The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
– This Is What Happens When You Leave A Tank Parked On A City Street In Ukraine
As Jalopnik reports, a BMP light tank was reportedly left stalled on a city street near Mariupol… A gassed-up, fully-loaded tank. Ready to roll. Ready to obliterate some separatists. This is what happened next…
Forward to around 46 seconds for when he finds the big red “Fire” button…
– Bernanke Shocker: “No Rate Normalization During My Lifetime” (ZeroHedege, May 16, 2014):
Forget all talk about “dots“, “6 months”, or any other prognostication from the Fed’s new leadership about what will happen in the near and not so near future. For the real answer prepare to shelve out the usual fee of $250,000 for an hour with the Chairsatan, or read Reuters’ account of what others who have done so, have learned. The answer is a stunner.
“At least one guest left a New York restaurant with the impression Bernanke, 60, does not expect the federal funds rate, the Fed’s main benchmark interest rate, to rise back to its long-term average of around 4 percent in Bernanke’s lifetime. “Shocking when he said this,” the guest scribbled in his notes. “Is that really true?” he scribbled at another point, according to the notes reviewed by Reuters.”
To think one could have read Zero Hedge for free for the past 5 years and gotten the same answer (time for a pop quiz: pumping liquidity into a closed system in perpetuity is i) inflationary or ii) deflationary?). But no, one would rather pay Bernanke’s former annual salary in less than an hour to get the answer from the same person who infamously stated that “subprime was contained”, that “there is no housing bubble”, and that he doesn’t buy the premise of house price declines as there has never been a “decline of house prices on a nationwide basis.“
Still, one can’t blame Bernanke for providing a service that the market (one market the former chairman didn’t manage to break with his central planning spree, unlike all other markets) demands. Alan Greenspan waited only a week after his departure before addressing a private dinner hosted by Lehman Brothers, the investment bank whose collapse in 2008 sent the financial crisis into high gear.
Bernanke’s private dinners, all of which cost around $250,000 began near the end of March, roughly two months after his retirement.
Read moreBernanke Shocker: ‘No Rate Normalization During My Lifetime’
– Anti nuclear former JP PM Hosokawa hospitalized and in recuperation / Suffering from “dizziness for unknown reason (Fukushima Diary, May 15, 2014):
A former Japanese Prime Minister, the new anti-nuclear activist, Hosokawa fell in sick and hospitalized.
He became a candidate for Tokyo gubernatorial election.
In mid April, he suddenly fell in sick, fell down forward at Shinagawa station. He had 4 teeth broken and put 6 stitches on the lips and carried to the stationmaster’s office without consciousness.
Read moreAnti-Nuke Former Japan PM Hosokawa Hospitalized – Dizziness of Unknown Cause
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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
– The Fed Is The Great Deceiver — Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler (Paul Craig Roberts, May 12, 2014):
Is the Fed “tapering”? Did the Fed really cut its bond purchases during the three month period November 2013 through January 2014? Apparently not if foreign holders of Treasuries are unloading them.From November 2013 through January 2014 Belgium with a GDP of $480 billion purchased $141.2 billion of US Treasury bonds. Somehow Belgium came up with enough money to allocate during a 3-month period 29 percent of its annual GDP to the purchase of US Treasury bonds.
Certainly Belgium did not have a budget surplus of $141.2 billion. Was Belgium running a trade surplus during a 3-month period equal to 29 percent of Belgium GDP?
No, Belgium’s trade and current accounts are in deficit.
Did Belgium’s central bank print $141.2 billion worth of euros in order to make the purchase?
No, Belgium is a member of the euro system, and its central bank cannot increase the money supply.
So where did the $141.2 billion come from?
Read moreDr. Paul Craig Roberts And Dave Kranzler: The Fed Is The Great Deceiver
– The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military (The Daily Sheeple, May 15, 2014):
By the end of this decade, the U.S. Army will be the smallest that it has been since World War II, the U.S. Navy will be the smallest that it has been since World War I, and the U.S. Air Force will have gotten nearly 500 planes smaller. Without a doubt, the U.S. military has not been used wisely in recent years, but the world is not becoming a more stable place. The threat of war appears to be greater than it has been in a very long time, and yet the Obama administration seems obsessed with gutting our national defenses. So exactly what is Obama’s agenda anyway? In a world that is getting crazier with each passing day, why would he want to steadily shrink the size of the U.S. military?
