NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access To The JUICIEST Documents

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EXCLUSIVE REPORT: NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents … Far More Damning (Washington’s Blog, June 8, 2014):

NSA Spying On Congress, Admirals, Lawyers … Content As Well As Metadata … Cheney Was Running the Show

NSA whistleblower Russel Tice was a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping.

Tice told PBS and other media that the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers, including Supreme Court Justices, highly-ranked generals, Colin Powell and other State Department personnel, and many other top officials:

He says the NSA started spying on President Obama when he was a candidate for Senate:

Many of Tice’s allegations have been confirmed by other government whistleblowers. And see this.

Washington’s Blog called Tice to find out more about what he saw when he was at NSA.

Read moreNSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access To The JUICIEST Documents

What Most Americans Don’t Know About Student Debt

–  What Most Americans Don’t Know About Student Debt (ZeroHedge, June 8, 2014):

Now that student loans, well over $1.1 trillion, are hitting fresh record highs as… well… daily as the S&P500, the Fed is finally getting concerned about the latest debt bubble it has blown (not so much in equities). So concerned, in fact, the New York Fed recently added questions about student loans in  its broad survey on consumer expectations to find out what people knew, or rather, did not know about this record debt mountain. We hope it was not shocked to learn that once again the bulk of Americans are taking on unprecedented amounts of debt without having a clue what the conditions are: accordint to the analysis, people don’t fully comprehend the ramifications of taking on student debt.

As Bloomberg summarizes, the survey covered 1,029 people, including those with and without debt. The shocking findings:

Read moreWhat Most Americans Don’t Know About Student Debt

The Shadowy Commander Of The East Ukraine Insurgency Speaks

The Shadowy Commander Of The East Ukraine Insurgency Speaks (ZeroHedge, June 8, 2014):

Not much is known about Igor Strelkov, the man AP dubbed “the face of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine“, and the fact that he keeps an ultra low profile certainly doesn’t help his public image, if certainly boosting his shadowy, mystical status. However, yesterday in the aftermath of the swearing in of Ukraine’s new president Poroshenko, Strelkov gave an extensive interview in which he laid out not only the “separatists” take on recent events in Ukraine but how they view the armed resistance strategically, and what, if any, the endgame is.

In any event, the following interview will certainly not be available on any western media outlets so for those who believe in hearing both sides of the story to development an informed opinion, read on.

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Most Recent Interview by Strelkov, via @Gbazov

I believe that the situation will change for the worse, because now this so-called “legitimate” President immediately will turn to NATO countries, to Western countries, for help, asking, first and foremost, for military help.

Read moreThe Shadowy Commander Of The East Ukraine Insurgency Speaks

Irrefutable Proof That Influenza Vaccines Routinely Given To Pregnant Women Still Contain Mercury

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Irrefutable proof that influenza vaccines routinely given to pregnant women still contain mercury (Natural News, June 4, 2014):

Believe it or not, there are still millions of people, doctors, pharmacists and even journalists who do not yet realize there is a very high concentration of mercury in influenza vaccines given to pregnant women. Most people, you see, have been lied to by the media which has stated over and over again that mercury was removed from all vaccines.

Not true.

It’s still there. And toxic mercury is present in influenza vaccines at a level that’s literally 25,000 times higher than the EPA limit of mercury in drinking water. (1) It’s 100 times higher than the highest level of mercury contamination I’ve ever tested in ocean fish.

To prove the presence of mercury in influenza vaccines, I’m going to show you four irrefutable pieces of evidence:

Read moreIrrefutable Proof That Influenza Vaccines Routinely Given To Pregnant Women Still Contain Mercury

Truvia Sweetener A Powerful Pesticide; Scientists Shocked As Fruit Flies Die In Less Than A Week From Eating GMO-Derived Erythritol

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Truvia sweetener a powerful pesticide; scientists shocked as fruit flies die in less than a week from eating GMO-derived erythritol (Natural News, June 7, 2014):

Truvia sweetener is made from about 99.5% erythritol (a sugar alcohol), and 0.5% rebiana, an extract from the stevia plant (but not at all the same thing as stevia). A shocking new study published in the journal PLOS ONE (1) has found that Truvia, an alternative sweetener manufactured by food giant Cargill, is a potent insecticide that kills fruit flies which consume it.

