij said in 1991, “that time is now on the side of Israel, which can build settlements and create facts, and that the only way out of this dilemma is face-to-face negotiations.” The Palestinians continued to talk until President Obama took office, and gave them the false impression that he would force Israel to stop building settlements without their having to make any concessions in return. When Mahmoud Abbas concluded that Obama was too weak to coerce Israel, evident to him by the president’s inability to convince Netanyahu to freeze settlement construction in Jerusalem, he decided to seek international support to impose Palestinian terms on Israel. Obama’s refusal to veto the latest Security Council Resolution calling settlements illegal and labeling Judaism’s holiest places in Jerusalem “occupied territory” kept Abbas’ strategy in play, but the election of Donald Trump should derail this approach for at least the next four years. This creates an opening for Israel to use annexation as a lever to pressure the Palestinians to negotiate before the area for a potential state shrinks further. It’s unlikely to succeed because, as I argued at the outset, the Palestinians will not accept any compromise that involves coexisting with a Jewish state. The current leadership will remain obstinate and continue to seek international help in destroying Israel. Still, the opportunity for independence will be available should the Palestinians undergo a radical transformation. President Trump can make an important contribution to disabusing the Palestinians of the idea that Israel can be forced to capitulate to their demands by fulfilling the promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the US embassy. This would send a clear message that the Palestinians have no legitimate claim to the city and will never have a capital in Eastern Jerusalem. There is still a compromise that would allow the Palestinians to claim “Jerusalem” as their capital: one that Abbas acceded to in negotiations with Yossi Beilin in 1995. Abbas agreed to establish the Palestinian capital in Abu Dis, a stone’s throw from Jerusalem and, in fact, the Palestinians constructed a building for a future parliament there. This is not ideal for either side since it places the Palestinian capital so close to Israel that terrorists could pose a threat to Israel’s capital — and the compromise doesn’t fulfill the Palestinian dream of controlling East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Nevertheless, the Palestinians should be told that this is their best option. To further hammer home the point that Jerusalem will not be divided, Israel should complete the long-delayed E1 project to connect Ma’ale Adumim with the capital. Israel should also immediately annex the so-called “consensus” settlement blocs of Ariel, Ma’ale Adumim, Gush Etzion, Modiin Elite and Givat Zeev, which constitute approximately 4% of the West Bank and are home to two-thirds of the settlers. Given their size, no Israeli government would ever agree to dismantle these communities. During this transition period, no new settlements should be constructed and new building should be restricted to natural growth. The Palestinians will scream, but in prior negotiations they acknowledged that these blocs would ultimately be incorporated into Israel, so this would not prejudge the outcome of any future talks. Such a move is also consistent with the 2004 Bush letter to Sharon recognizing that facts on the ground needed to be taken into account in any discussion of territorial concessions. The aim of this step would be to force the world to accept the reality that Israel will never relinquish these areas, and to increase pressure on the Palestinians to negotiate. If the Palestinians refuse to talk or recognize the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland, Israel should formally annex the Jordan Valley. This area, 75 miles long and 9 miles wide, extends from the northern Dead Sea in the south to the Green Line south of Beit She’an in the north, and is viewed across the political spectrum as essential to Israeli security. Approximately 60,000 Palestinians live in the area — most in greater Jericho — and they could be offered citizenship without jeopardizing Israel’s Jewish, democratic character. Another pause should follow to give the Palestinians yet another chance to open negotiations. If they remain obdurate, Israel’s leaders should consider annexing additional areas in Area C, where they exercise full control under the Oslo Accords. Yes, this is creeping annexation, but it can be stopped at any time by a negotiated agreement. The world may blame Israel for the growth of settlements, but the real culprits are Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. If Arafat, for example, had accepted Begin’s autonomy offer in 1979, a state would inevitably have evolved and the number of Jews in the West Bank would have been frozen at 10,000. Similarly, construction would have ceased if the Palestinians had agreed to subsequent Israeli peace offers. Settlements have grown because of Palestinian rejectionism — and the situation will only get worse for them. What Will Be Left for a Palestinian State? It depends on negotiations. Israel could reverse or modify some of the steps outlined here if it receives the security guarantees it needs. If talks never take place or result in an agreement, the Palestinian Authority, which currently controls roughly 40% of the West Bank, and is home to at least 98% of the Palestinian population, can declare independence. It will not be fully independent, however, because Israel (and Jordan) will continue to take whatever steps are required to ensure their security, including preventing the importation of sophisticated weapons and conducting cross border counterterror operations as needed. Similarly, Gaza could declare independence with similar restrictions imposed by both Egypt and Israel. Ironically, the Palestinians could have two states instead of the one foreseen by proponents of the two-state solution. In the unlikely event of Palestinian reconciliation, a corridor could be created between Gaza and the West Bank as envisioned in the Clinton parameters. Meanwhile, Israel should also take measures to improve the lives of Palestinians. A certain number of Palestinians — 100,000 in previous negotiations — could be allowed to immigrate and become Israeli citizens. More entry permits to work in Israel should be issued and other incentives proposed by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, such as building a seaport for Gaza, could be offered as carrots for Palestinian cooperation. Unless Palestinians radically change their attitudes, they will reject any proposal that requires coexisting with Israel. This will leave them with a shrunken Palestinian state with limited power and the possibility for a larger state permanently closed off. This will not satisfy the Palestinians or the international community, but it will become a fait accompli. It may be difficult to accomplish in the next four years, but Israel’s best chance of achieving this “solution” is to take advantage of having a friend in the White House. Dr. Mitchell Bard is the author/editor of 24 books including the 2017 edition of Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict; The Arab Lobby, and the novel After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/19/there-never-was-a-two-state-solution-its-time-to-move-on/
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Commentary: Panic over school choice and the 'scary Christian'
Heather WilhelmHeather Wilhelm
My childhood in western Michigan was rather ordinary, I suppose. Together with my Dutch-imported family, I'd gather on weekends at the local Christian Reformed Church, eating piles of imported Voortman wafer cookies while plotting how to best install a theocracy in our unsuspecting Midwestern state. During the week, at my Christian high school, we'd secretly boil a big pot of oliebollen — traditional Dutch doughnuts that, to be honest, aren't as good as regular ones — and cook up a menu of ideas to destroy the American education system. In our free time, we'd do our best to enforce repressive and arbitrary laws in our small, idyllic, largely Dutch town, marching in lockstep as we aimlessly purchased windmill-shaped tchotchkes and engaged in the occasional public shaming. The tallest tulip, after all, always gets cut! I kid, I kid. But if you read the panicked media coverage of Betsy DeVos, the Christian Michigander nominated to be our nation's next education secretary, you could be forgiven for thinking that this is how things shake out daily in America's Calvinist Dutch heartland. "Betsy DeVos wants to use America's schools to build 'God's Kingdom,'" bellowed a Mother Jones headline Tuesday. DeVos, a "socially conservative Christian," represents "the worst of the school choice movement," declared Graham Vyse of the New Republic. Because of her conservative Christianity, DeVos is a "religious zealot" and "doesn't belong in a government job in which separation of church and state is crucial," huffed Michelangelo Signorile on the Huffington Post. In case it's never happened to you, it's both amusing and illuminating to see your childhood home inflated into a quietly sinister and exotic locale. The wide-eyed Mother Jones reporter, Kristina Rizga, leads her story with a list of the draconian rules of Holland, Mich. — Grass clippings must be picked up! Fences must be maintained! — while failing to mention, say, Los Angeles' recently overturned beach-Frisbee ban or the existing high-heel ban in California's Carmel-by-the-Sea. An analysis from Newsweek, meanwhile — subtly titled "Betsy DeVos is coming for your public schools" — examines the conservative Calvin College, DeVos' alma mater, like a newly discovered, mysteriously abandoned, alien time machine: "Any attempt to forecast what DeVos might do as the nation's education secretary must begin here, at this college of 4,000 that bids its students to act as 'Christ's agents of renewal in the world.'" Oh dear! What could this terrifying credo possibly inspire students to do? In DeVos' case, it may have inspired her to donate millions upon millions of dollars to charitable causes, including health care, the arts and, yes, school choice. DeVos has long supported charter schools and vouchers, which would indeed shake up the public school system as we know it, allowing parents to send their children to schools beyond the confines of their district or ZIP code — confines that are currently dictated by how much money a family has to spend on a house in the "right" neighborhood. In this government-sponsored stacking of the deck, rich kids almost always win, and poor kids often lose. For those who wail about the separation of church and state — an argument often aimed at vouchers or, to a lesser extent, education tax credits, which can be used to pay for private or religious schools — it's worth pointing out that we're talking about the taxpayers' own money. This money is helpfully taken by the state, wound through the system, skimmed off the top and then returned at a lower rate. It's also worth pointing out that widespread school choice — and the ability of parents to send their children to schools that echo their religious or personal beliefs — would defuse many of the child-related culture wars wreaking havoc today. Alas, school choice is scary stuff, especially for those entrenched in the current system. In this realm, DeVos' Christianity isn't the only tool used to whip up alarm. "The best argument against Betsy DeVos can be made with a single word," Newsweek opined. "Detroit." The Motor City, as the narrative goes, is plagued with failing schools, and school choice has simply made them worse. That's certainly news to many in Detroit. "DeVos is a sound choice, and would strive to improve education for all kids," the Detroit News Editorial Board wrote on Jan. 12, cautioning against "the hysteria surrounding the West Michigan native, fanned by teachers unions." As The Wall Street Journal pointed out over the weekend, "charter students in Detroit on average score 60 percent more proficient on state tests than kids attending the city's traditional public schools. Eighteen of the top 25 schools in Detroit are charters, while 23 of the bottom 25 are traditional schools." Oh. If the horror show surrounding DeVos' nomination is any indication, there's a lot at stake in the school-choice wars. But when it comes down to it, for most people, failing or unjust schools are a heck of a lot scarier than devout Christians with a penchant for charitable giving. When it comes to expanding educational opportunities, simply shouting, "The Christians are coming! The Christians are coming!" probably isn't going to fly. Let's hope it doesn't.
Heather Wilhelm is a National Review columnist and a senior contributor to The Federalist.
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CNN Caught Lying Twice In One Day! Nancy Sinatra and Reddit Put The Brakes On #FakeNews
by ZeroPointNow Jan 20, 2017 7:31 PM
CNN just can't stop lying! The purveyors of #FakeNews have once again been caught, twice, peddling propaganda on Inauguration day. First, Nancy Sinatra called them out for a bullshit tweet suggesting she wasn't happy with Trump's use of a Frank Sinatra song during the Inauguration: Scribe note: Please click on Zero Hedge site.
Second, CNN published a bullshit article suggesting a low turnout compared to Obama, except the picture they used for Trump’s Inauguration appears to be from much earlier in the day: cnnfake1
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Why America needs a spiritual awakening
Exclusive: Greg Laurie on U.S. culture: 'We are rotting from within'
Published: 2 days ago Greg Laurie
The other day I read a resolution that was passed by the United States Senate: Resolved, That devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, and sincerely believing that no people, however great in numbers and resources, or however strong in the justice of their cause, can prosper without His favor, and at the same time deploring the national offenses which have provoked His Righteous judgment, yet encouraged in this day of trouble by the assurance of His Word, to seek Him for succor according to His appointed way, through Jesus Christ, the Senate of the United States do hereby request the President of the United States, by his proclamation, to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation. There’s one thing I should point out, however: This resolution was passed on March 3, 1863. Can you imagine if such a resolution were passed today? We don’t hear phrases like “according to His appointed way, through Jesus Christ” anymore. But the faith of our Founding Fathers is clear. Abraham Lincoln made this statement when he saw the social ills of the country: “We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become to self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!” How true Honest Abe was. How right he was. And if this was true in his lifetime, how much more true it is of our culture today. We have forgotten God. We have thrown him out of the classroom. We have thrown him out of the courtroom. And we have done our best to throw him out of modern culture. God does not exist in the world of television sitcoms and movies for the most part. And when Christians are portrayed, they are usually portrayed as buffoons or fanatics or even crazed people. For years we have seen the chipping away of the American family. And in its present state, we have seen the disabling effect it has had on our society as a whole. Most of the social ills today, including drug abuse, gang activity and violent crime, can be directly traced to the breakdown of the family. This has been shown time and time again by exhaustive research and studies. Yet we live in a time when our culture doesn’t even think of marriage as a permanent thing. We just trade in our marital problems like used cars and think nothing of it. While my generation, the baby boomers, were out trying to get in touch with their inner child and build up their self-esteem, they neglected their own children. And in many cases as they sought their own happiness, trying to find themselves, their children got lost in the shuffle. Experts have concluded that the dramatic outbreak of things such as gang problems and violent crime are directly linked to the breakdown of the American family. It has been said the family can survive with a nation, but the nation cannot survive without the family. See all 28 Greg Laurie books and movies in the WND Superstore Sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote, “The ideologies which gained entry into the academy in the ’60s claimed that fundamental, intellectual principles of Western culture were illegitimate and must be overthrown. With that destroyed, terms like truth, good, evil and soul could be discarded.” And they were. Moral relativism is the rule of the day. There is no truth, there is no evil, there is no right, there is no wrong. And America is reaping what it has sown. What are we going to do? How will we change this? How will we turn things back? These are all symptoms of a deeper problem. Practically put, it is sin. It is sin’s effect that we are seeing all around us because we don’t have a set of absolutes concerning morality, honesty, and right and wrong. We live in a time of amazing contradictions. We have been so careful to arm ourselves to the teeth and arm against the enemy on the outside that we have forgotten the enemy on the inside. And we have missed one of the most important blessings of history. Historian Will Durant, in his book “Caesar and Christ,” spoke of the fall of Rome. He wrote, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals.” We are rotting from within. How will we solve this dilemma? Let me say this. Politicians won’t do it for us. They can bring some help and assistance, but it won’t get to the root of the problem. Nor will government programs. There is no short-term solution. The only answer for the ills of this country is a heaven-sent spiritual awakening, a revival. I am not talking about a turn to spirituality or a turn to a god, whatever you conceive him or her or it to be. I am talking about a return to the Living God, the God cited in the March 3, 1863, resolution passed by the Senate. I am talking about the God we have always believed in from the beginning but have forgotten, as Abraham Lincoln said. There never will be a spiritual awakening in this country until we believe in the one and only true God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Without this, there never will be moral change or a cure to our nation’s countless social ills.
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Seafloor valleys discovered below West Antarctic glaciers
Channels give warm ocean water access to their undersides, speeding glacier retreat
Date: January 18, 2017 Source: American Geophysical Union
Summary: Glaciologists have uncovered large valleys in the ocean floor beneath some of the massive glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Carved by earlier advances of ice during colder periods, the troughs enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat. Glaciologists have uncovered large valleys in the ocean floor beneath some of the massive glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Carved by earlier advances of ice during colder periods, the troughs enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat. "These oceanic features are several hundreds to a thousand meters deeper than what we thought before," said Romain Millan, a graduate student in Earth system science at UCI and lead author of the new study. "It gives new insight into the future fate of these glaciers and the potential influence of warm ocean water that can melt away ice from below." The discovery is the result of an analysis of gravity data from airborne NASA Operation Ice Bridge missions from 2009 to 2014 combined with ice motion measurements made by researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), UCI's own mass conservation algorithm, and existing bed topography and ice thickness information. The new study has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. In the new study, the researchers paid particular attention to sub-ice-shelf cavities in front of the Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith and Kohler glaciers in an area known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment. By obtaining a more high-resolution map of the ocean floor below the glaciers, they were able to detect an unmistakable cavity beneath the Pine Island Glacier and a slightly shallower depression beneath Thwaites Glacier. "Based on our research, we now have a much clearer picture of what is hiding under these large glaciers located in a particularly vulnerable sector of West Antarctica," Millan said. Millan said the study's most important findings were the gigantic submarine valleys under the Crosson and Dotson ice shelves. The channels start 1,200 meters (3,900 feet) below the masses of ice and slope up to points 500 meters (1,600 feet) beneath Crosson and 750 meters (2,500 feet) beneath Dotson. Should glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of Antarctica completely collapse, the researchers said, the global sea level could rise an additional 1.2 meters (4 feet). As bad as that sounds, they noted, there are some features of the ocean floor topography that might work to slow down the process of glacier retreat. "We've revealed that West Antarctic glaciers include natural pathways for water intrusion, but all water sources are controlled by a 700-meter-deep [2,300-foot-deep] sill which blocks access to the truly warmest waters," said Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at UCI and co-author of the new study. "This is good news in terms of having these glaciers not fully exposed, but it makes the projections more challenging because all tiny details will be important in controlling ocean heat access to the glaciers." He said the findings will be instrumental in guiding future investigations of this region of Antarctica, in particular a major study of Thwaites Glacier by the National Science Foundation and the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council scheduled for 2018 to 2023. Story Source: Materials provided by American Geophysical Union. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170118125226.htm
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One Heck of a Good Day
Posted on January 20, 2017 by Ray Starmann
It’s been a day of jubilation, celebration, prayer, forgiveness, determination, protests and oaths. It’s been a day of days; one of the greatest this republic has experienced in many years, if not decades. This morning Donald John Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. As Trump raised his hand, I couldn’t help but think of the thousands of pundits, elitists and so-called political experts who hemmed, hawed and declared with absolute certainty that there was no way that Mr. Trump could ever be elected President, much less dog catcher of Manhattan. Whatever travails the nation has, America is still the land where anything can happen. Trump has proven that again today. He has sparked a populist movement, not seen in this country since the days of Andrew Jackson, whom President Trump has often been compared with. In fact, it is probably safe to say that President Trump is America’s ‘New Hickory.’ His speech today was like sandpaper, a Brillo pad, Lava soap; it was blunt, rough, tough and just what you would expect from Mr. Trump. There were no long winded poetic quotes from Emerson or Robert Frost. Instead, Mr. Trump did what he does best, he took the global elite, the Washington Establishment and radical Islam to the woodshed where he flogged them and then tossed whatever was left into a Fargo wood chipper. Most importantly, he spoke to the American people, the forgotten masses in fly over country who turned out in record numbers to cast a vote for the only man who could save them from globalism’s stranglehold on wages and jobs. The President said: “We are assembled here today issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power, from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land, from this day forward, it’s going to be only America first. America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders.” “We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels, and railways, all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules — buy American, and hire American.” “Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.” “We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.” The man most compared to Jackson, seemed to channel Reagan when he spoke these words today: “The bible tells us, how good and pleasant it is when god’s people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by god.” Of course, not all Americans are enamored with President Trump and his vision to make America great again. Protests broke out in the capitol today and anarchists and leftists clashed with the police. Those on the left are in a virtual mental spiral over President Trump. Perhaps, instead of labeling Trump and his supporters, racists, they should contemplate one very succinct question: what would Hillary Clinton have done for you? The answer is a veritable goose egg; nada, zippo and twice the usual, which is nothing. With the inauguration of President Trump, the global elite have been put on notice. They may be able to run roughshod over Western Europe, but in the land of the free their policies of open borders, endless immigration and world government are graveyard dead. With the inauguration of President Trump, radical Islam’s obituary has already been written. With the inauguration of President Trump, We the People are back in power, not the cigar smoking robber barons and their Beltway cronies and lobbyists. With the inauguration of President Trump, Americans once again have reason to hope. And, as Andy Dufresne said in the Shawshank Redemption, ‘Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.’ It’s been one heck of a good day…
God Bless America.
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Trump gets to work: Donald enters the Oval Office for the first time as President and immediately signs executive order to 'ease the burden of Obamacare'
President Donald Trump signed his first executive orders in the Oval Office on Friday evening He declared General James Mattis Secretary of Defense and signed another targeted at Affordable Care Act The second order was less precise - it vowed somewhat vaguely to 'ease the burden of Obamacare' The orders came within minutes of Trump's official entrance to the White House after the Inaugural Parade They were joined by their 10-year-old son Barron for a brief appearance before hopping back into their limo Later, the couple will attend three inaugural balls in Washington DC after a long day of inaugural events President Trump was sworn in at noon and delivered an elegy to Americans who had been 'forgotten' Afterwards, the President and Vice President Mike Pence attended a luncheon in the Capitol Building He paid tribute to former rival Hillary Clinton who attended the day's events with her husband Bill
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com and Geoff Earle, Depty U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:37 EST, 20 January 2017 | Updated: 08:23 EST, 21 January 2017
President Donald Trump wasted no time getting to work on Friday night, heading straight to the Oval Office where he signed his first executive orders since arriving at the White House. He christened the Resolute Desk by signing an order to confirm General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense and another order to 'ease the burden of Obamacare'. He has already made changes to the Oval Office decor, swapping its formerly crimson drapes for gold curtains and putting back in its former place a bust of former British prime minister Winston Churchill. Later, he attended three inaugural balls with the first lady before spending his first night at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. President Trump's Obamacare order directs every government agency that implements or enforces the 'Obamacare' law to grant waivers, deferments, exemptions and delays in order to minimize or eliminate any costs associated with implementing Obama's signature medical insurance scheme. It also orders agencies to bend over backwards in order to 'provide greater flexibility to States and cooperate with them in implementing healthcare programs.' And in a nod to Trump's oft-stated goal of erasing geographic boundaries that established state-specific monopolies for insurers, his order requires federal agencies to 'encourage the development of a free and open market in interstate commerce for the offering of healthcare services and health insurance, with the goal of achieving and preserving maximum options for patients and consumers.' Moments earlier Trump had signed government commissions making James 'Mad Dog' Mattis the secretary of Defense and John Kelly the Homeland Security secretary. Both men are retired U.S. Marine Corps generals, and were sworn in moments earlier by Vice President Mike Pence. Trump's first official act as president was to sign a law allowing Mattis to serve as the Pentagon chief before he had been retired for the required seven years. 'Oh, boy, oh boy,' Trump told House Speaker Paul Ryan as he held it in his hands after his U.S. Capitol swearing-in. Trump has already begun to put his mark on the office that will be his workstation for at least the next four years. Minutes before taking his seat in the Oval Office, the president and First Lady Melania Trump made their way inside after watching the Inaugural Parade from the Reviewing Stand on the North Lawn. They will attend three inaugural balls on Friday night, capping off a marathon day of events for the couple and their family. The president and First Lady Melania Trump entered the White House in their new roles on Friday at around 6.30pm for a quick change before attending their first Inaugural gala. The couple and the rest of their family arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue shortly before 5pm and immediately made their way to the North Lawn Reviewing Stand to take in the Inaugural Parade. After spending around an hour or so taking in the Inaugural Parade from a Reviewing Stand on the North Lawn, the couple went back inside to change for the first of three galas they will attend tonight. Earlier, they waved to crowds on Pennsylvania Avenue after emerging with his family from the presidential limousine for a brief appearance. President Trump held hands with his wife as they and their 10-year-old son greeted crowds who had gathered despite the drizzling rain. Later, he will attend three inaugural balls thrown in his honor. The first two events, Liberty and Freedom: The Official Presidential Inaugural Balls, were open to the public. There, the president and first lady are expected to have their first dance together since his inauguration. The third ball, the The Salute To Our Armed Services Ball, is by invitation only and honors the country's Armed Forces. They will cap off a marathon day of events for President Trump and his family who began their day with a morning church service. They then visited former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle at the White House before making their way to the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony. Afterwards, and following a luncheon inside the Capitol building, they greeted fans on Pennsylvania Avenue while making their way to the Reviewing Stand. President Trump made two appearances along the parade route; stepping out first with his wife and 10-year-old son then later again with the rest of the family. Ivanka Trump held hands with three-year-old son Joseph, smiling as she took in the momentous occasion. After his swearing in ceremony and inaugural address, the president attended a luncheon in the Capitol Building. There, he gave a gracious acknowledgement of former foe Hillary Clinton who was sat at the same table as his daughter Tiffany. 'I was honored - very, very honored when I heard President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton was attending today and I think it's appropriate to say...I'd like you to stand up. 'And honestly, there's nothing more I can say because I have a lot of respect for those two people,' he said. Earlier, in his highly anticipated Inaugural Address, the president spoke of 'American carnage' and 'rusted factories', vowing to restore the country to its former glory and bring it forward to new prosperity and global success. 'I will fight for you with every breath in my body,' he pledged. 'And I will never, ever let you down.' Trump promised 'America first' would become the central organizing principle around which his government is organized. 'We will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American,' Trump declared. At 1,453 words and just 16 minutes long, his inaugural address was the shortest since Jimmy Carter's in 1977. His slogans were just as tight. 'America first,' a mantra that he put into common use as he campaigned for the White House, found some flesh on its bone Friday. 'Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration on foreign affairs, will be made to protect American workers and American families,' he said. Trump's oath of office – which he called 'an oath of allegiance to all Americans' – was marred by a protester blowing a whistle and another handful shouting muffled slogans in the distance. But the moment passed. Trump spoke his vows. And America had a new leader. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done. Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power. And we are grateful to President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent. Thank you. Today's ceremony, however, has a very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people. For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. That all changes starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you. It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country. What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. An education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. We are one nation, and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny. The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans. For many decades we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own. And we've spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon. One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world. But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future. We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our product, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never ever let you down. America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American. We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow. We will re-enforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no fear. We are protected and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by God. Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It's time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag. And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator. So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together we will make America strong again, we will make America wealthy again, we will make America proud again, we will make America safe again. And, yes, together we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.
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What Trump left out of his teleprompter-aided remarks was just as obvious as what he kept in. There was no act of reconciliation with journalists, who have become his ink-armed foils and a new enemy as vexing to Trump as the Democratic Party. Absent, too, was a spoken olive-branch to women who felt alienated after evidence of his 'locker room talk' and past coarseness around the fairer sex became part of his political epic Asked if Trump hit the right tones of contrition, Senator John McCain of Arizona told DailyMail.com: 'I just think it was a continuation of his campaign.' Asked if that was as it should be, McCain shrugged: 'It's his choice; he's the president-elect.' Other senators and top Trump advisers were more enthusiastic. 'I loved it,' said Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s national security advisor. 'I think it was an amazing speech,' Flynn told DailyMail.com. 'I think the American people know that they have a president that stands for them – and I mean for all Americans.' 'And I think the world actually heard a great message today.' Asked if Trump hit all the right notes, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama – soon to be U.S. attorney general, said: 'Yeah. It was a good day.' Trump hinted at economic decline in America's rust belt and breadbasket during his predecessor's eight years in office. 'The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and redistributed all over the world,' he claimed. 'But that is the past. We are looking only to the future.' And in a hat-tip to one of his most famous catch-phrases, one that made hundreds of appearances on the campaign trail, the unlikeliest president promised that 'America will start winning again, winning like never before.'
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HILLARY'S HUMILIATION AT ATTENDING TRUMP'S INAUGURATION Hillary Clinton finally came face-to-face with her political rival, President Donald Trump, as he entered Sanctuary Hall to take part in the traditional inaugural lunch. Clinton, a guest of her ex-president husband, had her presidential ambitions swamped by Trump's populist November victory. She gamely participated in America's famed peaceful transfer of power, despite falling short of being the day's focus – but her face told the story of how she felt. And among the crowd some people chanted 'lock her up' at the moment she and her husband were announced. Some Democrats, including many in Congress, have questioned that decision, saying it tended to normalize the incoming president while their party aims to ostracize him. But she showed up in a white pantsuit and coat, alongside Bill and their daughter Chelsea, smiling for cameras during an appearance she never thought she would make without hearing 'Hail to the Chief' played in her honor. And she used Twitter to issued a veiled to rebuke to those who boycotted it - saying: 'I'm here today to honor our democracy & its enduring values. I will never stop believing in our country & its future.' Clinton won points from a former adversary for bucking up for the occasion. 'I think it takes a lot to show up in that situation after the kind of campaign that was run against her,' said Tad Devine, a top adviser to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who challenged Clinton in the Democratic primaries.
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'We will bring back our dreams,' Trump said, and 'determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come.' 'We will face challenges, we will confront hardships, but we will get the job done.' The billionaire's improbable resonance with the middle class and the poor found new voice on Friday, as he framed his election and inauguration as a power-shift from Washington to the rest of America. 'We are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people,' he said to cheers. 'For too long a small group in our nation's capital have reaped the rewards of government while the people bore the costs.' 'The jobs left and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself. But not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories,' he said. 'That all changes starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you. 'It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day, this is your celebration, and this, the United States of America, is your country.' Speaking of the 'American carnage' of inner city blight, crime and failing schools, he vowed that it 'stops right here, and stops right now.' 'We are one nation, and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny.' Trump pumped a fist in triumph after he finished speaking. Asked how it felt moments after the ceremony concluded, Eric Trump grinned and flashed a thumbs-up. Former Trump rival Ohio Governor John Kasich was in no mood to reflect on the change of leadership. 'I'm not doing any interviews right now,' he told DailyMail.com inside the Capitol. President Trump's Obamacare order directs every government agency that implements or enforces the 'Obamacare' law to grant waivers, deferments, exemptions and delays in order to minimize or eliminate any costs associated with implementing Obama's signature medical insurance scheme. It also orders agencies to bend over backwards in order to 'provide greater flexibility to States and cooperate with them in implementing healthcare programs.' And in a nod to Trump's oft-stated goal of erasing geographic boundaries that established state-specific monopolies for insurers, his order requires federal agencies to 'encourage the development of a free and open market in interstate commerce for the offering of healthcare services and health insurance, with the goal of achieving and preserving maximum options for patients and consumers.' Moments earlier Trump had signed government commissions making James 'Mad Dog' Mattis the secretary of Defense and John Kelly the Homeland Security secretary. Both men are retired U.S. Marine Corps generals, and were sworn in moments earlier by Vice President Mike Pence. The president signs a confirmation for Defense Secretary James Mattis in the Oval Office on Friday night The president signs a confirmation for Defense Secretary James Mattis in the Oval Office on Friday night The president was enthusiastic as he signed the orders on Friday evening before making his way to the Executive Residence to get changed for the first of three balls he will attend Trump's first official act as president was to sign a law allowing Mattis to serve as the Pentagon chief before he had been retired for the required seven years. 'Oh, boy, oh boy,' Trump told House Speaker Paul Ryan as he held it in his hands after his U.S. Capitol swearing-in. Trump has already begun to put his mark on the office that will be his workstation for at least the next four years. Minutes before taking his seat in the Oval Office, the president and First Lady Melania Trump made their way inside after watching the Inaugural Parade from the Reviewing Stand on the North Lawn. They will attend three inaugural balls on Friday night, capping off a marathon day of events for the couple and their family. The president and First Lady Melania Trump entered the White House in their new roles on Friday at around 6.30pm for a quick change before attending their first Inaugural gala. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump made their way into the White House, their new home, with their son Barron on Friday evening after watching the Inaugural Parade from a Reviewing Stand on the North Lawn President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump made their way into the White House, their new home, with their son Barron on Friday evening after watching the Inaugural Parade from a Reviewing Stand on the North Lawn The couple entered the White House from the North Lawn after taking in the Inaugural Parade with the rest of the family The couple and the rest of their family arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue shortly before 5pm and immediately made their way to the North Lawn Reviewing Stand to take in the Inaugural Parade. After spending around an hour or so taking in the Inaugural Parade from a Reviewing Stand on the North Lawn, the couple went back inside to change for the first of three galas they will attend tonight. Earlier, they waved to crowds on Pennsylvania Avenue after emerging with his family from the presidential limousine for a brief appearance. President Trump held hands with his wife as they and their 10-year-old son greeted crowds who had gathered despite the drizzling rain. Later, he will attend three inaugural balls thrown in his honor. The first two events, Liberty and Freedom: The Official Presidential Inaugural Balls, were open to the public. There, the president and first lady are expected to have their first dance together since his inauguration. The third ball, the The Salute To Our Armed Services Ball, is by invitation only and honors the country's Armed Forces. They will cap off a marathon day of events for President Trump and his family who began their day with a morning church service. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, their 10-year-old son Barron and the president's daughter Ivanka, take in the Inaugural Parade from the Reviewing Stand, set up at the foot of the North Lawn, after his swearing-in on Friday. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, their 10-year-old son Barron and the president's daughter Ivanka, take in the Inaugural Parade from the Reviewing Stand, set up at the foot of the North Lawn, after his swearing-in on Friday. The president placed a tender arm around his wife's waist as she walked towards her seat at the Reviewing Stand Once in their seats, the First Family enthusiastically greeted the parade's many participants, smiling and waving as they passed by President Trump and Vice President Pence salute as they enjoy the Inaugural Parade from the reviewing stand on Friday President Trump and Vice President Pence salute as they enjoy the Inaugural Parade from the reviewing stand on Friday The president gave several enthusiastic gestures to passing marching bands as he watched the parade from his seat
The president and his family takes in the Inaugural Parade from the Reviewing Stand set up at the foot of the North Lawn The president and his family takes in the Inaugural Parade from the Reviewing Stand set up at the foot of the North Lawn They then visited former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle at the White House before making their way to the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony. Afterwards, and following a luncheon inside the Capitol building, they greeted fans on Pennsylvania Avenue while making their way to the Reviewing Stand. President Trump made two appearances along the parade route; stepping out first with his wife and 10-year-old son then later again with the rest of the family. Ivanka Trump held hands with three-year-old son Joseph, smiling as she took in the momentous occasion. After his swearing in ceremony and inaugural address, the president attended a luncheon in the Capitol Building. President Trump salutes as a group carrying shimmering American flags make their way past the Reviewing Stand Barron Trump shared a private moment with his father as they took in the parade before fueling up on a warm drink as it continued. The 10-year-old appeared to enjoy the day's events, earlier waving to crowds on the parade route and cheering along to music once he took his seat Thirsty work: Barron Trump fueled up as his father saluted the parade's participants. The 10-year-old appeared to enjoy the day's events, earlier waving to crowds on the parade route and cheering along to music once he took his seat President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence give a firm thumbs up to a passing band as they take in the Inaugural Parade Vice President Mike Pence waves to a participant in the Inaugural Parade, his wife Karen cheering on alongside him Vice President Mike Pence waves to a participant in the Inaugural Parade, his wife Karen cheering on alongside him The president and first lady make their way from the White House to the Reviewing Stand to take in the Inaugural ParadeThe president and first lady make their way from the White House to the Reviewing Stand to take in the Inaugural Parade New home: The president and first lady make their way from the White House to the Reviewing Stand to take in the Inaugural Parade The Reviewing Stand was set up at the foot of the White House North Lawn several days ago in preparation for the event There, he gave a gracious acknowledgement of former foe Hillary Clinton who was sat at the same table as his daughter Tiffany. 'I was honored - very, very honored when I heard President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton was attending today and I think it's appropriate to say...I'd like you to stand up. 'And honestly, there's nothing more I can say because I have a lot of respect for those two people,' he said. Earlier, in his highly anticipated Inaugural Address, the president spoke of 'American carnage' and 'rusted factories', vowing to restore the country to its former glory and bring it forward to new prosperity and global success. 'I will fight for you with every breath in my body,' he pledged. 'And I will never, ever let you down.' Trump promised 'America first' would become the central organizing principle around which his government is organized. 'We will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American,' Trump declared. President Trump and the First Lady earlier waved to crowds as they walked down Pennsylvania Avenue with their 10-year-old son Barron for the Inaugural Parade on Friday The president and his first lady were in high spirits as they walked a short stretch before getting back in the presidential limousine etc etc First lady Melania appeared to reapply lip gloss once she got in the presidential limousine (left). Barron Trump looked out to the crowd-lined streets from his seat inside the car (right) First lady Melania appeared to reapply lip gloss once she got in the presidential limousine (left). Barron Trump looked out to the crowd-lined streets from his seat inside the car (right) At 1,453 words and just 16 minutes long, his inaugural address was the shortest since Jimmy Carter's in 1977. His slogans were just as tight. 'America first,' a mantra that he put into common use as he campaigned for the White House, found some flesh on its bone Friday. 'Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration on foreign affairs, will be made to protect American workers and American families,' he said. Trump's oath of office – which he called 'an oath of allegiance to all Americans' – was marred by a protester blowing a whistle and another handful shouting muffled slogans in the distance. But the moment passed. Trump spoke his vows. And America had a new leader. The president was joined by all of his children and grandchildren to sign his first executive orders at the US Capitol shortly after his swearing in The route was also scattered with protesters holding upside signs reading 'love not hate' as Trump's motorcade drove by
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done. Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power. And we are grateful to President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent. Thank you. Today's ceremony, however, has a very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people. For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. That all changes starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you. It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country. What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. An education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. We are one nation, and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny. The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans. For many decades we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own. And we've spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon. One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world. But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future. We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our product, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never ever let you down. America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American. We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow. We will re-enforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no fear. We are protected and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by God. Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It's time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag. And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator. So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together we will make America strong again, we will make America wealthy again, we will make America proud again, we will make America safe again. And, yes, together we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America. etc
Trump didn't let the threat of Washington, D.C. rain showers spoil his inauguration, the long-time-coming culmination of an improbable political revolution that shows no sign of letting up. The brash billionaire capped off a three-day parade of dinners, speeches, prayers and a concert with pomp and circumstance in front of the U.S. capitol as hundreds of thousands of Americans who he has said were 'forgotten' during the Obama years cheered him on. The 45th president's hated 'dishonest media' watched as storm clouds threatened, along with four former presidents, most of the U.S. Congress and a sea of 'Make America Great Again' devotees. The sea of faces on the National Mall was dotted with red caps, Trump's signature campaign items bearing that slogan, itself an artifact from Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign. When Trump was introduced, he turned and faced the crowd, smiled, and offered a wave. Quoting Abraham Lincoln, Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, who headed the inaugural committee in the Congress, told the nation: 'What we do here is both commonplace and miraculous.' Blunt called it 'not a celebration of victory,' but 'a celebration of democracy.' Other senators visible on the balcony overlooking reporters included West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who met with Trump at Trump Tower, and Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. Burr will oversee a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian election-year hacking. Across the balcony to the south, House Appropriations chair Harold Rogers of Kentucky, who will oversee funding of Trump's proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, picked a prominent standing position. Standing next to Rogers was Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, who had been a candidate for secretary of state. A U.S. Marine Corps band played Sousa marches. Chants of 'U.S.A.!' broke out. Cheers erupted when the vice-president elect, Mike Pence, was announced, among the standing-room crowd stretching more than a mile to the west.
And as giant TV screens flashed mobs of Americans their first glimpse of the new president behind the scenes, a rock concert-like whoop went up. Before he was introduced, screams of 'Trump! Trump! Trump!' reverberated on a scale even though he has never seen or heard. Among Trump's living predecessors, only George H.W. Bush failed to make the trip, owing to his hospitalization in Texas. He sent his regrets to Trump, writing that his doctor warned sitting outside in the cold would put him 'six feet under.' Standing on the dais were his son, George W. Bush; Jimmy Carter; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. Trump's crowd applauded the outgoing chief executive of the U.S., audibly surprising some members of the media whose seats were far to the front. They were less kind to Sen. Charles Schumer, the newly minted Democratic minority leader. As his speech stretched beyond their patience, they broke into shouts of 'We want Trump!' Obama and the former first lady released a video message Friday morning, saying they would take a break from public life and 'sit still for a little bit' as they become private citizens again. The message was an appeal for supporters to weigh in on the future of the Obama Presidential Center on the south side of Chicago. Clinton's wife, the Democrat whom Trump defeated soundly in the Electoral College more than ten weeks ago, also participated Friday in America's peaceful transition of power. Some Democrats, including many in Congress, have questioned that decision, saying it tended to normalize the incoming president when their party should be ostracizing him. But she gamely attended in a white pantsuit, alongside Bill and their daughter Chelsea, smiling for cameras during an appearance she never thought she would make without hearing 'Hail to the Chief' played in her honor. Clinton won points from a former adversary for bucking up for the occasion. 'I think it takes a lot to show up in that situation after the kind of campaign that was run against her,' said Tad Devine, a top advisor to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who challenged Clinton in the Democratic primaries. Devine spoke to The Hill newspaper. Trump castigated Mrs. Clinton repeatedly as 'Crooked Hillary,' interrupting her during debates and projecting a generally belligerent attitude as he unseated the would-be first female president. Even in victory, he has thrown a few shoulders. Thursday night during a candlelight dinner at Washington's Union Station, Trump jabbed at the Clinton campaign for planning a fireworks display in New York City when they thought they had the presidency locked up. Ultimately, Team Clinton canceled its fireworks permit as Election Day closed in. 'They spent $7 million on fireworks. And they canceled it – and that's because history has proven that if you're going to lose, you don't want fireworks, right?' Trump joked. Trump's sprawling family, the most visible sign of his softer side as he stumped for the White House, were out in force Friday. Wife Melania, daughters Ivanka and Tiffany, and sons Don Jr., Eric and Barron beamed, along with three spouses and assorted Trump grandchildren. Ivanka Trump's power-husband, real estate investor Jared Kushner, will soon move into a White House office to become a 'senior adviser' to the president. The wealthy and well-connected Orthodox Jew (Ivanka converted before their wedding) is expected to have a broad foreign-policy portfolio that includes a Middle-East peace mission to reconcile Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Trump relied heavily on Kushner's counsel during the campaign. He said Thursday night at the dinner that 'all my life I've been hearing that's the toughest deal in the world to make. And I've seen it.' 'But I have a feeling Jared's going to do a great job,' Trump said, addressing his son-in-law. 'If you can't produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can.' Trump's sister Maryanne, a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, made the trip. Trump noted her presence Thursday night. Nearly 70 Democrats from the House of Representatives said they would skip Trump's swearing-in, however. Trump allies decried them as politically motivated crybabies. The U.S. hasn't seen as large an inaugural boycott since southern Democrats stayed away from the Capitol when Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office in 1861. At that time, seven southern states had already declared war on the Union. New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone was one Democrat who decided to attend on Friday. But he told DailyMail.com that the new president's remarks were 'not at all' sufficiently unifying. 'I think that it was very contemptuous of the previous administration,' Pallone said. 'I think in many ways he was suggesting that, you know, President Obama and the previous administration were not looking out for the needs of the people. And I would say just the opposite. I would say that the Trump policies are going to hurt the average American, not help.'
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The Shortcomings Of The International Conference For Peace
By DR. ALON BEN-MEIR \ 01/19/2017 19:47
The conference for peace between Israel and the Palestinians initiated by the French government that took place on January 15 in Paris was positive in many ways. The concluding declaration that collectively emerged pointed out the need to establish a Palestinian state as a prerequisite to peace and stability, urged the two sides to recommit themselves to a two-state solution, and emphasized the urgent need for both to take action to reverse the current trends of Palestinian incitement and Israel’s expansion of the settlements. Furthermore, it called for ending the occupation and accentuated the importance of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative (API) to provide the framework for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. The resolution also stressed the importance of public debate, strengthening the role of civil society, and addressing the humanitarian and security situation in Gaza. Perhaps one of the most important reasons, however, for holding the conference only a few days before the inauguration of President-elect Trump was to send a message to the new administration about the international consensus regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hoping to prevent Trump from taking any measure that might threaten the prospect of a two-state solution. Of main concern to the conferees was Trump’s campaign promise to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and give Netanyahu a free hand to expand the settlements, which could torpedo the prospect of peace and provoke the Arab states at a time when they are needed to support any new peace initiative. Although the resolution was largely on target, it lacked specific suggestions that could be embraced by the Trump administration to help advance the peace process in a tangible way. I was directly involved in an effort to shed new light on the core issues that have and continue to separate the two sides, and I suggested specific measures to mitigate them—issues which I considered critical to the resumption of the negotiations that would substantially improve the prospect of reaching a durable peace. To that end, I wrote a major proposal which I discussed with top French Foreign Ministry officials. Subsequently, Pierre Vimont (France’s Middle East Special Envoy), EU Special Representative for the Middle East Process Fernando Gentilini, and I addressed the EU Foreign Relations Committee in November 2016, where I emphasized the need for a new approach. There were many areas in the conflict over which Mr. Vimont and I fully agreed—and were reflected in the final declaration of the conference—and other issues which were not spelled out. In my view, had such issues been clearly stated, they would have revealed the real causes behind the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offered ways to mitigate them. The first issue is the psychological dimension of the conflict and its impact on every conflicting issue. Unless major efforts are made to change the public narrative on both sides to reflect the truth from historical and religious perspectives, neither side can make the far-reaching concessions necessary to forge a peace agreement. The need to mitigate that through a process of reconciliation—people-to-people and government-to-government—is central to constructive negotiations. Such a process would allow both sides to nurture mutual trust, which is totally lacking, and allay concerns over national security, while also disabusing strong Israeli and Palestinian constituencies that still want to have it all. The second issue is Hamas and its political stance, which has and continues to impede any progress. The conference’s resolution stipulates the “importance of addressing the humanitarian and security situation in Gaza and called for swift steps to improve the situation.” Although this is necessary, as long as Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel and is not a signatory to the API, it plays into the hand of the hard-core Israelis who claim that the Palestinians simply want to eradicate rather than peacefully coexist with Israel. The conference should have called on Hamas to accept in principle Israel’s right to exist and beseeched countries like Turkey and Qatar, who enjoy substantial influence on Hamas, to embrace the API. This is necessary particularly because Hamas must be part and parcel of any final resolution to the conflict. Third, although the participants “expressed their readiness to exert necessary efforts toward the achievement of the two-state solution…,” who will exert such efforts—economic and other incentives? I took the position that the conferees should have established a commission composed of representatives from an Arab state, the EU, and the US to encourage the parties to take certain steps, review progress, and pin down the sources that impede it. Otherwise, the recommendation will be just words. Fourth, the conferees call for “ ending the occupation…satisfy Israel’s security need, and resolve all permanent status issues on the basis of [UNSC] Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973)…” This appeal is certainly valid and no solution is possible unless these requirements are met. Here again, though, there is nothing new. The participants should have also recommended the establishment of another commission to work closely with both Israel and the Palestinians to begin modifying their public position on several of the major conflicting issues. For example, everyone who is familiar with the conflict knows that the right of return of the Palestinian refugees cannot and will not be exercised, as this will almost instantly change the Jewish character of Israel. The Palestinian Authority should begin to speak publicly about the only viable option to resolve the Palestinian refugees through compensation and/or resettlement. Similarly, Israelis should also know that there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes the capital of the state of Palestine. Here too, the Israeli public must begin to think in these terms and not buy into Netanyahu’s argument that a “united” Jerusalem will remain the eternal capital of Israel, which would foreclose any prospect for peace. To be sure, even though the conferees do not have any power of enforcement, by opening public debates on these issues they would have made a positive impact on the peace process. In the final analysis, as long as the Israeli and the Palestinian publics are led by leaders who do not promote the peace process along these lines and have different political agendas not necessarily consistent with a two-state solution, the public will remain in the dark and to a great extent become complacent. There is an urgent need for new leadership committed to reaching an agreement. Netanyahu will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state under his watch and Abbas is incapable of delivering the necessary concessions that could make peace possible. The conference could have made a great contribution to the peace process not by merely repeating what is known, but by fostering a new dialogue that allows the public to become an active participant, which is critical to changing the dynamic of the conflict. To listen to an audio version of this article, click here.
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Israel steps up shadow war with Hezbollah
By Ed Blanche, The Arab Weekly | Jan. 17, 2017 at 11:19 AM
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies stressed in its annual strategic assessment, released Jan. 2, that Hezbollah remains the most serious threat the Jewish state faces. It urged Israel's intelligence establishment to intensity efforts to block the transfer of advanced weapons systems to Hezbollah — a process that may already be under way with a spate of air and missiles strikes against Syria. The vast majority of the arms supplied to Hezbollah from Iran pass through Syria. Hezbollah, a key force keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power amid the war in the country, is reportedly building military bases and seeking to establish a presence in the disputed Golan Heights, a strategic volcanic plateau that overlooks Israel's agricultural heartland. Iran, Hezbollah's patron and arms supplier, is listed as the second-ranking military threat by INSS, in part because of its distance from Israel. Combined, Iran and Hezbollah, which serves as the Islamic republic's strategic arm in the Levant, present a comprehensive threat to Israel that far exceeds any other. This ranges from Iran's growing ballistic missile force and the nuclear weapons Israel's military leaders are convinced it will develop in the coming years to Hezbollah's emerging tactical capabilities. Much of that is due to advanced weaponry it amassed in recent years despite repeated Israeli airstrikes against weapons convoys and targeted assassinations in Syria and Lebanon of key figures in acquiring or developing Hezbollah 's firepower. Hezbollah is estimated — largely by Israel — to possess more than 130,000 rockets and missiles, including long-range weapons capable of destroying city blocks. In recent weeks, the covert war between Israel and Hezbollah that has dragged on for five years apparently flared again, possibly this time with higher stakes. There have been several missiles attacks reported in Syria, all presumably Israeli weapons launched from either the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights or from Lebanese airspace. These were apparently aimed at curtailing deliveries of advanced weapons to Hezbollah that in the past have reportedly included Soviet-era SA- 22 air defense missiles, which, for the first time, allow Hezbollah to directly challenge Israel's control of the air in Lebanon and Syria, and Yakhont anti-ship missiles that could be used against Israel's offshore gas facilities. On Nov. 30, at least two missiles, apparently fired by Israeli jets in Lebanese airspace, hit a convoy of trucks outside Damascus, triggering speculation the trucks were carrying advanced weapons to Hezbollah. On Dec. 2, Israel reportedly conducted two airstrikes using Popeye missiles around Damascus, one against a weapons depot manned by the Syrian Army's crack Fourth Armored Division at Sabboura, northwest of the Syrian capital. The other blasted several cars near the Damascus-Beirut highway. In a 3 a.m. strike on Dec. 7, several surface-to-surface missiles hit installations in the Mezzeh military airbase at Damascus International Airport, where Hezbollah maintains a high-security facility for receiving arms airlifted from Iran before they are trucked to Lebanon. The missiles started several big fires at the airport, triggering major explosions. In a separate attack on that date, Hezbollah facilities in and around the town of Zabadani, on the border with Lebanon and a key junction in the overland arms route to Hezbollah strongpoints, were hit. On Friday, Syria accused Israel of another missile strike on the Mezzeh base in a predawn attack that triggered multiple explosions and caused casualties. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged for the first time in April 2016 that Israel has been mounting airstrikes in Syrian territory to curb shipments of what he called "game-changing weaponry" to Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post suggested on Dec. 8 that the Israelis' strikes the previous day had targeted "the presumed base of the Syrian Army's secretive Unit 450, a branch of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre that is at the center of the Assad regime's chemical weapons program north of Damascus." On the same day, Israel's hawkish defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, raised the ante by claiming that the Israeli Air Force had thwarted an attempt to transfer chemical weapons from Syria to Lebanon. If that is true, it suggests that Hezbollah and Iran may be prepared to escalate the covert efforts to upgrade Hezbollah's arsenal to a highly dangerous new level. Lieberman often shoots from the hip and his comments may have had political overtones but it was the first time a top-level Israeli official had voiced such concerns. These air and missile strikes constitute what the Israelis call a "campaign between wars," a concept that involves overt and covert operations designed to thwart emerging threats, particularly the acquisition of advanced weaponry. This is a finel
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
y balanced confrontation short of war in which both sides observe certain restraints that will prevent hostilities escalating to all-out conflict. But now Israel seems to be stepping up the shadowy conflict with Hezbollah, as Iran seeks to establish a presence in the divided Golan, a red line for Israel. Lieberman warned that while Israel has no interest in intervening in the Syrian war, it would take action to preserve Israelis' security, particularly on advanced weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Israel, he declared, "will make decisions according to this policy without taking other circumstances or restriction into account." This article originally appeared at The Arab Weekly.
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Tornado rips through southern Mississippi, leaving 4 dead
Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Network and Hattiesburg (Miss.) American Published 8:13 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2017 | Updated 12 minutes ago
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — At least four people were killed in southern Mississippi early Saturday when a destructive tornado roared through the Hattiesburg area, leveling homes, ripping off roofs and tossing trees into roadways across the region. The city of Hattiesburg on Twitter and Forrest County emergency management confirmed the deaths. Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said two of the fatalities were in a trailer park. Numerous injuries were also reported in the city of 48,000. The tornado ripped through the area around 4 a.m., with strong winds that caused extensive damage in several blocks of Hattiesburg. As dawn broke, city residents awoke to find trees, massive limbs and poles wrapped in power lines littering the streets next to decimated and severely damaged homes. Nearly 15,000 homes and businesses were without power. "The total debris clean-up will be weeks at this point," said Lee Smithson, executive director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. South of downtown Hattiesburg, Edna Smith examined her now roofless home. The tornado tossed most of her roof into the backyard and alley, leaving rain free to stream inside where it turned wallboard into mud and soaked upholstered furniture. "It woke me up and half the roof was gone,” she told the Associated Press. “I don’t know what I’m going to do now" At the Hattiesburg Salvation Army, Captain Patrick Connelly began assessing the damage. “Before first light, I could tell there were windows blown out and standing water in the buildings,” he said. Connelly said the destructive winds peeled back the roofs on nearly every building of the campus, which includes a homeless shelter, church sanctuary, administrative offices, and a Boys and Girls Club for after-school programs. “This won’t stop us. In fact, we will have feeding trucks on our campus feeding lunch to those in the area who are in need,” he said. Forrest County Emergency Management Agency Director Glen Moore said there were multiple reports of people trapped in homes. State and local emergency responders coordinated on rescue missions in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday as another line of severe weather swept through. Mayor Johnny DuPree signed an emergency declaration for the city, which reported significant structural damage, AP reported. Smithson said Gov. Phil Bryant is traveling back to Mississippi after attending President Trump's inauguration and will sign a sate of emergency declaration. Nearby Lamar and Perry counties and the city of Petal were also hard hit. Petal Mayor Hal Marx urged residents to stay home. Emergency personnel are out working to clear roads, and there are multiple areas of downed power lines and gas leaks. "Stay off roads in affected areas," he said. "No sightseeing." The severe weather slammed several counties in the area, causing extensive damage, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reported. Interstate 59 north of the city was closed due to debris and downed power lines. Search and rescue teams were dispatched to help local authorities, who urged residents to avoid traveling. William Carey University's Hattiesburg campus closed and students were being escorted from the area, the school announced on Twitter. Arrangements were being made for students who couldn't make it home. Some dorms were damaged in the storm, and some students reported minor injuries, the university tweeted. At one point, students at the Hattiesburg campus of the University of Southern Mississippi were directed to take cover. The university also reported extensive flash flooding at several locations on campus. The National Weather Service said three to five inches of rain fell, raising the threat of flooding. The National Weather Service said more severe weather is expected in the area between 4 p.m. and midnight. Meteorologist Latrice Maxie said there is the danger of more tornadoes, but the greatest risk is farther north. The line of storms will also push east later Saturday across parts of Alabama, Georgia, northern Florida and far southern South Carolina, bringing the chance of damaging winds, hail, flash flooding and tornadoes. On Sunday, the thunderstorms are expected to form into a squall line, with a high risk of damaging winds and the potential for a few tornadoes, AccuWeather reported. Stanglin reported from McLean, Va.