– AMERICA REMEMBERS: 911 Museum Opens in New York City (Veterans Today, May 15, 2014)
– Moscow Says Massive “Holy Grail” Gas Deal With China Is 98% Ready (ZeroHedge, May 16, 2014):
We have previously profiled the “holy grail” gas deal between Russia and China on several occasions, and with its announcement scheduled for next week (barring some unmitigated disaster) during Putin’s first visit to China since Xi’s appointment as president last March, it is time to do a status update on where it stands even if according to SCMP, at this point finding the “holy grail” is merely a formality.
The Hong Kong publication reports that China and Russia hope to sign a massive deal for natural gas supply when their leaders meet in a regional summit in Shanghai next week, a senior diplomat has said. Under the deal, Russia will supply 38 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually to China for 30 years. Deputy Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told reporters yesterday that President Xi Jinping would discuss the deal and other points of co-operation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who will visit Shanghai on Tuesday.
Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky said on Monday that the deal was “98 per cent ready”. Supply would begin no later than the end of 2018.
Indicating just how important China now is to Russia, Bloomberg adds that traveling with Putin will be the who-is-who of Russian politics and business:
Read moreMoscow Says Massive ‘Holy Grail’ Gas Deal With China Is 98% Ready
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– RECOVERY: The Number Of Working Age Americans Without A Job Has Risen By 27 MILLION Since 2000
– Wall Street Adviser: Actual Unemployment Is 37.2%, ‘Misery Index’ Worst In 40 Years
– US Unemployment Rate Hits 37.2% (Wealthy Debates, May 14, 2014):
Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true “Misery Index.” Because, according to an influential Wall Street advisor, the figures are a fraud.
In a memo to clients provided to Secrets, David John Marotta calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2 percent, not the 6.7 percent advertised by the Fed, and the Misery Index at over 14, not the 8 claimed by the government.
– The Meat Crisis Is Here: Price Of Shrimp Up 61% – 7 Million Pigs Dead – Beef At All-Time High (The Economic Collapse, May 15, 2014):
As the price of meat continues to skyrocket, will it soon be considered a “luxury item” for most American families? This week we learned that the price of meat in the United States rose at the fastest pace in more than 10 years last month. Leading the way is the price of shrimp. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of shrimp has jumped an astounding 61 percent compared to a year ago. The price of pork is also moving upward aggressively thanks to a disease which has already killed about 10 percent of all of the pigs in the entire country. And the endless drought in the western half of the country has caused the size of the U.S. cattle herd to shrink to a 63 year low and has pushed the price of beef to an all-time high. This is really bad news if you like to eat meat. The truth is that the coming “meat crisis” is already here, and it looks like it is going to get a lot worse in the months ahead.
– U.S. Media Ignores Putin’s Peace Plan (CounterPunch, May 12, 2014):
“Let me repeat again, that in Russia’s view, the blame for the crisis in Ukraine lies with those who organized the coup d’etat in Kiev on February 22-23… But whatever the case, we must look for a way to solve the situation as it is today….And, as I said, what is needed is direct, full-fledged and equal dialogue between the Kiev authorities and the representatives of people in southeast Ukraine….I don’t know whether a Geneva-2 round of talks.. is realistic. (But) I believe that if we want to find a long-term solution to the crisis, there must be an open, honest and equal dialogue . That is our only option.”