The study is titled, Erythritol, a Non-Nutritive Sugar Alcohol Sweetener and the Main Component of Truvia, Is a Palatable Ingested Insecticide.

Read moreTruvia Sweetener A Powerful Pesticide; Scientists Shocked As Fruit Flies Die In Less Than A Week From Eating GMO-Derived Erythritol

Bulgaria Stands Up to EU Over Full Ban On GM Crops

Bulgaria Stands Up to EU over Full Ban on GM Crops (Sustainable Pulse, June 3, 2014):

Bulgaria stands categorically against the cultivation of GMO Maize in Europe.

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After lengthy debates in the European institutions regarding the cultivation of genetically modified maize (GM Maize) in EU Member States, the case was sent to the EU Court of Justice, which ruled that the prohibition on the use and marketing of genetically modified organisms, such as MON 810 GM Maize, was not supported by EU laws.

Source: agri.eu/bulgaria-stands-categorically-against-the-cultivation-of-gmo-corn-in-europe-news5804.html

Read moreBulgaria Stands Up to EU Over Full Ban On GM Crops

Monsanto Slammed for ‘Fraudulent’ EU Patent On Non-GMO Tomatoes

Monsanto Slammed for ‘Fraudulent’ EU Patent on Non-GMO Tomatoes (Sustainable Pulse, June 2, 2014):

Representatives of the international coalition No Patents on Seeds! from France, Germany and Spain have filed an opposition against a European patent held by Monsanto on conventionally bred tomatoes (EP1812575). The patent claims tomatoes with a natural resistance to a fungal disease called botrytis. The original tomatoes used for this patent came from the international gene bank in Gatersleben, Germany. It was already known that these plants had the desired resistance and they were simply crossed with other tomato plants. Monsanto then produced a cleverly worded patent in order to create the impression that genetic engineering had been used to produce the tomatoes and to make it look ‘inventive’.

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Text of the opposition and the patent

Further information on tomato patents

“Because crossing tomatoes is not patentable, Monsanto deliberately rephrased the patent during the period of examination to make it appear as if genetic engineering was involved. However, careful reading of the patent shows that this is simply fraudulent. These tomatoes were not produced by transferring isolated DNA. The European Patent Office should have picked up on this,” says Christoph Then for No Patents on Seeds!. “This patent shows just how easy it is for companies like Monsanto to avoid existing prohibitions in patent law.”

Read moreMonsanto Slammed for ‘Fraudulent’ EU Patent On Non-GMO Tomatoes

Bashar Assad Wins Syria Presidential Election With 88.7% Of Vote

H/t reader squodgy:

“Is this Democracy?”


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Bashar Assad wins Syria presidential election with 88.7% of vote (Pakalert Press, June 5, 2014):

Bashar Assad has won a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote. This will secure him a third seven-year term in office amidst a bloody civil war, which stemmed from protests against his rule.

I declare the victory of Dr Bashar Hafez Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the election,” parliament speaker Mohammad Laham said in a televised address from his office in the Syrian parliament.

A total of 10.2 million people voted for Assad. The voter turnout stood at 73.42 percent. No violations have been reported, Syria’s Higher Judicial Committee for Elections said as quoted by SANA news agency.

Syrian officials said the result was a vindication of Assad’s three-year campaign against those fighting to get rid of him.

Read moreBashar Assad Wins Syria Presidential Election With 88.7% Of Vote

Understanding Syria’s War (Video)

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While all eyes are on the Ukraine, and as the world ascertains the global fallout of the Crimean crisis, the situation in Syria should generate the most concern for the international community.

Today in Syria, al-Qaeda is regaining a strong foothold in the region. Meanwhile, the US military efforts and the actions of our global and regional allies including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are working against the mission of the “war on terror” and adding to the destabilization of Syria which could lead to the destabilization the entire Middle East.