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Frozen Venice: the lagoon and canals ice over as Europe's big freeze continues
St Mark's belltower can be seen across the partially frozen San Giuliano channel linking Venice to Mestre
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Volcano news: Colima Volcano (Mexico)
Colima volcano (Mexico), activity update: strong vulcanian explosions
Friday Jan 20, 2017 23:54 PM | BY: T
Vulcanian explosion at Colima on 19 Jan 2017 (image: Hernando Rivera)
The series of strong vulcanian explosions continues. Some of them are large enough to send incandescent bombs all over the summit cone and produce small pyroclastic flows and eruption lightning. For those interested in joining us on a last-minute volcano eruption tour, we offer a Colima Volcano Special from 29 Jan - 2 Feb! Colima volcano is one of the most active in North America and one of the potentially most dangerous ones. It has had more than 30 periods of eruptions since 1585, including several significant eruptions in the late 1990s. Scientific monitoring of the volcano began 20 years ago. The Colima volcanic complex is the most prominent volcanic center of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt. It consists of two southward-younging volcanoes, Nevado de Colima (the 4320 m high point of the complex) on the north and the 3850-m-high historically active Volcán de Colima at the south. A group of cinder cones of probable late-Pleistocene age is located on the floor of the Colima graben west and east of the Colima complex. Volcán de Colima (also known as Volcán Fuego) is a youthful stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera, breached to the south, that has been the source of large debris avalanches. Major slope failures have occurred repeatedly from both the Nevado and Colima cones, and have produced a thick apron of debris-avalanche deposits on three sides of the complex. Frequent historical eruptions date back to the 16th century. Occasional major explosive eruptions (most recently in 1913) have destroyed the summit and left a deep, steep-sided crater that was slowly refilled and then overtopped by lava dome growth. Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institute - Colima information
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23 intelligence-military veterans demand Obama release proof of Russian hacking or admit it’s a lie
Posted on January 18, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 18 Comments
23 U.S. intelligence, military and diplomatic veterans have written an extraordinary letter calling on Obama to release the evidence that Russia had hacked the 2016 presidential election in order to elect Donald Trump, or admit that there is no proof. You don’t and won’t see this letter on the MSM. The 23 former officials are members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). In their letter, the former federal government officials: Point out that the Obama administration’s published intelligence report — on Russia’s alleged hacking of the election and transmittal of hacked Democrat emails to WikiLeaks to publish — lacks evidence and is unconvincing. Assert that, if Russia indeed had transmitted hacked emails to WikiLeaks, the NSA should — but does not — have the incriminating electronic communications between the Kremlin and Wikileaks. Assert that the Democrat emails obtained by WikiLeaks were leaked, not hacked, which would explain why there are no electronic traces. By “leaked” is meant that someone(s) handed to WikiLeaks the actual physical hardcopies of the emails. (Note: That is what WikiLeaks has maintained all along. Julian Assange had implied that the source of the leak was a DNC staffer named Seth Rich, 27, who was shot and killed in a D.C. street on July 10, 2016. His murder is still unsolved. We want Justice for Seth Rich!) Convey their dismay that James Clapper, who oversees the entire U.S. intelligence system as Director of National Intelligence, is still in office despite him having lied under oath to Congress and made outright erroneous claims. Below is their letter. You can read it in PDF format here. I supplied the red color for certain sentences and paragraphs that I believe particularly merit your attention. MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack Obama
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be Resolved
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his upcoming presidency amid an unprecedentedly concerted campaign to delegitimize it. Unconfirmed accusations continue to swirl alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “Russian hacking” that helped put Mr. Trump in the White House. As President for a few more days, you have the power to demand concrete evidence of a link between the Russians and WikiLeaks, which published the bulk of the information in question. Lacking that evidence, the American people should be told that there is no fire under the smoke and mirrors of recent weeks. We urge you to authorize public release of any tangible evidence that takes us beyond the unsubstantiated, “we-assess” judgments by the intelligence agencies. Otherwise, we – as well as other skeptical Americans – will be left with the corrosive suspicion that the intense campaign of accusations is part of a wider attempt to discredit the Russians and those – like Mr. Trump – who wish to deal constructively with them. Remember the Maine? Alleged Russian interference has been labeled “an act of war” and Mr. Trump a “traitor.” But the “intelligence” served up to support those charges does not pass the smell test. Your press conference on Wednesday will give you a chance to respond more persuasively to NBC’s Peter Alexander’s challenge at the last one (on Dec. 16) “to show the proof [and], as they say, put your money where your mouth is and declassify some of the intelligence. …” You told Alexander you were reluctant to “compromise sources and methods.” We can understand that concern better than most Americans. We would remind you, though, that at critical junctures in the past, your predecessors made judicious decisions to give higher priority to buttressing the credibility of U.S. intelligence-based policy than to protecting sources and methods. With the Kremlin widely accused by politicians and pundits of “an act of war,” this is the kind of textbook case in which you might seriously consider taking special pains to substantiate serious allegations with hard intelligence – if there is any. During the Cuban missile crisis, for instance, President Kennedy ordered us to show highly classified photos of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and on ships en route, even though this blew sensitive detail regarding the imagery intelligence capabilities of the cameras on our U-2 aircraft. President Ronald Reagan’s reaction to the Libyan terrorist bombing of La Belle Disco in Berlin on April 5, 1986, that killed two and injured 79 other U.S. servicemen is another case in point. We had intercepted a Libyan message that morning: “At 1:30 in the morning one of the acts was carried out with success, without leaving a trace behind.” (We should add here that NSA’s dragnet SIGINT capability 30 years later renders it virtually impossible to avoid “leaving a trace behind” once a message is put on the network.) President Reagan ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s palace compound to smithereens, killing several civilians. Amid widespread international consternation and demands for proof that Libya was responsible for the Berlin attack, President Reagan ordered us to make public the encrypted Libyan message, thereby sacrificing a collection/decryption capability unknown to the Libyans – until then. As senior CIA veteran Milton Bearden has put it, there are occasions when more damage is done by “protecting” sources and methods than by revealing them. Where’s the Beef? We find the New York Times– and Washington Post-led media Blitz against Trump and Putin truly extraordinary, despite our long experience with intelligence/media related issues. On Jan. 6, the day after your top intelligence officials published what we found to be an embarrassingly shoddy report purporting to prove Russian hacking in support of Trump’s candidacy, the Times banner headline across all six columns on page 1 read: “PUTIN LED SCHEME TO AID TRUMP, REPORT SAYS.” The lead article began: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. Trump.” Eschewing all subtlety, the Times added that the revelations in “this damning report … undermined the legitimacy” of the President-elect, and “made the case that Mr. Trump was the favored candidate of Mr. Putin.” On page A10, however, Times investigative reporter Scott Shane pointed out: “What is missing from the public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. That is a significant omission.” Shane continued, “Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’ There is no discussion of the forensics used to recognize the handiwork of known hacking groups, no mention of intercepted communications between the Kremlin and the hackers, no hint of spies reporting from inside Moscow’s propaganda machinery.” Shane added that the intelligence report “offers an obvious reason for leaving out the details, declaring that including ‘the precise bases for its assessments’ would ‘reveal sensitive sources and methods and imperil the ability to collect critical foreign intelligence in the future.’” Shane added a quote from former National Security Agency lawyer Susan Hennessey: “The unclassified report is underwhelming at best. There is essentially no new information for those who have been paying attention.” Ms. Hennessey served as an attorney in NSA’s Office of General Counsel and is now a Brookings Fellow in National Security Law. Everyone Hacks There is a lot of ambiguity – whether calculated or not – about “Russian hacking.” “Everyone knows that everyone hacks,” says everyone: Russia hacks; China hacks; every nation that can hacks. So do individuals of various nationalities. This is not the question. You said at your press conference on Dec. 16 “the intelligence that I have seen gives me great confidence in their [U.S. intelligence agencies’] assessment that the Russians carried out this hack.” “Which hack?” you were asked. “The hack of the DNC and the hack of John Podesta,” you answered. Earlier during the press conference you alluded to the fact that “the information was in the hands of WikiLeaks.” The key question is how the material from “Russian hacking” got to WikiLeaks, because it was WikiLeaks that published the DNC and Podesta emails. Our VIPS colleague William Binney, who was Technical Director of NSA and created many of the collection systems still in use, assures us that NSA’s “cast-iron” coverage – particularly surrounding Julian Assange and other people associated with WikiLeaks – would almost certainly have yielded a record of any electronic transfer from Russia to WikiLeaks. Binney has used some of the highly classified slides released by Edward Snowden to demonstrate precisely how NSA accomplishes this using trace mechanisms embedded throughout the network. [See: “U.S. Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims,” Dec. 12, 2016.] NSA Must Come Clean We strongly suggest that you ask NSA for any evidence it may have indicating that the results of Russian hacking were given to WikiLeaks. If NSA can produce such evidence, you may wish to order whatever declassification may be needed and then release the evidence. This would go a long way toward allaying suspicions that no evidence exists. If NSA cannot give you that information – and quickly – this would probably mean it does not have any. In all candor, the checkered record of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for trustworthiness makes us much less confident that anyone should take it on faith that he is more “trustworthy than the Russians,” as you suggested on Dec. 16. You will probably recall that Clapper lied under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12, 2013, about NSA dragnet activities; later apologizing for testimony he admitted had been “clearly erroneous.” In our Memorandum for you on Dec. 11, 2013, we cited chapter and verse as to why Clapper should have been fired for saying things he knew to be “clearly erroneous.” In that Memorandum, we endorsed the demand by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that Clapper be removed. “Lying to Congress is a federal offense, and Clapper ought to be fired and prosecuted for it,” said Sensenbrenner in an interview with The Hill. “The only way laws are effective is if they’re enforced.” Actually, we have had trouble understanding why, almost four years after he deliberately misled the Senate, Clapper remains Director of National Intelligence – overseeing the entire intelligence community. Hacks or Leaks? Not mentioned until now is our conclusion that leaks are the source of the WikiLeaks disclosures in question – not hacking. Leaks normally leave no electronic trace. William Binney has been emphasizing this for several months and suggesting strongly that the disclosures were from a leaker with physical access to the information – not a hacker with only remote access. This, of course, makes it even harder to pin the blame on President Putin, or anyone else. And we suspect that this explains why NSA demurred when asked to join the CIA and FBI in expressing “high confidence” in this key judgment of the report put out under Clapper’s auspices on Jan. 6, yielding this curious formulation: “We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.” (Emphasis [bold], and lack of emphasis, in original) In addition, former U.K. Ambassador Craig Murray has said publicly he has first- hand information on the provenance of the leaks, and has expressed surprise that no one from the New York Times or the Washington Post has tried to get in touch with him. We would be interested in knowing whether anyone from your administration, including the intelligence community, has made any effort to contact Ambassador Murray. What to Do President-elect Trump said a few days ago that his team will have a “full report on hacking within 90 days.” Whatever the findings of the Trump team turn out to be, they will no doubt be greeted with due skepticism, since Mr. Trump is in no way a disinterested party. You, on the other hand, enjoy far more credibility – AND power – for the next few days. And we assume you would not wish to hobble your successor with charges that cannot withstand close scrutiny. We suggest you order the chiefs of the NSA, FBI and CIA to the White House and ask them to lay all their cards on the table. They need to show you why you should continue to place credence in what, a month ago, you described as “uniform intelligence assessments” about Russian hacking. At that point, if the intelligence heads have credible evidence, you have the option of ordering it released – even at the risk of damage to sources and methods. For what it may be worth, we will not be shocked if it turns out that they can do no better than the evidence-deprived assessments they have served up in recent weeks. In that case, we would urge you, in all fairness, to let the American people in on the dearth of convincing evidence before you leave office. As you will have gathered by now, we strongly suspect that the evidence your intelligence chiefs have of a joint Russian-hacking-WikiLeaks-publishing operation is no better than the “intelligence” evidence in 2002-2003 – expressed then with comparable flat-fact “certitude” – of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Obama’s Legacy Mr. President, there is much talk in your final days in office about your legacy. Will part of that legacy be that you stood by while flames of illegitimacy rose willy-nilly around your successor? Or will you use your power to reveal the information – or the fact that there are merely unsupported allegations – that would enable us to deal with them responsibly? In the immediate wake of the holiday on which we mark the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it seems appropriate to make reference to his legacy, calling to mind the graphic words in his “Letter From the Birmingham City Jail,” with which he reminds us of our common duty to expose lies and injustice: "Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up, but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” -End of Memo- The above memorandum to Barack Obama is signed by the following 23 former U.S. officials who represent the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS):
William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
Marshall Carter-Tripp, Foreign Service Officer (ret) and former Office Director in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Thomas Drake, former Senior Executive, NSA
Bogdan Dzakovic, Former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red Team, FAA Security, (ret.) (associate VIPS)
Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
Mike Gravel, former Adjutant, top secret control officer, Communications Intelligence Service; special agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps and former United States Senator
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)
Larry Johnson, former CIA Intelligence Officer & former State Department Counter-Terrorism Official, ret.
Michael S. Kearns, Captain, USAF (Ret.); ex-Master SERE Instructor for Strategic Reconnaissance Operations (NSA/DIA) and Special Mission Units (JSOC)
Brady Kiesling, former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, ret. (Associate VIPS)
John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., US Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003
Linda Lewis, WMD preparedness policy analyst, USDA (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East, CIA (ret.)
Scott Ritter, former MAJ., USMC, former UN Weapon Inspector, Iraq
Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)
Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.) (associate VIPS)
Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA (ret.)
Robert Wing, former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS)
Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat
See also “Trump’s war with the CIA”.
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The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing
Posted By: Ted January 18, 2017
America wasn’t built by weak people and it most assuredly wouldn’t be the country that it is today if people had the mentality that many do today. The bottom line is that we’ve become complacent and weak as a country. There’s nothing wrong with compassion as long as it isn’t at the expense of self but we’ve passed the point of being nice and now reside in the land of weakness. The way that the country comes together in tragedy proves that American people still possess these traits; they’re just buried under deep layers of apathy and laziness. Here are just a few lost survival traits that made this country what it is today: the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thinking Independently From the time of Native Americans, Americans have been independent thinkers. The problem with today’s society is that a huge majority of the population wakes up in the morning and swallows the spoonfuls of crap-du-jour that news networks and social media are serving up. We’ve moved away from being the high-flying, far-seeing independent eagle and are now grounded sheep that ignorantly and trustingly bleat however our neighbors do. Believe however you want, but be willing to back those beliefs up with facts and logic. Take the time to research the topics that affect your way of life. You can’t change the direction of the train if you don’t even know that it’s moving. It’s your freedom that’s at stake – you’d think that would be worth at least as much of your time as you invest in finding a witty cartoon to post on Facebook. Are you ready to turn back the clocks to the 1800’s for up to three years? Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were the last generation to practice the basic things that we call survival skills now… WATCH THIS VIDEO and you will find many interesting things! Click on the image bellow and learn more about Survival things that we lost to history. Being Willing to Call “Bullshit” Edmund Burke said “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Our forefathers were willing to stand up and fight against tyranny and oppression in order to preserve (or gain) independence from any and all challengers. That sense of patriotism seems to be a dispassionate ghost of its former self in most people today. Our rights are being slowly stripped and we’re swallowing the “logic” that accompanies the laws. In some cases, the laws are directly against our constitutional rights yet we still sit back and say nothing. Fellow Americans, where are your spines? Evil is most certainly prevailing. The second amendment wasn’t written so that you can hunt; it was written so that you can defend yourself and your country from tyranny. Work Ethic We’ve become a people who believe that the world owes us a living. Now I’m not applying this statement to everybody, but it does apply to a large percentage of our population. Our ancestors died to have the right to live here. The American dream was once attainable by just about anybody who was willing to work hard enough to achieve it and it still is. The problem is that very few people are willing to stick it out and invest the blood, sweat and tears necessary to prevail. The “I will do it” attitude has been replaced by the “poor pitiful me should get stuff for free” attitude. We are a land full of asses waiting to be kicked. Responsibility From top politicians right on down to the bottom of the totem pole, nobody is willing to stand up and lay claim to their mistakes or take responsibility for their actions. Everything is somebody else’s fault. Remember that when you point a finger, there are 3 more pointing back at you! It’s not always the case, but for the most part we each make the bed that we lie in. When you take responsibility for your actions, you can finally see what’s going wrong and take steps to change your path, improve your life and make yourself a better person and a better citizen. Sometimes you have to apologize and sometimes you have to make retribution, and our ancestors were willing to do that in order to preserve the rights of every citizen. As a matter of fact, our forefathers took the time to consider their actions BEFORE they took them in order to live in a manner that didn’t encroach on others. They appreciated their rights and knew that they came with limits. There’s an old saying that goes something along the lines of, “My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.” If you take a few minutes to think about that statement, it covers everything that our ancestors held near and dear, and that we now take for granted. Basic Problem Solving We are a country built on innovation and “making do.” Native Americans lived and thrived for centuries solely off what the land had to offer. They knew how to use what they had on hand for whatever they needed and they knew how to read the environment for signs about food, water and weather. Immigrants and settlers learned the same skills and also applied skills learned in their native countries to “advance” their new country. We’ve now become so technologically advanced that we’ve lost the problem solving and the survival skills that made us a strong people in the very beginning. Without our handheld devices we can’t even tell if it’s raining, let alone figure out where to find a source of water. (Googling “nearest 7-11” doesn’t count!) That’s going to equal a world of hurt for many people when SHTF. As a country, we’ve gotten away from both the moral and physical survival skills that built this country and made it a force to be reckoned with. For years, other countries have known that to poke us was to risk waking the sleeping giant. However, recent events and the non-action of our citizenry in the face of tyranny and adversity over the last several decades have shown us to be weak. If we continue on our current path of dependency and apathy, it won’t be long before all of the rights that our forefathers (and foremothers!) fought so hard for are lost. Get your pride back, America: it’s in there, so dig deep and get back on track! Make every day Independence Day!
http://www.survivalonline101.com/only-thing-necessary-for-the-triumph/
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Planned Parenthood Was Caught on Video Covering Up Sex-Trafficking, Its Response is Horrifying
National Micaiah Bilger Jan 17, 2017 | 2:26PM Washington, DC
A new Live Action investigation reveals that Planned Parenthood did not fulfill its promises to change after its employees were caught willing to help sex traffickers cover up abuses of young girls. The pro-life group recently decided to follow up to see if the abortion chain retrained staff about sex trafficking and abuse, and if it had reported the suspected sex traffickers to authorities, as it said it would. The abortion group made these promises to media outlets and others in 2011 after a Live Action investigation uncovered wide-spread willingness among Planned Parenthood employees to help sex traffickers abuse young teens. But it did not keep them, according to Live Action’s latest findings. “It appears that many media outlets simply took Planned Parenthood’s word that it reported the suspected child sex traffickers to the proper local authorities,” Live Action President and Founder Lila Rose said. “If Planned Parenthood can provide proof that it actually tried to protect children it thought were being forced into prostitution by reporting the suspected crimes to local law enforcement, we’d love to see the evidence.” SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately Rather than train staff to identify and help sexual abuse victims, former Planned Parenthood manager Ramona Trevino said her employer taught them how to identify undercover journalists. Trevino, who managed a Planned Parenthood in Texas when Live Action released its undercover investigation, said she initially believed the abortion group could and would fix the problem. But when she attended a manager training meeting, her views quickly changed. “When were called into this meeting, I went in really believing that … they really do care about women and this is something that really concerns them,” Trevino told Live Action. “They begin to play all of the previous undercover investigations that had been put out about Planned Parenthood, and I became very perplexed. “As time went on, I raised my hand and said, ‘I’m confused. When are we going to actually begin the retraining? What can I do as a manager to take this information back to my staff and enforce policies and procedures that would help protect women?’ [The Planned Parenthood speaker] immediately shot me down. She said, ‘We’re not here to talk about that.’” According to public records obtained by Live Action, the abortion group also repeatedly failed to report the suspected sex trafficking to local authorities. Through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, the pro-life group found that only one (Arizona) of the five states and Washington, D.C. had responsive records showing Planned Parenthood reported anything to authorities. Here’s more from the pro-life group: Nearly a week after the first of Live Action’s undercover visits to Planned Parenthood facilities, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Eric Holder reporting the visits. She claimed that the suspected sex traffickers visited Planned Parenthood facilities in Arizona, Virginia, Indiana, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. However, she failed to identify the New York facility that investigators visited and she wrongly identified a facility in Indiana that investigators never visited. It appears that the New York facility didn’t report the suspected trafficking and that a real trafficking incident may have occurred in Indiana under Planned Parenthood’s nose. Richards also told Holder that staff “made it clear” to the suspected traffickers that staff would comply with state laws requiring them to report the possibility of endangered children. Live Action’s video footage shows that staff never told the investigators anything like that.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017
The Sun hasn't risen over its horizon for more than two months yet the North Pole was warmer than South of France, Italy, Greece Turkey and Syria yesterday! The Sun hasn't risen over its horizon for more than two months yet at a balmy -6C +21F the North Pole was yesterday warmer than parts of the South of France, Italy, Greece Turkey and Syria. The North Pole was actually yesterday 34C or 93F warmer than the average temperature for the time of the year and it's been like that for most of the winter which is incredible when you realize parts of Greenland and Russia have had regular temperatures as low as -57C or -71F. Today most of Europe is witnessing sub-zero temperatures as the big freeze continues.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/01/the-sun-hasnt-risen-over-its-horizon.html
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F-35 in crisis as Pentagon tests find 276 different faults in $400bn jet's combat system and warn full tests might not even begin until 2019
Fifth-generation fighter has been plagued with issues
$400bn development schedule has stretched to 15 years
Report claims it won't be ready to even begin full combat testing until 2019
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com Published: 15:31 EST, 16 January 2017 | Updated: 15:50 EST, 16 January 2017
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been hailed as the 'most expensive weapon in history', costing $400bn. It has been plagued with delays, prompting Donald Trump to describe it as 'out of control' and demanding a price cut from Lockheed Martin. Now, a new Pentagon report has warned the jet still has hundreds of faults - and won't be ready to even begin full combat testing until 2019. The crucial 'Initial Operational Test and Evaluation' tests were scheduled for August. The deadline represents the latest in a series of pushed-back delivery milestones. 'The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program Office (JPO) acknowledged in 2016 that schedule pressure exists for completing System Development and Demonstration (SDD) and starting Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) by August 2017, the planned date in JPO's Integrated Master Schedule,' the report says. 'In an effort to stay on schedule, JPO plans to reduce or truncate planned developmental testing (DT) in an effort to minimize delays and close out SDD as soon as possible. 'However, even with this risky, schedule-driven approach, multiple problems and delays make it clear that the program will not be able to start IOT&E with full combat capability until late CY18 or early CY19, at the soonest.' The Pentagon's Office of Operational Testing and Evaluation says only half of its long list of concerns will be addressed before the major performance milestone. 'The Services have designated 276 deficiencies in combat performance as “critical to correct” in Block 3F, but less than half of the critical deficiencies were addressed with attempted corrections in 3FR6' But addressing even that reduced list is appearing rushed, it says. There are 'significant, well-documented deficiencies resulting in overall ineffective operational performance ... 'hundreds of which will not be adequately addressed with fixes and corrections verified with flight testing.' Key among them are fixing the 25mm cannon which vibrates excessively and the way it is targeted by the aircraft's 'virtual reality' helmet. Lockheed Martin Corp is close to a deal to significantly lower the cost of its F-35 aircraft, Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson said on Friday after meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. 'I certainly share his views that we need to get the best capability to our men and women in uniform, and we have to get it at the lowest possible price,' Hewson said to reporters in Trump Tower. Deal: Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson said after meeting with Trump: 'I certainly share his views that we need to get the best capability to our men and women in uniform.' Hewson had previously assured Trump she would drive down the cost of the company's fighter jet, after he tweeted last month that he was asking rival aerospace company Boeing Co whether it could offer a cheaper alternative to the F-35, based on its existing F-18 Super Hornet. Trump has threatened and rebuked some of America's largest companies, creating a new business risk for those who have been or fear being targeted. Improvements in the internal diagnostics software — the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) have also been slow to emerge. They lead a list including overheating, premature wear of componentsin the vertical tails and vulnerability to fire. The aircraft's 'objectionable or unacceptable flying qualities' while crossing the sound barrier as yet has no plans for a fix. 'The current schedule-driven program plans to close out testing in 2017 do not include enough time to fix these key deficiencies, nor time to verify corrections in flight test,' it adds. 'The program currently has 17 known and acknowledged failures to meet the contract specification requirements, all of which the program is reportedly planning to get relief from the SDD contract due to lack of time and funding.' Despite it's incomplete state, a partially operational squadron of the Marine Corps' F-35B was deployed to Japan last week. The report did note some progress, such as the completion of important ship-integration tests and steps toward fixing a dangerous ejection seat. However, most of chief tester Michael Gilmore's report focuses on what still needs to be done. In a previous memo obtained by the Project On Government Oversight, Michael Gilmore, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, warns that the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office is simply cut short the plane's development phase in order to pretend that schedule and cost goals are being met. 'The purpose of this memorandum is to document my continuing concerns regarding progress in the -35 JSF program as you prepare to conduct the upcoming Defense Acquisition Board review,' the note says, according to War is boring. It calls for the entire programme to be restructured so enough testing can be completed. 'The primary concerns were that the program appeared to be prematurely ending System Development and Demonstration (SDD) and was not taking the necessary steps to be ready for which will be conducted using realistic combat missions fully consistent with our war plans and threat assessments.' Taking incompletely developed F-35s into combat will, Gilmore says, place pilots at 'significant risk.' 'If the program continues with plans to close out SDD prematurely, it will carry the high risk of failing and having to repeat the approximately $300-million operational test, and failing for many years to provide the full combat capability Block 3F has long been meant and claimed to provide. 'Finally, the combination of unfnished SDD work and the likely follow-on Operational test would significantly delay, and increase the cost of, achieving the important capabilities which are urgently needed to counter current and emerging threats. 'I therefore recommend very strongly that the program be restructured now and provided the additional resources it clearly requires to deliver its long-planned and sorely needed full Block 3F combat capability.' The Marines began moving 16 F-35Bs to Iwakuni Air Station in Japan earlier this month, it has been revealed. The Marines will be the first force to deploy the Lockheed Martin jet aboard the USS Wasp next year, and will deploy a second contingent soon after, aboard the USS Essex. 'We will learn from that, and see what capabilities we need to further develop,' said Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, the commanding general of the Marines' Combat Development Command, according to Defense One. 'A lot of it's going to be the school of hard knocks.' The jets will deploy as part of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 in early 2017, a Marine spokeswoman said. At year's end, six of that squadron's planes will attach to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Industry and U.S. defense officials say they are working hard to continue driving down the cost of the new warplanes to $85 million per plane by 2019, as well as the cost of operating them. Senator John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he welcomed the announcement but made clear he intended to keep a close eye on the hugely expensive program. 'The Senate Armed Services Committee will continue to exercise rigorous oversight of the Joint Strike Fighter program's long-delayed System Development and Demonstration phase as well as the start of the operational test and evaluation phase,' McCain said in a statement. To become battle ready, at least a dozen individual F-35 must demonstrate their ability to drop bombs and shoot down other planes. Each jet must be upgraded to a specific software package, and plugged into the complex logistics cloud that manages maintenance. The F-35 project office had previously set an Aug. 1 target date. The project has been plagued with delays. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's record on cost, schedule and performance has been a scandal and a tragedy, Senator John McCain told senior Pentagon officials earlier this year. McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the aircraft's development schedule has stretched to 15 years, deliveries of the F-35 have been delayed, and costs have skyrocketed. 'It's been a scandal and the cost overruns have been disgraceful,' McCain said. Pilots under 136 pounds aren't allowed to fly any F-35 variant. Pilots under 165 pounds have a 1-in-4 chance of death and 100 percent chance of serious neck injury upon ejecting, according to the testing office. 'The testing showed that the ejection seat rotates backwards after ejection. This results in the pilot's neck becoming extended, as the head moves behind the shoulders in a 'chin up' position. When the parachute inflates and begins to extract the pilot from the seat (with great force), a 'whiplash' action occurs. The rotation of the seat and resulting extension of the neck are greater for lighter weight pilots,' the report states. It is designed to support operations, mission planning and to spot any maintenance issues with the vehicle. 'Program officials said that if ALIS is not fully functional, the F-35 could not be operated as frequently as intended,' the report said. 'But a DoD commissioned plan found that schedule slippage and functionality problems with ALIS could lead to $20-100 billion in additional costs.' So far, the software has been so flawed that maintenance crews have had to resort labour-intensive alternatives. According to National Interest, in one instance maintainers had to manually burn data onto CDs and to send the massive files across a civilian WiFi network. One major problem, the report said, is that the F-35 data produced goes through a single main operating unit which has no back up. 'The F-35 is still in development, and this is the time when technical challenges are expected,' Lt. Genernal Chris Bogdon told CNN. 'However, we believe the combined government and industry team will resolve current issues and future discoveries,' he said. Lead defense contractor for the plane, Lockheed Martin, insists development of the logistics software is on schedule. 'As ALIS development continues, our focus is on the warfighter and delivering the most effective, efficient fleet management system to sustain the F-35 over the next five decades of operations,' said Sharon Parsley, a spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin. 'The recommendations by the GAO are in line with the actions already underway in preparation for full-rate production and worldwide sustainment.'
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Hero Journalist Who Exposed CIA Infiltration and Manipulation of Media Found Dead
1/18/2017
Udo Ulfkotte, a brave, selfless, hero died on Friday at the age of 56. The legacy he leaves behind is one that gives context to today’s geopolitical relations between the United States and Russia.
by Rachel Blevins
Ulfkotte was a world-class German journalist, working for a major Germany newspaper, who came out and exposed how the mainstream media lies for the CIA. In an interview with RT in October 2014, Ulfkotte explained the CIA’s practice of manipulation and bribery: “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. “But seeing right now within the last months how the German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia — this is a point of no return and I’m going to stand up and say it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do and have done in the past because they are bribed to betray the people, not only in Germany, all over Europe.” Ulfkotte also revealed that he was forced to publish the work of intelligence agencies under his name, and he was threatened with termination if he did not comply. The main reason he said he came out was because the intelligence agencies were pushing disinformation in order to push for war between Europe and Russia. Ulfkotte’s death was allegedly the result of a heart attack. However, he was aware the possible repercussions that could come from what he was exposing. In an interview with Russia Insider, he said: “When I told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte’s newspaper) that I would publish the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal consequences if I would publish any names or secrets — but I don’t mind. You see, I don’t have children to take care of.” He knew he would face persecution from the state, and he did. Ulfkotte told RT that German prosecutors searched his house on at least six separate occasions. Similar information was disclosed through the Church Committee Senate hearings that happened in 1975 with Sen. Frank Church leading the way and exposing the fact that the same thing happened in the U.S. with Operation Mockingbird. This all brings us back to now, where we are seeing intelligence agencies and the mainstream media pushing for war with Russia, and clashing against Trump. Ulfkotte also revealed the fact that there are mainstream media journalists who have been trained as CIA operatives, which is a topic WeAreChange has covered extensively over the years. Also at the Church hearings, it was revealed that the CIA has developed a poison dart gun that “gives deadly heart attacks and leaves no trace.” We don’t have all of the facts, and we don’t know exactly what happened to Ulfkotte, but we do know that he was a hero who put everything on the line in order for you to know the truth.
Source: http://humansarefree.com/2017/01/hero-journalist-who-exposed-cia.html
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Something Very Strange Is Going On In Washington DC - More Signs Emerge They're Preparing To Unleash Chaos
January 17, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The new advertisement on the Backpage website seen screenshot below is called "Get Paid For Fighting Against Trump!" within which we learn that an organization called Demand Protest is allegedly hiring snowflakes and anarchists to stir up trouble in US cities across the country at a 'rocking' $50 an hour with a monthly 'retainer' of $2,500 as long as the 'hirees' participate in at least 6 'events' per year. Snowflakes paid to terrorize America, we see George Soros' tactics being used to wreak havoc at Donald Trump's inauguration, just the latest signs we're getting that all hell could break loose on Friday if 'Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's sore loser globalists' have their way. Infowars reporter Margaret Howell takes a look at this Backpage ad in the 2nd video below. Interestingly as Tucker Carlson from Fox News points out in the 3rd video below, it appears that this 'Demand Protest' is all a big hoax and as we see Tucker Carlson ripping the perpetrator apart, this is clearly one of the craziest Fox News videos that we have ever seen. Why would someone put ads in Backpages across the country, pay the money to develop a website and then get completely humiliated by Tucker Carlson on live TV? 'Lunatic fringe?' With 'protesters' seemingly forgetting that there's a HUGE difference between 'legal protest' and 'outright violence', we see in the first video below a very, very fine line separates the two as Project Veritas's James Okeefe joins Infowars. In fact, 'legal protest' can turn into 'terrorism' in moments. The fact that anarchists from DisruptJ20 have been caught planning an 'acid attack' upon one of the inaugural balls proves to us this may be no 'normal' presidential inauguration. An 'acid attack' sure doesn't fall under the guidelines of 'peaceful protest'. In fact, today we see part II of Project Veritas's investigation into the 'protests' that will be happening in DC and across the nation in the final video below and in Zero Hedge's new story called "Video Exposes Anti-Trump Group Plans To Shut Down DC Bridges And Highways With Clusterf*ck Blockades." As we see, what they have planned is anything but peaceful and could easily be used by ISIS terrorists in America who've promised to turn Trump's inauguration into a 'bloody Friday' exactly what they want and need to cause a maximum amount of mayhem. Promising to bring Washington DC and cities across America to a standstill, imagine being at the inauguration and all hell breaks loose but you're stuck there because of anarchists 'clusterf*ck blockades' that have left the cities metro system and roadways in total shutdown mode. Anarchists are aiding terrorists in such a situation. Showing once again why cities are death traps in a SHTF situation, the fact that several caches of weapons were recently found just lying out in the open in DC as was reported in this story from The Daily Sheeple shows us once again that there may be a massive conspiracy to stop Trump being planned and its clear leftists are resorting to terror. While ANP phone calls to Demand Protest's phone number requesting an interview have not been returned, we find it interesting that the phone number of Demand Protest (listed here) is (415) 666-2650. Are they working for satan himself? And as Susan Duclos reported this morning in her story on ANP, more recent strange events prove there may be a shutdown of independent news websites on Friday should 'an event' occur after several websites, including the Drudge Report and SteveQuayle.com, recently had their home pages revert to news from previous days. ANP has long warned that any real attempt to permanently shut down independent news websites such as Infowars, the Drudge Report, Zero Hedge, ANP and others could be looked at as an outright authoritarian move being made by a terrorist, dictatorial government ready to seize complete control and eliminate the 1st Amendment in America. We've warned that 'independent news' is the 'canary's in the coal mine' and any permanent shutdown of such websites should be a HUGE 'sign of tyranny' for Americans to look out for. While we will continue to pray that the 2nd Amendment is never needed to 'save' the 1st Amendment and freedom in America, it's quite clear that our Founding Fathers had tremendous wisdom. With Trump seemingly going to war with the US intelligence community most likely responsible for murdering the last US president to be gunned down in office, the fact that the CIA has a long history of covertly taking down government's all across the world is more proof that such a scenario is not impossible here. They did it once to JFK, they'll try it again. We also have to remind you that they have access to the most dangerous drug in the world, a drug which they use to 'program people MKUltra-style' to do things, anything they want them to do, and the victim has no clue. Called 'Devil's Breath' by locals in Colombia where the tree the flower is on grows freely, International Business Times reported back in 2012 that 'the most terrifying drug in the world' has been used by the CIA. Specifically called scopolamine, what evil could the CIA accomplish with a drug capable of doing this? The "Devil's Breath" drug scopolamine is a hallucinogen was recently brought to the public's attention by a documentary aired on Vice.com, which saw reporters travel to Colombia to see its deadly effects. A 'perfect weapon' to use for the CIA to ensure 'mind controlled slaves' we have to ask, how many CIA-programmed 'scopolamine zombies' will be wandering the streets of Washington DC on Friday? The fact alone that tens of thousands of mentally unstable snowflakes will be there is alone cause for alarm. And after the recent weapons caches have been found in DC, the editor's over at this SHTFPlan story asks today, is somebody planning on unleashing massive chaos on Friday? Is this more evidence of foul play afoot in Washington, D.C. ahead of the inauguration and one of the most contentious transfers of power in American history? There is simply no way to know, but with so many protests planned, so many in the establishment opposed to the Trump presidency and so much to gain from civil unrest, there is every reasons to question whether or not security has been properly arranged at the capital, and whether or not someone is preparing to unleash total chaos from the inception of the next administration. Although the inauguration will hopefully go off smoothly, and without a hitch, President-elect Trump has more enemies than he can count before he even takes office. There are enough bizarre and unexplained circumstances already unfolding to start a new chapter in the JFK assassination investigation – why would the national security structure allow such unstable conditions, unless they were hoping to profit from a beleaguered administration and an angry, outraged people? As we close in on the end of this most chaotic political season in most of our lives in Americans if not in the history of America, we pray for the safety of our public servants and everybody going to DC who intends to peacefully carry on time honored American traditions, whether that be attending Trump's inauguration or peacefully protesting against him. However, don't expect any sympathy from us for those who are going to DC to carry out acid attacks or construct 'clusterf*ck blockades' or trying to interupt others from going about their days. As recent Project Veritas videos prove to us, it appears there is going to be massive chaos in Washington DC on Friday, if the 'sore loser left' has their way.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Paid_To_Terrorize_America.php
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Trump Is Already Facing a Soft Coup
Dave Hodges
Trump is entering office with a mandate from millions of disenfranchised Americans. The economic policies espoused by the self-serving, middle-class destroying establishment over the last 30 years have resulted in the rich getting obscenely richer and the poor getting miserably poorer. The end result is that economic and social mobility for average American families has declined, and for all practical purposes has disappeared. And what Obama calls an economic recovery is now much lower than in other advanced economies. This has been an important cause for disillusion and anger among many Americans who absolutely and correctly feel that the economic system is rigged against them and in favor of the very rich. It is not just that the rich are getting richer, there is also a secondary issue at work and it has to do with the fact that millions of Americans are witnessing the unveiling of a police state that discriminates against self-employment, the desecration of the Constitution and an attack upon traditional values that have their roots in Christianity. There is a smaller, but still large segment, who fear for their lives as Americans. Many Americans are very concerned because we see our enemies getting stronger by the day and Obama has seemingly done everything he can do to weaken America’s military. We have fewer ships than we did in World War I and fewer troops than we did prior to World War II when this nation was woefully unprepared to fight a war. Can a Trump Presidency make the desired changes that the people who elected hope to make? The Reduction of Cronyism During the 2016 campaign, Trump clearly stated that “If I become president, I couldn’t care less about my company. It’s peanuts… I wouldn’t ever be involved because I wouldn’t care about anything but our country, anything.” It was in this spirit that he stated that he would try and eliminate as much corruption as possible by eliminating the practice of people connected to Congress going to work as lobbyists for private interests for five years following their governmental service. This is a brilliant move because I am tired of being sold out by former Congressmen in this regard. The American people should expect their politicians not to use their positions, directly or indirectly, to enrich themselves. Now, can Trump get Congress to vote against their own corruption? That remains to be seen. Trump Will Not Be Soft on Putin’s Militarism. Russia expects to enter into discussions with Trump regarding their nuclear build up and the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, is the on the record as having said the same. Lavrov said the new agenda for such negotiations should also include new hypersonic weapons with scalar wave technology, the US missile shield in Europe, space weapons and nuclear testing. From what I have been able to learn about a secret space program which includes space weapons, this is will be the sticking point. The only reason that I believe that Russia and/or China has not yet attacked us is because Obama was unable to disarm our space-based weapons for which Russia and China do not yet have an answer for. Many of sources feel that Obama was apprehensive about attacking our space-based technology because the military would would have strongly rallied against the move and this was too much for Obama to take on. In a Sunday Times interview, Trump stated that we consider reviewing the US sanction on Russia so long as the Russians are willing to significantly reduce its stockpile of nuclear weapons. The dialogue between Russia and Trump is very positive and takes some of the sting out of Obama’s military provocations toward Russia. Free Trade Agreements The Global Research website is truly showing their anti-American spirit with their recent writings and this is typical of many of the MSM publications. Global Research accuses Trump of protectionism and his actions will global trade back There is nothing more despicable than a government that sells its citizens out. I applaud Trump for trying to keep jobs in America. I welcome the implementation of tariffs for American based corporations who cost millions of American jobs overseas in search of cheaper labor, which imposes untold amounts of human suffering. Yet, Global Research, NBC, CNN et al would expect you, the American people, to sacrifice your economic viability in the name of increasing the insane level of profits. Immigration It is not the immigrants we fear coming into the country looking for a better way of life. It is the drug cartels and the fifth column terrorist groups that accompany them. Why are organizations like CNN so opposed to vetting immigrants. Doesn’t Anderson Cooper care about national security? Trumps policies are hailed as xenophobic. No, they are anti-terrorist and anti-drug cartel. I fail to see why the immigration controls we successfully practiced in the 19th century are racist and xenophobic. They are common sense and cautious. Treason In Our Midst Is anyone else bothered by the fact that body count of Democratic Congressmen who are not attending the Inauguration is up to 38 and growing. Their charge is led by the very radicalized John Lewis. Lewis belongs to the Progressive Caucus which a clear front organization for the Communist Party as are the other 38 Congressmen. At minimum, I am concerned because these Congressmen are demonstrating that they will not work with this President. This is troublesome because the Congress and the President must work together for the good of the country. At maximum, I am concerned about this development because questions about these 38 Congressmen are being asked by my audience with regard to their real motivation. Many of my readers and viewers are questioning if these Congressmen want to simply be “out of the blast zone” at the inauguration. Even if this is not true, the public perception is damaging to the confidence that the people feel towards their government if it is going to work properly. Conclusion Mot one of these reforms will see the light of day with the current Congress we have as typified by John Lewis who demonstrates his anti-American sentiment with each passing day. All Trump will be able to accomplish is gridlock. How can the Americans stop the gridlock? The answer is simple. Every Congressman and one-third of the senators need to be shown the door in 2018. Only then, will Trump have meaningful reforms. At the end of the day, it is not up to Trump, it is up to us.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/18/trump-is-already-facing-a-soft-coup/
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Exclusive: Trump Operative Roger Stone Survives Assassination Attempt
Doctors told him he had been poisoned with polonium and CDC tests found the substance in his blood
Infowars.com - January 17, 2017
Former Trump adviser Roger Stone was recently targeted for assassination, he revealed on the Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show. The renowned Republican operative says he’s usually very healthy, but became violently ill unexpectedly several weeks ago. “I am generally a healthy person. I have been a runner and a weight lifter. I am very careful in my diet. I’m a user of the Infowars supplements. I have been treated with acupuncture by perhaps the greatest acupuncturist in the state of Florida if not the United States,” Stone told radio host Alex Jones. Stone went on to describe that his symptoms presented themselves first as a “routine stomach virus,” but that he eventually grew “exceedingly ill.” “So I ultimately went to the doctors at Mt. Sinai hospital in Miami Beach, my own personal physician. They conducted extensive blood tests. Those blood tests were passed on to CDC.”“The general consensus is that I was poisoned,” Stone says. “I was poisoned with, they now say, a substance that may have been polonium or had the characteristics of polonium. This made me exceedingly ill. The conjecture of all the doctors was that I did not receive a large enough dose to kill me, but I have never been this ill.” Polonium-210 is a radioactive substance that releases extremely harmful alpha particles throughout the body producing cancer-causing free radicals. It has been used in numerous high profile assassinations, including that of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, and was suspected in the death of former PLO leader Yassar Arafat. Stone went on to contemplate who may have been behind the possible assassination attempt, fingering Democrat opposition and the intel community. “Who would want to do this to me? I am an enemy of the deep state. I think people know that I was an insider in American politics I was close to power in nine presidential elections. Everything Glenn Greenwald says [about the “deep state”] is true,” Stone claimed, referring to a recent The Intercept article which outlined how the intelligence community is attempting to stifle Trump. “The Republican/Democrat Bush Clinton deep state has manufactured this Russia fraud. They have compounded it by pushing a clearly fabricated document.” “Perhaps the fact that I’m effective on behalf of my beliefs has something to do with it,” Stone theorizes.
http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-trump-operative-roger-stone-survives-assassination-attempt/
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The Shortcomings Of The International Conference For Peace
By DR. ALON BEN-MEIR \ 01/19/2017 19:47
The conference for peace between Israel and the Palestinians initiated by the French government that took place on January 15 in Paris was positive in many ways. The concluding declaration that collectively emerged pointed out the need to establish a Palestinian state as a prerequisite to peace and stability, urged the two sides to recommit themselves to a two-state solution, and emphasized the urgent need for both to take action to reverse the current trends of Palestinian incitement and Israel’s expansion of the settlements. Furthermore, it called for ending the occupation and accentuated the importance of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative (API) to provide the framework for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. The resolution also stressed the importance of public debate, strengthening the role of civil society, and addressing the humanitarian and security situation in Gaza. Perhaps one of the most important reasons, however, for holding the conference only a few days before the inauguration of President-elect Trump was to send a message to the new administration about the international consensus regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hoping to prevent Trump from taking any measure that might threaten the prospect of a two-state solution. Of main concern to the conferees was Trump’s campaign promise to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and give Netanyahu a free hand to expand the settlements, which could torpedo the prospect of peace and provoke the Arab states at a time when they are needed to support any new peace initiative. Although the resolution was largely on target, it lacked specific suggestions that could be embraced by the Trump administration to help advance the peace process in a tangible way. I was directly involved in an effort to shed new light on the core issues that have and continue to separate the two sides, and I suggested specific measures to mitigate them—issues which I considered critical to the resumption of the negotiations that would substantially improve the prospect of reaching a durable peace. To that end, I wrote a major proposal which I discussed with top French Foreign Ministry officials. Subsequently, Pierre Vimont (France’s Middle East Special Envoy), EU Special Representative for the Middle East Process Fernando Gentilini, and I addressed the EU Foreign Relations Committee in November 2016, where I emphasized the need for a new approach. There were many areas in the conflict over which Mr. Vimont and I fully agreed—and were reflected in the final declaration of the conference—and other issues which were not spelled out. In my view, had such issues been clearly stated, they would have revealed the real causes behind the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offered ways to mitigate them. The first issue is the psychological dimension of the conflict and its impact on every conflicting issue. Unless major efforts are made to change the public narrative on both sides to reflect the truth from historical and religious perspectives, neither side can make the far-reaching concessions necessary to forge a peace agreement. The need to mitigate that through a process of reconciliation—people-to-people and government-to-government—is central to constructive negotiations. Such a process would allow both sides to nurture mutual trust, which is totally lacking, and allay concerns over national security, while also disabusing strong Israeli and Palestinian constituencies that still want to have it all. The second issue is Hamas and its political stance, which has and continues to impede any progress. The conference’s resolution stipulates the “importance of addressing the humanitarian and security situation in Gaza and called for swift steps to improve the situation.” Although this is necessary, as long as Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel and is not a signatory to the API, it plays into the hand of the hard-core Israelis who claim that the Palestinians simply want to eradicate rather than peacefully coexist with Israel. The conference should have called on Hamas to accept in principle Israel’s right to exist and beseeched countries like Turkey and Qatar, who enjoy substantial influence on Hamas, to embrace the API. This is necessary particularly because Hamas must be part and parcel of any final resolution to the conflict. Third, although the participants “expressed their readiness to exert necessary efforts toward the achievement of the two-state solution…,” who will exert such efforts—economic and other incentives? I took the position that the conferees should have established a commission composed of representatives from an Arab state, the EU, and the US to encourage the parties to take certain steps, review progress, and pin down the sources that impede it. Otherwise, the recommendation will be just words. Fourth, the conferees call for “ ending the occupation…satisfy Israel’s security need, and resolve all permanent status issues on the basis of [UNSC] Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973)…” This appeal is certainly valid and no solution is possible unless these requirements are met. Here again, though, there is nothing new. The participants should have also recommended the establishment of another commission to work closely with both Israel and the Palestinians to begin modifying their public position on several of the major conflicting issues. For example, everyone who is familiar with the conflict knows that the right of return of the Palestinian refugees cannot and will not be exercised, as this will almost instantly change the Jewish character of Israel. The Palestinian Authority should begin to speak publicly about the only viable option to resolve the Palestinian refugees through compensation and/or resettlement. Similarly, Israelis should also know that there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes the capital of the state of Palestine. Here too, the Israeli public must begin to think in these terms and not buy into Netanyahu’s argument that a “united” Jerusalem will remain the eternal capital of Israel, which would foreclose any prospect for peace. To be sure, even though the conferees do not have any power of enforcement, by opening public debates on these issues they would have made a positive impact on the peace process. In the final analysis, as long as the Israeli and the Palestinian publics are led by leaders who do not promote the peace process along these lines and have different political agendas not necessarily consistent with a two-state solution, the public will remain in the dark and to a great extent become complacent. There is an urgent need for new leadership committed to reaching an agreement. Netanyahu will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state under his watch and Abbas is incapable of delivering the necessary concessions that could make peace possible. The conference could have made a great contribution to the peace process not by merely repeating what is known, but by fostering a new dialogue that allows the public to become an active participant, which is critical to changing the dynamic of the conflict. To listen to an audio version of this article, click here.
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Israel steps up shadow war with Hezbollah
By Ed Blanche, The Arab Weekly | Jan. 17, 2017 at 11:19 AM
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies stressed in its annual strategic assessment, released Jan. 2, that Hezbollah remains the most serious threat the Jewish state faces. It urged Israel's intelligence establishment to intensity efforts to block the transfer of advanced weapons systems to Hezbollah — a process that may already be under way with a spate of air and missiles strikes against Syria. The vast majority of the arms supplied to Hezbollah from Iran pass through Syria. Hezbollah, a key force keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power amid the war in the country, is reportedly building military bases and seeking to establish a presence in the disputed Golan Heights, a strategic volcanic plateau that overlooks Israel's agricultural heartland. Iran, Hezbollah's patron and arms supplier, is listed as the second-ranking military threat by INSS, in part because of its distance from Israel. Combined, Iran and Hezbollah, which serves as the Islamic republic's strategic arm in the Levant, present a comprehensive threat to Israel that far exceeds any other. This ranges from Iran's growing ballistic missile force and the nuclear weapons Israel's military leaders are convinced it will develop in the coming years to Hezbollah's emerging tactical capabilities. Much of that is due to advanced weaponry it amassed in recent years despite repeated Israeli airstrikes against weapons convoys and targeted assassinations in Syria and Lebanon of key figures in acquiring or developing Hezbollah 's firepower. Hezbollah is estimated — largely by Israel — to possess more than 130,000 rockets and missiles, including long-range weapons capable of destroying city blocks. In recent weeks, the covert war between Israel and Hezbollah that has dragged on for five years apparently flared again, possibly this time with higher stakes. There have been several missiles attacks reported in Syria, all presumably Israeli weapons launched from either the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights or from Lebanese airspace. These were apparently aimed at curtailing deliveries of advanced weapons to Hezbollah that in the past have reportedly included Soviet-era SA- 22 air defense missiles, which, for the first time, allow Hezbollah to directly challenge Israel's control of the air in Lebanon and Syria, and Yakhont anti-ship missiles that could be used against Israel's offshore gas facilities. On Nov. 30, at least two missiles, apparently fired by Israeli jets in Lebanese airspace, hit a convoy of trucks outside Damascus, triggering speculation the trucks were carrying advanced weapons to Hezbollah. On Dec. 2, Israel reportedly conducted two airstrikes using Popeye missiles around Damascus, one against a weapons depot manned by the Syrian Army's crack Fourth Armored Division at Sabboura, northwest of the Syrian capital. The other blasted several cars near the Damascus-Beirut highway. In a 3 a.m. strike on Dec. 7, several surface-to-surface missiles hit installations in the Mezzeh military airbase at Damascus International Airport, where Hezbollah maintains a high-security facility for receiving arms airlifted from Iran before they are trucked to Lebanon. The missiles started several big fires at the airport, triggering major explosions. In a separate attack on that date, Hezbollah facilities in and around the town of Zabadani, on the border with Lebanon and a key junction in the overland arms route to Hezbollah strongpoints, were hit. On Friday, Syria accused Israel of another missile strike on the Mezzeh base in a predawn attack that triggered multiple explosions and caused casualties. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged for the first time in April 2016 that Israel has been mounting airstrikes in Syrian territory to curb shipments of what he called "game-changing weaponry" to Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post suggested on Dec. 8 that the Israelis' strikes the previous day had targeted "the presumed base of the Syrian Army's secretive Unit 450, a branch of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre that is at the center of the Assad regime's chemical weapons program north of Damascus." On the same day, Israel's hawkish defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, raised the ante by claiming that the Israeli Air Force had thwarted an attempt to transfer chemical weapons from Syria to Lebanon. If that is true, it suggests that Hezbollah and Iran may be prepared to escalate the covert efforts to upgrade Hezbollah's arsenal to a highly dangerous new level. Lieberman often shoots from the hip and his comments may have had political overtones but it was the first time a top-level Israeli official had voiced such concerns. These air and missile strikes constitute what the Israelis call a "campaign between wars," a concept that involves overt and covert operations designed to thwart emerging threats, particularly the acquisition of advanced weaponry. This is a finel
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y balanced confrontation short of war in which both sides observe certain restraints that will prevent hostilities escalating to all-out conflict. But now Israel seems to be stepping up the shadowy conflict with Hezbollah, as Iran seeks to establish a presence in the divided Golan, a red line for Israel. Lieberman warned that while Israel has no interest in intervening in the Syrian war, it would take action to preserve Israelis' security, particularly on advanced weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Israel, he declared, "will make decisions according to this policy without taking other circumstances or restriction into account." This article originally appeared at The Arab Weekly.
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Tornado rips through southern Mississippi, leaving 4 dead
Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Network and Hattiesburg (Miss.) American Published 8:13 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2017 | Updated 12 minutes ago
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — At least four people were killed in southern Mississippi early Saturday when a destructive tornado roared through the Hattiesburg area, leveling homes, ripping off roofs and tossing trees into roadways across the region. The city of Hattiesburg on Twitter and Forrest County emergency management confirmed the deaths. Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said two of the fatalities were in a trailer park. Numerous injuries were also reported in the city of 48,000. The tornado ripped through the area around 4 a.m., with strong winds that caused extensive damage in several blocks of Hattiesburg. As dawn broke, city residents awoke to find trees, massive limbs and poles wrapped in power lines littering the streets next to decimated and severely damaged homes. Nearly 15,000 homes and businesses were without power. "The total debris clean-up will be weeks at this point," said Lee Smithson, executive director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. South of downtown Hattiesburg, Edna Smith examined her now roofless home. The tornado tossed most of her roof into the backyard and alley, leaving rain free to stream inside where it turned wallboard into mud and soaked upholstered furniture. "It woke me up and half the roof was gone,” she told the Associated Press. “I don’t know what I’m going to do now" At the Hattiesburg Salvation Army, Captain Patrick Connelly began assessing the damage. “Before first light, I could tell there were windows blown out and standing water in the buildings,” he said. Connelly said the destructive winds peeled back the roofs on nearly every building of the campus, which includes a homeless shelter, church sanctuary, administrative offices, and a Boys and Girls Club for after-school programs. “This won’t stop us. In fact, we will have feeding trucks on our campus feeding lunch to those in the area who are in need,” he said. Forrest County Emergency Management Agency Director Glen Moore said there were multiple reports of people trapped in homes. State and local emergency responders coordinated on rescue missions in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday as another line of severe weather swept through. Mayor Johnny DuPree signed an emergency declaration for the city, which reported significant structural damage, AP reported. Smithson said Gov. Phil Bryant is traveling back to Mississippi after attending President Trump's inauguration and will sign a sate of emergency declaration. Nearby Lamar and Perry counties and the city of Petal were also hard hit. Petal Mayor Hal Marx urged residents to stay home. Emergency personnel are out working to clear roads, and there are multiple areas of downed power lines and gas leaks. "Stay off roads in affected areas," he said. "No sightseeing." The severe weather slammed several counties in the area, causing extensive damage, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reported. Interstate 59 north of the city was closed due to debris and downed power lines. Search and rescue teams were dispatched to help local authorities, who urged residents to avoid traveling. William Carey University's Hattiesburg campus closed and students were being escorted from the area, the school announced on Twitter. Arrangements were being made for students who couldn't make it home. Some dorms were damaged in the storm, and some students reported minor injuries, the university tweeted. At one point, students at the Hattiesburg campus of the University of Southern Mississippi were directed to take cover. The university also reported extensive flash flooding at several locations on campus. The National Weather Service said three to five inches of rain fell, raising the threat of flooding. The National Weather Service said more severe weather is expected in the area between 4 p.m. and midnight. Meteorologist Latrice Maxie said there is the danger of more tornadoes, but the greatest risk is farther north. The line of storms will also push east later Saturday across parts of Alabama, Georgia, northern Florida and far southern South Carolina, bringing the chance of damaging winds, hail, flash flooding and tornadoes. On Sunday, the thunderstorms are expected to form into a squall line, with a high risk of damaging winds and the potential for a few tornadoes, AccuWeather reported. Stanglin reported from McLean, Va.