-Russian President Vladimir Putin, press statement, OCSE meeting, Moscow, May 7, 2014
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On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a proposal for ending the violence in Ukraine at an OCSE (Organization for the Cooperation and Security in Europe) in Moscow. Unfortunately, most Americans never heard what he had to say because the media failed to publish his statement. The reason for the omission is fairly obvious, the media doesn’t want people to know that Putin is not the ghoulish, authoritarian caricature he’s portrayed to be, but a levelheaded pragmatist who wants a swift and peaceful resolution to the crisis. Here is what he said:
– Ukraine’s Richest Man Mobilizes Private ‘Army’ After Assets Threatened (ZeroHedge, May 16, 2014):
Rinat Akhmetov – Ukraine’s richest man with an estimated worth of $11.4 billion – has, as Reuters reports, acquired almost feudal status in the industrial hub of Donetsk in the past 20 years – but the separatist rebellions there have altered the dynamics of power. This is not acceptable to the billionaire and so he has demanded his miners and metalworkers join police on patrol on Mariupol. As pro-Russian rebels declaring independence seized public buildings across the steel and coal belt which is the basis of his colossal fortune, he issued repeated written statements in support of a united Ukraine… but the media-shy 47-year-old, who has a workforce of 300,000 people on his payroll in the Donbass, has to tread carefully around local sensitivities and has avoided specifically condemning the action of the separatists.
Bloomberg summarizes his wealth…
Read moreUkraine’s Richest Man Mobilizes Private ‘Army’ After Assets Threatened
– Vladimir Putin’s declaration to foreign leaders on Ukrainian gas crisis (RT, May 15, 2014):
Dear Colleagues,
In early April we suggested immediate consultations in order to work out a coordinated approach to stabilize the Ukrainian economy and ensure stable deliveries and transit of Russian natural gas in accordance with contractual terms.
Over a month has passed. Consultations with the representatives of a number of non-EU countries have taken place in Moscow, in which our partners told us they completely shared our concerns over the situation with Ukrainian payments for gas deliveries from the Russian Federation, and risks arising from insufficient amounts of gas being kept in Ukrainian underground storage.
Read moreVladimir Putin’s Declaration To Foreign Leaders On Ukrainian Gas Crisis
– Grassroots Militia: Citizens of Mexico Rediscover Their God Given Rights (The Daily Sheeple, May 15, 2014):
It’s incredible what human beings will put up with before asserting themselves. The vast majority of people on this planet live in conditions far below what we have attained in the West. In part, it’s a testament to the human spirit that we are capable of enduring scarce food, contaminated water, and rampant disease throughout much of the world. What happens though, when your standard of living is being actively destroyed by other humans who are nothing more than vile thugs? What is the breaking point for the average person?
Around this time last year, residents of the Mexican state of Michoacan stood up for their rights and livelihoods, against the corruption of their government, and the extortion of the Knights Templar drug cartel. After arming themselves with whatever weapons they could find, including hunting rifles and slingshots, the untrained citizens banded together into small militias and started arresting or killing anyone associated with the gang. So far they have successfully driven out the cartel from their homes, something the government had long failed to do. So what were the conditions that drove these people to finally stand up for themselves? According to the Washington Post article linked above:
Read moreGrassroots Militia: Citizens of Mexico Rediscover Their God Given Rights
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– The Beginning Of The End Of Precious Metals Manipulation: The London Silver Fix Is Officially Dead:
The London Silver Market Fixing Limited (the ‘Company’) announces that it will cease to administer the London Silver Fixing with effect from close of business on 14 August 2014.
– Report: Food Prices Skyrocket: “We’re Going to Have a Major Problem Coming Into the Fall” (SHFTplan, May 15, 2014):
While government statisticians claim robust growth, recent data points suggest otherwise. Consumers are quickly running out of money, home sales have collapsed and hit their biggest drop in three years, there are more Americans out of the labor force than ever before, and one third of adults under the age of 35 are living with their parents because they can no longer afford to pay their own mortgage.
By all accounts, the reality is that we are now factually in a recession, a point further emphasized by the recent revelation that American companies are experiencing near zero percent earnings growth.
Read moreFood Prices Skyrocket: ‘We’re Going To Have A Major Problem Coming Into The Fall’
– County in Florida Rejects Spending $800,000 to Fluoridate Water Supply (Natural Society, May 15, 2014):
About 60,000 households in Hernando County, Florida were debating on spending $800,000 in tax-payer money to poison themselves with fluoride a few months ago. According to Susan Goebel-Canning, the county’s director of environmental services, this is what it would cost to put the leftovers from the phosphate fertilizer and semiconductor industries into everyone’s water. Thankfully, they decided against fluoridating the water supplies.