Iran: Myths Vs. Reality

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George Galloway: The Case Against War With Iran (Must-Listen!!!):

‘Iran Hasn’t Invaded Another Country In More Than 300 Years.’


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Grand Ayatullah Nasir Makarem Shirazi in his office where we visited him last Tuesday

Iran: myths vs. reality (Veterans Today, June 7, 2014):

By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor

“There are two Irans – the one in the media, and this one.” The Grand Ayatollah smiled and gestured at the land around us. “When you return to your countries, please tell your people about this, the real Iran.”

We were in Qom, a holy city renowned for its unbroken tradition of Islamic scholarship stretching back across the centuries. Grand Ayatollah Makarem – a source of religious authority and imitation for millions of people – had just finished speaking to us.

Read moreIran: Myths Vs. Reality

In 1913 The City of London Zionist private Central Bankers successfully hijacked the American Monetary Production and Distribution System

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A Terrible Price to Pay (Veterans Today, June 7, 2014):

In 1913 The City of London Zionist private Central Bankers successfully hijacked the American Monetary Production and Distribution System.

This was done by use of  stealth, bribery and massive political influence and was completely illegal despite any and all claims to the otherwise.

This terrible Treason and Sedition by top USG Officials placed complete control over the whole American economy in the hands of the World Zionists (WZs) and their International Crime Syndicate, the IZCS.

This essentially gave the WZs control over all the personal property, the fruits of labor and production of almost every normal American and all their futures with NO oversight of Congress or any institution of the USG at all, NONE.

US Military Move Response To China Dollar Dumping

US Military Move Response to China Dollar Dumping – PressTV (Veterans Today, June 5, 2014):

An analyst says Washington’s most recent act of military provocation against China is in retaliation for Beijing’s decision to trade in its own currency and undermine the US dollar, Press TV reports.

Jim W. Dean made the remarks when talking to Press TV on Saturday about the US deployment of two of its most advanced long-distance surveillance drones to a base in northern Japan to spy on North Korea and China.

“The big issue behind all of this is China setting up its own reserve currency with Russia, which is a threat to the [US] dollar supremacy,” he said.

Read moreUS Military Move Response To China Dollar Dumping

Senior Scientist: US West Coast had radiation dose estimated at 5 microsieverts from Fukushima; I’m not going to say it’s low, risk of health effects ‘not zero’

Senior Scientist: US West Coast had radiation dose estimated at 5 microsieverts from Fukushima; I’m not going to say it’s low, risk of health effects ‘not zero’ — CBC: There’s more radiation in potato chips than fish around Fukushima plant… so of course there’s nothing to fear on West Coast (VIDEO) (ENENews, Jun 6, 2014):

Vancouver Aquarium: Fukushima – A View From The Ocean, June 5, 2014 (h/t Deep13th Nuclear Waste Info): The triple disaster of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radiation releases at Fukushima Dai-ichi were unprecedented events for the ocean and society. […]  Across the Pacific, ocean currents carrying Fukushima cesium will be detectable along the west coast of North America at some point in 2014, and though models predict levels below those considered of human health concern, measurements are needed. A report will be given on Our Radioactive Ocean, a citizen scientist website launched to monitor the arrival of Fukushima cesium along the west coast over the coming 2-3 years.

Read moreSenior Scientist: US West Coast had radiation dose estimated at 5 microsieverts from Fukushima; I’m not going to say it’s low, risk of health effects ‘not zero’

Western Banks Scramble As China’s ‘Rehypothecation Evaporation’ Goes Global

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Western Banks Scramble As China’s “Rehypothecation Evaporation” Goes Global (ZeroHedge, June 7, 2014):

While we have warned about the problem with near-infinitely rehypothecated physical/funding commodities/metals, be they gold or copper, many times in the past, and most recently here, it was only this week that China finally admitted it has a major problem involving not just the commodities participating in funding deals – in this case copper and aluminum – but specifically their infinite rehypothecation, which usually results in the actual underlying metal mysteriously “disappearing”, as in it never was there to begin with. It would appear our fears of global contagion (through various transmission channels) are now coming true as WSJ reports that as many as a half-dozen banks are trying to determine whether the collateral for loans they made to commodities traders was used fraudulently by a third party to obtain other loans. As we detailed previously, it appears the day when the Commodity Funding Deals finally end is fast approaching… and as we note below, why that will certainly be a watershed event.

