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YouTube Added: 16.05.2012

- A 12-Year-Old Girl Crushes The Canadian (and American) Dream (ZeroHedge, May 16, 2012):

When Ron Paul stands up in front of a crowd and explains the fictional-reserve banking system’s unreality, some listen, many shrug and bury their heads. When ZeroHedge does the same, comments are heavy but change is slow to come. But when a 12-year-old girl, in a little over five minutes can explain the total farce that is our monetary system, surely people have to listen and break free of the matrix. Victoria Grant, 12, explains how “The banks and the government have colluded to financially enslave the people of Canada,” and as CTV notes, ‘Grant lays out a brief history of the Canadian banking system, referencing obscure historical figures such as former Vancouver mayor Gerald McGeer and explaining that the Bank of Canada held primary control over government lending until the 1970′s. Starting then, she says, governments began borrowing from private banks instead at considerably higher interest rates than those available through the central bank. The result, Grant argues, is a rapidly increasing national debt. The pint-sized pundit is quick to offer a solution. “If the Canadian Government needs money, they can borrow it directly from the Bank of Canada,” she says. ” … Canadians would again prosper with real money as the foundation of our economic structure.” The truth is out there – whether it comes from Alan Simpson, Ron Paul, ZeroHedge, or a 12-year-old Canadian young lady.

Tags: Bank of Canada, Banking, Canada, Central Bank, Debt, Economy, Fed, Federal Reserve, Global News, Government, Politics, Society, U.S.

- Canary In The Gold Mine: In Historic Move, Japanese Pension Fund Switches To Gold For First Time Ever (ZeroHedge, May 14, 2012):

As US weak hands keep piling out of gold whether to make space for the Facebook IPO tomorrow, or just to load up on paper currencies in advance of central banks printing much more, two things have happened: China is now on its way to becoming the biggest source of gold demand, surpassing India, but more importantly as of hours ago, in a truly historic move, “Okayama Metal & Machinery has become the first Japanese pension fund to make public purchases of gold, in a sign of dwindling faith in paper currencies.” Not our words: the FT‘s.

More:

Initially, the fund aims to keep about 1.5 per cent of its total assets of Y40bn ($500m) in bullion-backed exchange traded funds, according to chief investment officer Yoshisuke Kiguchi, who said he was diversifying into gold to “escape sovereign risk”.

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Tags: Economy, Global News, Gold, Japan

- ECB Stops Monetary Policy Operations To Some Greek Banks (ZeroHedge, May 16, 2012):

Update: some additional color from MNI, as Europe scrambles for damage control:

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is expected to approve an E18 billion recapitalization disbursement for Greek banks within the next four days, and the banks should get the money within a week, a senior Eurozone official told MNI Wednesda.

Earlier today MNI reported that the European Central Bank was growing nervous about delays in the recapitalization program for Greece and was threatening to suspend its lending to Greek banks as a means of expediting the decision.

“This has been a point of concern for the last month, and it was debated during Monday’s Eurogroup meeting, where ECB President Mario Draghi and EFSF head Klaus Regling were present,” the official said. “Up until then, the EFSF had sided with the Greek Financial Stability Fund, which was delaying the recapitalization process because it disagreed with certain points of the assessment of Greek banks’ eligibility for the funds,” he explained.

Just as we predicted moments ago, and as Dutch Dagblad warned overnight:

• ECB STOPS MONETARY POLICY OPERATIONS TO SOME GREEK BANKS AS RECAPITALISATION NOT IN PLACE -CENBANK SOURCES

From Reuters:

The European Central Bank has stopped monetary policy operations with some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalized, euro zone central bank sources said on Wednesday.

The ECB declined to comment.

The ECB only conducts its refinancing operations with solvent banks. With no access to ECB funds, the banks concerned must go to the Bank of Greece for emergency liquidity assistance (ELA).

It was unclear exactly how many banks were affected.

One person familiar with the matter said four Greek banks’ capital was so depleted they were operating with negative equity capital. According to its own rules, the ECB cannot provide liquidity to banks in such a situation.

The beginning of the end? Or just more political posturing? In the meantime, EURUSD tumbles.

Tags: Banking, Collapse, ECB, EU, Euro, Europe, Global News, Government, Greece, Politics

- Sugar can make you dumb, US scientists warn (AFP, May 15, 2012):

Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories.

Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fed two groups of rats a solution containing high-fructose corn syrup — a common ingredient in processed foods — as drinking water for six weeks.

One group of rats was supplemented with brain-boosting omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), while the other group was not.

Before the sugar drinks began, the rats were enrolled in a five-day training session in a complicated maze. After six weeks on the sweet solution, the rats were then placed back in the maze to see how they fared.

“The DHA-deprived animals were slower, and their brains showed a decline in synaptic activity,” said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

“Their brain cells had trouble signaling each other, disrupting the rats’ ability to think clearly and recall the route they’d learned six weeks earlier.”

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Tags: Brain, Global News, Health, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, insulin, Rats, Science, Sugar

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- Man builds Tesla gun that can shoot 20,000 Volts of electricity (Tecca, May 15, 2012):

Add this to the increasing number of unusual weapons straight out of a sci-fi movie: A repurposed Nerf gun equipped with a Tesla coil that can shoot up to 20,000 volts of electricity. This electrifying gun created by Rob Flickenger was inspired by the fictional Tesla gun from the steampunk graphic novel The Five Fists of Science. It may not make as much fashion statement as this crazy-looking Tesla coil hat, but it sure looks dangerous.