It boils down to spending $30,000 per treatment plant and multiplying that by 27 – the number of plants the county would need to treat all its water. People on a well system would be unaffected, but 60,000 people in the county would be drinking fluoridated water – which has been proven to be toxic, and extremely harmful to human health.
Even the American Medical Association once told the truth about fluoride:
Read moreCounty In Florida Rejects Spending $800,000 To Fluoridate Water Supply
A pro-Russian activist with a shell casing and a US-made meal pack that fell from a Ukrainian army APC in an attack on a roadblock on 3 May in Andreevka, Ukraine. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty
– In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia (Guardian, May 13, 2014):x
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.
Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his “updated summary of the record of US foreign policy” which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
Read moreJohn Pilger: In Ukraine, The US Is Dragging Us Towards War With Russia
– USDA goes paramilitary: Organic certifier buying submachine guns with night sites, 30-round magazines (Natural News, May 15, 2014):
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is joining the militarization trend that’s spreading like wildfire across federal agencies. Both the EPA and IRS currently have armed federal agents, and recent events involving the BLM in Nevada showed that even the Bureau of Land Management possesses a small army of long-range snipers and heavily armed paramilitary operators.
Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture is joining the militarization bandwagon, publishing a solicitation (# USDAOIGWEA-5-7-14) requesting “submachine guns, .40 Cal. S&W” with “Tritium night sights for front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore grip) and scope (top rear), stock-collapsible or folding, magazine – 30 rd.”
In other words, the USDA is now purchasing precisely the weapons that Obama famously said belong “in the hands of soldiers” and not “on the streets of America.” Yet Obama’s administration is, in fact, putting these types of weapons on the streets of America as long as they are in the hands of federal agents who increasingly patrol those streets.
“These weapons are used for night-time battle”
– USDA to Purchase Submachine Guns (Infowars, May 15, 2014):
Some question where semi-automatic weapons will be heading
The United States Department of Agriculture is set to purchase an unknown quantity of submachine guns, leading to questions about where the weapons will be heading and for what purpose they will be used.
A solicitation (replete with spelling errors) posted on the Fed Biz Opps website states;
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General, located in Washington, DC, pursuant to the authority of FAR Part 13, has a requirement for the commerical (sic) acquisition of submachine guns, .40 Cal. S&W, ambidextrous safety, semi-automatic or 2 shot burts (sic) trigger group, Tritium night sights for front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore grip) and scope (top rear), stock-collapsilbe (sic) or folding, magazine – 30 rd. capacity, sling, light weight, and oversized trigger guard for gloved operation.”
– Magma rising in Mount St. Helens volcano, says USGS (Ice Age Now, May 15, 2014):
No sign of impending eruption – Crater Glacier growing rapidly
“The magma reservoir beneath Mount St. Helens has been slowly re-pressurizing since 2008,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement on April 30, 2014. “It is likely that re-pressurization is caused by (the) arrival of a small amount of additional magma 4 to 8 km (2.5 to 5 miles) beneath the surface.”
The USGS said this is to be expected with an active volcano and does not indicate “the volcano is likely to erupt anytime soon.”
When Mount St. Helens, a volcano in Washington State, erupted on May 18, 1980, it crushed entire forests and altered local river systems.
What this article doesn’t mention
What this article doesn’t mention, is that that eruption also melted the glaciers at the top of the mountain sending a deadly slurry of ice, mud, huge trees, bulldozers, and anything else in the way, in a mad rush down the Toutle River.
At the time of the 1980 eruption, 11 named glaciers radiated down the flanks of the volcano along with two small unnamed glaciers and numerous perennial snowfields, according to the USGS. The largest glaciers extended about 2.5 (1.5 mi) from the ice-filled summit crater. The cataclysmic landslide and eruption removed about 70% of the glacier mass.