Read moreWestern Banks Scramble As China’s ‘Rehypothecation Evaporation’ Goes Global

Giant Sucking Sound: Russian Money Yanked From US Banks

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Giant Sucking Sound: Russian Money Yanked From US Banks Testosterone Pit, June 5, 2014):

US Banks enjoyed more or less steadily climbing, or rather soaring, deposits by Russian institutions and individuals, having tripled in just two years to $21.6 billion by February, according to the US Treasury.

It may seem a bit counterintuitive that in times of ZIRP anyone would put any money in any US banks, and it may seem even more counterintuitive that Russians who have other opportunities with their money would voluntarily subject themselves to the Fed’s financial repression.

Read moreGiant Sucking Sound: Russian Money Yanked From US Banks

Selling Your European Stocks Before Everyone Sees This Chart?

Exactly what I’ve been looking for.

Many thanks to Wolf Richter.

See also:

Even The Record Stock-Market Bullishness Is Fake (Testosterone Pit, June 6, 2014)


–  Selling Your European Stocks Before Everyone Sees This Chart? (Testosterone Pit, June 7, 2014):

Flogging savers until their morale improves, that’s how ECB President Mario Draghi is going to fire up the economy in his bailiwick. Among other things, he announced that the ECB would lower key interest rates from nearly nothing to next to nothing and impose negative deposit rates on the reserves that banks stash at the ECB.

The goals beyond destroying savers? Hammering down the euro, but given the efforts by the Fed, the Bank of Japan, and others to hammer down their own currencies, it’s going to be a slog. And motivating over-indebted companies to borrow even more to invest in worthy projects that don’t exist – because if they existed, banks would have already gone after them, awash in liquidity as they are.

Read moreSelling Your European Stocks Before Everyone Sees This Chart?

90% Of Gazprom Clients Have ‘De-Dollarized’, Will Transact In Euro & Renminbi

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–  90% Of Gazprom Clients Have “De-Dollarized”, Will Transact In Euro & Renminbi (ZeroHedge, June 7, 2014):

Following Obama and Putin’s “caught on tape” meeting Vine’d by the French President, we can’t help but wonder if the Russian leaders comments were something akin to “this is not over yet.” With “De-Dollarization” efforts already broadly under discussion, ITAR-TASS reports that Gazprom had signed additional agreements for clients to switch from dollars to euros and renminbi, “nine of ten consumer had agreed to switch.”

Via ITAR-TASS,

Read more90% Of Gazprom Clients Have ‘De-Dollarized’, Will Transact In Euro & Renminbi

How Many More Of These Annual Disappointments Does It Take Before The World Gets The Joke …

“Same Stuff, Different Year” (ZeroHedge, June 4, 2014):

How many more of these annual disappointments does it take before the world gets the joke…

The History of consensus expectations for US GDP…(notice they all go from the upper left to the lower left…)

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Source: Bloomberg h/t @M_McDonough

Tiananmen: The Massacre That Wasn’t

H/t reader squodgy:

“Is there anything we have been told which is true?”


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Tank set on fire by protesters outside of Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989

Tiananmen: the massacre that wasn’t (Liberation, June 4, 2014):

What really happened 25 years ago in Tiananmen Square?

Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described as the cold-blooded massacre of many thousands of non-violent “pro-democracy” students who had occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks.

The hysteria generated about the Tiananmen Square “massacre” was based on a fictitious narrative about what actually happened when the Chinese government finally cleared the square of protestors on June 4, 1989.

The demonization of China was highly effective. Nearly all sectors of U.S. society, including most of the “left,” accepted the imperialist presentation of what happened.

Read moreTiananmen: The Massacre That Wasn’t