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Frozen Venice: the lagoon and canals ice over as Europe's big freeze continues
St Mark's belltower can be seen across the partially frozen San Giuliano channel linking Venice to Mestre
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Volcano news: Colima Volcano (Mexico)
Colima volcano (Mexico), activity update: strong vulcanian explosions
Friday Jan 20, 2017 23:54 PM | BY: T
Vulcanian explosion at Colima on 19 Jan 2017 (image: Hernando Rivera)
The series of strong vulcanian explosions continues. Some of them are large enough to send incandescent bombs all over the summit cone and produce small pyroclastic flows and eruption lightning. For those interested in joining us on a last-minute volcano eruption tour, we offer a Colima Volcano Special from 29 Jan - 2 Feb! Colima volcano is one of the most active in North America and one of the potentially most dangerous ones. It has had more than 30 periods of eruptions since 1585, including several significant eruptions in the late 1990s. Scientific monitoring of the volcano began 20 years ago. The Colima volcanic complex is the most prominent volcanic center of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt. It consists of two southward-younging volcanoes, Nevado de Colima (the 4320 m high point of the complex) on the north and the 3850-m-high historically active Volcán de Colima at the south. A group of cinder cones of probable late-Pleistocene age is located on the floor of the Colima graben west and east of the Colima complex. Volcán de Colima (also known as Volcán Fuego) is a youthful stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera, breached to the south, that has been the source of large debris avalanches. Major slope failures have occurred repeatedly from both the Nevado and Colima cones, and have produced a thick apron of debris-avalanche deposits on three sides of the complex. Frequent historical eruptions date back to the 16th century. Occasional major explosive eruptions (most recently in 1913) have destroyed the summit and left a deep, steep-sided crater that was slowly refilled and then overtopped by lava dome growth. Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institute - Colima information
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23 intelligence-military veterans demand Obama release proof of Russian hacking or admit it’s a lie
Posted on January 18, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 18 Comments
23 U.S. intelligence, military and diplomatic veterans have written an extraordinary letter calling on Obama to release the evidence that Russia had hacked the 2016 presidential election in order to elect Donald Trump, or admit that there is no proof. You don’t and won’t see this letter on the MSM. The 23 former officials are members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). In their letter, the former federal government officials: Point out that the Obama administration’s published intelligence report — on Russia’s alleged hacking of the election and transmittal of hacked Democrat emails to WikiLeaks to publish — lacks evidence and is unconvincing. Assert that, if Russia indeed had transmitted hacked emails to WikiLeaks, the NSA should — but does not — have the incriminating electronic communications between the Kremlin and Wikileaks. Assert that the Democrat emails obtained by WikiLeaks were leaked, not hacked, which would explain why there are no electronic traces. By “leaked” is meant that someone(s) handed to WikiLeaks the actual physical hardcopies of the emails. (Note: That is what WikiLeaks has maintained all along. Julian Assange had implied that the source of the leak was a DNC staffer named Seth Rich, 27, who was shot and killed in a D.C. street on July 10, 2016. His murder is still unsolved. We want Justice for Seth Rich!) Convey their dismay that James Clapper, who oversees the entire U.S. intelligence system as Director of National Intelligence, is still in office despite him having lied under oath to Congress and made outright erroneous claims. Below is their letter. You can read it in PDF format here. I supplied the red color for certain sentences and paragraphs that I believe particularly merit your attention. MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack Obama
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be Resolved
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his upcoming presidency amid an unprecedentedly concerted campaign to delegitimize it. Unconfirmed accusations continue to swirl alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “Russian hacking” that helped put Mr. Trump in the White House. As President for a few more days, you have the power to demand concrete evidence of a link between the Russians and WikiLeaks, which published the bulk of the information in question. Lacking that evidence, the American people should be told that there is no fire under the smoke and mirrors of recent weeks. We urge you to authorize public release of any tangible evidence that takes us beyond the unsubstantiated, “we-assess” judgments by the intelligence agencies. Otherwise, we – as well as other skeptical Americans – will be left with the corrosive suspicion that the intense campaign of accusations is part of a wider attempt to discredit the Russians and those – like Mr. Trump – who wish to deal constructively with them. Remember the Maine? Alleged Russian interference has been labeled “an act of war” and Mr. Trump a “traitor.” But the “intelligence” served up to support those charges does not pass the smell test. Your press conference on Wednesday will give you a chance to respond more persuasively to NBC’s Peter Alexander’s challenge at the last one (on Dec. 16) “to show the proof [and], as they say, put your money where your mouth is and declassify some of the intelligence. …” You told Alexander you were reluctant to “compromise sources and methods.” We can understand that concern better than most Americans. We would remind you, though, that at critical junctures in the past, your predecessors made judicious decisions to give higher priority to buttressing the credibility of U.S. intelligence-based policy than to protecting sources and methods. With the Kremlin widely accused by politicians and pundits of “an act of war,” this is the kind of textbook case in which you might seriously consider taking special pains to substantiate serious allegations with hard intelligence – if there is any. During the Cuban missile crisis, for instance, President Kennedy ordered us to show highly classified photos of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and on ships en route, even though this blew sensitive detail regarding the imagery intelligence capabilities of the cameras on our U-2 aircraft. President Ronald Reagan’s reaction to the Libyan terrorist bombing of La Belle Disco in Berlin on April 5, 1986, that killed two and injured 79 other U.S. servicemen is another case in point. We had intercepted a Libyan message that morning: “At 1:30 in the morning one of the acts was carried out with success, without leaving a trace behind.” (We should add here that NSA’s dragnet SIGINT capability 30 years later renders it virtually impossible to avoid “leaving a trace behind” once a message is put on the network.) President Reagan ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s palace compound to smithereens, killing several civilians. Amid widespread international consternation and demands for proof that Libya was responsible for the Berlin attack, President Reagan ordered us to make public the encrypted Libyan message, thereby sacrificing a collection/decryption capability unknown to the Libyans – until then. As senior CIA veteran Milton Bearden has put it, there are occasions when more damage is done by “protecting” sources and methods than by revealing them. Where’s the Beef? We find the New York Times– and Washington Post-led media Blitz against Trump and Putin truly extraordinary, despite our long experience with intelligence/media related issues. On Jan. 6, the day after your top intelligence officials published what we found to be an embarrassingly shoddy report purporting to prove Russian hacking in support of Trump’s candidacy, the Times banner headline across all six columns on page 1 read: “PUTIN LED SCHEME TO AID TRUMP, REPORT SAYS.” The lead article began: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. Trump.” Eschewing all subtlety, the Times added that the revelations in “this damning report … undermined the legitimacy” of the President-elect, and “made the case that Mr. Trump was the favored candidate of Mr. Putin.” On page A10, however, Times investigative reporter Scott Shane pointed out: “What is missing from the public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. That is a significant omission.” Shane continued, “Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’ There is no discussion of the forensics used to recognize the handiwork of known hacking groups, no mention of intercepted communications between the Kremlin and the hackers, no hint of spies reporting from inside Moscow’s propaganda machinery.” Shane added that the intelligence report “offers an obvious reason for leaving out the details, declaring that including ‘the precise bases for its assessments’ would ‘reveal sensitive sources and methods and imperil the ability to collect critical foreign intelligence in the future.’” Shane added a quote from former National Security Agency lawyer Susan Hennessey: “The unclassified report is underwhelming at best. There is essentially no new information for those who have been paying attention.” Ms. Hennessey served as an attorney in NSA’s Office of General Counsel and is now a Brookings Fellow in National Security Law. Everyone Hacks There is a lot of ambiguity – whether calculated or not – about “Russian hacking.” “Everyone knows that everyone hacks,” says everyone: Russia hacks; China hacks; every nation that can hacks. So do individuals of various nationalities. This is not the question. You said at your press conference on Dec. 16 “the intelligence that I have seen gives me great confidence in their [U.S. intelligence agencies’] assessment that the Russians carried out this hack.” “Which hack?” you were asked. “The hack of the DNC and the hack of John Podesta,” you answered. Earlier during the press conference you alluded to the fact that “the information was in the hands of WikiLeaks.” The key question is how the material from “Russian hacking” got to WikiLeaks, because it was WikiLeaks that published the DNC and Podesta emails. Our VIPS colleague William Binney, who was Technical Director of NSA and created many of the collection systems still in use, assures us that NSA’s “cast-iron” coverage – particularly surrounding Julian Assange and other people associated with WikiLeaks – would almost certainly have yielded a record of any electronic transfer from Russia to WikiLeaks. Binney has used some of the highly classified slides released by Edward Snowden to demonstrate precisely how NSA accomplishes this using trace mechanisms embedded throughout the network. [See: “U.S. Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims,” Dec. 12, 2016.] NSA Must Come Clean We strongly suggest that you ask NSA for any evidence it may have indicating that the results of Russian hacking were given to WikiLeaks. If NSA can produce such evidence, you may wish to order whatever declassification may be needed and then release the evidence. This would go a long way toward allaying suspicions that no evidence exists. If NSA cannot give you that information – and quickly – this would probably mean it does not have any. In all candor, the checkered record of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for trustworthiness makes us much less confident that anyone should take it on faith that he is more “trustworthy than the Russians,” as you suggested on Dec. 16. You will probably recall that Clapper lied under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12, 2013, about NSA dragnet activities; later apologizing for testimony he admitted had been “clearly erroneous.” In our Memorandum for you on Dec. 11, 2013, we cited chapter and verse as to why Clapper should have been fired for saying things he knew to be “clearly erroneous.” In that Memorandum, we endorsed the demand by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that Clapper be removed. “Lying to Congress is a federal offense, and Clapper ought to be fired and prosecuted for it,” said Sensenbrenner in an interview with The Hill. “The only way laws are effective is if they’re enforced.” Actually, we have had trouble understanding why, almost four years after he deliberately misled the Senate, Clapper remains Director of National Intelligence – overseeing the entire intelligence community. Hacks or Leaks? Not mentioned until now is our conclusion that leaks are the source of the WikiLeaks disclosures in question – not hacking. Leaks normally leave no electronic trace. William Binney has been emphasizing this for several months and suggesting strongly that the disclosures were from a leaker with physical access to the information – not a hacker with only remote access. This, of course, makes it even harder to pin the blame on President Putin, or anyone else. And we suspect that this explains why NSA demurred when asked to join the CIA and FBI in expressing “high confidence” in this key judgment of the report put out under Clapper’s auspices on Jan. 6, yielding this curious formulation: “We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.” (Emphasis [bold], and lack of emphasis, in original) In addition, former U.K. Ambassador Craig Murray has said publicly he has first- hand information on the provenance of the leaks, and has expressed surprise that no one from the New York Times or the Washington Post has tried to get in touch with him. We would be interested in knowing whether anyone from your administration, including the intelligence community, has made any effort to contact Ambassador Murray. What to Do President-elect Trump said a few days ago that his team will have a “full report on hacking within 90 days.” Whatever the findings of the Trump team turn out to be, they will no doubt be greeted with due skepticism, since Mr. Trump is in no way a disinterested party. You, on the other hand, enjoy far more credibility – AND power – for the next few days. And we assume you would not wish to hobble your successor with charges that cannot withstand close scrutiny. We suggest you order the chiefs of the NSA, FBI and CIA to the White House and ask them to lay all their cards on the table. They need to show you why you should continue to place credence in what, a month ago, you described as “uniform intelligence assessments” about Russian hacking. At that point, if the intelligence heads have credible evidence, you have the option of ordering it released – even at the risk of damage to sources and methods. For what it may be worth, we will not be shocked if it turns out that they can do no better than the evidence-deprived assessments they have served up in recent weeks. In that case, we would urge you, in all fairness, to let the American people in on the dearth of convincing evidence before you leave office. As you will have gathered by now, we strongly suspect that the evidence your intelligence chiefs have of a joint Russian-hacking-WikiLeaks-publishing operation is no better than the “intelligence” evidence in 2002-2003 – expressed then with comparable flat-fact “certitude” – of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Obama’s Legacy Mr. President, there is much talk in your final days in office about your legacy. Will part of that legacy be that you stood by while flames of illegitimacy rose willy-nilly around your successor? Or will you use your power to reveal the information – or the fact that there are merely unsupported allegations – that would enable us to deal with them responsibly? In the immediate wake of the holiday on which we mark the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it seems appropriate to make reference to his legacy, calling to mind the graphic words in his “Letter From the Birmingham City Jail,” with which he reminds us of our common duty to expose lies and injustice: "Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up, but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” -End of Memo- The above memorandum to Barack Obama is signed by the following 23 former U.S. officials who represent the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS):
William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
Marshall Carter-Tripp, Foreign Service Officer (ret) and former Office Director in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Thomas Drake, former Senior Executive, NSA
Bogdan Dzakovic, Former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red Team, FAA Security, (ret.) (associate VIPS)
Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
Mike Gravel, former Adjutant, top secret control officer, Communications Intelligence Service; special agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps and former United States Senator
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)
Larry Johnson, former CIA Intelligence Officer & former State Department Counter-Terrorism Official, ret.
Michael S. Kearns, Captain, USAF (Ret.); ex-Master SERE Instructor for Strategic Reconnaissance Operations (NSA/DIA) and Special Mission Units (JSOC)
Brady Kiesling, former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, ret. (Associate VIPS)
John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., US Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003
Linda Lewis, WMD preparedness policy analyst, USDA (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East, CIA (ret.)
Scott Ritter, former MAJ., USMC, former UN Weapon Inspector, Iraq
Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)
Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.) (associate VIPS)
Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA (ret.)
Robert Wing, former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS)
Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat
See also “Trump’s war with the CIA”.
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The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing
Posted By: Ted January 18, 2017
America wasn’t built by weak people and it most assuredly wouldn’t be the country that it is today if people had the mentality that many do today. The bottom line is that we’ve become complacent and weak as a country. There’s nothing wrong with compassion as long as it isn’t at the expense of self but we’ve passed the point of being nice and now reside in the land of weakness. The way that the country comes together in tragedy proves that American people still possess these traits; they’re just buried under deep layers of apathy and laziness. Here are just a few lost survival traits that made this country what it is today: the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thinking Independently From the time of Native Americans, Americans have been independent thinkers. The problem with today’s society is that a huge majority of the population wakes up in the morning and swallows the spoonfuls of crap-du-jour that news networks and social media are serving up. We’ve moved away from being the high-flying, far-seeing independent eagle and are now grounded sheep that ignorantly and trustingly bleat however our neighbors do. Believe however you want, but be willing to back those beliefs up with facts and logic. Take the time to research the topics that affect your way of life. You can’t change the direction of the train if you don’t even know that it’s moving. It’s your freedom that’s at stake – you’d think that would be worth at least as much of your time as you invest in finding a witty cartoon to post on Facebook. Are you ready to turn back the clocks to the 1800’s for up to three years? Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were the last generation to practice the basic things that we call survival skills now… WATCH THIS VIDEO and you will find many interesting things! Click on the image bellow and learn more about Survival things that we lost to history. Being Willing to Call “Bullshit” Edmund Burke said “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Our forefathers were willing to stand up and fight against tyranny and oppression in order to preserve (or gain) independence from any and all challengers. That sense of patriotism seems to be a dispassionate ghost of its former self in most people today. Our rights are being slowly stripped and we’re swallowing the “logic” that accompanies the laws. In some cases, the laws are directly against our constitutional rights yet we still sit back and say nothing. Fellow Americans, where are your spines? Evil is most certainly prevailing. The second amendment wasn’t written so that you can hunt; it was written so that you can defend yourself and your country from tyranny. Work Ethic We’ve become a people who believe that the world owes us a living. Now I’m not applying this statement to everybody, but it does apply to a large percentage of our population. Our ancestors died to have the right to live here. The American dream was once attainable by just about anybody who was willing to work hard enough to achieve it and it still is. The problem is that very few people are willing to stick it out and invest the blood, sweat and tears necessary to prevail. The “I will do it” attitude has been replaced by the “poor pitiful me should get stuff for free” attitude. We are a land full of asses waiting to be kicked. Responsibility From top politicians right on down to the bottom of the totem pole, nobody is willing to stand up and lay claim to their mistakes or take responsibility for their actions. Everything is somebody else’s fault. Remember that when you point a finger, there are 3 more pointing back at you! It’s not always the case, but for the most part we each make the bed that we lie in. When you take responsibility for your actions, you can finally see what’s going wrong and take steps to change your path, improve your life and make yourself a better person and a better citizen. Sometimes you have to apologize and sometimes you have to make retribution, and our ancestors were willing to do that in order to preserve the rights of every citizen. As a matter of fact, our forefathers took the time to consider their actions BEFORE they took them in order to live in a manner that didn’t encroach on others. They appreciated their rights and knew that they came with limits. There’s an old saying that goes something along the lines of, “My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.” If you take a few minutes to think about that statement, it covers everything that our ancestors held near and dear, and that we now take for granted. Basic Problem Solving We are a country built on innovation and “making do.” Native Americans lived and thrived for centuries solely off what the land had to offer. They knew how to use what they had on hand for whatever they needed and they knew how to read the environment for signs about food, water and weather. Immigrants and settlers learned the same skills and also applied skills learned in their native countries to “advance” their new country. We’ve now become so technologically advanced that we’ve lost the problem solving and the survival skills that made us a strong people in the very beginning. Without our handheld devices we can’t even tell if it’s raining, let alone figure out where to find a source of water. (Googling “nearest 7-11” doesn’t count!) That’s going to equal a world of hurt for many people when SHTF. As a country, we’ve gotten away from both the moral and physical survival skills that built this country and made it a force to be reckoned with. For years, other countries have known that to poke us was to risk waking the sleeping giant. However, recent events and the non-action of our citizenry in the face of tyranny and adversity over the last several decades have shown us to be weak. If we continue on our current path of dependency and apathy, it won’t be long before all of the rights that our forefathers (and foremothers!) fought so hard for are lost. Get your pride back, America: it’s in there, so dig deep and get back on track! Make every day Independence Day!
http://www.survivalonline101.com/only-thing-necessary-for-the-triumph/
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Planned Parenthood Was Caught on Video Covering Up Sex-Trafficking, Its Response is Horrifying
National Micaiah Bilger Jan 17, 2017 | 2:26PM Washington, DC
A new Live Action investigation reveals that Planned Parenthood did not fulfill its promises to change after its employees were caught willing to help sex traffickers cover up abuses of young girls. The pro-life group recently decided to follow up to see if the abortion chain retrained staff about sex trafficking and abuse, and if it had reported the suspected sex traffickers to authorities, as it said it would. The abortion group made these promises to media outlets and others in 2011 after a Live Action investigation uncovered wide-spread willingness among Planned Parenthood employees to help sex traffickers abuse young teens. But it did not keep them, according to Live Action’s latest findings. “It appears that many media outlets simply took Planned Parenthood’s word that it reported the suspected child sex traffickers to the proper local authorities,” Live Action President and Founder Lila Rose said. “If Planned Parenthood can provide proof that it actually tried to protect children it thought were being forced into prostitution by reporting the suspected crimes to local law enforcement, we’d love to see the evidence.” SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately Rather than train staff to identify and help sexual abuse victims, former Planned Parenthood manager Ramona Trevino said her employer taught them how to identify undercover journalists. Trevino, who managed a Planned Parenthood in Texas when Live Action released its undercover investigation, said she initially believed the abortion group could and would fix the problem. But when she attended a manager training meeting, her views quickly changed. “When were called into this meeting, I went in really believing that … they really do care about women and this is something that really concerns them,” Trevino told Live Action. “They begin to play all of the previous undercover investigations that had been put out about Planned Parenthood, and I became very perplexed. “As time went on, I raised my hand and said, ‘I’m confused. When are we going to actually begin the retraining? What can I do as a manager to take this information back to my staff and enforce policies and procedures that would help protect women?’ [The Planned Parenthood speaker] immediately shot me down. She said, ‘We’re not here to talk about that.’” According to public records obtained by Live Action, the abortion group also repeatedly failed to report the suspected sex trafficking to local authorities. Through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, the pro-life group found that only one (Arizona) of the five states and Washington, D.C. had responsive records showing Planned Parenthood reported anything to authorities. Here’s more from the pro-life group: Nearly a week after the first of Live Action’s undercover visits to Planned Parenthood facilities, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Eric Holder reporting the visits. She claimed that the suspected sex traffickers visited Planned Parenthood facilities in Arizona, Virginia, Indiana, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. However, she failed to identify the New York facility that investigators visited and she wrongly identified a facility in Indiana that investigators never visited. It appears that the New York facility didn’t report the suspected trafficking and that a real trafficking incident may have occurred in Indiana under Planned Parenthood’s nose. Richards also told Holder that staff “made it clear” to the suspected traffickers that staff would comply with state laws requiring them to report the possibility of endangered children. Live Action’s video footage shows that staff never told the investigators anything like that.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017
The Sun hasn't risen over its horizon for more than two months yet the North Pole was warmer than South of France, Italy, Greece Turkey and Syria yesterday! The Sun hasn't risen over its horizon for more than two months yet at a balmy -6C +21F the North Pole was yesterday warmer than parts of the South of France, Italy, Greece Turkey and Syria. The North Pole was actually yesterday 34C or 93F warmer than the average temperature for the time of the year and it's been like that for most of the winter which is incredible when you realize parts of Greenland and Russia have had regular temperatures as low as -57C or -71F. Today most of Europe is witnessing sub-zero temperatures as the big freeze continues.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/01/the-sun-hasnt-risen-over-its-horizon.html
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F-35 in crisis as Pentagon tests find 276 different faults in $400bn jet's combat system and warn full tests might not even begin until 2019
Fifth-generation fighter has been plagued with issues
$400bn development schedule has stretched to 15 years
Report claims it won't be ready to even begin full combat testing until 2019
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com Published: 15:31 EST, 16 January 2017 | Updated: 15:50 EST, 16 January 2017
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been hailed as the 'most expensive weapon in history', costing $400bn. It has been plagued with delays, prompting Donald Trump to describe it as 'out of control' and demanding a price cut from Lockheed Martin. Now, a new Pentagon report has warned the jet still has hundreds of faults - and won't be ready to even begin full combat testing until 2019. The crucial 'Initial Operational Test and Evaluation' tests were scheduled for August. The deadline represents the latest in a series of pushed-back delivery milestones. 'The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program Office (JPO) acknowledged in 2016 that schedule pressure exists for completing System Development and Demonstration (SDD) and starting Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) by August 2017, the planned date in JPO's Integrated Master Schedule,' the report says. 'In an effort to stay on schedule, JPO plans to reduce or truncate planned developmental testing (DT) in an effort to minimize delays and close out SDD as soon as possible. 'However, even with this risky, schedule-driven approach, multiple problems and delays make it clear that the program will not be able to start IOT&E with full combat capability until late CY18 or early CY19, at the soonest.' The Pentagon's Office of Operational Testing and Evaluation says only half of its long list of concerns will be addressed before the major performance milestone. 'The Services have designated 276 deficiencies in combat performance as “critical to correct” in Block 3F, but less than half of the critical deficiencies were addressed with attempted corrections in 3FR6' But addressing even that reduced list is appearing rushed, it says. There are 'significant, well-documented deficiencies resulting in overall ineffective operational performance ... 'hundreds of which will not be adequately addressed with fixes and corrections verified with flight testing.' Key among them are fixing the 25mm cannon which vibrates excessively and the way it is targeted by the aircraft's 'virtual reality' helmet. Lockheed Martin Corp is close to a deal to significantly lower the cost of its F-35 aircraft, Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson said on Friday after meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. 'I certainly share his views that we need to get the best capability to our men and women in uniform, and we have to get it at the lowest possible price,' Hewson said to reporters in Trump Tower. Deal: Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson said after meeting with Trump: 'I certainly share his views that we need to get the best capability to our men and women in uniform.' Hewson had previously assured Trump she would drive down the cost of the company's fighter jet, after he tweeted last month that he was asking rival aerospace company Boeing Co whether it could offer a cheaper alternative to the F-35, based on its existing F-18 Super Hornet. Trump has threatened and rebuked some of America's largest companies, creating a new business risk for those who have been or fear being targeted. Improvements in the internal diagnostics software — the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) have also been slow to emerge. They lead a list including overheating, premature wear of componentsin the vertical tails and vulnerability to fire. The aircraft's 'objectionable or unacceptable flying qualities' while crossing the sound barrier as yet has no plans for a fix. 'The current schedule-driven program plans to close out testing in 2017 do not include enough time to fix these key deficiencies, nor time to verify corrections in flight test,' it adds. 'The program currently has 17 known and acknowledged failures to meet the contract specification requirements, all of which the program is reportedly planning to get relief from the SDD contract due to lack of time and funding.' Despite it's incomplete state, a partially operational squadron of the Marine Corps' F-35B was deployed to Japan last week. The report did note some progress, such as the completion of important ship-integration tests and steps toward fixing a dangerous ejection seat. However, most of chief tester Michael Gilmore's report focuses on what still needs to be done. In a previous memo obtained by the Project On Government Oversight, Michael Gilmore, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, warns that the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office is simply cut short the plane's development phase in order to pretend that schedule and cost goals are being met. 'The purpose of this memorandum is to document my continuing concerns regarding progress in the -35 JSF program as you prepare to conduct the upcoming Defense Acquisition Board review,' the note says, according to War is boring. It calls for the entire programme to be restructured so enough testing can be completed. 'The primary concerns were that the program appeared to be prematurely ending System Development and Demonstration (SDD) and was not taking the necessary steps to be ready for which will be conducted using realistic combat missions fully consistent with our war plans and threat assessments.' Taking incompletely developed F-35s into combat will, Gilmore says, place pilots at 'significant risk.' 'If the program continues with plans to close out SDD prematurely, it will carry the high risk of failing and having to repeat the approximately $300-million operational test, and failing for many years to provide the full combat capability Block 3F has long been meant and claimed to provide. 'Finally, the combination of unfnished SDD work and the likely follow-on Operational test would significantly delay, and increase the cost of, achieving the important capabilities which are urgently needed to counter current and emerging threats. 'I therefore recommend very strongly that the program be restructured now and provided the additional resources it clearly requires to deliver its long-planned and sorely needed full Block 3F combat capability.' The Marines began moving 16 F-35Bs to Iwakuni Air Station in Japan earlier this month, it has been revealed. The Marines will be the first force to deploy the Lockheed Martin jet aboard the USS Wasp next year, and will deploy a second contingent soon after, aboard the USS Essex. 'We will learn from that, and see what capabilities we need to further develop,' said Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, the commanding general of the Marines' Combat Development Command, according to Defense One. 'A lot of it's going to be the school of hard knocks.' The jets will deploy as part of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 in early 2017, a Marine spokeswoman said. At year's end, six of that squadron's planes will attach to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Industry and U.S. defense officials say they are working hard to continue driving down the cost of the new warplanes to $85 million per plane by 2019, as well as the cost of operating them. Senator John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he welcomed the announcement but made clear he intended to keep a close eye on the hugely expensive program. 'The Senate Armed Services Committee will continue to exercise rigorous oversight of the Joint Strike Fighter program's long-delayed System Development and Demonstration phase as well as the start of the operational test and evaluation phase,' McCain said in a statement. To become battle ready, at least a dozen individual F-35 must demonstrate their ability to drop bombs and shoot down other planes. Each jet must be upgraded to a specific software package, and plugged into the complex logistics cloud that manages maintenance. The F-35 project office had previously set an Aug. 1 target date. The project has been plagued with delays. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's record on cost, schedule and performance has been a scandal and a tragedy, Senator John McCain told senior Pentagon officials earlier this year. McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the aircraft's development schedule has stretched to 15 years, deliveries of the F-35 have been delayed, and costs have skyrocketed. 'It's been a scandal and the cost overruns have been disgraceful,' McCain said. Pilots under 136 pounds aren't allowed to fly any F-35 variant. Pilots under 165 pounds have a 1-in-4 chance of death and 100 percent chance of serious neck injury upon ejecting, according to the testing office. 'The testing showed that the ejection seat rotates backwards after ejection. This results in the pilot's neck becoming extended, as the head moves behind the shoulders in a 'chin up' position. When the parachute inflates and begins to extract the pilot from the seat (with great force), a 'whiplash' action occurs. The rotation of the seat and resulting extension of the neck are greater for lighter weight pilots,' the report states. It is designed to support operations, mission planning and to spot any maintenance issues with the vehicle. 'Program officials said that if ALIS is not fully functional, the F-35 could not be operated as frequently as intended,' the report said. 'But a DoD commissioned plan found that schedule slippage and functionality problems with ALIS could lead to $20-100 billion in additional costs.' So far, the software has been so flawed that maintenance crews have had to resort labour-intensive alternatives. According to National Interest, in one instance maintainers had to manually burn data onto CDs and to send the massive files across a civilian WiFi network. One major problem, the report said, is that the F-35 data produced goes through a single main operating unit which has no back up. 'The F-35 is still in development, and this is the time when technical challenges are expected,' Lt. Genernal Chris Bogdon told CNN. 'However, we believe the combined government and industry team will resolve current issues and future discoveries,' he said. Lead defense contractor for the plane, Lockheed Martin, insists development of the logistics software is on schedule. 'As ALIS development continues, our focus is on the warfighter and delivering the most effective, efficient fleet management system to sustain the F-35 over the next five decades of operations,' said Sharon Parsley, a spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin. 'The recommendations by the GAO are in line with the actions already underway in preparation for full-rate production and worldwide sustainment.'
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Hero Journalist Who Exposed CIA Infiltration and Manipulation of Media Found Dead
1/18/2017
Udo Ulfkotte, a brave, selfless, hero died on Friday at the age of 56. The legacy he leaves behind is one that gives context to today’s geopolitical relations between the United States and Russia.
by Rachel Blevins
Ulfkotte was a world-class German journalist, working for a major Germany newspaper, who came out and exposed how the mainstream media lies for the CIA. In an interview with RT in October 2014, Ulfkotte explained the CIA’s practice of manipulation and bribery: “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. “But seeing right now within the last months how the German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia — this is a point of no return and I’m going to stand up and say it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do and have done in the past because they are bribed to betray the people, not only in Germany, all over Europe.” Ulfkotte also revealed that he was forced to publish the work of intelligence agencies under his name, and he was threatened with termination if he did not comply. The main reason he said he came out was because the intelligence agencies were pushing disinformation in order to push for war between Europe and Russia. Ulfkotte’s death was allegedly the result of a heart attack. However, he was aware the possible repercussions that could come from what he was exposing. In an interview with Russia Insider, he said: “When I told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte’s newspaper) that I would publish the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal consequences if I would publish any names or secrets — but I don’t mind. You see, I don’t have children to take care of.” He knew he would face persecution from the state, and he did. Ulfkotte told RT that German prosecutors searched his house on at least six separate occasions. Similar information was disclosed through the Church Committee Senate hearings that happened in 1975 with Sen. Frank Church leading the way and exposing the fact that the same thing happened in the U.S. with Operation Mockingbird. This all brings us back to now, where we are seeing intelligence agencies and the mainstream media pushing for war with Russia, and clashing against Trump. Ulfkotte also revealed the fact that there are mainstream media journalists who have been trained as CIA operatives, which is a topic WeAreChange has covered extensively over the years. Also at the Church hearings, it was revealed that the CIA has developed a poison dart gun that “gives deadly heart attacks and leaves no trace.” We don’t have all of the facts, and we don’t know exactly what happened to Ulfkotte, but we do know that he was a hero who put everything on the line in order for you to know the truth.
Source: http://humansarefree.com/2017/01/hero-journalist-who-exposed-cia.html
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Something Very Strange Is Going On In Washington DC - More Signs Emerge They're Preparing To Unleash Chaos
January 17, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The new advertisement on the Backpage website seen screenshot below is called "Get Paid For Fighting Against Trump!" within which we learn that an organization called Demand Protest is allegedly hiring snowflakes and anarchists to stir up trouble in US cities across the country at a 'rocking' $50 an hour with a monthly 'retainer' of $2,500 as long as the 'hirees' participate in at least 6 'events' per year. Snowflakes paid to terrorize America, we see George Soros' tactics being used to wreak havoc at Donald Trump's inauguration, just the latest signs we're getting that all hell could break loose on Friday if 'Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's sore loser globalists' have their way. Infowars reporter Margaret Howell takes a look at this Backpage ad in the 2nd video below. Interestingly as Tucker Carlson from Fox News points out in the 3rd video below, it appears that this 'Demand Protest' is all a big hoax and as we see Tucker Carlson ripping the perpetrator apart, this is clearly one of the craziest Fox News videos that we have ever seen. Why would someone put ads in Backpages across the country, pay the money to develop a website and then get completely humiliated by Tucker Carlson on live TV? 'Lunatic fringe?' With 'protesters' seemingly forgetting that there's a HUGE difference between 'legal protest' and 'outright violence', we see in the first video below a very, very fine line separates the two as Project Veritas's James Okeefe joins Infowars. In fact, 'legal protest' can turn into 'terrorism' in moments. The fact that anarchists from DisruptJ20 have been caught planning an 'acid attack' upon one of the inaugural balls proves to us this may be no 'normal' presidential inauguration. An 'acid attack' sure doesn't fall under the guidelines of 'peaceful protest'. In fact, today we see part II of Project Veritas's investigation into the 'protests' that will be happening in DC and across the nation in the final video below and in Zero Hedge's new story called "Video Exposes Anti-Trump Group Plans To Shut Down DC Bridges And Highways With Clusterf*ck Blockades." As we see, what they have planned is anything but peaceful and could easily be used by ISIS terrorists in America who've promised to turn Trump's inauguration into a 'bloody Friday' exactly what they want and need to cause a maximum amount of mayhem. Promising to bring Washington DC and cities across America to a standstill, imagine being at the inauguration and all hell breaks loose but you're stuck there because of anarchists 'clusterf*ck blockades' that have left the cities metro system and roadways in total shutdown mode. Anarchists are aiding terrorists in such a situation. Showing once again why cities are death traps in a SHTF situation, the fact that several caches of weapons were recently found just lying out in the open in DC as was reported in this story from The Daily Sheeple shows us once again that there may be a massive conspiracy to stop Trump being planned and its clear leftists are resorting to terror. While ANP phone calls to Demand Protest's phone number requesting an interview have not been returned, we find it interesting that the phone number of Demand Protest (listed here) is (415) 666-2650. Are they working for satan himself? And as Susan Duclos reported this morning in her story on ANP, more recent strange events prove there may be a shutdown of independent news websites on Friday should 'an event' occur after several websites, including the Drudge Report and SteveQuayle.com, recently had their home pages revert to news from previous days. ANP has long warned that any real attempt to permanently shut down independent news websites such as Infowars, the Drudge Report, Zero Hedge, ANP and others could be looked at as an outright authoritarian move being made by a terrorist, dictatorial government ready to seize complete control and eliminate the 1st Amendment in America. We've warned that 'independent news' is the 'canary's in the coal mine' and any permanent shutdown of such websites should be a HUGE 'sign of tyranny' for Americans to look out for. While we will continue to pray that the 2nd Amendment is never needed to 'save' the 1st Amendment and freedom in America, it's quite clear that our Founding Fathers had tremendous wisdom. With Trump seemingly going to war with the US intelligence community most likely responsible for murdering the last US president to be gunned down in office, the fact that the CIA has a long history of covertly taking down government's all across the world is more proof that such a scenario is not impossible here. They did it once to JFK, they'll try it again. We also have to remind you that they have access to the most dangerous drug in the world, a drug which they use to 'program people MKUltra-style' to do things, anything they want them to do, and the victim has no clue. Called 'Devil's Breath' by locals in Colombia where the tree the flower is on grows freely, International Business Times reported back in 2012 that 'the most terrifying drug in the world' has been used by the CIA. Specifically called scopolamine, what evil could the CIA accomplish with a drug capable of doing this? The "Devil's Breath" drug scopolamine is a hallucinogen was recently brought to the public's attention by a documentary aired on Vice.com, which saw reporters travel to Colombia to see its deadly effects. A 'perfect weapon' to use for the CIA to ensure 'mind controlled slaves' we have to ask, how many CIA-programmed 'scopolamine zombies' will be wandering the streets of Washington DC on Friday? The fact alone that tens of thousands of mentally unstable snowflakes will be there is alone cause for alarm. And after the recent weapons caches have been found in DC, the editor's over at this SHTFPlan story asks today, is somebody planning on unleashing massive chaos on Friday? Is this more evidence of foul play afoot in Washington, D.C. ahead of the inauguration and one of the most contentious transfers of power in American history? There is simply no way to know, but with so many protests planned, so many in the establishment opposed to the Trump presidency and so much to gain from civil unrest, there is every reasons to question whether or not security has been properly arranged at the capital, and whether or not someone is preparing to unleash total chaos from the inception of the next administration. Although the inauguration will hopefully go off smoothly, and without a hitch, President-elect Trump has more enemies than he can count before he even takes office. There are enough bizarre and unexplained circumstances already unfolding to start a new chapter in the JFK assassination investigation – why would the national security structure allow such unstable conditions, unless they were hoping to profit from a beleaguered administration and an angry, outraged people? As we close in on the end of this most chaotic political season in most of our lives in Americans if not in the history of America, we pray for the safety of our public servants and everybody going to DC who intends to peacefully carry on time honored American traditions, whether that be attending Trump's inauguration or peacefully protesting against him. However, don't expect any sympathy from us for those who are going to DC to carry out acid attacks or construct 'clusterf*ck blockades' or trying to interupt others from going about their days. As recent Project Veritas videos prove to us, it appears there is going to be massive chaos in Washington DC on Friday, if the 'sore loser left' has their way.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Paid_To_Terrorize_America.php
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Trump Is Already Facing a Soft Coup
Dave Hodges
Trump is entering office with a mandate from millions of disenfranchised Americans. The economic policies espoused by the self-serving, middle-class destroying establishment over the last 30 years have resulted in the rich getting obscenely richer and the poor getting miserably poorer. The end result is that economic and social mobility for average American families has declined, and for all practical purposes has disappeared. And what Obama calls an economic recovery is now much lower than in other advanced economies. This has been an important cause for disillusion and anger among many Americans who absolutely and correctly feel that the economic system is rigged against them and in favor of the very rich. It is not just that the rich are getting richer, there is also a secondary issue at work and it has to do with the fact that millions of Americans are witnessing the unveiling of a police state that discriminates against self-employment, the desecration of the Constitution and an attack upon traditional values that have their roots in Christianity. There is a smaller, but still large segment, who fear for their lives as Americans. Many Americans are very concerned because we see our enemies getting stronger by the day and Obama has seemingly done everything he can do to weaken America’s military. We have fewer ships than we did in World War I and fewer troops than we did prior to World War II when this nation was woefully unprepared to fight a war. Can a Trump Presidency make the desired changes that the people who elected hope to make? The Reduction of Cronyism During the 2016 campaign, Trump clearly stated that “If I become president, I couldn’t care less about my company. It’s peanuts… I wouldn’t ever be involved because I wouldn’t care about anything but our country, anything.” It was in this spirit that he stated that he would try and eliminate as much corruption as possible by eliminating the practice of people connected to Congress going to work as lobbyists for private interests for five years following their governmental service. This is a brilliant move because I am tired of being sold out by former Congressmen in this regard. The American people should expect their politicians not to use their positions, directly or indirectly, to enrich themselves. Now, can Trump get Congress to vote against their own corruption? That remains to be seen. Trump Will Not Be Soft on Putin’s Militarism. Russia expects to enter into discussions with Trump regarding their nuclear build up and the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, is the on the record as having said the same. Lavrov said the new agenda for such negotiations should also include new hypersonic weapons with scalar wave technology, the US missile shield in Europe, space weapons and nuclear testing. From what I have been able to learn about a secret space program which includes space weapons, this is will be the sticking point. The only reason that I believe that Russia and/or China has not yet attacked us is because Obama was unable to disarm our space-based weapons for which Russia and China do not yet have an answer for. Many of sources feel that Obama was apprehensive about attacking our space-based technology because the military would would have strongly rallied against the move and this was too much for Obama to take on. In a Sunday Times interview, Trump stated that we consider reviewing the US sanction on Russia so long as the Russians are willing to significantly reduce its stockpile of nuclear weapons. The dialogue between Russia and Trump is very positive and takes some of the sting out of Obama’s military provocations toward Russia. Free Trade Agreements The Global Research website is truly showing their anti-American spirit with their recent writings and this is typical of many of the MSM publications. Global Research accuses Trump of protectionism and his actions will global trade back There is nothing more despicable than a government that sells its citizens out. I applaud Trump for trying to keep jobs in America. I welcome the implementation of tariffs for American based corporations who cost millions of American jobs overseas in search of cheaper labor, which imposes untold amounts of human suffering. Yet, Global Research, NBC, CNN et al would expect you, the American people, to sacrifice your economic viability in the name of increasing the insane level of profits. Immigration It is not the immigrants we fear coming into the country looking for a better way of life. It is the drug cartels and the fifth column terrorist groups that accompany them. Why are organizations like CNN so opposed to vetting immigrants. Doesn’t Anderson Cooper care about national security? Trumps policies are hailed as xenophobic. No, they are anti-terrorist and anti-drug cartel. I fail to see why the immigration controls we successfully practiced in the 19th century are racist and xenophobic. They are common sense and cautious. Treason In Our Midst Is anyone else bothered by the fact that body count of Democratic Congressmen who are not attending the Inauguration is up to 38 and growing. Their charge is led by the very radicalized John Lewis. Lewis belongs to the Progressive Caucus which a clear front organization for the Communist Party as are the other 38 Congressmen. At minimum, I am concerned because these Congressmen are demonstrating that they will not work with this President. This is troublesome because the Congress and the President must work together for the good of the country. At maximum, I am concerned about this development because questions about these 38 Congressmen are being asked by my audience with regard to their real motivation. Many of my readers and viewers are questioning if these Congressmen want to simply be “out of the blast zone” at the inauguration. Even if this is not true, the public perception is damaging to the confidence that the people feel towards their government if it is going to work properly. Conclusion Mot one of these reforms will see the light of day with the current Congress we have as typified by John Lewis who demonstrates his anti-American sentiment with each passing day. All Trump will be able to accomplish is gridlock. How can the Americans stop the gridlock? The answer is simple. Every Congressman and one-third of the senators need to be shown the door in 2018. Only then, will Trump have meaningful reforms. At the end of the day, it is not up to Trump, it is up to us.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/18/trump-is-already-facing-a-soft-coup/
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Exclusive: Trump Operative Roger Stone Survives Assassination Attempt
Doctors told him he had been poisoned with polonium and CDC tests found the substance in his blood
Infowars.com - January 17, 2017
Former Trump adviser Roger Stone was recently targeted for assassination, he revealed on the Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show. The renowned Republican operative says he’s usually very healthy, but became violently ill unexpectedly several weeks ago. “I am generally a healthy person. I have been a runner and a weight lifter. I am very careful in my diet. I’m a user of the Infowars supplements. I have been treated with acupuncture by perhaps the greatest acupuncturist in the state of Florida if not the United States,” Stone told radio host Alex Jones. Stone went on to describe that his symptoms presented themselves first as a “routine stomach virus,” but that he eventually grew “exceedingly ill.” “So I ultimately went to the doctors at Mt. Sinai hospital in Miami Beach, my own personal physician. They conducted extensive blood tests. Those blood tests were passed on to CDC.”“The general consensus is that I was poisoned,” Stone says. “I was poisoned with, they now say, a substance that may have been polonium or had the characteristics of polonium. This made me exceedingly ill. The conjecture of all the doctors was that I did not receive a large enough dose to kill me, but I have never been this ill.” Polonium-210 is a radioactive substance that releases extremely harmful alpha particles throughout the body producing cancer-causing free radicals. It has been used in numerous high profile assassinations, including that of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, and was suspected in the death of former PLO leader Yassar Arafat. Stone went on to contemplate who may have been behind the possible assassination attempt, fingering Democrat opposition and the intel community. “Who would want to do this to me? I am an enemy of the deep state. I think people know that I was an insider in American politics I was close to power in nine presidential elections. Everything Glenn Greenwald says [about the “deep state”] is true,” Stone claimed, referring to a recent The Intercept article which outlined how the intelligence community is attempting to stifle Trump. “The Republican/Democrat Bush Clinton deep state has manufactured this Russia fraud. They have compounded it by pushing a clearly fabricated document.” “Perhaps the fact that I’m effective on behalf of my beliefs has something to do with it,” Stone theorizes.
http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-trump-operative-roger-stone-survives-assassination-attempt/
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Netanyahu: Campaign to topple government is outrageous
By Jeremy Sharon 17 January 2017 03:48
Netanyahu entered the Likud Knesset faction meeting on Monday in a defiant mood and issued a message of harsh criticism against the press, who he accused of trying to topple his government. To raucous cheers, applause and chants of “Bibi, king of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the Likud Knesset faction meeting on Monday in a defiant mood and issued a message of harsh criticism against the press, who he accused of trying to topple his government. With the cloud of two police investigations hanging over his head, the prime minister could at least take comfort in the warm and enthusiastic welcome he was given by his MKs, advisers and Likud activists in the room. And if Netanyahu was upset by the poor showing of just three of the 10 Likud cabinet ministers at the meeting, he did not show it, although the same could not be said of coalition chairman MK David Bitan, who fumed afterward that he would start blocking legislation of truant ministers if their absenteeism continued. Addressing the media at the faction meeting, Netanyahu scolded them for what he described as “a huge media campaign against me designed to topple the Likud government which I lead,” describing the situation as “outrageous.” The prime minister claimed that certain members of the press were acting not just as journalists but also as “investigators, judges and hangmen” in an effort to politically decapitate him. “An entire investigation is being conducted on television,” Netanyahu said. “Every evening they are disseminating selectively and carefully filtered transcripts and deliberate lies on the two issues in question,” referring to the steady stream of broadcasts by Channel 2 on recorded conversations between the prime minister and Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon “Noni” Mozes. Netanyahu alleged that the purpose of the media focus on the recordings, and the other investigation into alleged illicit gifts he may have received while in office, was to create a groundswell of pressure on the police and the attorney-general to file an indictment against him. “So I want to say to you, friends: in a democracy, governments are changed at the polling booth, not through orchestrated pressure on the attorney-general and the law enforcement services,” the prime minister declared. Speaking earlier in the day, opposition leader and Zionist Union head MK Isaac Herzog defended the press, and took Netanyahu to task for his Facebook post on Sunday in which the prime minister said that he had called elections after a bill was submitted that would have prevented the Israel HaYom newspaper from being distributed free of charge. In his post, Netanyahu was defending himself from accusations that the law had been concocted together with Mozes as part of a deal to ease the financial stress Israel HaYom was causing Yediot Aharonot, in return for Yediot softening its fiercely critical stance of the prime minister. The prime minister said he had prevented the Israel HaYom bill from being brought to a preliminary vote “for many months,” that he had voted against it, and that after the law passed, he “dismantled the government and went to elections, because of the subversion within the government to pass this law, among other [reasons].” But Herzog upbraided the prime minister for this statement, claiming it was proof that Netanyahu had a direct connection to Israel HaYom, as has always been claimed by his opponents. “Netanyahu has been revealed as someone who trades away Israeli democracy as if it is his private property, and all citizens in Israel should tremble for the image of Israeli democracy,” Herzog proclaimed. He said that even if no crime had been committed by the prime minister, “we are however talking about a severe breach of trust between the government and the citizens of the state.” Herzog also warned that if Netanyahu does not relinquish his role as communications minister, Zionist Union would file a petition to the High Court of Justice demanding that he do so. Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid was less scathing in his assessment of the situation, but said that the investigations into the prime minister have distracted the government from actual governing. “The prime minister should be considered innocent until proved otherwise, and we must remember and respect that,” he said, adding that the police, attorney-general and State Attorney’s Office need to be given time to complete their investigations and deliberations. The Yesh Atid leader stated, however, that this process must not be dragged on too long because of the need to govern the country. “We have real problems, and we cannot allow ourselves a prime minister who spends more time with his lawyers and in interrogation rooms than he does in cabinet discussions and hearings on the economy,” Lapid said. “The attorney-general needs to take this into account as well.”
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-Campaign-to-topple-government-is-outrageous-478673
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Israel steps up shadow war with Hezbollah
By Ed Blanche, The Arab Weekly | Jan. 17, 2017 at 11:19 AM
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies stressed in its annual strategic assessment, released Jan. 2, that Hezbollah remains the most serious threat the Jewish state faces. It urged Israel's intelligence establishment to intensity efforts to block the transfer of advanced weapons systems to Hezbollah — a process that may already be under way with a spate of air and missiles strikes against Syria. The vast majority of the arms supplied to Hezbollah from Iran pass through Syria. Hezbollah, a key force keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power amid the war in the country, is reportedly building military bases and seeking to establish a presence in the disputed Golan Heights, a strategic volcanic plateau that overlooks Israel's agricultural heartland. Iran, Hezbollah's patron and arms supplier, is listed as the second-ranking military threat by INSS, in part because of its distance from Israel. Combined, Iran and Hezbollah, which serves as the Islamic republic's strategic arm in the Levant, present a comprehensive threat to Israel that far exceeds any other. This ranges from Iran's growing ballistic missile force and the nuclear weapons Israel's military leaders are convinced it will develop in the coming years to Hezbollah's emerging tactical capabilities. Much of that is due to advanced weaponry it amassed in recent years despite repeated Israeli airstrikes against weapons convoys and targeted assassinations in Syria and Lebanon of key figures in acquiring or developing Hezbollah's firepower. Hezbollah is estimated — largely by Israel — to possess more than 130,000 rockets and missiles, including long-range weapons capable of destroying city blocks. In recent weeks, the covert war between Israel and Hezbollah that has dragged on for five years apparently flared again, possibly this time with higher stakes. There have been several missiles attacks reported in Syria, all presumably Israeli weapons launched from either the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights or from Lebanese airspace. These were apparently aimed at curtailing deliveries of advanced weapons to Hezbollah that in the past have reportedly included Soviet-era SA- 22 air defense missiles, which, for the first time, allow Hezbollah to directly challenge Israel's control of the air in Lebanon and Syria, and Yakhont anti-ship missiles that could be used against Israel's offshore gas facilities. On Nov. 30, at least two missiles, apparently fired by Israeli jets in Lebanese airspace, hit a convoy of trucks outside Damascus, triggering speculation the trucks were carrying advanced weapons to Hezbollah. On Dec. 2, Israel reportedly conducted two airstrikes using Popeye missiles around Damascus, one against a weapons depot manned by the Syrian Army's crack Fourth Armored Division at Sabboura, northwest of the Syrian capital. The other blasted several cars near the Damascus-Beirut highway. In a 3 a.m. strike on Dec. 7, several surface-to-surface missiles hit installations in the Mezzeh military airbase at Damascus International Airport, where Hezbollah maintains a high-security facility for receiving arms airlifted from Iran before they are trucked to Lebanon. The missiles started several big fires at the airport, triggering major explosions. In a separate attack on that date, Hezbollah facilities in and around the town of Zabadani, on the border with Lebanon and a key junction in the overland arms route to Hezbollah strongpoints, were hit. On Friday, Syria accused Israel of another missile strike on the Mezzeh base in a predawn attack that triggered multiple explosions and caused casualties. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged for the first time in April 2016 that Israel has been mounting airstrikes in Syrian territory to curb shipments of what he called "game-changing weaponry" to Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post suggested on Dec. 8 that the Israelis' strikes the previous day had targeted "the presumed base of the Syrian Army's secretive Unit 450, a branch of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre that is at the center of the Assad regime's chemical weapons program north of Damascus." On the same day, Israel's hawkish defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, raised the ante by claiming that the Israeli Air Force had thwarted an attempt to transfer chemical weapons from Syria to Lebanon. If that is true, it suggests that Hezbollah and Iran may be prepared to escalate the covert efforts to upgrade Hezbollah's arsenal to a highly dangerous new level. Lieberman often shoots from the hip and his comments may have had political overtones but it was the first time a top-level Israeli official had voiced such concerns. These air and missile strikes constitute what the Israelis call a "campaign between wars," a concept that involves overt and covert operations designed to thwart emerging threats, particularly the acquisition of advanced weaponry. This is a finely balanced confrontation short of war in which both sides observe certain restraints that will prevent hostilities escalating to all-out conflict. But now Israel seems to be stepping up the shadowy conflict with Hezbollah, as Iran seeks to establish a presence in the divided Golan, a red line for Israel. Lieberman warned that while Israel has no interest in intervening in the Syrian war, it would take action to preserve Israelis' security, particularly on advanced weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Israel, he declared, "will make decisions according to this policy without taking other circumstances or restriction into account." This article originally appeared at The Arab Weekly.
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Man Escapes Fiery Car Crash When He Calls on the Name of the Lord
3:00PM EST 1/16/2017 Jessilyn Justice
Michael Bridges was trapped in the fiery prison of his car. As flames licked closer, Bridges said the only thing he could think of: Jesus. "Usually when you're hurt, you call your momma, like if you fall out of a tree or off your bike, but this time I called for Jesus Christ," Bridges said. "I said 'God, don't let me die like this,' and when I said that, this guy opened the door to the truck." Meet Jason Williams, the man on the other side of the door. The truck driver saw Bridges' truck blow a tire, catch on fire and careen across traffic and into the grass. "I stood there for a minute screaming 'Is anybody in there?' and I didn't hear nothing, and then I heard, 'Jesus, get me out of here,' and that's when I climbed up there and opened the door and helped him out or whatever happened up there. A miracle happened up there," Williams said. According to Landmine magazine, Williams arrived at the vehicle to hear Bridges scream for help. As Williams attempted to extricate Bridges by the arms, the fire was too hot. Williams lost his grip as Bridges' nearly melted skin slid away from Williams. Williams' tenacity kicked in. He grabbed Bridges in a giant bear hug and successfully pulled the man to safety. "We got up and walked away from that. If that's not God, then I don't know what is," Bridges said. The entire scene took place last year, but Bridges and Williams have now been reunited. Watch the video to see their emotional reunion.