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Shows the part that disproves Al Gore false assumption on the realtionship between CO2 and temperature.
‘Rises in C02 lag 800 years behind temperature rises. So temperature is leading CO2 by 800 years!’
– Prof. Ian Clark
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– NASA: CO2 Is A Global Coolant And Massively Cools The Earth
Commentary:
Massive climate changes are happening right now on planet earth for a multitude of reasons and this is not the place, nor do I have the time, to discuss all of them here.
I do NOT deny that the melting of Antarctic ice sheet will happen and is already happening.
However, I do Not believe that this is due to global warming.
There is no man-made global warming and there is not even global warming.
If the elitists are indeed successful with their global warming propaganda they will earn an awful lot of money.
Even an elite puppet like Al Gore would make billions:
– Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire
Why would we trust the same people that rip us off all of the time, just because they are now pretending that they really do care for the planet?
They f*$$$$* don’t:
– Al Gore’s Enormous Carbon Footprint
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“I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of… how dangerous it is.”
– Al Gore“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
– Paul Watson, Greenpeace“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing.”
– leftist Senator Tim Wirth, 1993“We have to offer up scary scenarios… each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest.”
– Stephen Schneider, lead ipcc author, 1989“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”
– Sir John Houghton, first chairman of the IPCC“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
– Daniel Botkin, ex Chair of Enironmental Studies, UCSB
But these clowns seem to get away with everything:
– Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for fraud
And Al Gore really is ‘brilliant’:
– Al Gore: ‘The Interior Of The earth Is Extremely Hot – Several Million Degrees!’
Volcanoes all over the planet are going crazy ….
– Volcanoes All Over The Ring Of Fire Are Erupting Right Now – Is The U.S. Next?
– Scientists Assure Us That The Recent Earthquakes On The Ring Of Fire Are Not Related
… and there are volcanoes under the ice …
– Active Volcano Found Under Antarctic Ice: Eruption Could Raise Sea Levels (National Geographic, Nov 18, 2013):
Inevitable eruption will speed up ice loss on frozen continent, study says.
A newly discovered volcano found buried beneath a thick layer of ice in Antarctica could speed up ice loss and raise global sea levels when it erupts, scientists say.
… and scientists have found “big variations in the temperature in the mantle across parts of Antarctica”:
– What’s Under Antarctica? Quake Waves Give First Look (livescience, April 6, 2012):
“We do see these big variations in the temperature in the mantle across parts of Antarctica that will have a big effect on the ice sheet,” Wiens said.
So for me it is volcanic activity that melts the Antarctic ice sheet.
And then there is this:
– Magnetic North Pole Now Racing Nearly A Mile A Day! … The Shift Is On (Video)
– Earth’s North Magnetic Pole is Racing Toward Russia at Almost 64 Kilometers a Year Due to Core Flux
Now that in and of itself should cause climate change all over the planet, or not?
And how about the Arctic ice?
How come the Artic ice sheets are rapidly expanding?
The elitists know that the world is cooling and here is the Bilderberg group’s discussion agenda from 2010:
– Global Cooling and the New World Order (Telegraph):
“The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.”
Yep, that’s right. Global Cooling.
Always ‘follow the money’:
And then there is the sun, which is and has been the only engine behind global warming and cooling:
– Sun Flatlining Into Grand Minimum, Says Solar Physicist (Forbes)
And …
– Ice ages correlate with increases in volcanic activity:
“Whenever solar radiation has decreased and volcanic activity has increased, global temperatures suddenly plummet…often within weeks or months,” says climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann.
– Melting of Antarctic ice sheet and 3-meter sea level rise inevitable – study (RT, May 12, 2014):
Massive regions of the ice sheet that makes up West Antarctica have begun collapsing in a process that scientists have worried about for decades and fear is likely unstoppable.
Researchers warned that the accelerated pace of disintegration is expected to remain relatively slow over the next 100 years, although after that point it will speed up so fast that it could become a major issue for seaside cities. Ocean levels could rise by at least three meters, according to two papers scheduled for publication this week in the Science and Geophysical Research Letters.