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Tags: Energy, Global News, Guns, Nicola Tesla, Science, Technology, Weapons

- Accidentally Released – and Incredibly Embarrassing – Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in ‘Naked Short Selling’ (Rolling Stone, May 15, 2012):

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public.

The lawyers for Goldman and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch have been involved in a legal battle for some time – primarily with the retail giant Overstock.com, but also with Rolling Stone, the Economist, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. The banks have been fighting us to keep sealed certain documents that surfaced in the discovery process of an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit filed by Overstock against the banks.

Last week, in response to an Overstock.com motion to unseal certain documents, the banks’ lawyers, apparently accidentally, filed an unredacted version of Overstock’s motion as an exhibit in their declaration of opposition to that motion. In doing so, they inadvertently entered into the public record a sort of greatest-hits selection of the very material they’ve been fighting for years to keep sealed.

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Tags: Banking, Economy, Goldman Sachs, U.S.

Related info:

- More Than Half Of All Police Officers In Greece Voted For Pro-Nazi Party Golden Dawn

- ‘Euro Officials Begin To Weigh Greek Exit As Euro Weakens’ (Bloomberg) – Brace Yourself People Of Greece Or Get Totally Screwed By The Elitists

- Stocks Post Loss on Greece, S&P at 3-Month Low (CNBC, May 15, 2012):

Earlier, Greek politicians failed to form a coalition government during their final talks, pushing the Athens Composite Index to a new 22-year low. A caretaker government is likely to be formed pending a new election next month. The euro fell below $1.28 following the announcement and European closed at new 2012 lows.

- Greeks Withdraw Nearly $1 Billion From Local Banks (CNBC, May 15, 2012):

Greek depositors withdrew 700 million euros ($900 million) from the nation’s local banks recently, said President Karolos Papoulias, though the exact timing of the transfer was unclear.

Citing a conversation he had with Greek Central Bank Governor George Provopoulos, Papoulias said “that the strength of banks is very weak right now.” Continue reading »

Tags: Banking, Collapse, Economy, EU, Europe, Global News, Greece, Karolos Papoulias, Politics, Society, Stock Market

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- Charlie Munger: Gold Is For Holocaust-Era Jewish Families To Sew Into Their Garments; Civilized People Don’t Buy Gold

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- Must Read: “Another Perspective” (ZeroHedge, May 14, 2012):

From Paul Brodsky and Lee Quaintance of QBAMCO

Another Perspective (pdf)

Two weeks ago, before Jamie Dimon’s thoughtful diversion, Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway instructed viewers of CNBC that “civilized people don’t buy gold, they invest in productive businesses”. Munger was right in that civilized people invest in productive businesses and was right to imply that gold is a non-productive rock, but, in our humble opinion, he was wrong to suggest that gold does not have significant upside as an investment currently (even more than BRK/A?).

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Tags: Ben Bernanke, Berkshire Hathaway, Bonds, Central Bank, Charlie Munger, China, Debt, Economy, EU, Europe, Fed, Federal Reserve, Global News, Gold, Goldman Sachs, Government, Greece, IMF, Larry Summers, Politics, QBAMCO, Silver, Stock Market, Timothy Geithner, U.S., Unemployment, Wall Street, Warren Buffett

Here is a lot more what you can do to protect yourself (incl. links to scientific studies):

- How To Decrease Radiation Illness And Protect Yourself From Radiation

-  Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You Have Been Told – What You Can Do to Protect Yourself (Farm Wars, May 14, 2012):

by Steve Hickey, PhD; Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD; Andrew W. Saul, PhD; Gert E. Schuitemaker, PhD; Damien Downing, MD

Orthomolecular Medicine

(OMNS May 14, 2012) People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to learn more about how to protect themselves from contamination by taking large doses of vitamin C.

Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbm_MH3nSdM

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4cyzts3lMo

Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYiRo2Oucfo

Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Ie8FuuYJw

All four parts of the video are also available here http://firstlaw.wordpress.com/. Readers may link to, embed in their webpages, and make copies of the video for free distribution. Continue reading »

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation

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See also:

- Mysterious Illness Strikes Hundreds Of Flight Attendants, Causes Rashes And Hair Loss … Because Of FUKUSHIMA (Forget About The Toxic Uniform Myth)

- Columbia Medical Professor: Inhaling Just One Radioactive Hot Particle Can Cause Cancer (Video)

YouTube Added: 15.05.2012

Description:

New atomic-bomb survivor study

Ozasa et al, 2012
http://www.rrjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.1667/RR2629.1

Prior A-bomb-survivor studies covered

@ 6:10, Pierce & Preston 2000
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10931690

@ 7:35, Chomentowski et al, 2000
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10669550

@ 12:32, Preston et al, 2004
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15447045

Study on genetic damage cited
@ 10:13, Bhatti et al, 2010
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602108

Quote of Pierce & Preston at @ 15:25 from Pierce & Preston 2000 above.

Dr Yamashita quote @ 11:23 from
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/studying-the-fukushima-aftermath-pe…

Dr Allison’s comments @ 11:36 from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDIENaOo-Bw

Tags: Cancer, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Science, Society