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Mom Is Trapped by Airport Gunman—Then a Stranger Lays on Top of Her & Whispers 4 Words
The shooter was only 30 feet away from her. She dropped to the ground and immediately began to pray…
The first week of 2017 didn’t quite prove to be full of moments that restore our faith in humanity, like many of us had been hoping for. A 26-year-old gunman landed at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, and opened fire at baggage claim. The incident left five tragically dead, and six others injured. Annika Dean was waiting for her luggage when the gunman began shooting around her. “I knew immediately what was happening,” she explains. “I knew it wasn’t a firecracker.” The Florida mother of two had received training for emergencies in her work as an elementary school teacher. But being trapped in an open area with a gunman only feet from her was something that no amount of training could prepare her for. With the shooter just 30 feet away from her, and no safe place to take cover, Annika immediately dropped to the ground and began praying—there was only one thing on her mind. “I was praying specifically that my children would still have their mother. I was worried that they might not.” That’s when 70-year-old Tony Bartosiewicz appeared to be the answer to Annika’s prayers. The retired electrician from Rochester, New York, had flown to Florida with his wife to set sail on a cruise. His wife was in another area of baggage claim when Tony saw a woman who needed his help. He shielded Annika with his body, and in just four words, let her know that she was going to be okay. “He basically climbed on top of me and whispered, ‘I will protect you.’ I knew he might be a victim, but I also knew I would survive.” Annika didn’t look up as the shooting continued, and it wasn’t until later when the gunman was in police custody that Tony told her the man had actually stood directly over them, all while continuing to shoot. Five people around them lost their lives, and six others were severely injured, but both Annika and her guardian angel, Tony, were completely unharmed. Her kids still had a mother, and Annika could not wait to thank the man who saved her life. “The first thing I said to him was I thanked him and told him that it was terrifying and what he did brought me comfort, that it was just so comforting. I thanked him throughout the day and told him he was a hero.” Tony and his wife took off on their cruise shortly after, but a comment from the couple’s daughter suggests this selfless act is typical of Tony Bartosiewicz. “That’s the kind of person he is,” she said. “He would do something like this without thinking.”
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Sen. Barrasso: For 8 years the EPA has made life hard for too many Americans. That’s about to change
By Sen. John Barrasso M.D. Published January 17, 2017 FoxNews.com
Seventy-five thousand dollars per day. That’s how much the Environmental Protection Agency threatened to fine a private land owner in my home state of Wyoming. The crime: digging a pond in his back yard. This was an appalling overreach by the Obama administration’s EPA and its regulation of American’s property. Sadly, this story is not unique. For the past eight years, the EPA has abused and attacked far too many hard-working American families. A regulatory rampage by EPA has led to the loss of thousands of coal mining jobs in Wyoming, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Wisconsin is poised to lose more than 20,000 jobs in the next decade because of the Obama administration’s proposed regulations on carbon emissions. The misguided obsession of the EPA has created needless economic burdens for Americans. It has, at the same time, put people’s health in danger. Negligence on the part of the EPA resulted in more than 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater being dumped into a river at the Gold King Mine in Colorado. The plume of toxic liquid flowed downstream to New Mexico and polluted the Navajo Nation’s main source of drinking and irrigation water. In Flint, Michigan, aging pipes and improperly treated water caused lead poisoning in children. When EPA officials learned of the pending disaster, they failed to respond. The agency's misplaced priorities are harming state governments as well. North Dakota stands to lose more than $100 million in tax revenue over the next four years because of the Obama administration’s “clean power plan” regulations. The state will have to look to already-strapped families to make up the difference or else cut back on services. Disregard for the consequences of its actions has become the trademark of the EPA for the last eight years. Policy goals and talking points have consistently taken priority over American families. This cannot be the case any longer. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, I look forward to ushering in wholesale change at the EPA. I will be doing it alongside a committed and capable administrator. President-elect Trump has named Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA and to overhaul the agency. Attorney General Pruitt has seen the effects of over regulation in his own state and has worked to stop them. Pruitt has distinguished himself by challenging the Obama administration on several of its most burdensome rules. He stood up for Oklahomans against the EPA’s extreme regulations on greenhouse gasses, methane emissions, and cross state air pollution. He took action against unworkable water rules and air standards. He sued the federal government to make sure that it was interpreting the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts as Congress actually wrote them, not how it benefited President Obama’s political agenda. Attorney General Pruitt is respected by his peers for the work he has done. His work in Oklahoma protected the environment and strengthened the economy by standing up for states’ rights. Attorneys general from 24 states authored a letter in support of his nomination. They know he can and will rein in Washington. President-elect Trump has vowed that his administration will overturn two federal regulations for every new one it proposes. The administrator of EPA will play a vital role in keeping that promise. He must make sure that the agency meets its mission of protecting our environment – ensuring clean water, air, and land – while allowing our economy to grow. Our committee is taking up the nomination of Attorney General Pruitt this week. I look forward to hearing more about his vision for the agency and how he will help get Americans back to work. The EPA has made the last eight years hard for families in Wyoming and across rural America. Today, there is reason to be hopeful. The status quo at the EPA is changing. Republican John Barrasso represents Wyoming in the U.S. Senate. He serves in the Senate as a member of both the Energy and Environment Committees. Follow him on Twitter@Sen.JohnBarrasso.
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etc. you see all the things that are going on in the world, you see the darkness, you see the troubles, etc.
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Gambian President Jammeh declares state of emergency
Jan 17, 2017 - 23:59
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after refusing to hand power to opposition leader Adama Barrow, who won an election last month. State television said the emergency would prevent a power vacuum while the supreme court rules on Jammeh's petition challenging the election result. That suggests Jammeh will stay in power beyond Thursday, when Barrow was due to have been sworn in as president. Regional leaders have threatened to intervene militarily if Jammeh does not step down and on Tuesday a senior Nigerian army source said Nigeria and other West African states were preparing a military force. "I ... hereby declare a state of public emergency throughout the Islamic Republic of Gambia," Jammeh's declaration said. The state of emergency banned "acts of disobedience" and "acts intended to disturb public order". Barrow is not intimidated by the state of emergency, a spokesman told Reuters. He declined to comment on whether the inauguration would proceed on schedule. Jammeh took power in a coup in 1994 as only the second president since Gambia's independence in 1965 and his government gained a reputation for torturing and killing perceived opponents, rights groups say. In 2015, he declared that the country was an Islamic Republic. Pro-democracy activists across Africa welcomed his defeat, and his refusal to step down has provoked an internal crisis as well as a test of mettle for regional leaders. Gambia's top judge on Monday declined to rule on Jammeh's election petition and in a political blow to the president, the ministers of finance, foreign affairs, trade and the environment have resigned, according to ministry sources. The Nigerian source said that defence chiefs of staff of West African countries met on Monday to discuss strategies to remove Jammeh. "Some West African countries will be contributing troops, including Nigeria, for the operation," said the source, adding that the United Nations and African Union had offered support to regional body ECOWAS for the plan. State television said on Monday Finance Minister Abdou Kolley was being replaced by Benjamin Roberts, the minister of tourism. Finance ministry sources said on Tuesday Roberts had also resigned. Ministry sources said other government figures, including Foreign Minister Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, had left the government and the country. The mayor of the capital Banjul has also resigned, according to sources at the city council. Hundreds of Gambians have fled to Senegal, Gambia's only neighbour, fearing for their safety because of the turmoil, and Senegalese authorities have increased security. Barrow is also in Senegal, his aides say. "We are scared. There are soldiers with guns all the time," said Awa Sanneh, 25, from Birkama in Gambia, who was leaving with two children and 24 other family members. Gambia, one of the smallest countries in Africa, relies on tourism and one main crop, peanuts, to fuel its economy. (Reporting by Felix Onuah in Abuja, Emma Farge in Diouloulou and Edward McAllister in Dakar; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by James Dalgleish)
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gambian-president-jammeh-declares-state-of-emergency/42860750
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Fake News: When Leftist Foundations Fund Activism Posing As Journalism
Seton Motley President, Less Government 3:11 PM 01/12/2017
#FakeNews is currently in the news “big league.” Thanks to ridiculous BuzzFeed’s ridiculous release of a 35-page Donald Trump disinformation litany (to which we absolutely will not link). A litany so fake that it was printed under the heading “Disinformation.” But ridiculous BuzzFeed released it anyway. This litany had been floating around Washington, D.C. for months – untouched by DC’s alleged journalists. But DC’s alleged journalists — once BuzzFeed broke the seal – piled in behind them like Japanese subway commuters to further amplify it. This is by no means the only flavor of fake news that exists. Another long-standing-though-less-ballyhooed version is when Leftist foundations fund Leftist activists – who generate “news” that the media then mindlessly parrot, without any mention of the mammoth money behind it. All the while, the media roundly lambastes much tinier right-of-center efforts to tell their story. For instance: You’ve of course heard of the libertarian Koch brothers, because the media have made sure of it. The Kochs donate money to groups to advance free markets and the media goes bananas. But the Koch coin isn’t even close to the real story:
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The Seeds of a Potential Assassination
By Dave Hodges
U.S. Park Police and D.C. police Wednesday afternoon investigated the two areas where the weapons were found. I have been waiting for a massive law enforcement response, given the timing and location of the following discoveries. Instead, all we are getting are crickets chirping with regard to the response of federal and local law enforcement. The reason that this is significant because on January 15th, I received a highly credible tip that man was arrested in DC transporting a huge weapons cache in a truck. I have been told by a local official that the event is being covered up from the media and there is no federal involvement to their knowledge. Let’s review the following, of what is known, and evaluate local law enforcement as well as the Feds response to this situations which I believe pose a significant and potential threat to Donald Trump. The Reported Details The finding of weapons’ cache in two separate locations in the DC area, only a quarter of a mile from each other was so serious and concerning that local traffic on Canal Road was stopped during the investigation. But quickly the cover-up was initiated and the findings were quickly swept under the carpet. The Discovery The discovery of weapons was made by a woman who saw a suspicious violin case along a stone wall that runs parallel to a local canal. She stopped and opened the case and found guns. Only a short distance north of the discovery at the canal. Park Police found a cache of multiple weapons and ammunition that had been covered by trash to obscure the presence of the weapons. Where Is the FBI? Please allow me to be clear about something. This is the city where the most contested and most volatile presidential election in American history is coming to a natural conclusion with the inauguration of Donald Trump. Subsequently, with the layers of extra security being brought in to counter what George Soros, Bill Ayers and Michael Moore are going to do at the inauguration, these discoveries should have set off alarm bells all throughout the region. Given the circumstances, the FBI should have taken over the criminal investigation and should have been looking to get to the bottom of these two discoveries. So, please allow me to ask…”Where the hell is the FBI”? Does Comey want something to happen to Trump and the thousands of innocent bystanders? This is just another case where “Comey is at this best”. I sincerely hope Trump prosecutes Comey for his role in the HSBC money laundering when Comey served on the board of directors of HSBC. The Official Response Every attempt to minimize the finding is in play. Please consider the following: “Park Police spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Rose said there were a variety of weapons recovered, including long guns and pistols. The weapons were in buckets and bags, Rose said, although she said she didn’t believe any of them were loaded.” Would someone please tell this law enforcement moron that they found ammunition at the scene? “There’s no indication as to why these weapons were here, when they came to be here or the circumstances surrounding it — that part’s all under investigation,” Rose said. No wonder DC has one of the highest homicide rates, by gun, despite having some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. With morons like this in charge, who can feel safe? Two weapons cache discovered in the city and at the time of the Inauguration and nobody in an official capacity blinks an eye? And no FBI involvement? Welcome to JFK’s Secret Service detail, Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. What Should Have Happened? Upon stumbling across this seemingly, no-big-deal discovery, I called two law enforcement officials, of some note, and asked them for their reaction. Here is what I was told by a former 27 year veteran of a major police department. He said, word for word the following, “If we were only expecting a visit from the President and these incidences took place under our watch, I would have have had a very well-publicized meeting with the Secret Service, DHS and the FBI as well as state law enforcement. Secretly, we would begin operations to ensure the safety of the President. In this environment which is highly charged with a potential for violence, I would recommend a change of venue so as to throw off any potential attack that would have been planned. Additionally, we would keep watch on the local area with a team of undercover officers, although the Feds would take over the process in all likelihood. We would be going through nearby store videos and traffic cams looking for anything that could be connected to the events as described in DC. If the NSA wanted to, I know from experience they could backtrack any satellite footage of the area over the past several weeks with key image search. I know this, because we have done it before. The DIA as well as Clapper could do very similar things. I am awestruck that the officials are so cavalier about these discoveries. This is a complete failure of law enforcement at every level in DC given the highly charged political atmosphere where an event like this should spark, if anything, an over-reaction, not an underwhelming response.” It is the reaction of law enforcement that concerns me, much more than the event itself. Donald Trump is a marked man and this event strengthens my feelings of concern over his safety. Conclusion The FBI’s reaction, alone, tells us all we need to know about their desire to protect the President from assassination. And the fact that George Soros, Bill Ayers and Michael Moore have threatened the proceedings at this Friday’s inauguration, should have heightened law enforcement’s response. Did you know that Lee Harvey Oswald, an actual member of the CIA as it was discovered he was on the CIA payroll at the time of assassination, went to James Hosty of the FBI and told him of impending trouble for JFK, several days before the assassination? Did you know that Oswald had several meetings with Hosty in the weeks leading to the assassination? This is very similar to what we just observed in DC as history is potentially repeating itself and the Feds are going to let history take its course. Welcome to the Banana Republic, we formerly called the United States of America. And at the end of it all, can the Clinton Foundation be very far removed from these events? All the rest of us can and should do is to pray for Donald Trump’s safety. Trump is in more danger than Lincoln or Kennedy ever were.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/16/the-seeds-of-a-potential-assassination/
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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Monday, 16 January 2017
Pigeons falling out of the sky in India: Bird-flu continues its explosive pandemic around the globe
The map above shows the explosion across the globe of avian-flu, the yellow square indicate bird only outbreaks, while the red squares indicate where the virus has spread to humans. Humans can be infected with avian and other zoonotic influenza viruses, such as avian influenza virus subtypes A(H5N1), A(H7N9), and A(H9N2) and swine influenza virus subtypes A(H1N1) and (H3N2). Human infections are primarily acquired through direct contact with infected animals or contaminated environments, but do not result in efficient transmission of these viruses between people. There is no evidence that the avian or zoonotic influenza viruses can infect humans through properly cooked food. Avian and other zoonotic influenza infections in humans may cause disease ranging from mild conjunctivitis to severe pneumonia and even death. The majority of human cases of A(H5N1) and A(H7N9) infection have been associated with direct or indirect contact with infected live or dead poultry. WHO. As bird-flu continues its explosive pandemic around the globe I have yet to hear any mention of it on MSM even as new outbreaks are happening continuously on a daily basis. In India nearly a hundred pigeons have died in a far-flung village in Odisha's Kendrapara district, triggering panic in the wake of the bird flu scare gripping the state. A district veterinary official said on 16 January that avian species are dying almost daily along the seaside in Mahakalpada tehsil. Last week, the deaths of chickens was reported in nearby areas. Similarly, a rare breed of sheep is thought to have died from bird-flu. The death of animals and winged species has made people apprehensive as they fear that bird flu has hit the localities in Mahakalpada tehsil, said former Sarpanch, Bijoy Shukla. After death of pigeons was reported, a team of veterinary surgeons has rushed to the village to take stock of the situation. Blood samples have been collected for laboratory test of the samples, Sethy said. After the pathological test, the exact cause of the pigeons' death could be ascertained, however avian-flu is suspected. Also in India, State Animal Animal Husbandry department personnel culled 150 birds found positive with avian influenza infection on Thursday night. "Their samples were sent to Bhopal one week ago and in the meanwhile the samples have tested positive," said Municipal Medical Officer (health) Dr Bhavin Solanki on Friday. He said the birds included guinea fowls and ducks. Birdflu has broken out in the central part of Uganda, a senior ministry of agriculture official said on Saturday. Connie Acayo, the spokesperson of the ministry told Xinhua by telephone that confirmatory test of dead birds on Lutembe beach on the shores of Lake Victoria and in Masaka district showed that the disease had broken out. "It is a very serious disease and the minister of agriculture will be issuing out a statement on Sunday," she said. Uganda is among the countries in sub-Saharan Africa that face a high risk of a bird flu outbreak because it is crisscrossed by several routes for migratory birds, which are carriers of the virus. In Europe Spain reported a case of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus in wild geese in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from the Spanish ministry of agriculture. Two infected wild geese were found dead in the Castile and Leon region, the ministry said, adding that it had increased surveillance of poultry farms in the area. The H5N8 strain, which is deadly for poultry but has not been found in humans, has spread across Europe and the Middle East since late last year, leading to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of poultry and the confinement of flocks indoors. Italy also declared a first outbreak of H5N8, detected in a wild duck, on Thursday. Posted by Gary Walton at 1:03 pm
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/01/pigeons-falling-out-of-sky-in-india.html
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Superbugs now killing more Americans than breast cancer… the scourge of antibiotics continues
Sunday, January 15, 2017 by: David Gutierrez
(NaturalNews) Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are now killing more people than breast cancer, according to a new data analysis by the UK Sepsis Trust. According to the British Department of Health, about 5,000 people die each year from drug-resistant infections. But the UK Sepsis Trust and others have criticized these figures for being based on studies conducted in other countries, many of them with flawed methodology. For the new analysis, the UK Sepsis Trust looked at the Department of Health’s own data to come up with an estimate of 12,000 killed per year by superbugs — more than twice as high as the current estimate. This surpasses the number killed by breast cancer, officially considered one of the United Kingdom’s top killers. (RELATED: Read more news about the challenges of modern medicine at Medicine.news) Global health crisis As the scourge of antibiotic-resistance grows, superbugs will likely continue to overtake other top killers. In 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a single superbug, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), had begun killing more people than AIDS. Antibiotic resistance is spreading so fast that in 2015, World Health Organization (WHO) head Margaret Chan warned that superbugs might “mean the end of modern medicine as we know it.” “The rise of antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis,” Chan said. “More and more governments recognize (it is) one of the greatest threats to health today.” (RELATED: Learn how to prevent infections and chronic disease at Prevention.news) The United Kingdom’s official superbug death counts are based on studies conducted elsewhere in Europe and in the United States, particularly a 2011 CDC study that applied data from 10 states to the entire country. This study has been widely criticized as untrustworthy. “These were not scientific estimates,” said Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan of the United Kingdom’s Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. For the new analysis, the UK Sepsis Trust used three separate statistics from the Department of Health: first, that half of sepsis (“blood poisoning”) cases are caused by E. coli; second, that a third of E. coli infections are drug resistant; and third, that 44,000 people die from sepsis every year. Combining these statistics, the trust calculated that 7,479 people per year are killed just by sepsis from antibiotic-resistant E. coli. Using statistics on the other bacteria most likely to cause sepsis, the trust arrived at a total figure of 11,884 people killed by drug-resistant bacteria per year. This surpasses the 11,433 killed by breast cancer in 2014. Notably, these figures account only for sepsis-related superbug deaths. People killed from other causes — organ failure caused by MRSA, for example — are not included in this estimate. It will probably get much worse According to the most recent CDC estimates, 23,000 people are killed by superbugs each year in the United States, compared with 41,000 killed by breast cancer. If the U.S. superbug figures are as far off as the British figures turned out to be — a factor of two — then superbug deaths likely surpass breast cancer deaths in the United States, as well. In fact, a 2014 report by the British government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance concluded that by 2050, outbreaks of just six superbugs — E. coli, MRSA, Klebsiella pneumoniae, tuberculosis, HIV and malaria — will kill 10 million people a year worldwide. That’s more than the deaths expected to be caused by cancer and diabetes, combined. The review concluded that the current number killed each year globally is “only” 700,000. The dramatic increase over the next 35 years is expected to come from the ongoing spread of drug resistance due to overuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture. The death estimates account only for people killed directly by the six diseases studied. They do not include people who will die if widespread drug resistance renders antibiotics so ineffective that currently common medical techniques such as surgery, organ transplants and cancer treatment become too dangerous to use.
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etc. This area will be far more safe than other areas. Stay out of Texas, that is not the state that you think that it is, that has the largest terrorist group in the United States, stay out of there, regardless if you plan fifteen ways to go and come, stay out of there, stay out of there. etc
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Shootout at U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo Part of Cartel-Terrorist Attack Plan for Trump Inauguration
Thursday, January 12, 2017 13:09
A deadly shootout at the construction site of the new American Consulate occurred this week in a Mexican border town where Islamic terrorists and drug cartels plan to launch attacks against the U.S. during the period surrounding the presidential inauguration, high-level government sources tell Judicial Watch. An unknown number of gunmen fired multiple rounds adjacent to the new U.S. Consulate compound in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a crime-infested city in the state of Tamaulipas that lies directly across from Laredo, Texas. The Mexican military responded to the attack, law enforcement sources on both sides of the border confirm insisting that their identities be kept confidential for security reasons, and at least three soldiers were either killed or critically wounded in the ambush. A local newspaper in Tamaulipas reported that 13 people died during a shootout in Nuevo Laredo, referring to the deceased as heavily armed “delinquents” with an arsenal that includes 12 automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, grenade, loads of ammunition and drugs in three vehicles, one of them armored. The deceased have not been identified and Mexican authorities will continue to investigate, the article states, attributing the information to a press release issued by Mexico’s Defense Secretary. Judicial Watch’s law enforcement and intelligence sources say the barrage outside what’s soon to be the new U.S. Consulate is connected to a broad operation between Islamic terrorists and Mexican drug cartels to send President-elect Donald Trump a message by engaging in attacks at border ports. “Cartels usually don’t work with jihadists for fear of having the border shut down,” a veteran federal law enforcement official told Judicial Watch. “But Trump is causing so much disruption in Mexico that they are partnering to send a message as to who is in control. This is as outrageous as a small group of guys crashing planes into U.S. buildings.” Another official who has worked in the region for years said “Trump is causing a huge amount of fear in Mexico throughout all sectors; private, government, business, criminal, police….” Nuevo Laredo is among the border towns that the terrorists and narcotraffickers plan to launch attacks in, according to intelligence gathered by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Mexico. Others include Matamoros, Reynosa and Ciudad Juárez. In 2015 Judicial Watch reported that ISIS is operating a camp just west of Ciudad Juárez, around eight miles from El Paso. Sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and Mexican Federal Police inspector revealed that, during a joint operation, they discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation in El Paso that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation. Just last week Judicial Watch reported that a Jihadi-cartel alliance in the Mexican state of Nuevo León is collaborating to carry out attacks in American cities and ports of entry along the southern border. Confidential U.S. and Mexican law enforcement sources said that, as part of the plan, militant Islamists have arrived recently at the Monterrey International Airport situated in Apodaca, Nuevo León, about 130 miles south of the Texas border. An internal Mexican law enforcement report obtained by Judicial Watch confirms that Islamic terrorists have “people along the border, principally in Tijuana, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.” Cartel informants tell law enforcement contacts that “they are only waiting for the order and the times to carry out a simultaneous attack in the different ports of entry or cities of the United States of America.” The area where this week’s shootout originated is a 5.6-acre parcel just south of downtown Nuevo Laredo on Paseo Colon. The State Department predicts that by September the new U.S. Consulate compound, which broke ground in mid-2015 and will cost $155 million, should be completed. It will have multiple buildings, including an office structure, U.S. Marine Security Guard residence, support annex and other facilities for the consulate community. The primary function of consulates is helping and protecting Americans abroad. The post Shootout at U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo Part of Cartel-Terrorist Attack Plan for Trump Inauguration appeared first on Judicial Watch.
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Talk radio hosts and bloggers may benefit from White House press move
Trump team proposal for new venue which may allow more to ask questions follows president-elect’s latest outbursts against mainstream reporters
Oliver Laughland Monday 16 January 2017 13.20 EST
Talk radio hosts and bloggers could be given greater access to official White House press briefings once the Trump administration takes office, under a highly irregular proposal being floated that may also remove briefings from the West Wing. Trump’s pick for White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said on Sunday that due to “off the chart” interest in the new administration, the president-elect was considering moving briefings from the James S Brady press briefing room, which has been used by presidents to address the media since 1970, to a venue with a greater capacity. A report published by Esquire magazine on Saturday indicated the venue could be inside the Old Executive Office Building, just west of the White House. “I know change is difficult sometimes,” Spicer told Fox News. “But sometimes change can actually be better.” Spicer argued the proposal would mean “you can involve more people, be more transparent, have more accessibility”. He suggested that this would mean outlets that are not traditionally part of the White House press corps would be able to ask questions during presidential press briefings. “There’s a lot of talk radio and bloggers and people that can’t fit in right now and maybe don’t have a permanency because they’re not part of the Washington elite media,” Spicer said, “but to allow them an opportunity to ask the press secretary or the president a question is a positive thing. It’s more democratic.” Around 200 journalists make up the White House press corps. The Brady press briefing room holds 49 permanent seats for major media organisations, which are granted space by the White House Correspondent Association (WHCA). The Guardian is among those outlets allocated a space. White House briefings are open any journalist that seeks access and passes security clearance, but the president more typically takes questions from major news organisations with an allocated seat. It remains unclear how the proposal would be implemented, but it is likely to be interpreted as a hostile rebuke to conventional media outlets around the country. Jeff Mason, the WHCA president and Reuters White House correspondent, said he had a “constructive”, nearly two-hour meeting with Spicer on Sunday. Mason “emphasized the importance of the White House press briefing room” and its proximity to West Wing officials. “I made clear that the WHCA would view it as unacceptable if the incoming administration sought to move White House reporters out of the press work space behind the press briefing room,” Mason said in a statement. “Access in the West Wing to senior administration officials, including the press secretary, is critical to transparency and to journalists’ ability to do their jobs.” Spicer agreed to discuss any changes to the current system with the WHCA, Mason said. During a chaotic press conference at Trump Tower on Wednesday, the first the businessman has held since July 2016, hundreds of journalists crammed into a small pen as Trump frequently lambasted certain media organisations and occasionally individual reporters. Trump was incensed by reports on a leaked and unsubstantiated dossier, which alleged frequent contacts between his campaign team and Russian authorities, and suggested the Kremlin held compromising material that could be used to blackmail Trump. Trump was also asked by a reporter at Breitbart News what his views were on media ethics and “fake news”, to which he replied: “Some of the media outlets that I deal with are fake news more so than anybody. I could name them, but I won’t bother. You have a few sitting right in front of us. “They’re very, very dishonest people, but I think it’s just something we’re going to have to live with. I guess the advantage I have is that I can speak back.” According to the Associated Press, Breitbart News, branded by critics as a racist, far-right news site, was the only media organisation to have a reserved seat in the front row for the conference. Steve Bannon, Trump’s incoming chief strategist and senior counselor, previously served as the site’s executive chairman. The president-elect’s campaign drew consistent support from numerous conservative talk radio hosts and internet conspiracy theory sites, for instance Alex Jones’s InfoWars. During the campaign, Trump took the unprecedented step of appearing on Jones’s site, known as America’s foremost conservative conspiracy theory outlet. Jones has previously dismissed the Sandy Hook massacre, in which 20 elementary school students and six school staff were murdered, as “completely fake”, and has branded the September 11 terror attacks an “inside job”. Trump was interviewed for around 30 minutes by Jones in December 2015, and later called Jones a “nice guy”. Jones claimed in November that Trump called him to thank him for his support after winning the presidential election. This story was changed on 16 January 2016, to better describe the rules governing White House press access. The headline and standfirst was also altered.
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The 5 Stages Of The Awakening. Every aspect of your life is monitored, regulated, taxed and controlled, not for your betterment, but for betterment of others
January 16, 2017
One of the greatest challenges to becoming Totally Free is to be able to think independently from everyone else. You know instinctively that no one cares about you, as much as you care about yourself. Yet we constantly listen to others about what is best for us, instead of thinking about what is best for us. That is because we live in a world where everyone tells you what to think, but no one tells you how to think. We are blasted everyday with advertising, financial sales pitches, political media propaganda, religious dictates and more and more social pressure to conform. Most of our lives we don’t make any real decisions we kind of just fall into a routine. You see when you do not really think, you leave your mind open to those who do think. The real and most often unnoticed danger is a class of predators manipulating societies for their own selfish benefits. If you go along to get along and not think outside of the box, you risk being caught in the undertow of a doomed society or worse. “In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education, fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen — of whom we have an ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.” – John D Rockefeller There is a lot of money and power derived off of having a “sucker born everyday.” Our Elite molds societies by educating the people just enough to run the machine, but never enough to ask if this is the best machine for us. Think about it, our controlled school systems teach sex, drugs and multiculturalism in third and fourth grades and not how to even balance a checkbook by high school. The Elite’s system wants utterly dependent people to control for power and profit. They do not want fully aware people, who can see through mainstream media lies, Wall St Ponzi schemes, or Federal abuses. They certainly do not want people educating others to our common plight of illusion. Your thoughts are not your own. I love asking thoroughly indoctrinated people, “do your ideas serve to free you or simply to make you serve?” I then following up with, “who put those ideas there?” I always get two answers back, the first is “uh….” with eyes rolling into their head. The second is the programmed ego self defense mechanism of “I did.” It is sad to see people lie in general, but to see people lie to themselves is absolutely heart breaking. If you ever wonder why most Americans are broke, depressed and lifeless, look no further than whose thoughts they are thinking. If they are listening to the Elite’s financial CONmen, they are constantly stripped of their wealth through a myriad of schemes. If they are listening to the Elite’s MSM, they are depressed because the national problems are too big and the experts say that there is no hope or worse they say hope is coming… someday. If they are listening to the Elite’s medical community, they are hooked on psychotropic drugs and will never get their fire back by tackling their life’s challenges. “Competition is a sin.” John D. Rockefeller The Elite give us the illusion of freedom but control all of the choices. The Elite give us the choice of 500 cable stations, yet the same message comes from all of the channels. They give us aisles and aisles of food, yet 90% of it is just corn and soy byproducts. They give us the choice of hundreds of political candidates, yet nothing changes because both sides are bought and paid for by the Elite. They give you the choice of investments of stocks, bonds, and real estate but when this all goes down, you will see that it is all apart of the same illusion of the dollar. This of course is controlled by the Elite. If you do not think independently for yourself, you cannot help but to be controlled, whether you know it or not. Every aspect of your life is monitored, regulated, taxed and controlled, not for your betterment, but for betterment of others. To do most high paying jobs requires a certification or a license. Most “assets” you have or own out right are not your own. (Try not paying your property taxes on a home you own out right and I will show you the real owner is.) All of your communications are monitored and recorded. Now the Federal government wants these records to be kept indefinitely. Think you own your 401k? Try getting your money out. You want to do anything to your home? You better get permission from the homeowner association or the local zoning board. All of these examples, plus many, many more have nothing to do with making your life better. They exist to create power, profit and a parasitic life for another. “Until they became conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” — George Orwell (1984) Now before you crawl into the fetal position and start sucking your thumb after realizing that you possibly are a slave, don’t worry. There is a way out. Your freedom is based off of the simple principal of “When you are aware, you can prepare.” I believe that when you see the big picture and understand how you are manipulated, finding the best path for you becomes simple. You cannot become aware unless you rebel against everything that you are now. It starts with putting your foot down and saying, “no more!” You must commit to yourself that you will no longer play the fool for someone else. To do that start by doing what is best for you and the ones you love. You will search for truth wherever it is and let that search be your guided light. That simple little rebellion of your mind is just the spark for a much greater fire of enlightenment. You will be reborn a man that is totally aware, completely free and fully alive. I have identified 5 Stages of the Awakening Process that mirror Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s Five Steps of Grief . The reason why they mirror is because it is literally your old self dying. Your body will physically and mentally react as if there was a real death in your life. We identify ourselves by what we do, what we wear, and what we drive. When you are awake, all of that will matter no more. You will transcend the current consumer order and be fully prepared for the new paradigm. I feel it is incredibly helpful to understand this process to not only identify where you are, but where you should be going. I cannot stress to you how important and necessary this process is. If you do not start thinking for yourself, you will be without the skills necessary to survive in a post-dollar world. 1. Denial- In this stage you dismiss anything that goes counter to conventional wisdom as crazy talk or conspiracy theory. This is really a self defense mechanism the brain uses to protect the ego. No one likes to admit when they are wrong, much less admit when they have been fooled. So it is infinitely easier to deny a truth, rather than to embrace it. It is easier to mock, than to debate. It is easier to hide under the sheets and pretend that there is not a monster in the room. This is where most of our society is stuck right now. They believe that whatever the “authorities” tell them is the truth. They go along with the crowd in fear of being looked upon as strange or crazy. In my experience, denial comes in two forms. The first is the most common and least dangerous form of denial. It is just not wanting to know the truth that might upset their happy little life. This innocent denial of the “ignorance is bliss” mentality, is held by so many Americans who think that things are going “swell” for them, so why ruin it with the truth. There was a woman who I was working with that shut down on me when confronted with the truth. She literally said to me, “I don’t want to know that 9/11 was an inside job because that reality is too scary for me.” Another person said, “that it would be like finding out his father was gay.” (“Not that there is anything wrong with that…” quoted from the very funny social engineer Jerry Seinfeld.) This form of denial is the easiest to overcome because when things go wrong in their perfect little world, they will have no more excuse not to look for the reason of why their world fell apart. There is no more bliss for them to remain ignorant. This economic depression and political failures of both Bush and Obama have already shook a great many out of this denial. The second kind of denial is one that is much more pernicious. I view it as guilty denial. This is the denial of people who actually are benefiting off of the illusion of our paradigm. This comes from business owners, government employees or others whose livelihood is derived off of the current debt paradigm. These people actively fight the truth through disinformation or saying, “they can’t keep that a secret” or that is “just a crazy conspiracy.” They would rather create plausible deniability to distance themselves from the reality of their actions/inactions. Their aggressive defense of the illusion shows me that they know what they are doing is wrong. They are too afraid to live outside of this paradigm, so it is better to try to hold it together despite its human costs. People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at how folks 150 years ago did it. These guys were the last generation to practice basic things-for a living-that we call survival skills now. Survival Things Our Great Grandfathers Did Or Built Around The House. Are you ready to turn back the clocks to the 1800s for up to three years. 2. Anger When you start to see that you were fooled, you react violently for being taken for a fool and want to lash out. The Freedom Movement has a lot of this in it currently with talk of “just shooting the bastards.” This action is ineffectual in bringing about positive change for the Freedom Movement. (Those that have proposed this violence to me, I am sure were working for the government trying to find some sucker to frame.) Anger is a very natural reaction and is one that you must go through rather than suppress. Finding out how the world really works is a kin to finding out your significant other has been cheating on you. You may have remained faithful to what this country was about while atrocities were committed behind your back. Anger is just covering up for the fact that you are really hurt for being taken advantage of. This stage is often the shortest, but is also the one where the most energy is expelled. In my anger stage, I redirected my anger to fuel an intense amount of research into making sure I was never fooled again. It eventually lead to the creation of the this website. 3. Bargaining After you calm down, you reach out to anyone who will listen to tell them what is really going on. This is the most annoying stage of the awakening process. (Remember you are reaching for people who are in stage 1 of Denial.) You ruin Christmas parties telling people about WTC7 or kids basketball games talking about the Federal Reserve. By reaching out and sharing, you are not really trying to awaken people, you are really looking for help. By reaching out, you are seeking guidance or structure in your search for truth. You know that there is something wrong. You know that you cannot go back to ignorance. Without clarity, you cannot go forward. This naturally leads to the next stage of depression. 4. Depression Now that you have reached out to everyone and nothing seems to happen, depression sinks in. You start saying “it is too big” or “what could I do about it.” The worst kind of depression that permeates the Freedom Movement is the arrogant attitude of “I know it all” or “screw everyone, I don’t care.” This is the most painful stage and the hardest to get out of. Human happiness comes from progress and yet progress in this journey seems to suck you further into a hole. Unfortunately there is no way around this, yet it is necessary to go through it. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert 5. Acceptance At the point where you now become comfortable with the oncoming reality and make active, positive steps to prepare for it. This process of making wise choices for yourself and not others, will yield massive positive personal results. These positive results will reinforce your actions and bring about more positive change in your life. People will start to notice the light in your eyes as confidence returns. They will now ask what happened to you and those that once did not want to hear the truth, will be ready to listen. This is ultimately where we need to get to both personally and as a movement. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” -Henry David Thoreau I really feel that the reason I have been so successful at waking people up is that I do not try to scare and depress them. (Trust me, I can write doom and gloom with the best of them.) I do try to motivate, encourage and enlighten people in order to take that first step into their highest self. This journey is the most important one they will ever take and is your only hope to ever becoming what you were meant to be free and independent.
http://www.survivaldan101.com/5-stages-awakening/
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Trump Conducts Sting Operation on US Intelligence Services
January 16, 2017 By News Line 21st Century Wire says…
Trump claims that after suspicions that US Intelligence services were leaking information from classified meetings he was having with them, that he conducted his own sting operation to prove this was happening. “I think it’s pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. First of all, it’s illegal. These are classified and certified meetings and reports,” Trump said during a press conference held at Trump Tower. Geoff Earle Daily Mail President-elect Donald Trump, after growing suspicious that intelligence officials were leaking news about their classified briefings with him, says he conducted a sting operation to try to prove top spies were behind the leaks. Trump revealed the extraordinary scheme to try to entrap the senior spies in a furious press conference where he suggested the intelligence community had been behind salacious and totally unproven allegations against him. ‘I think it’s pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. First of all, it’s illegal. These are classified and certified meetings and reports,’ Trump said during a press conference at Trump Tower – his first since getting elected. Then he revealed the details of the stealthy sting he says he conducted on the nation’s senior spooks. ‘I’ll tell you what does happen. I have many meetings with intelligence. And every time I meet, people are reading about it,’ Trump complained, possibly referencing reports on his classified briefings, which he has chosen not to receive daily. ‘Somebody’s leaking them out,’ Trump said, after inveighing against leaks generally. ‘So I said, “Maybe it’s my office. Maybe my office.” Because I’ve got a lot of people … Maybe it’s them?’ ‘What I did, is I said I won’t tell anyone. I’m going to have a meeting, and I won’t tell anybody about my meeting with intelligence,’ Trump continued. He even shielded one of his closest aides from word of the meeting. ‘Nobody knew – not even Rhona, my executive assistant for years. She didn’t know – I didn’t tell her. Nobody knew,’ Trump continued – drawing laughter from collected family members and staff. Having set the trap, Trump says the word leaked anyway. ‘The meeting was held. They left, and immediately the word got out that I had a meeting. So, I don’t want that. It’s very unfair to the country…
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/01/16/trump-conducts-sting-operation-on-us-intelligence-services/
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The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo
By Clarice Feldman January 15, 2017
Mr. Garfinkle of Garfinkle’s New Method Hebrew School in Milwaukee used to frequently echo King Solomon’s admonition; “There’s nothing new under the sun.” I was reminded of that this week when the rapidly unfolding “scandal” of Trump’s purported dealings with Russia hit the news. It has more than a few similarities with the Dan Rather faked-up story of GW Bush’s National Guard service where an anonymous, never-found source supposedly gave Bill Burkett a demonstrably fake report and Dan Rather ran with it. This time a Bush (Jeb) is involved but as an instigator of the story, not a victim. John McCain acts as the intermediary passing the junk on to the Intelligence Community, which makes sure it is published. If you’re confused about it, let me put it in the context of the most reliable information I’ve been able to put together, noting that I think the story is likely to become even more clear over the next few days. As you will see, the dossier is so ridiculous, if anyone in the Intelligence Community fell for it, he’s too stupid to allow in place, and if no one did but they still played a role in publicizing it, everyone involved needs to be fired A. Digging Up Dirt on Opponents In September of 2015 someone -- now revealed as a Jeb Bush Super PAC donor -- paid Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C. outfit, to compile a dossier of dirt on Donald Trump. Fusion engaged Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 agent in London, to do the job. While early accounts of the story refer to him as a “respected source”, he has a history of dumpster diving for Democrats. Kimberley Strassel at the Wall Street Journal has been reporting on his work for some time and explains why he keeps getting hired: “to gin up the ugliest, most scurrilous claims, and then trust the click-hungry media to disseminate them. No matter how false the allegations, the subject of the attack is required to respond, wasting precious time and losing credibility.” She warns this will be the left’s game: But it says something about the brass-knuckle approach of the left that it would go so far as to write a dossier suggesting that Mr. Trump is a Manchurian candidate -- and then to foist that report into the hands of intelligence officials. [snip] So the left will increasingly rely on campaigns of delegitimization designed to force opponents onto a back foot, push them off task, or even bully them out of the public arena. In the absence of a winning policy argument, this is, in their minds, the best they’ve got . Republicans had better be ready for it. At about the time Trump won the nomination, funds from the Bush donors were cut off. Whether this was because the report was so shoddy or the effort so unavailing isn’t clear. At that point supporters of Hillary Clinton became involved in financing the search. Steele hadn’t been in Russia for decades and as a former British spy could not have done the work himself. So, as the account in the New York Times continues, “he hired native Russian speakers to call informants inside Russia and made surreptitious contact with his own connections in the country as well.” Beginning in June and until December Steele delivered his findings -- a series of short memos -- to GPS. Although post-election no one was paying, Steele continued on this muckraking operation, The memos suggested that the Russians were trying to influence Trump and stated that one of Trump’s lawyers, Michael Cohen, had met with a Russian official in Prague. (A claim Cohen has credibly rebutted.) Word of the dossier made it to the FBI via Senator John McCain, a man with an apparently insatiable desire to betray. McCain, who heard about the dossier from a former diplomatic colleague of Tony Blair (Sir Andrew Wood), dispatched someone (apparently former State Department official David J. Kramer) to London to pick it up, then handed it off to the FBI. From sources as yet unknown, news of the Steele report made it to journalists who investigated and finding no verification after investigating refused to print it. The FBI, tried to get permission to tap into a server in the Trump Tower, which was denied, then in a strangely odd act tried twice to get a warrant from FISA to tap into it. Whether this was in response to the dossier, I do not know. Andrew McCarthy writes in National Review Online: To summarize, it appears there were no grounds for a criminal investigation of banking violations against Trump. Presumably based on the fact that the bank or banks at issue were Russian, the Justice Department and the FBI decided to continue investigating on national-security grounds. A FISA application in which Trump was “named” was rejected by the FISA court as overbroad, notwithstanding that the FISA court usually looks kindly on government surveillance requests. A second, more narrow application, apparently not naming Trump, may have been granted five months later; the best the media can say about it, however, is that the server on which the application centers is “possibly” related to the Trump campaign’s “alleged” links to two Russian banks -- under circumstances in which the FBI has previously found no “nefarious purpose” in some (undescribed) connection between Trump Tower and at least one Russian bank (whose connection to Putin’s regime is not described). That is tissue-thin indeed. It’s a good example of why investigations properly proceed in secret and are not publicly announced unless and until the government is ready to put its money where its mouth is by charging someone. It’s a good example of why FISA surveillance is done in secret and its results are virtually never publicized -- the problem is not just the possibility of tipping off the hostile foreign power; there is also the potential of tainting U.S. persons who may have done nothing wrong. While it’s too early to say for sure, it may also be an example of what I thought would never actually happen: the government pretextually using its national-security authority to continue a criminal investigation after determining it lacked evidence of crimes. The second thrust of the Steele “investigative” report suggested Trump had engaged in some scatological conduct while in Russia, hiring prostitutes to urinate on the bed the Obamas had used there. These claims were not only unverifiable, they were ludicrous as well, as was the Intelligence Community’s justification for giving them one second’s worth of credence. As Iowahawk tweeted: “Unconfirmed Denial of Unsourced Blockbuster Allegations Raises Questions, According To Insiders Who Requested Anonymity.” At American Digest, Gerard Vanderleun explains precisely why: 1) An international business man who has spent decades in the rough and tumble world of real estate development and skyscraper construction and may be presumed to have some sophistication when it comes to wheeling and dealing with governments of all sorts throughout the world travels to 2) Moscow. Not Moscow, Idaho, but Moscow in Russia. That would be Moscow the capital of one of the most paranoid and intrusive governments in the world (Both now and for the 19th and 20th centuries). It is a society and a government with a long history of... 3) Secret police and the clandestine surveillance of its own citizens and visitors to the extent that the US was digging bugs out of the walls of its own embassy in Moscow for decades. When he gets to Moscow he stays at... 4) The Moscow Ritz-Carlton in the “Presidential Suite.” Since such accommodations are typically only taken by the filthy rich and/or representatives of foreign governments such as, say, presidents. And then this sophisticated and reasonably intelligent billionaire real estate developer... 5) Assumes that such a suite in such a capitol city of such a government has no surveillance equipment at all installed in its rooms, bathrooms, closets, and -- most importantly -- bedrooms. He then asks the hotel staff to show him... 6) The bed in which Barack Obama and his wife slept in when they were in this same “Presidential Suite.” Upon being shown the bed our businessman then... 7) Contacts two high-dollar Russian hookers (who would never, ever, have anything to do with the KGB or other intelligence organs of Russia) and instructs them to.... Wait for it.... 8) Urinate on said bed in order to give said businessman some odd sort of thrill and... 9) Said businessman remains utterly positive no agency of the Russian state is running cameras and microphones from every possible angle in the master bedroom in a “Presidential Suite” in a top hotel in the capital of Russia and... 10) The two damp hookers will never, ever, reveal a word about their golden shower in the Ritz Carleton’s “Presidential Suite.” While I know that millions of morons are nodding like the drinking bird over the glass in their deep and abiding belief in this overflowing crock, I still find it hard to believe that there are smart people out there that really are this stupid. But of course they are not that stupid, not the smart ones. Instead they know this is a crock and yet they find they must drink from it lest their #NeverTrump fantasy world dissolve. Sad. Their repetitive manic desperation now has foam flecking their lips and jowls as they dive down deep, and not for the last time, into this fuming septic tank of their own political sewage. Without even a snorkel. If they ever get out of the tank they will need a long, long golden shower B. The Intelligence Community Peddles the Dirt (then feigns dismay that it makes its way into the press). Among the morons apparently “drinking this up” besides John McCain were high officials in the Intelligence Community, which passed the rumors on to the president and key congressional staff, although -- despite conflicting reports about this -- apparently never shared it with president-elect Trump. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed to have been “dismayed” that this leaked out after having passed it on. He claimed as well that the Intelligence Community “hadn’t made any judgment on whether the claims within the document were reliable” As my online friend Cecil Turner observes: “Former U.S. intelligence officials described the inclusion of the summary -- drawn from 'opposition research' done by a political research firm -- as highly unusual. "Assuming, of course, that it is. The problem with this sort of thing is that it's on the borderline between unknown and unknowable. Every character involved is either anonymous or has a name that sounds pseudonymous, and the sources are professional liars. "Roll eyes, wait for actual evidence. The fact that it leaked strongly suggests there is none.” CNN, however, lapped it up, informed its readers of the existence of scandalous reports on Trump, and BuzzFeed, a clickbait site owned in part by NBC, then published the dossier, a portion of which, it seems, was provided by infonerd bulletin board 4 Chan. Asked why it had published an account of this nonsense which other news agencies had refused to print because it was completely unverifiable, CNN blamed BuzzFeed, noting it had not released the details, presumably on the assumption that readers whose curiosity had been piqued by the news wouldn’t want details. Steele has gone to ground ostensibly because he fears Russian reprisals, but I think it’s because he wants to avoid answering questions about what are obviously fabrications to satisfy political interests who paid for this shoddy product. As John Bolton commented: Kassam asked if Bolton had ever heard of the man revealed as the creator of the dossier, former British MI6 officer Christopher Steele. “Could it be the case that somebody has just paid this guy to write these things, so this leak came out?” Kassam asked. “Well, actually, that thought occurred to me because it’s so bad. I haven’t found anybody, including friends who are experienced in both diplomacy and military and intelligence affairs, who haven’t just laughed at most of it,” Bolton replied. “It’s filled with anonymous sources, single-source information and whatnot. If I were a corporate customer, and I wanted, in effect, a private investigator -- I think that’s what this firm basically is -- and I got something back like this, I would refuse to pay. You or I could sit down at a computer right now and type out these 35 pages, just let our imaginations run wild, and if somebody would pay for it, I suppose it’s nice work if you can get it,” he said. c. Is it Just IC Incompetence or is the Deep State Deliberately Undermining Faith in Trump and Aiding a Russian Disinformation Campaign? Glenn Greenwald (hardly a Trump fan) thinks it’s more, and on examination of the Intelligence Community’s handling of this tripe, it’s hard to disagree with him. He points out the unprecedented support for Hillary Clinton in this “deep state,” and takes issue with their advancing the Steele memos ...the Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document, compiled by a paid, anonymous operative while he was working for both GOP and Democratic opponents of Trump, accusing Trump of a wide range of crimes, corrupt acts, and salacious private conduct. The reaction to all of this illustrates that while the Trump presidency poses grave dangers, so, too, do those who are increasingly unhinged in their flailing, slapdash, and destructive attempts to undermine it. [snip] Once CNN strongly hinted at these allegations, it left it to the public imagination to conjure up the dirt Russia allegedly had to blackmail and control Trump. By publishing these accusations, BuzzFeed ended that speculation. More importantly, it allowed everyone to see how dubious this document is, one the CIA and CNN had elevated into some sort of grave national security threat. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER it was published, the farcical nature of the “dossier” manifested. Not only was its author anonymous, but he was paid by Democrats (and, before that, by Trump’s GOP adversaries) to dig up dirt on Trump. Worse, he himself cited no evidence of any kind but instead relied on a string of other anonymous people in Russia he claims told him these things. Worse still, the document was filled with amateur errors. David Goldman, who did support Trump, was more succinct: “Warning the intelligence communities about salacious and politically motivated leaks: the president-elect threatened to drag their shenanigans into the daylight. No one has ever done that to the spooks before. I'm lovin' it.” In any event, McCain's much-touted hearings on Russian interference with the election should prove to be a million laughs. He obviously believed this nonsense was credible enough to seek it out and pass it on, so I hardly imagine he’s in a position to make credible calls on what the hearings involving these now discredited documents reveal or on the wisdom and good faith of the officials involved in leaking them.
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EUROPE ON TERROR ALERT: Police seize jihadi weapons ‘capable of downing AIRCRAFT’
TERRORISTS in Europe are now capable of “bringing down aircraft”, Spanish police warned as they revealed the details of a huge weapons seizure this week.
By Joey Millar PUBLISHED: 05:29, Mon, Jan 16, 2017 | UPDATED: 07:28, Mon, Jan 16, 2017
Anti-terror investigators confiscated 12,000 weapons this week - just before they were sold to terrorists by a Spanish gang, who have now been arrested. Police said the weapon trafficking network was terrifying in its size and capability - which now includes anti-aircraft weaponry. The country’s Interior Minister said “several anti-aircraft guns capable of bringing down aircraft” were seized on Thursday, along with thousands of rifles. The entire arsenal was worth nearly £9 million. Police also seized more than £70,000 in cash. The Interior Minister said: “Among the innumerable seized pieces are complete percussion mechanisms, recoil springs, retaining parts, guns, bolts, cylinders, frames, firing mechanisms and locking systems, all intended for the rehabilitation of weapons. “For this, they had a sophisticated and complete workshop for the repair and in its case reactivation of the firearms.” Three of those arrested are being held in custody. Two have been released under the provision they do not leave the country. They have had their passports seized. Police said the group were made up of four men and one woman, all of whom were Spanish. They were arrested in the north Spanish towns of Olot, Liendo, Galdacano and Guecho, where the workshop was discovered. Police forces from Barcelona, Valencia and Santander were also involved in the operation. Police said the group was “very active” and heavily involved with selling weapons to terrorist groups. The five suspects legally bought unused weapons of war, repaired them before selling them on to terror cells or organised crime groups. The group were caught during a police operation supporters by Europol, the continent-wide crime agency. This particular operation was set up in the wake of a terror attack at a Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/754555/europe-terror-spain-anti-aircraft-weapons-jihadis-isis
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Jonathon van Maren Fri Jan 13, 2017 - 12:49 pm EST
In our hedonistic age, should we really let our culture’s storytellers have access to our children?
January 13, 2017 (TheBridgehead) -- I was asked recently by a conservative journalist what my opinion on some television show’s decision to include storylines about abortion was—all, of course, being sympathetic, if not enthusiastic. I’d never watched the show (or even heard of it), so I couldn’t supply any insight. But what I do find interesting is the way conservatives and Christians often interact with the television and film industry. For some reason, we seem to believe that we can consume the creations of post-modernists, relativists, and hedonists without imbibing any of those worldviews—and without getting indigestion. Leave aside for one moment the most prominent problems pervasive within the entertainment industry: Blasphemy, sexually explicit and pseudo-pornographic material, the promotion of anti-Christian views, the consistent mocking of Christianity, and the macabre celebration of horror and darkness. What I rarely see mentioned is that for the most part, this is all we can reasonably expect from the entertainment industry. It’s just a story, Christians will say when defending some empty, time-wasting TV show they’ve decided to watch. But that is not the case. There is no such thing as “just a story.” Stories have storytellers. If we want to know what the story is telling us, we simply have to look at what the storyteller wants to tell us. Storytellers come with their own worldviews, biases, and beliefs. These beliefs will come through in the stories they tell—especially in the extraordinarily powerful mediums of film and television—whether they are attempting propaganda intentionally or not. Stories are perhaps one of the most powerful methods of creating emotional responses and transmitting beliefs. The question posed to me by the journalist, concerning how parents should regulate the consumption of such stories by their children, has quite a simple answer. It is the answer to this question: Do you want to let that storyteller tell his or her stories to your children? Many church-going parents allow their children to be raised on a diet of film, television, and music created by storytellers who despise Christianity and create narratives that run directly in opposition to it. They foment rebellion and celebrate lifestyles that run directly contrary to biblical beliefs—but often do so in tenderly-rendered tales that have more power to persuade than a dozen philosophical treatises or political speeches. Friends and Will & Grace did more for the mainstreaming of gay marriage than any academic ever did. Meanwhile, Christians in film and television are generally portrayed as stupid, mean, closeminded, and bumbling. Mockery is a powerful tool. Compare this to the literature children used to be raised on and the storytellers parents used to invite into their homes, books like the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the chronicles of the March family by Louisa May Alcott, the tales of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, and so many others. These books celebrate what I call the high drama of ordinary living, and this has been one of the key secrets to the longevity of their popularity. Long after the frontier days passed into history, more than a century after the American Civil War, and many decades since the occupants of Prince Edward Island lived like Anne and her friends, the stories of friendship, puppy love, courtship, and the tiny trials and tragedies that make up childhood arch over the years to remain as real today as they were then. Children still relate to Laura Ingalls and Jo March and Anne Shirley because their childhoods, despite sometimes extraordinary circumstances, were innocent and beautiful. Even stories that focused on adventure contained familiar elements that everyone could relate with to ground them. Johan Wyss’s wonderful book The Swiss Family Robinson emphasized the essential nature of family while the parents and their children created a new life for themselves on a tropical island where they’d been shipwrecked. J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy combined the high drama of biblically-proportioned battles and a fantastical Middle Earth with the utterly ordinary: thorough and detailed landscape descriptions as his hobbits make their journey, the taste of beer, the satiation of a long hunger with sumptuously described meals, and even a poem describing the loveliness of hot water after a long day’s trek: Sing hey! For the bath at close of day That washes the weary mud away! A loon is he that will not sing; O! Water Hot is a noble thing! O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain, And the brook that leaps from hill to plain; But better than rain or rippling streams Is Water Hot that smokes and steams. O! Water cold we may pour at need Down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed; But better is Beer, if drink we lack, And Water Hot poured down the back. O! Water is fair that leaps on high In a fountain white beneath the sky; But never did fountain sound so sweet As splashing Hot Water with my feet! These master storytellers created a canon of literature that is often, unfortunately, only known to the rising generation through their retellings by other storytellers of distinctly different worldviews, utilizing television and film instead of the written word. I’m not trying to conflate or compare cinematography to literature—the art forms are too fundamentally different—but something essential is lost in translation, which is why films that seek to dramatize beloved books are nearly always fiercely controversial and generally disappointing to the fans of the written works. Several years back, I had a few email exchanges with J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandson, the poet Michael Tolkien, and I asked him if he felt his grandfather’s work was unappreciated. “I think you are right to use the world ‘unappreciated,’” Tolkien replied. “Is ‘Tolkien’ now to the general public the generator of a series of films or a distinguished writing of superbly crafted fantasy with universal implications and dimensions?” When post-modern artists create their own interpretations of great literature, the stories are often robbed of much of the beauty that made them so beloved in the first place. Until the Sexual Revolution, much of the literary canon was marked by the assumption of Judeo-Christian values. Not that it was all explicitly Christian literature, but the context that produced it was a Judeo-Christian culture, and thus certain values were simply taken for granted. This fact has proven endlessly disturbing to the rootless post-modernists who can find no fictional heroes and role models in the literary canon and thus, as I detailed in a column earlier this week, they have gone to work revising and reinterpreting until they can conjure up lurid lesbian liaisons in L.M. Montgomery’s tales, something that anyone with the vaguest knowledge of Montgomery’s biography must find laughable. She was a pastor’s wife—one can actually visit her home and church in Leeksdale, Ontario, and sit in her spot in the pews, play her old organ, sit where she wrote the Anne books, and visit the glorious and fiery auburn autumn inspiration for Rainbow Valley. It is the literary vandalism of these pagan profs that made me abandon my English minor in university: I was tired of seeing the wonderful books I’d grown up reading subjected to absurd and stupid reinterpretations. The question parents must answer when they are considering the question of today’s entertainment industry is whether they want to permit our culture’s current storytellers to have access to their children. What is the worldview of these storytellers? What do they want to impart in their stories? Is any of it good, or consistent with the Christian worldview? Do these storytellers have any values at all, or do their stories promote relativism at best and overt wickedness at worst? And this doesn’t even approach the fact that exposure to the medium of film and television at an early age often has the potential to rob children of the ability to create their own imagination and discover early the worlds contained between the two covers of a book. It’s important to note that many of Hollywood’s storytellers do not see blasphemy, sexually explicit material, and profanity as incidental to their storytelling—they see it as essential to the integrity (no irony intended) of their work. This is evidenced by the fact that most of the major film studios, at the behest of the movie directors, have worked hard to destroy any attempt to apply family-friendly filters to their films. CleanFlicks was one attempt to offer edited movies, and that company was sued out of existence. VidAngel, the newest company to try offer filtering services, was recently forced to pull down their entire film library as the result of a federal court order. The Hollywood storytellers want people to consume their stories replete with blasphemy, swearing, and pseudo-pornographic material—and will shut down any attempt at editing or what they call “censorship.” Not even greed can explain their motives here—film critic and cultural commentator Michael Medved has spilled gallons of ink highlighting the fact that films devoid of swearing and sexual material generally make a lot more cash than the standard crude fare offered by most studios. The simple fact is that they see the components of cursing, crudeness, and carnality as a vital part of the stories they wish to tell. The good news is that parents do not have to invite these smut-peddlers and storytellers into their homes. The greatest works of literature ever produced are cheaper and more widely available than at any other time in human history. Skilled storytellers of the highest calibre simply await an introduction. A host of men and women who defined eras and captivated entire generations with the tales and the characters they conjured up in their imaginations and breathed into life with their pens stand ready to usher a new generation on fantastic journeys of wonder, whimsy and imagination, needing only a simple invitation. Their stories capture the great moral truths, the essential principles, and the high drama of ordinary living. Give them a try. I promise you won’t regret it.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-lgbts-pernicious-war-on-whimsy-now-tintin-is-gay
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Top Bishop: Europe Will Soon Be Muslim Because of Our Stupidity
by Nick Hallett14 Jan 2017
Everyone in Italy and the rest of Europe will “soon be Muslim” because of the country’s “stupidity”, a prominent Italian archbishop has said. Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emeritus of Pompeii, said that Islam will soon become Europe’s main religion thanks to the huge number of Muslim migrants alongside the increasing secularism of native Europeans. Speaking to Italian Catholic journal La Fede Quotidiana, the archbishop said: “In 10 years we will all be Muslims because of our stupidity. Italy and Europe live in a pagan and atheist way, they make laws that go against God and they have traditions that are proper of paganism. “All of this moral and religious decadence favours Islam.” “We have a weak Christian faith,” he added. “The Church nowadays does not work well and seminaries are empty. “Parishes are the only thing still standing. We need a true Christian life. All this paves the way to Islam. In addition to this, they have children and we do not. We are in full decline.” The archbishop added that the problem is not just Muslim immigration. The number of Eastern Europeans arriving over the past few years has also hit the quality of life for native Italians, he said. “We help without delay those coming from outside and we forget many poor and old Italians who are eating from the trash,” the archbishop said. “We need policies that take care of Italians first: our young people and the unemployed. “I am a protester. If I were not a priest, I’d be out there demonstrating in the squares. What is the point of so many migrants that instead of thanking for the food we give them, they just throw it, spend hours with their cell phones and even organise riots?” He even criticised the Catholic Church for giving money to migrants. “Giving money to migrants wandering around town is not only wrong, but morally harmful because we encourage their behaviour and they get used to that, not mentioning the fact that we already feed them. “I think sometimes this creates a beggars’ network. I remember that my father went to work very hard as a migrant in Australia so I could go to seminary. So he has experienced in his own skin the discomfort of poverty and the noble virtue of gratitude.”
http://www.breitbart.com/faith/2017/01/14/top-bishop-europe-will-soon-muslim-stupidity/
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2017 Prophecy For Israel & USA: America Will Be Devided Into Two Like Israel • Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj
Published on Jan 11, 2017
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As Technology Races Toward Giving Life To The Image Of The Beast, Theologians Want To Know If An A.I. ENTITY CAN COMMIT SIN
January 15, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
As artificial intelligence (AI) catches up with human intelligence and machines become more and more autonomous, roboticists are increasingly asking about ethics. If a machine is capable of making a decision, what are the moral principles that guide that decision? Can a robot have a conscience? And if so, how is that conscience to be designed and developed? And on the further fringes of the debate, can a robot sin? According to Computer Business Review (CBR), a group of investors is putting $27 million into a fund designed to answer questions like this. They’re supporting the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, which is being overseen by the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University. The idea, says CBR, is to apply the humanities, social sciences, and other non-tech disciplines to the development of AI. According to Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners: “There’s an urgency to ensure that AI benefits society and minimizes harm […] However, talk of robots having a “conscience” or a “soul” makes some Christians uneasy. (READ MORE)
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Hungary Plans to Crack Down on All Soros-Funded NGOs
by Zoltan Simon January 10, 2017, 11:44 AM EST January 10, 2017, 12:39 PM EST
Ruling Fidesz party vice president pledges to ‘sweep out’ NGOs
Premier Orban, Trump backer, vowed to build ‘illiberal state’
Hungary plans to crack down on non-governmental organizations linked to billionaire George Soros now that Donald Trump will occupy the White House, according to the deputy head of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party. The European Union member will use “all the tools at its disposal” to “sweep out” NGOs funded by the Hungarian-born financier, which “serve global capitalists and back political correctness over national governments,” Szilard Nemeth, a vice president of the ruling Fidesz party, told reporters on Tuesday. No one answered the phone at the Open Society Institute in Budapest when Bloomberg News called outside business hours. See also: Soros Group to Stay in Hungary Despite Trump-Inspired Crackdown “I feel that there is an opportunity for this, internationally,” because of Trump’s election, state news service MTI reported Nemeth as saying. Lawmakers will start debating a bill to let authorities audit NGO executives, according to parliament’s legislative agenda. Orban, the first European leader to publicly back Trump’s campaign, has ignored criticism from the European Commission and U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration for building a self-described “illiberal state” modeled on authoritarian regimes including Russia, China and Turkey. In 2014, Orban personally ordered the state audit agency to probe foundations financed by Norway and said that civil society groups financed from abroad were covers for “paid political activists.” Orban and his administration have frequently singled out NGOs supported by Soros, a U.S. Democratic Party supporter with a wide network of organizations that promote democracy in formerly communist eastern Europe. ‘Power Structure’ Trump also accused the 86-year-old billionaire of being part of “a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.” In a pre-election commercial, he showed images of Soros along with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, all of whom are Jewish. The Anti-Defamation League criticized the ad for touching on “subjects that anti-Semites have used for ages.”
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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SYRIA: Sultan Erdogan’s Secret Weapon, Elite Squads of Chinese Uyghur Mercenaries
January 7, 2017 By 21wire Steven Sahiounie Global Research
Turkey’s President Erdogan used his mercenary Army to fight against the Syrian government military forces for the purpose of regime change. This military project of regime change in Syria was devised, supported and established by the United States of America, who is a close ally of Turkey, and fellow NATO member. “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” General Wesley Clark, interview with “Democracy Now” dated 2007. Pres. Erdogan’s mercenary Army are all Chinese citizens of the far Western region in China, and home of the Uygur people, and are Sunni Muslims. The Uygur people are an ethnic group of Muslims living near the far west frontier of China and they speak the ancient Turkic language, which is the root of the modern Turkish language now spoken in Turkey. Their province is Xinjiang, and their capital city is Urumqi. For many years, Pres. Erdogan has supported the Uygur’s claims of oppression by the Chinese government. Pres. Erdogan has made speeches in which he compared the Uygur people to the ancestors of the people of Turkey. Pres. Erdogan feels there is a close historical and ethnical tie between modern Turkey and the Uygur people. In a speech, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that “Eastern Turkestan is not only the home of the Turkic peoples, but it is also the cradle of Turkic history, civilization, and culture. The martyrs of Eastern Turkestan are our own martyrs.” His designation of Eastern Turkestan is actually the Chinese province of Xinjiang, the home of the Uygur people. Pres. Erdogan used his own mercenary Army of Chinese citizens: the Uygurs. He had allowed them Turkish passports, which they used to pass legally through Central Asia to arrive in Turkey. The immigration officials at the airport in Turkey recognized these special passports, and would confiscate them, but allow the Chinese to pass through legally and enter Turkey. Pres. Erdogan had arranged for them to be transported from the airport in Turkey into Syria through the large and porous border area North of Idlib, which was once a mid-size town in North West Syria. In the Zeytinburnu distict of Istanbul, Nurali T., a Uyghur Turk working to transport terrorists into Syria, with implicit allowance of the Turkish government, and especially the Turkish Intelligence Services, provides militants with passports worldwide. According to Nurali T.’s office manager, “More than 50,000 Uyghur Turks came to Turkey with these fake passports from China via Thailand and Malaysia and entered Syria after staying a day in Istanbul”. Militants who entered Turkey with these fake passports are hosted either in hotels or guesthouses for a day before they pass into Syria through the borders which are under terrorist control. Idlib was a hot-spot of violence and destruction from the early months of the Syrian crisis, which started in March 2011. By late summer of 2011, Idlib was almost empty of residents, who either fled to Turkish refugee camps nearby, or fled to the refugee camps of Latakia. Idlib transformed into a Free Syrian Army headquarters and base of operations. When Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona made his famous illegal trip into Syria, to meet the FSA commanders, he was near Idlib. Eventually, the FSA recruited and invited Al Qaeda from Libya, Afghanistan, Chechnya, and other Arab and Western countries, such as USA, UK, Europe and Australia. The majority of Syrian residents do not support armed revolution, or the armed opposition called FSA. Because of this lack of support on the ground, the FSA chose to call in their Jihadi brothers globally, or face defeat. The American CIA office in Adana, Turkey, who runs the FSA command and supplies headquarters, had no problem in allowing the Al Qaeda and their affiliates to bolster the ground forces of the FSA, who had been dwindling. America used the Free Syrian Army (FSA), and Al Qaeda affiliates: Jibhat al Nusra, Islamic Army, Nour al Deen al Zinki and Ahrar al Sham, to fight the Syrian government forces, thus avoiding American “boots on the ground”. In fact, the FSA and all the other armed militias are acting as American “boots on the ground”: as mercenaries. The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is the Radical Islamic political group made up of Uygur people. Their leader is Emir Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Turkistānī. Since 2001, TIP has been affiliated with Al Qaeda. The ground battlefield leaders of TIP in Idlib province of Syria are Abu Rida al-Turkestani, and Ibrahim Mansour. In 2013 TIP aligned itself with Jibhat al Nusra, a terrorist group in Syria which is on the US list of outlawed terrorist groups. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: “Chechens who defected to ISIS were replaced with the Uyghur Turkistan Islamic Party allied with Al-Qaeda.” “Islam Awazi,” the TIP’s media center, publishes three to four videos monthly in the column, “A Call From the Front Lines of Jihad,” which report about the military “successes” of TIP fighters. Also, a monthly “Tourism of the Believers” video is produced which demonstrates the “peaceful” and “military” life of Uyghur fighters in Syria. In particular, on July 22, 2016 the Turkestan Islamic Party distributed a video titled “My Desire,” which highlighted photos of Uyghur fighters in Syria.” Today ISIS-inspired radicals in Europe repeat the experience of TIP fighters, who massacred Han Chinese at stations in Kunming and Guangzhou using knives, axes, and machetes in 2014. The TIP has a long history of terrorist attacks inside China, targeting Chinese people who are not Muslim. Now that TIP is in Syria in large numbers, they have become a serious contender in global Jihad. In October 2013, five died when a car crashed into a group of pedestrians near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and TIP claimed responsibility for the attack in a video. This act reminds us of the Nice, France truck attack which killed and injured a large number of pedestrians in summer 2016. The TIP terrorists in Idlib took great pride in destroying the several Christian Churches of the area. As in many parts of Syria, the Idlib area had been home to Muslims, Christians and minority sects. The TIP made many videos of the destruction of Churches and placing their TIP flag on the steeple of the Churches. The Uygurs are in general a poor and under educated group in China. They have a strong sense of family ties, and some have felt a political alienation from the Chinese government and society. Because of that, most of the Uygurs who migrated to Idlib, Syria brought their entire families with them. The married males: their wife, their children and their elderly parents. This is unlike most Jihadists, who are young males traveling alone. Because these Jihadists of the TIP had arrived in Idlib, Syria as whole family units, they needed special living arrangements, unlike the male-only typical terrorist camps. The TIP occupied a whole village in the Idlib province named Az-Zanbaqi, which is now home to 3,500 Uygurs of all ages and sexes. There were so many children with them, that they established their own schools there. The children are mainly taught the Koran and military training, like ‘Junior Jihadis’. Their dream is to survive the Syrian Jihad, and grow up well trained in terrorist fighting, then make their way back to China and begin their attack on China, to transform China into an Islamic State. The Saudi Arabian and Qatari petro-dollars are funding the regime change project in Syria, with the actual cash payroll distributed from Turkey by a Saudi official. America is the source of the regime change policy towards Syria, with Turkey as the logistical base of operations, and Syria is the battlefield, with unarmed Syrian civilians amounting to the largest number of casualties. Turkey is a modern “democracy”. It has long prided itself on its secular form of government. However, the AKP party, which is now the ruling party of Pres. Erdogan, is in fact an Islamist party. Pres. Erdogan has continually been making substantial changes to the social and political fabric of Turkey, in order to shift it towards Radical Islam. Radical Islam is not a religion, or sect, but a political ideology. The Muslim Brotherhood is a global political party which is based on Radical Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed in many countries, notably Egypt and Syria. Pres. Erdogan is a supporter and defender of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Syrian armed opposition, FSA, has a political wing, Syrian National Coalition (SNC). Pres. Erdogan hosted the SNC in Istanbul, Turkey. America is also home to the Muslim Brotherhood, with offices and members in almost every big city across USA. The US Congress once debated outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood; however, it did not pass. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood hold high positions in Pres. Obama’s administration, and in key departments such as security and defense. In the United Kingdom, the Muslim Brotherhood is also throughout the country, and has established itself with close ties to the UK government. The same can be said of the Australian government scene. Saudi Arabia is home to the Wahhabi brand of Radical Islam, while Qatar promotes the Salafi brand of Radical Islam, and Turkey, USA and UK are bases for the Muslim Brotherhood brand of Radical Islam. These three brands are the three sides of the same coin. However, the vast majority of Muslims worldwide reject Radical Islam, and according to Islamic scholars, they reject the “Death Cult “called ISIS, which was born out of the three brands just described. Syria’s “Chinatown” is not a tourist spot known for bright red paper lanterns and tasty noodle dishes. For that you will have to go to San Francisco, or Seattle. Syria’s “Chinatown” is a small village in the countryside, of rolling hills and olive orchards . Syria’s Chinatown is a terrorist town, not a tourist town. One day those Uygur ‘tourists’ to Syria will have out-stayed their VISA issued by Pres. Erdogan, and will face either death on the battlefield, or a slow walk Eastwards on the Old Silk Road their ancestors once made famous.
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Kim Jong-un has enough weapons-grade plutonium to build TEN nuclear bombs, claim South Korea
Two-yearly white paper said the North has boosted its plutonium supplies
Has some 50 kilogrammes of weapons-grade plutonium as of the end of 2016
North Korea has carried out five nuclear tests so far
Kim Jong-Un said North will test intercontinental ballistic missiles this year
Donald Trump has vowed to halt Pyongyang in its tracks
By Afp and Sarah Dean For Mailonline Published: 01:19 EST, 11 January 2017 | Updated: 09:43 EST, 11 January 2017
North Korea now has enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear bombs, South Korea warned on Wednesday. Seoul's defence ministry said the North is believed to have some 50 kilogrammes (110 pounds) of weapons-grade plutonium as of the end of 2016, up from 40 kilogrammes eight years earlier. The North also has a 'considerable' ability to produce weapons based on highly-enriched uranium, it said in a two-yearly white paper, but did not estimate weapons-grade uranium stocks, citing impenetrable secrecy in the state's uranium programme. The announcement comes a week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korea has carried out five nuclear tests and is seeking to develop a ballistic missile capable of hitting the US mainland. Pictured is a test-fire of a strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile Earleir this month North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was pictured visiting a quilt factory at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill The isolated communist state, which has carried out five nuclear tests and numerous missile launches, is thought to be planning a nuclear push in 2017 as it seeks to develop a weapons system capable of hitting the US mainland. Analysts are divided over how close Pyongyang is to realizing its full nuclear ambitions, but all agree it has made enormous strides since Kim took over as leader from his father Kim Jong-Il who died in December 2011. US think tank the Institute for Science and International Security estimated in June that the North's total nuclear arsenal was more than 21 bombs, up from 10-16 weapons in 2014, based on estimates of plutonium and uranium. The North has boosted plutonium supplies by reactivating its once-mothballed nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, the defence ministry said. North Korea deactivated the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord, but began renovating it after Pyongyang's third nuclear test in 2013. The type of plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb typically needs to be extracted from spent nuclear reactor fuel. The ministry also said the North has improved its ability to miniaturize nuclear warheads. Kim Jong-Un said in a New Year's speech that Pyongyang was in the 'final stages' of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile of the kind that could threaten US territory. The address drew a swift response from US president-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter vowing to halt Pyongyang in its tracks.
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US Fighter Jets Launch Drone Swarm of Hundreds of Micro Drones: Perdix Micro-UAV Drone Swarm Test
WarLeaks - Daily Military Defense Videos & Combat Footage
Published on Jan 10, 2017
Video shows US fighter jets launch drone swarm of hundreds of micro drones during a Perdix micro-UAV drone swarm test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NGgHyfPGU0&feature=youtu.be
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Wed Jan 11, 2017 | 10:22 AM EST
Taiwan scrambles jets, navy as China aircraft carrier enters Taiwan Strait
Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships on Wednesday as a group of Chinese warships, led by its sole aircraft carrier, sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the latest sign of heightened tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island. China's Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier, returning from exercises in the South China Sea, was not encroaching in Taiwan's territorial waters but entered its air defense identification zone in the southwest, Taiwan's defense ministry said. As a result, Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships to "surveil and control" the passage of the Chinese ships north through the body of water separating Taiwan and China, Taiwan defense ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said. Taiwan military aircraft and ships have been deployed to follow the carrier group, which is sailing up the west side of the median line of the strait, he said. Taiwan's top policymaker for China affairs urged Beijing to resume dialogue, after official communication channels were suspended by Beijing from June. "I want to emphasize our government has sufficient capability to protect our national security. It's not necessary to overly panic," said Chang Hsiao-yueh, minister for Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, during a news briefing in response to reporters' questions on the Liaoning. "On the other hand, any threats would not benefit cross-Strait ties," she said. China has said the Liaoning was on an exercise to test weapons and equipment in the disputed South China Sea and its movements complied with international law. On the weekend, a Chinese bomber flew around the Spratly Islands in a show of "strategic force", a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The latest Chinese exercises have unnerved Beijing's neighbors, especially Taiwan which Beijing claims as its own, given long-running territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said China's ships "couldn't always remain in port" and the navy had to hone its capabilities. "The Taiwan Strait is an international waterway shared between the mainland and Taiwan. So, it is normal for the Liaoning to go back and forth through the Taiwan Strait in the course of training, and it won't have any impact on cross-Strait relations," Liu said at a briefing on Asia-Pacific security. China claims most of the energy-rich waters of the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims. China distrusts Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and has stepped up pressure on her after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump broke years of diplomatic protocol and took a congratulatory call last month from her. Trump then riled China by casting doubt on the "one China" policy that Beijing regards as the basis of U.S.-Chinese relations. Tsai drew anger from China again when she met senior U.S. Republican lawmakers in Houston on Sunday en route to Central America, in a transit stop that Beijing had asked the United States to not allow. Beijing suspects Tsai wants to push for the island's formal independence, a red line for the mainland, which has never renounced the use of force to bring what it deems a renegade province under its control. Tsai says she wants to maintain peace with China.
(Reporting by J.R. Wu and Faith Hung; Additional reporting by Michael Martina in Beijing; Editing by Michael Perry, Robert Birsel)
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terrorists to come in like Trojan horses and they are here and nobody wants to
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person and try to drive them out, that somebody that wouldn’t do what they
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A Recipe For Disaster: Investigative Journalist Uncovers Massive ISIS Paramilitary Network Across America As The Left Prepare For 'The Biggest Riots In History'
January 11, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The recent story over at Zero Hedge reports a massive network of ISIS sleeper cells spanning the entire United States has been uncovered - training camps and all - and it appears that a massive cover up is going on at the highest levels regarding them. With FBI Director James Comey having previously stated that ISIS was present in all 50 US states, the claims being made here could be looked at as another piece of the puzzle leading to the conclusion there is an ongoing plan being carried out to 'subvert' America.: Either the US government and current administration is so hopelessly incompetent that they are unable to detect domestic and foreign threats which are discoverable by investigative journalists and whistleblower organizations. Or, there are factions within the United States government who are seeking to prevent competent, well-intentioned members of the intelligence community, law enforcement, and legislative/regulatory branches from taking action against ISIS operatives and extremist recruits who are active both on the American border as well as in the United States. William Craddick ANP has long reported that an ongoing 'trojan horse invasion' of America was being allowed to take place over the past 8 years. The claim now being made by investigative journalist William Craddick of a massive paramilitary network here in America being run by ISIS is just the latest sign that Americans should have all eyes and ears open over the coming days and weeks as we witness what many believe is a very real effort to destabilize America. Craddick, (who also discovered the connection between Hillary Clinton, Haiti and known child trafficker Laura Silsby as also reported in this Conservative Daily Post story), now warns that the 'lone wolf narrative' of recent terror attacks across America being pushed by the MSM is a lie. He also warns us that wherever it appears there is a 'lone wolf', there is a 'wolf pack' waiting somewhere nearby, providing them with support. Also warning that veterans of the Syrian war and other 'command figures' were being smuggled into the United States and that black youth in America are now being radicalized to their cause, we see in the warnings of 'the biggest riots in United States history' in only 10 days at Trump's inauguration as another sign those long working to destabilize America are now trying to push America past our 'breaking point'. As Infowars and The Express have reported, ISIS has declared Trump's inauguration day on January 20th to be 'bloody Friday'. With US special forces on high alert that day and over 5,000 national guard members coming to Washington DC to deal with anarchists and keep order, next Friday is shaping up to be a day for the ages. The first of three new videos below looks at the new Zero Hedge story in which our videographer breaks down Craddick's proof of a massive ISIS paramilitary network being run across all 50 states in the US. In the 2nd video our videographer takes a look at the effort to disrupt Trump's inauguration. In the final video below, Infowars looks at the potential for a massive uptick in Islamic terror across America now that Trump is closing in upon taking office. Rather than embracing living in America, where a peaceful transfer of power can take place, and celebrating what might have just been the biggest political revolution in US history with Donald Trump's stunning election victory over a 'highly favored' Hillary Clinton (who was the very personification of the 'elite'), anarchists are hoping to turn Trump's inauguration into one of the biggest riots in history. According to the new story by Michael Snyder over at the Economic Collapse Blog, anarchists will be taking a wide range of actions to disrupt Trump's inauguration. They'll be countered by 'Bikers for Trump', more than 5,000 national guard troops and an a huge number of DC police along with thousands of Trump supporters and well-wishers. A recipe for disaster? Considering ISIS's warning of a 'bloody Friday', Washington DC might not be 'the place to be' on Friday. Rather than being joyful that a US foreign policy of aggression in the Middle East that has resulted in the losses of countless innocent lives overseas and a huge number of American lives appears to be coming to an end with a 'non-interventionist' Trump foreign policy, 'the powers that were' on the 'left' lament over the possibility that a 'world war 3' with Russia may be avoided. Thus depriving the satanic globalists of their much-desired blood sacrifice, it also deprives the Islamic State of their chance for nuclear war leading to 'Armageddon' and the return of their 'mahdi'. Friday, January 13, 2017
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A Recipe For Disaster: Investigative Journalist Uncovers Massive ISIS Paramilitary Network Across America As The Left Prepare For 'The Biggest Riots In History'
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By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die January 11, 2017
The recent story over at Zero Hedge reports a massive network of ISIS sleeper cells spanning the entire United States has been uncovered - training camps and all - and it appears that a massive cover up is going on at the highest levels regarding them. With FBI Director James Comey having previously stated that ISIS was present in all 50 US states, the claims being made here could be looked at as another piece of the puzzle leading to the conclusion there is an ongoing plan being carried out to 'subvert' America.: Either the US government and current administration is so hopelessly incompetent that they are unable to detect domestic and foreign threats which are discoverable by investigative journalists and whistleblower organizations. Or, there are factions within the United States government who are seeking to prevent competent, well-intentioned members of the intelligence community, law enforcement, and legislative/regulatory branches from taking action against ISIS operatives and extremist recruits who are active both on the American border as well as in the United States. William Craddick craddick_tweet.png ANP has long reported that an ongoing 'trojan horse invasion' of America was being allowed to take place over the past 8 years. The claim now being made by investigative journalist William Craddick of a massive paramilitary network here in America being run by ISIS is just the latest sign that Americans should have all eyes and ears open over the coming days and weeks as we witness what many believe is a very real effort to destabilize America. Craddick, (who also discovered the connection between Hillary Clinton, Haiti and known child trafficker Laura Silsby as also reported in this Conservative Daily Post story), now warns that the 'lone wolf narrative' of recent terror attacks across America being pushed by the MSM is a lie. He also warns us that wherever it appears there is a 'lone wolf', there is a 'wolf pack' waiting somewhere nearby, providing them with support. Also warning that veterans of the Syrian war and other 'command figures' were being smuggled into the United States and that black youth in America are now being radicalized to their cause, we see in the warnings of 'the biggest riots in United States history' in only 10 days at Trump's inauguration as another sign those long working to destabilize America are now trying to push America past our 'breaking point'. As Infowars and The Express have reported, ISIS has declared Trump's inauguration day on January 20th to be 'bloody Friday'. With US special forces on high alert that day and over 5,000 national guard members coming to Washington DC to deal with anarchists and keep order, next Friday is shaping up to be a day for the ages. The first of three new videos below looks at the new Zero Hedge story in which our videographer breaks down Craddick's proof of a massive ISIS paramilitary network being run across all 50 states in the US. In the 2nd video our videographer takes a look at the effort to disrupt Trump's inauguration. In the final video below, Infowars looks at the potential for a massive uptick in Islamic terror across America now that Trump is closing in upon taking office. dj20_vs_bft.jpg Rather than embracing living in America, where a peaceful transfer of power can take place, and celebrating what might have just been the biggest political revolution in US history with Donald Trump's stunning election victory over a 'highly favored' Hillary Clinton (who was the very personification of the 'elite'), anarchists are hoping to turn Trump's inauguration into one of the biggest riots in history. According to the new story by Michael Snyder over at the Economic Collapse Blog, anarchists will be taking a wide range of actions to disrupt Trump's inauguration. They'll be countered by 'Bikers for Trump', more than 5,000 national guard troops and an a huge number of DC police along with thousands of Trump supporters and well-wishers. A recipe for disaster? Considering ISIS's warning of a 'bloody Friday', Washington DC might not be 'the place to be' on Friday. Rather than being joyful that a US foreign policy of aggression in the Middle East that has resulted in the losses of countless innocent lives overseas and a huge number of American lives appears to be coming to an end with a 'non-interventionist' Trump foreign policy, 'the powers that were' on the 'left' lament over the possibility that a 'world war 3' with Russia may be avoided. Thus depriving the satanic globalists of their much-desired blood sacrifice, it also deprives the Islamic State of their chance for nuclear war leading to 'Armageddon' and the return of their 'mahdi'. totally_clueless_sjws.jpg And while we understand some of the discontent being shown by those who are taking to the streets of an America that has gone terribly wrong over the years, we also see an incredible disconnect being shown as Donald Trump becomes the 'ire of their anger' though he hasn't even taken office yet nor had the opportunity to either 'earn that ire' or prove them wrong. Meanwhile, Barack Obama leaves office a saint in the media and left's eyes, despite the fact that he helped to create this mess in America that has lead to the masses to take to the streets, not Donald Trump. As if they're caught in some alternative world, we see in these riots part of a continuing plan to complete the subversion of America as reported in this new story from Mike Adams over at Natural News who argues that left-wing media has already helped totalitarian forces achieve 3 out of the 4 steps needed for the Soviet-style overthrow of American society and government. What happens if protesters meet up with terrorists? A recipe for disaster on American streets. Often called useful idiots, those taking to the streets to protest Trump's election should instead be catching themselves up with history, particularly the history of the 2016 election which saw politicians from both sides of the aisle come unglued by Trump, joining the entire mainstream media in self-destruct mode as Trump destroyed 'political correctness'. Let's hope that with that 'destruction' comes the destruction of 'corruption' in American politics but we certainly won't hold our breaths waiting for that to happen. As we come down the homestretch of the Obama regime, we'd love to see Trump prove us wrong.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Warnings_Of_The_Biggest_Riots_In_History.php
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Artificial Human: Scientists Grew a Beating Human Heart from Stem Cells
By Nate Brown - 01/11/2017
Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School used adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue, bringing humanity one step closer the creating an artificial human. The scientists took adult human stem cells, used a method called messenger RNA to turn them into pluripotent stem cells, and then turned them into two different types of cardiac cells. For two weeks the researchers infused the hearts with a nutrient solution, which created the same circumstances a heart would grow inside a human body. After that short amount of time, the scientists then shocked the heart with electricity, and it began beating. This is the closest scientists have ever gotten to creating a beating human heart, and this brings scientists one step closer to the goal of developing a full artificial human by 2026.
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More marine life misery for Canada's East Coast as lobsters, connors, starfish and crab wash up dead along beaches of Norris Point,
Photo the Telegram
Yet another death of marine life mystery for the East Coast of Canada as lobsters, connors, starfish and crab are washing up dead along the beaches of Norris Point, NL, Canada. DECKERS COVE, N.L. - Josephine Chubbs was shocked to see a large number of sea creatures wash up on the beach near her Norris Point home. Chubbs lives in an area known as Deckers Cove. “Our backyard is right on the ocean,” she said by phone Monday. She estimates there were 100 lobsters alone. “It was babies, from two inches to measured (harvestable) lobsters.” Chubbs, who is the custodian at the Bonne Bay Marine Station, was ready to do what she could to get the creatures to the tanks at the marine station, but everything was dead. “There was nothing that I could help save.” She later called Bob Hooper; the retired MUN professor is the founding director of the station and still volunteers there, to get his thoughts on the discovery. From the pictures she sent, Hooper was struck that there was a mixture of species, so he feels the creatures were not killed by a disease. “Everything looked very healthy, apart from being dead,” he said. He also noted that all the creatures washed up reach their northern limit in Newfoundland and are not things that are found in Labrador. “The significance of that is it suggests that cold is the problem.” He’s seen mortalities dozens of times between the fall and this time of year related to water temperatures getting close to and below freezing. “Even it goes down a fraction of a degree it might make the difference between a connor being alive and a connor being dead.” He said the loss is probably worse than it looked, as its possible more creatures than what washed up were affected, but hopes it’s localized to the shoal waters in front of Chubb’s house. Something similar to this happened in Nova Scotia a few weeks ago as thousands of dead fish, starfish, crabs, clams, scallops and lobster washed up on the shore causing concern for public and scientists alike.
Posted by Gary Walton at 10:50 am
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/01/more-marine-life-misery-for-canadas.html
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Deepest Quake in Recorded History has Struck/Magma Layer
BPEarthWatch Published on Jan 10, 2017
A 612 Km, this quake broke the depth recorded and is at the magma transistion layer. Links @ http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjFPxiqHvi4
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Obama talks about himself 75 times during 51-minute farewell speech
January 11, 2017 By Kyle Olson
President Obama’s final speech to Americans wouldn’t have been complete if he hadn’t talking about himself dozens of times. The outgoing commander-in-chief focused on himself 75 times to be exact during the 51-minute farewell address. Speaking to supporters in Chicago, Obama cast his remarks not to much on what the American people accomplished during his eight years in office, but rather what he did. “Whether we’ve seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the American people – in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant outposts – are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going. Every day, I learned from you. You made me a better President, and you made me a better man,” Obama said in the opening paragraph. “I first came to Chicago when I was in my early twenties, still trying to figure out who I was; still searching for a purpose to my life,” he said. Obama said later, “I committed to President-Elect Trump that my administration would ensure the smoothest possible transition, just as President Bush did for me.” Speaking about having faith in America, Obama again looked inward: Mine sure has been. Over the course of these eight years, I’ve seen the hopeful faces of young graduates and our newest military officers. I’ve mourned with grieving families searching for answers, and found grace in Charleston church. I’ve seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch, and our wounded warriors walk again. I’ve seen our doctors and volunteers rebuild after earthquakes and stop pandemics in their tracks. I’ve seen the youngest of children remind us of our obligations to care for refugees, to work in peace, and above all to look out for each other. The president promised he’s not going away, so supporters can fuel his ego a while longer. “I won’t stop; in fact, I will be right there with you, as a citizen, for all my days that remain. For now, whether you’re young or young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President – the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago,” he said. The Daily Caller noted the president said “I” 33 times, “my” 20 times, “me” 10 times, and “I’m” or “I’ve” 12 times.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/obama-talks-75-times-51-minute-farewell-speech/
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Be in prayer that there is a calm, a calm between now and when the new President gets sworn in, this is extremely important. For if you do not pray, if you do not call upon my name blood shall flow in the streets and when blood flows in the streets Obama will call in the United Nation army and he will not leave office, he will not leave office. Therefore, you need to be in prayer, you need to be in prayer, for you can stall this off, you can stall this off until another time and when it takes place in the other time they will not call military troops into the streets. It will be handled in a total different way, a way that will benefit my church, a way that will benefit the people, but it is extremely important pray, pray, pray.
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Most Democrats Embrace Marxist-Style Violence: Can Trump Ever Feel Safe?
By Dave Hodges
There was a loose statement that was commonly thrown around during the election: “The Democratic Party is the new American Communist Party”. Although one size does not fit all, this comment is essentially accurate. To be accurate, the Democratic Party is the new Socialist Party. The Socialist Party is the first cousin to the Communist Party and both parties, to be covered in a future installment of this series, mutually make use of the same front groups. ALL OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS EMBRACE VIOLENT CHANGE OVER THE LEGAL PROCESS (documentation listed below). The Progressive Caucus: A Communist Front Organization The Progressive Caucus is an extreme radical, leftist, socialist/communist group which claims one senator, Bernie Sanders, and 70 democratic Congressman. It is also considered to be one of thr so-called “front organizations” for the Communist Party, and these front organizations are common and ubiquitous. In other words, they are everywhere. Further, this is not a new allegation in the modern era, former Congressman Alan West made this same allegation in 2012. Spokeswoman Angela Melvin, speaking for Congressman, Alan West stated: “The congressman was referring to the 76 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The Communist Party has publicly referred to the Progressive Caucus as its allies. The Progressive Caucus speaks for itself. These individuals certainly aren’t proponents of free markets or individual economic freedom.” The Congressman, himself, stated in response to a question on how many of his fellow members of Congress are Communists,, West replied: “It’s a good question. I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. … It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” Democrats do not directly belong to the American Communist Partymas they are not so stupid to advertise their true intentions. However, many Democratic Congressmen, as I discovered do belong to front organizations, or close allies to the Communist Party and are actively endorsed by the Communist Party. Facebook Rears It’s Ugly Censorship Face, Again! In the aftermath of Benghazi, I was sent an excerpt from West’s Facebook page by a few readers who speculated that the killing of Stevens and his security detail was the result of a Communist plot. My Benghazi investigation did not take me anywhere close to these conclusions, but I thought they were noteworthy and were certainly reflective of the Obama administration as a whole, particularly Hillary Clinton, so, I saved the statement for any possible future reference. Former Congressman West published his statement on his Facebook page and it read as follows: “I stand by the point of my comments. The press wants to write gotcha stories and talk semantics, but just look at the words and actions of the Progressive Caucus. You can call them socialist, Marxist, communist or whatever you want, but the point is, they oppose free markets and individual economic freedom, they want to redistribute wealth, and they want to see the nation fundamentally transformed. Their policies are destructive and I will stand up to them regardless of the critics. Members of this Caucus lavished praise on Fidel Castro following a 2009 visit, just to name one example. The Communist Party USA claims the Progressive Caucus as its ‘ally.’” Unfortunately, when one visits West’s page, even using the Wayback Machine, this is what you will be met with: Sorry, this page isn’t available The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed. The Progressive Caucus At the time that West made his allegations against dozens of Democrats for being members of this Communist Part front group, the organization was co-chaired by Minnesota’s U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison/ Where have you heard of Keith Ellison? He has attempted to seize control of the Democratic National Committee. He is a Muslim Brotherhood supporter. Ellison is a member of the Socialist Party. Six One-Half Dozen the Other The Gateway Pundit, way back in 2010, published a 2009 list released by the American Socialist Party of Democrats that belonged to their organization who served in the 111th Congress. Prominent members of recent and prominent Congressmen are highlighted in bold.
Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)
Many of these Congressman, several who are still serving in Congress, are beholding to the following philosophy: The following is an excerpt from the homepage and platform of the Socialist Party “Democratic Revolution From Below No oppressed group has ever been liberated except by its own organized efforts to overthrow its oppressors. A society based on radical democracy, with power exercised through people’s organizations, requires a socialist transformation from below. People’s organizations cannot be created by legislation, nor can they spring into being only on the eve of a revolution….” (Editor’s Note: This is a clear Marxist philosophy which espouses the use of violent revolution to achieve one’s communist goals. This represents a total disrespect for the elections and the democratic process. These Socialists, masquerading as Democrats who are telling you right here that they will not respect the rule of law and allow a peaceful inauguration). Conclusion The American Socialist Party, the American Communist Party, is there a difference? They are both anti-religious, disrespect the Constitution, they favor violent change as opposed to legal change, they are anti-patriotic in favor of a globalist philosophy, they both disrespect the value of American citizenship, they mock American exceptionalism, they both disavow the value and the contributions of the Founding Fathers as well as the sanctity of the Constitution. Alan West lost his bid for re-election because he dared to call out so many of his fellow Congressman for being socialists/communists. Isn’t it interesting that anyone who opposes the current and very subversive ideals of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, as a whole, are now labeled as secret agents representing Russia and were co-conspirators in undermining our elections on behalf of the Communists. Yet, the very organizations making these fake news allegations against the Independent Media were the very same media outlets who went after West and his claims of a communist friendly Democratic Party in the ultimate act of journalistic hypocrisy. The real Russian supporters in the media are organizations such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. One of the salient conclusions that one can take away from this series is that the Democrats will stop at nothing to prevent Trump from taking the oath of office and if he does, using violence to prevent the implementation of his populist agenda. People have asked me why I have mentioned assassination so many times in relation to Trump, now you know why. As this series unfolds, I have concluded that it would be highly appropriate for the Democratic Party to move its headquarters to Moscow. And for those who don’t think that Russia and Putin are not in on this, you are not paying attention and I would recommend that you read Part One, especially that part that has to do with what the Russian defectors have told us for decades on how the Russians would defeat us from within.
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Anarchists Are Hoping To Turn Donald Trump’s Inauguration On January 20th Into One Of The Biggest Riots In U.S. History
Their stated goal is to “disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as much as possible, and they are planning a wide range of “actions” to achieve that stated goal
Michael Snyder | Economic Collapse - January 10, 2017
Radical leftists are planning to make January 20th the most chaotic Inauguration Day in American history. Their stated goal is to “disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as much as possible, and they are planning a wide range of “actions” to achieve that stated goal. Some of the more moderate groups are using terms such as “civil resistance” and “civil disobedience”, but others are openly talking about “blockades”, jumping barricades, throwing projectiles and “citywide paralysis”. My hope is that all of their efforts will turn out to be a big flop, but it is important to understand that these groups are well funded, highly organized and extremely motivated. The election of Donald Trump has been perhaps the single most galvanizing moment for the radical left in modern American history, and they are working very hard to turn January 20th into a major political statement. In fact, just recently one activist group took out a full page ad in the New York Times… Thousands of activists, journalists, scientists, entertainers, and other prominent voices took out a full-page call to action in the New York Times on Wednesday making clear their rejection of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence with the simple message: “No!” “Stop the Trump/Pence regime before it starts! In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America!” the ad states, followed by a list of signatories that includes scholar Cornel West; author Alice Walker; Chase Iron Eyes of the Standing Rock Sioux; educator Bill Ayers; poet Saul Williams; CNN‘s Marc Lamont Hill; Carl Dix of the Communist Party USA; and numerous others. The ad pointed people to refusefascism.org, and it asserted that Trump must be stopped whether he was legitimately elected or not… Trump promises to inflict repression and suffering on people in this country, to deport millions, to increase violence up to the use of nuclear weapons on people across the globe, and to inflict catastrophes upon the planet itself. He has assembled a cabinet of Christian fundamentalist fanatics, war mongers, racists, science deniers. NO! His regime must not be allowed to consolidate. We REFUSE to accept a Fascist America! If you go to refusefascism.org, you will discover that the protests that they are organizing in Washington D.C. will begin on January 14th. They say that they want to “stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts”, and they hope to have protests going “every day and every night” without interruption through at least January 20th. Another group that plans to kick things off on January 14th is DisruptJ20. Of course that is short for “Disrupt January 20th”. If you go to their official website, you will find a long slate of events that have already been scheduled. According to Legba Carrefour, a spokesperson for DisruptJ20, one of the goals of the group is to block major transportation routes into and throughout our nation’s capital. And he is not shy about the fact that they literally want to “shut down the Inauguration”… “We are planning to shut down the inauguration, that’s the short of it,” he says. “We’re pretty literal about that, we are trying to create citywide paralysis on a level that I don’t think has been seen in D.C. before. We’re trying to shut down pretty much every ingress into the city as well as every checkpoint around the actual inauguration parade route.” If Carrefour and his fellow conspirators are able to actually accomplish that, it truly would be unprecedented. And while DisruptJ20 is not publicly advocating violence, they are not exactly discouraging it either… Carrefour says DisruptJ20 has no publicly announced plans to jump barricades along the inauguration parade route or throw projectiles at the new president, but that autonomous direct actions are encouraged. “I can’t comment on specific stuff we’re doing like that, mostly because that would be illegal. But, yeah, it will get pretty crazy, I expect,” he says. “‘Have fun!’ I say.” After the rioting that we have seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlotte and many other communities around the nation in recent years, I hope that authorities are taking these threats quite seriously. Once Donald Trump won the election, many conservatives seemed to think that the war was won. But the truth of the matter is that many on the left were completely blindsided by Trump’s surprise victory, and now that they are fully awake they are gearing up for battle like never before. And these protests are not going to end on January 20th. In fact, abortion advocates are hoping to get close to a million women into Washington D.C. on the day following the Inauguration to protest for abortion rights. Filmmaker Michael Moore is hoping that this march will be the beginning of “100 days of resistance” against Trump’s presidency… Filmmaker and liberal icon Michael Moore has announced his plans to attend the Women’s March on Washington to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month and has called for sore loser liberals to go further — by staging protests acts of resistance through the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency. In an appearance, this weekend on MSNBC’s The Last Word, the 62-year-old Trumpland and Fahrenheit 9/11 director made a “call to arms” to those opposed to Trump’s presidency to join the Women’s March on Washington scheduled for January 21, the day after the presidential inauguration. “It’s important that everybody go there,” Moore told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. Of course it is easy to imagine how all of this could spiral wildly out of control. If Trump cracks down on these protests really hard in an attempt to restore law and order, that could end up sparking a dramatic backlash against his “police state tactics”. And if the protests become even bigger and more violent, Trump could respond by cracking down even more harshly. Let us hope for some really cold weather in D.C. at the end of January so that as many troublemakers as possible get discouraged and stay home. Violent protests, blockades and riots aren’t going to solve anything, and they could easily open fresh wounds in a nation that is becoming more divided with each passing day.
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The Globalist Plan For Serfdom – Their Plan To Exterminate 80% Of The World’s Population
Posted on January 11, 2017 Written by Amy S.
Their Plan To Exterminate 80% Of The World’s Population The globalists have been working toward their goals for decades and what they want is nothing less than the complete subjugation of the people. Rent in a lot of cities is over $1,000 for a one bedroom. Yet the minimum wage is only $7.50. They want you living 10 to a coffin apartment or living with your parent. The whole point is to stop people from getting a big house. They want you to live in the mega city stacked up like sardines. It’s all about saving the environment to the globalists, or at least it’s there excuse. It’s nearly impossible to rise up in this country now. H.G Wells was a propagandist and social engineer that worked for the world elites. How much of his work was from his own mind and how much he was told directly to write is debatable. The Open Conspiracy calls for various things that either have been implemented since like a centralized world bank controlling all money creation, which all “world citizens” (at this point in time unwittingly) would pay a tax into. He also calls for eliminating property ownership, replacing individual land owners with “householders” or “tenants.” Other choice things discussed in The Open Conspiracy, and these are direct quotes, are Wells talking about the need for a “mental sanitation process” where feelings of nationalism are to be replaced with an acceptance being a “world citizen”. Wells says the main objective of the “Open Conspiracy” in the early stages of the social engineering process is to “disentangle all traditions, loyalties, and time honored ideas”, meaning loyalty to ones country, race and family. He also calls for education reform to have education that pushes “the cause of world reconstruction” as well as publishing books that push this idea and making sure all libraries are stocked with them. He also says the Open Conspiracy must “impose freedom”. Buy a hard copy of The Open Conspiracy. Overpopulation The elite have long viewed a rising population as a threat to their dominance. They realized that eventually a large number of people will inevitably overthrow and remove them from power. They are particularly concerned with the middle class whose intelligence and capacity to organize makes them the biggest threat. Consequently, the elite plan to destroy the middle class and make all the of public equally poor and thus incapable of rebelling. As written on the Georgia Guidestones, they want a global population of just 500 million. This means 6+ billion people must die over the coming century. In order to bring about global governance it is imperative that communism and capitalism be merged into a new system where economic control remains and is concentrated in private hands and social control is based on collectivism. As established by a U.S congressional investigation headed by Senator Norman Dodd into the great foundations back in the 1960’s, this was in fact one of the main purposes for which the foundations were created. Multi-generational Planning The evolution of society is not something the elite can leave to chance since society could evolve in thousands of different and unpredictable ways. If they were ever to allow this they might lose their control and dominance over us. In order to continue their position as the dominant minority, they plan decades and even centuries in advance. RELATED : Stocking the Pantry For Three Months Of Meals – Storing The Right Amount For Meals, Labeling Foods And Saving Money Revelation of the Method The elite’s do tell us through their books and publications, movies and news releases what they are doing – this is called Revelation of the Method. If you are too stupid to recognize it for what it is that is your problem from their point of view. It is a form of ritual mocking of the victim. Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people to choose natural healing and alternative medicine and nutrition. Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater. This is the first part of a series of talks by Dr. Rima Laibow MD, available on DVD from the Natural Solutions Foundation, an non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about how to stop Codex Alimentarius from taking away our right to freely choose nutritional health. In this video she explains how the implementation of Codex Alimentarius will result in the death of 3 billion people. What we are taught about history in American schools is not history, but a fairy tale. Better yet, it is propaganda designed to hoodwink an unsuspecting society about its true heritage and the treasonous acts and sabotage that were conceived in order to bring about a New World Order. You are about to learn the real identities of those who have infiltrated your nation on behalf of secret societies intent on bringing about the total slavery of mankind. In the past, others have written about the numerous conspiracies to control natural resources, energy, food and our sovereign right to live on planet Earth — not as slaves of a wealthy few — but as free men, women, and children exercising the free will given to them by God. Imagine you were a member of a secret organization whose sole agenda was to control the entire planet. If your plan was to accomplish this goal without being perceived by your intended victims, discretion would be paramount. Your organization would devise a series of historical events that, on the surface, would appear to be everyday, happenstance occurrences (natural disasters, man-made diseases, acts of murder, assassination, terror, manipulation of money and energy supplies, contamination of foods, pollution of natural resources, and war). The timing of these events would require patience, careful planning, and cooperation from others in positions of trust, stealth and deceit. In essence, the whole mission must derive its power through deception and concealment and must have a master plan. For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80-90% of the world’s population, while enabling the “elites” to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity’s extermination: Operation ENDGAME. VIA : ALEX JONES For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world’s population, while enabling the “elites” to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity’s extermination: Operation ENDGAME. Jones chronicles the history of the global elite’s bloody rise to power and reveals how they have funded dictators and financed the bloodiest wars—creating order out of chaos to pave the way for the first true world empire. Watch as Jones and his team track the elusive Bilderberg Group to Ottawa and Istanbul to document their secret summits, allowing you to witness global kingpins setting the world’s agenda and instigating World War III. Learn about the formation of the North America transportation control grid, which will end U.S. sovereignty forever. Discover how the practitioners of the pseudo-science eugenics have taken control of governments worldwide as a means to carry out depopulation. View the progress of the coming collapse of the United States and the formation of the North American Union. Never before has a documentary assembled all the pieces of the globalists’ dark agenda. Endgame’s compelling look at past atrocities committed by those attempting to steer the future delivers information that the controlling media has meticulously censored for over 60 years. It fully reveals the elite’s program to dominate the earth and carry out the wicked plan in all of human history. Endgame is not conspiracy theory, it is documented fact in the elite’s own words. The Conspiracy Of The New World Order World War 3 The Secret The genocidal depopulation plan generally involves poisoning or sterilizing people through the use of chem. trails or water fluoridation. Agribusinesses transnational like Monsanto are often implicated in some sort of scheme to monopolize the world’s food supply so it can be easily tainted with deadly toxins. Just about anything that can be said to involve “chemicals” can be implicated in this nefarious scheme: vaccines, alleged covert geo-engineering schemes, genetically modified food, etc. Variants of the theory include those with an anti-abortion tinge who incorporate conspiracy theories about Planned Parenthood, and AIDS conspiracy theorists who believe AIDS was concocted in a laboratory for the purpose of reducing the population. Another variant, largely attributable to Lyndon La Roche, has worldwide nuclear war as part of the conspirators’ alleged plan along with a deliberate economic collapse and de-industrialization to force the world back into a “new dark age.” The NEW WORLD ORDER Has Something BAD Planned The health commission of Codex Alimentarius, and the subsequent legislation to come from it, has provable roots to Nazism, Communism, eugenics, and one-world government initiatives. Let’s put forth a few of the names and philosophies of the tyrants responsible for this proposed global health tyranny. Grow your own vegetables and fruits, find a natural spring in your area and bottle your own water, become a hunter and eat more deer ( naturally hard for some), you can find local butchers who buy meat locally, usually these local farmers are not held to these standards…. yet. stop banking at major banks and pray to GOD you survive when it hits the fan.
http://www.prepperfortress.com/globalist-plan-serfdom-plan-exterminate-80-worlds-population/
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Banks Not Going Broke, They Are Broke-Rick Rule
By Greg Hunter On January 11, 2017 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Rick Rule is an expert on investing in all sorts of natural resources, and that includes gold and silver. He thinks it won’t take a “catastrophic event” to move prices higher in precious metals. Rule explains, “You remember the decade of the 1970’s? The shocks to the financial system were severe but survivable. The gold price went from $35 per ounce to $850 per ounce.. . . As you can see, I am not a young guy. I was a finance major, and the way I learned accounting, it’s not like the banks are going to go broke, the banks are broke. . . . It isn’t a question of ongoing bank solvency. It’s a question of real bank solvency and how long people will believe in the system. . . . If the major players had to face a liquidity squeeze, even the level of magnitude they faced in 2008, I suspect the fiscal tools available are constrained enough now that they would be unsuccessful in containing a broad liquidity base contagion.” So, we would see bankruptcies and failures, and the Fed would have to let things go. Rule contends, “I don’t think they would have any other choice but to let them go. My suspicion is we are going to skate through this without a catastrophic situation. I could be right and I could be wrong, but I think in terms of the gold price, it doesn’t matter. If the system is tested, tested and not wrecked, it will be extraordinary for the gold price. What people fail to recognize is the simple arithmetic that you and I owe each other, and other countries, $20 trillion. That’s $20 trillion in liabilities. That’s 20 with twelve zeros. People don’t focus on it because it’s almost an incomprehensible number. Beyond that, we owe each other in the context of promises in excess of $100 trillion. That number doesn’t come from a cranky old guy at Sprott. It comes from the Congressional Budget Office. How on earth are we going to resolve $120 trillion on balance sheet and off balance sheet liabilities before we consider state and local debt and underfunded pensions? My suspicion is we get out of this in one of two kinds of defaults. A formal default where . . . they say to 64 year old Rick Rule that we made you promises on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, but we lied. We say to holders of U.S. debt where we gave a full faith and credit promise that we lied. Those are official defaults. That requires telling the truth, and I think that is unlikely. I think we will have a series of unofficial defaults where we devalue the net present value of the obligations, which is a different way of saying we devalue the . . . currency, gradually like we did in the 1970’s. I think that will have the same impact on gold and silver prices.” On the best thing President-elect Trump can do for America, Rule contends, “If Mr. Trump can roll back restrictive regulation in the United States, we are our own greatest enemy. If he can make the United States great again in the sense he keeps us from competing with ourselves, then we will see a spectacular economic boom in this country.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Rick Rule, President and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc.
http://usawatchdog.com/banks-not-going-broke-they-are-broke-rick-rule/
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etc.. You shall see China as she continues to rise in her power. etc.
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China aircraft carrier crosses Taiwan Strait amid tension
5 hours ago
China's only aircraft carrier has led several warships across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's defence ministry said. The Liaoning was returning from drills in the South China Sea. It did not enter Taiwanese waters but did cross its air defence identification zone (ADIZ), the ministry said. It is the latest escalation amid tensions between the two neighbours, and Taiwanese authorities have asked the public to remain calm. In response, Taiwan's military monitored the flotilla of Chinese ships as it passed through the 160km-wide (100-mile) strait, Taiwan's defence ministry said. China considers self-governing Taiwan part of its territory, to be reunited with the mainland by force if necessary. Tensions have been high since US President-elect Donald Trump broke with long-standing diplomatic protocol and took a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen. What's behind the China-Taiwan divide? The head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, Chang Hsiao-Yueh, said the authorities were monitoring China's actions and appealed for calm. "I want to emphasise that our government has sufficient capability to protect our national security. It is not necessary to overly panic. On the other hand, any threats would not benefit cross-strait ties at all. Together we should show mutual good will." China has increased military drills near Taiwan, and spoken of "increased levels of uncertainty" in relations with the island. A diplomatic row was again kicked off when Ms Tsai visited the US at the weekend in transit to Central America and met officials, despite protests from Beijing.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38579559
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Young Taiwanese support independence even if it means war with China: poll
Taiwan on its way to solely Taiwanese identity: academics
By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2017/01/07 16:34
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A total of 43 percent of Taiwanese younger than 40 support independence for the island, even if it meant China would launch a military attack, according to a poll mentioned by four Taiwanese academics in a letter to the Washington Post. “The Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese,” reads the title on the analysis piece published by the authoritative United States newspaper in its Monkey Cage section and written by Fang-Yu Chen, Wei-ting Yen, Austin Horng-en Wang and Bryan Hioe. In the piece explaining the background to relations between Taiwan and China, the four authors say that attitudes on the island have not been static, and reject U.S. President Barack Obama’s statement that the Taiwanese “won’t charge forward and declare independence” “as long as they can function with ‘some degree of autonomy.’” The authors quote a survey conducted by the Election Study Center at National Chengchi University originated by Duke University political scientist Emerson Niu. “For Taiwanese younger than 40, pro-independence support reaches 84 percent. Perhaps most startling, 43 percent of the under-40 generation would support independence even if it meant China would attack Taiwan under the risk of war,” the authors wrote. However, they also said that Taiwanese citizens are worried about the economy and about China using economic elements to force political concessions from the island. “When asked to choose between formal independence or maintaining economic ties with China, 83 percent chose bread over romance,” the authors wrote. Looking at different attitudes between the generations, they emphasized that a solely Taiwanese identity will eventually prevail. Almost 70 percent of people younger than 40 consider themselves to be only Taiwanese, and not Chinese, while this figure runs up to 78 percent for people born after martial law ended in 1987, according to the article by Chen, Yen, Wang and Hioe.
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3065202
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Does China want Taiwan or Republic of China?
Posted : 2017-01-11 15:54 Updated : 2017-01-11 15:54 By Frank Ching
Taiwan's leader, President Tsai Ing-wen, arrived in Honduras Sunday for a closely watched four-nation Central American visit but, in China at least, there was much more interest in her stopovers in the United States – Houston on the way out and San Francisco on the way home. However, President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition team had issued assurances that there would be no contact between them and the Taiwan leader during her transit layovers. China's sensitivity stems from an unprecedented phone call the Taiwan leader made to congratulate Trump on his electoral triumph even though the two sides have no diplomatic relations. China has made clear that Taiwan will have to pay for such transgressions. A Global Times commentary Jan. 10 trumpeted, "Tsai had a phone call with Trump, but soon Sao Tome and Principe broke ties with Taiwan. It is certain that more countries will do the same." After Honduras, the Taiwan leader will go to Nicaragua to attend the inauguration of Daniel Ortega, who will begin a new presidential term. At the ceremony, she will have a rare opportunity to meet other foreign leaders. After that, Tsai is scheduled to visit Guatemala and, finally, El Salvador, before returning to Taiwan via San Francisco. The four Central American countries represent a significant portion of the 21 countries that still accord diplomatic recognition to Taiwan rather than China. In 2007, just before Ma Ying-jeou became president, Costa Rica broke relations with Taiwan to establish ties with China. Then, for the eight years of Ma's presidency, there was an unspoken "diplomatic truce" in which China refrained from grabbing Taiwan's diplomatic allies. Thus, in 2008 when Paraguay indicated interest in relations, Beijing was unresponsive. Similarly, in 2009, when Mauricio Funes won the presidential election in El Salvador, he was quoted as saying that he would consider establishing relations with China and severing ties with Taiwan. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman rather pointedly responded that "despite the absence of diplomatic ties, the Chinese people have friendly feelings towards the Salvador people, and we are willing to carry out friendly exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation in various areas with Salvador." The emphasis was on developing friendly exchanges in the absence of diplomatic relations. But now that Tsai Ing-wen is president, the diplomatic truce is over. Tsai will have to be sensitive to signs that other countries will follow Sao Tome's example. This is especially the case since Taiwan is in no position to compete with China in terms of checkbook diplomacy. El Salvador and other countries must be re-assessing whether they should stick with Taiwan or switch to China. A commentary in the official China Daily newspaper on Jan. 5 referred to the decision by the Sao Tome and added darkly, "The same could happen with Taiwan's remaining 21 ‘allies'." But China needs to gauge the wisdom of attempting to strip Taiwan of all its diplomatic allies. What are the implications of such a move to isolate Taiwan diplomatically? At present, Taiwan's formal name is the "Republic of China" and the 21 countries that recognize it have relations with the ROC, not with a "Republic of Taiwan." If no country in the world recognizes the Republic of China, Taiwan will have no choice but to be Taiwan. It will no longer be Chinese. Moreover, Taiwan can survive without formal diplomatic relations. It will then focus on its substantive relations, such as those with the US, Japan and other countries, who do not recognize the "Republic of China." The ostensibly unofficial US embassy in Taipei, for example, doesn't have the word "China" in its name. It is simply the American Institute in Taiwan. Japan, when it established relations with China in 1972, created something called the Interchange Association to be its "unofficial" embassy. However, last week, on Jan. 1, the name was changed to Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, recognizing the island as Taiwan, not China. This may well become a trend. Because of its economic importance, other countries need to have dealings with Taiwan and they need to call it something. If the name doesn't have "China" in it, it is likely to have "Taiwan," thus eroding the island's connection with the mainland and in practice strengthening Taiwan independence, certainly something China doesn't want. Would such a development be to the benefit of Beijing, which says it wants "peaceful reunification" between the mainland and Taiwan in the long run? Perhaps more importantly, will such a humiliation by China help or hinder the China-friendly political party, the Kuomintang, in its attempt to return to power in Taiwan in 2020 or 2024? Frank Ching is a Hong Kong-based free-lancer columnist. Contact cintrFrank.ching@gmail.com.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2017/01/171_221864.html
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Thousands urged to flee as Calif. river threatens to flood
Jane Onyanga-Omara , USA TODAY Published 4:10 a.m. ET Jan. 11, 2017 | Updated 5 hours ago
About 2,000 people in a rural California community near Sacramento were asked to leave their homes Tuesday as a river swollen by days of heavy rain threatened to flood, while north of San Francisco thousands more were urged to seek higher ground. USA TODAY NETWORK Thousands of people in Northern California were urged to flee their homes as a river threatened to burst its banks Wednesday. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department advised about 2,000 people in Wilton — a rural community near Sacramento — to consider evacuating Tuesday evening, as a Cosumnes River levee in Sacramento County was projected to overflow its banks Wednesday. Emergency crews and officials were trying to bolster the levee. The Red Cross opened two evacuation centers in the area, one in neighboring Elk Grove. However, some residents planned to stay put. “We have no concerns,” Lill Nichols, who with her husband runs a horse farm near the river, told the Sacramento Bee. “We have animals and can’t evacuate anyway.” No relief: Storms continue to slam West with snow, rain, wind Sacramento County emergency services official Mary Jo Flynn said water was expected to spill over the levee, flooding low-lying roads and buildings with up to 1 foot of water. She said many of the homes along the path of a possible flood are built on berms or sit on relatively higher ground. The Cosumnes River is the only river in the western Sierra without major dam control, KXTV reported. Tim Chappell, who manages the Kautz Vineyard in Wilton, said he remembered the damage from the great flood of 1997. "Literally, you could not see the vines. It just looked like an ocean," Chappell told KXTV. "At this time, we're fine. Another foot and you know we'll be in more danger." “The water is crazy powerful,” he added. “Looking at it, watching it. But the sound of it, especially when it breaks ... it's got a really hurting sound to it.” Contributing: The Associated Press
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McCain’s Largely Unreported Treachery Against the US
Wayne MADSEN | 06.01.2017 |
Arizona’s recently re-elected Republican senator John McCain, along with his faithful «drama queen» accomplice South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, recently met with a contingent of Ukrainian troops at a «forward combat zone» in Shyrokyne in eastern Ukraine and publicly questioned president-elect Donald Trump’s plans to defrost America’s chilly relations with Russia. For McCain, his return to his personal war front in Ukraine came three years after he stood with Ukrainian neo-Nazis and fascists on Kiev’s Maidan Square calling for the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych. Meanwhile, McCain, Graham, and their neo-conservative allies within the Republican and Democratic parties, as well as press outlets like The Washington Post, have questioned Trump’s ultimate loyalty to the United States. The neocons’ angst arises from their anger over the incoming president wisely doubting the efficacy of Central Intelligence Agency «intelligence» linking Russia to a spate of computer penetrations of U.S. computer systems and networks, including pre-election hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and private email of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign officials. After President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats from Washington, DC and San Francisco and shut down two Russian diplomatic compounds in Maryland and New York in retaliation for unproven Russian government involvement in the hacking, McCain and his neocon war hawks doubled down by claiming that Russian hacking of U.S. computer systems amounted to an «act of war». Seizing on the neocons’ war frenzy, the CIA and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Russian hackers had penetrated the electrical power grid operated by Vermont’s Burlington Electric. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon billionaire and CIA cloud computing contractor Jeff Bezos, echoed the grid hacking story as factual. There was only one problem with the Russian electrical grid hacking headline: it was not true. Burlington Electric revealed that a laptop computer in the possession of a Burlington Electric employee, which allegedly was infected by a malware program linked by the U.S. government to Russian hackers, was never connected to the Vermont electrical grid. The laptop contained a hackers’ software package called Neutrino, which is not linked, in any way, to Russia. An attempt by the «Amazon Post» and the war hawks to pin the Vermont grid story on Russia and link it to the DNC hacking fell flat on its face. Burlington Electric issued a statement on December 30, 2016, identifying DHS as the «boy who cried wolf» that issued the same «Russian malware» scare to electric utilities across the United States. The statement read, «Last night, U.S. utilities were alerted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of a malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name DHS has applied to a Russian campaign linked to recent hacks. We acted quickly to scan all computers in our system for the malware signature. We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization’s grid systems». It turned out that Ukraine, the country where McCain, Graham, and Minnesota’s rather myopic Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar were kibitzing with army troops and neo-Nazi armed militia members over the holidays, was the source of the malware hacking program used to hack into DNC computers. The Washington Post was also forced to shamefully retract its grid hacking story. The episode was yet another example of the haste at which the outgoing Obama administration and the neocon toadies in the Republican Party led by McCain were apt to blame any bad news on «the Russians». It was as if the Cold War witch hunter senator Joseph McCarthy had met the Keystone Kops. The situation would have been funny had it not been for the fact that the actions of Obama and the neocons propelled the world closer to cataclysmic warfare with the likes of McCain, Graham, and others beating the war drums. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and DHS amateurishly coined the alleged Russian hacking of the DNC computers with the cover term «Grizzly Steppe», a code phrase that would have been rejected by any legitimate Hollywood movie script writer as being too cartoonish and campy. Moreover, the malware used in the hacking of the Democrats’ computers was an antiquated version of PHP, a program originally designed for personal home pages, hence the abbreviation PHP, but which now stands for «PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor». The PHP malware was found to be freely distributed by a Ukrainian hacker group as a hackers’ tool. Although the FBI, DHS, and CIA did not bother to investigate whether the Ukrainian hackers were linked to McCain’s and Graham’s friends in the Ukrainian intelligence service, the Ukrainians would have had every reason to initiate a further damaging fracture in relations between the United States and Russia. Furthermore, the Ukrainians could have availed themselves of «network weaving» tools to run their malware through servers in Russia. In fact, the amateurish FBI/DHS «Grizzly Steppe» report found that the Ukrainian malware, later blamed on the Russians, had passed through the IP [Internet Protocol] addresses of 389 organizations in 61 different countries. None of the 389 malware pass-through IPs, including those of the University of Michigan; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York; Datasource AG in Ingmarso, Sweden; Hunenberg, Switzerland; Kustbandet AB in Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria; Voxility S.R.L. of Bucharest; and Amazon.com – the company owned by none other than Washington Post owner and CIA contractor Mr. Bezos! – were linked to the Russian government. These include the United States, Ukraine, Russia, China, France, Germany, Seychelles, Moldova, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Montenegro, Romania, and Israel. Such a rich global network, which included several TOR anonymous browsing gateways, would have provided more than ample network weaving opportunities to mask the original Ukrainian digital fingerprints on the actual hacking of DNC computers. The malware program, called P.A.S. version 3.1.7., is contained in a web shell of PHP code. The malware program states that it is «Made in Ukraine» and the date of the program, 2011-2016 is followed by the letters «UA,» the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) two-letter code for Ukraine In eastern Ukraine, standing alongside a camouflage-festooned chocolate mogul president Petro Poroshenko, McCain and Graham accused Russia of «attacking» the United States, with Graham accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of «hacking our election». Both called for increased sanctions against Russia. However, the sum-total of computer security knowledge of these two Republican fossils would not exceed that possessed by a kindergarten student in Arizona or South Carolina. Rather than accuse other Americans, including Mr. Trump, of engaging in potentially treasonous activities, perhaps Mr. McCain should recall the charges made by several U.S. prisoners-of-war about his «singing» to his North Vietnamese captors after his plane was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967. McCain, according to some fellow POWs who later spoke out, gladly gave his captors about six months’ worth of U.S. Navy operational plans for the bombing of North Vietnam and Laos. McCain’s psychosis about Russia reportedly could stem from his time at the «Hanoi Hilton» POW prison. McCain was given the Russian KGB code name «Jack Mouse» and, per Chan Chong Duet, the commander of the prison, the downed Navy pilot and son of the U.S. Pacific Forces Commander, Admiral John McCain, Jr., was quite free with the information he passed to North Vietnamese, Cuban, and Soviet officers while being treated for his wounds by Soviet doctors. If McCain wants to question the loyalty of any American, he should look into a mirror. He should also seek out psychiatric assistance.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/06/mccain-largely-unreported-treachery-against-us.html
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New data suggest Agent Orange causing horrific third generation birth defects Vietnam vets are passing to their grandkids
Sunday, January 08, 2017 by: S.D. Wells
(NaturalNews) What’s the “Agent Orange curse?” True story: As veterans of the Vietnam war die off from cancer and other diseases and disorders they got from the incredibly toxic defoliant Agent Orange, the nightmare is not over, because research is revealing their children and grandchildren, who were never exposed to the pesticide, have birth defects that were passed on through their parents and grandparent’s affected genes. That’s the Agent Orange curse, and it can cause much more detriment than cancer, as if that weren’t enough, including heart disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, spinal problems, autism, and birth defects like missing limbs, extra limbs, malformed limbs, speech difficulties, cleft lip palate, crooked fingers and webbed toes. Sadly, the US government is trying to cover it all up, waiting for the vets to die off, thinking the whole chronic nightmare will fade away, but it’s not fading at all. Vietnam vets believe billions of dollars lie at the heart of why their claims have gone unexamined by the US government and Veterans Affairs First of all, compensating veterans for all their health problems inflicted by the haphazard spreading of and treading through toxic pesticides in Vietnam costs tens of billions of dollars a year, but now we’re talking about compensating the vets’ kids and grandkids, who are grown up or growing up with horrific medical conditions that aren’t going away or getting any better. If the link between Agent Orange and their children’s conditions is proven by science, we’re talking billions more. How does the VA ignore all these legitimate claims? Answer: the nefarious “Dr. Orange” For decades now, the VA and the military have relied on one chemical-industry shill’s assessment of whether Agent Orange caused health detriment to our veterans. A man by the name of Alvin L. Young headed up a government sanctioned plan to destroy evidence of any connection between aircrafts that spread agent orange and veteran’s sicknesses, and to ward off journalists that ask questions through their investigations. Young functions as a “consultant” and an “expert” on herbicides who guides the stance of the military and U.S. Department of Veterans in their mass denial of benefits and compensation to the thousands of suffering soldiers, and now their children and grandchildren too. Agent Orange herbicides were so destructive they could burn down brush and foliage where the enemy was hiding, and the U.S. even dumped the poison into rivers, streams, and waterways to infect the food and drinking water, knowing good and well the toxic effects of the orange nightmare that contains the lethal chemical dioxin. Young, nicknamed by Vietnam veterans as “Dr. Orange,” even developed a plan to destroy Agent Orange a decade later. Young’s claim for decades? Few veterans were exposed and the doses were too small to harm them. He has said on record that some vets are just “freeloaders” who are making up ailments to “cash in” on the VA’s compensation program. The VA repeatedly cites Young’s work as if it is the “be-all end-all” scientific conclusion to every case brought to them, saving the government millions, if not billions of dollars, while all these soldiers, their kids, and their grandkids suffer and go broke trying to pay their medical care bills. Now, frustrated veterans, top government officials and respected scientists contend that Young’s self-labeled “investigations” are without merit, omit key facts, and worse yet, were funded by none other than Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical Co.–the actual manufacturers of agent orange. Alvin Young is nothing more than a huckster and a shill who’s regurgitating research lies to save corporations from getting sued. Even prominent experts on dioxin from NIH say his talk about dioxin is “in no way accurate.” Young is not even qualified to make conclusions about human health effects. An emeritus professor at Columbia University and an Agent Orange researcher says Young and the VA repeatedly clash with any concerted effort to study health effects from agent orange exposure and they even try to keep studies from being conducted, and have been doing so ever since the sick and dying soldiers returned from the Vietnam War. The “color orange” runs through the veins of Vietnam Vets like poison. Veterans now believe that the birth defects can even skip a generation, passing over their children but then affecting their grandchildren. Now, here comes the rub: What pesticide ingredients do you think are in conventional food today? GMO food delivers a small amount of Agent Orange ingredients into your blood and mutates your cells over time. How long that mutation of cells takes to overwhelm one of your vital organs, or strangulate your lungs or your brain is just a matter of how much of it you eat, how often, and for how long. Glyphosate is now regularly sprayed on conventional crops like wheat and sugar cane as a drying agent. Glyphosate, which makes up about 50% of the Roundup herbicide, has been proven through vigorous laboratory research to cause horrific tumors and other cancers in laboratory animals. Most genetically engineered foods like corn, soy, and canola contain some of the same herbicide ingredients as agent orange, namely glyphosate and dioxin. Do you and your children eat “agent orange” corn and soy? These popular GM foods are made and sprayed by Monsanto and Dow Chemical, don’t you know?
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Head Holistic MD at Cleveland Clinic Threatened By Hospital For Writing Vaccine Danger Piece
By Erin Elizabeth - January 8, 2017
Daniel Neides, MD, MBA is the Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. This holistic doctor has won countless awards and is one of the most respected holistic MDs in the US. Dr Neides penned a well written piece on Cleveland.com about the real dangers of vaccine adjuvants which included carcinogens (causing cancer). The article is linked below. It was posted last week and had thousands of reads and someone sent it my way. Today, Sunday, January 8th, I did a live video on it this afternoon and the article worked fine at the time I began the feed. Then my video went viral (47,000 live viewers) and somwhere during that time the article on the popular site Cleveland.com disappeared. Cleveland.com has added a disclaimer now to their own article that it reappeared shortly after our long video. Here’s what they stated: “Please note: This column was inexplicably removed from cleveland.com for a few hours, but has now been restored in it’s entirety” We had several troll sites send over their minions to our page during our live video and don’t know if it was an overload of people looking at the article, an intentional take down or just.. one big’ ole coincidence. But it gets worse. Now the good doctor has been threatened by Cleveland Clinic that they will take disciplinary action against him, but aren’t sure what they’re going to do to him at this time (just… wow!) From the publication: The Clinic responded by doubling down on its disavowal of Neides’ column, saying that the health system is “fully committed to evidence-based medicine,” and promising to take disciplinary action against Neides. Clinic officials have not yet determined what that action will be, according to a spokeswoman Gee, will it be 40 lashes? Let’s just hope this holistic MD doesn’t end up dead like so many other holistic doctors (including his own colleagues – one AT THE SAME HOSPITAL!) who spoke out against vaccines the last year (some of whom were our friends) The award winning holistic MD and writer is the head of the Cleveland Clinic famous Wellness Center (he writes extensively on alternative medicine) and now he’ll be ‘disciplined’ for what exactly? Expressing his opinion? Of course the allegedly alternative Cleveland Clinic (which has talked about vegan, holistic and alternative diets and health care for years) immediately said they didn’t agree with him on his vaccine article and then Dr Niedes publicly apologized. All links supporting this 100% factual information as evidenced in the links below. Check out the video above as it did get a bit intense. Until next time! Erin Elizabeth
http://www.healthnutnews.com/cleveland-clinic-md-damning-article-vaccines-schedule/
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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that. Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there? And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years. Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer? Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.
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A Hate to Kill and Die for
2017/01/09 by Raymond Ibrahim
Muslim attacks on Christian churches are on the rise all around the world—including in America. The worst occurred last month when a bomb exploded in Egypt’s St. Peter’s Cathedral, killing 28, mostly women and children. Preliminary investigations had indicated that a woman entered the church, sat in the women’s section, and then left an unattended purse that later detonated. Later reports asserted that, although others were involved, including one Muslim woman, a male suicide-bomber was the chief culprit (graphic pictures of his remains here). How much hate must a woman have to enter a church, smile in the faces of Christians, pretend to be worshipping alongside them—here’s a similar example from Turkey—and then knowingly leave a bomb precisely where it would kill mostly women and children? How much hate must a man have for people who are peacefully praying that, in order to kill as many of them, he is willing to kill himself? The answer is an unfathomable—and, to Western and Christian minds, unbelievable—amount of hate. Yet the wonder isn’t that the church was bombed but rather that many are surprised by it. After all, many Muslim scriptures, clerics, mosques, schools, satellite stations and Internet sites—even the ministry of education—openly incite hatred for Egypt’s indigenous (but “infidel”) inhabitants: the Christian Copts. Among other forms of animosity, they teach that Muslims must hate—and show that they hate—Christians, even if they are their own wives. Worse, they teach that the most abominable crimes in God’s sight—“worse than murder and bloodshed”—take place inside churches: there, Christians flaunt their rejection of Islam’s core doctrine of tawhid (“monotheism”) by ascribing partners to God (shirk) via their worship of the Trinity. This is why some of Islam’s most revered ulema (scholars) describe churches as “worse than bars and brothels” and “dens of iniquity” which “breed corruption throughout the lands” (see Crucified Again, pgs. 32-36). Modern Egyptian clerics constantly echo these hateful slanders. In August 2009, Al Azhar’s Dar al-Ifta issued a fatwa likening the building of a church to “a nightclub, a gambling casino, or building a barn for rearing pigs, cats or dogs.” In July 2012, Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, Egypt’s leading Salafi, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslim taxi and bus drivers from transporting Christian clergy to their churches, an act “more forbidden than taking someone to a liquor bar.” When the Islamic State launched a suicide attack on a packed church in Baghdad in 2011—killing about 60 Christians (graphic images of aftermath here)—it justified the massacre by portraying the church as a “dirty den of idolatry.” But it’s not just ISIS and “radical” clerics that harbor such animosity for churches. After the fatal bombing inside St. Peter’s, “everyday” Muslims wrote things like “God bless the person who did this blessed act” on social media. One average looking Muslim woman appears in the streets of Egypt jubilantly celebrating the massacre (video with English subtitles). She triumphantly yells “Allahu Akbar!” and says that “our beloved prophet Muhammad is paying you infidels [Christians] back… for rejecting tawhid, which must be proclaimed in every corner of Egypt!” Americans may remember that Muslims around the world also celebrated the terror strikes of September 11. Then, the assumption was “we must’ve done something to make Muslims hate us so much.” But if powerful America is capable of provoking Muslims with its foreign policies, what did Egypt’s already downtrodden and ostracized Christian minority do to make Muslims celebrate the news that a church was bombed and Christians blown to pieces? In other words, the hate is everywhere and on open display for those with eyes and ears to see and hear with. It’s a regular feature of the West nowadays for Muslims to go on church vandalizing sprees (here’s a video of one from Rome). Indeed, the ongoing desecration of churches, crucifixes, and Christian icons at the hands of Muslims is so virulent that—from the earliest writings of Islam (see Athanasius of Sinai’s 7th century chronicles) till today—it continues to be described as the “work of Satan’s offspring.” In Egypt the hate is usually simmering below the line of what is deemed newsworthy and only reaches the West when Muslim piety boils over and leaves a trail of carnage in its wake. “Amateur” attacks on churches that fail to claim lives, or Muslims abusing, kidnapping, beating, raping—and sometimes even murdering[1]—Christians, are habitual occurrences in Egypt and other Muslim majority nations that rarely get reported in the West. Yet the fact remains: the animus that regularly causes large Muslim mobs to attack and/or torch buildings on the mere rumor that they are being used as churches, causes more zealous Muslims to bomb churches. These latter—the professional jihadis and “martyrs”—believe themselves to be the greatest allies of God. They cite the Islamic doctrine of al-wala’ wa’l-bara’ (“Loyalty an Enmity”), which is based on a number of Koran verses. It teaches that the best way for a Muslim to proclaim his loyalty to Islam (submission to Allah and adherence to Muhammad’s teachings) is by showing and exercising hate for those who reject it. The most supreme way of living this hate is by becoming a jihadi—killing and being killed, as Koran 9:111 puts it: “Allah has bought from the believers their lives and worldly goods, and in return has promised them Paradise: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall kill and be killed…. Rejoice then in the bargain you have struck, for that is the supreme triumph.” Whenever Muslims kill Christians for their faith, eulogies for the latter—including for St. Peter’s 28 slain—often invoke the words of Christ: “The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God” (John 16:2). Not only is this verse prophetic; it’s key to understanding why Christians are under attack throughout the Muslim world: Their persecutors truly “think they are offering a service to God” by killing Christians. And they believe this, not because they are “radical” or have “perverted” the teachings of Islam, but because the impostor god of Islam tells them so. [1] The other day a Muslim man crept up behind a Christian store owner in Egypt and slit his throat for selling alcohol, which is forbidden Muslims. Because no English language media had mentioned it at the time I saw it on Arabic news media, I translated it here.
http://raymondibrahim.com/2017/01/09/hate-kill-die/
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Blood On The Altar: The Coming War Between Christian vs Christian (Uncensored)
SkyWatch TV Published on Jun 12, 2014
Learn more at: http://www.RaidersNewsUpdate.com
As the world races toward its momentous end-times encounter between good and evil (known in the Bible as Armageddon), a deepening antagonism is developing worldwide against conservative Christians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2NW15gXyjU#t=58
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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come. At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc
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Monday, 9 January 2017
Winter tightens its deadly grip around the Northern Hemisphere killing dozens in Europe as parts of Russia hit minus 50C minus 58F
As winter tightens its grip around the Northern Hemisphere plunging temperatures have been blamed for dozens of deaths in Europe with a cold front moving in. The plunging temperatures have affected countries as far south as Greece Spain and Turkey causing chaos to the unprepared Mediterranean countries. The UK is bracing itself for the next big storm coming in from the Atlantic which will bring with it dangerous winds high seas, and from Friday we could see snow in many places, showers are more likely to be snow than rain. 'Next weekend the UK could be into minus double figures overnight, so a big change in the weather on the way and possibly the coldest spell of winter so far.' Meanwhile as winter takes hold in the North with parts of Russia and Greenland hitting minus 50C the high summer has hit Australia with temperatures well above 40C on the West coast, see chart above. In the US Temperatures will continue to plunge to dangerously low and damaging levels into Monday in the wake of the snowstorm over the southern United States. Those without power in the wake of the winter storm could face additional hardship due to the severe cold. The extremely low temperatures will increase the risk of frozen pipes. Despite sunshine, travel will remain slick and hazardous on untreated roads and sidewalks in the Carolinas. Snow and ice will be slow to melt into Monday due to persistent subfreezing temperatures. Life-threatening flooding will continue to wallop northern and central California into the middle of the week. Several moisture-laden storms will crash onto the California coast, unleashing torrential rainfall and significant snow into Wednesday. The first wave of heavy rain pushed across California on Sunday. "Periods of rain and mountain snow will follow on Monday, especially in north-western California and the Sierra, before the next heavier round slams into northern and central California Tuesday into Tuesday night," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski said.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/01/winter-tightens-its-deadly-grip-around.html
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FBI Quietly Releases 300 Pages Of Hillary Clinton Investigation Records
Chuck Ross Reporter 7:35 PM 01/08/2017
The FBI quietly released nearly 300 pages of records from its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server on Sunday night. This is the fifth release of Clinton investigation records from the FBI. The documents deal with the handling of computer hardware collected from Clinton’s lawyers for the investigation and also contain emails from FBI officials discussing the classification of Clinton’s emails. The FBI has previously released notes from interviews it conducted during its investigation of Clinton’s handling of classified information. FBI director James Comey declined to recommend that Clinton be charged in the case, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch accepted that advice. The emails included in the documents are from the months prior to the formal opening of the Clinton email probe, which occurred on July 10, 2015. The exchanges show disagreements between the FBI and State Department over whether some of Clinton’s personal emails should be classified. In one April 27, 2015 email, an FBI official wrote to other officials that they were “about to get drug into an issue on classification” of Clinton’s emails. The official, whose name is redacted, said that the State Department was “forum shopping,” or seeking a favorable opinion on the classification issue by asking different officials to rate emails as unclassified. Other email traffic sheds light on a controversy involving State Department under secretary for management Patrick Kennedy and a request he made in 2015 that the FBI reduce its classification of a Clinton email related to the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi. Clinton investigation notes released by the FBI in October showed that an FBI official said during an interview as part of the email probe that Kennedy asked him and others at the FBI to relax classifications on some emails. (RELATED: State Dept. Official Wanted Clinton Email Reclassified Because It ‘Caused Problems’) The new FBI release contains a May 21, 2015 email in which Michael Steinbach, the FBI’s assistant director of the counterterrorism division, detailed a conversation he had with Kennedy about the classification issue. Steinbach said that the FBI had determined that one of Clinton’s emails should be classified using b(1) and b(7) redactions, used to protect information in the interest of national defense and to prevent the disclosure of a confidential source, respectively. Kennedy asked Steinbach to classify the email using only the b(1) category. An email sent two days earlier from a separate FBI official provided more information about the dispute. The official, whose name is redacted, wrote that the Clinton email was redacted and classified on the rationale that it contained information that would cause “interference with foreign relations.” The FBI official wrote that the email could disclose sources and investigative methods used by the bureau. “While the email does not name the particular official, this might be deduced and, given the threat of violence in the region, any surmise could be fatal for whoever cooperated with us,” the official wrote. “State will say no one will know if it is redacted, but that is not how classification works,” they added. The official wrote that he informed Kennedy of that rationale and that Kennedy said he would be in contact with Steinbach. The FBI release also includes an email from the attorney of Bryan Pagliano, the Hillary Clinton State Department aide who set up and managed her secret email server. In the email, Mark MacDougall, Pagliano’s lawyer, informed the FBI that Pagliano would decline the bureau’s request for an investigation. Pagliano would eventually meet with the FBI in December, but only after receiving limited immunity from the Department of Justice.
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Mexico's Week-Long Protests over Gas Hikes Spread to 25 States
Published 8 January 2017
The massive protests against the neoliberal measures of the Mexican government began their eighth day Sunday. A new wave of protests against a hike in gas prices in Mexico began Sunday, as the nationwide mobilizations enter its second week and spread to at least 25 states. Because of the protests, that are blocking highways throughout Mexico, freeways in California are being affected and some are again being closed Sunday night. The southbound 5 and 805 freeways which lead to the San Ysidro Port of Entry are being closed, according to the California Highway Patrol. Cars that are traveling to Mexico will have to go via 905 Freeway to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. On Saturday, thousands marched across 15 of 31 states in the country and the Federal District. Among the largest demonstrations were 20,000 protesters who gathered in Puebla, 5,000 in Guadalajara and 1,000 in Tapachula. Since the protests broke out beginning on Jan. 1, clashes between police and protesters and looting have left six people dead, 1,500 arrested, 420 businesses affected and several roads blocked. The government of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced in the last week of December that the price of gasoline would spike by 20 percent and diesel by 16 percent. Peña Nieto has said that the price hikes are the only option available and that the cost changes respond to international prices and are not a result of his neoliberal reforms. However, despite the international prices Peña Nieto referred to, 40 countries around the world have not increased gas prices, and seven nations have lowered them, according to a report by Global Petrol Prices. The hike in Mexico’s gasoline and diesel is the fifth largest in the world, only topped by Zambia with 32.7 percent, Egypt with 30.6, and Georgia and Malaysia with 20.6 percent each, according to the same organization. The change in Mexico boosted the average price for a liter of premium gasoline to almost a dollar. That makes 4 liters, or about a gallon, equal to nearly as much as Mexico's minimum wage for a day's work, about US$4. This is despite the fact that the president’s Energy Reform promised to decrease the prices of gasoline and diesel.
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US would shoot down North Korean ballistic missile test if it threatens territory, allies, Carter says
Sunday, 8 Jan 2017 | 1:52 PM ET
Carter says US may shoot down North Korean missile test
Monday, 9 Jan 2017 | 7:42 AM ET | 00:37
North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities and ballistic missile defense programs constitute a "serious threat" to the United States, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Sunday. The United States is prepared to shoot down a North Korean missile launch or test "if it were coming towards our territory or the territory of our friends and allies," Carter said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." North Korea declared on Sunday it can test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile at any time from any location set by leader Kim Jong Un, saying a hostile U.S. policy is to blame for its arms development. Kim said on Jan. 1 that his nuclear-capable country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). "The ICBM will be launched anytime and anywhere determined by the supreme headquarters of the DPRK," an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the official KCNA news agency, using the acronym for the country's name. The North is formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The United States said on Jan. 5 that North Korea had demonstrated a "qualitative" improvement in its nuclear and missile capabilities after an unprecedented level of tests last year. North Korea has been testing rocket engines and heat-shields for an ICBM while developing the technology to guide a missile after re-entry into the atmosphere following a lift-off, experts have said. While Pyongyang is close to a test, it is likely to take some years to perfect the weapon, according to the experts. Once fully developed, a North Korean ICBM could threaten the continental United States, which is around 9,000 km (5,500 miles) from the North. ICBMs have a minimum range of about 5,500 km (3,400 miles), but some are designed to travel 10,000 km (6,200 miles) or further. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump responded to Kim's comments on an ICBM test by declaring in a tweet last week that "It won't happen!" A U.S. State Department spokesman said last week that the United States does not believe that North Korea is capable of mounting a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 over its nuclear and ballistic missile tests. The sanctions were tightened last month after Pyongyang conducted its fifth and largest nuclear test on Sept. 9. "The U.S. is wholly to blame for pushing the DPRK to have developed ICBM as it has desperately resorted to anachronistic policy hostile toward the DPRK for decades to encroach upon its sovereignty and vital rights," KCNA quoted the spokesman as saying. "Anyone who wants to deal with the DPRK would be well advised to secure a new way of thinking after having clear understanding of it," the spokesman said, according to KCNA.
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US Destroyer Fired Warning Shots At Four Iranian Vessels In Strait Of Hormuz
by Tyler Durden Jan 9, 2017 7:47 AM
In the latest dangerously close encounter between US and Iranian navies, Reuters reports that a U.S. Navy destroyer fired three warning shots at four of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels on Sunday after they closed in at a high rate of speed in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. defense officials. The Reuters sources said that the USS Mahan established radio communication with the boats but they did not respond to requests to slow down. The Navy destroyer fired warning flares and a U.S. Navy helicopter also dropped a smoke float. The Iranian vessels came within 900 yards (800 meters) of the Mahan, which was escorting two other U.S. ships. The last such encounter in which a US navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessels took place last August, when the USS Nitze fired three warning shots after a "harassing" Iranian fast-attack craft approached and circled two U.S. Navy ships and a Kuwaiti vessel in the northern Gulf. The U.S. ship fired the shots into the water after the Iranian ship did not leave after a brief radio conversation. The Iranian vessels had moved at high speed toward the Nitze, which allegedly was operating in accordance with international law in international waters and ignored maritime "rules of the road" as set out in the 1972 Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea. According to the Navy official, the IRGC vessels ignored multiple warnings, creating a dangerous, harassing environment that could have pushed the Nitze to take defensive measures, escalating the situation. At the time, Iran's defense minister insinuated that the incident occurred inside Iranian territory. “Naturally these boats constantly monitor the developments and foreign vessels’ movements and naturally this happens in the waters of our own country. If any foreign vessel enters our waters, we will give them a warning and if it is an act of aggression, we will confront them,” he said. It is unclear if today's incident took place in international waters. As a reminder, there are temporarily no US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf region at this moment, or anywhere else around the world for that matter.
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For you techies.
By Chet Sapino
I can install a product on my web browser (Firefox) which masks my ip address. It’s called “hide my IP.” It hides my IP and I can change it to anywhere in the world to appear I’m originating from say Moscow. It travels through 72 anonymous gateway servers worldwide so no one can trace where it actually came from, since my original IP from Time Warner 24.59.227.212 has been obliterated and changed to one in a foreign country. I can install in 1 minute and turn it on or off off in a mouse click. There are 24,000 users of this add-in. You can select your starting server as Moscow Server #1, #2 or #3 or any of thirty countries of origin. If someone tries to trace it, the trace will end up at Moscow #1 while I am sitting here in Syracuse, NY as the originator. The trace gives the latitude and longitude of the server in Moscow. Watch this one minute demo at http://hide-my-ip.org/ This is pretty cool! It costs $11.62.
There is a free add-in for Firefox called X anonymous which works very well. I tested it on my web server and it showed that I originated from the Netherlands at ip address 146.185.28.61 when I logged onto my web server. If you have a web server with a lot of volume, you are going to have tens of thousands of these ip’s to sift through. It would be almost impossible to trace who actually hacked the web site. The only way you could catch them would be if you looked at your log file the instant you were being attacked. But their IP could be masked like I explained above and you would get an erroneous trace. So do you think the Russian cyber experts are that stupid to leave a trace to Moscow? Really! Or to the Kremlin?
Wikileaks “hacked” emails show unequivocally that there was no actual “hack” enabling the person to get all those emails. The hacker person sent what is known as a “phishing email” asking Podesta, head of the DNC to log into his email accounts because there’s something wrong with it and it needed immediate attention. These emails can be created by a ten year old showing an exact copy of the email login page for the email service like say Time Warners login page. They just copy and paste in Time Warner’s email login page into an email and type a scary story in it. The person who is getting hacked adds his email and password into the page and hits the Submit button thinking they are accessing their email account when they are emailing his info right back to the “hacker” who changed the code in the Submit button to be emailed it back to him So now the person can go to say Time Warner put in Podesta’s email and password and get access to every email and every email address in the DNC on Podesta’s account. Then he sends everybody else the same phishing email and if they fall for it, gets all their passwords and email addresses also. He can then print every one of the emails out for a lot of the DNC personnel. Wikileaks emails showed Podesta emailed his DNC IT manager person and asked for his email password. Then he plugged it in the phished email screen and sent it back to the hacker.
I get these phishing emails quite frequently. I just got one from Netflix saying my account has been suspended and would I please login and check it. It looked so real that I almost logged into it. The thing looked like it came from Romania. If you hover your mouse over the sender’s email address, it shows you where it came from and it was not coming from Netflix. There was a .ro at the end of it. Even then it could be masked.
So much for the Russian hackers that hacked the DNC. I’ve been working in IT since 1994 and know a lot about this stuff.
See this from Fortune Magazine website: http://fortune.com/2016/12/31/russian-hacking-grizzly-steppe/ from security experts who say the report is fatally flawed. I listened to a security expert on FoxNews yesterday and he said these people didn’t even know how to express technology – that is was all jumbled up in the report. He said the report linked technology used like you would link tomatoes and alligators. It was a joke.
One has to ask the question as to why The Obama Administration, Clapper and Comey might ant to start a war with Putin just when trump is taking office?
he lie started this way:
1. We suspect the Russians
2. The Russians did it
3. Putin ordered it
Putin admitted it was his orders to change the election results
It is a false story until all the raw data is released showing how it was traced to Putin and it on’t be, under the guise it is classified. I don’t trust a single thing coming from this group.
Trump has his own cybersecurity persons in his transition team that are going to look into this.
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ISIS supporter truck driver kills 4 in Israel - govt
2017-01-08 21:00
Jerusalem - A Palestinian on Sunday rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem, killing four and injuring at least 15 people, authorities said. The driver was also killed at the location overlooking holy sites in the Old City such as the Dome of the Rock and providing one of the most spectacular views of Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged the attacker "supported" the Islamic State group, though he provided no details on what led to the finding. Chaos broke out at the scene when the truck ploughed through the crowd, with hundreds of soldiers having arrived there as part of a tour for troops about the history of Jerusalem. "A lone terrorist drove his truck into a group of soldiers standing on the side of the road," said police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld. "They got off the bus and as they were getting off and getting organised, he took advantage." Israel's military said one of its soldiers fired on the attacker and distributed video of him saying he shot after realising it was not an accident. Multiple bullet holes could be seen in the windshield of the truck. Police only confirmed four people were dead, but a medic at the scene said they were soldiers. Medics also reported that three of the victims were women, while all four were in their 20s. Ambulances rushed to the location and visitors, including soldiers, ran for cover. Netanyahu later visited the scene along with Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman. "We know the identity of the assailant, who according to all indications supported ISIS," Netanyahu said, according to a statement from his office. Fawzi Barhum, a spokesperson for Islamist movement Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip, saluted the attack, calling it "heroic and brave". Palestinian security officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah said the driver was a Palestinian in his late 20s from the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber, located close to the scene. Rosenfeld said it was not yet clear if the attack had been planned earlier or was spontaneous.
http://www.news24.com/World/News/isis-supporter-truck-driver-kills-4-in-israel-govt-20170108
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Israeli Police Commissioner Preparing His Department for Messiah
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz January 2, 2017 , 12:30 pm
Roni Alsheikh, the Israeli Commissioner of Police, announced last week that his department of law enforcement personnel is preparing for the arrival of the Messiah in a truly unique way. Alsheikh was filmed at a celebration held by Chabad Hasidim in his neighborhood of Givat Shmuel, not far from Tel Aviv, in honor of the 19th of the Hebrew month Kislev. “We, the police, are very involved in strengthening the mitzvot (Bible commandments) between man and his fellow,” announced Alsheikh at the gathering. “When the Messiah comes, everyone will want to [approach] him so it will get very crowded,” predicted the commissioner. “That will be a time when we will have to be very strong in respecting our fellow.” In describing the very important role the Israeli police will play upon Messiah’s arrival, Alsheikh said to the joyous Hasidim gathered, “Not only are we busy enforcing the law, we also try to enact preventative measures [regarding] how to strengthen mutual consideration for our fellow.” The 19th of Kislev is considered the New Year of Hasidut by many Hasidic Jews, commemorating Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi’s release from prison in 1798. Rabbi Shneur Zalman is considered by many to be the first leader of the Chabad movement, a group dedicated to Jewish outreach and tightening the bond between mankind as commanded by God. Alsheikh was ascribing a function to the police that is incumbent upon everyone, stated as a Biblical commandment in Leviticus. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am Hashem. Leviticus 19:18 The commissioner’s message and its strong connection to the Chabad movement and Hassidut was well-received by the revelers. The police force’s mission to focus on the Biblical requirement of ‘love your fellow’ is timely indeed. The holiday of Hanukkah, which ended on Sunday, commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over the Greeks and their triumph over the Hellenized (assimilated) Jews. At the time, Israel was torn apart by conflict: there was rampant hatred between the Jews, to which rabbis attribute the destruction of the Holy Temple. “There is no doubt that happiness and serving God will bring us closer,” Alsheikh said at the gathering. “Soon, God willing, we will need to start preparing for the security operation necessary upon the arrival of the Messiah.”
Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/81311/israels-law-enforcement-gearing-welcome-messiah/#ShkR3a415sVbkMtl.99
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The enemy of my enemy: Egypt thaws toward Hamas
With Gaza rulers fighting Salafists, including IS, a partial reconciliation sees Cairo opening a border crossing to allow goods into the Strip
By Avi Issacharoff January 7, 2017, 7:52 am
High-ranking Israeli officials and journalists alike have occasionally found themselves amazed at the waves of curses and vicious invective that Egyptian officials unleash when asked for their views on Hamas. In one recent encounter, a former IDF Southern Command chief had to calm one of his Egyptian counterparts, who was using particularly colorful language to express his views about high-ranking Hamas operatives in Gaza, replete with frequent allusions to their mothers. The Egyptians have never troubled to hide their abhorrence of Hamas, particularly after President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took office in the summer of 2013. The Egyptian army has since blocked hundreds of tunnels that were dug between Gaza and Sinai and waged all-out war against the smuggling taking place from Egypt to Gaza. But in the new Middle East, everything is possible. It seems that the current Egyptian leadership, the bitter enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood (which it ousted, and of which Hamas is a subsidiary), has decided to change its behavior toward Hamas. This decision stems not from any sudden affection on Egypt’s part for Hamas, but rather from Egypt’s hatred of the Islamic State terror group. This change in direction, which is already visible on the ground, has Israel concerned. Suddenly the Egyptians are opening the Rafah Border Crossing, including for the entry of merchandise. This week, high-ranking Hamas operatives said that former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, the incoming chief of its political wing, was planning a visit to Cairo in the near future — a dramatically symbolic step. Haniyeh, who has lived outside Gaza for months, left Gaza with Egypt’s permission supposedly in order to perform the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the main duties incumbent on all Muslims. But a great deal of water has flowed through Wadi Gaza since then, and Haniyeh is still abroad, visiting Arab countries and non-Arab Muslim states. Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s official in charge of international relations, has had good reason to speak in media interviews about Hamas’s rapprochement not only with Egypt, but also with Iran. Haniyeh, who won supporters abroad for his election as head of Hamas’s political wing, has also worked to strengthen Hamas’s relationship with various countries in the Muslim world. Eased exits The Egyptians allowed other high-ranking Hamas officials to leave Gaza along with Haniyeh. Among them was Rawhi Mushtaha, 57, a key Hamas operative who is considered one of the closest associates of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s strongman in Gaza. Mushtaha, who was released from prison in Israel in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal and is considered one of the officials who sets the tone in Hamas, has a great deal of influence over the military wing. Mushtaha, it turns out, took advantage of the opportunity to leave Gaza not only for religious reasons, but also in order to spend time with his young wife, whom he married after 2011. (Photographs of him visiting one of the largest shopping centers in the United Arab Emirates have reached The Times of Israel.) So what led to this shift in the relationship between Hamas and Cairo, this unprecedented reconciliation? The change in direction began with Hamas’s decision to go to war against the Salafist groups in the Gaza Strip. From Hamas’s perspective, the Salafists, including those who identify with Islamic State, have become a real threat — mostly an ideological one, but also a physical one despite their relatively small number in Gaza. (There are roughly 700 to 800 Salafists in Gaza out of a population of approximately two million.) Intermittent rocket fire at Israel by the Salafist groups gave Hamas a major headache, to put it mildly, mainly due to the escalation in Israel’s response in recent months. But the more significant threat is the internal one. As many as 40 members of Hamas have joined various Salafist groups in recent years, and some of them have crossed the border to join Islamic State’s affiliate Sinai Province. Commanders from Hamas’s military wing are also trickling into Sinai Province, including some who are considered experts in their fields, such as the use of anti-tank rockets and large explosive devices. To this we should add the murder of a Palestinian Shiite Muslim by Sunni extremists, as well as the wish to grow closer to Egypt. Hamas began an operation two months ago in which approximately 200 Salafist operatives were arrested throughout the Gaza Strip — some for firing rockets at Israel, and others for engaging in religious-ideological activities that Hamas viewed as a challenge to its rule. While it is not known how many are still being held, the trend is obvious. Since the first ones to be arrested were Salafist operatives who had no connections to Islamic State’s Sinai Province, their arrests did not lead to friction with the neighbors across the border. But when Hamas recently arrested members of Liwa al-Tawheed, who are considered very close to Islamic State, a crisis suddenly erupted. One top Sinai Province operative called Hamas “infidels,” and Sinai Province commanders ordered smugglers in the Rafah sector to cease bringing any goods, principally materials used in Hamas’s military industry, from Sinai to Gaza. While the number of tunnels in the Rafah sector was small to begin with, Islamic State has continued to provide Hamas in recent years with a large amount of dual-purpose materials such as steel cables, drills, pumps and electrodes — items that Israel would not allow into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom Crossing. But several weeks ago, Islamic State operatives contacted the smugglers individually, warning that anyone who allowed the entry of goods into Gaza would pay with his head. (Islamic State also stopped the entry of cigarettes into Gaza for religious reasons; Islamic extremists hold that smoking is forbidden.) This act by Islamic State’s Sinai Province drew a punitive response from Hamas: a halt in the transfer of arms and ammunition from Gaza to Sinai. In addition, Mohammad Ramilat, one of the Sinai Province’s prominent members, who was in Gaza, was arrested two weeks ago in an effort to pressure Islamic State to continue the smuggling. Ongoing cooperation Despite the severe tension between the two groups, at least one aspect of cooperation is still going on, though to a lesser extent, even in moments of crisis: the bringing of wounded members of Islamic State to Gaza. Islamic State has no medical center in Sinai where it can treat members who have been wounded in battle against the Egyptian army. Its only way out, medically speaking, is the Gaza Strip. And so, far beneath the radar, Hamas and Islamic State are keeping up coordination in this area, with the cooperation of well-known physicians in the Gaza Strip. What, then, is pushing Egypt toward the thaw in its relationship with Hamas? First, we should note that in recent months, we witnessed a true crisis in the relationship between Egypt and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The recent elections for the Fatah leadership at the Seventh General Assembly, together with the exclusion of Mohammad Dahlan, Egypt’s ally, led Egypt to distance itself from Fatah as a whole, at least while Abbas is in charge. It was at this point that the first steps toward reconciliation began to be evident, mainly regarding the opening of the Rafah Border Crossing. Still, it became clear recently that this was about far more than an attempt to damage Abbas’s status. It seems that the Egyptians realized that the situation in Gaza was not going to change anytime soon and that they had to deal with it as it was. In other words, Egypt would like to see Hamas fighting against Islamic State’s Sinai Province instead of helping it, working to stop the terror attacks against Egyptian troops in Sinai — attacks that rely on support from the Gaza Strip — and stopping the propaganda against President Sissi that can be seen all over Gaza. In order to do this, Egypt must try to normalize its relations with Hamas. This normalization will involve Egypt’s opening of the Rafah Border Crossing more regularly, granting departure and entry permits to high-ranking Hamas operatives and ordinary residents, and assisting Hamas’s civilian projects. This is why Egypt allowed the entry of construction materials, such as concrete, through the Rafah border crossing. (To no one’s surprise, Hamas’s military wing uses concrete to build tunnels against Israel.) New cars and motorcycles from Egypt were brought into the Gaza Strip along with the concrete. This is the direction in which Egypt plans to move forward with Hamas: official normalization of relations, with Egypt supervising the security aspect. Cairo officials are at least partly aware of the advantages and disadvantages of this move. There can be no doubt that opening the Rafah Border Crossing regularly, for example, will strengthen Hamas at Abbas’s expense and make its rule of Gaza more legitimate. On the other hand, if Hamas should take tougher measures against Islamic State, that could lead to a marked reduction in terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula by Sinai Province. Hamas officials realize that if Egypt allows high-ranking members such as Haniyeh and Mushtaha freedom of movement, Hamas’s international standing will grow stronger. Perhaps most important of all in the balance of power within Hamas, the leadership in Gaza will be able to take back control from the leadership abroad. And perhaps, just perhaps, Haniyeh, Sinwar and Mushtaha will be the true leaders of Hamas at the expense of Khaled Mashaal and his comrades in Qatar and Turkey.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-egypt-thaws-toward-hamas/
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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2017: The Year Of The Truth Bomb - Financial Insider Warns ATM Outages, Bank Holiday And Martial Law May Be Ahead
January 9, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
The new story from Public Radio International reports that Venezuela's military has turned the country's food crisis into a 'racket' and is profiting from the Venezuelan people going hungry. Food long used as a weapon by dictators around the world while their populations suffer, we see '2017 Venezuela' a real world fulfillment of a recent warning from a history professor that we may soon witness 'the fall of civilization'. The recent story from the Daily Mail reports that the rise and fall of civilizations can be predicted by a very simple equation and our civilization is in for a fall some time soon according to Mathematical Historian Professor Peter Turchin from the University of Connecticut. Warning us that his models predicted the rise in political turmoil that started 3 years ago, and that he expects it to reach its peak sometime in the 2020's, he also warns the world we should be prepared for years of turmoil ahead. Claiming that current events place us 'well on track' for instability to peak in the 2020's, we see in his mathematical studies more confirmation of the 'Watchmen's warnings' yet wonder if his predictions of 'turmoil peaking in the 2020's' might be a few years too late. Also claiming that the presidential election of Donald Trump in November "confirms this forecast", we see Trump's upcoming inauguration in 12 days as a very real possible preview of that 'turmoil to come', with anarchists threatening to disrupt the inauguration while preparation takes place at the highest levels for that anarchy with 5000 national guard troops coming to Washington DC on January 20th for Trumps swearing in. With Venezuela's military taking over the food supply there and turning it into a racket, we see how quickly things can come completely undone and as has long been warned, we here in America are not immune to economic contagion and collapse. As financial writer Bill Holter recently predicted, '2017 will be the year of the truth bomb'. Warning us that the Trump presidency will likely see him presiding over a bankruptcy, Holter predicts that the end of 2017 will see an America looking quite unlike what it looks like today, and if his predictions are correct, 2018 will see an America either already in or one year closer to the turmoil warned of by Professor Turchin as also heard in the 1st video below: What will the end of 2017 look like? Holter says, “I don’t think it will even resemble what today looks like. I think you may see the financial system come down, and it may be by the end of the year that the system is coming back up or coming back on line. We are going to have a bank holiday. We are going to have to have some sort of reset. The reset will include a bank holiday. Your ATM won’t work. Your credit cards won’t work. Distribution is going to fail. It’s all about credit. Everything financial and everything economic relies on credit. I believe that we are going to have a credit crisis this year where credit becomes very scarce or actually dries up completely. In that scenario, it is not good. You are talking about distribution breaking down and people going hungry, riots, martial law, cross default from country to country to country to country, bank to bank to bank and broker to broker to broker. Everything runs and lives on credit, and without credit, it’s almost like caveman days.” With Venezuela in chaos, medical supplies and medicines are extremely difficult to come by and as we see in the 3rd video below, a banned video in Venezuela as the government does not allow videos to be taken inside of hospitals in totalitarian 2017 Venezuela, what's happening there should be a huge warning to preppers here. The new story from out of Mexico reports that the country's week long gas crisis has spread to 25 states. Violence and chaos spreading in the streets of Mexico as seen in the 2nd video below, we see more confirmation in Michael Snyder's new story over at the Economic Collapse Blog that the pain being felt in Venezuela and Mexico is being felt by millions of Americans here. Reporting that hundreds more stores are being closed down as America faces a very real 'retail apocalypse', we've long been warned that only 9 meals separate civilization from anarchy. In the 4th video below, Dave with the X22Report talks with us about the 'retail apocalypse' that America is now facing. And with a gigantic truth bomb possibly set to blow up in Americans faces in 2017, we're reminded in the closing remarks below from Bill Holter that huge changes are likely coming to America, and paper assets and other numbers that Americans see on their portfolios are just numbers on paper - you won't be able to eat them. Holter warns that what's coming could leave most Americans living like cavemen. You can hear directly from Bill in the final video below. Will big stock market gains save some people from the coming pain of this economic reset? Holter, who has more than two decades of brokerage and stock market experience, contends, “One man’s debt is another man’s asset. The asset values are going to have to be marked down. . . . The point being, those assets that people hold in their portfolio, the numbers they see on their statements are just numbers. When this comes down, that’s not real value. You are not going to be able to call on those assets to live, to eat or to pay bills. It’s an asset collapse because the debt side collapses.” Holter also says, “If you ask the question, does the average American believe we’re broke, I think deep down, and in the back of their minds, they think we’re broke. We’re living this lifestyle, and they think this lifestyle is not going to change. When the lifestyle does change, and it’s forced to be changed, that’s a gigantic truth bomb.”
http://allnewspipeline.com/Turmoil_To_Peak_Soon_Expert_Warns.php
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Be in prayer that there is a calm, a calm between now and when the new President gets sworn in, this is extremely important. For if you do not pray, if you do not call upon my name blood shall flow in the streets and when blood flows in the streets Obama will call in the United Nation army and he will not leave office, he will not leave office. Therefore, you need to be in prayer, you need to be in prayer, for you can stall this off, you can stall this off until another time and when it takes place in the other time they will not call military troops into the streets. It will be handled in a total different way, a way that will benefit my church, a way that will benefit the people, but it is extremely important pray, pray, pray.
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Left Calls For Martial Law To Stop Donald Trump As More Signs Emerge They're Preparing To Bring The Whole Thing Down
January 5, 2017 By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
It's the elephant in the room that nobody but survivalists and the independent media have been talking about. With the federal debt climbing by more than a trillion dollars with an additional $1,054,647,941,626.91 added in 2016 and increasing $9,349,949,902,134.72 during the Obama regime, even Donald Trump might not be able to help stave off what comes after very poor economic decisions are made by a country for a very long time. As former Ronald Reagan Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts asks in his new story, can Trump fix the economy in 2017? And as this new story from SHTFPlan and the first video below point out (viewed more than 650,000 times in the last week alone!), nearly every day for the past several years we've been getting more and more evidence that preparation has been taking place at the very highest levels for the total breakdown of society here in America. Might 2017 bring social disintegration and martial law to America, whether or not Trump is able to get into office? The fact that some 'looney left snowflake millennials' have actually started a petition on Change.org ASKING that Barack Obama declare martial law in some sick and devious attempt to overturn the results of a lawful election show us how far America has fallen down the rabbit hole. Still pushing the 'Russia tampered with the election' lie and thinking that martial law being declared by Obama to deal with said 'tampering' would be a good thing, do they not realize that martial law is martial law and no matter who you are, it's not going to be a good thing? Do looney liberals think they get some kind of a 'martial law exemption' because they're 'snowflakes'? Until we know fully if the 2016 Presidential election had been tampered with by the Russians; our country is under a serious security risk and to appoint a special non-partisan commission to discover whether or not President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice president-elect Michael Pence had knowledge about any and all Russian interference . This petition will be delivered to: President Barack Obama With DisruptJ20 'protestors' still planning on attempting to shut down Trump's inauguration in just 16 days while also threatening to shut down various cities across America, we hear in the 2nd video below from Roger Stone that they've had someone actually infiltrate the DisruptJ20 'protests' and what they have planned is anything but 'peaceful'. Warning that some kind of coup still may be attempted against Trump, we see the latest moves being made by Obama sending US special ops to Russia's doorstep at a time when Trump has been working to reestablish relationships with Russia as another sign poor losers have no intention of going away quietly into the night. Almost as if everything we've learned over the years from those in authority including the MSM and the government has been one huge lie, the interesting excerpt below comes to us from Don Nicoloff, who passed away from a heart attack back on March 13th of 2015.: What we are taught about history in American schools is not history, but a fairy tale. Better yet, it is propaganda designed to hoodwink an unsuspecting society about its true heritage and the treasonous acts and sabotage that were conceived in order to bring about a New World Order. You are about to learn the real identities of those who have infiltrated your nation on behalf of secret societies intent on bringing about the total slavery of mankind. In the past, others have written about the numerous conspiracies to control natural resources, energy, food and our sovereign right to live on planet Earth — not as slaves of a wealthy few — but as free men, women, and children exercising the free will given to them by God. Imagine you were a member of a secret organization whose sole agenda was to control the entire planet. If your plan was to accomplish this goal without being perceived by your intended victims, discretion would be paramount. Your organization would devise a series of historical events that, on the surface, would appear to be everyday, happenstance occurrences (natural disasters, man-made diseases, acts of murder, assassination, terror, manipulation of money and energy supplies, contamination of foods, pollution of natural resources, and war). The timing of these events would require patience, careful planning, and cooperation from others in positions of trust, stealth and deceit. In essence, the whole mission must derive its power through deception and concealment and must have a master plan. Imagine you were a member of a secret organization whose sole agenda was to control the entire planet. If your plan was to accomplish this goal without being perceived by your intended victims, discretion would be paramount. Your organization would devise a series of historical events that, on the surface, would appear to be everyday, happenstance occurrences (natural disasters, man-made diseases, acts of murder, assassination, terror, manipulation of money and energy supplies, contamination of foods, pollution of natural resources, and war). The timing of these events would require patience, careful planning, and cooperation from others in positions of trust, stealth and deceit. In essence, the whole mission must derive its power through deception and concealment and must have a master plan. Knowing that the globalists long-held plan has been to bring America down while destroying all nation states, will we soon witness the long given warnings of Watchmen such as Steve Quayle, Alex Jones and the Hagmann's coming true before our very eyes? Watching what is happening now in Europe should be a sign to Americans that things aren't getting better any time soon if we simply allow America to be overthrown as Europe is clearly being overthrown now. We should also take a look at what's happening elsewhere close to home both in Mexico, where massive looting and rioting has recently erupted after gas prices shot up 20% in just one weekend, as well as in Venezuela where those who didn't prepare for economic hardships are quite literally dying hungry in the streets. And while we here living in America are blessed beyond the knowledge of most people as we regularly have food on our tables, hot running water to shower in and electricity that helps us to live in the 21st century rather than the 19th, knowing that inflation has hit 1000% in the dying socialist nation and that widespread shortages of not only food but other basic goods such as toilet paper happen every day should lead us all to prepare for the same thing, even if that day never arrives. Because with America every day going into more and more debt and our leaders in Washington DC who've been pushing to turn the US into a totalitarian state throwing temper tantrums at the thought of Donald Trump undoing all of the destruction they've caused, the next 15 days could be unlike anything we've ever seen here before. And while we don't agree with everything that our videographer says in this first video below, they've done a very good job on the video...good enough that nearly 700,000 Americans have watched it. Warning us that nothing Donald Trump can do will be able to stop what's coming, our videographer puts it all together... the massive military trains and convoys we've seen across America the last several years, all of the drills that have taken place from coast to coast, and the very strange sightings of United Nations vehicles all across the country. Adding in the ever-growing US debt and snowflakes in America calling for martial law while promising 'no work, no school, and no business as usual' in the coming days, we hope everybody is ready for that day we pray never arrives as it appears to be on the way.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Left_Petititon_For_Martial_Law.php
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Alert: Hard left, communist radicals launch de facto coup attempt in America
By Alex Thomas - 01.06.2017 @2:11 AM EST
Group launches effort to prevent Trump from taking office with full page New York Times ad
(INTELLIHUB) — A group of radical leftists that includes activists, entertainers, artists, professors, writers, and at least one known terrorist has launched what amounts to a sort of soft coup attempt in America with the release of a full page New York Times ad and accompanying website that lays out a concrete plan to prevent Donald Trump from ever taking office. The website, refusefascism.org, makes it clear from the start that this is not about simply protesting Trump’s inauguration but rather about actually preventing him from being inaugurated to the office he rightfully won. In other words, this is a direct attempt to steal the election from both Trump and the American people. The homepage for the groups website starts out by shouting “Bring DC to a halt!” and “Millions in the street say no!” before laying out what they are actually calling for. “Going into the Inauguration, flood the streets of Washington, DC with millions of people, determined to stay on the streets to stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts,” the website reads. “This starts January 14, the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and DOES NOT STOP till this regime is prevented from ruling. This is the kind of political crisis needed at this moment in history. It has happened before, and it can happen again,” it continues. A quote on the sites sidebar fantasizes about what it would be like to stop the elected President of the United States from ever taking office. “Imagine if people, in the tens of millions, filled the streets, powerfully declaring that this regime is illegitimate and demanding that it not be allowed to rule! The whole political landscape would be dramatically transformed, every faction within the established power structure would be forced to respond—and all this could well lead to a situation in which this fascist regime is actually prevented from ruling. This is not some idle dream but something which could be made a reality if all those who hate what is represented by this fascist regime translate their outrage into firm determination and massive mobilization to create the conditions which make this possible.” Its one thing to call for massive protests that would then somehow lead to Trump being unable to take office. Having a plan for how that would actually happen is another thing altogether and this group seems to have that covered as well. Startlingly, the plan not only includes massive protests, it also aims to cause so much of a problem that the “ruling elite” would then be forced to intervene against Trump. That’s right, this hard left and communist run sneak coup attempt is planning for the establishment to join them. On the FAQ section of their website they describe, in great detail, how they plan to stop Donald Trump from ever becoming president. “By the intersection of two things: first, massive protest and resistance from tens of millions of ordinary people, daring and determined to actually prevent this fascist regime from taking over and implementing its program, beginning more or less immediately and growing to a crescendo in the next few weeks, and through that creating “a crisis of rule”; and second, coupled with this, attempts by different factions in the established power structure which have real differences with Trump-Pence to solve the crisis by preventing them from taking the reins of power. These protests could be something with the character of the protests against police murder over the past few years, or the Occupy protests before that—but larger by several orders of magnitude and even more determined. Such protests would have to have the effect of figuratively “stopping society in its tracks” and would raise real questions as to whether people very broadly would recognize the legitimacy of such a regime to even rule in basic ways and enforce its edicts. The “not normal” character of Trump-Pence—the radical changes they embody in how people are to be ruled in this country (in short, the fascist ethos and measures they campaigned on) and in regard to U.S. international policy—have not only created tremendous anguish and anger among many millions of ordinary people, but among ruling factions which have up to now nevertheless chosen to go along with this. But should there be a political eruption “from below,” their concerns over Trump would combine with immediate questions as to whether their basic stability and perhaps even the entire system would be endangered by continuing to stick with Trump-Pence. As that dynamic developed, scandals that up to now have been covered up could erupt, or be treated in a different way so as to raise fundamental constitutional issues, and ways would be found to prevent the coming to power of Trump-Pence.” The group also has a planned full-scale propaganda effort that includes paying the mainstream media to run ads to promote their goal of stealing the election as well as a highly coordinated social media campaign aimed at the same. Eventually they envision bringing Washington D.C. to a complete halt in the week leading up to the inauguration as well as new “Trump scandals” to magically erupt in the mainstream media. Early this week, the call for this campaign will hit with tremendous impact via ads in major news outlets, in print and online, co-ordinated with massive and burgeoning social media efforts. Spokespeople will be made available to media in a concerted effort to get the word out and to involve as diverse a group of initiators and other possible spokespeople as possible in doing that. And with this, plans will be announced to “bring DC to a halt” in the week before the scheduled inauguration. Shortly after that we envision the growth of demonstrations and other forms of protest—including especially non-violent direct action disrupting business as usual, occupying public spaces, assemblies and meetings in institutions and workplaces, strikes, etc.—in cities across the country. As people see that there are many who feel like they do and, more than that, are determined and acting to do something about what would almost certainly be a horrific regime, they will themselves become inspired and compelled to join in these. This would have to quickly spread and find ways to overcome resistance and obstacles; but once people are aroused and acting on their highest aspirations, tremendous creativity and resources can become unlocked and things can spread like wildfire. While this is far from assured, historical experience shows that there is a reasonable chance that in the face of extreme provocation from the ruling powers, people can act in extraordinary ways. As this develops, we envision public spaces being occupied in major cities and millions travelling to DC to protest the inauguration in the days leading up to it (and the millions in the DC and Baltimore areas who DID oppose Trump-Pence making resources and shelter available). This is a highly mobile and highly interknit society in which there is still relative freedom of movement and outlets for expression*; if such a thing could happen in a highly repressive and non-interlinked society like Egypt, it could certainly happen here. As all this emerges and then comes to a head, we would expect that even further scandals around Trump would surface from various sources, that different sections of the population with different concerns would get drawn into this, and that the social will to stop Trump-Pence from ruling would emerge and the political/legal means to accomplish that would be found. On first glance this may seem like more of the same – the endless petty attacks on Trump and his incoming presidency that have all so far failed. Sadly this does not seem to be the case here, especially when you consider who is actually behind this de facto coup attempt. While more mainstream leftists such as Debra Messing and “Rosie” O’Donnell are leading the media charge for the group, its actual key members are much more important, with the list reading like a who’s who of the radical communist left. Calling themselves “initiators” the group includes former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and founding member of the American communist party Carl Dix. Others listed on the website as responsible for the plan include: Herb Boyd, activist, author, journalist and teacher Isabel Cardenas, Salvadoran-American activist, Los Angeles Niles Eldredge, evolutionary biologist Charles Gaines, visual artist Henry Giroux Chase Iron Eyes Everett Iron Eyes Sr., Water Administrator, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA* Fran Luck, Executive Producer of Joy of Resistance, Multicultural Feminist Radio at WBAI PZ Myers, evolutionary developmental biologist Arturo O’Farrill, composer and musician Milton Saier, PhD, Professor of Molecular Biology, UCSD* Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five Ted Sirota, jazz musician Sunsara Taylor, writer, Revolution Newspaper Cornel West, writer, professor Michael A. Wood Jr. Rev. Frank Wulf, United Methodist minister Andy Zee, spokesperson, Revolution Books David Zeiger, filmmaker For their part, the seemingly compliant mainstream media, which would have had a field day if a group of patriots like those in the standoff at the Bundy Ranch ever did something so coordinated and direct as this, has largely ignored this stunning call for election theft. When they have covered it, they have directly misconstrued what the ad in the Times was actually about. For example, a Variety headline on this actual plan to stop the elected president from taking office called it, “an anti-Trump Fascist warning”. Add this to the fact that the media looks to be taking money from this group for their ads and you have at the very least tacit support from the establishment press. The next three weeks are lining up to possibly be on a scale not seen in this country for decades and now we have known radical leftist provocateurs initiating a plan to steal the election.
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Trump Fires All Obama Politically Appointed Ambassadors Effective Inauguration Day
Kristinn Taylor Jan 5th, 2017 8:19 pm
President-elect Donald Trump has fired, effective Inauguration Day January 20, every U.S. ambassador politically appointed by President Barack Obama, according to a report published Thursday night by the New York Times. The Times reports the State Department sent out a notice on December 23 informing the ambassadors of Trump’s order. The move sent shock waves through the diplomatic corps as some ambassadors in previous transitions had been given time to leave their post for personal convenience. President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods. The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months. Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts. A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama’s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.”
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Prepare For Antichrist’s Global Socialism And A “World Without Work”
January 5, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
As we start the year full of good intentions to flourish at work, social scientists are warning that our careers could be over sooner than we expect. The world is barreling toward what has been dubbed the “post-work economy,” as technology replaces humans at an unprecedented rate. Driverless cars are set to make millions of truckers and taxi drivers redundant and automated fast food service is poised to shut off a key job sector for young people. As artificial intelligence is increasingly able to carry out complex tasks that used to require humans, large numbers of us are set to find ourselves out of work, with no prospects. “Many jobs will be destroyed,” futurist Ross Dawson told news.com.au. “We can no longer be sure we’ll have a sufficient amount of the right type of work for people to be employed.” The experts aren’t sure how soon all this is going to happen, but the shift is taking place faster than predicted. (READ MORE)
http://skywatchtv.com/2017/01/05/prepare-antichrists-global-socialism-world-without-work/
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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before,
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Massive storm system moves into Northern California; flooding, heavy snow forecast
Paige St. John, Joseph Serna and Tony Barboza Contact Reporters
The first band of what forecasters predict will be the region’s most powerful storm in a decade moved into Northern California on Saturday, prompting official warnings of widespread flooding and epic snowfall. “People are definitely in a state of panic right now,” said El Dorado County Sheriff’s Sgt. Todd Hammitt. “We’re getting a lot of calls asking if we’re going to be able to deal with everything. It’s the general pandemonium of not knowing what’s coming.” Up to 12 inches of rain is expected below 8,500 feet, and massive amounts of snow — up to 6 feet — above that elevation across the Sierra Nevada. A colder storm two days behind is expected to bring more heavy snow. The rain moved in late Friday and continued into Saturday morning, with the most powerful punch expected later in the day. Officials said the strongest part of the storm will hit Sunday. As of Saturday morning, snow was beginning to fall again in parts of the Sierra Nevada. The storm was also bringing wind gusts that topped 50 mph. Officials said they were low snow and icy conditions on Interstate 5 and 80 as well as U.S. 50 and some mountain highways. “We’re expecting heavy, heavy rain. It starts out as snow then turns to rain then turns to snow again,” Hammitt said. “We’re concerned about the melt increasing waterways and all the lakes.” Hammitt recalled storms in 1997 and 2005 when runoff overwhelmed local rivers and creeks and sent water into roads and homes, lifting some buildings off their foundations. “We have streams, creeks, rivers. We have lakes and ponds,” Hammitt said. “Anybody near a water source could be in jeopardy depending on the severity of the storm.” Two sinkholes have been reported on El Dorado County roads as a result of three days of rain this week. County residents have already filled 12,000 sandbags in preparation for the storm and an additional 20,000 are on the way in, Hammitt said. “Anytime it’s Mother Nature, you have to be ready,” Hammitt said. While Northern California faced the brunt of the storms, a less powerful system moved into Southern California overnight, bringing scattered showers Saturday morning. The rain was harder to the north along the Central Coast. The wet conditions should continue on and off through the weekend. But the much of the concern is focused in the Bay Area and Sierra. “It’s a once-in-10-year event,” said Zach Tolby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno. “It’s the strongest storm we’ve seen in a long time, the kind of setup we look for to get significant flooding.” Indeed, large swaths of the Bay Area, Sierra foothills, Central Coast and parts of the Sacramento Valley were under flash-flood warnings. Flood concerns are heightened because officials fear that the snow may quickly melt due to heavy rain. The so-called atmospheric river of airborne moisture known as the “Pineapple Express” will be felt across much of the state this weekend, though rain will be much heavier in the north than in the south. “It’s going to be like buckets of water for a fairly sustained period of time,” Tolby said. Wind gusts on mountaintops could top 130 mph in the northern Sierra, which is typical, Tolby said. At lower elevations gusts could reach 30 or 40 mph, he said, “but that’s an average windy day for us.”Tolby said the storm is packing the same wallop as an atmospheric river that hit Northern California a decade ago that caused $300 million in damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Angelenos may remember the 2005-06 storm because it was the first time it rained on the Rose Parade in 51 years. But Tolby, who lives in Lake Tahoe, remembers the storm differently. “It was pretty wild. I was here in 2005 and it was definitely the hardest rain I’d ever seen. It didn’t stop for 24 hours,” he said. This weekend’s storm could bring 36 straight hours of heavy rain from Mammoth Mountain to Susanville, Tolby said. Below clear blue skies Friday, people in the snow-shrouded ski town of Mammoth Lakes were gleeful about the prospect of several more feet of snow. Yet some also worried that the big, wet storm could dump so much rain and snow that it could shut down some ski runs or roads. In preparation, snowplows were scraping icy roadways. Excavators and snowblower operators stayed busy clearing and moving huge piles of snow. Some cars sat abandoned on the roadside or at gas stations, covered with thick blankets of snow from the most recent storm. Outside Kittredge Sports, store manager Terry Lucian took advantage of the clear weather to shovel away some of the mounds of snow that had built up outside the entrance. “If the storm comes in as wet as they’re talking about, it’ll make for a big mess,” the 60-year-old said as he scooped icy snow off the entrance to the A-frame building. Lucian said recent storms definitely helped to boost business, but he worried some skiers traveling to the area this weekend could be in for disappointment if storm conditions worsen to the point that they shut down parts of Mammoth Mountain. “Everybody wants the snow, they just don’t want it while they’re here,” the 39-year Mammoth resident said. “It’ll be a rough couple of days, but we need the water. So it’s going to be OK.” Up north, South Lake Tahoe Mayor Austin Sass urged residents to prepare for the storm. “If at all possible, get up on your roof and get off whatever snow you have on there because the moisture combined with the snow will be extremely heavy and we’re worried about the integrity of your roof structure,” Sass tweeted Friday. Do not go outside Sunday or Monday, he told his constituents. “When the snow comes mixed with the rain it’s going to be an absolute mess. So whatever you can do stay home and most importantly, stay safe,” he said. In the mountains, the rain could saturate the snow and trigger early melt, feeding extra runoff into watersheds already swollen from a week of rain. “A combination of intense rain on saturated soils will lead to excessive runoff,” the National Weather Service said in its weekend forecast. The Carson, Truckee and Susan rivers are all expected to become overwhelmed, and nearby communities may become increasingly isolated if the deluge triggers mud and rock slides. Weather officials issued a flood watch from Saturday to Wednesday that covers much of Northern California and extends down through the Sierra to Tehachapi. In Mono County, authorities offered sandbags to residents in preparation for the rain. In Yosemite National Park, officials announced Friday that the park would remain open through the wet weekend, but access to popular Yosemite Valley would be closed. Earlier in the week, up to 2 feet of snow fell in less than 24 hours in the Tahoe basin on Wednesday, at times coming down at more than 2 inches an hour. The Sierra Avalanche Center reported a slight improvement in backcountry conditions. The risk of avalanche was lowered to "considerable" even as the threat increased of historically large avalanches caused by slabs of snowpack as thick as 8 feet above a weak layer of ice laid down by a mid-December rain. Near Lake Tahoe on Thursday, two skiers were caught in an avalanche that closed a local highway. But they were not injured, officials said. Sierra residents are preparing for a third onslaught over the weekend, bringing up to 12 inches of rain below 8,500 feet, and more snow above that. A fourth storm system is forecast to roll across Northern California two days after that. After the weekend storm, another rain-making system is expected to hit Northern California on Tuesday. For all the problems the storms may cause, it will bring more good news for California’s six-year drought. Officials have said steady rain in Northern California the last few months has filled reservoirs and increased the once-anemic snowpack. They emphasize the storms won’t end the drought. But if the rains keep up for spring, they could make a major dent.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-atmospheric-river-prepare-20170105-story.html
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Canadian Imam says Islamic Law to be implemented when Muslims are majority
Posted by: Jonathan D. Halevi December 30, 2016
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, is a Canadian Muslim scholar, who was born as a Christian in Jamaica in 1947 and grew up in Canada, where he accepted Islam in 1972. He completed a diploma in Arabic and a B.A. from the College of Islamic Disciplines (Usool ad-Deen) at the Islamic University of Madeenah in 1979. At the University of Riyadh, College of Education, he completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology in 1985, and in the department of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales, he completed a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology in 1994. Residing in Doha, Qatar, Bilal Philips is regularly invited to mosques in Canada and abroad to speak about the teachings of Islam. In a recent Friday sermon, Bilal Philips argued that Judaism and Christianity are a distortion of Islam, and that, Jesus, who was a Muslim, represents the link connecting the three religions. He accused a small group of Muslims of provoking Islamophobia because of their call to implement the Islamic Law (Sharia) in Europe where Muslims are a minority. When Muslims become the majority, explained Bilal Philips, they are obliged to implement the Islamic Law. The following are excerpts from Bilal Philip’s sermon (published on YouTube on August 21, 2016): “Prophet Jesus. Issa [Arabic name of Jesus], peace be upon him, represents the bond or the link between the three last versions of Islam. The third Islam being the true version. “Christianity [is] a distortion, and Judaism [is] a distortion, though in its roots Judaism was Islam as in the roots of Christianity, as Jesus taught it, it was Islam. Jesus represents the link between all three. “Twenty two states in the US out of their fifty two states, twenty two of them legally banned the Islamic Law (Sharia)…
“The Sharia is the law of God, the law of Allah which is good for all times, all people in all places. That is the reality. “Wherever Muslims are able to apply it, it is their duty to apply it, not to force it upon people as a minority in a country of non Muslims. “We have foolish Muslims, you know, calling for Sharia in the middle of Europe and creating the scare. “We can’t apply it unless we are the majority and the majority agree, then we can apply it, if the majority don’t agree even we’re all Muslims, but the majority don’t agree to apply Sharia to try, to apply it is to unleash bloodshed in the Muslim nation [Ummah], because Muslims will fight you. “They have to be educated. The Muslim nation [Ummah] has to come to that understanding that the way that we deserve to govern ourselves is in accordance with the Sharia [Islamic Law] and that’s what ‘there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, Mohammad is the messenger of Allah, peace and blessing of Allah be upon him’ (لا إله إلا الله ومحمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم) means. This is what it means.”
http://en.cijnews.com/?p=150951
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Muslim Workers’ Increasing Religious Demands Behind Car Plant Closure, Mayor Reveals
by Virginia Hale4 Jan 2017
The growing religious demands of Muslim workers at a car factory in Paris contributed to the plant’s closure in 2013, Drancy deputy-mayor Jean-Christophe Lagarde has disclosed. Lagarde made the revelation during an appearance on public service broadcaster France Info on Tuesday, in which he was asked about “communitarian trends” in Islam, where communities are becoming more religious and more insular. “Religion has nothing to do with work” began his response, but the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) president went on to admit that Islam has caused a number of problems related to employment in the state he represents. “There were difficulties, including in my area, for example in Aulnay-sous-Bois. It was never said, but part of the PSA closure was down to the ubiquity of religion and the fact that there were religious demands at work, work stoppage, [and] loss of productivity,” he said. RATP has also experienced difficulties with Muslim employees Lagarde noted, referring to known cases of radicalisation in the Paris transport company, which is said to employ a large number of Muslims who are watched by French intelligence as known extremists. The PSA Group, a French car manufacturer who makes Peugeot and Citroën vehicles, shut its factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 2013. The plant was known for employing a large number of practising Muslims as workers. In addition to having installed a prayer room in the 1980s, the factory’s menus and schedule, with regards to Ramadan, prayer breaks, and religious holidays, were all adapted for the convenience of Muslim staff members. Drancy, where Lagarde is mayor, neighbours Aulnay-sous-Bois and is a commune in Paris’s northeastern suburbs in Seine-Saint-Denis, the most violent department in France. The area, where 36 per cent of residents were born abroad, has long been known as a trouble spot in Paris, with police regularly attacked and buses torched. But a recent report, which revealed the suburb to be a “no-go zone” for women in which they are invisible in the streets and unwelcome in bars and cafes, caused a stir across the media, with politicians voicing their disgust.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/04/religious-demands-car-plant-closure/
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Posted on January 5, 2017 by Ray Starmann
Invasion Europe: Mainly Muslim, Mainly Male, Mainly Young
2016 was a fine year for Islamist terrorism and an even finer year for Western political distraction. While Islamic terrorists repeatedly succeeded in carrying out mass-casualty terrorist attacks, as well as a constant run of smaller-scale strikes, the political leadership of the free world continued to try to divert their public. The most striking example of the year came in the summer with the French debate over whether or not to ban the “burkini” from the beaches of France. The row erupted in the days after another 86 people were murdered in a jihadist terrorist assault — this time in Nice, France. With no one sure how to prevent access to vehicles or any idea how many French Muslims might want to follow suit, the French media and authorities chose to debate an item of beachwear. The carefully staged decision by an Australian Muslim woman to have herself filmed while wearing a burkini on a French beach ignited the row, which was eagerly seized upon by politicians. At the local and national level, the decision to discuss the burkini allowed all the larger political issues behind Europe’s growing security problem to be ignored. In the wake of Nice, there should have been a fulsome public discussion over what if anything can be done to ensure that people who have been in France for many years — in some cases their entire lives — are not indoctrinated to hate the country so much that they drive a truck through a crowded sea-front on Bastille Day. Or there could have been a wide public debate over whether, with so many radicalised Muslims already in France, it was a wise or foolish idea to continue to import large numbers of Muslims into this already simmering situation. As it was, neither of these debates did occur, and no meaningful political action was taken. Instead, the issue of the burkini sucked all the oxygen out of the debate, leaving no room to discuss anything more serious or longer term than beachwear. In the wake of the July 14 attack in Nice, France, in which 86 people were murdered, there should have been a fulsome public discussion over what if anything can be done to ensure that people who have been in France for many years — in some cases their entire lives — are not indoctrinated to hate the country so much that they drive a truck through a crowded sea-front on Bastille Day. (Image source: France24 video screenshot) Across the continent in 2016, it appeared that other politicians realised the enormous advantage of such distraction debates. For instance, in the Netherlands in November, the country’s MPs voted for a ban on wearing a burka in public places. Prime Minister Mark Rutte apparently found this an enormously convenient debate. Not only did it temporarily reduce some of the pressure that his government is feeling at the rise of Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party to the top of opinion polls, but it also distracted attention from the years of mass immigration and lax integration demands which have been a hallmark of the Dutch experience. After importing hundreds of thousands of people whose beliefs the Dutch authorities rarely bothered to question, the public would be satisfied — the Rutte government hoped — if only the small number of Dutch Muslim women who wear the burka were prevented from doing so. The Netherlands will have to see whether its implementation of such a law works any better than it does in neighbouring France, where “white knights” routinely show up to pay the fines of women fined for violating the burka ban there. The Rutte government was not the only one to adopt this cynical strategy. Its most cynical deployment of all came in December, with the announcement by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, that she would ban the burka in Germany. As with the Dutch government, Merkel clearly hoped that in throwing this tidbit to the German public she might head off the threat that the Alternative for Germany party (AfD), among others, now poses to her party in this year’s election. But the move also raises the question of just how stupid does Angela Merkel believe the German people to be? It would seem that Merkel hopes that with this burka ban the German public will forgive or forget that here is a political leader so devoid of foresight that she unilaterally chose to allow an extra 1-2% of the population to be added to her country in a single year, mainly Muslim, mainly male and mainly young. This is a Chancellor who, even having previously admitted that Germany’s multicultural model had “failed,” revved immigration up to unprecedented and unsustainable levels. Now, like her counterparts across the continent, she must hope that the German public are satisfied by this burka morsel and that, as a result, they will return Merkel and her party to power so that they can repeat whichever of their mistakes they choose in the years ahead. It is possible, of course, that the European publics are wiser than their leaders and that they will see through these cynical and distracting tactics. There are extremely good reasons to ban any garment which covers a person’s face and allows them to wander as an anonymous stranger in our societies. There are some — though fewer — reasons to ban wearing a burkini on a beach. Certainly the governments of France, the Netherlands and Germany are within their rights to instigate and enforce any and all such bans. Such moves, however, are but the smallest register imaginable of a problem that seems far beyond this generation of politicians. The burka and burkini, like the headscarf, are only issues because millions of people have been allowed, unchecked, into Europe for years. The garment is merely the simplest issue at which to take aim. Far harder are the issues of immigration and integration. It is possible that Europe’s politicians cannot answer these questions because any and all answers would point the finger at their own failings. Or it is possible that they have no answers to the problems with which they have presented the continent. Whichever it is, they would do well to reflect that in 2017, the European publics might get fed up with the distraction tactics of talking about clothing and instead seek answers to the challenge we now face, as well as retribution at the polls for the politicians who brought us here. Douglas Murray, British author, commentator and public affairs analyst, is based in London, England.
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/01/invasion-europe-mainly-muslim-mainly-male-mainly-young/
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'Enemies Within' – Hillary's links to Muslim Brotherhood revealed
Expert on national security warns ties 'deeper, broader, wider' than Huma Abedin's
Published: 2 days ago
A blockbuster new documentary asserts there is a master plan to create a permanent liberal majority in American by flooding it with millions of voters hostile to conservatism. But “The Enemies Within” also claims forces dedicated to the destruction of this country have even penetrated the national security bureaucracy, endangering Americans and the entire system of constitutional government. Key to this case is the testimony of Philip Haney, a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security and a counter-terrorism analyst who was widely praised and commended by his superiors throughout his distinguished career. By accumulating vast amounts of data and examining the relationships between various extremist groups and their sources of funding, Haney had identified dozens of terrorists throughout the years, arguably preventing numerous attacks. However, in 2009, it was Haney himself who was targeted by his own government. He tells his story in the book “See Something, Say Nothing,” but his story is also the most powerful part of “The Enemies Within.” He recounts in “The Enemies Within:” “I finished a case up, I put it in the system. There were 67 records related to the case, individuals and organizations. But then about two weeks after I put the case into the system, I went on vacation and received a call from my colleague. He said they had removed the records from the system. They didn’t just modify them, they completely obliterated them, took all of them out.” Haney argues this dramatic action had devastating consequences for the American people. The specific records the government deleted turned out to be directly relevant to terrorist attacks that took place later. “Those are the records related to the network of mosques and organizations operating in the United States that is linked to the San Bernardino shooting and to the Orlando shooting,” he recalled. Indeed, Haney states in the video the federal government not only removed the records but actually investigated him for simply doing his job. “They said essentially that I did not have the authority to put those records into the system, even though I had been commended by the National Targeting Center for finding 300 terrorists,” Haney says in the film. “So, essentially, the last three years of my career, I was under investigation by three different government agencies, all at the same time. They essentially determined that I was more of a threat than these terrorist groups.” Shockingly, the distinguished counter-terrorism expert says no one in the federal government ever claimed his records were inaccurate or untrue. The facts, he claims, were beyond dispute. Instead, for no good reason he can identify, his work was eliminated and he was disgraced. In one of the most dramatic moments of the film, Haney describes his reaction as feeling “infuriated and stripped naked.” He describes the painful experience as a “public humiliation.” “To sequester me in a small room for the last 11 months of my career with no assigned duties and then have the audacity to say those were not adverse actions because ‘we’re just conducting an investigation,'” Haney remembers. “It’s cruel to do that to a person. It wasn’t a moral infraction, it wasn’t refusal to obey orders, it wasn’t some crime that I committed. It was simply doing the job that I took a vow to do and had been recognized and awarded for.” For that reason, Haney emphatically states in the documentary the United States has enemies within its own government. Distinguished author and researcher Trevor Loudon describes the terrifying full extent of this hostile network operating within America’s own borders in “The Enemies Within,” detailing an alliance between radical Marxists and Islamic extremists that has penetrated the very highest levels of the federal government. As Haney explains in the film, the problem has gotten so bad, many of America’s politicians and policy makers would not be able to pass the kind of basic security checks required of even entry level employees. “If you have overt ties to associations with known associations with terrorism, you cannot pass a background check,” Haney says in the film. He describes Hillary Clinton as a ‘domestic threat” and details the deep connections between the former Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state with some of the most dangerous Islamic movements in the world. They even go beyond her close relationship with longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin. The most dangerous enemy is the one who operates from within your own gates. Discover the traitors within our own country and help spread the word about how America is already under attack. Don’t miss “The Enemies Within” available now in the WND Superstore. “Hillary Clinton’s ties are a lot deeper, broader and wider than Huma Abedin,” Haney says. “The best example of her ties is her affiliation with the Istanbul Process and, in particular, with U.N. Resolution 1618. That resolution, it essentially criminalizes defamation of Islam, has been backed for 10 years by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a 57-nation organization. It is essentially run in its leadership positions by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. By endorsing U.N. Resolution 16/18, by default Hillary Clinton is aiding and abetting the Muslim Brotherhood on a macro, global level.” And the Muslim Brotherhood, in Haney’s opinion as a national security professional, is directly responsible for sponsoring terrorism. He argues in “The Enemies Within” the organization should be labeled a terrorist group and shut down. “Since we already know that Muslim Brotherhood is the parent of Hamas and that these organizations are overtly supporting Hamas and other like-minded organizations around the world then we should shut those organizations,” he declares in the film. “And that would send a shockwave throughout the pro-Shariah, pro-jihadist Islamic world without firing a single shot or dropping a bomb anywhere in the world.” Until that happens, Haney argues, national security professionals have been “completely blindfolded and handcuffed.” “We can’t use the most basic fundamental language that they themselves use to help us understand what Islam believes and what its intentions are,” he explains in the movie. “The Enemies Within” doesn’t just analyze radical Islam. Instead, it details the terrifying extent to which far left radicals who have overtly declared their anti-American intentions are taking control of the very institutions meant to protect Americans. At a time when the mainstream media is suddenly concerned about supposed Russian interference, “The Enemies Within” shows the rot set in much sooner than the last election cycle and involves hostile foreign actors more malevolent than Vladimir Putin. “Those of us who took our oath [seriously] are being betrayed,’ Haney says of his fellow national security professionals in the film. “Things like that which happened to me will happen more and more often because people will be forced to stand up for the law at the risk of their career and maybe even their life.” At a time of crisis, remaining uninformed isn’t just dangerous, it’s deadly. “The Enemies Within” is the first step to recognizing where the threat is coming from.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/enemies-within-hillarys-links-to-muslim-brotherhood-revealed/#PXSqBLX4Mz3TW44g.99
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Nazi Collaborator Soros Continues Multi-pronged War on Trump, Calls Him “Would-be Dictator”
Written by William F. Jasper Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Hedge fund billionaire George Soros is used to having his way. But the megalomaniacal currency speculator and political manipulator bet on the wrong horse in the Trump vs. Clinton race, and even all the millions of dollars he spent trying to rig the outcome failed, in the end. It must be hard for the 86-year-old globalist to face up to the fact that the world is not his oyster and his admitted “fantasies about being God” are just that — fantasies, albeit far from harmless ones. (The BlackLivesMatter riots and the anti-Trump riots he helped finance look more like the work of Lucifer than God, in this reporter’s humble opinion.) However, Soros refuses to accept that he lost and Trump won. So he is committing a sizable portion of his enormous wealth, along with his outsized political and media influence, to crippling and delegitimizing the incoming Trump administration, with more riots, protests, and media hit pieces. Within hours after Trump had been officially named the victor, the Soros-funded rent-a-mobs were causing mayhem in streets all across America. And while that havoc was still playing out, Soros convened a closed confab of fellow globalist billionaires at a Washington D.C. luxury hotel to plan their anti-Trump counterattack. They call their plutocrat club the Democracy Alliance, an especially hypocritical label since they lavishly fund individuals and organizations that are working to undermine our constitutional republic (which they erroneously call a democracy). And just two weeks after Election Day, on November 22, Soros’s Open Society Foundations announced a “$10 Million Initiative to Confront Hate.” This new money spigot will expedite funding to organizations combatting the “harsh rhetoric and policy proposals” of Donald Trump “during the 2016 presidential campaign that drew on racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTI, and other forms of hate.” Which means, of course, that there will be ample funding for the “anti-hate” protesters who will be demonstrating (and likely rioting) on Inauguration Day, while spewing obscene and hateful remarks, burning Trump in effigy and carrying facsimilies of his head around on pikes (as they did in the November melees). Invoking Hitler While Labeling Trump a “Would-be Dictator” The latest hit piece by Soros personally is a column he penned for Project Syndicate, which has been carried by hundreds of newspapers, news services, and websites worldwide, and in which he calls Donald Trump “a con artist and would-be dictator.” The December 28 column, entitled “Open Society Needs Defending,” begins with a lengthy lead-in subtitle: “Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies — from fascist dictatorships to mafia states — are on the rise. Because elected leaders failed to meet voters’ legitimate expectations and aspirations, electorates have become disenchanted with the prevailing versions of democracy and capitalism.” Soros then “brings his personal history to bear on the threat posed by today’s ascendant populists,” notes the Project Syndicate promotional puff. Soros writes: I am an 86-year-old Hungarian Jew who became a US citizen after the end of World War II. I learned at an early age how important it is what kind of political regime prevails. The formative experience of my life was the occupation of Hungary by Hitler’s Germany in 1944. I probably would have perished had my father not understood the gravity of the situation. He arranged false identities for his family and for many other Jews; with his help, most survived. However, Soros neglects to mention some very important facts in his biographical reflection, such as that he helped Hitler and the Nazis confiscate the wealth and belongings of his fellow Jews. What’s more, he feels no guilt, regret, or remorse about being a Holocaust helper, because, as he put it, if the hadn’t done it “somebody else would be taking it away anyhow.” However, he undoubtedly regrets being so candid about all of this during an interview with the CBS 60 Minutes program back in 1998. He must have realized afterward how ghoulishly cold-blooded and inhuman his words and demeanor appeared, and how violently that clashed with the philanthropic humanitarian image he was crafting for himself. For some reason, the CBS video of the program disappeared, and that disappearance has been the subject of much speculation concerning possible legal threats and/or financial inducements by Soros to keep the damning footage buried. The recent mysterious resurfacing of the 60 Minutes interview has likewise been the subject of much speculation. In addition to the recently released WikiLeaks files on Soros, which are decidedly less flattering than the canned biography of the mogul on Wikipedia, the CBS video allows Soros to demolish his own carefully invented saintly image with his own words. For the past couple of months, the long-lost 60 Minutes interview with Soros has been popping up on YouTube and various websites, only to be taken down due to CBS copyright challenges. But, like a Whack-a-Mole, it keeps popping up on new sites as fast as Soros and CBS can whack it down. The long-suppressed interview of an unrepentant Soros admitting he was a Holocaust helper further demolishes his credibility to pose — in his words — as the “conscience of the world.” During the 60 Minutes program CBS interviewer Steve Kroft asks Soros (born Gyorgy Schwartz) about his boyhood in Hungary during the Nazi occupation. Kroft rolls vintage footage of long lines of Hungarian Jews — men, women, children — being loaded onto trains. Here is a partial transcript of the interview (emphasis added): KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors. KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew... Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm. KROFT: (Voiceover) …who escaped the Holocaust... Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm. KROFT: (Voiceover) … by — by posing as a Christian. Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right. KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps. Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made. KROFT: In what way? Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and — and anticipate events and when — when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a — a very personal experience of evil. KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes. KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews. Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes. KROFT: I mean, that's — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult? Mr. SOROS: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't — you don't see the connection. But it was it created no — no problem at all. KROFT: No feeling of guilt? Mr. SOROS: No. KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that? Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c — I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was — well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets — that if I weren't there — of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would — would — would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the — whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the — I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt. No sense of guilt then and none now. Neither does this Nazi collaborator suffer from any sense of guilt over smearing opponents with false charges of fascism or neo-Naziism, or funding groups that do the same. Nor does he suffer any qualms of conscience over crashing whole national economies and national currencies (Malaysia, Thailand, Britian), causing untold devastation and suffering for millions of people. Besides, a few million dollars in grants to activist NGOs and media groups usually suffices to repair any of the PR damage done by his predatory practices. Most likely, it is his Deity Complex that prevents him from ever experiencing feelings of guilt. After all, if one is “God” what is there to feel guilty about? But mortals who think they’re divine invariably suffer in other ways. "Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad," Soros once admitted to a British television audience. "In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it." Has he really escaped it? Many would disagree; his madness seems quite apparent. In addition to his most recent rant against Trump, he has turned Project Syndicate — his own media platform — into a non-stop free-fire zone aimed at the president-elect by leftwing “public intellectuals” such as Carl Bildt, Jorge Castaneda, Barry Eichengreem, Richard Haass, Joschka Fischer, Brad DeLong, Peter Singer, Javier Solana, and dozens of others. The 60 Minutes interview is well worth tracking down and well worth watching (before it gets permanently deep-sixed down the memory hole). Together with everything else that has come out on Soros in the intervening years, it provides more than enough evidence to banish the megalomaniacal mogul from all civil society and provide him with a padded cell where he can contemplate and celebrate his divinity without wreaking havoc on all mankind. Photo of George Soros: AP Images
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Russia sends two warships to Manila for drills with Philippines
By Allen Cone | Jan. 3, 2017 at 1:23 PM
MANILA, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Russia sent two warships to the Philippines to participate in naval drills as President Rodrigo Duterte's relations with the U.S. becomes increasingly strained. The Admiral Tributs, an anti-submarine destroyer, and sea tanker Boris Butoma arrived in Manila on Tuesday for a four-day goodwill visit to show off the ships' anti-terrorism capabilities and conduct talks, Rear Admiral Eduard Mikhailov, deputy commander of the flotilla of the Russia's Pacific Fleet, said at a news conference. "We did not have problems dealing with other countries or their vessels like that of the United States or China," Mikhailov said. "We operated on a high level of friendly cooperation." He said "the biggest problem now in the world is terrorism and piracy" and the exercises "will show you what we can do and we will see what you can do." Mikhailov said Russia is willing to train the Philippines military how to stop Islamist militants from abducting tugboat crews. It's the first official contact between naval units from the Philippines and Russia. The United States and the Philippines annually conduct naval exercises but Duterte has instructed the defense ministry to "reformat" drills with the U.S. Navy. As the two counties participated in drills in October, Duterte said President Barack Obama can "go to hell." Obama has been heavily critical of Duterte over his brutal war on drugs. Duterte and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the APEC economic summit in November. Duterte also visited China in October. In December, Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana met in Moscow with Alexander Fomin, director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, to explore possible military cooperation between the two nations. Earlier last year, Lorenzana said Russia had offered to sell a submarine and drones to the Philippines. The Admiral Tributs and Boris Botuma have been conducting naval drills in Indonesia and India since November.
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Russia is very much interested in having a military-to-military relationship with the Philippines, National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzanasaid on the sidelines of Friday’s Rizal Day commemorations. “They are very aggressive in wanting a military-to-military relationship with us,” he said in Filipino. Lorenzana said this was made apparent during his recent visit to Russia, along with Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay. He however clarified that this is not a prelude to an alliance but merely student-to-student exchanges, sending of observers in exercises and selling of some military hardware to the Philippines. “We will look into their hardware one of these days for testing, once samples become available for testing,” he added, stressing that these talks are only at the initial phase. Russia is offering the Philippines drones and submarines, which Lorenzana said the country could not afford at the moment due to the massive investments needed for acquisition, training of crew, and creation of support facilities for the undersea craft.
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Women's march an 'entry point' for a new activist wave
Heidi M Przybyla , USA TODAY Published 2:20 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2017
There’s grief over Hillary Clinton’s election loss among the 200,000 women planning to march on Washington the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20, but those organizing the Women's March on Washington said the event is about far more than that. For the women coming as far away as California and Hawaii, there’s concern that women’s rights could be rolled back by Congress and the new Republican White House. These include some of the causes women fought for dating to the suffragette convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y. — such as affordable health care. The women planning to gather in Washington on Jan. 21 haven't been corralled by an outside interest group. They started responding to a Facebook event page created by retired Hawaii attorney Teresa Shook on election night. They're coming on their own, mainly on chartered buses from large cities and smaller locales or are driving or flying themselves. Various women's groups, such as those supporting birth control and abortion rights, are coming to them. For many women, it’s the first time they’ve been involved in civic activism — among the dozens of independent coordinators at the state level are yoga teachers and fashion designers. That spontaneous outburst of activism has posed some of the event's early problems, as it has struggled to find a cohesive theme and organization. “This is not only historical for us and our generation,” said Carmen Perez, who will turn 40 on the day of the march, “but also the fact that this is the first mass mobilization after a president steps into office.” The march will begin with a rally near the Capitol building, and it’s among about 100 taking place across the country and internationally, including in London. How much of an impact? The diversity of concerns driving participants to the nation's capital makes it unclear how much impact they’ll have on the agenda of the incoming administration. Organizers hope the significance of the march, bringing together more than 100 different interest groups including the Sierra Club, NAACP and MoveOn.org, will be a web of activism spun in its aftermath. Much like the conservative Tea Party formed as a grass-roots movement, organizers see the event as the start of a wave of activism on the left. “We see this as the first convening,” said Janaye Ingram, the head of logistics. “New alliances will be forged through this effort.” They enlisted star power and support from a previous generation of activists: labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta joins feminist icon Gloria Steinem and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte as honorary co-chairs. Some of the organizers, such as Perez and Tamika Mallory, worked with Belafonte's non-profit Gathering for Justice. “The rhetoric of the past year alarmed people, it galvanized people,” said Cassady Fendlay, communication director for the march. “But we also recognize these issues didn’t just happen in the past year.” She cast the march not as a Trump protest but an attempt “to speak to all levels of government.” The march started with Shook and has blossomed into a diverse coalition of women — and some men — coming together to highlight their concern over a broader array of issues, including criminal justice and climate change. Perez called the event an “entry point” for many women to get involved in their communities. “We hope it will ignite a spark in them to go back to their communities and do something,” she said. Interest groups filling the void The last time this many women marched on Washington was in 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated, when a parade of more than 5,000 women fought for the right to vote, according to University of Scranton political historian Jean Harris. Though this moment in history is far different — those protests became violent as women were attacked and the police stood by — many of the issues the suffragettes talked about going back to Seneca Falls in 1848, including equal pay mandates and affordable child care, remain unfinished business. “We’ve been trying to move forward, but at this point, women have to fight just to maintain what they have,” Harris said. “Having this march right now is important to say we’re not going to take this. We’re watching," Harris said. Some of the marchers acknowledged that there isn’t a cohesive message, and some booked their flights and hotels in a state of shock after Clinton’s loss. “All of this disappointment rolls into one giant ‘I’m going to fly to D.C.' ” said Elizabeth Nash, state issue manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group. Since then, concerns among women’s rights activists have crystallized, said Nash, who points to state-level trends working their way to Washington. Though Trump’s daughter Ivanka pushed for paid maternity leave during the campaign, it is not emerging as a top priority of the new White House, and the list of women's concerns is long. Take abortion restrictions. The average number of restrictions passed from 1980 through 2009 was 16 per year, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data provided by Guttmacher. From 2010 through 2016, the average was 61. These include ultrasound and fetal heartbeat mandates, and states such as Kansas and Indiana are among those that far outpace others. “The threat is real,” said Nash, who will join the march. “We’ve been at this point at the state level for several years where there are state legislatures and governors willing and eager to limit abortion access. … At the federal level, we haven’t seen this same threat for a very long time,” she said. Aside from appointing Supreme Court justices who could seek to overturn the decision in 1973 that established a woman’s right to abortion, Roe v Wade, there are other things that could happen more immediately. This includes Congress rolling back funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides free breast cancer screening and health services. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Republicans would cut the group's funding as part of repealing Obamacare. The same goes for contraception coverage provided under the Affordable Care Act, as well as access to mammograms with no co-pay or deductible. Since more women receive Medicare than men, changes to the program would disproportionately hurt them. “Trump and the Republican Party’s mission to repeal the Affordable Care Act, gut Medicare and turn back the clock on reproductive health and women’s economic security will hurt women and families across the country,” said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, which works to elect pro-abortion-rights Democratic female lawmakers. “We can’t afford to go back to a time where just being a woman was considered a pre-existing condition or roll back the progress we’ve made on combating discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. "We’ll be fighting Day One of a Trump presidency,” Schriock said. The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment. Paying for the march According to the event organizers, they’ve raised $1 million of the estimated $2 million needed to cover the costs of putting on the event. Online merchandisers are doing their part. Groups such as Hillary’s Nasty Woman Society target women on Facebook with ads selling march-themed shirts bearing the logo “Women’s rights are human rights,” a phrase coined by Clinton in a speech in Beijing in 1995. During one of their debates, Trump called Clinton a "nasty woman." One of the hoodies marked “best seller” reads, “I never dreamed I’d grow up to be a nasty woman. But here I am, killing it.” “Women are angry, and women are getting involved, and that’s the key, that this march mobilized women and that they work with the anger and use it and don’t let it drop,” Harris said.
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GOP to defund Planned Parenthood in ObamaCare repeal
By Peter Sullivan - 01/05/17 12:23 PM EST
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that defunding Planned Parenthood will be included as part of a bill to repeal ObamaCare. Ryan said cutting off federal funds to the organization will be included in a “reconciliation” bill that also repeals the core of ObamaCare. The reconciliation process prevents Democrats from launching a filibuster against the measure, meaning Republicans won't need 60 votes to win on defunding. “Planned Parenthood legislation will be in our reconciliation bill,” Ryan said, without providing any more details. The reconciliation bill that Republicans passed as a test run last year cut off funding for Planned Parenthood for one year. Defunding Planned Parenthood is a major priority for anti-abortion groups. Including it in the repeal bill could cause a problem for some centrists like Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), though.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/312852-gop-to-defund-planned-parenthood-in-obamacare-repeal
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etc. for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.
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Obama Is No Friend of Jews or Christians
By Rev. Mark H. Creech , Christian Post Columnist
Jan 4, 2017 | 7:14 AM
Last year, Judson Phillips wrote in the Washington Times something apparent to anyone politically astute. He said, "It is beyond debate that America has a president who is cheering for and working for our enemies. We have a president who wants to see nations that hate America and an ideology of evil triumph over America as well as the Western values of freedom and liberty." Now the President has instructed his U.N. Ambassador not to veto a resolution condemning our best friend of democracy in the middle-east for building "settlements" on disputed lands. Yet the compromises Israel has made in the past over such territories have not produced peace, but only emboldened her enemies with more acts of terror. A two state solution? Twelve years after his death, the promise of Yasser Arafat essentially remains the mantra of Palestinian leaders: "We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem." Columnist CAL Thomas got it right in his own Washington Times op-ed Wednesday when he noted, "The U.S. abstention will inevitably invite stepped-up attacks against Israelis, as well as calls for more boycotts by the European Union, whose ugly anti-Semitic past and present is well documented." Someone once wrote, "Don't fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you." There is something fearfully wrong about President Obama. He has an affinity for those who despise the children of Abraham, as well as spiritual Israel, the church of Jesus Christ. Why is this? Socialists, like the President, whether consciously or subconsciously, find Judaism and Christianity as primary obstacles to the collective objectives of the state. Marxism rejects a spirit of independence separate from the state. It denies the right to build a life based on one's own achievements, skill, creativity, and labor. It has no authority higher than the state itself. Judaism and Christianity, however, declare just the opposite — that God's will and incontrovertible law is the source of men's rights. These rights are inalienable, not granted nor can they be taken by the government, and among them is the right to life, liberty, and one's property This even explains, in some degree, the president's favoritism toward Islamic countries. Marxism sees all religious practice arising out of exploitation. Religion is "the opiate of the people" — something used to deal with life's oppressors. Ben Shapiro, political commentator and author, explains the connection well when he writes: "President Obama believes, like many on the left, that Western civilization was founded in racism, sexism, homophobia, and other bigotry — and that Christianity, as its wellspring, provided that impetus ... Obama believes that Western civilization has exploited the rest of the world, and that it, therefore, bears culpability for the poverty that gave rise to the Islamic wave. Muslims are benighted victims of poverty; Christianity made them victims of poverty in the first place ... As Dinesh D'Souza puts it, Obama is an anti-colonialist and believes "that the rich countries got rich by looting the poor countries, and that within the rich countries, plutocratic and corporate elites continue to exploit ordinary citizens." Taken one step further, those rich countries — Christian countries — exploited non-Christian countries, impoverishing them and opening them to the opium of Islam." The President is genuinely no friend of Judeo-Christian teaching. He says he's a friend. He even says that he's a Christian, but he treacherously knifes Israel in the back — the same way he's been betraying and undermining a Christian America.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/obama-is-no-friend-of-jews-or-christians-172490
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Don’t Make Yourself A Target For Predators – Be Ready – Be Aware
By Ray Gano - January 6, 2017
By now we have all heard about the for black thug low-lifes who kidnapped a handicapped kid and beat and tortured him for close to 48 hours. This is sickening and it would not upset me in the least to see these four taking to the center of town and a public hanging take place. These four sub-humans are out and out predators. They prey on the weak and what is sickening is that they enjoyed it. This is why these individuals are sub-human and demon possessed. They abducted a person who was not able to protect himself, nor understood how to be situationally aware. They are the perfect definition of a predator. Yes, this is what our society has created and this is what we now need to keep an eye out for, predators like this. That means that we need to start improving our situational awareness and be ahead of the game when predators are in the vicinity. One of your best weapons against the predator is being aware of him / her. See, predators are cowards. They usually act in packs and there is usually an alpha dog who is the leader. The alpha will always sends in a beta dog to test the victim. If the beta dog can handle it, the rest of the pack might come in, but if the beta is taken out, the pack flees. The key is constantly watching out for suspicious people. Believe it or not, by you having your radar on high, predators will most likely leave you alone. They do not want a fight, they want easy prey. So, if you look like you know what is going on around you, the predator will tend to choose another victim that is weaker and not as aware. Survival Means Developing Situational Awareness Situational awareness is something that you need to practice and basically you can cultivate it by generally keeping tabs on your surroundings. This was drilled into me when I served in Special Ops. We were told to always “Check your six” – meaning to keep an eye on what is happening behind you. Whenever I go into a restaurant or someplace where I am seated, I like “keeping my back to the wall” with the doors in sight as well as knowing alternate exits. Seems like a lot to remember and being a tad paranoid helps. So, to help you develop this, here are some things that I do and teach my students. 1 – OODA Loop = Observe, Orient, Decide, Act – This is the key to situational awareness. By observing your surroundings, orienting yourself to entries, exits, choke points – Decide what you are going to do and then take action. Example. I am coming out of Walmart. I am pushing a cart. I tend to park towards the back where I can put space between my car and others. I walk down the middle of the parking isle where most people will either stick to one side of the parked cars or the other. By walking in the middle of the road, you are less of a target. As I am walking I am constantly scanning the area looking to ambush points. If I see one I will either pick up speed or avoid that are by moving more to one side or the other. Once I get to my car, if there is another car parked by it I will take a wide swing so that I can take in as much visual information as possible checking out the car next to mine. IF there is someone in that car, I go into a higher alert status, maybe keep my hand close to a weapon and be ready for an attack. If my wife is with me, I will usually have her open the back of the car, put stuff in as I maintain security. I will then have her take the cart back and I will watch her so that she is a safe distance and then I will get in the car and pick her up at the front door area. This allows her to avoid coming close to the suspected car and the potential attacker that is in the vehicle. Through this entire process, I am constantly doing the OODA Loop – Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. – Repeat. The repeat part is why it is a loop. You constantly take in information, make a decision and then act. 2- Learn to Predict Events – As your Situational Awareness grows and getting better, you will start noticing the ability to project / predict possible situations around you. By running your OODA Loop over and over, your brain will start taking this information and begin to “think ahead.” It (your brain) takes in the information, determines if there is a danger, possible danger or determine that there is no danger at all. Basically, what your brain is doing is processing “cause and effect” and predict an accurate outcome. You are not seeing into the future, your attention to detail is getting better, thus know what will happen in the next second or two based on that attention to detail. 3 – Trust Your Instinct / Feelings – God has put into us a sixth sense where you just know that you know something is not right. Pay attention to that, do not blow it off thinking that you are just imagining something. Ignoring a gut feeling that things are not right can cause you to lose proper situational awareness. This clue is one of the most reliable because the body is able to detect stimulus long before we have consciously put it all together. This is part of “predicting events” – listening to your gut and then getting the heck out of dodge. 4 – Identify Elements Around You – When developing your Situational Awareness it is important to identify elements within your environment. Remember the parked car that I talked about earlier? When we got out of our car there was no vehicle around. If you remember I stated that I like parking towards the back of the lot. When we returned I instantly asked myself “why is there a car parked next to mine? By identifying elements that are around you, you will start to then identify the threats and possible threats. Now, take this a step further and start including objects, events, people and any other environmental factors. Start paying attention to locations, conditions and actions of the elements around you. All of these steps sound like it’s a lot, but believe it or not, you probably do a lot of this already, but it is more subconscious thinking than being Situationally Alert. These skills that I have discussed here you are already using them on a daily basis. What you need to do is use them more and become cognoscente of what you are doing. That cognoscente behavior is Situational Awareness. Survival Means Having A Weapon/s So You Can Defend Yourself More and more states are coming on board with concealed carry, i.e. carrying a gun to protect yourself. I don’t want to cover that here, but I have written an entire article on titled “My Gun Line-up – You can read it here – http://raygano.com/my-gun-lineup/ But if you find yourself in a situation it is very wise of you to carry not just one weapon, but carry multiple weapons on you at the same time. Everyday I usually have 2-3 weapons on me and if I am going to the big city, I have 4-5. Here are the weapons that I HIGHLY recommend that you get and arm yourself with. Police Grade Pepper Foam & Gel – In many of my articles I recommend SABRE Red Pepper Foam as a first form of defense type weapon. It is inexpensive enough where you can purchase 2-3 cans so that you place some in areas ready to use like in the car, in your pocket / purse, on a key chain, on your belt, etc. NOW… why foam? First – If you are outdoors and there is a slight breeze, you will not have the liquid pepper spray blow back in your direction. Second – the foam is sticky and when it makes contact it instantly melts. This has about an 8 – 10 foot range and can spray multiple targets with this foam. SABRE Pepper Foam – http://amzn.to/2fovQYi Another solution and something that will give you more distance between you and the thugs is SABRE Pepper Gel. Like the foam, the gel sprays and does not blow back if there is a breeze going. Also, because it is a gel, it will shoot further than the foam and has a range of 18 feet. Another plus with this is that SABRE includes a belt holster articles. ti-lite-closed This is probably my #1 go to fighting weapon / knife. PRO – I like that you can carry this in your hand and it doubles as a kubaton. It is large enough to really do some damage without even deploying the knife. This can be used to control a person sitting in a pew by applying pressure techniques used with the kubaton. PRO – The quillion, the little hook at the base of the knife blade, also is a very mean weapon in and of itself, The rough thumb grooves on the quillion will do damage if you use this as a kubaton. You can hook a chin, rip an eye, do a number of kubaton moves where the quillion will do some major extra damage. cold-steel-ti-lite-ray-gano-edcPRO – You can deploy the knife as it is pulled out of the pocket by “snagging” the quillion on the pocket edge. This is a move that needs to be practiced as well, but you will have a great tactical advantage just taking the knife out of your pocket and it deploying as you remove it. PRO – With some practice, you can learn to flick open this knife one handed. So, if you are using it in a kubaton style, it is nothing to flick it in the process of a swing or block and deploy the 6” razor sharp blade. NOTE – this knife is literally a “pocket sword” it is a good 13 inches long and will give you some good distance between you and the attacker. Because this is such a large knife, check your local laws to make sure it is carry legal. PRO – Cost – ON SALE – $48.88 w/ free shipping Cold Steel Ti-Lite 6″ – http://tinyurl.com/pz-cs-ti-lite-6inch Streetwise POLICE FORCE 9,200,000 Volt TACTICAL Stun Gun Flashlight – This is a great stun gun. It is smaller in diameter, so it is easily concealed and also made to look like a flashlight. It small enough to conceal and keep in the hand without it being obvious that you have a stun gun in your hand. So it is an excellent weapon that you can carry deployed while walking around and people will not take much notice of it. streetwise-stungun Another great point about this stun gun is that it fits the budget. It runs around $25 – $30 dollars and at this price, you can purchase several of these so that both you and your spouse has one on them. This also has a good lanyard on it so that if you do lose your grip, it will not fall to the ground and you can easily bring it back into your hand. PRO – Slim, small and easily concealed PRO – 9,000,000 volts and rechargeable – that is a lot of volts you will send through a person Streetwise POLICE FORCE 9,200,000 Volt TACTICAL Stun Gun – http://tinyurl.com/PZ-Streetwise-Stun-Light There are other weapons that you and your team can look into like collapsible batons, fighting sticks, saps, ect. The negative is that with some of these weapons, you need to check your local laws in using them. Weapons like the collapsible baton are against the law to use in many states. Uzi Tactical Pen – Folks, I love this pen and I have owned this for over 7 years. Back then I bought it for around $14.00. The price today is $22.00 and it is still a great purchase. It has some nice weight but not too heavy and really fits nicely in my hand. You can fill it with any sort of ink cartage. I personally like the .07 gel ink cartage because I like a thicker line when I write. uzi-tac-pen-web The great thing is that I have carried this in airports and other “secure” areas and it has never been taken from me. Heck, even it is does, I just buy another one off of amazon. This is truly a worth while pen and a great weapon to have on hand. UZI Tactical Pen – http://amzn.to/2hWmaAo Got Weapons – Now Start Training Having weapons is great, but if we do not train, we will not be able to fight if we are called to do so. We need to be ready and the best way is to train. Get out and train pulling out your pepper spray. Practice taking out the TI-Lite knife and using it as a fist weapon. Find a punching bag or make one with some rice filled in a few pillow cases. Once you have that, hang it up somewhere against a wall and start punching.wing-chun-punching-bagIn fact, here is the punching bag I have. The Wing Chun Punching Canvas Wall Bag with Striking Surface 3-section This is a very well built bag. Once you get it you can either fill it with sand or with what they recommend, rice. The leather pads also help protect the hand from getting all marred up like you normally do when working with canvas. Once you have it filled, go hang it up on a wall and start punching away. This is great training and you will be amazed at the arm strength you attain just by punching the bag daily. This bag is only $36.00 and shipping is free. Not a bad deal at all for the quality you are getting. Wing Chun Punching Bag – http://amzn.to/2gkkt31 Conclusion These four sub-human dirtbag thugs are in existence because we have allowed it by enabling them and empowering them. Like it or not, they have become bullies and how you fight the bully is pushing back and getting in their face. A lot of times if you stand up to the bully, they will back down, or you take out the leader and the rest will back off. You do this by being situationally aware, which makes you ready and not backing down. We need to pull on the big boy / girl panties and stop allowing these degenerate kids thinking that acting like spoiled brats is ok. It is time to pull out the pepper spray, knife, stun gun and if we have to, don’t be afraid to use it. If one of these bully thugs get in you face, be ready and take them out. If enough of us stand up and let them know we are not going to take this sort of behavior any more and set boundaries, then we will see the predators start being more cautious instead of having the free rein that they have today. It is time to start pushing back, showing our teeth and letting them feel our bite.
http://raygano.com/dont-make-yourself-a-target-for-predators-be-ready-be-aware/
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Seaborne Fukushima Radiation Plume Hit West Coast, Corporate Media Reported It Dangerously
Japan, Nuclear, Radiation
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — “It is not a question any more: radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down to the lowest doses,” says the late Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkley, in his book Nuclear Witnesses: Insiders Speak Out. On December 12, 2016, EnviroNews USA‘s own Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry touched off a firestorm with his news article titled, “It’s Finally Here: Radioactive Plume From Fukushima Makes Landfall on America’s West Coast,” which claimed “medical science and epidemiological studies have demonstrated time and again that there is no safe amount of radiation for a living organism to be subjected to — period. ”In his piece, Urry also exposed other news agencies like NBC, the New York Post, USA Today and The Inquisitr, catching them with their pants down, in the act of repeating the false assertions of the U.S. and Canadian researchers, telling people not to worry about the recently detected low amounts of cesium 134 found in salmon, and that the levels were within “safe” or “accepted” thresholds for human health. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Emerson Urry recused himself from all editorial duties on this news story. Thom Hartmann picked up the article by Urry and read it on his show. Then Hartmann offered up his own journalistic explanation on how radiation works, and addressed the problem with the proclamation that there is a “safe” level of radiation to consume or be exposed to. “As the element is decaying it is throwing off radiation, and the radiation, if it hits the DNA in the nucleolus and the nucleus of a cell, can alter that DNA in ways that can produce things like cancer,” Hartmann said. “Now it can also cause simply the cell to die or it can mutate the cell in all kinds of other weird ways, and so it’s kind of a numbers game. If you irradiate a million cells… you might get two or three that become cancerous. That’s all it takes, right? You’ve got cancer,” Hartmann continued in his video report. “The cesium could cause no cancer, or it could cause cancer in the first cell it irradiates. To say that there is a safe level of radiation is frankly wrong. It’s just wrong.” Urry said later in a statement, “It’s one thing for the media to regurgitate trivial facts on trivial matters, but to blindly repeat that consuming low levels of radiation is ‘safe,’ is irresponsible reporting and borders on dangerous. News editors should take care to do their due diligence on a matter as serious as leading readers to believe consuming any amount of radiation is ‘safe’ when medical science and epidemiology, dating back 50 years to the present, have demonstrated repeatedly that that’s just not true. Even the smallest exposures increase the risk of cancer to the subject.” According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) report titled, “Public Health Statement for Cesium” from 2004, “stable and radioactive cesium can enter your body from the food you eat or the water you drink, from the air you breathe, or from contact with your skin. When you eat, drink, breathe, or touch things containing cesium compounds that can easily be dissolved in water, cesium enters your blood and is carried to all parts of your body… No known taste or odor is associated with cesium compounds.” Cesium is similar enough to potassium that it can fool the body. This results in its bioaccumulation. When cesium enters the biological system of a fish, which is then eaten by a larger fish, the larger fish becomes contaminated. As the larger fish eats more, it becomes more contaminated. The cesium accumulates in its body. When a person eats that fish, he or she also ingests the cesium that hasn’t decayed or been excreted. The more seafood that person eats, the more radioactive material he or she will be exposed to. The researchers who discovered the cesium recently also made the mistake of equating the dangers of consuming seaborne isotopes to that of receiving an x-ray, missing the point entirely that ingested or inhaled “internal particle emitters” are known to be especially hazardous. “Consuming food containing radionuclides is particularly dangerous. If an individual ingests or inhales a radioactive particle, it continues to irradiate the body as long as it remains radioactive and stays in the body,” said Dr. Alan Lockwood, MD in an article on Fox News Health. “Children are much more susceptible to the effects of radiation and stand a much greater chance of developing cancer than adults,” said Andrew Kanter, MD, President of the Board for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in that same Fox News Health article. “So it is particularly dangerous when they consume radioactive food or water.” Those who might expect the government to protect them from contamination by radiation have only to look at the downwinder situation in Utah or the consequences of Gofman’s research in the late 1960s. According to Gofman’s obituary in the L.A. Times, “Gofman and his colleague at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arthur R. Tamplin, developed data in 1969 showing that the risk from low doses of radiation was 20 times higher than stated by the government. Their publication of the data, despite strong efforts to censor it, led them to lose virtually all of their research funding and, eventually, their positions at the government laboratory.” Their conclusions were for the most part, later validated. “There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, water or other sources, period,” said Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate past President of PSR, in late March of 2011 in the immediate aftermath of the meltdowns. “Exposure to radionuclides, such as iodine 131 and cesium 137, increases the incidence of cancer. For this reason, every effort must be taken to minimize the radionuclide content in food and water.” “There is no safe dose of radiation,” says Prof. Edward P. Radford, Physician and Epidemiologist as quoted by GreenMedInfo. In an email to EnviroNews, nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said Japan had raised the maximum allowable exposure by 20 times the previous number for civilians to be able to return to their homes. The U.S. and the EPA have considered such plans in the case of a nuclear accident. In food, the U.S. has an allowable dosage of radiation that is 12 times what Japan allows. “Corporations get the benefit, civilians take the risk,” Gundersen wrote. While Urry and Hartmann have sounded the alarm, there remain unanswered questions that desperately need to be resolved. Who will clean up the contamination in the food chain? How much radiation exposure will governments continue to say is safe in spite of the medical research? How can people trust what’s on their plate and in their corporate owned media? http://www.environews.tv/121716-no-safe-level-period-media-got-dangerously-wrong-fukushima-radiation-hitting-west-coast/
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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come. etc
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Quake swarm near the California-Mexico border gets scientists' attention
By Rong-Gong Lin 11 - Contact Reporter January 2, 2017 3:00 am
As a swarm of more than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from scientists. The strongest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 3.9, striking directly underneath the town of Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The earthquakes struck in the southern end of the Brawley Seismic Zone, a seismically active region where tectonic plates are moving away from each other and the Earth’s crust is getting stretched out “and basically adding land,” said Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson. The Brawley Seismic Zone is particularly important to watch because it is the region that connects the San Andreas and Imperial faults, both of which can produce damaging earthquakes. The seismic zone extends for about 30 miles from the city of Brawley, across the Salton Sea’s southern half, and ends near Bombay Beach. Hauksson was closely monitoring the swarm that began Saturday, as there was a chance that an earthquake of magnitude 5 or larger could be triggered. “There’s always reason to be concerned for a bigger earthquake,” Hauksson said. But by Sunday night, the possibility of the swarm triggering a larger event had largely receded. The southern Brawley Seismic Zone is close in proximity to the Imperial fault. The Imperial fault has caused two major earthquakes in recent decades. In 1979, a magnitude-6.5 earthquake sent violent shaking into El Centro, injuring 91 and causing so much damage to the concrete Imperial County Services Building that it had to be demolished. There was major damage to the irrigation system in the Imperial Valley, a desert region that is a prolific producer of salad vegetables during the winter. Levees lining the All-American Canal, which funnels water from the Colorado River, collapsed along an eight-mile stretch. The magnitude-7.1 earthquake that hit El Centro in 1940 claimed nine lives and swayed buildings as far away as Los Angeles. Irrigation systems were damaged, and railroad tracks were left warped where they crossed the fault. Earthquake swarms that occur in the other end of the Brawley Seismic Zone — to the north — could trigger a major event on the San Andreas fault, one of California’s most dangerous, that could send catastrophic shaking into Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties. In late September, one such swarm began in the northern Brawley Seismic Zone, with three measuring above magnitude 4. That event led the U.S. Geological Survey to warn that chances of a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake on the San Andreas fault had risen as a result of the swarm. Another swarm of small earthquakes, topping out at magnitude 3.5, struck the town of Niland near the eastern shore of the Salton Sea on Halloween. The last major earthquake to hit Brawley was in 2012, registering at magnitude 5.4. Brawley Mayor Sam Couchman said the earthquakes have placed the city of 26,000 on edge since Saturday afternoon. The combination of the earthquakes and New Year’s pyrotechnics spooked some of the town’s dogs, who went missing, he said. “We’re just kind of listening to it, and when you can hear it coming, it’ll rattle things,” Couchman said. “Last night, we had the rain, the earthquakes, and the fireworks. “All we needed were frogs and locusts.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-quake-swarms-20170101-story.html
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Mexico Plunges into Fresh Crisis as Fury Swells over Gas Prices
Published 31 December 2016
Popular assemblies, social media, politicians and even drug cartels are reacting with rage to the neoliberal "gasolinazo" of President Peña Nieto. Despite the holiday season and entertaining stories about Rubi's quinceñera, the people of Mexico are entering the New Year in a state of rage and anxiety, with protests planned for Sunday to strongly denounce the government's huge hike in gasoline prices. The strong rise in prices has been called the "gasolinazo" in Spanish, which roughly translates to "gasoline-punch." Unpopular President Enrique Pena Nieto has promised that fuel prices will fall thanks to his neoliberal 2014 energy reforms, which dismantled the seven-decade-old national ownership of petroleum resources by state-owned firm Pemex. The government plans to end subsidies and let the market dictate prices in March, but the already-strained Mexican people will feel the pinch at the pump before they start falling. The finance ministry announced Tuesday that the price of gasoline would increase by as much as 20.1 percent to 88 cents per liter on Jan. 1, while diesel would rise by 16.5 percent to 83 cents. The price ceiling will be adjusted daily starting Feb. 18, before letting supply and demand determine them in March. Around 100 protestors blocked a service station in the Pacific Coast resort of Acapulco on Friday, while on Saturday an assembly of popular organizations in Chihuahua state's capital pledged to block all commercial transportation from entering or exiting the city as a means toward paralyzing the economy and pressuring the federal government to reverse the hikes. The assembly of people's organizations also announced their intention to block major highways and railways in response to what they see as a neoliberal looting of Mexico and handover of its resources to private capital, according to a statement. "Mexican Prosperity 2017": Mexico's future depicted as a scene from the gas-depleted world of 1981 film The Road Warrior Meanwhile, Jalisco authorities are investigating reports that the country's powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel has entered the fray, threatening to torch gas stations in response to the price hikes. "They are speculating in order to obtain million dollar profits from the majority of the people who don't make even a minimum wage ... we have already realized that the (shortage) of fuel is because dealers don't want to sell fuel unless they can do so at a profit, all of our people are now ready to start the mission," the cartel stated in a WhatsApp message circulating in Jalisco. A protest is planned in the capital on Sunday while Mexicans were urged on social media to block service stations on Monday. People were also encouraged to boycott fuel for three days. Before the price announcement, fuel shortages had already angered Mexicans in several states. "The fuel price increase causes outrage. People are right: it's not fair. I support each family, I share their outrage and anger," Aristoteles Sandoval, the governor of western Jalisco state, wrote on Twitter. Sandoval's criticism drew particular attention because he is a member of Peña Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI. Furious opposition governors plan to meet with federal government officials next week to discuss the price hike. "We just had a security meeting (between governors and Peña Nieto) days ago and there was not one comment about this situation," said Mexico City's Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera, a member of the opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD. The protests are the latest expression of widespread antipathy toward Peña Nieto, whose popularity has plummeted below 25 percent this year due to his government's widespread perception of collusion with cartels and failure to address drug-related violence, disappointing economic growth, violent repression of social movements and his unpopular decision to host Donald Trump before the anti-immigrant Republican won the U.S. presidential election. Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade defended the fuel price increase, saying it would not trigger more inflation and that eventually the "final price for consumers will be among the most competitive in the world." The fall in global oil prices in recent years has forced the government to cut its budget and slash spending at Pemex. And the peso has fallen to historic lows due to Trump's protectionist rhetoric against Mexico. In Mexico City, service station worker Maria de la Luz Lopez worried that the price increases could hurt her. "I'm afraid that to compensate for the increase, (customers) will no longer give us tips," said Lopez who, like many in her field, does not earn a wage and depends on the generosity of drivers.
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Former Clinton Foundation CEO Missing Since October 2016 - #WheresEric Internet Chatter Reaches A Fevered Pitch
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine January 2, 2017
Former Clinton Foundation CEO, Eric Braverman, was hired in July 2013, supposedly backed by Chelsea Clinton to "impose McKinsey-like management rigor," to the foundation. The foundation board approved a $395,000 salary, plus bonuses, then voted to extend his term through 2017. Weeks after that vote to extend his board term, Braverman abruptly quit in January 2015. According to a Politico article about Braverman from March 2015, "his exit stemmed partly from a power struggle inside the foundation between and among the coterie of Clinton loyalists who have surrounded the former president for decades and who helped start and run the foundation." Six days after that Politico story was published and about two months after Braverman resigned, Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe on MSNBC, tweeted "A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to "follow the money" and find the real HRC scandal." According to leaked emails published by Wikileaks from the Podesta emails, Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden emailed Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta "@JoeNBC: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to "follow the money" and find the real HRC scandal. http://t.co/lPTQY0L0o4 - I'm hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation." Podesta responded with one name "Eric Braverman." To which Tanden replied "Holy Moses." That same month is when the news of Clinton's private email server broke nationally, became major headline news. Wikileaks published those emails during the height of the election season, in October 2016, around the same time that Eric Braverman disappeared from public view. His last public activity can be traced to an October 12, 2016 retweet. A look at his Twitter history shows he was wasn't very active, as the one before that was on August 3rd and before that, one in June. Is it a coincidence that Braverman cannot be contacted in any manner, from emails sent to him and to Yale University, where he is still listed for Spring 2017 classes in the School of Management and the law school, all not responded to? Rachel Alexander from Stream, writes the following: "I left a voicemail on Braverman’s personal phone and sent him an email, but received no response. He is still listed as a lecturer at Yale University and, contrary to some reports, there is a record of his lectures going back several years. I contacted the press office and Braverman’s department at Yale and received no response." ANP has also attempted to reach out to Braverman as well as contacts connected to him, to no avail. Videographer George Webb, who runs a popular YouTube channel has been tracking Braverman's disappearance, providing daily feature video updates, and believes Braverman officially went missing 12 days after his last tweet, on October 24, 2016, which was just two days after Wikileaks published the Podesta email where it became public knowledge that Podesta suspected Braverman of being behind the "follow the money and find the real HRC scandal," scoop given to Ron Fournier." By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine Internet chatter and conspiracy theories have surrounded Braverman's disappearance from the public, originating with a rumor that he had sought asylum from Russia, but due to his intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton Foundation, in conjunction with the fact that five FBI bureaus across the country, in New York, Little Rock, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Miami , are all involved in a massive probe of the Clinton Foundation, it is more likely that Braverman is in protective custody as witness to the crimes he uncovered during his tenure at the Clinton Foundation, since no official missing persons report has been filed on him. In November 2016, Brett Bauer from Fox News reporters that FBI sources believed the Clinton Foundation case was moving towards "likely an indictment." Transcript via Real Clear Politics: BRET BAIER: Breaking news tonight -- two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations into the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation tell Fox the following: The investigation looking into possible pay-for-play interaction between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Foundation has been going on for more than a year. Led by the white collar crime division, public corruption branch of the criminal investigative division of the FBI. The Clinton Foundation investigation is a, quote, "very high priority." Agents have interviewed and reinterviewed multiple people about the Foundation case, and even before the WikiLeaks dumps, agents say they have collected a great deal of evidence. Pressed on that, one sources said, quote, "a lot of it," and "there is an avalanche of new information coming every day." Some of it from WikiLeaks, some of it from new emails. The agents are actively and aggressively pursuing this case. They will be going back to interview the same people again, some for the third time. As a result of the limited immunity deals to top aides, including Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, the Justice Department had tentatively agreed that the FBI would destroy those laptops after a narrow review. We are told definitively that has not happened. Those devices are currently in the FBI field office here in Washington, D.C. and are being exploited. The source points out that any immunity deal is null and void if any subject lied at any point in the investigation. Another interesting point that we would remiss to ignore is how it became public knowledge that immunity deals had been offered to Clinton aides, regarding the investigations, not one peep from the FBI, nor the mainstream media, has mentioned any such "deal" for Braverman, a man who held the CEO position for the Foundation for over a year, and would be far more knowledgeable about any crimes committed by the Clinton Foundation. #WheresEric has now been created as a hashtag on Twitter and depending on whether we go from the October 12 retweet by Braverman or the videographer's date of October 24th, he has now been missing anywhere from 70 to 82 days. It all comes back to the "follow the money to find the real HRC scandal," because the private server use, the internal corruption and collusion by the DNC and the Clinton campaign, and the mainstream media, makes for good headlines, but when you follow the money, all roads lead back to the Clinton Foundation, under investigations by multiple FBI bureaus, and the man that has been missing for well over two months was in a position to know all of their dirty secrets. Since the initial questions about Braverman's disappearance from the public eye started months ago, all it would take is one public statement, one returned email, one video, for Braverman to dispel all theories, rumors and talk of his disappearance, yet not one word has come from him or anyone that knows him. No public statements saying he is alive and well. ..... nothing. The silence is deafening, and troublesome.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Clinton_Foundation_Former_CEO_Missing.php
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Pope Francis: A Fool or Liar for Islam?
The pontiff's shocking statements on "Christians" who kill.
August 2, 2016 Raymond Ibrahim
At a time when Muslims all around the world are terrorizing and slaughtering non-Muslims in the name of Islam, Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, continues trying to distance Islam from violence. Last Sunday a journalist asked him about the recent and “barbarous assassination of Fr. Jacques Hamel” in France, and how the priest was clearly “killed in the name of Islam.” To this Francis replied that he doesn’t like speaking about Islamic violence because there is plenty of Christian violence as well… [He] said that every day when he browses the newspapers, he sees violence in Italy perpetrated by Christians: “this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law… and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics! If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence. And no, not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there’s everything.” Is the Pope really that dense? Is he incapable of distinguishing between violence committed in the name of a religion, and violence committed in contradiction of a religion? Yes, Catholics—and people of all religions, sects, creeds—commit violence. That is because humans are prone to violence (or, to use Christian language that some—maybe not Francis—might understand, humans are fallen creatures). And yes, the Catholics that Francis’ cites do not commit crimes—murdering girlfriends and mother-in-law—because of any teaching contained in Christianity or Catholicism; on the contrary, Christian teachings of mercy and forgiveness are meant to counter such impulses. On the other hand, the violence that Muslims are committing around the world—the beheadings, the sex slavery, the church burnings—are indeed contained in and a product of Islam, and they have been from day one. Francis continued offering half-truths in the interview. After he acknowledged that there are “violent persons of this religion [Islam],” he immediately added that “in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. Fundamentalists. We have them.” This is another sloppy generalization. Sure, “in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists,” but that which is “fundamental” to them widely differs. One may say that Muslim and Christian fundamentalists adhere to a literalist/strict reading of their scriptures. While that statement may be true, left unsaid by those who think the issue is settled right there is: what do the Bible and Koran actually teach? The long and short of it is, the Christian fundamentalist will find himself compelled to pray for his persecutors, and, depending on the situation, maybe even turning the other cheek; conversely, the Muslim fundamentalist will find himself attacking, subjugating, plundering, raping, enslaving, and slaughtering non-Muslims. In both cases, the scriptures—Bible and Koran—say so. Not for Francis. Poverty is supposedly the real reason behind all the Islamic violence plaguing the world: Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person -- men and women -- this is already the first terrorism! You have cast out the wonder of creation -- man and woman -- and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it! This has got to be one of the silliest arguments ever devised to justify terrorism. So the Muslims screaming “Allahu Akbar!” while slaughtering a priest or driving a truck into people in France were suffering from poverty? What about the fact that one of the richest nations in the world—Saudi Arabia—is violent to and intolerant of non-Muslims? What about the fact that there are billions of impoverished non-Muslims—yet, strangely, they do not engage in wanton acts of terror against “infidels” in the name of their religion. What to make of these facts? But apparently none of these questions about scriptures and demographics matter; after all, Francis “knows how Muslims think”: I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think. They [Muslims] seek peace, encounter.” This is just plain sad. Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, arguably the most authoritative Islamic institution in the world, did indeed recently visit Francis and inform him of how Muslims desire peace and harmony with the world. But back home in Egypt, the grand imam and Al Azhar promote an Islam that is virtually indistinguishable from that of ISIS. Indeed, days before he went to take pictures hugging the pope, Tayeb said that it is a criminal offense to apostatize from Islam, and the punishment is death. In response, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies blasted the grand imam and Al Azhar. After accusing them of being twofaced—preaching a moderate Islam in the West and a radical one in Egypt—the statement concluded with some words that people like Francis should take to heart: http: Combating terrorism and radical religious ideologies will not be accomplished by directing at the West and its international institutions religious dialogues that are open, support international peace and respect freedoms and rights, while internally promoting ideas that contribute to the dissemination of violent extremism through the media and educational curricula of Al Azhar and the mosques. In the end, and when it comes to the question of whether Islam promotes violence against non-Muslims, Pope Francis falls within the ranks of those Western leaders who are either liars or fools, or a little bit of both.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263709/pope-francis-fool-or-liar-islam-raymond-ibrahim
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Absolutely Stunning – Leaked Audio of Secretary Kerry Reveals President Obama Intentionally Allowed Rise of ISIS…
Posted on January 1, 2017 by sundance
There are moments within investigative research when your jaw can stand agape as you recognize the scope of what you are reading or hearing. A brutally down-played audio of Secretary John Kerry is just such an occasion. ♦ In August of 2014 President Obama (wearing a tan business suit) gave a press conference where he stated he “did not have a strategy” against ISIS. –Video Link– ♦ Two months later, in October of 2014, Josh Earnest gave a press conference where he stated: “Our ISIS strategy is dependent on something that does not yet exist” –Video Link– However, on September 30th 2016 the New York Times quietly released a leaked audio recording of Secretary John Kerry meeting with multiple factions associated within Syria. When you listen to the audio recording (embed below) it becomes immediately obvious what was going on when both of those 2014 statements were made by the White House. In addition, you discover why this jaw-dropping 2016 leak/story was buried by the U.S. media and how it connects to over 5 years of perplexing U.S. mid-east policy. This evidence within this single story would/should forever remove any credibility toward the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama. It also destroys the credibility of a large number of well known republicans. What the recording reveals is substantive: ♦ First, only regime change, the removal of Bashir Assad, in Syria was the goal for President Obama. This is admitted and outlined by Secretary John Kerry. ♦ Secondly, in order to accomplish this primary goal, the White House was willing to watch the rise of ISIS by placing their bet that ISIS’s success would force Syrian President Bashir Assad to acquiesce toward Obama’s terms and step down. ♦ Thirdly, in order to facilitate the two objectives, Obama and Kerry intentionally gave arms to ISIS and even, arguably, attacked a Syrian government military convoy to stop a strategic attack upon the Islamic extremists killing 80 Syrian soldiers. Pause for a moment and consider those three points carefully before continuing. Because this audio (below), along with accompanying research now surfacing, not only exposes these three points as truth – but also provides the specific evidence toward them. The problem in the Obama/Kerry’s secret strategy became clear when ISIS grew in sufficient strength to give the White House optimism for the scheme – however, instead of capitulation Assad then turned to Russia for help. When Russia came to aid Bashir Assad the Syrian Government began being able to defeat ISIS and the Islamic Extremist elements within Syria. For the hidden plan of Obama/Kerry (and also McCain, Graham, et al), Russia defeating ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra, upended their objective. The revelations within this leaked audio are simply astounding. The 40-minute discussion took place on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting took place at the Dutch Mission to the United Nations on Sept. 22nd 2016: […] Kerry’s off-record conversation was apparently with two dozen ‘Syrian civilians’, all from US backed opposition-linked NGO’s in education and medical groups supposedly working in ‘rebel-held’ (aka terrorist-held) areas in Syria. This opposition conclave also included ‘rescue workers’ which can only be ambassadors from the White Helmets, a pseudo NGO which serves as Washington and London’s primary PR front in pursuit of a “No Fly Zone’ in Syria, and it’s being bankrolled by the US, UK, EU and other coalition states to the tune of well over $100 million (so far). (link) Listen to the audio. Key Kerry moments at 02:00, and again at approximately 18:30 forward. The discussion from 18:30 through to 29:00 are exceptionally revealing and should be listened to by anyone who has wondered what was going on in Syria. Kerry even makes mention of the “Responsibility to Protect, or R2P” principle: Reference Links: ♦ New York Times Link – HERE ♦ Analysis via 21st Century Wire – HERE ♦ More Analysis – HERE Against the backdrop of this recording we can reconcile so many historic issues. We already know of a Second Presidential Finding Memo authorizing additional CIA covert action in 2012, this time in Syria. However, unlike the 2011 Libyan operation we do not know the operational name of the second action in 2012 Syria. 2012: WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said. Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad. (link) Further consider how this Kerry audio tape, and the now transparent Obama policy toward Syria, absolutely confirms our previous research as it is contained with the Benghazi Brief surrounding Syria: (JULY 2012) As they stood outside the commandeered government building in the town of Mohassen, it was hard to distinguish Abu Khuder’s men from any other brigade in the Syrian civil war, in their combat fatigues, T-shirts and beards. But these were not average members of the Free Syrian Army. Abu Khuder and his men fight for al-Qaida. They call themselves the ghuraba’a, or “strangers”, after a famous jihadi poem celebrating Osama bin Laden’s time with his followers in the Afghan mountains, and they are one of a number of jihadi organisations establishing a foothold in the east of the country now that the conflict in Syria has stretched well into its second bloody year. They try to hide their presence. “Some people are worried about carrying the [black] flags,” said Abu Khuder. “They fear America will come and fight us. So we fight in secret. Why give Bashar and the west a pretext?” But their existence is common knowledge in Mohassen. Even passers-by joke with the men about car bombs and IEDs. According to Abu Khuder, his men are working closely with the military council that commands the Free Syrian Army brigades in the region. “We meet almost every day,” he said. “We have clear instructions from our [al-Qaida] leadership that if the FSA need our help we should give it. We help them with IEDs and car bombs. Our main talent is in the bombing operations.” Abu Khuder’s men had a lot of experience in bomb-making from Iraq and elsewhere, he added. […] Abu Khuder split with the FSA and pledged allegiance to al-Qaida’s organisation in Syria, the Jabhat al Nusra or Solidarity Front. He let his beard grow and adopted the religious rhetoric of a jihadi, becoming a commander of one their battalions. “The Free Syrian Army has no rules and no military or religious order. Everything happens chaotically,” he said. “Al-Qaida has a law that no one, not even the emir, can break. “The FSA lacks the ability to plan and lacks military experience. That is what [al-Qaida] can bring. They have an organisation that all countries have acknowledged. “In the beginning there were very few. Now, mashallah, there are immigrants joining us and bringing their experience,” he told the gathered people. “Men from Yemen, Saudi, Iraq and Jordan. Yemenis are the best in their religion and discipline and the Iraqis are the worst in everything – even in religion.” At this, one man in the room – an activist in his mid-30s who did not want to be named – said: “So what are you trying to do, Abu Khuder? Are you going to start cutting off hands and make us like Saudi? Is this why we are fighting a revolution?” “[Al-Qaida’s] goal is establishing an Islamic state and not a Syrian state,” he replied. “Those who fear the organisation fear the implementation of Allah’s jurisdiction. If you don’t commit sins there is nothing to fear.” (link – more) al-Qaeda’s goal was to establish the Islamic State, that’s the origin of ISIS. Against the backdrop of ISIS formation in Syria, and understanding the Obama objectives were regime change first and foremost, we can now reconcile all of Obama’s foreign policy surrounding Syria. President Obama, Secretary Clinton and later Secretary Kerry, together with John McCain, and the CIA tentacled team within the Republican party, were willing to support ISIS (under all factional names) in order to overthrow Bashir Assad… …THIS WAS THE POLICY. Nothing else mattered. Now, does THIS also begin to make more sense: What you are about to read is specifically how the Muslim Brotherhood, and ISIS, connect to the Republicans outlined above – and how their individual behaviors within the 2016 election begin to make sense. Perhaps, like us, you will have an ah-ha moment. The “Never Trump” coalition has always consisted of a few noisy and indecent politicians within Washington DC. Senator Ben Sasse, Senator Jeff Flake and Representative Adam Kinzinger the most noteworthy and vitriolic. Whenever CNN, or for that matter any media, want a republican voice to argue against Donald Trump, in the “current days’ outrage du jour”, they call upon Kinzinger first and foremost. He seemingly loves the spotlight as much as he enjoys promoting himself on social media. In essence, he’s a proud #NeverTrumper. We’ll come back to Kinzinger and McMullin in a moment. But first we must place the second set of puzzle pieces on the table. When we did all the exhaustive research into the Benghazi Brief three years ago, one of the pictures that continued to draw our interest was this one: The picture above was taken during a time when Senator John McCain visited Syria, and the Western media were proclaiming there were “moderates” in the opposition to Bashir Assad. Senator McCain proclaimed this 2012 visit to be meeting with the “Free Syrian Army”. [Coincidentally, this was on the same trip where he met Ambassador Chris Stevens at the Benghazi courthouse in Libya for the last time]. However, at the same time McCain was trying to convince the world of moderate Syrian resistance, multiple voices within non-traditional journalism, and a large number of people doing independent research, reached the conclusion that al-qaeda and al-Nusra extremists had completely infiltrated the Syrian resistance groups, and a new militant Islamic network was forming. “2012 NO ISLAM WITHOUT JIHAD” – members of the Free Syrian Army. Abu Khuder and his men fight for al-Qaida. They call themselves the ghuraba’a, or “strangers”, after a famous jihadi poem celebrating Osama bin Laden’s time with his followers in the Afghan mountains, and they are one of a number of jihadi organisations establishing a foothold in the east of the country now that the conflict in Syria has stretched well into its second bloody year. They try to hide their presence. “Some people are worried about carrying the [black] flags,” said Abu Khuder. “They fear America will come and fight us. So we fight in secret. Why give Bashar and the west a pretext?” But their existence is common knowledge in Mohassen. Even passers-by joke with the men about car bombs and IEDs. That network ultimately evidenced and defined itself as the Islamic State, or ISIS. In 2013 and 2014, even though ISIS initially did not have a name, as the hardline extremists in Syria became more openly visible, eventually the western media accepted Raqqa and Aleppo had become the de-facto center of Syrian ISIS operations. In August of 2014 President Obama finally admitted the problem and stated his administration was caught off guard and did not have a strategy to combat them. Back To The Photograph – The importance of the McCain photograph became increasingly interesting because ISIS as an extremist force became increasingly visible. As a direct consequence we were able to identify the ideology of the people in the picture: mccain-in-syria-2-detail-2 There has been some skepticism as to #2 being al-Baghdadi himself, and Senator John McCain has strongly refuted this claim. However, there is more evidence to prove it is Baghdadi than to refute it’s not Baghdadi. Person #2 looks just like him: In addition, one of the important bits of evidence to prove #2 is indeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is actually found in #1 Abu Mosa (ISIS Press Officer). There is absolutely no doubt that #1 is the (now dead) Islamic State Press Officer Abu Mosa. Abu Mosa was killed in August 2014. In 2012, during organization, Baghdadi would have a man with this level of importance to the Islamic State around him at the time this picture was taken. However, lets look at #5 – “Mouaz Moustafa”, because he is the current person that should be of interest to everyone in the 2016 presidential discussion. Moustafa is the connective tissue per se’. In the photograph, he’s also Senator McCain’s intermediary: Fast forward two intense years later and look where #5, Mouaz Moustafa shows up in 2014. And more specifically the two faces that show up with him: kinzinger-3-w-mcmullin Well lookie there. During a trip to Turkey in 2014 to discuss arming Syrian rebel groups, under the auspices of fighting ISIS, you see Representative Adam Kinzinger appear. Oh yeah, and who’s that other fellow circled in the meeting? ….why that’s our anti-Trump candidate Evan McMullin. Huh, fancy that. Spotting Evan McMullin conspicuously standing there in the picture made us want to go back to the CNN file footage from the time and see if he was actually visible in the report they filed from Turkey. Yup, he’s there alright. Watch and spot him in the background during quite a bit of the footage: Long before anyone heard about Evan McMullin running for President, there he is paling around with #NeverTrump Adam Kinzinger in Turkey chatting with the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates (guise SETF) who are essentially the political arm of ISIS under a differing name. The declared purpose of the meeting was to discuss who and how to arm the entities within Syria. However, just like in 2012/2013 these same Brotherhood voices in 2014 are simply trying to present themselves as one thing, only to gain the goal of another. That’s ultimately the story behind the arms deals within The Benghazi Brief. That’s the lesson that should have been learned if the truth contained within the brief were ever to have larger public interest. Additionally, all that said – it’s connections like these that make other things, like the opposition to Donald Trump, make much more sense.
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Obama Seizes Area Near Bundy Ranch In Massive Last Minute Land Grab
by Tyler Durden Dec 30, 2016 10:26 AM
Submitted by Alex Thomas via Intellihub.com,
With a stroke of the pen President Obama has unilaterally declared vast swaths of land in Utah and Nevada as two new national monuments, thus putting them under control of the federal government. Startlingly, the area in Nevada includes the site of the infamous Bundy Ranch standoff as well as land very close to the Bundy Ranch itself. With this move Obama has possibly triggered another armed standoff while also heading off any moves set to be made by incoming president Donald Trump. A “fact sheet” put out by the White House reads: Today, President Obama will designate two new national monuments, protecting sacred sites, spectacular scenery, and important natural and cultural resources in the desert landscapes of southeastern Utah and southern Nevada. The creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada follow years of robust public input from tribes, local elected officials, and diverse stakeholders, and draws from legislation introduced in Congress. In addition to protecting more land and water than any Administration in history, President Obama has taken unprecedented steps to elevate the voices of Native peoples in the management of our natural resources. Today’s actions build on this important work, and further demonstrate the President’s commitment to protecting sacred sites and our land, water and wildlife for future generations. Gold Butte National Monument Located in Clark County, Nevada just northeast of the outskirts of Las Vegas, the Gold Butte National Monument spans nearly 300,000 acres and will protect significant cultural resources, important geological formations, and vital plant and wildlife habitat. The monument will provide critical protections for important Native American historical sites, as well as areas that are currently used for traditional purposes by tribes. Notably, the area includes abundant rock art, archeological artifacts, and rare fossils, including recently discovered dinosaur tracks dating back hundreds of millions of years. In recent years these resources have faced increasing damage from threats such as deliberate destruction and vandalism, and today’s designation will help ensure that these cultural and archaeological treasures are better protected. The monument will serve as an important connection between already protected lands, including Lake Mead Recreation Area and the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument across the Arizona border, protecting key wildlife corridors for large mammals such as desert bighorn sheep and mountain lions, and vital habitat for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise. Additionally, the monument will protect important historic resources. Structures that detail western ranching heritage can still be found in the Gold Butte area, as well as an early twentieth-century abandoned mining town and sites associated with Spanish explorers from the late eighteenth century. Today’s action follows decades of local support from tribes, local stakeholders and conservationists, and draws from legislation that was first introduced in 2008. Right now it is extremely difficult to confirm exactly how much of the land in and around the Bundy Ranch is now a national monument but a map put out by the Las Vegas Review seems to line up directly with the Bundy grazing allotment. “Obama just designated the Bundy Ranch a national monument” Vocativ is reporting that multiple individuals involved with the original Bundy standoff have already made it clear that they plan to stand up to this latest federal tyranny. “Members of the self-styled militias that swarmed to the aid of Cliven Bundy outside of Las Vegas in 2014 — and who later joined the rancher’s sons to seize a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon — said they were readying for another showdown. Obama’s move on Wednesday to protect 300,000 acres of federal land around Gold Butte, close to the Bundy ranch, comes as two dozen people await trials for their roles in the Nevada and Oregon standoffs, which emboldened right-wing militants across America and became a powerful symbol of anti-government sentiment,” read the report. “Get your gear ready,” wrote Jon Ritzheimer, one of the men who used handguns and assault rifles to hole up in Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for 41 days last year. “Obama just designated the Bundy Ranch a national monument.” “Others with ties to patriot groups and militia movements online responded with a bit more force. “Locked and loaded ready to go,” wrote Chris Border, a member of the Cliven Bundy’s Army! Facebook group, which boasts more than 2,000 members. “Tired of this crap and time to do something.” One has to wonder what exactly are the reasons for this new land grab by President Obama in the last days of his presidency. It’s extremely hard to imagine that it is not at least partially connected to the Bundy’s and the standoffs in both Nevada and Oregon. More importantly, this area may actually include land that has documented precious metals throughout it as detailed in the video report below.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-30/obama-seizes-bundy-ranch-area-massive-last-minute-land-grab
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Van Jones Says Muslim Keith Ellison Is Future of the Democratic Party
By Tyler O'Neil January 1, 2017
On CNN, liberal activist Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones said that "the Clinton days are over" in the Democratic Party, and pointed to two emerging leaders as the future of a more progressive political party focused on identity politics. Naturally, he chose two racial minority members of Congress — and the extremely controversial first Muslim congressman. "You have to understand, I think that the Clinton days are over," Jones told CNN's Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "This idea that we're going to be this moderate party ... those days are over." Jones called for a new generation of Democrat leadership, touting California Attorney General Kamala Harris (an anti-free speech activist) and Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress and a candidate for the Democratic National Committee chairmanship. "I think that Keith Ellison is very important because he is somebody who represents the progressive wing of the party," Jones declared. "On thing that happened, when Hillary Clinton had a chance to make a VP pick, she didn't pick someone from the progressive wing, which made it much harder to heal the wounds with the [Bernie] Sanders and Elizabeth Warren wing. Keith Ellison represents that wing very, very well." Keith Ellison also represents a long-term threat to the Democratic Party's success as well. Ellison has ties to the Nation of Islam (which he later denounced), has received contributions from members of the radical front group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), attacked Vice President Dick Cheney's actions as "the very definition of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and dictatorship," and compared the Bush administration's reaction to the September 11 attacks to Hitler's use of the Reichstag fire. In 2009, Ellison met with Mohammed al-Hanooti, whom FBI documents identify as a top U.S. fundraiser for the terror organization Hamas. They met at a campaign event for Virginia House of Delegates candidate Esam Omeish, who had previously called for Palestinians to follow "the jihad way" against Israel. DNC Chair Candidate Rep. Keith Ellison Met with Hamas Fundraiser Mohammed al-Hanooti Last month, the Anti-Defamation League — no conservative organization — declared Ellison "disqualified" from becoming DNC chairman based on remarks the congressman made about Israel in a 2010 speech. The group argued that Ellison's remarks about Israel suggested anti-Semitism, an unfortunate trend among Muslims worldwide, and one in keeping with Ellison's old praise for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whom the congressman himself later denounced as anti-Semitic.
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SOUTHCOM Raises Alarms on Sunni Extremists Infiltrating U.S. Southern Border
On August 21st the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) confirmed what the Menges Hemispheric Security Project has been warning about for a long time: the susceptibility of our Southern border to the infiltration of Middle East Terrorism. Most recently we warned that ISIS has the potential to operate in Latin America. Reporting on cooperation between Iran or Iran’s proxy groups like Hezbollah and countries in Latin America such as Venezuela as well as drug cartels has been extensive. However, this time SOUTHCOM (which is responsible for all military activities in South and Central America) has explicitly talked about the infiltration of Sunni extremists from the Middle East, from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and from East Africa broaching our southern border. These infiltrations, which are carried out with the help of professional smugglers trained in smuggling illegal immigrants from Latin America, represent a major problem given the threat of the Islamic State. What is more interesting is that neither the media nor even the Donald Trump campaign raised public concern over this report. It is particularly worrisome given the fact that Southern Command reported the infiltration of 30,000 individuals from the Middle East, which is the equivalent of 10% of the total illegal smuggling coming from the southern border. It is obvious that the problem of our southern border remains a very serious issue that requires a solution as soon as possible. The security of our borders should be resolved before any other issue is resolved, whether the next president is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. But for this to happen it is also imperative to look at the Western Hemisphere and Latin America not only in economic terms but also as a region that poses serious security challenges. We have extensively covered all these challenges but with the rise of ISIS it is important to look into why the region is a fertile area for ISIS. First, the proximity of Latin America to the United States makes us vulnerable and provides easy access to those wishing to cross over our rather porous southern border. Secondly, the northern states of Mexico as well as Central America constitute anarchical areas, territories without effective government. Ungoverned territories are fertile ground for terrorist activities. Third, corruption prevails. It is extremely easy to bribe judges, police, governors, and public officials as drug cartels have widely proved. By the same token, cooperation between ISIS and drug cartels should not be ruled out. After all, such cooperation has taken place between cartels and the Shiite Hezbollah. Drug cartels provide logistics and know the territory extremely well. By the same token, there have been countries in the region that sold passports in exchange for money like Venezuela, whose embassy in Baghdad sold passports to whomever paid for them. Given the intense activity of ISIS and Sunni extremists in Iraq, it should not be surprising that some of these passports were sold to ISIS members or individuals associated to ISIS. Likewise, small Caribbean countries associated directly or indirectly with Venezuela and the ALBA coalition have been involved in the selling of passports raising eyebrows about the possibility that ISIS may have been one of the beneficiaries of such transactions. It is also worthwhile to point out that Tareq Al Assami, currently the governor of the Venezuelan state of Aragua and a former Minister of interior was in charge of providing visas and passports. He is known for his connections with Iran and Hezbollah and his father was a former Secretary of the Iraqi Baath party in Venezuela. Former members of Sadam Hussein’s Baath party now constitute an important presence in the ranks of ISIS. By the same token it should not be ruled out that with the recent peace accord agreed upon by the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) there could be a number of guerillas that refuse to accept the binding power of the agreements. If those dissidents from the FARC join forces with ISIS as they have done in the past with Hezbollah, it could have disastrous consequences for the security of the region. Finally, it is important to point out that Latin American countries are not paying due attention to terrorism and less to Islamic terrorism as we have already pointed out. For example, Brazil has denied that there is any terrorist activity in Brazil despite the fact that Hezbollah has major cells operating in the country and even some Al Qaeda operatives. They have been the least cooperative country in tracking activities in the tri-border area. Brazil does not consider Hezbollah, Hamas, or even the familiar Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as terrorist entities. This hopefully will change with the new interim government in Brazil or if a new government is elected as a result of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. Therefore, the next president of the United States will need to take this issue very seriously. Failing to do so could place American lives at risk.
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Let your eyes be wide open, let your sight into the spirit realm be clear, remove the clouds, remove the barriers that you may see clearly and understand the things that are taking place. You have heard the changes that even your President has made, how he has declared war upon Israel and peace to the Philistines, how he has declared war upon the American people, how he has turned and he is showing his true colors now that he is in again. But I say unto you, fear not, for you shall be the overcomers, etc..
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Algemeiner Editor-in-Chief: ‘Obama Has Given Incredible Boost to March of Antisemitism’ by Abstaining From Vote on Anti-Israel UN Resolution
avatar by Ruthie Blum January 1, 2017 1:40 pm 8
US President Barack Obama “has given an incredible boost to the march of antisemitism,” the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner said in an interview on Friday. Discussing the latest moves by the lame-duck administration in Washington to put pressure on Jerusalem — abstaining in the UN Security Council vote on anti-settlements Resolution 2334, and Secretary of State John Kerry’s subsequent harsh address, warning that Israel cannot remain both a democracy and a Jewish state — Dovid Efune told Rush Limbaugh Show guest host Buck Sexton that such behavior encourages and invigorates the deligitimization and demonization of Israel, both defined as antisemitic by the US State Department. It is for this reason, said Efune, that Kerry caused such a stir. “His speech was essentially a glorified attempt to justify the vote at the UN last Friday, which the US — in an unprecedented move — abstained from, angering the Israelis, betraying the Israelis. And I can tell you from where I stand: The mainstream Jewish community in this country is seething, outraged, furious across the board with this stab in the back and, as some have even defined it, a stab in the front,” Efune said. Listen to the full interview below (Efune’s remarks begin at 37:30):
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"In Obama's world view we have moved closer to peace, but during his term we have just gotten further from it," she said. Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev has made public her pleasure that US President Barack Obama is soon leaving office. In an interview with Army Radio on Sunday, Regev said "thank God that Obama is finishing his term." "In Obama's world view we have moved closer to peace, but during his term we have just gotten further from it," she said, adding that "there have been more and more terror attacks in Berlin, Orlando and yesterday in Turkey, what does any of this have to do with the [Israeli] settlements?" "It just cannot be the case that this is the way the President of the United States, who thank God is finishing his term, treats the State of Israel, as the weak link in the Middle East," she stated. Regev's comments came more than a week after Obama administration provoked the Israeli government's fury by failing to block the passage of an anti-settlement resolution in the UN Security Council. In the time that has passed since the UN Security Council vote on December 23, and the US abstention, the country has expressed every emotion from shock, mostly in the form of dismay and plain outrage, with comment and condemnation from ministers, government officials and of course from the Israeli public. Immediately after the resolution passed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed his rage primarily at Obama, who days before was urged to exercise his country's ability to exercise a veto. "Yesterday, in stark contrast to this commitment [to not dictate terms of a permanent settlement to Israel through the UN], the Obama administration took a shameful anti-Israel step at the UN." Netanyahu also expressed concern that the resolution will put a damper on any possible development in the peace process. "The decision not only does not bring peace closer, but it makes it more distant," he said. Netanyahu and Obama have had a particularly acrimonious relationship since they both took office in 2009. Over the weekend the New York Post reported that US President-elect Donald Trump's team has been "aggressively" courting Netanyahu to attend the incoming president's January 20 inauguration.
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